Chapter 13: (Episode 12: All Might)
Kurogiri's eyes narrowed with glee, having used Thirteen's quirk against her to shatter her back with the move putting her out of commission. The six students that were with her gaped in horror at their teacher's injury, completely frozen still with fear from what the criminal had accomplished.
"H-He got me…"
"NO…!" Ochaco gasped before she buried her head in Tenya's chest for comfort, his hand resting on her head.
"Why do we have to see this all again…?! It was already traumatizing the first time- What's the logic of this show?!" Minoru sobbed out while Shoto narrowed his eyes to his left, at the doors, because he'd been asking that question since the beginning, twice.
"C-Can you explain why we have to watch these recaps…? N-Nothing's changed…" Mina stuttered out, still shaken up from almost watching three of them get slaughtered by Tomura.
"I have been programmed to show a short synopsis before the start of certain episodes to showcase important events that will mark your futures and build your characters. Of course, you always have the option to skip these summaries by simply asking."
"Yeah, but then that means the song gets skipped…" Hanta pouted as he crossed his arms.
"If I may suggest, I can provide a disc with the tracks from this series for your entertainment when the next break is available."
"REALLY?!"
"Can you make it the full song…?!" Kyoka perked up, always one to find new music for her playlist.
"I can arrange that, Jiro-san."
Those involved in the conversation tuned out the episode, but those in the front two rows were still a little shaken to look away, Tsuyu tightening her grip around Izuku's hand when it showed Tomura trying to kill her. The curly-haired greenet gulped at her soft touch, doing his best to keep still and not worry the froggy female.
"Man, do I love me some more of that opening song…"
"Where are we at in the recap now?" Eijiro questioned, not looking at anyone in particular.
"All Might entered." Katsuki provided, his crimson eyes still glued to the screen with the two black-haired boys' blinking to their left before they gasped as they saw the hero.
"That means the recap's gonna be over soon, right…?"
"It better fucking be- I wanna see some more action involving me beating all these bastards into the ground and leaving them for dead…!" Katsuki spat out while flexing his wrist as he imagined the popping of his explosions.
"He needs to get a better vocabulary…" Kyoka whispered over to Momo, who was one to hardly disagree with that obvious statement.
At the sight of the Symbol of Peace on screen, the students exclaimed with victory for their hero, "All Might…!"
"Have no fear, my dear students…" Toshinori cracked a smile, looking back at the kids as he caught their attention, asking them with a grin, "Why?"
"BECAUSE I AM HERE…!"
"Why do they have to be so damn loud…? He's gonna die in the end, anyway, so what is the deal with this dumb hope?" Tomura grumbled under his breath, laying down on the couches with his legs propped up on the armrest.
Izuku couldn't help himself, gazing at Toshinori with that glimmering hope in his eyes, Tsuyu catching it as she spoke to her friend, "You're a huge fanboy, Midoriya-chan."
"Eh?! Well, um, y-yeah, I guess… I-It's just-"
"I didn't mean that as an insult, Midoriya-chan. Don't worry." Tsuyu added, unsure if her words came off that way, as she was one to be blunt with her words.
"Oh, um, th-thanks Asui-san…" Izuku chuckled awkwardly, rubbing his neck until he jolted in his seat and stammered out nervously, "T-Tsuyu… Tsuyu-chan…!"
Again, she blinked at his jumpiness until she reassured the teen once more, "Don't worry, Midoriya-chan. I said your own pace is fine. But I'm curious that you don't get nervous calling Bakugo-chan 'Kacchan'."
"Ah, um, I-I've been calling him that for years now… a-and-and he's never really told me not… to call him that…" Izuku explained, anxiously fidgeting with his hands while he talked, avoiding her curious stare.
'Years, huh?' Tsuyu thought before declaring to him, "Let's be friends for years, Midoriya-chan."
"That long…?!" Izuku choked, knowing that he had friends upon these teenagers, but he surprisingly didn't imagine that these new friendships would extend to last several years. It had completely slipped his mind.
"Kero."
"I want us all to stay friends forever…!" Mina stated after hearing the girl's decision, looping her arms through Koji and Izuku's as she beamed with the expectation, "I know it was kind of forced, but we all get along in the end, so there's no way we're just gonna drop one another off the face of the earth when we get out of here…!"
"Aside from one obvious outliner-" Rikido was clearly talking about Katsuki, "-you ain't wrong. Even with hardly knowing anything about one another, we're doing just fine as potential friends."
"Right?!"
"Like, we don't even need to ask the basic 'what's your favorite…' questions because we're just bonding over trauma…!" Toru noted with a giggle, her voice slowly fading as they turned wide eyes to where they thought her face would be while she sighed out, "Too soon for dark humor…?"
"I didn't take you for someone to tell dark humored jokes, Toru-chan."
"I'm full of surprises…!"
Listening in on the conversation, Yuga grew a bit worried for himself at their optimism and likelihood of their relationship toward each other, rubbing the goosebumps on his arms as he feared for the worst. None of them were dead yet, which was turning out really good, but the attack was far from over, even with Toshinori now entering the battlefield. It was too soon for this 'forever' talk, in his opinion.
"I think I'm getting the hang of the lyrics now…" Denki hummed out, Hanta and Eijiro glancing over at him as he softly started singing, snapping, "-soon they will know that-"
His voice fell flat at the end, groaning out as he complained, "Dammit, the English part always throws me off…!"
"You have a nice singing voice, Kaminari…" Eijiro complimented the blond while his twin clapped to his short performance, Denki blinking at his words before breaking out into a flustered grin.
"Thanks, Kirishima…!"
"I think-" Hanta's sentence was cut off by the echoing sound of footsteps, looking up to see the song had ended and their savior entering the building to hopefully wrap things up this episode.
"I had a bad feeling… So I tore myself away from my chat with the principal and came." All Might spoke in a tone that was laced with loathing, but it was a voice that gave the children immediate relief, Ashido sobbing as she held Thirteen with Uraraka joyfully tearing up at just the sight of him. Sato, Sero and Shoji all had encouraging grins as they watched the Symbol of Peace, hearing him continue as he walked to pass them for the plaza, "I passed Young Iida on my way… and got a rough idea of what had happened."
All Might gritted his teeth, straining his expression as he bitterly thought to himself, 'Good grief, it really makes me angry. Thinking about how frightening it must have been for the children… And how hard my juniors fought… But… that is why… I must proudly say…'
He recalled Iida's horrified look as he informed him of the attack happening where he should have been from the get go; if only he had been there at the start, maybe things wouldn't have escalated this far.
Painfully, Thirteen was able to shift her vision to the side as All Might passed by her, stopping at the top of the stairwell. He stomped his foot down to disperse some of the smoke he created, making sure the villains could hear him loud and clear as he reached up to grab his blue tie before ripping it from his collar.
