notes: Phew, this chapter came out longer than expected and still kinda felt rushed. work has been busy so had to cram this one in. I hope it came out alright and you all enjoy.

Midoriya and the two beside him sat petrified to the sight of their teacher bleeding on the ground. The freckled boy shivered in the water not from the cold, but to seeing Aizawa taken down instantly by this monstrosity.

"Ai-zawa sensei…" Midoriya muttered in fear to the blood running out from the injured hero.

"He's bleeding so much… ribbit." Tsu quietly said as she peeked over the ledge they were hiding by. "Maybe we should go help him."

What are you crazy!?" Mineta whined out, "That freaky thing just took him down like nothing. What are we supposed to do!?"

While he was afraid, Midoriya knew she was right. If they didn't do something soon, there teacher was going to be dead soon. "Asui is right. Err.. I mean Tsu! We have to do something fast."

"Do what!? You're crazy Midoriya, lets wait for the teachers to help!" Mineta pleaded.

Before any of them realized it, a single girl ran across the plaza to their shock. "Katara!?" Midoriya shot out in disbelief.

"I said let him go!" Katara screamed in anger and launched a large ice spike towards the monsters heart. It's beady eyes looked up to the call, noticing the incoming attack and screeched out. Its free arm swung out and shattered the ice into a hundred pieces like it was nothing. Glaring, Katara stopped just before the beast and gathered all the water she had and covered her arms again. "Get off of him now!"

Wincing below his captor, Aizawa looked up in shock to the girl coming to his aid. "Katara, g-get out of here. Go and- AHH!"

Katara's eyes widened as she watched the creature snap Aizawa's arm with a sickening crack. "Stop it, leave him alone!"

Seeing her panic made Shigaraki snicker in enjoyment. "Does the little girl wish to be a hero now? How adorable. I brought this friend of mine here for All Might, but you can be another warm up for him…" he looked over to his beast and smiled underneath the hand on his face. "Nomu, take care of this one for me."

The Nomu's beady eyes locked on the girl before it, letting Aizawa's limp arm slip out of its grasp and walk forward. Katara gritted her teeth and took several steps back. She didn't know what this thing could do, but she could already sense it was not to be taken lightly like the goons she fought with Tokoyami. This was something else entirely.

Shigaraki pointed forward and laughed. "Now Nomu… kill her."

Katara brought her arms up in preparation, but then she was caught off guard by the blitz from the nomu. She barely had a second before jumping back as its large fist smashed into the stone where she was just standing moments earlier.

'It's really fast!' She screamed internally and whipped her left arm forward and cracking the Nomu across the face. To her shock once again the monster didn't even blink to the hard hit, seemingly not affected by it at all. She whipped it several more times but it seemed to not faze it whatsoever. "What is this thing?"

The Nomu charged once again as Katara gathered all the water and shot forward a thick stream directly into its chest. Her eyes widened however as the creature was walking through the gushing water like it wasn't even there. She pulled her water back and rolled just before it swiped at her head, blowing out a stream of mist from her mouth and freezing the water over its body. The ice prison wasn't fully hardened however before the Nomu's muscles broke through it like it was simply tissue paper. It screeched out and ran forward with blinding speed that Katara barely had time to create an ice wall in front of her. She hoped that would give her a few seconds to get back.

And then it ran through it like it wasn't even there.

"N-no way…" she muttered in horror as its clawed hand reached directly for her face. Just then however she felt her body yanked back by her waist and whipped through the air away from the Nomu. She yelped while she floated back down to the ground twenty feet away, looking down to a familiar pink tongue.

"You alright?" Tsu asked as she hopped by Katara's side. The waterbender couldn't speak for a moment as her nerves were still rattled. She took a few breaths to calm herself before nodding.

"Y-yeah. Thank you, Tsu."

"Katara, you okay!?" Midoriya ran up to the two of them. "You shouldn't have done that! That thing almost killed you!"

"I had to do something to help Aizawa sensei…" She retorted, "… but I didn't know that thing was going to be that strong."

Midoriya looked back and swallowed at the sight of the Nomu. "I-it's not normal. It took hits from your water like they were nothing."

"We should get out of here and get help." Tsu said.

"But we can't leave Aizawa there!" Katara demanded and turned back to the nomu standing there.

Shigaraki grunted in annoyance to the additional students coming out of hiding. "You little pests, just like roaches coming out of the crevices. No matter, it just means more of this societies pride will be crushed today. What do you think, Aizawa?" He turned to laugh at the downed teachers expense. "How would you feel when-

His eyes went wide when he saw the injured teacher gone from his spot. "What!?" he turned and saw Erasurehead being pulled back by dark shadow towards the side building. "You little bastard!"

"Nice work, Tokoyami!" Katara cheered at seeing him act.

As soon as he was brought in, Tokoyami caught his teacher and laid him down. "Aizawa sensei, are you alright?"

Hissing out, Aizawa gave a small nod. "I'll be fine. A-All of you go. Get help."

