Here it is, the eleventh full chapter of Miraculous Quirks released at the right time as promised. There isn't much more to say here (other than that this chapter puts me at over 100k words) as this is the conclusion to the USJ arc. Therefore, that is all I have now for you though and as there are no questions to respond to here and no guest reviews to answer I will leave this note here which means that it is time to sit back, relax, and enjoy the 11th full chapter of Miraculous Quirks.

Disclaimer: I do not own either of these great works of fiction.

Chapter 11: Symbol of Peace

As soon as Adrien reached the edge of the mountain top plateau that he and Marinette had landed on he leapt of it with all the strength he had, which given his enhancements and suit was a lot. To add to it he used his staff to push off as well, extending it as far as he could to increase his height and distance with his vault.

As soon as he was at his apex, Adrien collapsed his staff to its standard length when he was in battle and spun it as fast as possible over his head, using his strength to provide enough momentum to hover forward a little as it arrested his descent. It all worked out as he easily landed on the side of the conflagration zone. The spinning had the added effect of allowing him to land on in such a way that he could run along the top of the edge where the dome met the wall, his balance and cat-like reflexes enabling him to do so.

Adrien made sure that he was not seen by the villains though most who weren't in a zone to deal with the scattered students were in the central plaza being handled by Aizawa, so Adrien was safe. What he didn't notice was Ojiro in the conflagration zone and on a rooftop by the wall taking a breath from his hit and run tactics that he was using to survive and take down as many of the villains as he could.

The Tail Quirk student couldn't help but gape at Adrien as he ran past. He knew that Agreste was skilled, the boy had displayed that in the battle trial, but that balance was unprecedented and something that Ojiro was going to have to ask him about.

Adrien didn't notice any of this as he leapt off the wall and onto the far end of the plaza. Rolling in landing, Adrien sprinted across the open area, through a patch of trees and across another open area to reach the mountain zone as fast as he could to avoid being seen by any villain that might be rooming this area. Once there, Adrien leapt up the mountain as swiftly as he could.

That was pretty swift given his abilities and years of climbing buildings in Paris as Cat Noir which were harder than mountains as they were more vertical with less natural handholds. It was second nature to him by this point, and he quickly reached the top of one of the mountains and got a chance to survey the large, flat, central area in the middle of the zone surrounded by the makeshift mountains and bridges between them.

What he saw wasn't good. There was a large, brawny villain with a helmet of sorts holding Kaminari, who was clearly still in idiot mode, by the collar of his costume. His other hand was held out to the girls and sparking with electricity showing how he had been immune to Kaminari's attack that had taken out his comrades that lay all around him. As it sparked Adrien noticed that Jiro's earphone jacks were retreating to normal length as a tactic to get them into her boot speakers had failed. That was all Adrien needed to see to act.

With a well-timed leap, Adrien leapt off the side of the mountain and used gravity to speed his descent as he held his staff over his head with two hands. Then as soon as he was able, the villain was too busy taunting the girls to notice Adrien, he brought it down with all his strength onto the back of the villain's head.

The force of the blow cracked his helmet and staggered him enough to drop Kaminari, who Jiro immediately grabbed with her earphone jacks and pulled roughly to safety but didn't take the villain out. The asshole had a really hard head under his now cracked helmet thing.

"Back off my friends!" Adrien yelled as the villain turned to face him showing that the helmet had a skull-like design to it, his hands sparking, but by then it was too late for him.

Adrien swept the man's legs from under him with a swift and strong leg sweep that broke the villain's leg if the snap Adrien heard was an indication of how much force he'd used. Then, as the man was horizontal, Adrien punched him in the face with his left hand and drove him head first into the rock as hard as he could. The blows shattered the helmet and knocked the guy out, as well as a few of his teeth for good measure.

"Yaoyorozu." Adrien said not standing as he put a knee on the villain's chest for insurance but looking at to her. "I need insulation cuffs that are strong enough to hold him while preventing him from using his electricity. Both wrists and ankles. I know you can do it."

"Right." Yaoyorozu said recovering from the sudden arrival of Agreste to do as he said though she was near her limits as she made the items, glad she'd memorized how to make all kinds of restraining gear in her training for coming to U.A. after she got in. "Here though I am low on lipids so I can only make one set I think."

"Eat this, sorry for the smell but it's the best I can do." Adrien said ripping a special pouch off his belt, it was his backup and filled with camembert that would be given to Plagg if unused, but his usual protein cubes likely wouldn't help her, and tossing it at Yaoyorozu as he put his now baton away and caught the restraints. "It will replenish you enough to keep making restraints to hold these fuckers until the pros arrive to rescue us. Jiro, guard Kaminari, he's useless right now but try to contact the outside if you can. This guy might be their jammer."

Adrien got to work flipping and restraining the electric villain as soon as he got the special cuffs while Yaoyorozu caught the bag he'd thrown at her with a look of confusion on her face. She opened it and almost recoiled at the smell of strong, fine, French cheese. Why the transfer student had camembert of all cheeses on him was anyone's guess, but he did, and it was just what she needed. Without a second's thought she stuffed her face with it as fast as she could and began creating the needed wrist and ankle restraints the moment she felt her lipid numbers begin to increase.

Jiro for her part tried to get through to the teachers but couldn't so the jamming was somewhere or something else, maybe even a support item that was on a different villain somewhere. Still, she was impressed by Agreste's arrival, actions, and quick thinking right then.

"Thanks." Adrien said as he grabbed the other restraints, some specially made for various villains that were in the area and began to quickly restrain the villains who'd been shocked. "This will help."