"It's fine now."
"BECAUSE I AM HERE!" the teens yelled out in rejoice, Toshinori smiling at the hope these kids had for him.
"I don't think I've ever seen a fight where All Might's not smiling…"
"That just means it's going to be even more epic…!" Minoru countered Mashirao's claim, excitedly bouncing in his seat, Fumikage only smirking with pride for their number one hero.
"I'm so glad you're finally here, All Might…!" Ochaco sniffed as she clung onto the man's arm, Toshinori smiling down at her before he glanced over to Yuga, who was biting his nail nervously while he sat with his legs up on the couch. It looked like a sad and lonely sight for him.
"Young Aoyama." Toshinori called gently to the blond, watching his frightened violet eyes turn to him as he patted the empty seat between them, "You may sit here, if you like."
He watched the boy hesitate at first before Yuga eventually started sliding over, leaning his body against Toshinori while he blinked to dry his eyes.
Shigaraki stood up from the water's edge as he called back to All Might's line declaration with his own; "I've been waiting, hero. You trash of society."
Title screen 'Episode 12. All Might'
"Yeah, look at All Might…! Stealing the show!"
"I don't think Midoriya honestly minds, haha!"
Chuckling to himself at overhearing Hanta and Denki's words, Tomura hummed to himself as he slowly sat up and flexed his wrist, "Or perhaps a nice little homage for his demise…!"
One of the villains turned to the others as they were stunned by the sight of All Might, yelling at them, "Idiots, don't hesitate! If we kill that, we'll-"
He hardly had time to finish his sentence, All Might disappearing from his place on the stairs and reappearing to knock out the thugs one by one before he reached Eraser Head, resting a hand on the man's body. While the criminals fell down from the inflicted attack, the blond hero stood up after carefully picking up his colleague, surveying the younger adult's bloody face and the injury on his elbow with a regretful expression.
'Sorry… Aizawa-kun.' All Might apologized internally.
Shota huffed at that, sighing under his breath, "Save your apologies for when you defeat these guys, All Might."
And looking closer at his head injuries, he inferred that there would be noticeable scars later after he recovered from the possible brain damage he had received.
"If it wasn't for Aizawa Sensei's eye twitching, I would have thought he was dead…" Tsuyu bluntly spoke, the five teens on her row stiffening at what she said because they were trying so hard not to fear the worst.
"He's just unconscious…" Toru shivered, clinging onto the greenette girl once more.
"Yeah, All Might…!" Minoru cheered, backed up by others at the sight of not only being rescued, but the hand on Tomura's face falling down as well at Toshinori's hit and run tactic.
"Huh? Huh?!" Mineta uttered, surprised that they were on solid ground as he gaped, "What?"
"Everyone, go to the entrance. I'm leaving Aizawa-kun to you. He's unconscious. Hurry!"All Might instructed the student's, rising up again to face these villains while the three moved to do as told.
"Y-Yes, sir!"
"Kero."
Midoriya was the only one still stunned by his teacher's movement, staring up at All Might with a mix of admiration and fear as he softly whispered, "All Might…"
Covering his face, Shigaraki panicked as he went searching for the dead hand blindly, Nomu blankly turned as he faced All Might.
"It's no good… It's no good… I-It's no good… It's no good… I-I'm sorry, Father…"
"'Father'...?" Toshinori murmured, him and Shota questioning if he was referencing 'Sensei'.
Eventually finding the hand, Shigaraki placed it back where it once was, sighing with his shoulders relaxing at the comforting familiarity of it. Though, he began to think out loud about All Might's actions, leaning back while he spoke softly.
"He hit me as he was saving them… It's the violence of a government official. He's fast, as expected. I can't follow him with my eyes. But not as fast as I thought he'd be. I guess it's true, after all…" Shigaraki chuckled at the irony of his words, glancing his wide crimson eyes in All Might's direction as he grinned maliciously, "...that he's getting weaker."
While Tomura smirked at his own facial expressions, the students had some comments for the first close up shot they got of him.
"My God, he's hideous…"
"Like you're one to talk." Tomura fired back at whoever spoke, Hanta feeling a piece of himself break inside while Katsuki didn't stop the onslaught of laughter from the fast remark.
"I didn't realize Shigaraki's lips were so chapped… They look cracked." Mina shivered at the sight of them, knowing that feeling and hating it.
"Mina-chan, I don't think villains have access to skin care like we do without being arrested." Tsuyu pointed out about their society, which she seemed to have not realized when they heard her short gasp of air.
"Jeez, he almost spilled the secret again…!" Minoru gaped when they listened to Izuku telling Toshinori that Nomu had been able to take on One for All, almost saying the name out loud.
"Really- again?! Is it so hard to keep the damn power a secret, Deku?!"
Tomura chuckled at how easy the kid could talk, humming to himself, "Ah, I almost heard it myself, too… What a shame, future me, I'll remember for you."
As Midoriya and Mineta walked away from their teacher while carrying Eraser Head, Asui coming up to his side to gently cradle his injured elbow, All Might turned back to the villains as Shigaraki stood up. The two enemies turned to face one another with the hero flashing the villain his signature smile before he leaped forward for the pair to end their reign of terror.
"Carolina…"
"Nomu."
"...SMASH!" All Might slashed his arms across Nomu's chest, the attack only causing the creature to flinch faintly while the water took the heat of the impact. As he raised his head in question, the engineered man glanced up to look his opponent dead on before throwing his arms out to try and capture the hero, who ducked down while commenting in shock, "It seriously has no effect at all, huh?!"
He tried to punch the creature again, but there was no drawback either.
"Goddamn, it's towering over All Might…!" Kyoka shivered, Momo reaching across to aid her worry with the touch of her hand.
He attempted to strike his brain, but that only made the monster roar, All Might having to take a step back at Nomu's reach to grab him once more.
As it dashed for him, All Might staggered at its movements while exclaiming, "It doesn't work on his face either, huh?"
His foot slid against the concrete with Nomu appearing in a flash before him as they began to trade blows.
"It doesn't work because of shock absorption."
Izuku perked up at those words, Tsuyu and Mina looking at him when they felt him move until he pulled out his notebook again, listening very closely to Tomura's words.
"In order to cause damage to Nomu… It would be most effective to slowly gouge out his flesh. Whether he'd let you do that or not is a different issue, though."
'Shock… absorption…' Izuku gasped, having written down this information and the realization hitting him as he placed his eraser in between his lips, "Nomu was bio-engineered and created specifically to fight All Might- The most effective way for that to be is if there was a quirk that could cancel out All Might's powerful attacks- And since none of All Might's attacks have worked or caused any damage yet, it could mean that the only reason I was able to control One for All was that Nomu absorbed my punch, so… if I had actually hit Shigaraki, I most likely would have still… broke my arm…?"
