Sigh…well, we've made it this far, time to move forward.
I want you guys to know that we don't take this lightly, but sometimes the hardest decisions require the strongest wills.
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WARNING: THIS CHAPTER DOES CONTAIN BLOOD, GORE, AND DEATH
Legion: Rising Malevolence
"The cost of war can never truly be accounted for"
"Go, go, go!"
"Move it! Move it!"
"Up to the front!"
Clones were shouting orders to one another, all while getting into cover and firing into the darkness against an enemy they weren't able to properly see, before they stepped into the moonlight and revealed themselves to be droids. Hundreds upon hundreds of droids.
"What are those things!?"
"Who cares, open fire!"
"Come on!"
Izuku was in the fight of his life, General Grievous was showing absolutely no mercy, only by delving deep into One For All, him and Hikage working together to survive.
His brothers did not stand by idly but all their efforts seemed for naught, Grievous barely giving them a passing glance before brutally crushing them, throwing them away or using them against their own brothers as bats.
Izuku raged at the casual dismissal of his brothers, but he needed to maintain his focus.
He could only hope that the others were holding strong across the camp.
"Everyone! Pull back to the lodgings! We need to set up a perimeter defense! Move! Move! Move!" Fordo cried out, waving his arm towards the forest opening as his brothers and the students ran past him, with a few of the clones staying with him to provide covering fire, before being ordered to retreat.
The sounds of metallic steps approaching them along with blaster fire echoed through the forest, Fordo firing a few shots and hitting some droids, a few of the skinny yellow ones, and one of the bulky gray ones which took the hits but kept on advancing before he dove into cover.
"Sector four needs reinforcements, we're being overrun, I repeat, we are-" Just at that moment, the gray droid reached him and peeked over, only for the clone to unleash a barrage of blaster bolts on full auto straight into its face, before knocking a second one down and fired into its core, with the third getting the rifle thrown at it, just as he pulled out his pistol and picked up a dropped rifle, mowing down any droid making it past him.
"Fall back! Fall back! Fall back!" He roared, slowly walking backwards while going to town on their inorganic foes.
After mowing down the last one near them, he decided to also begin his retreat, before noticing Mand'alor standing against a villain he'd seen many times before through Izuku's memories.
"Impossible…General Grievous…" He muttered, before sprinting towards them, quickly followed by Fives, Echo, Cutup, Droidbait, Kickback, Shrapnel, Bombshell, Starscream, Skywarp and Thundercracker.
The latter group all came in some pretty eccentric color patterns, primarily consisting of purple and black, with a bit of gray, black helmets and red visors, except Thundercracker and Starscream, who had a blue and red color scheme and red and gray respectively, while the two and Skywarp also wore jetpacks.
"Seekers, to the sky!" Fordo commanded, to which they nodded.
The latter trio flew up and drew dual DC17's, while the rest of them kept on running towards the standoff. They couldn't hear what Mand'alor said to the villain, but they did hear his response.
"Fools! I have been trained in the deadliest ways of combat, by Lord All For One!" he bellowed, just as he held out his arms that then split into four as his quirk came into play, the two extra limbs grabbing sabers from his back.
Just as the four armed general began to spin around his two upper wrists, blaster bolts rained from the sky, as the trio opened fire with their pistols, forcing Grievous to dodge out of the way while the droids began to aim up to the sky, just as the ground forces came into range and went to town.
"These clankers will make great trophies, trophies!" Shrapnel hissed, his verbal tic kicking in as he fired his carbine while dodging the blaster bolts.
"Less yapping, more shooting, Shrapnel!" Bombshell said as he threw some thermal detonators at the droids and rolled out of the way, before taking off the rocket launcher he was carrying on his back and aimed it at Grievous, before firing it.
Much to his shock and horror however, he knocked the rocket away with the flick of one of his scimitars.
"Impossible! That was a rocket!" Bombshell exclaimed, just as he was hit in the shoulder by a blaster bolt, causing him to cry out in pain.
"Vod! Kickback! Take Bombshell to the lodgings, lodgings! I'll cover you!" Shrapnel yelled as he ran to cover his downed brother.
Nodding, Kickback jumped and leaped towards them, putting Bombshell's arm around his neck and began to pull out, all while Fordo went to town on the droids again with his pistol and rifle.
Combat had meanwhile begun between Grievous and Izuku, each of them swinging and parrying with their blades.
It was however obvious which one of them was more experienced.
Izuku was calling upon more and more of One For All to even keep up while maintaining his connection to Hikage, straining him even more.
Fives, Echo, Cutup and Droidbait each fired their tow cables and began to pull, restraining the villain to the best of their ability, but were overpowered as he began swinging them around like flails, before throwing them into the distance so they landed like a set of dominos.
"Ugh…let's not do that again…" Echo muttered.
"Come on boys, get up!" Fives yelled as he got up and helped the others to their feet.
Fordo was of course busy fighting, and the trio in the air did their best to not get shot down, but out of the corner of his eye, he saw Izuku's blade get knocked out of his hands, Grievous moving in for the kill.
The moment he saw that, he thrust out his wristcomm.
"Backup, NOW!" He yelled, just as a strange rumbling sound could be heard in the distance, with something bursting out of the foliage a few moments later.
What had just arrived hovered in the air with two searchlights on the villain, Oddball being visible in the cockpit while Bullseye were in one of the side ball turrets, with the two main blaster cannons taking aim and Oddball angled the vehicle so the two tubes on top of it were also aimed at him.
The moment he moved even an inch, Oddball opened up with the blaster cannons, forcing him to run off with bolts flying, while Bullseye moved his turret along, firing a green beam and cutting down any droid getting in the way.
Noticing how nimble he was, Oddball pressed a button, firing four missiles at him, most of them impacting the ground and blowing up dirt and dust, along with the droids caught in the blast.
While the smoke was kicked up, the few clones onboard the vessel shouted at them to hurry up and get onboard.
"No! We must pursue!" Izuku said, not wanting anyone else to face the horror of a general.
Dodging a few blaster bolts, the clones nodded as they got on board and flew towards Izuku who jumped on board as they began to give chase, red blasts impacting against the hull all the while.
"Wait! Waaaait!" A clone shouted as he ran after them, with Oddball slowing down so they could pull him onboard.
The clone panted heavily, before looking up at Izuku.
"The Darksaber, as per your orders, Mand'alor," He gasped as he handed over the weapon.
"Mand'alor! I'm high enough that I've reestablished comms!"
"Call for immediate reinforcements!"
"Already on it!"
"A PHONE CALL IS HERE! A PHONE CALL IS HERE!"
Toshinori groaned as he grabbed his phone, Inko next to him blearily opened her eyes.
They had decided to turn in early for the night after watching a nice movie.
"Yes?" Toshinori asked before hearing the news.
"WHAT!?" Toshinori yelled as he quickly got up and went to the closet to grab his uniform.
"What? What's wrong!?" Inko asked in fear.
"The camp's under attack! The Battalion's being mobilized!"
