Stand Navy out to sea, FIGHT OUR BATTLE CRY!
Hello everybody! I have returned! I finished boot camp just before thanksgiving, however, I just got leave and as such managed to come home for my laptop! And believe me, I've got plenty of ideas in the making!
Also yes, I've caught up with the manga which was extremely surprising for me, I'll let you know right now that I plan on working the recent events into the story, although obviously that will be far into the future.
As soon as I heard it though, I immediately thought about the consequences, the drama, the FEELS!
Hehem, anyway, I want to thank everybody for their support ever since I left, and I love the reviews that have been left behind. We're at over 7k views, 187 favorites and 225 followers! I'm so happy!
However, I do feel as if I have to address a common theme from the reviews.
Why is it that everybody thinks that Bakugo's gonna go villain? I at no point ever stated that, I merely said that actions have consequences. In canon, Izuku telling Bakugo about OFA was instrumental in their fight, now that he hasn't, what will happen?
Unfortunately, the word consequences tends to have negative connotations, although I admit that there will be both positive and negative consequences.
It's simply how it is.
Onto the reviews!
THEPUMPKINLORD: Thank you so much! I also appreciate the time you took to review!
SempaiJager: Thank you again for reviewing! I'm glad you enjoyed the chapter.
Eugenemartelo: Question, are you by chance portuguese speaking? I ask cause of the martelo in your name. Vehicles are an idea that I have in mind, but it will be far in the future as I want to maintain a sort of balance.
13thDiscipleOfIna: Thank you very much! Believe me, I won't drop this. Granted I'm in A-school right now (for my job in the navy) so some updates may be sporadic, but I will do my best!
Revanvador: Thank you for pointing that out! I didn't even realize, it should be fixed now. Also don't worry bout him, he had a little side story.
Wolves567: Oh believe me, I have plans for the USJ.
Random65: Thank you! For added affect I recommend listening to the clone army music!
Possiblespy3187: Thank you so much for reviewing again! In order, soon, and yes I have been considering aspects to keep things balanced (as all things should be). I've been thinking about ideas for a helmet. I want to do a pairing, I'm just not sure which one yet. And yes, foreshadowing, although for some reason everybody thinks that Bakugo's gonna go evil.
Also, ok...I had to look up Chris Hansen which is a bit ironic, but that gave me a chuckle.
SentinelSlice: You have so. Many. Good. Questions.
1st. Yes, I've also seen Mineta's potential, although his gimmicks leave much to be desired. I have a few ideas of getting him to grow. Not sure what yet.
2nd. Telepathy, now I know that they can communicate from the mindscape, but at the moment, I don't think I'll include telepathy for balancing purposes, but who knows? Maybe I'll change my mind.
3rd. I...that depends on the range you're thinking of, as far as I've established, clones have to be within his general vicinity, why? Did you have any ideas?
4th. And yes, that is going to happen, far into the future however.
5th. That is also something that will be discussed.
6th. Yeah, USJ's gonna be interesting.
Thank you so much for your support! Also, for your chapter 4 review, no. He's not gonna go evil, but yes that was a flag and like I said, it's gonna have consequences.
Tiguylerobot: You'll see!
Annonmymous: Bruh, your name gave me an aneurysm. Anyway, Thank you, and yes! I have been considering a version of 99!
Red5T65: Oh believe me, there will be plenty of references!
Maniacalharp747: Yes! Somebody got the reference!
FFWhale: No, he did not, and thank you!
IIEarlGreyII: Thank you so much, and believe me, I understand. Actually, I want to thank you for bringing that up, it forced me to consider exactly how to follow the timeline and the fights. In terms of clone action, wait until we really get into the USJ arc. That's when we'll really kick things off.
R0gueMess1ah: Thank you so much, and trust me, the foreshadowing isn't gonna spoil anything.
Kilo8: Thank you very much! And boot camp was interesting for sure.
Also, I'd like your guys' thoughts about the art!
Anyway, let's move forward!
LEGION: SHADOW OF MALEVOLENCE
"Great leaders inspire greatness in others."
The day after the battle trials, the group were unfortunately caught up in a huge crowd of reporters that were clogging up the entrance to the school. Practically harassing students with questions.
The topic?
All Might.
Because of course it had to be him.
While the group tried to make their way through, Tenya, bless him, sacrificed himself by giving a monologue interview and subtly motioning everybody to walk past.