"Have you used that quirk on someone yet, Midoriya-chan?" Tsuyu's question made Izuku jump out of his skin before he looked up at her, the blank eyed girl tilting her head slightly while explaining, "All Might is able to control his power input on villains, but if you had actually hit Shigaraki with your uncontrolled punch, do you think it would have killed him?"
He choked at that.
"T-Tsuyu-chan, don't say something like that…! I know we don't want him to kill All Might, but he doesn't deserve to die just because!"
"I was only asking, kero."
Gulping down his shock at what she said, Izuku noted it down for later to discuss with Toshinori about during their break, the imagery of what might have happened if Nomu hadn't moved, sending cold chills through his entire body. Meanwhile, the students were hooting and hollering after Toshinori.
'Good thinking, kid.' Shota nodded to himself at listening in to Izuku's internalized thoughts, approving that the kid wasn't planning on doing anything reckless, instead, recognizing his place in their battle.
'-than wondering about the villains… We have to trust All Might!' Midoriya put his worries aside for his mentor, knowing his time was declining, but also realizing the difference in power.
"Get 'em! Aim for the balls!"
"Were we overthinking it? He's amazing." Asui blushed, glancing back at the smoke cloud that blocked their perspective on the fight.
'But… But… I know…!' Midoriya's lip thinned, thinking back to this morning on the train where he read an article on All Might while continuing to feel concerned, 'Every day on my way to school, I read the hero news in real time.'
"Yeah, we can see that…" Katsuki groaned under his breath, recalling this detail from the first episode as well after class with Yu's debut.
"Wow, Midoriya's really good at picking up those vague details… I would have thought the three fingers from Thirteen were like, 'he'd be there in three minutes' or something." Eijiro hummed, showing the callback with the students feeling the heavy weight Izuku was describing.
"Midoriya-chan, don't stress yourself out over something you couldn't control. All Might's paying his consequences for not being responsible." Tsuyu stated about their Symbol of Peace, Toshinori wincing at her words because he knew she was right.
"But I don't want that to be the price of death…!" Izuku managed to squeak out, clenching his fists as fat tears dribbled down his cheeks.
Mina furrowed her brows at this, carefully reaching across his shoulder to bring his head to lean on hers, slowly running her hand through his dark curls in comfort as he sniffled. But as she looked back and they got a sudden image of the injury Toshinori explained at lunch, everyone on the hero's side froze with the four that arrived after widening their eyes at the sight of it. Tomura, however, glorified as he scanned his flickering gaze across each line that rounded his stomach area.
'It's an injury I got from an enemy's attack five years ago. Half of my respiratory organs were destroyed… and I lost my whole stomach. I've been emaciated from repeated surgeries and the aftereffects. Right now, I can only work as a hero… for about three hours a day.'
"Oh…" Tomura milked this new information in with a wide grin while the students were still gaping in shock.
They had been told about his injury, yes, but they had no idea what it looked like and just the sight of it, ignoring the words the hero had told them, made their stomachs queasy. Toshinori squeezed his side until Yuga shakingly placed his hand over his, the two meeting each other's eyes with the older male furrowing his brows into the horrified look of lavender. Izuku, too, was trembling with fear at seeing that scarring tissue again.
"'Five years ago', huh? Wasn't that when Sensei fought him…?" Tomura wondered out loud as he softly itched at his healing scratches.
Hearing that made Toshinori choke on his own breath.
"Is Toxic Chainsaw 'Sensei'...?" Izuku softly questioned until he saw Toshinori stand abruptly and whip his neck around to glare at Tomura, who blinked at the surprised blinding rage.
"Pause- Tell me who this 'Sensei' is, now…!"
Everyone was caught off guard by the spike in his voice, Tomura taken aback as he scowled in his direction before he widened his narrowed eyes at what the hero was trying to ask. It caused a smirk to rise on his lips, those watching the villain freezing up at the look in his gaze.
"I'm sure you already know the answer, Mr. Symbol of Peace; so why bother asking…?!"
"It shouldn't. Be possible. Tell me who he is… NOW!"
"All Might, calm down. You're scaring the kids." Shota tried to intervene, but his voice wouldn't reach.
"But that would spoil the game…! Besides, do you really want your little successor to know that his idol murdered someone…!" Tomura laughed with full malicious intent, and watching Toshinori flinch at his words gave him the satisfaction to keep messing with the number one hero as he moved down the rows while spitting out, "I keep hearing these little brats go on and on about how 'heroes don't kill', but you're contradicting yourself, All Might- What's with that, huh?! Heroes don't kill, but when they do, they try to justify it as 'keeping the peace' or 'keeping the balance', but when I want to destroy something I don't like, it's seen as a violent act…! Is it not the same thing…?!"
"A-All… All… Might…"
Toshinori couldn't bring himself to look behind him, faintly hearing Izuku's plea.
"You better stop while you're at it, hero… You're in a dangerous area on the map…!" Tomura cackled, taking a few steps back before he bumped into the sofa, his legs flying out from under him as he tried to grip anything to stop his fall. The students would have giggled at the sight, but they were too stunned to utter a word.
Toshinori had killed someone. Or at least tried to.
'Goddammit, shit- no…! He was dead- I made sure that he was dead, but with this villain's confidence…' Toshinori dropped back into his seat, his head falling into his palm as the realization hit him too, 'Young Midoriya wasn't supposed to know because he was dead…! Dammit, I passed One for All on and- Oh, Young Midoriya… I'm so sorry.'
All for One was alive, somehow. And he didn't know if he could fight him again and win.
'Nighteye…'
Eijiro waited until the episode started back up again before he glanced over to Katsuki, catching the dull glaze over his crimson eyes as he whisper-asked the teen, "B-Bakugo- Bakugo… did you- did you know ab-about this…?"
"All Might fucking killing someone? Hell no, but I was here when he showed the injury…"
The students were shocked, but that didn't waver their faith in Toshinori. Even if the hero himself thought that it had.
Midoriya glanced back over Eraser Head's shoulder with furrowed brows, staring at the smoke cloud in the distance while Mineta had tears streaming from his as he yelled, Asui's inaudible to his ears. Uraraka stood beside Sato as they, Sero and Shoji shouted down their encouragement to their teacher, water leaking at her eyes with Ashido still by Thirteen's side.
'I'm the only one who knows! All Might's secret… and the predicament he's in!' Midoriya feared for his mentor until they saw the smoke cease.
All Might gritted his teeth, blood trickling from the side of his mouth as he hung upside down.
"Is…"
Nomu had its hold on All Might's sides thanks to Kurogiri; two warp gates opened side by side to allow the villain to accomplish this.
