(My gosh, we're up to 50! It boggles the mind a tad, y'know? I understand I've barely scratched the surface, have done so little with even our main protagonists, and I haven't explained what the eff's up with Giygas in this story! I'm playing to get into it, I'm trying to think of a way the Mother 3 aspects don't feel as intrusive to the MHA side. Anyways, I'll work on that. Thanks for liking my work, anyways, tho. I thank God that I can write. Enjoy the chapter!)

Izuku looked outside of the hole the Nomu had created, the conductor behind him trying to calm the panicking crowd. "Everyone, please! Remain calm!" The conductor told the crowd more heroes would be on the way. "Keep them calm." Izuku told the man, "I'm going after him!"

Izuku had jumped out of the train and ran out onto the track. "Hey, are you nuts?! It's way too dangerous out there!" The conductor shouted at the boy, but Izuku had continued his chase after the Nomu.

"He looked different, but there can't be that many people with wild eyes and brains spilling out." Izuku surmised it was the same from the USJ, "Maybe Nomu's brother? Unless…Lucas's theory ends up being true…" Izuku said, "Either way, what is he doing in the city?" Midoriya didn't know what the intentions were, but he knew he had no time for detours or stairs. He needed to make sure to help apprehend Nomu. "Gotta put my training to the test. One For All…Full Cowling!" Izuku began to flow his Quirk through his body, and the green lightning began to emanate from him.

He then took a moment to leap into the air! "I've totally got this!" Izuku then smiled, finally able to handle his powers without breaking a bone, he jumped to another building and rolled before getting up to run. "Gran Torino. Please be okay!" He said.

(Meanwhile)

Gran Torino had saved a couple from the Nomu in the wreckage. "I haven't fought this earnestly in years. Picked a fine time to patrol." Gran Torino had smiled and had landed a few successful hits on his opponent.

Nomu had turned around and tried to attack him. "That's right. Bring it on, ugly!" He challenged him. The Nomu had tried to move swiftly to land a blow, but fortunately Gran Torino had managed to avoid it. This Nomu wasn't as fast as him, of course. He then saw that Nomu had diverged his attention to the couple nearby. "He's attacking at random." He thought to himself.

"Stop it, you stupid beast!" He said to the being. The couple had shut their eyes in fear and then Gran Torino had seen a burst of flame shoot out at the Nomu. Gran Torino whimpered in a hint of panic and pushed himself back so he would not get burned.

Another shot of flame had been sent toward the villain. "I was looking for the elusive Hero Killer, but this thing will have to do." It was Endeavor's voice. "Thanks, old timer. I'm afraid I don't know you, but I can handle this from here on out." He encouraged the man.

"Can you…?" a boy's voice had muttered under his breath, running toward the couple. "Are you two okay? It's gonna be alright, we're here to help." He encouraged them, they looked at the boy. "We're okay. Thank you. Whoa, look!" The man said, "Why's he in Hosu?" The woman had said.

Enji had merely smirked, "Isn't it obvious? I came because I'm a hero." Lucas glared at the man's response.

"Not with that careless flame." Lucas had said, which made Endeavor glare at the boy. "You could've injured these people or that man if he didn't back up in time." Lucas wasn't afraid, and his anger had fired on all cylinders back at the pro. He sighed in shame of himself. He let his anger take over again. "We don't have time for carelessness. Come on, let's get you out of here! Follow me." Lucas said to the couple, running ahead and the couple followed him. Lucas then saw…is that Gran Torino?! THE Gran Torino?!

"Wait…I remember Izuku mentioned he was interning with him. That means he must be here, too!" Lucas thought to himself. "I hope your training has paid off, Izuku!" Lucas then kept going, realizing there was too much danger around them.

"I'll need to finish helping get others out of here before helping out with whatever's going on. That guy…looked so much like Nomu." Lucas then thought of the memory of him reading that man's mind. The fragmented pieces of a broken up mind, only shouting words of panic or fear. "If there's another just like Nomu…" Lucas didn't finish his thought, trying to focus on getting people out of there. Endeavor stayed back with everyone else to handle the current crisis. "Shoto, your friend is both annoying as he is dedicated." Endeavor said to him. Shoto kept his mind focused, "We can agree on something for once." Shoto said.

