Hello everybody! Here's the Chapter 4 of Echoes of War! We got an... Epic Fight! But before the chapter...
The reviews!
Colossus Bridger: Don't worry, the T'au will get their time to shine at a point ;).
Yes Izuku probably feels guilty for the skirmish, but the worst is that if you noticed, I mentionned in Chapter 2 that it wasn't the only skrimish!
Indeed, when Izuku transformed into the sergeant, he became an adult, I think the only regiment where you could see kids as soldiers is Krieg, I don't remember where I saw that, but behind the mask, they are clones AND childrens.
We will get interactions of course, notably (and yes, a minor spoiler for future chapters, but not a big one) in the future chapter of the Sports Festival, and probably some in the USJ.
And as you will see, we don't have Space Marines or Krieg Guardsmens, but something a little worse hehehe...
Neiltanael: Hmm... I didn't thought about that... But probably not, maybe a thing or two, UA don't know everything about the quirk, yes they know some factions, but they haven't seen Chaos, only Aizawa and Bakugo (even if very quickly) saw demons. They don't know the beliefs of the different factions, or things like that.
ProlapseAnoos: :)
Kill king: Indeed, and even if this isn't shown (just mentionned), that wasn't the last one!
581: Thank you!
Akscorpion: I CAN'T SPOIL! ;)
FFReset: That's normal, the universe is in M.39, and I don't know anything about the Leagues of Votann during this time, they might appear later tho...
Guest: Maybe he will at a point? Who knows :)
Nobody here: That would have been FIRE if it was aeldari guardians XD (joke). Yeah I totally agree. The lore can't show the opposite. But I don't think that the Salamanders are cruel enough to kill kids to be honest... Only if their tyranid bugs or chaos scum.
Abyss Watcher: Thanks for the precisions! You and Evernesx really helped me discover that regiment.
XenHunt: Oh that's a 100% sure that chaos will come at a moment. And I didn't have a project for Iron Warriors in this chapter, because they would be so overkill for the students...
Also! I would like to thank Doc43Souls for his help in correcting the mistakes I could have made. Thank you a lot :)!
Several days had passed since the start of school at UA, and today would be a special day.
"Have you heard the news?" asked Ochako as she entered the classroom and approached the small group of friends Izuku had created.
Kirishima, the boy with the hardening quirk.
Jiro, the girl with the earphone jacks, with a quirk of the same name.
Tenya, the boy with the glasses, who had motors in the back of his thighs, his quirk called "Engine",
Ochako, the brunette with the gravity quirk.
Denki, the blond boy with the black mark on his hair, with an electricity quirk, who had just decided to hang out with them from time to time, and then Jiro and him had hit it off and he started hanging out with them all.
And Izuku himself.
The other five turned and Izuku responded with a smile, "Hey, Ochako! You mean the All Might rumor? We were just talking about it.", Iida, who had been cut off in his sentence, continued where he was. "Having All Might as a teacher is a great honor for all of us! You realize…? ", however, he got a little carried away, and began to wave his arm as if it were a knife. Izuku grabbed it in one swift motion, surprising Iida who immediately stopped moving it, "Sorry.", the boy with glasses apologized, and Izuku replied, "No problem.". Izuku had agreed two days ago with Iida regarding this. And they came to an agreement. As soon as Iida started to wave his hand, Izuku would intercept it. However, one agreement led to another. If Izuku started muttering, he had several options, either he hovered on the ceiling for ten minutes thanks to Ochako's quirk, or he got to be tazed by Denki, or he got to be stabbed by Jiro's earphones jacks, or he got to have a friendly smack from Kirishima at the back of the head, or was running laps with Iida.
Unfortunately, the punishment depended on the choice of the other five...
Suddenly the door opened.
"Everyone sit down. We have something special today. "
Aizawa's voice filled the room, and immediately the class dispersed, everyone walking off to their seats. Once everyone was settled. The tired professor spoke again.
"So I was saying, today we're going to have something special. But it won't be with me. Speaking of which… The person isn't-"
He was interrupted by a voice outside the door, a voice everyone knew.
