Gintama ending 5, Shura by DOES.
Summary:
Tensions are raised as Sora Yamazaki enters U.A High, running on just his dreams to protect everyone he cares about from the danger his visions have shown him, will he be able to protect them all?
Especially when a event from canon does not happen, what does this mean for Sora? Has he changed canon to the point of no return, or is something else at play?
Find out in the USJ chapter!
"Hey Sora, you seem tense buddy. Something wrong?" Kaminari asked me, slightly concerned judging by the look on his face. I wanted to reply that I wasn't fine, but if I did that would raise more questions then solving them. I gritted my teeth.
Something was wrong and I could feel it. It was like something within me was warning me to run the other way, to run far away from the destination this bus was going to. But I wasn't going to falter, not now.
Not never.
If I did... How could I face anyone ever again? The boy who couldn't protect anything. Who gave up without even trying. No, that would be a betrayal to myself. I owed it to myself to try and protect everyone, if something did happen. I couldn't stop myself from tapping my foot nervously, an action which drew a lot of curious glances from people around me.
"I'm fine Kaminari. Just a little nervous, that's all." I replied to the blonde boy, who seemed a little happier after hearing that as he went back to his carefree attitude, browsing his social media's again, liking away at the random posts on his feed.
"You sure? You've been off since yesterday?" Jiro asked me. Yaoyorozu nodded as she added, "I have to agree with Jiro. Your behaviour has been a reason of concern, especially since I am now your class president, it falls upon me to ensure every member of this class is happy."
I grinned at that. For some reason, hearing that made me feel much more relaxed as I responded with a thumbs up. "Trust me, I'm fine."
"Are you sure dude? You haven't even spoken to me about porn all day!" Mineta said. I snorted as I put my middle finger up to him.
"Not in front of the girls dumbass. Now they are gonna think I'm weird cause of your habits, which I don't condone by the way. Pornography is bad."
Mineta blew a raspberry at me as he tried to imitate my voice saying, "'I don't condone' my ass. You literally fantasised about Pixie Bob the first day I met you." I spluttered as I failed to reply with a witty comeback.
I guess the power of Pixie Bob was too strong. Still, seeing everyone in their hero costumes left me in an uncomfortable position, fucking hormones, why was it that I had to go through puberty again? At least my hero costume hid little me from the public, but that didn't mean I appreciated it in the first place.
"Do the three of you only discuss girls?" Jiro asked disgusted. Kaminari, Mineta and I shared a look as we each had different answers.
"Yes."
"No."
"Sometimes."
Jiro rolled her eyes as she muttered something about perverts. To be honest, girls was an uncomfortable topic for me, especially ones our age. My mind couldn't help but waver back to Miwa, which made me weird. On one hand, she was someone that I could see myself enjoying a potential relationship with. She was witty, could match my sense of humour and genuinely cares for me in a way very few can say.
On the other hand she was like my sister. I don't know what these feelings were, nor did I want to particularly find out so it was just best to leave them there.
Mineta on the other hand constantly brought up Yaoyorozu's 'Yaoyorozu's', which was a pretty good point to be honest, I could see the appeal, especially for the mass market. But I was more interested in the niche, rough diamonds and all that jazz. Wait, that sounds slightly sexist doesn't it...
"Your Quirk resembles All Might's." Asui's voice thankfully broke me out of my thoughts as we all stared at Midoriya. Well everyone apart from me, I already knew the answer to that question.
"R-R-R-R-Really?! I mean..." Midoriya was cut off as more people started to get into the conversation.
"Hold up Tsuyu. All Might doesn't get hurt though. They're already different in that way." Kirishama said, and I had to agree slightly. As of now, Izuku was no where near comparable to All Might. It was like night and day, but once Midoriya learned Full Cowling, then it would become a better comparison. Unfortunately, Kirishima not anyone other then myself knew the possibility of Full Cowling as of yet.
"But that sort of simple strength enhancing Quirk is awesome! You can do a lot of cool stuff with it." Kirishima said. "Unlike my Hardening, only thing I'm good at is fighting cause' for everything else I'm real boring." He wasn't exactly wrong, Hardening wasn't exactly flashy nor adaptable. It was rather like that one party member that can use a spell thats really good, but is bad at everything else, so mostly they are the human shields of the party.
"I think that's pretty neat though. If you want to go pro, that's all you will need." Izuku said, making me also agree with him. Kirishima would get far in life with just his Quirk, after all being a hero meant fighting villains, lots of villains. And if canon was anything to go off, fighting would be all 1A would be known for. If canon happened here.
The conversation carried on as I was lost in my own thoughts once again. What would I do if canon was irreparably damaged? Truthfully, I had no answer to that question that had been plaguing me lately. It would mean my future knowledge was useless, and my plans to try and save everyone without fighting would be dashed. It would mean I would have to constantly train every day just to keep up, something I wasn't opposed to, but also something I wouldn't look forward to either.
"You wanna' talk about strong and cool? That would be Bakugo and Todoroki, I mean did you see there fights?!" Mina said. I agreed with her, they both were extremely powerful opponents, especially Bakugo. I mean explosions were just cool as a concept, but he uses them expertly, I mean being propelled through the air by explosions sounds like a fun time.
"But what about Sora?" Mineta interjected. "Sora's got a useful Quirk that allows him to adapts to any situation." God bless Mineta, truly I hope the fates shine on him one day and let him take Yaoyorozu on a date or something.
"Mmh. But like Bakugo, Sora won't really be popular as a pro hero." Asui said.
"WHAT'D YOU SAY FROG-FACE?!" Bakugo screamed at Asui, who looked at him as if he had grown another head. I couldn't stop myself from laughing at Bakugo's expression as he turned his anger towards me.
"Oi cloud watcher, she said you'd be a shit hero too dumbass."
I shrugged my shoulders. "She's not wrong. But I'm not exactly looking for popularity." I replied to the angry blonde boy, who merely clicked his tongue in response.