"We can't leave you here. We will distract it and-

"Don't!" Aizawa's snap make Tokoyami lean back. "Th-that thing is too powerful."

Tokoyami glared back at his teacher to the request. "We cannot leave you here, sensei. We will all be leaving here."

Seeing another student there was now pissing Shigaraki off. He began scratching at his neck in annoyance. "Those stupid goons. They couldn't even handle a few little brats. What a waste of money gathering them here." he glared back to the trio standing towards the fountain. "I will make this day hell for you all. Kill them all, Nomu."

Hearing those words, Katara and the others felt their heart rates jump. "Get back, you two!" Katara yelled and bended out a massive stream of water from the fountain.

As the Nomu ran forward, Tsu jumped to the left as Katara hardened a block of ice beneath herself and Midoriya. The green haired teen yelped as he was lifted off the ground and was rushed to the right just as the Nomu smashed the edge of the step. The dark creature screeched and looked towards the hopping frog girl and leaped after her. Seeing she wasn't being pursued, Katara stopped and summoned two long water whips and ran forward again. "Tsu, look out!"

Looking behind her, Tsu croaked in fear as the Nomu closed in with blinding speed. She shot her tongue out and latched onto a nearby tree and pulled herself high in the air away from the beast. Before it could jump in pursuit, the Nomu felt its back whipped causing it to hiss in annoyance. It turned to see Katara confronting itself once again, its mind only processing one singular thought; the only thing it was capable of.

Destroy.

It stomped its way forward like a hunting hound towards the young waterbender. Glaring, she began swinging her arms forward and striking the Nomu across its chest and body. Over and over she swiped at the animal, but each time it seemed it didn't even seemed bothered.

"It's like this thing doesn't feel pain…" Katara grunted in frustration to her useless attacks. She then froze the tips on both of her whips and launched them forward. While the Nomu was able to smack the first one away, the second one hit true and pierced the creature in it's upper thigh. She grinned finally seeing something successfully work this time. "Finally a good hit."

She yanked the ice back out and brought the water back around her as she prepared to create more ice, but what she saw next froze her on the spot. "W-what…?"

In the bloody open wound on the Nomu's leg she could see the skin suddenly close over in just a few seconds. After the skin stopped shifting, she could clearly see the spot had completely healed over, the only evidence left being the blood stained hole in the pants.

"It can heal itself?" She quietly said to herself in disbelief, her eyes shooting open as the Nomu lashed out once again. She slashed her water up into its arm to divert its punch, but it seemed to barely slow it as it came closer to her and-

"Smash!"

An immense gust of wind blasted through the area and struck the Nomu it caused it's charge to be halted. Not even in the center of it and Katara herself was nearly blown over. She squinted through the wind and saw Midoriya's left ring finger broken from the flick he had just preformed.

"Katara, run!" Midoriya shouted over his pain, snapping her out of her shock.

Dark shadow swooped as well and began punching and scratching at the Nomu's face. It's beaked mouth screeched out and swiped towards the shadow bird, not from pain but simply as a hindrance. Seeing it distracted, she Katara threw water below her, she skated away as fast as she could to think of a new strategy, because a straight forward attack was not going to work on this monster. "We can't just run with Aizawa. This thing would catch us. We have to hold it somewhere."

"Take this you stupid villain!"

"what?" Katara and the others looked over to see Mineta screaming out and chucking his purple balls as fast as he could from behind the fountain. "What is he doing!?"

"Take that and that and that! Take my sticky balls!" the small teen yelled as he continuously ripped off his quirk and threw it out towards the Nomu. Not a single one hit its target however, simply covering the ground all behind the creature. Mineta paused as the Nomu turned around and looked right at him. "Oh shit…"

"Great, now we have to get him out too!" Katara grunted and swung her arms gathering the shattered ice on the ground up around her.

Midoriya ran up to her side clutching his broken fingers looking over to the fountain. "We have to get its attention back to us. Mineta can run as we hold it off and…" his eyes then noticed the purple balls littered across the floor. "… Or maybe get it towards him!"

"What!?" Katara turned to him in shock, "Why would you want it to-

"Get it to step on those balls Mineta threw. It will make him stuck then we can escape!" Midoriya quickly explained.

Katara raised her eyebrow at him. "That will work?"

"We used that to get out of our zone, then it will work here too!"

She wasn't too sure at first, Katara went with her gut and trusted him. "Alright, lets do it. Tokoyami, help push it back towards the fountain!"

"What? Why?" Tokoyami yelled out from his spot.

"Listen to her. Ribbit." Tsu hopped next to him and pointed to the ground behind the Nomu. "Get it to those things."

Looking over to the purple balls, Tokoyami sighed and nodded. "Okay. Dark shadow, lets push it back with them!"

"Uh, guys get over and help me!" Mineta screamed out hiding behind the fountain wall.

Katara walked forward with Midoriya on her right as well as Tokoyami and Tsu joining her on the right. "If the three of us can push it back and stick it, we can get out of here. Tsu, can you get Mineta out of there?"

Tsu nodded, "Leave it to me."

