MHA: Dark Matter

The representatives of Class 1A looked at the villain who had just finished speaking with wariness and slight fear. They still hadn't recovered from the rapid chain of unexpected events.

"Stop spouting nonsense! Once All Might beats the rest of the villains, he'll come here and kick your ass!"

Shouted a nervous Mineta, a short boy with a childish face and dark purple ball like hair.

"I'll blow that ugly mask up myself!"

Roared an irritated Katsuki, who was furious about getting hit earlier. His classmates, along with Izuku, decided not to tell him about the red five yen coin shaped welt on his forehead. But the words of these two made them feel more confident.

"Excellent! You're already grasping the essence of what not to do when facing a villain. You must not lose your fighting spirit, no matter what. A true hero must be confident and resolute. But fighting spirit and resolve…"

The cheerfully speaking man appeared next to Bakugo with unbelievable speed and sent him flying into the wall of a broken building with a punch to the stomach. Cracks spread across the wall from the impact.

"…are nothing before absolute power. To uphold their ideals, heroes must be strong…"

A massive ice block that had been growing toward the villain shattered into pieces with a wave of his hand.

"…and smart."

A figure covered in green lightning with a leg raised to strike appeared behind the villain, but a gust of wind from a wave of his other hand sent it flying.

"They must be able to cooperate with their comrades…"

A smooth step to the side with a twist of his body, and a blue beam hit a living shadow instead of the villain, dissipating it.

"…and know when to fight to the end and when to retreat."

The villain dodged a tail strike and a hardened fist, grabbed the fist's owner, and threw him over his shoulder into the tail's owner. The two bodies fell awkwardly.

"I can't show you what it's like to be a hero. But I can show you what happens to a weak hero when they meet a strong villain."

Todoroki stared at his opponent, who had easily broken his ice, with a furrowed brow. Katsuki tried to get up from the ground, while the slightly injured Midoriya tried to figure out the enemy's Quirk. The others clenched their teeth tightly.

Having finished speaking, Ticci Micc headed toward the main part of the class. Suddenly, a couple of oblong objects rolled to his feet.

Poof. Poof.

A cloud of smoke engulfed him. After waiting a moment, prepared for an unexpected attack, the villain dispersed it with his Quirk. None of the Class 1A students were nearby. The villain chuckled at that.

"Let me go, Deku! I'll blow that bastard's face off right now! Mmmmm!"

Momo had stuffed a piece of cloth into Bakugo's mouth. If at any other time Izuku would have been in a state of sacred awe at this act from the girl carrying Bakugo on her back, right now he had no time for that. The opponent's strength, speed, technique, and Quirk were making his brain work overtime to devise a strategy to fight him.

"Yaoyorozu, are you sure we should have retreated? With that guy's speed, he'll catch up to us soon."

Asked Jiro, a girl with short purple hair and earphone jacks dangling from her earlobes.

"No, but we can't beat him without a plan. He deflected our attacks easily. It's clear he's playing with us, but we don't know when he'll stop 'teaching' us and get serious. So, we need time to come up with a plan and analyze his abilities. Has anyone even heard of the villain Ticci Micc?"

"No."

"Never heard of her."

"I have."

Izuku spoke, instantly drawing the attention of all the students. He immediately started to fidget nervously. Swallowing, he continued.

"About two years ago, there was an incident at a Tokyo police station involving Ticci Micc. Several police officers and one hero, Snatch, died. After that, he was given an A class rating. He also recently caused a massacre at a nightclub in Kanagawa Prefecture. But the police aren't sharing the details. His known abilities include being able to pass through objects and create shockwaves. Apparently, he can't let living people's attacks or energy attacks pass through him, since he dodged Aoyama's beam. But I still don't understand how he appeared out of thin air in front of us."

"You don't need to know how that happens. Just think of it as me being invisible sometimes."

The metallic scraping voice made Midoriya almost trip. Everyone jumped back from the running villain who had appeared next to Midoriya. He stopped and spread his arms.

"I almost feel bad scaring kids like you…"

Ticci Micc's entire posture conveyed "regret" for his upcoming actions.

"…but it will be useful for you to know what helplessness feels like. And maybe you'll learn a lesson from it. I'm curious to see what you'll become in the future."

