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As the Intelligence Trailer moved forward, Hikawa’s eyes kept on looking at the suit of armor laying in front of them. Her eyes couldn’t let go of the machinery laying in front of her as she held within herself a plethora of questions about what to do about it, sure she’s happy to see she gets to fight with it even if just as a test, but she truly wondered if all of their hard work actually paid off. That is something they wouldn’t know until they actually got a chance to fight.

“…Any news?” Hikawa asked her friend, who kept on looking at the screens.

“Nothing yet, but Principal Nezu did say he’d like to see the developments of the G3 itself, he proposed testing it against the Generation 2 Bots.” Ozawa told her, her eyes to glance towards Hikawa. “You sound like you want to do more than this.”

“Well yes… I just… I want to help him, but no matter what we want, we won’t have a chance to help him out for the time being.”

“Relax, if we talk him into it, there’s going to be no problem.”

“Yeah I know but what if he says no??”

“I guess you make a good point.” Ozawa turned off the screen, turning towards her friend appropriately. “But Midoriya trusts us.”

Hikawa was surprised by this, her wide eyes looking at her friend as she kept on speaking.

“If anything ever comes up, I don’t think he’ll hesitate to call for us, not when he has been willing to help us from the moment we told him about the project. He doesn’t want to fight this alone, and he’s expressed such a thing multiple times across the last year, so anyone being capable to fight alongside him will be welcomed, plus, if the G3 proves successful, it means he gets to focus on himself a little more than he should.”

“…You called him Midoriya…” Hikawa muttered.

“He wants to make things right, and that starts by being able to fight alongside him, as much as I’d like to decipher everything about this still ongoing mystery we’re trapped in, but the least we can do is let him rely on our help moving forward.” Ozawa finished, seeing the face of her friend and becoming… confused.

“…You actually called him Midoriya…”

“…Yeah? What’s wrong about it?” Before she knew, a gun was aimed at her face. “Wha-?!”

“Who are you and what did you do to my friend?!?” <----- Thinks it’s a Skinwalker

“MIYUKI HIKAWA PUT THE DAMN GUN DOWN!!” <----- Thought she should call him by name for once.

UNFORSEEN SIMULATION JOINT BUILDING. UA CAMPUS. – 1:58 P.M.

The lesson may have been quick and nothing out or proportion, but Class 1-A had to say it was probably the most fun of their Basic Hero Training classes. Maybe it was because Thirteen’s cheery spirit is contagious, but everyone found themselves in high spirits after their training that they didn’t mind the 300 steps they had to climb to leave the USJ surprisingly early, and that did make the active Class Representative of Class 1-A to ask about it to their homeroom teacher.

“Mr. Aizawa, why are we leaving so early? There’s about 2 more hours of classes.” Yaoyorozu asked her teacher curiously.

“Because we’re not the only ones who are meant to assist the USJ.” Aizawa’s answer was that simple, but he decided to add more. “The timeslot for today was first Class 1-A, then the sister class, Class 1-B. As such, we must get going already since you all still have some other classes to attend.”

“Class 1-B?”

“Every year it’s around a total of 34 to 36 students that make it into UA through the entrance exam, with another four to six usually make it through the Recommendation Exam, in our case those were Todoroki and Yaoyorozu.” Tenya spoke, continuing to give his answer. “As such, due to the high amount yet small concentration of students, the Hero Course is divided into two classes of equal size, some people like to say it’s the “lower quality meat” that makes it into 1-B, but I will argue that anyone thinking so is wrong, as Class 1-B has within has four members of the Top 10 in the exam, including 2^nd Place.”

“Wait, for real??” Kaminari looked at him surprised. “I thought Bakugo was 2^nd Place!”

The blonde boy didn’t notice it, but Bakugo’s face of wrath had become amongst the most terrifying things it had ever been, the ones near him just jumped away from him in the scare.

“No, I don’t remember their name right now, but they are one of the key examples of people in Class 1-B being proficient on their own. After all, most did make it through the exam, and they too have Recommendation Members, not only that but I’ve heard they have two exchange students.”

“Oh, then that means Tokage and Honenuki must be there.” Yaoyorozu said, looking at Todoroki who just nodded. As much as he doesn’t remember their faces, he knows they passed the exam just like him.

Everything being heard by Class 1-A was surprising them, most looked at one another as they seemed to agree on one thought, their class sure sounds boring in comparison to such a diverse cast of characters.

“I always thought the class you were assigned means you made it the highest in the exam.” Mina said as Tenya nodded in disagreement.

“No, if I remember my brother’s words, the classroom you’re assigned to is merely the personal choice of the Homeroom Teacher, in the case of Mr. Aizawa… I’d like to assume is to see who he thinks has actual potential and not just quirks they can abuse their way up, bar Midoriya, who he clearly did it to torment him.” Izuku just gained an exhausted look to Tenya’s words, realizing the game was rigged from the start because Aizawa was going to have him as his student want it or not.

“Speaking of Class 1-B, you may meet them right now, because the bus they took to get here is the same we’ll take for our way back to UA.” Aizawa told them, being the first to make it at the top of the stairs as he saw the doors to the USJ open.

As Class 1-A made it to the top of the stairs, their eyes widened in surprise to the people they were looking to upfront. Pouring through the door were a group of students of all kinds of looks, from simple red and white outfits, to very a very outstanding garb and even a shirtless guy who was rather furry, the variety of the class was honestly crazy to put it lightly, it was quite the colorful group like theirs, with the few wearing dark clothes outstanding the most.

Izuku looked around, surprised at everyone in in front of him, it was hard to-

“aEhh!?” He suddenly turn off like a machine, his eyes widening to the face he had seen as he almost felt like he could burst like a balloon at any second.

“Kan.”

“Aizawa.”

Walking up to one another, the two saluted each other briefly with a quick high five, a smirk coming to the known Blood Hero: Vlad King as Aizawa’s smile was hidden under his scarf.

“I see you got yourself quite the class.”

“You should know it better than most.”

“Excuse me, who are you to question the costume design of people when all you wear is a black long sleeve and a scarf.” Vlad King commented to his fellow homeroom teacher who just scratched his head.

“I ain’t a fashion designer, don’t even.” He really didn’t know what else to answer, because he feels like he got what he deserved. “But whatever, the bus did stay and didn’t leave like last time, did it?”

“Pretty sure it didn’t.” Kan said, looking around to his class. “Huh, they all survived your little purge after all, I thought people were joking when they said that.”

“Look, something very important got put in the line, I couldn’t risk it.”

“Cats?”

“Yes. How did you know?”

“We’ve known for long enough to decipher you.” His eyes looked at Thirteen as he waved at her. “Everything good with you too?”

“Is it about that? How bad was it?”

“Huh? Oh so you don’t remember what she told you?”

“No, but she said it was so horrible I’m better off not remembering.”

“…” His eyes looked at Thirteen, who furiously nodded at the Blood Hero, Class 1-A and Class 1-B looked at this confused to what was going on, seriously this inter-personal drama between their teachers is something they are both curious and uninterested of. “Yeah, is better if you don’t.”

“…” ‘Don’t tell me…’ Most of Class 1-A’s eyes briefly looked at Thirteen, who just flinched a little at their gazes. ‘…do they have something going on?’

“Well whatever, I should get moving with my class.”

“NOT before we introduce ourselves to our sister class!!” A boisterous boy yelled out, walking up front and right next to Vlad King who sighed.

“I should’ve known he’d do this…”

Before he could even stop the boy, the eyes of Class 1-A widened in surprise to the extreme pose while his classmates from 1-B could only cringe a little and gain concerned looks, one of them tried to stop him but he suddenly let out a powerful yell so filled with pride, that Bakugo felt like he had gained a rival then and there.

“Class 1-A! Our brothers and sisters in arms from the class next door to ours! It is an honor to finally meet all of you… or it would be had you not made a fool of yourself by missing Orientation during your first day!!” The blonde boy continued, Aizawa just looked at him.

“That was my fault, why are you saying they have to do with-…” Vlad King stopped Aizawa on his tracks, the man’s eyes said it all, and is that he should let him spit it all out.

“Such pride on yourselves to think so highly about your talents for merely being the first letter in the alphabet…” This was beginning to sound like a stretch, but everyone was just too engrossed on his acting they just let him continue. “…that you believe it matters, so much so you decide to ignore the Principal’s very words to do your fancy?? Let it not even be talked of the apparent incident in your training where one of your classmates has seemingly lost an eye!”

“H-His eye is all good…” Uraraka said, pointing at Izuku before noting his facial expression. “W-Woah what’s wrong, Midoriya??”

“I expect better of our sister class filled with side characters and a few random main characters! But it seems I am merely wrong in this!! Are you all simple egomaniacs who think they deserve to make it high in the world?! Or do you strive for something more sinister than that?!?!” At this point he was just making things up, and it’s very clear that’s the case because literally no one has met him before. “Are you perhaps conspiring, thinking that your position in UA grants you such power over things that you can simply garner every ounce of attention of you like with your little stunt back in the Cafeteria!? Such attempts to make you look like the good guys and for what?!?”

“…Isn’t it time you do something about it?” Aizawa asked Kan, who just sighed.

“I have a better option, Kenzaki!” Walking up from the crowd, the called-out student showed themselves as Kan pointed at them. “If you will.”

“Yes, sir.” The student got right next to Monoma, and with a powerful yet swift strike, he fell to the ground. “Seriously, you’re so damn loud about inconvenient stuff! They’re students like us, Monoma!”