(Back with our green-ette)

Izuku ran through the crowds of the people running from the danger. "They're probably at the center of this craziness." He thought to himself, "Lucas said he could and couldn't read the mind of Nomu…that Nomu didn't seem like he was in control. Does that mean this guy is the same as Nomu?" Izuku wondered if this guy had any powers the same as Nomu. Things would be really bad if he had any similar powers that Nomu had in the fight against All Might. "It won't just be Gran Torino in trouble, but the entire city!" He dreaded the idea, and then he realized Iida was included in this chaos, since he was interning here. "Crap, what do I do? Come on, think. How do I be the best possible hero right now?" He asked himself, he then heard a man shouting for Tenya!

He stopped in his tracks when he heard the man's voice. "Where are you, Tenya?" He called out. Izuku tried to figure out if Tenya was nearby, and then he had seen a truck being thrown up against a car. An explosion had gone off and fire was burning that part of the street. Izuku had seen someone in the fire, and someone was thrown close to him.

He saw TWO newer figures in the mayhem. They looked like Nomu as well, "Oh, no. What are these things?" He asked himself. One of the creatures was big compared to the car that was crushed and blown up. Another was white and had wings, and together they had been howling and causing destruction and harm to the Pros that were trying to stop them.

"Manual! Stop the fire!" A pro had broken a fire hydrant and Manual had listened to his order. "That's Manual. The Normal Hero!" Izuku had realized that it WAS the Pro Tenya was interning at. "Why'd you run off by yourself? Where the heck are you, Tenya? D*t." Manual said, trying his best to put out the fires.

"Wait, he went off alone? Despite what's happening?" Izuku asked himself, realizing that's NOT something Iida would normally do. "You're in the way, kid. Get out of here." A nearby pro had chided him.

"Right. I'm so sorry!" Izuku apologized. "We can hold these things back on our own. Evacuate with everyone else." The pro told him. Manual pointed out how he could've used the extra hands.

"I can't believe Tenya would run off with such a huge disaster right in front of him." Izuku's eyes widened when he realized what may be going on.

"Hosu City…Guys who look like Nomu…Iida…Hosu…Where the Hero Killer attacked…Don't tell me." Izuku had finally put it together. Tenya had come to Hosu City to take down the Hero Killer. He then ran like the Pro had told him to do. He could hear the pros trying to fight them off to no avail. Some were wondering if these creatures were even men at all.

(Meanwhile)

Shigaraki watched as a block of the city was on fire. "The Nomu make such great play things." Tomura said to Kurogiri. "Are you not going to participate in the fight?" The barkeep asked, "Don't be stupid. I'm still injured." Tomura said, grasping his injured shoulder from that scuffle with Stain. "That's why I brought those pets with us." Tomura explained.

He recalled a memory of him asking Master about how many Nomu had been completed:

"I've finished adjusting the behavior of six of them." Master had said, and clarified that they were not as strong as the previous Nomu from the USJ attack. "Give them to me." Tomura ordered his master. "Why?" Master had asked, "Because I don't like that arrogant Hero Killer you brought in." Tomura explained, "And it's my right to destroy anything that I don't like, right, Master?" Tomura's eye began to twitch behind the hand he was wearing over his faces. "Very well. However, you may only have three." Master encouraged Shigaraki to use this as a learning experience.

Shigaraki had laughed as a madman, "Once this night is over, the world will have forgotten you ever existed, Hero Killer." He declared.

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Stain's silhouette stayed bit in shadow, holding a blade to Tenya's head. "A child wearing a suit." He called him, "Who are you?" He asked, "I am the brother of an incredible hero who YOU attacked." Tenya said, trying to stand up. "He's the best older brother that anyone could hope for. I have come to stop you. Because he can't anymore." Tenya remembered Tensei's request to take up his name. "You're going to remember my name for a a long as you live." Tenya shouted at him. "I am Ingenium, and I will defeat you. That, I promise!" His glare was angry, pure instinctive anger.