"What?" Inko shakily whispered, horrified.
Toshinori then buffed up and moved to the door before pausing and turning back.
"I swear to you, Inko. I will do everything in my power to keep them safe," He said as he gently held her.
"Please…" She whispered brokenly. "Keep them safe…"
"I will…" All Might declared as he opened the door to the balcony and leaped off into the night.
Inko could only pray that her children were alright.
Barb held onto the kids tightly as he descended the mountain towards the lodge, unfortunately by the time he got to the foot of the mountain the battle was already in full swing, blaster fire going over their heads.
Kota and Eri clutched tightly to his armor as he tried his best to get through the battlefield.
"Vod'e! I have the children!" He screamed as he slid into a ditch.
"Thank goodness, but we can't get to the lodge! The way's already blocked off!"
"What's happening?" Barb yelled as explosions began to rock the forest.
"Villains! And they've brought droids with them, we're outnumbered 3 to 1 and there's reports of nomu in the vicinity!"
"I need to get the kids to safety!"
"We can't get across!"
"Then we'll just have to hold out!" The clone yelled before pointing at a wall on the side of the mountain.
"Look! There's a small cave over there, too small for any of us but it might be big enough for the kids!"
"Right!" Barb yelled as he spotted the cave. "Cover me!"
"Roger! All units, we have VIPs in the vicinity! Eri and Kota have been found and are being secured at a cave near our position!"
Dodging and evading, Barb kept the children close to his chest, before rolling and ending up at the entrance of the cave, before gently putting them down and ordering them into the cave.
The kids however kept on clutching to him, forcing the clone to pull them off and nearly shove them inside.
"Kota! Eri! Protect each other and keep quiet! Only exit this place once the fighting's died down, ok?!" He yelled, to which they nodded, before he heard screaming from his brothers and looked over his shoulder, seeing a Nomu currently spewing acid at his brothers.
Barb quickly put some leaves and shrubbery to cover the entrance before joining the fight.
The last thing Kota saw Barb do before passing out from shock, was jumping onto the nomu with a vibroblade.
"KEEP FIRE ON THAT THING!" 36 roared as the chainsaw nomu was assaulted by the squad.
A chainsaw then lashed out and struck 36 in the helmet, sending him flying into a tree.
"36!" Momo screamed in fear before grabbing one of his blaster pistols and began aiming at the Nomu knocking around clones and even crushing some beneath its feet.
Fortunately, one was able to drive it back with a minigun.
"YOU WANNA PIECE OF THIS?!" The clone yelled, constantly firing the rotary blaster at it, even as it was pushed back.
A few grenades and more blasters eventually brought it to its knees where a clone got on top of it and shoved a grenade down its throat before jumping off in time for its head to explode.
The headless corpse fell to the ground with a splatter and the group was able to rest.
The clone with the minigun however, decided to double tap by filling the corpse with blaster bolts, just to make sure it didn't get up again, followed by all the clones surrounding it aiming their vambraces and incinerating the remains.
"36! 36!" Momo screamed as she got to the clone and quickly pulled off the damaged helmet.
36 groaned in agony, the right side of his face bleeding massively.
"36!"
"I-I'm here, Momo!"
"Come on," Momo said as she grabbed some bandages and other supplies to treat his face before wrapping it. "Let's get out of here!"
"Commander! We've got more hostiles incoming by the treeline!" A clone called out by using his scanner. "We've only got a few minutes before they're right on top of us!"
"Commander," A clone said after jogging up to them. "We'll never be able to get the injured out of here…"
"Don't say that! We'll find a way! Right, 36?" Momo yelled as she looked at the clone reassuringly.
Hearing no response however, she turned back to 36 in confusion.
"36?" She noticed that he was staring at her grimly.
"He's right, Momo…we won't make it…ugh…you need to take Ragdoll and go-"
"Nonononononono-"
"The others will come for you, and we can buy you the time you need to get to safety. Go while you still have time!" 36 yelled as he grabbed his pistol.
"I'm not leaving you!" Momo screamed.
"It's fine, Momo!"
"It's not fine!" 36 then grabbed her by the shoulder, looking her straight in the eye.
"We're just clones, Momo. We're meant to be expendable," He defended before letting his gaze fall.
Momo then grabbed him by the jaw and forced him to look at her again.
"Not to me."
Momo then helped 36 stand up and put his arm over her shoulder.
"You're not sheep to be herded to slaughter. You're wolves. And do you know what wolves do?"
"Defend their pack?"
"Exactly. Trooper!"
"Yes, Commander!" Momo blinked at the title, but now wasn't the time to argue.
"How far are we from the lodge?"
"About a half a mile out, battle comms are reporting that they're under attack as well but they're holding the line and the main enemy forces are still in the forest!"
"They're starting to breach the tree line!" Another clone called out.
"Take the wounded and get out of here, and make sure Ragdoll is evacuated too! We can't let her fall into enemy hands!" She commanded, before firing her pistol, nailing a droid square in the head.
"I'll cover you!" Momo yelled before unleashing her quirk, creating something similar to a t-shirt launcher.
"If these things are robots, then that means that they should be susceptible to electromagnetic pulses," She muttered, before firing the gun, with the grenades sending out pulses the moment they hit.
"Hey, aren't those…"
'Shield-san's Droid Poppers? Yep!" She said and fired more and more.
Eventually the droids were scattered enough that she was able to fall back and join them, intermittently launching more behind her.
Hopefully, everybody was still fine at the lodge, and they'd be able to provide support.
Monoma was very much panicking over what this… thing even was. Those worms… was it muscle tissue?! Gross!
The blonde boy shrieked as the giant amalgamation swung one of its arms at him, barely managing to dodge out of the way as it kept on swinging, with one of the trees breaking when it hit it.
'That thing cleaved straight through the trunk! What the hell is this!?' He thought to himself, just as he stumbled over his own feet, with the creature aiming its arm cannon at him, the limb glowing a sickly green.
Just as he let out a scream, someone jumped onto the back of the creature and began pulling, causing it to stumble backwards and fire the weapon into the sky.
The person who had saved him turned out to be the clone that was assigned to him, with the armored teen pulling out his pistol and began firing into the head of the creature trying to throw him off like a bull.
A few minutes of struggling later, with Monoma having managed to crawl somewhat to safety, the clone pulled out a thermal detonator and forced it down the throat of the creature just as it roared, before jumping off in a backwards roll and landing in a crouch, with the monster exploding shortly after.
Standing up, the clone looked at the now dead nomu and Monoma with equal disdain, his armor covered in blood from the explosion.
"A nomu without skin… must've been in a world of hurt…" He muttered, before turning his head to the blonde boy.
"Come on. We need to regroup. Hurry up before I leave you behind," He scoffed as he began to walk.
"H-hold up! What the hell was that thing?!" Monoma asked as he began following the grim clone.
"Didn't I just tell you? That was a nomu. A bioengineered weapon with up to four quirks."
