I believe it is time for another chapter again. Two weeks passed quickly between trying to stay up on slippery ice and wading through plenty of fresh snow. If you are enjoying similar weather remember to watch your step. This week's chapter is what many have probably waited for. The battle of USJ.

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I would also like to thank Reaperboi123 for being the 500th follower and hakunetsu for the 100th review.

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comments:

Dsman: Probably, I wouldn't trust early league of villains members to be very trustworthy people.

hakunetsu: Problem is anger management classes need someone to run them and that person would need Kirishima's quirk at the bare minimum to come out of that job alive.

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Proofread by 3DPhantom

Chapter 27: Battle!

Hitoshi's back met Izuku's as he stood ready to fight and cover Izuku's back. Tokoyami came closer but with Dark Shadow looming over him larger than before he still kept some distance and focused on the group of villains that were helping their comrade put out his burning pants.

"Be careful. He is more powerful and difficult to control in darkness. I'll try to cover this side."

"I will keep Fumi safe. You stay away."

"Get them Aaah!"

A group of thugs tried to charge Tokoyami and got slammed to the nearest wall. Izuku nodded and turned to another group of Tomura's thugs that approached on that side obscured by the rain and darkness.

"I'll charge against them to hold them from crowding us," Izuku said. "Cover my back and knock out those I let pass."

"Okay."

"Focus Toshi. This is what we trained for," Izuku said and fired a series of Hellfire Arrows that exploded in front of the villains, briefly pushing them back. He wasn't willing to kill them with direct hits, he hoped. Hitoshi nodded, but still seemed uncertain and shaky. Izuku spoke again but more quietly.

"Please Hitoshi, I… I don't know what I am going to do if they manage to do something to you, but both things terrify me."

"I… I won't let you down."

That was all Izuku needed. He sprung forward like a giant spring. A blurry figure with a cobra like head jumped through the dark rain and spat something at Izuku. Izuku dodged the slow, relative to what he had trained against, blob of liquid easily and flattened the attacker's nose, or snout, with a single punch hard enough to hurt his own fist. He didn't care though, and the pain went away in a few seconds.

Another person jumped him but was unprepared to meet someone more than capable of taking him on and got tossed in a long arch towards Hitoshi to be finished off.

Izuku jumped back and lit his Dragon Blade when and entire group charged through the rain. Half of a sword went flying its cut end glowing hot red, a blue flash whizzed, followed by a pistol exploding in its holder's hand taking much of the hand with it.

The resulting scream echoed between the buildings not covered by even the artificial storm that more people lurked in. Izuku held his Dragon Blades up as a sword and a shield ready to take them on, but as he did his breathing kept getting faster with flashbacks to his nightmares. A villain with scorpion like tail emerged from the rain sloppily launching his stinger at Izuku. It would have been so easy to cut off the whole limb, but Izuku froze in the middle of raising his blade. An image of piles of corpses in mist flashed over the storm in front of him.

Only the unconscious reflexes honed by his father's air canon training made his body dodge the painful meeting with likely venomous stinger and he backed away some more. With another flashback he glanced back to make sure Hitoshi was okay. He could only distinguish one form standing over two or three laying on the ground. He hadn't let that many through. At least he didn't intend to…

Something hit the back of his neck. A crack vibrated through his skull into his ears, and he might have blacked out for a few seconds. He blinked his eyes millimetres from the wet asphalt coming back to consciousness. Someone shouted right above him."

"I'll make sure he's done. Go kill the other two.

Many pairs of feet ran past.

"Izuku!" Hitoshi screamed behind the whooshing wind; his voice panicked.

Izuku's head spun to the side. His attacker had barely enough time to notice the murderous one-eyed stare before Izuku's legs twisted around his and in a matter of seconds their positions had been reversed. A fraction of a second later his head got hammered between the asphalt and a furious series of punches and the man took it a lot worse than one Bakugo had in a similar situation.

Not wasting time to check on the unconscious man's condition, Izuku charged towards Hitoshi and Tokoyami who were getting surrounded. His arm was already up ready to turn all of the attackers into wall paint with superheated Hellfire Arrow blasts before he realized what he was about to do. He aimed down and further away from Hitoshi and exploded a large chunk of the asphalt in the middle of an enemy group. Half a dozen of them went down right away, burnt and bleeding, and were swept away by a large black mass right after. Hitoshi flipped one enemy on the ground and caught another with the Brainwashing. At least the attackers hadn't yet realized to stay quiet in front of the suddenly chatty student.

