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TW: a few mentions of death. I didn’t do it last chapter to avoid spoilers, but now you should expect it. Also, this whole timeline can get confusing as all of it happened roughly at the same time. (A bit like the chimera ant arc in HxH for those who know) Keep an eye out for the “IZUKU!!...” It is an indicator of where you are. Also long chapter over 10,000 words. Now let’s get into it!
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Izuku was sitting at the bar, sipping on his water. He receive no messages from Himiko since the day she ran off. He was feeling miserable thinking about it, his mind still torn between the love he felt for her and this feeling of betrayal eating at his guts. Vero was with him, with some patrons who started drinking as soon as the clock hit noon.
“Still no answer, kid?”
“No… You should know, it’s your phone I’m holding after all…”
“Hey, as long as you pay, I’m more than happy to lend it, just don’t go sweeping in my browser history” she winked, giving an idea of what he might find if he tried to. That didn’t even manage to fluster the boy in front of him, too concerned to think about such things, his finger hovering over the call button.
“Can you turn on the TV? It might help me distract myself…” Vero sighed but had no reason not to. She picked up the remote and pressed on. It was the news, the show host was a beautiful brunette with quite the cleavage showing. Vero found what she would be looking at instead of the mopping kid.
“…Breaking news, a terrible attack orchestrated by the league of villains has struck the Hero provisional license exam happening at the Takoba National Stadium about twenty minutes ago. As of now, the number of victims remains unknown…”
If Izuku wanted to change his mind, he sure wasn’t hoping for that…
“Wait, the license exam!?” his class was supposed to be there that day!!
“Authorities are busy evacuating the area as the presence of a bomb has been declared; those living in close are urged to evacuate as fast as possible.”
His friends were in danger! And he was sulking in a bar, doing nothing while they all risked their lives. He went online trying get more news, the address, or anything he could do to help them in any way, shape or form.
This was happening in another city, far from Musutafu, even if he ran there with all the power available to him, it would take forty minutes to reach them, and by the way they were talking, he didn’t have the luxury of time. He was powerless to stop it…
Another thing caught his attention, a stream on an unknown platform with currently 250,000 viewers, titled the ‘LOV and dead kids collabs’. He clicked on it and was greeted by the screams of dozens of people all yelling at the same time. At least eight cameras displayed the gruesome massacre happening. Screams and cries of pain all echoed simultaneously, displaying heroes saving children, elders being torn apart and students fighting off villains.
“I have to go; I-I have to try something! I can’t just stand around, maybe I could-…”
“IZUKU!!...” his muttering was interrupted; he looked at Vero, but she wasn’t the one who cried his name. The voice came from his phone, and he could see her…
Himiko…
…Earlier…
This was anarchy. Nomus were running rampant everywhere, lashing out with claws and teeth at everything their deformed hands could grasp, and right now, Katsuki was the closest thing.
“Raaawwwggrr”
“DIE!” one quick explosion was more than enough to get rid of the abominations. It twitched and convulsed until it stopped, its unblinking eyes never closing. Class 1A, Shiketsu High, all the teachers and about a hundred more students were fighting, restrained to their starting area, submerged by the things.
Kirishima lightly swiped another away from Momo, killing it instantly. “At least those things are weak as hell!”
“How did he make so many of them?” the girl he just saved asked, beating yet another one with her conjured staff. Even if those things weren’t as strong as the Nomu they saw at the USJ or in the forest, they were quite bothersome, overwhelming them by sheer numbers alone and tearing them apart by a thousand cuts.
A student away from the safety of the group was flanked by two Nomus who promptly swipe him off his feet and began tearing into him. Mina was about to strike them with her acid but was stop when a gust of air swept them off their feet, sending all of those near the starting area hundreds of feet into the air. She looked with the rest of her class at the person responsible to see the hot-blooded guy from Shiketsu with a grin on his face, every monster now hovering with him.
“I’ll deal with them! Go save the rest of the victims hiding around!”
Blue fire rose toward him from the two Dabi standing around the injured charred student at their feet, using them as a human shield. A laser hit one on the side of its head, dissolving the clone. Another was hit by a controlled fire spray, also dissolving him.
Aoyama and Todoroki stood next to one another, one had an uneasy expression on his face, and the other his usual calm demeaner.
“What’s this? Endeavour spawn manages to take down the awesome Dabi! Give him a medal so he can show it to daddy!” on the camera, they could see the original with a wide grin on his face holding the Mic as if hosting a show, his voice was deranged and joyful, taking great pleasure in what he was doing.
Todoroki merely scoffed at the comment.
Shigaraki took back the Mic. “He is right, while you are losing your time levelling up, people are dying heroes. Come on, move and put on a show for the cameras!” drones were flying around the place, capturing images of elders and children being swarmed by the atrocity. Others were being saved by heroes, while less fortunate were being overwhelmed.
“Like that? I got the idea watching that shitty green turd and his crazed girlfriend. The thing missing from their video was some real death and destruction, so I fixed it, you’re welcome” he let out a laugh as he watched the carnage and destruction happening below. One student threw some sort of hard projectile toward him, but it bounced off the reinforced glass.
“Nice try dumbass! Now I’ll explain the rules…” he cleared his throat before presenting his group to the camera.
“Say hi to my mini-bosses! Each of them will defend a part of the arena and stop you from saving as many people as you can. Your job is simple: stop the Nomus from killing everyone, but that’s not all!” he clicked a button, and a picture of a small creature with black skin similar to the Nomu at USJ appeared. It had similar bulging eyes and an exposed brain, but it seemed harmless compared to the one they saw.
“Say hi to little fat man! I hid this little guy somewhere around here, and he has a very special surprise in store for you all” the next picture shows the same creature somehow doubled in size, his body swelling like a cadaver in water.
“He gets bigger and bigger every minute you fail to find him, and I got him a very special quirk just for this event” he smiled, his chapped lips cracked under the strain of his skin going so wide.
“Self detonates… The longer you wait, the bigger the explosion will be. The idea was also inspired by the little green turd…” Bakugo wanted to rip the hands from his body and shove them where the sun wouldn’t shine.
“So go! And save some lives, little heroes! If you can…” the video feed cut as the five villains disappeared inside their respective portals, toward somewhere around the gigantic arena.
This was bad; this now means the five main areas of the large stadium were guarded by villains, and Shigaraki was acting as a wild card in the middle of all this. They had to be intelligent about this; they couldn’t go alone, that was a sure way to lose someone.
“CLASS 1A GATHER!!” Iida took center stage, yelling at the top of his lungs to get everyone's attention.