He had to knock some out with pressure point jabs as they were already starting to recover but for the most part it was easy and soon he had them all on their chests, restrained at wrist and ankle and was able to turn to the other three. Jiro was still standing with a machete in her hands with Kaminari babbling incoherently on the ground behind her so that he didn't wander off in his brain fried state. Yaoyorozu on the other hand was panting on her knees having pushed her Quirk to its limit and beyond to make the restraints.

"You two ok?" Adrien said calming down as he reached them. "Sorry for the forcefulness of my words there, had to deal with the villains first."

"No, you did what was right." Yaoyorozu said through deep breaths as she thought on what Agreste had done and something bothered her about it, he was good at this, too good for a student with no formal training but she'd address that later once they were safely away from the USJ. "We should have thought of that, but the villain surprised us before we could. He was hidden and we failed to search for him after Kaminari took out the other villains."

"Yeah, thanks for that." Jiro said as it seemed that they were safe for now and she turned to the French boy, she'd already forgiven his girlfriend for the hit she'd taken as it was training so she should expect to get banged up during it, but she'd not spoken to the male half of the pair yet. "You really saved our asses there."

"It's what we would all do and what we will be doing in the future when we all have more training." Adrien said with a shrug. "I just got the information about this and came right away because I was in a position to do so. Good thing as well as everyone else is busy."

"How did you know?" Yaoyorozu asked looking up at him and Adrien looked down to polite meet her eyes as they spoke and unable to not get a spectacular view right down her cleavage from this angle. "And do you have anymore food? I'm right at the edge of my lipids and can't move well right now and you said you need food to recharge as well so hopefully you have something. I am sorry to ask but I don't want to be defenseless."

"Don't apologize, I should be doing so to you as all I have left are these." Adrien said pulling out his protein cubes. "And they're pure protein as that recharges me fastest so I don't know how they will help. I keep the camembert as I used to use it before these were made for people like me and Marinette who have recharge necessary Quirks, so I like to keep some fresh on me when I head out as an emergency backup and a bit of a throwback to remind me how far I've come. Don't worry, I throw it away if not used. Good thing I had it though."

"Protein will give me energy and there may be some lipids in them." Yaoyorozu said taking some of the cubes that Agreste had in his hand and eating them with a bit of a grimace at the taste of what was essentially raw, condensed, protein. "But that cheese made the difference with the restraints I think. Thank you for it. Merci beaucoup Agreste."

"Sorry, the cubes are not for their taste." Adrien said not surprised that Yaoyorozu had learned a simple French thank you, it was just something he'd expect from her for some reason. "But that is good that I was able to help. These villains aren't going anywhere so we can hole up here until the teachers arrive and rescue us. I still have plenty of energy and can call on my Quirk again should I need to, but I will keep some cubes for myself just in case. Between Jiro and me I am sure that we can defend this area."

"Are you sure the teachers or other pros will arrive?" Jiro asked a little worried. "They did jam our communications and they're still out so we can't contact anyone."

"Ida has managed to get out of the building and will be running as fast as he safely can to get them." Adrien said. "We just have to hold out until then, but we are aspiring heroes, we can do that."

"Again, how do you know?" Yaoyorozu asked confused.

"Marinette." Adrien said as if that explained everything though apparently it didn't even though the others knew what his lady's power was by now. "Her Quirk can create what she needs to accomplish a task, remember."

"Well yeah, we both faced you two and saw her in action." Jiro said with a wince at the memory of the sound generator thing Dupain-Cheng had used to negate her Quirk. "But I don't get how it works here."

"She created something to be able to see what was going on." Adrien said. "And her Lucky Charm decided that it would be a small camera drone complete with full remote system and display functions. She used it to look around and make sure that the whole class was ok. She saw Ida escape that's how I know. She also saw you two in trouble and sent me to deal with it."

"Where were you two sent?" Yaoyorozu asked impressed by the thinking of the French pair to look out for the class, it was something an experience student or pro would think of, but then again European high schools started earlier so that was likely it. "By the warp villain I mean."

"And what of the rest of the class?" Jiro added. "Are they ok?"

"We ended up atop the flood zone on that mountain that is there." Adrien answered. "Faced about 13 villains there and handled them with ease, they are almost all low-level thugs it seems so nothing on me and my lady. As for the rest of the class, we confirmed that all but Ojiro, Aoyama, Koda, Hagakure, and Tokoyami are at least alive and ok. Midoriya's hurt, broke something to escape the flood zone I think, and the others in the various zones but are ok. You lot were the only ones in any immediate danger, so I came here as soon as Marinette noticed what was going on. Those 5 are unaccounted for though. We figured that four are in the domes, but we have no idea where Hagakure is."

"She'll be safe." Jiro said reassuringly. "She's all about that stealth with her Invisibility Quirk so she should be hiding out somewhere away from any action and maybe even gathering intel for the teachers if she has any wits which she does when it comes to that kinda thing I think."

"That's good and it is basically what we will have to do." Adrien said as he looked around the area. "We can't fight the main guys, one of them is clearly able to face All Might or else they wouldn't risk this, so we would be outclassed there. Plus, Yaoyorozu and Kaminari aren't in good shape right now so we can't move regardless."

"So, stick tight and wait it out." Jiro said. "Doesn't sound very heroic."

"Sometimes the best strategy is to retreat and get a better pro or wait for backup, it is decisions like these that we will have to become familiar with." Adrien said again showing what he'd learned before U.A. to Yaoyorozu but again there was just something that seemed to nag her about it all, but she let it drop for now as they did need to focus on their safety first. "That is why we have to wait and hope everyone else is ok and use this experience to get stronger for the next time we're in a situation like this."