Aizawa’s eyes went wide as a plate, he stumbled back on his own steps to see who this person was as he almost fell on his back, but he didn’t as Izuku stopped him. Their eyes met one another as the two had wide faces of shock found on each other, as in front of them was a woman wearing a qipao and a corset while she herself had orange hair, a sideways ponytail and jade eyes, the which both could never forget after keeping an eye on the woman and the girl under her care for the last few months, because in front of them was none other than Itsuka Kendo Kazuma Kenzaki, the Top 2 scorer of the Entrance Exam behind Izuku by 4 points.

“Aizawa…” Izuku tugged on him briefly, his voice making her ears perk up.

“…”

“Aizawa!” The greenette pulled him to him, all as the orange-haired girl’s eyes noticed them, her eyes widening. “AIZAWA!”

The greenette suddenly climbed up his teacher, shaking him violently desperately hoping for an answer, Kendo Kenzaki herself felt certain panic at seeing who these two were. She had planned out up to this, but she never expected it to happen THIS early into her time in UA.

“…uh oh…”

AIZAWA! AIZAWA! AIZAWA! AIZAWAZAWAZAWAZAWAAIZAWAZAWAZAWAZAWA!! ANSWER ME ALREADY!!! WHAT IS GOING ON IN FRONT OF THE TWO OF US!?!” Izuku seemed like he could explode, either in desperation or in shock to the situation.

“I DON’T KNOW!!” The black-haired man suddenly started choking Izuku. “I NEVER SAW IT DURING THE EXAM!! IF I WOULD’VE TOLD YOU SOMETHING DON’T YOU THINK?!?!”

“NO YOU WOULDN’T, YOU ARE THE EXACT KIND OF PERSON WHO WOULD DO EVERYTHING TO COVER THIS UP!! AS A RANDOM SURPRISE TO PISS ME OFF IN REVENGE FOR A MISTAKE I DID BEFORE!!!” The desperation in the greenette’s voice was becoming palpable by the second, yet no one knew what was going on anymore.

“I MAY BE A DICKHEAD TO YOU, BUT EVEN I HAVE MY LIMITS WHEN IT COMES TO THIS KIND OF STUFF!!”

The girl woman just shrunk on her shoulders, her eyes staring at the two of them knowing her disguise had already been blown that easily, she expected Izuku of all people here seeing she was aware he was still a middle school student when they first met, but Aizawa she didn’t even know was a teacher in this school at all. She wanted to defuse the situation, but how could see, everyone just didn’t understand what was going on between them, but it apparently had something to do with Kenzaki here, who didn’t seem as confused as the rest.

“W-What about discussing this another time…?” She muttered, gaining their attention as Izuku finally got off Aizawa and the erasure hero fixed his costume.

“…Yes! Yes I believe we should discuss this another time! Very in-depth too!!” Izuku said, still too confused to make sense of things. “Because wha-…”

A flicker came through the building, the tight seal of the doors securing everything in place as for a moment the entire USJ, filled with the loud noises of falling water, blazing flames and fake rumblings came to a dead silence with its lights fading for long enough for all to notice. It felt like a blink to most, but such thing brought everyone to absolute silence, the eyes of everyone looked around curiously and partly worried, while Thirteen herself froze in place as she turned towards Aizawa.

“…Senpai…” Even with that helmet, the Erasure Hero and Blood Hero have known her long enough that they could tell there was a creeping horror upon her. “…Security’s out.”

“…”

Swirl…!

Aizawa ran towards the edge of the stairs, Kan behind him as Izuku and Kenzaki followed right next to them, their eyes looking at the bottom of the stairs as their eyes widened.

“CLASS 1-A, GATHER WITH CLASS 1-B AT THE ENTRACE! TRY TO BREACH THE DOOR NOW!!” Aizawa looked towards Thirteen. “KEEP THEM SAFE, WE’LL DEAL WITH THEM! IZUKU DON’T LEAVE THEIR SIDE EITHER!!”

In the fountain at the core of the USJ, could be seen a swerving dark spot, air emanating from it as it began pushing away some of the leaves brought forth by the trees in the surrounding area, most of Class 1-A looked at this concerned as they began backing out.

“H-Hey… is this special training for Class 1-B??” One of the students asked, hopeful it wasn’t what they were thinking.

“No, these are real villains!!” Aizawa yelled out, putting on his glasses  Get on moving! Now!!”

The spot grew in size, expanding itself further as it slowly began releasing figures of all sorts, yet at the very center of it could be seen a face, one being hidden under a butchered hand like the many others gripping onto his body, yet under that red gaze the greenette recognized him quickly as the villain he’s come across multiple times by now.

“…This is what he stole…” Izuku was nervous at what he was looking at, because now he felt everything fall upon him. If he hadn’t hesitated that day, then!

More kept on pouring out, it seemed like an endless horde scattered across all of the USJ and as Izuku’s eyes looked around, he spotted more and more of those black gates opening everywhere across the building, his eyes allowed him to see some on the more open areas, but if they were being thrown here, the likeness of there being villains on the Conflagration and Downpour Area were incredibly high. But one of them offset Izuku the most. It was pure miasma emanating from that giant beaked creature and the smoking one, almost like looking at something repugnant, compared to everything else, it lacked even a spark of light seen in any living being, there wasn’t a philosopher’s stone in their bodies, there wasn’t anything that could make him special in the slightest, and that was the problem. It lacked reason, it lacked logic, and it lacked everything we correlate with a single thing.

Living.

That thing was a corpse, one that reeked it’s dying smells from kilometers away, one that was beyond a crime against humanity, it was crime against God himself for as cruel as he may be. It was something that knotted onto the greenette’s throat with how sickening such a sighting was.

What is this stench!?

Such unfathomable creatures!

Who dared do this!??!

…Ignore everything…

I want everyone using it

And the soul of whoever made this

To be extinguished for good!

NOW!!

“…Aizawa… Something’s wrong here!” Izuku just looked at this, he didn’t know if to back out or to rush forward.

“What??” That was concerning.

“T-That thing…! It’s not normal!!” The greenette said, he wasn’t scared, but he just couldn’t shake off the feeling of something worse coming. “It’s not at all something they’d allow!! We have to do something about it! Now!”

“About what?!” Vlad King yelled.

“That beaked one and smokey one! Those two next to the guy with hands! If we don’t kill it, they’ll come!!” Izuku’s yelling caught the attention of some.

At the bottom of the stairs there could be seen a bunch of villains gathering in en masse while looking around, they looked ready for anything, as the villain covered in hands could only stare up the stairs with eyes irritated and annoyed. He was told to just rob this, why does he want him to be a part of this?? Why is he dragging him into this??

His anger only made his desire to scratch his skin even more violent, his skin boiled as the distant echoing voice in his hand called out for blood of the one responsible for all of this as his nails dug onto his skin, screeching through every bit of it with such violence that blood and rashes could be seen forming all across him. He wanted this to be over, he just wanted to kill him for good so he could get out of this hellish life that inner voice keeps telling him he never deserved. He wanted out, he’s been wanting out for so long that he may as will kill everything in his path to get his way.

Do you still… want to be a hero?

His thoughts came to a stop, those words once more echoing within his head as he stopped scratching onto his skin as violently as he did, his eyes looked at the ground briefly as he remembered the Agito that saved him that day.

“…What could that bastard do? He’s got his own little rogue’s gallery to kill to be too distracted with us…” He muttered.

“It appears like we arrived much later than intended, Tomura Shigaraki.” The smoking villain, Kurogiri, said to the light blue haired boy. “I see not just Eraser Head and Thirteen, but Vlad King too…”

“…That means All Might must’ve left already…” Tomura muttered, his eyes looking up the stairs. This was the most he managed to delay the attack, but now it was worse than originally. His master’s plan was simply attacking one class, but he delayed the attack enough for the two First Year Classes to be here at the same time. “…Talk about getting worse before it gets better…”

“So what should we do about it, Tomura Shigaraki? Shall we proceed?” Kurogiri asked him curiously.

“…We must, after all he wanted us to do this either way.” Tomura’s eyes kept on looking at the stairs, his eyes spotting the greenette from last time. “I guess we’ll have to round All Might out somehow… But this is the last way I want it to be.”

“I understand so, Tomura Shigaraki, but if we don’t…”

“…I know, he’ll probably be mad we wasted resources, blah blah the hell does he care about, anyways?” Tomura sneered. “Don’t let them escape, and if possible, make sure these fuckers don’t do anything horrible to the kids. Because I know some sickos are amongst the crowd.”

“…Always concerned for the kids, aren’t you…”

“Shut the fuck up and get going, I’m already tired as I am.”

Most looked at this concerned, but those who heard Izuku’s words were growing even more worried and panicked.

“M-Midoriya what are you saying?!” Yaoyorozu yelled out while looking around.

Izuku stopped, his eyes looking back as he saw the few shocked expressions from Class 1-A and Class 1-B at his words.

“There’s no need to be that drastic, right??” Kirishima yelled at him, his expression said it all.

“Are you hearing yourself??”

“W-We shouldn’t even be thinking that...!”

Kenzaki’s eyes glanced at the greenette, who just bit his lip. He spoke too much now, but it’s not like it mattered.

“Aizawa let me-…!”

“No.” Letting his scarf begin to dance wildly around him, the Erasure Hero stared at the villains distant from them. “This is a matter for us to take care of, I expect you to take care of your classmates and get them out of this place before it gets too crazy! Now go!”

