The Wrath of the Skull Hero (MHA x Skullgirls Crossover)

Asphyxiation

As she felt the viscous green slime wrap around her body and make her squirm within it, the first thought that popped into her mind was...this again? In what world did she, a lone young woman, find herself in these situations TWICE in one year? Sure, this world was full of heroes and villains, and sure, those chances are not slim to none...but for the same woman at around the same time as the last was quite laughable.

The second thought in her head...was the greenette in front of her, her red eyes pulsating glowing power and rage as she stared at her brother, her struggling to get the slime off at all as she shakily breathed in the viscous mass, her reaching out and screaming before the stuff can reach her mouth

"I-Izuku! Run!"

As she squealed out, the slime covered her mouth and the freakish monster that had takne her form made a guttural groan

"Shut up, brat! All you kids these days are pathetic and weak...your bodies on the other hand..."

He laughed heavily as Marie grasped at the slime, with her attempting to pry it off to no avail. Why was this happening again? Why was this, of all things, occurring to her in particular, in this LIFETIME again? When she was weak and defenseless at this point? Sure, she had a quirk, and sure, she could use it...but she studied the laws of this world and previous dealings. The majority of the time, quirk usage without a license can seriously screw her life over...and in the case of being a minor with an adoptive family? The Midoryas surely wouldn't survive the hit they'll receive in terms of bail. Despite her glowing rage, despite her struggling...she can do NOTHING to stop this. She was weak all over again...yet that's not what caused her to tear up, no...

It was her brother that made her so it, as she slowly realized he was still frozen, staring at the sight with his own tears of fear and pulse pounding anxiety, that made her realize how screwed she was.

Her brother, the one boy in this world that gave her the time of day and made her feel happy and related to by anyone...was just staring at her, in utter fear of doing anything at all. He was going to watch her truly perish in this world...and it made her burst into tears.

She struggled again, her screaming out despite the sludge as she tried to reach out, to tell him to go and forget about her, yet despite this want to scream at him to save himself, the monster of a villain just laughed and grabbed her more

"...your all a buncha fuckin' crybabies! All whining and shit for things you can't control....this is the real world, you brats! Now...as for this girl, I'm going to use YOUR body to hide from that damned man...the fuckers been hiding out and doing his work all this time! Then, I'm gonna kill your little brat over there to hide any witnesses you have, so take your last views to the world, cause soon...it'll be MY own view!"

She made inwards gurgles of terror as she felt the viscous mass slowly enter her throat and force it down into her body, her struggling in agony to peel it off as she felt the sensation of losing oxygen all over again. That same feeling of helplessly floating there...it terrified her. She hated it do much. It reminded her of that damned void again. She wished she can use her power to stop this, but in her rage she...she would screw everyone over. The villain could be killed as well, netting her manslaughter...and then she could really ruin the family she called her own. She hated this. She hated this so much in her heart..no matter how hard it throbbed in agony and anger, all she could do was take it.

Izuku made cries of agony, the garbled sounds of begging and reaching out to her weakly before being slowly overcome with fear all to apparent. The fear in his eyes was all too there, and it was clear that the reality of the situation dawned upon him; Marie would surely die in front of him, and there was nothing he could do.

Though an odd thing slowly came to fruition for the girl trapped in slime...for one, it was the feeling of the lack of oxygen that was odd. Normally, one would struggle and attempt to suck in breath for the longest time before their eventual death due to lack of oxygen, that they would struggle and feel pain within them before their final moments came to pass..

..yet despite this, Marie felt none of that desperation.

Sure, the terror was still there, and the agony of it all coursed through her. But as her legs and arms gave out due to lack of energy, she peered around a bit...and a bit longer. There was...nothing. no want for air, no care about struggling, it was just...there. it felt disgusting and gross to have that slime penetrate her throat and suffocate her...but there was nothing. She just sorta lokked bothered through her tears as she looked around, with the slime man looking confused at the sight of this

"...the hell? You give in and somehow just...how are you still fucking concious?"

His questions were answered, as well as hers, when he finally reached down far enough and felt the worst thing in the world, at least for him...nothing. sure, there was a beating thing around his slime, but...no lungs. No organs. No flesh. There was nothing to hide in down here. He stared in utter terror at the girl, his slime undulating with confusion

"..t..the fuck?! What the fuck are-"

He screamed in agony as Marie registered the question, with her slowly realizing upon hearing the thud of burlap that Izuku..thrown the stuff off into his eyes. Izuku ran towards the villain with utter lack of care for himself, and instantly he jumped up, grabbing her sleeves and tugging at her while the villain was both in utter disbelief and in pain from whag he just felt. Those combined were the perfect combination for one thing: his slime was weaker in grip. Marie slowly realized that despite the agony he felt, he analyzed the situation for but a moment, and in his heart he knew deep down to at least TRY to help. He knew he would die either way...and any outcome leads to his potential death for certain. Yet in his heart, he pushed through that pain and toon the chance when it came to it, as if knowingly predicting his reaction due to her overall lack of torso outside of her ribcage and the heart within.

His tugging proved successful, as he fully pulled her out, her flying out of the slime and falling atop him as she weakly coughed out green slime to the side, her holding her torso like she was in pain, when merely she was raising her shirt up to let the rest of that cursed crap out of her system. She shakily breathed out, her enjoying the feeling of air going into her again as she shakily stared at the sight of the villain before her, who seemed to be blinking his sight out. She grasped at Izuku's shirt and tugged him up and away, her shakily breathing

"...Izuku...run...your really heroic for d..doing that...but goddamn it...your going to kill yourself over me...I'll catch up, just run!"

Before both can register such a statement, the villain just let a roar of anger at the two as he fully reformed himself and hardened a tendril of slime at them, him growling all animal like

"..you screwed my goddamn day up! At least I'll kill two brats before the end of it! And I can take over the body of that goddamned boy's corpse considering your girlie is a total FREAK! DIE!"

Marie backed Izuku away with her arm as she struggled to her feet, her shakily breathing as the massive tendril readied to swing into her and him, certainly slamming them into the walls as lethal speeds. She truly thought this was surely their end this time. If asphyxiation didnt kill her, blunt impacts should. Yet before she can realize what happened next...a booming voice was behind the villain

"DETROOOOOIT SMAAAAAAASH!"

the wind pressure from the attack that whoever had thrown it was severely strong. So much so, her body barely took the force of it as she and Izuku went flying, as well as the body of the slime villain's own pieces flying past them as they flew backwards. Marie could only see one thing as her eyes slowly open for just a moment on their free fall...

The familiar body and face of the hero who had saved her a while prior.

She weakly smiled before falling unconcious from the blunt impact to the back of her head, her feeling the rough concrete below her as her body finally gave out.