“We need to split up and save the civilians. We also need to find Uraraka, as she is still missing! We have five areas to cover: the city, the flooded area, the mountain, the industrial park, and the forest!”
They all nodded, knowing their class president had the right idea. This way, they could cover each other's backs and also scout more ground to find their missing classmates.
“I’ll take the flooded zone with Momo, Shoji and Mineta, Kero!” Tsuyu was the first to organize some sort of team, to the great surprise of Mineta.
“Why me?!”
“We may replicate the thing we did back at the USJ if we're lucky” a sound argument the pipsqueak couldn’t oppose.
“Alright! Then I’ll take Bakugo, Kaminari and Mina for the city!” Kirishima said while grinning.
“WHO SAID I’LL LISTEN TO YOU SHITTY HAIR!!”
“See, he’s already pumped!” Katsuki's comment did nothing to shrink the boy's grin.
“Alright! Me, Aoyama, Koda and Jiro will take the forest!” they could hear Hagakure, invisible whip tug in her hand as she got ready to fight.
“Seems like we're buddies again, Koda” Jiro gave a sly smile to her fellow teammate, happy to work with the boy who helped her beat Present Mic for her exam. Koda gave her a confident nod.
“I’ll take the industrial park…” Todoroki simply stated, already running off toward the designated area, but he was followed closely by Sero, Sato, and Ojiro. All keeping up with him.
“You really need to work on your teamwork. Even Bakugo is better than you now” Sero grinned as he swung past him, pulling Sato with him.
“That leaves Tokoyami and me for the mountain area…” their team was smaller than the others. Normally, four would work perfectly, but they were missing two people as of now.
“We’ll accompany you!” the hairy teen from Shiketsu walked up to them with his other classmate.
“I’m like so bummed but they sure need an ass whopping, and I can’t like, not do anything” the girl said, to the confusion of everyone who was listening…
“All right, everyone, keep an eye out for the special Nomu he mentioned and Uraraka! Let’s go!” with the help of his turbo leg. Iida propelled himself forward, but not so fast that he would leave his team behind.
They would not fail…
…
Shigaraki was looking down at the carnage happening below, noticing how the UA student took no time to react in the middle of the chaos. This was probably what Spinner wanted: to raise the next generation of heroes through hardship until the cream of the crop emerges from the ashes.
The door behind him was kicked open.
“Eraserhead, still pro-active as ever. I should have expected it by now”
“Shut your trap, villains. You are not getting away this time!” he threw his scarf at him as Miss Joke ducked underneath, charging at the leader of the league, who didn’t move an inch. The capture weapon was easily redirected when a portal appeared out of thin air, sending it elsewhere.
“I would love to chat, but I got some corpse to make. I’ll make sure to ship your students in a bag…” and he stepped inside the portal, which closed the second Miss Joke's fist was about to connect with him. Aizawa ran toward the window to look down at the situation happening below just in time to see his student run off toward the five corners of the stadium, right into the danger.
“I told those idiots not to move…” a part of him was terrified, afraid of the idea of his student running headfirst toward the danger, and another couldn’t be prouder of them. He just hoped they had been listening when he taught them…
…The forested area…
(Hagakure, Aoyama, Koda and Jiro)
“Where the hell do they keep coming from!?” Jiro blasted yet another Nomu away with her speaker boot, a futile effort as another took his place not even a second later. Luckily, Aoyama was ready to laser the little monster.
The four of them entered the forested area to find that the number of those beasts wouldn’t dwindle no matter how far they were going; they must have thousands of them if they managed to be so numerous wherever they went.
Koda was at the center of the formation, whispering with all the animals he could get a hold of, not many, as this place was located inside a building, but he did manage to find Mice and insects he could communicate with. “Three civilians on the right and another on the left!”
He was the center of their intelligence, the one gathering information as the others defended him. Students from other schools followed them and listened to the timid boy, going in the direction of the hidden civilians, trying to save anyone they could.
A Nomu appeared in his unprotected back. Claws, raised ready to tear him apart, but the thing froze midair, his limbs constricted in an invisible tangle of cords.
“Invisible prison!” Hagakure tightened her hold, the aberration twisted and popped, splattering her with gore.
“EWW, EWW, EWW! It wasn’t supposed to do that!” the visibly panicking invisible girl did her best to frantically wipe away the blood covering her. Luckily, another student with a water quirk rinsed her off.
“They are so weak, it’s a wonder they don’t pop by themselves. Their only redeeming quality is the sheer number of them” Jiro commented, jabbing her jack into one and making it explode in a similar manner.
“Everyone, watch out!” Koda yelled, pushing aside Jiro before she was impacted by a Nomu sent her way like a cannonball. It missed, impacting the tree instead, exploding on impact.
“Damn! I was sure I had you with this one…” the intruder stepped out of her bush, revealing a large woman with thick lips, a plain shirt and a wicked-looking metal arm. Magne was here to crack some skulls, and it seemed she had found her next target.
“I've got to say, you runts improve quite a lot from the last time we saw you at summer camp. I hope you make this interesting”
They had the advantage of both numbers and knowledge of their opponent's quirk, well, at least at first glance in truth if you counted the number of Nomu running around it was still a ratio of ten for one and they had barely seen her quirk in action, only vaguely knowing it had to do with magnetism.
“There isn’t a way to convince you to abandon your villainous way, is it?”
“Nah, this is way more fun than a nine-to-five. Come on, give me a good fight!” she raised her metal arm, aiming it at Koda, hoping to take out the largest member of their team first.
Her arm glowed pink as Koda started glowing blue, lifting up his feet toward the muscular woman, flying toward his opponent, something shifted in the metal arm; a spike had appeared in the palm of her hand, and Koda was going straight at it!
But he stopped midair, on the opposite side, a pair of gloves and her two teammates were holding on to the invisible lasso, saving their friend from being skewered. They all grunted, feeling the magnetic force slowly overpower them.
“Looks like I got more brawn in one non-existent arm than you three combine” Magne smirked, seeing her imminent victory.
“Well, I’m more of a hand-off girl”
“And me a flamboyant navel kind of guy!”
Both Jiro and Aoyama capitalized on the fact that they didn’t need their hands to attack from a distance. The boy sent a laser toward his opponent, and Jiro connected to her boot, sending a soundwave at the same time. Magne had no choice but to let go of her quirk and jump to the side to avoid the barrage. In doing so, the cord went slack, making the three pulling teens fall on their butt due to the sudden lack of tension.
“What the hell are they feeding you kids!?” Magne pulled a Nomu from the sideline, using it to block the laser coming her way from the boy flamboyantly posing on his side while on the ground.