" I AM… "
The door opened and the person entered.
"COMING THROUGH THE DOOR LIKE A NORMAL PERSON!"
Except the entrance was anything but normal. But hey, that wasn't the question.
"ALL MIGHT!"
Exclaimed the whole class. So the rumour was indeed true. The symbol of peace quieted the noise a little, he was uneasy, and it took all of Aizawa's willpower to avoid doing a facepalm in front of the entire class.
Once silence returned, All Might continued.
"INDEED! IT'S ME! I GOT RECRUITED AS A TEACHER HERE. SO I WILL TEACH YOU THE HEROICS CLASS. WE'LL START WITH A LITTLE PRACTICE. "
The moment he said that, Aizawa took a step to the side and pressed a remote control. Before the amazed eyes of the class, the wall opened, revealing boxes numbered one to twenty.
"YOUR COSTUMES, BASED ON YOUR QUIRKS AND YOUR REQUESTS HAVE FINALLY BEEN FINISHED BY THE SCHOOL SUPPORT COURSE, GO CHANGE AND JOIN ME ON TERRAIN B! TODAY? WE WILL DO A SIMULATION! "
/
Chapter 4: Battle Trials
/
The students got up and rushed to their suitcases before rushing to the locker rooms.
And about twenty minutes later, while All Might was waiting for them at Terrain B, they came out.
"YOU ARE ALL BEAUTIFUL! YOUR COSTUME CHOICES WILL SUIT YOU PERFECTLY! HOWEVER… SOMEONE SEEMS TO BE MISSING…"
The symbol of peace remarked before a voice answered him.
" Negative! I am here. "
Izuku came out... And it was a general shock for everyone.
"OI DEKU! WHERE IS YOUR SUIT? "
Bakugo yelled.
And for once everyone had the same thought as the explosive blond.
Izuku only wore a green T-shirt and black pants. The greenette shrugged, "I don't need a suit.", everyone looked at him stunned.
All Might cleared his throat.
"UH… ALRIGHT… ANYWAY! LET'S GET TO THE EXPLANATION OF THE EXERCISE! CONTRARY TO WHAT WE BELIEVE, THE MAJORITY OF FIGHTS AGAINST VILLAIN HAPPEN INSIDE! DEALS, DRUG TRAFFICKING, AND MANY MORE! TODAY IT WILL BE EXACTLY THIS THEME! YOU WILL BE IN TEAMS OF TWO, ONE WILL BE THE VILLAINS, AND ANOTHER WILL BE THE HEROES. THE VILLAINS WILL HAVE TO PROTECT A NUCLEAR EXPLOSIVE HIDDEN INSIDE THE BUILDING AND STOP THE HEROES. THE HEROES MUST REACH THE SAID EXPLOSIVE OR STOP ALL THE VILLAINS BEFORE TIME RUNS UP! "
Iida raised his hand, and All Might gave him the permission to speak.
"How are we going to determine the groups?"
"AH! VERY GOOD QUESTION, YOUNG MAN! WE WILL PICK THE ROLE AND NUMBERS OF THE TEAMS RANDOMLY! »
Izuku raised an eyebrow. Why did this strangely remind him of the… Then he noticed the small notebook All Might was holding. Oh.
"COME PICK YOUR TEAMMATES AND YOUR TEAMS!", said All Might.
The students went to draw their teams. Izuku found himself on team 1 with Ochako, and they were villains. He smiled at her as he approached her.
"It seems like we're on the same team. By the way, nice costume! The colors suit you well."
Ochako blushed a little behind her visor at the compliment, "Thank you... The costume is a little too tight though... ", the brunette replied, "You can always go and correct it afterwards you know?", Izuku remarked to him, to which Ochako nodded.
"Guys!", Iida called, the two turned to see Iida approaching, followed by the rest of the gang.
"You have your teams?" asked Ochako.
Iida nodded as he removed the helmet from his armor, he grimaced.
"I'm with Bakugo…" Izuku patted him on the shoulder, "Good luck then." He'll probably treat you like trash..." Izuku remarked, to which Iida responded with a desperate 'I know' look. Then Izuku looked at Kirishima, Jiro and Denki.