“A-Aizawa!”

“I’m your teacher here, not your friend…” His eyes turned to the greenette, the piercing yellow of his Erasure reflecting on the greenette’s eyes. “And I order you to protect your classmates.”

“…fu- fine!” Grabbing to the sides of his belt, the greenette released the Bo Staff and Sword on his costume, tossing it to Eraser Head and Vlad King who grabbed them. “I don’t care if it breaks or something! I just want to make sure you two come out of this building in a single piece!!”

“Kenzaki!” Vlad King, holding tightly onto Izuku’s deployable blade while coating it on blood, looked towards his student. “Take care of your classmates! I want you and Midoriya make sure not a single one ends injured, got it??”

“…Yes sir!” She yelled.

“…”

LEAP!!

“Who are those?”

The villains looked up front, Aizawa flew over the stairs with shocking ease as he landed, digging the sole of his feet into one of the many villains as Vlad King didn’t hesitate to start cutting through them. Aizawa, in combination with the Bo Staff, started to spin it at great speeds with help his Capture Scarf, some villain tried striking him with his quirk, but as soon as Eraser Head’s eyes made contact with him, his attack was halted, and the kick of the hero could only be seen snapping the femur of the villain who didn’t even manage to scream as the staff struck his head and knocked him out. For good.

“T-That’s Eraser Head!!” One of the villains said, afraid while holding his arm, remembering last time he fought him and how he nearly ripped his arm off just to get information about a lost cat.

“And Vlad King too! Shit, this is like hell on earth!!” Another said, having been victim to the man’s capabilities at dealing with hostage situations, as he himself was one of the villains who the blood hero stopped at Kiyashi all those years ago.

Kendo kept on looking at this before turning around and grabbing the greenette and pulling him.

“Come on! The faster we can secure them, the easier we can come back and help!”

Izuku knew what she meant, but right now he had a million questions for Kendo, ones he knew asking right now wasn’t exactly ideal, their focus had to be in protecting their classmates.

“Right! Get going! We have to evacuate RIGHT NOW!”

“I’m afraid, I can’t allow so.”

It was sudden, but a dark mist surrounded all 40 students and Thirteen, their eyes going wide in shock at seeing the sudden appearance of all of this, their eyes looked around as it encumbered them on a massive circle that made it look like dark flames were starting to close in on everyone. It forced everyone to place their backs against one another as they looked around for the source of the voice, all before Izuku and Kendo spotted it right in front of the door in the form of bright yellow eyes.

“Greetings everyone, I apologize for intruding without introduction, so allow me to change so.” As the brightened yellow eyes glared at them, most flinched under this as Izuku felt his muscles contort while Kendo reached to her back, getting something. “I am Kurogiri, of the League of Villains, and we have found ourselves breaking through your school’s sacred fields with a simple set of intentions, that being of killing the Symbol of Peace.”

The jade eyes of Izuku widened; in a split second, his pupils went white to the smoke man’s words. Slamming his foot to the ground, the ground beneath him cracked as his muscles contorted further, Kenzaki’s eyes narrowed as in her hands was a deck of card from which she pulled a metallic card that Izuku barely saw.

“It does seem like we came at the wrong time… perhaps he took his leave already but… that doesn’t mean my role has changed in this.” As he said this, the smoke began closing in at great speeds towards them, making most panic.

Izuku and Kenzaki were about to leap forward, when all of a sudden they were pushed aside by two Class 1-A members. Bakugo and Kirishima. Their eyes widened as they panicked, seeing the ash-blonde and redhead rushed in at the villain and throwing their own strongest attacks, making the smoke come to a stop briefly and disperse from its spheric shape.

Most were surprised by this, almost wanting to cheer them on as the two held a smirk and smile at their success.

“Stop talking all that big stuff! We’ll just kill ya before you manage to do much!” Bakugo yelled at him, continuing to crack explosions.

“Yeah, if you wanna get things done, get to-…”

“YOU IDIOTS! MOVE!!” Izuku yelled at them.

“THIRTEEN YOUR QUIRK!” Kendo yelled to the teacher who stood up front, but between them and the villain were the two members of 1-A who just stood their ground, the biggest mistake they’d make all day.

“GET OUT OF THE WAY, NOW!!” Thirteen yelled out, ready to use her quirk as the two looked confused.

“That was close. It’s impressive your talents are for such young age…” The smoke began regaining itself, a metal brace briefly visible as the smoke continued gathering itself appropriately. “…Unfortunately, they may end right now. Begone.”

The tap from Thirteen’s quirk went off just as quickly as the black mist, jettisoning its way towards them at such speeds that most didn’t even have time to react, and the few that did barely managed to get out of the way themselves, even less with the people they were holding with them as the wave of mist flew forward and flew right though the place, just a selected few managed to be protected by Thirteen using her quirk, with the rest… Gone.

Tenya looked around the place, he had tackled a few of Class 1-B’s members behind Thirteen while he himself crash landed along with Sato and Uraraka who were both in his arms. Next to him was Mina, who had a shocked look after Shoji and Sero sacrificed their own safety for hers while trying to protect Izuku and the orange haired girl from 1-B.

Looking at the Class 1-B students, there were a few of them, one had become one with the shadow of Thirteen, a boy wearing a light blue jacket and having brown hair had a solid wall of air in front of him protecting him and his classmate with a red and white suit. The students Tenya had stopped from being thrown off were one with massive yellow gauntlets with a costume similar to a Jiangshi and a girl whose eyes reminded him of Shiitake mushrooms.

“…W-Where is everyone??” Tenya yelled out, concerned as he instantly got in position for combat along with Sato.

“I want to assume he warped them across the place, I’m pretty sure I saw other gates around the place though, it means they’re being scattered to take us out in groups!” Sato yelled out, holding tightly onto a capsule on his hands.

“S-shit…! This is bad!” The boy with the light blue jacket, Kosei Tsuburasa said, his air barrier still standing but cracking, the force of the mist was enough to destabilize it. “Kodai, Komori! You good??”

“Yes!” The two of them Yui Kodai and Kinoko Komori, gave their answers, one more emotional than the other as the guy from the shadow came out, looking at everyone.

“That faint darkness of it, it tried to grab a hold of me and pull me…” The boy, Shihai Kuroiro said, his curious speech pattern reminding Tenya of Tokoyami. “…To escape out of here will be hard while such darkness stands its ground.”

“Physical attacks are out of the count!” The last member of 1-B with them, Hiryu Rin, said, he looked at this concerned. “What it told your classmate means it has to have a physical body, but with how much mist there is and the fact that’s how it can warp us out of here means trying to do a head-on fight will just be an instant loss!”

“Put that aside…!” Tenya looked at him. “His mist behaves like an entity of its own, it actively tried dodging Thirteen’s quirk in the last second and grab us!”

“Man, why do villains always get the overpowered crap?!” Kosei yelled out concerned.

“But we have no option, we have to break out of the USJ somehow and get backup or something!” Uraraka yelled out, standing next to her blue-haired friend.

“Security is out and that probably means there’s a chance all signals are jammed too! The door’s our only real option!” Sato told them, his eyes not letting go off his opponent as his mist almost teasingly left a small path for them to run through, a very clear way to play with his food. “This going to be frustrating…!”

Tenya kept on looking at this, remembering the words of earlier given by his green-haired friend. They kept on echoing in his head seeing how violently he yelled them out for their teacher to follow, part of him found himself confused to the why it may be the case he thought such a thing, but something concerned him in particular. Because deep within, he could only ask himself one thing. What did he mean by “they’ll” come?

“ORYAH!”

“HAH!!”

The greenette and orange haired girl didn’t hesitate in the slightest, Izuku felt the villain’s organs melt under his anger filled fist as blood poured out of its mouth, all as Kendo felt her kick dig into the villain’s face, she felt its lower jaw expel forward as its teeth scraped against her boots. Both were sent flying into nearby trees, their blood splattering everywhere as the two angry students looked around to the villains who backed out in fear.

Shoji, Sero and a silver haired girl from Class 1-B, Reiko Yanagi, could only look at the scene with stunted shock to what had happened in front of them. None of them even knew what to say as Kenzaki put away the card on her hand, all as Izuku took in a deep breath… he needed to calm down, if not it would be Sabbat all over again.

“What will it be?”

Both exclaimed, Kendo taking out a second card with an armored Boar and the word TACKLE written on the side, while Izuku regulated himself, a brief golden glow coming out of his breath.

“Will you let yourselves be restrained…?” Izuku pulled onto on his gloves.

“…Or will we have to beat you down right here?” Kendo neared the card towards herself, the boar on it taunting with the desire of striking them down.

“…”

Seeing their partners, whose bodies were laying as bloody paste near them- they were inching death- they decided against testing their luck here. Raising their hands up, the villains dropped to their knees as Izuku looked towards Sero, letting him understand what to do, so in a quick motion, the tape quirk user fired it off and wrapped it around the villains who decided against fighting both their opponents.

As he did so, Kenzaki made sure to knock them out for good with a chop to the neck, the greenette sighed in relief as he saw the last one drop to the ground before he too fell to the ground next to the villain he injured. Checking on him, he was a mess inside, but the greenette could hear his body still functioning appropriately, it seems like has a regenerative factor of sorts, and that brought relief to the greenette. He really didn’t want to do that, but it came in favor on forcing the villains to surrender.

