Chapter 11
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At the center of the Plaza, Shigaraki had analysed the situation he was in.
"Kurogiri, how could you let this brat get the best of you?" Tomura reprimanded. "You've gotten us into a real jam here."
"Heh. You got careless you dumb Villain." Katsuki gloated, while pressing down on Kurogiri's neck. "It wasn't hard to figure you out. Only certain parts of you turn into that smoking warp gate. You use that mist to hide your actual body as a kind of distraction, thinking that made you safe. That's why we missed. But if you didn't have a body, then you wouldn't be wearing this neck armor, right? You're not immune to physical attacks if they're well aimed."
Kurogiri tried to struggle, but Bakugo forced him to stop, by using his quirk on the neck brace.
"Don't move." Katsuki threatened. "You try anything funny and I'll blow your ass up so bad that they'll be piecing you back together for weeks."
"Oooh, that doesn't sound very heroic." Kirishima remarked.
"Let him have his moment." Sora interjected, checking the damage done to his wrists. "Even if he didn't mean it, he saved me, so I'll let him have this as gratitude for doing so."
Sora wasn't wrong, but not entirely right. If he was in there long enough, then he could have played the endurance game and won, but he would likely have been in a worse state if that were the case. And besides, even though the Keyblade wielder wasn't a big fan of Bakugo, he still respected the guy's smarts and quick actions, as well as his deductive skills in the middle of a battle.
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"They escaped uninjured and captured two of my strongest men." Shigaraki commented. "And one of them even held his own against both Kurogiri and I. Kids these days really are amazing. They make the League of Villains look like amateurs. Can't have that." He turned towards Nomu, who still had it's lower half frozen solid. "Nomu."
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Nomu started to lean forward, not seeming to care about whatever pain it was going through. It gripped the frozen part of its body and proceeded to crush the ice, as well as the body that was under it, making the creature only an upper torso, but it was still moving, and soon after, muscles started bursting out of the opening of its body and forming into a replacement set of legs.
"How is that thing even alive?" Izuku questioned, "It was split in two a second ago."
"Stay back everybody." All Might instructed, while holding a blood stained spot where his stomach injury was. "What is this? Is his quirk hyper regeneration?"
"On the mark with that, but it isn't his only quirk." Tomura informed. "He's also got shock absorption. Nomu here was specifically modified to take you on at 100% of your power. He's basically a highly efficient punching bag that hits back."
Nomu was up on its feet and ready for round two. All the students except Katsuki were getting ready for a fight.
"First, we need to free our method of escape." Shigaraki pointed out. "Get him Nomu."
Sora and the other four were suddenly a couple dozen feet away from where they were, and what forced them to be sent that far, was a shockwave from the punch that was just thrown by Nomu.
"Ngh. Is everyone okay?" Sora asked, looking behind him, and seeing Katsuki first. "Wait, you dodged that attack?"
"Shut up you idiot, no I didn't" Bakugo retorted.
"Then how'd you get over here?" Eijiro questioned.
"Isn't it obvious?" Shoto pointed out.
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All might had taken the full force of the hit and was looking pretty banged up from it. Some blood was starting to leak from his mouth and he was panting as well. The Number One Hero was getting tired. "These are kids and you didn't even hold back?" He scolded.
"I didn't have much choice." Tomura answered. "He was threatening my companion. Besides, these kids are no angels."
"You're not exactly a saint yourself." Sora retorted.
"Coming from the guy who tried to burn me." Shigaraki stated, holding his hands out and showing the burns on them, as if to prove a point.
"After you tried to crumble up my arms." Sora interjected, showing his wrists, to prove his point.
"As always, falling back on the self defense excuse." Tomura replied. "But didn't you try to attack me first, when I was talking to Nomu? What kind of Hero does something like that? You think you can get away with being as violent as you want if you say it's for the sake of others."
He glanced at All Might, when saying this next part. "Well you know what All Might? That pisses me off. Why do people get to decide that some violent acts are Heroic and others are Villainous? Casting judgement to what's good and what's evil? You think you're the Symbol of Peace? Ha. You're just another government sponsored instrument of violence. And violence always breeds more violence. I'll make sure the world understands that, once you're dead."
"You're nothing but a lunatic." All Might responded. "Criminals like you. You always try and make your actions sound noble, but admit it. You're only doing this because you like it. Isn't that right?"
Tomura had narrowed his eyes, looking almost happy about hearing that, but some people weren't going to just stand around and watch.
"We've got them outnumbered." Shoto stated.
"And Kacchan found the mist guy's weakness." Midoriya added.
"And Sora's seen the hand guy's tricks." Kirishima stated. "These guys may act really tough, but we can take them down now, with All Might's help."
"We can do this." Sora got ready for a fight.
"Don't attack." All Might ordered. "Get out of here."
"You would have been in trouble earlier if it weren't for me, remember?" Shoto pointed out. "You need our help."
"I thank you for your assistance, but this is different." All Might informed. "It's gonna be alright. Just sit back and watch a Pro at work."