The two girls could only nod at Adrien's assessment and waited as Adrien and Jiro stood in front of the other two keeping an eye on the villains while Yaoyorozu and Kaminari recovered. Yaoyorozu knew that there was something up about the French pair that didn't fully add up. Yes, they were clearly trained beyond what the rest of the class save her, and Todoroki were, but she wasn't sure what that training was as there was no way all of this could have already been covered in France.

However, that answer would have to be sought some other time when she could actually think on it without a present threat to her life and the lives of her friends. For now, they just had to wait and hope that the pros arrived to rescue them soon.


Marinette looked down on the battle between All Might and the big bird thing with frustration. She couldn't see much of it and that was annoying her, she'd have to add a scope of sorts to her belt pouches in time, but that wasn't what was most infuriating. No what was most infuriating was that she still couldn't activate her Quirk yet.

It wasn't like with Tikki who could recharge immediately. Now that Marinette's Miraculous power was her Quirk, the recharge was her own body, and that varied with how long she'd been using her Quirk for. During Mr. Aizawa's Quirk Assessment Test she'd dismissed her items as soon as she was done with the test she was taking so her recharge was pretty fast as she hadn't used the full 5 minutes she had and then during the battle trials her break had been long enough for her to not notice it but now she did.

It was clear to her now that if she used the full 5 minutes to the point of time out then her Quirk took longer to recharge then it would if she'd dismissed the item early. Marinette knew that with training her recharge time would shorten, as would the length of time she could use her Lucky Charm item for, maybe she'd even be able to change the item during the time limit, but for now she was still stuck with waiting for her body to recharge all the energy she'd lost using her Quirk for its full 5-minute period.

She wasn't in the mood to dive into the water and swim as there were potentially more villains that the trio in the flood zone hadn't gotten with their escape strategy and she didn't have her aqua gear so she couldn't fight well in water. As such she had to watch and wait for her Quirk to recharge before she could get closer to the action.

What she saw was not good. All Might had arrived and quickly reached the plaza, dealt with some villains on the way were too stupid not to flee or surrender at the sight of him, and rescued Aizawa, Tsu, Midoriya, and Mineta. That trio were now trying to get Aizawa to safety, but All Might was not doing well against the main villains who'd been at the center of this attack.

It seemed that the bird thing was the muscle, that made sense, while the mist guy paired with him to assist the bird and capture All Might. The hand dude was the leader and holding back but Marinette doubted he wasn't competent and strong as well. This was not good.

Thankfully, almost as soon as All Might was caught, Marinette's Quirk recharged, and she instantly activated it. It had felt like forever though it was only a few minutes and bow she could get something that would take her to the battle at hand as fast as possible. It gave her just that, it gave her a ladybug print hand glider of all things. Well, it wasn't the weirdest thing she'd gotten and at least she had a sense of how to use it.

Grabbing some more protein cubes and eating a few to recharge a bit or maybe prolong her Quirk while storing some in her cheeks to instantly eat when she dismissed the glider and feeling more drained than usual using it so soon after a full use, Marinette backed up holding the bar of the glider. Then, as Midoriya was running to aid All Might down below, Marinette ran to the edge of the cliff and leapt off and into the air with her glider fully intent on coming down to aid All Might as he seemed to need it.

As Marinette banked the glider she got a good view of what was going on at last. The bird thing had a grip on All Might's sides, one of which was clearly bleeding, and appeared to be half in and half out of a black portal with its upper body on one side and its legs on the other. Marinette wasn't sure what to make of it but as the mist guy appeared at one end she figured that he was part of it, and that they had a plan to kill All Might.

Of course, the students weren't going to let that happen and she saw Midoriya running to help but the mist guy moved to get in his way. However, just as he was about to reach the guy, Marinette saw a large explosion and knew at once Bakugo had arrived on the scene.

"Out of the way Deku!" Bakugo yelled as Marinette watched him grab something on the mist guy with his ungauntleted left hand and slammed him into the ground by it. "Found your body this time you misty bastard."

As that was happening Marinette saw ice spread out across the ground and encase half of the bird thing but stopped just short of reaching All Might. That meant that Todoroki had also arrived. Lastly Marinette say Kirishima flip in and try to punch the hand dude, but he leapt up and away. That was when Marinette acted seeing her own cue to get into the battle.

The hand guy had leapt away and Kirishima was complaining at the dodge ruining his attack, but the villain wasn't looking behind him. Marinette had already dismissed her glider, began eating the cubes in her mouth, and threw her yo-yo at the villain all at roughly the same time. The yo-yo wrapped around the villain's arms binding him tightly and Marinette tugged him to her planning on kicking him in the back and driving him into the ground under her feet to knock him out and end this attack once and for all.

"Well, this was unexpected." The hand guy grumbled in his raspy voice as he grabbed Marinette's yo-yo with one of his actual hands making sure that all 5 fingers touched it. "These brats have some talent after all I see. Those lackeys really were pathetic if they couldn't handle a bunch of children."

Marinette's eyes widened in shock as she saw her yo-yo crack and then break apart in the man's hand thus freeing the villain. He then turned grinning at her, hands outstretched as she neared him.

"Watch out." Midoriya called out from where he was. "His power is like Agreste's only its not energy and it can work on flesh!"

"That is a power that we really don't want a villain to have." Marinette grumbled as she flipped over the villain to avoid his hands and kicked him in the back to flip off him and land near her friends, rolling on landing and standing, spinning as she did and slid to a stop with the others as she tossed her string away now that it was useless and stunned that her weapon had been destroyed. "I really like my yo-yo; it's going to be a bitch to replace it."

"Bakugo, Todoroki." Midoriya said as they all took fighting stances facing the villains though not before Marinette popped a few more protein cubes into her mouth for good measure, she wanted her Quirk to be accessible as soon as possible now that her yo-yo was no more. "Kirishima, Dupain-Cheng."