Koda was the first on his feet, all his friends were on the ground, and the villain was getting up faster than they were. She was also looking in the direction of Aoyama, seemingly judging him to be the biggest torn in her side, ready to do the same thing she had try to do to him.
Koda was timid, a gentle giant who detested violence in any shape or form. He wanted to be a hero to use his quirk freely, to talk with animals and save people from disasters; he never intended to use his fist to fight.
But right now, he was a hero, and the only one standing ready to defend his friend.
Magne turned just in time to see a massive fist coming her way from the terrified boy above her. “Oh shit!” she lifted her metallic arm, letting go of the idea of dealing with the blond prick. The fist collided, bending the metal limb under its strength, pushing away the villain.
Magne tried to activate the spike or any other thing she may have jammed inside her new arm, but failed to do so. “You busted it! Damn brat, I barely had the time to use it!”
She got up from the ground, seeing the student nearby closing in on her, and even some pro-heroes converging.
She clicked her tongue. “Congrats, you passed, that was fun, I hope we’re not interrupted next time…” a portal opened under her, sweeping her away from danger.
The teens let out a common breath of relief. This went as good as it could have been.
“We didn’t find your classmate or the special Nomu! But this whole place has been evacuated” a student in a ninja get-up informed them. They had done it, and they just hoped everybody would be as lucky as they were.
Hagakure, Aoyama, Koda and Jiro defeated Magne; four victims have been found among the forest…
…The mountain area…
(Iida, Tokoyami, Camie and Nagamasa)
The situation was the same all around, children and elders running or hiding from monstrous beasts as students and heroes alike tried their hardest to fight them off while protecting the defenceless civilians. Iida was the first on the scene, kicking away a Nomu from a cowering child.
“We are here! Get to safety, we’ll handle the rest” the crying boy looked up at the tall teen, who had removed his helmet so he could breathe easier among the actions. Iida flashed a wide smile to the child, and an image of his brother doing the same thing to comfort those who needed it popped into his mind.
The boy looked ready to cry some more, his cheek puffing, trying to say something until…
“100 points!” he was still an examiner from the ‘Help Us Company.’ He then ran off toward the starting area, the safe place currently protected by Inasa and others, guiding the fake victims, made real ones, out of the stadiums.
“Good Job, hero! /You damn meddling kids!!” a man clads in a black and white bodysuit said from the ledge above, he then jumped down, doing a flip before landing straight on his ass in a loud crash. Iida wasn’t sure if this buffoon was a villain, but he sure was not about to drop his guard.
“Owowie! /Not even a scratch!” he got up as fast as he went down, posing eccentrically in front of the now-arriving quartet.
“Surrender, you are outnumbered!” the hairy teen yelled, already growing his hair in anticipation of the coming fight. To his surprise, the man complied and raised his hands.
“Don’t hurt me, I’m just a little bean! /COME AND GET IT!”
From the palm of his hands, a brown mud erupted slowly, taking the form of a person, cardigan, wild smile, blonde hair and golden eyes. This was Himiko Toga!
“Tough luck, I have friends ready to fight with me!”
“Twicey! It’s been so long!” The girl jumps at his neck, taking the man in a hug and twirling around him. From his other hand, another figure appeared; unkempt, desaturated blue hair, hands grasping his face and dry skin. This was Shigaraki Tomura…
“What the hell I’m I doing here fighting scrubs…” the Shigaraki double took a look at his side and caught a glimpse of who was with them. He didn’t lose a single second and lounged at Toga, disintegrating the girl right in front of the poor Twice, who looked horrified.
“MY FRIEND!!!”
“Get better ones… Just get Dabi or Compress” Twice was still holding the ashes of the Himiko double, trying to put her back together. From afar, it looked like he was making a sandcastle from the ashes…
“Are those guys for realsie, like they are cray-cray as hell dude…” Camie looked confused at what was happening in front of them.
“Still, he can make a copy from any member of the league he wants. We can't underestimate him…” Tokoyami coated himself using dark shadow, ready to fight whoever the man would choose to create next.
Nagamasa used his hair to apprehend the Shigaraki double and twice at the same time, having the advantage in range over his other teammates. Strands of hair wrapped around the two of them, but as he was bringing them back, his hair started disintegrating.
“Don’t touch me, you mutt…” he still had Twice in his hold, but he could see the hand-man charging him with his finger outstretched. Tokoyami appeared in front of him, ready to intercept, but was too slow. He was grabbed, and half his face was reduced to dust.
“TOKOYAMI!!” Iida cried out for his unfortunate friend. He was standing, in his last moment with just enough strength to say his last words…
“This is low-key skibidy as hell, fam…˜”
A weirdly handsome expression was on his face as flowers, like in a shojo manga, spread around him. He fluttered his long eyelashes before disappearing in a cloud of smoke. From the sidelines line the real Tokoyami, blushing and flustered, swipes the leader, turning him back into goo.
“I WOULD NEVER SAY SUCH THINGS!!”
“But you had such rizz!” Camie, finishing to blow a cloud of smoke, said with a wink.
From the hair, Twice was cut off as two Toga jumped out of his hairy prison, swiping their knives wildly around with a maniacal grin on their faces. They all moved together toward the teens, winding back their strike as a team.
“Friendship…” Twice yelled as he named his finishing move.
“TAG/TAG!!!” The two crazed blondes yelled in unison, delighted to be reunited with their friend. Twice sent a punch at Nagamasa, and the other two slashed wildly at Iida and Camie, who narrowly dodged the strikes.
Iida couldn’t help but feel a sense of dread facing the blonde once more. She was a perfect copy of Toga; the eyes, the smile, the hair… But something was off, this joy she was exhuming, this mania that controlled her felt off compared to the one he saw back at UA, the one who cried in the arms of Midoriya when he was freed…
“Toga, is this what you really want?”
“Of course! Blood, friends and gore, what more than a girl could ask for?” she didn’t even hesitate, swiping again at him with no restraint.
“What would Izuku think of you!!” he yelled as a Hail Mary, hoping his intuition was right. The girl stopped smiling, a confused expression on her face.
“What do you mean?”
“He sacrificed everything for you, yet you face us, his friend, with no remorse. I was hoping for better from the girl he chose!” the Toga’s stopped fighting, looking each other in the eyes, incredulous at what they just heard.
“WE ARE WITH IZUKU!!/WE ARE WITH IZUKU!!” they both jumped into each other's arms, hopping in place as would schoolgirls in love would, cheering one another with wide smiles on their faces. Twice turned around to see that his friends had stopped fighting.
