Chapter 6: Chapter VI: USJ
Aizawa's normally dull expression became serious and he turned back towards the students, "HUDDLE TOGETHER AND DON'T MOVE!! Number 13, protect the students!"
The students collectively looked at the portal with scrunched brows and Kirishima asked, "What is that? Is this like that training pattern at the entrance exam?"
Aizawa put his goggles on, "Don't move! Those are villains!"
Sasuke narrowed his eyes at the black fog before they went wide. "It's you!"
"Eraserhead and Number 13, according to the teaching curriculum, All Might was supposed to be here, and yet..."
Sasuke's face contorted into a glare and his eyes turned from black to bright red. Ashido looked to her side and noticed Sasuke shaking, 'Is he scared? No... He's raring to go. Does he not see all those guys?! He'll get himself killed!'
The man covered in hands raised his head and spoke with a voice that radiated malice, "Where is he? We went through all this trouble and rusted up so many of us to bring along. You can't tell me... All Might, the symbol of peace, isn't here. I wonder if he'll show up if we kill the kids?"
His malice spread towards them like a toxic gas and all of the students tensed up and shook. Let alone Sasuke who didn't even notice it. He only somewhat registered anyone else coming out of the portal, his main focus was the man surrounded in black fog. 'This is what I've been training for... The sole purpose of exterminating you people off the face of the Earth!'
His muscles tensed and Mina froze, 'What should I do? There's no way he'll listen to me... But if he just jumps right in the middle of all those villains... He'll...' images of Sasuke bleeding out on the ground flashed through her mind and she clenched her fist.
Purple energy coiled around his legs, but his legs were swept from under him and he hit his head, knocking him out. Ashido had a tense face and gritted teeth, "We aren't on that level, idiot!"
Aizawa glanced back and nodded, "Make sure he stays like that so he doesn't get in the way," he jumped down the stairs and began to fight with the villains, 'For him to react like that... Does he have some prior grudge against one of these guys? If so then which one? They must be related to All for One!'
Some of the class glanced at Sasuke and Kaminari asked, "The hell did you do that for?"
She stood up, "Did you not see his legs? He was about to jump at them!"
Midoriya asked, "Sasuke was gonna try and fight?" memories went through his mind of the typical reserved Sasuke he was used to in middle school, "I don't think he'd do something rash like that."
She rubbed her head and looked away, "It's... It's something he would have to tell you guys himself."
Iida cut in, "Save it for later! Right now we have to evacuate!"
Kirishima looked on in silence, 'There's something bigger going on between those two.'
Ashido lifted Sasuke and Midoriya walked next to her, "Here, let me help," he wrapped his arm around his head while Ashido wrapped the other side and they made their way toward the exit with the rest of the class. Although they didn't get far and their view of the exit was blocked by the black fog that surrounded them.
"I'm afraid I can't allow that."
Aizawa looked up at the class, 'Shit! In the blink of an eye he... Seems like he's the one who poses the biggest threat.'
"Greetings, we are the Villain Alliance. I apologize for the presumption, but we took it upon ourselves to enter UA Academy, the base of heroes. In order to engage with Mr. All Might, the 'Symbol Of Peace,' we were wondering if we might be allowed the opportunity to extinguish him, you see."
Ashido loosened her grip on Sasuke's wrist, 'I think this is probably one of the guys Sasuke is after... Thankfully he doesn't seem interested in him though.'
The fog spread and almost enveloped them, but it shrunk back into the man's main body when Bakugo and Kirishima pulled off a tag team attack on him. Kirishima shouted, "Bet you didn't think we'd be able to do you in before you got the chance!"
"That was quite perilous," Number 13 warned them to get away, but no one was able to react in time to the man enveloping everyone and teleporting them to different areas in USJ.
Ashido tried to hold Sasuke as close and tight as she could, although she felt his body disappear from within her arms, and when the fog lifted she saw that he was nowhere to be seen. Her heart dropped and jolted her head left and right and everywhere else she could look, but he was nowhere to be seen. The only people around her were, Number 13, Uraraka, Shoji, Iida, and Sero.
Ashido's lips pursed, 'Ok, Mina it's cool. He's more than likely with some of the other classmates... Hopefully.'
In the flood zone, Midoriya fell from the sky into the water and concluded that the man's quirk was warping, but before he could get his bearings a villain appeared before him, "Oh, the chum has come!"
Midoriya instinctively tried to scream, but all the air left his lungs in the form of bubbles floating to the surface. The fish-like man mocked him before opening his mouth to chew him to pieces, but he was stopped by Tsuyu who kicked him while holding Mineta. She wrapped her tongue around Midoriya's abdomen and swam to the surface. Once she breached the water she swung Midoriya on board and tossed Mineta up. She got on herself, but then heard another splash and turned around to see Sasuke who landed in the water.
