Omg, it's finally over!

Chapter 38:

Sports Festival Finale

Howitzer Onslaught

Katsuki Bakugo was many things.

Intelligence and strength were traits that he had not only worked upon, honing those skills practicing his quirk, and working out since he was able to lift a dumbbell when he was ten years old.

While growing up, he knew that many of his so-called "classmates" were just sucking up to him, trying to live in his shadow and bask in his glory.

Extras. That's why Bakugo called them that, because who could be better than him? Even the teachers knew he was going to be the very best. Yet, despite all this attention or how many times one certain "quirkless loser" kept hounding after him, thinking they were friends, Bakugo still had the notion that Deku was looking down at him, pitying him.

All because the nerd had tried to help him when he fell off that log and had the gall to ask if he was alright.

Every day for fourteen years, Bakugo made sure the loser knew where his place was, despite the idiot trying to be a hero without a quirk. For a while, everything was going great for him! He was getting the highest grades in high school. Deku was leaving him alone finally, after how many years he 'stalked' Bakugo. He was well on his way to joining the alumni of UA, the country's best university for Heroes.

Then that damn sludge villain incident happened.

Admittedly, Bakugo would now know better that he did cause more issues during that whole situation. But, in his defense, if he hadn't kept exploding the sludge away, he would have been taken over sooner. He still remembers that entire scene of that dumbass Deku rushing in, trying to "help" him when it clearly wasn't needed. And what did the green-haired dumbass get in return? Almost getting himself killed.

But he didn't, and in fact, what happened next caused Bakugo to feel more hatred towards the green-haired boy that saved him.

The fucker had a quirk all this time and a mighty one at that.

Since then, everything in Bakugo's life flipped upside down, starting when Deku was called to the principal's office and never came back. He had to be retested on most of the year's exams and tests without question or complaint and was never given a reason for why it needed to be done.

Bakugo passed them all with flying colors, obviously. So, for the rest of the year, he had spent honing his combat training and practicing his quirk at the local gyms that allowed such a thing to happen, his mind always focusing on his goal of becoming the number one hero.

The next setback was the fact that he had scored second in the entrance exam. SECOND?! And when the person's name was revealed to be the damn nerd, you can guess how the explosive teenager took that bit of news. Bakugo wanted answers, but he was told by the "old hag" that the Midoriya's had moved a year ago, and they were someplace they could not be reached, at least for him. Which not only infuriated but also confused him more.

Where the hell did they go?

And then came the first day of classes, that damn assessment test where he flung himself towards the damn nerd, only to be stopped in his tracks by the weird as fuck glowing eye of his. Bakugo was then dragged off by Aizawa and immediately brought to the Dean's office.

It was here that he learned the truth behind his retests when it was revealed by the dean that Aldera had fudged his test results. Hence, the dean wanted to have him retested. Those tests were given to him specifically to mark and make sure the fake results weren't overblowing his intelligence. To say that the results had pleased the dean, but he was given a warning about any further confrontations outside of designated training areas.

Bakugo thought that would be the final insult of the day until he had decided to check out the dorms to see where he was going to be placed to make his move in that much easier over the weekend. However, he had not factored in meeting up with Auntie- No. Ms. Midoriya at the dorms, nor the surprise that not only she was going to be the dorm manager for the class, but also that she knew about what he had done to Deku over these many years.

To say she was pissed was an understatement, as she would no longer think of him as family, despite still being good friends with his parents, after they were able to talk and figure out how to move past this whole mess.

Bakugo didn't even realize that had happened while he was training before UA.

Ever since then, setback after setback had further made Bakugo close in on himself. Barely participating in class and interacting with most of his classmates, granted, the one he dubbed "Shitty Hair" would always try to talk to him and be friendly towards him.

It was during this time he had to take those mandatory counseling sessions with Hound Dog while also participating in anger management classes, which was shockingly being supervised by 1-B's homeroom teacher, Vlad King. From the combination of those sessions during the next couple of weeks and some thinking on his own, Bakugo realized just how… "unheroic" he was growing up, which left an awful taste in his mouth.