Nodding back, Katara covered her arms and upper torso in water as she stepped forward. "Let's do this together!"

The group of students charged forward as Katara launched a whip out and slashed across the Nomu's chest to try and push it back. Seeing it not work she whipped her other stream forward and striking it over and over again. The beast swiped its arms out hitting against the water as they came in. Katara gritted her teeth and continued her attacks. "Tsu, go!"

Hopping on command, Tsu leaped through the air and over to the left out of the way. The Nomu saw her and was about to attack, but dark shadow slid in from the ground and swiped up and hit the creature in the mouth keeping its focus back on them. Tokoyami summoned it back just as the beast went to grab it, hit in the chest by another stream of water.

"If we keep hitting it, it stays distracted!" Katara yelled as she formed several ice spikes and launched them forward. "Don't stop!"

Tsu landed on the ground just in front of Mineta, the small boy letting out tears of joy. "Oh Tsu, you are my hero!" He ran towards her with open arms, his hands somewhat aiming for her upper torso. "Take me to safety and-

"Touch me and I drown you. Ribbit." Tsu growled out and shot her tongue around his waist and threw him into the sky towards the stairs as he screamed out in terror.

"This is not what I had in mind!" Mineta cried just before he landed in the bushes.

Now that there was no one behind the Nomu, Midoriya knew what he had to do. "If I can hit it with a few shots, it may be enough…" he looked to his left hand and saw the broken fingers he already had. "I've got two more for this hand. I'll make them count!" He prepared his left pinkie and pointed his arm forward.

"Smash!"

The area erupted in a huge blast from the green haired boy striking the Nomu full force, yet through Midoriya's pain squinted eyes he saw it was still standing strong. "It's not moving still!"

"Don't give it a chance to come forward! Keep going!" Katara yelled and clasped her hands together before spinning and shooting a rotating spire of water from her arms and crashing into the Nomu's chest. Dark shadow immediately joined in and punched the hulking monster over and over again. Even together it seemed the creature felt nothing from the hits, it's lifeless eyes not showing a spec of worry at all.

"Dark shadow, push forward!" Tokoyami yelled.

"I got this! I can keep it up!" Dark shadow hissed and continued its hits.

"Not that easy for me…" Midoriya muttered under his breath as he looked at his single unbroken finger on his left. His hand trembled but his hardened gaze looked up as his friends continued fighting. "Not giving up… is what a true hero would do!" He yelled and readied his final left finger.

"Smash!"

Katara and Tokoyami nearly felt themselves pulled off the ground by the force to their side that struck the nomu. Seeing their chance with the additional power, they went at it once more. "All together, now!" Katara ordered as she formed a thick solid block of ice for a single, strong blow.

"Got it! Dark shadow, one more hit!" Tokoyami demanded as he sent dark shadow forward. The conjured bird rushed through the air claws out to strike the nomu in the face in the slight hope to stagger it just a step backwards onto Mineta's quirk. But before any of them could see it move, the Nomu's fist blasted forward and landed square into dark shadow's stomach so hard, the impact reverberated through the entire plaza.

An eerie silence fell over the area as the shadow quirk went completely limp and fell to the ground. All of the students were frozen in shock and disbelief, most of all Tokoyami as he stared at his fallen quirk. "D-dark shadow, return!" His blood ran cold as dark shadow twitched on the ground, the sentient quirk coughing for air and in pain. Never once had dark shadow been injured to such a degree, and it took this monster only one hit to cause that.

Both Katara and Midoriya were in shock to the sight they barely had time to look back before the Nomu was on them once again. "Midoriya, get back!" Katara yelled and shot an ice spike into the monsters chest, but it didn't even look her way and reached for the terrified boy backpedaling from his spot. "Midoriya!"

Just before the creature reached to grab him, Tsu's tongue shot out grabbing the petrified boy and yanked him back away from the ground and out of range. Seeing one target gone, the Nomu turned back to Katara and brought it arm across its body to strike. Panicking, Katara used all her water and created a four foot thick ice shield in front of her self. "What is this thing!? It's like nothing can stop it!" She braced herself as the back fist came swinging in, prepared to seal it in place after her ice blocked the attack. When it hit however, the ice shattered like it was nothing, only slowing the fists speed slightly as it crashed into Katara's side and launched her across the plaza.

"KATARA!" the others all cried out as they watched their friend flung like a rag doll and slide across the stone.

Katara gasped for air and clutched at her stomach from the immense pain running through her. Every breath felt like a knife digging into her chest, feeling a few ribs were cracked from the hit. She hobbled up to her knees and coughed, seeing a small spray of blood hit the ground below her. She wheezed in and out trying sit up, but the pain was to much and she curled back down, whimpering as her forehead laid pressed to the stone beneath her.

"I-it hurts…" she gasped out between breaths, her eyes clenched tight as she tried to overcome the pain. She forced her head to turn and look up to the Nomu standing there, almost as if it wasn't tired in the slightest. "We… we c-couldn't stop this th-thing."

