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Izuku was walking along towards one of the training grounds. A familiar one actually he recognized it as the one where his first hero exercise had taken place. It felt so long ago when he'd been fighting against Katsuki for the first time since getting One for All. If someone had told him he'd be here at this moment he'd have laughed in their face. "Why the hell are you assholes coming?!" Izuku was broken from his reverie by Katsuki's shouting.

Ever since he'd agreed to a match with the class Katsuki had been raging for them all to back off that this was between him and Izuku. If it were anyone else he might have been flattered, but it was hard to think of quality time with Katsuki as anything but a torture trip. "Oh come on man don't be like that we all missed Midoriya." Kirishima said throwing an arm around Katsuki's shoulder.

"What the hell are you talking about rocks for brains!? I'm here to kick Izuku's ass not whatever you pansies plan on doing." Katsuki said as Izuku shook his head and opened the door to the training ground.

"Bakugou is such a Tsundere. He should just admit he wants a piece of Midori. No shame Bakugou!" Mina teased as Kirishima held the angry blonde back as he hurled insults at Mina. Izuku couldn't help, but chuckle at that and then shudder.

Me and Katsuki in a relationship? No thank you! Izuku thought to himself as he walked fully into the training ground. "So who's coming at me?" He asked as Bakugou stepped forward. "Besides Katsuki." He said as Kirishima, Ojiro, Todoroki, Tenya, Sato, and surprisingly Ochaco. This was a shock to everyone there.

"Are you insane Uraraka Izuku's going to blow you awa-! Never mind you go Uraraka I believe in you!" Mineta said as the image of Izuku punching away strips of Uraraka's clothes ran through his mind. Mineta then turned to Izuku and attempted forced telepathy to try and relay his desires to Izuku.

"Not to mock your desire Uraraka but are you sure?" Tenya asked and before she could answer Katsuki shouted out.

"If she wasn't do you honestly think she'd be here? Use your head four eyes and stop stalling dammit!" Katsuki shouted. "And you guys better go all out or get the hell out of here." Katsuki said staring at Izuku.

Tenya scoffed. "You can't possibly mean we should be trying to take Izuku's life. This is a training exercise."

"No Iida Katsuki is right." Izuku said in a clipped manner before green energy flared up around him as he punched the air sending it careening towards the class and whipping around them. Mineta immediately crouched down as low as he could to look up the skirts of the girls who hadn't been participating and therefore hadn't changed clothes, but before he could he was lifted off the ground by the wind only being held down by one of Shoji's arms. Everyone looked at Izuku as he stood there like an imposing storm that was about to crash down on them.

Aizawa walked into the teacher's lounge after preparing Eri's room and as he did so Present Mic threw an arm around Aizawa's shoulder. "Hey check out what your class is up to." Present Mic said as he pulled up one of the security cameras in the training ground. On the screen was Izuku and his opponents.

"What are those kids doing!?" He growled his hair rising up as he stared at the screen before turning to the door.

"Hold on buddy before you get your scarf in a knot they did ask for permission and everything. It was like last minute but they did ask." Present Mic said holding onto Aizawa's shoulder. "Why don't we watch to see what happens. Your former student vs your current ones this will be good for them I think." Present Mic said as Aizawa snatched the tablet.

"I didn't ask for your opinion." He growled and sat at his desk with Present Mic sliding next to him.

"Yeah I know." Present Mic said with a wink and smile as the two began watching.

Izuku stood in front of his opponents and cracked his knuckles before using One for All. I think twenty percent should be enough. He thought to himself as green lightning arced around him. Katsuki grinned widely at this show of power as his palms began to smoke. "Try not to get in my way." He said to the others as Izuku gave a come on gesture. Izuku had expected Katsuki to be the first to react, but to his surprise rather than an explosive blonde hurtling at him Todoroki made the first move as he created an ice slide towards Izuku.

Izuku stood there watching Todoroki as he curved around Izuku and then leapt into the air above him and shot downward with a huge gout of fire. Izuku stared up into the vortex of fire before holding his hand up as the fire engulfed him. Everyone stood dumbfounded for a moment as they watched Todoroki continue to pour down on Izuku. "Something's wrong." Bakugou said as he noticed the look on Todoroki's face.