"I'm with Sero," Kirishima replied before looking at Jiro and Denki with a smirk, "And the two lovebirds are together. ", he was instantly glared at by Denki and Jiro, the rocker and the electric boy however had their cheeks a little red, "It's not because I get along well with her that I'm in love! I can say the same about you with Mina! ", it was Kirishima's turn to have a little blush. "I… I don't know what you mean!", he answered. Izuku burst out laughing, soon followed by the rest of the group. And that lasted until All Might's voice rang through the air again.
"FIRST MATCH! TEAM 1: IZUKU MIDORYIA AND OCHAKO URARAKA AGAINST TEAM 2: KATSUKI BAKUGO AND TENYA IIDA! "
Izuku swallowed his laughter back, almost choking. Ochako and Iida looked at him with concern, while a cry of indignation could be heard.
"YOU WANT ME TO FACE THIS TRASH!?"
Izuku turned slowly. Very slowly. And stared at Bakugo, while the latter stared back at him.
/
All Might watched the staring confrontation that was taking place between young Bakugo and young Midoryia. He felt that this match was going to get off to a bad start. Very bad.
He could see the tension between them, a tension that could almost have been cut with a knife.
The two must have had a long history between them.
Originally, he had only come to UA to be closer to his successor, Mirio Togata, but he felt that he would also have to defuse problems between others...
/
"ALRIGHT! TEAM 1 AND 2 PREPARE YOURSELF FOR THE FIGHT!"
Announced All Might, Ochako came to pat Izuku's shoulder, tearing him away from his staring duel, while Iida left to prevent Bakugo from jumping at his throat. Denki, Jiro and Kirishima wished him good luck.
"You good?" the brunette asked, and Izuku nodded before saying.
"I hope Iida forgives me."
Ochako looked at him with a confused look and opened her mouth to state her question, but Izuku raised his hand, interrupting her.
"He's going to have the worst time of his life…"
/
"So? What is your plan?"
Iida asked, unsure of himself in front of the explosive blond, who seemed about to explode on the spot.
"That little green shit… I'm going to crush him under my sole to show him that he's just a runt… I'm going to smash his dirty nerd face against a wall and make him eat the concrete…"
Iida was fed up. Really fed up.
"Stop Bakugo, this behavior is-"
"SHUT UP GLASSES! WHAT DO YOU WANT ? ", yelled Bakugo in his face... Projecting a ton of spittle, Iida thanked himself inwardly for having decided to take a helmet for his costume. Iida asked again in a measured voice, hiding his deep annoyance.
"What is the plan?"
Bakugo growled in contempt and responded, looking towards the building with a gaze burning with hatred.
"I don't give a damn about a plan, do whatever you want. I'm just going to put the little bastard at his place..."
/
"Done!", Ochako reported as she finished placing the bomb. Izuku turned away from the window he was looking at Iida and Bakugo through, "Great. I also chose my form. They're going to have the worst fifteen minutes of their lives... Especially Katsuki...", Izuku replied with a cruel smile as he began his transformation...
…
There was a bestial, hissing howl that filled the corridors of the building, it rose in high pitches, before coming down in a growl...
…
And it was at the same time that the buzzer for the start of the match sounded. 15 minutes of hell awaited Bakugo…
/
As soon as the damn horn sounded, Bakugo sent a powerful explosion that blew the front door off its hinges, sending it crashing into the wall on the opposite side of the hallway.
Oh how Deku was going to suffer for all his slights. First the exams, then the test at the start of the school year... He thought he was much stronger, huh?
Bakugo smiled cruelly. So the little shit became proud? Well he was going to make him swallow his damn pride. And he would put him back in his place, way below him. Where he's supposed to be. Bakugo would see to that. And the descent of this useless Deku would begin today...
He went airborne, using his explosions to fly, not wanting to touch the ground where Deku had put his dirty feet before him. The cross-eyed extra was running next to him. And Bakugo shouted at him. " Hey, you! Go to the bomb, I have a little thing to settle with the soldier-wannabe!", the cross-eyed boy nodded, and took the first stairwell that came his way.
