The Gunslinger Hero: Flintlock

by Professor Donger

After 8 years in America Izumi Midoriya is asked to return home to Japan to teach at UA. She won't be coming back as some quirkless little girl though. She'll be returning as The Lone Star State's Number 2 Hero. The Gunslinger Hero: Flintlock! Fem!Izumi! Izumi Has a GUN! Cowritten by Damian02 on AO3

12. Chapter 12

AN: Damian: We're back! This fic isn't dead, put down the pitchforks! But seriously, sorry for the long wait, things just kept happening and the chapter kept getting delayed. Holidays are busy. That, and uh... Lightfall dropped on Tuesday so we were playing that instead of writing... whoopsie.

Donger: Yea real life kept getting in the way for both of us, I had a lot of doctors appointments to go to about my weight (nothing bad just some checkups and advice) and kept getting distracted, Lightfall being out as an example as well as a few other things holding our attention. I hope you guys enjoy this chapter after waiting for it for so long!

---

"Man, what the hell are we waiting for?" One of the villains complained as the simulated storm of the Downpour Zone left them soaked. "Why the hell hasn't Kurogiri sent us any victims yet?"

"He should have by now. Maybe he dropped them from up high and the fall killed them." Another Villain suggested with a laugh.

"Doubt it." Another villain kept looking around. "Just keep an eye out. We don't need Shigaraki getting on our asses because we let a student sneak past us and escape."

Through the din of rain, the villains continued searching for the student that had been sent to them. Unaware that three beings were watching them from a nearby building.

"Can I hit'em?" Dark Shadow asked, trying desperately to rampage, only to stop as Fumikage patted it on the beak.

"Calm, Dark Shadow." For once Fumikage was not reprimanding his quirk, "Remember what Sensei told us, stay in the shadows, be silent, and strike only when we have to."

"She just told us to use cover so we don't get shot."

"It's the same thing, patience, you'll have your feast of darkness soon."

Dark Shadow wiggled in place as it started to get impatient. "I can easily take 'em all on, let me at 'em!"

Fumikage sighed as he felt the quirk's aggravation through their bond. He looked at the group of villains, who were now closer to their position. As he turned to his Dark companion, a slight smirk appeared on his beak.

"Refrain from maiming them."

"Finally!" Dark Shadow laughed maniacally as it surged forward, Fumikage opting to stay in cover and simply sit, his back against the wall.

Fumikage didn't think of himself as a sadist or anything, but he'd be lying if he said the sounds of the villains screaming in fear weren't music to his ears.

"Uhm…"

"Hm?" Fumikage looked over to see Koji sitting a little further in the building so as to try and hide his large frame. "Yes, Koda?"

"Are they gonna be okay?" He shyly asked, pushing his massive fingers together nervously.

Fumikage hummed. "If the situation gets out of hand, I shall reign in Dark Shadow. Our adversaries will be fine."

A scream and a villain impacting the wall outside the window next to them had both hero students peeking out the window to see a dizzied villain on the floor.

"Well, they shall remain in one piece, at least." Fumikage corrected.

Before Koji could reply, the sound of running caught the two hero hopefuls' ears. They both immediately turned their attention to the group of villains that had managed to trace Dark Shadow back to its source.

"We found 'em boys!"

Fumikage was about to try and recall Dark Shadow when Koji tapped him on the shoulder.

"I uh, let me try." The massive boy walked forward nervously. "If you recall Dark Shadow the rest of the villains down there will overrun us, so let me deal with these guys…"

Fumikage nodded, surprised. From what little he knew about his fellow mutant classmate the young man was something of a gentle giant. His battle trial had been…embarrassing from 1-A's perspective, to say the least, especially if you were a combat pragmatist like Katsuki, Ejirou, or Pony. "If you're sure…" He winced at how hesitant he sounded but once again was surprised when Koji turned and smiled at him.

"I am. Sensei told me something important during the Battle Trials." He turned back to the villains who had started charging them "Not wanting to fight is okay." The young man slowly started to grow hair all along his body, as well as grow in height. His face and body morphed before Fumikage's eyes. His voice became less of a voice and more a growl as he finished his sentence "But to be a hero means to fight, to make sure others aren't as afraid as I was during that trial!" The now literal massive bear then started charging full tilt toward the villains, causing most of them to freeze in place.

Koji puffed himself up, his now Ursine ears up as well as his head. He bounded at them on his front paws almost moving in leaps instead of running, but he stopped short of just attacking the villains.

Most of them took the hint and ran. The few that didn't were either too stupid or too nervous to move. Koji walked backward toward Fumikage, eyes still on the villains who looked at the bear in confusion but said nothing else.

After a moment of the villains not doing anything, one of them decided to step forward only to stop as Koji's body language changed. His ears pressed back as he opened his mouth in what looked like a yawn, showing the massive teeth that his new form held. Still, the villains nervously held their ground. Only to once again be confused as he huffed. He then began to walk backward further down the street. After a minute he came to a stop and let out a bellowing roar and started charging the villains. His steps made loud crashing sounds through the rain as he came at them like a freight train.

"Uh, he ain't stopping…" One of the villains nervously muttered.

"We can take him!" Another shouted though he didn't really sound like he meant it.

"Oh my God just surrender! I don't wanna get mauled!" One of the others shouted, this one a female, who immediately got into the fetal position on the ground, covering her head with her hands, which every one of the villains immediately did as Koji came closer.

The moment they did the young man turned bear skid to a stop and huffed out a sigh before glancing at the villains all cowering in fear. He growled at the people on the ground before he let loose a deafening roar that was heard over the simulated sounds of thunder.

The villains immediately took the hint, Fumikage was pretty sure one of them soiled themselves as they ran.

Dark Shadow showed up moments later, looking between Fumikage and Koji. "Holy shit Fumi! Where'd you get a bear?!"

Fumikage stared at Koji, then after the villains, and his gaze shifted back and forth a few times before he accepted the reality of what happened.

"What a mad banquet of darkness."

---

Aizawa was in the zone, these punks were all D-Class villains at best, which surprised the underground hero. Surely a group of villains planning to attack the most prestigious hero school in the country would at least be B rank or higher… With that thought, he wrapped another in his capture weapon and threw them toward another oncoming group.

He was about to turn to fight the idiot who tried to come up behind him when a loud bang almost made him flinch and his would-be assailant flew back onto his back, physically stuck to the ground with some form of adhesive.

"Sorry. Fashionably late."

Aizawa glanced at Flintlock from the corner of his eye and sighed, "Is anyone else coming?" Before she could answer he heard another gunshot, this time back where Thirteen and the kids had been. "You did not just give another one of my students a gun!"

"I have the right to not answer that question." She replied. She cocked the shotgun as she aimed, before flipping a switch on the side and firing two rapid shots at two more villains coming up on their rear.

"It wasn't a question!" Aizawa grabbed one of them with his weapon and used him as a projectile to knock another villain on her ass, after which Flintlock fired a few rounds at them to keep them restrained.

"But to answer your earlier question," Without looking, she aimed behind her and fired, the sound of a villain yelping in surprise and a thud on the ground telling her that her shot landed, "I sent Twice back with Iida. Cavalry should be getting here soon."

"How the hell are you firing that without cocking it?" Aizawa asked as he looked for more targets, "I literally just saw you cock it before shooting a moment ago."

Aizawa was certain Flintlock was smiling as she answered him. "Oh! This is a heavily modified Benelli M3 Super 90. It was a bitch to find but she's probably one of my favorite shotguns!" She began scanning for targets as well. "It's a dual-mode shotgun, so it can be either a pump action or semi-auto depending on what you need! Normally you'd have to do some finagling to swap between semi-auto and pump action but I know a gal."

"Why… would you ever not just use it in semi-auto?"

"..." Flintlock immediately went silent and Aizawa sighed.

"You don't know, do you?"

"Shut up."

"HEY!" They both turned to the man with the hands on his face and body who seemed to be fuming at their apparent disregard for him and his lackeys. "You took out all my basic units, good for you but you idiots aren't the one I'm looking for! Where's the final boss!?"

"The final what?" Aizawa looked confused and Izumi patted him on the back.

"Let me handle this old man."

"I am only seven years older than you." He deadpanned though she just shook her head.

"Okay boomer."

"Where. Is. All. Might?" Handy Man growled out, obviously annoyed with their banter.

Izumi looked away from Aizawa and back at the wannabe villain with a shrug. "I don't know, doin' your mom?"

"Midoriya, I swear to God…" Aizawa muttered underneath his scarf.

The response made the villain twitch, and the mist villain standing next to him took notice. "Tomura Shigaraki, calm down, they are not the objective."

"Yeah, listen to your manservant." Flintlock chimed in. "Wouldn't want you to get stressed out. Your skin is already crusty as fuck. You need to keep as much of your beauty intact as you can." She then made a point of looking him up and down. "Well, whatever beauty you might have, that is.

