Here is chapter 18, and oh boy...

So really quickly, gonna save all the reviews until chapter 21, that way it doesn't break up the story for those who are binging the chapters.

And also a BIG warning for this chapter and the next.

For this chapter, there WILL be mentions of rape/non-con but it's only mentioned, none of it will happen OR EVER happen in this story. nor do I condone such acts. but in context, we have 18+ teenagers fighting off basically scum and villains willing to kill the students, it's easy to assume that many of them wouldn't mind doing more despicable things to either male or female members of the class.

For this chapter and the next one, plus from here on... there will be excessive violent scenes at times and the results of which leading to "permanent consequences".

... that last bit will make sense in Part 4.

Anyway, please enjoy part 2!

Disclaimer: I do not own the rights to My Hero Academia and Final Fantasy XIV, they belong to their copyright holders.

Chapter 18

USJ Part 2 - Game Over

"Now that I am no longer being interrupted…" spoke the villain known as Kurogiri as the shadowy portal had enveloped and taken Bakugo and Kirishima, who had leaped at the villain during his monologue and introduction, only to get displaced somewhere much to the horror of Thirteen and the remaining students.

"But, I shouldn't be surprised," continued the rather gentlemanly villain, "you are all here to train to become future heroes… well, sadly… I daresay that those dreams will now have to be cut short. Now DISPERSE!"

As Kurogiri shouted the last word, the black mist of his body enveloped all around the class on the top platform of the USJ; various shouts and screams could be heard from outside of the abyss as Izuku was fighting against the wind pressure caused by the villain's quirk, covering his face with his arms and hands to try and see.

That was, however, short-lived as he felt himself begin to fall. Once he felt the wind pressure dissipate a little, he opened his eyes and, once again, to his horror, watched as he began to tumble out of the misty portal over top of what amounted to a large lake with a half-sunken boat smack dab in the middle of it.

Except as he was tumbling, Izuku had noticed that he wasn't going to fall into the water… no, he had been teleported above the boat and was rapidly moving towards it from a great height above! Izuku shouted a few expletives unlike himself as he tumbled faster and faster towards the boat's front deck.

The green-haired boy's back slammed hard into the wooden floorboards with a resounding thud. A short gasp of air escaped out of his throat as he bounced once down the deck before he came to a stop looking up at the dome ceiling of the USJ. He blinked a few times before slowly sitting up, grunting slightly from the slight pain of his back, and realized he just survived a several-story fall.

Despite his miraculous survival and how he got nothing more than a slight pain in his back, Izuku's eyes slowly widened as he realized that he could have DIED just now. What the mist villain had said was true. They were not only here to kill All Might, but in place of him not being present at the moment, they were going to 'break his spirit' by killing his classmates and the two teachers as well.

Just as those worrisome thoughts had arrived, they quickly disappeared when Izuku heard the softest and high-pitched sneeze he ever heard before.

"AH-KUPO!"

Scrambling to his feet, Izuku made a dash towards where he heard the sneeze, which was behind some crates not too far from his landing. Once he got close enough, he slowly peeked around the faux boxes to see a smaller Moogle curled up within some netting and ropes. Izuku gently reached out and placed his hand on the head of the creature, "Hey there, I'm not going to hurt you…"

"Kupo?" The Moogle slowly turned its fuzzy head towards the teenager who was giving it the biggest smile; it squeaked and suddenly tackled the face of the hero student, bawling its eyes out as it nuzzled his face. Izuku would normally be chuckling at the small furred creature's antics and was also desperately trying to remove the Moogle from his face since it was cutting off his air supply.

That and it was shouting at such a fast pace that Izuku couldn't quite make out what it was saying… Was this how it was like for others when he had a 'mumble storm'?

Pulling the Moogle off his face with an audible 'pop', Izuku did his best to calm down the clearly frightened creature, "Shhh… hey now, just take a few deep breaths o.k.?" Izuku spoke gently, patting its head softly as the Moogle sniffed and slowly did what was asked, "That's great, just like that… now, can you tell me your name and what you're doing all the way out here?"

"*pant* K-kupo… *pant* Y-yes, I am sorry for my behavior, Warrior of Light, kupo… it's just so scary with so many bad people around and how they popped up so quickly!" The small Moogle whimpered as Izuku gently rubbed its head gently again, making sure not to touch the pom or how it was connected to the creature's head, something that Mog told Izuku never to do as it was very sensitive.

Izuku smirked still, doing his best to try and keep it calm, "I can understand; I'm a little scared too… but you can call me Izuku, ok?"

"Y-Yes, Warr- I mean… Izuku, kupo."

"That's great." Izuku beamed a more giant smile which further thrilled the Moogle, at least from what Izuku could make out, "Now, what's your name and what are you doing here?"

The Moogle perked up its ears and floated a little away from him, moving past the crates where it was hiding to look over the water-filled area, as well as the more visible zones of the USJ, before turning around and facing Izuku, "M-My name is Mogal… I am part of Moogle squad number 86, kupo, and I-I am here because our squad is in charge of keeping this complex in tip-top shape."

Izuku nodded gently, rubbing his chin, "Then, are the other Moogles about?"

Mogal gently rubbed the back of its head, looking peevish, "N-no… they left an hour ago; I stayed behind because this zone was mine to make sure it was prepared for today's classes. I-it's my first assignment by Nezzy, and I-I wanted to make sure everything was perfect, kupo! .. but then the scary people showed up… a-and I hid."

As the small Moogle continued to speak, Izuku looked out towards the other zones; he could hear the fighting of the central plaza still going on and his ever-growing worry for his fellow classmates and his homeroom teacher as well. Not that he doubted Aizawa in his combat skills and the fact the underground hero was not a 'one-trick pony' as he stated to the green-haired boy before diving into the mass of villains in the central plaza.