Izuku rubbed his eyes and set himself with the others as they faced off against the hand guy, who had somehow landed safely and was now standing at the water's edge. They had the mist guy captured, the bird thing, Nomu as it appeared to be called, was half frozen and still half in and half out of a warp gate. Mr. Aizawa was being taken to safety and some of the class's strongest students, basically all the top offensive ones excluding Agreste and Tokoyami, were backing up All Might. Things were looking good.

"Kurogiri, how could you let these brats get the better of you?" The hand guy said clearly annoyed as he stood there with his own hands clasped in front of him. "I thought you were better than this."

"I'm sorry Shigaraki." The warp guy, apparently his name was Kurogiri, said. "They surprised me. U.A. really does live up to their reputation."

"It wasn't hard to figure you out." Bakugo said grinning like a maniac as he held Kurogiri to the ground. "Only parts of your body turn into that mist thing you create, and you use it to cover your actual body when you make your warp gates. That's why we missed you the first time but if you didn't have a physical body you wouldn't need this neck armor now would you? You're not immune to physical attacks if they are well aimed and I don't miss twice."

Marinette kept her expression neutral as they faced off with the main villain, but she had to admit that she was impressed even if she didn't want to do so. Bakugo came off as nothing more than an angry bully with all his yelling, belittling and powerful Quirk. However, he was clearly highly intelligent and able to adapt and plan on the fly based off little information. He would make a good hero one day; it was just a shame his personality was such hot garbage that it would prevent him from ever reaching the top.

As if to emphasize that, Kurogiri tried to escape only to have Bakugo let off a series of small explosions on his armor that kept him in place where he was and make it clear to the villain who was in charge of the situation. He added a threat that wasn't very heroic, something Kirishima rightfully called out before Marinette could, but it kept the mist guy in place.

"Kids these days." Shigaraki said. "They are so good, make the League of Villains look like amateurs after catching two of my best lieutenants. The rest I don't care about but those two are actually good and valuable to me, so I'll have to ask you to hand them back to me now."

"That's right so just give up already." Midoriya said with more bravado then he felt. "It's over villain, we have you beat."

"No, it's not." Shigaraki said calmly and Marinette didn't like the sound of that at all. "Nomu."

At that Nomu pulled himself out of the warp gate and to his feet. However, as he did his left arm and leg shattered and fell off thanks to the ice destroying the cells there and he staggered around thanks to the sudden amputation.

"It can't walk." Midoriya said. "What's…"

Before he finished speaking Nomu's eyes rolled back and suddenly muscles shot out of its shoulder and leg shattering the remaining ice that was there as it reformed the missing limbs. Once that was done the skin regrew and Nomu screeched as it was fully healed.

"You see, Nomu has a super regeneration Quirk." Shigaraki cackled as the tables were balanced again and the kids, well all but Bakugo who was focused on holding the warp villain, suppressed their revulsion at what they'd seen. "You can't kill him no matter how badly you hurt him."

"I thought you said that its Quirk was shock absorption." All Might said still clutching his bleeding side, right where his week spot was Izuku noted. "What the hell?"

"I never said that that was his only Quirk." Shigaraki said with a grin under his hand mask. "Nomu has multiple Quirks."

Marinette blanched at that. That didn't sound good, and she saw All Might look worried at that sudden revelation. If this bird thing had both shock absorption and super regeneration, along with super strength, then it was definitely the thing that had been specially designed to face and counter All Might.

"You see, Nomu is basically a highly efficient punching bag that hits back." Shigaraki said as the students all stared at the man with new fear, even Marinette was afraid as this was beyond anything she'd faced in her past life and really hammered home just how dangerous this new world was. "First we need to free our method of escape. Get him Nomu."

What happened next happened to fast for the students' eyes to process. Nomu began running and the next thing Marinette knew there was a massive explosion of wind pressure and force that blew them back followed by a crashing sound. Only Marinette's years of training and reflexes allowed her to process it and her body instinctively twisted and twirled in the air as she flipped and landed on her feet in a crouch with the others. Only Todoroki was also standing, Midoriya and Kirishima were on their asses but that left…

"Kacchan!" Midoriya said with worry in his voice as the dust of the impact cleared to show Nomu looking at them with a hand on Kurogiri having clearly freed him.

"What!" Bakugo yelled drawing their attention to him where we was on the floor just past the rest of them and looking just as confused as they were. "What is it Deku?"

"Woah, you dodge it?" Midoriya asked.

"No, you damn nerd." Bakugo spat back and Marinette noticed what had happened, as did the rest of them. "I didn't dodge it, not even I am that good yet. Look for yourselves, only one person could save us from that thing."

There were a set of gouge marks in the ground going to the side to where dust was still billowing next to a wall that split the plaza from one of the zones, likely to avoid the disaster in that zone from spilling into the central plaza. In the center of the dust, in front of a broken concrete wall, his arms up in a defensive posture was All Might. Only he had the speed to match Nomu and had leapt into action to throw Bakugo to safety while taking the hit that had blown them all away with its force.

"What are you thinking?" All Might spat, blood leaking from his mouth as he coughed through the dust. "These are kids, and you didn't hesitate."

"Kids?" Shigaraki spat. "They're just as bad as us All Might. The plain one over there tried to kill me with a punch, the angry one held Kurogiri captive using violence to prevent him from moving, the girl likely would have caused me significant injury by driving me into the ground without a way to brace myself if I hadn't broken free. No, they're not kills, they're monsters."

"They are just doing what they can." All Might spat as he began walking towards the villains. "You are the ones targeting them which makes you the monsters here."