"Is that how it is?"
The students gaped in horror at what was revealed, stopping in their tracks as they watched Nomu dig his fingers into his side, the place where his injury was located as blood stained his white clothing.
"ALL MIGHT…!" Izuku freaked out, throwing his body forward and it was only by Mina and Tsuyu's death grip on his arms that he didn't go flying off the couch.
"Hahaha, this is great…! This is better than great! We got the strongest player on the field down by a fatal wound accident!" Tomura cheered for his team, glad things were finally going in a positive direction for their attack.
"-strong as you are." Shigaraki chuckled like a child, commenting about Nomu's strength once more with All Might gritting his teeth in pain, sweat running down his forehead. The villain continued to softly laugh at the helpless sight of his victim, glancing to Kurogiri as he sighed, "This is good, Kurogiri. It's an unexpected opportunity."
The misted criminal narrowed his slitted golden stare, the two created portals beginning to shrink at his command. With Nomu still continuing to grip the hero's side, All Might internally gaped at the agony he was under while he tried to think of a way out of this mess.
'Ouch! That's my weak spot! Stop it!' All Might pleaded before he eventually chose to let go of Nomu's waist and prioritize its hands, moving to grab a hold of the monster's grip to try and pry its fingers off.
"How helpless you look, All Might…! What a sad sight for your students to see you in…" Tomura leaned forward, his chin resting in the palm of his hand as he awaited the end of the pro hero's reign and the horrifying screams that would follow soon after from the children.
"All…! Might…!" Mina sniffed, pressing her forehead against Izuku's arm as they sobbed silently, Tsuyu gripping his and Toru's hand.
"No…!" Ochaco clung onto the man himself while Yuga was careful of where he placed his hands, in order to not touch the hero's scarred wound.
"Please, All Might!" Minoru cried out as he used Mashirao's tail like a tissue, the blond student hardly noticing as his black eyes flickered across the screen with Fumikage trying to settle the pit of anxiety in his stomach.
"Come on, you can get out of this… You always do…!" Katsuki urged his hero, his idol, their Symbol of Peace, while the three teens huddled together as they shook in fear.
"I can't watch…!" Kyoka, despite saying that, peeked out of her eyes through the gaps of her fingers with her other hand in Momo's.
"-within me… But I would be happy to take in someone as great as you." Kurogiri informed All Might, who trained his attention on the shrinking portals as the quirk user went on, "You are too fast to see with the human eye. Restraining you was Nomu's job. And then… when your body is halfway in, to close the gate…"
When the show decided to show the imagery of what Kurogiri was referencing, it completely petrified the students to see as they screamed in alarm while Tomura had a darkened gleam in his; like a child that had pleasure in killing ants.
"...and tear you apart is my job."
All Might glared at Kurogiri's finishing line.
"Asui-san."
"What is it, Midoriya-chan?" she looked up at the boy with sorrow dripping from her tone, wondering what the boy could want after they overheard the death of their teacher.
"Trade places with me carrying Aizawa Sensei."
"Kero? Okay… But why?" Asui questioned his reason as she approached him, Midoriya's eyes completely trained on All Might's struggle, failing to get out of Nomu's hold.
'No…' Midoriya gaped, blindly beginning to walk over toward the cunning villains, 'No… All Might!'
As the two glanced back at the sound of his footsteps, Mineta called out as he caught his classmate running in the opposite direction, "Midoriya!"
"Deku…?!" Katsuki choked.
"Deku-kun, STOP!"
'Young Midoriya…!' Toshinori gaped, several of the students wailing out their pleas for the greenet to go back.
"Idiot. I knew he'd be easy to kill…" Tomura scoffed, sitting back in his seat to watch the scene unfold.
'-want you to teach me!' Midoriya hoped with tears in his eyes as he thought of all the wonderful things this man had done for him, that had changed his life for the better, remembering them as he continued forward without a plan, "All Might!"
His cry of desperation was heard by the hero himself, lifting his head up as he gasped, 'Young Midoriya? What are you…!'
Taking a reckless leap of faith, Midoriya raced for the open space where the villains weren't in order to reach All Might as quickly as possible. But he forgot to accommodate one thing.
"How foolish."
A swirling portal, doomed for Midoriya appeared in the middle of the villain with the teen slowly slipping inside, horror written over his expression, helpless as he fell. That was until Bakugo suddenly entered the picture, extending a hand to his classmate as he blasted Kurogiri with smoke overtaking his misty form.
"MOVE- You're in the way, DEKU!"
The entire theater was in uproar, Katsuki getting swept out of his seat by the trio beside him as they hoisted him in air and held him there for a good few seconds thanks to his stunned expression.
"Outta boy, Bakugo!"
"You made it just in the nick of time, man!"
"PUT ME THE HELL DOWN!" Katsuki jostled with them before his lower body was suddenly dropped, Eijiro still holding onto him by the arms as Denki and Hanta abandoned him in favor of another student who showed up for the rescue mission.
"TODOROKI!"
Shoto straightened up at their exclamation, narrowing his eyes in shock as two people he had never spoken to before rammed into him; Denki squeezing to fit in between him and Mezo while Hanta was laying on the armrest, their arms wrapped around his neck. He blinked at their gesture, a little weirded out, but he didn't push them off because he was also stunned, unsure what to do in a situation like this.
"We know that ice when we see it!"
"Taking down that Nomu like it was nothing…!"
"What did Todoroki do…?" Eijiro glanced back at the TV, as did Katsuki to see the multi-haired boy standing there in the plaza, appearing dramatically as the blond had.
"Get off of me." Shoto found his voice to tell them off, Denki awkwardly moving out of the tight space while Hanta stood up again and cracked his back for a second.
"This show really knows how to make dramatic entrances…!"
"I want my own!"
Izuku sniffed while his lip quivered into a watery smile, wiping at his eyes as he wanted to thank Katsuki for saving his life.
"Hey, Deku…!"
He was beaten to the punch, however, glancing back with glistening eyes as the spiky-haired teen found his footing again and looked down at him with a scowl.
"We're even now."
Izuku gasped when he heard those words, blinking away the tears before he found his smile again and nodded back to his classmate, Katsuki scoffing at the remark. He was about to head to his seat again before an arm wrapped around his neck, thinking it was one of the three idiots again before he caught a tuft of brown hair, Ochaco beaming as she clung onto him and Eijiro.
"The fuck, Round Face?!"
"You guys are awesome…!"
"Where the hell did they come from…?!" Tomura had Toshinori right where he wanted him until those students suddenly spawned out of nowhere. It was making the operation even more difficult, and it was always because of Izuku.
"I thank you, young men…" Toshinori whispered under his breath, preparing later to give them his thanks as he didn't want their attempt at saving him and Izuku to be in vain if things went for the worst.