Jango tried the same thing but everybody immediately grabbed him, shut his mouth, and dragged him inside.
No need for an All Might PR scandal right?
"You won't be forgotten Tenya," Izuku whispered as he and the rest entered.
Eventually however, the teachers came by and cleared the crowd, as the last of the students went inside, a reporter had the bright idea of trying to go in, ignoring the warnings of her peers, she was stopped by the UA barrier.
None noticed the man in black behind the crowd. Staring.
Smirking.
Izuku was one of the last to enter the classroom. He noticed that Bakugo was already in there, but he was oddly quiet, reserved.
His eyes spoke wonders of hatred.
Izuku merely sighed before taking his seat. The rest of his classmates following suit, soon enough Aizawa came in and started homeroom.
"Alright, I've reviewed the videos from yesterday's class, we'll be doing in depth analysis later, but I want to cover some key points right now," He said before directing his gaze to Bakugo.
"Bakugo, you already spoke with the principal, so I won't repeat it, but you're not a child, don't let your ego control your actions."
Bakugo grunted but nodded, still stuck in his thoughts.
"Disobey another direct order from your teachers young Bakugo, and you will be summarily transferred to General Education."
"That being said, Midoriya," He faced Izuku who stilled, "You could have ended the fight much quicker, this isn't the place for grudge matches, in the real world, you take care of threats quickly and efficiently."
"Yes, sir."
"Bring out Jango."
"Uh, ok." Summoning him, Jango was uncharacteristically quiet, or rather, he already knew that the situation was more serious.
"You already knew about this, don't encourage your brother."
"Todoroki, don't underestimate your opponents, and remember, heroes aren't one trick ponies."
Todoroki also grunted but nodded.
"All of you have taken the first steps into your careers as heroes, you'll make plenty of mistakes, which is why it's important to fix them now. Plenty of heroes go into the field unprepared, it's why they die. All of you need to work hard otherwise you'll be expelled at the drop of a hat." Aizawa stated, some of the students shivered but others took it as a challenge to honestly improve.
"Now, onto the next part of your careers."
The atmosphere was turning intense, and all of them stared at their teacher with apprehension.
"You need to pick a class president."
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"IT'S A NORMAL HIGHSCHOOL ACTIVITY!"
The sheer cacophony of students vying for the position was ridiculous, each one trying to come up with their own reasons as to why they should be chosen.
Izuku himself was a bit unsure if he wanted to but after discussing it with Jango and some of the clones he agreed that it would be good for developing leadership experience.
"One day you'll be leading thousands of us, you need to start now. Just because we know each other, doesn't mean that it'll be the same in a fight."
"EVERYBODY, LET US DECIDE THIS BY A VOTE!" He was broken from his thoughts by Iida's loud declaration. Izuku admitted that the idea was sound, however-
"What's to prevent everybody from just voting for themselves?"
"Then whoever gains the most votes will have proven themselves in the eyes of the classroom!"
"That...or we could just make a rule that you can't vote for yourself..." Izuku trailed off.
Iida paused, blinked, and nodded.
"That could work. Aizawa-sensei?"
"I don't care. Just let me sleep."
An awkward pause filled the room before everybody collectively shrugged and continued their clamors for presidency.
Izuku Midoriya – 12 Votes
Iida Tenya – 5 Votes
Yaoyorozu Momo – 2 Votes
Bakugo Katsuki – 1 Vote
"You still voted for yourself!" Jango chuckled out as Bakugo growled.
"Ok...didn't expect this." Izuku admitted as he and Tenya stood next to each other in front of the class. Bakugo had returned to his normal self and was going apoplectic in rage, but Izuku had long since learned how to tune him out.
"I'm glad to be able to work with you, Izuku."
"So am I, Tenya."
Aizawa merely slept.
During lunch hour, Izuku's little group of friends were talking about the classes they'd already started.
"It's kind of surreal, our teachers are heroes yet they act so normal." Izuku hummed while eating his food, Jango and Fordo were actually next to him. The having discovered the joy of food thanks to Inko and was taking advantage of the opportunity.
"So, class prez, how does it feel?"
"Bit surreal, but I'm glad that I have the opportunity and the class' trust. I honestly didn't expect that many votes."
"Well, you and Jango have both proven yourselves to be pretty good leaders during the battle trials." Ochako said while snacking on some mochi.
