55Izumi's mind raced a million miles a minute as she took in the sight down below, all the thugs surrounding the four truly dangerous looking villains who seemed to be giving out orders.
Her senses calmed now that the danger was in sight. She vaguely registered her sister's hand on her shoulder as she let out a small snarl, her hands swirling with red tendrils.
"EVERYONE STAY BACK!" Aizawa shouted at his students, pulling on his goggles and leaping down the stairs. "THIRTEEN, GET THEM OUT!"
Izumi tightened her fists, ready to follow.
"Sis no!" Itsuka hissed quietly in her ear, gripping her tighter. "Not in front of everyone."
She met the redhead's concerned gaze, before looking back to see her classmates and quietly cursed the fact she couldn't change without exposing herself.
"Kids, come on! We have to leave now!" Thirteen called, making their way towards the exit with the students following, worried gazes on all their faces. Itsuka pulled the shapeshifter along, who spared one quick glance back to see some thugs surrounding her homeroom teacher but the man fending them off. 'I'll be back as soon as possible, just wait…'
The two quickly managed to near the front of the group as no one really obstructed their path, only Thirteen and Iida ahead of them when all too suddenly a purple mist began forming like it had before in front of them.
It rapidly expanded, two bright intimidating yellow eyes staring down at them from the mist as it tried to block their path.
"Leaving so soon? I don't think so." A somewhat ethereal yet dark voice spoke, smoke billowing as it's eyes narrowed. Thirteen spread their arms protectively as the villain stared them down. "A pleasure to meet you all. I am Kurogiri and we are the League of Villains. You'll have to excuse our impoliteness but we just had to come say hello. Besides, is this not a fitting place for the Symbol of Peace to breathe his last?"
Izumi stood up straighter at that, sharing a concerned glance with Itsuka who was starting to ball her own fists. The greenette's mouth curved into a frown as she bared her teeth, slowly shifting into a fighting stance. 'They think they can kill All Might? Do they know about his weakness? You know what, I don't care. They made their last mistake coming here…'
She traded one last glance with Kendou, who raised a brow in silent communication. Izumi nodded and they both prepared to leap into action.
"I believe the man was supposed to be here but I see no sign of him. I presume there was an abrupt change in plans we couldn't have foreseen. How irritating," Kurogiri said, sighing. Izumi's thermal vision kicked in, noting the mist itself was cold but there was a warm signature right in the middle of the mist, just beneath the eyes. 'That must be his body.'
"Be careful. Aim beneath the eyes." The shapeshifter mouthed to the One For All bearer beside her as they got ready to strike, only for Izumi's eyes to land on Thirteen opening up one of their fingers and beginning to suck in the villain.
"I don't know what you thought you would accomplish coming here but I won't let you hurt anyone, villain!" They exclaimed, the mist being sucked in and blown apart. Most of the students lit up with elation seeing their teacher defending them.
Izumi however quickly found herself horrified. "THIRTEEN NO, DON'T!"
"You really should listen to your student." The villain chuckled darkly as a portal began to open up behind the pro. "You have no real battlefield awareness as a rescue hero. Goodbye."
The portal burst open, the pull of the black hole the pro hero was creating beginning to suck them through. Izumi sprang into action immediately, leaping in between Thirteen and the portal, rooting herself into the ground and letting tendrils burst through the ground, carrying the pro over to safety.
They were clearly massively weakened however, their body brought to the brink of collapse as they laid down. They were safe though.
The shapeshifter on the other hand…
"IZUMI!"
Her arm went first, ripping out of it's socket before her hair and parts of her face followed. She planted her remaining arm tight into the ground, feeling her body lift into the air until finally Thirteen managed to stop the black hole, leaving the greenette on the floor missing half her body.
"EIIIIIIIII!"
"OH MY GOD!"
"I think I'm gonna be sick!"
"See 'hero?' Your lack of awareness has already killed one of your students-"
"Oh god freakin' dammit sis!" Itsuka huffed angrily, stomping her foot and getting odd looks from everyone. "One day without destroying a part of your body, just one day! Is that so hard?!"
