Chapter 9

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As Izuku and the League Of Villains come through Kurogiri's portal, Izuku focuses his eyes, not on the teachers, but on the students, looking for a specific one. Finding him, he grins.

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Katsuki's eyes widen as he looks at the villains, eyes narrowing in on one specific villain, who is wearing a suit and a lab coat.

"Deku!?" He exclaims in disbelief, causing Eraserhead to turn to look at him in shock.

"Bakugou, where'd you learn that name?" He asks.

"Learn it!?" Katsuki asks, turning toward his teacher. "I fucking gave him that name! It's a shortened version of 'Dekiru', I call him it because he's so smart that there's almost nothing that he can't figure out how to do!"

Eraserhead's eyes widen. "You know him?"

Katsuki scoffs. "Knew, not know. He's supposed to be fucking dead! 5 years ago, a villain attack put his mom in a coma. 2 years ago, while he's visiting her in the hospital, a villain attack destroyed the hospital. His mom died and, though his body was never found, we thought he died too."

Eraserhead frowns. "We will discuss this further at a future date if he escapes today. Now, though, I have work to do." He says, before leaping toward the villains quickly filling the plaza.

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"Kurogiri, change of plans." Izuku says, turning to the mist villain. "Your job is no longer to split up the students. Rather, you are to prevent any escapees. As soon as you can, take me up to them."

"Understood." Kurogiri says, preparing to warp himself and Izuku up to the top of the steps as soon as his quirk regains functionality. He doesn't have to wait long, as Eraserhead's quirk deactivates 10 seconds later. And, in the brief instant before Eraserhead can reactivate his quirk, Kurogiri opens a warpgate underneath himself and Izuku, depositing them right in front of Thirteen and the students.

"Don't come any closer." Thirteen demands, the finger-caps on her suit already opened.

"Kurogiri, deal with her. The students are mine." Izuku orders, stepping forward, an empty syringe sliding from his sleeve into his left hand while a massive scalpel-shaped sword appears in his right.

Without a word, Kurogiri dashes toward Thirteen.

"DEKU!! WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING HERE!?" Katsuki yells, propelling himself toward Izuku with his quirk.

Izuku grins, stopping Katsuki by pointing his scalpel-sword at him. "Long time no see, Kacchan!" He says cheerfully. "I knew you'd be here!"

"Where the hell have you been!?" Katsuki demands. "And why the hell are you working with VILLAINS!?"

Izuku scoffs. "I'm not working with them, I'm here as a favor for their BOSS." He says, seemingly insulted. "As for where I've been? That's simple, I've been pursuing science. When Mom died, my mind shattered, and my eyes opened." Suddenly, he notices that Kurogiri has defeated Thirteen. "Well, it seems that I'm out of time to talk. So, how 'bout this, if you can capture me, then I'll tell you everything." He says, before bursting into action. He destroys one of Katsuki's gauntlets with his sword and stabs him with the syringe, filling it with blood, before Katsuki has the chance to react.

Instantly, he is forced to leap back in order to avoid an explosion, and step to the side to avoid ice. Suddenly, a portal appears next to him, which he puts the filled syringe through and grabs another, empty, one out of. Dashing forward, avoiding attacks from all the students as he does so, he slashes the student who attempted to freeze him across the chest so as to incapacitate him, before filling the syringe with his blood and swapping it out for a new one just as he did the first. He then turns back to the rest of the students, eyes focusing in on a girl who is currently pulling shields out of her chest in order to pass them to the other students to be used as protection from his sword.

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Tomura scratches at his neck in frustration. "What the hell is Kurogiri still doing up there!?" He questions. "He was supposed to kill thirteen and scatter the students, that's it! On the same note, why the hell did he bring Sensei's supposed ally up there with him!?" He asks nobody, before deciding to put it out of his mind in order to avoid getting too frustrated and losing the ability to think straight.

He focuses on Eraserhead, who is almost done wiping out the no-name goons that had been gathered for this job, as Tomura had expected him to. Grinning, he dashes forward, already having figured out how to defeat the pro-hero.

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Izuku laughs as he weaves through the attacks the students throw at him, knowing full well that they can't afford to put their 100% into them less they risk injuring each other, before his eyes widen as he sees the girl he's currently trying to reach pull a sword out of her chest, which she swings at him as he gets in close, cutting off his left arm.

"You know, it's not very heroic to cripple a man." Izuku says as he slashes her arm, cleanly severing the nerves in it and causing it to go limp.

The girl screams in pain and grabs the wound, before Izuku delivers an identical wound to her remaining arm.

"Don't worry, neither the wound you gave me nor the wounds I gave you are permanent." Izuku says as his arm regrows, shocking all of the remaining students. "I can regenerate, and a neurosurgeon can repair your severed nerves. You might have trouble regaining the ability to use your arms afterward, though." He then grabs a new syringe and extracts her blood before the other students recover from their shock and attack him again. "Now then, who's next?"

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