He quickly shut the emotion down. He had won, hadn't he? Why would he need to hurt him even more?
"Well… That was easy."
...
-Of course, it was! That fucking glass cannon jumped straight into our range, leaving himself wide open to being manhandled by our vastly superior strength! Even if you hadn't read his moves so well that we didn't even take a scratch, we would still have crushed him easily!-
Venom paused for a moment before adding in a genuinely impressed tone.
-Also, that reading of his movement was great! We expected you to take at least half a hundred battles before you could read enemy movement like that!-
Izuku blushed a bit at the praise, but nowhere as much as he had earlier that day.
"It-It wasn't that hard. Katsuki almost always starts his attacks with a strong right swing. Hell, when he stands up it is usually with the right side first."
-Wow, what a predictable mo-LOOK OUT!-
Izuku's right arm, seemingly moving on it's own, snapped up into a guard position, barely fast enough to block the kick that was aimed for his head.
The blow still sent him flying down the corridor.
As he got back on his feet after crashing and rolling along the ground, he could feel the adrenaline coming back into his veins.
"Sensei, can we "Rescue" our partners if they have been captured?"
"I'm afraid, not Ochako-Chan! You and Midoriya will have to finish this exercise on your own!"
It took a split second before Izuku realized that that meant Iida had also been captured.
Down the corridor, where Izuku had just stood, was Uraraka Ochako looking far more serious and determined than Izuku had ever seen her.
"All right then…" She turned and stared him down, with fire in her eyes.
Then, with an incredible burst of speed, she launched herself down the corridor towards him.
Izuku responded by jumping up over her and landing on the ceiling.
He had hoped that would at least give him some reprieve, but Uraraka forced herself to a stop right behind where he had just stood, and snapped around to face him.
Izuku avoided her follow-up jump kick by simply letting go of the roof and dropping down to the floor.
The sound of the stone shattering above him was explosive, and he was hit by several smaller rocks that flew like shrapnel.
He hit the ground just as Uraraka turned around in midair.
Not quickly enough, however.
His webbing hit her straight in the gut, and he pulled her straight down into the ground, face first. Not gently either.
For a moment he saw the perfect opening to stomp down on her back. Not facing Bakugou however, he hesitated at the violence of it.
That was a mistake, as her hand snapped up, and grabbed around his ankle. Uraraka pulled him down as she attempted to grab him into a hold.
Izuku expected to feel a crushing weight as her arms closed around him, but was instead surprised by how "Light" the grip around him felt.
It should be WAY stronger than this given how hard she hit.
Izuku headbutted her in the face hard, the pain distraction allowing him to easily break free from her grip and jump back and away from Uraraka as he landed on his feet.
As Uraraka stood up and put up a fighting stance, and Izuku did the same, Izuku desperately tried to piece together how Uraraka's strength quirk operated. She hit incredibly hard, but frankly, her grip Strength had been far less than it should have been given how she sent him flying with a blocked blow.
OK, what did he know? Uraraka tended to move and attack in a burst of enormous strength and speed, so maybe…
Izuku suddenly moved his hands from his own makeshift combat stance, so they were fists pointed at Uraraka.
Shots of black webbing caught the surprised Uraraka(Who seemed to have expected Izuku to launch himself at her) in the midsection and quickly engulfed her.
For about 4 seconds, as with the crackling of pink lightning, the web was burst asunder as she broke free.
Izuku didn't try a second round of web, having both established Uraraka could break them, and also having confirmed his theory on her powers.
Uraraka's base strength wasn't anywhere near his own. The way her full powers worked was that she would unleash them in short but immensely powerful bursts of force.
Now the big question was… How did that help Izuku out here? He couldn't see any obvious way to use that to win this fight.
Unless…
Izuku launched himself against Uraraka, who brought up her right hand in a hook.
Izuku didn't meet it though and instead leaped over her and her fist.
Once again a web shot out, and this time hit Uraraka straight in the back. Izuku landed on the wall, then he used all his strength and PULLED! For a second he felt the resistance, before with a snap the cape his web had connected to snapped loose, both buttons ripped out of their sockets.
Izuku dropped the web and the cape attached to it, as Uraraka stumbled forward. Then as she whirled around, another web line hit her, this time in the gut.
For a second time, a massive pull came from Izuku's end, and Uraraka went flying off of her feet towards the wall.
Izuku's fist came up to meet her, as she brought up her own fist in a counterattack, and the two of them hit each other with blows so hard the sound echoed through the corridor.
Uraraka's counter had been in the form of a hook that had taken Izuku in his left ribs, while Izuku's punch had hit Uraraka straight in the face.
Uraraka, not held up by Izuku's strength anymore, fell to the ground, dizzy and wobbly as she got back to her feet again.
Izuku for his part, was doubled over in pain on the wall, feeling like Uraraka had broken every bone in his ribcage.
Uraraka got back on her feet, though clearly shaken by the blow to the head, she looked up at Izuku with shaking eyes, but instead of repeating the previous jump kick, large pink bolts of lightning engulfed her as she simply punched the wall with such force that it broke.
Izuku, realizing what was happening, kicked off and jumped. He tried to land on his feet, but stumbled and rolled to the ground where Katsuki lay.
He had completely forgotten about him during the battle.
As he forced himself to his feet, he took several steps backwards, as he considered his strategy.
Uraraka was beginning to recover from the head blow, she'd be back on the offensive soon. Should he repeat the strategy of jumping over her and hitting her in the back? No, no that would be way too obvious. He had a shot before and though he had taken her by surprise, it hadn't been decisive like he had hoped it would be.
Maybe, he could run away, then set up an ambush and- Only then did Izuku realized he didn't actually need to beat Uraraka to win.
He bolted to the left, and then, his ribs screaming all the way, he put his hands and one shoulder against the wall, and PUSHED!
The wall of concrete and steel broke outwards, and Izuku fell out with the pieces of the now broke wall. Not for long though.
A line of black web shot up and to the side of the building, leading to Izuku slamming into the wall, leading to a muffled scream from the pain in his ribs.
He did not stop to catch his breath, however, and instead began climbing as fast as he could, in spite of the horrible pain in his ribs with each meter.
He had to reach the top before Uraraka got back to the stairs.
...
"THE HERO TEAM, WINNNNNNS!!!"
The horrible sound from the microphone was loud, clear, and painful.
Uraraka was just getting up the stairs when Venom and Izuku got to the "Nuclear Bomb".
"Midoriya-Kun, could you dissolve the web around Bakugou?"
Izuku, still holding his fractured ribs, let out a pained "Venom, can you…?".
-Sure!-
The bonds around Katsuki dissolved turned to nothing, a supposedly impossible thing according to all the laws of physics humanity knew about.
The last thing Venom felt from Katsuki, was the boy having what seemed to be a panic attack. Served the brat right!
Well, it hadn't quite been what Venom had hoped this would be. The Uraraka battle was great, and the rush had been so, sooo sweet! At least until Izuku had realized he could win by just going up and had ended the whole bout in a lame as fuck way.
On the other end of the spectrum had been the battle Katsuki. That had been incredibly disappointing. And the sad part was that it could have been great! If Izuku had just put real force into the attack, they could easily have burst Katsuki's balls, dooming him to never reproduce, and eternal ridicule by his peers.
There were fewer ways to crush someone that was more humiliatingly than to end their family line.
And Izuku hadn't even broken his arm as payback either!
All in all, it had been horribly disappointing. That said… The rage was still there.
The hatred still burned bright. This little skirmish had not given him any resolution.
That was good. In due time, he would embrace the rage and anger at Katsuki Bakugou.
It was inevitable. It was their Destiny.
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