“…Midoriya…” Shoji called out for him, Izuku didn’t even look at him as he shut his eyes close. “There’s more villains still around, and I can hear most others are still inside the USJ like us.”

“…Good…” The greenette cringed, looking at his gloves and seeing them a little bloody, making him shake it off. “Dammit… I didn’t want this…!”

“Midoriya, all secured.” Sero said, looking at his classmate a little concerned. “You’re all good? That was some next level stuff.”

“Yeah just…” Taking off his other glove, the greenette smeared off whatever blood remained on the knuckles of the other while staring at the villains around them. “…I don’t like this one bit.”

“Well you almost just killed a guy with raw strength, so you tell me.” Sero told him, walking up to the greenette and extending his hand out. “I get it, you’re desperate at the situation and we’re all in a panic, everyone goes overboard every once in a while when they’re scared, so we’re better off getting on the move.”

“…Y-you’re not-…”

“Scared of what you did? Yes, but don’t you hear me? I’m telling you that I understand why you did so, we’re in a very stressful situation right now. Both you and I know this is life or death, and maybe you did push it far… but you stopped what could’ve been a bigger struggle by going overboard, even if it wasn’t the best.” Sero told him, it was kind of hard to talk on this, but he could tell Izuku felt at least a little more comfortable.

But it wasn’t about his actions, no, he felt more comfortable around Sero after hearing him trying his best to understand his situation, obviously part of it had an underlying feeling emergent from his time working as a Kamen Rider, but even without knowing this, Sero is trying his best to understand him and comfort him too. That was something that just… felt nice. It was something only Mawata has really done for him, so it really meant a lot to him that a classmate of his was willing to go the same lengths.

“..t-thanks for that…”  Izuku muttered, grabbing onto Sero’s hand as he pulled him up.

At the same time with Kenzaki, or Kendo, however each one wants to call her, she could only look at the situation going on, her mind going over a million places at the way Izuku behaved just now and how it really wasn’t that far from what she expected him to react to such a topic, but that wasn’t the issue him, he mentioned that they’ll come, and she knows he means the Unknown Lifeforms appearing after that reeking smell of death in the most literal of senses seen in both the smoke guy and the beaked muscular one. She hated that, even she was disgusted by simply seeing such abhorrent beasts.

“Miss Kendo?” Tapping her shoulders was Reiko Yanagi, the girl looking at her with some concern in her eyes, mostly kept under her rather quiet stare, as the jade eyed woman looked at her surprised. “Are you alright?”

“…yes, sorry Yanagi, it was just… an explosion of the moment.” She sounded embarrassed at her own actions, but her eyes quickly looked at her. “Also what did we say about that?”

“Sorry but… I’m not used to the other one. Speaking of.” Yanagi approached her the most she could, whispering into her ear. “Do they know?”

“…Not exactly, see since I met him and Aizawa, I’ve always been Kendo and have looked like this to them, just like you, they met me without being Kenzaki or Kendate or just… the other names I have.” She explained. “That’s why they reacted how they did, because they simply don’t know, and just want answers on it since as far as they know, Itsuka Kendo is a woman with a kid she took under her care after her parents died.”

“You’re right about something, and it’s that I want answers.” Izuku told her, walking up to her while holding a curious face, surprising the woman as she just looked at him. “But I’ll bug you about it after we’re done with this issue. Right now the main concern is getting back together with the class and subdue all other villains in the area.”

“We’re still in the USJ, right?” Kendo asked him, Shoji nodding at her.

“Yes, if my quirk doesn’t fail me, we’re in the forested area between the Landslide and Mountain Zone. My guess is that they sent villains here in case anyone escaped from either zone.” Shoji kept on surveying the area, his ears and extra eyes looking everywhere. “They don’t seem coordinated in the slightest, and they’re probably unaware of our quirks.”

“Why do you think so?” Sero asked him.

“Because I can hear Asui swimming around the Flood Zone.”

水難ゾーン | FLOOD ZONE

Landing on the boat, Tsuyu laid down the final member she found in the area, those being herself, Minoru Mineta, a green haired girl and a boy with a bandana, both- obviously- from Class 1-B. Their eyes were looking off the edge of the boat in the massive Flood Zone with a little concern, but it seemed like so far they didn’t plan to make a move.

“W-what should we do…?!” Mineta yelled out, panicked at the sighting of villains beneath them.

“We take it slow, and we introduce each other to understand our quirks.” The girl from 1-B, Setsuna Tokage, told them, she too held a concerned look but was doing her best stay calm and collected. “Then we plan something out to get out of here.”

“Alright, so what exactly should we try to do still?? We’re surrounded, even if we come up with a plan, were to next??” The boy, Yotetsu Awase, said very concerned. “This isn’t really the best place for my quirk unless they tried sinking the ship! And I should stop screaming because giving the enemy ideas is detrimental.”

“Yes please.” Tsuyu told him, her eyes looking overboard once more as she just saw the villains trying to taunt them and scream at them. “They’re not rushing us…”

“…Maybe they don’t know our quirks?”

“Mineta, throw one of your balls.” Tsuyu told him, and the boy just looked at her.

“And do what?!” His desperate voice really surprised Tokage and Awase. “It’s useless for me to try anything against this!! It’ll go nowhere; we’ll die!! We’ll be torn to pieces and chewed apart and some of their faces bring lecherous topics I prefer to avoid because I feel bringing it up will have me thrown overboard!! But what the hell could my balls do!??!”

“…I respect the reaction, but now’s not the time.” Awase told him.

“One of those, huh?” Tokage told Tsuyu, who just nodded. “We got a few in our class, but at least they got a head straight enough to deal with stuff like this.”

“Okay smart gal!! Tell me what the hell I’m going to figure out by throwing one of my balls!? What will we get from it?!?”

“Duh, confirming the theory!”

“And then what?!?!”

“…” She sighed, gaining a sly grin on her face, it didn’t take much before Tsuyu and Awase knew where this was about to go. “Then how about this…”

Getting right up to Mineta’s ear, the girl whisper words only the boy would find perfectly sweet and fitting, both Tsuyu and Awase just looked at this as they saw the boy’s expression go through a million different emotions the more she continued talking to him. Soon enough she finished, that grin of hers was wider than ever as the twitching Mineta had fallen under her spell.

“Witch.”

“I pride myself on being one.” Tokage boasted, staring at her nails proudly.

“…I didn’t hear anything but…” Tsuyu turned towards Awase. “…Will she actually live up to it?”

“She loves toying with thirsty hearts.” That was enough of an answer for the frog girl.

土砂ゾーン | LANDSLIDE ZONE

“H-Holy crap…” Nirengeki Shoda couldn’t be blamed for his reaction in the slightest, his eyes looking in front of him along with the invisible girl and his classmate Pony Tsunotori, all of them staring at the sighting in front of them.

It took four seconds for them to land after being warped for villains to rush them, and it took half of that for their classmate Honenuki Yuzo and Shoto Todoroki to take action against them, instantly freezing them before putting them six feet under, their heads being the only thing peeking from the ground that became as malleable as dough, even with how tough and cold the ice is.

Honenuki and Todoroki only looked at one another, nodding as they approached the many villains now underground and with no way to move.

“Divide and Conquer…” Todoroki muttered.

“Not a bad tactic if you know your enemies well enough.” Honenuki followed up, walking alongside the dual-haired boy.

“Unfortunately, all of you are mere thugs that couldn’t even get something higher than a simple slap on the wrist.” Todoroki crouched down in front of one. “And you’re all here under the pretense of killing All Might, huh.”

“Must’ve been a boring weekend.”

“D-Dammit… Are these guys really just kids??” One of the thugs said, not managing to move as the ice itself kept on hurting every inch of skin.

“By looking at all of these guys, I’ll guess they want them to work as cannon fodder to tire out All Might before he’s forced to fight their real fighters.” Honenuki commented, poking the eye of one of the many frozen villains.

“I counted a total of five to six real threats just by instinct alone.” Todoroki told him, his eyes narrowing at this. “That means that, yes, perhaps they’re cannon fodder, but they must work as back up of the real duelists, or perhaps they’re as disorganized as they seem.”

“A-and what if we are…!?” One yelled out.

“Well.” Dodging out of instinct, Shoto’s right hand grabbed his attacker’s weapon and stabbed it right next to one of the villains underground, all before grabbing him by the neck tightly, his whole body but the mouth and nose instantly being coated on massive pieces of ice. “Then I’d like to hear your little plan.”

Tossing the guy aside, he couldn’t move at all, the weight of the ice forced him to the ground while having it hard to breath. Shoto’s hand began orbiting right at the face of his opponent as Honenuki began to threaten with touching the ground as well.

“This goes one of two ways, either I freeze your faces and then allow my partner here liquifies the ice further, making you fall deeper into it until your whole body is encumbered by it and remains undiscovered until July, where you will suffer a slow and painful hypothermia, followed by your skin burning until blood can’t circulate across you and die…”

Placing his whole hand on the villain’s face, Ice began emerging from the palm of his hand while slowly approaching the man’s eye, threatening to stab and freeze his insides.

“…or, you tell us right here and right now. How do you plan on killing All Might?”

“…” ‘So cool yet dark…’ The three students watching from the sidelines thought.

山岳ゾーン | MOUNTAIN ZONE

It took everyone but surprise, but the fight was on. Between Class 1-A and Class 1-B, no one knows each other, and yet they were fighting for their lives alongside one another as they were swarmed by villain after villain, none of them even had time to breathe as they kept on coming from all sides, even without the need of the warp quirk.