"And that is what I call, a comeback…!" Hanta grinned as he slumped against the side of the back couch, Denki sitting down beside him as Ochaco took their places on the fourth row. And as they watched Eijiro twirl through the air, he immediately hyped his twin up, "There he goes- Get him, Kirishima!"
The long-haired boy grew flustered at his words, feeling bad soon after as he wasn't able to get a scratch on Tomura, where both Shoto and Katsuki had managed to weaken Kurogiri and Nomu. But that was okay, at least, that was what Ochaco's smile told him, grabbing his hand and holding it tight with admiration for him. Eijiro understood why Denki was falling for her.
"Huh?" Kirishima uttered before he jumped back while cursing, "Damn it! I didn't get to show off!"
"Stop acting so stuck-up, foggy nobody!"
"The Symbol of Peace cannot be killed by the likes of you."
"Says. Fucking. Who?"
"Says fucking Todoroki Shoto, that's who!" Denki and Hanta fired right back at the villain, while Shoto slumped in his seat, annoyed with the chatter, as Kyoka whooped his name in support.
"Midoriya-chan, stop crying."
"Y-Yeah…" Izuku wasn't sure if she was referring to himself on screen or right now, but Toshinori had already told him once to stop being a crybaby.
Seeing how inspiring his classmates were presenting themselves gave Midoriya the confidence to wipe his eyes and steel his expression, with determination to match their expressions. With two out of the three villains defeated, all that was left was to take out the leader, Shigaraki standing desolate as he took in the new situation that had sprung up on him, wondering what he should do now.
Hanging back and having watched the scene unfold, Asui and Mineta had their heads turned in the direction of the plaza and past the downed villains while holding onto Eraser Head. All Might was free from Nomu's clutches with the help of Todoroki's intervention while Bakugo had pinned down Kurogiri, Kirishima and Midoriya standing around and on the defense for their classmates.
"Todoroki… Bakugo…"
"And Kirishima-chan too." Asui added, their eyes still gazing at the battle before they felt Eraser Head move just faintly in their grasp, making the two gasp until she glanced back at Mineta and stated, "Leave this to them, let's hurry!"
"Yeah." Mineta agreed as they got back to walking for the stairs again.
"Everyone…" Uraraka sighed, glad that the three made it in time to save All Might and Midoriya before she blinked, looking down until she gasped, waving her hand out to Sato and the others, "Wait, isn't that Tsuyu-chan? Hey! Hey!"
"Ochaco-chan?"
"Damn, we look so tiny from their standpoint…" Minoru murmured, wiping his eyes with his hand this time after Mashirao confiscated his tail.
"He's heavy!"
The rest of the students gasped at seeing their teacher's condition, Uraraka exclaiming with surprise at the bleeding hero, "Aizawa Sensei?!"
"Let's go!" Sato turned to her before they all rushed down the stairs to help Asui and Mineta, leaving Ashido behind to stay with Thirteen as she recovered her own consciousness.
"Oh, I forgot that some of us don't know what happened to Aizawa Sensei…" Ochaco trembled at this, recalling to memory in vivid detail about what the pro hero went through before she felt a hand slip into hers, glancing over with wide, light brown eyes to comforting crimson with a reassuring smile.
"It-It'll be okay, Uraraka… Aizawa Sensei will be fine…" Eijiro didn't know if he was saying that to reassure himself as well, but it at least seemed to work for Ochaco, her tears faded and a bright expression back in her eyes.
"O-Okay!"
Down back in the plaza area, All Might held his side with Todoroki, Midoriya and Kirishima facing Shigaraki, the redhead protectively holding his hardened arm in front of him. Bakugo had his back turned to the villain as he held down Kurogiri, but he still had an eye on the criminal, with his spiky-haired classmate close by for backup. Suddenly, the leader shifted to look over to his slight left, where his warp gate was defeated by a blond boy with explosions.
"Kurogiri… our exit and entrance, has been overcome."
"He got too cocky and stupid, his words falling flat right in front of him…" Katsuki scoffed, Fumikage feeling a rush of dopamine from the boy's words similarly phrased like a poem.
"That metal brace has to be his weakness, then…" Ochaco noted from her own fight with Kurogiri, Eijiro nodding along with her while the other teen turned his gaze down onto her.
"Of course it is, Round Face. You listening to a damn thing I'm saying? You even figured that out yourself…!"
"I'm just stating the facts, Bakugo-kun, you don't have to be so aggressive about it…" Ochaco rolled her eyes with Katsuki catching it as he clenched his teeth.
"I'll show you aggressive…!"
As the blond held down Kurogiri, explaining how he defeated him, Bakugo reminded the villain where he went wrong at the very beginning, before wrapping them around USJ, by hearing him admit that they almost had him.
'Oh dear, that's dangerous.'
"If you were completely made of mist and physical attacks couldn't touch you, then you wouldn't have said 'that's dangerous'!"
"Fucking dammit, Kurogiri…! You gave the stupid kids a cheat code, you stupid pile of mist!"
"Is he really a pile of mist if there's a real body underneath all that fog?! Learn to know your own pawns, Shigaraki!" Katsuki cackled out in reply to the villain's ranting, Tomura growing irritated at hearing him while a few of the students close by tensed.
"Bakugo, what did I tell Todoroki before…?" Shota eyed the teen with a faint glare, watching his head whip around to face away from him.
"Don't antagonize the fucking enemy…"
'At least he's aware.' Shota nodded before going back to the show.
"Kirishima-kun isn't wrong about Bakugo-kun's attitude toward opponents…" Tenya, knowing from their first battle training, noted about Eijiro's comment to Katsuki in saying his behavior was 'not very hero-like', especially with the smoking grin he gave down to the villain.
"-bad." Shigaraki sighed about how the kids' actions were negatively affecting their objective and name. Turning his body to look down at Nomu, unmoving and half-way covered in ice, the villain leader ordered his puppet, "Nomu."
At his command, the creature roared as it allowed its body to fade back into the portal and emerge from the other, having a hard time sitting up straight again with the frozen liquid encasing his limbs. But upon watching Nomu closely, Todoroki gasped as they witnessed its body break apart in order to move again, its preserved arm and leg laying separate from its moving body as it struggled to stand up. Its eyes rolled to the back of its brain before focusing on the children right in front of it.
"What the hell-?! Does this guy not feel any pain from that?!"
"Was he genetically engineered not to feel pain?!"
While Denki and Hanta were scared shitless, cuddling on the floor in comfort, some of the students and both pro heroes were wondering how Nomu was planning to fight with half of its limbs now gone. That was, until they watched the creature's muscles regenerate, scaring the children further while the adults widened their eyes at the sight of it.
