Chapter 10: Nomu
"I'll protect you from here to the door, from there you will just have to run as fast as you can." Deku laid out the short version of his plan, and Iida filled out the rest.
"Got it!" Iida was filled with motivation. If it was anyone else, he may have been hesitant, but after seeing how good Deku's ideas are in battle, it didn't take much to convince him to do this plan. Iida prepared by getting into a running start position.
"Even if this is your only option, are you really foolish enough to strategize in front of your enemy!?" Kurogiri became more aggressive, but Thirteen had hope that the students were good enough to succeed.
"It doesn't matter if you know what we're planning or not when we're done with you!" Thirteen used her quirk to stop Kurogiri, but it would soon be her mistake.
"Ah, black hole. The quirk that sucks up matter and turns it into dust. Such an astounding power. However, you're a rescue hero, Thirteen, skilled at saving people from disasters." A portal opened up in the center of his mist, "Consequently, that means you have little fighting experience or battle field awareness." A second portal then opened up behind her, causing her own quirk to suck herself in.
"You fool." Deku said to himself, the rest of the class was shocked.
"He opened up a warp gate!" Thirteen's back began breaking apart.
"How unfortunate, you've turned yourself into dust." Thirteen stopped her quirk after her back was teared off and opened, slowly falling to the ground.
"I'm sorry, he got me." Mina called out Thirteen's name as she hit the ground. Deku ran over to Iida and noticed how tense everyone was.
"Iida, go now!" Iida was knocked back from his shock as Deku gave him his orders, it took a quick moment for Iida to process the situation.
Iida began running for the door. Deku waited for him to get to his destination instead of running next to him. Iida shouted his usual words when activating his quirk, but that ended up being the cause of Kurogiri looking back.
"A sheep trying to escape from the wolves. I can't have that." As Kurogiri spoke, a portal appeared in front of Iida, preventing him from reaching the door, "If other hero's arrive, it will be harder for us to put an end to All Might!"
Iida put down his foot in an attempt to stop himself, but it didn't seem like he was going to stop in time. Then, Shoji wrapped his flesh wing-like arms around the portal and moved it out of Iida's way for him to start running again.
"Run! I've got him!" It was like watching the last seconds of tag or a horse race as the tension built up to see who would get there first.
"You impertinent child!" Kurogiri became irritated and tries to reach Iida before he could reach the door. Deku knew how to deal with Kurogiri, but didn't act on it for obvious reasons. However, Uraraka found the metal object around Kurogiri's neck, so Deku played his part.
"You see it too?" Deku stood next to Uraraka. Uraraka nods, and Deku powers up his quirk. They look at each other and knew what they were thinking.
"You won't step foot outside those doors! I have no time for this. Be gone!" Iida tried to run faster, but nothing helped.
Iida was surrounded by Kurogiri's mist, but it quickly disappeared as Uraraka used her quirk on the metal object to make Kurogiri float.
"I don't his quirk is, but he's wearing some kind of armor. So he must have a physical body inside somewhere!" Uraraka throws him high into the air, "Go! Run Iida!" She shouted.
"You pest, how dare you!"As Iida approached the door, Deku smashed it open with a smile that had "Good luck!" written all over it.
"I've got you!" Kurogiri attempts to make his way back to Iida, but Sero quickly jumped into action to stop him from reaching Iida.
"Not so fast!" Sero used his quirk to stick his tape onto the metal object that Uraraka found earlier, the Sato took the tape, spun around and sent Kurogiri far into the air using his strength. Now Iida could reach the door without any trouble.
That boy is going to call for backup, surely Deku has a plan. Kurogiri thought to himself as Iida began running even faster after running past the door and into the open world.
However, as everything was happening, Aizawa had been beaten down by the Nomu. There was blood everywhere, head smashed into the ground and a broken arm.
"You can erase people's powers, that's irritating but not impressive. When faced with true devastating power, you might as well be a quirkless child." Said Tomura, almost laughing to himself.
Aizawa turned his head to try and remove the Nomu's quirk, but when the Nomu still managed to shatter his other arm with just its hand, that was when the Nomu proved to Aizawa that it was just naturally strong. Maybe even stronger than All Might.
Aizawa screamed, and it echoed far enough to grab Uraraka's attention. Uraraka looked down the stairs to see the Nomu grab Aizawa by the head and start smashing it into the ground. That was when a immense amount of fear rushed through her.
"D-Deku." She said it so lightly as she stumbled over her words that Deku almost couldn't hear her, but he only just managed to hear and looked over in confusion.
"Whoa, Uraraka. Are you okay?" Deku was generally concerned about what had happened to her, but as she pointed down to the Nomu, Deku wouldn't help but get excited.
Everyone around Uraraka and Deku were also filled with fear as they witness their homeroom teacher be easily beaten, but Deku stayed calm and expressionless so that he doesn't cause any suspicion by his excitement.