Once again he twitched.

"See that!" She pointed at his twitching form "That right there is why you get no bitches. Tomura. Shigaraki." She made sure to slowly annunciate his name, rolling the r like some demented hentai dominatrix.

"Midoriya, seriously stop…" Aizawa groaned.

"Fuck All Might, if he won't show up I'll just break you two before moving on to your students." Shigaraki growled, "Maybe that will make him come."

"Naw, your mom's doing that for him already."

That was obviously the last straw because the villain immediately turned to the behemoth beside him and barked "Nomu break them! Make it slow and agonizing!" He paused as the monster began to move "No, actually." His tone was so sinister it even made Flintlock pause, "Leave her to me, take care of Eraserhead, take your time, play with him a little."

The Nomu immediately screamed what the two pro's assumed was some form of affirmation and blitzed toward them, breaking concrete and appearing in front of Flintlock and Eraser in what seemed like an instant.

"What the fuck?!" Flintlock let out a shout only to be backhanded away from Aizawa toward Shigaraki.

"Midor–" Aizawa didn't get a chance to finish as the creature immediately made a grab for his face, which he barely dodged "Son of a bitch!"

While Aizawa was busy doing his best to dodge the monster's strikes, Flintlock had managed to right herself from a roll. She glanced at her prosthetic arm and she felt her eyes widen in surprise at the state it was in. Each finger on the hand was crooked or twisted in a way that for a normal human hand wouldn't be healthy. She quickly flexed the hand and flinched as the fingers readjusted and popped back into their proper places.

"You sure are weak if you couldn't even handle being swatted away by Nomu." Shigaraki mocked, normally Flintlock would have fired back with a witty remark but she was just too stunned to do so immediately. She glanced at the large villain as it fought Aizawa, flexing her prosthetic hand as she did so.

"That was a swat?" She whispered to herself, before shaking herself out of it and turning back to Shigaraki. Part of her wanted to say something smart back at him, but the situation had just been turned up a dial in Flintlock's mind. It was already a terrorist-level attack just by proxy of how many villains were brought to the USJ but this… Nomu's presence turned it into something much more difficult.

Flintlock thought for a moment as she flicked her wrist and a gold and black revolver appeared in her prosthetic hand. Her inventory was large but she had left most of her more… exotic bits of her armory back at the dorms… She didn't have anything big enough on hand that could handle the Nomu.

Normal bullets would work just fine for Shigaraki and his butler though.

"What the fuck?!" Shigaraki scowled. "You get access to hammer space!? Hacks!"

"No, I just put research points into extending my inventory." She quickly loaded eight shots of real bullets. "Not my fault you didn't level up past pockets, scrub. Or maybe you should have upped your carry weight."

"W…What! How dare you?! I happen to min-max, you know!"

"Sounds like a skill issue honestly."

Kurogiri meanwhile was honestly having a little trouble keeping track of the conversation or what was being said before him. "I feel like I should stop this… but I don't even know what this is."

"I'll fuck you up man! Do you think just because you're some big bad hero you can just insult my skills as a gamer?! I play on PC!" Shigaraki started stalking toward her, fingers twitching as he did so as if he wanted to wrap his hands around her throat. "Your dick's probably so small you'd need a microscope to see it!"

Ah, insulting one's genitals, one of the many skills a squeaker must have alongside absolutely disgusting levels of profanity and racism. Sadly though, Shigaraki chose the wrong pair of genitals to insult… along with the wrong type of genitalia!

"I'm actually a woman… with a vag," Flintlock threw her arms to the side. Now that she thought about it though, her voice did sound different due to her helmet, and while her physique should give her gender away, she doubted Shigaraki could clearly see past that hand covering his face. Ah well, may as well fuck with him, right? "Like if you're into femdick I'm not gonna judge, different strokes for different folks as the saying goes, but get my gender right, it should be obvious."

"Y…You're a woman?" Shigaraki suddenly stopped walking and Flintlock felt like she probably shouldn't have mentioned that fact.

"Uh…last I checked?"

Shigaraki just seemed to stare for a minute. "...Well now I feel like shit."

Flintlock blinked in surprise, not that anyone could tell. "...What?"

"I thought Flintlock was a guy this whole time."

"So what? You're okay with attacking a school full of students but you don't want to misgender people? That's where you draw the line?!"

"Yes?"

"..." She stared at him blankly, her expression unreadable behind her helmet, before suddenly faster than Shigaraki could react she hefted her revolver at him.

"I'm going to start shooting you now."

"What?"

Flintlock answered by pulling the trigger, a round immediately sped toward Shigaraki only to be teleported away by Kurogiri. Shigaraki flinched as the telltale sound of a bullet ricocheting off a nearby surface reached his ears.

"WAIT YOU HAVE REAL BULLETS?!"

"What, did you think I was just playin' with paintball guns?" She let a bit of her Texan drawl seep through, "You decided to fuck aroun' boy." She quickly fanned the hammer of her revolver, forcing Kurogiri to once again teleport each round as quickly as he could away from his master. "It's time you found out!"

"You're crazy!"

"Says the varmint who decided to attack not just the biggest hero school in Japan, but also my kids!" She was about to reload when a portal opened up next to her, one of Shigaraki's outstretched hands reaching toward her, inches from her face.

She quickly leaned out of the way and jumped back to put a bit of distance, aiming to shoot at Shigaraki. As she pulled the trigger, Kurogiri opened more portals to block her bullets, irritating the gunslinger further.

The portals disappeared to show that the one Shigaraki had been leaning out of was gone, and him with it.

She heard the displacement of air behind her a dove out of the way of another hand, taking aim while in motion and firing.

And once again a portal blocked the bullet. But it didn't end there.

She heard the now familiar sound of a portal opening to her left and felt a heavy impact hit her prosthetic arm. "Fuck!"

Kurogiri had used her own bullet against her, the clever bastard. Luckily the damage hadn't even dented the very durable material suit, much less her arm.

She turned and saw another portal open near her, and once more a hand came out immediately to grab her. Flintlock, however, learned from her mistake.

Instead of firing at Shigaraki, she quickly grabbed him by his wrist and pulled him halfway through the portal, leaning forward so that his face was inches from hers.

"Howdy." She drawled before leaning back and headbutting him back through the portal with a sickening crunch.

The man-child fell to the ground clutching his nose, his eyes wide in surprise. He immediately waved Kurogiri back who had moved to assist him before popping his nose back into place with a crack. "You bitch!"

"Hey! That's not very PC of you!"

"I was going to let Nomu have some fun with Eraser, but you've moved yourself to the top of the enmity list!"

"Why was that whole conversation even a thing?!" Aizawa could be heard yelling while dodging one of Nomu's lazy swipes.

"Nomu! Break his legs and then come deal with her." He didn't even flinch as a flurry of bullets teleported away from him harmlessly.

Flintlock growled as she barely dodged a redirected bullet. "Fucking portals..." She then glared at Kurogiri "You're being a cock block!"

"I will not allow you to shoot Shigaraki." Kurogiri narrowed his eyes at her.

"So kill you. Got it."

"What?"

Before he even realized it, a bullet zoomed through the air and entered his shadowy mass. A metallic clang was heard as the bullet seemed to ricochet off of something within the mist that made up Kurogiri.

"Hmm, mama's gonna need something a lil' bigger." She holstered her revolver, and with a flick of her wrist, her empty hand was occupied by what could barely be described as a rocket launcher. It was white and gold, with a gold ornamental wolf mounted near the top close to the end of the launcher's "barrel." She patted the rocket launcher on its side with her off hand and the two villains flinched as the rocket launcher growled, growled, back.

"Villainous scumbags, meet one of my personal favorites. Gjallarhorn." She took aim. "Gjallarhorn, meet Villainous scumbags." With that, she fired. A rocket exited the now-named Gjallarhorn with a howl.

"Fuck! Teleport it!" Shigaraki ordered, only to flinch as Kurogiri found himself once again under a hail of bullets from Flintlock's newly returned revolver. His attention was to split for him to focus. "Nomu!"

Nomu stopped trying to attack Aizawa immediately, and in the blink of an eye stood in between Shigaraki and the incoming missile. When the projectile made contact, the explosion was deafening and violent, but damn if it wasn't beautiful! After the initial explosion multiple mini rockets began bombarding what was left of the targets' area. It was art.

"Hasta la muerte, douchebags."

"What did you just do!?" Aizawa yelled as he approached.

She calmly turned to him. "Dealt with the villains?"

"You vaporized them!"

"'Vaporize' is not the right word. I neutralized the targets." She deadpanned. "That Nomu guy was basically dead anyways. His vital signs said he was practically a zombie. And the other two? They asked for it. I did my job."