Tokoyami had finally managed to retrieve dark shadow into his body, but like the others he was petrified in horror. In a single instant that monster took all of them out like they weren't even there. They were helpless against this beast, and now they stood helpless not knowing what else to do. Their eerie silence was broken by the horrific cackle to the side.

"Hahahaha! Isn't this wonderful? You little brats thought you could be heroes, and yet you were taken down by this beast. Nomu was made to kill All Might, what did you think you could do against him?" Shigaraki laughed at the terrified looks they were giving. "Nomu is the anti symbol of peace. You had no chance trying to fight."

The dark mist cloud swirled behind Shigaraki, sighing as he looked to his accomplice return. "Ah, Kurogiri, so you have taken care of the rest?"

Kurogiri's eyes narrowed as he turned. "Sir, I have taken Thirteen out of commission, but one of the students managed to escape. His speed was too much."

The smile underneath Shigaraki's covered face faded at those words. "...What?"

"Speed?" Katara coughed again when she heard those words, her mind thinking of one in particular. "It must be…. I-Iida."

At first Shigaraki's left hand began scratching at his neck, growing more vigorous every second. Soon both hands were clawing to his neck as he hissed in anger. "Kurogiri… you fool. If you weren't our escape route, I'd tear you apart right now!"

He stopped his tantrum and took a breath. "Well if one made it, that means they will bring more pros here soon. It's game over. Let us head back for now."

"What?" Midoriya gasped, "Th-they are leaving now?"

"Ribbit. We got really lucky. Some one is warning the teachers and scaring them away." Tsu chirped happily. "Now we can get Katara to the doctors-

They were all shocked by the speed Shigaraki made it across the plaza, standing over the stunned Katara still on the ground. Midoriya's mouth hung open in terror as he watched the villains open hand reach down. "Oh no!"

"But first, lets destroy some of that school pride they adore so much of." Shigaraki laughed and reached for his target.

Katara was a mix of too injured and too terrified to move at all. Her eyes stared at the hand reaching to her face, her mind replaying the horrid sight of her teachers elbow crumbling to the touch. She flipped her body back to her bottom and crawled as much as the pain would allow her. "St-stay back!" she glared up at him as he chuckled.

"Don't fight it. It only makes it-

Shigaraki was cut off as a strip of binding cloth wrapped his wrist and stopped his grasp. Katara's mouth dropped as she followed the cloth to one she didn't expect. "Aizawa sensei?"

Her teacher was standing there blood dripping down is broken arm, his other arm held tight on the cloth as his hair stood on end. His glowing eyes glared at the hand villain even as blood dripped down his forehead. "You will not harm my students anymore." he growled through his clenched teeth.

"You really are cool, Erasurehead." Shigaraki sneered as he turned back to the girl beneath him. "I will still finish what I want to do here before-

"Get away from her!"

All of them turned in surprise to the green haired boy leaping through the air, his right hand clenched and glowing bright. "Midoriya stop!" Aizawa pleaded to death ears however, the teen set on protecting his new friend with everything he had.

"SMASH!"

Midoriya's hit launched pressure of air far beyond anything before that day. Trees rocked like a hurricane was whipping through the area. The other students and Aizawa shielded their eyes as they struggled just to stay where they were. Katara however stared open mouth in amazement to the power unleashed in front of her. "M-Midoriya?"

Taking a deep breath, Izuku suddenly looked down and noticed something amazing. 'My arm… its… not broken? I controlled it!? And I managed to get a good smash as well!' He cheered internally and looked up… only to have his excitement die that next moment. "What?"

The Nomu was standing there as a meat shield in front of Shigaraki. But more shocking than wanting to offer its body to protect the grotesque villain was the fact it was standing there unfazed and unaffected by the attack.

"Well child. That attack of yours. Are you one of All Might's followers?" Shigaraki questioned from behind his beast. "No matter, I'm done with you now."

"Midoriya. Get away now!" Aizawa yelled out and moved as fast as he could, watching helplessly as the nomu's large hand reached for the petrified boy beneath it.

Everything stopped however when the doors to the USJ were blasted open.

Everyone in the vicinity froze at what they were doing and turned to the massive smoke cloud flowing into the upper walkway. Everything was silent, only broken by the splashing of the fountain behind the group below. Soon, the heavy footsteps of someone entering echoed through the air. Katara couldn't breathe in anticipation at what was coming. Soon, the cheers of the other classmates from above were heard as the newcomer passed. Her eyes then saw a single massive figure walking through the haze, and two protuding hair strands going above his head.

"I had a bad feeling something was happening. I ran into Iida on the way here and he gave me the rundown. But it is fine now…" The great hero pronounced as he came into view above the stairs. "I am here!"

"It's… him." Katara smiled and wiped the drip of blood off of her chin. She winced in pain but still crawled to her knees. "He's here."

"All Might…" Midoriya whispered in excitement to the sight of his idol and mentor, but he noticed the look on his face, one he had never seen before. "He… isn't smiling."

