The Hero's Stand

19: 'Personal' Training (Part 2)

I felt a sudden shift in the aura around All Might and stood up immediately. It was hard to place my finger on it but he seemed more menacing? Perhaps stronger?

All Might grinned and walked slowly towards me. I readied Star Platinum.

All Might charged up a massive punch and I got ready to catch it.

The impact nearly blew away Ururaka with the force of the air but Star Platinum stood there with the fist in its hand and some significant strain for me.

"Well done Midoriya! That was a punch at 70%! Not many would get past this point."

All Might launched into a high-speed barrage of punches that Star Platinum easily caught up with when it came to speed.

The problem was that my knuckles were starting to bleed.

I need to find a weakness here. Then I can get a good time stop off and take him down.

I started looking through Star Platinum's eyes for any potential chink in All Might's onslaught. I was being pushed into the ground now and started moving my punches to the left and right, trying to shake him off.

Damn it Izuku! This is what you get for holding back in a fight. Now you're probably gonna lose to All Might!

Then I saw it. When I moved to the left slightly All Might furrowed his brow and started going faster with his punches.

Gotcha

I charged up Hamon through my right fist while still keeping All Might occupied with Star Platinum. Then I jumped forwards and rammed it into his stomach, dispelling all the Hamon at once and blasting him back.

Here we go. The second quirk. This weird energy stu-

He was rammed in the stomach and forced to switch temporarily to 100% to not be defeated by the massive surge that emitted from Midoria's hand. As he was flying back he heard the kid shout four quick words.

"STAR PLATINUM! THE WORLD!"

Time stopped.

I walked over to All Might's body, suspended in mid-blast, and lifted the shirt on his left side. This gave me a look at the side of his body, which housed a massive and old wound that looked near-fatal.

"Sorry about this All Might. Star Platinum!"

I pointed to the wound on All Might's body and Star Platinum readied it's fists.

"Ora Ora Ora Ora Ora Ora Ora Ora Ora Ora Ora Ora Ora Ora Ora Ora Ora!"

It stopped and readied up a massive punch.

"ORA!"

Time unfroze and All Might was hit with the collective force of 8 seconds worth of incredibly weak punches thrown at light speed alongside one punch that was about as strong as I get without breaking my hand.

His body went flying downwards and when the dust settled he was nowhere to be found. I started checking around me for an attack from behind but Ururaka pointed something out in the crater that I had made.

"Deku! I think that's All Might!"

In the hole lay a scrawny man who bore resemblance to the #1 hero. He had the same hair, face and clothes but none of the trademark muscle that defined All Might.