"Then so be it. Die." Stain had said to him, Tenya's exhausted calves had fire coming out of them, he boosted his speed. "For Tensei!" He shouted at him, trying to kick the murderer. Stain had quickly dodged. "Ingenium. So you're brothers." Stain had realized, "I let him live so he could spread the good word." He begun to explain, the word of him. He then kicked his spiked boot into Tenya's shoulder. He then pushed Tenya against the ground.

Tenya looked back at the man, still angry. "You're a weakling. Just like he was." Stain called him, he tossed his katana and grabbed it to push into Tenya's other shoulder. The young man had grunted in pain.

"You aren't heroes. You have no right to be called that. Both of you are nothing but fakes." He said, "Shut up, villain." Tenya said, "You damaged his spine and paralyzed him from the waist down. He's never gonna be able to work as a pro hero again." Tenya had praised his brother, calling him an incredible caring person who saved many lives. "Someone people looked up to. You had no right to take that all away from him!" Stain had looked at the boy, not letting up from his hold.

He remembered a family dinner. Tensei was humble about his followers, claiming them to be the opposite. The sidekicks had supported him because he wasn't great on his own. "They're just looking out for me." Tensei told his father, "I honestly couldn't do anything without them. I need their support." Tenya listened with curiosity, "Of course, I'm working hard so I can return the favor." Tensei explained, admitting he's not super talented or anything, "But if I'm going to call myself a hero, then I have to live up to that title and help people." Tenya remembered smiling at that moment.

"He is my hero. My older brother inspired my dream that one day I could be a pro, too!" He explained to the Hero Killer. He tried to get up, "I won't forgive you." He then said, "I'll kill you!" He declared.

Stain looked the pro he had against the wall. "Shouldn't you be worried about saving that guy?" He asked, and Tenya looked and saw that Native was still bleeding out a little. "So busy with your grudge you forgot about him. You plan on using your Quirk only for yourself. You're completely blinded by a selfish desire for revenge." Stain had grinned, eerily. "You're about as far away from a hero as I can imagine." Stain then took out his katana and lifted the bloodied end of the blade up to his head. "And that's why you'll die tonight." He said, before licking the blood off his blade.

Tenya began to feel like he couldn't move, like a crushing weight had come down on him.

"My body…won't move!" He thought to himself. Stain then lifted up his blade again, this time aiming at Tenya's chest. "Goodbye, child. May your death bring about a better world." He said to him.

Tenya's eyes began to tremble in fear, he couldn't DO anything. He couldn't avenge Tensei, and now he's about to die. He couldn't avenge only cry, "No, please! Not like this!" Tenya shouted and pleaded. He remembered Tensei's words to him.

"Knowing you look up to me makes me better. I have to be sure I make you proud." Tensei smiled and laughed, so happily.

Tenya then shouted: "Say whatever you want to about me! You're still just a criminal who hurt my brother!" Stain had hesitated, not because of Tenya's words.

But because someone was coming, and green lightning was coming off of him.

In the light, a green haired boy in green had charged up a punch and hit the Hero Killer directly in the face! "Smash!" Izuku shouted, "Guess I was right!" Tenya tried to look up, but he couldn't see. "Who's there?" Tenya asked, voice breaking. He could see him. It was one of his friends! "Midoriya? How?" He asked.

Izuku didn't look back at him completely, but he slightly turned in Iida's direction. "Don't you worry, Iida. I'm gonna save you." He simply said, getting ready to fight the Hero Killer. Stain knew that boy looked familiar. "It's him. The one from Shigaraki's picture." He thought to himself.

"You found him, too? But how?" Tenya asked his friend. "I saw it on TV. They had some stats about the Hero Killer. Most of his victims were found where there weren't many people. So in order to find you, I need to search far away from the panic. In the back alleys of Hosu City." Izuku explained.

"Let's go. Back toward the street." Izuku advised, looking to Tenya to get up. "We have to get help from the pros." Tenya grunted, "Ugh. I can't move my body." He said, and Izuku looked back at him in confusion.