"You know what really pisses me off All Might." Shigaraki said and it seemed he was beginning to crack. "You heroes are just as violent as us villains but because you have state sanctioned approval to use your Quirks to violently oppress us then it is somehow ok for you to do violence but not us. Violence just begets more violence no matter who does it."

That got them all thinking. It was an annoyingly convincing logic spat from the mouth of the clearly delusional villain that was in charge of this attack. However, All Might was a pro, he was ready for this having heard similar speeches many times in his long career as a hero.

"Villains like you always try to justify their actions by making them sound noble." All Might said as he reached the kids and got ready to fight once more. "But you're just a lunatic. Admit it, you are only doing this because you like it."

Shigaraki narrowed his eyes, clearly pissed at being called out by All Might. All Might had gotten him in one. Well, no matter, it was time to end this now and finally kill the Symbol of Peace at last.

"We have them outnumbered." Todoroki said calmly.

"And Kacchan found the mist guy's weakness." Midoriya pointed out.

"We got this." Kirishima added his arms hardening in preparation. "We can take them down with All Might's help."

"It will be tough but between the 5 of us and our Quirks we can handle the two who don't have super strength." Marinette said taking a fighting stance, her fist raised, as she felt her Quirk recharge, though she was going to wait on that just yet as she wanted to save it for the right moment she needed to call upon it for an item to capture the hand villain. "We need to act in conjunction with each other though and not get in each other's way or let our egos take over. Only doing this as a team will we win."

"No, you've done enough." All Might said moving to stand in front of them with his arm raised though he was glad to hear that young Dupain-Cheng was showing her experience there as that was the right tactic had they been forced to fight but they didn't need to do so this time. "Get to safety, now."

"If it hadn't been for me then you'd still be stuck or worse." Todoroki said coolly, ice misting off his right palm. "You need us All Might."

"And I thank you for your assistance." All Might said. "But I got this. It's time to see a pro at work."

"But that Nomu guy can match you." Midoriya pointed out. "Plus, your bleeding and almost out of… I mean."

All Might just raised his thumb in a thumbs up gesture to silence Midoriya though Marinette knew exactly what her classmate was about to say before he managed to stop himself in time. All Might had to be beyond his limit now and couldn't' have much time left in his power form. This wasn't good and Marinette wasn't going to go anywhere just in case they were actually needed.

"Nomu, Kurogiri, kill All Might." Shigaraki said calmly. "I'll take care of the children. Let's clear this level and then go home."

With that Shigaraki began running at the kids his arms wide and palms out. All 5 of them took combat stances as they got ready to defend themselves.

"Heads up, looks like we are fighting after all." Kirishima said hardening his arms again as he did. "Dupain-Cheng was right, we need to do this as a team and play off each other, don't be selfish."

Before they could however, All Might let out a war cry and leapt into action. With a screech, Nomu bounded forward to match him, and their fists met as they punched each other with such force that wind was generated and blew them all back, launching Shigaraki into the air as he was the closest to the epicenter of the impact. That wasn't the only punch as the pair of super strong men, well man and whatever the hell Nomu was, began matching punches with each other.

"Weren't you listening." Shigaraki spat as he backflipped in the air. "One of Nomu's Quirks is shock absorption. He can take your blows at 100%."

"I heard." All Might growled as he and Nomu began punching each other even harder and generating even more wind that kept pushing everyone back and prevented Kurogiri from getting close to use his Warp Gate Quirk. "You said shock absorption not nullification. That means that there is a limit to how much you can take so I just have to keep punching until I reach that limit and then punch past it."

"I can't get close to them." Kurogiri grunted as Shigaraki reached him and they were both pushed back by the winds being generated. "There is no way I can use my Quirk to help out."

"He's going to fight that brain guy head on!" Midoriya said as he staggered back before hungering down to try and maintain his balance, Bakugo doing the same by his side.

"So fast." Kirishima said as he and Todoroki were also staggered back before crouching down as well to avoid falling over.

"That's a pro at work." Marinette said sliding back to join them as she knelt to keep herself unable to stand with the winds swirling around them. "Watch closely, we will learn a lot from this."

"So, you were made to fight me at 100% of my power big guy." All Might yelled as the pair kept punching, breaking the concrete at their feet and kicking up dust all over the place as they worked at a speed the human eye couldn't track. "Then I'll just have to go beyond that and make you surrender."

Everyone's eyes, including the two villains watching, went wide as All Might kicked it up a notch and began punching Nomu even harder and at above 100% of his power. Not only that but he was strategically punching Nomu making sure that each blow landed and counted as the silent monster began to stagger back, the blows beyond what his Shock Absorption Quirk could handle.

It was amazing and awe inspiring to the students as they watched the fight. All Might was injured, tired, and still going beyond his limit as he fought the Nomu. It showed Marinette just how much she had to still learn and how much the world had changed since her time. It was more violent, deadly, and required the training she was receiving if she was going to do what she loved doing. It inspired her to do better.

The punches themselves were finally getting through and at last one of All Might's punches broke Nomu's defense and sent it crashing back. The number 1 hero followed Nomu running after it as it righted itself and ran at him on all fours like some sort of animal. They met again but this time All Might had the upper hand and rather then punch each other, they began to grapple.

"A real hero always finds a way for justice to prevail." All Might yelled as he grappled with Nomu. "No matter the odds that are stacked against him."

With that the pair somehow ended up high above the plaza as the 5 students and two other villains watched them. All Might had grabbed one of Nomu's arms and spun it around before he hurled it down and to the ground enough to crater it. All Might landed hard on his feet in the crater as Nomu bounced up off the ground, his right fist clenched and power collecting in it.

"You've heard these words before but let me teach you what they really mean!" All Might said as he cocked his fist back. "GO BEYOND, PLUS ULTRA!"