Kaminari barely rolled under an attack, almost dying to it as he saw it strike a wall and shatter it to pieces, making him squeal as a rather hairy boy from Class 1-B, Jurota Shishida, started trading blows briefly with the villain before batista bombing him into the ground.

“Jeez! Thanks big guy! I almost saw my life flash before my eyes…!!” Kaminari yelled out, once more ducking below some attacks with shocking ease, even to himself. Probably the adrenaline.

Parrying away one of her attackers, Kyoka didn’t hesitate twice to bring the paddle down upon their heads, slamming them onto the ground beneath her before kicking them just to double tap. Her eyes spotted a boy whose fingers were spinning at incredible speeds tearing through their defenses before spotting someone trying to sneak him.

“Heads up!” Kyoka yelled, gaining the attention of the boy who saw her jacks connect to her leg. Parrying away the villain, he jumped out of range as all he heard was a heartbeat, followed by a straight detonation of noise that sent the villains flying into the mountain wall.

“T-thanks…!! But God, how is there so many here??” The drill boy, Sen Kaibara, yelled out as he spun his leg, bringing forth a powerful kick that caused his opponent to be sent spinning like a spinning top. “Like half of these guys don’t even look like they can fight in such a rocky terrain!!”

“Yaoyorozu can you give me a weapon!?” Kaminari yelled, stumbling pass another group of attackers, causing to strike each other down.

Looking towards her, the girl could be seen in her own struggle, using her Bo Staff to strike the villains away from her before making a pair of clackers, tossing it around the legs of some villains before following up with a weighted net just to ensure they were down for good.

“S-Sorry you were saying!?” The girl kept on struggling through and through, trying to fight off as many as possible.

“Oi! Aren’t you the electric guy?! Just get on shocking them down!!” Kyoka yelled at him, hitting the forearm of a villain before stabbing his neck with her jacks. “Just get on tasing them!!”

“Do you forget!? My quirk’s volatile as hell! I can’t control the direction of my discharges, aiming and firing is out the question, since I’ll end up hitting everyone without discrimination!” Kaminari said, dodging another villain while crackling some electricity around him. “No matter how hard I try to get in contact with anyone, no signal of mine goes out! I am useless at a time like this!”

“…Seriously, calling you an idiot sells you short!” Suddenly kicking him, Kyoka stopped another attacker’s knife before using her paddle to not only hit her opponent but stab him with the knife stuck on it. “Tasers isn’t just guns! They’re also Close Quarter weapons!”

Placing his hands on a man’s chest, Kaminari looked up to the brooding man who just sneered at him. All the blonde boy did was squeal as he tightened his grip on the man’s chest, suddenly unleashing a ridiculous voltage discharge upon him, so much so he started to smell toasty in seconds.

“Oh! I’m not so useless!”

“He’s truly an idiot with issues huh.” Kaibara said, looking as Kaminari began tasing a few more.

暴風• 大雨ゾーン | DOWNPOUR AREA

Koji Koda, along with a boy from Class 1-B, found themselves running across before making it into an alleyway, villains were chasing after them when all of a sudden, from above came Dark Shadow, crushing one of the villains onto the ground as the others behind him were suddenly struck by a massive group of thick prickly vines.

The two stopped, looking back to see Tokoyami and a girl with hair made out of those prickly vines arrive to the alleyway with them. The bird boy and girl and looked at them, giving them a nod.

“That makes 12… And I spotted another 28 by downtown.” Tokoyami informed. “They’re trying to keep distance since they noticed your vines in movement, miss.”

“I apologize for not being the most inconspicuous, but had I not acted, my classmate wouldn’t been hurt.” The girl, Shiozaki Ibara, said to him, giving him a slight bow.

“No need, we have our worries to attend and stop the villains in the area at least, but the terrible news is that there seems to be more on their way.” The boy said, looking around.

“Terrible news indeed.” The girl told him. “Let us continue moving ahead then.”

“I-I’m sorry for being so useless here…” Koda said, gaining a brief look from Tokoyami who just nodded in disagreement.

“I’m sorry too… but the waters in this area wash away my quirk before I can do much…” The boy, Kojiro Bondo, spoke on the matter a little ashamed, for as much weight as his quirk could hold back, a situation like this was his perfect counter.

“Nonsense, you two are helping us enough as you are, even if bait or however you want to see it, without you we would be much easier to spot and be avoided by the enemy.” Ibara commented.

“Agreed.” It was all Tokoyami said, as his quirk came out of him and nodded.

“Yer all doing great so far! Just a lil more and we’ll be good!” Dark Shadow said, giving them a thumbs up. “Now let’s kick more villain attack!”

“For once you speak sense.”

“Hey!”

火災ゾーン | CONFLAGRATION ZONE

“I would’ve preferred a water zone! But no!” A voice without a face said, in fact, his face looked like a Comic Bubble. “BOOM!”

BOOM manifested midair, being sent towards one of the nearby villains as it exploded on him and sent him backwards. Ojiro quickly swept in, striking a villain sneaking up on the boy by the name of Manga Fukadashi from being stabbed, following that, using his massive tail, Ojiro double tapped the villains knocked down by Manga as he looked at him.

“H-hey, is not the best environment for anyone! Flames go good with no one but Fire Quirks!” Ojiro said, seeing a patrol of villains running around. “And sadly for us, it goes well with them! Come on!”

“Uuugh I’m gonna need a gallon of water to get my throat running again after this!” The boy said, running behind the 1-A student in annoyance.

倒壊ゾーン | COLLAPSE/RUINS ZONE

It was less chaos in battle, more than it was endless bickering, this place should not be as loud as it is, but it didn’t matter in the slightest. The room they were in was a carnage, the walls were blown to bits, fragments of all sorts were scattered all across it and knocked out villains were seen in every corner of the room, and yet they weren’t all of them, as Kirishima and Bakugo looked around the place, they could see some villains rushing up to the upper floors of the building they were forced to be stationed with along with the Class 1-B Guys, who, unlike most others, weren’t making things easy.

“Dude… can’t you not piss him off?” Kirishima said, the silver haired boy next to him just smiled while cringing as his body turned into metal to hold back his blonde and green- straight up green- classmate.

“I-I don’t even know what to tell you dude…” The boy, Mario Mario- I mean Tetsutetsu Tetsutetsu from Class 1-B really was exhausted, not from the fight, but from the ongoing bickering between them.

“YA THINK YA CAN KILL ME YOU SHARP END?! TRY ME!!” Crackling his explosions, Bakugo threatened against the green student, whose arm blades extended even further to the challenge.

“I’m going to make sure to dig ya a good old grave here! Pomeranian!” The boy, Togaru Kamakiri, mocked the ash-blonde, setting him off even further as Kirishima pulled him back.

“C-Come on Bakugo! Don’t make this worse than it has to be!”

“Huh!? How did such a villainous individual even make it into UA! It must be horrible! Reprimandable! Almost inexcusable that you’re here!!” Neito Monoma seemed to be gaining a rise out of this, so much so that Tetsutetsu wanted to punch him for trying so hard to set off Bakugo to “prove a point”, sadly due to him copying his quirk, metal and metal would just churn.

“Look, let’s put this aside, specially you Bakugo! None of this would’ve happened if it wasn’t for our actions earlier–…”

“INDEED!”

“SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU PLAIN WHITE BOY!!”

“I’M JAPANESE!”

“WELL YOU BEHAVE LIKE A WHITE BOY WANNABE!!”

“THE TWO STOP!!” Kirishima yelled, holding Bakugo in a headlock. “We need to get to the rest of the class, Number One priority is that we get everyone together and get out of this place, between you and I because we want to pay up our debt for getting on Thirteen’s way, and to all of you is of interest for your classmates!”

The three stopped writhing around like idiots, their eyes looking at Kirishima briefly as they came to a standstill.

“You make a fine point.” Monoma commented, looking at Kirishima. “But how sure are you that they’re in here?”

“How else? We were sent to the Collapsed Zone, we’re about one or two kilometers from the main entrance right now!” Kirishima answered, having been in the place, he could tell very well, specially because the ice pillar used by Todoroki in the training at the ravine could be seen from the windows.

“They must’ve thought it be easier to take us out like this.” The blonde boy muttered. “That means everyone is at equal risk, specially with the quantity of villains being unaccounted for.”

“I don’t care what ya got with us, put it aside for now just so we can help our classmates, okay?” Kirishima extended his hand out to him, Monoma looking at it briefly as he chuckled.

“Hah… As I thought, Class 1-A requires of its sister class to triumph!” Shaking his hand, the boy copied Kirishima’s quirk, hardening his arm as to make this an even more valid truce. “Let’s save our comrades.”

“Yes!”

“You all go do that, I got a score to settle with that smokey fuck.”

CRACK!

“A-All my words for nothing it seems…” Kirishima muttered as the Class 1-B students just looked at Bakugo, who seemed a little more serene than earlier.

“I’m already in trouble as it is, and one thing I hate to do is leave a mess of things, so I’ll make sure to clean up the chaos I did by listening to Deku and killing that fuck for good, that way there would be no way out for the villains.” Bakugo said, crackling explosions.

“Deku?”

“The green haired one, the one you said was blind?”

“Oh that one… Why puppet?”

“I dunno, I don’t know them that well to understand their personal drama. Yet.”

“Fair enough.”

