All Might never got any nights off. It was rare to see the Symbol of Peace lounging around. But, hey, things were going good. Paperwork for UA got done earlier than expected, nothing bad was going on at the summer camp for the past few days, and he managed to get his hands on some good grub, courtesy of Lunch Rush. So, how to top off an otherwise relaxing day?
"Ahhhh." All Might settled into the bath, lit candle aroma filling his nostrils and bubbles obscuring his skinny form. When was the last time he really relaxed? Hell, when was the last time he spent an evening at his apartment that wasn't for sleep?
All Might dipped deeper and deeper into the bath. "Hey, Ziri." All Might said, as his phone lit up. "Play my relaxation playlist."
Ziri loaded. "PLAYING: Piano Sonata in A major, D 664, Movement 3 by Franz Schubert."
Piano music filled the room, as All Might closed his eyes. He sighed. This was the height of luxury-
"TOSHI, HOLY FUCK-!" Ben's voice nearly gave him a heart attack. All Might immediately shot back up, eyes wide. Ben was standing in his doorway, as XLR8.
"Ben!? What the hell are you doing here!?" All Might asked, looking confused.
"Sorry to bother you, but, I just got a call from Gwen. She said the spellbook was opened!" Ben said. "I can't prove it, but the fact I can't get in touch with Ochako just ADDS to it- Something happened at the camp!"
Just like that, All Might's relaxation had quickly turned into a night of terror.
The burning Toga slowly approached Chromastone, happily giggling and smiling. "Sooooo~ I never got a chance to ask. What do you thiiiiink? Am I pretty?"
"You scare me." Ochako answered honestly.
Toga gasped. "That's the best comment I could've gotten~!" Toga threw a large fireball at Ochako, who easily absorbed it and shot it back out as a powerful laser beam. The beam slammed into Toga's still human arm, causing her to tumble to the ground.
"Owwww…" Toga whined. "That hurt."
She's just a distraction, Ochako said. I should worry about the other villains that are coming- who knows what kind of powers THEY have?
Mr. Compress threw another marble at Ochako and released the person inside. Kouda flew at Ochako, landing on her to break his fall. Ochako fell back, dazed by the attack.
Kouda looked around, looking confused. "H-how'd I get here!?"
"Worry about it later. Get out of here!" Ochako demanded. Kouda didn't waste any time. He made a dash for the opening, but Toga threw a wicked fireball at the boy. Kouda dodged out of the way, but now there was a raging fire blocking the way out.
"Smart move," Ochako smirked. "Now your buddies can't come through this way."
"Who says they aren't here already?"
Mr. Compress sure knew how to break someone's spirit in a second. He held up two more marbles, and tossed them at Ochako. Out of them popped Spinner and Nyancy.
"These two were an easy extraction- and they're still ready to fight." Mr. Compress said. "Think you can handle a 1v4?"
Ochako frowned. "I know I can handl 4-arms!" Ochako said, as she shifted into Four Arms. Oh, God- I'm getting more into the quips. She thought, before rushing into battle.
Ochako started her attack by springing up and striking her fists into the ground. The onslaught easily off-balanced the others, but Ochako was prepared to strike. Almost instantly, Spinner regained his composure and drew his blades. Stain would NEVER be caught off guard by this! Spinner convinced himself. Ochako landed directly in front of him, effortlessly blocking his blade strikes.
Spinner unleashed a barrage of diagonal cuts with his blades, completely overwhelming Ochako. It did not, however, draw any blood.
Ochako retaliated against his strike by clapping her hands together, releasing a shockwave that knocked her opponent away and easily destroyed his blades. Spinner collided with Mr. Compress, and both plummeted to the ground.
"Ow..." Spinner groaned.
Nyancy Chan attacked with some fancy acrobatics- downward swipes with her claws, heavy slashes and lots of confusing jabs were all mixed into her attacks. Ochako was no match for her agility, nor could she find a good opening. She was being backed into the wall of flames by this crazy cat lady-
And that wasn't even mentioning the crazy Pyronite girl.
"Hey, Nyancy! Jump outta the way for a sec!" Toga yelled. Nyancy quickly flipped out of the way, as Toga unleashed a powerful burst of flames. Ochako could handle it- it was just flames, after all. Four Arms had a great defensive stat…
But she never anticipated the sharp, burning red syringe that Toga threw in the middle of the flames. The piping hot tip easily pierced her skin, cutting into her like a warm knife into butter. Ochako cursed, as Toga sucked away some of her blood.
"Sorry! I needed a refill…I'm running out of time." Toga said, as the syringe shot back towards the girl. "Being on fire is kinda boring now…" Ochako clutched her bleeding arm, as Toga licked her lips. "This blood's great…it's a whole different sort of metallic-y, y'know? I like blood- Type A, Type B, Type O…but I think I'd classify alien blood under…Type Z or something~"
Nyancy smirked nervously. "Okay, Toga- you can stop with the creepy speech. I'm not a hemophiliac, but you're creeping me out."
"Oh! Sorry~" Toga giggled.
Ochako rapidly transformed into an extraterrestrial that could swiftly repair her wound. Upgrade replaced her, and the wound healed. She sighed audibly. Upgrade doesn't have any blood to suck. Izuku said I was composed of nanites or something, so there's that.
Ochako picked up the broken blade bits and melded them in her fingers. Not much to work with, but it will do! Ochako mused as she struck a pose with her improvised talons. She rushed forward before engaging in another battle with Nyancy. This time, she simply shapeshifted around her punches and stabbed at her with her talons. Trying to combat Ochako's fluid physique was difficult for Nyancy.
"Stand…still!" Nyancy growled as Ochako readied a laser shot and blasted her away. She then turned to face Toga, extending her arm. She swung fiercely at Toga, but the girl avoided her strikes. Toga fired a few more fireballs, which Ochako avoided. Ochako molded her right fist into a helicopter propeller, and launched it forward. The blade spun rapidly, blowing Toga sky high.
Kouda watched the fight with wide eyes. Was this the successor that the clown faced guy mentioned? He wondered. Whoever they are, they're really good…
Ochako turned to the wall of flames, and blew at it with her helicopter propeller. Her head extended towards Kouda, motioning for him to run. Kouda nodded, before he dashed into the woods.
He'll meet up with the group. They'll be here soon, I hope. Ochako thought. I'll be honest- even though I'm in alien mode, I'm still feeling really overwhelmed. Upgrade's got a lot of good qualities, but I'm obviously not at 100% with no real tech out here.
Ochako's eye focused on Mr. Compress. Either way…I need to focus on him. Rip off the other students from her person, free them, and ruin their whole plan.