"What? Killing people?" Aizawa growled.

"Protecting my students, asshole!" She suddenly snapped, making Aizawa step back from the amount of sudden anger in her voice.

Before the argument could escalate further, the two heard the mocking sound of slow clapping and laughter coming from the smoke.

"You know, Sensei told me about how the rest of the world used Heroes as hitmen and military units."

Flintlock cursed under her breath in Spanish. "Hijo de puta."

The smoke cleared and revealed an unharmed trio of villains, Shigaraki scratching furiously at his neck now that his clapping was done. "I didn't believe him, but I should have, it's just more proof that this society is rotten."

"How the fuck did you survive that!?"

Shigaraki absentmindedly patted Nomu on the arm with the back of his fist. "Nomu here has shock absorption as a quirk."

"That doesn't explain the lack of burns." She growled, readying Gjallarhorn again.

"Nomu." Upon his order, Nomu appeared in front of the two heroes, batting Izumi away with a furious backhand, causing Gjallarhorn to fly from her grip due to the force. He then turned immediately to grab Aizawa by the head and slam him down into the concrete ground. "As I said earlier, break his legs, then deal with her."

---

Ochako watched as her teacher descended the staircase to assist Aizawa. She took the moment of peace to try and calm down and steady her breathing.

This whole thing had been so stressful, and she saw Flintlock shoot at someone with a live round, which didn't help. Granted, Ochako didn't know for certain the fate of the bullet fired nor where it landed, and she wasn't sure exactly what happened, since she couldn't hear the other end of Flintlock's talk with Momo, but it sounded like her friends were okay and on their way to safety, so she took comfort in that thought.

She held the shotgun provided to her in her hands, her new gloves that came with her minor costume changes covered her whole hand up to the knuckles and extended out to cover her ring finger and pinky so she could use all of her digits without accidentally using her quirk, and were capable of retracting so she could negate gravity when needed.

She inspected the gun up and down for a moment. The third time she's ever held a gun and the first time she's ever held a shotgun. Luckily, her best friend did nothing but ramble about guns ever since it was revealed that her favorite hero was gonna be their Heroics teacher, so Pony had shown Ochako videos online about the basics of most gun types during their free time. And fortunately, that included shotguns, so she did understand how reloading worked this time, and how firing it worked at least in theory.

Which was about to come in handy, as she heard Mina yell out to her while pointing down the stairs, "Heads up! We got bad guys!"

Sure enough, there was a small group of villains making their way up the stairs from the plaza, having capitalized on both Aizawa and Flintlock being occupied by the other villains. Taking a deep breath to ready herself, Ochako tried to hype herself up for the coming fight.

"Alright, you got this. You got this…" She muttered to herself, she took a deep calming breath before running over to the edge of the stairs, and using the railing as a brace she got her shotgun ready.

The villains in front of the pack didn't even seem to notice the girl with a gun, as they continued their march up the stairs with cocky grins and sinister laughs.

"Alright, fellas!" The leading villain yelled as he reached the top, "Let's fuck up some-"

He cut himself off when he noticed the shotgun barrel right in front of him.

"...eh?"

'Quick! Say something witty!' Ochako thought in panic.

"F-fuck you!" She yelled, before pulling the trigger. The capture slug launched out the barrel and nailed the villain right in the chest, covering his torso in a rapidly hardening pale white substance while also launching him back from the impact, causing him to yell as he began to roll all the way back down the long staircase.

'Nailed it!' Ochako mentally cheered, she went to pump the shotgun to load another round like Pony had shown her when nothing happened, the gun had no pump, just a handguard designed to look like one. Ochako's eyes widened in fear as the villains took note of this.

"Girly can't seem to get her gun to work! Get 'em!"

Ochako screamed and instinctively pulled the trigger again, causing another slug to fly into yet another villain, once more sending him tumbling down the stairs.

"Oh my god, of course, it's semi-auto!" She yelled in exasperation before taking aim again and unloading on the next poor fool that tried to get too close.

Mina stood behind Ochako, pumping her fist in the air and cheering her classmate on. "Yeah! Fuck 'em up, Ochako!"

"Uhm…" Mezo and the other two boys stood in silence, not really having to do anything as Ochako single-handedly held the line. "Should we… do something?"

"Like what?" Hanta asked as he watched the show, wincing as Ochako grabbed her gun by the barrel, only to turn the butt of it around and smack a villain across the face with it. With the villains pushed back she began reloading the shells before firing again "I think Uraraka has everything covered."

"The villains are gonna be fine from that fall, right?" Rikido couldn't help but cringe at the rather painful-looking fall each villain took down the staircase as one after another kept trying to challenge Ochako, who was becoming more and more feral and terrifying with each villain taken out.

"Do we really care?"

"No, not really?"

"I didn't know Uraraka could be so fucking terrifying." Hanta shivered at the dark aura around said girl. "I swear, those guns do something to any girls who hold them."

Mina turned to look at the boys with a raised eyebrow and a confused look in her eyes. "I don't know what you're talking about, she seems fine."

"MAIM," blast "KILL," blast "BURN!"

"...okay, that may be some cause for concern."

"RIP AND TEAR!"

---

Pony stopped walking suddenly, causing Ejirou to bump into the smaller girl and look at her in confusion. Her face broke out into a large smile, and for some inexplicable reason, she felt a burst of pride well in her chest out of nowhere.

"Uh, Tsunotori, you alright?"

"I have urge to kiss Ochako." She blurted out before she could realize it. Face burning she fiddled with Sweet Business, almost using it to hide her face. She was surprised when Ejirou pats her on the back.

"Right on man, don't let your dreams be dreams!" His grin grew even larger. "And hey! Your Japanese is getting better too!"

Pony gave a shy smile and nodded. "Thank you."

Suddenly, they felt the ground shake, and they both took a second to brace themselves as they heard a loud sound off in the distance, a building collapsing as well.

"If there's fighting," Ejirou balled his fists, "then it must be some of our classmates fighting villains! Let's go!"

"Right!" Pony grabbed a hold of Sweet Business and sprinted down the ruined streets, passing Ejirou with her superior speed. One upside to having horse legs was that they came with the horsepower of one – well half the horsepower of one, she was missing two of the four hooves that a horse had – but still, she had the staying power and endurance of a human and the leg power of a horse! The most overpowered combo for sprinting and distance running!

And that is why she made it to the source of the fighting in record time and was able to see that her classmates, whoever they might be, had taken cover behind some large pieces of debris as villains used their quirks to throw the surrounding rubble of the buildings or used other ranged attacks to bombard their position. However…

Pony entered the street from behind the group of villains.

With an assault rifle (she will die on this hill!) that had ten rotating barrels.

"This is where the fun begins." She whispered, a feral grin appearing on her face.

The villains continued their assault until they heard a loud and sharp whistle from behind them.

Turning around, they were met with the sight of a small girl holding a big gun.

"Ahright bois!"The girl shouted in what the villains could only assume was English "Wut dew we dew when dakka int enuff!?"

"...What the fuck is she saying?"

None of the villains got the chance to respond as Sweet Business roared to life and rained hellfire down upon them. "Moar dakka!"

The villains all screamed in terror as they were pelted with rubber bullets, all of them hurting like hell, but ultimately non-fatal.

Eventually, Pony let go of the trigger once all the villains were down for the count, the barrels slowing to a halt.

She, unfortunately, didn't notice the camouflaged chameleon villain sneaking up behind her.

"Gotcha!" He yelled as he lunged forward, knife at the ready, not giving Pony the chance to turn around.

Luckily for her, a hardened Ejirou had finally caught up to her and tackled the lizard man, his knife breaking upon impact with the young man's armored skin. The villain didn't get the chance to fight back as Ejirou clocked him in the face, knocking him out instantly.

"I got him! I got one!" Ejirou cheered, then turned and saw the group Pony had taken out on her own, his pride immediately sizzling out. "And… you got the rest."

Pony couldn't help but giggle, stowing Sweet Business away.

"It's not a competition…" He grumbled.

"Sure." Pony gave a smug grin. "Thanks for save."

"Yo, Tsunotori, Kirishima! That you?!" They heard a familiar voice yell out, and turned to see Kyouka Jirou pop her head out from behind the debris the villains were attacking. "Oh shit! You guys are okay!"

"Yeah, the villains we went up against in the Ruins Zone were kinda pushovers." Ejirou rubbed his nose with a grin.

"Same in the mountain zone… mostly… Uh, hey, we need some help over here!"

"No we fucking don't!" A very familiar yell sounded off from behind the rubble.

"Bakubro, is that you?!" Ejirou ran over to the cover, Pony following after him. They turned past it and saw Katsuki leaning against the wall, looking worse for wear. "Crap man, what happened to you?"