"Well we just met Bakugo, and he seems like a colourful person. I mean truly, he has the personality of a turd." Kaminari commented causing Bakugo to fly off the rails as he screamed obscenities at Kaminari.
"Oh yeah? I'll show you what a turd can do when I pound you, or how about when I make you explode from the inside, or-,"
"Jeez man, is murdering your classmates the only thing you think about? That's fucking annoying, very happy to have a trigger happy classmate behind my back." I joked.
Bakugo turned his anger towards me once again. "Say that again fuck face, I'll murder you so hard you won't go to heaven or hell." I scoffed, if only he knew, what a pity.
"Try it you cunt. I'll shove my cloud so far up your ass you'll become a 'cloud watcher' just like me." I replied as he got even more angrier. Ah, how much fun it was riling up people.
"What a vulgar conversation." Yaoyorozu said, looking in disgust towards us. "I thought Bakugo's vocabulary couldn't get worse, but you too Yamazaki?"
I shrugged my shoulders. "I've always had shit vocabulary. Guess Bakugo here just has a shittier one." I said with a smirk as Uraraka laughed like a crazed maniac.
"I think it's fun! Everyone speaking together like this!" She commented. I had to agree on her with this one, it was quite fun.
"Try convincing Bakugo, he avoids having a normal conversation like the plague." Kaminari said as I high-fived him. That was a good one I had to admit, especially when I saw Bakugo's face, his veins looked like they were about to pop.
"You look constipated man. Oi, Sensei, stop at the gas station. Bakugo needs to take a shit." I shouted as the people around me started to laugh.
"Language Yamazaki, or else I'll give you another detention." Aizawa warned me sternly.
"Eh, yesterday was a fluke. I wont go to the next one." I replied.
"Speaking of, I think that it is incredibly rude that you tried to skip going to your detention in the first place!" Iida said to me. "Do you have anything to say for yourself?"
I shrugged my shoulders. "I didn't want to go. That good enough?" I replied with a cheeky wink.
"Wow, I didn't know we had a resident bad boy in our class." Mina said. "We have the quiet kid, an angry one, a bad boy and a nervous one. I think that's pretty diverse."
"Oi, I'm not the 'bad boy'. Please put some respect on my name."
"Oh right. What about class clown, is that any better?" Jiro asked.
I nodded. "Much better-, Hey! That's worse!" I responded despite the snickering from a select few individuals. No way was I the 'class clown', that would totally undermine my cool factor. I'd be like the unfunny kid, and I didn't want to be that again.
"We're here. Look sharp now," Aizawa told us. I gulped nervously as I looked at the building ahead, it was rather quite large, large enough to be compared to double the size of a football stadium.
"Whoa!" Uraraka said excitedly. "What is this, Universal Studios Japan?!"
Try USJ-, wait they even have the same initials. Maybe this was Universal Studios Japan?
Either way, I'd only find out by going inside.
Inside the den.
Inside the gateway to hell.
Chapter
Eleven
'Bad Things Always Seem To Happen All At Once'
"Whoah dude! This is so massive!" Kaminari said to me. I mean it was easily the biggest stadium I had ever seen in my life, was it a stadium? I mean it looked like one, and I hadn't been to Universal Studio's Japan yet, so I had no real comparison other then a stadium.
"How many chicks do you think we could fit in there?" Mineta asked me with a deprived look in his eyes. I shrugged my shoulders, honestly who knew how many people could fit in there? Probably in the hundreds, if not thousands. Couldn't it have been downscaled in size? Maybe next to it build some housing for homeless people or something, I mean isn't one of Japan's biggest urban problems it's lack of space?
This definitely wouldn't help.
As we all walked inside, even I was blown away. A flood zone, filled with whirlpools and a boat that looked more like a yacht, a landslide zone with rubble from various buildings mixed together looking like the amalgamation of the apocalypse and a natural disaster. Even the conflagration zone looked to be the highest quality, the burning inferno reminding me that it was still in a controlled environment.
"Every disaster you can think imagine," A person wearing a space suit began to tell us, "I built this facility myself, and I call it the 'Unforeseen Simulation Joint'. I hope you all will enjoy the lessons on offer today."
"IT"S THE SPACE HERO! THIRTEEN!" Midoriya and Uraraka yelled in excitement. The latter continued as he to explain that he was a rescue hero, one of the best in the business and easily the most recognisable. Funny, I had never even heard of him before, was he in cannon? "I love Thirteen!" Uraraka commented, making me chuckle. Well if he was a rescue hero, one of the best too, then I had massive amounts of respect for him.
Hell, maybe Hawks would be surpassed for the coolest hero? WAIT! I remember Thirteen now, he had like a black hole Quirk?! That's actually pretty cool. So far Hawks was still first, but Thirteen was second and Pixie Bob was third. What can I say, blondes are my weakness-,
"Thirteen, where is All Might? I thought he was supposed to be here?" Aizawa-sensei asked his fellow staff member. My mood quickly changed as I was once again reminded that it could happen.
"About that," Thirteen whispered, but thankfully I was lucky enough to hear what was said next. "It seems like he reached his limit today during his morning commute." Just like in canon. Shit. But would the villains come just like in canon?
"The height of irrationality." Aizawa muttered. "Oh well, let's get this started then." I glanced over at Izuku, who seemed to be taking the news a little too hard. I mean it made sense, he probably felt like since he took his Quirk, All Might's time was getting shorter and shorter. I wanted to at least ease off some of his worries, but if I did it would just raise more questions.
Like how I got that information.
"Before we start," Thirteen said interrupting my thoughts. "We have to go over a few points. As many of you know my Quirk is called 'Black Hole', it can suck and tear anything. And while my power has been used to save many people, it can also be used to kill very easily. I've no doubt that there are some of you here with similar abilities, or even precautions."