Hitoshi was still holding the woman he had tossed on the ground when another approached to stab him. Izuku roared and barely held back as he attacked without slicing the man in two. Instead he jumped and did a spinning kick he had learned from Tenya. It hit the attacker who was still turning in response to Izuku's roar to the side of his head. The kick was strong enough that the man's feet left the ground and he was completely out cold before hitting the ground again. Izuku didn't care. He looked over Hitoshi who seemed uninjured and then down to the struggling woman Hitoshi was restraining.

Image of Yūi, the serial killer Izuku's father had made him kill, flashed in Izuku's eyes as he saw the woman who looked just like her. If Izuku wasn't still having nightmares of killing Yūi he would have thought she was the same person. Hands held in place by Hitoshi showed long sharp nails that dripped venom. Was she a serial killer too?

Izuku's stare alone made the woman stop struggling.

"Hey!" Hitoshi shouted at the woman.

"Wha…" she responded and was caught by brainwashing. Hitoshi left her unconscious on the ground. It seemed like that had been the main group of attackers, but Izuku knew better. He kept looking around for the next attack.

"Are you okay?" Hitoshi asked.

"Yes," Izuku said and with no attack in sight took the risk of briefly facing Hitoshi.

"I'm sorry. I wasn't supposed to let so many people pass. I wasn't focused enough and... Ouch."

Hitoshi flicked his finger at Izuku's forehead.

"Izuku, I know you are like ten times better than me in a fight, but that doesn't mean you need to take on everyone alone. We survived and largely thanks to you. Don't start acting like you failed somehow."

Izuku looked away meekly and started looking out for dangers again as he spoke.

"Thanks, but we aren't safe yet and we don't know about everyone else. No one outside even knows what is happening."

"I agree," Tokoyami said with Dark Shadow hovering over him focused on Izuku. "We should seek the exit and try to regroup with the teachers.

"I ag…" Izuku said and heard a woosh that was barely distinguishable in the rain and wind. He was already moving when his eyes started turning towards the new threat. He leaped towards Tokoyami with Dark Shadow moving to counter him. A flaming shield flashed into existence and blocked a blade that had headed towards Tokoyami's neck. The force of the impact pushed him back and yanked the attacker's flight path in the opposite direction. A suddenly hot sword flew in the air.

As fast as he had appeared the screaming assailant disappeared back into the wet darkness. He was wearing some sort of wing suit and glided through the air with the thrust from his shoulder mounted jets -quirk. Izuku focused on the man until he disappeared behind a corner.

"Stick together, he might strike again from any direction," Izuku said. Both of his allies joined him in a circle. The shadow of Dark Shadow fell on Izuku who tensed and glanced up.

"You saved Fumi."

"Just did it a little faster than you were going to."

"No, I was too focused on you. I was going to fail Fumi because I feared you. He might have died," Dark Shadow paused for a moment then continued speaking more meekly than before. "Will you help me keep him safe again?"

"Are you going to work with me on that, for all of us?" Izuku asked.

"Yes," the giant quirk creature said.

"Then stay vigilant. You are our best change at reaching him. Watch your side and be ready to slap him from the air."

"Yes," the quirk said with more confidence.

The first and only warning of the approaching enemy was a barely distinct woosh.

"There!" Tokoyami shouted.

Izuku followed his hand pointing up just in time to see Dark Shadow charge at the flying attacker who bolted to the side narrowly avoiding Dark Shadow and disappearing back into the darkness above them. Izuku fired several Hellfire Arrows after him, the red weaker ones, but none hit.

"Stay sharp," Izuku said and kicked one of the villains on the ground that they had knocked out before. She had regained consciousness and was trying to get up to stab Hitoshi in the back. Izuku's kick sent her back into the asphalt and unconsciousness.

"Hey birdie!" Hitoshi shouted. "Too afraid to face some kids head on! I thought you were supposed to be the league of villains not the league of chickens!"

"Did you use the Surprise?" Izuku asked.

"I couldn't. I can't focus on someone who I can't see or sense at all," Hitoshi glanced at Izuku. "Just trying to provoke hi..."