The twin tone boy had been pouring his fire down on Izuku, but after making contact with the hero it felt as if his flames were being pulled from him rather than him spewing them of his own accord. "What is this?" He said as he cut off his attack to reveal Izuku there unharmed as he clenched his fist around the fire Todoroki had been using on him. Izuku smiled up at Todoroki before thrusting his fist upward in an uppercut.

Shoto knew what was coming and braced himself as a wall of air hit him full force and thrust him higher into the air before he landed on one of the roofs with a cough as the air was knocked from him. Izuku turned from Todoroki to lock eyes with Ojiro as the tailed boy came at him with a tail slam. Izuku countered with a tail of his own. Ojiro looked at the glowing tail he was locked with before letting the tail overpower him and spin him through the air to come at Izuku with a series of downward kicks as he spun over him landing behind him.

Izuku covered himself with another tail to block Ojiro's attacks as he watched at Ojiro for a split second before he attacked with several tails. Ojiro dodged between the jabbing tails before being swatted by one. The blonde haired youth sailed through a shop as the lightning around Izuku changed to red steam and he spun at blistering speed to lock legs with Iida who had been coming at Izuku with a Recipro powered roundhouse.

Iida immediately backed off after their leg lock. "I'm not foolish enough to believe I could beat you in a contest of power Izuku, but speed I might have the edge." Tenya said as he zoomed around the street they were on.

"That's pretty smart Iida." Izuku said before he held out the curled fingers for both hands and flicked his fingers launching compressed air shots around him which Iida deftly avoided with his speed before jumping off a wall and spinning towards Izuku with a downwards kick. Izuku brought his hand up to block Tenya's kick. Iida wasn't sure what had happened until he noticed that Izuku's hand was embedded in his wrist. Izuku smirked before releasing his compressed fist and throwing Tenya head over heel away from him.

Izuku turned away hearing a crash as Iida landed and saw someone flying towards him. It was Kirishima fully hardened with his arms crossed in an X. In an instant Izuku knew what had happened. After catching a glimpse of Sato Izuku surmised that Sato had hurled Kirishima at him like a spear. Izuku braced himself as Kirishima's foot hit the ground and the redhead wound up for one hell of a punch. "Better grit your teeth for this one Midoriya!" Kirishima shouted as Izuku punched forward as well, but he was surprised to see that Kirishima didn't even try to block his punch instead took it head on with his hardened forehead.

Izuku was confused as to why that was before Kirishima grabbed his arm in a death grip. "You're not going anywhere. Now Bakugou!" Kirishima shouted upwards. Izuku looked upwards to see a floating Bakugou right before he pulled the trigger for his charged gauntlet. Now Izuku saw the full plan. Kirishima had adopted his unbreakable form to take the full brunt of Katsuki's attack while keeping Izuku in place.

"Sorry to waste your effort Kirishima." Izuku said before he took a deep breath and exhaled a giant river of flame that clashed with Katsuki's charged explosion. The glass and windows shattered under the ensuing explosion as Bakugou was hurled higher into the air. Seeing this Uraraka released her quirk to let the blonde fall back to earth. Izuku turned to Kirishima as he thrust his fist into his stomach.

"Ha you're going to have to do bet-!" Kirishima felt a wrenching in his gut before he was blown back tumbling end over end down the street. Sato turned from Kirishima's blowback before downing two more bags of sugar. His muscles enlarged and tightened before he rushed at Izuku who stared Sato down as he swung at him. Izuku dodged to the side as if in slow motion he deftly dodged Sato's punches.

Sato grew slower and slower as his reserves of sugar ran out and he eventually succumbed to the sugar crash. Sato crashed to his knees before falling to the ground. Izuku looked up as he spotted Katsuki on one building and Todoroki on another. The two stared down at him before this time Katsuki reacted first. He blasted off the building and came down on Izuku with a downward explosion. On the other hand Todoroki slid down the side of the building before landing on the ground and releasing an ice burst straight towards Izuku.

Izuku reacted as he slammed his foot down on the ground causing it to rupture and a large chunk of earth rose to the side of him to block Katsuki's explosion as Izuku lifted his other hand to create a Rasengan to pulverize Todoroki's ice. It was at this moment Ochaco made her move she dashed in with a palm towards Izuku's stomach. Seeing that Bakugou's explosion had been successfully blocked Izuku jumped back right before Ochaco could lay a hand on him and Todoroki's ice exploded forward capturing Uraraka's hand in ice and pinning her to the large chunk of street Izuku had brought up to block Katsuki's explosion.