Bakugo didn't even bother to glance at him, and he combed the first floor without success. Suddenly his comm beeped and the bespectacled extra's voice rang in his ear.
"They are both on the top floor, the bomb is there too, but they destroyed a few lights. And there is something wrong..."
Bakugo growled as he darted into the first stairwell that he came by. His explosions allowed him to avoid walking, and he was propelled to the top floor in no time. Once at the top, he was forced to land. Glasses was right, they had smashed the lights in the ceiling...
"What are you playing at, Deku? Are you too afraid to show yourself in the light because you're so stupid? "
Bakugo yelled down the corridors as he moved forward using his explosions now and then to light up the surroundings. Suddenly, there were footsteps behind him.
He turned and aimed his grenade-shaped gauntlets, ready to pull the pin on one of them to send out an explosion that could burn Deku beautifully. He stopped himself just in time when he noticed Iida's white armor in the darkness, his eyes had a glint of annoyance, "Next time announce yourself, you idiot..."
The boy didn't respond... And stood still... Then he propelled himself forward. Bakugo jumped to the side to avoid the attack while screaming.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING, YOU DUMBASS?"
However, the extra had not propelled himself forward of his own accord. And it was an inanimate Iida who collapsed a few steps from him. Handcuffed, but unconscious...
Bakugo cursed in surprise, and felt a lump in his stomach as a large, indistinct figure seemed to fall from the ceiling, two hooks retracting into its back... The only thing he could see of the thing were six yellow eyes staring at him with a predatory glow
Whatever this thing was... It wasn't human... Damn... What had Deku transformed into?
/
Several minutes ago… Tenya Iida's POV
"Hey, you! Take charge of the bomb, I have a little thing to settle with the soldier-wannabe!", Tenya nodded and turned into the first stairwell that came into view.
He couldn't stand the explosive blond... The pomeranian was disrespectful to everyone, and worst of all, he saw himself as superior. So the bluenette was very happy to be able to separate from his teammate.
He went directly to the top floor. It was very likely that they had placed the bomb there, as far away as possible from the entry point of the team of heroes... After an ascent which took him no more than two minutes, thanks to his quirk, he arrived on the last volley of stairs and entered the top floor... It was dark... Too dark... He had seen at least one or two lights on the other floors when he ran past them. And the windows had been hidden. By what? He didn't know anything about it.
He began to creep forward, one hand against the wall and another in front of him to avoid colliding with anything. The boots of his suit clattered on the floor, in complete silence... He was searching... Suddenly he saw a glow coming from one of the rooms. And heard a voice whispering.
"Izuku… Someone's here…"
It was Ochako. But her voice didn't seem calm.
Tenya remained silent for a few seconds trying to hear a response, nothing. Either Izuku may not have responded, or they were communicating by radio. He contacted Bakugo.
"They're both on the top floor, the bomb is there too, but they destroyed a few lights. And there is something wrong..."
He then deactivated the radio and approached the entrance to the door as silently as possible... Before showing up, shouting and looking around for his two friends in the room.
"STOP VILLAINS! I HAVE COME TO STOP YOUR DEEDS! SURRENDER!"
Ochako, who was the only person in the room, protecting the bomb from what he saw, jumped up with a scream. She was pale and her eyes were wide with fear. Iida could even see sweat beading on her forehead despite the brunette's helmet visor. She stammered a response, unsure of herself.
"N-No! I won't… won't… surrender…! "
Iida found it all strange... It couldn't have been him who had caused such a scare, could it? Forgetting the test for a moment he asked, his voice filling with worry.
"Uraraka? Is everything fine?"
He felt his foot slip on something. Looking down, he noticed some sort of slimy thing covering the ground…
It was... Abnormal... What Midoryia-?
He suddenly felt light, and saw Ochako's hand touch his arm, her quirk activated. He exclaimed indignantly.
"Hey! That's not loya-? "
The brunette's face was still scared. He had thought for a moment that she was faking her fear, but in the end no…
Then there was the rustling... Right behind him... Above the door... Iida started to sweat, he felt his intestines tighten and his heart beat faster... And asked a question...