The woosh was back. Hitoshi yelped. Izuku spun around. The flying villain was already almost upon unarmed Hitoshi with a katana. There wasn't time for Izuku to get in the way. Everything else had already gone wrong he wasn't going to let the man get Hitoshi, whatever it meant for his mission at UA. He raised his arm already heating the Hellfire Arrow as hot as possible ready to turn the attacker into paint on the nearest wall. If the flying villain had seen Izuku's eyes, he would have seen death.

Lucky for him, Dark Shadow was ready and faster than Izuku this time. A giant wing claw slammed on the attacking villain and slapped the attacker from the air. He slammed on his back on the ground but was still conscious and tried to crawl back up. Izuku jumped on him, literally, slamming knee on his chest with an audible crack and grabbing his head.

"Let… go off… "the man grabbed Izuku's arm and his jets flared as he struggled slamming them to a nearby wall, but Izuku never let go of him, "me, AAAA…!"

The man punched Izuku to the face, but it was nothing compared to hits he had taken from Nomus in training. The man started convulsing and screaming as Izuku's All For One grabbed his mutant type quirk and pulled with no care or consideration for how the quirk's owner felt, tearing it from within, forcing his body to change. Izuku too felt the searing pain as his back started morphing, but he was too angry at the would-be murderer to show anything more than biting his teeth together.

"What are you doing to me?!" the man screamed and gasped for air.

"Making sure your quirk goes to better use," Izuku hissed. "You used those swords pretty well, not your first time trying to cut people open? Don't worry, I'm not going to do that to you even if you would deserve it."

Just as he finished the convulsing man's eyes rolled over and he fainted. Izuku stayed on him for several seconds staring at the man with murder in his eyes before pushing himself up. He staggered back and fell, but only a little before he hit something cold but soft.

"Hey, Fumi doesn't want you to hit your head," Dark Shadow said behind Izuku. It was strange hearing the quirk creature talk like he did during the day with the deeper voice of his larger form in darkness. Izuku responded with a slight smile and a huff.

"And you don't seem to be worried about me being so close right after taking someone's quirk."

"That guy tried to hurt Fumi. He's lucky you finished him before I could."

Izuku's smile became wider, though still tired and he glanced at Hitoshi.

"I know the feeling."

Hitoshi rolled his eyes.

"Great, now there are two of you," he looked at Tokoyami. "We better stay alive or those two will team up to burn down the country."

"I believe you are correct," Tokoyami responded. "It is a burden but one we must carry for the greater good."

"It's not like they give us an option, not that I'd want one."

"Hey," Izuku called, once again standing up. "We are still in the middle of a giant attack on our class. Also no, you don't have any options for staying alive or we won't stop with the country."

"That's for sure," Dark Shadow added.

"We better go before we cause the end of the world," Hitoshi said. Tokoyami nodded and they started running, leaving behind a literal pile of unconscious and maimed criminals. Even in the darkness they were able to distinguish the blackness of the dome's interior wall at the end of the street.

"Left or right?" Izuku asked.

"Right," Dark Shadow shouted from above and a moment later they were at the exit, which was an oversized gate completely overdone like many things at UA.

"How are we going to…?" Tokoyami started until a loud hiss covered his voice. Izuku had stuck the Dragon Blade at maximum heat through the thick metal and was quickly carving a shining red-hot cut through it until a slightly larger than a human sized piece separated from the rest of the gate. Dark Shadow hit it once causing the piece fly out and many meters away. All three of them squinted their eyes at the brightness of the outer dome as Dark Shadow shrunk to his normal daytime size.

Izuku checked their surroundings for ambushes just in case some of Tomura's forces were smarter than the rest. No one came after them.

They had exited the storm dome near the miniature lake on their right side ahead of them a wide path to the central plaza and to the left some greenery and trees before the giant staircase to the entrance platform far above.

There were still people there. There weren't supposed to be people there. Had something happened to Kurogiri?

Izuku blinked as he recognized one large six-armed person up there. If Shoji hadn't been transported, what about Tenya and Kirishima? There were more people up there, but Izuku couldn't identify either of those two among them and there was no sign of All Might. Still Izuku could hear sounds of fighting coming from the central square.

If All Might hadn't shown up, why was the league even still there? What was Tomura doing?