"Kinda." She shrugged, causing people to scream again as she pushed herself up and reformed her body, turning her gaze onto the villain with a small glare. "Now you…"
"Wait, don't-"
Thirteen's instructions fell onto deaf ears as Izumi bolted forward, racing at the villain. Itsuka quickly followed up to provide back up to her sister and Kirishima even launched after them, presumably emboldened by their attack.
"So eager, you really must control yourselves." Kurogiri tutted, smoke rushing forward rapidly towards the three. The former vigilante's reflexes kicked in as her faster eyes saw it coming, leaping high into the sky and flipping over the back of the villain instantly but neither Kendou or Kirishima were so lucky, nor were the classmates behind them who got caught up in the smoke. 'Crap!' "Well one of you is fast- AHH!"
Izumi delivered a swift powerful kick to where she knew the villains body was, throwing him off balance and causing his smoke to dissipate. In the brief moments he was thrown away, the greenette was able to see behind herself and notice multiple things.
First were the portals that had opened in various places across the USJ. The second was that some of her classmates had disappeared. Only Uraraka, Mina, Satou, Shoji, Sero and Iida remained. Finally, she saw Aizawa struggling to hold off some of the thugs, the amount slowly but surely overwhelming him.
With no time to lose, the teen threw forward a tendril that grabbed onto Iida, yanking him forward over the villain and she flipped them both around, letting them land on their feet as the blue haired teen looked confused. She shot out a second tendril, pulling open the door forcibly as she gave him her instructions. "Get backup immediately! Get the teachers here!"
"W-What?! But I cannot just leave you all-" He began to protest, only to get a light but firm slap from the girl who glared but with a small sympathetic twinkle in her eyes.
"Dude, aside from maybe me you're the fastest in the class and…"
"..And you are more capable of defending them than me. I understand. I don't like it but I do understand." The teen said, turning to the door thought his reluctance showed in his facial expression. "I'm only going because you can protect everyone so please… do that."
"You got it, now GO!" Izumi said, the engine teen blasting off as Kurogiri turned only to let out a hiss of annoyance.
"Damn you!" He called, smoke rushing to the girl who tightened her fist and tried to leap out the way again. He predicted this time however and she felt her body lurch as it suddenly consumed her, before she fell and the environment suddenly changed to be dark and dreary, rain pouring down heavily.
She shot out a tendril, saving herself from splatting and looked around to see she was in a small city like area, encased in a dome. 'Fuck, he must of dropped me into one of the other domes…'
She stood up, looking around for the entrance only for the world to flash blue and her hearing to pick up on rapidly approaching footsteps behind her.
"SPECIAL DELIVERY!"
She jumped into the air just in time to avoid a swing from a massive club, flipping and seeing a ten foot tall thug she could only describe as 'troll-like' attempting to take her out. She landed on his back, delivering a single quick strike to his neck that knocked out the giant before her ears picked up on loud bangs and whistling wind.
Leaping into the air again she shot out two tendrils at two projectiles that had been shot as her (which turned out to be cannonballs) and began spinning on her feet before seeing her target, a woman with an opening in her stomach revealing a canon another random thug with rock like skin was reloading.
She launched the cannonballs at the rock boy, only knocking him over before she rushed forth, instantly appearing in front of the cannon woman kicking her across the face, knocking her out.
"BBBitch!" A thug called out, Causing Izumi to turn and see a humanoid fly diving down at her, lifting her up. She flinched upon seeing the creepy giant bug eyes staring into her soul as it flew her into a wall, which she rolled up and clung onto as the fly thug continued to soar.
It turned and came down for another attack, only for Izumi to form claws and dodge, cleaving straight through his wings and sending him crashing into the ground, where she left him in a cocoon of tendrils. 'Talk about cannon fodder.'
She looked to the woman beneath her who was unconscious. '…Literally.'
With that dealt with, she turned her attention to where she presumed the exit would be, taking a running start and forming wings, leaping into the sky. She may have preferred swinging but flying was faster, and in this moment she needed to move as fast as possible.