"Midoriya? Is it you?"
Nothing answered him... He felt something grab the right side of his plastron and looked down... A hand with four fingers, white in color... and it was not skin... But an exoskeleton... And four long black claws pierced his plastron, but with such precision that they did not touch the skin... He tried to struggle, in vain, mainly because he was floating and he risked sinking the claws in his flesh if he made a bad move
Two limbs resembling large hooks appeared in his field of vision, covered in black chitin...
Then he felt Uraraka's quirk being canceled, and he found himself dangling like a doll, held only by the clawed hand.
He spun around, and finally saw the owner of the hand.
It was a kind of creature with a humanoid and insectoid appearance at the same time, protected by a white exoskeleton and black chitin plates on its head and back. Six yellow eyes stared at him, and Iida saw only an insatiable hunger in them... The creature held itself to the wall with the help of its two hind legs and another clawed hand, the three limbs anchored firmly in the wall, thanks to their long claws. In place of a jaw, tentacles dangled, moving like snakes to point towards Tenya. He noticed the pigments of the abomination's exoskeleton returning from gray to white while quivering... The thing had camouflaged itself, it had waited. Calmly. Silently. It had remained invisible. A predator…
The boy shuddered in horror and disgust.
What was this thing?
The beast tilted its head. Then let out a sharp howl that hurt his ears. Fear took over what little calm he had left. He screamed. But no sound came out of his mouth as a tail, protected by a sharp chitin plate, darted and hit him on the side of the head with force, knocking him out cold despite the helmet...
/
Present time…
Izuku tilted his head to the side, the Lictor's six eyes allowing him to scrutinize Bakugo silently and carefully in the dark... He could see with disconcerting ease Bakugo's surprised face as his gaze moved from Iida to him. He rode fear in the blond's eyes... If he had a mouth, he would have smiled with all his teeth.
But for now his mind told him to attack while the surprise and fear was still present. After retracting his claws, he huddled, and launched himself forward, his black claws ready to cut the flesh of his long-time bully, now only an unfortunate prey for his eyes.
However, Bakugo seemed to come to his senses at the last moment, and threw himself to the side, Izuku's claws nearly slashing his face. The blonde fumed, and created an explosion that sent Izuku crashing into the wall. His weight and the resistance of his chitin took him through the wall into another room. And the greenette felt the impact. He shook his head, stunned, then he heard Bakugo's angry scream.
"SO YOU ATTACK ME LIKE THAT, YOU COWARD?"
Izuku dodged the attack, and the blonde, who had charged a large explosion, sent it into the ground.
The concrete cracked and broke. Izuku was thrown to the bottom floor, but his weight carried him through the entire building before crashing onto the ground floor in a large cloud of dust. Izuku growled. His back, despite the chitin armor, had taken a significant amount of impacts when he fell...
His vision was blurry. And he couldn't see anything because of the dust... The cloud was too dense. He got back on its two hind legs, and stabilized himself thanks to the tail. Then he changed his vision spectrum, switching to infrared vision, one of the many spectrums this creature could see.
Bakugo was coming straight at him with a cruel smile, one hand on the pin of one of his grenade gloves.
"DIE!"
Bakugo pulled the pin, and Izuku immediately knew what was going to happen.
BOOM!
A powerful explosion was created, and his infrared spectrum turned entirely red due to the heat released. Izuku jumped out of the way, but the blast threw him into a wall. He turned around, caught himself up on it, huddling in on himself. He heard Bakugo laugh, who thought he had won.
However, wasn't the Lictor one of the most fearsome Tyranid biomorphs?
He propelled himself through the air with a powerful leap, as the facade of the building collapsed due to damage to the supports column...
/
Victory…
He had beaten Izuku. No chance he could have taken in the face of such an explosion...
Katsuki Bakugo laughed. A mocking laugh. Finally, who was the stronger of the two, huh? He shouted at the cloud of smoke below him formed by the building's facade collapsing in on itself.