All Might was indeed not wearing his signature grin, instead holding a deep scowl across his face. His darkened eyes glared down at the villains hovered over his friend and students, seeing the blood coming down on two of them. "You will regret ever laying your hands on anyone here."

Shigaraki gave a small chuckle at the sight before him. "Well look what we have here. I am glad you decided to come and join us here, All Might. I was beginning to-

The number one hero disappeared in a blur before anyone could see, Shigaraki himself knocked off balance by a gust wind rushing by and knocking the hand clenched on his face to the ground. Tsu and Tokoyami could not even see what had happened before they noticed All might to their right. The hero clutched Aizawa in his left arm, then Midoriya and Katara in his right. The waterbender held a dumbfounded look on her face as she looked around where she was, completely confused how she ended up from her former spot to here that quickly. She turned her head up towards All Might as he lowered them to the ground, but as his arm shifted on her ribs she yelped out in pain.

"Katara!" Midoriya reached out and caught her from falling… before realizing his arm was around her waist. "Uhhhhhh…" His face turned deep red and sweat poured down his brow. "I-I-I g-got y-y-y-ou!"

"Katara, are you alright!?" Tokoyami rushed over with Tsu to her side as Midoriya helped her to the ground.

"Please be okay, ribbit…" Tsu croaked out seeing her friend on the ground.

"I'm al-agh.!" Katara paused as she took a breath, letting the pain subside. "I'm okay. Thank you."

"No you are not…" Tokoyami answered as he looked to the torn clothes on her stomach and saw the deep bruising underneath. "You are injured."

She let out a forced chuckle and clutched her side. It's not as bad as it looks."

All Might growled seeing the girl beneath him hurt, looking over to Aizawa in his other arm. "I am sorry I was not here earlier, Aizawa. Please forgive me."

"Just shut up, All Might…" Aizawa grunted and stood up next to him clutching his broken arm. "… not a time for apologies."

Away from the happy students, Shigaraki shuffled and picked the hand up and placed it back on his face. "Father…" he sighed and took a deep breath. "He is fast. So fast I couldn't see him. But… he's not as fast as I thought he would be. That means…" He couldn't help but laugh to himself. "He's getting weaker."

Seeing movement behind him, All Might turned and stood between the villains and the others. "Head up to the exit now. It is time that I handle this." He said.

"What? You can't fight that thing All Might!" Midoriya pleaded. "That monster took a direct one for-" he paused as he realized what he was saying. "I-it took a direct hit from my power and it didn't even hurt it, and it heals injuries too."

All Might didn't turn around as he gave a thumbs up to the group, his face now bearing his trademark smile. "Nothing to fear now. I will take care of these villains now. Follow Aizawa out of here and get back to the school."

Katara winced as she stood up. "But sir, if we help fight, we can-

"You have done quite enough young Katara, but now its time to let the pros handle this." All Might cut her off and stepped forward. "I am here to end this!"

Bursting forward, All Might rushed at the Nomu and dodged underneath the monsters arm and landed a powerful blow into its stomach. Like he was warned, All Might saw it had no affect. He grunted and punched several more times, each one sending shock waves outward through the Nomu's body. "It seems you can take a punch." As he continued his attacks, Shigaraki laughed in amusement.

"You always think punching your way through something will solve your problems, All Might. But Nomu here was made just for you. His shock absorption can withstand you at 100% of your power."

Hearing the taunt only made All Might grin wider. "You think this creature can take me on? I've been waiting for a challenge!" Bringing his hands back, the hero began unleashing punch after punch into the beast.

Aizawa and the others watched in amazement as All Might chose to fight the Nomu head on alone. Seeing there chance, he turned to his students. "Let's get out of here now."

While the others nodded and started to move helping Katara up, but she waved her hand at them. "I can manage. Thanks." She wheezed out between breaths. "Don't worry." She winced as Tsu slipped underneath her left arm and stood up.

"You are too stubborn, you know that?" Tsu croaked, bringing a grin to Katara's face.

"I guess you are right." Katara sighed as she hobbled along with her and Tokoyami. While they made their way to the steps, their other friend walked behind with Aizawa. "But sir, we cannot leave All Might alone!" Midoriya pleaded.

"He can handle himself. We need to get you and Katara to the infirmary." He looked to the bushed to the side and glared. "Let's go Mineta."

The purple headed boy popped his body out and glanced up to his teacher. "Uh I was guarding the stairs for us, sir." He turned back towards All Might still fighting the Nomu and pumped his fist. "Yeah All Might! Kick it's ass back to-

"Just shut up and come." Azaiwa snapped and looked to the broken fingers on the green haired child's hand and glared. "And you need more practice."

While Midoriya blushed in embarrassment, Katara just shook her head. "I don't think this is time to lecture."

"And I don't think this is a time to not use your powers." He retorted.

Katara turned her head back to him in confusion. "I tried using my water on that thing. It didn't even do anything and-

"I meant about healing that injury you have, Katara."

The waterbenders body froze in her spot when he said that, causing Tsu to stumble slightly. She looked at the seriousness in her teachers eyes, not even having to think about the fact how he knew what she could do, just accepting the fact he did. While the others looked questionably at each other to what they were talking about, Katara just exhaled deeply and frowned.