She made it a large portion of the way out, but her attention was quickly grabbed by the sounds of fighting from the streets below. She spotted Tokoyami and Koda, back to back as thugs surrounded them.
A rather burly looking man who seemed to be buffing up with every drop of water that hit him quickly took the bird boy's attention, as his Dark Shadow grappled with the man, much bigger than Izumi has seen the creature before.
Koda on the other hands seemed to be relying on hand to hand combat, but his inexperience shined through and he seemed to mostly be scraping by on pure strength alone.
She swooped down upon seeing them, delivering a drop kick to a thug that had been heading for Koda before using the momentum to move backwards, flipping over Dark Shadow and grabbing the muscular thug it was struggling with, kneeing him hard enough to bring him to the ground.
"Midoriya? My gratitude for the assistance." The bird teen said, looking around to see more thugs not too far away he seemed somewhat hesitant to step forward yet. "Since when could you sprout wings though?"
"Since I was twelve. Just not a fan of getting around like this to be honest." She explained nonchalantly. The criminals around them were barely worth being called villains with the ease she could take them out at. "I was trying to get out when I saw you guys."
"STUPID BRATS! WE-" Whatever the pink haired woman that had been running at them was going to say, they would never know as Izumi stomped into the ground, before an obscene amount of tendrils burst from the ground and knocked out the woman before restrain her and continuing on, many tendrils splitting off and all of them repeating the process with every other villain the greenette knew was present.
"One would almost think you'd done this before." Her classmate commented with a surprised look, which the girl just sheepishly waved away.
"W-What? Nah! These guys are just really easy to take out is all!" She said, hoping her sudden nervousness didn't come across as too suspicious. She didn't get a chance to find out though as both Tokoyami and Koda's eyes widened.
"Look out—"
Izumi turned, before smirking at the sight she saw. For a brief second when she turned there had been a few random thugs coming towards them. A second later there was a brief orange flash and suddenly the villains were all laid out flat on the floor, unconscious.
"Uh… was that your doing, Midoriya?" Tokoyami asked confused and the greenette shook her head, barely able to keep the excited smile off her face as she turned around and pointed behind them.
"Nope, hers." She said, glee evident in her voice and the two boys turned around to see Itsuka stood there with a small but proud smile, her body glowing ever so slightly, an orange aura enveloping her that looked as if her body was coated in some kind of ethereal flame. She must have been no more than a blur to the boys but to Izumi she had seen the whole affair. The taller girl having simply repeated her infamous neck chop over and over. "Looking badass sis. I thought you said you got energy limbs though?"
"Yeah, if I utilize my hands as well. Two modes, Izumi." The red head explained, walking towards them and nodding to the two 1-A students on her way before she smirked at her sister. She leaned forward when she was close enough, quietly whispering to the shapeshifter. "I blame you for this. I don't know how it's your fault, but…."
"You know what that seems fair." The greenette said with a small shrug, before leading her away from the boys for a moment, taking her sister's hands into her own. "Also that was amazing how you dealt with those thugs, sis! I know I joke about me being above you but seriously, you're amazing."
"Thanks, but I'm only great cause I've had some amazing teachers in the past." The 1-B girl chuckled, squeezing Izumi's hands. "Now come on, we gotta go."
"Right." The shapeshifter nodded, before letting go of the taller girl's hands and turning to Tokoyami and Koda. "Okay, you two aren't equipped for moving fast right?"
"I may be able to utilize Dark Shadow to an extent to travel but certainly not far. Koda on the other hand I doubt has much mobility at all." The bird-headed teen explained, the rocky boy beside him nodding to confirm the first boy right.
