Conviction Arc 3 - Chapter 13: Win

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NinjaFang1331: Thank you and Man, just wait though, Stain isn't going on the same killing spree he's done before! It's gonna be much worse!

Harleking31: Oh yeah, Stain vs Izuku is coming and it's gonna be epic!

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The Day of the sports Festival had arrived and every student of the 1st year courses was waiting for whatever the school had planned for them, however, every student there stayed clear of Izuku, who draped himself in his black hooded and tattered cloak with his sword resting next to him, he appeared to be napping to many of the student's but Izuku just heard the chatter of the other students.

"Who is he?"

"Dude looks freaking scary!"

"Why does a student from the hero course have such a large sword!?"

"Can he even lift that thing?"

"Man I hope he doesn't swing that thing at me!"

Izuku felt a little better because now they were afraid of him, something he could use later down the line, if some of the students feared him, then he wouldn't have to deal with to many enemies.

"OI! Is that really you Deku!?"

Izuku could feel a bit of anger rise up within his body as he recognized that voice so clearly, he opened his eyes to see none other than Katsuki Bakugou, who sauntered toward him in his PE uniform, his hands in his pockets and an annoyed glare on his face.

"Bakugou," Izuku said with a low tone and a peered glare.

Bakugou looked at him, "So it really is you huh? What's a Quirkless nerd like you doing here!?" Bakugou asked.

Izuku glared at him, "I'm part of 1-B's hero course, and like you, I'm participating in The sports festival," Izuku told him.

Hearing this, a smug grin formed on Katsuki's face, "So then taking you out should be easy then!" Bakugou cried with an amused tone, "Your a Quirkless freak-"

However, Bakugou didn't finish that sentence and with blinding speed, Izuku pointed Apollyon at Bakugou's neck, much to the shock of everyone, including Bakugou himself.

A sinister grin formed on Izuku's face and he looked at Bakugo, and Bakugou saw the most psychotic expression on the young teen's face. "Go ahead... keep talking, let's see what happens," Izuku told the ash blond with a sadistic amused tone.

Bakugo glared at Izuku and smiled angrily at him, "You think your hot shit, huh!?" Bakugo asked, his hands popping with small explosions.

Both the two teens wanted the other to make the first move, so that way they had a reason to attack the other, and many other students were on edge due to feeling the very thick tension in the room, and they were afraid that Izuku was actually going to kill Bakugou, however, neither made the first move as a voice came over the intercom.

[Alright, students! Are you ready for the first part of the sports festival!]

Everyone recognized the voice as Present Mic, and the two teens backed away from each other, and Izuku lowered his sword and Bakugou turned his quirk off, but they still glared daggers at each other.

Bakugou shoved his hands back in his pocket, still keeping eye contact with Izuku. "Just wait until I crush you, Deku," Bakugo growled.

Izuku still smiled at Bakugou, "Just try, I'll kill you before you even fire off your quirk," Izuku replied.

With that said, the two separated and headed toward the front where the first part of the Sports Festival was going to begin and Izuku prepared himself for whatever challenge it was. No matter what it was or who would stand in his way, Izuku would cut them down in order to get closer to his goal, this was only another thing in his way, he wasn't going to let this stop him, no matter who he had to fight today.

'This is nothing,' Izuku told himself as he glared at the door. 'This is nothing compared to what I've already suffered, nothing compared to how hard I've trained... this is just another obstacle I need to pass before I get to you... Monoma,'

Present Mic explained that the first challenge was going to be a race, and along the course, there would be traps, and then he began talking to what he was sure the audience, both in the arena, they had to get to and the people watching on TV. The doors then quickly opened and Mic shouted for the students to begin, and Izuku quickly took off, however, the ground was frozen solid and another teen with Red and White hair seemed to skate ahead of the others. Izuku grits his teeth, but before he stepped out to the frozen ground, he grabbed one of his small bombs and threw it at the frozen ground.