"Guess I shouldn't have tried to hide it then." She grunted and pushed Tsu's arm off. She looked to the side and saw a large chunk of loose ice and waved her hand melting it, bending the water up and towards herself. Tsu and the others stared in confusion.

"Katara what are you trying to-

"I may have not been fully honest earlier. I'll explain it all later." Katara answered and brought the water to her hands. The bright blue glow started again as she pressed it to her side, instantly yelping in pain from the touch. After a few moments, a soothing sensation began to overtake the pain. She couldn't mend the damaged bones, but at least the bruising could be removed for some comfort.

While the students all watched in awe as the bruising could visibly be seen fading away, Aizawa narrowed his gaze in a small sense of amusement. 'Someone with a power like this and afraid to reveal it. Perhaps she just needs a talk with me later.' he mused to himself before walking forward.

"Before we continue the questions, lets get out of her first." Aizawa hobbled up the steps passed the five students.

As the glowing faded, Tsu stared in awe as the bruising was now gone, her hand subconsciously touching her cheek that had the same thing done to her. "So… you did this when-

"I'm sorry…" Katara took a deep breath, still feeling the sharp pain on her sides but now able to tolerate it better. "… there are things I didn't tell you before that-

"Texas smash!"

Another powerful shockwave ripped through the students as All Might's attacks continued. They all turned to see the blonde man clashing fists with the Nomu as neither seemed to let up an inch. "That thing is insane to take hits from All Might." Tokoyami stated as they stared.

His feet kidding across the ground, All Might smiled wider and cracked his knuckles. "You are quite the monster. But you are nothing more than a big punching bag!" He leaped forward and watched as the Nomu brought its claws out and reached towards him. "I'll send you all back to where you crawled out from!"

Before he could land his punch, however, a swirling portal opened up in front of the Nomu's hand, the beast shooting its claws through it and out of the portal that opened behind All Might. The hero gasped as he felt the razor sharp talons pierce his back and latch tight.

"All Might!" Midoriya and the others gasped in shock as the white shirt he wore began turning red as the claws dug deeper into him.

"Agh… damn it!" All Might yelled and reached back grabbing the forearm of the creature, but his own strength couldn't budge it. "What power!"

"So the great All Might is finally still…" Kurogiri chuckled and widened the portal behind All Might, "… Retraining you was nomu's job, and now once you are pulled through my gate, I shut it when ou are partially through. Quite messy, but with you being the one dying I will gladly take the blood."

Aizawa grunted and began trying to hop back down the stairs towards the battle. "This is bad. If that gate closes on him, not even he could survive that. If I can shut off that portal users quirk then-

The rush of wind passed the hobbling teacher caused his heart rate to jump as he saw who it was. "Midoriya, no!" Aizawa yelled out.

Katara's eyes went wide as her friend ran straight towards the battle. "Midoriya, what are-" she yelped as she tried running forward and clutched her side, her ribs still causing pain. "Midoriya don't!" she screamed after him.

His ears didn't hear their pleas as he sprinted down and towards his mentor. He couldn't stand by as his idol and now friend was being hurt.

"All Might!" he cried out, causing the heroe's eyes to widen.

"Midoriya, don't! Get out of here!" All Might yelled out as Kurogiri suddenly appeared in front of him. "Don't you dare touch him!"

Midoriya tried to stop his sprint at the villain appearing, but the cloud grew wider and was about to swallow him up just like it had done to him before. His heart pounded in his chest as darkness began to overtake him once more… just before a green gauntlet burst from the side and collided with the mass.

BOOM!

"Get the hell out of my way, Deku!" Bakugo yelled and slammed Kurogiri's body into the ground.

"Kachaan!?" Midoriya gasped as he watched his childhood friend come out of nowhere. "Where did you-

"Just shut up and stay out of my way! This smoky bastard is mine!" Bakugo growled and kept his palm on the iron neck piece inside the smoke and grinned. "Looks like you do have a body, you warping shit head."

In the next instant, a wave of ice rushed across the ground and crawled up the Nomu's body freezing its right leg. The ice continued upward and covered the creatures right side and arm completely, hardening all the way through the skin and muscles. The others on the stairs watched in surprise and turned to the waterbender with them.

"Katara, you did that?" Tokoyami asked, only getting a shake of her head.

"No, that wasn't me." she replied. Her eyes then caught a familiar red and white head standing off to the side. "Looks like we aren't alone here."

Todoroki had made it as well, eyes glaring towards the dark creature. "It seems this was the thing those villains told me about. Looks like they weren't wrong."

"You kids…" All Might looked back in shock that they had come here. He then noticed the grip in his back had weakened thanks to the freezing done. Whipping his elbow back, he snapped the frozen arm off by the wrist and jumped back, growling out as he ripped the amputated arm and hand off of his back and toss it aside. He hissed and reached up and felt the blood pour down below his shoulder blades. "Damn it, that hit with more than I expected."