Momo, who was busy fussing over Katsuki, began talking as she administered creams and bandages to his hands and arms. "He was grabbed by a villain in the Mountain Zone, the man had an electric quirk of some kind and was attacking his nerves…" Her response came out on autopilot like she wasn't even paying attention as she worked.

"He's out of explosions for now." Kyouka summed it up. "We got down here and then those villains came out of nowhere. S'plody tried to use one of his explosions and it somewhat worked, took down a nearby building but he couldn't aim for shit because his nerves are all fucked up."

"Fuck you, my aim was perfect," Katsuki grumbled as he looked away. "Meant to hit the stupid building, to scare those shit heads away."

"Sure," Kyouka rolled her eyes, "all part of the plan."

Katsuki raised his hand and flipped her off, only to hiss at the pain of doing so. Momo let out a small frustrated noise and forced him to put his hand down again and try to relax.

"TSUNTSUN!" Pony yelled with a grin and a pointed finger at Katsuki.

"What the fuck did you just call me Yankee?!"

"I Southern!" Pony pouted, "And you a Tsun Tsun!"

Katsuki started to struggle out of Momo's grasp. "Let me go, Yaoyorozu, let me go so I can ki –" he stopped struggling with a wince as Momo's fingernails dug into his arm, he could barely feel it because his nerves were shot but he could tell that he crossed a line… especially when he saw the strained look on her face as she stared at the ground. "Tch," He frowned. "...Sorry."

"Whoa…" Ejirou looked worried. "What happened?"

None of them said anything at first, until Momo quietly said, "Flintlock is here."

Pony gasped as a smile instantly appeared on her face at the news that her idol had arrived. However, Momo continued in a somber tone.

"She…she killed the villain that was holding Bakugou hostage." Her grip tightened on Katsuki who winced but didn't say anything "She shot him in the head…"

Ejirou's eyes widened while Pony surprisingly didn't look all that concerned, instead simply narrowing her eyes as if she was getting serious, which Kyouka took note of.

"P-Pony," Momo continued, "I'm sorry. I know she's your favorite hero, but… she killed someone."

"Then shit just got serious," Pony muttered, which surprised everyone by how… calm she was.

Momo frowned "What do you mean things just got serious!" She shouted, surprising those who didn't understand what Pony had said. "They were serious the moment these villains showed up!"

"Heroes in America are authorized to use lethal force in emergency situations…"She looked at Momo with a frown. "And even then, Flintlock only kills when there's no other choice, otherwise she's non-lethal."

Before anyone could continue, they heard a loud howl in the distance, followed by a series of loud explosions.

They all turned to the noise, which seemed to have come from the Plaza.

"Is that… no fucking way!" Pony yelled out in disbelief and hooved it towards the Plaza, leaving behind her classmates who were stunned at her lack of concern for what they had just told her. "IT'S GJALLARHORN!"

They all just stared after her in stunned silence.

"Is… I'm sorry, but is she okay in the head?!" Kyouka yelled as she threw her hands forward in the general direction Pony took off towards. "We literally just told her that Flintlock murdered someone!"

Katsuki frowned "Even by Japan's standards what she did wouldn't be constituted as murder, Jirou." He then sighed. "Look, focusing on what happened isn't going to get us anywhere," he looked at Momo and the others with a frown. "Let's focus on getting our asses out of the fire before we worry about other things."

"Yeah," Ejirou nodded, "let's just… catch up to her, we can deal with this later. Come on man, I've got you." He leaned down and slung Katsuki's arm over his shoulder and helped his fellow hero in training walk.

Katsuki didn't say anything, instead gave out a quick grunt as thanks before the four moved to catch up with their classmate.

Meanwhile, Pony had made her way to the Plaza, having run as if her life depended on it.

She had recognized the howling of a wolf followed by massive explosions. Couple that with Flintlock being here and that meant one thing.

'She's using Gjallarhorn! She's using Gjallarhorn! She's using Gjallarhorn! She has Gjallarhorn!'

Any Flintlock fan worth their lick of salt knows about the iconic rocket launcher. Flintlock almost never used it, so there wasn't much video footage of the weapon in use, if any at all, it was almost considered to be a myth, a legend. But with what little official footage and talk about the weapon there was, it was clear it was only meant for some of the most dangerous villains.

Pony would kill to see the legendary, no, the exotic rocket launcher in person. It was on her bucket list for crying out loud! She started bouncing up and down excitedly as she tried to get a clear view of the plaza, smoke obscuring her vision. It was most likely the result of Gjallarhorn being fired.

The smoke began to clear a little, and she saw Flintlock and Aizawa in the middle of the Plaza. Were they arguing?

She saw both of them turn towards the fountain in the center and gasped when the smoke cleared, only to show the villains her idol was fighting to still be standing, no injuries present on them.

From Pony's perspective, nothing was said for a moment, Flintlock readied her launcher again. Suddenly, faster than Pony could blink, the hulking monster next to the hand villain appeared next to Flintlock smacking her away with incredible force, sending Gjallarhorn flying out of her hand and onto the ground, forgotten.

It then turned and grabbed Aizawa by the head and slammed him into the ground, only to stomp on his legs viciously. Pony flinched as she heard her teacher cry out in muffled pain through the monster's hand. It let him go soon after that, turning to Flintlock who had managed to stand up, though she was holding her head as if dazed. It didn't give her time to recover, letting out an ear-piercing roar, and began stalking towards Flintlock.

Pony looked around frantically. She had to do something, she couldn't just sit on the sidelines and watch!

That's when her eyes caught the glint of light reflecting off the bronze wolf ornament adorning Gjallarhorn.

She had a terrible idea.

---

"Fuck…" Izumi grunted as she raised herself to one knee, holding her hand over the right side of her helmet. Or, well, what was left of it. That Nomu thing hit her so hard, it shattered the right side of her helmet, exposing her right eye. "Yeah, I'm definitely getting chewed out for this later."

She was about to take her helmet off, its HUD and other instruments useless to her the way it was right now, when the sound of the Nomu charging her reached her ears, she quickly looked up and muttered a quiet "Shit" before noticing something odd.

The Nomu was moving much much slower than it had been before…

Why?

She quickly glanced over at Shigaraki and immediately noticed his body language, he was bouncing up and down on his heels in excitement, like he was going to enjoy a show or a sporting event… That bastard had ordered this thing to toy with her, didn't he?

Fine by her. Just means she won't be killed instantly by whatever-the-fuck this Nomu thing really was anyway.

The Nomu raised a hand to try and grab her like it did Aizawa, but Izumi ducked under the attack and cringed as she broke one of the few promises she made before coming back to Japan…

"Don't use the experimental tech without me!"

"I am so fucking dead…" Izumi muttered as she fired up her Jump Kit. The thrusters along her back and hips lighting up, pushing with her legs she fired away from the Nomu, aiming to get back to Gjallarhorn and maybe do some damage…

That's when she saw Pony hefting her beloved rocket launcher and aiming it toward where she just came from…

Her eyes widened in alarm. "Pony don't-"

But it was too late and Pony pulled the trigger.

The power of the weapon was clearly more than Pony was expecting as she lost her balance from the recoil and fell backward, landing with an "oof", dropping Gjallarhorn in the process.

'At least her aim was true…' Izumi thought as the Wolfpack Rocket slammed into the Nomu. Izumi landed next to Pony and dismissed the launcher with a sigh as she pulled her helmet off, digitizing it as well. She quickly helped Pony stand and frowned at her student "Thanks for the assist but you really shouldn't be here."

"Where'd Gjallarhorn go? Wait, are you okay? You're bleeding!" Pony fretted, hero worship was forgotten for now.

Izumi moved a hand up to her head and winced as she pulled a few small pieces of her helmet out of her forehead, they hadn't embedded very deep but they had left some scratches and caused some bleeding. "Yeah, I'm fine you need to get out of here, now."

She heard a growl of frustration and turned to see Shigaraki shaking in very poorly concealed anger. "Fucking… damn it! The show was getting good! UA brats are getting in the way! Nomu, turn that NPC brat to paste now!"

The Nomu didn't even let the smoke clear before it appeared next to Izumi and Pony, fist raised to do as its master ordered. Izumi growled and quickly grabbed Pony by the arm, pulling the smaller girl into her chest and bringing her into a hug.

"This is going to suck!" She muttered before the two of them blinked out of existence just as the Nomu's fist obliterated the area they had just been standing in.

A bit further away, a green shimmer was seen before both teacher and student rematerialized out of nowhere. Pony gasped and covered her mouth as she tried not to throw up; it felt like she had just been on the most intense roller-coaster ever, except the roller-coaster also caused her entire body to feel like it was set on fire before being dumped in a bucket of ice.

She failed and threw up her breakfast all over the concrete.

Izumi was holding up better but she looked a bit unsteady on her feet. She shuddered as she took in shaky breaths, trying to keep herself together. "Leave!" She shouted to Pony, quickly pushing the girl toward the area where she knew Ochako and the other students were.