“It may sound hard but…” Clicking the side of his costume, Bakugo tossed out one of his grenades into the stairs, closing the door as a loud muffled boom was heard, Kamakiri and Tetsutetsu looked out the window as they saw some villains plummet down to the grounds below. “…With the bunch of dumbasses they’re sending our way, we’ll make it in one piece.”

FOREST INBETWEEN

As Izuku moved around, he looked back to where they had been coming from, it had been about a solid kilometer of nothing but trees for them, and according to Shoji they were almost out of the area, that, however, didn’t mean they were away from villains who had kept on popping up here and there. They had to be careful, since the many attackers of theirs were playing it just as quietly as they were, thankfully with Izuku’s hearing, Kendo’s incredibly sharp eyes and Shoji’s capability of covering multiple directions at once, the trip so far had been much smoother than any of them anticipated originally.

Sero’s tape had come in handy, as it sometimes didn’t even need anyone but him to take action, as he was taping up villains left and right. It was an effective system, but it was making them concerned, because it’s obvious they must’ve noticed a few of their knocked-out partners by now, they must be trying to get range or working their best in hiding themselves.

“How much longer?” Sero asked, hanging from a tree while looking around.

“About 150 meters, but it’s too quiet in the area.” The Dupli-Arm Boy said, his eyes checking the for any source of noise. “It’s making me uncomfortable.”

“That is bad…” Yanagi commented, she too found herself on top of a tree while looking at her surroundings. “…For all we know they’re sneaking from behind, but with the absolute silence and environment, how could we tell?”

“This is why I don’t really like stealth fights in forests… Everyone gets to be sneaky buggers with no issues” Sero muttered, dropping to ground level as Yanagi falls on his arms, letting him put her down as they began advancing.

“I don’t want to say we’ve beaten all of them, because we certainly haven’t… but it’s weird, if they were behind us they would’ve strike us by now, and if they’re in this final stretch then we probably would’ve noticed their shadows.” Izuku muttered, his eyes looking everywhere for anything in the slightest.

“Should we-…”

As Kendo spoke, the arm of Shoji reaching to her made everyone come to a stop, all eyes turned to where he pointed as they hid behind the trees, all before a mouth formed in one of Shoji’s limbs, softly speaking to everyone.

“There’s three in the following row of trees… They’re hiding the best they can.”

“I’ll go.” Izuku muttered, he grabbed onto the tree softly as he prepared himself, but suddenly he felt something come upon him. “Ken…zaki.”

“Yes?” The woman turn to him, looking at him curiously.

“How exactly do your cards work?”

“It’s a… very specific thing in my genetic, I’ll explain you later, but the cards are basically useless if it’s not me using them.” She told him, her eyes looking around for anything. “Go-…”

Crunch!

“…did you hear that?” Izuku asked, confused as he turned to Shoji.

“…yes but…” The boy’s eyes narrowed. “…It came from where they are.”

“You don’t mean…”

Izuku began rushing forward the most quiet he could, getting to the tree where they stood as he slowly peeked into the area, his eyes being met with nothing but complete silence from everyone. He looked around as he checked everywhere, he walked forward just a little as he suddenly heard something, a dripping noise of something  falling on his cheek.

“…” He didn’t have to touch it, a simple sniff of it brought him memories of all sorts as his mind remembered the hundreds of times he’s caught this scent, and the other dozen times he’s had to drink it. It was blood.

Izuku’s eyes looked up as his hand slid across the trunk, he felt himself touching something viscous, making him shut his eyes close as he kept on trailing his fingers across it, soon enough another drop of blood fell on his cheek, making him open his eyes as he saw it in the cup of the tree, the one scenario he ever feared to witness. Drying skin wrapped around the branches, the skinned and mangled corpses hanging from the cup of the tree and the honeycomb pattern scattered across it, with gouged eyes stuffed within such pattern. It was The Tree.

“…They’re here…” His voice was terrified, and Shoji heard it.

“I think they-…”

“They’re not the villains… But whatever you do, do not look at the tree I’m next to.” Izuku said, moving his hand off the trunk as he moved aside enough, seeing the dripping blood fall to the ground as the grass around the tree became a crimson red. “Please, listen to me on it.”

“…”

Sero used some tape to cover his eyes, while Yanagi simply lifted her mask over her eyes, both were held by Shoji and Kenzaki, being pulled forward across the field by both. Izuku looked at Shoji, his eyes were looking at him as he noticed the tree, seeing his eyes shoot wide as horror began to take over them was the worst thing he’s ever had to witness, but seeing Kendo only gain an angry look as she clenched her jaw said a lot about this. She too knew, she knew what this meant.

“…Who…?”

“…T-This has gotten worse…” Izuku muttered.

DANGER!!!

Izuku’s body contracted at this, the straining headache crushing his very being as he almost fell to his knees.

“N-no…! Nononono!!” He panicked, clutching onto his head, he looked towards the concerned classmates of his. “WE HAVE TO GET TO THE EXIT OF THE USJ! NOW-…”

But his eyes didn’t see them, they were actually met with a humanoid creature wearing armor. One whose body looked similar to an eagle.

“Pleasure meeting you, Agito.”

All they could hear was screaming, their eyes looked at this in horror as the waters beneath their boat kept on being filled with bubbles of panic, a few of the villains tried climbing the boat, but some weird thing got a hold of them, crushing their bones before pulling them into the depths of the Flood Zone. Out of fear, their bodies fell back into the boat, they could only cover their mouths as the popping bubbles of their screams continued bursting and bursting nonstop, it was endless to them as they felt like they were going insane.

Tsuyu covered her ears while trying her best to not hyperventilate, her mind didn’t even want to imagine what was going on down there, it didn’t want to think, it wanted to move on and ignore everything going, and yet, the moment those noises came to an end, she couldn’t help but gain curiosity. She cursed her mind for even thinking that, she cursed everything as she and Tokage slowly stood up from where they lay, their eyes slowly peaking out of the edge of the boat before they widened in horror.

Where Tokage covered her mouth, Tsuyu felt tears coming out of her eyes due to the disgusting sighting in front of them, which was a ball of flesh made out of the compressed corpses of all the villains that were surrounding them, their gear floating right next to the writhing mass of flesh covered by one thing that tries its best to hide the disgusting sighting. The skin from their faces.

Aizawa had frozen in battle, his eyes looking towards the boat as a villain went to hit him, but Vlad quickly stepped in and kicked him off his partner.

“What the hell are you doing?!” Vlad King yelled at him.

“Yes Eraser Head… What’s making you stop?” Tomura asked him, glaring at him before seeing it in the distance, his eyes widening. “What the?”

“…They’ll come for those things…” Aizawa’s eyes looked towards the towering beaked creature, yet to move since its arrival. “…everyone IF YOU WANT TO LIVE, YOU MUST GET OUT OF HERE! NOW!!”

“W-What are you..?” Vlad King didn’t understand, why did his work friend say this?

“PULL BACK THAT DAMN SMOKE GUY, HAND MAN! IF YOU DON’T GET OUT OF HERE, THEY’LL KILL EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU!!” The panic in Aizawa was tangible, not here, not right now! Not when so many students were present!

“…” Tomura stood there, a certain part of him stinging, then his eyes widened. “…They’re here…”

Aizawa’s eyes widened, but before he could do much, from the very top of the USJ, a shadow appeared, his eyes looking up to it along with everyone else at the Central Plaza as their eyes widened.

Fwoosh!

“EVERYONE GET TO COVER!!!!” Aizawa’s yell echoed through the entire USJ, but before he could even be followed by most, he saw a distant explosion coming from between the Landslide and Mountain Zone. “MIDORI-…!”

BWOOOOOM!!!

The rooftop of the USJ bent inwards, the loud explosion that followed stopped everything on its tracks as metallic shards of the rooftop flew all across the place, fragments crashed onto the Central Plaza as dust and sunlight broke through, the waters of the Flood Zone grew as turbulent as ever while some of the nearby trees collapsed under the relentless wind, any and all eye capable of seeing this were focused on the sighting. Fights came to a complete standstill halfway through the punch as all eyes could only stare at the middle.

Amongst the dust and chaos, was Eraser Head and Vlad King. The Blood Hero having used his own quirk to create a barrier between them and the detonation, he barely managed to save the two of them from being sent flying like many other villains that were near them, specially the unconscious bodies. Apart from them was Tomura who was standing well, his eyes looking at the Nomu he brought with him as it took the full force of everything, leaving pieces of metal incrusted across its body as they were expelled out by the regeneration.

“…what the hell…?” He looked confused, shocked even at what had happened just now, he couldn’t make sense of it at all as the Nomu moved aside, letting him see what stood in the middle of where the fountain once was.

“…Such horrid beast…” The voice brought Tomura memories, his body freezing as he looked up front to the creature in front of the Nomu. “…Have this people truly reached a point of hatred for our Lord?? How could it be that such cruel and nefarious act was performed by such sinners!??! HOW DARE ALL OF YOU USE A RESTING LIFE TO BE YOUR NECROTIC PUPPET!?!?!”

“…oh no…” Tomura didn’t need to know more, his skull ached, it wanted to break out and scream, and it wanted to get things done now, yet all he could do was listen as the Unknown Lifeform’s wrath became tangible in the form of torrential winds.

“LET THERE BE NO MORE MERCY ON THE ACCURSED HEARTS ENSLAVING HIS HUMANITY HE DEEPLY LOVES!! FOR IN THIS DAY, IN THE NAME OF OUR LORD, I DECLARE WAR ON THE MAKERS OF THESE ABHORRENT BEASTS!! AND ANYONE WHO EVEN DARES TO USE THEM!!”

