MHA: Dark Matter (EvilPen)

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[Izuku Midoriya's Pov ]

Izuku stared with delight at the vast expanse of land featuring areas that looked as if they had been struck by various disasters. From the entrance, which was situated above the central part of this facility, on a high stone platform in front of the stairs leading down, stood Class 1A and three heroes.

"I developed this training zone to simulate a wide variety of catastrophes and accidents, and I call it…"

The hero in a white spacesuit began to speak. From beneath his black helmet with white eyes came a proud voice.

"The Unforeseen Simulation Joint!"

"It really is the U.S.J.!"

Thought Midoriya, even regretting not bringing his notebook so this hero could give him his autograph. This was the space hero, Thirteen. He provided phenomenal assistance in disaster relief.

Exchanging glances with All Might and Eraserhead, Thirteen continued.

"Before we begin, I would like to say something…"

The cosmic hero once again drew the attention of the excited teenagers.

"I'm sure you are all already aware, but my Quirk, 'Black Hole,' can turn anything it absorbs into dust."

"This Quirk is perfect for clearing debris and saving people from natural disasters."

Midoriya added, standing next to a rapidly nodding Uraraka.

"Yes."

Thirteen agreed, then spoke in a sharply serious voice.

"However, this power can also be used to kill. In that way, it is no different from the Quirks of other heroes."

In the ensuing silence, his voice calmly reached the stunned students.

"Naturally, in our modern society of superhumans, the use of Quirks is strictly regulated, and there are certain rules for their use. This is the case all over the world. Each of you possesses an ability that can be misused. During Mr. Aizawa's physical fitness test…"

The lanky, long haired man with a capture weapon around his neck simply grunted at this.

"…you learned the true potential of your power. And during All Might's combat training…"

The named hero flashed a brilliant smile.

"…I think you understood the danger and threat your powers pose. This lesson should serve as a new starting point. Let's move on to learning how your Quirks can be used to save people's lives!"

The teenagers listening attentively were filled with an inspiring feeling.

"Your Quirks do not exist to hurt others!"

"Thirteen…"

"Please finish this lesson fully aware that your Quirks are meant only to help people!"

"…he's so cool!"

"That's all. Thank you for listening so attentively and patiently!"

The cosmic hero bowed deeply.

"What an excellent speech, Thirteen! The very purpose of heroes is to help others! Let's begin this training to understand how to properly provide that help. To start…"

All Might suddenly stopped, frowning as he looked toward the fountain. A dark point appeared and expanded into a wide funnel of dark mist. Dozens of sinister looking people began to emerge.

"Everyone gather together and don't move. These are…"

The hero stared at the dozens of eyes with ill intent fixed on Class 1A and the three heroes.

"…villains!"

The man with blue gray hair covered in hands laughed joyfully.

"All Might is here, All Might is here, All Might is here! This is goooood!"

"All Might, Eraserhead, and Thirteen. Everything is according to the curriculum."

The misty figure with bright, glowing yellow eyes said.

"I don't know what your goal is. But because I am here, I will not let you run rampant in U.A.!"

All Might declared, stepping toward the villains. His majestic aura caused several villains to step back in fear.

"Aizawa and Thirteen, evacuate the students."

He said quietly and vanished.

"Nomu."

The man with the hand on his face commanded quickly. All Might, who had knocked out a dozen villains, was sent flying by an unexpected, lightning fast blow from a humanoid creature. Towering over All Might with blue skin and massive muscles, the creature let out a cry from its head, which had exposed brains.

"Idiots, don't let the students escape with the heroes. All Might is mine. Kurogiri, you know what to do."

The man with blue gray hair said.

Meanwhile, Eraserhead, seeing the horde of villains and All Might occupied with his opponent, shouted to Thirteen as he rushed toward the villains.

"Get the students out and contact the academy. I'll hold them off."

Watching the battle begin with anxiety, the students of Class 1A were distracted by the space hero.

"There's no time to watch. We have to evacuate, otherwise your presence will only get in the way of Eraserhead and All Might!"

Thirteen commanded, pointing toward the exit.

"I'm afraid I can't allow that."

"What?"

The turning Thirteen's spacesuit was slashed by a black blade that materialized from the mist. Under the shocked gazes of the students, the cosmic hero's body fell.

"Greetings! We are the League of Villains. Please forgive our audacity, but we have taken it upon ourselves to invade the hero academy U.A., the base of heroes."

The misty figure that had appeared in their path spoke. The black blade slowly took the shape of a hand.

"Solely for the purpose of meeting the Symbol of Peace. And killing him."

Three figures rushed forward. Midoriya, covered in green lightning, Kirishima with a hardened arm, and Katsuki, with his hand glowing from ignited sweat, attacked from the sides and front.

"You didn't think we wouldn't hit you while you were running your mouth, did you?"

Kirishima shouted, watching the mist intently along with the others.

"That was close. Just as expected from the 'future' of the hero world. But I'm not the one who will deal with you."

The dark mist began to swirl around all the students.

"I won't allow it!"

All Might's jump, which was meant to stop the villain, was interrupted by Nomu's accelerated body.

"Where are you rushing off to, Symbol of Peace? We have waited so long for the day we would meet you. The day you die! Hahaha!"

The hero's angry gaze fixed on the man with the hand on his face.

"What are you trying to achieve?"

"You know, there's one question that always bothers me. Why is it good when a hero defeats a villain, but bad when a villain defeats a hero? Why do you have the right to commit violence and enact your justice, but no one else does? It's unfair!"

The man with blue gray hair exclaimed. His eyes filled with malicious intent, and an unusual aura surrounded his body.

"I want to destroy this justice, this society! Killing the Symbol of Peace, the man who personifies this society, will make that easy. And on the ruins of this society, I will establish a new justice, a new society. So today, you must die, All Might!"

The villain's last words were spoken with murderous intent.

Meanwhile, the students of Class 1A began to fall onto concrete from the dark portals that appeared. Coughing away the dust, Izuku looked around. Most of his class was looking around in confusion. Six were absent: Iida, Uraraka, Shoji, Sato, Sero, and Ashido.

Counting who was missing, Midoriya began to examine the surrounding ruins of city buildings more closely and think about his next move.

"So, six are missing. That's not good, but it's not my mistake. Ahem, ahem. ATTENTION!"

A voice came from a figure that had appeared on an empty stretch of road, dressed in a black costume and a mask.

"Excellent, you're all paying attention to me. Hello, larval heroes! Having learned that you would be having a heroics lesson, the League of Villains decided to invite me to teach it to you, since your other teachers will be quite busy. And I, Ticci Micc, am proud to be teaching it to you…"

Katsuki, who had been about to charge, was thrown back, clutching his forehead. Izuku noticed a coin that had fallen next to him, which the villain had been twirling in his hand.

"…Shaggy haired guy, interrupting people is not polite. So, let's begin our heroics lesson. Rejoice, you have a unique opportunity in a U.A. lesson to fight…"

…a real villain.

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Chapter 31: Heroics Lesson (2)

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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