"GET BACK!" Izuku cried.

Many students jumped away just as the bomb hit the icy floor and then the explosion occurred and it broke and shattered the ice, now allowing others to walk and continue the race, however, Izuku didn't wait, because after the explosion happened, He ran through the smoke and raced after a few of the other students that had made it passed the frozen floor, the one's he recognized as Mei, Bakugou, and the other teen who froze the ground.

Izuku continued to run, however, he then felt the ground begin to shake and he, as well as many others, stopped in their tracks, including the one's ahead of them as robots, ones that were the same from the opening ceremony and Izuku groaned in annoyance.

"I've already dealt with you small fries!" Izuku said in anger, as he jumped at a robot and brought the sword down, and cut the robot in half. Izuku then stood up and set Apollyon on his shoulder, "Get out of my way!" He cried.

Izuku charged at the robots once more and dodged a few attacks before he cut up and destroy many other robots. Other students watched as he destroyed the robots with seeming ease, all of them were in shock at what they had witnessed.

"Is that kid really Quirkless!?" Cried a blonde-haired teen with a black bold in his hair.

Another with an undercut and glasses looked at Izuku with a bit of a horrified expression, "He's like a wild animal!"

Ibara watched as Izuku cut through the robots and saw his angry expression as he kept moving forward and tore through the robots. 'He's no animal... he's a monster!' Ibara told herself with a glare.

[It seems we got some amazing students able to clear through the first challenge along the course! What a wild bunch they are!] Mic cried over the intercom. [Class A's Shoto Todoroki is taking the lead with Class A's Katsuki Bakugou right behind him!]

Izuku managed to destroy another robot in his way before continuing with the race, ahead of him he saw a large rocky canyon with only pillars of the canyon, Izuku glared ahead as she sheathed Apollyon behind his back and kept running and aligned himself with one of the ropes and he jumped as far as he could before grabbing onto the rope and quickly climbing across the canyon.

As he climbed across, Izuku saw Bakugou use his quirk to fly across the canyon, while the duel-haired colored teen, who he assumed was Todoroki, skated across atop the rope, and the same could be said for another teen with mufflers in the back of his calves, he then turned around and saw other students closing in.

"Tsk, gotta hurry," Izuku told himself as he quickened his pace.

Finally, He made it across and continued running, still behind Bakugou, Todoroki, and a few others, but with many other students catching up behind him. The UA students then reached a part of the course that warned about danger, and Izuku stopped wondering what danger was being warned about. However, it was clear when a few students stopped on the ground and an explosion of pink smoke occurred and the students were blown away.

[HOHO! IT LOOKS LIKE THE STUDENTS HAVE COME ACROSS WHAT IS SURE THE BE THE TRICKIEST PART OF THE COURSE FOR THE REALITY IS THIS ENTIRE FIELD IS A...!] Mic began.

Izuku was shocked at what he quickly came to realize, "You've gotta be kidding me!" Izuku cried, "This entire field is a-!"

[...MINE FEILD!] Mic cried.

A few more kids stepped onto the mines and were blown in different directions. Izuku watched as the students flew away and knew it was going to be stupid to try and cross that entire field while trying to watch your step and complete the race.

"This ain't a problem for me!"

Izuku turned around to see Bakugou blast across the field, and Todorki glared at him and froze the ground in front of him before skating across and catching up with Bakugou. The green-haired teen knew he was going to fall behind those two and he quickly tried to think of something, but nothing was coming to him until his eyes fell on one of the spots where a Mine was dug in. A crazy and no doubt very insane idea came to his head, but he smiled as he figured why not take a chance?

Up in the front, Bakugou and Todoroki were fighting for the lead as they nearly crossed the field of mines.

Bakugo turned to Todoroki as small explosions popped into his hand, "Bastard! Don't declare war on the wrong person!" Bakugou cried as he sent an explosion toward Todoroki.