…easier said than done.
Compress could tell that Tennyson's successor was locked onto him. He had to give credit where it was due, she picked up his importance quickly. Revealing his Quirk no doubt nudged her in the right direction, but still, points to her. He tipped his hat to her, taunting her a bit and giving just enough of a distraction for Spinner to rush in. The reptilian villain took a swing at Upgrade, aiming for a small opening in her defenses. Uraraka picked up on it and quickly moved her improvised talons to block the sword swing.
Spinner tried to kick Ochako down, but she made a hole in her body. Spinner's foot got caught in the trap, giving Ochako an opening to steal his swords.
"Good material." Ochako said. "Mind if I take it?"
Ochako's hands shifted into longer blades, and she slashed at Spinner- his scales allowed him to take the blow quite well, but he'd still gotten his clothes sliced by the attack.
Compress rolled his eyes behind his mask and took two more marbles off his coat. As Uraraka and Spinner dueled, their blades colliding and sending sparks flying, the master thief threw the marbles into the air. Spinner heard the marbles dispel, knowing what was coming. He had time for this. He took one more swing at Uraraka to get her in a blade lock for a few precious seconds. Then, without warning, the villain jumped back. Uraraka only had a second to realize what was going on before-
BOOM!
Two giant boulders fell on top of the Mechamorph.
"Bet that hurt," Spinner smirked.
"But it didn't kill," Compress added.
Ochako's liquid form oozed from under the rock like blood, before reforming at the top. Her eye narrowed, and she glared directly at Mr. Compress. She began to charge up a powerful beam of energy, and fired it. Mr. Compress flipped out of the way, tackling Nyancy out of the way.
A familiar fireball came blasting back at Uraraka, forcing her to dodge out of the way. Three more flaming projectiles flew towards her, exploding on the ground as the Mechamorph managed to weave between each of them.
"Hope you didn't forgeeeeeet!~" Toga called out.
"I didn't." Ochako coldly said. She began blasting lasers at Toga, but she expertly avoided the blasts. Toga was laughing and giggling, doing flips and handstands all over the place- but Ochako was just stalling for time.
And sure enough, she was right to do so. Toga soon reverted to normal. She tumbled to the ground, and looked at her hands. "Aw, what!?"
"I knew you had a time limit." Ochako grinned. "I bet your quirk has a cooldown, too- so, you can't automatically turn into Four Arms."
"Awww, how'd you knooooow?" Toga pouted.
"But guess who's Quirk doesn't?!" Spinner yelled, rushing in for a new barrage of sword swings.
Ochako ducked under them. "You're a Stain fanboy, right? Think your idol would've realized he can't cut me down!?" Ochako engulfed Spinner's body, and tackled him to the ground. She immediately jumped off of him, and right at Mr. Compress.
Mr. Compress sighed. "Such determination- here I thought the youth of today was so spoiled."
He flicked another marble her way and unleashed a burst of blue fire at her, courtesy of Dabi.
Ochako yelled, before she was blown back. She splattered on the ground, but quickly reformed.
"So you can store attacks too, huh?" Ochako frowned. "Thanks for revealing your hand."
"Please. That was just the tip of the iceberg." Mr. Compress said.
Let's see- so, he has 8 marbles containing people, 2 marbles containing projectiles...so, I'd assume he can only make around 10. But that's just a guess. He hasn't made any more recently. Ochako thought. Maybe he requires focus or something.
"Now's not the time to freeze up on the stage, you know. There are plenty of others who'd love your spotlight. Speaking of," Compress taunted. Nyancy tried to take advantage of the distraction and slash away at Uraraka's form, even if blades had already proven ineffective.
They're stalling for their buddies. I need to hurry this up. No time for fighting!
Ochako snaked her way underneath Nyancy's feet, and dashed right for Mr. Compress. She expanded her body, acting like a 'tidal wave'.
"Super Move: Mechamorph Riptide!" Ochako yelled, as she quickly engulfed Mr. Compress.
"Hey! Get off him!" Toga yelled, throwing more knives at the Mechamorph. She knew they wouldn't work really, but if anything they would get Uraraka off her villainous comrade.
Ochako shook Mr. Compress around, hoping he'd drop the marble containing Bakugou or Tokoyami. "Come on! Where the hell are they!?" One of the marbles managed to drop as more knives flew at her from Toga. Ochako's eyes darted over to it. She pulled Mr. Compress into the air, and detached. She dove for the marble, just as it opened up.
As the marble was dispelled, she saw the familiar crow-headed form of Tokoyami appear.
"How did-?" Tokoyami asked, looking around confused.
"Tokoyami!" Ochako yelled, landing on the ground. She quickly reformed, and sighed. "Thank God you're alright."
"How did I get here?" Tokoyami asked.
"Him." Ochako pointed at Mr. Compress. "His quirk stores things in tiny marbles. He's still got Bakugou, though."
"Rude to share a showman's secrets without permission," Compress huffed.
"I can control Dark Shadow well enough now, but I may lose control...If I start going berserk, switch to Heatblast." Tokoyami instructed.
"Actually...I'm planning on switching in a bit." Ochako said, tapping the watch. "Help me mow through these guys, okay?"
"Of course!" Tokoyami said, deploying Dark Shadow. He looked more ferocious, with a bigger stature and more 'feral' look in his eyes.
Ochako and Tokoyami rushed forward, with Dark Shadow circling around and knocking anyone back. Ochako was about to do something dangerously stupid, but it could work. She just had to be quiet, not make many movements- and just pray she didn't get squished. Ochako slithered over to Mr. Compress, and latched onto his back.
"Grey Matter," She whispered, and in a pink flash, her body shrank down.
"Hm?" Mr. Compress said. "Where did she go?"
"She was right the-woah!" Toga yelled, barely dodging a slash from Tokoyami. "Spinner, little help?!"
Spinner grinned. "Finally. Something I can cut..." He tried his best to emulate Stain's intimidation. Tokoyami said nothing as Dark Shadow attached onto him, acting like a suit of armor.
Spinner's face fell. "Oh, come ON!"
"Good. You weren't expecting this," Tokoyami nodded and rushed in. Spinner was forced on the defensive again, claws slashing at the devotee of Stain, forcing him to dodge and block.
Tokoyami clawed forward wildly- this armor was much more 'brutal' than the first time. Spinner found himself overwhelmed (and annoyed). "It's like fighting a demon from the night!" He yelled.
Mr. Compress, meanwhile, was trying to find Ochako. Did she unlock a new alien recently? If she was Big Chill, I'd know where she was by a chill down my spine...