"How… How is that… possible…?"
"I thought his quirk was shock absorption…"
"Genetically modified to hold more than one quirk… But, that can't be possible… right…?"
'Oh… It is possible…' Toshinori realized with a shiver running all throughout his nerves, proving once more that the man he killed had dodged death, somehow.
All for One is alive.
"Multiple quirks…" Yuga gulped before he glanced at the back of Izuku's head, wondering if the boy was having similar thoughts as him, furrowing his brows, concerned with what kind of expression he could be wearing.
'Shock absorption and super-regeneration… But not shock nullification, so there must be a limit to that quirk, right? And if All Might is fast enough, then it could make Nomu's super-regeneration useless and it wouldn't be able to keep up, right…? The only thing left is how All Might can defeat this guy without Shigaraki and Kurogiri interfering…' Izuku, contrary to the blond's belief, was only worried about creating a plan for their hero to defeat the villains.
"-you at 100%. He's a super-efficient human sandbag." Shigaraki spoke with glee with All Might gripping his bleeding wound tighter at the thought. With Nomu completely regenerated, the students braced themselves for another attack until they blinked in hearing the blue-haired villain's words, "First, we need to get our gate back. Go, Nomu."
All Might panicked as he saw Nomu's speed, the only one with eyes able to track its movements, 'He's fast!'
The villain ran through Todoroki and Kirishima, making a bee line for Bakugo as the blond could only gap in his direction, unable to react fast enough. It raised its fist before throwing it down on the child, creating a wind pressure that shook the trees surrounding the area as well as the other three students, who covered their faces from the sharp breeze.
"KACCHAN!" Izuku screamed out in agony, Katsuki tensing up in his seat with Ochaco and Eijiro reaching their hand to grip his arm in fear.
"HA! That's what you get for antagonizing the enemy, you little shit!" Tomura cackled at what appeared to be the student's demise, as there was no way Katsuki could take a punch like that from a villain that was made to defeat All Might.
But only the observant found the truth in the few seconds they could catch it.
"You take that back, you BASTARD!" Izuku shouted out in retort, shocking literally everyone in the theater. He was standing and facing Tomura and it was only by Mina and Tsuyu's hold on him that he wasn't making his way to the other side and beating the villain to a pulp. Even so, the two girls were thoroughly stunned by his language that their grip started loosening slightly.
"Oh my god, Midoriya can swear…?!" Denki whispered under his breath, both him and Hanta blown away by this fact before they rushed to the back of the couch, questioning Katsuki, "Hey, Bakugo, Bakugo…! Did you know Midoriya can swear? Did you? Cause like, this is a serious revelation…!"
"Hell if I know, shut up…!" Katsuki grunted back to them as it was revealed that he was all right, Shota letting out a heavy breath as Toshinori collapsed in his seat.
The students, however, waited until they could clearly tell that Izuku had calmed down from the attack before they also voiced their relief.
"Wait-" Izuku suddenly spoke, making them grow weary again until he gasped, "That means All Might took the hit for Kacchan…!"
"All Might's gonna be okay, Midoriya-chan… Just, wait and see." Tsuyu thankfully had the words to reduce the teen's distress, squeezing his hand in comfort as he gritted his teeth with worry.
"Then how…?" Kirishima wondered how Bakugo was with them if he didn't dodge like Midoriya said, Todoroki gasping as he looked over to where the person who did take the hit was.
"Then that was…"
All four boys watched as the smoke began to clear, showing All Might with his arms up in defense, the wall behind him falling apart and his sleeves ripped away with dust and grime covering his forearms. He was coughing, trying to catch his breath from that vicious attack.
"All Might!"
Thinking how that could be possible, Shigaraki's eyes squinted as he imagined the hero tossing the blond just in the nick of time, humming, 'He protected the child, huh…?'
All Might breathed heavily with a thin trail of blood escaping from the side of his mouth, gritting his teeth as he rhetorically asked the villains, "Do you not know how to hold back?"
"It was to rescue my companions."
"I thought villains didn't care about anyone but themselves…?"
Fumikage bowed his head at Minoru's words, humming with disagreement, "Simpleton thinking…"
"Huh?"
'Is Midoriya's only notable feature being labeled as the 'plain one' of the group…?' Yuga thought, reminded of Ochaco also referring to Izuku like that back in episode four.
Bakugo narrowed his eyes at Midoriya when the villain made a comment about the greenet while Shigaraki went on, "He was about to punch me with everything he had, you know. Violence for the sake of others makes it admirable. Isn't that right, hero?"
"Not if it's to hurt others." Tsuyu croaked with Mina nodding right alongside her in agreement as Tomura began to itch at his neck again.
"You know what, All Might? I'm angry. I'm angry at this world that categorizes the same violent acts as heroic or villainous… Deciding what's good and what's bad! What with this 'Symbol of Peace'? You're just a device to repress violence. Violence only breeds more violence. The world will know this, once we kill you!" Shigaraki shouted at the carnation of someone who could do no wrong, the students idly standing as they listened.
"That's preposterous. The eyes of white-collar criminals like you burn silently. You just want to enjoy this yourself, don't you, you liar?" All Might argued with the leader's ranting speech of society.
Shigaraki's eyes squinted with glee, 'He's already figured me out?'
"I was a little caught off guard by Shigaraki's words because he didn't seem like the kind of villain to say those kinds of things…" Eijiro scratched the back of his head, Ochaco twitching at the close shot of Tomura's red eyes. Shota glanced over to the student with curiosity, wondering if the boy had more to say as he watched him sigh, "...but it just looked like he was trying to justify killing All Might…"
"Poor manipulation tactics that won't work on us…!" Ochaco added to his words, but a few that overheard this didn't think that was the villain's intent. Nor did he seem smart enough to do so.
The four teenagers turned to watch All Might walk to the far side of them with his arm stretched out, standing between them and the villains as he ordered them not to interfere, "Run away."
Moving his right arm to cross his chest, Todoroki reminded the number one hero sternly, "You would have been in trouble if I hadn't done anything earlier, right?"
"That was a different story, Young Todoroki. Thanks." All Might replied back, the boy blinking at the hero's gratitude before they saw his fist clench as he reassured his students, "But it's fine! Just watch as a pro gives it everything he's got."
"All Might, you're bleeding… Besides, time's-"
"Midori-kun, this is the second time you almost let the secret spill…!" Mina shook her seatmate's arm as lightly as possible, still a little frightened from what had happened earlier when Shoto reminded them.
"Do be careful, Midoriya-chan."
"Y-Yeah…"
'Time to improvise…' Tomura drew his nails down his neck one last time before he slowly took his hand away, flexing his hand as he leaned forward to watch the last showdown between the final bosses.
