In the viewing area, students gathered watching how the battle between No. 1 and No. 2 would go. Yoshiki was standing at the side along with Toru when a cold presence was felt. He looked beside him to see a guy half white hair and half... frozen in ice. Like, how does that not hurt him in anyway whatsoever? Ah right, ice powers, my bad.
"Who do you think would win?" he didn't even introduce himself and went straight to the point. This guy is their opponent in this Battle Trial so he went back to watching
When Yoshiki stayed silent, he tapped him which prompted him to look again and answered after thinking about it.
"You are here to gauge out the enemy right? Are you scared because I was No. 3? Huh? No-named boy." he taunted right at the start, this too was him trying to gain advantage in the upcoming session.
This made Toru who was at the side gawk at his audacity. Todoroki was stunned at first but then nodded as if he finally understood something.
"Is that so? Do try to last at least a few minutes later, alright?" saying this, he walked back towards a tall muscular guy with tentacles for arms. It was a disgusting amalgamation of everything wrong in a human's biology. He blinked when he realized that one eye was looking directly at him. He raised his eyebrow as it shifted into a person's hand.
"Do you really think hyping them up was wise?" asked Toru who was pinching him in the side.
"That tickles, Toru."
...
(Outside the building)
"So, Deku-kun! What's the plan?"
"You go through the side, I will confront him directly. He'll surely come straight for me."
As he says this, loud explosions rang out as it got closer.
"Go now, Uraraka-san!"
He went to Full Cowling right at the start, in case he gets surprised and rushed inside while Uraraka rushed through the side.
As he went inside, he could hear constant explosions as if something or someone is closing in.
He ran in, trying to intercept, as Bakugo is quite vulnerable during blasts where his hands were at his back.
He stopped and looked around to see—
'No one?!'
He was suddenly blasted back into the opposite wall from an explosion. The wall cracked as he slumped down trying to shake off the ringing in his ears.
"Urgh..." he struggled to stand, he was already out of his Full Cowling. He looked around to see if he was mistaken and was hit via ambush but there really wasn't anyone there.
"...a timed explosion..?" It was the only logical explanation to this phenomenon.
He left trails of his nitroglycerin sweat knowing they are the first to enter and left a trap that only someone who knew him well would fall for.
"How annoying." Izuku groaned then started running up the building cautiously just in case there are more of those.
'I hope Uraraka-san is fine...'
How wrong he was.
...
"Shouldn't we take her to the medics..?" Iida, full of worry in his face asked the blonde dude who was standing over a girl whose uniform seemed scorched and has visible injuries all over her.
"Tsk, shut up. Can't you see she's not done yet?"
Said girl was struggling to stand even when she knew she could not win.
"W-We... will... win... f-for sure..!" she couldn't even stand properly. She was pretty banged up. She'd been like this since earlier, and everytime Katsuki kept blasting her back. He could've knockes her out already but was wary of her Quirk. It seemed she could remove the gravity of everything she touches.
[That's... scientifically, that is very dangerous.
Let's get realistic here, okay? This is from an academic point of view. Earth rotates at up to a thousand miles per hour. That is like 1.3 mach in equivalent? To put into perspective, the speed of sound travels at around mach 1. If somebody were to suddenly lose their gravity, they would not "float" but rather, they'd be flung off from Earth. Do you understand how fucking crazy that is? Zero Gravity my ass, her power just makes things float, that's it. And for those saying "Well, technically gravity still exists around them, only their gravity was removed so there's still something pulling them back down." Fuck. You.
Anyways, back to the story.]
At the viewing area.
"All Might-sensei, isn't that dangerous? Shouldn't we stop him?"
"Y-Yeah! He's gonna kill her at this point!"
"She's already done, she should just give up!"
At this, All Might just stayed silent, which made the students fuss more.
Thankfully, our resident handsome, cool, and very smart Yoshiki is here.
"She hasn't given up yet, who are you to say that she's already done?"
His words made the others look at him with varying eyes. Some are judging, some are understanding, and some were... well, they don't care.
"If you guys can't even handle that much, then maybe you should just drop off. Seriously, we are in U.A., if something were to happen, the school would intervene, do you see them intervening?" he gestured to All Might, and then some stationed medical staff standing not far from them.
"Do you guys already forgot what Aizawa-sensei told us?"
All of the students stayed silent, he looked them in the eyes. Seeing as they're not refuting, he turned back to the monitor.
"..I just hope you know what you are doing, Katsuki... did you already forget?" he whispered in a low voice which caught the attention of Toru who looked at him in question which he just shrug off.