Something about the other two beings that were beside Kurogiri made Izuku's skin crawl, and in the back of his mind, he knew that they were the real threat of all of this. Izuku looked back towards Mogal just as they both heard a loud thud coming from the boat's opposite end. Izuku turned to Mogal with a determined look, met with the Moogle's more scared-looking one.

"Mogal, I know you're scared, but I really need your help right now." Izuku whispered to the creature, who suddenly perked up and nodded its head, "Are there anyways for you to get back to the university?"

"There's a tunnel entrance that leads to Moghome in that mountain zone place, but it's only big enough for Moogles, sadly…"

"That's fine; I need you to go to the mountain zone and get back to…wait, 'Moghome'?" Izuku raised an eyebrow at Mogal, who nodded its head in return to the question.

"Yes! It's where the Moogles live, underneath the main university building, kupo."

Izuku blinked a couple of times at Mogal before sighing to himself and internally muttered to himself that he and Nezu would need to speak about that when and if they survived this, "Right, I know it's going to be scary, but we need to let the school know what's going on, and you're the only one here that can sneak past all the bad people… can you do that for me, Mogal?"

The Moogle stared at Izuku for a few moments, quivering slightly, but then suddenly puffed its chest out and saluted before flying off towards the mountain zone with a rather loud charge of 'kupo!'. Izuku sighed gently, thinking that Mogal must have been a younger Moogle as while no one could technically see them, HEARING them was an entirely different matter.

But, now was not the time to think about that. Someone just climbed onto the deck from over the side. While Izuku had no qualms with fighting any villains, he was more worried about how many of them he could take before he was overwhelmed and who knows what they do to him then.

Or worse if they had captured any of his classmates.

As he peeked around the corner, ready to jump and ambush the would-be attackers, his guard was instantly dropped as he watched Yuga slowly pick himself up off the deck, with Tsuyu slowly climbing over the railing. Izuku beamed brightly as he ran over towards his two friends, "Tsuyu! Yuga! Are you guys alright?"

Yuga spurted out some water as Izuku had reached him first, and Yuga took the offered hand given to him by Izuku to help him stand up, "O-Oui, if not for Mademoiselle Asui… I would be that shark man's appetizer!"

Izuku raised an eyebrow at the french-speaking boy before moving towards Tsuyu, helping her over the railing and receiving a gentle 'kero' in thanks, before turning her attention to Yuga, "I thought I said you can call me 'Tsuyu'."

"Ah, you did, but pardonnez mes manières, I shall try and correct myself in the future," Yuga said with a gentle bow, only to look towards Izuku who was looking over the railing with a frown, Tsuyu had noticed this as well as gently placed her hand on Izuku's arm.

"Is something wrong, Izuku?"

"Hmm?" Izuku turned his head towards his two classmates but then blushed as he came away from the railing, "S-sorry about that, just making sure that it was the same shark villain from before."

"Wait, 'before', kero? What do you mean before?" Tsuyu asked with a tilt of her head, Yuga beside her and nodding in agreement to the question.

Izuku gently rubbed the back of his head, looking away while still sporting his blush, "I-I know him because he was attacking M-Mina, Kyoka, and M-Momo, and I was able to take him down with my gunbreaker kit…" He then started to tap the ends of his index fingers together, looking a little ashamed, "... and the second time I almost got charged for vigilantism…"

Both Tsuyu and Yuga stared at Izuku, processing that little tidbit of information about their friend. They stayed silent for a few moments before the ribbit from Tsuyu caught both of the boy's attention, "Anyway, what are we going to do?"

"That depends. Should we not wait for our teachers to come rescue or wait for the university to send more pro heroes?" Yuga asked, leaning against the faux boat's wall with his arms crossed and looking at the two greenettes.

"Kaminari couldn't get through with his headset, remember, kero? Plus, what Todoroki had said could be true as well; this was all planned and accounted for." Tsuyu spoke up, and though her face was hiding it pretty well, Izuku could hear the somewhat frightened tone of her voice. As Izuku was looking at the frog girl, his eyes slowly widened as he came to a realization.

"It wasn't all accounted for."

"Hmm? What do you mean, Monsieur Midoriya?"

Izuku looked at his two classmates, making sure he wasn't going to break out into a mutter with his explanation, "Yesterday, we had that incident at the gates where the press got in, right? It is easy to see now that it was a distraction for these 'League of Villains' to sneak into the university and find a schedule."

Both Tsuyu and Yuga nodded their heads as they listened to the relatively quick explanation, "So they get the time and place where All Might is supposed to be, but nothing else… from what that Kurogiri guy said, it sounds like they never took into consideration if All Might would should up or not, only that he was said to be here."

"So, they have poor timing, kero… I don't see how a small detail like that is going to help us." Tsuyu stated with a tilt of her head, part of her tongue sticking out, her arms crossed over one another and under her chest.

Izuku smirked at her, "That's not all; if they had accounted for everything, then why did they send you to the flood zone, Tsuyu?"

Tsuyu looked stunned when Izuku had asked her that and thought about it herself; Yuga soon came to the same conclusion as well and spoke gently, "They don't know our quirks."

"Exactly, and why do you think the villains haven't done anything or attempted to board the ship after us? Sure, we may be teenagers, but they don't know what kind of quirks or how powerful we are." Izuku said as he looked down to the villains then, gently saying, "the problem is that we don't have quirks that can subdue them or prevent them from chasing us…"

"And fighting them in the water would not be wise, as Mademoiselle Tsuyu would be the only one that can effectively fight them." Yuga stated as Tsuyu gently nodded; however, any further discussion was halted when the boat suddenly shifted. Something had hit and exploded against the faux vessel's hull. Cheers and laughter could be heard from the water as the three students looked over to see the villains with eager smiles.