What really made him think was that one interaction he had with Deku during the stupid study session the extra's had while looking over the loser's notebooks. The way Deku had stood up to him, telling him that even despite EVERYTHING he had done, the nerd still thought he was capable of being a hero, so long as he improved himself and "grew up".

What also struck a chord with the explosive blonde was how Deku had spelled out how "middling" his quirk was compared to some of the other quirks in the class. Now, Bakugo wasn't dumb, not by a long shot, but having watched the battle trial footage as well as the various other training exercises over the last couple of weeks, he knew that Deku wasn't wrong.

Which further infuriated him.

Bakugo had been observing the other students while he kept to himself. Some of the more noteworthy students were, of course, the number 2 hero's son, as well as the rich girl's absurd creation quirk. However, it wasn't until this very sports festival he was in where he saw just how powerful some of the other "extra's" quirks were.

Round face's gravity quirk nearly cost him the match had he not essentially vaporized her meteor's that she had tricked him into creating with all the debris from his explosions, while Shitty Hair himself was powering through his explosions with that "hardening" quirk of his while looking absolutely livid at him for whatever reason.

But he still prevailed and fought his way to the final step to the top to show that HE was the best student at UA. His destiny of being the future number one hero, to surpass All Might himself, and to show that Deku was a mere stepping stone to his greatness!

But now, there was this rotting, ugly-looking thing before him. What was worse was that it had engaged in fighting his opponent, completely ignoring him and trying to either grab or stab (he wasn't sure which) the nerd for whatever reason. This had really made Bakugo grit his teeth, his hands beginning to pop as he began to run towards the beast, suddenly jumping and setting off explosions that started to cause him to spin around and around.

If this thing wanted to fight the strongest, Bakugo would show who the real target should be.

A bellowing and foul-smelling roar came out of the monster as its withered-looking arms had stretched and reached out towards Izuku, who was dodging and weaving past the encroaching grasps and swipes of the thing.

He back stepped out of an incoming strike only to feel something hit his back. Quickly turning his head to the side, he noticed his heel had hit the edge of the battle platform, and the light of what looked like partially see-through hexagons shimmered up into the sky before connecting to a point far above them.

The bellowing of the monster caught his attention, and the swing of its left arm and hand barreling towards him caused Izuku to raise his arms up in a feeble attempt to block the attack. An explosion rang out loudly and suddenly from behind the monster, it screeching in pain as the strike recoiled back at the nick of time to not strike Izuku, as he heard the shout of one Katsuki Bakugo over the massive explosion, "TAKE THAT FUCKER, HOWITZER IMPACT!"

Quickly making his way past the momentarily stunned beast, Izuku dashed past it before standing beside his classmate, who was panting heavily and gritting his teeth. Izuku, who was also panting just as much, looked at the blond, "Thanks... for that."

"Didn't... do it to save you, nerd…" Bakugo huffed, with Izuku looking at him confused, "This... thing is probably looking… for the strongest… and it was ignoring me!"

Izuku gave a deadpan look to Bakugo, clearly with the expression of 'of course he would think that' before looking back towards the monster, his eyes opening more wide in shock as he looked upon the rather large hole that Bakugo had made slowly began to reform, fixing itself with the sounds of dead rustling leaves and cracking aged wood filling the gap and hiding the rather thin-looking body of the beast as it completely healed.

Bakugo tsked while Izuku got into his fighting stance as the beast slowly lumbered its way to turn around. While it had no eyes for which to truly see, both Bakugo and Izuku could feel the thing staring down at them, hungrily.

"We need to get them out of there!" shouted Nezu as several moogles had nodded and flown out of his private sitting area, using the many "Moogle tunnels" to do so; All Might had stood beside him as he watched in shock and horror as this creature had begun to strike out towards both boys now. The blond hero looked down to Nezu, whose smile had all but faded as he scanned over the various cameras where many of the stadium's audience were pounding at a similar barrier that was blocking the entrance out from both sides, as people were now stuck on the inside of the building as well.

