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Chapter 11
by Leviathan
What's next?
More explosions than a Michael Bay movie
Not three seconds had passed ever since All Might had declared the exercise officially started, and Izuku's head was already ringing with danger. This time, the pain was much less distracting, and so he could focus on what the ringing tried to tell him; he turned around to face a corridor that the two of them were about to reach, entering a rather unpracticed combat stance while the ringing got closer. The sound of an explosion down the hall told him exactly when to dodge aside.
"FOUND YOU, YOU DAMN NERD!!!"
The green-haired boy's arm shot towards Uraraka to shove her aside from the incoming rocket that Bakugo had nearly become, having forgotten that she didn't have his strange newfound reflexes until the last moment. Bakugo passed between the two of them, stopping himself with a couple of small explosions and turning around to meet them.
"I knew you would be plotting something by now. I'm not gonna give you any time to think, Deku! You're dead meat!" The blonde boy loudly yelled out with his grenade-like gloves open as wide as his arms were, giving him the look of an unhinged beast.
Izuku trembled a little at the sound of his voice. What can you even do? He remembered that same voice telling him. You're Quirkless! Truly useless and pointless to bother with, like a puppet with no strings! Just like the characters in your name. Deku, Deku, Deku. Over and over, those words would play in his head like a broken record during his darkest times. If you really wanna be a hero, hope you get a good Quirk in your next life, and take a swan dive off the roof!
His foot stomped the ground before him, causing a small crater around the tip of his shoe. The **** behind that seemingly Quirkless stomp didn't go unnoticed by Bakugo, who frowned at the lack of meekness coming from him. He was looking at Deku like he was a complete stranger, and Deku was looking at him like he truly was going to fight him.
"I'm not gonna be your punching bag any longer, Kacchan! If you're coming for me, I'll give this my best too!" He wasn't even done with his sentence when Bakugo was already blasting off in his direction. "THE FUCK DID YOU SAY TO ME, DEKU?!"
Yet, he was prepared. Bakugo always opened up with a strong left hook. It was his go-to move, and it would be his first mistake in this fight. Izuku's hand went straight for his left a fraction of a second before he'd even tried his attack, aided by his strange danger sense, and grabbed onto his arm with the grip of a strongman.
"Wha-?!" Bakugo had no time to process what happened. Izuku had grabbed onto his shirt, turned around with both hands holding him, and slammed him hard against the ground, leaving a shallow body-sized crater in his wake. The blonde boy had to desperately use some explosions to put distance between the two, shoving his bruised body against a wall just so he had some time to breathe - the attack had slammed all the air out of his lungs in one go.
koff koff... "W-Why, you...?! You were hiding this much power from me all this time?! ANSWER ME, DEKU!" koff koff koff-
The guy had seen better days. Izuku approached with the capturing tape in order to tie him up, but a blast of black energy cut into his arm from a connected hallway, making him wince and step back. Sakuya's voice came out of the other end of it, where the attack came from. "Aww, I thought I'd getcha with that one, but it was just a little cut. Come closer, creep, let me cut you up real quick~?" Bakugo retorted while he sat by his corner, still hacking up a lung. "Wha- I TOLD YOU TO koff STICK BY THE DAMN ROCKET YOU FOOL!"
"What, and miss all the fun? If you're captured, I'm not gonna do much against these two, we gotta stick together fam." Wait, if they were both here, then that meant...
"URARAKA!" Izuku yelled out, covering his bleeding arm with his other hand. The floating girl came as soon as he called, emerging from the hallway he shoved her into. "Make me float!" While she touched him, Sakuya emerged from the hallway, ready to shoot her lasers at them... only for Bakugo to throw her aim off as he blasted off towards the two, despite not yet being recovered. "I SAID I WOULDN'T LET YOU SCHEME, NERD!"
"I don't need to scheme..." Once his danger sense gave him the go-to, his leg shot towards the arm that was about to attack him, kicking it towards the ceiling as the blast created a large hole towards the next floor. "Y-You're doing all of this to yourself!" Another kick, this time aimed at his face, struck the Explosion Quirk user down, sending him reeling back to the ground.