"Todoroki…" Katara whispered in amazement. "… They all made it here."

Todoroki heard her voice and turned towards her, seeing the injury to her side before turning back. "If you were hurt, then this thing is much worse than those thugs they sent after us."

Katara raised an eyebrow to what she thought was a compliment, only for a familiar red head jumping through the air to break her thoughts.

"Rah! Take this you creepy asshole!" Kirishima yelled as well and leaped towards Shigaraki, although the villain casually dodged his swing. "Ah damn it! Now I couldn't do something cool!" he pouted out loud.

"Ah shut up spiky hair." Bakugo growled and sparked his quirk onto Kurogiri's neck. "Don't even think about moving, you dumb ass. I'll blow your damn head off if I see as much as a puff around me."

The sinister grin on the kids face above him made Kurogiri grunt in frustration. While he hoped it was a bluff, something about the look he gave made him think he wasn't joking.

Looking around to the three newcomers, Shigaraki began grunting in frustration and scratching his neck again. "What the hell… can't one of these little brats be dead? All of those useless fools! Damn it!"

Taking a deep breath, All Might stood tall and walked in front of the others. "You should go and join Aizawa and the rest of them to escape. I'll deal with them."

Todoroki glared to the bleeding hero. "If we did not show up you would have been in trouble."

"I thank you for that, but now it is time for a pro to take care of this situation."

Katara made her way down several steps and stopped by Aizawa as they stared to the sudden change of events just now. She looked up to him and gave a small smile. "It looks like we have the advantage now, sir." Her grin disappeared when his expression never changed, his eyes locked onto the Nomu still.

"This isn't over yet." he responded as the creature pulled its severed arm back through the portal.

The Nomu screeched out and swung down shattering its frozen leg and what was left of its arm to everyone's shock. Even Todoroki's normally stern gaze was replaced with disbelief to the seemingly lack of pain in the monster's face. Within only a few seconds its damaged flesh underneath began shifting as it did with Katara's attack earlier, but even the waterbender was stunned silent as a fleshy mob protruded outward. The muscles and bones grew out from its shoulder and hips, reshaping itself into new limbs before the skin followed as well.

"What the hell is that?" All Might yelled out in disbelief. "You said his quirk was shock absorption."

"I didn't say that was the only quirk he has." Shigaraki chuckled at the heroes face as the Nomu's limbs were completely regenerated as if nothing had happened. "He was made just for you, All Might. And now I am growing annoyed by this day. Let's get our exit back, Nomu."

All Might's eyes shot open as the nomu burst passed him and went straight for its next target. "Bakugo, get away now!"

The ash blonde couldn't even process what he heard before his eyes saw the dark creature sprinting towards him. His body couldn't even move an inch before the creatures hands slammed directly into him creating an immense dust cloud from the impact.

Katara brought her hand to her mouth as she watched Bakugo disappear from sight. She had felt its power before with a shield wall, but he had nothing to protect him from its hit, fearing the worst possible outcome. She then noticed something amazing. "What?"

"Kachaan!" Midoriya yelled out and tried to move, but he along with the other two boys below were confused as Bakugo was sitting at their feet with a bewildered look on his face. "Kachaan? How did you-

"I didn't move, you dumbass." Bakugo growled and stood up.

"Wait, if you didn't move then…" Midoriya went silent as he and everyone else looked to the direction of the Nomu's attack, seeing a bruised and bleeding All Might standing there.

Panting for air, All Might coughed and spit out a small mouthful of blood. The hit he took moving Bakugo out of the way was much harder than he had expected, rivaling attacks from his younger days that made him glare at the Nomu. "I warned you that you would not harm my students anymore!"

Shigaraki threw his arms out and chuckled. "Isn't that what us villains are supposed to do? Why don't you just roll over and die for us, I promise that I will make their deaths very fast."

Gritting her teeth, Katara began walking down the steps towards the battle. If she could heal All Might even in the slightest, it could change the tide of the battle. Before she could she could she felt a hand grip her shoulder. She looked back to see her teacher glaring at her.

"You really are stubborn, Katara." Aizawa grunted as some more blood dripped into his eyes. "You stay here."

Glaring back, she attempted to shake his hand off. "I can help him, sir. If I can heal a some of his wounds then-

"If you want something to heal, start here…" Aizawa forced his eyes open through the blood coming from his scalp. "… we can both help him."

She gave a confused look at that. "What do you mean?"

The smallest of smirks formed on Aizawa's mouth to her question. "Your healing will be what saves All Might."

She then looked down to the water still over her hands then back to the blood on his head, her mind immediately understanding what he meant. She nodded and brought her hands up as they glowed again. "Alright, lets do this."

Down below, All Might grunted in frustration as he felt his limit coming soon. 'I barely have a minute left in this form. My powers are declining faster than I thought they would.' He glared seeing Shigaraki preparing to rush towards his students once more. He then felt a surge deep within him, an energy that had been passed down to him from his own master and the one before them. His eyes glowed bright blue and he clenched his fists.

