146The Evil Within/ Virgo with Cheer depending on your viewing platform, proudly presents another new story! I don't know why I do this to myself, but this idea just wouldn't leave me and it'd be a shame to keep it cooped up in my brain. Who knows, maybe this one'll reach the top of a fandom like my other popular story? I dream big. Lets see if you all agree for what I want this fic to be.
"Regular speech"
'Internal speaking/thoughts'
"YELLING"
"Attack Names/Spells/Chants"
Chapter 0
Last Breath
"MIDORIYA!"
"Detroit- SUMAAASH!"
The ground cratered and muscles strained, both from pressure and ungodly manipulations.
Despite the sheer strength present from both party's, it was quickly becoming clear what the outcome would be.
"THAT WAS WEAKER THAN BEFORE!" Muscular roared as he began to press his fist downward. His thoughts were plain to see from his massive grin. Just a little more, just a little more-!
"...Fine...it's FINE!" Muscular was barely able to make out from under his fist, before the kid he was currently crushing started yelling again.
"I...will not let him pass me! So RUN!" Izuku screamed to the little Water Horse Runt, Kouta, behind him, daring to turn away from his death.
"This kid..." Muscular muttered for a moment himself, before his shit eating grin got even bigger.
"MAN, YOU'RE THE BEST!" And then the muscles doubled, pushing the kid up to his ankles in the dense rock and cratering the rest surrounding them.
Muscular grinned as he felt the blood burst from the kid's strained arms, even as he called for him to 'shut up'. WHAT A RIOT! Muscular LIVED for this feeling!
Finally though, Muscular had enough. With an instant thought, legs burst from flesh and expanded, and his fist becoming nothing more than tons of meat to crush the brat who thought he was strong.
"SHOW ME YOUR BLOOD!" Was called out with a grin that would be accurately called bloodthirsty.
SCENE CHANGE: Midoriya
' A Hero... can always break out of a tough spot!' The words of All Might filtered through Izuku's head in that moment, whether for their message or from head trauma, but even they didn't help much in this literal tight spot. Izuku had to put everything he had towards keeping Muscular from enveloping and crushing him whole, leaving teeth clenched and blood to drip from the side of his mouth from the sheer pressure.
Visions of his mother went through his head, Aizawa-sensei having to tell Mom the news, that she'll never see her son again...
'Mom...I'm sorry. I'm so sorry.' Izuku gasped in his mind, eyes now shut in concentration, barely keeping up with the pressure now.
'All Might! All Might!' Izuku Midoriya wasn't going to become the next Symbol of Peace! He couldn't even carry All For One for a year... He failed...
The muscle began to creep closer to Izuku's face as his arms buckled for a moment, making Muscular give a sharp cry of cruel glee.
"I'M GOING TO CRUSH YOU!"
The ground broke before Izuku did though, but with it, he finally felt One For All slip his grip, even if only for a second.
This... was i-!
"St...STOP IT!"
Water soaked both Muscular and Izuku in an instant, making Muscular's massive figue flinch over, and reawakening Izuku form his brush with death. What!
It seemed Muscular was also taken aback, as he stopped crushing the Hero-In-Training for a moment, allowing Izuku all to literal breathing room for a moment, as well as letting Izuku lock eyes with the person who saved him... Kouta! With dripping hands! Izuku told him to run! To save himself! Not...not come back and throw his own life away...
"Hah? Water? You ARE the little Water Horse Brat. Didn't know for sure earlier, what with how wimpy you were acting. This'll be so much more fun than some random kid now!" Muscular jeered to the air, confused by the interruption at first, but happy with this new development. He was expecting a shower of blood, not cold water. There could easily still be both though!
"St...STOP IT!" Kouta shouted, bringing a light to Izuku's eyes as he too realized who was shouting. Stupid concussion...
"Kota!" Midoriya tried to scream, but only coming out as a harsh whisper. He had to save Kota!
"Hey! Later, kay! I'll kill you later! Just wait a-uh?" Muscular yelled at the boy before feeling something move beneath him. The kid was still trying to stay alive?
An arm began to push back, starting to crackle like a live wire. Soon another arm came to the ground, bracing the body as it rose like a man possessed. Kota gasped at seeing the badly injured form rise.
Kouta however wasn't the only one shocked at the miraculous recovery.
"As if-!" Izuku, no. Deku growled as he began to force himself to his knees, feeling the weight above him and how he would not fall like this with someone to save!
"Wait, are you getting stronger?" Muscular yelled in disbelief as he felt himself be pushed back. Even with adding new muscles every few seconds, he was being pushed back. How, HOW! THIS WASN'T SUPPOSED TO BE HAPPENING!
