•Manipulation• [BNHA × Male!OC]

Chapter 153: Baki Hanma's back. (World Heroes' Mission AU)

Its an unforgiving back and forth.

I have my hands full trying to juggle attacking Flect, dodging his reflections and minimizing Midoriya's damage.

Still, he charges at the villain with reckless abandon.

'Give me a break already...!'

I run to the side, sending a wave of flooring rushing towards Midoriya just as he's thrown backwards.

It catches him, breaking his fall, but...

'Shit... his wounds are reopening...'

I hadn't expected the slapdash patch job to last very long but he was taking way too much damage.

'But if we let up, he'll go after Rody...'

I clench my jaw and punch at the floor. It rushes up to attack the man but, as always, it gets rebounded.

"Ugh, this is getting really old!" I groan, grabbing a nearby book and throwing it at the villain in a fit of exasperation.

Exasperation is what drove me to say my next line too.

"BET THAT'S WHY ALL YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY LEFT YOU!"

Flect looked annoyed as the book was flung right back at me, but combined the force from Deku's attack, the wind is knocked out of me most unpleasantly.

But my poor attempt at psychological warfare aside, I grabbed at my stomach and looked up at the countdown just as it reached one minute.

"Rody?!" Midoriya grunted in frustration as once again he throws himself at Flect Turn.

But a simple kick is all it takes to send him back against the wall.

Flect turns to one of the screens and I wince as I catch its contents.

Rody had collapsed from blood loss. He was mere meters from the control center.

"Both father and son, there is no saving scum," Flect spat coldly.

'Ugh, speak for yourself!'

"You're wrong..." Midoriya hissed, energy swirling around him.

"Rody, my friend, is not scum!" he yelled, kicking his foot down on the villain's head.

But, as we all know, it gets stopped.

"It's no use, do you still not understand?" Flect seems incredulous at his persistence.

Well join the club! Persistence is Midoriya's middle name, and we all had to learn that the hard way.

"I believe in Rody!" Midoriya yells, somehow his foot inching closer and closer to Flect.

He hadn't been repelled yet, a breakthrough was afoot! (Okay this time pun is intended)

"I believe in heroes!"

But still, despite the potential, Deku is sent flying back once more.

'Well, when he says it like that..'

I sigh, knowing all too well what I'm getting myself into as I get back to attacking Flect.

Sure enough, me and Deku are taking turns running at Flect and getting thrown back like some idiotic yoyo roleplay.

But seeing as the screens around me were all showing how the heroes were still desperately trying to stop the bombs, who was I to call it quits early?

'Everyone else is giving it their all, so I will too...! ...or something like that.'