Chapitre 1355: 20
om their internships, and of course the unveiling of Izuku's new suit.
Izuku entered the airport his duffel bag on one shoulder and his hero suitcase in his left hand. He looked around wondering if his mother had come to meet him, but was instead met with All Might in his true form. "Welcome back Young Midoirya I trust your time with Melissa was fruitful?" All Might asked chalking up Izuku's subsequent blush to his usual meekness being around a woman for so long. If you're going to be the number one hero kid you're going to have to get over that ASAP. All Might thought to himself as Izuku spoke.
"Uh yes All Might quite the eye opener." Izuku said as he followed All Might to their cab. Izuku thought back to his training and clenched his fist around the handle to his case in excitement he was eager to show off his growth to his mentor.
"Glad to hear that young man." All Might said before biting the bullet. "We won't be stopping at your home just yet. We have to make a detour to the hospital there are some people who would like to speak with you." Izuku's eyes widened in shock at All Might's words.
"What do you mean All Might who's waiting at the hospital for me?!" Izuku said his voice rising with anxiety. All Might looked at his charge and placed a hand on his shoulder.
"Calm down Midoriya its nothing life threatening, but it is serious. I'm sorry I was asked not to say anything more. They want to tell you themselves." All Might stated as Izuku sat back taking a deep breath as the two rode in silence to Dagobah hospital. Izuku exited the car about to grab his things but All Might shook his hand. "Don't worry Midoriya I'll be waiting here for you when you're done." The number one hero said before handing Izuku the room numbers of the people he was about to see.
Izuku walked up to the hospital desk asking for directions to the first room he was to visit before heading that way. He stood in front of the door before giving a knock and was put at ease by the voice he heard telling him to come in. Izuku opened the door and looked at Iida lying in a bed with a book in his hand and his bandaged leg propped up on pillows. "Midoriya I didn't expect you so soon. You must have just gotten off the plane. I wish you hadn't rushed over here right after your trip you must be exhausted!" Tenya stated worried for his friend's physical wellbeing.
"Iida what happened to you?" Izuku said taking a seat in the chair next to Iida's bed. The taller boy sighed before looking at Izuku.
"Straight to the point then, very well Midoriya as you probably guessed I didn't take your advice. I went on my internship fully intending to hunt down and avenge my older brother. You know the saying "those who go looking for blood tend to find it" and I did." Iida said swallowing his throat suddenly dry. "I rehearsed what I would say to the Hero Killer when I met him, what I would do when I came face to face with him, but when I did the only thing that came to mind were your words. How a hero is supposed to protect people and my anger and thirst for vengeance seemed so miniscule in the face of your words. All I wanted was to save Native and I did." Iida said looking over to Izuku. "I know I shouldn't have gone after Stain he could have easily killed me and would have if not for your master." Iida said causing Izuku to pop his head up as he looked at Iida.
"Master Splinter was there?" Izuku asked clutching the necklaces he wore at all times.
"Yes he was and he saved my and Native's lives. Without him we'd be dead I'm sure of it." Iida said looking at Izuku. "I wanted to see you before school started because I want to tell you how thankful I am for you. If not for your words that day I would have gotten myself killed without avenging my brother or saving Native. I would have died a truly pointless death, so from the bottom of my heart I thank you Midoriya and I swear to live up to the ideal of what a hero really is going forward. " Iida said bowing as well as he could. He didn't want to tear the stitches in his back.
Izuku sighed placing a hand on Iida's shoulder. "I'm just glad you're ok Iida, so how injured are you?" Izuku asked as Iida sighed.
"All things considered I got off pretty easily. I took a knife to the back, but it didn't damage anything vital some of the doctors think that was on purpose. I was also stabbed in the leg that one I'm told will have some lasting nerve damage. It can be healed with surgery, but I'm going to wait until I've become the kind of hero my brother would be proud of. I caused a lot of trouble for Manual because of my selfishness this is my punishment, and I accept it." Iida stated looking at his bandaged leg as Izuku put his hand on Iida's shoulder.
"Iida I think you should get the surgery now after what you told me there's no way your brother wouldn't be proud of you." Izuku said looking at Iida. "Sure you started off wrong, but you realized that and decided to do the right thing in the end. That counts for a lot." Iida looked down at Izuku's praise and coughed wiping his eyes.
"Thank you for that Midoriya I'll think on it." Iida said to him a lot on his mind.