"True, I voted for Tenya, you're a bit stiff, but you'd get the job done."
"Thank you, Izuku! I am honored by your choice! I admit that I voted for you as well!"
"Tenya, be honest, you're stupid rich. I mean, you certainly look like it!"
Jango snorted at Ochako's bluntness but couldn't help but agree.
"I-uh, well, I wanted to hide this until later, but have you ever heard of the Idaten Agency?"
"Led by Ingenium right?" Fordo asked while eating rice.
"He's got over 65 sidekicks." Jango said while scarfing down some dumplings.
"Family legacy too." Izuku finished as he drank some water.
'It's a trio of hero nerds.' The rest thought with amusement.
"Yes, well, he's my older brother!"
"That's awesome!"
"So cool!"
"That's super cool Tenya, I won-hey! That's my katsudon!" Izuku yelled as he fought off Jango's chopsticks before slamming Fordo's arm onto the table and pinning it.
The rest of the group stared as the 3 started to fight over the last piece of katsudon, it became an entire martial arts battle of chopsticks with admittedly good choreography and a compelling script somewhere in the end before degenerating into a slapstick show.
'This is our class president now.' The group thought in amusement, but they couldn't help but feel a certain joy in seeing the group of brothers.
Unfortunately for them, that joy would not last as an alarm sounded off. Tenya was the first to ask what was happening, and hearing about an intruder on the grounds made all of them panic.
Caught up in the crowd of students, Izuku was slammed into a window where he saw that the entire problem was due to the media.
"The media? You've got to be kidding me!" He growled out before turning towards his friends.
"Guys, it's just the media!"
"The media!? Those hooligans have no sense of respect or propriety, why-"
"Not now, Tenya! See if you can find Ochako, we need to get this crowd controlled or somebody's gonna get hurt!"
"Right!"
Pushing through the crowd, he finally find her and managed to get zero gravity applied to himself, the ensuing slam into the wall above the door had Jango in stitches, but at least Tenya got the job done.
Jango would never let him live down the emergency exit nickname however.
Nezu and the teachers stared at the remains of the gate. The wind picking up made the ashes stir in the wind, and he could smell the lingering taste of death in the air.
"Now the question? Is this merely the act of a lone villain? Or a declaration of war?"
He knew that having All Might here would serve as both a boon and a risk.
A boon.
This was something that few understood about UA, and especially his position as principal, if anything it could be compared to the Underground. Backroom deals, favors, concessions and negotiations.
Aizawa didn't understand, or rather, while he understood how the Underground worked, he didn't live through it every day.
Not like he did.
Now, it should be noted that the key word is compared, that in of itself insinuates that the relationship between these two are not exactly the same.
The HSPC has always wanted UA, the latter being one of the only schools that was not under their direct control. Especially with him at the helm.
As such, there has always been a conflict of opinions, goals, methods, management.
Everything.
Unfortunately, a good amount of funding also came from the HSPC as such, the battlefield was always tense, a balance held upon a knife's edge.
So many programs he would like to begin, especially to help the students that fell through the cracks.
Shota Aizawa was an exception to the rule.
The rules needed to be changed.
And All Might's influence could be the push needed to implement those programs, change the requirements, create the heroes that the world needed. Not just the heroes that the HSPC wanted.
And a risk.
Because now that everybody knew that All Might was here, students were even more at risk of becoming targets.
It was not rare for villains to try and attack the hero students in the making, although the few that attempted so were...ruthlessly eliminated.
It was worse for those that weren't even in the Hero Course.
If anything serious happened, it could very well be the excuse needed for the HSPC to demand more control especially with the support of the people.
Ah humans, such fickle creatures. So much potential.
So much wasted.
Either way, it seemed as if a new adversary has entered the game.
Now the question.
What will happen next?
Everybody was eagerly anticipating class, they'd heard that today was going to be another big day and as such were wondering what exactly was coming up.
Aizawa walked in noticed that everybody was already in their seats, commending them for their improvement.
"Today we're doing rescue exercises, take your costumes, or not, don't really care but it's a good idea to see what can be improved. We'll be taking a bus to another part of campus, so meet me in 15." Aizawa finished before walking out.
Immediately, everybody got excited and changed as fast as they could to make it in time.
Izuku himself barely paid attention to everybody's comments, himself remembering the countless times that he saw All Might's debut.
Rescuing people had been the entire reason that he wanted to be a hero.
