"What a tragic life huh, Lemillion? If only you got involved with Eri... With me..." Chisaki taunted, keeping the heroes at bay as his power grew. The monstrous black flesh continued to grow around him. "You wouldn't have lost your quirk forever. You'd still be able to pursue your dreams."

Geus stepped forward out of Chisaki's destruction of the room. Easily smashed through every rock until he became clearly in front of him. His own quirk mimicked Chisaki's style. Straight edge hardened smoke surrounded his own body as gas pours flowed out.

"Remember when you didn't fear us because I was temporary... How do you feel now?"

Geus sucked his gas back into his system, temporarily caused his body to smoke it back out as steam. In mere seconds the tops of each spike melted down to broken points. Like a tree snapped from its trunk after a lightning shot.

Geus only got one foot forward as another spike flashed just right under his chin. He locked open his jaw and released a small wave of gas through the stone. He slowly realized the strength he continued to obtain.

He didn't fear what was in front of him. It was like Eri's faces were all around him and he needed to step up. He looked back at the young blond hero clenching her in his arms. Both were deathly afraid of their life, even though they showed it differently.

His body went low, one leg arched forward with the other behind and knee to the ground. Each arm spread out and forward past his shoulders, with gas around them both.

Chisaki's four arms pressed into the ground, death and brutal murder in his eyes.

The creations made from their quirks emitted into the air. Energy blasted into the space, purple gas and black sludge after each other. It was two pure forms of will power out for blood. Neither afraid of the destruction they caused to the walls. Chunks melted down to its core and whole sections sliced slashed in like claw marks.

Geus's fingers broke through the concrete grown and propelled him forward. His body cresting a vortex of gas around him as he went. Chisaki's vision only saw that covered it to its entirety. A hand covered in the hardened gas came inches from his cheek before he fully analyzed the situation.

One quick motion blocked Geus's would be punch. Chisaki wrapped the gas around with the concrete rubble and spun Geus around with one motion. Geus was just one move ahead in his mind. Spikes came out of the hovering gas and latched onto Geus's shoulder, and successfully stopped the spin.

His gas hand poured out around the rubble's cracks and wrapped around it. The heat emitted doubled bringing the concrete to its liquid form. The evasive power flowed up Chisaki's arm and pulled him in as the other struck forward into the mask.

Geus saw another arm come for him from above. He countered with another one of his and bashed his fist into Chisaki. Temporarily side-stepping the boss and wide open for another hit. His opened hand swelled up with gas in time for another immediate punch.

This time Chisaki was prepared for it. The two open arms on Chisaki's right arm dissolved the gas into nothing before the explosion went off.

Geus had no choice but to drop back into his original position. His nervous sweats began. 'That was too close.' Geus clenched his fist. Another second and he'd of lost hand right there.

"You could pose much more of a threat if you used your talents right!" Chisaki shouted as he stabbed another one of his drug injections into his neck.

"I like to make my actions up close and personal." Geus hovered his arms into the air. Twin tornados transformed with the gas and went along his entire body. "And I like to make my fights quick."

"That's right!" Chisaki's arms pounded into the ground. Shockwaves swam around his radius and to Geus's group. "Battling weakens your oxygen supply so you're weaker every second. Come at me with all you got."

Geus smirked, realizing his plan came together all too much. It was a perfect distraction to build up pressure in his back. In correlation, his front slowly became thinner but nearly unnoticeable from his distance.

The explosions from his back sounded like a gunshot went off the same time a jet took off. In a blink of the eye, Geus was already on Chisaki. The gas launched off Geus and around Chisaki's body. And just like Geus though Chisaki dissolved the material before any real damage took effect.

More gas was produced for his follow up attack. One massive spike straight from his throat into Chisaki's shoulder. Geus sucked his body into his with a swell point inside the spear.

Chisaki sliced away the spear just as Geus predicted. The swell point he created went off and separated them again. The wall landing Geus made for himself then sprung him back in for more.

Everything stopped for Geus. His movements froze, barely able to breathe, and his limbs paralyzed. Geus's eyes were forced to watch into Chisaki's. Blood convulsing stares that caused nothing but strain and pain.

One of his blackened hands came into Geus's view to disappear for a moment while blackening his view. Two more showed out with the class stretched out.

There was no struggle in Geus. Unable to defend himself against the superior version. Both of his claws struck forward out of his vision. It came to no surprise Geus didn't feel any pain, as he felt nothing before.

A lightning strike of green sprang into Chisaki, his arms snapped back and into a spin. Chisaki recovered instantly and slammed his arms into the ground, lines of rocked spikes drove to Midoriya. He easily bounced off the rocks and dove after Geus's limp body.

He scooped up Geus in his arms and sprang over to Mirio and Eri. Without the need to be told, Mirio swung Geus's arm over his shoulders and stole him from Midoryia. His arm wrapped around Geus's side and leaned his weight on himself.

"Eri-chan! Senpai! Can you move?" Midoriya asked.

Through all the pain Mirio showed physically he still pulled out a grin. "Ah! Yeah... No sweat."

Geus was still frozen in place, able to perform no actions and feel nothing. He blankly stared into Midoriya's terrified eyes. He fell into the soul they showed underneath.