Izuku had a hunch about that, and it sent shivers down his spine. He glanced up again. If there were multiple students still up there, they were probably relatively safe as long as battles raged on the lower parts of the dome.

"These trees will give us cover to reach the stairs," Tokoyami said.

"True," Hitoshi said hesitantly and glanced at Izuku, "but what about everyone else? We survived our trap, but others are still in danger. I don't know if I can just turn my back and escape."

"The teachers would want us to get to the exit," Tokoyami said. "These are real villains, and we are still students."

"Yes, but… If… if we want to be heroes, we cannot just leave people behind in the middle of this, even if it is dangerous."

Izuku was so proud of Hitoshi at that moment, and worried… proud and worried, and terrified, yes, definitely terrified.

"Toshi, you do understand how dangerous that would be? They came here to kill All Might… That means they have… people or something they think is enough to defeat him."

"Still."

"Do you think it is wise?" Tokoyami asked.

"I… think it's the right thing to do. We should at least see if there is something we can do."

"It is," Izuku said after a few seconds. "We can follow the treeline to the central square. That way we can have an escape route or keep one open for others. Stay close."

They proceeded alongside the edge of the greenery. The sounds and shouts of battle had waned away. There was a wall between them and the central square, but Dark Shadow carried them over it quickly, dropping them behind nearest trees. As Izuku peeked he could see Tomura and the Nomu that was sitting on downed Aizawa. The teacher's arms were broken reminding Izuku of his own painful encounters with the creature. As a hero the man was their enemy and Izuku didn't exactly like him, but seeing the pure brutality inflicted on him made Izuku sick. Behind him Hitoshi gagged.

The only relief Izuku felt was that of Kurogiri appearing next to Tomura seemingly unharmed.

"Tomura Shigaraki," the much nicer nomu started.

"Kurogiri, did you manage to kill Thirteen?"

"The rescue hero is out of commission, but there were students I wasn't able to disperse and one of them got outside of the facility."

Tomura turned to Kurogiri surprised and then brought his hand up to scratch his own neck with increasing intensity soon bringing his other hand up too. Izuku's entire being tensed. He knew what Tomura was literally itching for.

"Kurogiri, you fool. If you weren't our warp gate, I'd tear apart every last atom of your body."

Not if Izuku had something to say about that. Suddenly Tomura stopped.

"There is no way we can win if dozens of pros show up to stop us. It's game over, back to the title screen, and I was looking forward to finishing this today. Dammit. Lets go home."

Was Tomura actually making the sensible choice and leaving?

"Oh, before we leave, lets make sure the symbol of peace is broken," Tomura said and turned to look towards the edge of the mini lake. Izuku realized there were people in the water trying to hide behind the edge between ground and water.

"Lets wreck his pride," Tomura said an dashed towards the water few meters at such speed it surprised even Izuku. "Lets make this hurt."

The students in the water jolted back revealing themselves as Uraraka and Kaminari, but they were too slow. Izuku didn't hold Kaminari in very high value but could barely resist looking away as Tomura reached for Uraraka's head. He touched her with all five fingers. Izuku held his breath.

Nothing happened. Tomura turned his head.

"You really are so cool."

Even with broken arms and held down by the Nomu Aizawa was still staring at Tomura with one eye to erase his quirk.

"Eraserhead," Tomura finished and as if on que the Nomu pulled Aizawa's head up and smashed it on the ground."

"Maybe we should take you if we can't have All Might. I'm sure sensei and… my brother would like to study your quirk… then again."

Tomura turned back around moving towards Uraraka who tried to waddle away. He jumped back just in time to avoid Dark Shadow. Despite Dark Shadow's speed and benefit of surprise he failed to catch Tomura and by the time Dark Shadow turned to attack again…

"Nomu!" Tomura shouted and before anyone could know what was going on the large Nomu loomed over Dark Shadow who withdrew as quickly as he had attacked. Tomura's eyes followed the quirk murder in his gaze until it met the trio coming from the storm dome.

"Nomu k…" he noticed Izuku who had inched in front of Hitoshi and Tokoyami, and the two brothers' eyes met. While Tomura's eyes were full of rage, both of them knew he could rely neither on the large Nomu nor Kurogiri if he wanted to oppose Izuku. Izuku might have lacked the power to stop the Nomu or protect Hitoshi in battle, but that just meant he would have had no choice but to order the Nomu. Not a single Nomu had yet to refuse his commands and both of them knew it.