"I-impossible! Having more than one permanent quirk would drive one insane, or even kill someone!"
"Exactly. What you just saw was a walking corpse," The clone said as they kept walking.
Swallowing the lump in his throat, Monoma looked over his shoulder. Was that really what 1-A had faced? He shuddered to just think about it.
"And just so you know? The one at the USJ was worse."
"How?! How could something possibly be worse than that thing!?"
"The one at the USJ was made to kill All Might,"
At that, Monoma froze.
"K-kill… All Might…" He gasped, before beginning to run after the clone again, not wanting to be left in the forest in case any more of these 'nomu' were out there.
Sentinel was calling out enemy positions from his vantage point, advising clone squads where to go and where to avoid and generally serving as the tactician of the situation.
"All units be advised! Mand'alor is with a squad pursuing an enemy heading east!" Sentinel observed before hearing a commotion below him.
A lizard man with an…amalgamation of weapons fighting against his brothers, while Mandaly fought another opponent with a large staff.
"Get do-URGkk..agh.." A clone clutched his throat, a knife managing to find its way there by a grinning villain.
"These are the so-called brothers of Mand'alor? Pathetic…" he said as he began to stab the dying clone over and over again, throwing in a kick every now and then.
"NO!" Sentinel yelled before charging his rifle and firing at the center mass of the enormous weapon of the lizard.
The lizard snarled as he saw his weapon shattered to pieces before looking up at the clone who destroyed it.
"Come down here, clone! And fall by the hands of Spinner! Disciple of Stain and his Avenger!" Spinner yelled as he grabbed an ax and sword.
Sentinel snarled as he transformed his gun back to the double blade before pressing the button, the blades extending out farther and wider and activating his shield.
He did not turn the vibroblades on.
He would make this personal.
"Engaging the enemy," Sentinel stated before taking a step off the cliff and falling, digging the blade deep into the rock to slow his descent before pushing off, landing on the ground with a snarl as rubble landed around him.
"Villain, you attack my brothers and my friends. I will bring you to Tartarus, your new home."
"GOOD LUCK WITH THAT, CLONE! HAARGH!"
Spinner charged wildly with his ax and sword, crashing into Sentinel, who blocked the blows with his shield but was still pushed back against the cliff edge.
"You will fall, Spinner."
"I'll enjoy killing you like the rest!" The lizard boy roared as he swung his weapon again.
"How many."
"Huh?"
"How many of my brothers did you kill, you son of a bitch."
"I didn't keep track!"
Sentinel snarled as he headbutted the villain before lifting his leg and kicking him hard in the abdomen, separating the two before spinning and swinging his blade, Spinner barely able to block.
The two continued to fight, with Sentinel blocking or deflecting most of the blows and remaining on the backfoot.
But that was on purpose.
Spinner grinned as he kept up his attacks, relentless with each strike.
"You're actually pretty good for a clone, but not good enough!"
'He fights sloppily, that abomination of a weapon is a testament to his lack of skill, simply blindly swinging it around his weapons.'
Sentinel narrowed his eyes.
The trap would be sprung soon enough.
Spinner then tried to do a simple spin kick, which was blocked by Sentinel's shield before he retaliated by spinning before grabbing Spinner's head and delivering a brutal knee to the face, a nasty crunch could be heard the moment the armor plating made contact.
"Argh!" The scaly adult grabbed his nose, clearly broken from the blow.
The blow was then followed by a sharp pain to the cheek, due to Sentinel swinging his weapon and hitting him, cutting his cheek with the Stain retainer jumping back to create distance, holding a hand to his bleeding face.
"That blade is mighty fine… I think I'll add it to my collection," He sneered.
Just then, Sentinel held out his weapon, the blades retracting back to the body as it once more looked like a staff, before electricity began crackling to life at each end.
"Believe me, beast," Sentinel began. "You will get a close demonstration," He snarled, before the two charged at each other, Spinner swinging his giant ax of scrap, with Sentinel jabbing his staff into the stomach of his foe, sending an electric shock through him.
"AAAAAAGGGGHH!"
"Prepare yourself, villain," Sentinel spat. "I will not finish you yet."
Meanwhile, Magne, who had been pretty much dominating the fight with Mandalay after defeating Pixie Bob, was being throttled by Tiger, although Magne managed to evade his blows.
"You are such a pain, darling," She said, before putting her hand on Tiger, activating her quirk and sending him flying.
Just as she had done that though, she felt a painful shock surge through her, and looked over her shoulder to see nothing, only to get jabbed again.
Swinging the steel beam, she hit something, which turned out to be a clone in black armor, flittering out of some sort of stealth field as he hit the ground with what was most likely a concussion and several broken bones.
Clones then began to appear out of thin air, coming out of cloaking and each holding some sort of electric weapon.
And a few even had sticks and rocks.
She had already tried and noticed that their armor was nonmagnetic, and while her quirk could work on them, not on so many at the same time.
Another scream caught her attention and she noticed Spinner fighting or rather getting pummeled by a clone, expertly swinging some kind of strange weapon a bit similar to what the clones surrounding her held, as each hit sent electricity through her comrade.
Sensing something, she quickly dodged as a hammer looking weapon was brought down on the ground where she had been standing just moments before, sending a small shockwave out.
"Now, that wasn't very nice…" She growled, swinging her steel beam, while the hammer wielding clone answered in kind with his hammer.
While they clashed, another clone with electric batons ran in and smacked her in the side, sending a painful electric shock through her.
Magne hissed in pain and thrust her palm onto the clone's chest and reversed his polarity, sending him flying into the forest with a cut off scream.
"You think your fancy toys are enough to take me down? Think again…" She tsked, before swinging her weapon again.
"THEN PERHAPS MY FIST!"
"GUH!" Magne cried out as Tiger's fist went straight into her gut.
'I forgot about the pro!'
She coughed out spit before using Tiger's polarity to send him away.
Back with Spinner's fight, he was starting to feel exhausted, and was noticing that his opponent was barely breathing hard.
'He let me attack on purpose! He's been in control of the fight from the beginning!' Spinner realized with horrified shock, Sentinel chuckling grimly.
"So, you've finally realized, have you? Not so funny now, is it?"
Spinner snarled as he burst forward, wildly flailing his weapons, managing to hit Sentinel in the armor, even managing to block a counterblow and send Sentinel to his knees.
"You call yourself Stain's disciple?! Don't make me laugh!"
But the latter merely spun on his feet and delivered another glancing blow to his midriff before catching Spinner's ax and sending it flying out of his grip.
"The Vod'e…"
Spinner tried to counter attack with his sword but was blocked by the shield before Sentinel kicked his hand, knocking his hand back.
"...will survive!"
"No!" Spinner yelled before screaming in pain as Sentinel extended the blade on his staff, electricity coursing through it, before driving it into his shoulder and then twisted his wrist before pushing, tearing off Spinner's arm.
"AAAAGGGGHHH!"
Blood spilled out of the wound and Spinner could only stare in horror at the half cauterized wound.