He wanted to save them with a smile.
Just like All Might.
He could hear the reassurances of his brothers inside of him, and he could feel One For All surging inside of him. As if it recognized a part of its purpose.
Bah, he was overthinking things.
It's not like One For All was alive, right?
Either way as they rode the bus towards their destination, Tenya had tried to do a seating order only for it to fall through at the bus' design, Izuku began speaking with his clones, discussing ideas as to what to do so that they could also practice rescue techniques.
There was serious consideration of seeing if they could drag a teacher into the mindscape.
Or at least some teaching tools.
Recently Jango had been discussing with the clones as to what specific aspects of heroism they wanted to do. However the general consensus is that they should learn all aspects before devoting themselves to specific jobs.
Already some clones were asking about finding resources to become certified medics.
Others were asking for more training with demolitions experts, and more marskmanship training with Snipe.
His biggest problem at the moment was simply summoning them.
He didn't know what was happening with his quirk, it seemed as if something was blocking him from summoning more clones, which was odd. He thought that by using One For All, he'd be able to summon them, such was the case with Fordo, but so far all that he'd done was just create more damn clones.
According to them, it was starting to get a bit overcrowded.
He hoped that he would figure it out soon.
"Midoriya-chan." He heard, breaking him from his thoughts. Turning to his classmate, he remembered her as Asui Tsuyu, the girl with the frog quirk.
"Yes, Asui?"
"Call me Tsu," She interjected, "Other than the clones, your quirk kinda reminds me of All Might."
A few noises of agreement rang out but Kirishima was quick to butt in.
"Well yeah but, All Might doesn't break himself with his strength either."
"Yeah, what's with that?"
"Oh it's simple. My strength is proportionate to the clones I have within me. On my papers it's said as 'the strength of a thousand clones'. Although that's a bit of a lie since I have more. I should be able to control that strength one day, but until then...well. It is what it is."
"It IS WhAt iT iS!" Kaminari laughed out only for everybody to stare at him awkwardly.
"S-sorry, pre-quirk memes." He sheepishly said while rubbing the back of his head. His face red from embarrassment.
"Dude, that was so cringe even I'm feelin embarrassment for you," Kyoka said while shaking her head.
Izuku mildly snorted but was soon distracted by Kirishima.
"Man, you're quirk's super flashy and versatile though. You've got a literal army at your fingertips! You'll definitely go into the big leagues! I can just harden my skin."
"That may be true, but don't put yourself down Kirishima, each quirk has its own use and potential, you can make it too."
"Speaking about flashiness, I guess we should include Todoroki and Bakugo." Tsu said with a finger on her cheek.
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY SHOULD!?"
"Although with that personality, I doubt that Bakugo will be popular."
"SAY THAT AGAIN! I DARE YOU FROGGY EXTRA!"
"Yeah, I mean, we've been in school only for a couple of days and everybody already knows that your personality's like a dumpster fire full of trash."
Bakugo roared in anger at Kaminari who in turn scooted back.
"Ah don't worry Baka-go, maybe you'll be popular like those angry pomeranians," Jango intervened causing Bakugo to turn his attention to the clone.
About to start another tirade they were all interrupted by Aizawa. Ordering them off the bus, they made their way in front of a large building with the letters USJ in the front.
"WOW, IS THIS UNIVERSAL STUDIOS JAPAN!" The class said as a whole, many of them taking in as much detail as they can.
"Actually, it's the Unforeseen Simulation Joint!" Another voice said cheerily, said voice was another hero in a large puffy spacesuit with a black dome for a helmet.
Ochako was the first to recognize her.
"AH! It's the Space Hero: Thirteen! She's my all time favorite!" Ochako squealed and started to bounce around in excitement.
Her friends chuckled in amusement, but that didn't lessen their excitement.
Aizawa walked up the steps until he was close to Thirteen, they all heard something about All Might but only Izuku and Jango noticed the three fingers that Thirteen put up.
'Damn it All Might, you overworked yourself again.' Izuku thought before glancing at Jango. Their eyes meeting, they both knew that they would have to talk to All Might about his bad habits.
'Oh well...nothing we can do now.'
Heading inside, Thirteen addressed them.
"Now, before we begin, I have a couple of points that I'd like to go over, as many of you may know, my quirk is called Black Hole."