Izuku looked to where Todoroki was standing after having trapped Ochaco before dashing forward towards Todoroki with a roundhouse kick that the dual quirk boy blocked with a chunk of ice that shattered instantly showering him in ice shards. Katsuki blasted down towards Izuku with another explosion before Izuku dominated his vision having jumped up towards him and then above him before punching downward. Katsuki's vision blurred as he was forced out of the sky to slam onto the ground barely able to break his fall with a well-timed explosion.

Katsuki got to his feet stumbling back as Todoroki evaporated the ice on his body as Izuku landed on the ground and stared at them. "Is that good enough?" Izuku asked before Katsuki shouted.

"No way in hell Izuku I'm not done! I beat you at the sports festival and I'll beat you here!" He said as he exploded forward once more, but this time he was given a burst of incredible speed as Todoroki used an ice pillar to propel him even more.

"You can't beat him alone allow me to help." Todoroki said as Katsuki clicked his tongue, but said nothing as he then jumped off the pillar towards Izuku his hands glowed with heat before erupting in a massive double palm explosion.

"BIG BANG!" Katsuki shouted as Izuku grinned at the explosion and clenched his fist. So this is what it means to be real rivals. Izuku thought as green lightning arced around him as well as red steam before Izuku's fist retracted into his wrist.

"BAZOOKA SMASH!" Izuku's fist shot forward into the center of Katsuki's explosion punching straight through it and into Katsuki's stomach the blonde grit his teeth as he began to fly back and watched as his explosion was dispersed from the center. He hit the ground on his feet sliding across the ground before falling backwards and coming to a rest on the ground as he stared up at the empty sky.

"Dammit!" He growled as he slowly sat up only to see Izuku's hand there just like that time at the river. Katsuki growled before grabbing Izuku's hand and pulling himself up. "Don't think this is the end. I'll beat you Izuku! We are not done you hear me." He said letting go of Izuku's hand as the rest of the class approached them.

From the lounge Present Mic looked at Aizawa. "Wow I don't think I've ever said this, but Principal Nezu might have made a mistake in letting that kid go." Present Mic said as Aizawa sighed.

"He made the right choice for the school, that's his job so I don't believe he did." Aizawa said as he turned off the security footage. "I'm going to the dorms to let Izuku and Eri know her room is ready." Aizawa said as he got up from his desk and left the room.

Edgeshot was springing across the city on patrol. Hero patrols had risen in frequency after what happened to Uwabami. It wasn't outside the possibility that the league might make more than one attack. Uwabami might have been just the opening stage and things would ramp up from there. There were those among the higher ranking heroes who thought they wouldn't be targeted. After all if Himiko and Spinner were emulating Stain then they probably wouldn't come after top heroes like himself.

Edgeshot thought that was pure hubris and knew that even those like him were not out of reach of the League of Villains. It was as this thought crossed his mind he saw a flash of blue in a narrow alley. "What was that?" He asked himself as he dove towards the alley coiling down into it and seeing a sight that would turn even the heartiest of stomachs. Edgeshot was thankful for his mask that blocked some of the smell of burnt flesh as he looked at the charred bodies. "What happened?" He asked before seeing movement from the bodies and moved to check to see if anyone was alive. "Just hold on!" He said desperately as he reached down and then dodged to the side as a blade sliced across his ribs.

Edgeshot danced back as the pile of bodies fell aside revealing a soot stained Toga in her blood mask. She smiled behind the mask as she twirled her knife. "You have such a weird body, it's going to be hard to stab you." She said as she stomped across the burned body. Edgeshot felt his blood boil at the disrespect she was showing the dead.

"Well if you can't stab him I'll just slice him apart!" Spinner said as he dropped down from one of the walls with his blade pointed down towards Edgeshot who folded himself up to avoid the blade before sending out a punch to Spinner's face which he blocked as he was knocked back his blade coming loose from the concrete.

"So you are going after top heroes as well." Edgeshot said as he looked at the two villains. "I won't be an easy catch!" He shouted as he folded onto himself forming a giant shuriken that flew past Toga who sent her syringe after him only for Edgeshot to unfold and punch Toga in the gut sending her flying into Spinner as Edgeshot exited the alley. "You won't get away this time." He said as he alerted the Hero App before narrowly avoiding a burst of flame that forced him back into the alley

Dabi walked into the alley through the curtain of blue flames his hands lightly smoking. "So this is the number five hero? You're not bad these two definitely wouldn't be able to take you on their own." He said as a ball of fire formed in his hand. "Come on hero let's play." Dabi said as he rushed forward with burning hands. Edgeshot dodged Dabi's blows with his folding form before getting around the burnt youth and kicked him in the back sending him sprawling forward.