Todoroki managed to back up and dodge the attack, and then grabbed Bakugou's arm, activating his quirk, much to Bakugou's anger and annoyance.

However, before the two could continue to fight one another for the lead, a large explosion of pink smoke erupted from the start of the field, shocking everyone there and the two students in the lead looked back in surprise.

[WHOA! WHAT WAS THE GIANT EXPLOSION!?] Mic asked.

In the air and emerging out of the smoke cloud was none other than Izuku, with his sword shielding his left side. He then stopped shielding himself and he smiled as he soared across the field.

Todoroki looked up surprised expression before turning blank, "Him...?" Todoroki asked.

Bakugo was shocked "Deku!?" he cried.

From behind, Most of class B watched as Izuku soared through the air with pride and awe.

"Hell yeah, Bro!" Tetsutetsu cried with a fist bump.

Awase smiled as he saw Izuku still up in the air, "Well, well, well, would you look at him go," He said. "Gotta admit, he's something,"

Itsuka smiled, "Wow, look at him taking the big win for our class," She said.

However, Ibara glared at the sword-wielding student as he soared through the sky with a smile.

[IT APPEARS THE CLASS B'S IZUKU MIDORIYA INS TRYING TO TAKE THE LEAD WITH THAT BLAST!] Mice cried.

The two boys quickly composed themselves and continued racing to take the lead as Izuku was rapidly coming back down to earth near the end of the mine, but he notice he would fall behind the moment he touched the ground.

Acting quickly, Izuku saw that he was going to drop in between the two boys just as they were reaching the end of the field, and he used his sword to spin in the hair, and then when he was close to the ground, he turned Apollyon onto the flat side and struck the ground, causing a pink explosion in between the two boy's, which made them be blown away to Izuku's right and left, while it propelled him forward once again.

Izuku blasted forward and then quickly sheathed his sword before rolling across the ground and then quickly getting back to his feet and he continued running toward the finish line.

Izuku was far ahead and the green-haired teen looked back only to see Bakugou and Todoroki getting up and composing themselves. Seeing them behind, mostly Bakugou, made Izuku extremely happy, his old tormenter was behind him, losing to him, and a sense of pride and joy filled his heart, and he turned back and kept running.

He didn't stop.

He wouldn't.

He couldn't.

Once again, a smile, a genuine smile, graced the young boy's face as he ran through the entrance gate of the arena.

[LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! I GIVE YOU YOUR WINNER FOR THE OBSTICAL COURSE...!] Mic began. [IZUKU MIDORIYA!]

Izuku heard the cheering of the people in the stands, but he paid them no mind as he looked to the sky. 'Kimihito... Josuke... Kanao... can you see me from up there?' Izuku asked as he slowed down and fell to his knees. 'This is it! I'VE DONE IT! I'M HERE!' Izuku cried in his head.

Behind him, Todoroki came in 2nd and Bakugou came in 3rd, and Bakugou took a breath but he looked down at his hands, in shock that he had just lost to Izuku. He looked up at Izuku as he was on his knees taking a break.

'That damn Deku! HOW DID HE BEAT ME!? HOW!? HOW!? HOW!? HOW!?' Bakugou asked as he glared at the winner of the race.

Todoroki looked over to Izuku with a blank expression, the duel quirk user was analyzing Izuku, and wondering how someone like him was able to beat him and Bakugou, two powerful people with strong quirks.

As Izuku still rested a few of his fellow classmates came up to him and surrounded him, each of them smiling at him.

"Awesome job out there Midoriya!"

"You were amazing!"

"Congrats man!"

"One helluva move bro!"

Izuku heard their compliments and he slowly stood up, still looking down at the ground, and as he rose up every one of his classmates went silent, and Izuku pushed passed them not saying a word. As he walked away, the class gathered and watched him walk away.

"Man... he just won the biggest race anyone could in their first year and he still looks like someone shot his dog," Sen said.

Setsuna nodded, "I know, like ever since the year began he's always angry and standoffish," she said. "Like what's his deal?" She asked.