"You brats were taking too long! So we got bored, and now you'll have to come down and 'play' with us!" One of the villains shouted, holding up a harpoon and cackling evilly.

"Oi! Save the girly for last; we can have some fun wit' 'er after we take care o' the lads." another villain spoke up, getting a few wolf whistles and many hungry eyes. Now, usually, Tsuyu wouldn't be intimidated by this as she dealt with perverts in her own unique way, smacking upside the head with her tongue or drop-kicking them.

But the way these villains were staring directly at her, jeering at her with lewd looks and shouting the crude things they would do to her, all the while laughing. Tsuyu shrank slightly at the thought that she and the others were not going to make it out alive, and her fate was going to be far harsher than Izuku's or Yuga's. A flash of light caught her off guard as well as Yuga, and when they both could see again, stepping in front of Tsuyu was Izuku, now wearing the gaudy-looking red mage outfit.

"The hell is up with that getup?" called out one of the villains as they all began to laugh now at the uniform Izuku was wearing, all the while the green-haired boy unsheathed the rapier and focus and hopped up onto the railing of the boat.

"And what are you gonna do with that tiny little toothpick? Buhahaha! I think he wants to die!" shouted another villain, causing more laughter at the sheer ridiculousness of the hero student's actions.

Izuku, for the most part, turned his head slightly back to his classmates and staring directly at Tsuyu. She could see the slight orange tinge around his emerald irises again, "Twenty meters is your tongue's maximum length, right?"

"Y-yes, kero, Izuku… what are you doing?"

He turned his head back towards the villains, and in a tone she would never expect to hear coming from him, was an icy voice that sent shivers up her spine as he spoke out to the villains, "You dare insult and threaten those dear to me, well, count on this you bunch of low-life degenerates, I will take you out in one shot. So if I were you, I'd get myself out of the water damn quickly."

"HA! Yer bluffin'!" called out a villain, "Yer nothing but a weak lil' shit! Thinking he's all high and mighty cuz he thinks he can be some sort of hero right now? Well, I got news for you, boy, we ain't going to kill ya outright and force you to watch as we use yer lil' friend as our personal whore!"

Izuku snarled loudly at the mere mention of such a despicable act and leaped from the railing. The villains all smiled with glee and readied themselves for the all-red-wearing boy to crash into the water, and they could take him out.

That never came to pass, however, as they watched the student spin his rapier around, and with an audible click coming from that odd crystal bauble thing, the gaudy-looking hero wannabe shouted out something that caused the villains face's to turn deathly pale.

"SWIFTCAST! VERTHUNDER!"

A giant beam of electricity shot forth from the crystal as the villains had begun to scramble in fright, only for the shouted pains and cries of agony to fill the area as it brightly lit up. Izuku was suddenly yanked back towards the boat and landed, rather harshly, on his butt. He winced, and just as he was about to say something, he felt the sudden sting of a hand slapping his cheek, which had somehow knocked him out of his kit and back into his gym uniform.

"Ow! W-what was that-" "You are an idiot, kero!" Tsuyu had interrupted and had knelt down in front of him, pulling her hand back to her side from the slap she had given him, staring 'angrily' at him before suddenly tackling the boy and kissing him deeply.

Izuku 's eyes went wide as he froze stiff from not only the kiss but the softness and weight of the frog girl on top of him. After a few moments of the relatively deep kiss, Tsuyu gently pulled away from his lips, panting softly, "That was for sticking up for me… the slap was for doing something so stupid…You ever pull a stunt like that again, It will be more than just my hand, kero."

Izuku nodded dumbly as Tsuyu slowly crawled off of him and helped the still frozen boy up to his feet. It took a few more moments for Izuku to snap out of his current state to notice that Yuga had come from around the front of the boat, having 'mysteriously' been absent since Izuku was reeled back onto the ship. Tsuyu gently cleared her throat, calming herself down and doing her best to hide her blush as she turned to Yuga, who either seemed to not notice or care for the current state of his two classmates, "Is it clear on the other side of the boat, kero?"

"Oui, it seems that most of the villains were gathered on this side." Yuga smiled at the two, giving a subtle wink to Izuku, who blushed crimson once again, "We should be able to swim across with relative ease."

"A-actually, there is another way…" Izuku gently raised a hand, "I c-could jump us towards shore with my dragoon kit."

"Would you be able to carry us all in one jump, kero?" Tsuyu asked, tilting her head and placing her finger on her chin as if she was thinking. Izuku gently nodded but was tapping his index fingers again.

"Just one thing… I want to head towards the central plaza instead of straight back towards the entrance. I'm worried about Mr. Aizawa."

"Izuku." Tsuyu stared at him, though her face gave no emotion, the green-haired boy flinched from the somewhat angered gleam in her eyes. Izuku raised his hands up and waved them back and forth.

"I-it's not to directly get caught up in the fight with all those villains, n-nor am I saying that Mr. Aizawa couldn't handle it… b-but given the looks of those three that came out of the portal after all the other villains, and f-from what that Kurogiri guy had said… it sounds like they may have a way to kill All Might, and Aizawa should focus more on them… so if we maybe take out a few of the lesser villains to lighten his load…" shrinking and muttering softly, going into further speculation of what could occur, Tsuyu and Yuga looked to one another.

Both students were worried about their teacher; there was no doubt about that, but Aizawa was a pro hero. Having just survived one encounter with many villains to just head straight to another was a very unappealing option. However, Izuku did have a point, Aizawa was only one man, and he would tire out eventually, leaving him open for the other villains as well as the ones Izuku had hypothesized to be the real threat.