"Sir! What is that creature?" All Might asked, his fist clenching as he saw Bakugo barely dodged a swipe from the beast since Midoriya had kicked the appendage away. Nezu didn't even look back to the hero as he spoke in a rather dark and cold tone of voice.

"That thing is something that should not be here or even on Earth."

All Might stumbled slightly in shock as his beady blue eyes looked on to see the beast knock both boys against each other before tossing them into the strange dome that was surrounding the fight. The number one hero's fist clenched tightly as his smile slowly morphed into a deep scowl, and without another word spoken, All Might, the number one hero in Japan, leaped out of the office through the large windows behind the viewing monitor's heading directly towards were his students who were obviously fighting for their lives.

Nezu sighed gently, shaking his head as he reached for his microphone and holding it close to him, but not turned on for the moment as he spoke to himself, "... Well, that will be coming out of his paycheck… ahem."

"Attention audience member's-"

"This is Dean Nezu speaking," the speakers came to life as some of the frightened people who weren't watching the fight looked up to it, "While I understand what is happening is truly frightening, we here at UA can assure you all your utmost safety. That being said, Attention all Pro heroes, please follow All Might down to the center area and do your utmost to take down that barrier! If you are unable to reach the stadium floor due to inability to reach the central area, please do your duty to keep the civilians calm and safe in your sections."

"Any heroes out in the atrium, please direct all civilians to the food court and remain vigilant. Attention all students in the seating areas; you are to remain seated and not to engage. Any students, be it hero, general, or business courses within the atrium, please assist any heroes and keep the civilians safe."

"One final announcement for the heroes in the central area, when the barrier has gone down. Lethal force is authorized; the beast is a mindless creature and will not stop attacking and cannot be subdued."

The stadium grew quiet as the realization that the two students trapped within the barrier were now fighting for their lives as the silence was soon broken by the dean once again, "...If the heroes cannot get past the barrier, Midoriya. Bakugo… you have authorization for lethal force as well."

As the dean was making this announcement, All Might had landed hard onto the grass of the central area, quickly rising to his feet with a fist cocked back and with the power of 'One for All' coursing through his body as he shouted, "DETROIT SMASH!"

The winds gusted around him as his fist connected with the barrier; it rippled like a stone dropped into a still pond as All Might gasped when he noticed that not even one of his mightiest punches had even done anything to the barrier. His attention went back towards the two students fighting to see that Bakugo had once again been knocked back by one of the arms. In contrast, Izuku had started to fire upon the beast at range using the different gadgets and his firearm from his Machinist kit, getting the beast's attention. At the same time, Bakugo recovered quickly to launch himself once again at the ugly thing.

All Might began to punch rapidly against the barrier, snarling low in his throat as the impacts shook the area around him slightly, his feet digging into the turf on the field before a deep voice called out to him to knock him out of his rage, "All Might!"

The number one hero turned to see the frowned expression of Endeavor, the number two hero, with a bunch of other heroes standing behind him or more jumping down from the stadium seats. The fire hero moved quickly to his 'rival' snarling up at the barrier that had faded back into nothing once again, "What the blast is this thing?"

"I do not know, but it can take my punches like it was nothing." All Might said low, which caught the attention of Endeavor, who looked utterly flabbergasted before shifting back to his scowl before his attention was caught again by what All Might said next, "What should we do, Todoroki?"

"What? You are the number one hero here-" "But we both know I can't think up a plan worth beans." All Might interrupted Endeavor with a severe look in his eyes as he continued, "You have the superior intellect here as well as a knack for strategies; I just punch things. So, what should we do?"

Blinking a few moments before shaking his head, Endeavor did a quick scan of the area, looking back towards the gathering of heroes before looking back to All Might, "A pincer attack, I'll take heroes with ranged quirks to the other side and start to blast it from there, while you and the other close combat heroes keep on this side and lay into it."