Izuku stood up and looking at the other room number on the piece of paper All Might gave him now aware of whom the person in said room was. "Well Iida I hope you get better and I look forward to seeing you at school." He said opening Iida's door. "Also you'll be on trash duty for the next week Class Rep's orders. It's your punishment." Izuku said looking over his shoulder with a grin as Iida mirrored it.
"It is what I deserve. I will not let you down!" Iida said getting some of his robotic movements back as Izuku left with a chuckle heading to Master Splinter's room and giving a knock once there.
"Enter." Said his master's voice as Izuku opened the door and walked in seeing his master lying in a hospital bed staring out the window. "Welcome back my pupil." Master Splinter spoke as Izuku took the seat next to his bed.
"It's good to see you Master. I must thank you for saving my friend's life first and foremost." Izuku said about to bow in gratitude before Splinter stopped him looking at the green haired young man.
"There's no reason to thank me Izuku. What I did was simply clean up my own mess. Saki was my responsibility to deal with and instead I procrastinated and let him run wild. Saving your friend was part of my repentance as was this." Splinter said raising the stump where his left hand had once been. Izuku stared at the bandaged stump for what seemed like hours as his mind refused to process what he was seeing.
"Master Splinter you hand is gone." Izuku said dumbfounded as he looked at Splinter who wore a gentle smile.
"Thank you for that astute observation Izuku." Yoshi teased his youngest pupil. Izuku's mind finally caught up with the present before he started spouting words.
"I'm sorry Master Splinter I didn't mean to say something so stupid. I mean I'm sure you can get a new one what with the advancements in prosthetics." Izuku said before remembering a certain young scientist he was quite familiar with. "In fact I can make a call to someone who I'm sure would be more than happy to help. Here I'll call her right now." Izuku said fishing out his phone before Splinter snatched it from his hand and giving a flick to his forehead for good measure.
"That is unnecessary Izuku after all even with one hand I can still beat any of my students." Master Splinter said chuckling as Izuku composed himself.
"What happened to Stain, Master Splinter?" Izuku asked as Yoshi thought back to that night.
Splinter raised his cane blocking Stain's knives before driving his palm into the villain's stomach causing him to fly back as Stain launched his knives at Yoshi who dodged to the side running along the wall going for a roundhouse kick that Stain ducked under turning around to drive his knife into Splinter's back, only to receive a face full of blinding powder. The Hero Killer gripped his face as he stared at the blurry image that was Splinter.
It was this momentary distraction that lead to Stain's downfall as he didn't react in time to stop the heroes from surrounding him. "Sir please step back!" A female hero said as she stepped in front of Yoshi as she looked at the hero killer.
Stain rubbed his eyes as he made out the shapes of various heroes. "Well come on then if you think you fake heroes can stop me. Only one hero is worthy of taking my life!" Stain shouted stepping forward as the heroes rushed in. Stain jumped into the air kicking off from the wall as he spun past the group of heroes his knives flashing like lightning as he cut across each one. They were nothing more than glancing blows, but Yoshi knew what would happen as Stain licked his blades the heroes fell to the ground limp.
"Now it's over!" Stain shouted bringing down his blade on the nearest hero, but was stopped as his blade bit deep into the left wrist of Hamato Yoshi nearly severing it entirely.
"I won't let you Oroku Saki!" Shouted Splinter as he jabbed several points of Stain's body the villain felt all his strength leave his body as he fell onto his back.
"Yoshiiiiiiiiii!" Stain yelled his voice echoing off the walls of the alley.
"They took Saki away after that, and I was brought here. There was nothing the doctors could do to save my hand, but I don't regret it. The way I see it losing a hand to pay for my mistake all those years ago is a small price to pay. They also were planning on arresting me until they found out I had no quirk, so they had to let me go, though I did have to convince them not to arrest Rapheal as he threatened to beat their heads in if they came near me." Splinter said with a chuckle placing his hand on Izuku's head. "I'm sure your friend told you that your words motivated him to be a real hero. I feel the same way Izuku. Watching you grow over the years has led me here. I thought I would have to kill Saki in order to right my wrong, but you showed me there was another way, and for that I thank you." Yoshi said bowing his head to Izuku whose eyes overflowed with tears as he gripped his master's hand.
"You're welcome Master Splinter!" Izuku gasped.
Izuku walked out of the hospital getting back into the taxi with All Might. The number one hero said nothing simply patting Izuku on the back as the two rode to Izuku's house.