Turning back to face the villains after sending the kids a thumbs up, All Might stood his ground with Nomu crouched in the middle of its leader and gateway, ready at Shigaraki's word.
"Nomu, Kurogiri. Get him." his order came, the creature standing up as Shigaraki added for himself, "I'll deal with the children."
"Looks like we're fighting anyway…" Eijiro was worried for him and Izuku as their fighting and quirk styles dealt with close combat, Katsuki having the main advantage since Shoto's ice could be touched by Tomura. But, leave it up to the greenet to come up with a plan.
'Kirishima-kun and I have to be careful we get get close to Shigaraki, but if I use One for All sparingly, I could help keep him back with Todoroki's firepower and Kacchan's Explosions-' Izuku's thought process suddenly came to a halt, having wrote down 'firepower' next to Shoto's name when he seemed to realize, '...Todoroki-kun hasn't been shown using the fire side to his quirk, has he…?'
The teen was far back in the rows, so Izuku doubted he could look up and find the boy, but he was still a little surprised that they hadn't seen at least a flicker. Now, it could just be that the show hasn't shown Shoto using it yet, but that answer didn't sit right with him.
Watching their first battle training, Shoto could have judged that he didn't need to use that part of his quirk to win, but he had used it to melt the building, and they only got steam as the outcome. And he recalled that his eyes were narrowed when he placed his left hand on the bomb. Then there was also the fact that his costume had ice on the completely left side of his body.
'It probably wouldn't be wise to ask Todoroki-kun about this either since Aoyama-kun already tried with the mark over his eye, and he didn't take too well to that…' Izuku bit his bottom lip, slowly continuing writing his plan while his questions of Shoto remained in the back of his mind.
'It's true that I barely have a minute left. My power has been declining faster than I expected!' All Might expanded his chest to allow the air inside to course through his whole body, flexing every muscle he needed for this endurance battle.
"Now, let's clear this and go home." Shigaraki muttered before he dashed for the students.
"You know, for a man that's skin and bones, he's pretty darn fast…"
"Maybe he makes up for his lack of strength with speed… Don't know why he wouldn't try to max out both though."
"Are you two stupid shitheads trying to give the fucking opponent advice to win…?!" Katsuki hissed through clenched teeth down at Denki and Hanta, who shrank against the side of the couch before looking back at the TV and they widened their eyes, flinching at the glaring look in All Might's eyes.
'Come at me with everything you have, Shigaraki…!' Toshinori narrowed his hollow gaze into the same ones that brought peace and hope to this world, everyone else in the theater feeling a shiver of fear run down their spine.
'...the SYMBOL of Peace!' All Might decreed with brewing anger that Shigaraki couldn't ignore.
The villain looked back around to watch the hero send up dust as he dashed over to clash with his opponent. Frozen by the action, Nomu sped past Shigaraki and the two great titans reeled their fists back before they slammed together, the impact of the attack blowing everyone away.
"Tch." Shigaraki spat as he flew through the air like a leaf until he found solid ground again while calling out to their target, "Hey, you talked about his shock absorption yourself earlier, didn't you?"
"Yes, I did!" All Might agreed before he went back to his battle with Nomu, the two trading fists at the speed of light while the winds howled, leaving no room for interference.
Midoriya slid on the ground against the pressure, his upper body unbalanced by the fierce air until he bent his back forward while shielding his face, Bakugo suddenly appearing on his right side as he questioned, "A head-on fistfight?"
"W-Wow…!" Kirishima gaped out as he fell backwards, Todoroki's eyes wide as he witnessed the glory of their hero, his iced arm held in front of him.
Shigaraki was holding up against the intense breeze as Kurogiri's misty form tried to keep himself together, informing his leader, "I-I can't get near them!"
All Might's foot slammed onto the ground, cracking it as he continued his battle with Nomu while saying out loud, "If your quirk isn't shock nullificationbut shock absorption… then there's a limit to it, right?!"
As if finding its limitation already, the pro's attacks were soon affecting it, the villain punchbag wincing as it took the blows. But Nomu still didn't give up, one of its hits aimed down for the hero's bleeding side. All Might gritted his teeth, blood seeping from his lips before he glared at the creature with determination, not backing down from some old wound.
"Made to fight me?" All Might challenged, the floors of USJ breaking up and scattered cement being thrown up into the air as he pushed his body against Nomu while stating, "If you can withstand me at hundred percent…"
Shigaraki gasped at this, hearing his finishing line, "Then I'll force you to surrender from beyond that!"
Their blows become faster, Nomu eventually being unable to keep up with his opponent as some of All Might's hits landed to its head, seeing it visibly flinch at the attacks. Blood spilled from his mouth once more, but it hardly even affected the hero, his only goal in that moment to end this villain's reign for the sake of his students.
'He's bleeding… while giving it his all…!' Midoriya stared with admiration to his mentor, his teacher, his everything, watching as Nomu grazed his cheek without even a flinch of muscle, standing his ground against the wind pressure as his eyes slowly widened at the battle, 'He's not swinging randomly. Every… Every single hit…'
His memory quickly recalled All Might's finishing move at the sludge villain incident with his emerald eyes wider than the moon at the realization, '...is more than hundred percent of his power!'
All Might cried out as his fist sent Nomu back far, its body sending up dust and concrete as it flew through the trees. Shigaraki scoffed as he narrowed his eyes at the display before All Might leaped through the air in pursuit.
"A hero…"
As the hero braced himself through the tree branches, Nomu ran like a feral animal towards All Might, breaking up the cement before it pushed itself up for his opponent. His fist collided with its head, them falling with the pro crossing his arms over his face as the villain's fist came down for his, getting dragged through the ground by it.
"...can always break out of a tough spot!" All Might kicked away the creature, above it now as he crashed onto its head and sent it flying back up in the air.
Nomu flew upside down, its tongue hanging out as the hero headed back for it and roped his arms around its muscular flesh, twisting the creature through the air several times before he slammed him back down, a crater in its wake. This had the students captivated completely by the action; Bakugo stunned, Todoroki's astonishment, Kirishima flabbergasted, and Midoriya's awe before he blinked it away with pure surprise as All Might came down.
"Hey, villain… Have you ever heard these words?!" All Might asked Nomu as it hung in midair before the past users of One for All gave their current wielder a helping hand, him taking it in hand as he clenched his fist and declared, "Go beyond!"
His fist pulsed with energy, All Might gritting his teeth as he reared it back before giving it everything he had, "PLUS… ULTRAAAAAAA!"
With the punch to the gut, Nomu was sent flying up for the side of USJ, shattering the glass and the steel beams that held the building together with a big bang. It caused the entire area to shake and vibrate significantly by that single move, the students all around the zones feeling it through their feet.