Izuku felt his opponent change with his last words. The very air seemed to warp around the dark figure. Something dark and terrible rose and emanated from him. The U.A. students felt a grotesque, distorted aura from the masked villain envelop their surroundings. As if they were all just toys in the hands of a mad monster who hadn't yet decided what to do with them.

Midoriya wanted to attack, to scream, to run, or to do anything to get rid of this fear, which was turning into terror. The red eyes visible through the dark mask were like the eyes of a snake before its prey. One wrong move, and life would end.

Suddenly, the sound of shattering glass rang out.

Everyone involuntarily looked toward the source of the noise. A small hole was visible in the far section of the glass dome. The barely audible sounds of battle from the fountain area had fallen silent.

"The lesson is over."

The masked villain said. A moment later, with the sound of cracking concrete, he jumped onto the nearest building and disappeared from sight.

From the sudden relief, Momo and Jiro fell to their knees. An unnaturally quiet Bakugo stared at his clenched fists. Izuku watched with worry toward where his teacher and idol were fighting.

[End Pov Izuku Midoriya]

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I quickly jumped across the rooftops toward the central plaza. As far as I could tell, the silhouette that had flown into the sky was my employer's "trump card." A mindless, incredibly powerful creature they called "Nomu." My fists clenched involuntarily. The creature was similar to number forty one. The realization that the League of Villains was in some way similar to Haijima made me want to kill them all.

Two things stopped me. The lack of information about their connection to Haijima, and doubts about whether I was strong enough to do it. So I agreed to their absurd plan. I didn't believe they would kill All Might, but I still needed their information.

Damn. Too slow.

"Rejection" destroyed the building beneath me, but the recoil sent me flying toward the center of the dome surrounding the entire disaster simulation complex.

My eyes noted the battered Eraserhead in the central plaza, dozens of unconscious villains and a destroyed fountain, and off to the side, the body of Kurogiri, which Shigaraki was trying to shake awake as All Might rushed toward them.

Son of a bitch!

I twisted my body in the air and launched myself downward with "Rejection."

The Symbol of Peace sensed something and crossed his arms above his head. The shockwave from the collision of my Dark Matter covered legs and the number one hero's hands sent the surrounding villains flying. Feeling the bones in my legs crack, I did a backflip, throwing a knife at All Might's face. The knife, accelerated by "Rejection," was deflected with a wave of his palm.

"Hey, Facepalm, wake up your sleeping beauty faster!"

I shouted at the cursing hand faced man, ignoring his curses and mutterings of "Impossible, the master said he was weakened." Now I looked more closely at the Symbol of Peace's appearance. His hero costume was torn in many places, and the skin on his right arm looked as if it had been eaten away by some kind of acid. Adding to that his heavy breathing and the blood coming from his mouth, this fight had not been easy for him.

I involuntarily met his blue eyes.

I felt like an ordinary tourist who had accidentally angered a huge king of beasts.

I released Dark Matter and covered my right hand with "Hardening" at full concentration. A shadow covered my body. I barely had time to meet the suddenly appearing All Might's fist with my own. It was like being hit by a train. The impact shattered my "Hardening" with a crack, and my body was thrown back a dozen meters. I tried to move my right hand. No response. Great.

All Might, who had been about to move toward me again, was forced to deflect a knife accelerated by "Rejection" to protect Eraserhead, who, due to fatigue and injury, couldn't defend himself. I pulled out a flare gun with a decidedly non signal flare.

I needed to delay All Might without engaging him in close combat, where he would easily destroy me. Out of the corner of my eye, I noticed new people at the top of the stairs. Instead of aiming at the Symbol of Peace, I shot toward them and jumped back toward Shigaraki and the barely conscious Kurogiri.

One of the new arrivals deflected my projectile, and half of the central plaza was covered in a smokescreen. Without a Quirk like "Clairvoyance," they shouldn't be able to see us for the next few seconds, which meant someone like Snipe couldn't hit us accurately.

I met All Might's gaze again, and the face of a thin man with the same eyes flashed in my mind. My eyes widened in shock at the realization.

At that moment, dark mist enveloped me, and a moment later, I found myself in the familiar bar.

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