Of Flames And Quirks And Harmony

CHAPTER 16: Fight For Your Lives

Midoriya found himself splashing into a large body of water. What's the enemy's quirk? Warp gate? Teleportation? Why do they want to kill All Might? Does he even care if All Might dies? Ha. Serves him right.

"Nothing personal, kiddo!" A water mutant swimming straight to him with a desire to kill said. "Farewell!" It added then suddenly it was hit with a thud on the stomach.

"Midoriya-chan! Are you ok, kero?" Asui, whose quirk allows her to do anything a frog can do, asked as she swam up to the surface. "We're at the flood area."

"Thanks, Asui-san," Midoriya said as she started climbing the boat where she landed him.

"Please call me Tsuyu." She jumped up the remaining space and lands on the boat. "The situation is grim."

"If they have a way to kill All Might..." He'd gladly leave them to do just that. But of course he doesn't tell that verbally. Time to play innocent hero-wannabe. "Then what we have to do now is stop them. Fight... And win!"

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Todoroki is angry. He is feeling belittled by the villains. "It's a shame you're defeated by a single teenager," he insulted his crowd as he slowly stood up after freezing the ground, trapping his enemies. "Oi," he called out to one villain wrapped in ice, "if I don't do anything you'll die a slow death. But I'm aiming to be a hero, so I don't show such cruelty." He lifted his hand forward, palm exactly at the villain's face, and slowly released ice. "So unless you want to die, I want to know the strategy that makes you think you can kill All Might."

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Kaminari who can absorb and emit electricity, Jiro who can channel the sound of her own heartbeat as sonic attacks, and Yaoyorozu who can create any non-biological thing she knows the chemical composition of, were dropped into the mountains.

"Kaminari-san, this is a 100mm thick insulating cloth," Yaoyorozu said, plan readable in eyes.

And for a dumb guy Kaminari admits that he is, he got it. He understood. "It's my time to shine," he screamed as he let out a high voltage of electricity from his quirk, setbacks be damned.

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Ojiro who has a thick prehensile tail, was alone at a city that's on fire. Little did he knew that was where Gokudera, Yamamoto, and Chrome, were at, too, for they were at the other end of the place and he hasn't scouted the whole area yet. "Damnit. They're too fast." He swung over a metal clothes line with his tail, and hit the passing villain from above.

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Tokoyami who can control the sentient shadow being that is in his body, and Koda, who can talk to animals with his quirk, is at the tempest zone, currently having a raging storm. They stood back to back, awaiting and readying themselves for whatever may come to happen. Koda set out to be a bait, and as the enemies came, they were slammed to the wall on the side by Tokoyami's powerful quirk force.

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Sawada, Bakugo, and Kirishima, who can harden his body at will were teleported into the collapse zone. Neither Sawada nor Bakugo can use their quirks for fear of being toppled by near-collapse buildings. They had no choice but to fight with fists and kicks. Nothing new there for Kirishima though.

Bakugo felt only anticipation, a grin stretching across his face as he fought for his and his classmate’s lives. This was easier, the simple struggle for survival that he’d become so good at. No one bested him in a fight, not in his element. He thrived with his palms coated in sweat, ash in the back of his throat and nothing expected of him except to deal with the next target.

He blasted through the first few villains like they were tissue paper, a manic laugh half caught in his throat as he ran through the training grounds, looking for new targets. Bakugo felt like there wasn’t anything he couldn’t do.

Not even the thought of Deku being alive and having a quirk can dampen his mood.

"Then you go alone. I'm going to kill that fucking Warp Gate," Bakugo declined.

If only Kirishima agreed with him.

"Huh?! Now is not the time for tantrums!" was Kirishima's complain.

"Shut up! We need to take down their means of escape first."

"I need you to get either Reborn or Nii-san's fucking asses here right this instant, Mukuro!" The blonde and the redhead heard Sawada cussing amidst their own heated discussion.

"What a noisy bunch you lot a-"

"Or you can make a shitty illusion of me and report back at campus for me because I can't get a damn hold on both your apprentices!" Sawada finished as he sent a Flame-wrapped fist to the enemy's face. "What an amateur bunch you idiots are. Even that scaredy-cat Shoichie can fight stronger than you do," he sardonically grinned at the lizard-like villain. "You guys going to that Warp villain? I'll go check on Aizawa-sensei. He might be fighting against their leader." He walked to the window and opened it, "Addio," and jumped.

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Meanwhile, Tenya Iida,  Uraraka, Ashido, Sato, who can enhance his strength after consuming sweets, Sero, a tape quirk user, and Shoji with his dupli-arms, were left behind with Thirteen, facing off the villain with a transportation quirk.

Tenya ran to the door as per Thirteen's order, but the mist of the Warp Gate was in front of him again. He started to drift stop, but Shoji jumped right and tackled the mist. He started running again, but Warp Gate was too fast, that is, until the enemy lost control over his own gravity.

"I don't know how it works, but if you have a solid body, then I can use it against you!" Uraraka shouted as she released her grip on he metal. Sero was quick to wrap his tape on the metallic body as he was about to create another warp, and Sato reeled him in, just in time for the boy clad in metallic armor to open the doors to his size and run at turbo's speed.

Tenya ran fast, faster than he could've imagined. He never knew he could run this hard, this fast before. When he was younger, he truthfully never really understood how people got “out of breath”. His quirk usually didn’t allow for it, his legs giving out before his lungs most of the time.

His heart was squeezing itself into knots in his chest, his lungs felt as if they were submerged in fire. Psychological, but no less painful. If this was what most of his classmates felt after running laps, he understood their hatred of it. It felt like his ribs were about to crack open. He was going so fast, that his eyes could barely track what was ahead of him. All because villains had done the impossible: Break into a UA approved training arena.

Tenya was disappointed in himself. Although he was asked by Thirteen and his classmates, he had to run out and away from the villain attack. He had to run, in their words, to get help. He was an aspiring hero. He was the one who was supposed to give help to those in need.

And yet, here he was, running, farther and farther away from those being attacked, like his life was on the line. No, that was insulting. Insulting to his classmates and teachers. He was running because their life were on the line.

But that didn't mean he liked it, though. Sawada and Midoriya and Yamamoto, who were more adept in fast transportation they could actually just fly through and avoid all those turns and traffic Tenya would have to go through, were teleported somewhere. Which made him the only option left, being the only one left with a Pro, being nearest to the doors leading out of USJ, being the only one left who could run fast enough.

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No justice; no amount of apology would be enough. I cant for the life of me write fight scenes correctly. I tried, but meh. So I stopped, before I trash it and skip the whole USJ.