Chapter 34: Situation Deteriorates

Recap:

Suijin's footsteps could be heard as the teenaged boy dashed off the mountain, not before shooting a shot into the air and piercing the roof, leaving glass falling close to their location to inform people nearby as to where she was.

His feelings of discomfort were maximized, he wanted to explain, the clothes were from the group that wanted to **** her.

Most of the blood was from the villain against whom he fought, it was unavoidable.

'But were the body's states necessary?'

He wanted to answer with a "yes" to explain that the drug made them more resistant and that it was a precautionary measure.

But his mouth didn't; instead, his legs chose for him. For him to run,

'It hurts.'

He wasn't a stranger to being a disappointment; many have placed their expectations on him only to be disappointed. He's let many down before.

But recalling her expression, somehow she's afraid of him, a feeling he's received from some discriminatory people.

It just felt thousands of times worse.

'Why'

Why was she afraid of him? Why did he run? Why didn't he explain? Why didn't she ask? W̶h̶y̶? W̶h̶y̶? W̶h̶y̶? W̶h̶y̶? W̶h̶y̶? W̶h̶y̶? W̶h̶y̶? W̶h̶y̶? W̶h̶y̶? W̶h̶y̶? W̶h̶y̶? W̶h̶y̶? W̶h̶y̶? W̶h̶y̶? W̶h̶y̶? W̶h̶y̶? W̶h̶y̶? W̶h̶y̶? W̶h̶y̶? W̶h̶y̶? W̶h̶y̶? W̶h̶y̶? W̶h̶y̶? W̶h̶y̶? W̶h̶y̶? W̶h̶y̶? W̶h̶y̶? W̶h̶y̶? W̶h̶y̶? W̶h̶y̶? W̶h̶y̶? W̶h̶y̶? W̶h̶y̶? W̶h̶y̶? W̶h̶y̶? W̶h̶y̶? W̶h̶y̶? W̶h̶y̶? W̶h̶y̶? W̶h̶y̶? W̶h̶y̶? W̶h̶y̶? W̶h̶y̶? W̶h̶y̶? W̶h̶y̶? W̶h̶y̶? W̶h̶y̶? W̶h̶y̶? W̶h̶y̶? W̶h̶y̶? W̶h̶y̶? W̶h̶y̶

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"Tch, this is what they sent to kill us, weaklings."

"C'mon! We've got to save the others. I'm worried about some of our classmates since they should also be fighting some villains wherever they were transported to."

"Go ahead if you want, I'm just going to murder that WarpGate motherf*cker!"

"Wa-Bakugo, don't you care about our classmates!"

"He's their exit and entrance, their backdoor; if he's down, they're all sitting ducks who can't do anything but be lambs to the slaughter."

'Yeah right, you may have killed my comrades, but your arrogance will cost your life.'

Behind the pair of boys arguing, a man with bloodshot eyes grabbed a knife and charged at them.

"But our classmates-"

But, as if he could already tell right when the knife was about to make contact, Bakugo stretched out a hand behind him and spread his palms out in front of his face.

*BOOOOOOOOM*

The building rattled as the previous criminal was thrown through a few walls and was instantly knocked unconscious suffering grave burns.

"If they were that weak, they would've died already. They faced the same entrance exam as us, they defeated or escaped from those weak robots who are stronger than these guys."

Looking around Bakugo spit on one of the villain's faces.

"Regardless of how weak I think they are, they can't have gotten into the best class in U.A without some ability."

"Yeah, that makes sense."

"Are you going to look for those D-Listers or fight?!"

Punching his fist together Kirishima replied, "If that's the case, let's take these villains down."

The duo jumped out the window, with Kirishima jumping being tossed by Bakugo somewhere far, immediately the ash-haired boy produced a large explosion sending him into the sky as he closely followed.

Surprisingly to any adult who would watch this on replay, the students had done much better than initially expected once reports of the situation had reached them.

The cases of everyone at the central plaza, a huge group, or Todoroki and Bakugo, number 1 and 2 in the class, defeating their opponents could have been somewhat expected, but the teamwork some showed was eye-opening.

…

"ON YOUR RIGHT!"

Jumping to the side and momentarily stopping his laser, Yuga just barely missed a claw-like hand swinging to where his head just was.

Instead, the criminal was met with a huge tail to the noggin, knocking him out due to the rattling of his brain.

"Merci mon ami à queue~Oh, please spread your legs."

(TL: Thank you, my tailed friend)

Choosing to believe the odd request, Ojirou immediately widened his stance.

And not a moment too late, as a blue beam went through the empty space and hit somebody's head that was trying to creep up through the ground,

"Thanks."

"~Oui"

The pair used their abilities to cover for their weaknesses; long-range villains were left to Yuga, who would barrage them with attacks.

When he was recovering or the villain had good defense, it was Ojirous time to shine, Putting his martial arts training and huge tail to use, which he swung around rather dexterously.

Together, the two racked up piles of bodies around them, all alive but injured.

"I SENSE THEM IN THIS AREA, THEIR BODY TEMPERATURE STANDS OUT IN THIS FIERY ZONE!"

But their battle wasn't over as the duo readied themselves for another onslaught of villains.

Similarly, in the rain zone, a surprising result of not just teamwork but a level head helped the pair of Tokoyami and Sato make it out and defeat villains on their way as well.