"Yeah, you can suck up and disintegrate things! You've been instrumental in countless rescue operations!" This time it wasn't Izuku who gave the analysis but Ochako with stars in her eyes.
"That is true, but what is also true is that my quirk has the extreme capability to kill."
That took the wind out of everybody's sail and a somber silence filled the atmosphere.
"The entrance exam was the first time you could go all out with your quirks, Aizawa's apprehension test helped you discover your limits. All Might's class helped you see your capacity to do harm, today, it is my goal for you to discover how to use your quirks to save lives." Thirteen said, the class soon started clapping in appreciation, hoping to take these words to heart and learn.
Heading inside, they were all amazed by the sheer scale of the building and the various zones that were available for rescue simulations.
As the doors fully shut however, the lights began to flicker and their attention was brought to the center of the plaza.
A dark mist began to appear tinged with purple before spreading out widely, from the mist came dozens of villains, the most prominent being a man in black with hands all over his arms and head and what looked like a monster, larger than All Might with charcoal skin. The thing was scarred, with a beak for a mouth and an exposed brain.
Izuku didn't know what he was looking at, only that it was an abomination.
"Woah, is this a part of the simulation?"
"GET BACK!" Aizawa yelled as he prepped his capture scarf. "These are real villains!"
"The doors are shut!"
"Real villains?"
"What the hell is happening?"
The students started to panic and huddle together, meanwhile the apparent leader made his own observations.
"What's this? Just Thirteen and Eraserhead? The schedule said that All Might was supposed to be here."
"So you're the cause behind yesterday's trouble."
"No matter, I guess we gotta take care of the grunts before we get to the boss level."
"Thirteen, protect the students! Try and reach the main campus!"
"Eraserhead wait! There's too many-"
"No hero's a one trick pony, Midoriya!" Aizawa yelled while leaping towards the crowd of villains.
"NO! That's not-ah, dammit! He should have stayed here and Thirteen could have sucked up the doors!" Izuku cursed before summoning Fordo and calling Jango to his side.
"Keep an eye on him, use the snipers!" Izuku paused as he considered the range and the situation.
"Don't bother with stunners, but keep it nonlethal." He shuddered a bit, not wanting to cause such damage. But these were real villains, and considering the ringleader's words, this was a situation of life and death.
"Dammit All Might, once we get out of this I'm gonna shove my boot so far up your ass." He then turned towards Thirteen, "Thirteen! The doors!"
Thirteen paused at the order from a student but nodded and aimed her quirk at the doors. The priority after all was evacuating the students.
Just as the door started to crack and break apart, the same shadowy mist appeared in front of them.
"Pardon the intrusion young students, but we are the League of Villains. There seems to be a scheduling error, was All Might not supposed to be here? No matter, either way, today he dies."
Kirishima and Bakugo leapt at the villain disregarding Thirteen's warning, their attacks proved themselves useless as the mist simply reappeared somewhere else.
"Oh? Such initiative, unfortunately it was useless. Either way I must complete my duty and SCATTER YOU TO YOUR DEATHS!" The mist expanded and consumed the majority of the class.
"NO!" Izuku cried out, One For All charged through his body and he shot forward towards the mist's center.
'15%!'
Izuku spun his body like a corkscrew and aimed true.
"KANSAS SMASH!"
His fists impacted against the metal collar that the villain wore, sending him crashing against the doors.
"As I thought, you can't be all mist, those two knuckleheads might have jumped the gun, but at least they revealed a weakness!"
The mist man groaned in pain, perfect indents of Izuku's fists had been left on his collar and his body had been revealed, showing him to be a well dressed man with a misty body.
"It seems that I left the true golden apple here, ugh, no matter. My duty remains the same."
"Midoriya, move!" Thirteen cried out as she uncapped her finger.
Midoriya leapt away with a grimace, landing and stumbling slightly, his body screaming in pain. He had gone way over his current limit to do that Smash.
Looking he saw that Ashido, Ochako, Tenya, Satou, and Shoji were still here at the plaza and Jango and Fordo were focusing on the plaza.
"We need reinforcements, we need the teachers here! Tenya can sustain his speed a lot more than I can, I just need an opening!"
Izuku's mumbling was cut off as he heard a horrifying scream, turning he saw Thirteen's own quirk used against her, half her suit was torn apart and her body fell to the ground.
"I-I'm sorry...kids." She groaned out.
"No..."