Sentinel then used his momentum to slam his shield into Spinner's face, knocking him down with a spin as he landed harshly on the ground.
Spinner then began to crawl forward.
"Just a worthless ripoff of Stain!" Sentinel yelled as he drove his blade into Spinner's other shoulder, threatening to take it out as Spinner's body was even slightly dragged up by the force of Sentinel yanking it out.
Spinner groaned in agony as he got up to his knees, fear filling his being as he grabbed onto the clone's belt.
"P-please!"
Sentinel snarled as he kicked the man off of him before deactivating his shield to grab his weapon with both hands.
'He's really going to kill me! Isn't he a hero!?'
"Die with some dignity at least, Spinner!" Sentinel yelled as he thrusted down.
At the last moment however, his body began to glow and Sentinel was flung backwards. Magne then charged forward, heavily injured by the clones and Tiger working together.
Spinner's body began to glow and he was taken to Magne's arms as she fled into the forest, unable to continue fighting.
One clone tried throwing a rock at the two, but it was sent back by Magne swinging her steel beam with enough force to knock off his helmet.
"Get back here, Spinner!" Sentinel roared in fury as he transformed his staff back to its bo rifle mode and shot at the two.
"Do not think that you can escape me! I will chase you to the ends of the Earth!" His voice roared out as the two ran into the forest, disappearing into the foliage.
"Shall we give chase, sir?" A clone asked as they looked in the direction they ran.
"No. Let them run and live in fear. There is always next time… for now… let's gather our lost brothers…" He said while folding his blaster back into its compact mode and put it on his back, and went over to Spinner's last victim.
Kneeling down, he put a hand on the body gently, quivering in a mix of rage and sorrow as he clenched his fist hard enough to draw blood.
"Forgive me… brother…" He sighed, tears beginning to drip from beneath his helmet.
Rising from the corpse he then stared off to where the villains disappeared.
"But rest assured, you will be avenged. I promise," As the inside of his helmet put Spinner on top of his hit list.
"Surrender now, villain, and it may not be too painful when we take you in." 99 sneered at Muscular who looked around him with glee at all the new victims he had
He was practically in heaven.
"Now where would the fun be in that, clone? There is nothing more thrilling than the smell of blood and carnage!" He guffawed and charged at the ARC trooper, who began firing at him along with his brothers.
The bolts were however absorbed by muscle tissue extending out of the villain's skin, much to the disgust of the clones who kept on firing, just as he swung his arm, sending a handful into the cliff wall, while smashing another one into the ground.
"Ridgeway, get outta there!" 99 shouted, just as Muscular grabbed said clone by the ankle and threw him off the cliff.
"AAAAHHH!" Ridgeway screamed as he disappeared into the treetops below.
"You'll pay for that, Shabuir!" One of the clones yelled as he took out a thermal detonator, and ran towards the monstrosity, throwing it in hopes of it getting caught in the muscle tissue.
The explosive was however knocked right back at him, exploding mid air and knocking most of them off their feet.
More clones began to fight with blasters, Muscular using his surprising speed to get between them and knock them away.
99 ducked as more debris was kicked up by Muscular slamming his body all over the place only to dodge again as Muscular crashed near him, trying to slam him with his fists.
Muscular grunted as he was suddenly pierced by multiple tow cables, clones coming down and shooting him.
Muscular screamed in agony as the shots burned through him but was still regenerating at an impressive rate to counteract them.
Finally he managed to pull the clones down and snarled as he went to kill some only for 99 to fire something out of his wrist.
The cable latched itself onto Muscular's forehead and a torrent of electricity cascaded through his body, fire being ignited in every nerve.
The villain then thrust his head forward, somehow managing to send the electricity back at 99 who was knocked off his feet.
Slamming the Horn Company troopers away, Muscular went in to kill the pesky clone and slammed both of his arms down, only managing to crush 99's leg who'd managed to roll somewhat out of the way.
99 screamed in pain before managing to roll even more out of the way as Muscular continued his rampage.
Doing his best to ignore the pain in his leg, 99 sat up and looked around at the battle taking place.
Clones were shooting and jumping onto Muscular to try and overpower him, while he kept on smacking them away and throwing them off.
"MUSCULAR!" A voice roared as an ax slammed into muscle tissue as Orion appeared from above, leaping off of the villain, he'd left an entire satchel of grenades which exploded with great force, knocking Orion off of his feet.
Orion took the lead in fighting Muscular, but it wouldn't be enough.
99 knew that he had to do something…
'I have to rise…' He thought as he shakily got up to his good leg before setting pressure on his bad one.
99 screamed in pain as he hobbled, but continued forward.
Completely filled with Determination, he took another step forward.
And felt a spark.
"99?" He heard Nana ask in shock and confusion.
"Nana?...How?"
"I don't know…One For All is somehow reacting to your determination…I'm seeing through your eyes right now…"
"Nana…I need your help, my brothers are dying…"
"...You've know what happened to Hikage…if we do this…"
"It doesn't matter…as long as I can save them and stop this monster," 99 said as he stood just a bit taller. "Then I will gladly pay any price."
"Very well, my friend…good luck."
Power then began to surge through his very being as 99 was reinforced by the energy of One For All. Already feeling both the positive and negative effects, he knew that he had to act quickly.
Muscular was too busy laughing as he killed more clones, barely paying attention to what was occurring.
By the time he noticed the lightshow behind him.
It was too late.
"SMASH!"
The sheer force behind the blow was enough to blow away all the muscle tissue on Muscular, the sounds of his skull cracking by the punch barely audible against the cacophony of the rubble exploding as his body slammed into the mountain.
All the clones could only stare in wonder at the sight of one of their own using One For All besides Izuku.
But the consequences would soon be seen for such a choice.
"99!" Orion screamed.
Denki and Kyoka were running through the trees, coming up on the cliff where they were seeing clones being flung off.
A change in the air however, one very familiar to Denki immediately made him tackle Kyoka to the ground as an arc of lightning passed over their heads.
"What was that!?" Kyoka asked as the two then rolled on their feet and got back to back to each other.
"I don't know, but that was some serious lightning, I haven't seen something like that since one of my mom's demonstrations!"
"Hahahahaha…" They heard echo throughout the forest before the trees rustled and another person approached them.
"Hello, Denki," The man said as he approached them.
"Who are you!?" Denki yelled as he charged electricity while Kyoka readied her jacks. "How do you know my name?"
The man merely laughed before shrugging off his cloak, shocking the two teens.
He had blonde hair and a slightly sadistic grin, lichtenberg, or lightning scars covering his entire body.
The biggest shock to them however, was the hole in the man's chest, the greatest concentration of scars spiraling from it.
Lightning sparked across his body as he stared at Denki with a grin.
"As if I wouldn't know my own nephew."
Mustard had been easily defeated, but the effects of his gas had still impacted a few of the students.
Itsuka included.
Tetsutetsu had been the only one not injured or affected by the gas.