"SO DEKU! YOU LITTLE SHIT! YOU THOUGHT YOU COULD SURPASS ME WITH YOUR DUMB QUIRK? "
However, a shadow suddenly hid the sun from him... He looked up... And his eyes widened in horror...
The foul beast that Izuku had transformed into stretched its limbs... Bakugo produced an explosion, dodging the claws of Izuku's hands and feet... He was about to laugh at him when he remembered that the alien did not have four limbs , but six.
Too late. One of the hooks hit him, and the sharp teeths on its limbs pierced his costume before sinking into his side, between the ribs. Bakugo gritted his teeth, only producing a growl. Then Izuku raised his hand, and the four claws at his fingertips dug into his leg. This time Bakugo cried out in pain, and pointed his hand in the direction of Izuku's side...
And he fired.
/
Izuku felt a crack. And a most worrying crack. Then the burn. As the tender and vulnerable flesh was burned.
His neurons were overwhelmed by incessant pain signals. And he uttered a terrible screech by way of cry.
Purple ichor sprayed into the air, mixed with bits of exoskeleton and chitin.
He was in pain. Very bad.
Hide.
The tyranid's primal instinct took over, and Izuku, with a sharp movement, tore Bakugo off from the teeths of his hooks, lacerating the left side of his body, spraying blood which mixed with the ichor, mixing purple and red…
Then Izuku threw Bakugo towards the ground with strength, the claws embedded in the leg of the blonde tearing out, spurting even more blood. Izuku didn't see Bakugo land, as he himself was hitting the ground. Injured, he did not catch himself properly, and rolled to the ground, howling in pain as his injured side hit the ground. His dorsal chitin also saw cracks appear...
Izuku was in great pain and laid there for a moment... Then he got up... He was in pain... Too sore to continue... His instinct was telling him to run and hide... And that's what he did... He limped in a corridor which had not been damaged by the facade collapse…
Bakugo screamed in rage behind him... Izuku turned his head, and hissed when he saw the explosive blonde coming...
His predatory instinct took over the flight instinct... And he disappeared into the corridor, while changing his pigmentation to blend into the terrain...
/
WHAM!
Bakugo screamed as he hit the ground. A rib must have broken, and he bounced a couple of times on the concrete before stopping his course... But ignoring the pain in his lacerated and broken side, as well as in his leg, he got up. He stood there, breathing heavy and ragged, swaying like a pine tree... His suit was tattered and stained with blood, and his left glove was in pieces... Not a big deal, it was the one he had used...
But his determination allowed him to continue forward, adrenaline flowed through his veins, and his pain quickly became a bad memory. He went airborne again, and saw Izuku, on the other side of the ruins, staggering towards the entrance of a corridor.
Deku was in a bad state. And Bakugo was proud of that. But he was furious at the same time, the incapable still dared to defy him by remaining standing? With an expression filled with rage, Bakugo propelled himself towards his victim while screaming, he saw Izuku's massive head turn towards him, and his six eyes staring at him. Bakugo saw a predatory glow appear, and the filthy alien dashed down the hallway, leaving ichor flowing behind him.
Oh... He wasn't going to escape this time... He was going to make him bite the dust...
Thanks to a powerful explosion, which however made him grunt when his broken rib moved, he entered the corridor like a missile, making a slide thanks to the ichor on the ground while pointing his right glove to the left... However... The ichor went to the right. Realizing his mistake, he got back to his feet and caught himself before he could hit the wall too hard.
With a large movement, he turned to the right and pointed his glove there. Nothing. And the ichor stopped not even a meter further on.
"Where are you, bitch..." he muttered as he walked towards the last puddle of ichor that was already drying on the ground. Either this form of Izuku had an extraordinary regenerative capacity, or the greenette had found a way to lose him. Or…
He heard a tiny noise, just above him. But there was nothing up there... Was there?
He looked up, and only saw the pigmentation of the foul beast changed from concrete gray to the natural white before four long black claws cut the right side of his face, narrowly missing tearing out his eye. Bakugo cried out in pain.
/
Patience... It was all a question of patience... Izuku jumped onto the ceiling, and anchored himself there with his claws... His wound now pointing upwards, it was no longer leaking ichor.
