A new day came for the students at UA as their second day at the school began and at the dorms, the vestiges all fidgeted with nerves, today was finally the day where the USJ would be attacked, and while they knew how strong Izuku was they couldn't help but worry.
Izuku sighed as he looked at himself in the mirror, everything had gone as planned yesterday, Shigaraki had taken down the wall and sneaked in. He would be there to ambush him and his class but this time, he was ready.
Shigaraki Tomura or more specifically, Tenko Shimura.
In his past life he had been the biggest thorn that he had to deal with or better yet, he had been the entire rose bush, he made his life a race for his survival as he tried multiple times to take his or his friends lives and all to the point of becoming the host of All For One for a while only for him to be discarded when he had done his job. Back then, he looked like an insurmountable problem that he would spend years trying to overcome, but now? He felt guilty, with both AFO and OFA, it was like he was bullying a child.
Should he feel bad though?
…
Nah, he deserved it.
"Isn't that a bit too cruel?" Nana asked but Izuku just shrugged, maybe it was but so it was to watch his friends be killed or be used as experiments, Nana flinched at his thoughts and looked away ashamed "yeah, sorry…"
"Anyway, what is power for if you can't use it to knock people down a peg or two?" His father said blatantly ignoring the glares from the other ghosts.
Izuku softly chuckled at their antics as he felt a little tension seep out of his body, it was nice knowing that they were there for him. With one final look at the mirror, a flash of red passing through his eyes, he walked out of his room, determined to stop the incoming storm.
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Izuku could feel the vibration from the truck through his entire body as his fingers anxiously tapped at his leg, the only reassurance he had was the extra weight in one of his bags from the inventions that he had asked Mei to make.
"You okay man? You're sweating bullets" Kirishima asked, he knew he was trying to be friendly but it only made Izuku feel more self aware, what if they figured out something was wrong?
"I- I'm fine, just a little nervous is all" he lied as he gave him a shaky smile "this is a rescue event and my quirk isn't the most safe"
"You're selling yourself short bro, you're super smart so I'm sure that you'll find a way to still use ut to help" Kaminari giving him a smile before turning to look at Bakugo "not like some others"
Bakugo turned to glare at him and barked back "What did you say, you bastard!?"
Izuku smiled as he watched his friends laugh and talk to each other, he'll make sure to keep these moments safe.
Suddenly, a large shadow covered the bus and they all looked out the windows to see the giant building that grew closer by the second, the golden letters standing over the entrance, the USJ.
Izuku swallowed as the bus slowed to a stop, there's no turning back now.
"Alright, everyone get out" Aizawa said as he got out of his sleeping bag and walked out followed by his students. Izuku stayed at the back of the group and looked around, he could see No. 13 but no All Might, he must have run out of time like normal. That's good, he wasn't sure what he would do if he was here.
Aizawa took a spot next to the space hero and began his lecture but Izuku had already stopped listening, instead, he slowly took out the beta Mid-gauntlets that Mei made, they weren't as good as the ones he used in the future but he trusted her.
His eyes looked at the scenery behind his teachers as he felt the gauntlets wrap around his arms and he prepared his quirks.
Then he saw it.
The small purple hole in the middle of the plaza.
Pale fingers that began the peek from it as it grew bigger and bigger.
And a Shigaraki peeked his ugly head.
Aizawa had already noticed but before he could say anything, Izuku had already acted.
'One For All and Smokescreen!' A massive cloud of smoke exploded from underneath his feet already covering everyone. Izuku burst forward with a single leap, his body covered in smoke making him look more like a ghost than human, perfectly hiding his identity and thanks to his other quirks, his vision was perfectly fine.
He gave a quick glance back and he could already see Aizawa run out of the smoke cloud with his goggles on and looked between him and the growing wave of villains underneath them.
'Blackwhip Rivet Stab'
The black and red tendrils burst out of his hands and their form changed as spikes formed around them, he pulled back and using the momentum, slammed down on all the villains in his path, impaling anyone unlucky enough to get in his way.
Aizawa watched in surprise and horror at the mysterious figure as it swung the giant whips around with ease, in the process taking out villains left and right, but he couldn't concentrate too much on them as he had his on fair of bad guys to deal with, for now he was glad that they seemed to be on their side.
"What the hell!?" Shigaraki screamed as he watched the scene in anger "Who the fuck is that!?" This wasn't supposed to happen, he had infiltrated UA and even planned an ambush for those low leveled kids but then this- this glitch! Came out of nowhere and started causing chaos.
"This is a bad turn of events, Shigaraki I recommend we-" "Shut it! We aren't changing our plans! That bastard is just another mob so just follow the plan and get those kids! Meanwhile..." Then a cruel smile grew on his chapped lips as he looked at the purple skin beast beside him "I'll make good use of our DPS"
The humanoid smoke, Kirogiri, just nodded before disappearing, Shigaraki looked at the beast his sensei had given him, a monster with enough strength to beat All Might, those small fries had no chance against it "Nomu…" with a raise of his pale hand, he pointed at the two people fighting off the villains before saying with a sadistic smile "Tear them to pieces"
The Nomus body trembled as its eyes focused on the fight before him before flexing its legs and dashing forward leaving behind a crater and let out an inhumane screech.
Izuku easily dodged the attacks of the villains, compared to the enemies he's fought, they are nothing but that all changed when he heard a sound that he was all too familiar with. The Nomu was on the move, he turned to the source of the sound and he saw the hulking mass of muscle approach them as fast as a bullet but Izuku wasn't scared.