"Tetsutetsu…I need you to take Itsuka and the other students and run back to the lodge. That's where the majority of our forces are gathered, holding off the attack and where the students are gathering."
A slightly wobbly Itsuka shook her head and tried to grab onto Thorn.
"I…I won't leave you…Thorn," Itsuka whispered.
"Cyare…"
"Please…I can still fight…I won't let the man I love do something stupid…" Itsuka said, looking him straight in the visor.
Thorn stared back at her for a moment before taking off his helmet and staring deep into her eyes.
"Itsuka…ni kartayl gar darasuum, I will know your name forever…in other words, I love you, too," He said before gently kissing her.
Zchoom
"Ugh…" Itsuka gasped before falling unconscious.
"Thorn…" Tetsutetsu gasped.
"What she doesn't know is that we're almost surrounded and the enemy is almost on us…and they're not afraid to kill," Thorn explained as he held her up bridal style before passing her on to Tetsutetsu.
"If you guys stay, you'll get overwhelmed too, we only have so much ammo, and the chances of reinforcements are unlikely to get here in time…Mand'alor's been summoning more but he's also busy fighting another villain, and the troops are scattered…"Thorn said as he charged up his Z-6.
"Thorn…there's gotta be another way…"
"There is no other way…believe me…I don't want to do this…I want to be able to come back, all of us do," Thorn said as he motioned to the other clones next to him, all of them nodding solemnly.
He then began gently caressing Itsuka's face. "But for her…I'd do anything."
Tetsutetsu couldn't bear it, swallowing heavily at what he was about to do.
"I'm sorry…for everything…"
"You are forgiven…were things different, I think I would have liked fighting by your guys' side."
Tetsutetsu nodded before adjusting his grip on Itsuka, having her lean more heavily on him.
And with his free hand, he saluted them, the other students doing the same.
The clones quickly saluted back and with a heavy heart, Tetsutetsu took off, the other injured students following him.
Thorn let his tears fall as he put on his helmet and they started to set up defenses with what supplies they had.
"Incoming at the tree line!"
The slow, mechanical marching struck fear into their hearts.
But they would stand tall.
"This…is where we hold them!" Thorn began, as the squads of clones lined up behind him.
"This is where we fight!"
They lined up their rifles in unison.
"This is where THEY DIE!"
The first rows of droids peaked through the forest marching towards their doom.
"EARN YOUR COLORS, BOYS!" Thorn roared.
"OYA!"
"Remember this day," Thorn finished as he raised his rotary blaster as well. "For it will be yours for all time!"
And as the droids approached, the fury of the Vod'e was unleashed, a sea of blue destroying droid against droid as they returned fire.
At first, they managed to last well, brother standing with brother as they fired every single shot that they had, droids falling in waves against the onslaught.
But one by one, the brothers began to fall.
"Kugh!"
"Argh!"
"Man dow-kah!"
Thorn fired his Z-6, droids falling in droves while they began to encircle him, as the barrels began to turn red hot, a few bolts managed to hit him and bring him down to his knees but he continued firing as he got back up to his feet.
"FOR MAND'ALOR! FOR U.A.!"
Smoke began to emit from the Z-6 as it began to glow yellow and melt before eventually it gave up and refused to fire anymore.
A shot to the chest and back caused him to temporarily lose his footing, as he planted his boots in the ground.
Thorn snarled as he used it as a ram, slamming droids with its weight before it bent it half due to the heat and force used, him finally tossing it at another droid before taking out his pistols and continuing to fire.
Taking another shot to the shoulder, he pushed through the pain and continued forward.
Firing until his pistols clicked empty, and then using his blades to cut through more droids.
Finally he tackled one final droid before breaking off its head, the wires sparking from its neck.
Thorn panted heavily, as he got up to his hands and knees, blood pooling beneath his body from the multiple cracks and breaks in his armor.
He finally looked up and noticed the field of corpses, both mechanical and brother.
They had done it, the students would be able to make it to the lodge without worry of them being attacked from behind.
"Heeheeheeheehee…"
He heard the laughter echo around him and shakily got up to his feet.
He wasn't alone.
"Hahahahahahaha!"
Thorn looked around, grabbing his knife as he searched for the source of the laughter.
From the darkness approached 3 figures, each being a young girl around the students' age but with an insane grin on her face, and all three of them were absolutely covered in blood.
Thorn raised his knife.
"You look so cute…so bloody…" The first said as they began to spread out.
"Just like him…like Izuku-kun," The second declared as she licked her lips.
"But you're not him…you're a fake…" The third pouted before grabbing a long knife, the other two grabbing other weapons.
"But it's so cute…seeing how far you went for love…"
"I'll make sure to pay that redhead a visit…ask for some tips…"
Thorn snarled as he charged forward, but in his exhaustion, he was slow and took a blow to the gut, his already battered armor cracking with the blow before receiving another to the side.
Thorn knocked one away before using his vambrace to block a blow from the first but another blow brought him to a knee before a jab forced him back up. The three struck him multiple times before one finally managed to stab through the armor and into his body.
With a grunt, moved forward, the blade going deeper before going for the girl's throat.
If she was willing to kill so easily…
The girl choked before gagging as a knife entered it from his armor, with a gurgle she backed up and fell to the ground before collapsing to mud.
The other two however, were not idle, bringing him down to his knees and stabbing his side and shoulder before forcing the blades deeper.
"Krrghk."
With another grunt, he grabbed a blaster on the ground and fired into the chests of the two remaining opponents.
His weight fell onto one arm, the two bodies collapsing next to him.
Thorn choked on his blood and with his last strength, raised his hand and pressed a button on his helmet.
His arm finally gave out on him and he collapsed fully on the ground.
"Thorn…thank you so much for taking me here, I love it!" Itsuka says as she sees the walks through the gardens that some of the Vod'e had planted at Topeka dorms.
"I thought that you'd like it."
"I do…it's beautiful…" She said as she passed her hand through some flowers.
"And…so are you…"
"Oh?" Itsuka blushed but smiled at him
"Very beautiful indeed. Would you like to go out for dinner tonight?"
"I'd love that very much, Thorn."
The last thing he saw before he felt the warm embrace of his brothers, was Itsuka's radiant smile.
"For…Itsuka…"
Toga Himiko walked forward, stopping near the last clone to fall, Twice's clones had lasted pretty well against this one clone but he ended up taking them with him.
Seemed to be a quality vs. quantity thing.
She'd seen him interact with that one redheaded girl that had been taken by the steel-haired boy.
The kiss they shared.
She'd have to ask her about tips for when she found her Izuku-kun.
'So bloody, so good, the Sports Festival, Stainy…and if your clones can be as good as him…'
Himiko smiled widely, her obsession in full.
"I can't wait to meet the real you, Izuku-kun."
Monoma shrieked as he ducked below blaster fire and crashed into the dirt, the sounds of clones fighting, dying, explosions, and more echoing all around him.
He felt a hand harshly grab his arm and pull him up before being dragged by to another encampment.