The next day the students returned to UA each excited to tell the others of what happened during their internships. Izuku walked into class looking at Iida who felt his gaze and raised a hand in greeting. "Midori how was I-island?" Mina asked slinging an arm over his shoulder as the boy started at her sudden appearance.
"Oh um it was nice I learned a lot." He said blushing as Mina smiled at him.
"Oooh I bet you did you'll have to tell me all about it better yet you should show me." She said with a predatory grin as Izuku smiled as well looking past her locking eyes with Momo, Jiro, Tsuyu, Ochaco and he assumed Toru as well before making his way to his desk as Aizawa entered.
"Welcome back you had better learned a lot from your internships, because your first class will be a test of your recently acquired knowledge. Get into your suits and meet All Might at training ground Gamma." Aizawa stated sipping from a juice pouch as the students got ready for their next class.
Izuku came out of the locker room in a full body suit with green wrist and ankle bands along with a green belt around his waist to the curiosity of his fellow students. "Did something happen to your suit Izuku? I thought your brother Donnie made a new one for you?" Ojiro asked while the girls of the class stared at the skin tight body suit with dragging tongues seeing Izuku had put on more muscle over his training.
"Oh no, but Melissa Shield made a new suit for me contained in these wrist and ankle bands and belt. Engage." Izuku commanded as lights came to life on the green accessories. The wrist bands expanded spiraling up his arms all the way to his shoulder and down around his hands, while the ankle bands climbed up his legs and around his feet and the belt expanded linking up with the armor on his legs and arms before coming up as a faceplate covering the lower half of his face. Izuku's armor had a spiral pattern on his arms and legs looking similar to combat wrappings, while the armor on his torso was layered all the way up to his faceplate. The armor was primarily an Emerald green with spirals of black on his arms and legs with his face plate being black as well.
All of 1-A was astonished at the Izuku's new suit. "What the hell?! That's amazing man!" Denki commented looking at Izuku's armor with what one might call green with envy.
"I agree Izuku your armor is truly state of the art." Iida agreed feeling a little under dressed compared to his friend. The faceplate around Izuku's mouth split apart sliding back so he could talk clearly.
"Thanks guys Melissa calls it the Full Armor." He said as All Might clapped to get the students' attention.
"Now, now children let's stay focused. We have an assignment today." All Might said but on the inside he was a little peeved. Oh man I didn't know Melissa could do stuff like that. Dave you've been holding out on me! "Anyway today's lesson will be a race there will be four five member races. I will be somewhere in training ground Gamma the first person to reach me after I send the distress signal is the winner. Simple enough wouldn't you say?" All might asked as the students nodded with excitement.
"Very well let's begin with Sero, Midoriya, Ojiro, Iida and Ashido." The Symbol of Peace stated before heading into the training field. As the first five waited for All Might to send the signal Izuku turned seeing Mina's eyes on him no doubt inspecting his suit.
"Hmm it kind of reminds me of All Might's Bronze Age suit. Mina approves." Ashido said giving Izuku a thumbs up as the distress signal went off. The five immediately took off with Iida and Sero taking the lead right before a bolt of green lightning raced past them.
"Hot damn look at Midoriya go!" Kirishima said as Izuku leapt nearly half way into the training ground in one single bound landing on a walkway of pipes before running across them with ease bouncing throughout the training field with complete control.
This is perfect! I can't believe it feels so light it's like it's not even there. Thank you Melissa! Izuku thought to himself as he jumped between the walls to his objective.
"Oh man he's even faster than before and he's not even using his Snake Cowl thing." Kaminari said hardly able to keep up with Izuku as he moved from one screen the next. Standing next to him was Bakugou who grit his teeth.
While I wasted my time with that asshole Best Jeanist Izuku jumped ahead of me again, and he wasn't even doing hero work! Katsuki thought to himself as he watched Izuku sail through the air and landed at All Might's location far ahead of his classmates. Seeing that they had a few moments before Sero arrived All Might turned to Izuku.
"You've really made amazing progress Young Midoriya I'm glad to see Melissa was able to help you become your best self at this point in time." All Might said giving Izuku a thumbs up as Sero arrived a bit disheartened.
"Oh man I thought this was my time to shine first Todoroki and now you Midoirya am I just around to be someone's prop to show off?" He asked as Iida arrived.
"Chin up Sero you managed to take second place that's nothing to be ashamed of!" Iida said adjusting his glasses as Ojiro and finally Mina arrived.