“Aww, I’m so happy for you both! / GET BACK IN THE FIGHT RIGHT THIS INSTANT, YOUNG LADYS!” this gave the opening for both Iida and Tokoyami to team up and take down the two girls still holding one another, dissipating them into a puddle of goo.
“MY FRIENDS!!!... AGAIN!!” the madman took a look around him; most of the Nomus had been dealt with, and they would soon get to him once they were done evacuating the civilians, so, avoiding yet another swipe of the hairs, he jumped back.
“I’ll get you one day for this! / Let’s do that again!” and he jumped headfirst into a portal right next to him, vanishing without a trace.
A pro hero swept down from above, landing next to the group. “Everybody is out, you should do the same. No time to lose, let us handle the rest”
“But! Our classmate is still missing!”
“You are still kids. I would never forgive myself if something happened to you. We’ll find her, I promise. Now go!”
Iida, Tokoyami, Camie and Nagamasa have chased away Twice: Two victims were found…
…Industrial Park area…
(Todoroki, Sero, Sato, and Ojiro)
The place was deserted, not even Nomus could be found around, as the gsng explored trying to find where the ‘Help Us Company’ workers were. They checked every corner, yelling out for survivors or anything as a matter. They had split so they could cover more ground and find the civilian faster.
“URARAKA!? WHERE ARE YOU?” Sero tried to get a response, but he heard nothing. He turned a corner to see something he wished he could forget as soon as he saw…
A pile of charred corpses…
And standing at the top of it, a burned man was waiting, sitting on the bodies of his victims, a bottle in hand. When their eyes met, he let go of the bottle, tossing it over his shoulder as he got down from his gruesome throne. He was smiling.
“If it isn’t my first UA victim… Ohoho, I can already see the face Shoto will make when I show him…” he was worse than a villain; he was an absolute psychopath! Taking delight in the pain he inflicted. Sero didn’t lose time using his tape to yank himself away from the deranged man.
“Leaving so fast? You know, there might be someone still alive in there. What kind of hero runs away from danger?” Dabi aimed his flame not where he was but where he aimed his tape at intercepting him mid-air…
At least he would have if Sero wasn’t already sending another line elsewhere and breaking his first one, avoiding the searing heat by the skin of his teeth; he felt the heat burn hotter than any flame he ever faced.
“GUYS!?! HERE!?” he yelled in the air, hoping one of his teammates was close enough to assist him. Another wave a fire, but this time he couldn’t dodge fast enough. From his side, a hulking man jumped high and grabbed him, enveloping him with his limbs, shielding him from the brunt of the damage.
Sato and Sero rolled as they landed across the pavement. When they stopped, Sero grabbed his friend by the shoulder, turning him to reveal the horrible burn on his side.
“You idiot… Now I owe you one…” he tried to smile, but he couldn’t; he was the one responsible for his injury, and the walking burnt victim was still after them. Using his tape, he rudimentarily patched his burns and pulled him away from the main alley they were standing in, taking refuge behind some metal pipes. He heard the step of the man walking in where he was.
“Come out, come out, wherever you are˜” he sing-sang, the sound of his boots echoing in the empty lot, where were the pro-heroes? Did he also take them down?
“No one?” he sounded disappointed, looking around, trying to find them, a wicked smile crept on his lips.
“Then I guess that means I can go all out! HAHAHA!!” Blue flame started to cover his whole body as he laughed maniacally, the fire spreading all around him, slithering on the floor all around him until he could feel the heat almost touch him.
Then a wall of ice hit Dabi, sending him into the air suspended by a glacier, just behind it, Todoroki, with his usual neutral expression on his face. At the same time, Ojiro bounced toward the villain and, with a tail-powered spin, shattered the ice holding the man, sending him crashing down on the pavement.
“Sorry, we’re late…”
“You damn monster!” Ojiro had probably caught sight of the horror he left behind.
Dabi hit rock bottom with force, barely avoiding most of the damage by using his fire to push himself up as he was propelled down. He got up, cracking his neck and wiping the dust from his outfit.
“SHOTO!!” He opened his arms as if he were greeting a long-lost friend, his smile never fading.
“So happy to see you here! Tell me how the bastard is doing, did Toxic Chainsaw live up to his name and let the old man die in his filth from the toxin!” he was acting wild, gesturing with grand mannerism, acting like he knew who he was on a personal level.
“He’s fine… You, on the other hand” flame engulfed his left side. ”Clearly need help…”
This did nothing to diminish his mad expressions. “You’re right! I’m fucked in the head!! So, let’s do this… Let’s kill each other and let the last one standing send the other to the bastard himself!” blue flame erupted hotter than it was before, sending a gust of wind that threatened to knock them over.
They all wanted to help Shoto, but none of them could even think of getting close to that monster; Sato was still injured, Sero's tape would burn before reaching its target, and Ojiro couldn’t get close enough to fight in melee…
Everything right now rested on Todoroki…
Another glacier was sent toward the man, who countered by sending his own massive wave of fire. The two collided, ice melting fast, the fire consuming it faster than it was produced. The sudden shift in temperature caused a massive gust of wind, pushing everyone away with tremendous force.
Dabi landed in a pipe behind him, and Shoto was sent tumbling in the main alley a good thirty meters back. Ojiro and the rest took refuge amongst the many obstacles waiting for an opening.
Shoto got up as fast as he could so did his opponent, removing himself from the bent metal. They both charged at each other, their fire burning brightly on both sides. One had determination on his side, the other madness…
Both ideologies collided, matching one another. “How does it feel!? To be his thing, his stupid dream, HIS LITTLE PET PROJECT, SHOTO!!” he tried to fight back fire with fire, but he was slowly losing ground; his heat was weaker than Dabi's. Little by little, he was pushed back.
“BE A DOLL AND DIE FOR HIM, DIE FOR ME!!!”
“I’m not dying for anyone but myself!” cold started to fuel his heat, allowing him to push back a little, their hair fluttering backyard as they fought for dominance.
“I don’t know who you are or what your deal is with my father, but I won’t let you tell me what I am!” he pushed a little more, regaining the footing he had lost. Burns started developing on both their body. Shoto winced, and Dabi grinned wider.
A star of fire and ice developed on his chest, pushing his quirk to its maximum. “THIS IS MY DREAM, NOT HIS!!” he reared back a fist and…
“FLASHFIRE FIST!!” he hit Dabi right in his sternum, sending him flying once again. This time, Dabi was ready and used his flame to slow his flight backward, re-impacting in the same pipe he did earlier. Still, he winced; this was a big hit and took a lot out of him, but so did Shoto…
The boy was on his hands and knees, heaving, trying to cool himself as fast as he could, but his body wouldn’t listen. “Get up, damnit!”
