Beacon Hero Academia [VOLUME 1]

C11 | Act IV: A Harsh Game Over

Beacon Hero Academia [VOLUME 1]
C11 | ACT IV: A Harsh Game Over
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The air and tension were so thick that a simple knife wasn't enough to cut through it. Izuku stood still as the new form and its energy just swirled around him. The villains, the students, and even the teachers were shocked as they stared at the boy, unaware of this sudden power, but only one person was aware and had a small smirk.

"Finally..." The girl spoke up, and both Shigaraki and the masked villain turned over to her, her spear still intact and in her hand. "I never thought I'd be able to find this power ever since the last wielder of it passed away, but it was with you, all this time." She said, her smirk grew bigger until it turned into a grin as she quietly laughed to herself.

"Hey, what are you going off about? What even is he?" Shigaraki asked. That's when she lifted her hands to her head, pulling down the hood and revealing her face. She had pretty medium-length black hair, which only went to about her neck, part of her hair was covering her orange and red mixed eyes, which burned like fire, and the grin was now in full view as she pointed her spear towards Izuku.

"He... is the FALLEN MAIDEN!" She exclaimed before charging towards Izuku, catching the boy by surprise. But thankfully, he managed to jump into the air, dodging her attack, while All Might stepped to the side. The muscle man then turned his focus onto the giant, skull-faced bird monster. With quick footwork, he dashed over to it in one jump and cocked his arm back. "CAROLINA..."

"Grimoru," Shigaraki called. The bird monster roared and charged toward All Might with equal speed.

"SMASH!" All Might launched his fist at the bird freak, with the monster copying the action as a method of parrying. Their punches both collided, sending a shockwave across the USJ and causing some of the people inside the USJ to take cover from the wind.

"Not bad, big guy, but why not try THIS?!" All Might quickly used his current punching hand and pulled the Grimoru closer, to which he had his other arm locked and loaded. "NEW HAMPSHIRE... SMASH!" All Might rocketed his other arm into the beast's chest, getting a direct hit on the monster as he grinned at the contact. But as the smoke faded, his grin fell, seeing the beast perfectly intact, stepping back to gain space. "Tsk... he's got some shock absorption quirk, must be a pretty strong one."

"You've got a good eye. Yes, we indeed gave it Shock Absorption, it wouldn't be fair to give it some muscles and not have some way to tank your powerful smashes or punches." The white-masked man said. Watching as All Might jumped over one of the creature's punches.

"Thanks for the heads up!" The blonde said as he backflipped away from another swing from the beast, before quickly zooming out of its sight. Suddenly, the beast roared as it felt its head being forcefully grabbed. All Might then charged for the ground and slammed its head into the hard ground.

*BACK TO IZUKU*

Izuku was unknowingly running at 5%, performing flips as he landed back on the ground. Cinder did not give him any time to recover or get a breath in as she rushed towards him, swinging her spear at the boy, who ducked underneath. Cinder then followed up with a couple more swings of her weapon with some fire punches and swings here and there, but the boy dodged while waiting for the time to strike.

Finally, Cinder swung her spear, aiming to cut off the boy's head clean off, to which Izuku simply ducked and swept her leg, and as she started to fall backward, Izuku already had a punch locked and loaded. "SMASH!" Izuku internally shouted, rocketing his arm. Cinder, however, managed to block the last second but was still launched very far back. She then came to a skidding halt right afterward.