"Well looks like we're bringing up the rear this time around." Ojiro stated as Mina smiled with a shrug.
"Can't win them all." She said as All Might draped the winner belt around Midoriya.
"Good job to you all I'm amazed at the progress each of you has made." The symbol of Peace declared before allowing the students to leave the training ground to make way for the next set. Izuku looked at his suit this would be his first time trying it on and it had felt like a second skin to him. Melissa had really gone all out with it.
"I have to call Melissa and tell her how great the suit feels." He said smiling.
After class Izuku along with the rest of his classmates were going to the cafeteria. Izuku walked next to Ojiro and Kirishima the trio trying to come up with a good time to meet up for training before Katsuki appeared in front of them his eyes on Izuku's. "Don't think you've won Izuku you may have gotten in a little training, but that's not going to help you catch up to me!" Katsuki shouted as Izuku grinned.
"Looks like you're a little worried Katsuki didn't get much action during your internship?" Izuku said needling Katsuki a little which was new to the blonde.
"I trained under one of the top ten heroes while you played in a lab there's no chance you can beat me!" Katsuki retorted as he walked away. Kirishima looked at Izuku and chuckled.
"You two really get along." The redhead said as Izuku shrugged.
"Better than we used to anyway." He responded as they took their seats at table.
"So Izuku are you concerned with what the final exams may be?" Ojiro asked eating his bowl of rice as Izuku scratched his cheek.
"I'm more anxious about the physical part of the exam. Who knows what they're going to test us on?" The green haired hero said as he sliced off a piece of Katsudon eating it slowly as he ran through several different scenarios.
"Yeah that is problematic." Iida said as he sat down next to Izuku. "All we can do is prepare as best we can." The taller boy stated before a feminine voice caught their attention.
"I wouldn't worry too much. I heard from an upperclassman that the final exams are always robot fights like the entrance exams." The girl in question had long ginger hair with teal eyes. "Sorry I overheard what you guys were talking about. My name is Itsuka Kendo from class 1-B." she said introducing herself before Monoma appeared at her shoulder.
"Kendo what are you doing that was our hard earned advantage over class A!" He shouted in the girl's ear before he was whacked over the head falling unconscious.
"Don't worry about him he's just…himself." Kendo said waving as she walked away.
"Well that's a big relief for me!" Denki said creating a small line of electricity between his fingers. "If we're fighting against robots I don't have to worry about holding back." He said snapping the electricity off his fingers.
"Tell me about it, that was my biggest concern too." Mina said as she smiled with relief fist bumping against Kaminari. Izuku wore a calm smile, but on the inside he was a little disappointed he'd really wanted a test to show off his skill.
Oh well guess this test will be easy after all. He thought to himself.
After school that day the teachers met to discuss the upcoming final exams. "As you know with the recent increase in villains lately we need to up the difficulty of our final exams to better teach our students. With that in mind I left it to Aizawa to determine the student pairings for which teacher. Aizawa if you would." Principal Nezu said as Aizawa stood up.
"Alright I've put some thought into each pairing based on their skill level, personality, and overall cooperativeness. The first team will be Shoto Todoroki and Momo Yaoyorozu. Their overreliance on their quirks needs to be addressed if they're to grow, so I'll be their opponent and will erase their quirks." Aizawa said before continuing on his list. "The next team will be Izuku Midoriya and Katsuki Bakugou. I believe the two of them are the backbone of the class and their competitive nature will be a major hurdle as far as working together. All Might it will be your job to correct this." Aizawa said as Toshi nodded.
"I understand Aizawa."
"Good the next teams will be Denki and Mina VS you Principal Nezu those two aren't taking things serious enough often underestimating the gravity of things because their quirks are so destructive. I'd like you to show them that first impressions aren't everything. Thirteen will face Yuga and Ochaco your black hole will present a unique challenge to both of their quirks. Mic will be against Koji and Kyoka since you all use sound I figure you'd be best to handle those two. Ectoplasm facing Tsuyu and Fumikage both are well rounded students so dealing with your quirk will make them think out of the box. Midnight Vs Hanta and Minoru, Snipe will be taking on Mezo, and Toru, Cementoss will be against Rikido, and Eijiro both of them are aggressive and need to learn that retreating is sometimes the only and best option. Finally Power Loader will be overseeing Tenya and Mashirao." Aizawa looked up at his fellow teachers. "Any questions?" The teachers shook their heads.
"Alright then let the final exams begin." Principal Nezu stated slapping his paw on the table
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