He was right. Even my own Quirk could easily flow inside someone's mouth and change shape on the inside, or better yet maybe I could summon my Nimbus inside a person. That would surely ill them, not to mention I could just suffocate someone by placing their head inside my cloud, or stab them to death etc. I could use any of my special moves to rip, tear and simply destroy my opponent.
It doesn't help that the characters who used my attacks beforehand were Ninja's, Pirates or just plain murderers. That isn't exactly what you would call an heroic inspiration, now was it? But it didn't matter, my opponents were superhuman just like me, which meant they could fight back and deal damage to me as well, so I'd say it's even. Though I wouldn't try to brutalise my opponents or anything.
That seemed excessive.
"In our superhuman society, the use of Quirks is heavily restricted and monitored. As of now the system is a stable one, but we must never forget that our Quirks can be used to commit horrific acts of violence, all it takes is one uncontrollable man, and people die." Thirteen lectured us. I agreed, it seemed like all it would take is one surprise attack, and many innocents would suffer.
Pro-Heroes while good, are entirely dependant on your location. Why would a top fifty hero work in the countryside? No, they would much rather work in the cities where they gain massive fans and attention, meanwhile the heroes that barely passed their licenses are left to scramble around trying to save everyone they can. It was far from perfect, but it was better than nothing.
"Aizawa's training helped you understand your own hidden potential." I snorted. Aizawa-sensei's test was more of a confrontation between me and the man, but I suppose Thirteen was right. It allowed me to realise that I could float my Cloud to as far away as I want, but since I wouldn't be able to see, it wouldn't be very effective as just a cloud. But transforming it half way into a giant fist, then can then punch an unexpected anyway from far away seemed like a cool idea.
I could even carry injured people in a serious situation, simply fly them away as I focus on my battle. But that of course came with a massive caveat. If I lost concentration once, not only would my Quirk disappear, but those I was trying to evacuate on my Nimbus would fall to their deaths.
Not very heroic I suppose.
"Through All Might's battle training, you all experienced the danger your respective Quirk's pose to other's, and yourself." I guess I need to increase my pain tolerance by tenfold if I want to seriously be able to fight, because if my Nimbus just went away after one hit in a real battle; I'd be dead.
"This class will allow you to use your Quirks in a new perspective, you will utilise your Quirks in order to save lives!" So far Thirteen had me sold on the premise of today's training, if it wasn't interrupted. But... deep down inside I did want it to be attacked, in some twisted way to prove that my knowledge of the future wasn't useless, that yesterday's actions was just a fluke.
No. That couldn't be it. I didn't want anyone to get hurt, what was I thinking?
"Your powers aren't meant to harm people, I hope you leave this facility today with some idea on how your powers can help people. That is all! I thank you for listening." Thirteen finished off with a small bow. Damn, Thirteen really became my second favourite hero of all time with one speech, goes to show how the rest of them aren't all that good. Like 'Death Arms', who even is he? He sounds like a villain, not a hero!
Everyone clapped as Uraraka said it was "Inspiring." I couldn't fault her there, it was a very nicely crafted speech. Hell, it lifted up my mood significantly compared to before. "Man, I can't wait to get started on this." Kaminari whispered to me as I nodded in response.
"Yeah, it certainly seems like it will be fun."
"Maybe we can be put in a position to rescue the girls in danger?" He asked me as I recoiled in shock. What a great idea-,
"That would make us seem like pervs. Knowing Mineta, he'll do more then just 'save' them, which means we'd get blamed for it as well." I replied. Kaminari sighed, knowing it was true.
"Damned purple midget. Where is he anyway?"
I shrugged my shoulders as I looked around for Mineta. Where was he? Did he get lost like me-, Lost in the wind?
"Uhm guys. I'm right here you know." A voice called it to us. And sure enough, behind us stood Mienta in his diaper costume and all glaring at us with all the hate he could muster up. "I was standing right behind you... the entire time... Did you not see me?" Both me and Kaminari shared a look as we burst out into laughter. "Guys... for real?"
I shrugged my shoulders, "Ain't my fault you're like three foot four two man."
"But Sora, you're only like five foot five at best." Kaminari replied as it was Mineta's turn to now laugh at me.
"Serves you right for calling me short!" Mienta told me in between his laughs.
"Oh yeah? Well Yaoyorozu is like five foot ten, she's almost double your height. That's just sad." I replied.
"She's also taller than you...?"
"That's not the point-," SWISH.
Was that...?
I cut myself off as I turned around at the small sound. It wasn't... no...
It couldn't be...
But why...?
How?
It was a small black swirl at the centre of the the USJ. It was just staring at us, ominously as I glanced over at Aizawa, who looked to be confused as well. Albeit for different reasons as the swirl grew into a mysterious floating dark cloud, it almost felt like my Quirk. All before a singular hand reached through, pulling themsleves through before a familiar face popped up.
Blood shot eyes, long greasy blue hair and a hand covering his face.
Tomura Shigaraki had entered the USJ.
The mood suddenly shifted as Aizawa prepared his goggles, shouting at us to "Huddle up, and don't move!" As the rest of my classmates looked around, oblivious as to what was going to happen as I readied my Nimbus, transforming it to a staff as Quickly as possible.
"You heard Aizawa-sensei, huddle now!" I yelled as I pished Kmainari and Mineta closer to the rest of my classmates. This... how... why...?
FUCK! Fucking whore... bitch.. stupid fucking! Gr! I wanted to scream, I needed to scream out in anger right about now as I watched more and more villains come out the portal with a hungry look on their faces, as if a predator was about to catch a prey. "Thirteen, protect the students!" Aizawa-sensei shouted as he ran to the middle in an effort to meet the students.
Unfortunately, I couldn't allow him to do that alone as I tried to run after him, but a sharp glare from Thirteen made me stop in my tracks. "I understand you want to help, but this is a dangerous situation, these people are-,"
"Villains." I answered. "If he goes out there alone, he could die." No, he might have survived the previous USJ attack, bit this felt different. Shigaraki didn't look concerned at he lack of All Might, in fact he looked rather pleased, as if everything was going to plan. And that made my skin crawl, just what the hell was happening? If Shigaraki didn't steal the USJ plans at U.A, then how the hell did he know not only where to come, but what time as well?!