She flicked her prosthetic hand and an assault rifle materialized in it as she started opening fire upon the Nomu, who started lumbering toward them. The 5.56 ammunition pinged off the creature's flesh uselessly and Izumi growled in frustration, loading a new magazine.

"Alright fucker, let's see how you like incendiary rounds." With that she opened up again, incendiary rounds slamming into the Nomu's chest, leaving scorch marks but otherwise ineffective in terms of doing any real damage, before one hit it in the eye, causing it to stop walking with a scream. "Aww did baby, not like that?" Izumi mocked and grinned before quickly glancing behind her…

Only to see that Pony was still there. "WHY ARE YOU STILL HERE?!"

Pony let out an "eep" at the yell and quickly backed up towards the stairs, which she noticed had a lot of villains at the bottom of it, all groaning in pain with the majority of them trapped in a hard white substance.

Seeing that her student had finally gotten to safety and would be out of the way, Izumi turned her full attention back to the Nomu in front of her. Her eyes widened as the eye that she had shot out slowly healed, not completely, the eyeball was gone and all that remained was a wall of flesh, but it still healed as the Nomu closed its eye and roared.

"The fuck…?" She muttered. 'Its quirk was shock absorption, not regeneration. Does this thing have multiple quirks?!'

"Ah, I see you've noticed." Shigaraki spread his arms wide as if he were some sort of showman. "As you can see, Izumi," He spat her name like it was some sort of plague. "Nomu here isn't your ordinary trash mob. He's a super unit! Genetically modified and handcrafted to kill All Might himself!"

"Shit…" Izumi tapped her trigger finger against the side of her gun, 'Gjallarhorn was the biggest weapon I had in my inventory, I don't doubt that it dealt damage to this thing but if it's just regenerating from it…'

"Nomu, pick up the pace just a little. I want to hear some screams." Shigaraki ordered nonchalantly, in an almost bored tone.

"Oh, you sick bastar-" Izumi was cut off as Nomu appeared just in front of her and brought a fist down, destroying the ground and kicking up debris.

Nomu lifted its fist and looked at the small crater, tilting its head in confusion when there was no body or even blood.

A soft click had Nomu turning to look at his shoulder, only to see Izumi standing on its broad shoulders, a 12 gauge shotgun at the ready.

"Open wide cock sucker." The Nomu didn't have time to even lift an arm to even try and rip Izumi off his shoulders before she opened up on it with shotgun blasts.

Dragon's Breath rounds slammed into the Nomu's face at point-blank range, one after the other as Izumi kept pulling the trigger.

After eight rounds the gun clicked empty and Izumi hopped off the motionless Nomu, thankful that her suit was fireproof as its head literally burned. She turned to deal with Shigaraki only to flinch as the instruments in her eye detected movement, she turned just in time to Blink away as the Nomu tried once more to grab her.

"How the fuck?" She growled eyeing the creature up and down. Its head was in rough shape, it was burnt and smoldering but the fire didn't seem to do any lasting damage to it. The healing had slowed, obviously, it didn't heal nearly as fast as it had before, but the monster was still moving and that was ultimately all that mattered to Izumi.

She was about to try and pull out something larger when Shigaraki took notice of his pet's state as well. "How the hell are you slowing Nomu's healing? Do you have Anti-Heal or debuff items equipped? You cheating bitch! Nomu no more playing around!"

Izumi's eye glowed green as she used the HUD in it to mark where she wanted to Blink to next just in time before the Nomu threw a punch that surely would have killed her then and there.

As she rematerialized, she hissed as her entire body felt like it was on fire and she fought to keep her focus. The fact of the matter was, Blink was not meant to be used yet, it was experimental tech, and it definitely showed by causing immense pain after so many uses. She supposed having your atoms ripped apart and put back together in a different location would have that effect.

But it didn't matter, pain was temporary. She needed to survive, she needed to keep fighting, if she died here then there was no one left at the USJ who could stop this monster, and she didn't know when reinforcements would arrive, and with her Helmet scrapped she was running in the dark on that front as well…

Not to mention her vision was starting to get blurry. She was getting tired.

"Fuck," She cursed for the umpteenth time. She was not equipped to deal with this shit. She was running on barely any sleep, her body felt like it was on fire, and her head hurt from having been tossed around earlier. Fuck, even she was starting to question how she wasn't dead yet.

If she survived this, she was taking a long fucking nap, maybe a vacation.

Wait, this was supposed to be her vacation.

"Fuck it," She said as she stood up, she quickly loaded more Dragon's Breath rounds into the gun, "a vacation from my vacation."

She stood back up and stared down the Nomu with a calm, yet cold look. "Come on, fucker. I'm not done yet."

---

Pony ran up the stairs to the entrance. Well, more like stumbled, she wasn't feeling good. Whatever Flintlock did to save her from that Nomu guy's attack made her feel sick to her stomach, her legs were weak and she felt dizzy...

She fell to her hands and knees as she neared the top, breathing heavily as she tried not to throw up again.

"Who" gasp "designed" gasp "these fucking" gasp "stairs?!" She lay on one of the stairs and gulped air greedily, trying to subdue her nausea.

"Pony?"

Pony's eyes widened when she heard that voice call her name, but she was also briefly scared. 'Crap, did I die? Because no way I'm hearing the most beautiful voice ever right now!'

Risking disappointment, she opened her eyes and was definitely not disappointed when she saw the most beautiful angel ever. Pony even swore she saw some sort of divine light shining down upon her.

It was then that she noticed that the angel wasn't an angel (not technically…) but was instead her best Japanese friend…and she had a shotgun!

Armed with a sudden second wind, Pony pushed herself up and ran up the last few steps, and tackled the angel to the ground.

"Ochako!"

"Gah!" Ochako yelped as she fell over, losing her grip on the shotgun Flintlock had given her, but she didn't care as she laughed and hugged Pony back. "Pony, I'm so glad you're okay!"

"Never again leaving!" Pony cried as she reveled in the comforting embrace.

Ochako continued to hold Pony as she sat up and tightened her hold. This situation was all so stressful, but there was something so relaxing about simply holding Pony in her arms, nuzzling her face into the blonde's shoulder.

But, of course, the moment had to get ruined.

"Ahem," Ochako's eyes widened as she shifted them over to the side and caught sight of Mina giving them the biggest shit-eating grin that almost made Ochako fear for her life for some reason. "Do you two need some privacy?"

Ochako felt her cheeks heat up a little. "Uhm, Pony, can I get up?"

"Mm-mm," Pony shook her head and used one of her hands to grab Ochako's hand to guide it to her hair so she could be petted.

"Of all the times for me to not have my phone." Mina pouted. "I need pockets on this costume."

Before Ochako could respond to that a low whistle caught her attention, only to cause her to blush even more when she noticed it was more of her classmates arriving, specifically Kyouka, Momo, Ejiro, and Katsuki.

"See! I told you Brony! Don't let your dreams be dreams!" Ejiro pumped a fist as he carefully helped Katsuki sit down.

Pony blushed and finally stood up with a soft smile, before gasping "Kiri! How you avoid fight?!" She pointed at the ongoing fight between Flintlock and the big villain, causing Ejiro to shrug.

"They were too distracted to even pay any attention to us, we didn't get close enough to interfere, even though this guy –" Ejiro patted Katsuki on the back softly causing the blond to hiss at him "Kept demanding we go help Sensei."

"Fuckin Deku needs help! I could have blown that shitty villain away in ten seconds!"

"With what arms?" Momo deadpanned as she set Katsuki down against the railing and continued the first aid from before. "You can barely move as it is."

"The fuck'd you say, Yaoyorozu? I'll fight you!"

Mina blinked. "Holy shit does he know our names now?"

"Can it, Racoon Eyes!"

"Aaand of course he doesn't…" Mina crossed her arms with a pout.

"How's Sensei doing?" Ochako asked as she idly petted Pony's hair. "It's hard to really see from up here."

"She –" Pony started only to get off by Katsuki.

"She's getting fucked up." He scowled, eyes not leaving the fight even as Momo tried to look at his neck where the villain had grabbed him.

Kyouka raised an eyebrow "How can you even tell, we're so far away?"

"Did you not see the blood dripping from her head?" Katsuki eyed her. "We were close enough to see it."

"Was a little busy trying to sneak past certain death." Kyouka rolled her eyes. "Meanwhile, your explosive ass was busy getting a piggyback ride from Kirishima."

"I said I didn't need it damn it!" Katsuki yelled.

"Bakugou, calm the fuck down!" Momo snapped, having gotten frustrated with him already. She then paused as she registered the words she had just said. Her eyes widened with horror as she covered her mouth with "eep".

Everyone present stared in shock and slight horror.