With the yell All Might slammed his fist home and into Nomu's chest as it righted itself in the air to face him. The power and force of the blow was well beyond what Nomu could handle, and it was thrown up and back at high speed. It then slammed into the dome right at a level of a set of lights that ringed it, caving in the material before breaking through it with a shattering sounds as the lights exploded and the entire building shook as Nomu vanished into the sky.

Everyone in the USJ that day either saw Nomu fly away or for the students who were in the domed zones they felt it as the whole building shook from Nomu being punched out of it. That was the moment they all saw the amazing power All Might had and Midoriya realized his full potential once he masted One for All.

"I really have gotten weaker." All Might said from within a cloud of dust at the epicenter of his hit on Nomu. "Back in my heyday I would have knocked that guy out with 5 hits but today it took over 300 mighty blows to win this fight."

With that All Might stood tall and proud, right arm across his chest and smiling despite his state as the smoke billowed around him. It was an act though as All Might knew that he was almost at the end of his time having already pushed well beyond it and reduced it in the process, so he turned to face the villains and hoped that his intimidation after beating their muscle worked into cowering them into surrendering as it had done so many times before.

"You've been bested villains." All Might declared looking at Shigaraki and Kurogiri. "Surrender now, we all want to get this over quickly. There is no need for any more violence. Come in peacefully and I will make sure you are treated well."

Shigaraki was shaking with rage, his eyes wide at the sight. Nomu, the being his father had engineered specifically to beat All Might had been bested by the very person he'd been created to crush. They had lost. All Might wasn't dead; he wasn't even weaker like he'd been told he was. That was the whole reason why he'd planned this attack. This was their moment to finally kill All Might and end the Symbol of Peace forever. He must have cheated to win, that was the only way he could have in Shigaraki's mind.

"What's the matter, I thought you said that you were going to clear this level." All Might called out to the two remaining villains causing Shigaraki, who was now scratching his neck frantically with both hand, to back up in fear. "I'm right here. Come and get me."

"Man, this is intense." Bakugo said his eyes wide at the scene before them. "This is what it means to be number 1."

"I knew that All Might could do this." Todoroki said calmly. "Come on, let's go, he's got this."

Only Midoriya was hesitant, and Marinette knew why because while she was acting her own part with the others she was keenly aware of the same thing that he was aware of. All Might was basically out of time, and she could see steam coming off his body that was being masked by the dust still billowing around him, but it was clear that at this point the only thing All Might could do was stand there and glare at the villains, he likely couldn't move a muscle or else his form might fall, and he'd be defenseless.

"Come one Midoriya let's regroup with the others." Kirishima called out. "We don't want to get in All Might's way or become hostages for this villain. He's taken care of the big guy; he can handle these two with ease."

However, Izuku still didn't move. He knew the truth. All Might was about to go back to his weak form, he was bluffing, buying time for the teachers to arrive and end this with their own strength but he wasn't sure if the two villains were believing this. They were clearly wary now that their tank had been defeated but they weren't fleeing or surrendering either which wasn't good.

"What? Are you scared." All Might said leaning forward as he continued his bluff. "You came up with this plan to kill me but now that your muscle is gone you can't back it up."

"If Nomu was here he'd rush you in an instant." Shigaraki said with a mad cackle as he continued to furiously scratched his neck with both hands. "He'd pound you into the ground and we'd be done with you."

"Tomura Shigaraki do not fret." Nomu said in a calming tone. "Look at him, Nomu's attacks were clearly successful as he's feeling them. His body is shaking, he can barely move. He has definitely weakened, the information we received wasn't wrong on that front. We still have a chance to end him. The children are frozen with fear and our underlings are coming too. We still have a few minutes before reinforcements arrive. If we work together we can do this. We still haven't missed out chance to kill All Might."

That got through to Shigaraki and he stopped scratching at once before looking at All Might. Kurogiri was right, this was their last chance, they still had time to do what they'd come here to do. All Might couldn't move, their allies were almost back while their enemies' allies weren't here yet, that meant that they could still do this. The final boss was right there for them to kill if they acted right away.

"This isn't good." Kirishima said as the sound of villains rising and coming towards them was heard. "We have to fight now; All Might can handle those two."

Marinette, Bakugo, and Todoroki all turned to see the villains previously defeated by Aizawa coming too at last and approaching them. This wasn't good and they all took combat stances, and in Kirishima's case activated his Quirk. They were going to have to fight again but still Marinette couldn't activate her Quirk, she needed it for the main guy just in case she got an opening to capture him with it.

"Are you joining us Midoriya?" Todoroki called and Marinette saw that Midoriya hadn't turned to aid them, he was still staring at All Might. "It may take all of us to defeat him."

"Leave him." Marinette said to her classmate. "You know how his Quirk works, Midoriya will be out last line of defense for All Might as he can reach All Might the fastest and will only need one hit to win. These thugs aren't good and against the four of us, they stand no chance."

"You're right." Todoroki said with a nod of respect at the French girl's intuition, it was best to let Midoriya, who had the most power but least amount of control out of all of them but the least among of control over it, to handle All Might's protection as he could do it in one blow just as Dupain-Cheng had said while they held off the villains for them. "Aren't you going to activate your Quirk though? Your weapon was destroyed and if I recall you can create what you need to win. We could really use that right now."

"I can only create one item and with my power, I need to save it for capturing that hand guy as it can give us the best chance for that, especially now that the bird guy is gone." Marinette said shaking her head. "Anything else is irresponsible of me to create. Don't worry, I can fight hand to hand with my own strength."

