A/N: Chapter three of this story is now here for reading! When we last saw our mumbling green bean, he had just awakened his quirk and transformed into the mighty Armarouge. How will he handle this newfound power of his? What will this mean for One For All? Guess we'll just have to wait and see. In the meantime, please read on and enjoy, and don't forget to leave a review if you are so inclined. It really helps me know what you guys and girls like about the story and what you think needs improvement.
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Disclaimer 2: I still don't own My Hero Academia or Pokémon!
Disclaimer 3: Whenever Izuku is in his transformed state, he'll always be speaking in Poké Speak. He might learn telepathy, but that probably won't be until later in the story. Also, when All Might speaks in his muscle form the text will be [like this] so that it's easier to tell. Just thought you'd like to know that.
Armarouge VS. Sludge Villain!
Mt. Lady stared in shock at what had happened to the green-haired young man she had met not too long ago.
"Midoriya…?" she gasped.
The creature turned its head to look at her and gave her a nod as it said a single word.
"Armarouge."
The crowd couldn't believe their eyes. Just minutes ago, they were watching that Sludge Villain attempt to make a skin suit out of a kid while the heroes just stood on the sidelines and did nothing. Then a kid has the newest heroine, Mt. Lady, throw him at the villain as he's engulfed in flames. And now a creature that seems vaguely humanoid and wearing golden armor has appeared in that boy's place staring down the villain who is grinding his teeth in barely repressed rage. And he's not the only one whose anger is skyrocketing.
On the sidelines being looked over by the paramedics who had just arrived, Katsuki looked on as the quirkless boy whom he so unaffectionately referred to as "Deku" had just transformed in a fireball. And showed that he's not so quirkless after all.
'That damn nerd… was he hiding his quirk from me this whole time?' thought Katsuki with a strange expression that looked like a mix of a scowl and a sneer, complete with bloodshot eyes as wide as dinner plates.
Mt. Lady, meanwhile, was following through with Izuku's plan despite her awe at his new form. She quickly scooped up as much sea water that her gigantified hands could carry and waited for his signal, whatever it might be. The Sludge Villain finally snapped out of it and prepared his tendrils.
"So, we have a kid trying to play hero, do we? Well, you got an interesting quirk I'll grant you that, but for interfering with my affairs you're gonna have to DIE!" exclaimed the Sludge Villain as he sent his tendrils at Midoriya.
But the literal fires in his eyes burned intensely as he raised his hands up, palms out in front of him and a pinkish aura emanated from his body.
"Rouge, Armarouge!"
And just before the tendrils struck, a semi-transparent barrier of blue light appeared in front of Midoriya's outstretched hands, not only shielding himself from harm, but also the gathered crowd. The Sludge Villain couldn't believe his eyes! And he wasn't the only one. Because watching in the crowd of people was an emaciated blonde man with sunken blue eyes watched in shock and awe.
This man is Toshinori Yagi.
But to the general public he is the number one pro hero in all of Japan, All Might.
He had been chasing after that very same sludge villain earlier that same day after he had robbed a jewelry store and would have easily apprehended him. But the villain was a slippery ball of slime and led Toshinori on a wild goose chase through the city sewers where he managed to elude him long enough for Toshinori's time limit to expire. An injury that he had suffered five years ago not only led to his body deteriorating into what it is now, but it also made it so that he can only maintain his iconic 'Hero Form' and do hero work for a total of three hours a day.
He had just so happened to stumble up on this particular villain fight before Mt. Lady had shown up and saw that same villain that he had failed to apprehend holding a child hostage and was disgusted by how the other heroes on the scene weren't doing anything to try and save him. He cursed himself for being so reckless with his time limit! If he had just been faster or managed his time better, he could jump in and save the kid that was being smothered by that walking pile of crap!
But then Mt. Lady showed up and the most unexpected thing happened.
She had thrown a kid with green hair and eyes that were literally on fire at the sludge villain, and he had erupted into a flaming missile! Upon contact with the villain, the hostage was not only spat out to safety, but an explosion of dust had also been kicked up. And now, defending them all from the Sludge Villain was that green-haired boy as a completely different creature!
'Did he turn into some sort of knight/djinn hybrid? That's on fire?' Toshinori mentally pondered as he watched the fight.
The Sludge Villain growled as he said, "I don't know how you did that, and I don't care! I'll kill you anyway!".
He sent more tendrils at Izuku, thankfully having tunnel vision as he only focused on Izuku. But try as he might, the transformed boy was proving to be faster than his appearance lets on, especially with the armor that he's wearing. He weaved and ducked as he gradually got closer and closer to the villain.
"Stay still, damn you!" the villain exclaimed as he sent out more tendrils.
But Izuku merely gave the equivalent of a smirk as he once again threw his arms out in front of him, this time with his hands clenched into fists, and the floating pauldrons on his shoulders floated over his forearms and combined to form a gun muzzle. Orange and yellow fire with flecs of pink in it began pooling within the combined pauldrons.
"Armaaaaa… Rouge!"
Bracing himself for the kick, Izuku fired a beam of orange, yellow and pink fire from the gun muzzle and scored a direct hit on the Sludge Villain who screamed in pain from the intense heat. The blast was so great that it caused the villain's body to explode in a shower of slime chunks. As the pauldrons returned to his shoulders, Izuku saw that his attack had knocked out the Sludge Villain as proven by how his eyes and teeth lay in an unmoving puddle of sludge, groaning as his eyes had comically turned into 'x's.
"What the hell?" gasped Kamui Woods.
"This kid took down that villain with a single shot!" Death Arms said in awe and slight jealousy. "Just who is this kid?"
Mt. Lady couldn't help but smile. Izuku had only just gotten his quirk and here he is taking down villains like he's been doing it for years. Although, she attributed his win to the fact that the villain underestimated him. She also noted that it seemed like he was fighting on pure instinct rather than actually knowing what he was doing.
She would think about that later and talk to Nezu about allowing Izuku to be brought to UA for quirk counseling and training to get a better understanding of his quirk in a safer and more controlled environment. For now, though, she started dumping the sea water that she had gathered onto the burning buildings. Steam rose up from where the flames had been extinguished, but it was clear that she would need to make multiple trips, and even with Backdraft doing his part it would take a long time to put out this fire.
And Izuku noticed this too.
He looked up at the sky, then to his pauldrons, then to his hands, then back to the sky and got an idea. He didn't know if it would work, but he had to try something. So, aiming at the sky, he reformed his gun muzzle, powered up, and unleashed a continuous stream of fire up into the sky! Nobody knew what he was trying to do by doing this as it seemed like a waste of firepower. Izuku continued on for another minute before he stopped… and the boom of thunder could be heard as dark clouds gathered overhead. A thunderstorm had been formed from Izuku's impromptu fire blast and rain began pouring down.
"Hey… it's raining…" said Backdraft as he turned off his hoses.
"Holy crap, he changed the weather…!" gasped Death Arms.
And while Izuku watched on with relief as the fires were extinguished by the storm he had made and Mt. Lady shrunk down to her normal height, Toshinori couldn't keep the grin off his face as he watched from the audience.
'I believe I may have found them! I'll have Nezu invite him to UA tomorrow and talk to him about it then.' he thought to himself.
***...To Be Continued…***
Ending A/N: And that's the end of this chapter. The Sludge Villain is a very minor player, so there wasn't much action in this chapter. But now he's caught the interest of All Might. This should be interesting, yeah? I also wanted to let you all know that I'm probably not going to update any more of my stories until after Christmas. I want to focus on my holiday preparations. Thanks for reading and I'll see you next time, my hatchlings.