Dabi tried to conjure a flame, but he could barely have more than a fistful of it, and with his teammate on the sideline ready to pounce on him, he couldn’t stay.
“We’ll kill each other another day, with some luck, Endeavour will be there to see it…” a black portal swallowed him, away from the group of winded teens. Ojiro rushed toward Todoroki, helping him to his feet once again.
“Who was that guy? Why does he act like he knows you and your father?”
“I… Have no idea…” he said in between breaths.
Todoroki, Sero, Sato, and Ojiro have defeated Dabi; Ten victims would later be found but not identified by the authority…
…The city area…
(Bakugo, Kirishima, Kaminari and Mina)
“WHERE THE HELL ARE THE HOSTAGES?” Bakugo yelled as he ran through the city, blasting away the small fry trying to scratch at him. Behind him, his three teammates followed him around the street, taking out Nomu as they ran. Mina dealt with those the furthest, Kaminari with those running at them, and Kirishima with the last ones who would pass through both. Katsuki was acting as a battering ram, taking all of those in front, leaving the side to the others.
Together, they were cleaning the street of these abominations, letting the other students behind them deal with the civilian, or at least they would if they could find any.
“How the hell does someone take away so many people?!” a frustrated Mina yelled, feeling they were being led astray, just like her exam with Nezu, making them run like headless chickens.
“That would be me!” they look up to see the stage magician with his cane firmly planted in front of him.
Compress has entered the stage.
“There you are, Cheap-Ass Houdini!!” Bakugo was about to propel himself up to beat the ever living shit out of the man that nearly captured him before, but was stopped when from his hand he produced a small child, and held him over the ledge.
“Tut-tut, patience is a virtue, young man! I appear before you today so we can play a little game, you see?” the child vanished once more, transforming back into a marble, and with a wave of his hands, two marbles appeared.
“In one hand, the life of an innocent child hangs in the balance! In the other, an ordinary everyday object, can you find the real one?” he tossed both marbles down the building on opposite sides, forcing them to make a choice now. Bakugo went left and Kirishima went right. They both opened their arms ready to receive the child, but…
“Life is filled with deception!” both marbles transformed into one-ton rock ready to crush both teens standing under. Kirishima hardened himself, bracing his arm to block the impact. Bakugo raised his palm holding his other in front of it.
“AP SHOT!!”
“UNBREAKABLE!!”
The boulders broke; one on the back of Kirishima, and the other was shattered by Bakugo's concentrated explosion.
“That was a cheap shot!” Mina yelled indignantly.
“My dear, I am a villain after all…” he tipped his hat to the student below.
“That's it! You DIE!” Bakugo jumped up with the help of his quirk until he was face-to-face with the magician. He didn’t look afraid one bit of the angry blond in front of him, from his sleeve, a marble slip and a child reappeared. Katsuki and the child exchanged a look, one of fear and frustration.
“You talk like that to this poor defenceless child?” he shook his head in disappointment.
“Hold on that for me please” and another marble was tossed in front of him, transforming into a large piece of concrete with rebars. He was too close to blow it up without hurting the child.
“FUCKKK!!!” holding on to the broken piece of building he was sent plummeting down. Midway through, he exploded the debris, but couldn’t redirect himself in time; he was about to hit the pavement.
Good thing Mina was ready, using a veil of thick weak acid, she created a glob of liquid underneath Katsuki, breaking his fall and saving his life.
“We can’t get in close because of his damn hostage! What do we do?” Kaminari was powerless to do anything from down there; he may have had a disk launcher on his wrist, but it’s not like he could stop his electricity from frying the kid. Compress once again pocketed the kid, hiding him somewhere on his person, not letting them know where exactly.
Suddenly, he tossed tens of marbles down toward the students below. “This is a test of wits!” if this was a trickery, they risked being crushed once again; if this were hostages, they would let them die if they did nothing. They all gritted their teeth.
Katsuki refused to think about any of that; he was going to be the number one hero one day, and he would bring back the nerd to UA. In short, never again will he lose; to anyone, anything, ever again…
He aimed his palm upward and shook his hands, dispersing his sweat like a blanket, and then detonated it. The force of the explosion pushed the marbles just enough that they broke their fall, reducing the speed at which they were plummeting. If one of them were a hostage, they would not die…
Unluckily for him, those were Nomus, claw outstretched, trying to dig their way through them. Kirishima was ready, beating them into a pulp before they had the chance to get back up.
“I’ll deal with the marbles! Pikachu, Raccoon-eyes, you deal with him!”
“How-…” Denki was grabbed by the arm by Katsuki, who, with an explosion-powered spin, threw him up the building.
“WAAAAHHHH!!!” Denki's face was fighting against the wind as he flew over the magician. He regains some of his composure and aims his gauntlet at the man in front of him, shooting one of his pellets, hitting him right on his mask.
“Good luck making use of that” once again, the terrified child appeared, rendering his effort useless. “A valiant effort, heroes, but futile in-…” Kaminari landed on the roof behind the man on his backside. Compress tossed yet another slew of marbles to occupy the bombastic blond beneath, but not before…
“WAAAAHHHH!!!” he managed to toss yet another of his classmates up the building, this time Mina, who had a very similar reaction as Denki. Just like him, she managed to focus just enough to send a massive glob of thick acid toward the magician who blocked using the child.
“Do you want to melt the child!?” it was his turn to yell indignantly…
She landed on her face before rolling on her back. “Ouch!... Not all acid melts everything…” she then grinned toward Kaminari.
“And not all of them conduct electricity!” Denki took a second but quickly understood, she had just coated the kid with the stuff!
“Target Electro!!” from his finger, a ray of electricity hit the man, shocking him with the maximum voltage he was allowed. Compress twitched and sputtered under the current until he was stiff as a board, unconscious. From his coat, tens of civilians popped out like he was some sort of clown car, all landing on the roof in a massive pile of children and elders.
Compress fell backward, still holding the slimy child falling below. A portal managed to snatch him up before he hit the floor, but not the child; he was still plummeting down, screaming.
He was caught mid-air by a massive gauntlet. Bakugo had grabbed him landing without trouble. He was looking so focused and so cool, the kid couldn’t help but be awestruck.
“THE HELL YOU ARE LOOKING AT, PIPSQUEAK!!” until he opened his mouth…
“MINUS TEN POINT!!” the now pissed off kid yelled, getting into a fight with his saviour. At the same time, Aizawa landed with Miss Joke near them.