With a gentle sigh and a smirk, Yuga spoke first, "You are indeed correct, mon ami, we should aid our teacher as best as we can… after all, we are only students, and while I do not doubt your or mademoiselle's fighting prowess, I… may be lacking in terms of my ability with fisticuffs."

"Out of the water, I can only do so much, kero." Tsuyu admitted and looked to Izuku, "But no jumping in unless we absolutely have to."

Izuku nodded immediately, and with a flash of light, was now dressed in the familiar dragoon armor that the other two students had not seen since the assessment tests, though currently lacking the helmet for some odd reason. The aloof look coming off of the boy as he shifted the spear on his back slightly reminded Tsuyu that this was one of the 'kits' she had trouble with, though it seemed his presence now was far more dimmed down than before.

Something she thanked the high heaven's for as that was the last thing she needed currently.

As the three students walked to the other side of the boat, Izuku stopped close to the railing and narrowed his eyes in concentration for a few moments before turning towards his classmates, "I can get us there in about two jumps; however, once we make it to the shore, I will be shifting my current kit towards the warrior."

"Why is that?" Yuga asked, raising an eyebrow at his friend.

"I can take hits better in that kit; also, the weapon I wield as a warrior is blunted enough that should combat be necessary, I won't need to hold back on my attacks, unlike with my spear, which is sharp enough to cause… major injuries."

Tsuyu and Yuga now looked at the wicked-looking weapon. They got what Izuku had meant, granted they had seen Izuku change his weapon's style during the battle trial with Bakugo. Still, perhaps there wasn't a 'blunt' option for this particular kit. Shifting slightly, Izuku cleared his throat to get their attention again, "Now, I can carry both of you while I jump, but one person will need to hang from my back while the other is being held-" "I'm in the front, kero."

Both boys looked to the frog girl who was just staring at Izuku, "I'm being held in the front, kero, or is that a problem?"

Silence came across the group for a few moments until Yuga picked up on the implications and chuckled softly, patting Izuku's shoulder and walking behind him, "I shall wait to climb up on your back while you carry ton amant, mon ami."

Izuku looked back to Yuga for a moment in utter confusement; he really needed to learn french after this so he could understand what his friend was saying half the time, before turning back to Tsuyu, who was still staring at him, "...I am fine with that?" was his answer before the frog girl leaped up in such a way that she ended up being caught in Izuku's arms in what was called 'bridal style'.

Tsuyu looked up at Izuku's face to see his reaction. While she was slightly disappointed that he wasn't stuttering like a big mess of emotions like he usually would, she could see the dusting of pink across his emotionless face, which she returned with a fake innocent smile.

Yuga was snickering lightly as he climbed up on the back of his armored classmate, careful not to jostle the spear from whatever sort of power was keeping it attached to Izuku's back, "I am ready, Monsieur Midoriya."

Izuku cleared his throat, giving an affirmative 'hmm' sound. He turned towards the open water and the central plaza's shoreline; he held tightly to Tsuyu as he squatted down for a moment before leaping up high into the air.

And as he was doing his best to ignore the soft curves of the frog girl in his arms, who was currently nestling her head against his chest for some unknown reason to him. Izuku was hoping that Mogal had made it to the mountain zone's hidden entrance and help was already on its way.

Meanwhile, at that same time…

"Don't even think about it! Drop your weapons or I'll fry this brat's brain!" shouted the giant villain with a metallic looking skull on his head, as he was holding Kaminari, who was slowly regaining his mental awareness after using a large area of effect electrocution to take out most if not all the villains that had surrounded himself, Momo, and Kyoka earlier, "Just because we have similar quirks doesn't mean I can't liquefy his brain!"

Kyoka tsked as her plan to try and snake her ear jacks and stun the big lout had been found out, and slowly began to lower the blunted sword that Momo had created her, the creation user herself also doing the same with a scowl as the villain bellowed out a laugh to see the two girls raise their arms up in surrender.

"Oh, this is perfect! Having you two do whatever I say so long as I have this pathetic boy's neck grasped in my hand... " The villain sneered under the helmet, which further upset the girls, "But since this is a university, I'll teach ya something that even your lame-ass teachers won't… Wanna know what it is?"

Both girls remained quiet, not only afraid of where the villain was going with this bit of speech, but also for the growing worry what the villain had planned for them and could force them to do. When the villain flexed his fingers against Kaminari's neck, earning a choked cough from the boy, he chuckled darkly, "You see, ladies, just because you do what was demanded of you doesn't mean they weren't lying!"

The villain roared with laughter as both girls' scowls turned into pure fright as Kaminari started to struggle and try to escape before he was killed, only for a resounding metallic thunk to echo in the mountain area.

The villain's laughter ceased, and his grip on Kaminari's neck loosened before the lumbering man fell onto his knees and then face down in the dirt. The rocker boy quickly dashed away from the now unconscious villain towards his two classmates, who were staring in the direction he had just fled from, "Sorry about that, ladies, couldn't really do much in the state I was in, are you both alright?"

When he was met with no reaction or response, Kaminari raised an eyebrow before turning back to where the giant villain was. His eyes went wide as well when he saw the small, white-furred creature floating above the knocked out man, tiny arms wielding a large frying pan before 'poofing' it out of existence with a small cloud of smoke and placing its little hands on its 'hips', "There, kupo, took out the mean man before he hurt that boy! Exactly what the Warrior of Light would do!"