"It must be his Quirk. Since he cut me, I've been paralyzed." Tenya explained. "That's the kind of Quirk people on TV said the Hero Killer might have." Izuku realized, "So cutting somehow activates his power, huh?" Izuku then saw that there was someone else harmed.

"If it had just been Iida, I could've picked him up and carried him away myself." Izuku thought. Tenya grunted again, "Midoriya, please! Don't get involved." He said. Midoriya was confused by that statement.

"This doesn't have anything to do with you!" Tenya said, Izuku was a little more worried. "Iida, what are you saying?" Izuku asked.

"You showed up to save your friend's life. You even made a big entrance." Stain found those traits admirable. "But I have a duty to kill him and this so-called pro." He said to him. "When your friend chose to fight me, it guaranteed that the weaker of us would be culled." Izuku had begun to freak out at this man.

"So what will YOU do?" Stain asked the boy. Izuku had remembered All Might's words to Shigaraki back at the USJ. How some villains try to make their actions seem noble or justified. When he looks at Stain he could tell there was a difference with him. "Those are the eyes of a fanatic." Izuku had said.

He had quietly made sure Stain couldn't see what he was doing, but he knew who he needed to send a location to. He believes that they were both in the area.

He then turned his look back to the Hero Killer, "Even though it was just a guess, and I didn't have any proof, I should've made sure that a pro came with me to find him." He regretted that mistake. He decided that until they get here, he'll protect Tenya and the pro hero from Stain. By himself... "Maybe I can even force the Hero Killer to run." He finished thinking, "Listen to me!" Tenya had pleaded again to not get involved. "Stand down. Run away. I told you, this has nothing to do with you." He said to his friend.

"If you really believe that, then why are you trying to become a hero in the first place?!" Izuku asked, making a fist. "There are plenty of things I'd like to say, but they'll have to wait." Izuku said, "All Might WAS right, though. Meddling when you don't need to is the essence of being a hero!" Izuku said, getting into a fighting stance.

Stain looked up, shocked by the boy's words, while Tenya laid there in defeat, feeling too many emotions. Izuku tried his best to put on a brave face, even smile a little.

Stain had smirked, before he let out a chuckle. This boy was something else.

Izuku rushed in, and Stain held his sword back-handed. "Good." He said, Izuku used One For All to boost his agility for a moment, trying to think of a way to get past the sword.

"Trying to get in close so I can't strike him." Stain realized the boy's strategy, acknowledging the smart move. "No! If you get cut—!"Tenya tried to warn him, "Watch the blades!" Izuku ducked his head, ran underneath Stain to avoid getting struck by the combat knife. Stain tried to be quick, but by the time he turned around, Midoriya had disappeared. "He's gone?" He asked himself, b we efore seeing that Izuku was in the air, trying to land another punch. "No."

"A 5%…Detroit…Smash!" Izuku said, throwing another punch.

Tenya felt there was something familiar about how Midoriya's movements, and then it hit him. "He's flying around, like Bakugo does." Tenya thought to himself, recalling when he and Katsuki had fought during the training.

The green-ette had landed on his feet, "Did I get him? Did Full Cowling work?" He asked, looking for the Hero Killer.

"Yes, I really can fight!" He said.

Stain had smirked, and licked the blood off of his blade. Izuku had felt a feeling of shock enter his body and he couldn't get up. "My body…" Izuku realized that Stain may have cut him without noticing. "One graze is all it took?" He asked, he saw Stain stand up straight and looked at the blood on the sword. He gasped, "No. It's…the blood!" He figured out Stain's powers.

"You're not powerful enough." Stain chided the boy, "It's not that you predicted my movements. You just left my field of vision, and maneuvered so that you'd be able to get in a clean shot." He explained to him. "But I saw through your plan." Stain began to walk towards Tenya. "There are countless false heroes around here who are all talk, but I think YOU'RE worthy of staying alive." Stain had somehow declared the boy worthy of living. "You're different from these two." He said, about to approach Tenya.