Aizawa was in a pickle, and he admitted to himself that he probably should have stayed up there with his students, especially since he lost track of the warper. He could only hope that Thirteen was handling it.
Using his capture tool to bind two villains and slam them together, unfortunately another mutant type, one that reminded him of a minotaur, came behind him and nearly clipped him.
That is if it wasn't for the two energy bolts that impacted against the beast, putting him out of commission.
'That must be Midoriya, or his clones. They're supposed to be getting out of here-' He pulled another villain towards him before snapping her chin back with a kick and using her as a bowling ball.
"Looks like they have a sniper, tch, Kurogiri better take care of it."
The battle slightly paused as a small explosion of wind appeared at the top of the stairs, but a few more sniper rounds and Aizawa breaking more bones got the villains back on track.
'Looks like something's going on up there. At least I have some cover.' Aizawa thought as a few more villains around him were shot.
Fortunately the shots weren't piercing, but they were certainly burning them.
Not that he cared very much at the moment.
Kurogiri rose weakly, quite simply he was still rattled by the hit he'd taken.
'If he were not to die today, he would surely be a threat.' He thought before a searing pain made itself known in his stomach. Falling to his knees, Kurogiri had to force himself to stay awake.
"ARGH!"
Izuku's smoking barrel was pointed at him, a hard glare in his eyes spoke wonders of his intent.
"Tenya! I'm gonna blow the doors wide open! When I do, RUN! GET HELP!"
"I can't abandon yo-"
"THAT'S AN ORDER!" Izuku screamed as he sped towards the door, he didn't want to risk not opening the doors on the first try, so charging One For All to 30% he prepared to unleash another smash.
"SMASH"
"Not so fast!" Kurogiri yelled as his body exploded into mist, both were consumed and disappeared.
"IZUKU!"
"VOD!"
The main plaza was a mess of bodies, Aizawa having decimated the villains around him with the help of the snipers.
"Tch, I hate it when pros live up to the hype. But at the same time...3, 2, 1." He sped forward and grabbed Aizawa's elbow, the cloth and skin immediately cracking and falling apart. Aizawa quickly knocked Shigaraki away.
"Your hair's a nice tell, you've been erasing quirks left and right, and that timer's gone down. You're a rogue not a paladin, so you're not used to big fights like this, even with your ranger budd-" The shot almost, almost hit him.
But it was blocked by the absolutely enormous beast that stood before him.
"That sniper's annoying...Nom-" He was cut off by the appearance of Kurogiri's portal and the absolute explosion of wind that appeared knocking everybody on their ass.
Kurogiri's body flopped onto the ground, unconscious from the last portal he'd made while Izuku was flung towards Aizawa, the force of his strike making him a rocket.
"Midoriya-ugh!" Aizawa grunted as the two were sent towards the stairs.
"Kurogiri...tch, you're useless. If you're here and out, then that means somebody's probably escaped. That means reinforcements. It's game over. We might as well leave!" The man started to rant and rave about the situation before calming down and talking about leaving everything behind.
Midoriya and Aizawa stared at him in disbelief before looking at each other in suspicion.
'That's not right.'
"But first, let's wreck the Symbol of Peace's pride!"
Izuku saw it happen in slow motion, the man's hand extending towards Asui's face, the latter frozen in fear.
One moment he was with Aizawa.
The next he stood before her, fist raised at the ready.
"DON'T TOUCH HER! DETROIT SMASH!"
The ensuing force ripped through the plaza, the water from the water zone was pushed back, basically becoming a reversed tidal wave, the cement cracked and cratered around the epicenter of impact, and the resulting winds blew everybody away, including the various bodies on the floor.
Izuku's eyes were wide in shock, the same black creature from before had taken Izuku's 100% punch.
And it did no damage.
The same could not be said for Izuku, already damaged from going over his limit, and popping off a 30% punch before this 100%, his arm was a mangled mess now. His right leg, which he used to push off was now an angry purple and blood was starting to pour down his body.
Perhaps if he had started off with the 100% against this creature, it wouldn't have caused so much damage.
"Detroit Smash...huh...I guess you're a fan of All Might?" The main villain said, his attention was completely on Izuku, even choosing to ignore Aizawa who had grabbed Tsu and some other students with his capture weapon and bring them back towards him.
"Midoriya! Get out of there!"
"And that strength is nothing to laugh at, Eraserhead was the miniboss, but it looks like you're the gatekeeper to the final dungeon."