"DARK SHADOWN NOW!"

A shadowy bird-like monster materialized from Tokoyami's body. The boy was in the road with rain pouring over his head and artificial clouds blocking the sun from appearing on the streets below.

Standing in the middle of the metropolis area, he couldn't help but think,

'Thank god for the clouds or Dark Shadow wouldn't be half as useful as it currently was.'

But not allowing himself to be distracted, he focused, His quirk and intelligent companion, Dark Shadow, had separated from his body and flown upwards to the roof.

While that was happening, a dark tendril attached the boy to his quirk, akin to a black umbilical cord,

The shadow-like creature could clearly interact with reality as it grabbed the villain, who was "sneakily" stalking the boy and threw him off the four-story building and onto the ground.

Luckily for the criminal, he caught his bearing and landed safely, unfortunately for him, he landed right in front of a manhole in which the sugary demon wearing a yellow suit jumped out and knocked the guy unconscious,

Nodding, Tokoyami summoned his quirk into himself to regain his strength, then motioned for his friend to follow as they moved once again.

"Thanks." The boy with a human body and raven head spoke.

"It's fine Tokoyami; I should be thanking you. If I went with my original plan of barging around, who knows what would have happened to me."

The area they were in was one populated with criminals targeted for stealth, they tried to kill the boys from close, far, and at any range.

Fleeing once an opportunity was missed meant that oftentimes one of them acted as bait to lure out their opponents.

"Let's hurry, I have a bad feeling,"

…

"-Aizawa."

"SEN-"

*SHH*

Tsu put a hand up to her classmate, Mineta, whose small body with his purple ball-like mohawk hair was shaking.

Up ahead, their teacher, Shoto Aizawa, who had just been looking like a badass kicking all the villains, was now on the ground, the muscles from his elbow clear to see.

And a huge, buff, purple, bird-like monster was holding his face into the ground. The most disturbing part was the exposed brain, which made others think "that" was an experiment.

The horrifying thought begged the question, 'Were there more?'

Nobody wanted to, or could think of that right now though. The three helpless children who just defeated a shark-like villain at the cost of a few of Midorya's fingers were forced to watch this cruelty with their own eyes.

"You can erase people's quirks, which is a respectable ability, but there's nothing to it in the end. After all, when faced with overwhelming might, you may as well be quirkless."

'I need to keep their attention off the kids.'

Aizawa tried to stand up, fight, and buy time so that the villains wouldn't set their gaze on the children.

But even placing his palm on the ground and using it as a push-off point didn't help.

Instead, the thing holding him only increased its grip.

*Creek*

'He's snapping me like a twig…I should have been able to erase his quirk with a glance. In other words, this is his base power! He's damn near around All Might's level!!!'

*Crash*

The teacher's head made rough contact with the ground, and cracks appeared as blood dripped into the crevices of the earth.

"""!!!!!!!"""

A Purple Mist appeared in the middle of that scene.

"Shigakari Tomoura…"

"Kurogiri, if you're here, then is No. 13 dead?"

"IIncapacitated I'm afraid the students caught me off guard, and one of them slipped through when I was preoccupied."

Erie silence ran through as only the scratching of the light blue-haired man's neck with a hand covering his face could be heard.

"Our plans have crumbled—we can't win with tens of hero's coming at us…we lost; game over."

Silently, the scared purple-haired midget turned around to face the other two, whose heads were barely poking out of the water. Everyone's body was submerged to hide from the villain's sight.

"If they leave, then we are free ri-"

"In that case, let's take care of a few annoying buds and knock that No. 1 pride down a bit."

At a moment's notice when they were distracted the Handsy man had crossed the short distance and had arrived at the edge of the water where the children lay.

The hand that spelled the end for Aizawa was rapidly arriving at Tsu's face, The normally composed girl was frozen in fear as her life flashed in front of her eyes.

'Help!' was her only thought.

Just when she thought her face would deteriorate, the cold, rough hands did nothing to it.

The pale villain turned around to see glaring red eyes staring at him.

"Damn, you really are cool, Eraserhead."

'NoNoNo!'

Midoriya wasn't thinking, just like in that incident with the sludge villain, he moved before he could properly react.

But this time, he initiated that movement.

'When the teacher gets his eye contact cut, the man's quirk should instantly return, before that happens, I need to separate Tsu from the man!'

'Detroit SMASH!'

The green-haired boy called out his attack, which he'd stolen from All Might within his mind.

"LET…GO OF HER!!!"

"Nomu."

But it was not met with the usual wind blazing, instead, the unsatisfying feeling of punching into a pillow, one where you know you dealt no damage, was felt.

"Nice Punch, it looks like a smash, are you an All Might Fan?"

The horrible realization of why these villains would come here knowing All Might could appear, donned on the boy.

'This monster, He's the one made-'

"Meet our All-Might killer, now die!""

The hand once again strangled out, and the proximity was even closer, meaning there was no time to react even if he could get over the same paralyzing fear his classmate had felt.

*SHHHHNNNGGGG*

Faster than he saw, faster than the dumb, brained monster whose senses had been enhanced could perceive, faster than their ears registered.

'Something-'

A flash of light passed through the man's hand; a gaping hole was left in its wake; the ground was cut open; and blood spurted from the wound.

Though he was now saved, the number one thought in the young man's mind was, 'Who?'