All Might smiled at that, giving him a thumbs-up as Endeavor looked behind him once again to the gathering of heroes and quickly shouting out the plan as the other heroes responded with a loud affirmation.

As Endeavor and his group quickly made their way around the platform, doing their best to keep the sounds of the two students fighting out of their minds, for now, All Might had begun to punch again, causing shockwaves with every strike that caused some of the other heroes to give him his space and focus on their own strikes against the barrier.

All except one.

"I know you can punch harder than that, All Might!" A feminine voice beside him caught his attention as the strong, toned legs of Miruko, the number five hero, began to jab and kick with all her strength against the barrier beside him. Her red eyes were a fierce ruby color with a rather devilish smirk.

"As much as I would like to go all out, Miss Miruko," All Might had said, pumping a little more of his power into his punches, "then no one would be able to stand on this side of the barrier, or I could harm those in the stands."

Miruko huffed as she dropped her foot down in an ax kick before pushing off of it and laying into the damn thing with her punches and kicks, "Fair enough! But don't think of slacking off, old-timer!"

"I wouldn't dream of it! Not with my student's lives on the line!"

"DRILL!" Izuku shouted out as he was running past an incoming barrage of the creatures extended arms; his hand wielding his gun had moved down towards his aetherotransformer, and with a small blue light surrounding the firearm had morphed a rather complicated looking device that had needed to be wielded with both of his hands once it had summoned in. Izuku skidded to a halt as he fired the giant drill "bullet" towards the center mass of the monster. With a similar motion as before, the larger device had disappeared for only the smaller gun to appear back in his hand.

He watched as the beast recoiled back from the burrowing projectile, screeching in pain as it pierced through the stomach clear to the other side. Revealing how hollow the beast was from the front side and where Izuku could see a rather odd sight from the deep darkness before the creature regenerated the damage.

A small shining light on its stomach.

Ignoring the pro heroes who were working to take down the barrier, turning his head towards Bakugo, he lifted his goggles up as he shouted out, "BAKUGO! I THINK I FOUND ITS WEAK POINT!"

"FUCK OFF NERD!" was the reply he got, which Izuku sighed heavily as he watched the blond bomber zip around the beast, peppering it with explosions as he did so.

"We need to work together, you idiot!"

"I can defeat this thing all on my own, Deku! I don't need your weak ass quirk to finish this loser!" Bakugo shouted out, turning his head in anger back to Izuku, only for him to get swatted away by the monster's right arm and colliding hard against the barrier, right in front of All Might and Miruko with a hard grunt of pain.

Both heroes watched as the beast had reeled its left arm back, launching it towards the downed and clearly exhausted student with its three-pointed and jagged fingers jutted out in such a way that its intent of skewering the student like a pig was very evident and coming upon him with incredible speed.

"Look out!"

"Young Bakugo!"

*SQUELCH*

The world sat and stared on in silence as Bakugo slowly shook his head, attempting to look up and see the creature, only to see the strong bare back of Izuku kneeling down right in front of him, now having shifted into the Warrior kit.

The blond boy stared at him in confusion as between Izuku's legs, blood dripped down and hadn't stopped. Those who could see from the front side had witnessed Izuku attempting to grab the beast's arm to prevent it from its deadly course. Still, from how quick the strike was, it had partially worked, though the three fingers had dug two inches deep into Izuku's gut, with blood continuing to slowly pool out.

The monster reeled its hand back with a sudden jerk, causing Izuku to fall onto his hands and knees, coughing up a little more blood. Bakugo laid there, still in complete shock at what had happened as both the pro heroes behind him were now viciously attacking the barrier, desperate to break it and get to the two students, now more than ever.

"Kaachan…" Izuku's voice, low and harsh in tone, possibly due to his wound, caught Bakugo's attention and knocked him out of his shock, "A… are you alright?"