"Thirteen and Eraser head? Just like we planned." The floating mist said, Kurogiri. "A shame All Might isn't here, but we already knew that, correct Tomura Shigaraki?"
Shigaraki nodded, his gaze being solely focused on us. "Well as much fun as playing with All Might would be, we can draw him out in other ways. Make him hurt mentally just as much as physically. I wonder how much it will hurt... going to everyone one of these kids houses and explaining to the parents it was his fault that they died?" The villain chuckled darkly.
"I wonder how much it will hurt him when there won't be any pieces left to bury from his students?!"
The faces of my fellow classmates pained me as they each seemed to had different reactions, all unaware that this couldn't have happened, unaware that this shouldn't have happened? If they weren't here to kill All Might, then what was the point? How did they already know All Might wasn't here?!
"Villains?" Kaminari chuckled nervously. "What villains would be dumb enough to sneak into a school for heroes?"
No one replied as we were all transfixed on the villains etching closer towards our location.
"Sensei, aren't their intruder sensors?" Yaoyorozu asked Thirteen who nodded as he explained that thy should ave gone off, and that someone's Quirk must be blocking them from reporting it back to U.A. "Kaminari, can you use your Quirk to try and signal for help?" I asked the blonde boy, who was shuddering as he wiped away beads of sweat from his forehead.
"I'll try, but nothing is working. I don't even have a cellphone signal here."
Shit!
WAIT! IIDA! He ran off and managed to get help last time, if we can do that again then
I turned to the taller boy as I shouted, "Hey do you think you can run to U.A?" Suddenly, the doors behind us slammed as we saw a bunch of villains standing there, grinning at us daring us to move. How did they...? No, it's almost as if they knew Iida escaped from there last time. What is going on?!
"Students, get back and huddle." The worried voice of Thirteen said. "There is an emergency exit on the west wing, even if the main entrance is closed-,"
"But sensei, you can't fight them alone!" The voice of Izuku shouting cut Thirteen off. This can't be... why? "Against that many villains, not even you can nullify all of their Quirks! As Eraserhead, your fighting style involves Erasure and a quick binding capture, mostly in one to one battles, head-on battle isn't..." I cut him off.
"Sensei, if you go there... This is a methodical, well co-ordinated attack. Even if you could get to their leader, I don't know if it will be enough sir. Thirteen alone won't be enough we all get scattered by that teleport and-,"
"Yamazaki. What did I say about heroes?" He interrupted me.
Huh? A question?
"That... they must be able to sacrifice even their own life?" I said hesitantly, not sure if I was correct or not.
He nodded. "That's right. No good hero can't just waltz in and expect to win every fight easily, the same way no hero is a one-trick pony! Think about that, and next time we are in class please do ensure to come on time. I want a two thousand word essay describing your answer on sacrifice, and what it means to you." And with that, Shota Aizawa, Eraserhead leapt into the villains head first, his capture tape twirling around in the air as he landed on a bunch of villains, tying them up with just one swing.
He then danced around the battlefield, dodging attacks and meeting them head on with his own strikes, each more precise than the last. It was as if he was dancing around his opponents, more importantly I had never seen anything like it. Somehow, it reminded me of those old kung-fu movies back in my old life, masters of the art simply beating up multiple guys without breaking a sweat.
But those were movies, this was real. In front of me as I watched Aizawa take down multiple opponents, not even whole mobs of enemies slowing him down in the slightest. You wouldn't think of Aizawa as a teacher, I surely didn't in this state, watching him weave between multiple opponents capturing them, or taking them down brutally as he was getting ever closer to the laughing Shigaraki.
Dodge, dodge, strike, dodge. It was like playing a game, swift and precise movments made me forgot this was a human, not controlled by a player, bit a real honest to god human! Some enemies started to run away after seeing their Quirks erased and Aizawa dominating hand-to-hand combat. It was frightening, and they called me a 'Demon', but this was...
This was a devil. A full on devil, fighting, clawing their way to the centre with nothing but pure skill and focus.
"Yamazaki, hurry up let's try to evacuate through an emergency exits-," Yaoyorozu was cut off as a large shadow loomed over us.
Kurogiri.
His body was made out of a dark purple mist, covering nearly the entire class and if it wasn't for his piercing yellow eyes, I would have thought of it as a blanket. My body couldn't move as his eyes bored into my own, as if he was judging me, as if he knew me. Or rather; as if I was a calculated risk, as if I was somehow apart of their plan. That... that shouldn't be possible.
I had never met them before in my life.
"I'm afraid I simply cannot allow that." He told us, making us all freeze. From the corner of my eye, I could see Aizawa's movements slow down as he stared at us in shock, no wonder cursing himself for not being able to do anything to help us. Even Thirteen was stunned as he merely looked up and shook his head, as if he wasn't able to believe what had just transpired.
"Greetings, we are the League of Villains." Kurogiri said. "Unfortunately, this shall be your last day on this earth. While one of our main objectives isn't currently here, the main reason we have come here to U.A High-school, this bastion of heroism," The shadowy mist took a break as he eyed all of us carefully.
"Is to kill you, the students, the next generation of heroes before you could ever become a threat."
Wh...What?!
Us?!
I thought their plan, the reason for their entire existence, the reasoning behind All For One funding them was supposed to be to take down All Might, to kill the Symbol of Peace and wreak havoc through Japan finally without One For All to put him in check, that was All For One's master plan! How could it have changed so... dramatically?! Wait no! They came here today not for All Might, but to send a message to him.