"I'D LET YOU KILL HIM!" Midoriya finished, all but growling as he finally stood up, drawing back his other fist and looking Muscular eye to bloody eye.
The static was getting intense, acting like lightning trapped in a cage even as muscles were torn and thrown away to try and combat this out of nowhere force.
Within his minds eye, clearer than anything else at this point, Izuku could only see a single star of color. Moving faster and faster with every second, every color and every motion before it settled in his fist.
"ONE FOR ALL! 1,000,000%!" Deku screamed as the pressure grew to its peak, veins glowing red with power and blowing away the muscles previously holding him in place from power alone.
"Detroit...DELAWARE SMMMAAAAAAASSSSHHHH!" He roared as the power released itself in that one swing, impacting Muscular.
It shattered anything that stood in its way, flesh and bone once so terrifying all but liquefying before the horrifying force.
The fist hit Muscular's face in short order, and in that moment, he went flying, massive form shattering the cliff-side firmly and truly unconscious, eyes rolled back and trailing blood, now once more a man.
"I... did it." Izuku muttered tiredly, falling to his knees and then face in short order from exhaustion.
The screaming from Kouta however, did not stop.
"Izu-nii!" Kouta yelled as he ran close to Izuku's fallen form, still looking afraid. Why? He beat Muscular. He...
"Oh...my arms gone." Izuku muttered, trying to feel for his oddly not-aching arm with a near broken left hand. Instead, all he accomplished was covering the hand with a fresh coat of blood and finding a small stump just over his shoulder, life fluid gushing out in alarming amounts.
Izuku guessed he was in shock at the moment, but couldn't help but chuckle a little at the injury.
'Guess All Might wasn't kidding when he said using too much would blow off limbs.' He thought with a sort of gallows's humor that only comes in the last moments.
Though he wasn't left much time with those thoughts for long, not with Kota now down on his knees beside him, looking like he was about to have a panic attack. Wonder why?...Oh, right.
"N-no, not again! Please, don't leave Izu-nii! We..we'll get help!" Kouta hiccuped and sobbed as he tried to get Izuku's blood to go back, to wash it back into the wound with water. Sadly, the blood was winning.
"I-I'm losing a lot of blood Kotau. I...I probably won't make it." Izuku gasped out, the water making him so much more aware of the pain in that side now, but it helped keep him focused enough to do was what was needed. One last thing he COULD do.
Even as Kouta sobbed and broke down and pleaded for him to live, Izuku forced his remaining arm to rise to Kouta's face, taking note of the blood staining it and thankful this could be a bit easier.
"I...I *GACK!* I n-need y-ou to do two things for me K-kota. Ok-ay?" Izuku managed to wheeze out, choking and starting to feel light headed. Probably didn't have much longer...
Kouta stopped his water for a moment, paying every bit of attention he could. What a good kid...
"Fir-st, I want you to re-re*HACK!*remember what a hero looks like. Wit-thout you, i'd be even deader n-now. You're a hero, Ko-ta." Izuku struggled to get out between new mouthfuls of blood, most swallowed back down but still some escaping through cracked teeth.
"No, I'm not a hero! a hero could help you! A HERO WOULD-!" A hand draped over Kouta's mouth, partially to stop his ramblings, partially because it was getting harder to hold up.
"L-lick my blo-ood." Izuku tried to command as hard as he could, not able to take much more.
"Wha-"
"DO IT!" He screamed, the excursion looking like it nearly rupturing his throat to do so, but it worked. Kota took a solid lick of his bloody and bruised palm, drawing at least a good sip worth, and swallowed with a grimace and a look of confusion.
Izuku felt any tension he had leave his body at the sight.
"I...I jju-st gave you my-y-y-y, QUI-rk!" Izuku managed to choke out, trying to sit up but now failing at the pressure in his gut.
The confusion on Kouta's face quickly gave way to disbelief and shock.
"WHAT! But, what, how, WHAT!" Ha, it was like when Toshinori told him...
"You're young, so n-noone'll notice if you ge-tt, a str-onger Quirk out of -nowhere." Izuku began to slur, eyes going dark in the corners.
"Wait, Izu-nii! I don't know what you mean! What's happening!" Kouta shouted again, trying desperately to get his hero's attention again, but it was so hard to focus. Now seemed like a great time for a post-workout nap...
"Find All Might...With One For All...You'll be a Great Hero..."
"Kouta."
With these last words whispered in a young boy's ear, Izuku Midoriya, age 15, passed away beaten but unbroken, with a smile on his face on that blood-stained rock.
He might not have become the World's Greatest Hero, but to one young boy.
There couldn't be a better one. That was good enough.
EYES SNAPPED OPEN
END OF CHAPTER! So, hooked yet?