"We've got more droids incoming! Reports of a killer squad that has more movement and deadlier weapons!"
"We need to get Monoma back to the lodge!"
FWEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
"INCOMING!"
BOOM!
"MULTIPLE CASUALTIES! WE'VE GOT MORE DROIDS INCOMING!"
"GET THE WOUNDED OUT OF HERE!"
"DROIDBAIT IS DOWN! GET A MEDIC!"
FWEEEEEEEEEEEE
"INCOMING!"
BOOOOM!
Everything went black.
Katsuki had to admit.
For a clone, this one certainly had guts.
Although it had protested staying out to fight, seeing his stubbornness had instead joined him in the fighting, providing cover fire and relaying positions.
He could almost, almost respect it.
But then they started to get surrounded and the clone was becoming more and more insistent on retreating.
But Bakugo Katsuki would never retreat. All Might had never retreated and as such, neither would he.
Still, they were getting surrounded but Katsuki never felt more alive as he blew these droids to pieces, uncaring of what was happening around him.
Then something landed next to him.
"GRENADE!"
Katsuki felt something tackle him before everything went black as the grenade exploded.
Inside the lodgings, students who had managed to make it back were holding tight under Vlad King's orders while he tried to reestablish communications with U.A. for reinforcements.
Recently, Momo had arrived with 36 and what remained of their squad, a few having died along the way or from the initial confrontation.
Ochako was currently dragging a clone inside of the cabin next to another one, and looked down, covering her mouth as he she realized something.
He had passed on the way inside.
Taking a closer look she gasped and took a step back. She knew these two.
"Steelskin… Quickfix…" she whispered, feeling tears running down her cheeks at her deceased friends.
The eccentric clone medic had been part of Izuku's license exam, and despite being quirky, was a friend to all he considered his patients, even told them stories to make them feel easier.
Steelskin had always acted like a shield for anyone who needed protection, no matter what the assailant had held and was therefore beloved amongst many.
The injured had been treated and those who could fight headed outside to help with the defensive efforts.
Those who couldn't be saved…
One part of the room had sheets with boots sticking out from them.
"I'm so, so sorry…" she sobbed as she slowly covered the bodies, tears flowing freely.
Blaster fire could be heard from inside, and finally, Ochako decided that she couldn't just sit there and do nothing.
Wiping her tears, she began to equip herself with parts of her costume that only took moments to put on.
"Alright, everyone, just outside Izuku and our friends are fighting for their lives, and I'm not gonna sit on my ass all night and do nothing, who's with me!" Ochako shouted, to which the others raised their fists.
"OYA!"
"HOLD IT!" Vlad King roared as he blocked the door.
"I cannot allow you to risk your lives! Stand down!" He ordered.
"Mandalay already relayed the order from Eraserhead that we're allowed to fight back! And I refuse to let more of the Vod'e sacrifice themselves for us! They're our friends, our brothers too!" Ochako yelled back as she grabbed a rifle and then tossed it to Kan who stared at it and her in shock.
"So you either join us, or you get out of our way," Ochako ordered, defiance in her eyes and in the eyes of the students still there, all of them with weapons.
Vlad King growled but finally relented.
"Fine. We're going to talk about this later, though."
"Fine by me."
They charged forward and headed outside to see where the clones had set up multiple barriers and were firing against the droid hordes at the edge of the forest.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE!?" A clone asked in horror.
"WE'RE HERE TO HELP! OPEN FIRE!"
With a roar, the students opened fire on the droids, while not all shots were the best, there were so many droids that it didn't matter where they shot.
With the students in the back, a few clones moved forward, charging into the fray of some droids that had gotten too close and into melee.
What one clone hadn't thought about though, was that punching metal wasn't exactly the best idea, with the guy barely able to scream in pain before getting shot.
Yui ran to the fray, being surprisingly athletic as she readied her vambraces, knocking down droids left and right, before backflipping and opened one of the containers on her belt, small detonators falling into her palm, before she threw them and put her fingers together, making them grow in size before they exploded.
Making her way back to friendly lines, the silent girl ducked in cover and looked at the clones next to her, before nodding and pressed another one of her containers, this one also holding detonators and handed them out.
Several clones tossed grenades into the fray, either exploding or frying the droids circuitry.
"Crap! Those big ones don't go down easily-ARGH!"
"Bel!" Yui cried out as she saw her friend get hit in the shoulder, making an emotion bubble up in her that she hadn't felt in a long time.
Rage.
Standing up, she locked her vambraces together as she charged up her super move.
"Ultra Beam!" She cried out, as the blue beam fired out of the vambrace, cutting through swathes of droids before the crystal gave out.
Unlocking her vambraces, she hissed in pain as she felt them burn her due to how much energy that had been put into the blast.
Panting heavily, she suddenly felt a sharp pain in her stomach and looked down to see a glowing hole there, before her vision began to go dark, only hearing the screams of her classmates and friends call out to her as she collapsed.
Monoma woke up to chaos and confusion. His vision was blurry and he had this constant ringing in his ears that was honestly pretty annoying.
He could see one of Midoriya's clones shake him…why was he bothering him now? Didn't they have anything better to do?
The clone shouted something at him…what gave him the right to shout at him?
Looking around, he saw a lot of other clones on the ground…were they asleep?
Why would they sleep on the ground?
The clone facing him looked up to another and said something else before he felt hands grab under his armpits and start dragging him away.
He tried to shake them off but he felt so weak and tired…so tired.
Monoma could only stare as he saw the clone that'd been with him take off his helmet for some reason, not noticing the shattered visor.
Something he did notice was something that looked like scorch marks on his armor.
The clone stumbled forward and grabbed a rifle before opening fire at some kind of thin, black droid, the machine crumpling under the onslaught.
He noticed another one with some kind of sword attached to its wrist go for the clone's back only for him to slam its head off with his elbow before firing a few rounds from his pistol into its chest.
'Hey…clone…what's your name?' He tried to put it into words.
"Mgblegh..fur..m…"
More blaster fire from the side caught the clone's attention and he opened fire before taking a few hits by another blaster, eventually using both his rifle and pistol to take out the droids attacking him.
'Can't you hear me…what's your name?'
"N't…r…e…ur…am…"
Another droid charged forward, kicking the helmet a bit and pushing the clone to the ground before being kicked off, another going for the side and being punched away before the other one returned holding a blade and jumped into the air to thrust down.
'What's your name?'
Monoma however, lost consciousness shortly after.
Reiko and her group, including Shishida, Kirishima and Ojiro alongside a small squad of clones, had received the report of Grievous attacking Mand'alor and then being forced on the run.
So, they'd decided to help and set up a trap.
Unfortunately, things hadn't gone so well for them.
Grievous was brutal, immediately bursting out of the forest with such speed and ferocity that within seconds he was on top of them.
Kirishima was the first to fall, having charged ahead with his quirk with a roar only to have his head crushed into the ground by Grievous using his clawed foot.
