Izuku, The Super Soldier

Chapter 25-Iida's Bizarre Adventure

Izuku's fever easily broke over 100 degrees when Shouto decided to call Momo again. Hello? she had said meekly into the receiver of the phone. "Not to worry you...but I think you should come to the Kimono General Hospital, because Izuku's in trouble and I think you're quirk can save him!"

HE'S WHAT She yelled into the phone, if it was possible she would've reached through and wrung his neck. "He's sick and you can save him. Just...just get down here please." He sounded desperate and he didn't know why. Maybe it was because he felt a small pang of guilt for what happened, maybe it was the thought of losing someone that he genuinely liked to be around, maybe it was both...

Izuku's heart rate was increasing slowly, but steadily. It was beating too fast for a human too live under those conditions, yet he somehow managed. Iida tapped Shouto's shoulder, which easily got his attention. "Todoroki, wasn't that where he was picked up by the flying Nomu?" His voice was hushed, because he didn't want to worry the remaining Midoriya in the room, which was the skeletal blonde, haired man.

"Now that you mention it..." he paused for a single moment. "Y'know it wasn't that obvious!" He quickly let out in a sarcastic way. "Jeez, you're rude. Anyways, if the Nomu had a quirk that made his skin or talons poisonous, wouldn't there be a cure too it?" A light bulb appeared over Shouto's head, everything seemed to fall into place, and the glass containing his reality was shattered. "You aren't wrong, but didn't Izuku destroy it with that electricity burst? Wasn't it fried from the inside out?"

Maybe the talons were left intact, "but talons shouldn't be destroyed, at least according to the laws of the universe." Shouto chuckled lightly, "you never cease to be stuck up. You should be right though," Iida deadpanned when the other chuckled. "This is not the time to have fun, our friend is dying!" He was walking towards the door, "the scene shouldn't be completely cleaned up yet. So I'll go and get that talon!" Thus started Iida's epic journey, it was a quest to save his friend-who's condition is getting worse-was there another reason? Yes. Yes, and it was to redeem himself in the eyes of his friend, because he also felt like he caused this.

As soon as Iida exited the building he heard the distant roar of what sounded like a dragon. He paid no attention for it wasn't important to the task at hand. His engines started to radiate a heat, it seems as if they were still overclocked from his special move earlier. Or maybe they were just destroyed forever. Still, he didn't care, not about himself at least.

Iida ran as fast as he could without the use of his engines, he may not have looked it, but he was rather fast without his quirk. He ran and ran and ran, until he finally was there...despite being out of breath. He cursed himself, for the body of the Nomu and every hero there was gone and for some reason a mysterious hearse was moving in the opposite direction of him. Suddenly he could feel his engines again and for the first time that night, he smiled. They started to vibrate and power up again, "I'm going to save you Izuku." He started to run across the road with the help of his engines, his body was telling him to quit before everything shut down, but he was a hero and he needs to protect those that can't protect themselves.

The hearse took a sharp left, and Iida followed, he was rather close to catching up to the vehicle. But he noticed that it was gradually getting faster, and Iida gradually went faster. He was truly willing to lay his life down for a friend, just like he was going to do for his brother's honor...though he wasn't thinking straight when he tried. Finally! He had a hand on the hearses back door, the door that was used to load the deceased into. Something unexpected happened though, it opened soon after he laid his hand on it, revealing a man that was slightly older than him with black scruffy hair and a T-shirt and mask with a skull on them.

"RORUTO, GUN THIS KID DOWN!" Shouted someone from the driver's seat, "SURE!" Shouted the boy that Iida had come to know as Roruto, but he didn't pay attention to that. All he saw, were the dead bodies of the heroes that were there with them, they had multiple small gun holes burrowed into their bodies and there was also the Nomu, who was shriveled up and dead. A small bullet nicked Iida's ear and blood started to drip slowly from it. He diverted his attention back to the boy who had his fingers pointed towards him, he could see that there were small spike like bullets coming from under the fingernails.