Uraraka was carefully climbing down Compress' back, seeing the marbles clipped to the thief's belt. If she could just find the one with Bakugou inside it...
No...no...no... The marbles were all containing other projectiles and that one guy Bakugou had beaten up. Had this all been a ruse? Was Bakugou being contained...elsewhere? Or on someone else?
Uraraka then froze in her tracks when she heard a quick but loud "meow!" She looked up and saw an orange and white cat staring at her with narrowed eyes.
"Compress! She's on your back!" Nyancy called out.
Mr. Compress quickly ripped off his jacket and threw it on the ground. "You little pest-!" Mr. Compress cursed. "Sly of you to try and use this form. I'd overlooked it..."
How did she see me?! Uraraka thought, before it clicked. The cat must be connected to her power! Maybe it wasn't cat-like characteristics like she'd assume, maybe that was just a costume like the Pussycats.
Huh...wonder if that's something they can sue her on, Uraraka jokingly thought to herself.
Mr. Compress raised his foot, and prepared to stomp on Grey Matter's tiny body. Ochako flipped out the way, and smirked.
"Missed me!" She taunted.
And then the cat meowed. Uraraka turned and looked up to see the cat looming over her.
"Really should've thought about that form more," Nyancy smirked, "Cali! Get 'er."
The orange and white cat tried to catch the small alien with its paws, but Uraraka was too fast, dodging out of the way. The cat was treating this more like it was chasing a laser pointer rather than a full on hunt for now.
Ochako needed to change aliens, but Grey Matter's Omnitrix symbol was on a very, very terrible place- her back. Hard to tap your back when you're running for your life.
"Kill her, kitty! Then you'll get a lot of num nums!" Nyancy cheered.
Things on Tokoyami's end wasn't going well either.
He managed to get off one more precise slash, forcing Spinner against a tree and clashing with Spinner's constructed blade. And then Spinner grinned. He quickly moved to sweep Tokoyami's legs out from under him before slamming him into the ground with the pommel of his sword. He brought the massive cleaving blade up and swung down, but the umbrakinetic student rolled out of the way of the attack. Spinner kept up the assault, trying to get a good hit on the student, but he couldn't land on before Tokoyami got back on his feet.
Spinner grinned and swing from the side, slamming the collection of blades into the crow-headed student from the side and batting him into a tree. His shadowy-armor managed to protect him from being slashed from all the component blades.
"Come on! Just! GET! CUT!" Spinner yelled.
What an unfortunate soul. Tokoyami thought.
Thankfully, Spinner's guardian 'devil' had just come to the meetup. "Jeez...I hoped none of these annoying kids would be here."
"Huh?" Spinner looked to see who said that, before a burst of blue flame was thrown in Tokoyami's direction. The raven-headed hero-in-training leapt out of the way as the flames slammed into a tree behind him.
His armor quickly retracted into his body. Oh, crap! Tokoyami thought, as he rolled back. Ochako's eyes widened- oh, shit. Reinforcements were here!
"Aw, come on! I thought you'd have this down pat, Mr. Compress!" Twice huffed. "I wanted this chapter to end sooner."
"Second time you've said something like that," Dabi said, summoning up another blue flame in his palm, "Getting annoying."
"I have no idea what you're talking about!" Twice added.
Tokoyami and Uraraka looked around at the sheer number of villains they were going against now.
"Oooooh, I don't like your odds, guys!~" Toga grinned.
"So. You're the Omnitrix kid. I'll be honest: it's not what I expected." Dabi remarked this while looking at Ochako's shrunken form. "But you're still a threat. Kind of stupid of you to come here alone."
Dabi had a peek at Toga and Compress. "Update me. How much blood did you get?"
"Enough to know it works," Toga said, smiling.
"Good. What happened to the doctor?" Dabi inquired.
"In one of my marbles. Mercury is in the same boat." Mr. Compress said.
"Do you have the kid as well?" Dabi inquired.
"Of course." Mr. Compress smiled from under his mask.
Wait, so Bakugou IS with him!? Where? I couldn't find him in any of his pockets or on his belt...where else could he be hiding him? Ochako thought.
"Good. I'll send the signal-" Dabi said, before he looked behind him.
"What's wrong?" Twice asked.
Dabi huffed. "Thought I heard-"
KERSLAAAAM. Something landed on Mr. Compress's back, and there was a sharp CRACK. Ochako looked over to see that three figures had landed on the magician's back.
"CALVARY'S HERE!"
Tetsutetsu, Shoji and (surprisingly) Shoto had landed on his body. Ochako's eyes widened. But the shock didn't end there. Something pink suddenly restrained Toga and Dabi, forcing them off the ground. Spinner and Nyancy turned to run off, but they were greeted by Kendo, Ojiro and Kirishima- with Kirishima holding a black and green gun.
"Don't try it." Kirishima warned. "This thing's blast is worse than its bite."
"Ship!" The gun nodded in agreement.
Tokoyami stood back up, as Ochako hopped up on his shoulder. "Incredible..." Tokoyami said, as Setsuna, Tsu and Momo walked up. Momo was holding her hand out, restraining the two 'most troublesome' antagonists with her new magic.
"Momo?" Ochako asked, tilting her head. Momo couldn't hear her tiny voice, though.
Mr. Compress struggled to move. He tried to grab at the boys, but something shot out of Shoji's back- something black. They quickly wrapped around Mr. Compress's hands, and pulled them back.
"W-where...is HE?!" Izuku demanded, peering over Shoji's shoulder.
Ochako felt very, very, VERY out of the loop right now. All these new powers- but more importantly, how did the boys launch themselves on top of Mr. Compress!?
Moments before the incredible rescue...
Momo rushed through the forest, with Ship on her shoulder. He was 'steering' her by pulling on her hair- it was a bit painful, but Momo had literally been in worse today.
Momo was about to run towards the battlefield when she heard some rustling noises to her left. She quickly got on guard, forming a pink sphere in her hand. "Ship- we may need to make a quick detour." She huffed, reluctantly ready to fight if need be.
But to her shock, she was instead greeted with-
"Yaomomo!?" Kirishma yelled, as he and Kurorio made their way through.
"Kirishima!" Momo gasped. "Thank goodness you're okay- but what are you doing out here?"
"Never mind that! What's with that weird thing on your shoulder!? And that pink thing on your fist?" Kurorio yelled. Ship deflated- he didn't like being called 'weird'.
"Never mind that. We need to meet up with the others..." Kirishima said. "Come on!"