"Get back!"
With his cloak having flown up in the air, all were shocked to see his body be completely mechanical like the droids before he leaped up and disappeared.
The group joined back up together, only for Grievous to land between them and begin his attack.
He was swift and brutal, using his body to his full advantage, spinning his torso to deliver brutal swipes with his claws, using his hands as feet and fighting with his clawed feet, yet he hadn't even used his swords, finding them unworthy of such.
Ojiro did a spinning tail blow that landed against Grievous' forearm, the latter then grabbing it and slamming Ojiro into the ground before throwing him into a pair of clones with such force they crashed into the trees.
Jurota roared as he bulked up and tackled the larger villain the latter being dragged by the force before he dug his feet in and his arms split, the lower two holding onto Jurota while the upper two went up and then crashed down on his back with such force that he was immediately knocked out.
A clone tried to attack him only for Grievous to use his foot to grab him by the helmet and slam him to the ground with crushing force before another clone was grabbed and he did a handstand, flinging them away.
Phantom and Spectre managed to get on top of Grievous and actually bring him down, punching him in the facemask which made the villain growl as he flexed and sent them flying.
Phantom landed harshly on the ground and gasped as he saw Grievous about to spear him with his claws.
"NO!" Reiko screamed as she came from the side and blocked with one of Grievous' own scimitars.
"What?" Grievous said as he looked down and saw the missing blade from his waist. "How did you-?"
Reiko screamed as she pushed the foot back before going on the offensive, although unused to the weight and shape of the blade, she still put up a decent fight.
"Ahhh, you know Shii-cho, youngling?"
Hearing him say the name of the technique passed down in her family for generations made her eyes widen.
"H-how do you know the name of this technique?!" She demanded, just as he brought one of his scimitars down, the ghastly girl blocking the strike.
The blades grinded and Grievous slapped her away but she quickly got up and continued to fight.
She was outclassed and outbladed, but damn if she wouldn't fight for her friends.
Grievous toyed with her as well, strike after strike, even adding a few spins for extra force against her.
Reiko was getting exhausted, and her quirk wasn't of much use right now except for little tricks and pitfalls to make him stumble.
Finally Grievous had enough and grabbed her by the throat, growling with each step he took as he raised her up.
"Agh, ah, ha."
"This is all you have to offer? I'm sorely disappointed!" Grievous mocked before an odd sound made him look around in confusion.
SHRIIIEEEEEEEEEE-
A blur of green and black burst between them and Grievous snarled as he was pushed back. Looking at his hand, he saw that it'd been cut clean off, and since he'd recombined his arms, he was down two.
Mand'alor appeared, Darksaber in hand with Reiko by his side, coughing as she tried to regain her breath.
"Aah, Mand'alor…I've been waiting for this."
"Grievous…I never imagined that you'd be so…mechanical," Izuku said, honestly horrified by what the villain was.
"You can blame your hypocrite of a master for what has been done to me, I will take great pleasure in taking revenge for me and my people by destroying that which he loves!" Grievous said as he grabbed two of his scimitars and charged.
"I'm gonna need your help here, Yanagi!" Izuku said, the girl nodding as she called a scimitar to her with her quirk and they attacked.
The two worked together surprisingly well, but it was obvious that even without two hands, Grievous was still a superior opponent practically dancing between the two. Blocking Reiko's strikes and completely dodging Izuku's.
Izuku grunted as he was slammed to the ground with a foot before being launched away but he quickly righted himself and got back into the fight.
#Mand'alor, grab Yanagi and move out of the way on my signal!# He heard through his comm before going for another attack.
He could hear the flying machine in the distance, ('Really need a name for it.') and readied for the signal by getting closer to Yanagi.
#NOW!#
Izuku turned off the Darksaber and immediately grabbed Yanagi before jumping out of the way as a salvo of rockets impacted right where Grievous was, sending the villain flying.
"AAARGH! YOU DARE!" Grievous snarled, many pieces of armor and machinery falling off of his body.
The sight of the ship coming closer made him growl in defeat before he scurried off into the forest with all of his limbs, the ship firing its guns at him again.
"YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THE LAST OF ME, MAND'ALOR! NOR YOU, CHILD!" Grievous roared before disappearing completely.
"Should we pursue?" Reiko asked, panting heavily from the exertion.
"No…he's heavily injured which means that the villains probably called for an extraction, and if this is Shigaraki's doing, then most likely Kurogiri's taken him away.… come on. We need to get the injured back to the lodgings and reinforce them there.
Nodding, Reiko followed Izuku and some clones carrying stretchers towards the downed students and brothers.
As they got onboard, Oddball began speaking over the comms.
#I think I'll call this one here Negotiator.# he said, much to Izuku's confusion
"But… you just used this…" Izuku trailed off before Reiko cut in.
" Low altitude troop transport."
"Right, that," Izuku said, going with what Reiko said. "To shoot him."
#Aggressive negotiations. Ever heard of gunboat diplomacy? And secondly, that's a good name. Think we'll shorten it to LAAT though." Oddball said, before they took off again.
"Look!" Reiko called out as she pointed to the distance to where a group of villains was escaping.
"I'm on it! Take the wounded back to the lodge!" Izuku said as he charged up his quirk and jumped out.
"Roger!"
Katsuki woke up with a groan…barely remembering what had just happened.
Whatever that grenade was had packed a serious punch, if he wasn't wrong he'd been sent flying a good distance.
His vision was slightly fuzzy and his ears were definitely ringing but overall he was still mostly cognizant.
He saw the clone slumped over, leaning on a rock and began to walk towards him.
"Hey clone…get up…still gotta fight…"
There was no response.
"Hey clone!" He kicked his leg.
Katsuki growled as he then yanked the helmet off.
"GET UP!" He yelled before gasping and falling back in shock.
Deku's blank eyes stared back at him, blood trailing down his lip.
"...why don't you take a swan dive off the roof…?"
Scream.
That was all the clones could do as they ran in zig zag movements in between the trees, dodging the blade-like teeth shooting out from the mouth of the thing in the sky in a straight suit, looking like a gigantic daddy long legs.
Whenever they tried to fire, the villain would move too quickly for them to get a bead and they'd miss their shots.
"Come on, Cutter! Haul ass like you've never done before!" Slash screamed as he dodged a blade, nearly stumbling in the process.
"I'm trying! I'm tr-YEEAAAAARRGGGH!" Cutter screamed, just as one of the teeth flew down and cut off his left forearm, causing him to fall down as he clutched the wound.
"Cutter! Bastard!" Slash roared, firing his blaster rifle at the villain whose retort was to slice and dice the weapon into several small pieces.
Just as one flew towards him, he clapped his hands together and caught it inches from his visor.
"Kill it! Kill it!" More of his brothers screamed as they desperately fired up at the thing, both with blasters and vambraces.
Suddenly, a roar rushed through the air, the clones turning towards the source of the noise with their jaws dropping at the sight.
Dark Shadow was out, but she wasn't her usually adorable self.