“I see everything has been handled here…” he looked around the area, failing to see any sort of victims or Nomus, his student had prevailed.
“What are you doing here, Caterpillar?” Miss Joke couldn’t help but let out a snort at the nickname, but Eraserhead paid it no mind. Suddenly, an explosion, or something similarly catastrophic, came from the flooded area.
“I have the feeling I chose the wrong place to investigate first… Let’s go”
Compress has been knocked out; No victims were found, a perfect victory…
…The flooded area…
(Tsuyu, Momo, Shoji and Mineta)
The teens entered the slope leading down toward the flooded area, a large open space broken up by various half-submerged buildings. The water wasn’t deep, a minimum of maybe two feet deep all around, but it slowed things down quite a bit. The place also had shifting dept as they looked one of the Nomus chasing a kid and falling into a hidden crevice. Navigating will be treacherous…
“Get in!” if Momo didn’t exist! With her quirk, she quickly deployed three items in quick succession: an inflatable boat, a motor, and an air pump to inflate the boat quickly. With Shoji Muscle, she could easily make it big enough that only a couple of pumps were enough.
Now that everyone is on board, they could glide over the water, reaching those in need in a fraction of the time it would take by foot. Momo put her finger in the gas canister and pumped it full of fuel.
“I won’t be able to make more big stuff for a while; I count on you all to deal with the enemy” with Momo at the helm, they went forward, and as they advanced, Tsuyu would pick up Nomu with her tongue, bringing them on board for Shoji's massive fists to pummel them.
“Let’s go see near the building, they are probably hiding high, away from the water” with Momo's sound judgement, they approached looking for civilians. They navigate between the buildings, keeping many ears and eyes out for possible rescue, until…
“There you are, heroes…” from above, standing on a roof, Spinner had his massive sword unsheathed. His scarf was fluttering in the wind as he scowled at them intently…
“I look so cool right now!!” he was passive, but internally Spinner was gushing about his appearance and the effect he was having on the students
Tsuyu didn’t dare to launch her tongue, fearing he might cut it in half.
“I’ll be your judge, jury and execu-…” a massive explosion disturbed him, making him almost fall over in the water below.
“WHO THE HELL IS RUINING MY SPEECH!!!” he turned toward the offending party, only for him to regret it.
Gang Orca had entered the building, he and his hundred of sidekicks…
“THIS IS BULLSHIT!!” the lizard man started having a tantrum, kicking the tile from the building he was standing on in frustration.
“Uhm, are you ok?” Mineta was concerned about his sudden mood shift.
“Of course not! How would you feel if you were the only one having to deal with one of the top ten in his area?” his hands covered his face as he was trying to get over the fact that he now had less than a minute before he was pulverized by the massive hero rapidly running in the building. ”God, what did I do to deserve this?”
“Assault innocents?”
“Attack our school multiple times?”
“Dressing up like a bad cosplay?”
“Work with villains?” all four of them answered him, not sure why they were intimidated at first.
“I wasn’t asking you!!” he turned and pointed indignantly at the four of them. Trying to keep them out of his business.
Spinner saw something appear on the only visible hill in the center of the area. A black portal opened, and Shigaraki stepped in… He was scratching his neck, looking at the massive number of heroes running in the building, tearing his plan apart. Those NPCs were not supposed to be there so soon. He had planted the bomb; now he needed to defend the objective.
“SHIGARAKI!!” Tomura looked behind to see the concerned face of Spinner, concerned to see him go against so many.
Concerned about a friend, he smiled.
“You handle the small fry…” he lifted his palm; he could feel his heartbeat in his throat. Something was shifting inside of him, something big…
“I’ll deal with the boss!” he slammed his hand down, feeling his quirk activate through the floor, spreading wider and wider until cracks started to form, and the soil opened up, draining all of the water from the area.
From up above on the roof, Kurogiri was observing. Tomura was growing, becoming a leader, making plans. As of right now he was a way above the man-child he used to be, and above all else…
He was having so much fun! Spinner was fighting behind him, but he had heroes to kill right now, he wanted to push himself. He wanted to pursue this feeling he had. A group of lackeys tried to overwhelm him, rushing his position, but he couldn’t disintegrate all of them one by one.
So, he didn’t…
He swiped at every one of them, disintegrating the lot in one swift motion. This was like an AOE, much better than what he had! He looked as they vanished, their expression of fear on their face, this meaningless destruction.
He wanted more…
He was hit on the side by a sonic wave, forcing him to the ground, clutching his ear in pain as Gang Orca used his sonar attack to neutralize him. All his lackeys shoot with their glue gun at the villain, trying to immobilize him for good.
Shigaraki felt his eardrum explode under the sonic attack until he could hear nothing at all. With his hands, he destroyed the glue holding him down. During a moment of reprieve, a portal opened for him to leave. He crawled toward it but stopped himself from going in.
Why stop?
Why go back? He was having fun just a moment ago. What change? Was it because he was losing?
What did he want?
This was the question he had in his mind since the beginning, since Stain entered the picture. No, since he killed his family all those years ago.
Kill All Might?
He wasn’t even there…
Make friends?
He looked toward Spinner, fighting the four students. He already has some…
What was he doing here?
His hand touched the ground, and he felt the very earth beneath him crumble to dust. This… This is what he wanted…
Not a lofty goal of changing society, not the death of All Might, not even the acceptance of Sensei…
Tomura had a rough childhood, losing his dog, his parent, his siblings everything he cared about, leaving him with nothing. Nothing but hatred for everything that ever hurt him. He kneeled and opened his palm, inspecting them.
Shigaraki wanted to destroy what he hated and nothing more…
He couldn’t hear the heroes screaming, he couldn’t taste the blood in his mouth, he couldn’t see everyone running at him, he couldn’t even smell the air blowing in his face...
But he could feel the world crack under him as his hand touched the ground…
…
“What his happening?!” Mineta yelled as the ground shook. Did the bomb go off? Even Spinner seemed surprised in the middle of their fight, the five of them paused to admire the spectacle happening in front of them.
Shigaraki was destroying the world around him, his quirk spreading at ludicrous speed from the epicentre he was standing in. As the cracks propagate themselves, they reach many sidekicks who, at first, merely back away from it, but they fail to notice in time the cracks forming all over their bodies and crumbling them to dust. Gang Orca took in his hand as many of his subordinates as he could and ran, but not fast enough…
His quirk was now spreading from the ground he touched.
The student ran away, fearing the same would happen to them if they got into contact with the spreading quirk, but Spinner didn’t move; he was fascinated.