"Oh my god…"

"Bakugou you've corrupted Yaomomo!" Mina pointed an accusatory finger at him.

Katsuki just looked at her with wide eyes, thinking for a moment and blinking as he nodded his approval. "Your journey down the Dark Side has begun." He grinned ferally.

Momo blushed. "Shut up!"

"Join me Yaoyorozu, and we can rule the Galaxy!"

"Are you channeling Sensei right now?" Momo groaned.

"She's a bad influence, what can I say?" He shrugged.

"She's the bad influence?" Ochako muttered in shocked disbelief. Before the shenanigans could get any further out of hand the sound of someone landing with an 'Oof' and a 'Kero' alerted them to more of their classmates arriving.

They turned to see Tsuyu in a crouched landing position, Denki on her back, and Minoru held in her tongue. She quickly let them off before standing up.

"Hello there. Kero."

Katsuki blinked before sighing. "I've reached my limit for this shitshow. I'm not fucking entertaining this."

"Entertaining what?" Tsuyu tilted her head.

"You know damn well."

"No idea what you're talking about."

Minoru groaned as he tried to dry his costume. "Honestly, I always dreamed of getting tongue from a cute girl but this isn't what I meant…" he paused, hoping Tsuyu hadn't heard him, only to let out a startled 'Eep' as the frog girl turned a side eye to him and mouthed a quick 'If you're a good boy' to him.

Denki, however, was the only one who saw this somehow and blinked in confusion. "Okay, what fucking dimension did I end up in?"

"What are you talking about?" Mina asked.

Before Denki could respond, a loud crash and a scream caused them all to look back at the battlefield, all of them gasping in horror at the sight they had distracted themselves from. Flintlock was on the ground, clutching her face, desperately trying to regain her composure as the large villain lumbered back toward her.

"What the fuck happened!?" Denki shouted rooted to his spot in fear.

Everyone's reactions caused Pony to leave her happy place in Ochako's arms and look back down at the plaza, soon joining the others in their shock at the current situation.

Katsuki growled, trying to stand but failing "Fucker managed to get lucky. Backhanded her and hit her in the face. She's lucky she wasn't knocked out or concussed."

"Well, we can't just sit here!" Ejirou began getting restless. "C'mon, there's gotta be something we can do!"

"Like what?" Kyouka gestured to the monster. "The hell can we do against that thing? Hand-job said it was basically built to kill All Might! Even if All Might can beat it, he's not here. What chance do we have?!"

None of them answered as the hulking monster made it to their Sensei. It began to reach down to grab her, only for a massive glacier to slam into it.

"...Okay, that works." Kyouka blinked and nodded in approval.

"But will it hold?" Momo fretted.

Denki, meanwhile, tried his hardest to keep to himself. He had a plan. A stupid, idiotic, suicidal plan.

Well, so far he's had good luck today, so fuck it.

"Hey, Tsuyu." He whispered over to his classmate.

"Kero?" Tsuyu put a finger to her chin.

"How far can you throw a person with your tongue?"

Kyouka heard them and glanced back in their direction. "I don't like where this is going."

---

Izumi wasn't one to look a gift horse in the mouth, so when she saw an entire glacier slam into and trap the Nomu, she tried to take this opportunity while it was immobilized to collect herself.

She sat up and worked her jaw with a wince, she quickly spat out a tooth… or three and groaned, her dentist was surely going to love that. She blinked her right eye and winced as a small jolt of electricity sparked near her eyelid. "Fuck, that's not good."

If her eye was shorting out like that means the blow had done more damage than she thought, she was honestly lucky her cheek wasn't broken, though she didn't doubt that it was cracked based on the pain she was feeling. She stood on shaky legs and once more brought something out of her inventory with a flick of her wrist.

"I was saving this for a rainy day but…" She gripped a silvery canister, a little bigger than her hand as she jumped toward the encased Nomu with the help of her Jump Kit. "It's time for you to take the looong nap bud." She raised the canister and aimed to jam it into the Nomu's exposed brain.

The ice started cracking before she even got close enough to do whatever she was planning, and soon she was blown back as the ice shattered. The Nomu roared in rage at being encased as it looked for the person that had attacked and interrupted its fight. Izumi hoped her student was wise enough to stay hidden.

"Sensei."

Of course he wasn't. From the rapidly dispersing mist came Shoto Todoroki in all his overconfident glory. He extended his right hand and blasted the Nomu with ice again, once more encasing it.

Meanwhile, Izumi tried to get her feet under her, before she suddenly felt a hand grab her and help her to stand. She turned to see who it was, but just saw empty air. However, she did notice the mist from the ice was moving around weirdly as if there was something there, though Izumi couldn't make out what it was.

After a few seconds, and a bit of focus it became clear that the something was someone.

"Hagakure?" Izumi whispered.

"Hey, Sensei!" Toru whispered. "You look like shit."

Izumi couldn't help but let out a quick wheeze of laughter. "Am I at least hot shit?"

"I think you've been hit in the head too hard."

"Yeah, probably…" Izumi slurred. She looked back to where Toru's voice was coming from and saw the black-clad form of Aizawa, knocked out, injured but safe. He definitely wasn't there before.

Toru must have noticed where she was looking, because she answered the unasked question. "Took the chance to drag him over here while no one was looking. This suit is awesome! Thank you for it!" She paused for a moment before continuing "His legs are broken and he's out like a light…"

"Oh, Recovery Girl is gonna kill us." Izumi muttered.

The sound of shattering ice drew her attention back to the Nomu as it broke free again, only to once more be encased in an icy prison. Shouto made sure to make the ice thicker this time, but already cracks were forming as the Nomu was breaking free.

"I'm guessing that's the 'All Might killer', huh?" Toru asked.

Izumi blinked at her general area in surprise. "How do you-?"

"We interrogated some villains before coming here." Shouto explained as he let loose another glacier. "Found out that they had a weapon that they claimed could kill All Might."

"Ice won't work." Izumi rasped as she finally got her feet under her properly and stood up. "It's too strong, it'll just keep breaking out, and it won't get tired." She sighed before giving Shouto a very serious look. "But fire works. It has a hard time regenerating back from getting burnt. Todoroki, I don't want to ask you to, but I need you to-"

"No."

"Yeah… that's more or less what I expected." She sighed before twitching.

"Sensei, are you alright?" Toru asked in concern but Izumi waved her off.

"Yeah, just some mechanical issues don't worry about it." She glanced at Shouto. "Since you're being such a hard ass about this I have another plan, a plan B if you will." She tossed the silver cylinder into the air and caught it. "How fast can you turn your ice into steam?"

Shouto opened his mouth to reply only to let out a gasp as the air was knocked out of him by Izumi pushing him to the ground. He grunted and was about to tear into her for tackling him when his eyes widened at the sight of an arm sticking out of one of the misty portals, holding his Sensei by her prosthetic arm, which she had brought up to shield herself.

Well, what used to be her prosthetic, as it was currently crumbling to dust.

"Shit, Shit, Shit!" Izumi quickly disconnected the arm, and everyone watched as the hand dragged the mechanical arm back through the portal, back to Shigaraki who seemed pleased as punch.

"Damn, meant to get the ice brat, but this works just fine." He growled as he inspected what remained of the arm before it disappeared. "The fuck is this? This isn't flesh. Are you a cyborg?!"

"Fuck you!" Izumi shouted before grimacing as another system shut down in her eye, this time her Jump Kit. "Damnit, she's definitely gonna kill me."

'Fuck, pretty soon I won't be able to pull anything from my stash and I think Blinking now will just kill me…' She grit her teeth before turning a glare to Shouto, the Nomu had already started to break out of the ice and her icey student was already prepared to freeze it again.

"Freeze it and then make as much steam as possible." She whispered so her plan wasn't heard by Shigaraki or Kurogiri. "Hagakure, are you there?"

"Uh, yes!" Izumi didn't jump as the silent girl sounded off next to her, instead, she subtly moved the grenade in her hand toward the invisible girl. "Put that in your pocket, keep it hidden until the mist is made, and then I need you to hit the Nomu, preferably the head."

Though she couldn't be seen, Toru looked down at the device with dread at what she was being asked to do, but Izumi quickly explained to try and ease her student's nerves.

"That thing isn't alive. It's a walking corpse at best. This is just like taking down one of the exam bots." She explained in an effort to encourage her student. 'You know, a very dangerous and murderous exam bot, but then again we had the Zero Pointers, so…' She shook her head before continuing "It's designed to burrow into steel or concrete and then breach doors, that should do the trick with him." She quickly showed Toru where the activation button is "It's keyed to not activate until that's pressed, after which you have three seconds to drop it or throw it."

"Okay… alright…" Toru whispered, most likely to herself. "Just like the entrance exam… I got this."