“T-this violent shaking!” Tokoyami panicked, looking around the raining waters in a panic.

“Have the heroes arrived??” Ibara wanted to be hopeful along with her classmates, but even she felt like something was off about this.

“What’s going on outside…??” Ojiro yelled out, panicked as Manga stuck close to him with worry deforming found in his bubble.

“T-the dome…!” Yaoyorozu couldn’t help but be shocked, her eyes staring at the destruction.

“Careful!!” Kaibara stepped in, drilling through the weapon of his opponent before knocking them out. “We have to get out of here now! Whatever arrived down there is far from good news!”

“Reinforcements??” Honenuki worried, it couldn’t have gotten this bad for the villains, could it?

“…No, this is something else…” It was all Hagakure muttered, her heart striking her with emotions she’s only ever felt when she saw one individual in her life.

“D-Did a bomb just go off?! Where did that come from?!?” Kirishima yelled out, looking at the sudden destruction alongside with everyone else.

“No… That was something…!” Monoma yelled out, gaining a confused and shocked look from most.

“Tomura Shigaraki…!” The mist villain said, its eyes widening at this as the students and Pro Hero near him didn’t even do much more other than stare.

“I-Is that another villain??”

“Where did it come from??”

“There’s no way you asked for reinforcements at such time!!” Rin mocked the mist villain.

“You’re not making sense… Why would we need reinforcements when we have a weapon capable of killing the Symbol of Peace??” The yell from it made them freeze, their eyes looking at the mist villain as it began vanishing away. “Something is wrong, out of our control even!”

“…a-a new villain…?” Komori said, her eyes were showing terror to the reveal.

“…Signal!” Thirteen said, her eyes widening as she quickly got into her communication device. “I got signal!!”

“That’s great news! We must-…!” Iida couldn’t even finish his words when Thirteen began to behave desperately. “…Teacher?”

“…Be fine…!” She said, trying to communicate as desperately as possible. “Please, please, please!! Be fine, Senpai!!”

“Thirt– AGI–…!” The signal was a mess, but she was able to reach out and hear Aizawa’s voice, making her calm down slightly as the signal suddenly picked up properly. “GET DOWN!!”

Another explosion followed, a shockwave that sent everyone back and those in the stairs slamming onto the entrance door. Their eyes widened in shock at this as they stood up, finally, with a clear signal, the Space Hero managed to hear his Senpai speak through.

“TO ANYONE WHO CAN HEAR ME! I REPEAT!! THERE ARE UNKNOWN LIFEFORMS IN THE USJ FACILITY! I REPEAT, UNKNOWN LIFEFORMS AT THE USJ!! RUN THE ALARM, NOW!!!” Aizawa’s screaming wasn’t desperate, more than it was panicked, the torrential winds continued breaking through his communicator as the students looked confused at this.

“…We’re leaving!” Thirteen yelled at them, standing up and turning to the door, managing to open it automatically. “Students, you must not look back and move out of here! Now!!”

“M-Miss Thirteen! What’s going on?? What did…?”

“IF ANYONE CAN HEAR ME! THIS IS NOT A DRILL! EVACUATE THE MAIN BUILDING!! UNKNOWN LIFEFORMS HAVE MADE CONTACT IN THE USJ!! I REPEAT!! EVACUATE THE MAIN BUILDING!!” Thirteen’s yells, compared to Aizawa, were more worried about the situation. None of the students could realize it yet, but right now, this had gone from some small attack to a Global Threat and battle without precedent.

BWEEEEEE~!!!!!

The alarms from the main facility blared with such strength, even from the outside of the USJ they could be heard, birds began flying off in a hurry at the desperate noise as chaos began to unfold all across the school. It was mayhem unlike anything anyone knew, and that was well known by most.

“Miss Thirteen.” A voice came through the communicators, one that none of them were familiar with. “This is Ozawa from the G3 Unit. We’re on our way there, assure the safety of students before our arrival, please stay were you are, we are tracking your location and making our way to you.”

“What is… going on…?” Mina asked, her mind was becoming overwhelmed by everything happening around the facility.

“This is what an Emergency looks like…” Thirteen answered, her eyes looking back inside. “…And you’ve not even seen half of it.”

“OUGH!!”

“GAH…!!”

“BWAACK…!!”

It was so sudden, but the moment it appeared, it took all of them down to the ground, Yanagi and Sero had fallen alongside the ones pulling onto them as they uncovered their eyes, letting them see the shocking sighting of the creature as it grabbed Izuku and slammed him onto the trunk of the tree.

Breaking out of his opponent’s grip, Izuku rolled away as its punch tore open the tree, leaves shaking off and flying everywhere as the greenette went in for a gut punch, the problem here is that the Eagle Unknown allowed itself to be punched, taking the force of the greenette before gripping onto his arm and slamming him onto the split open tree, where he could only grunt out in pain before being thrown at Shoji, who caught the limp green eyed boy.

“…D-Dammit…! I knew we had to kill them…!!” Izuku said, trying to bear with the moment as he gets off Shoji and glares at his opponent. “…You shouldn’t be focused on me… You should be killing that thing!”

“Perhaps, but I can’t let a chance such as this one slide out of my hands.” The Eagle Unknown delivered its message; it’s sharp beak restructuring itself into a smile. “Putting a stop to you is just as important as this, and well, what’s the problem if we let a few of those sinners live? Soon enough our people will hunt them down and no trace but the smudge of blood they’ll become will be left.”

“…You’re the one responsible for all those trees, aren’t you??” Izuku yelled at him, he was beginning to find some anger within him wanting to explode outwards.

“Oh? You mean those the Police Force has been documenting?” The Eagle Unknown said, it’s eyes narrowing upon the Agito in front of him. “Sorry, but you’re confusing my brother’s masterful job with mine, and such disrespect of his talent cannot be allowed.”

“…” ‘A-Another member of his tribe did it…? I-Is it a Higher Rank?!’ Izuku didn’t even have time to think of that further, as the voice of the Dupli-Arms user snapped him out of it.

“Midoriya… What the hell is this guy…??” Shoji asked him, he was only punched once, but he felt as if his organs had been moved due to the power of such a blow, and no matter what he did, the villain stood its ground. “Is that “they” that you meant earlier?? What is this?!”

“Please, Mezo Shoji, do not question such matters in an important time.” The boy’s eyes widened, not expecting it to know his name at all, but it did terrify most of them realizing that maybe compared to prior opponents, these ones knew them.

“It doesn’t matter… this just became matters much beyond everyone!” Izuku said, getting in position. “I’m going-…”

GRIP!

“KUH!”

The greenette felt as the Unknown began choking him, throwing him around as it didn’t even let him stand, it began punching Izuku relentlessly as his blood was smeared all across the trees around, once he got a chance to block, the greenette barely had time to recover control over himself as he began to trade blows with his opponent, and for as much as he felt them make contact, he could tell they were barely hurting it.

Slammed onto the ground in an unexpected fashion, the greenette did his best to not begin losing his body pieces, baring with everything thrown at him the best he could, but his human body could only struggle to manage such tasks. The more he was struck, the less he could think straight, but he had to fight back in some shape or form. Stopping its fist, the greenette hit his opponent’s knee before beginning to punch its throat with all strength, proving effective as it began gagging under its own spit before being kicked straight into the stomach by the greenette. Just anyone time to regain himself and get his train of thought back and running the proper way.

“…You three have to get out of here! Now!” Kenzaki exclaimed, her eyes looking at the students as she stood up.

“W-What?” Yanagi’s concerned look said it all for them, she was heading into suicide.

“Your safety matters above all, and Midoriya-san is making sure to keep all of you safe until you get out of here!” She took out her deck of cards, looking at the students. “This isn’t an option! Is an order!”

“But-…!”

“It came here to kill everyone in this facility! We cannot allow it to get out of here and it’s clearly not the only one!” Taking out a card with a mechanical Jaguar, the woman prepared herself. “Plus, you’re not too keen on the idea of killing… and right now the option of knocking out is completely out of the option.”

“…” Sero’s eyes looked towards Izuku, who kept on fighting the Unknown with whatever strength he could muster, yet it was very clear who had the upper hand in such a fight. “…so this is what you mean, huh…”

 “Go! Now!” Biting onto the metallic card, breaking winds surrounded Kenzaki as she took off at blinding speeds, flying like a bullet as the words of the card were seen briefly. Those being MACH.

BAANG!

The Unknown was sent tumbling back, slamming onto a tree much to the greenette’s shock, who turned towards the orange haired woman.

“How did you…??”

“I’m going to explain myself later! I told you! Right now we have to-…”

Their bodies dropped to the ground, above them flew the edge of a sword as it cut down the trees in front of them, their eyes widening as they had to jump out of the way of the falling trunks. Izuku and Kendo looked at this, their eyes faced towards it once more as they saw the Eagle Unknown holding an Nodachi sword on his hands, their opponent’s range had just gone from close quarters to a perfect three-meter radius.

“…I hate this…!” Izuku muttered.

Standing up and rushing at his opponent who quickly swung the blade towards him, having no other option, the greenette leaped above it before kicking the Nodachi down, but that barely saved him as he rolled across the ground, crawling the final stretch before spinning himself off the ground and landing some kicks on his opponent.