Enthralled by the sight in front of him, Tomura, the man-child, he knew his head thrown back with an expression of bliss on his face, his hair now pure snow white, as pure as his desire.
This was freedom…
At the last moment, a portal opened under him before he was disintegrated by his leader.
Tsuyu, Momo, Shoji and Mineta have fled, leaving behind Spinner and Shigaraki; thirty-three people were disintegrated…
…
Shigaraki looked around him to watch his handywork. He was euphoric; he could see people crawling, crying and shouting. The Orca hero was on the ground, missing a leg.
Beautiful destructions…
“He…Ha…Haha…HAHAHAHAHAHA” and he was in the middle of it all. He, the one who suffered, was now the one making suffer! YES! THIS IS WHAT HE WANTED FROM THE VERY BEGINNING!!
In the distance, he saw it making his wicked smile only wider.
“Little fat man!” the Nomu had grown exponentially since he planted him there. He was in the center of it all, below a ledge. He had almost reached the pinnacle of his size, at least two times the height of Mount Lady and twice as large. In seconds, he would explode and take with him this whole building and the Heroes in it. He was laughing. This was perfect!
“IZUKU!!...” from the speaker, he heard her…
“Toga?”
…Somewhere…
(Ochako and Himiko)
Disturbed in the middle of their conversations, they started to hear the screams and the panic rise above them. Whatever was happening was serious. Then a curious thing appeared from a portal in front of them, a little blob of black skin with an exposed brain and bulgy eyes, looking at them like the world's most hideous dog.
“The hell is that?”
“It’s a Nomu!?” Ochako was the first to recognize the thing standing near them for what it was. Soon after they heard him, Shigaraki speaking on the speaker, they kept an eye on the thing as they listened.
“Say hi to little fat man! I hid this little guy somewhere around here, and he has a very special surprise in store for you all”
Himiko bent down and waved at the hideous thing. “Hi little fat man~”
“Don’t wave at him!” Ochako slapped her hand, trying to reason that interacting with the Nomu would lead to nothing good.
“He gets bigger and bigger every minute you fail to find him, and I got him a very special quirk just for this event…” They watched as the thing suddenly bloated, rolling on his side, his little leg now off the ground he couldn’t move.
“That’s not so bad” Himiko gave a smile to her companion, who in turn shushed her again.
“Self detonates… The longer you wait, the bigger the explosion will be. The idea was also inspired by the little green turd” they looked as he bloated again. This time, Himiko did not smile; he just insulted Izuku, and she now realizes they may be in mortal danger…
“This may be worse than what I thought…”
Ochako was also panicking. Why was she the one confronted by that thing? Himiko walked toward her knife, which Ochako had tossed aside, and picked it up in a reverse ice-pick grip.
“Better deal with him now than later” she jogged toward the thing, her weapon above her head, ready to strike the Nomu that practically begged to be put out of his misery and brought down the blade toward the brain of the creature.
She missed…
She missed the fat blob who couldn’t run…
“Quit squirming…” again, she struck; again, she missed, this time catching a glimpse of what happened. The little monster could roll around in his skin; he was an omnidirectional ball. Black dots met yellow eyes as Himiko started getting serious.
“Ochako…”
“Let’s get him…” she agreed, for now they were the only ones aware of his location, and they needed to deal with it. Himiko chased around the ball while Ochako was trying to intercept him, like some sort of weird game of cat and mouse.
He grew again, but he didn’t slow down, zigzagging between the two girls, avoiding their every attempt at immobilizing him with bizarre grace. His eyes locked on the duo, each one looking at the girls in a weird cross-eyed expression.
Ochako pulled her wrist-mounted slingshot, thinking she may be able to hit his soft spot from a distance, but he was evasive and unpredictable, able to change direction in a quarter of a second. From his unguarded back, Himiko jumped at him, finding an opening.
“Got you!” her knife was about to connect…
“MEEP!” squawking like a small bird would, a blade emerged from his black skin, aimed at Himiko's head. She ducked under and took a step back.
“MEEP!MEEP!MEEP!MEEP!...” Dozens of blades now covered the curious little thing that could roll around at ludicrous speed…
Oh god, he had become a death-ball! Launching himself with unblinking eyes, he tried to run over Himiko, who ran circles, trying her best not to be turned into a pincushion by the Round-Nomu.
“OCHAKO HELP!!” the scene would be comical if their life weren’t in danger. Ochako let loose her projectile, hitting him, but blunt damage did not affect him. He turned toward the brunette, both his eyes riveted on her.
“MEEP!” it was now her turn to be chased by the growing thing; he was now the size of a large desk. He did slow down, but still not enough they could pin him down. Himiko threw a knife, hoping she would strike the brain, but only managed to graze his skin. They needed to hit his weak spot.
“This is pointless!” she yelled, frustrated that none of what they were doing had any effect on it.
She could run…
She froze. Why was she here? She could take Ochako and just run away, no need for this pointless nonsense. What if a building blows up? They can just build it again, no? She looked at Ochako, still dodging not able to touch the Nomu because of the blades.
If you stay, you’ll die…
This little voice, this demon on her shoulder with no angel to tell it to shut it. It was the one that pushed her to take the blood of Inko, the one that let her put a blade on Izuku's neck when he was at his lowest. The one that made her lie, cheat and kill.
The one that keeps you alive…
No! She was not living! She was surviving, just breathing and eating and drinking enough so she wouldn’t die. Never had she lived before…
“Himiko!” she snapped back just in time to avoid the van-sized Nomu rolling at her. Avoiding death yet again.
RUN!!!
The Nomu throw itself off the cliff, somehow surviving its descent. Ochako looked down and gave Himiko a look. The blonde was hesitating.
“Himiko! Come on, I need your help…” Ochako pleaded, but she didn’t move, her eyes fixed on her shoe as she took a step back.
“I-I… I’m sorry…” Ochako looked at the girl who had already given up, ready to abandon them to their fate. Ochako's expression hardened, giving her one last look but not saying anything.
And she jumped down…
…
Ochako pursued the rolling Nomu alone, trying to catch up to it, but there was no way for her to reach it in time. She looked around and saw she was near the mountain area. In the distance, she saw her ticket to victory.
“IIDA!!” her friend turned toward her, his expression immediately overjoyed.
“Uraraka! Where were you, what hap-…”
“No time, the Nomu is right there! We need to catch him and find a way to disable him!” Iida looked in the direction of the rolling Nomu and nodded; next to him, Tokoyami and the two students from the rival school did the same thing.
They could do this!
Iida crouched and signalled her to hop on, she didn’t hesitate.