Izuku then let the Lictor's camouflage magic do its thing, and soon he was invisible. Anchored in the ceiling. He waited.
And didn't have to wait long. Bakugo entered the hallway, searching frantically. The blond first pointed his hands to the left, then caught himself and pointed to the right.
Izuku waited... A little more...
Bakugo walked over and looked at the ichor that had leaked from the wound when he jumped to the ceiling. Then he seemed to think. Izuku extended his limbs slowly, and prepared one of his arms to attack.
Then Bakugo looked up. And Izuku attacked.
His claws cut into the right side of his face, and blood spurted into the air. He had only missed the explosive blond's eye by a few millimeters. Bakugo fired in panic, but the explosion largely missed Izuku. He was satisfied with his ambush. Animal satisfaction.
Then he unhooked his claws from the ceiling and fell on his enemy. He pinned Bakugo to the ground with one of his massive feet, the razor-sharp claws piercing his abdomen. Bakugo screamed in pain, but it was a cry equally filled with rage and anger.
-Ting!-
-POC! Poc! poc!-
Izuku looked down… A pin. He then looked at Bakugo with his six eyes...
He was smiling. A forced, painful smile. But he smiled. Then he articulated.
"See you… In hell… Asshole…"
The world turned white before everything turned black...
/
There was a gigantic explosion, and instantly the remaining cameras fried from the heat.
All Might almost broke the door on his way out, rushing as quickly as possible to rescue the students. He hadn't had the opportunity to see much of what the two boys had done, the majority of the cameras damaged by the explosions or at a bad angle... The ones on the top floor hadn't proved useful, the lights and the windows destroyed or blocked by something.
But the latest camera footage from downstairs had horrified them all.
An insectoid creature had attacked Bakugo, slashing his face, before falling on him and pinning him to the ground with claws as long as the palm of All Might's hand. By this time All Might had already stood up. It was 100% young Midoryia, but he was going too far. Hurt your comrade like that? Even if they had history? It was too much. He was heading towards the door when one of the girls in the class, Momo Yaoyorozu, let out a cry of exclamation. All Might turned, just as the camera screens went static.
He heard the control room erupt in a thunder of cries of worry and questions, before turning a corner.
He went out onto the field, and with a single powerful leap, found himself in front of the ruined building... Damn...
"All Might! You are here!"
Young Midoryia's partner, Ochako Uraraka, said as she approached the symbol of peace. All Might saw that she had taken out young Bakugo's partner, Tenya Iida, who was recovering from what had seemed to be a powerful emotional shock.
"INDEED. I SEE YOU HAVE GOT YOUNG IIDA OUT OF THE BUILDING."
The brunette nodded. And All Might immediately rushed into the building, he looked to the right and to the left, nothing allowed him to know where the two students were. They could be anywhere in the rubble. Alive... or... All Might didn't want to think about it.
He continued to wander the ruins looking for the two. When suddenly there was movement to his right. He went there immediately, but had to protect himself as a large piece of rubble flew towards him, almost crashing into his head. He remained on guard for a time... Before lowering it, there in the middle of the rubble… A figure stood up. Larger than him, she sported a cracked and badly burned white exoskeleton, parts of it collapsing, revealing the charred flesh beneath, its black chitin shattered, large chunks torn off by the explosion and collapse of more debris on the thing. Three eyes stared at All Might, the other three closed, blistered in the middle of the burned left side of his head, one of its hooks had been torn off, and ichor was spurting intermittently from the wound. The alien staggered forward, almost collapsing on the rubble, and his left leg lifted an unconscious Bakugo, just as burned, but almost pierced right through by the thing's claws, the alien got rid of the blond like a miserable waste, and before All Might's eyes, transformed into a human.
It was indeed young Izuku, but he retained the wounds of his form. The left side of his face was completely burned, and his eye was still closed, he still had the wounds on his body, and his outfit was in pieces, one of his hands was clutching the wound on his side, which was bleeding profusely... The boy took another step, half-conscious, then his eyes closed and he collapsed face down... A massive bleeding hole in his back. All Might immediately rushed to recover the two...