Momo was now following the boys through the clearing, and into the open path. The group was still chasing Mr. Compress on foot, but he was a long ways away now. The two group met up, both out of breath.
"W-what's going on?" Momo asked.
"They've got Bakugou- and I think they're gonna ask the portal guy to send them away." Shoji summarized.
"We...we can't let that happen." Shoto wheezed. "As big as a jerk Bakugou is, I don't want him in harms way."
"We can't catch up to that marble shooting freak, though!" Tetsutetsu growled. "What the hell do we do?"
"...we take the high road too."
Momo didn't even realize Izuku was hear until his head popped up from Shoji's back. He looked far more battered and bloodied than anyone present.
"Shoji- lay Midoryia down for a second." Momo said, as her book opened up.
Setsuna blinked. "I'd question the book, but I just saw Uraraka turn into an alien. Nothing phases me today."
"I'm crossing my fingers this is a weird dream." Ojiro admitted, as Shoji (without question) set Izuku on the ground. Momo cast her healing spell, allowing for Izuku to heal up from some of his injuries. His arms still felt pretty weak, though.
Izuku weakly wiggled his fingers. Felt like he had muscle pain, but at least his bones weren't all broken now. "Thanks." Izuku said, as Todoroki and Ojiro helped him to his feet. "How did-"
"Magic." Momo said.
Everyone sort of just accepted that.
"So, Midoriya...what's the plan?" Kirshima asked, ignoring the fact that Ship was cuddling up to his face.
"This is gonna sound stupid, but trust me. It could work." Izuku said. "I'm gonna launch a few of us into the air with my quirk."
Silence.
"This IS stupid, even for you." Tetsutetsu said.
"Hear me out- Shoji, Todoroki, Tetsutetsu and I will all go flying, and then we have Shoji correct our course with his arms in midair. We just gotta get close." Izuku said. He could hear calamity and chaos down the road- Ochako was fighting hard, and probably alone.
"Like human cannonballs..." Shoji hummed.
"It sounds...decent, but can you even move with those wounds, Midoryia?" Kendo asked. "You look like you could pass out."
"I don't want to put you in the line of fire. You're in too much pain to-" Shoto said.
"I can move." Izuku said- his face was full of determination.
"...good enough of a defense for me." Tsu said.
"Meanwhile, we'll do a pincer attack from the ground." Momo said. "We're all in good enough condition, right?"
"Yeah- whatever it takes to get this dude back...we'll go the extra mile." Setsuna smirked.
Everyone on the battlefield had a moment of collective confusion. Dabi was wondering how he was being restrained, Mr. Compress wondered what the hell this black energy was, Ochako being VERY confused by Izuku and Momo's new powers, Setsuna having doubts about this plan, Twice wondering when this LONG sentence was going to end and Izuku wondering if this was really going to work.
The only one without doubts was...Himiko Toga.
It's worth mentioning that struggle shapes who you are. It's where you learn the most important (and finest) lessons in life. Toga had been fighting for a long time, and being taken like this was not how she intended her 'freedom' to end. For the first time in her life, she felt like she was someone important.
So she may as well look like it, too.
"Good news…" Toga said, as her blood sucking capsule neared her mouth. "I'm all ready to have some more fun..."
Toga slurped the capsule down, as she started to change. Momo struggled to keep her form in check, as Toga began laughing madly. Her hands started getting bigger, skin turning red. Her muscles began to swell, like Muscular's did. Her fists enlarged, as it smashed the magic holding her like glass. Momo gasped, hand recoiling in pain. She and Dabi landed on the ground.
"Hm." Dabi hummed, as Toga began to transform. Her face had worsened- she now had one 'normal' eye and two 'normal Tetramand' eyes. Her teeth looked horrible, too. She chuckled heartily, and stood up. To make things worse, another giant fist appeared from her left shoulder, and another set of arms appeared underneath her normal ones.
"Six arms? That's useful." Dabi noted.
"And cute~" Toga grinned.
"You have a twisted definition of that word." Dabi huffed, as he aimed his hand at the boys. "Sorry, Compress. Nothing personal."
He unleashed a wave of blue flames, from which the boys all fled. Mr. Compress swiftly sealed himself in marble as Izuku's dark tentacles retreated into his back. Unfortunately, not everyone escaped unscathed. The flames burned one of Shoji's arms, as well as one of Izuku's. They howled in agony.
"DEKU!" Ochako screamed.
Shoto was ready to make an ice wall to stop the flames when he was distracted by the sound of someone behind him.
"Hey, I know you!" Twice yelled, pulling some 'measuring tape' from one of his gauntlets. "You're one of the faces from Shiggy's hit list! You also ranked 2nd in the First and Fourth Popularity Polls, and 3rd in the Second, Third, Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Popularity Polls! Congrats to you!"
"What?!" Shoto asked.
"I dunno, man! I just say the words and don't get 'em!" Twice responded.
Not really sure how to respond to that, Shoto simply slammed his hand to the ground and shot out a wave of ice at the weird villain, hoping to encase his legs in ice and trap him there. Instead, much to Shoto's surprise, Twice was able to dodge out of the way of the oncoming attack. Before he could even come up with a witty retort of some kind, an iron-coated fist slammed into the masked man and sent him flying.
"You don't get to make a weird joke this time!" Tetsutetsu yelled. Twice crashed into some nearby bushes with a groan. He then shot up and immediately got back on his feet, pointing right at the student that hit him.
"I get that you're impatient and you wanna fight, but I thought you HEROES were supposed to have MANNERS! Fire and Ice and I were having a conversation and then you just butt in like an ass! Seriously, what the hell?!" Twice yelled.
"We do have manners, but when villains show up and try to either kidnap or kill us, formalities kinda get tossed aside!"
"Well, just for that, you have to deal with someone who's just as much of a knuckle-dragger as you are!" Twice yelled, before using his Quirk to mold up a clone of Fistrick, "Actually, knuckle-dragger might be an offense, I'm sorry for that. No, I'm not, you're an ass and you deserve to be called that!"
"You're lucky I'm not the real Fistrick," the clone chided, "He would take offence to that. Pretty sure anyway."
"I wasn't talking to you! I was talking to him!" Twice corrected his newly created comrade.
"And just like that, things get a little more even," Dabi said, focusing on the still-cloaked in shadow armor Tokoyami, "Overheard you, y'know. Put two and two together...my fire's keeping your Quirk in line, isn't?"
Tokoyami didn't respond to that, simply getting into a fighting stance.
"What I thought. You're welcome. Besides, more interesting this way," the pyromaniac scoffed.