It seemed to pause for a moment before patting its chubby cheeks together, "No, kupo, he said to call him Izuku! Right, Izuku… now I need to get back to Moghome, kupo." It spoke in a high-pitched voice, floating off with tiny little bat wings flapping on its back. It made its way towards a large jagged boulder as it continued to speak, "Shame the students couldn't see or hear me, kupo, maybe they would have said thank you, and I would have more friends, kupo! Oh well, such is the life of a Moogle."

The creature floated around the large boulder, and for a few moments silence once again took over the mountain zone and the three members of class 1-A.

"What in the world was that thing?!" Momo shouted loudly, completely in shock at such an adorable creature and just how… physically impossible it seemed to be, given it was flying around on the tiniest wings with a large fluffy body that would generally make it hard for any sort of flight in the logical sense.

"Hold on, it knew Izuku, but why did it call him 'Warrior of Light'? " asked Kyoka with Kaminari nodding in confusion as well, however, before anyone else could say anything, Kyoka's ear jacks rose up, and her eyes went wide, as she could faintly hear the distant shout of her green-haired friend/crush, and turning her head towards the central plaza were a sudden explosion of dust could be seen from where the three stood.

Both women turned to one another after seeing the plume of smoke and dust rise, then nodded as they quickly made their way towards the central plaza, leaving an awestruck and frustrated Kaminari in their wake.

"...I'm fine, by the way," he said to no one as he quickly went to go catch up with his two classmates.

Back at the central plaza…

Izuku could not believe what he saw, along with Tsuyu and Yuga, who was crouching down in the water and watching the events play out as they did. They had observed their teacher systematically take down scores of the thugs and lower-class villains using his quirk and techniques with his scarf.

Izuku marveled at watching the display. It was rare for any footage of their teacher in combat, giving his status as an underground hero. During his younger years, the hero-obsessed boy would only find the odd photo that barely showed the man during his many attempts to get information out on him.

But now, Izuku felt like a kid in a candy store as he watched Aizawa do his heroic duty… if only he had his notebook with him.

This moment, however, was shattered when the pale-haired man had suddenly launched himself at incredible speeds towards Aizawa, lunging with open hand strikes as if to grab the tired-looking teacher for some odd reason. Thankfully, Aizawa was able to dodge and weave from the strikes, as well as blocking them with his arms hitting the villain's own arms away. Things were going relatively smoothly as the two continued to fight until they two held one another in an arm lock that gave nether one an advantage, with one of the villain's fingers all clasping Aizawa's right elbow, except for a raised up pinky finger.

"You're really cool, Eraserhead… but I got you figured out." stated the villain in a raspy, dark tone of voice, "While you cover your eyes with those goggles to prevent anyone from seeing where you are looking, your hair floats up when your quirk is activated...that's your tell… and seeing it raise up and down so often is when your blinking, possibly due to keeping your eyes nice and moist."

Aizawa grunted as he internally scolded himself to let such a thing be noticed, holding the arms of the villain tighter as the beady red eyes staring at the underground hero looked gleeful. Before Aizawa could retort to the villain's claims, he shouted in pure agony as he felt incredible pain coming from his right elbow. He pushed the villain back and away from him, turning his attention to his elbow and grunting in annoyance now more than pain, seeing part of his shirt totally missing along with what looked like his skin and exposing his bare muscle to the air.

"Hehehe…" the villain chuckled lowly, shrugging his shoulders and now standing more relaxed, "To think I was able to get a hit on THE Eraserhead, well… as you may have guessed, it was me who took down your pathetic little security grid, what with my quirk." He raised his hand up, wiggling his fingers, "Anything I touch with all of my fingers turns to dust… disintegrated to nothing!... you wouldn't believe how many controllers I destroyed by gripping them too hard."

"And what? That's how you'll kill All Might? You wouldn't be quick enough to touch him before he smashes your face in." Aizawa shouted loudly, though, from the cover of his goggles, he could see three of his students ducked in the water and was internally fuming that they were there when they should have stayed together with the rest of the class.

The teacher's attention was brought back to the manchild before him; however, when the villain bellowed a sickly laugh, "What? Do you think I'm the final boss of this encounter? No no… That's reserved for him... NOMU!" As the name was called out, a large shadow encompassed Aizawa, who looked behind to see the large ebony being with an exposed brain staring him down, ".. break him."

Izuku clutched the ax in his hand as he and the other two students watched as the being known as 'Nomu' began to fight their teacher. The odd villain's presence was overwhelming even from where they stood as it seemed to radiate this aura of terror. While it looked bulky and muscular, Nomu appeared to be just as quick or even quicker than Aizawa, having grappled the underground hero and started to slam him over and over again into the ground.

All the while, the pale-haired villain was laughing maniacally, "Nomu was designed to kill All Might; anything you do is useless compared to the power of my 'Anti-Symbol of Peace'!"

Izuku growled as he began to lift himself from the water, only to feel a hand on his shoulder. He turned his head to look at Yuga, who frowned and shook his head, "I know it is painful to watch, but we cannot go against that kind of power!"

Tsuyu had croaked in agreement, which seemed to settle Izuku down a bit. However, all of their attention returned towards the 'fight' before them when a dark portal appeared beside the hand-covered villain.

"Tomura Shigaraki," spoke the elegant sounding Kurogiri, who had gained the attention of the now named Tomura, "Thirteen has been indisposed; however, one of the students has escaped, and reinforcements from the heroes will be here momentarily."

"Dammit, Kurogiri!" Tomura fumed as the villain scratched the back of his neck roughly with only four fingers, "If you weren't our means of escape, I'd dust you right here and now." He sighed heavily as he watched the Nomu pin Aizawa down and grab the arm with the partially destroyed elbow and suddenly yanking it back and, with a bone-crushing crack, broke the teacher's arm.