Tomura started scratching himself with even more fiercely than before. Izuku glanced at Kurogiri nearby. Kurogiri looked at him for a moment and then in his misty form floated over the ground to Tomura.

"Tomura Shigaraki. It is time to leave. Waiting will only cause unnecessary risk."

"Fine, but this isn't over."

"We should take the teacher as you proposed."

Tomura scratched himself a little harder.

"Whatever, just open a warp g…"

There was a loud boom and a dust cloud spread out from the entrance above. Everything stopped as everyone turned to look what was going on. A few seconds later a familiar oversized man appeared at the top of the stairs.

All Might had arrived.

"Aah, looks like our game is getting to continue," Tomura said.

And Izuku wasn't sure whether to be happy or not. On one hand they still had a chance to succeed at taking down the so-called symbol of peace. On the other hand this whole farce had been seconds from being over and if All Might had come from outside fully ready for battle, that meant others already knew what was going on and more heroes would soon arrive. The window of time for Tomura to take him down was…

All might stopped next to Izuku with Kaminari, Uraraka and unconscious Aizawa. Tomura's remaining thugs in the area. Were already unconscious but some of them hadn't yet had time to fall on the ground.

Izuku was frozen still, still facing up towards the entrance as he was too stunned to even turn to see All Might next to him.

He hadn't even been able to follow the man when he moved. After all that training, getting his bones broken by Nomus and honing his instincts dodging air blasts he couldn't even properly follow All Mights movements. Sure, he had already had similar experiences with the large Nomu but this was still something else. Despite his analytic tendencies and childhood fanboying he had never actually witnessed All Might's power in person. If he knew about Izuku's real loyalties All Might could crush his bones at least as easily as the Nomu had done and Izuku wouldn't even have time to realize it was happening.

Whatever hopes he had had that the plan might yet succeed cracked and crumbled like Tomura had touched them, even with all the tactics they had come up for this battle.

"What the heck," Hitoshi gasped.

"Everybody back to the entrance and take Aizawa with you. He doesn't have much time," All Might commanded. He glanced at Izuku who was still turning to stare at him.

"No, no, no," Tomura muttered nearby holding one of his own hands in place of one that had fallen of his face. "It wasn't supposed to go this way. He's still fast father. Somehow he managed to hit me."

Tomura slouched to his fallen face hand to pick it up.

"Of course government hero relies on violence. I wasn't prepared. I couldn't even see him when he moved. But he is not as fast as I thought he would be, not as fast as he used to be. I guess it is true after all. All Might really is getting weaker."

Midoriya kept an eye on his deranged adoptive brother as he pulled Aizawa on his shoulders, very carefully and aware of the agony even slightest motion of a broken arm could cause.

"Sir," Tokoyami said, "the villains came here planning to kill you. That large creature seems to be the strongest one and faster than Dark Shadow."

All Might showed them thumbs up.

"Young Tokoyami, I got this."

Tokoyami stood there for a few seconds and nodded. He followed Izuku and Hitoshi who carried Aizawa. All Might charged at Tomura but was blocked by the Nomu moving in the way instantly. All Might's strike did nothing, same happened with follow-up punches even though winds they generated ruffled Izuku's hair. It gave back some of his confidence in the Nomu.

Soon All Might grabbed the nomu by the waist and pulled. When the Nomu's head hit the ground there was a large explosion like burst of dust as the ground shook. Tokoyami and Hitoshi stopped to look, but Izuku walked a little faster effectively using Aizawa to pull Hitoshi along. Anything that got them safe sooner. The battle going on was too much for them and Izuku wasn't about to let Hitoshi become a hostage even if it would help defeat All Might.

As the dust cleared Hitoshi and Tokoyami gasped. The Nomu's topside had gone through a warp gate on the ground and come up from another right next to it under All Might. Now it wasn't just All Might holding the Nomu, but the other way around with Kurogiri looming over them. They were going for Izuku's gate slicer idea, but the Nomu pulled All Might too deep to only cut legs and take him alive to father. It looked like they were going to cut him in half from the waist.

The students could only stare as the Nomu started pulling All Might into the warp gate.