"No way..." Sato couldn't believe what he was seeing. They all looked at Deku like he would be able to solve the problem. Kurogiri appeared next to Tomura, Deku assumed that he was just telling Tomura about how Deku may have a plan to get All Mights attention.
"It took down a pro like Aizawa without an issue, what can we do?" The air was filled with tension and fear as Deku went into deep thought and stared at the sight before him.
"I might as well have my fun." Deku then smiled, and the class were all shocked to see it.
"What!? I know you're powerful, Deku, but there's no way you can even stall time against that thing!" Uraraka tried to get Deku to back down, but his smile was as psychotic as his true colors.
"Watch me." Deku jumped into the air and began falling to the ground. When he landed no his feet, the floor shattered. Deku was powered up, this time he was using the most amount of power he had used whilst in U.A. Deku looked at the Nomu and his heart started to pound.
"You idiot! Get out of here!" Aizawa shouted at Deku with all his strength, almost not being able to talk at all. The Nomu let go of Aizawa's head and looked over at Deku, giving its full attention to him, and took a step away from Aizawa.
Deku and the Nomu were only ten meters away from each other.
Silence filled the air, you could almost hear a pin drop. Uraraka and the class around her were worried for Deku's safety and fearful of what might happen. Tomura and Kurogiri were curious about the event that was about to take place.
The silence continued until the ground beneath both the Nomu and Deku broke, and they appeared right in front of each other, and their right fists making contact. This caused a large burst of air to overrun the silence and travel through the building. The fast and heavy air reached Uraraka, almost sending her and the class around her off their feet and further back.
The water from the shipwreck zone almost emptied itself with the high waves and brutal force. Some parts of the other zones also nearly broke apart, but only just stayed together. The sound of the contact grabbed the attention of everyone in the whole building, though most of the villains had been taken down.
Deku's next move was to climb onto the Nomu's arm and use its head as the ground to his retreat. Both of Deku's legs hit the side of the Nomu's head as he spun backwards into short safety, also making the Nomu try to keep its balance as it drifted on the floor.
They stood for a while, but the fight resumed. Deku flashed towards the Nomu and kicked it on the right side of its lower torso. The Nomu counter-attacked with a punch, but Deku moved out of the way last second. Aizawa tried to stand back up, but Tomaru walked over and put his knee into Aizawa's back, lifting his head and forcing him to watch.
Uraraka couldn't help but be worried about Deku, but seeing them fight gave her a little bit of hope that Deku could win. Deku was now avoiding all the Nomu attacks, of which were consistent and fast.
"Looks like I need to up my game". Deku thought to himself, as he put more power into his right arm and fist, going in for an uppercut after he avoided straight punch from the Nomu. The uppercut went into the Nomu's chest and to Deku's surprise, sent the Nomu into the air by a few meters.
Aizawa was shocked at how well Deku was doing, Uraraka watched in awe as the rest of the class around her were too tense to show anything by worry. Just the fact that Deku could hold his own for that long was a miracle to them.
With the Nomu in the air, Deku shot up, spun around and kicked it back down to the ground. Deku finally had the upper hand, but he didn't know what to do next. Once he landed on the ground, the Nomu started to get back up again.
Deku was having so much fun, it almost felt like a party to him. His heart was still pounding, but he had his breath under control. He went through intense training against beta versions of the Nomu's when he got his quirk, so he had a rough idea of how they would fight, but something felt different about the Nomu he was facing against.
The fight returned to normal, Deku avoided punches as he threw kicks and punches back. It was a pretty even fight, but then the Nomu got the upper hand. Deku went into full defense as he felt something off with the next punch, putting both of his arms in front of his face.
A heavy punch came straight to Deku, sending him into the air and towards the wall of the dome. Luckily, Deku had a good enough reaction time as he turned his body to land on his feet. Before he dropped down from the wall, he powered up his legs and flew over to the Nomu, almost breaking through the wall he stood on.
Unfortunately, the Nomu caught Deku's head before he could attack, smashing him into the ground. Just the first hit alone caused Deku to bleed. Even in pain, Deku was still excited.
Struggling, Deku attempted to get his fingers close to the Nomu to use his power on a single flick in order to get the Nomu to release him, but the Nomu caught his arm before he could do anything, and with its grip, broke his arm. Deku almost screamed in pain, but bit his lip to stop it.
The Nomu continuously smashed Deku's head into the ground like it did to Aizawa, until a loud sound caused the Nomu to shift its attention over to the top of the stairs. There was a large smoke cloud on top of the stairs, then a heroic voice came from it.
"Have no fear students. I am here!" All Might came from the smoke, still in his teachers uniform. The Nomu looked back at Deku, and threw him into the shipwreck area as he was unconscious.
"Deku!" The sound of a worrying Uraraka was the last thing he heard from that day.
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