"Oi, cloud watcher stop day dreaming!" Bakugo screamed at me as he shoved me aside to throw a swing at Kurogiri, Kirishima following suit as they attacked together, Kirishima hardening his leg as he gave a mighty kick, while Bakugo let loose a thunderous explosion. "Like hell are we going to let you third rate villains kill us, not before we kill you!" Bakugo shouted.
No! Idiot, come back! Both of you before-,
Kurogiri chuckled. "That was impressive, both of you truly. Though you are students, your strength is unrivalled in your age group. That's simply why we cannot..." Thirteen tried to grab us back, but simply couldn't reach us in time as Kurogiri's mist enveloped us, robbing us of our vision as the last thing I heard was Kurogiri saying, "Allow you to grow stronger in the future."
Wet.
I couldn't breathe, and it felt like I was underwater.
I opened my mouth, and in came a ton of water as I gurgled for help, retreating lower and lower into the abyss, my eyesight fading each second. Was this... my end? The end of my journey, villains attacking the USJ to kill us. But why...
Why think of us as a threat?
Wha did we do yet to earn the ire of All For One, the hatred of Tomura Shigaraki?! It had been mere days since we all first met each other, so what the hell did we do? What... what did I do...?
Surely I must have done something, changed one minute detail that caused all of this, the death of myself and many others. The deaths of those I cared about - No wonder I got all those visions, this was on me. My fault through and through. Maybe... maybe I should die. Then I wouldn't feel guilty no more. I wouldn't carry that weight... on my... shoulders.
No.
I tightened my fists.
No.
I-,
I couldn't give up now?
If I did then what was the point... but what was the point of me trying to correct my own mistakes. But shouldn't I at least try? Try to not die, try to save at least one person. Try to minimise my damage by at least one percent.
But what about the rest?
Sure, I hadn't had a full on conversation with someone like Aoyama, but that didn't mean I wanted him to die. I didn't want any of them to die, so why would I choose who to save? Could I even choose? What about Jiro, I've known her for a long time. But what about Kaminari? He and I hit it off these past few days. Mineta? Izuku Midoriya? Bakugo? Todoroki? Iida? Uraraka? Asui?
What about them all.
Would it be better... if I just drowned? Maybe I can get lucky and be reincarnated in another world again... I must have had some insane luck to be reincarnated in the first place, maybe I'll go to somewhere nice like Nisekoi, or Blue Flag? Maybe a sports series, Kuroko's or DAY'S. Why does it have to be a battle Shonen, why not a nice Shojo series, with no heroes or villains.
No blue hair...
Miwa.
But what about Miwa?
What about Gekko and Hinata.
They would be devastated that I died. And Sakura, Keiko, Saki, Makoto and Shirou too. Sui Miura, the sadist king, those Odd Job's Dai people, Renji and Genji, Kenji and Denji. My old two teachers, Shiyama and Fujiwara. My old boss at the restaurant I used to work in, my old football captain, fighting always to the extreme. They would be sad. All of them, so didn't I owe it to them to live? To live, even after my mistake.
The light.
Didn't I owe it to them to continue moving forward towards the light?
Suddenly, I could feel something wrap around my body as I was thrusted into the light, my head hitting the ground face first. "Sorry about that, kero." A familiar voice apologised. Between my coughs, I could see Tsuyu Asui struggling to keep me awake as she pressed down on my chest hard. "Stay awake, please!" I could hear someone else shouting.
Ah, a tuff of green hair. Izuku Midoriya. I could even see a purple blob crying slightly... Mineta. Right. I still had everyone to protect, everyone to look after, then I could dream about dying. "Are we in the flood zone?" I managed to say in between my coughs, Asui sighing in relief once she heard my voice.
"It sure seems that way, ribbit." She replied as I managed to sit up, wiping the water away from my face.
"Thanks Asui."
"Call me Tsuyu, kero." I nodded.
"Only if you'll call me Sora."
"Oh thank god! You're alive! Just when I touched a girls boob, I thought the one person I could brag it to had died-," I cut Mineta off as I punched him in the face as hard as I could.
"Gee, way to show you're worried for your friend." I replied sarcastically as I shakily stood up with the support of Midoriya. "Well at least I know not to be concerned that much when you get hurt Mineta." I added with a small grin. I wouldn't allow him to get hurt, they all wouldn't get hurt. Not here.
"We seem to be in trouble here, ribbit."
Looking around, I could see tens of enemies waiting at the bottom of the ship. And if my memories were to be believed, this ship didn't move, which meant we were stranded. Not only that, but they even seemed to have added spikes and stuff around the water, as if they anticipated Asui, or someone with an aquatic Quirk would be coming here, ensuring that we would be trapped.
Some looked like mines. I swore underneath my breathe, this was a well coordinated effort. It was going to take a gargantuan effort to escape this, let alone make everyone survive.
"Like Todoroki-san said, they've taken their chance and prepared for this well." Izuku said. I had to agree, this was well over the top just to kill a few school kids. Why couldn't Kurogiri just drop us from a high point. It simply wasn't making sense, they had different motivations, but they acted the same. It was as if... as if...
As if it needed go this way. Like someone was forcing this to happen in a certain way. It eerily reminded me... of well myself. Rigidly sticking to a semi-canon timeline in order to sure nothing changed while everything had already changed. But that was impossible; I wasn't working with the League of Villains, so then what was it?
"Hey! Snap out of it Sora, ribbit. Maybe you hit your head a bit too hard, ribbit."
Right, there wasn't anytime to think about that, right now we had to get off the boat. But what would we do once we did make it to land? The front exists were blocked by villains, they seemingly once again knew the strategy last time of using Iida to run to U.A and get help. The more I though about it, the more it puzzled me even more.
"Will... will we die?" Mineta shakily asked.
I looked at Mineta. He was shivering, half from being dunked into the water and half from being outright terrified. I could also see it in Asui's eyes, they seemed distant, as if she was reminiscing about something right before she died. Me and Midoriya shared a look, for some odd reason he didn't look scared or frightened, he looked like he was ready to fight.
I tightened my fists.
