Pirates and Heroes [One Piece & My Hero Academia]

Fighting Back Pt 1

As Izuku went in for the punch, Muscular could instinctively sense that something was drastically different from before.

Izuku punched with all the strength he had. The impact of the punch leveled the cliffside.

Kota was blown away by the shockwave and almost fell to his death when something clasped onto the back of his shirt. Izuku had just barely managed to grab Kota with his teeth.

"Showee. Dhin't mhean to shend you fhying." was all he could utter with his mouth muffled by Kota's shirt.

Izuku pulled the younger boy back onto the cliff. Kota took a good look at Izuku. His arms were in complete shambles.

"Why??" he thought.

"Lets get back to the facility. It's not too far from..." Izuku lost his train of thought when he saw something move inside the dust.

Once the dust cleared, Izuku saw that the thing that had moved was a huge wad of muscle. There was only one thing that could mean.

"What...?! No way..." he said slowly. He didn't want it to be true.

The muscle started to retract back into Muscular's skin.

"Even 100% of All Might's power... wasn't enough?!" he thought.

Muscular hunched over and exhaled. "Startin' off with a little jab, hrm?" he looked at Izuku's terrified face, "Not half bad, kid!!"

The villains slowly started walking towards the two children. Izuku instinctively put his battered arm in front of Kota.

"Stop!! Don't come any closer!!" he shouted.

"Now, now, that'd be no fun. You're mine." Muscular said menacingly.

Izuku desperately needed time to come up with a plan. In order to buy that time, he sparked a conversation.

"W-why are you doing this?! What does the League want?!" he asked.

"Hell if I know. I like to destroy things. As long as I can use my quirk without a care then I'm good." scoffed Muscular, "Did you forget already? This is a game. I said so at the beginning, didn't I? But that's over." he pulled something out of his pocket, "Now it's time...for my serious eye."

He inserted an artificial eye into his eye socket and got ready to attack again.

"Kota! Grab on!!" Izuku yelled. The two lept away just in time. Muscular punched the ground where they just were and made a whole through the bottom of the cliff.

"His speed and strength! It's on a whole different plane then before!" thought Izuku, "He really has been playing with us! Killing us is just a game to him!!"

Izuku jumped towards the rock wall and quickly pushed off. And just like last time, Muscular completely destroyed that area.

Izuku was now hyper-analyzing the situation. "Aizawa-sensei should be at the facility. If only he were here, he could erase this guys quirk and that would be it! Can we really make it all the way to the facility with this guy chasing us? Nah, there's no way in hell!!" he thought.

Izuku closed his eyes and emptied his mind of these kind of thoughts. "I've got to fight, here and now!! You don't have any other choice, Izuku Midoriya!!!" he glared straight at Muscular, "Didn't you want to save people?! Remember why you want to become a hero!!"

"Kota, step back. But not too far or he'll target you. Around 6 or 7 steps should do it." said Izuku with a calm demeanor, "When I intercept him, run to the facility with everything you've got!"