"Alright, then Itsuka, you use your hands to pick them up, your extra limbs in case thugs attack again and run for the entrance. I'll cover you from above. Koda, Tokoyami, if there's anything you can do to assist feel free but try to focus on looking out for the exit if possible." Izumi instructed, her sister nodding before her fists grew gargantuan and she picked the two boys up. Neither put up much fight, though Tokoyami clearly was not amused by the situation. Kendou's fiery orange aura returned as two beefy orange limbs—a somewhat darker shade than her aura—faded into existence. The top of them seemed to almost be melting into the sky, only adding more into the comparison of a burning flame, and this time the greenette noticed a detail she'd somehow missed before. The girl's eyes were entirely coated in a pure orange glow, covering her irises completely. Her pupils remained, though they were an electric blue for some reason that fit well with her costume. 'So… freakin… cool…'
"Let's go." The redhead said simply, snapping the shapeshifter out of her trance and she nodded, turning and taking off into the sky. It only took a few moments with the speed of the two to locate the wall of the dome and run around the edge, coming upon the exit rather quickly.
Along the way there had been a few thugs who failed to notice them, which Izumi had dealt with rather rapidly, using tendrils to stick them to the walls and ground with surprise attacks.
The final two thugs had been guarding the entrance but it was Tokoyami who took care of the first, Dark Shadow reaching out and catapulting the one closest to him into the sky where Izumi delivered a spinning kick that launched him back into the ground.
Kendou followed up against the second thug, sliding on her feet into a turn and using one of her two energy limbs to slam him into the wall with a fist, knocking him out instantly.
"Nicely done, Itsuka." Izumi whistled as she let her wings disappear back into her body and she dropped onto the floor, landing on her feet. After that, the shapeshifter rushed forward with a punch, breaking the doors off their hinges.
"I uh… I'm pretty sure they were unlocked." The One for All wielder behind the girl said deadpanned, making her flush and rub her neck.
"O-Oh… whoops." Izumi chuckled nervously, Itsuka rolling her eyes at her sister before the two walked out into the main area of the USJ. Off to one side, the greenette saw the stairs back to the exit from the whole facility and on the other side she saw what she assumed was the shipwreck zone, based on the ship in the middle surrounded on all sides by villains. 'Wait didn't one of the portals open over that?'
She squinted her eyes at the yacht in the middle, noticing movement. Her enhanced senses let her quickly realize who it actually was, the green and purple outfits giving away that Asui and Mineta were surrounded. 'Shit!'
Her attention then turned to in front of her, and she felt her heart lurch as she realized their homeroom teacher was now getting his ass handed to him by the monstrous bird like creature she had seen earlier. Thinking quickly, she turned to the other three students.
"Tokoyami, Koda, you two go back to the exit immediately! People are still up there and if we can manage to group back up it will be harder for the thugs to attack us." She said, before turning to her sister. "Sis, you need to go help Asui and Mineta in the shipwreck area right now!"
"What about you? What is your plan for yourself?" Tokoyami asked, Izumi sparing a glance back for just a moment.
"I'm off to see an old 'friend.'"
With that she took off, rapidly approaching the main area. She saw the giant bird-like creature grab her teacher by his arms, seeming to be preparing to try to break his body.
Before it got the chance she kicked off the ground, leaping over it and putting her hands together. "FINAL DEVASTATOR! CRITICAL PAIN!"
She launched the attack forward, hitting the creature square in its back and pushing it forward. It let go of Aizawa as it was suddenly pushed forward by surprise, the pro utilizing the surprise opportunity to roll away and get to his feet.
"Well now, that was a surprise. I didn't think someone could actually make Nomu budge even if they caught him by surprise." A voice said, getting the greenette to turn and see the white haired villain from before covered in hands, scratching at his neck.
"Of course she fucking did." Srijan whispered under his breath, sounding irritated. "Should be me dealing with this brat…"
"Are you here just to complain? You're getting on my nerves."
"Midoriya?! Get out of here!" Aizawa commanded, gripping at his arm that hung limp, clearly having been injured at some point and meeting her gaze. "This isn't something you should be getting involved with!"
"Says the one-armed wonder." She said, before she noticed the creature from before launching at them again. She rushed forward, grabbing her teacher and pulling the man to safety, setting him down before taking on a fighting position. "Until All Might gets back, I'm the strongest fighter you have, sir."
Her eyes shined with excitement. 'Looks like an actual challenge for once.'
She glanced over to Srijan for just a moment.
"Besides… I see at least one All Might level threat here already."
'And that is a challenge I'm never gonna turn down!'