Uraraka took Izuku's hand as he swung it upwards, making her go through the hole in the ceiling and into the next floor, before she pulled him up as well and canceled her Quirk, looking like she would puke any minute. "S-Sorry for making you so nauseous, but we gotta run!" A laser went flying just past her shoulder, merely grazing her a little; worried about the artillery taking potshots at them from below, she tried to crawl away with a hand on her mouth, but was barely making any distance.
It was do or die; embarrassment would only get them shot and make them lose the match. So, Izuku swallowed his own and ran towards her, picking her up in a princess carry before running for the stairs.
Bakugo lied on the floor, breathing heavily as blood leaked from his lip. "When... did that rock in my shoe... grow so annoying...?!" He got up with a couple of brief explosions, aiming one of his arms at the ceiling while his finger hooked around the pin on his grenade gauntlet.
"Oi, oi, stop that, those things are goddamn lethal! Do you actually wanna be a hero?!" Sakuya was clearly worried about what was about to happen, and about All Might not ending the exercise right here and now, but got away to find cover rather than stick around and find out.
"Cockroaches don't die that easily." A wicked smile took over his expression, his arm aiming not precisely towards the stairs, but just close enough that the explosion would catch Izuku at the edge, at least if his calculations were correct. "DIEEEEEEEEEEEE!"
The entire building was shaken by a massive explosion, breaking every window and pulverizing every floor and wall in a diagonal cilinder from Bakugo's position. Izuku and Uraraka had been slammed against a wall with tremendous ****, and the villain-protected "weapon" - read, a toy rocket - had been sent in the opposite direction, with the massive gaping hole in the floor resulting from the explosion creating a gap between the two.
"I know you're still up there, Deku!" The blond guy screamed as he shot himself through the holes until he reached that last floor they were at, with Sakuya hanging from one of his arms and being a bit bruised from suffering grazes from his explosions. "I still got another one of these with your name on it." His finger immediately hooked around the still-charged second gauntlet, aimed directly at him. His partner equally aimed her fingers at them, all of her nails painted a deep black. "I'd give up if I were you."
The green-haired boy was already close to his limit, feeling the massive adrenaline rush going through him and the increasingly fast heartbeat in his chest. This was the first time he'd been in a real fight with someone else, and the only reason he was still standing were his uncannily accurate premonitions of danger and his somehow reinforced body, with an honorable mention given to how much he's studied Kacchan's fighting style. His legs and arms were trembling, especially after getting slammed against the wall that hard and facing **** head on right here and now.
Yet, isn't this what All Might always did? How many times had he stared at these odds and surpassed them? He clenched his fists. Didn't he dash from one building to the other, when leaving Recovery Girl's office, in the span of seconds with just a few light bruises to show for it? Couldn't he just do that here? All it takes is a little flexing to activate One For All...
"Uraraka." She turned towards him, seeing him whisper while trying not to move his mouth. "Touch me." By the time Sakuya had even begun shooting at Uraraka to stop her, Izuku had already appeared on top of both 'villains', standing weightlessly on the ceiling with the legs of his hero outfit ripped to the knees. "RELEASE" Uraraka touched her fingertips together, letting Izuku's body be pulled by gravity again, even after a laser had cut into the back of her hand in retaliation.
All that Bakugo could see when he turned around was a sort of green flash of lightning, then little but debris and dust, as a massive wind shockwave sent him through the same hole he had made and into the lowest floor's ground. The resulting wind pressure kept him pinned down for more than enough time for Izuku to walk up to the rocket and lay his bruised-purple hand on it.
"DAMN IT-"
"TEAM A: HEROES WINS!" All Might's voice cut through his frustrated yelling.
What's next?
Harem Masters
A world where Harems actually exist.
Read about (or write about) the journey of the Harem Masters as they build up their harems to protect the world
Updated on Jan 3, 2025
by Artificial Artist
Created on Aug 1, 2018
by kin1041
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