"Wait, don't. Stop it!" Izuku said, pleading and grunting through the paralysis. Stain had stopped above Tenya again, raising his blade above Tenya's head. Iida's eyes trembled in fear.

"GET AWAY!" Izuku shouted at him.

Stain looked up and saw fire was coming his way, and he immediately juked out of the way. Tenya, Izuku and Stain were shocked by the display of power.

"Someone else to get in my way. Today's been full of distractions." He said, seeing someone immersed in fire on their body.

"W-What the…?!" Izuku had felt his body being pulled closer to the fire and he saw a blue light envelope his body. "I-It's you guys!" Izuku had smiled for a moment. "Don't celebrate just yet!" Stain tried to move in and then he saw a weapon being thrown at him. "A wooden stick?" He then saw someone. Another person behind the guy on fire. He looked a little younger, wearing a hood. "Midoriya, you need to give more details in times like this. I was almost too late to stop this guy." Shoto scolded him. "Tenya! Izuku!" Lucas called the names of his friends in panic.

"You, too, Todoroki?" Tenya asked, "I'm so glad you picked up, Lucas! Hold on…Todoroki. You're using your left side?" Izuku asked.

"We're lucky we got here at all. The message you sent Lucas took us a while to figure out." Shoto explained, implying that Izuku should send more than just a location. "But you're not really one to send cryptic messages without a reason, are you?" Shoto asked, freezing the floor beneath him. Stain had jumped into the air. Izuku then was seeing Lucas trying to heal the injuries of the Pro. Stain studied the boy hiding in his hood, as he moved to Ingenium. "Hold on, Tenya! I'll heal the wound." Lucas said, trying to use his healing powers with Tenya's wound. The boy was strained for a moment, "Can you walk?" Lucas asked. "I-I can't…" Tenya said, Lucas looked at the man. Lucas's heart was pounding. He couldn't heal paralysis. Stain saw anxiety had taken the boy, but something was different.

Lucas took a breath and pulled the stick toward him. "Sit tight, guys. I'll keep you safe." Lucas standing in front of them.

Stain could see it, this kid was something special as well. A defender and protector before a glory hunter. "I know if I try to run with even one of them, Stain will just try to ignore Shoto to take the others down. There's no way around it that I can see right now. I'm gonna have to fight." Lucas thought to himself, readying his stance.

Shoto's ice had risen and Izuku, Tenya & Native had slid down. "Yeah! Everything's gonna be okay. The pro heroes will be here any minute!" Shoto ran in and launched fire at the Hero Killer.

Stain had wall-kicked against the wall, before landing on his feet. He was worried about the time limit on his victims.

"You're just what they said you were." Shoto said to the Hero Killer, "But you won't be taking any more lives, Hero Killer." Shoto declared.

Lucas had kept himself still and guarding the three paralyzed.

"Guys! You can't let that get your blood." Izuku warned the two of them. "I-I think he controls his enemy's actions by swallowing it." Lucas's eyes widened in a hint of disgust. "He ingests blood to keep people from moving." Shoto said, "That explains the blades." Lucas then saw in and instinctively pushed Shoto out of the way. "Look out!" He shouted, Lucas spun his staff to push the knife to the side.

Stain admired the instincts of these two. "Ya have good friends, Ingenium." Stain said to Tenya.

Stain lunged at the blonde boy, "Or you DID!" Stain had grabbed the knife and tried to go for this one. Lucas had dodged out of the way, and swung his staff to hit Stain again an ice pillar Shoto had made. "Nice move!"

Shoto, Stain and Lucas looked up and saw his katana in the air. "He must've threw it at the same time as the knife!" Shoto said, and before Shoto knew it, Stain was about to cut him where he stood. Lucas took advantage of the disposition and bumped Stain into a wall.

Stain avoided another array of ice coming his way and grabbed his katana, "He's strong!" Shoto said, trying to shoot more ice at him. "Just stop it." Tenya called to the two of them. "Why are you doing this? His fight is with me!" Tenya shouted.

