He gets a good hit in, but...

Izuku closed in on Stain, watching him intently as Stain swung his blade. Izuku ducked, and let his momentum carry him under Stain's arm, and past him. "Tch!" Stain clicked his tongue, his other hand going for a knife. He swung the shorter blade, and Izuku managed to leap up.

"Detroit... SMASH!" Izuku roared, smashing his fist down, landing the blow right atop Stain's head. Stain went down, but still maintained the wherewithal to nick Izuku right in the thigh, shallow enough that Izuku didn't notice.

Izuku landed, and turned, just in time to see Stain lick his knife, just as he was about to leap for him again. Instantly, Izuku felt his body go limp and he crashed to the ground. "...blood... Your Quirk... It's a psychic type, isn't it? ..you use blood to establish a link between yourself and your intended victim, and that's how they end up paralyzed... Right?" Izuku asked, sharing his quick analysis aloud in hopes of stalling Stain, even if only a little. There were good odds the Quirk had some kind of time limit.

Stain smirked. "Impressive... you deduced that much from only one exchange of blows. Sadly, it's too late to do these two much good," he added, before turning and starting to walk towards Bakugo. "A lot of the so called Heroes in this day and age are all talk, but I think you're worthy of staying alive."

"Shit, move, damn it!" Bakugo cursed, still trying to get up so he could have another go at kicking Stain's ass. He was considering just detonating his sweat the moment Stain got close. Sine he couldn't move, he wasn't producing anymore, so he'd only have one shot with it, and he doubted it would be enough.

"Get away!" Izuku shouted at Stain, but then, flames suddenly erupted at the Hero Killer, forcing him to dodge again with a hiss.

"Midoriya. You need to be more detailed in your messages. Simply sending a location without context?" Todoroki drawled, his flames licking at his left side as he walked to stand between Stain and Bakugo. "You're lucky I realized you wouldn't do such a thing on a whim."

"...sorry Todoroki. I couldn't risk doing more with the Hero Killer in front of me, I barely managed that much on the sly," Izuku admitted. "Be careful! He can paralyze you by licking your blood! I'm not sure what his limit is!"

"...I see... that explains all the blades on him," Todoroki nodded, before taking a step with his right foot, and putting ice walls up between Izuku, Native and Stain. Stain glanced at them, and smirked.

"...keeping me from easily getting to others, and putting yourself as my only viable target? Risky," he mused, taking a step towards Todoroki.

"I'll take my chances. You want any of them? You'll have to go through me first," Todoroki stated, taking a stance. To his surprise, Stain started to laugh in delight.

"...man... perhaps society isn't quite as far gone as I thought... though I must still purge two fakes tonight, I am fortunate to see two with the potential to become real Heroes tonight," he admitted. "Fair enough, I'll just have to incapacitate you, kill Native and the one behind you, and I'll leave both you and the other one alive tonight."