'Even so, I have to stop these villains. Because I am…' his eyes locked onto the villains, "The worlds symbol of peace and justice!"

All eyes on the plaza turned to the yellow and white blur launching himself towards the large Nomu. Both All Might's and the Nomu's fist collided generating a massive shock wave sending Shigaraki tumbling through the air. The villain leader grunted and landed on the ground. "What the hell!? Didn't you hear one of his quirks is shock absorption?"

"Yeah? What about it!?" All Might grinned and began unleashing a barrage of punches, the Nomu itself matching the blows as well. There powerful hands collided creating what felt like a hurricane inside the building. Everyone braced themselves just to stand up as the number one hero and this monstrosity went all out against each other.

"He's gonna try and take that thing head on!?" Midoriya grunted through his arms to try and see what was going on.

"God damn, they are going so fast!" Kirishima yelled as he nearly fell on his back.

"Rah! You said his power was shock absorption, not nullification…" All Might jeered as he continued his barrage of punches. "… that means there is a limit to how much you can take!"

All Might's blows began to overtake the Nomu's own speed, landing hits onto the creatures stomach, but the occasional blow landed on All Might as well. Even so he did not stop and kept his pace up, throwing everything he had into every blow. Then suddenly, one of All Might's punches connected to the nomu's chest and launched it backwards through the plaza and through several trees. Shigaraki gasped in shock at the sight.

"What!? Why the hell is his absorption not working!?"

Even All Might was surprised by the sudden change. "Did it already hit its limit? Its quirk is-" his mind then clicked and he looked back to the stairs, his grin widening once again. "Now I understand."

Katara's glowing water was encasing Aizawa's scalp, healing the damage done from the Nomu's initial attack. With the pain subsiding on his head it gave the erasure teacher the freedom to use his own quirk on the beast, his red eyes beaming across the plaza.

"I can't keep this up long, All Might. Use this time now!" Aizawa yelled out.

Giving a quick nod, All Might turned back to see the Nomu slowly crawling up. "So you have no more shock absorption, that's bad luck for you!"

As he catapulted forward once again, Katara grinned from behind her teacher. "Get him, All Might! Finish it!"

Before the beast could stand back up, All Might clothes lined it with his powerful forearm and knocked it onto its back once more. He quickly dropped down and drove an elbow right into the monsters stomach, this time a deep gasp escaping the Nomu's mouth. The sight made All Might snicker.

"Without your quirk now, these hits do affect you now!" he scoffed and grabbed the villain by the leg and lifted him off the ground. Tossing him up, he unloaded another barrage of uppercuts into its stomach and one powerful enough to send it careening into the air. Still not done, the number one pro blasted off the ground and passed the Nomu flying upwards, bringing his arms up together and hammer fisted the creature back towards the ground in a massive eruption of stone and dust. All of the students were in silence in amazement to the display of power and speed of the attacks.

The Nomu could barely move at this point, its body now bleeding out from the powerful attacks it had been taking. It's body barely stood up from the ground before All Might landed down in front of it.

"Hey villain, you may have heard these words before, but I'll show you what they really mean…" All Might focused everything he had in his body down into his right fist, the energy surging out and covering his arm as he brought it forward. "Go beyond!"

He buried his fist deep into the Nomu's stomach, the sheer kinetic energy seemingly lighting up the beast's body in a blinding light.

"PLUS… ULTRAAAAAA!"

The punch had so much force the entire plaza shook like an earthquake ripped through the ground. The Nomu's body itself was hit so hard it was launched up towards the sky… with it's arms falling off and dropping to the ground. The arm less body screamed through the air and crashed into the ceiling high above and ripped through the steel framed structure, its body continuing upwards and disappearing passed the clouds and into the blue sky.

All of the other students were in amazement to the battle that seemed to end in seconds. They stared open mouthed to the now open hole in the roof high above the plaza.

"That was… crazy." Kirishima mumbled out loud.

Todoroki took a breath and looked back to the hero standing there. 'He really is the most powerful hero.' He said to himself, a small sense of pleasure seeing who it was.

"I really have gotten weaker…" All Might chuckled and stood up. "Back in my hay day, five hits would have been enough."

He brought his fist to his chest and laughed. "Even with help, today it took a hundred mighty blows to stop this thing."

The sight she had just witnessed nearly made Katara fall back in disbelief. She had seen videos of All Might fighting before, but to see him in person was something else entirely. His speed, his power and everything else; it was far beyond anything she could ever had imagined. She thought back to her encounter with Endeavor when she first arrived, and she could instantly see the gap between the two of them. She now could see what this world meant when they called him the number one hero. Even with that absorption power stopped, she knew how powerful that thing was, and he defeated it with such power it looked like it wasn't even a battle. He was the greatest hero.

"He is… incredible." she whispered quietly.

Notes: Wow wow wow. this ended up being harder than i expected. but this was still alot of fun. Now we see an easier battle for All Might and Katara exposing more of her secrets. lets see what happens later. Till next time!

and to all the comments i just recieved about bloodbending. She needs the full moon, remember?