Aizawa was doing his best to bite down and not shout in complete agony. Still, his partially broken goggles betrayed the look of utter pain in his eyes. Tomura grunted boredly, idly watching the Nomu keep the underground hero pinned down, "Well, so much for this 'kill quest', time to wrap this up, I think, and not waste any more time."

"See? They are leaving. It's almost over…" Yuga said in a whisper to his two friends, though something deep down in Izuku's gut told it it was far from over and gripped the ax of his warrior kit even harder.

"Ugh, and it was the perfect plan to kill All Might too!" whined the villain as he continued to scratch the back of his neck, "Oh well, might as well break his spirit," Tomura said in a dark tone as he slowly turned his head a little to the three students.

At first, what happened next felt very quick; Shigaraki had leaped a great distance towards the three students at a tremendous amount of speed, his right arm reaching out and his hand ready to grab Tsuyu's. Time then seemed to slow down as Izuku turned to look at the frog girl. His eyes widened as he imagined the villain had completed his intended path, and the girl that Izuku knew and cared for would be turned to dust.

Tsuyu was no better as she watched the hand enclose around her face, feeling the relatively dry fingertips of the villain around her face. Her short life flashed before her eyes, expecting her rather gruesome end before she could tell Izuku how she felt about him.

However, nothing happened, and everyone stayed like that for a few moments as Tomura chuckled lowly, "You are so cool, Eraserhead…."

Aizawa, while not being able to keep focus for long and was barely breathing with blood running down his head, had raised his head just enough to look at the pale-haired villain with one of his eyes, straining his eye to keep his quirk active while the villain held his student in his grasp.

Izuku snapped suddenly out of his stupor at the horrible thoughts that just plagued his mind momentarily, his emerald eyes flashing fully over into that dull orange from before, then turning into a burning and deep red as he snarled and leaped from where he was, his ax reeled back as Tomura began to look towards his direction, only to see a face full of rage and absolute hate.

"DON'T YOU FUCKING DARE TOUCH HER! ONSLAUGHT!"

Izuku roared loudly as he swung the blunted ax rapidly towards Tomura's stomach. Though the villain looked shocked at first, his vision was soon encompassed in all black before he and his 'guardian' were sent hurtling back and skipping across the central plaza, crashing into the fountain that laid at the direct center and then further past that until a large plume of smoke erupted upwards.

"SHIGARAKI!" Kurogiri shrieked loudly and disappeared into a portal, hurryingly chasing after his struck master. Izuku was panting heavily, his muscles flexed as he began to calm down, and his pure red eyes faded back into his normal emerald ones, panting gently as he looked to the rising plume of dust and smoke from his swing. He then turned his attention to Tsuyu, who seemed to still be out of it, and after placing the ax back onto his back, and knelt down to the frog girl. Gently he put his hand on her cheek, holding it there as the warmth of his hand snapped her out of whatever daze she was in, her beady irises meeting his large emeralds. He beamed her a soft smile as he spoke in a low tone of voice, "Hey Tsuyu, are you alright?"

The only response the warrior had received was a deep croak and a large blush running across her face as she was shaking slightly as if chilled. Izuku, thinking something must be wrong, quickly brought her into a warm embrace, holding her tightly against his bare chest as his hand gently rubbed the back of her head, continued to speak softly in that same tone as before, "It's alright, Tsuyu… you're safe now…"

In reality, Tsuyu wasn't shaking due to the dread of nearly dying; that was only a tiny part of the issue. No, it was because Izuku had just protected her in such a powerful way that she wanted to pretty much tackle the boy and mate with him right then and there, screw the consequences. The bare-chested boy mistaking her issue as being frightened of nearly dying and embracing her and rubbing the back of her head was not helping matters as she was doing her best to not simply croak in pleasure.

Thankfully, the 'torture' soon ended as Yuga had called for their attention towards their downed teacher and made Izuku slowly pull away from her and begin to head towards the underground hero in need of aid. Tsuyu, once calming herself down, eventually joined them as Izuku and Yuga started to look over the various wounds.

Thank god for that first-aid class the previous week.

"I… thought… I told you *cough*... to stay together…" Aizawa wheezed out as Yuga had taken off his cape and ripped it into long lengths for a semi-workable arm sling for their teacher.

"I'm sorry, sir, but the class was all separated when the mist villain teleported up to the entrance and used it to send us all across the USJ. However, the villains waiting in the zones for us seemed to be very ill-prepared from what we could tell with the ones in the flood zone." Izuku spoke in a firm tone, debriefing the situation to his teacher, something Aizawa would make a mental note of, because for a teenage boy who just started learning how to be a hero… that was just as good as a regular pro would give.

Izuku had taken off the fur cape back he had been wearing to place it gently under Aizawa's head, Tsuyu helping him left the head to also bring the broken goggles down his face to check his eyes for any possible damage to them as well as look for signs of a concussion. As the two young heroes were doing this, Yuga had been standing guard, watching and looking around for a surprise attack. They all know that Kurogiri could teleport anywhere. While the smoke had dissipated a little, the villains had yet to merge from its blinding camouflage.

A cough from Aizawa made Yuga turn his head towards the teacher, seeing his two friends tend to him when something dark caught the french boy's attention coming from behind Izuku, a small portal that would be easily hidden from Tsuyu's sight due to Izuku's larger size. Yuga didn't hesitate as he leaped towards Izuku with a side tackle.

*SQUELCH*

Izuku's eyes went wide as he watched the sharpened piece of rebar and cement pushed through the portal, intended to impale him and instead hit Yuga in the chest on the right side. Blood splattered across the other three's bodies as Yuga landed hard onto the ground, Izuku looking at his unmoving friend for a solid moment before his eyes shrank, "YUGA!"