And I was also ready to fight.
"If they think they will be able to kill us easily," I found myself saying. "Then they are mistaken. We aren't going to just roll over and die, we are hero's in training after all, and we all have useful Quirks in guess what: Battle. And that's what this is, if we work together then we can all make it through this." But what about Jiro... that vision...
I needed to get to Jiro as quick as possible, and make sure that she evacuates first.
No one would die today.
No one.
"But what about that brain guy over there?" Mineta asked me, wiping away his tears. I followed his line of sight as I was met with a hulking figure, looking like the mouth of a bird mixed with a brain available for everyone to see. Nomu.
"I think that might be their anti-All Might weapon," Midoriya explained. "See they said they had a goal, and killing us would help us achieve that goal. And when they first came, I could faintly hear them talk about All Might. So if I' am to be believed, I think their true purpose is to kill us so that All Might comes here in anger, not thinking things properly as they gain the opportunity to kill him. Not only with the number hero d-die, but Japan's best hero school would have allowed it to happen, along with a class of theirs to have also perished. The public would push back heavily on this, maybe even resulting in a potential collapse of our heroic society."
Izuku Midoriya was a genius, I knew that, but this takes it to a whole different level. Even with all my knowledge, I probably wouldn't have been able to create a theory like that. But, it does make sense. scattering our bodies to make it seem more dramatic as All Might fights Nomu, and all he sees are his students dead bodies. All For One, or Shigaraki, whoever was behind this had a sense for theatrics.
"Then we stop that plan." I replied. "If their true goal is to anger All Might so much that he can't fight properly, then we won't die. Then he will be able to beat them all, with a smile on his face as always." It wasn't a real plan, simply put I had no clue if it could work. But I had try, I had to at least do something, not just sit here with my thumb in my mouth wondering where it all went wrong.
"Then we have to fight to win," Midoriya added. "First we need to find a way of this boat and onto land. But how? Enemies have surrounded us."
"I can fly everyone over." I suggested. "But we need to clear the way first, there isn't a guarantee they can't just grap us from the air, an even then I don't know how far I can fly holding three people. I've never done something like that before. If only we had electricity, we could have electrocuted those fuckers right from the start..." If only Kaminari was here, then his electricity Quirk could be used-,
I stared at Midoriya.
Ha. I had an electricity source right here.
"Uhm... Sora-san, is something the matter?"
I shook my head. "Nah, just thinking. You break your arms cause you can't control one hundred percent of your Quirk, right?"
Midoriya nodded his head. "Yes, along with my legs if I'm jumping or kicking. Why?" I smirked at him.
"What if you use only five percent of your power, across your entire body? I assume you have difficulty keeping it restricted right? Thus leading to your bones breaking, but if you spread it around your body then it wouldn't be an issue."
Suddenly, his eyes opened as he realised what I was saying. "Y-Your right!" He told me excitedly. "I-I think I can do that!"
Of course he could do it, Full Cowling after all was his technique. If I remembered correctly, Full Cowling emitted electricity. Green electricity to be precise, now I wasn't good at science, but even I know electricity plus water equals a disaster. If he could somehow use it continuously as Asui uses her tongue to swing him around the water, we could knock them out in one attack.
And using Mineta's balls to ensure the ones who try to run away are stuck means that I can fly these three to land with no difficulties. "Have a plan on escaping, ribbit?" Asui-, no, Tsuyu asked me as I nodded in response.
"It seems like a good plan in my head. Midoriya, try to coat your body with five percent right now. Think of it... as an egg in a microwave? Or an egg in an oven? I don't know, metaphors aren't my thing. Hopefully you'll understand what I'm trying to say." I summoned Nimbus as I coated my entire body with it. "Something like this of you need a visual example or something."
Izuku gave me a determined nod as he concentrated his hardest in getting Full Cowling to work. I then turned to Tsuyu as I asked, "Do you think you can swing Midoriya around?" I asked her as she gave me a nod. Great. I then turned to the final piece of the puzzle, Minoru Mineta, who was peeking outside the ship and crying for help.
"Come on man, do you think girls like snivelling brats?" I asked him.
"B-But we are all going to die!"
"Not if you help us." I replied.
"Help...you?" He sniffled, confused.
I nodded my head. "Yeah, I have a plan and it requires you to do your bit. Then afterwards when we live, you can tell a cool story on how you are the main reason we could escape and live. You will be the hero."
"I'll...be the hero?"
I nodded once again.
"Like the main hero of a story?"
"Like the one who defeated the Demon King one thousand years ago." I reaffirmed as Mineta started to grin again.
"I'll get all the girls! I'll be able to say to Yaoyorozu that I saved everyone, maybe she'll go out on a date with me?"
I grinned as I raised my fist. "Come on, cool people do fists bumps - Especially friends."
Bump
"Friends? I'm only friends with females." I rolled my eyes at his antics, but at least he looked happier. He wasn't on the verge of a mental break down anymore, more then that even Tsuyu looked visibly happier at Mineta acting normal again.
"S-Sora-san, I don't know if I can do this."
I turned to look at Izuku. The entire plan rested on him achieving Full Cowling. "Try a lower percentage of your power, maybe then it'll work?" Izuku concentrated as hard as he could, he was clenching his teeth and every think. He looked rather constipated, but I didn't want to ruin the mood by saying something like that. I mean what if someone actually needed to take a shit, where would they do it?
I mean... maybe we could fling it at the enemies? Yeah, that works. Throw it in the water and the enemies swim away.
"I'm trying S-Sora-san, but it's just not working."
Hm... odd. Maybe One For All wasn't in a charitable mood today? Should I get down on my hands and knees and beg for One For All to help us out, just this once? Nah, that would make me look like a fan (Which I totally wasn't!)
"What was going to be your plan anyway, kero?"