"It's just because he's a brute," Ibara began, glaring at Izuku, "Honestly I don't know why they let him in here," she finished.

Itsuka looked at her classmates with a bit of a confused look, "Don't any of you know about what happened to him?" She asked.

They all looked at her with perplexed expressions, wondering what she meant, however, it was Ibara that spoke up.

"What do you mean?" She asked as she looked at Itsuka.

Itsuka sighed and looked down, "Do you guys remember what that villain with the hands said to Midoriya? Back at the USJ?" Itsuka asked.

They all quickly flashed back to what had happened at the USJ and when Izuku was face to face with those two main villains, the purple mist one and the one with a ton of hands on his body.

"I have to admit, I'm surprised you're here, I thought we broke your spirit during the eclipse!" Shigaraki said, "But how are you? How's the eye? Oh! wait... How's that girl of yours?" Shigaraki asked with a chuckle.

Kinoko nodded, "Oh yeah... he seemed to be trying to anger Midoriya, he mentioned things like his eye and some girl, but he also mentioned-"

"The Eclipse Event," Ibara interrupted. "I heard him saying they thought they broke his spirit during the event,"

Itsuka nodded slowly.

Hearing that, most of the students felt sadness flow through them, however, certain two exchange students were a bit out of the loop.

"Um... what was the Eclipse event?" Hiryu asked with a raised brow.

Penny nodded, "Yeah I'm a bit in the dark too," Pony said.

Itsuka looked at them, "Right, I almost forgot you two aren't from Japan," Itsuka said, "Well, you see, the Eclipse Event was something that happened a year ago, at Marakōru Middle School, a sudden beam of red light shot from the roof of the school, the beam began to expand into a dome-like shape, covering not just the school, but 3 city blocks, it turned out to be some type of barrier, and inside the dome, villains attacked and killed everyone... well, not everyone," Itsuka said.

Pony looked at the Big Sis of the class with a raised brow, "What do you mean?" Pony asked.

Juzo turned to Pony, "There were two survivors, a boy, and a girl," Juzo chimed in, "Their names weren't released to the public, and no one knows what happened to them, but the police that was interviewed about the injuries of the two survivors said their injuries were extensive, especially the young male survivor, and with what was said back at the USJ I think it's clear..."

They all turned to watch as Izuku still walked away, there

"Izuku's the guy who survived the eclipse," Ibara said. Her glare disappeared. She felt pity for the young man, but she still felt a bit malice toward him, there was just a vile part of her that wouldn't forgive him for what he did to her... for what he made her feel.

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Meanwhile, the pro hero Ingenium ran around the city with his agency looking for none other than the Hero Killer Stain. "Where is he!? Does anyone see him!?" Ingenium cried into his intercom.

[No! I lost him!] came one of his sidekicks.

[So did I!] came another [There's no sign of him!]

"Damn! Where the hell did he go!?" Ingenium asked.

Unbeknownst to the speedy hero was that Stain was above him with his jagged Katan at the ready, looking down at the hero. "Another false idol for the slaughter," Stain said to himself.

Stain jumped down, ready to plunge his blade into the running hero, but as he was close, a purple mist appeared and swallowed him up, leaving no trace of him behind, inadvertently saving the running hero.

Far away from the city, and in the country, Stain was transported to a hidden base inside the mountains, and when he fell from the portal he struck the ground hard, realizing he was somewhere new, Stain looked around before his eyes fell upon a rather large man in a black doctors coat wrapped around him and a pair of red wings protruding from his back, and a pair of black goggles around his eyes.

It was Dr. Garaki.

"Where am I?" Stain asked, "Who are you?" he asked again.

"The Hero Killer Stain, it's good to meet you," replied Dr. Garaki, "I asked Kuogiri to bring you here because All for One wants you for the future of his plans,"

Hearing the man tell him that it was none other than One For All that asked for him sent a bit of a chill down the hero-killers spine, but he kept his composure, he didn't want to show weakness against the man who was king of the underground. "What does that man want with me?" Stain asked.