Todoroki just nodded at this. He'd seen the girl's strength in the Quirk Assessment when not using her Quirk and in the battle trial, he'd studied it closely. In terms of raw strength, he would say that only her boyfriend was stronger without a Quirk, with Quirks she was probably fourth strongest in the class. She could hold her own even without formal combat training against these gutter punks. Against him, Dupain-Cheng was a potential rival due to that strange Quirk of hers, but he believed that he had a counter for it after studying how she'd used it so far.

"Consider this revenge for Nomu!" Shigaraki yelled as he ran at All Might, Kurogiri leaping into action by his side. "At last, you die, All Might!"

All Might didn't let it show but now he was really worried. Their back up wasn't here and he wasn't sure he had the strength to beat the final two major villains present. He knew the kids were there and if anything, he could rely on young Dupain-Cheng to act, her past life, training, and the nature of her Quirk put her above the others, but she didn't have the speed to reach him without her yo-yo he felt. However, she wasn't the one who acted.

Before any of them could comprehend, Midoriya had activated his Quirk in his legs and leap at the villains on an intercept course. One moment he was there, next he was almost at All Might as the others looked on in shock. The only one of them who had the sense to begin acting was Marinette who instantly activated her own Quirk to produce something to incapacitate and thus capture Shigaraki.

At that point, everything seemed to happen in slow motion. Midoriya's legs were clearly broken but he was on target for the metal brace the mist guy wore, fist cocked back ready to hit it. As this was happening a pink glow formed under Marinette's outstretched right hand as her Quirk began to create what she needed.

"Don't you hurt All Might you stupid villains!" Midoriya yelled.

However, before he could reach them, Kurogiri activated a warp gate and Shigaraki thrust a hand through it, his palm now coming towards Midoriya's face, a grin on his lips at being able to at least kill one of the brats who'd ruined his plans. Midoriya's eyes widened at the sight. He knew what the hand could do, and it looked like his luck had run out.

"I won't fall for that again." Kurogiri declared as Shigaraki began to cackle like a madman, his hand now almost over Midoriya's face and ready to kill him. "U.A. students aren't the only ones who can learn from the battlefield."

Then the entire scene was wrenched apart by a gunshot and Shigaraki's hand was blasted away from Midoriya's face at the last second in a spray of blood and Midoriya landed on his chest on the ground uninjured but for his broken legs. A bullet had struck Shigaraki right between his thumb and forefinger from a precise shot and there was only one hero capable of making such a shot, well two but the other one was currently in Tartarus having gone rogue and become a villain.

"They're here!" All Might said with a grin looking up to see the teachers of U.A. on the top of the walkway, Snipe front and center with his revolver raised and still smoking. "Young Ida reached them and brought them just as I knew he would."

"Sorry we're late." An educate voice called out from the teachers, it was Principal Nezu himself. "But I got the teachers over here as fast as I could."

"I have fulfilled my duties as Class Rep." Ida declared from amongst the teachers. "And I have brought reinforcements."

That broke the shock and the villains who had recovered instantly began rushing the teachers. Some were running at them while others began firing with ranged Quirks desperate to take them out so that they could flee and avoid capture. That didn't matter as Present Mic calmly strolled forward, looked down and let out a powerful yell with his Voice Quirk, his directional speaker adding to the attack.

The force of his Voice Quirk blasted them with he high pitched, powerful soundwaves he could create and either threw villains back or made them cover their ears and fall to their knees in pain from the sound the pro could create from his vocal cords. At the same time Ectoplasm spewed forth a heavy mist from his mouth and his clones materialized before him, attacking the villains with his prosthetic feet.

"Our number one priority is the students." Nezu said to the teachers around him. "Protect them at all costs."

"Right." Several teachers said as they walked forward to rescue their students from the various areas of the USJ.

"It's over, for real this time." Shigaraki grumbled holding his right hand in his left and backing up to Kurogiri. "Let's go home and try this again some other time…"

Shigaraki was turning as he spoke and didn't get to finish his sentence before a few more gunshots rang out. Before he or Kurogiri could reach he was struck in the left arm, then both legs, and finally the right arm before Kurogiri could shield him from any more shots with his mist and begin warping them out.

"We need someone who can capture at a distance." Snipe said in his metallic voice. "I can incapacitate him, but I can't capture him."

"Leave that to me." A wounded voice called out and instantly Kurogiri began getting sucked up as a supported Thirteen used all 5 fingers on her right hand while being supported so that she could stand as she tried to capture the warp villain. "I can do it."

"This is Black Hole." Kurogiri said amazed but he knew that it was not going to be enough, they would be gone long before they could be capture. "I failed to kill her, I'm sorry Shigaraki."

"It's not over All Might." Shigaraki spat ignoring his lieutenant as he vanished into Kurogiri's warp gate with a few more parting words. "You may have won this round but mark my words, I will kill you one day."

With that Kurogiri finished warping thus escaping with Shigaraki as all the remaining villains were dealt with by the teachers. With that, the incident at the USJ was over but there was still the cleanup to go as various pros made their way to the other zones to secure them, save the students and capture the villains who were there.

The students had all just learned what pros could do that day as they watched them round up the villains in the various zones, save those still fighting in the domes, and secure the villains defeated for the police who were already on their way. Ectoplasm had goon to the mountain zone, Power Loader to the conflagration zone, and Present Mic to the squall zone to help there while the others either tended to Aizawa and Thirteen or went to the areas that had already been cleared to guard the villains that had been defeated in those zones.

The only ones not immediately affected were the 5 still in the Plaza. Midoriya was lying on his chest in front of All Might who was still steaming with dust billowing around him and couldn't get up because of his broken legs.

It took Marinette a moment to realize that she was still standing there staring at what had just happened before noticing that she was holding something. She looked down and saw that she had what looked like tranquilizer gun in a ladybug print in her hand. That must have been what her Quirk had created when she tried to get something to stop and capture Shigaraki but the chaos of the arrival of the teachers had driven it from her mind until now that the who situation was effectively over. Shame, it would have been a good weapon to use.

