Chapter 18:
(Okay, not much I can really say here, but I do want your opinions on the story so far, if you're not bothered? As a writer, I'm trying to handle criticism as best I can. So, enjoy the chapter!)
"Can't believe we managed to get all of them at once. It took everything I had to keep my composure—" Lucas and Tsuyu realized Izuku was muttering.
"Um, Iz-Uh…Deku? You're muttering again." Lucas was worried whenever he did this, "You're creeping me out." Tsuyu said, Izuku then turned attention to his classmates.
"Instead of second guessing what we did, shouldn't we think about our next move?" It would be better to focus on the task ahead than behind. "Yeah, you're totally right…rgh!" He grunted, Lucas tried to heal the injury as best he could. "That should do, but they can't take another hit. Sorry, this is the best I can do." Lucas apologized, "Hey, it's fine. Don't worry about me. We should make getting help out top priority!" Izuku said, pointing over to the shore.
"If we follow the shore to the exit, then we can avoid the central plaza entirely." Tsuyu & Lucas agreed it was a good idea. "We can also avoid the villains Mr. Aizawa's facing off with there." They saw he was still fighting them off.
Lucas looked over, still thinking he needed to back Sensei up. "W-We…need to lighten Sensei's load." Lucas said, Izuku looked at his friend.
"We wouldn't be going in directly, right?" Izuku asked, making sure Lucas wasn't thinking recklessly.
"No, but either way, at some point, Aizawa-sensei's going to get overwhelmed and he will be defeated." Lucas said, "We shouldn't just run in, carelessly. I'll try to hold down some of the villains with my power." The three nodded, little did they know this was a bad approach. "I'll try to figure out what their plan is for All Might."
(To the Landslide Zone)
"So, the plan was to capture us and then kill us." Shoto said, realizing the villains he defeated were woefully unprepared. "In fact, it looks to me as if you've had no training. You haven't the slightest idea how to use your Quirks." They called him a monster as he walked passed them, and thought back to what the blue hair man said, "How do they plan to kill All Might?" He'd first thought they gathered a force if elite criminals who'd simply overpower him, but judging from the fight he just went through, he doesn't view that to be the case. One guy lunged a spear at him. He instantly froze the ground beneath him and froze the spear. He concluded that they gathered low level thugs here, "From what I can tell, there are only four or five truly dangerous people here." Thinking of the smoke-man, the blue haired-one, "If that's the case, what we need right now is more information." Shoto then looked to the villain he just froze. He threatened them with the dangers of being frozen in ice, "Luckily for you, I wanna be a hero." He put his hand up the villain, preparing his Quirk. "But I can't do that if you don't tell me how you plan to kill All Might. That's the only way you'll survive."
(In the Mountain Zone)
Denki shrieked, running for his life as someone was going to punch him into next year. Momo made weapons for her and Kyoka to use, as such, they defended themselves. "Then, pull out a weapon for me, too!" Denki demanded, Kyoka kept her eyes on the villains, "You're the one with electrical powers, just zap 'em so we can run." She said to him, "Were you not paying attention during combat training? Some partner you were." Denki explained that he can cover with electricity, but if he tries to shoot it out, it goes everywhere. "I'd take you guys down along with them, or did you guys want shock treatment today?" He asked sarcastically. Denki couldn'y call for help, either, as there was still interference jamming the signals. "I'm counting on you two. I'm no help in this situation, YOU'VE gotta get outta this." Jiro just smirked, "You're a real damsel-in-distress, huh?" She kick him into one of the villains and it shocked him, instantly. Denki realized it was working, "Sit back, you two, you can count on me!" He said, contradicting his last statement. "You are exhausting." Kyoka said, annoyed by him, but returned her attention.
"Try electrocuting solid rock, kid!" A villain shouted, Kyoka plugged her earphone jacks into the mountain and shot a sound wave toward him, knocking him into the villain Denki was electrocuting. A third villain leaped out of the air, and Momo threw a net onto him, knocking him into his cohorts. "You're lucky that worked out so well." Yaoyorozu said, "I'm sorry, next time I'll ask before saving our butts." Kyoka said, sarcastically toward her classmate, holding off a bunch of villains coming toward them. She ranted how Kaminari didn't ask for any sort of aiming gear when he made his costume request.