"I cannot believe such a dark creature exists that it can overpower All Might," Tokoyami said.

"He… might actually die," Hitoshi added, and half turned towards the battle.

"Don't, you can't do anything to that thing," Izuku said.

"No, and I doubt my quirks would work on it…"

"Right," Izuku said wishing Aizawa wasn't hanging from his shoulders right then.

"Right, but that thing hasn't done anything unless that… Tomura guy told it to."

Izuku just stared at Hitoshi hoping his fear wasn't true.

"I know you are worried, and don't like All Might… but…"

Hitoshi dropped Aizawa's legs, turned and ran back towards the battle.

"Hitoshi!" Izuku shouted as images flashed in his eyes from every single nightmare where he had been too slow or too weak. "Dark Shadow!"

Izuku tossed Aizawa off his shoulders like the man was just a large pillow. Dark Shadow was just fast enough to catch him. By then Izuku was already moving. He was faster than Hitoshi. Even with Hitoshi's head start he should…

Hitoshi was already almost where All Might was struggling.

"Hey Handjob!"

Tomura was so going to kill Hitoshi. The Surprise quirk struck visibly shaking Tomura. It was hard to see if it made him respond with the hand covering his…

Kurogiri emerged right in front of Hitoshi with a warp gate already forming between them. Hitoshi jolted, probably too surprised to activate the brainwashing. Kurogiri wasn't going to outright kill Hitoshi. Izuku knew that, but he wasn't about to let Hitoshi out of his eyes… or explain the lack of deadly force afterwards. Izuku finally reached Hitoshi, grabbed his arm and after a strong yank placed himself between Hitoshi and Kurogiri Dragon Blade lit. The now useless warp gate closed in front of him.

The next question was now what. Kurogiri couldn't harm him and he wouldn't harm Kurogiri. All of which did not apply to Tomura. Then there was Hitoshi who didn't understand the true situation but still tried to get Tomura with his quirk.

"What's wrong! C.. .can't stop a couple of kids without sending lackeys to do your job! Don't tell me you are afraid of getting your hands dirty with so many of them!"

To be fair it would probably have worked and saved All Might if Tomura wasn't well informed on Hitoshi's quirks. Izuku wasn't sure if that was good to ensure All Might's defeat or…

"Toshi," Izuku hissed through his teeth. Tomura stared at them and started walking. Izuku adjusted his position holding his blade more towards Tomura than Kurogiri.

"Don't try anything," he told Tomura, trying not to say anything condemning. "I won't let you hurt him."

Tomura actually stopped and both his hands rose to scratch his neck. They stopped halfway when one side of the large Nomu including leg and arm, suddenly froze. Nearby Todoroki stood at the end of a long stripe of ice stretching across the ground.

"One of your poorly trained thugs told me you are here because you think you can kill All Might," Todoroki told Tomura with a calm arrogance as if he wasn't in the middle of a massive villain attack.

Tomura didn't have time to address that situation before he had to jump to dodge the sharp-edged fist of a familiar redhead. Kurogiri sunk into the ground in front of Izuku and emerged next to Tomura.

The ice ended just before the Nomu's fingers easing its hold enough for All Might to pry himself free. He flipped and landed near Izuku and Hitoshi holding his side where a red stain had appeared.

He was also standing his back towards Izuku whose Dragon Blade was still activated.

But the overwhelming power and speed All Might had demonstrated before… The distance between them may not have been more than two meters but with such speed it was still too much.

"Are you unhurt?" All Might asked and glanced at the two students. Izuku jolted and blinked back into the situation at hand.

"We are fine," Hitoshi said quickly as Todoroki and Kirishima joined them. Kirishima was breathing hard and leaned against his knees. One side of his pants were torn off up to his knees and other than his shoes that was all that was left. The shoulder pads around his arms and his strange face mask were completely gone. Surprisingly, or in Kirishima's case perhaps not, he didn't seem to have visible injuries.

"Are you okay?" Izuku asked this time.

"Yeah, I…" He drew deep breath. "That mist guy sent me somewhere with a lot more villains. It was an exhausting fight."

"How about others?" Izuku asked barely holding back from outright asking about Tenya. "Or… were you with Todoroki?"

"No, I was only one there... Were you together, lucky."