Midoriya was groaning on the ground and muttering to All Might though they were too far away to hear what either was saying. The other 4 were all together and looking around as the teachers fanned out and began to help the students who needed it right now.

"If all the teachers are here then the school must by safe." Todoroki said breaking the silence as he looked to the top of the stairs. "They must have only targeted this facility because All Might was supposed to be here."

"Midoriya! Are you ok?" Kirishima called out brining their attention to him as he began running towards their injured classmate and the smoke. "Do you need a hand?"

Marinette smiled at the sight glad to see that Kirishima cared so much about their friend that he was already moving to help out, something she should have done but was beaten to it by the red-haired boy. Then she suddenly realized a problem, All Might was there and almost certainly in his weakened form now that the danger had passed. That was not good, she only knew the secret because of her own secret and the arrangements that had been made to protect it but no one else in the class but her, Adrien or Midoriya could learn it. She had to act now.

"Kirishima wait." Marinette yelled at him to get his attention and causing him to turn to look at her and pleased she didn't have to tranquilize him in the back to stop him from finding out though she would have had she been forced to. "It's best that we don't touch Midoriya yet."

"What do you mean?" Kirishima asked confused. "He's hurt and out friend, he needs our help."

"Yes he does but from a professional, not a bunch of kids with minimal first aid training at best." Marinette pointed out as she quickly came up with her reason for why they couldn't help Midoriya. "Remember how his arm looked in the battle trial when he broke it. We are no where nearly good enough to brace such injuries yet. In time we will be able to, no doubt that was part of what we are going to be taught here during rescue training, but not yet. We'll only do more harm than good if we try without training, and if that happens then his recovery will be longer."

"Listen to your classmate." A new voice said as a wall of cement erupted from the ground and blocked Midoriya and All Might off from the others. "She's right, you aren't ready to assist yet, but we will make sure that you can do so in the future as all heroes should know how to perform field first aid. Go back to your classmates, let the professionals handle this from this point on. Your concern is appreciated and welcomed but don't worry, they are in both good hands now."

It was Cementoss who had spoken and created the barrier to protect All Might's secret, though now he knew that at least Midoriya and Dupain-Cheng were aware of it and if the latter was aware of it then almost certainly Agreste would know as well. Kirishima for his part understood at once and didn't question anything.

"Right, thank you." Kirishima said with a toothy grin at the pro hero who could control any cement he touched before he turned and ran back to the others. "And good thinking Dupain-Cheng, we should be careful until we actually know what we are doing to help out. Real manly of you to know that."

"I'm a girl though." Marinette pointed out confused at Kirishima's words. "And call me Marinette, all of you can if you want. It's normal in my country to use first names, especially amongst friends and after today, we are all going to be bonded over what we just experienced."

"So true, I'll try Dup… I mean Marinette." Kirishima said and Marinette nodded at that, she knew it would take time for the rest of the class, especially the boys, to call her by her first name but cultural norms were hard to break though at least Kirishima seemed laid back enough to be able to handle it. "Now let's get the others. Hey, Bakugo, Todoroki, Cementoss says that Midoriya will be alright, so we should regroup with the rest of the class."

The two guys just nodded or in Bakugo's case grunted in annoyance as they headed back, Marinette bringing up the rear and breathing a sigh of relief at her quick thinking as she dismissed her item without needing to use it. That could have been worse, hell the whole incident could have been, but they managed to survive it and learned what it truly meant to be pros. They would take this and use it to help them grow stronger so that they could be the best heroes they could be.


"Thanks, Cementoss, you really saved me there." All Might said as he coughed up blood, kneeling on the ground in his weakened form at last and knowing he couldn't power up for a while after today. "I really pushed myself too hard there."

"No worries, I'm actually a huge fan of yours." Cementoss said with a happy smile on his block-like face. "Glad I could be of assistance All Might."

"Had to get reckless there." All Might said to Midoriya seriously. "But that goes to show just how serious those villains were and a good lesson for what to expect when you get out there and face the real world young Midoriya."

All Izuku could do was nod as he looked at his hero with a mix of awe and worry at what All Might had done. They had survived and only he had been injured, injuries he was about to pass out from.

However, before he did there was one thing going through his head that he'd have to talk to All Might about as soon as he could. It hadn't been him or even Cementoss who had acted to protect All Might's secret regarding his weakened state when it was almost revealed to Kirishima, it had been Dupain-Cheng and she'd done it without hesitation. Did that mean that she know about All Might's weakness? That was the only question he could form though as a second later he slipped into blissful unconsciousness as the USJ incident as it would become known as came to an end.

Another nice little cliffhanger for y'all to enjoy right at the end and I won't say when or if it will be answered, along with at least one of the class now getting a little suspicious. I know that this was a lot like the canon, I am really trying to deviate as much as possible, but it is hard at times in the early chapters, especially one like this were the fight was All Might v. Nomu and not the students v. it so Marinette and Adrien couldn't really get involved and change what happened as much as I would have liked, though both Adrien and Marinette did play their own roles in this chapter that changed what happened in the canon, so it is coming. Hopefully this is the last time this happens as I know for a fact that the next few major events will be different in ways as our heroes influence them in their own regards. Anyway, that is all I have for now and as such will leave this chapter here. If you like it or have any questions please let me know in reviews or PMs, I will try to answer them as best I could and post any questions asked between uploads at the start of the next chapter and do follow and favorite this, so you are alerted to future uploads. Do keep the reviews coming as I like hearing from y'all as you enjoy my work, it motivates me to keep producing the best work I can for y'all to enjoy. Until next time.

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