"Tenya, you're paralyzed! You can't fight in your current state!" Lucas should've known it would end up like this. He KNEW why Tenya wanted to intern in Hosu City and instead of doing anything, he LET him get this far. Lucas could feel the weight of shame overtake him. "Sakai…I inherited my brother's name." He explained, "I'm the one who should stop him. The Hero Killer is mine!"Tenya said, through his struggles.

"TENYA!" Lucas shouted at him, tears visible for a moment, "I understand why you feel like this, but there were people who needed you and you abandoned them for revenge!" Lucas explained to him.

"You're Ingenium now? Strange." Shoto said, going from using his left side to his right side. "The Ingenium I knew before never had a look like that on his face." Shoto explained to him. Tenya then looked at the two, "You've got a dark side. Guess my family isn't the only one." Shoto said.

"Careful, you two!" Izuku spoke, before feeling something. He could move his hand.

Stain had cut all of Shoto and Lucas's ice with his swords. Lucas tried to see something, and then ran close in, "Lucas, what are you—?!" Shoto couldn't finish and he could see Lucas had grabbed the shards and thrown them right back at Stain. "Oh, YOU'RE an opportunist if I ever saw one!" Stain smirked a little, recognizing the hiding tactician underneath the hood.

Stain had jumped on top of one of the shards, cutting a few blocks close to him. "Rookie mistakes, both of you." Shoto had released his fire.

"Come get me, then!" Shoto said, before he saw the two knives lodged into his left arm.

"Shoto!" Lucas shouted, before feeling something shoot into his shoulder. "Argh!" Lucas had seen a knife cut a part of his cheek and it had been going into his shoulder. "Sakai!" Tenya shouted.

"You're good, kids. Unlike him." Stain took the opportunity to take down his original target.

"Look out!" Lucas tried to run in, but what could he do. Out of nowhere, he saw green lightning appear where Izuku once stood. He saw Izuku lunge straight at Stain. "Since when could…He's figured it out!" Lucas smiled for a moment, before succumbing to the pain of his injury. "I gotta…pull this out…" Lucas had struggled to try and pull the knife out. "Midoriya!" Shoto shouted.

"I'm not sure why, but I'm able to move now!" Izuku said, running and pushing Stain against a building.

"So he has a time limit." Shoto surmised, "Then, how come Tenya and the pro are still paralyzed?" Lucas asked, Shoto looked back and saw that they were still paralyzed.

"You're right. That kid shoulda been the last one to be freed." Native explained, seeing as Izuku was the last person to get paralyzed.

Lucas shrieked in pain and tried to heal the injury as best he could.

Stain could understand it all. "He must be type O." He theorized, before they both made it to the ground. "Midoriya, dodge!" Shoto said, waiting for Izuku to move so he could send more ice at the Hero Killer. Midoriya coughed, "He swallows a person's blood to freeze them, but I was the one freed first." He wondered why that is, since he was first.

"I've got three guesses why." Izuku explained, "His Quirk could be less effective the more people he uses it on. The amount he ingested could play into how long it works. Or there could be a difference based on a person's blood type." Izuku suggested his 3 theories.

"If it's the last one, my blood type is B." Native explained, "I'm type A." Tenya said.

Stain smirked, "So you figured it out." The Hero Killer is impressed once again with the boy in green. "Bravo. Very impressive." Stain cheered for him, impressed. "It doesn't really help us that much to know how his Quirk works, though." Izuku pointed out. "I thought we could hurry and carry those two out of here, but it's no good." Shoto said. "He's too fast. He can avoid ice and fire. I'd have to leave myself unguarded."Lucas tried to stand up, "I can't restrain him myself, I can't catch him in time." Lucas explained.

"Then our best option is to hold until the pros arrive and avoid close combat." Shoto explained.

"No, you both know you've already lost way too much blood. I'll distract him while you support me from behind." Izuku suggested a battle formation.

Shoto looked at Lucas and saw that Lucas was signaling to the blades in his arm. Shoto understood where he was going with this. "Sound like a plan?" Izuku asked, "You want us to take a pretty big risk." Shoto said.

"If we stop now, he'll kill Tenya and this man! So we need to keep him busy." Lucas said.