“He has a blade quirk and a rolling quirk as well, so watch out!” Together, they started pursuing the ball in the canyon he was rolling in, gaining on him slowly but steadily. She could see her other classmate converging toward the action. At first, it was Hagakure and her group, then Bakugo and the others finally Todoroki. They were a little more banged up than the others.
They had the numbers they could manage. She only needed to touch it to propel him high enough, so that he couldn't damage anything.
Everyone from class 1A who could, run after the thing, but she and Iida were the fastest; they needed her to touch him first. He was now the size of a house. She yelled at Iida to get her closer, and he abided. She was centimetre away from him, almost touching his black leathery skin, she just needed to stretch…
A blade shot out, hurting her hand, leaving a deep laceration on her fingers, but this was enough…
Ignoring her pain, she grasped the blade, finally activating her quirk on him he started floating. Now slowed from loosing contact with the ground, Iida slipped underneath and activated his engine to their maximum.
“RECIPRO BURST!!” he kicked with all his might, pushing him way up in the air, but it was still not enough…
“DIE!!” Katsuki launched himself at it and mustered his biggest explosion yet, sending him toward the sky, toward somewhere he wouldn’t hurt anyone…
They had done it…
In the distance, Tsuyu and the other were running toward them as the ground rumbled. They looked, the flooded area was devastated by an immense wave of destruction and at the center of it stood Shigaraki, laughing…
*CRASH* Something fell near them, lifting dust and debris. She wiped her face and saw the Nomu, larger than before…
“How?!” Mina yelled from above. She saw him going up Why was he back?
“He is too heavy…” this horrible realization hit her like a truck… He had exceeded the weight limit of her quirk and so came crashing down to earth, back to them.
“RUN!!” someone yelled, but Ochako fell to her knee. They couldn’t run, this thing was about to blow, and they had no chance to outrun it…
Shigaraki had won…
They had lost…
“IZUKU!!...”
Ochako turned just in time to see Toga running toward them, holding one of the camera drones in one hand and a vial in the other…
…
Himiko Toga was a selfish girl who only wanted the best for herself. She was born in a normal family, but she wasn’t normal…
She left her school, her friends and her family to live freely in the street doing whatever she was told she couldn’t do. She was ready to live like this for the rest of her life, killing, stealing and lying to live forevermore free…
But she wasn’t living, she wasn’t happy, she put on a mask and told herself this was her new normal, her new life, and she had to accept it as who she was.
Then she met Izuku…
He tore down her wall, destroyed her façade and made himself a place among the trash-filled beach that was her mind, slowly cleaning it little by little. But she spent so much time with the trash, she convinced herself it was a part of her, something she shouldn’t change.
The trash was keeping you alive after all…
“Alive for what…” she had no Izuku. Was it a life worth living if she had to give up the most beautiful thing in it…
A drone flew by her it was so slow she easily grabbed it, out of curiosity. Was he watching? Probably, and he was also probably tearing himself apart for not being here. If he were here, he would save everyone and be the best hero in the world, she smiled.
She watched from a distance the Nomu crashing down; if she ran now, she might survive the blast radius…
“Then become better! Not for him, not for me, not for anyone else but yourself! Be someone he loves because you want him to love you! Be someone better so you can do what you want! What if it’s selfish and self-serving in the end, you will become a better person, that’s what's important!”
She held the device a little tighter… For her…
She wanted blood so she could become closer to those she loved, to be them…
She wanted to be like Ochako and Izuku, yet here she is hiding like Himiko! She lifted herself from her seat and ran, ran toward the Nomu, toward the danger like they would! She spun the device around and turned it toward her face, looking down the lenses and yelled.
“IZUKU!! I’M SORRY!!”
…
Izuku was in the bar watching the love of his life running toward her certain death.
“I’m sorry for being selfish, for hurting your mom, for lying to you! I love you and I want to be with you for the rest of my life! I want to wake up and see your face in the morning to play with your hair and kiss you!”
He could sense his eyes filled with tears; he also loved her. He wanted to see her back to tell her how sorry he was; he didn’t want her to die. Emotions were swelling inside of him. He wanted to punch something, hug someone, scream and cry…
…
“I’ll say it again, I love you and you are the best thing that ever happened to me, ME, the worst girl in the world, fell in love with the most wonderful boy in the world!”
Inko was watching the video, restraining her tears. This girl who hurt her, who terrified her, was now ready to sacrifice herself to prove herself to her son. She couldn’t anymore; the dam broke as she cried, thinking about Himiko dying.
“I’m also sorry…”
…
Himiko pulled out a vial of blood and unscrewed it. “I want to be like you, and I know this is exactly the stupid kind of thing you would do!” She drank from it, she could feel her body switch her hair turning green and her face growing freckled, she smiled, she couldn’t afford not to.
Izuku was a hero who saved everyone with a smile! She ran at the Nomu, feeling herself emboldened by her new form, feeling just like Izuku; scared, courageous, strong! She was him, and she would save the world with a smile.
Katsuki looked as Himiko, now under the form of Izuku, charged the thing. A smile similar to his on her face. All of class 1A looked at her as she finally reached the monster.
“MY NAME IS HIMIKO TOGA AND I’M IN LOVE WITH THE WORLD'S GREATEST HERO!!!”
she wound up a punch, feeling her sleeve tear by the power she was harnessing, and gave the biggest uppercut of her life…
She felt the power the confidence flowing into her; her arm exploded, breaking every bone she had in it. The Nomu lifted a bit and then was sent flying so fast she swore she could see the wind around her. Everyone around her was pushed away by the impact.
Class 1A watched in amazement as the Nomu vanished beyond the cloud above, and then a flash of light.
*BOOOOOOOOUUUUUUMMMMM*
Himiko fell on the ground, looking at the world's greatest firework with the world's cutest smile on her face. Her fake skin was slowly melting away.
“I did it, Izuku…”
Next to her, an Inky black portal opened, and Shigaraki stepped out of it Shigaraki sporting a brand-new haircut; behind him, the rest of the league, minus Compress. She couldn’t move.
“Heya boss-man… Miss me?”
…
Author’s Note
OVER 10,000 WORDS, HOLY SHIT!! I DID IT! I WRITE THIS CHAPTER IN ONE GO!!
A lot of action tells me in the comments which fight was your favourite!
HIMIKO QUIRK AWAKENING YESSS!!!! FINALY!!! Also, Shigaraki's awakening! This is quirk palouza! More is to come!
Did I manage to pull all that's happening at the same time trope? I think yes, but I’m the writer, so let me know!
My vacation is over, so I should slow down a bit…
Next time, the conclusion of this arc! Izuku enter the stage!