A clear space of only white. No ground, walls, distance, just blank. There was only pain, pain burned inside the main vein of his body. From his heart, up to his heart, down to his toes, and everywhere in between.

"I'm not ready yet." Geus told himself, fist clench hard enough to flow purple under his skin. "My promises are still unfulfilled. You can't die yet! She still here and she's out there!"

Geus's eyes blasted open with a cloud of purple smoke. This time the burn felt rewarding, it meant he regained control. His vision pulsed like radar, able to see past every corner and what hid around it. Nighteye impaled to death from a row of spikes.

Geus looked around his body, covered in the gas from head to toe. It came to no surprise he didn't see anyone around him. G

The energy released from him, creating massive spikes into the ground and levitated him up. With proper footing now Geus took aim, sucked in his breath till the spike touched his inner lungs.

There was only one shot in front of him. Midoriya just had to stay there another five seconds. And for Chisaki to do the same. Four. Three.

"Eri?!" Chisaki shouted.

The sudden echoes caused Geus to sidestep from his target. And the blast shot far into the corner, far and up from Chisaki. Gues swung his head around as the ripple of his ribs breaking rung in his ears.

"The hell?" Geus grunted right before he hit the ground again. "Eri. Run."

Geus gripped his side, a poor attempt to cover the absolute pain he was in. His gas worked double-time to cover every crack in his ribs and seal them inside the coating. This caused his body to emit off another hundred degrees and smoke from his pores. It literally burned through his insides.

She stepped closer to the monster. Fear staggered with every step. She was beyond scared, death to this little girl was nothing compared to this. Geus could only arch up his hand after her.

'You can't quit.' Geus groaned to himself. 'This new body is useless if you can't save her. All that for nothing!'

Midoryia felt the same, standing up with his power overflowed out of his body. Geus had to do the same, follow the words of a hero. "Plus!" His arteries rippled through his body. Uneven currents of his quirked flowed out and fast till his body creased open. "Ultra!" Ropes of has spiraled throughout his outer skin. Power so strong and hot; his blood evaporated before it could escape out.

"My looks mean nothing to me!" The gas erupted to the ground, quickly dissolving all the rubble around him.

Just as he got up, a massive hole caved in between Midoriya and Chisaki. This was his chance to move. His move was faster, swift, more agile than he was before. Each step was perfectly spaced and timed for his environment.

Vision wasn't needed to see where everyone was. The distraction also caused them all to reach the hole in the ceiling. Midoriya was stuck though, caught in Chisaki's quirk while he had Eri. The rope shaped gas around his back swung to the edges of the hole, dug right through the concrete and pulled him rapidly up. One of his arms opened up and wrapped around Midoriya's chest. The other went after the girl.

"I must go harder!"

Geus screamed out his pain while he pulled both his arms together. Eri ripped out of Chisaki's grip and nicely into Midoriya's. His ropes released from them both and to a single target. Both the power from his arms wrapped around Chisaki's now single form.

"Beyond Plus Ultra!" Geus pinned himself with Chisaki. All his power engulfed Chisaki inside the hardened Gas. "Iron Maiden!"

Chisaki's wind recovered his strength to a new. His arms broke through the coffin and swung rampantly around him. Geus spun and spun into a vortex and fired Chisaki into the ground.

He acted to ignore the attack and pounce off his landing like it was nothing. "Give her back!" He shouted into the heavens.

Geus moved his momentum around. Geus held his arms out and drove his hardened gas after him. At the same time, Chisaki launched his own propelled attack at them both. Geus's was just moments after and precise.

Chisaki's two arms yanked away from their position before his attack landed. All his spikes stopped feet afar from his friend. The free shot wasn't wasted by Midoriya.

Another explosion created a ball of smoke around their vicinity. Geus lost vision but could still see everyone around him. Midoirya dove back to the ground and Chisaki walked clean away.

"You won't get away!" Geus shouted after Chisaki. His backside generated pockets of gas and rapidly exploded him forward. He slammed his fists into the concrete and sent both his arms down.

This time he wasn't fast enough to stop Chisaki. He managed to meld with his fallen comrade like he did before. His size and creation tower higher than any of the buildings. Armor thicker than what Geus's twin spikes could penetrate.

Each attack he threw carried the power to destroy and topple buildings. Midoriya still pressed on through all of this destruction. The power he emitted oozed out of his body as if he failed to contain it.

He bounced around each of the attacks with little to no effort at all. Every kick he attempted landed with power and destruction. The size of Chisaki didn't matter to him or lessen his power.

Geus become less stronger as the seconds go by. The gas around his body lessened until it was just a layer over his skin. One beat pounded through his chest every minute which killed away from his quirk.

His body lifelessly crashed backward. "All that power." Geus coughed. "For nothing."

His body twitched hard and cracked his shoulders. The pain kept on and sharpened after each twitch. The gas ate away his internals to a brittle state. His bones thinned down to just their marrow, flesh glued to the skin with his veins half their size.

There was nothing left inside him to fight with. The only choice out of his control was his only choice. His eyes forced themselves behind his head. the sounds of the fight flushed out with his eyesight. Lost in his mind to explore the failures of today.

'I couldn't save her. And I lost him.'

The world became black, a pit of emptiness voided of the senses. 'Even at my strongest. I'm too weak to win.'