Izuku scrambled to the boy's side, carefully turning him over and looking on in horror at the large piece of cement embedded into his friend's chest. His hands twitched as he frantically searched and thought of ways to try and treat this sort of wound; nothing in his memories was coming to mind until the blood-filled cough of Yuga got his attention, "Yuga! Hold on, we can get this patched up!"

"N-Non, mon ami, I-I don't think I can last… much longer…" Yuga wheezed and coughed up more blood, some of it landing on Izuku's bewildered face as the blond french boy looked up to his friend, "Mon-Mon… Izuku… can you tell me something…"

"What? What is it, Yuga?"

"Was.. *cough* Was I dazzling til the end?" Yuga asked gently, causing Izuku to tear up a little as he slowly smiled.

"Yes.. yes, you are the most dazzling person I've ever known, and you will continue to do so! Just hold on!" Izuku spoke softly at first but raised his voice, hoping that it would make his friend all better. Yuga chuckled softly at his friend's antics before looking towards Tsuyu, whose hand was covering her mouth, and tears also began to roll down her cheeks as she watched what was happening before her as well.

His gaze came back to Izuku, whose eyes were tearing up wildly like streams of a river, "Izuku, mon ami… prom-promise me… one thing."

"Anything! Just stay with us, Yuga!"

"Promise me… to… always smile." Yuga coughed harshly this time, more blood running down the corner of his mouth, "Smile when… you save people… always smile. Because…"

"Yuga, no! Keep holding on!"

Yuga's gaze slowly began to fade, growing cloudy in appearance as he gently breathed out the last thing Izuku would ever hear from his often flamboyant, kind, and wonderful friend.

"...A smile better suits… a hero…"

Something close to a cold breeze followed the silence of the last sentence of Yuga Aoyama, despite no wind to cause it, crept along with the remaining two hero students, while Aizawa was grunting and gurgling in pain to at least see if he could assist in some way to save his fallen student to no avail. Izuku very gently lowered his friend back onto the ground and gently moved his hand over his friend's eyes to close them, making sure to use a part of it that was not covered in the young man's blood.

A slow clapping killed the silence of the moment as the three villains slowly walked out of a portal a few yards away, none of them looking the worse for wear as Shigaraki chuckled lowly before exploding in a burst of maniacal laughter, "Well, wasn't my first choice, but that's one annoying newb down… nineteen more to go! GAHAHAHA!"

Tsuyu growled out a croak as she was about to attack the insensitive and clearly evil man laughing, but a firm hand grabbed hers as she looked down to her teacher, who was glaring deathly at her as if to root her in place. The metallic sound of a weapon being dragged caught both their attention as Izuku was now standing up, still facing away from them, with his ax now being held in both hands.

"Midoriya," Aizawa said in a dark and warning tone of voice before violently coughing, Tsuyu moving to help him ease his pain before they both looked at the green-haired teenager.

"I'm sorry, sir, but we need to keep them preoccupied until help can arrive; punish me when all this is over, but I have to protect you and my classmates," Izuku spoke in a firm tone, without looking back towards them, keeping his eyes only on the villains before him.

Aizawa grunted, laying his head back down onto the fur pillow, clearly exhausted and barely able to keep himself awake anymore. Usually, he would reprimand the student for disobeying him, this was no normal circumstance, and he was right. They needed time.

"... Fine, be lucky I don't expel you if we survive this."

Izuku grunted an amused response to the teacher's threat, knowing it was half-heartedly true. He turned his head slightly, still watching the villains, "Tsuyu…"

"Kero?"

"When this is all over, let's go to a cafe off-campus and talk…."

Tsuyu's eyes widened in shock at what Izuku had just said, unable to respond to his statement as the warrior began to jog towards the group of enemies, raising his weapon high and reeling it back while he let out a mighty roar of a battle cry.

All the while, a grin hidden under his 'hand mask' as Shigaraki watched the wannabe hero charge straight towards his doom.

Not too far from the central plaza, three groups of students had arrived at the outskirts of the central plaza as they just witnessed their classmate raise up his weapon and charge towards the villains, only to be intercepted by the one with the exposed brain. When they collided, they felt the air pressure from every blow as Izuku roared with every swing.

From the edge of the 'Ruins Zone', Kirishima and Bakugo stood watching the fight. The red-headed boy cheering Izuku on with encouraging words while also using the word manly every third or fourth cheer. Bakugo, on the other hand, was growling in anger as he watched Deku mercilessly swing and hit the odd villain over and over again, though seeing that the blunt ax head while connecting wasn't doing any sort of lasting damage. In his mind, Bakugo was quick to realize that the beaked person clearly had some kind of shock absorption or something.

All this came ahead when the pale-haired villain gleefully called out how Deku was an idiot, that the 'Nomu' had a quirk akin to near-limitless shock absorption. His point was made when the now named Nomu had grabbed the head of the weapon and crushed it under its grip before nailing their green-haired classmate with a right hook and sending him flying towards the raised edge of the zone he and 'shitty hair' were at and soon collided hard into it.

Though it did not last long as a light shone from within the falling rubble, and Deku was back out in the fight, wearing that stupid dragoon armor crap, and began to zip past and back at his opponent while landing hits on it with his weird-ass spear.

"Midoribro… isn't kidding around, is he?" Kirishima had asked, looking to the still snarling Bakugo, who ignored the question and continued to watch the fight, getting more angered that it looked like the nerd hadn't come at him with his full strength during the trials, and that was really starting to tick Bakugo off even more.