Tokoyami frowned. "I see the contempt in your heart, fiend- I'd say you take the most after Stain."
"I'm flattered," Dabi smirked. "Maybe I won't roast you into a nice turkey."
"Your eyes tell me your pain...and how you wish to spread that pain all over the world." Tokoyami said. "You are a true danger."
Dabi smirked. "Yeah. Nice to get that acknowledgement." He shot out some more flames from his hands, but this one was blocked by Shoto's ice wall. He frowned.
"Twice was right...you kids really don't have manners, do you?" Dabi scoffed.
"And as Tetsutetsu said, when you throw us into danger, some of those are left behind," Shoto countered.
"Fine then," Dabi said. With a flick of his wrist, a wave of blue fire erupted from his hand and made its way towards the son of Endeavor. Shoto channeled his own fire and blasted the wave with his own stream of flame, red and blue clashing in an almost beautiful display.
Tokoyami, meanwhile, dashed around the ice barrier and charged at Dabi. Shadowy claws slashed at Dabi, but the fire villain was able to dodge out of the way and tried to land a flame-boosted roundhouse kick to the shadow-user. Tokoyami blocked it with the thick shadows around his arm, but he could still feel the heat through the armor. A blast of frost suddenly slammed into Dabi from the side, encasing his leg in ice and knocking him off balance, courtesy of Shoto. The icy shackle didn't last long, as blue flames emerged from beneath the ice and shattered it.
Meanwhile, Tetsutetsu and the Fistrick clone charged at each other, fists reared back and ready to clash. The clone threw first and the iron-clad student ducker under the hit, landing his own punch to the Quirk-clone's gut. Undeterred by the strike, the clone brought both hands together and then slammed down on the student's back, forcing the steel-clad fighter to the ground. He was about to stomp down on Tetsutetsu's back, but he managed to roll out of the way before the boot came down. He jumped back in, ready for the next fight, only for Twice to try and restrain him from behind.
It didn't exactly end well. Tetsutetsu reached back, grabbed Twice by the neck and threw over his shoulders and into the Fistrick copy, knocking both to the ground.
"Bro..." Fistrick moaned, as he started to dissolve.
"Thanks for breaking my fall, though." Twice mumbled. "Too bad the real you isn't here..."
Shoto and Tokoyami continued to overwhelm Dabi with attacks. Dabi had a 'cooldown' window- likely due to his body overheating. Unlike Shoto, who could regulate his body temp, Dabi took a few seconds to 'recover'. His flames were overwhelming though.
But even with both of them, Dabi was holding his own. He knew the limitations of his Quirk, the cooldown period he needed to adhere to, unless he wanted to burn up from the inside, and he covered that weakness. He ducked under Tokoyami's latest claw-slash and landed a solid punch to the crow-student's gut, causing him to double over and stumble back. Shoto tried to bash the villain with an ice encase fist, but Dabi was able to catch it and use the momentum from the attack and fluidly change Shoto's attack into his own throw.
The son of Endeavor was tossed behind Dabi and into a tree with a loud thud. Dabi's cooldown period did have a loophole though. As long as he kept the flames small, he could still use them. He threw out a precise crescent of flame and the tree and cut the tree in half. The top part quickly began tipping over, threatening to land on and crush Shoto. Tokoyami quickly recovered and extended the claw of Dark Shadow to jut up and grab the tree before it could land.
"Alright, now just you and me," Tetsutetsu said, slamming his fists together, "and you don't look very strong."
"That may be true-no it's not, I am VERY strong!-" Twice began, "but that's only physically! I got other strengths to cover!" With that, Twice held out his hands and summoned up two more copies, one of Dabi and one of the chainsaw Nomu, Brando.
"I have smarts, Iron Man!" Twice grinned, "...actually wait, no, you're more like...uhhh...Colossus but you can turn it off."
"So, you're who we have to deal with?" Spinner asked, hefting his sword over his shoulder, "Not that impressed. Well, 'cept for the red guy."
"Don't compliment him!" Nyancy hissed, lightly smacking him on the back of the head.
"You're not that impressive either," Kendo called out, "Feels like the Pussycats should sue you."
"Hey! I had this aesthetic loooooong before they did! If anyone should sue, it's me!"
Ojiro struck Nyancy down with his massive tail, and Kirishima rushed at Spinner. He easily blocked his blades (Spinner was about to scream) and even caught one of them. He knee'd the blade in half and yelled.
"Hey- if you're gonna emulate Stain, have a cool quirk to back it up!" Kirishima said, slamming his fist into Spinner's chest.
Spinner growled, taking the other half of his blade and getting ready for a fight. "Oh, sure, let me trade in being a lizard for blood manipulation!" the Stain follower yelled before going on the offensive. The blades didn't really do much against Kirishima's hardened skin, but Spinner wasn't just gonna give up. In truth, this was probably his worst possible match-up really.
Nyancy stabbed her claws into Ojiro's tail, hissing like the cats she so adored. The tailed student's eyes went wide as he tried to shake Nyancy off. Kendo enlarged her fist and swatted the cat-lover off the tail, giving some reprieve to Ojiro. Of course, Nyancy just landed on her feet with feline grace.
"You're gonna be annoying to fight, aren't you?" Kendo asked.
"Maaaaaybe," Nyancy chuckled, "But you forgot its not just meeeee."
Ojiro and Kendo saw a small army of cats approaching her from behind. The duo blinked.
"I don't wanna hurt a bunch of cats..." Ojiro muttered.
"Too bad!" Nyancy grinned. On her command, the cats swarmed the duo, jumping on and scratching the heroes in training. Suffice to say, neither of them would be telling anyone about the real source of all these cuts.
Uraraka and Izuku stood their ground before the monstrous Toga. Both of them silently admitted, this was terrifying. The girl's Heatblast form was ok, just the arm and head of a Pyronite. Unnatural, but not unsightly. This was like something out of an alien horror movie. Uraraka managed to reach over her shoulder and press down on the Omnitrix, growing into the giant form of Four Arms.
"Gotta admit," Toga chuckled, her voice laced with a bit of reverb, "This almost feels too one-sided. But that's not really a COMPLAINT!" Toga grinned as she leapt into the air, gripping four of her six hands together as she descended. Uraraka and Izuku dodged out of the way before Toga made impact, creating a deep crater with her strength.
Time slowed down for Uraraka as she saw Toga emerge from the dust cloud of the impact. She brought up her arms to block a follow-up punch from the mutated villain. She was sent flying into a tree before more punches slammed into Uraraka, the speed that Toga had made her like a machine gun. Toga eventually got a cheat shot in, using one of her smaller arms to get Ben's successor in the side, breaking her defense. The blood-drinker was about to force Uraraka's arm's apart before a kick connected to her face and sent her flying. Izuku groaned after the hit, still definitely feeling the fatigue from the fight with Muscular.