"Stay low and get ready." Izumi glanced at Shouto, "Do you understand the plan?" Once she received his nod she stood on shaky legs. "Good, Get ready, I'll distract him if I need to." With a flick of her hand, a silver pistol appeared in her hand, though calling the thing a pistol was like calling All Might "Just a Hero." The thing was huge!

"Gotta love the Deagle." She sighed before looking at Shoto's widened eyes, she assumed Toru's were just as wide and she grinned "Don't worry she's filled with capture rounds, just in case Hagakure is in the line of fire."

She used her right armpit to move the slide and ready the gun to fire before putting it back down toward her hip. "Ready?" Once she received Shouto's silent nod and Toru's whispered ready she readied the gun, aimed at the Nomu's face

"Let's get this over with, we've only got one shot!" She took aim and shot the Nomu's face, the capture round solidifying and covering the beast's eyes while it was trapped.

"Ah," Shigaraki scratched at his neck as he saw Izumi emerge from the mist and attack. "She's still fighting? Gotta give the lady props, she doesn't go down easily. It's kinda cool actually."

"Shigaraki, I advise against letting your growing admiration get in the way." Kurogiri warned him.

"Oh, yeah no, she's still getting splattered. Nomu." With that, the Nomu broke out of the ice prison once more. It roared in rage, only to be encased in ice once again, this glacier noticeably thinner than the last.

Shoto was shivering.

He wasn't turning it into steam.

This was problematic.

"Todoroki! What the fuck are you doing?!" Izumi yelled back. "Steam! Now!"

"I… can't…" Shouto strained to say as he shivered. "I won't…"

"Now is not the time!" Toru yelled from behind him.

"You don't understand." He whispered.

"Alright, I've had enough of whatever dramas going on." Shigaraki clapped his hands. "Nomu, chop chop, we're on the clock."

The Nomu broke out with ease and grabbed a nearby chunk of ice that was huge, before lobbing it at Shouto.

His eyes widened as he tried to put up an ice wall to shield himself and Toru, but he couldn't find the strength to make more ice as Frostbite began to take its toll on him. Everything seemed to move in slow motion as the ice flew toward them, each second the shard was getting closer and closer…

And then he was pushed out of the way.

Shouto and Toru were sent flying to the side, and Shouto barely got to see the tired face of Izumi, arm outstretched in their direction, before she was blindsided by the ice boulder.

"Sensei!" They both yelled. The mist cleared enough to reveal Flintlock's body on the ground, barely breathing as she gave a weak cough.

Shouto tried to make more ice to stop the monster from attacking Izumi again but he couldn't, he was too cold…

Toru was torn between ripping into Shouto and going to check on Izumi as well, but that decision was torn from her when the two hero hopefuls heard the lead villain shout. "Finish Her!"

The Nomu plowed past them, roaring as it prepared a fist to slam into the currently unconscious pro-hero.

It was then Toru noticed something on the ground, the gun that Flintlock had dropped! She quickly lunged for it, readied it, and opened fire.

Luck was on her side as the capture round slammed into the Nomu's leg, stopping it from reaching Izumi and turning Shigaraki's ire onto them.

"What? HACKS!" the Villain screamed, "Invisibility cheats! Nomu! Kill them! Find them and kill them!"

The gun clattered to the ground as the recoil knocked the young lady onto her ass. Toru winced as she rubbed her wrist, that was definitely gonna hurt tomorrow.

The gun clattering to the ground drew the Nomu's attention, as well as the hand guy's who pointed in her direction and screamed. "There! Right there! Demo that whole area!"

"Oh fuck," Toru cursed as the Nomu turned and started to rip its foot free.

Before it could do as its master commanded, a voice caused everyone still conscious to glance into the sky.

"Improvised special technique!" A gold and black blur slammed into the Nomu, the wind from the object's impact kicking up dust. A moment later the dust cleared, revealing Denki Kaminari, hugging the Nomu's head, digging his gloved hands into the exposed brain.

"CONCENTRATED SHOCK! TWO MILLION VOLTS!" He yelled out before lighting up like a Christmas tree. The brightness had everyone close shielding their eyes.

The Nomu opened its mouth instinctively, its muscles spasming as the electricity shot through it and fried its nervous system. Denki kept the volts flowing, even as the electricity began overwhelming his gloves and feeding back into him, frying his own brain. He knew that the gloves weren't designed for this kind of voltage, but he needed to stop this thing!

After a few more seconds he was spent, the electricity stopped and he loosened his grip, surprised that the gloves weren't molten slag along with his hands. "Hands!" he shouted happily, a dopey smile on his face.

Toru took the opportunity that her classmate had given her and immediately pulled the grenade Izumi had given her out and pressed the primer.

"Kami, get off of it!" She shouted as she ran forward, jumping off a nearby chunk of concrete and climbing up the Nomu quickly and with a shiver of disgust, shoving the primed grenade down its throat. The electricity still arcing off the Nomu short-circuited her suit's cloaking device, deactivating it and revealing her silver costume, and thus her.

She was about to try and grab her fellow hero student, when the Nomu suddenly moved, the movement shaking her off its chest. The monster, still spasming, swung one of its arms and slapped Denki off of it, sending the boy flying, only to be caught by Tsuyu who had leaped to catch him.

Toru could swear she heard a whimpered "Hand!" Coming from Denki in the distance as she waited for the Nomu to notice that she was right across from it and attack her as well…

Then the Nomu's throat started to glow red. The Beast reached up and grabbed its throat as the glow got brighter and brighter. It let out a shilling scream before…

BOOM!

Fire erupted from the Nomu's mouth and its eyes burst into flames as the explosion and flames ripped its way out, destroying its brain and eyes immediately, its form standing stock still. The Nomu stood there, staring up at the sky with flames still burning in its eye sockets before it began to fall backward. Its heavy body hit the ground with a massive thud that kicked up a bit of dirt.

The plaza was silent, everyone was looking at the corpse of the supposed unstoppable weapon. Not even Shigaraki or Kurogiri said anything, Kurogiri out of shock, Shigaraki out of pure, unadulterated rage.

He turned to his underling and twitched his fingers "Bring everyone back."

Kurogiri shook out of his shock and turned to his leader. "Everyone, Tomura Shigaraki?"

"Everyone." He growled out as he scratched at his neck violently. "Bring everyone here. Bring those useless mobs back here and kill those hero wannabees!"

"As you command." Kurogiri nodded and then began teleporting the remaining villains they had on hand back to the plaza.

---

Mashirao never stopped moving as he moved through the Conflagration Zone, picking off villains one by one as he tried to find the exit from this hellscape. The heat was starting to get to him, and his tail was getting sore. He was alone.

Just as he swung from a nearby light pole, a hand made of fire came out of nowhere and slammed him to the ground.

"Found him!" He heard what must have been a villain shout as he stood up. He looked around and gasped as he was surrounded. Where had they come from?

"Finally!" Some woman groaned. "I was getting bored."

Another villain stepped forward and cracked his knuckles, a set of flaming hands like the one that had struck Mashirao out of the air mimicking his movements from behind him.

"End of the line ki- wait, what the hell?!" He was cut off as a dark mist appeared and began enveloping him. "The fuck's going on?!"

More shouts and Mashirao noticed that all of the villains were beginning to be consumed by the dark mist of what he recognized was the warp gates of the mist villain, Kurogiri. The one who sent him here.

The screams of confusion all died when everyone disappeared at once, leaving Mashirao alone.

"...What the hell?" Was all he could say, before shaking his head to clear his thoughts and ran, prioritizing finding the exit once more now that he was hopefully in the clear.

"Maybe they're retreating?" He speculated as he kept going.

---

Fumikage and Koji were surprised that there were still villains for them to take down, but here they were, surrounded by villains ready to fight once more, though calling what was about to happen a fight would have been unfair…

Dark Shadow was about to start bodying villains once again, while Koji prepared to charge in his bear form when the warp gates that had sent them to the Downpour Zone began taking villains away.

Dark Shadow returned to Fumikage in confused frustration, and Koji looked to Fumikage for an answer to what had just happened, only for Fumikage to shrug.

"What a mad banquet of darkness…"

"Translation: what the fuck just happened?" Dark Shadowed supplied the confused-looking bear.

---

"What the fuck was that Todoroki?!" Toru began ripping into her classmate, grabbing onto his costume shirt and pulling him close to where her face would be. "What part 'make steam' was so hard?! We almost died!"

Shouto didn't respond, instead staring at the downed form of his teacher who had saved him at the cost of herself.

"Come on." Toru spat letting him go with a shove. "We need to get both her and Aizawa-Sensei out of here." She crouched down to pick up Aizawa. "You can at least do that, right?"

Not saying a word, he moved over to Flintlock and reached down to pick her up.

But then they heard the sound of multiple warp gates opening.