No.
This was a monster on the loose.
Moonfish of course just saw another meal as he wandered towards it, only to get swatted into the ground like a bug by the sentient quirk.
The moment he landed, the clone's blasters clicked and hissed as they pointed the weapons at him.
One of them clicked his fingers, and they opened fire, the night being lit up by the blue plasma tearing into the villain, soon reducing him to a smoking pile of holes.
"Target eliminated. Somebody help Cutter, the rest of us will go to help Tokoyami and Dark Shadow!"
"Sir yes sir!" The other clones shouted, as one ran to Cutter, bacta in hand while others turned on their headlights and aimed them at the quirk, firing their blasters near her but purposefully missing, as they didn't want to hurt her nor Fumikage, only needing the light to make her shrink.
"Come on, girl! Calm down! Calm down!" One shouted, as they ran around the rampaging quirk in circles, with Dark Shadow gradually shrinking until she was down to her normal size.
"Hey! Tokoyami! Are you alright? Dark Shadow?!" They asked as they flocked around them, the bird headed boy immediately thanking them for helping with getting his quirk under control.
"I'm so, so sorry…" Dark Shadow whimpered, while one of the clones just gently stroked her head to comfort her.
"It's alright, girl… all of us loses control every now and then."
"But, but I could have seriously hurt or even killed you!" She exclaimed, tears running from her eyes.
"But without you, we would have all been sashimi… Thank you, Dark Shadow… our precious little sister." The clone said, as the rest of the survivors of what would soon be Shadow Company gathered.
Hot.
The flames around him were unbelievably hot.
Shoto groaned as he sat up, a few clones being with him and unconscious, with the group being surrounded by a sea of blue flames.
His immediate action was to surround them with ice, so they wouldn't melt as he helped up the clone and made sure he was ok.
The wall of ice was however soon evaporated, and revealed a young adult that looked like he had been sown together several places.
"Hello, Shoto Todoroki." He grinned.
Izuku chased after the villains but snarled, seeing them disappear one by one into Kurogiri's portal.
He did not expect for someone to come out.
"Mand'alor…"
Izuku's blood chilled as he recognized the voice and snarled.
"Shigaraki…"
Said man was standing nonchalantly, but with Kurogiri next to him, there wasn't much that he could do without his enemy immediately being protected.
"What do you want, now? More questions?"
"No, more like…your surrender."
"What?"
"Did you never wonder why we came, Mand'alor?" Shigaraki asked with a grin.
Izuku's blood chilled.
"You came for me…"
"Indeed, though I admit, Grievous did go overboard…but I am surprised at how well you and your clones have managed so far."
"What do you want, Shigaraki?"
"I…honestly didn't want to go after you right now, you've been too much fun…but Sensei wants to speak with you, and so he shall," He said while holding up a pair of quirk suppressing cuffs.
"And what…" Izuku gulped. "Would All For One want with me?"
"I don't know, but I guess it'll be up to you to find out, no?"
Izuku growled as One For All surged to life while Shigaraki merely chuckled.
"I'll cut you a deal, Mand'alor!" He yelled over the crackling thunder of Izuku's power. "You surrender, right here and now, and I'll call off my forces. No more clones need to die, and neither do any of your friends!"
"Izuku!" Ochako cried out as she and the Vod'e burst through the trees while the gunships he had created surrounded the villain and aimed their weapons at him.
"I'm so glad we've found-Shigaraki!" She snarled as she and the clones raised their blasters.
"Hands in the air, shabuir!"
"STAND DOWN!" Mand'alor roared as he surged with more energy before One For All cut out.
"Izuku…don't do this, it's suicide!" Nana cried out.
'I have no choice, I'm sorry Nana.'
"Izu-" Nana's voice cut off as he severed the connection and Izuku took a few steps forward.
"Do I have your word, Shigaraki!" He called from across the field.
"Izuku?" Ochako questioned worriedly.
"You do…and here, a little show of faith," Shigaraki said as he made a call.
After a few seconds, reports began to file in.
"Vod…reports are coming in from all across the battlefield, the droids have shut down."
"I think you know what you need to do, Mand'alor!"
"Izuku?" Ochako said with fear.
"Ochako…" Izuku began but paused as if debating something. "I need you to take care of something for me…"
"Izuku, what are you planning on doing!?"
"They came here for me, if I don't surrender, the droids will reactivate or he'll send in more."
"Izuku, don't you dare do this! They'll probably just kill you!" Ochako said as she grabbed onto his wrist.
"It's a risk I have to take…do you trust me?" He asked, turning back to her.
"I…yes…" She whispered, bowing her head as tears began to pool in her eyes.
"Then there's two things I need you to do, first, when I'm gone, check the nearby forest, second, I need you to show Cody that you have this," Izuku said as he passed her the hilt of the Darksaber.
Ochako shakily took it and clipped it to her side.
She noticed that the clones near here suddenly grouped a lot closer.
"Izuku…" She began to cry.
"I'll be fine…but I'll need a rain check on that date," Izuku said before giving her a hug.
Ochako held on tightly, worried for her friend.
"It'll be fine," He whispered to her ear, trying to soothe her as best as he could.
He then gently tapped his forehead against her own before finally breaking away.
He took off all of his armor and weapons, laying them at his feet before moving forward.
Izuku glared at Shigaraki's grinning face before letting himself be chained by the quirk-restricting cuffs.
"After you," Shigaraki said with a mocking bow.
Izuku merely stood tall and walked forward into the black and purple abyss.
Ochako, helpless to do anything but watch as the portal disappeared, fell to her knees.
She screamed.
A scream followed by roars of rage by the clones.
Again, I'm sorry…
As a sort of apology however, we do have one omake, that is to be considered canon between our story and KingKuma's.
Thorn woke up in a dark room, looking around in confusion. His body no longer burned from the blaster holes, now the knife wounds, and his armor wasn't cracked either.
After looking around for a few minutes, the clone saw a light in the distance and headed towards it, the shining beacon becoming brighter and brighter until he had to cover his eyes while reaching out towards it.
When it died down, he was standing in what looked like some type of cinema, however that wasn't what surprised him.
"G-guys?" In front of him stood the entirety of 1-A and 1-B along with some pro heroes. However, his eyes quickly caught someone else.
"J-Jango? Fordo?" Before he knew it, his two brothers had embraced him and pulled him into a hug.
"Welcome brother... it's good to see you..." Jango said, tears slowly running down his cheeks as he held Thorn close.
"H-how?"
"It's a long story…but…we saw what you did…we're so, so proud of you," A strange, well-dressed teen with a cape and bear ears said as he approached him before touching his forehead, filling him with knowledge.
Not his own…but still friends.
Thorn gulped as he was then approached by Itsuka.
"Cyare?" He couldn't help but whisper, even knowing that this wasn't his own.
Itsuka hugged him, holding him tightly.
"Thank you."
Thorn felt his emotions swell up and did the only thing he could think of.
Cry.