Toga slid past the off balance Dabi towards Edgeshot as she thrusted her knife towards him. Edgeshot knocked the blows aside before throwing out a kick that Toga dodged by doing the splits and stabbed her knives into Edgeshot's grounded foot. The hero grunted as he folded his leg back to kick Toga in the back of the head slamming her face to the ground with a wet crack. Edgeshot pulled the knife from his foot and jumped up to avoid a blast of fire by Dabi.

This seemed to be a faint as now Edgeshot was in the air and in position for Spinner whose Odachi swung down and sliced across Edgeshot's cheek slicing his mask off. For his credit the hero didn't falter as he jabbed his fingers into Spinner's body. "Go to sleep." Edgeshot whispered as he saw Spinner's eyes go glassy as the human reptile fell to the ground of the alley.

Edgeshot landed on the rooftop panting somewhat as he looked at the drops of blood leaking from the cut on his face. He ran his fist across his cheek to wipe away the blood as he stood up feeling the searing pain of his stabbed foot as fresh blood oozed out of the wound. "I need to keep them here until the others arrive." He said as a pillar of blue flame erupted from the alley and riding it was Dabi as he landed on the rooftop.

"You really roughed up the lizard that was just rude." Dabi said stalking forward. "I've sent him back with the psycho now it's just you and me Origami." He said giddily before launching a flurry of fireballs at Edgeshot who dodged them with ease, but that wasn't the problem. There is a momentary lapse between adjusting to seeing something bright and then being in darkness. This phenomenon was happening to Edgshot. Dabi's fire wasn't as bright as normal flames, but it was directly in Edgeshot's face making his pupils contract to block out the light, but leaving him partially blind when the fire passed.

This was Edgeshot's downfall as his hampered darkvision made him unaware of Toga who had erased her presence and then pounced jabbing a knife into Edgeshot's back and side. The hero groaned as Toga repeatedly stabbed the man in his back. Edgeshot folded up and got away from the stab happy Toga. He stood on the edge of the roof looking at the two villains as he felt his blood rush down his back.

"Finish him off." Himiko said as Dabi raised a hand and ejected blue fire straight at Edgeshot, but was blocked by a fierce wind. There stood Miruko and next to her cradling Edgeshot was Hawks.

"Wow some party you guys have going on here." Miruko said stepping forward and cracking her knuckles. "Let me cut in." She said as Hawks just shrugged.

"Sure don't mention me or anything I'm just here keeping Edgeshot from falling to his death." Hawks said as Miruko scoffed.

"Just get him somewhere safe alright I've got better things to do than listen to your whining." Miruko said as she stared down the two villains. "Feel free to run I'll be more than happy to chase you down." She growled as Dabi and Toga looked at one another.

"Remember the plan." Dabi said as he unleashed a swath of flame and then ran left as Toga ran right each of them jumping onto different rooftops.

"Well at least they're not too proud to run." Hawks said as Miruko leapt off after Toga. Hawks sighed. "Like I said don't mind me." He said before sending off a few feathers after Miruko just in case she needed backup. His face may have been calm, but on the inside he was worried. Miruko was by far one of the best hand to hand combatants in the top ranking heroes, but Himiko there was just something off about the girl that made him worry for Miruko's safety. "Be safe." He said as he flew Edgeshot to a nearby hospital. Once he'd made sure the hero was safe he would go back up Miruko.

Miruko spotted Toga dropping down to street level and using her enhanced hearing she followed after Toga before dropping down on her with a kick. Miruko thought this would be a solid hit, but right as Miruko's foot was about to make contact with Himiko she was thrown back as if she was repelled. Miruko landed on the ground and stomped her foot to remove the trembling from the recoil of her kick. "What the hell was that?" Miruko asked as a red glow surrounded Toga.

"You know all you heroes say Tomura is a bad guy. I mean yeah he's short tempered and violent, but he really cares about the league. He knew how much I missed Magne and gave me something to remind me of her." Toga said stepping forward and showing several knives. "Now I can always fight besides big sis Magne!" Himiko shouted.