Another thug came from behind and Yaoyorozu knocked him off with her staff. "It's ready, it took me a littler longer to create an object this big." A huge blanket came out when Momo used her Quirk. The villains questioned why she had made that. She smirked, "You're looking at is an insulation sheet, 100 millimeters thick. Go, Kaminari." She said, Denki smirked and readied his power. "Now I don't have to worry about hurting my friends. You guys are fried!" He said, sending volts of electricity on the ground. Momo lifted up the sheet, "Now then, I'm worried about the rest of our class. We should find them right away." She said, "Y-You're looking a little exposed right now." Kyoka noted, "Don't worry, I can make some new clothes." She assured, "Yaoyorozu is so punk-rock." She then saw Denki, and told him not to even think about coming near them at the moment. Denki was short-circuiting, at the moment, so he wasn't paying attention, holding his thumbs-up and laughing, walking around aimlessly. As they were distracted, a hand popped out of the ground. They might still be in trouble.
(Back with Izuku, Lucas and Tsuyu)
They took a stealthy approach, popping out near the water from the Shipwreck Zone. "So, we agree that if it gets out of hand, we run. Lu-I-I mean, Raito. Don't rush in, okay?" He pointed out Lucas and he wanted to help Aizawa.
"Understood." He said, as they observed, Aizawa was taking villains down, left & right. They see the blue-haired man charging, and thusly, they were both locked in position. Then, Lucas was scared, as he saw that the villain was trying to use his Quirk on Sensei. "He…He figured out how to tell." Lucas said, realizing the villain figured out how Aizawa uses his Quirk. The three students are scared, the villain has the advantage. The villain's Quirk was disintegrating Aizawa's arm, but thankfully the pro managed to get away.
"That annoying little Quirk of yours isn't cut out for drawn-out fights against big groups, is it?" He said, before condescendingly saying, "Don't you think out of your element here, Eraser Head?" Lucas glared at the villain, he went on and on. "Oh, by the way, hero? I am NOT the final boss." The villain said, Aizawa turning to the strange being them.
"Guys, get down!" Lucas said, running in ahead. "What?! L-Lucas!" Tsuyu and Izuku stood still and watched Lucas rush in ahead!
"Watch out!" He threw his staff at the other villain, throwing it off balance for a second. "What?! What are you doing?!" Aizawa scolded his student, exhausted from fighting and angry Lucas didn't leave. Lucas grabbed his staff, and tried to sweep the legs of the strange being. "I'm not…leaving you behind…" Not taking his attention off the villain, it tried to punch him, he quickly dodged it, he managed to knock the strange creature over, though it quickly recovered. Lucas tried to move, but was stopped. Something started ringing in his head, "W-What? What am I…" Lucas felt his head hurt, it felt like he heard screaming. "What is this? A-Ah…" The instantly froze, knowing where the noise was coming from. "Kid!" Aizawa pushed Lucas out of the way and took the blow from the villain. Izuku & Tsuyu could only watch as their classmate & student fought off the bad guys. "Eraser Head!" Lucas tried to get the creature off with psychokinesis, but struggle, as the blue haired man was coming for him.
(Meanwhile, back with Thirteen)
"Ah, Black Hole, the Quirk the sucks up matter and turns it into dust. Such an astounding power." The smoke villain said, "However, you're a rescue hero, Thirteen. Skilled at saving people from disasters. Consequently, that means you have little fighting experience or battlefield awareness." A portal opened up from behind Thirteen, "He opened a warp-gate!" Thirteen said, the villain chuckled. Thirteen's costume started breaking, "How unfortunate, you've turned YOURSELF to dust." The smoke-villain, Thirteen stopped Black Hole to make sure no further damage was done.