Dr. Garaki smiled "For you to protect the new 5th member of us," Garaki told him.

Suddenly, a light shined upon a capsule, and inside was a young blonde teen floating in water with a respirator giving him air, and other wires were hooked to him. Stain looked at the boy and his eyes widened with surprise, there was something about the young man that drew his attention, that made him want to protect the young man.

Stain shook his head and looked at the Doctor with a glare, "Who is that?" Stain asked, but he felt that the question was right, he looked at the boy and knew something was off, very off. "What is that?" Stain asked again.

Dr. Garaki smiled, "That... is All for One's most dangerous weapon," He told Stain, "He is going to be the greatest Hero in Japan," Garaki told him.

Stain raised a brow at him, "How?" Stain asked.

"I can explain that,"

Stain's head quickly turned to the side and his eyes widened with shock once again as his eyes landed on the man who ruled the underground, who was the biggest monster the world has ever known.

All For One.

"Welcome to the League of Villains... Stain," All for One said with a smile.

Meanwhile, back at the UA Arena, the calvary battle had ended and only 16 of the students had passed onto what was the final part of the festival, the single fights round. The Students that had made it were, Izuku, Tetsutetsu, Mei, Hitoshi Shinsou, Shoto Todoroki, Hanta Sero, Denki Kaminari, Ibara, Tenya Iida, Yuga Aoyama, Mina Ashido, Yaoyarozu Momo, Yosetsu Awase, Ejirou Kirishima, Bakugou, and Ochako Uraraka.

"Ladies and gentelmen! Here are your fighters!" Midnight cried as she pointed at the students. "Now, it's time to choose the fights!" Midnight said, pointing to the board as it spun names.

It first stopped on Izuku's name before the other name stopped and it landed on Shinsou.

"Round one goes to Izuku Midoriya and Hitoshi Shinsou!" Midnight said with a beaming smile.

Izuku looked over to Shinsou and saw that the boy was also looking back at him with a glare but Izuku then looked away.

"Round 2!" Midnight cried.

The board kept drawing names and the net rounds went as such:

Round 2: Shoto Todoroki vs Hanta Sero

Round 3: Denki Kaminari vs Ibara Shiozaki

Round 4: Mei Hatsume vs Iida Tenya

Round 5: Yuga Aoyama vs Mina Ashido

Round 6: Yaoyarozu Momo vs Yosetsu Awase

Round 7: Ejirou Kirishima vs Tetsutetsu Tetsutetsu

Round 8: Katsuki Bakugou vs Ochako Uraraka

All of the students whose names were called felt a fire rise up in them.

Bakugou glared at the board, 'This is it! My time to show that damn Deku what the hell I can do and to show him he doesn't belong here!' he thought.

Todoroki looked up into the stands in the direction of his father. 'Just you wait old man,' Todoroki began, 'I'll win this whole thing without using your damn power!'

Ibara looked over to Izuku who paid her no mind and glared at him. 'I have to beat him, he can't win... he can't win!' She told herself.

However, none of them had a roaring bonfire like Izuku, who looked at all the names and prepared himself for a war against all the other students. After his fight, he had a chance to analyze the rest of the other quirks and could come up with something when fighting one of them.

'This is war... and the winner is the last man standing,' Izuku thought, 'Nothing is gonna stop me from winning this, nothing is gonna stop me from getting to you...'

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In the next chapter, Izuku faces off against Shinsou and his past is revealed! Before the 2nd part of fights begins, Endeavor has a talk with Izuku that almost ends up in a fight!? Izuku and Todoroki face off! Can Izuku even stand a chance!?

Took me a while to write this chapter but I'm so proud of this one because I'm back to writing long chapters for this story!

Anyway, thank you all for reading and I hope you guys enjoy today's chapters