One of the villains also noticed Sasuke, "I'm not missing out on a meal this time!" and he swam toward Sasuke as fast as he could. All of the eyes of the trio went wide, "You gotta save him!"
She got on the railing and jumped off at an angle to maximize her jumping distance, and was almost in tongue-grabbing range, but the villain was much closer, 'I won't make it in time!'
Asui's tongue shot out to try and grab Sasuke from above, while the villain was about to bite him in half from below. Although in between all those disturbances, Sasuke's consciousness came back, and the first thing he did was grab the villain so tight that his ribs cracked. "Grah!"
Sasuke blinked a few times before releasing the villain, "You're not him... What happened? Where is he?!" Before he could understand his surroundings, Asui's tongue wrapped around him and he was on the ship moments later.
He stood up and squeezed the water out of his outfit like it was a rag and looked around, a glare still clear on his face. Midoriya asked, "Are you alright?"
He turned to Midoriya, "What happened? Why are we on the water all of a sudden?"
"You, uh..." Sasuke getting knocked out by Ashido flashed through his mind, and he looked away for a moment, 'I probably shouldn't mention that part,' "We were all enveloped by the fog and teleported away, the others are probably in different areas of the USJ," he looked toward the gate and glared, "There goes the curriculum, if you really think about it then yesterday's Media break-in must have been a ploy to obtain information, just like Todoroki said."
Sasuke put one foot on the railing, "Hn," his legs glowed purple and Midoriya's heart jumped, "Wait wait wait!"
Sasuke snapped back at him, "What?!"
Asui pointed down into the water, "This water is filled with villains. You won't make it very far just rashly jumping in."
Sasuke peered his eyes into the water and faintly saw multiple villains swimming around and took his leg off of the railing, "Tch, well what are we supposed to do then?"
Midoriya replied, "We're trying to get an understanding of the situation first... They clearly planned this, waiting for an opportunity to swoop in."
Mineta spoke up, "But there's no way they can kill All Might! When he gets here he'll go like, pow, blame, kablooie!"
Asui turned to him, "They must have a way to kill him, otherwise it would be absurd to come here just to get flattened, no? And it doesn't seem beneath these bastards considering they said they'd torture us to death. Will we really be able to hold out until All Might arrives? And if he does, then will we be alright?"
Sasuke sighed, "Of course, all we have to do is back him up if he's in trouble. First things first though, we need to get out of here."
Midoriya's head was lowered with a hand on his chin. "Midoriya," he snapped back to reality looking at Sasuke, "Right. If those bastards have some trick to take down All Might, then right now we need to fight to win!"
Mineta went slack-jawed, "What do you mean we fight?! Are you a moron or something?! Those are villains who might be able to kill All Might! Your idea is self-contradictory! We should just sit here and wait for the heroes to show up and save us!"
Sasuke raised a finger, "Notice that no kind of alarm ever went off. They probably have some kind of villain among them that interferes with it. So in other words,"
Midoriya finished his sentence for him, "We're on our own."
Mineta gasped and fell to the ground. Asui and Midoriya discussed their current situation and deduced that they don't know their quirks. They then went one by one explaining their quirks, although they were cut when they all lost their balance and noticed a huge split in the ship caused by a villain hitting it. "Alright you're getting annoying, let's end this farce."
They all grabbed the railing and Asui exclaimed, "What insane power!" Mineta cried and started throwing his balls rapidly into the water. Sasuke ran to the crack in the ship and grabbed the other side with both Susanoo's arms to try and hold it in place while Mineta kept crying and yelling at Midoriya. Sasuke gritted his teeth pulling as hard as he could, which seemed to slow down the splitting of the ship. "One of you guys better come up with something fast!"
Midoriya clenched his fist, "All Might once said that when your enemies are sure of their victory, that's your chance... In order to win, there's no other way!"
The wood Sasuke gripped onto snapped and the boat continued sinking at its previous speed. Midoriya glared and jumped over the railing, "DIEEE!"
The villains looked up and smirked, "Nothing special. Once he hits the water, we'll rip him apart."
'Just it, don't let the egg explode!' he held his middle finger in a flicking motion. "DELAWARE SMASH!" the air pressure caused by the snap of his finger caused a huge sink, "Tsuyu! Mineta! Sasuke!" the three of them jumped off the ship and Tsuyu grabbed Midoriya with her tongue. And while on her back, Mineta threw down dozens of balls. All of the sticky balls that attached to everyone made them all glued to each other, "It'll spread out, and then converge back into the center."
While they got away from the water, Sasuke looked back, "Good plan, Midoriya."
Tsuyu added, "For the time being we've toppled the first hurdle, and you were all great by the way."
When they landed Sasuke peered at Midoriya's finger, 'He definitely just said Deleware Smash... I don't know how, but I'm sure now that he has the same quirk as All Might.'
Asui asked, "Anyway, shouldn't we be figuring out what to do right now?"
They all walked toward the land and saw Aizawa fighting the man covered in hands.
Sasuke grabbed the land and began to lift himself out of the water, "You guys can do what you want, I'm going to find the guy who teleported all of us."
Midoriya straightened up, 'Didn't Aizawa say to keep him out of combat specifically? What'll happen to him if he doesn't?' Midoriya reached out a hand, "Sasuke! Wait a minute!"
Sasuke snapped back with narrowed eyes looking directly into Midoriya's, "What?"
Midoriya's eyes glazed over along with Asui and Mineta, "We have a bigger problem right in front of us."
"Aizawa looked like he had it covered," Midoriya shook his head slowly and pointed in Aizawa's direction. Sasuke looked where his finger pointed and his eyes went wide. A big muscular black creature with a bird-like head and an exposed brain held Aizawa down on the ground. He also held his arm which was broken like a twig, 'What the hell is that thing?! It completely incapacitated Aizawa in the few seconds I looked away?!' while he stood frozen in place the black fog of his target appeared next to the man covered in hands and conversed with him. Sasuke clenched his fist and tried to move forward, but he couldn't. 'Come on legs! Move! He's right there! It doesn't matter how strong they might be!' he gritted his teeth, 'This is what I've been training for my whole life since then! Is this what I'll do when I finally see All For One?' he clenched his fist so far that blood seeped through his fingers, 'No.'
Midoriya noticed Sasuke getting in a pose ready to burst off and was snapped out of his shock, "Sasuke, no!"
Purple energy coiled around his whole body and he blitzed toward them. He raised a fist, 'Combine size manipulation with energy control! Control the size! Use it like armor!' his arm became layered with purple energy like a bubble, 'maximize the power while retaining mobility!' the bubble-like encasing solidified into the skeletal bone of a normal Susanoo arm, making his arm figurative bone marrow.
The size was a little big, but it did its job. Using his momentum and the strength of Susanoo, he went for a full-force punch at the man of fog, but when he made contact... He felt no force. His eyes went wide as a shadow cast over him, and he looked up to meet the eyes of the black creature looking down at him. 'It did... Nothing?'
Shigaraki started cackling, "Nice punch kid, but you still gotta die," Shigaraki thrust his hand at Sasuke, but a Susanoo rib blocked it. Although it quickly crumbled away.
'What the hell? He tore through it like nothing!' he tried to back up, but the creature grabbed his arm and lifted him.
"Wait, I recognize this child."
The man covered in hands turned toward him, "You know this kid from somewhere, Kurogiri?"
"Why yes, I do, Shigaraki," He turned to Sasuke, "Although for some reason the child isn't using the quirk he was given."
Sasuke gritted his teeth, "I'll sooner die than ever use something that piece of shit gave me!"
Shigaraki's eyes narrowed, "You have quite a mouth of you," he reached out to grab Sasuke's mouth faster than he could react, but when he made contact nothing happened, his head turned toward the ground, "You are a cool guy, Eraserhead."
"Sasuke, if you"- his words were cut short by the creature slamming his head into the ground with his foot, and Midoriya jumped onto land and ran toward them, 'No no no no no! These guys are way stronger than the other villains! I'll free you, Sasuke! Then we gotta run!'
Shigaraki tried to grab Sasuke again, but he slammed his Susanoo arms into the ground making Shigaraki jump back right into Midoriya's line of fire. He noticed Midoriya right behind him, "Nomu!"
Sasuke's head shot up, 'This might be a chance to take out one of them! I don't usually do this because of the energy expenditure, but I have to," he made six Susanoo arms and dug four of them into the ground, and used the other two to grab Nomu. The Nomu tried to rush toward Shigaraki, causing him to drag Sasuke along with him as the ground beneath them was slowly getting destroyed, but it slowed down the Nomu just enough. "SMAAAASH! The punch landed in Shigaraki's liver causing him to scream in pain and sending him flying.
Midoriya quickly felt his arm, 'Did I unlock the ability to adjust my power at a time like this?'
Sasuke smirked, but his triumph was replaced with a feeling of lightheadedness. He grabbed his head and wobbled, "Too much energy."
Shigaraki struggled to his feet and groveled with droll pouring out of his mouth. Midoriya's mouth fell open, "He's still standing after that?!"
"Nomu... KILL"-an explosion at the gate made Shigaraki stop his order midway and everyone in the USJ looked toward it to see what happened. Moments later a tall muscular shadow walked out of the smoke and revealed itself as All Might, and he wasn't smiling. "Have no fear, for I am here!"