While the boy felt a bit unsure about it, he decided to put his faith in his role model and then looked to Sora. "How bad are your wrists?" He asked, concerned for his friend.
"Just some of it cracked off, but I can still use them just fine." Sora replied, letting Midoriya see the damage done. It wasn't too serious, but still concerning for the boy to see Sora hurt in any way. Especially since he knows how tough the Keyblade wielder is.
All Might had his full attention on Nomu, who was staring right at All Might, waiting for the order.
"Nomu, kill him." Shigaraki ordered. "Kurogiri, back me up. We'll deal with the children. Let's clear this level and go home."
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Tomura started charging towards the students, and the group was getting ready to fight back, but all of them were frozen in place, as they began to watch the spectacle that was unfolding in front of them.
All Might and Nomu charged at each other and clashed fists, creating a massive shockwave that forced Shigaraki to back off, as well as the students to brace themselves for the air force.
"Weren't you listening before?!" Tomura remarked. "One of his quirks is shock absorption!"
"Yeah? What about it?!" All Might responded, before going on the attack, starting to deliver a flurry of punches at Nomu, who was doing the same thing to the Hero, clashing with almost everyone each time.
"He's gonna fight that brain guy head on?" Midoriya questioned.
"Woah, they're so fast." Eijiro commented.
"No." Kurogiri grunted. "I can't get near them."
Even though All Might was tired, he gave it his all, more than his all. He was going past his limits, and Sora, as well as Izuku had noticed that, as he continued to attack Nomu with all of his might. "He said your quirk was only Shock Absorption, not Nullification. That means there's a limit to what you can take, right?!"
Nomu landed a solid hit on his wound, but the Hero didn't falter, continuing his onslaught as he said, "So you we're made to fight me big guy. If you can really withstand me fighting at 100% of my power, then I'll have to go beyond that and force you to surrender!" He was getting faster and punching even harder than before, pushing Nomu back and overwhelming it.
In almost a second, All Might managed to land a strike that sent it back several dozens of feet, but he continued his pursuit. "A real Hero, will always find a way for justice to be served!" He spoke this as he jumped up into the air, waited for Nomu to attack him, dodge the attack aimed towards him, throw Nomu to the ground, and then land a kick to the throat, dragging the beast across the ground.
All Might jumped ahead of Nomu and grabbed it's punch, jumped up into the air and spun around for a moment, before throwing his opponent to the ground with full force. Everyone was stunned, seeing this display of strength that was happening in less than 30 seconds, but it wasn't over.
"Now for a lesson." All Might started to speak, landing on the ground as Nomu was recoiling from the slam, disoriented and helpless to this next attack. "You may have heard these words before, but I'll teach you what they really mean!" All Might reared his fist back and was ready to deliver the strongest punch that the students had ever seen. "Go beyond!" He threw the punch, landing it directly in Nomu's gut, and then screaming out of the top of his lungs. "PLUS ULTRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"
Nomu was sent sky high and completely blown out of U.S.J. It amazed everyone who was able to see it. Nobody, and I mean Nobody wasn't impressed by that display of power.
"That was like the finishing move in a video game." Kirishima pointed out. "He beat the shock absorption right out of him. I've never seen that kind of brute strength."
"Imagine having power like that." Bakugo implied. "He must have been punching that monster so fast, that he couldn't regenerate?"
While the others were focused on All Might's defeat of the Nomu, only Sora and Izuku had noticed something. All Might was starting to steam up again. He was running on fumes now. The two were hoping that the Villains would just cut their losses and go.
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"I really have gotten weaker." All Might taunted. "Back in my heyday, five hits would have been enough to knock that guy out. But today it took more than 300 mighty blows. You've been bested Villains. Surrender, we all want to get this over with quickly."
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The figure was once again displeased with what they saw. The one who they were told to watch and pull out, was starting to scratch himself, close to his breaking point. The boy was still a foolish child, unable to see that he had the Hero on his last legs, with his entourage coming to. Just take the push. That's all that idiot needed to do.
The figure was so caught up in the moment, that they had almost not noticed the entrance to the building was starting to open up. More people were coming inside. They didn't attack the children at the entrance or finish off the fat one that was almost ripped apart, so the figure had already got that they were the heroes. One of them must have escaped before they arrived and called for backup. Now that said backup had arrived, the time for the ones left standing to cut their losses and leave would be now.
The figure didn't bother to move, at least not yet. They still wanted to be invisible to the Heroes, and if they were to jump into the fray and drag Tomura out of there, it would be all for naught. They watched, and saw that the brat was a little late to realize his advantage, running towards the Hero, but he noticed the green haired boy leap towards the brat, but not until a portal had opened in front of his face, with a hand coming out of it.
The figure would have been amused at the play made, if Shigaraki wasn't too busy relishing the moment to not notice the bullet that pierced his hand. The rest of the people who were in that area had looked towards where that came from. One of the Heroes was responsible, and then the Villains had noticed that they were done for.