"Hey! I didn't say you...could..." Toga began before pausing at the sight of Izuku, "O-oh."
"Um...if...that 'oh' was an admission of surrender, I'll take it?" Izuku said unsurely, channeling Iida a bit with the wording.
"Huh? N-no! Far from it! I just...got...distracted, that's all!" Toga countered.
Ochako attacked Toga, who caught her punches. The two females began to push against one another in an attempt to overcome the other's barriers. Eventually, Ochako twisted Toga's arms and smashed her into a tree. Toga gleefully returned the favor- she also put in a devastating sucker punch and knee'd Ochako's face. Toga chuckled, before she hurled Ochako towards Izuku.
Izuku gasped, as he scampered to the side. Ochako landed on the ground, but quickly forced herself back up. She was being outclassed by a heavier opponent...and she barely had half the experience.
Toga charged at Ochako again, raising her fist up to bash her in the jaw- but then something black wrapped around her fist. She looked behind her, to see Izuku, struggling to control his new black tendrils.
"NOW, OCHAKO!" Izuku yelled.
"What...is this?" Toga asked, reaching up to grab a hold of the black energy tendril. Before she gripped it, Uraraka pulled her hand away from it and slammed her head into Toga's, causing them both to stagger back.
"Gah!" The two girls yelled in unison.
"Not...my smartest move," Uraraka groaned, rubbing her forehead. She was able to recover quickly and managed to charge in, landing plenty of good punches on the blood-drinker. Toga tanked the hits as best she could before mentally saying 'screw it' and wrapped the black tendril around her hand further and then pulled. Izuku was dragged behind it and slammed into Uraraka, halting her barrage of punches. Toga pulled her hand out of the bind and grabbed Uraraka by the head, slamming her into the ground.
"Too rough?" Toga taunted with a mad grin.
"No..." Ochako grunted. "Not...rough...ENOUGH!"
Ochako slapped down the Omnitrix, and morphed into Big Chill. She phased through Toga's hand, and froze it solid. Toga gasped, before Ochako changed again. Echo Echo landed on the ground, and split into two more clones. The three aliens let out an ear piercing screech that blew Toga backwards.
"Woah." Izuku said.
"I'm not done YET!" Ochako yelled, slapping down the Omnitrix.
Toga shook her head, clearing her head after the sudden sonic assault. She started to get back to her feet, but was thrown down to the ground again by rainbow-colored energy blasts. Chromastone then charged in, energy surrounding her hands and began to strike at Toga with hit and run moves. The mutated blood-drinker went to counter, slam the rocky alien into pieces, but Chromastone was faster. In a quick turn before Uraraka landed the hit, Toga grabbed the crystal alien and pulled her up.
"Gotcha!" Toga grinned before she was blinded by another green flash. When the light died down, Toga blinked a few times upon seeing the new form.
"What?" was all Toga could manage.
"What...form is that?" Izuku asked, surprised as well.
Three green tongues shot out and wrapped around a nearby rock before pulling it into the mouth of Upchuck. The green alien then fired off a blast from her mouth with the newly acquired ammo right into Toga's face. The explosion forced her to drop Uraraka, her hands going up to cover her face from the sudden shot.
"What the HELL?!" Toga yelled.
Ochako finished her assault by morphing back into Four Arms. Toga was greeted with a barrage of fists- Ochako was punching so fast and so hard it was impossible NOT to get punched by something. Izuku was shocked by her brutality.
I've never seen Ochako fight so savagely... Izuku thought. These villains are pushing us to our physical limits more than I thought!
Toga was struck multiple times in the face, growling in frustration after the latest hit. She struck back, landing two punches to Uraraka's sides, causing her to pause her assault. The mutated villain pulled her legs up to her chest and then kicked out, knocking Ben's successor on her back. Toga quickly righted herself, eyes locking onto Izuku.
"You know...it didn't click before, all the chaos going on...but you're the kid from the sports fest. I thought you just had a strength Quirk," Toga began, tilting her head to the side, "I wonder if that strength can match mine."
Izuku grunted. "I doubt it..." He really did. Toga's form seemed horribly imbalanced. The extra set of lower forearms were an issue, but pretty avoidable. Toga didn't have the full mobility of Ochako's Four Arms, lacking the strong legs to help carry herself across the field. If he could just control One for All and this black energy for a second, he could hold back one of her arms and let Ochako get a free hit.
He just had to be quick...
"Hmmm...ya know...doesn't really seem fair actually," Toga hummed, "What about...them?"
"Them?" Izuku repeated. His eyes went wide in shock as he saw Toga leap over him and land behind Ojiro and Kendo, both of them having just rid themselves of the remaining cats commanded by Nyancy. The impact behind them threw them off balance, giving Toga the perfect opening. She raised four of her arms up, clasping them together, ready to slam down. Kendo enlarged her fists and, knowing the strength of a normal Tetramand, she was preparing to sacrifice every bone in both hands to shield Ojiro from the hit.
"Let's see if they can TAKE IT!" Toga yelled and slammed down.
Or at least she would have. A loud thwip sound echoed through the air and wrapped around Toga's arms, stopping them mere inches away from Kendo's hands. Actually, no, "thwip" wasn't the right word for the sound. It was more like the crack of a whip as it struck air.
Toga's body was suddenly being restrained by a lot of black tendrils, shooting out of his body at random. Toga gasped, as she was suddenly wrapped tightly in ball of black energy. Kendo and Ojiro gasped in shock- Izuku was straining his body, but he didn't even try to stop the energy this time.
"W-what is this!?" Toga yelled, her voice muffled.
"URARAKA!" Izuku yelled. "FINISH HER OFF!"
Uraraka staggered to her feet, still somewhat stunned from Toga's brutal counter, but still clear-sighted enough to see the situation at hand. She narrowed her eyes and rushed at the mutated villain, two fists reared back and ready. Toga struggled within the entangling energy, trying to use her brute strength to rip herself free to no avail. In the end, both of Uraraka's fists connected to Toga's face and freed her from the bindings. The black tendrils were shredded as the sheer force of the twin impacts launched Toga into and through several still-standing trees.
"Aaaaand just like that, a rivalry is born," Twice said, wincing a bit when he heard the final crash, "She is gonna feel that tomorrow."
"And you're gonna feel THIS tomorrow! " Tetsutetsu growled, dodging a chainsaw swing from Brando and landing a solid right hook to Twice's gut.