"I'm sorry. He got me." Thirteen apologized, Mina cried out to see of Thirteen was okay. "Iida, get outta here. Go! Now!" Rikido said to him, Iida looked worried. He didn't want to leave his classmates or the pros that are already fighting here, but he made his choice to leave. The villain noticed he was trying to leave, he opened another warp gate above Tenya. "If other heroes arrive, it'll be harder for us to put an end to All Might." Tenya slowed down to make sure he wouldn't get suck in, Mezo grabbed him and told him to run again, Tenya recovered his ground and ran straight for the exit. "You impertinent child!" The villain shouted, Ochaco looked over and saw there was something metal from the villain. Tenya raced, having doubts about all outcomes with the exits, will the door be locked? If so, did he have enough time to pry it open? He didn't know, but he kept running. The smoke villain on his trail.
(Back with Lucas)
"How do you like him, Eraser Head?" The blue haired man, asked, "How 'bout you, kid? He's the bioengineered, anti-Symbol of Peace. But you can call him "Nomu." He explained, "B-Bioengineered?" Lucas asked, worried what he meant by that. "You're a weird one? What's wrong?" The villain asked, "Your Quirk not good enough to fight?" Lucas stood his ground as the villain tried to charge at him. "Nice try!" He tried to dodge the charge, Lucas spun and swung his staff to knock the villain off-balance. While the blue-haired man, tried to regain balance, Lucas tried to use his powers to push the Nomu-thing off of Aizawa!
(Hey, mind if we check on Katsuki and Eijirou real quick?)
"SAY GOODBYE!" Katsuki shouted at the villain, sending explosions their ways, knocking them to the walls. Eijirou knocked out the other villain he was fighting. They both caught their breaths.
"I think that's the last of these guys. Buncha weaklings." Katsuki said, "All right. Let's hurry and find the rest of our class. If we're still both in the USJ, then everyone else probably is, too." Eijiro said, noting that not all of them have the offensive skills they do. "We gotta make sure they're safe. Especially since we screwed things up when we got in the way, earlier." He felt regretful, if they had just let Thirteen handle the smoke guy, they wouldn't be separated from the rest of the group.
You wanna track everyone down, have fun." Katsuki said, "But I'm gonna go destroy that warpy idiot." Kirishima looked at Bakugo, confused. "Our physical attacks didn't hurt that guy. C'mon. Don't be an idiot, man." He said to him, trying to get him to see sense.
"Shut up! I'm gonna take him down because he's their way in and out." Katsuki realized that and that's why he thought taking him down should be the higher priority. Katsuki then grabbed something and used his Quirk. He had taken down a villain that tried to strike them, "Anyway. If all these villains are small fries like these guys were, then our classmates can handle them." He explained why he wasn't so concerned with helping the others out. "That reaction-time was insane! Since when do you act so calm and rational?" Eijiro said, "Usually you're all like…" He imagined the vitriolic Katsuki Bakugo that tells people to die. "I'm always calm and rational, you red-haired loser!" Katsuki shouted at him.
Kirishima simply smiled, "Yeah, there you are." He said, Bakugo grunted in response. "Go find the others if you want to." He said, about to walk, "Wait, hold up! I think what you're really saying is that you believe in our classmates." Eijiro put his fists together, "And that's thinkin' like a man, Bakugo." All Katsuki did was just glare at him, aggressively.
(Said students are okay)
Mashirao knocked out two villain and launched himself from a streetlight in the Fire Zone. "I have to help the others." He told himself.
In the Squall Zone, Koji lured a few villains in for Fumikage to take out with Dark Shadow. They gave each other a thumbs up, seeing as how they're slowly dealing with them effectively. "We're reducing their numbers, but very slowly." Fumikage said, "I hope it helps in the long run."
(Back with Tenya and Ochaco)
Tenya had his eyes shut, but almost instantly, the darkness and the smoke villain was off of him. "I don't know what his Quirk is, but he's wearing some kinda weird armor. So he must have a physical body inside here somewhere!" Ochaco said, revealing she used her Quirk to lift the villain off of him. She threw him in the air! "Now! Run, Iida!" She said, Tenya made it to the door, trying to pull it open.
The villain still attempted, but Hanta stopped him by taping his armor, with Rikido grabbing it to pull him away and launched him away.
Tenya managed to get the door open and then, gave himself a boost and ran back to the school!
He's got out, now he's able to call backup.