Shoto then nodded at the boy's determination. "We can protect them!" Shoto said.

Stain looked at the three boys that were challenging him. "Three against one, huh? This fight won't be easy." Stain said.

"Iida." Shoto thought to himself, "I had been worried about you ever since your brother was attacked. I recognize the face of someone who's drowning in resentment." Shoto recalled his own past. Izuku had charged forth and Lucas had strained himself trying to heal Shoto's injuries. Shoto had created a battlefield of ice.

"And I know just how narrow your field of vision can get when you long for justice." Shoto recalled the day he went to go see his mother in the hospital, "That day, I told her about my life with Father, and about who I have become." Shoto explained, remembering his mother had cried and apologized to him. "She forgave me. Faster than I ever imagined. She told me to move forward." He thought, as if he told Tenya this with his mind. "That nothing was holding me back, and that doing so would be her salvation." Shoto realized that if he never spoke to his mother that day, he wouldn't have interned with his father. "I haven't forgiven him. I doubt I ever truly will. But I chose him, so I could learn what it takes to be the number two hero with my own eyes and ears." Shoto recalled the intention Endeavor had to go investigate Hosu City and catch the Hero Killer. Handling other scuffles was extra, otherwise.

"My old man is a scumbag. But a scumbag with the judgement and instincts of a number two hero." Shoto thought to himself, acknowledging this new understanding of his father. "It's so simple." Shoto had regained his composure and sent another flame at the Hero Killer.

"But I still needed someone to show me."

Shoto had thought of the two people who treated him like a person and not someone's tool.

"Not your dad, or not that path he's laying out for you. Fight as Shoto Todoroki." Lucas's words came to his mind.

"It's yours! Your Quirk, not his!" Izuku's memory shouted back at him.

"Just a few words. A few short sentences." Shoto realized that the two people he fought in the Sports Festival had left a great impact on him.

Tenya looked at all of them, fighting to save the lives of Native and himself. "Shouldn't you be worried about saving that guy?" Stain's words to him echoed in his head. "Don't you worry, Iida. I'm gonna save you." Izuku had told him before, "Sit tight, guys. I'll keep you safe." Sakai told him and Native.

"We can protect them!" Shoto declared before as well. All these words, spelled so clear to Tenya. He compared them to what he told Stain: "I'll kill you!"

He watched as Stain had cut Izuku's tendon. Midoriya was up against a wall, "No good. His fighting style's completely changed!" Izuku realized that Stain had changed his style to counter the three of them.

"Midoriya!" Shoto said, launching flames at Stain.

"Izuku!" Lucas said, shooting a blast of ice Stain's way.

"You have to run…" Tenya said, eyes twitching and bloodshot. "I can't watch this…" he pleaded for his friends to run.

Shoto had grit his teeth, "You wanna make your brother proud?!" Shoto asked him, not looking away from the Hero Killer. Stain had licked the blood from the katana and Izuku had become paralyzed again.

"Then stand up and be Ingenium!" Shoto shouted at Tenya.

Stain smiled grotesquely as he broke through the ice of the two boys.

"Become the hero he wanted you to be!" Shoto told Tenya, before his fire burned brighter. Lucas had noticed something had changed about Shoto, but he had to keep focus before Stain made his next move.

Tenya's tears still fell, now thinking about what he said here. "I am Ingenium, and I WILL defeat you. That, I promise." Tenya grunted before he felt something twitch. He could feel it, he was about to move again.

(Booyaka! I hope u guys like this one and as a personal note, I hope it wasn't diminishing of Shoto and Izuku's characters because of Lucas's inclusion here. Speaking of which, I hope I'm doing his character justice. His kindness and care for who he considers a friend is always something that was cool about him. I feel like as a hero, he wouldn't care about fame or any of that. He's fighting and helping simply because it's the right thing and never considers himself. I feel like that puts him at odds with someone like Endeavor who originally fought for his ego's sake and has shown hints of carelessness. Anyways, that's all I wanted to say. Stay strong and awesome! Also, God:

Thank You.)

James 1:13 KJV:

Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man: