Like Father Like Son. Round Two.
"Miss Miruko? Do you think it's a good idea to antagonize him like that? He single handedly killed a Nomu that was the size of a skyscraper. In one attack." Kaminari asks quickening the pace to keep up with the rabbit hero.
"That's why we take him out before he gets serious. He aint gonna throw all his power at us from the start so we'll use that to get in close and shatter the mask. In and out in ten minutes." Miruko boasts as she comes to a stop in front of the main doors of sight beta. "Here's what we're gonna do. First tell me what your quirks are." She instructs.
"I can brainwash anyone who responds to what I say." Shinso answers after removing his voice changer as to speak clearly.
"I can make my skin as hard as steel and tank anything he can throw at me."
"I can summon animals with my voice."
"I'm a frog."
"Interesting variety here with your class I'll give you all that. Do any of you all know what potential weaknesses he has?" Miruko questions getting the others to shake their heads no.
"That's only Uraraka and Eri and they're not a part of our team. Plus he's a fraction of the age of the real All for One so tiring him out isn't gonna work *Kero*." Tsu answers prompting the rabbit themed hero to scratch her chin in thought.
"Bakugou mentioned that they would be switching up quirks, and while we know some of them. That's gonna be a problem since he could have a combination that we've never seen before. He could have taken the erasure sight duplicate quirk that Bakubro had during the Nabu Island stuff and then we'd really be screwed." Kirishima responds.
"That's what I was afraid of hearing." Kaminari frowns.
"He's still human, and while we don't have a ninety foot tall dragon to throw at him we still have the environment and our quirks. The best decision here would be a false front. Fake an all out assault as much as possible in order to open a window for one of us to get an attack in. Froppy I believe that would be your opening. I watched your provisional exam a few months ago and know you're capable of becoming almost invisible. That will be our best bet."
"Which will be a moot point if Midoriya has that infrared or UV sight quirk. Whatever, let's just get this over with. The sooner I wake up in that infirmary cot the better." Shinso mocks excitement with this extremely sarcastic statement.
"Planning Time is up, Training begins now." Nana's voice declares through the speaker system prompting the team of six to enter the site.
"Koda, summon as many birds as you can and instruct them to fan out and search for Deku for One. After that have them swarm him." Miruko declares as the team of heroes begins running through the city. Froppy breaks off from the other five, jumping up a fire escape and onto a rooftop of an apartment building before vanishing.
While the heroes enter the city, Izuku makes no attempt to hide. Instead he makes his presence known from the get go. Opting to float high into the air out in the open, floating gracefully with his legs hung limp and his arms folded behind his back waiting expectantly. Above him the clouds that had permeated the sky darken, swirling and circling the city. The city that was inhabited by no one and that he was given express permission to raise it to the ground. He felt an inkling of satisfaction when he raised his right hand from behind his back and pointed his finger towards the ground. It was probably the residue of influence his father had left in him that spurred that feeling, flexing his index finger from his palm as rumbling thunder rolls across the heavens. Above him anvil crawlers dart across the bottoms of the clouds like spiders crawling towards the prey caught in its web. The deafening roar of thunder shook the entire campus as the clouds spawned bolt after bolt. The javelins of electrical judgment rained down from the clouds striking at the buildings below. The thunderbolts shatter roofs, crack the asphalt and reduce buildings to rubble. The entirety of the town square is leveled in the first deluge of lightning.
From a distance, the hero team can only watch as their first two objectives are raised to the ground. While they know that these buildings and the android civilians populating the city are indeed fake, that pervasive feeling of failing as a hero stuns them in place. They just witnessed a dozen city blocks get leveled and from this distance they couldn't even tell if that black figure in the sky even moved. The oncombing cloud of dust and rubbly forces them to shield their eyes and faces from the shards of concrete and glass sent flying their direction. Kirishima hardened his skin and jumped in front of Shinso in order to protect him from the debris. Unfortunately he wasn't fast enough to prevent a slab of broken concrete from slamming into the voice changer over Hitoshi's mouth, crushing it and leaving the new hero in training bleeding from the face. Above them, Izuku waves his hands dispelling all the dust in a mere instance before descending to the smoldering crater that reeks of ozone. Now facing the five of them head on he locks eyes with Miruko and flashes his glowing eyes in their direction.
The sight of even Izuku masquerading as All for One terrified them to their cores, he was staring right at them in an expectant pose with his glowing eyes visible even under the mask. Raising his dominant hand towards the petrified hero team his forearm and bicep suddenly expand and swell several times their original size. Straining and stretching the fibers of the suit he is wearing, then it all released at once. A massive torrent of wind moving at speeds only replicated in Jupiter's great storm is ejected from his hand and muscles towards Miruko and her hero team. The rabbit hero's eyes widen in fear seeing the debris and dust be disturbed by this attack but she and the others have no time to react as they're blown off their feet and away from Izuku. More buildings are taken down with it but he doesn't pay attention to the destruction instead opting to search his surroundings looking for Tsu.
In the observation room.
"That is the same quirk that All for One used against me when we fought the night Izuku was taken." All Might mutters watching the fight happen on the display screens. "I'm pretty sure he's using the same quirks that All for One used against me and what Nine used against them on Nabu, judging by the lightning that leveled the place earlier."
"U-Uraraka..." Mineta says in a shaky voice getting the attention of the zero gravity quirk user. "Y-your boyfriend is terrifying... and we have to fight him soon." He stammers timidly, watching Izuku merely toy with Miruko who has gone on the Offensive.
"Yeah, I didn't want to be reminded of that but... I don't think anyone here could defeat him in this training event. Not even Endeavor's team even if they had Bakugou with them." Ochako replies prompting Eri to loom down from her seat on Nana's shoulders at both Ochako and Mineta.
"I can beat Daddy." She says confidently.
"I'm sure you could sweetheart. But our friends on the other hand... probably not." Mina says before watching a camera feed suddenly cut out as Kirishima was thrown into the camera destroying it with his face. "That looked like it hurt and he had his quirk active too."
"Deku told me he's gonna be using what his dear old dad threw at All Might plus a few unexpected tricks." Katsuki responds after taking off his helmet. "And I can't wait to throw my next combination at you guys."
Back in the fight.
Out of breath and bleeding from the lip and nose, Miruko beams furiously at Izuku who is combating Kaminari's lightning with his own. He ends the stalemate of electricity with a well placed eye beam to Kaminari's shoulder causing him to cease his quirk almost instantly to clutch it in pain. Any and all animals that Kouda tries to summon to the fight are immediately turned away in fear of what is happening, refusing his commands effectively making him a liability rather than an asset. Kirishima opts to take a sneakier approach trying to attack Deku from behind but the sudden manifestation of twin water hydras from his back halt any assault from behind. Kirishima is forced to harden his skin as one of the sightless beasts locks it's jaws around his midsection before lifting him off the ground. "Leaving all the sidekicks to fight the big bad evil guy. How far the hero's world has fallen, wouldn't you say?" He antagonizes playing the part of All for One. "Miruko, the one of the strongest heroes in Japan. How does it feel to be as powerless as a bunny? Caught in the jaws of a wolf." The manipulative words do their job, enraging the rabbit quirk hero causing her to blitz Deku.
Flipping forwards she slams both her legs towards her opponent trying to make contact but instead hits a solid barrier of gold. The force of the impact cracks the transparent barrier created from his hand but she doesn't have long to react as it is suddenly and violently fired into her, flattening her against the side of an overturned semi truck. With Miruko out of the way for the moment, Izuku quickly snatches Kaminari with the other hydra restraining both him and Kirishima leaving them powerless to escape. "Come now, you can do better than that. That's three down and three to go." Izuku says, turning to face Kouda. Before the animal hivemind quirk user could even move he's snatched off the ground by a single tendril that coils itself around his torso and arms binding them together and hoisting him off the ground. Shinso's mask was destroyed in the initial blast of debris leaving him only with his capture gear. The purple haired man tangles and fights with the metal alloyed scarf attempting to use it to retrain Deku but the spider like tendrils created by his hands prevent him from finding purchase with the weapon. The limb like tines of black flesh pierce into the scarf pinning it to the ground before wrapping themselves around Hitoshi rolling him up like a helpless insect caught in its web.
Suddenly Izuku is kicked hard in the helmet, almost dashed to the ground as Tsuyu ambushes him. Her long tongue quickly wrapped around his helmet and tried to wrench it off of him. Though he is only stunned for a moment "I hope you're not mad at me for this one Tsu." Izuku thinks to himself before raising his hand and shocking the green haired woman. The electricity he used was as strong as a taser but it was more than enough to cause her muscles to contract and misfire forcing her to release her grip with her tongue. Another tendril finds itself wrapping around Tsu and restraining her. "I suggest you forfeit Miruko." Izuku says sternly holding the four captured hero team members aloft for them to see.
"Fine...I surrender." Miruko relents.
"Thank you. Now..." Izuku says before waiting for a moment allowing Nezu to call an end to the match. "I'll gladly heal any damage I did to you. Though you're gonna be tired for a while after." Izuku offers after taking off his mask.
"Bro, that was not manly." Kirishima says before being abruptly dropped onto the floor.
"No, but that's exactly how my father would fight. Using manipulation to gain an opening then punishing and then taking hostages. He did that against All Might in Kamino and against my grandmother during their confrontation forty years ago." Izuku responds before releasing the others from his grasp.
In the Observation room.
"For a second there I thought they were going to win." Itsuka says dejectedly as the group just inside the city heads back to the entrance.
"You really had faith in those class A fools. Pathetic." Monoma gloats laughing uproariously at the failures of the first two teams.
"Well I hope you're ready to put your money where your mouth is Neito as your team is fighting next." Nezu states causing the cocky blonde to freeze in place out of fear. Nearby his team mates are glaring at him while their team leader Midnight pinches the bridge of her nose in annoyance.
"And you're fighting me, Nerd." Katsuki says in a slightly threatening and excited tone as he places a hand on Neito's shoulder being careful not to make skin contact and activate his quirk. "Good Luck. You'll need it."
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