"Are you seriously quoting gaming stuff to me?"
The man ignored him, continuing on with his spiel.
"So let's continue, either way, I have to wait for my escape teleport to work."
Izuku deadpanned at the...childish man.
"Nomu."
Izuku stiffened as he felt the creature rise and look even taller.
"Kill the-"
PHIEW!
Nomu groaned as it collapsed, the large burning hole in its head smoked from the full charge round that punched through its head.
"WHAT!? THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE! NOMU WAS MADE TO TAKE ON ALL MIGHT AND HE'S TAKEN OUT FROM ACROSS THE MAP! I CALL HACKS! AIMBOT! WHATEVER!"
"Looks like you've bitten off more than you can chew di'kut. Now surrender, or that next shot goes through you." Izuku growled while prepping One For All again.
Aizawa had already ordered the students to go up the stairs and found himself next to Midoriya.
"Midoriya, leave this to me." He said but Izuku shook his head.
"All due respect sir, I got range." He said while pulling out his pistol.
The man started to rage and scratch his neck compulsively, growling at everything.
Then something else growled.
Everything went still and everybody stared as the creature stood up, the hole in its head slowly regenerating until it was left exactly as before.
The man began to laugh.
"I can't believe I forgot about that."
"That's impossible...the strength that he has, the sheer durability, and now regeneration?"
"Haaa, like I said, Nomu was made to take out All Might, he's the bioengineered Anti-Symbol of Peace. Shock Absorption, High Speed Regeneration, super strengths and speed. He's exactly what we need."
Izuku gulped, if this guy was serious, then that means that they really did need help. Hopefully, now that Kurogiri was here, the others managed to get Tenya out for reinforcements.
"Get them Nomu!"
Faster than the blink of an eye, Nomu struck.
Aizawa screamed as he was slammed into the stairs, the creature having been too fast for him to react. The dust settled and he was unconscious, bleeding horrendously from his body.
"SENSEI!"
Pulling out his pistols, he fired them at max power, the smell of burnt flesh filled the air as he assaulted the Nomu with relentless blasts, soon enough however.
Click-click.
'Damn it, the higher settings punch through him like paper, but it wastes the battery!'
The Nomu moved before he could even think, he raised his arms and just barely missed getting a fist to the chest. The impact itself was brutal, and he was also sent flying into the stairs.
As the dust cleared, Izuku's body was broken, his arms were shattered, and he'd broken multiple ribs from the impact and his leg was destroyed from the earlier jump.
"D-damn it...I couldn't do anything." Willing himself to stay conscious, Izuku knew that he had to stand up, had to do something.
He could not let his friends die.
'I...have to...rise.'
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'Brothers...help me.'
BOOM!
Heat and smoke waved over him, and Izuku stared at the Nomu's new position, just in front of the ringleader who'd been knocked on his ass by the shockwave of the explosion.
"Think it's gonna be that easy, Handjob? Think again!" Jango cried out as he landed on the ground, pistols at the ready.
"Another miniboss? Or just a mob? No matter, let's just clear this level and go home."
Jango cracked his neck, truth be told he was afraid, not for himself, but for his brother, his friends.
All Might.
But like All Might said.
"Whenever you're afraid...smile to trick the fear inside you."
Well. He was wearing a helmet, but it was the thought that counted.
Izuku stared, breathing heavily.
"Jango...good luck."
They were all going to need it.
And that's a wrap for now! I admit I want to write more but hey! Dramatic tension and all that.
Again, thanks to everybody for sticking by this story. The next update will come by soon! In the next chapter, expect to see the rest of the USJ!
Now, for an Omake.
The Sacred Food
The day of the entrance exam, Izuku and Jango felt confident that they could handle it, as it was, 77 still needed a bit more time and they needed to practice more in working as a team. As it was, Inko took the opportunity to get to know 77, knowing that Jango had a different personality than Izuku, she expected for all of them to be different, and introduce him to her sons' favorite food.
'I know that Izuku and Jango love this stuff to death, but it can't be that good right? At least have some variety.' He thought as Inko set a plate in front of them.
"Thank you ma'am."
"Oh there won't be any ma'am here, I consider all you clones as my boys." Inko said before heading back to the kitchen.
77 smiled before grabbing one of the cutlets and taking a bite.
His eyes widened.
Needless to say, 77 didn't care much about variety anymore.