(Back with Aizawa and the three)
The Nomu tried to regain his grip on Aizawa, the pro grunted in pain, as he felt powerless. "Get off of him!" Lucas said, trying to push him off again. "Keep your focus on me, kid." The blue-haired man grabbed Lucas' staff, "Gotcha." Lucas head-butted him and held him down. "Wh-What the?" Lucas looked at him, "Call him off or I throw you across this facility." He threatened, he wouldn't stoop to it, but he kept a neutral look on what could be seen from him. He hoped the villain would buy the threat, "A useless endeavor, boy." A voice snuck up from behind him, smoke surrounded him, blinding Lucas to where, next thing he knew, he was held down.
"Not bad. Even without a Quirk, you're trouble." He said, "Tomura Shigaraki." The smoke villain said the name of his cohort. "Kurogiri, did you managed to kill Thirteen?" He asked, "The rescue hero is out of commission, but there were students I wasn't able to disperse and one of them got outside of the facility." He said, Tomura looked at him, and started growling, "Kurogiri…You fool, if you weren't our warp gate, I'd tear apart every last atom in your body." He threatened, trying to keep a firm grip on the student who dared try to fight them.
"Use your power again, and I destroy you in seconds." He threatened, but then returned to his conversation with his cohort, "Rgh, there's no way we can win if dozens of pros show up to stop us. It's game over. Back to the title screen." He said, Lucas tried to use his ice, "And I was looking forward to finishing this today. Let's go home." He said, not letting up from the boy.
"I have a bad feeling about this, Midoriya." Tsuyu said, "It seems weird that they'd retreat at this point, even if help is on the way." Izuku said, pointing out their best chance to kill All Might would be this moment. "Why is this "game over"?" He thought to himself, he looked at Lucas on the floor. "He's locked in a bad position. He shouldn't have run in, but…still, we need to get Lucas away from them. They now have two hostages." Izuku tried to think about this situation, but then Shigaraki spoke up. "Oh, before we go. Let's make sure the Symbol of Peace is broken. Let's wreck his pride!" He shouted, throwing Lucas into the water and going for Asui. Izuku freaked out, remembering what he did to Aizawa's arm, but then…Tsuyu was fine. "Huh…you REALLY are so cool." He said, realizing Aizawa was using his Quirk. He lifted up his head, stopping him. The Nomu then slammed him into the ground again. Izuku jumped up, trying to punch him. Freaking out a bit on the inside, "You! Let her go, now! SMASH!" He threw a punch at Shigaraki, wind pushed off of it, pushing the waves from the Shipwreck Zone and the villains still walking around. Izuku looked at his arm, realizing his arm wasn't broken. Perhaps the training was paying off.
Lucas coughed up as he got out of the water, realizing Izuku was near that Nomu creature.
"Where'd he come from?" Izuku questioned, "Wait, hold on…It didn't…hurt him?" The punch did nothing to the Nomu. Then, Izuku remembered what Tsuyu said about their way to kill All Might…
"No way…" Was all he said.
"You're pretty powerful. This 'smash' of yours…Are you one of All Might's disciples?" Shigaraki said, Lucas looked at him, wondering what was he talking about.
"Doesn't matter. I'm done with you, now." The Nomu grabbed Izuku and was about to slam him, Tsuyu tried to grab Izuku.
However, Tomura went for her. Lucas tried to prepare his ice power, to freeze him in place before he tried to hurt his friends
However, that all was silenced when the entrance was blasted open.
The students by the entrance smiled, "Have no fear, students." All Might made it in time, without his trademark smile. A fierce glare, Izuku and Lucas realized their chances of victory were high.
"Huh…Looks like our game's getting a "continue." was all Tomura said.
(Okay, so here we are. I hope I wrote Lucas getting enough action. I figured you guys wanted to see more of that. Obviously, I didn't want to make him OP during this fight, so he had to sorta lose against Shigaraki. Well, we're closer to the end of this part in MHA's story. Like I said, after this. I wanted to make a couple chapters about Claus to make sure we checked up on him. Anyways, remember to stay strong and awesome! I pray that God is more involved in your lives)