Looking over all the students jumped to get ready for combat as many more villains were brought to the Plaza, spilling out the portals.

One stood up and rubbed his head. "Oi! What gives?! We was busy!" He looked over to the students and paused, before his eyes locked onto the giant corpse of the Nomu. "W-what the fuck? Is… is that the Nomu?"

He stood up on shaky legs and took a step back. "They killed it… th-they beat it… but it was supposed to kill A-All Might. If they… Fuck this shit! I'm getting the fuck out of here!" He turned to run back into the warp gate-

Only for it to disappear, replaced with a hand that grabbed his face.

The last thing he saw were red, angry eyes staring at him from behind a severed hand before he himself turned to dust, not even getting the chance to scream.

"No one is leaving until all of those hero brats are dead!" Shigaraki screamed. "Anyone who tries to run will join this one!" He kicked the dusted remains of the villain he had killed away from him.

The students in the Plaza all looked at the mob of villains in fear. They were in no condition to take them on, their energy having been spent taking down the Nomu. Their teachers were out of commission, Denki seemed to be out of juice and Shouto was freezing. Tsuyu and Toru were the only two combat-ready down in the plaza…Everyone else was by the entrance.

The rest of the students who had made it to the entrance could only watch from the top of the stairs as their classmates faced down a mob.

Katsuki grunted as he tried to stand, but faltered. "Fuck… get me down there." He grunted.

Ejirou grabbed his shoulder to steady him. "And what are you gonna do? You can't fight-"

"I fucking might as well try!" Katsuki struggled just to talk. "I… I gotta…" He nearly fell over before Momo helped to guide him back down.

She was shaking. She was scared. She was so scared. She knew she could as easily make a sniper rifle like she did before and provide cover fire. But… she couldn't.

She couldn't forget what she almost did.

Ochako helped Pony up and the two of them prepared their firearms to at least try and help, while the other students tried to figure out what to do…

Just then, they heard footsteps at the entrance.

They turned and saw a familiar black and white costumed man walking in, a green bandana tied around his head.

"Hey, Kiddos!" Twice waved jovially before looking around "Woah, You guys sure did a number on 'em, but there's a perfectly good hole right here!" He waved at the entrance hole "Why didn't ya just leave? You must love this place, huh?!"

"Twice!" Most of them yelled out in relief. Momo then stood up. "Where is everyone else?"

"On their way. They stopped for take-out." He walked to the steps and looked down. "But anyways, I'm here to… help…" His eyes widened at the sight of his beloved sister on the ground, bleeding and surrounded by villains.

"Izu… what…" The question died on his tongue as his fist clenched. Now wasn't the time for questions.

Now was the time for action.

Ochako was about to reach up to comfort the older man, before she flinched back as a large mass of gray goop began to emerge from Twice. Clone after clone started appearing from the mass and they all started raising their fists and stomping their feet in anger.

"WHAT DID YOU DO TO OUR SISTER!?" They all yelled as one, before throwing themselves down the stairs.

The hoard of clones descended upon the villain mob, and before anyone knew it, the tsunami of Twice clones crashed into them.

"TIME FOR A MASSACRE!" They began fighting with the fury of angry Spartans, and when one Twice clone was killed, turning into goop, it seemed like two more would just take its place in the army.

Before they even knew what was happening, the League of Villains were overrun, taking heavy losses as more and more of their own were trampled under the might of the Twice army, all coming to the defense of their sister.

Meanwhile, all the students simply watched in shock, not having to do anything.

"I…" Hanta was left speechless.

Kyouka's eyes were wide with amazement and sight fear. "Okay, that's metal as fuck, but also terrifying."

Momo had to agree. With the arrival of Twice alone, the tide of the battle was shifted in their favor, as clone after clone formed and pressed the attack.

Shigaraki growled and turned to Kurogiri "Portal that useless American to me!"

Kurogiri did as he was told immediately only to flinch as a Twice clone jumped through the portal that had appeared instead, trying to pummel both villains with his fist

Shigaraki immediately put a stop to that by grabbing the clone by the face and dusting him. "Fine! I'll do it myself!"

He reached through the still-formed portal, his hand coming out the other side to grab at the unconscious woman's face and kill her-

Only for a bullet to go through his hand.

He screamed as he yanked his hand out of the warp gate and held it closed. Another bullet went through his shoulder, and this time he managed to catch where it came from.

The entrance to the USJ.

His eyes narrowed at the man in a gas mask wearing a cowboy's hat, aiming a heavily modified revolver at him.

"That's mah family you're messing with, partner! This time, ah won't miss!" Snipe took aim once more and began to open fire, nailing Shigaraki several more times before Kurogiri could move to save him. The dark mist of the villain swirled around the bleeding Shigaraki, teleporting away all of the bullets that entered as he began to teleport them out of there.

"No!" Shigaraki yelled. "We can't leave! We have to kill All Might!"

"I am sorry Tomura Shigaraki, but we've lost." Kurogiri put his foot down for the first time that Shigaraki could remember. "Master would be displeased if you died here."

Shigaraki shook with rage before yelling out a declaration. "THIS ISN'T OVER! YOU HEAR ME?! I'LL KILL ALL OF YOU!"

Snipe ignored him, shooting round after round at the quickly dissipating mist, the students flinched with each shot. He only stopped once it was clear that his target was gone as the vortex dissipated.

"Fuckin aim must be off today… Meant ta hit him in the head." Snipe muttered as he walked past the students and down to the plaza proper to help Twice cuff the villains and give medical help to those that needed it.

Everyone's eyes widened at that, except for Katsuki who didn't say anything in response. A few moments later the rest of the faculty arrived. Recovery Girl and her team of nurses came rushing to give medical aid to those that needed it, the nurses focusing on the students while Recovery Girl herself was taken by Cementoss to the students and teachers down in the plaza.

Snipe had already made his way down by then, and was standing over Izumi as he bent down to her. Her breathing was shallow, not right.

"Howdy, Firefly." He put a hand on her bloody forehead only to jerk back in surprise as she woke up with a gasp.

"Uncle Han…" Izumi whispered, trying to lean up, only to groan in pain.

"Shh, it's over. Jus' stay awake fer a bit longer." He glanced over at Recovery Girl who had just arrived to administer one of her kisses. "Can ya do anythin bout this?"

The Youthful Heroine gave her a once over and sighed. "Not at the moment. She's too drained for me to use my quirk safely, but I can at least ease the pain and give her some oxygen before we take her to the medical wing for proper treatment." She opened her medical kit and pulled out a shot of morphine.

The last thing Izumi saw before the morphine started kicking in was the worried faces of Jin and Han, then there was nothing but blissful darkness.

The Invasion of the USJ was over.

---

Thousands of miles away in the middle of the ocean floated a man-made island. And on that island was a 24-year-old woman who was currently passed out over a table, having worked herself into exhaustion.

She was deep within the arms of blissful unconsciousness when a loud, continuous, and blaring 'beep' rang through her workshop. The noise caused her to jump up in fright, papers flying everywhere, blonde hair a mess, glasses askew, and drool on her cheek.

"Wazthat?" The woman squinted and looked around for her alarm clock, before realizing that she was still in her workshop with a groan, fixing her glasses as she rubbed at her face.

"Fuuuck. What's that noi –" she cut herself off as she recognized the sound and her heart stopped.

She had never wanted to hear that noise outside of testing situations ever.

Getting up she ran to her computer and quickly punched in her password, she was immediately met with a screen that showed the outline of a human body, specifically a woman's. She quickly looked through the diagnostic readings that were being shown.

"What the hell did you do? Why are you flatlining?!" She immediately started clearing her workspace. "Cat!" She called.

A soft meow reached her ears and she turned to her table where a robotic cat had just leaped up to answer her call. The cat was black with a red collar, and blue lights on the tip of its whiskers as well as lights along its joints, tail, and paws.

"Call Uncle Might, and get my plane ready." She ordered as the rest of the robots in her lab started packing everything upon her snapping her fingers. She then muted the flatline beep and waited.

Cat opened its mouth and the noise of a phone ringing replaced the flatline beep that had just been present in the room.

A few moments later a click was heard and the cat stood up, puffing out its chest, Its eyes and highlights turned from their normal blue to a bright gold as it spoke in as loud and boisterous of a voice as his skinny form would allow. "Melissa, my dear! It's been forever since we've last spoken! What can I-"

"Where is she?" The woman cut off her beloved uncle as she continued to pack.

"Uhm…" the Cat, who was mimicking Uncle Might, scratched the back of its head. "Could you elaborate on who you're-"

Melissa Shield turned from her work and slammed a hand down on the table, making Cat jump back in genuine fright at the desperation in the inventor's blue eyes. "You know who I'm talking about, Uncle Might! Don't play dumb!"

"Where is Izumi Midoriya, and why did my computer just notify me that she was dead?!"