Kendo didn’t hesitate, running towards them as she too took leap an landed a few flying kicks onto her opponent’s side, hurting it as well. Izuku looked at her for a moment, his mind puzzled by her successful action as he tackled her to the ground, barely saving her from the Nodachi’s sharp edge as it tore through the trees.

“D-don’t focus on protecting me! I’ll be fine!” The woman told him.

Throwing him off her as she stood up, using the Mach Jaguar card to block the incoming blade, on impact causing a sonic boom that sent her tumbling. Izuku got off the ground as he rushed towards the Unknown, hitting its knee before striking all over its chest before delivering two blows straight into its beak, making it grunt in pain to the sudden increasing force of the greenette.

Kendo looked at her card, seeing it bent a little much to her concern, but it quickly recovered itself as she put it back on her deck. She looked off it as she stared upwards, seeing Izuku stop her opponent’s attempt to stab him before he was kicked on the knee, making him loose balance as the Nodachi stabbed onto his shoulder before cutting him diagonally through the chest as multiple miniature explosions came through, making the greenette scream out in pain as he stumbled backwards.

Kendo’s eyes widened at this, a knot tightened around her neck as a memory from a distant past came forth in the form of a snowy day where the descent to her current fate began. She looked at this as her heartbeat intensified, even if just for a second, but she felt as her body responded to her without even needing anything but herself, that card on her hand began channeling a soft blue light, quickly imbuing her arms as she got a hold of it. Turning it over, the weapon in her hand showed to have silver and blue colors to it, while it’s handle would be awkward to most, for someone who has been one with her weapon for over a century it doesn’t mean anything, the blade itself had gold etched across its sides with engravings scattered across it as one thing could be seen on the front of the handle.

A spade.

“MIDORIYA-SAN!!”

Running at her opponent, the air around her became intoxicating like the atmosphere of a concert, with her loud heart reforming its beating into a powerful Drum and Bass.

“HAAAH!!!”

Jumping at her opponent, the woman slashed right through the tip of the weapon, shattering it much to the shock of both the Unknown and Izuku, who stared at this with certain disbelief in his eyes. But he didn’t have time to react as with powerful swings behind her, Kendo managed to slash the Eagle Unknown, cutting it across it as light began shining out of its body, the greenette’s eyes shot wide in disbelief at what he was looking at while holding onto his injury.

Striking the injury of her opponent, Kendo saw the Unknown stumble backwards and into a tree, were it held onto its injuries desperately. The orange haired woman turned towards Izuku, grabbing him and lifting him up as she saw his injuries slowly healing back up. The other three hadn’t moved from their spot, simply looking at the ongoing chaos distant from them as their eyes were filled with shock and awe, the ever-loud noise emanating from Kendo echoing throughout their ears.

“Rest up, I’ll end this.”

“N-no…!” Izuku said, grabbing onto her, part of him still couldn’t believe it, but he couldn’t help but feel a rush of dopamine building up. “…I’m not going to let someone fight alone. Not when I can still move.”

“…” The woman smiled at him. “Then don’t die on me, got it?”

“…Yes!!!”

The Eagle Unknown held onto itself, its eyes looking at its now shattered weapon with confusion in his eyes. Somehow this human in front of him managed to not only fight him but break his Nodachi which slowly turned to rust on the wind, it turned towards the two opponents of it, and all it was met with was a dual kick straight to the chest, sending it flying right through a tree and into a more open patch of grass, leaving its body to throb at the sudden pain.

Izuku and Kendo approached him, the greenette still clutching to his healing injury and the orange haired woman tightening her grip around her weapon. The two suddenly took a stance, their jade green eyes sparking at the same time as their heartbeats nearly felt synchronize. The heat of battle had won them over.

“…You damn Agito…!!” Standing up, the Eagle Unknown stretched its body out as its claws expelled outwards. “I’ll rejoice gutting you open!!”

Running at each other, a ferocious combat began breaking loose between the Eagle Unknown, Izuku Midoriya and Itsuka Kendo, each one trading blows in a two on one scenario that seemed more matched than it seemed one-sided, but that was good news for everyone present. Sero, along with Shoji and Yanagi, looked at the scene in shock as they saw the brutal hand to hand combat displayed by the greenette taking this battle as serious as any other he’s ever truly been a part of, all while Kendo wielded the weapon she manifested upon her hands in some shape or form, all as they opponent tries ripping them, barely shredding through their clothes.

Both sides of the fight were relentless, delivering blows that destroyed their surroundings, slashing through skin and fabric as blood of Izuku scattered across the place while the Unknown could only have more light emanating from his body the more he was tore through him, Kendo on the other hand seemed intact, most of the damage on her was merely at her clothes, and everything that landed on her seemed to be just scrapes of damage, none of them knew why or how this was, but it certainly was leaving it clear to them.

Izuku and Kendo, even if fighting for the first time together, are a perfect union.

“UGWACK…!!” Izuku had tried to kick down his opponent but was met with the claws stabbing onto his chest and slamming him onto the ground.

Taking advantage of this, he gripped onto the ground beneath him as he tightened the grip of his legs around the Unknown’s arm, letting Kendo jump over and bring down the blade in a scream. All that followed was a howl of pain and a blinding light emanating from where its elbow once was, the greenette ripped the talons off himself as his body began healing the injuries faster thanks to adrenaline, giving him a weapon of sorts as the Eagle Unknown kept on stumbling backwards.

“IKUSEEE!!!” Kendo yelled out.

Slashing her opponent’s back as the greenette scratched it across its face, the Eagle Unknown could only scream as sparks flew everywhere, light emanating from its face as Izuku saw the arm beginning to vanish, that made him grab onto its talons and rip them off the hand before pocketing them, hoping to give them use another time. Turning around towards his opponent, the greenette pummeled its beak, feeling it shatter under his strike as it caved into itself as the jade eyed woman dropped down and slashed the back of its kneecaps.

Kendo backed out as the greenette sent the Eagle Unknown backwards, letting him arrive at Kendo who didn’t hesitate to slash its back again, forcing it towards Izuku who met him with a strike to the chin and back to Kendo. She followed with a slash, him with a punch and sometimes they broke it off by kicking their opponent as he kept on bouncing back and forward between them.

The eyes of the three Class A and B witnesses widened further than they already were, as soon enough it was becoming a blur, all they were seeing was the enemy bouncing around like a spring while the only other thing they could bear witness was the shoulder movement of Izuku and Kendo as their arms became speed lines and endless slash storms while sparks flew everywhere. Soon enough two stopped, hitting their opponent to the side where it stumbled around before falling to its knees.

It's body was a mess, destroyed and deformed before recognition so much so that it was impossible to believe it once resembled an Eagle.

Izuku and Kendo just stared at him, each one getting in one final stance as it stood up, its eyes filled with indescribable hatred towards its opponents. The greenette took the stance, pulling his right arm towards his abdomen while crouching down slightly, the air of his mouth releasing golden sparks as the jade eyed woman flipped her weapon, its blade pointing towards the ground, crouching down enough to stab down her weapon into the ground as the Unknown rushed towards them in a final desperate attempt, a mysterious wind current detonated around them as a distant noise from times forgotten echoed around them.

“ORYAH!!”

“HEEAAAH!!!”

The two leaped at the Eagle Unknown who only increased his speed, Izuku and Kendo fired their legs forward like bullets as internally they yelled out the same thing.

‘RIDER DOUBLE KICK!!’

It’s speed halted in the moment of impact, the force of both attackers completely shattered its momentum as the Eagle Unknown was lifted off the ground and sent flying out of the combat zone and into the proper road of the building. As they landed on the ground, Izuku and Kendo stood there, the greenette performing his slow turn as Kendo ripped her sword off the ground, waving off any dirt in it as the halo appeared on top of the Unknown’s head, crackling and expanding, its cracks expanding further as it followed after.

BOOOOM!!!

Izuku fell to one knee, taking in a deep breath as he felt the remaining pieces of his injuries heal up, but his clothes were a tattered mess, he looked towards Kendo who groaned at seeing the condition of her Hero Costume, her corset having been torn open as gashes could be seen basically everywhere of it.

“There goes the costume…”

“I feel you…” Izuku muttered, smiling at the jade eyed woman.

The two looked at one another, all they did was grant each other a thumbs up in assurance of their victory.

KRAKOOM!!!

The distant noise of destruction was heard, their eyes could barely see in the chaos going on in the Central Plaza, but they could tell that place had become a bloodbath already. They needed him right now.

“…I should get my Buckle back sooner or later if I’m going to be dealing with your problems too…” Kendo muttered, gaining a confused look from Izuku. “You know what I told you, but you should go, I’ll make sure they get back safely…!”

“…” Turning around, the greenette saw as the three approached them, their eyes still trying to make sense of what was going on. “…just make sure they’re in one piece, if not Aizawa will not let me live this down…”

“Yeah, sounds like it.” Kendo chuckled at his words, seeing as her weapon vanished into the card on her hand, that being one with a metallic lizard with a giant sword tail, the word on its side being SLASH. “Go, time to do your job the Kamen Rider way.”

“W-Wait… do you mean…?” Sero couldn’t even finish his words as the greenette smiled, nodding at him.

“Yeah… maybe I should’ve gone for General Education instead of the Hero Course, huh.” The greenette told him, laughing at himself. “You three, promise me to not tell a soul.”

“…” All they could do was nod, Izuku took in a deep breath of relief while looking up front.

“Let’s…” His eyes suddenly widened, as in the distance he could hear something, that being sirens he was very familiar with. “…That’s…!!”

“G3 arriving at the scene!!”