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"Wait!" Hitoshi said. "You too were sent against a crowd of villains, and you were alone, and you beat them?"

"Heh, I guess. It was hard fight, but I really expected them to be tougher that that to attack UA."

"Izuku," Hitoshi whispered. "I think you might have found a punching bag that can take you."

"Focus Toshi," Izuku responded without letting Tomura out of his sight. His adoptive brother was already muttering.

"They escaped uninjured and captured my strongest asset. Kids these days really are amazing. They make the league of villains look like amateurs. Can't have that. Nomu."

The Nomu screeched and started pulling itself up despite being frozen solid. As it got out of Kurogiri's warp gate frozen pieces started breaking off unable to flex with the motion. It was time for the creature's next surprise. Last of the ice shattered as bare flesh and muscle twisted and bulged and the began to grow out into new limbs, ones without the scars Izuku had left in training.

"What is this! I thought you said its power was Shock Absorption!" All Might said.

"I didn't say that was his only quirk. He also has super regeneration. Nomu has been modified to take you on even at a hundred percent of your power. He is basically a highly efficient punching bag that hits back."

Izuku had to pretend most of his shock for the regeneration but hiding his annoyance at the monologuing Tomura was just as difficult. Was he going to give All Might address to his hideout next? Izuku especially wasn't exited at Tomura highlighting the multi quirked nature of the Nomu.

"We've got them outnumbered," Todoroki said.

"These guys might act really though, but we can take them down now with All Might's help," Kirishima said and hardened his arms ready to fight. "Lets do this."

"Don't attack," All Might commanded as he walked forward and held his arm in front of them. "Get out of here."

"You would have been in trouble earlier if it weren't for me remember," Todoroki said. "You need our help."

"I thank you for your assistance, but this is different. It's going to be alright. Just sit back and watch a pro at work.

He gave them a thumbs up. He was clearly pretending to be more certain than he was, but after all that Izuku had witnessed so far he with all his analytic ability was at loss. He had no idea who would win now.

"Kurogiri, Nomu, kill him," Tomura said. "I take care of the children."

"Tomura Shigaraki," Kurogiri started hesitantly.

"Do as I ordered! The rest isn't your concern. Lets clear this level and go home."

Tomura began running towards the four students.

"Heads up, we are fighting after all," Kirishima said and hardened again. All Might moved to counter Tomura and was met by the Nomu. The first meeting of their fists created a shockwave that blew Tomura away and pushed Izuku's group back. As All Might sped up to throw punches faster than a normal human eye could follow the air pressure got too much. Izuku fell on his knees and sunk his Dragon Blade on the ground to not be blown back. Kirishima did the same punching a hardened arm into the ground as Todoroki braced himself against a wall of ice. Hitoshi slid past Izuku until he dragged his armguards against the ground long enough to stop him flat against the ground. Izuku could turn his attention back to the fight.

All Might's barrage of punches was actually pushing the Nomu back as the very ground shattered around them. With a massive punch the Nomu got launched through the forested area and All Might leaped after it. As the two charged at each other again the battle actually moved mid-air briefly, hitting the ground several times with concrete shattering force, until All Might grabbed the Nomu and threw it back onto the ground with enough force to create a crater launching chunks of stone everywhere. Izuku lit another Dragon Blade as a shield to protect his head. All Might landed next to where the Nomu was bouncing back up.

"Now for a lesson, you may have heard these words before," All Might declared, "but I'll teach you what they really mean. Go beyond, PLUSS ULTRA!."

Instead of a ridiculously fast barrage like before All Might only threw one ridiculously powerful punch which shockwave exceeded the previous ones shaking the whole facility. The Nomu was launched like an artillery shell barely a blur and explosion as it bust through the dome and out into the sky. Izuku could only stare at the hole in the dome until his eyes slowly descended to the man who did all that, slowly emerging from a dust cloud that he had created.

"I really have gotten weaker. Back in my hayday five hits would have been enough to knock that guy out," All Might declared and straightened his back, "but today it took almost three hundred mighty blows."

How strong had he been 'in his hayday?' Izuku was more amazed than ever that his father was still alive, even knowing his power. All Might turned to face Tomura and Kurogiri.

"You have been bested villains. Surrender. We all want this over with quickly."

Tomura simply stared at All Might and brought a hand up to scratch his neck.