He had already fought against high-end Nomus so one from the early batches was nothing more than just a nuisance but it was still a threat to everyone else, he needed to get rid of it now.
'Multiplier Hypertrophy Kinetic Booster X4 Springlike Limbs Air Cannon'
He felt the quirks act immediately as two other arms grew out of his side and suddenly tripled in size before he pulled them all back before throwing a series of punches forward.
The combination of quirks caused three massive bursts of air to shoot from all of his arms, turning the villains before him to pieces but also sending the Nomu flying back.
But he knew it wasn't over so he dashed forward only to stop as Danger Sense activated and he followed his instinct as he ducked under the massive boulder that flew over him, the Nomu was already up and healing itself.
Izuku clicked his tongue, while regeneration is the best thing to have, fighting someone with it is a different thing entirely. The Nomu screeched once again and dashed forward and Izuku prepared himself as he pulled back his arms.
Except that the Nomu, jumped over him.
The Nomu continued it's dash even when Izuku turned around in surprise only for it to change to horror as the monster ran towards his teacher. Flashes of his wounded teacher after his original fight with the artificial life came to his mind, it seemed like it had decided to instead go for him since he was the weaker of the two.
"No!!" He screamed as he sent multiple black whips to hold the monster back before jumping on its back.
Anger flooded his mind and his body reacted faster than his mind could. His hand shot forward and tightly gripped its exposed brain causing it to scream in pain but Izuku wasn't done. He needed to dispose of it and what better way than to make it powerless.
Red lighting enveloped the two of them and Izuku's view changed, the world around him turned black and white and he could suddenly see the familiar balls of light inside everyone but he focused on the prey he already had.
Inside the Nomu was a ball of light that was bigger than anyone else's but it shifted around almost as if it could shatter at any moment.
They were hurt, scared. They want out out out out out out out out out out out out out out out out out out out out out out out out out out out out out out out out out out out
He could feel the same emptiness in his stomach growing like it had done when he fought Stain. He was hungry, empty, he needed to feast.
His arm suddenly lit up as shiny lines of green light spread from his hand but from his fingertips, red strings came out and moved like snakes as they wrapped around the light and pulled it towards him.
When it met his hand it began to sink into him sending ripples of energy through him, he could feel them, the multiple quirks they had sewn together, at least five, it truly was a feast, but the hole didn't disappear it instead grew, it was so hungry.
The lighting soon disappeared and Izuku let go of the brain before pulling his arm back and in one swift punch, completely erased it's head. The body, now lacking anything to give it orders, fell to the ground as dark blue blood sprayed from the stump.
It didn't move, it didn't heal.
It was dead.
Izuku slowly stood back up and looked around at the scene, in the distance he could feel… no, taste the powerful quirks of their classmates, they must have been scattered by Kurogiri, but that's not important.
What was important was the buffet in front of them, balls of light all waiting for them to consume but there was one that they could not stop looking
A gray ball of light that exudes the smell of death and rust.
Decay.
Their red eyes shone through the smoke around their body giving them a demonic appearance and the bloodlust that burst from them, threatening to drown everyone in their rage.
"We are not done with you yet" a thousand voices spoke from the same mouth that twisted into a deranged smile, red strings only visible to their eyes still hanging on their fingertips.
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Himiko doesn't understand how it happened.
One moment she was excitedly listening to his teachers and the next, everything went to shit. A large cloud of smoke covered her and her classmates and she then heard Aizawa-sensei tell No. 13 to keep them safe, was something happening?
Then, 13 raised their finger up and a small blackhole formed sucking in all of the smoke finally letting them see the terrifying situation that they were trapped in, an army of villains rushed towards two silhouettes, one she could recognize as her teacher but the other one was completely covered in smoke making them hard to make out.
Then, as if that wasn't enough, another cloud of smoke appeared, this one a deep purple with shining yellow eyes(?) appeared behind them and spread into a large wall, covering their only exit "This may be a rough greeting but it is a pleasure to meet the little heroes of future, now don't make a mess and die"
A laugh suddenly stuck out from the group of kids and they all turned to look at the boy with messy purple hair who had a scarily family toothy smile "seriously? You bunch of wimps think you can win against The symbol of peace, you guys are delusional" Shinsou mocked the villain getting confused looks from everyone.
"Hm, you aren't the golden eggs of the-" suddenly, the villain suddenly went quiet and Shinsou carefully walked up to it with a confident yet strained smile.
"Turn back to your original form" he ordered and the mist villain complied, turning into a more humanoid for even wearing a two piece suit which made it seem like he would fit better in a bar. That's when they all remembered, Brainwashing, it was his quirk.
"This guy's mind is weird, I'm not sure how long I'll be able to hold him down" Shinsou said, looking back at 13 who was already moving to his side before three large explosions rocked the place.
The students all turned back at the scene of the fight only to see a terrible image, blood and corpses thrown across the ground, some of them ripped apart, bit in the middle of the blood stained battlefield was the smoke covered figure fighting some strange muscular purple duck before it let out an ear piercing screech.
13 pushed Shinsou away from the villain as he held his head in his hands trying his hardest to keep control but as blood began to drip out of his nose he screamed "Everyone run!"
The mist villain began to move once again, their voice calm but a hint of anger clear in it "An unexpected but futile effort nonetheless, now be scattered!" The purple mist rushed them like a wave, some only capable of stepping back in shock while others jumped out of the way.
Himiko had barely any time to react and all she could do was look around in panic as she tried to find a glimpse of her brother in the crowd of her classmates.
And her world was consumed by the mist.