They were in critical danger…
/
Izuku Midoriya slowly awoke, his mind navigating through the mists of unconsciousness. The feeling of being held by something invaded him, as if he were a prisoner in a strange and oppressive dream. The first moments of consciousness were blurry, enveloped in a sterile and luminous atmosphere which emanated from the pale neon lights above him.
He blinked, trying to pierce the darkness that shrouded his thoughts. His senses slowly awakened, and he realized that he was lying in a hospital bed, his body numb with heavy weakness.
A breath of air passed across his face, and he noticed the breathing mask that covered his mouth and nose, providing him with precious oxygen. A feeling of dull panic crept through him as he tried to remember what had happened. Fragmented images, flashes of memory, like lightning in the night, danced in his mind.
His trembling fingers traced his body, uncovering the bandages that wrapped his bruised skin. Stinging burns, painful wounds, every touch was a stark reminder of the violence he had endured. And then, there was this eye, covered by a thick blindfold.
Reality imposed itself on him with implacable force. He had been injured, seriously injured. But by what?
A wave of despair threatened to engulf him as he tried to understand what had happened to him.
He felt his quirk activate weakly, as a gurgling voice spoke.
"Let us in…"
"In your damn dreams..." Izuku whispered weakly, as he let his arms rest... What had happened to him? And those burns... Why did they look so much like...?
Then he remembered. The fight…
"Ah... That's right... The explosion...", everything seemed so clear now, the greenette made a grimace, "You didn't miss me this time...", then a voice asked. "Who didn't miss you?" , he turned his head, a nurse was standing at his doorstep, looking at him, Izuku replied in a weak voice, "No one... Just an accident...", the nurse approached him, and checked the machines before turning her head, "It's about time you woke up, you've been in bed for two full days." .
Izuku jumped, and the nurse had to hold him back to prevent him from tearing off some of the sensors.
"How many days?", he asked again, just to be sure, the nurse let him go, "Two days. You and another boy were brought here. You were in critical condition. During the operations in the operating room, the doctors had great difficulty operating on you. ", Izuku gave him a questioning look.
"Extent of the damage?"
He asked coldly, the fact that Kacchan had almost killed him pissed him off. Knowing that his mother and friends would be devastated drove him into a fury almost as deep as the Black Rage of the Blood Angels. That little blond bastard was going to hear news from him.
The nurse swallowed nervously. Thanks to her quirk, she could very clearly perceive the boy's deep anger, she waited a few seconds before responding.
"Several deep second-degree burns, including one on the left side of the face, a hole 5 centimeters deep and 10 centimeters wide in the back, lacerations, several concrete shards in several parts of the body, and partial loss of vision of the left eye."
Izuku grimaced at the mention of his eye, "Can I get my vision back?", he asked, but he already knew the answer, "Unfortunately no. ", Izuku cursed. It wasn't good... He hoped it wouldn't impact his quirk. Then he asked another question, "What about the other boy?" , the nurse looked at him…
"Significant lacerations to the left side, face and abdomen, pierced muscles in the leg, and we are waiting for a more experienced doctor to remove two pieces of what appear to be broken claws inside. And finally several deep second degree burns. "
Izuku turned his head and looked at the ceiling...
"I see…"
The nurse felt a little satisfaction thanks to her quirk, but she said nothing about it. She had seen what had hindered the operations on this boy, and if it was his Quirk… She didn't want to think about it.
"You are both out of danger of death now. ", she announced, a little unnecessarily.
Izuku nodded. As the Space Marine Chaplains said.
"No peace and no respite. ", he quoted in a whisper, audible only to him…
"Oh! Also, before I get going, you have received a letter from UA academy.", Izuku knew what it would be. The nurse turned on her heels, and went to a corner of his room. Izuku heard shuffling, before she came back with a letter in hand.
"Here's the letter.", she said, placing the letter near him, before leaving, closing the door behind her. Izuku looked at the letter for a moment, before grabbing it, the greenette opened the envelope, took out the paper and started to read.
"Well… Fuck."
What was in the letter? Who knows?
And that's the end of the chapter, hope you liked it!