"Why the hell are you asking about me, you damn nerd!" Bakugo raged and moved to his side, his eyes gazing upon the very wound that Izuku had taken for him. The green-haired boy coughed slightly as he slowly began to get up, stumbling back onto his knee as he gasped in pain, with some more blood spilling out onto the floor. Bakugo stood there, completely in shock, before his head slowly turned towards the creature, idly looking at its bloody claws with curiosity.

He watched in horror as a rather sizeable rotten tongue moved out of its maw and licked one of its fingers before it suddenly shoved the entire hand into its mouth and "happily" sucked on the thing, feasting upon the blood.

Bakugo's hands began to pop some more, and he took a step forward, only to be stopped by the outreached hand of Izuku holding his wrist. The blond turned back to yell at the bloody student, only for his eyes to meet the burning emeralds staring back at him, panting heavily, "Just… shut up… and listen for… a minute."

Izuku took a deep breath, muttering out the word "Equilibrium" under his breath, a misty green aura enveloping his body for a moment as he slowly began to raise up again onto his feet, the wound on his stomach not bleeding as much until it completely stopped, yet the injury still looked very fresh, and was clearly a "patch job" at best, "I... know… you don't want any… help… I get that now."

"But, even… the strongest heroes have people to help them… Endeavor has his sidekicks, Aizawa has… his fellow underground heroes…." The green-haired boy looked back to look upon All Might, a smile on his lips before turning back to look at Bakugo, who had also looked to the number one hero in Japan, "E… Even All Might has… people help him… He can even admit that he needs help from… time to time…."

Izuku's gaze looked towards the monster, who had begun to slowly remove its hand out of its mouth, the claw now devoid of any blood, staring at the both of them. The warrior let go of Bakugo's wrist and stood next to him, his gaze never leaving the beast as he held his other hand out. With a flash of light, his hand now wielded the giant ax that Bakugo knew oh so well, "If we don't work together… we are going to get… killed… and then who knows what will happen if that thing escapes into the crowd."

Izuku lifted the ax, so now that he was holding it with both hands, a determined look on his face as he slowly began to growl, "This is not about me helping you, or you helping me. This is about helping each other to take down this son of a bitch and showing how god damn heroic we are for doing so." He turned his head to Bakugo, giving him a rather manic-looking smile, similar to the blond's own when he knew he could go all out with his explosions, "So let's take down this fucker, Kaachan!"

"Never call me that again, you fucking nerd!" Bakugo shouted as he readied into a fighting stance himself, "And never fucking swear again, it sounds stupid coming out of your dumbass mouth. And when this is all over, you and I are continuing our fight! To show everyone I'm better than you!"

"Ha! In your dreams, blondie! Now, aim for its midsection!" Izuku shouted as he dashed forwards towards the beast. At the same time, Bakugo roared in rage after him, considering Deku was bossing him around, explosions trailing behind him as the beast bellowed hungrily and began to attack the two boys once again.

Izuku had tossed his ax at the beast's head, nailing it and forcing the beast to turn from the impact as Bakugo began to blast explosion after explosion at the stomach of the creature, blowing away bits and pieces of the sharp dead plant matter. However, unlike earlier, whatever had been blasted off quickly regrew much faster than it had before.

"The damn thing is regrowing too fast, nerd! You better have a good plan!" Bakugo shouted out, using his explosions to fly back from the large incoming arms swung down at him.

Izuku gritted his teeth as he quickly looked about; thinking as fast as he could, he called out to his 'partner', "That move you did earlier! The Impact one! How many more do you have left in you?"

"Shit!" Bakugo called out, nearly getting smacked by the right arm of the beast, "One more! Why?"

"Do you need to build it up?"

"Dammit! Fifteen seconds! Hurry the fuck up, Deku!" Bakugo shouted as Izuku nodded, dashing around the beast as it was focused on Bakugo now. Once arriving at its back, a bright orange and almost spectral chain partially wrapped around the shaft of his ax appeared while the other end with a rather large spike was in his right hand, before chucking it like a javelin, Izuku shouted loudly.

"HOLMGANG!"