Kyoka was snarling as she was listening to the inane laughter of the pale-villain who was so focused on the fight with the Nomu that he hadn't seen the small group consisting of herself, Momo, and Kaminari, who were hiding down in the bushes not far from where they saw Izuku, as a dragoon, slicing and slashing at the calves and arms of the Nomu.

"Ugh, this guy is so annoying! Now he's claiming that Nomu… thing…. has a second quirk and is regenerating any of the slices that Green is giving it!"

"H-hold on… that's kinda impossible, right? No one can have two quirks." Kaminari spoke up, clearly afraid of the fight going on and the massive weight tossed about by two prominent titans. Momo had kept her eyes strictly on the battle, her hands clasped together as she watched Izuku use that red serpentine aura once again and unleashed stabs and slices across the 'beast's' chest.

"It sounds impossible… but from what you told us, Kyoka… you sure you heard that 'Shigaraki' person saying that Nomu was 'made' to kill All Might?"

"That's what the psycho claims, and honestly, I wouldn't trust any word he says, but given how the Nomu looks and the fact its brain is exposed?... It's hard not to believe it…" The punk girl crossed her arms in thought for a moment before a screech from the 'creature' caught their attention as on a pass made by Izuku, the Nomu had allowed its hand to be penetrated by the spear only to grab it and hurtle Izuku over its head, snapping the weapon and sending the weaponless dragoon far from the where he was launched.

Izuku had righted himself, and his metallic boots were skidding along with the cement with obvious sparks coming from under his shoes against the stone before he shifted again, this time to his Red Mage outfit, and with no pause, began to hurtling balls of fire, wind, earth, and electricity through the use of the combined crystal focus and rapier. Each hit, battering and blasting bits of the Nomu off as Kaminari slowly began to turn green from the display.

"R-remind me never to make fun of his outfit's ever again…*urp*"

"NO! LET ME GO! I NEED TO GET TO YUGA!" Toru screeched and fought against the grapple hold around her stomach by Shoto, who was gritting his teeth trying to keep the invisible girl away from the very clearly dangerous fight.

"If you go out there, you may end up in the crossfire!" Shoto grunted at her when he got an elbow to his face. The heterochromatic boy turned his head to Mineta. He hoped that the purple-clad classmate would help keep Toru under control.

However, Mineta had been crying and whining about the fight and how overpowered these villains were, and they were all going to die… at that point, Shoto just ignored whatever the short boy was complaining about now, turning his attention back to the girl in his arms.

"He's one of my besties! I can see he's on the ground! He could be hurt, and I need to make sure he's ok!" Toru slowly began to slow down her arm and leg waving, and Shoto could hear a soft sniffle and the hiccups of the girl crying.

He sighed as he turned to focus on watching Izuku pummel the creature with various forms of the elements, even fire, with it having no effect albeit slowing down its noticeable regeneration quirk, "Hagakure, I mean no disrespect, but Midoriya is focused on fighting the villains right now, you running in would be catastrophic should the villain suddenly move behind you and YOU got hit by one of Midoriya's attacks... "

Toru sniffed loudly as Shoto figured she had turned her head towards the ongoing fight. Typically Shoto wasn't the best in social circumstances, given how he was 'raised' by him...to surpass the number two and one heroes, he understood that some of his social skills needed improvement… his battle trial results made that abundantly clear, "Look, Asui is with Aoyama and our teacher, he may have gotten hit by something and is just resting… once everything calms down, you can rush over to your… 'bestie'... but for now, you need to stay here and out of the fighting area."

Toru huffed, sniffling again, and muttered out an 'o.k.', for which Shoto had slowly moved his arms from around the clearly distressed girl. Just before he could say anything else, the creature had leaped towards Izuku and grabbed his wrist, tossing him across the battlefield like he was a skipping stone on a pond, the rapier and crystal being flung away and bent from the action.

Shoto frowned as he watched the rest of the fight play out, as well as the other groups, and the lone frog girl for what they witnessed next would forever change their opinions on the very odd quirk of one Izuku Midoriya.

"GAH!" Izuku had cried out as he finally came to a stop after skipping across the central plaza ground, his red mage outfit torn and shredded in places. He shook his head to get his bearings before a giant shadow loomed up above him. Izuku shot his head to look up and quickly manifested his Paladin outfit, raising the shield up to block the incoming foot of the creature he had been fighting.

He heard the cackling of Shigaraki not too far from him, who was pointing and laughing at Izuku, \pinned under the massive weight of the Nomu's foot. He could feel his shield beginning to bend slightly as he gritted his teeth under his helmet.

"HA! What a poor excuse of a mini-boss!" The villain screamed out in pure glee, "Nothing but a shitty class changer thinking he can take out my all-powerful Nomu! HAHAHAHA!"

The Nomu screeched loudly in amusement as well, or some sort of unrealistic chuckle, as Shigaraki kept on chuckling, "Go Nomu, Finish him! Pulverize that tin can on his head until nothing comes out but mush!"

Another screech from the Nomu in acknowledgment caused Izuku to struggle more, trying to free himself from being under the pin of his own shield but was not budging. Izuku looked up wide-eyed as the incoming closed fist began to descend down, time flowing slowly to him as he clutched his eyes tightly. The cries and calls of his name by his classmates were deafened by the head villain's cackling as the young hero waited for the inevitable.

One second.

Two seconds.

Five Seconds.

Ten seconds.

Thirty seconds had passed, and still no blow or blows to his head. Izuku slowly opened his eyes to see that he wasn't at the USJ anymore. It was pitch black and nothing but darkness all around him, even the floor he had been laying on had no tangible form to call it such. He slowly picked himself up, noticing he was back in his gym uniform as he looked all around him.

Where am I now?