I told the three of them my original plan, minus the details about knowing about Full Cowling, instead saying that he was going to be able to flick his fingers for shockwaves constantly without breaking them, thus making me able to fly safely. Which now that I think about it, seems like a much safer plan then relying on his electricity from Full Cowling, I mean what if it didn't make the water go all sparkly.
Wasn't the lightning just a cool affect from the residue of One For All leaking? My god, that would have been embarrassing if we had kept on dunking Midoriya in the water, hoping that it would work.
"Uhm... I can do that now?" Midoriya replied.
True, true-,
Wait I forgot we could have done it already.
"But your fingers would break, that isn't what Sora was trying to teach you. He said to evenly distribute it around your body so nothing breaks, kero." Well said Asui, I couldn't have said it better myself. Midoriya nodded as he stood up again, slowly breathing in and out. Please work first time! Please work first time! Please work first time-,
Crackle.
My eyes opened to a shout of joy from Midoriya, who was grinning ear to ear as he looked at me, surprised at what he had done. However, I was the most surprised out of them all. I didnt exactly expect him to achieve it, I mean I did want him to use it. My plan did rely on him after all, and that green lighting around him sure did looke like Full COwling to me.
Man, it looked even better in person. Green lightning... green.
That just looks badass.
"Give us a flick, won't ya'?" I asked him, smiling slightly at the occasion. I mean, I just became a anime sensei, didn't I? I would be up there along with Silvers Rayleigh, Kakashi Hatake, Koro-sensei, Ginpachi-sensei and Izumi Curtis. Now with the addition of Sora Yamazaki. Wow, it was a dream come true.
"I-, I did it!"
Yes I did.
"Alright, are you going to fly us now, kero?"
I made it. A living legend. Legend.
"Uhm, you good bro?" Mineta asked me, confused at the expression on my face.
I coughed slightly. "Ahem, yes I'm ready to depart." I replied. I looked around the deck and onto the mainland. Aizawa-sensei was still trying to fight his way to the middle. But I could see the impatient look on Shigaraki's face, the look that spelt trouble. If I remembered clearly, Aizawa got his shit rocked by Nomu, almost to the point where he nearly died.
I couldn't see this happening here. Instead I could see Aizawa actually dying, which couldn't happen. I wasn't going to let anyone die. Not today. But, in order to ensure Aizawa lives, the staff members from U.A, All Might needed to come. And judging from the villains standing at the front entrance, it wasn't happening anytime soon. Along with Kurogiri, and everyone else stuck there guarding... Thirteen?
Thirteen was down for the count?!
Fuck.
"When we get to land, you guys head for Thirteen-sensei and everyone else," I said. "I'm going to try and find everyone else that was scattered." I needed to find Jiro, and quick.
"Why just you?" Midoriya asked confused. "We can help as well-,"
"None of you can fly, if you came with me it'll be a liability."
"But aren't we supposed to work together? You are basically saying that you don't trust us, ribbit." Asui told me. She... she wasn't wrong in that regard, I couldn't trust anyone else to clean up my own mess. What if they died trying to save Jiro? No. That... that couldn't happen. I had to evacuate everyone, which meant I had to fly around and save everyone.
"Fine." Mineta said unexpectedly. "If you wanna go around and save everyone you can, but can we please get to land?"
Asui and Midoriya eventually relented, however they seemed to have mixed emotions on it. Neither wanted me to go alone, but they did eventually realise that they would slow me down, especially if someone was injured. However, that was for later, now we needed to execute the plan perfectly if I even had any hope of saving Jiro. I summoned my Nimbus as I expanded it, enough for Mineta, Asui and I to sit down comfortably.
Asui used her tongue to wrap it around Midoriya's waist, making it look more like a belt or anything as he went Full Cowling. At first I was worried if Asui would feel any shock, but she seemed relatively fine as we lifted up off the boat and started to fly.
"Uhm Sora... have you ever flown with anyone before?" Mineta asked me, his face betraying how worried and scared he was.
I simply grinned at him.
"Sora please tell me this isn't the first time your flying with people?"
Maybe I should pick up the speed a little?
"Soooooooooooora?!"
The plan so far was going smoothly, Asui's tongue flapping about in the air as Midoriya sniped the enemies away as they tried to follow us in the air, but it wasn't enough as I could see some swimming to the shore. At this rate, they would make it before we do, which wouldn't be good for us. Shit.
"Oi Mineta," I shouted at the purple haired boy... did his balls count as his hair? I don't know. "Start to be a hero won't ya? Or else you won't even live to tell the tale."
His eyes grew comically large, snot even running down his nose as he grabbed as many balls from his head as possible and started to throw them in random directions, yelling, "I WANT TO LIVE!"
If to wasn't for the fact some of the balls managed to hit the villains, I would have been laughing at the sheer absurdity of the situation. I guess his balls really are strong. "That's it, keep on doing that and you'll be the worlds best hero in no time." I said to Mienta, giving him a thumbs up as his tear stained face looked at me confused.
"I did... good?"
I nodded. "Yep, just keep on doing your special attack and we will win. With Midoriya sniping the villains, and you making them unable to move, this plan is successful." Mienta cried tears of joy this time as he threw even more balls, this time with more power and speed than before. Heh, he really was a formidable opponent. All he needed was a little encouragement, and he'd become a ferocious beast.
Although I do wonder what his hero name would be.
Eh, I'll save that thought for later, once we all make it out alive.
We looked to be about thirty metres off from the shoreline, however some of the villains had decided to pick up the spikes in the water and started to throw them at us, in an effort to slow us down. Not even the combined effort of Midoriya and Mienta could stop the full assault. I gritted my teeth, if only I had a perfect a perfect counter to it-, Oh wait, I could just make one.
Duh.
"Tsuyu, pull Midoriya up. I have a plan." I shouted at her as she gave me a determined nod, pulling the green haired boy up.
"I'm sorry Sora-san, I couldn't do anything about the spikes." He apologised to me, but I waved it off. Heh, those motherfuckers wouldn't know what hit them by the time I'm done with them. "It's not problem, just huddle up." I replied to Midoriya, and too Tsuyu and Mineta. This was going to work, it had to work.