Some of them charged and also tried to shoot the Heroes down, but one of them had stepped up and used his voice to scream at the attackers, launching them into the air. Another one had stepped up and vomited out some substance that made more of himself, sending the copies to take out the ones in the air. More of them began using their skills to swiftly turn the tide in their favor.
The figure noticed that Tomura was about to leave, but was soon getting gunned down by the one who shot him earlier. His henchman had covered the boy and was starting to warp, but the fat one managed to get to the area, thanks to one of the kids and was starting to suck him up. It was now or never.
They opened a void behind themselves and stepped through it. They appeared in the mist, out of the Heroes' sight, and behind Shigaraki.
"Who?" The void man asked.
"Your master sent me to pick up his pet." The figure said, grabbing Tomura and dragging his body through the void that they void man was struggling to move towards the exit that was made, but it started closing when the figure and the brat were through. "You've got about two minutes. Save your own skin, if you can even do that."
The void had closed, and left the purple man behind. He was getting close to the Heroes and had to act fast. With what little strength he had left, the Villain had used his warpgate powers on himself to get whatever was left of him out of there.
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The teachers were splitting off at the entrance, and starting to retrieve the students. Some went towards the other zones, while a few came to the center plaza, to check up on Sora, Izuku, and Yagi, who was in a semi muscular state. His entire left side was muscle, while his right was his skinny form. To be honest, it kinda creeped Sora out to see half and half. It was short lived however, and then the rest of the body was turned to the small form, the steam covering his body as Kirishima was starting to run over and help.
The student stopped by Cementoss and asked to head to the entrance. The Hero turned to Sora next. The staff knew that he and Midoriya knew about All Might's secret, so Cementoss didn't need to tell Sora to keep his mouth shut. He didn't notice Sora's injury however.
"Young man." The hero started. "We'll take care of these two. Head to the entrance with the others."
"Oh, okay." Sora replied, running around the wall that was made to block Toshinori's body from the other students. "Don't hurt yourself even more, before you get there Izuku!"
That wasn't really funny to Midoriya or Yagi, but they let it slide for now, since they really did need to go to the nurse's office. Sora managed to catch up to Eijiro, who had caught up to Katsuki. Shoto had already left and was heading to the entrance.
"How are you holding up Kirishima?" Sora asked.
"I should be asking you that." Eijiro remarked. "You gonna head to the nurse's office?"
"After I check and see that everyone else is okay." Sora replied.
"Even when hurt, you're looking out for others." Kirishima complimented. "You're a real man cause of that Sora."
Sora smiled at the compliment, and then turned to Katsuki. "How about you Bakugo? You good?"
"Spare me from this mushy mushy crap." Katsuki responded. "And mind your own damn business! I'm fine!"
"Jeez dude, you don't have to be so loud." Eijiro pointed out. "He's right here."
"Whatever." Bakugo said, looking as annoyed as he usually is.
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Back at the bar, two voids were opened. One with the figure dragging Tomura in the middle, and dropping the boy on the floor and another with Kurogiri, looking too tired to move from where he came from.
"I see you brought him back." A voice spoke from a monitor. "He doesn't look too well."
"Your pet here thought he could chew on a whole tree, when he can barely bite a twig." The figure spoke in a mocking tone, not caring about Shigaraki's feelings in the slightest.
"Grrrrah! You prick." Tomura barked out. "If I could move my body, I'd kill you for that."
"Shouldn't you be busy whining about how you lost completely, to a bunch of children and a few old attack dogs?" The figure retorted.
"That's enough." The voice from the monitor ordered. "If you wish to get what you want, then I suggest that you play nice. You may not see it yet, but you will need him to attain your goals."
"Is your 'quirk' mind reading, because I don't remember telling you my goals." The figure remarked.
"You wanted to attain power, yes?" The voice questioned. "Is that not what you told me, when we first spoke?"
"But do you know what kind of power I'm looking for?" The figure emphasized. "It's not some arbitrary status, or a physical enhancement. I'm looking for a specific kind of power."
The voice was silent for a few seconds, but then asked "What power is it that you seek?"
"The power that I lost at the beginning of my life." The figure responded. "A power that..." The figure stopped. Then let out a small laugh. "It feels like they finally showed up."
"What are you talking about?" Kurogiri asked.
"Didn't I tell you already?" The figure reminded the Villain. "You had two minutes to escape."
"And...what would happen after those two minutes?" Kurogiri questioned.
Back at the school, the students were still split up, the teachers were checking for any other enemies, and the injured were still there. Sora couldn't help but feel like something was off. The battle was over, and the Heroes won, so why does he feel like this isn't over? He soon got his answer, and pitch black shadows were appearing all over the floor and on the walls of every area.
"The real threat would show up." The figure answered.
And now part two of three of the U.S.J. attack is out. Now that the Villains are out of the picture, and that everyone is still split up, and All Might, out of the play, what better way to have a finale, then to have the battle not be over. The final part will be completely original and add a few more things to the story in the aftermath of the battle. Sora will also be getting into the real Boss Fight of U.S.J. I'll ket you guess what it is. The hint is it will have three phases. Until I decide to upload again. ;)