"Oh shit!" Twice gasped, "I wasn't...supposed to take any hits until at least the next arc!"
"Would you shut UP!?" Tetsutetsu yelled. "God, you're so annoying!"
"It's a part of my charm!" Twice frowned, walking away. Looks like he was retreating.
As he did, the two clones he'd summoned up to fight the iron-clad student melted into puddles of the sludge they were made from. Guess he dropped his Quirk. The reason became obvious when a blue wall of flame cut the area in half, with Dabi, Nyancy, and Spinner on one side and the students on the other.
"Your guy looks...untouched," Dabi commented.
"Oh, yeah, like I have blades to cut through super armor," Spinner deadpanned, "Worst match up of the night."
"Well, at least you didn't-" Nyancy began, "Wait. Toga got launched, Twice is already running...where's Compress?"
Mr. Compress popped up beside Nyancy, causing her to jump up in shock. He brushed himself off.
"Apologies. My ball rolled off course." Mr. Compress said.
"Don't do that!" Nyancy hissed.
"Again, apologies," Compress simply said.
Kirishima growled, seeing the villains about to make their getaway before he looked down to Ship.
"...how powerful are your shots?" Kirishima whispered. He just got an idea.
"Ship," Ship confirmed.
"That's all I needed to hear."
"Well, children," Compress began, taking off his hat, "I'm afraid this marks the end of tonight's performance. I do hope you enjoyed it. We put a lot of effort into it, especially the pyrotechnics."
"Hey, Compress!" Kirishima shouted, "I got some pyrotechnics of my own for ya!" The unbreakable student took aim with the Ship weapon and fired a blast of green energy right at Compress's face. The ornate mask the thief wore shattered and the man himself was thrown off his feet. The impact made him gasp and then, they all saw it. A marble left Compress' open mouth, the one place that couldn't be checked during a fight, as he seemed to fall in slow motion.
"Bakugou!" Izuku and Kirishima realized together.
Momo's eyes widened. She created a sphere of magic, but left the top open. She held open her hand, and started making something small.
"What are you doing?" Tsu asked.
"Something more clever than his magic." Momo grinned, as she closed the top and launched the sphere.
Compress thudded to the ground and groaned, quickly getting back up.
"Lucky shot," Compress said. Then he looked up and noticed the sphere. He cocked a brow at that and then everyone saw the sphere shatter like glass. Instead of shards raining down from above, countless marbles, each one identical to the ones Compress made with his Quirk, clattered to the ground. The villains' faces all dropped.
"Uhhh, Compress," Nyancy began, "Please tell me you have some kinda sixth-sense with your marbles."
"Alas...I do not," Compress said.
"...damn it." Nyancy said. "Okay, well, maybe my cats can find him! Where are they-"
And that's when Nyancy looked over, to see that not only had Kirishima single handedly ruined Mr. Compress' plans, but also her plans. Ship was using a laser pointer to distract the kitties and have them run around the field like crazy.
"Good boy!" Kirishima grinned.
"HIIIIIIIISSSSSSSSSS!" Nyancy yelled.
"This...this is fine. This is fine, I can probably fin-" Compress was cut off by another sphere smashing into his face and spreading more marbles everywhere. He looked down at them all and growled.
"Ok, not too bad, we can still-" Compress began before Ojiro stepped up to mess up the plan even further. Using his tail, he swept up a decent enough gust to scatter the remaining marbles, making them roll across the ground, bounce into each other and send them rolling further away.
"Compress?" Dabi said, "Stop talking."
Setsuna had thrown out one of her eyes and was trying to find Bakugou amongst the scattered marbles. Give Momo credit, she'd seen that blue marble for a second and made a perfect copy of it. Almost too perfect.
"These damn brats are more annoying than I thought..." Dabi frowned, before his eyes locked with Shoto. "But it checks out." His arm lit up again, and he sent another bolero of flames at the boy.
Shoto dodged out of the way and countered with his own barrage of icy projectiles. Dabi effortlessly sidestepped the barrage and gave a small, wry smirk. Setsuna continued scouting for the right marble, seemingly unnoticed by the other villains. Good, it let her work without interruption.
"C'mon, c'mon," Setsuna muttered, scouring the field of marbles for any sign of the real marble, "Where are you?"
Mr. Compress sifted through the marbles near his feet, hoping this was a fluke. "Damn it! These kids are pushing my patience..." Mr. Compress sighed. "I'm going to have to do something risky. I'll never forgive myself for this inane gambit!"
With that, Compress took the risk. He held out a hand and snapped his fingers, the trigger for deactivating his Quirk. One marble out of the entire sea began to glow blue. Compress and Setsuna both saw the glow from their respective angles.
"Gotcha!" they both said in unison, but only Setsuna was able to enjoy that. Compress suddenly found a kick with the strength of steel behind it connected with his face.
"You forgot I'm a little fireproof, didn't you?" Tetsutetsu smirked.
"Just a little, huh?" Dabi asked, turning his attention to the iron-clad student.
"...uh-oh."
Dabi was about to incinerate Tetsutetsu, but suddenly a spray of water smashed into his side. Dabi's flames were immediately extinguished...thanks to Ochako's Water Hazard.
"Alright, there we go! Most of them are down!" Ochako yelled. "Get Bakugou, and let's get out of here!"
Setsunna suddenly broke her body apart to move through the wall of flame relatively unscathed. She quickly came together and picked up Bakugou's marble.
"Got it!" the splitting student proclaimed.
"Alright!" Kirishima said. "Mission successful! Let's bounce before things go south."
...for his optimism, Kirishima had jinxed the whole thing. Before Setsuna could split apart again, a familiar shape impacted right behind the student.
"So...where are you going?" Toga threateningly asked, before she grabbed the girl by the head.
"Setsuna!" Uraraka yelled, turning her attention to the still-mutated villain.
Setsuna struggled in her grasp, trying to break free of Toga's grip. Tsu and Momo tried to restrain one of her fists with magic and tongue, but Toga swatted them both away. "We're not leaving until we get what we came for..."
One of Toga's smaller arms wrested the marble out from Setsuna's hand and tossed it over to Compress. The gentleman thief grabbed it with ease and sighed.
"And here I was thinking you were down for the count," Compress shook his head.
"Do...do you see what I look like right now?" Toga questioned.
"No, no, I do...not a very pleasant appearance, but mutations never really are, are they?"
"Hey!" Spinner yelled.
"Realize what I said, I mean the forced kind!" Compress quickly corrected.