The beast roared in agony as the spike drove itself into its head, wailing as its hands went to try and pluck the thing without having any real way of doing so. Izuku was struggling to force its head back, snarling as he shouted out, "GET READY! ONCE IT IS ON ITS BACK, FIRE!"

Bakugo snarled as he flew up into the air, twisting and turning as he prepared his move. Watching the blond gather all of his sweat for his next big attack, Izuku roared like a wild beast, his bare muscles tensed and straining as he yanked the beast to fall backward, creating a small crater from the impact that its stomach was open to the spinning blond. Quickly shifting into his dragoon kit, Izuku jumped into the air, angling himself downwards to the gut as he shouted, "KAACHAN NOW!"

Bakugo shouted with all his might, propelling down somewhat before firing the shot with a manic grin, "TAKE THIS FUCKER!" HOWITZER-"

"-ONSLAUGHT!"

Bakugo turned his head to the side to see Izuku, back in his warrior kit, shoot down past him as the explosion rocked the body of the creature, opening it up to reveal its thin body hidden underneath all the spikes and thorns. As Izuku landed inside of the opening, his ax swung towards the sparkling center of the creature, only for the thorns and spikes to regrow just as quickly before, blocking the obvious weak point while also cutting and slashing at the boy now beginning to be enveloped.

Bakugo had landed with a hard thud onto the ground, exhausted from the attack as he lifted his head to hear a new sound echo out from the fallen beast. A roar of pure rage came from within the beast's body as a fiery orb surrounded Izuku, blowing back more of the thorns and, with glowing red eyes, began to swing the now revealed crystal embedded into its stomach.

"FEL CLEAVE! FEL CLEAVE! FEL CLEAVE!" The words echoed past what sounded like buzz saws revving in the air. Everyone watched as parts of the beast began to fly away from the carnage caused by the hero student as he snarled with his eyes glowing a blazing red color.

The beast flailed in anguish and pain as each time its arms went to try and remove the source of pain. Still, as it did, parts of its arms were sliced off by serrated-looking beams of light whirling around like the aforementioned mechanical sounds. With a cry of triumph, Izuku swung his ax over his head, jumping up and bringing the hefty slab of metal down hard onto the crystal while shouting a single word.

"DECIMATE!"

At that exact moment, far from the stadium, playing on a wide selection of TVs on sale in a local shop, people were watching the broadcasted fight of the finals of the UA sports festival. Many of its viewers were screaming in horror from what they had seen as the beast had struck one of the students in the gut and caused what looked like significant damage.

Everyone watched as the beast was finally taken down, disappearing into what could be described as a blue mist made of sand, eventually revealing the one student that had taken down the beast with a flurry of blows from the weapon he carried. They all gasped to see the state of the boy once the cameras were on him entirely.

Dozens upon dozens of cuts and wounds littered his muscular frame, with trails of blood running down his form while his eyes were glowing a fierce glowing red. Parts of his furred costume were stained red with his blood, as well as some of his sweat running down his arms and face that had been taken on a lighter reddish hue.

As the camera panned up to his face, watching him breathe slowly and the red glowing effect of his eyes fading into bright emerald green. They watched as the boy rolled his eyes backward, collapsing onto the ground in a heap as his body flashed brightly, and he was now wearing the standard gym outfit of UA that everyone else had worn, though torn and cut up just as much as the boy's body as they could see people rushing towards him and the other student.

Everyone that was standing outside of the shop looked on in horror and fright, wondering what on earth happened at the sports festival to cause such a thing to occur and just how badly the green-haired boy had gotten, and a little disgusted and squeamish at the amount of blood covering his body.

That was, of course, not true for the one young woman watching from the front, having stayed to watch when the green boy had been stabbed and glad she stayed to watch as she was able to gaze upon his bloody body.

While everyone seemed to be disgusted with the amount of blood covering his muscular frame, the woman's golden cat-like irises had thinned into slits as her lips slowly began to widen in pure glee, with her cheeks growing a little rosy.

For she thought the boy covered in his own blood looked absolutely gorgeous.