"Wh-What's this vibration?!" Tokoyami, in the Squall Zone with his other classmate, questioned, both looking around while he held a thug by the shirt.
Taking down another criminal, Ojiro landed back onto the ground where it wasn't covered by fire before he glanced up in wonder, "An explosion?!"
Nomu was blown straight out of USJ, soaring through the sky with the impact of his trajectory even making the clouds he phased through break open as he became nothing but a speck in the stars.
Up at the entrance, the group of students gathered there stared at the place Nomu had crashed through, Shoji carrying Eraser Head while Sero and Sato supported Thirteen.
"That was a villain up there just now, wasn't it?"
"Y-Yeah…" Sato replied back to Sero's question, but he didn't sound so sure himself.
"This power is…"
Mineta's eyes flickered before they welled up with tears as he declared to his classmates with certainty, "It's All Might! There's no one else who can do something so amazing!"
Minoru's words acted as a finishing line to end the students' shock, the teens flooding the second row as the entire theater filled up with cheers, some of them scooping Toshinori out of his seat as their hero blinked in surprise.
"I can't believe that just happened! All Might, that was wild!"
"Just about the manliest thing that could've happened- Nothing can top this for All Might!"
"I was so worried, but you did it, All Might! You won!"
"Yeah, All Might!"
"All Might, All Might, All Might!"
"Nothing beats All Might…!"
"All Might…!" Izuku sobbed as he clung into his idol's clothing, Toshinori blinking down to the boy's expression and the tears that fell from his eyes, bringing a delightful smile to his features.
"I couldn't do it without you." Toshinori softly said, causing more tears to flow before he addressed all the teens as they gently began to set him down, "I could not do this without any of you young heroes!"
"Oh, All Might, you don't have to be so modest…!"
"Yeah, if it wasn't for you, Tsuyu-chan and I would be dead!" Minoru wrapped his limbs around Toshinori's arm before Hanta peeled him off.
"You're our Symbol of Peace, All Might…! Even if you were down on your time limit, you still went beyond!"
"PLUS ULTRA!"
Toshinori laughed at the play on words, having done it himself in his own fight. In the midst of all this, Shota had gotten up himself, but only to stand at the edge of the couches with a smile of gratitude down to the man. Next, he glanced back subtly, his dark eyes looking over at the two people who hadn't chosen to jump up from their seats to share this joy with the hero, catching their expressions and the emotions that shone in their gaze.
'This is what my father is up against… It's no wonder he hasn't beaten this man for the number one spot…' Shoto narrowed his heterochromatic eyes on the screen, his multi-colored hair falling over his features as he scoffed, '...and this is what he wants me to overcome…'
'This is what I've got to surpass… I couldn't see anything when I was up against that Nomu, but All Might could see it…' Katsuki was finding his resolve, what he had to work on in order to pass the great as he clenched his teeth and noted, '...I've gotta get stronger.'
Tomura was having his own mid-life crisis, but due to the noise on the other side of the room, no one could hear it or if they did, it wasn't acknowledged, in favor of celebrating Toshinori's victory.
"He couldn't- There's no way- That can't be true…! All Might was at his limit- He was at his end! That should have been his END! WHEN DID THINGS GO WRONG?!"
While he was suffering in silence with his defeat.
"Shigaraki Tomura."
He was in the middle of scratching his neck violently when he happened to hear Toshinori, clearly, say his name, whipping his head around to glare at the hero. The hero that had ruined everything, that should have died, that should be a pulp in the ground with the students mourning his death and him laughing hysterically with triumph.
The students and Toshinori didn't back down from the death glare that stared at them in return, the hero holding out his hand as he gestured to Tomura, stating with resolve, "With your Nomu now defeated, you're reign of terror will end here, villain, and your arrest will be sentenced. I'm sure there's a nice place in Tartarus waiting for you. You and your 'Sensei'."
"You think you're so high and mighty… That you can decide what is good and what is evil… I'll show you All Might- I'll show ALL your pathetic students that this is NOT THE LAST TIME! I WILL KILL YOU EVEN IF I HAVE TO DO IT MYSELF!"
"Then why don't you come at him yourself, Shigaraki…?!" Denki cackled, sticking his tongue out to Tomura advancing on them before he was slapped over the head by Hanta.
"Dude, shut up."
"Come now students, let's settle down and go back to our seats." Toshinori waved a hand out to the kids, Shota moving to sit at the end of the fourth row, to give them room.
"Is this the last episode for today, All Might?" Tsuyu wondered, stopping all movement as she placed a finger to her chin while stating, "If this is the last episode, then there's no point in going back to our seats."
"Oh, um, y-yes, you're right… Um, Voice, how many of these episodes do we have left to watch?"
"One more, Yagi-san, and that will conclude your viewing for today."
"Ah, okay then."
"Voice, Voice, is there a way I can have the footage of All Might's fight…?!" Izuku had been too sucked into the TV to take notes on the battle.
"Unfortunately, that will be unavailable, Midoriya-san, as I am unable to provide it."
"Huh." Izuku's face immediately dropped as he heard that, glaring up at the ceiling before he mustered out next, "Then… Can you replay the fight…?"
"Only what the final episode will have available to show. Other than that, I do not have the option to replay anything that has already been presented."
"But there has to be another way I can watch it again! I have to watch it over and over again because it's All Might and I need to take as many notes as possible on All Might if I'm ever gonna be able to use this power correctly and… It's freaking All Might!" Izuku's kindheartedness seemed to go out the window when it came to anything All Might. The boy suddenly turned on Toshinori and demanded his mentor, "All Might, this has to happen!"
"But…"
"NO BUTS!"
"We have seen many sides of Midoriya this episode…" Denki was one to take note of that, not bothering to ask Katsuki about it as they sat back in their original spots.
"What else could happen in the next episode…? All Might's already defeated Nomu." Kyoka questioned as she sat down in between Mezo and Momo.
"Kaminari-san could be in grave danger, Jiro-san."
"Oh right, I forgot about that idiot."
"Hey- How dare you?!"
'I really need to have a talk with Jiro about her attitude…' Shota would prioritize that after his talk with Minoru.
Toshinori had luckily been able to settle down Izuku, setting him down in the seat next to Ochaco before he took his other side, Minoru accompanying him. Taking his free hand, the brunette held onto his and Tenya's, putting them together in her lap so that all three of them could be connected in touch that brought a good feeling to her soul. They had been through something traumatic and needed this extra support with one another, and they all needed to be there for each other in order to make it in this career.
When the song ceased, the voice spoke up with its usual question, but with a bit of a twist, "Would you like to continue to the final episode?"
"Huh, guess we didn't really need to ask about the episode count…" Mashirao spoke out loud while the theater chimed with agreement, and they awaited the finale to this surprising day.