Back at the building.
Izuku was already at the last flight of stairs and reached the room where the nuclear bomb was stationed. He tiptoed around a corner, already smelling the scent of the nitroglycerin. He was wishing that nobody was around but could already hear faint sounds of voices in the room further away from his position.
As he came around to look, what he saw shook him to the core. All of buried memories from the past suddenly came crashing in his mind.
The smell of burning flesh, the smell of copper that stays in your nose, the shouting.
"You can't go there, kid!"
"Ojiro-sensei! Mashirao! Seniors!"
"Stop, kid! Stop!"
For a moment, it wasn't Uraraka who he saw at the ground. It was a friend of long buried memory that continued to persist in his dreams.
"Ma...shirao..?" his voice echoed around the room which made Iida and Katsuki whip around.
They went into stance once they saw him, but he didn't do anything to defend himself. Rather, he walked slowly towards Uraraka.
Katsuki could've stopped him but he was forced to a stop once he saw the state Izuku was in. For some reason, he couldn't bear to move at all. Iida himself seemed rooted to the ground.
'Move! Move, dammit!' he screamed into his mind.
He was shaking.
'Me? Scared..?'
He gritted his teeth and forced himself to move. In desperation, his body seemed to follow him. He blasted Izuku with all his might.
BOOOOOOOMMMMM!!!
Izuku crashed through multiple walls in succession, slumping far from them.
Silence filled the whole building except the falling of rubble from destroyed walls.
For a moment, nobody said anything until a crackle from the speaker interrupted the quiet.
(V-Villain Team wi—)
Right at this moment, a scream of somebody halted the announcement.
"RAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!"
At the far end of the broken walls, Izuku stood glowing green lights. His veins was also glowing in different colors. His eyes devoid of anything.
He suddenly vanished, followed by harsh winds. One moment, he was there, and another he was in front of Katsuki rearing up his arm for a punch.
Danger blared through Katsuki's body but he could not dodge nor block this.
He saw literal death approaching.
Memories started flashing before his eyes.
"I am gonna be the future No. 1 Hero!"
This memory brought him back to the present, but it was already late.
He tried anyways, as he backed away, he tripped on a rubble scattered around the ground. He fell on his butt allowing Izuku's fist to hit no one.
BAAAAAANNNNGGGGG!!!
The other side of the room was completely obliterated, casting light inside the building.
Katsuki was not spared, although he was not hit, the wind pressure from the strike carried him back almost throwing him out of the building but was caught in the last moment by none other than four eyes himself.
"Hold on, Bakugo!"
"Get away dumbass, you'll die!" shouted Bakugo as he dangled on one arm.
"I won't let go!" Iida insisted, even though Katsuki could just blast up anyways.
The only thing that gave them reprieve was the fact that Izuku, who was supposed to be in a berserk state was kneeling down in front of Uraraka.
It seemed even in this state, he was still a good boy through and through.
This reprieve didn't last though. He was already back at his fist looking at their position.
"Bakugo..?" asked Iida.
"Y-Yeah..?"
Iida gulped and then asked again.
"How far up can you reach with your blasts..?"
"...A lot? Why?"
"This is just an academic guess but... I think you should do it, like, right now."
Izuku was already in his stance. His hand was at his side, while the other covers it.
JAN—
KEN—
[Woah, woah, woah, you want us to go to jail, boy?]
(Doesn't apply to us Fanfiction Authors bro.)
[Really?]
(Yeah..?)
[...]
At this tense state of danger, a tired voice was heard echoing the room.
"Tsk, this is why I hate kids."
His eyes was glowing red and his hair floated up along with the bandages around his neck.
"RAAAAHHHH!!!!"
Izuku threw his punch, Iida already preparing for the worst. After a moment latter, nothing happened. He opened his eyes to see that... Izuku was face flat on the ground while Aizawa-sensei was already looking towards their side.
"Get up."
He just said that and sat on the ground saying things like how he doesn't get paid enough.
Moments later they were already at the care of the medical staff.
Other students were all discussing about what happened. They couldn't really see much after the explosion because smoke filled it. The next thing they saw was the building being destroyed and then the rest is history.
Villain Team still ended up winning. Izuku's state was the worst out of all of them. It turned out he used OFA to the fullest which his body couldn't handle. Recovery Girl said it will take some time to completely heal so Katsuki being the reason for his outburst was tasked to accompany him until he's fine.
They reallocated to another building and soon, the next group was deployed.