"It's going to be a bumpy ride." I managed to say as I concentrated everything I had into changing Nimbus in mid air from a floating cloud, to a sphere. If they were trying to hit us out of the air, then why not go back into the ocean? Well not back into the ocean, rather a hard block as we would have an outer shell protecting us. I hope.
"Uhm Sora we seem to be fall-," Mineta's voice was cut off as suddenly Tsuyu's knee hit my back painfully. Shit, we were loosing altitude, and her hitting my back... Shit, I had to concentrate! I could see the crack forming on Nimbus, I couldn't let it disappear now! If it did, we would all die! I couldn't let that happen, focus!
The sphere started to form again, this time with fewer and fewer cracks as Mineta was screaming again about dying, but I would show him wrong! I'd show them all wrong! Come on, work, work! Suddenly I felt a massive crash, it seems like we had fallen back into the water. However, we seemed to be floating, not only that but all four of us were cramped inside a small sphere.
FUCK YES! IT FUCKING WORKED!
"Uhm, boss," I could hear from the outside. "The kids seemed to be stuck on the inside. Didn't the head honcho say that one of the girls Quirk's here was good in water? I wonder what he was thinking putting her here where she is at a advantage, especially when they only gave us spikes to combat her." So my theory was right after all, they did know our Quirks.
"Yeah, but no one told us that we would have this kid that can fly and shit! I thought it would be a easy job, killing three kids then getting out of here. This is turning out to be a real pain." Another commented, this time on the other side of the sphere.
"Psst," I whispered to the three people inside of the sphere. "When I say go, Midoriya you take the one in front, Mienta you throw one of your balls on the guys face on the south. Okay?" Midoriya and Mineta nodded at some, the former being more confidant then the latter, but both ultimately agreed on the plan. Three, two, one, and "Go." Suddenly, two holes appeared inside the sphere as I willed them open.
Izuku flicked his fingers towards the man, sending him flying and our sphere tumbling around as some water came inside, making me curse slightly. That wasn't good. Mienta on the other hand went full on 'Rambo' as he threw as many balls as he could, to the point where his head had started to bleed. Was that a side affect of his Quirk? Shit, I should have known, blood loss is never good.
However that was two guys down for the count, which only left... only left... Gah, if only we had counted how many people still remained. Still, I suppose it wasn't too bad, we could play the patient game for the time being. But that would cut down on the time left for me to check up on Jiro, what if by the time I found her she had...
I couldn't think of those thoughts. Not now. I was going to save her, and that was that. Nothing would stop me, nothing. I could her nearby splashes, meaning more people were swimming here. I sighed. This wasn't good, we could only take on two at a time.
"Why don't you make a hole for me to jump up from and drag you guys from, kero?" Tsuyu asked me confused.
"Didn't you hear? They have spikes, trying to catch you. You would get hurt." I replied.
"But I can just jump past them, kero."
She could just... jump past them?
Ha... what? I looked at her blankly, debating wheather I should let a scream of anger out or not. Of course the frog girl could jump, how fucking stupid was I?! Very. I was very fucking stupid, an idiot, moron whatever terminology came under it. I was all of it, multiplied by infinity. How the fuck did I not think of that. I opened a hole up top for her as she wrapped her tongue around the panicking Mineta as an anchor of sorts and leapt up into the air, our sphere getting slightly launched up as well.
"Oh shit! It's the girl! What do we do-," Before the grunt could finish, we heard a massive thud coming from that direction as Mineta was pulled towards there, our sphere slowly trailing towards that direction as well. All before my head hit the inner shell of the cloud as we were launched forward, Mineta screaming for help as he bounced around in the sphere, Midoriya trying to catch him.
Shit, all I had to do was concentrate and not let Nimbus disappear. I could feel a few spikes hit the outer shell of the sphere, but luckily it was sturdy enough that all it did was make our road a little bumpier. After about a minute of being pulled, Tsuyu's tongue eventually let Mineta go, allowing the poor boy to breathe again as he whispered, "Never again. Never again."
However, judging from the fact we weren't being pulled in any direction anymore, I took it that we had reached land as I let Nimbus disappear, falling to the ground as I kissed it. Oh how much I missed you, I never want to be stranded ever again.
"Finally, we made it to shore, kero."
I turned to Tsuyu as I gave her a thumbs up. "Hell yeah we did!" Even Midoriya looked relieved as he sat on the ground, scanning our surroundings. Most of the enemies were floating in the water, turns out Tsuyu had used our sphere as a wrecking ball of sorts. Well, at least we made it out live. That was the good part, however looking around a frown formed on my face.
Aizawa was etching closer and closer towards Shigaraki, and Jiro was no where to be found. I stood up as I summoned my Nimbus, this time for it's normal form as I hopped on it.
"Going already?" Midoriya asked me.
"I have to look for others." Jiro. I have to look for Jiro.
"What about us?" Mineta asked, confused.
"Go to the rest of 1A at the entrance, Thirteen-sensei looks to be in a bad spot. Maybe Iida and everyone else has a few ideas on how we can escape. Midoriya, use your new technique if you run into trouble, I assume it'll be no problem for you, right?" To his credit, he clenched his fists as he gave me a determined nod. I smiled softly at him as I waved goodbye at them, flying away.
"Don't die, kero." Was the last thing I heard from Tsuyu.
I wouldn't.
I promise, no one would die today.
Unforseen Simulation Joint
Arc
So that's it. First chapter, done and dusted! Heh, I had a lot of fun writing this out, easily the most fun I've had when writing out this fic. I hope you guys can tell how much fun I've had here, both in building the mystery and in writing fights etc. Of course this is only the first part, we have a around two chapters left to go until it's all said and done.
So go ahead, tell me what you think of it so far!
Next Time:
"I'm going to be the King of the Pirates!"