Izuku's rage peaked once again. His tendrils shot out at Mr. Compress, this time a lot thicker and more 'blunt'. Mr. Compress didn't flinch as he balled himself up and dodged under the attacks.
Blue flames lashed out and cut through the tendrils, courtesy of Dabi. Setsuna was then thrown by the monstrous Toga at the others, passing through the wall of fire only for Tetsutetsu to catch her.
"Gotcha!" the steel-clad student said.
"...still...hurt," Setsuna groaned.
Ochako growled. She was sick and tired of this Toga girl...and the fact she'd just ruined their rescue mission was more than enough.
I have the energy for one more change! Ochako thought. I need...to make this count.
With one last change, Ochako transformed into Four Arms. One last brawl.
"Oooh, classic," Toga grinned, "I still got some time too...so I think I'll change things up a bit."
The girl's lower arms pulled out one more vial of blood, containing a much smaller sample than usual. She brought it to her lips and gulped down what little crimson liquid there was in there. Instead of a full transformation, Toga was able to have it only affect two of her upper arms, somehow. Uraraka and the others saw the flesh morph and transform into-
"Chainsaws?!" Kirishima and Tetsutetsu called out.
"The Nomu...she drank the blood of the Nomu," Momo realized.
"Blugh! Ugh, terrible! Like tar!" Toga complained, "No strong iron taste."
"...that's what you're complaining about? You drank BLOOD for crying out loud!" Setsuna yelled.
Toga's usual grin fell. She locked onto Setsuna as her new chainsaws began revving up.
"You sound just like them..." Toga hissed.
"Like...who...?"
Toga didn't answer. She just rushed past everyone else, making right for Setsuna. The speed was surprising for such a bulky form, but maybe it was another aspect of the Nomu blood. Before anyone knew what was going on, Toga was in front of Setsuna and swiping her new chainsaw at the girl. The sound of the weapon's bladed teeth cutting into flesh caught people's attention, even the villains', before the sound of the roaring engine began to sputter and come to a halt. Toga blinked a few times when she saw what had happened.
It was Uraraka. Toga's chainsaw was now caught in Four Arm's...well arm, having ground to a halt because of another hand gripping the blade and forcing it to stop. Toga's eyes were wide in surprise, while Uraraka's were narrowed, both in determination and because she was trying to hold back the pain. Toga quickly freed her weapon from Uraraka's grip and arm, looking at the bloodied weapon before leaping back to her comrades.
"Got there...in time...right?" Uraraka asked the still in-shock Setsuna.
"Y-yeah," Setsuna managed to squeak out in shock.
"Good..." Ochako said, falling to her knees and reverting back to human in a flash of pink.
"Ochakoooooo. You weren't supposed to jump in the way of that!" Toga pouted, "I didn't want to hurt you."
"You're giving her special treatment?" Dabi asked.
"Well sorta. I mean she's my friend!"
"We...we aren't..." Ochako huffed.
"Ahhh, you're just saying that because you wanna keep up your image!" Toga teased.
Ochako grit her teeth. "We're NOT friends. Friends don't carve into their friends arms with a chainsaw..." Ochako winced. She wanted to grab her arm in pain, but she didn't want to risk infection. Setsuna gasped as she saw the damage to Ochako's arm. One could swear that bone was visible...
"It was an accident! I wasn't even aiming for you!" Toga argued, "You know, if that's who you hang out with, I really need to question your choice in company."
Uon hearing that, Ochako wanted to just immediately transform again, just go Gravattack or XLR8 and jump right back into the fray, but the pain in her arm stopped her.
"Alright, well if you're not gonna do it," Dabi started, snapping a blue flame into existence at his fingertips, only for Toga to try and blow it out like a candle, "The hell are you doing?"
"Trying to stop you without pummeling you into the ground. You don't get to hurt Ochako!" Toga said. Dabi looked the girl over, focusing on her eyes mainly. That look reminded him of someone so he sighed and extinguished the flame.
"Fine."
"Thank you!"
"We're leaving, anyways..." Dabi huffed, as a portal suddenly opened up. "Compress. Release the kid..."
A smirk grew across his face. "I want him to see this."
"Are you sure that's a good move? Given his-?" Compress asked, making an explosion motion with his hand.
"Don't worry. I got it," Dabi reassured. With a shrug, Compress flipped the marble containing Bakugou into the air and timed it so where, right as the marble fell in front of the new pyromaniac, he released his hold on it. The marble glowed before decompressing, releasing Bakugou from its confines, only for Dabi's hand to close around the student's neck.
"I wouldn't try anything kid," Dabi threatened.
Bakugou struggled in his grasp. "You...corpse smelling bastard..." He mumbled. Dabi was about to call him something the author couldn't write...when he heard this horrible scream.
Izuku Midoriya was still trying to fight. Black tendrils were shooting out of random points of his body, and trying to scurry towards the portal.
"What the shit..." Dabi muttered.
"Dabi, while I'm all for theatrics, I think we need to cut your performance short to avoid THAT," Compress pointed out.
"Oh hey look! It's Izuku! Our other VIP! Oooooh, I'd love to talk to him a little bit before we go!" Toga beamed.
"That he is, but I think you'll need to save your questions for another time."
"GIVE HIM BACK!" Izuku roared, as Dabi took a step backwards. More kids were trying to rush to prevent Dabi from getting through the portal...but Dabi could only focus on ONE face in particular.
"Huh...wondered where you were," Dabi scoffed, "Whatever. Always next time. See ya around...Shoto Todoroki."
And then Dabi stepped back through the portal. And so did the other villains.
Dabi let Bakugou stare at his classmates for another second, before pulling him back. Izuku's tendrils were just about to snatch Bakugou back-
"Izuku," Bakugou managed to get out, making Izuku freeze up, "Don't follow me." The Blackwhip tendrils stopped mere inches away from Bakugou before he was fully pulled into the smoky rift and disappeared.
He was gone.
The League had won today.
The students all stood there. Frozen. Motionless. Shoto was lost for words- why did Dabi target HIM specifically? They just met today…
Izuku's tendrils retreated back into his body, forcing him to the ground. He writhed in pain, that adrenaline wasn't pumping anymore-
And Ochako could now clearly hear blood hitting the ground.
It was coming from her wound.
Her...giant arm gash. From the chainsaw.
Ochako felt herself go faint-
And that's all she remembered.
Annnnd that's the Summer Camp arc. Probably laid the biggest foundation of the fic thus far. Fun fact: a majority of this arc was solo written by yours truly, and I'm sorta shocked by how fast it was churned out. Hope to do it again soon!
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