I have returned, new re-employed and trying my best to keep to a consistent schedule.

Chapter 6: You Are Not Alone

It was another day at UA and Izuku couldn't wait for his next class to get started. Until the Paparazzi attacked.

"Are you one of All Might's students? Can you tell us what he's like as a teacher?" The reporters shoved microphones and other recording devices in Izuku's face.

"I..Uh.. um you see.." Izuku stammered trying to find a way out; he was not ready for the media. He looked around and saw that the other members of his class were also getting the media treatment, Mina seemed to be loving it.

"Get that microphone out of my face." Bakugo growled, setting off a small explosion and making the reporters back off and Izuku used this distraction to flee through the gates to UA.

Later

"You need to choose a class representative. I don't care how you do it, just do it." Aizawa said, zipping himself up in his sleeping bag.

The class broke down into a mob vying for a position that was at best ceremonial but had unknown perceived value to the naive freshmen. One voice did rise above the chaos.

"I demand a democratic election." Iida shouted his hand raised skyward and the din died down.

"This isn't the diet you know." Ochako chimed in.

"Whatever gets it done." Aizawa grumbled as the class organized around the only actual idea in the room.

A few minutes later.

"Okay and we have a winner. Our new class president is Kyoka Jiro." Momo said from her position as vice-class representative.

"Thanks for voting for me. I'll do my best." Kyoka said she was surprised she won by one vote.

A chaotic disaster of a lunch period later.

"This stinks I got curry on my uniform." Mina

griped trying to blot out the quickly setting oil stain.

"I can fix that for you." Izuku said about to start casting only to pause. "If you like?" He asked remembering the recent lessons about quirks and consent.

"Sure go for it." Mina said and Izuku resumed the spell.

"Prestidigitation." He said feeling the power of the all purpose spell flow through him and focused on cleaning the stain off Mina's jacket and the magic worked as intended.

"Awesome. Thanks Izuku." Mina said giving the green haired boy a hug that gave him a blush like molten iron. Then there was a tug on Izuku's jacket, he turned his head to see Aoyama.

"Excusez-moi, could you also assist moi?" Aoyama asked pointed to the line of mustard the ran across his tie and jacket.

"Sure no problem." Izuku said cleansing the condiments from the francophile(A person who likes france and french culture).

"Merci Beaucoup Midoriya-kun." Aoyama said with a wink.

"Your welcome." Izuku said then he noticed that the rest of the class all of them bearing some kind of cafeteria residue from the lunch time emergency. "Does anyone else need some help?" Izuku said and they were all lining up except for Bakugo.

Days later

"So today's lesson is a practical one. Get in your costumes then get ready for a bus ride." Aizawa said, rolling his eyes at his student's enthusiasm.

"Why are you wearing your gym uniform instead of your costume Midoriya-san?" Ochako asked upon seeing the green haired boy leave the locker room.

"Oh hi Uraraka-san, yeah my costume didn't survive the mock battle and it's undergoing repairs." Izuku said remembering how his attempt to fix his costume with magic had failed, but it did make him wonder if he should enchant his costume, he could turn the whole thing into a Cloak of Resistance or a Cloak of the Hedge Wizard but what kind?

"That makes sense I was just wondering." Ochako answered expecting Izuku to say something else but saw he was instead muttering to himself. She went towards the bus feeling a little dejected.

"Okay everyone get on the bus and sit wherever you like." Jiro said waving the class onto the bus.

"Aw these are just regular busses I thought we were going to get luxury busses." Mina said, taking a seat next to Izuku.

"But that wouldn't make much sense." Izuku commented.

"Like your quirk." Izuku looked next to him to see it was Tsuyu Asui who had said that.

"Excuse me?" Izuku asked the frog-like girl.

"Midoriya you should know I'm the kind of person who speaks her mind-ribbit." The girl answered and Izuku felt a little nervous.

"Okay Asui-san."

"Call me Tsu." The girl said. "And Midoriya-san your quirk doesn't make any sense."

"Why would you say that my quirk is just a normal quirk." Izuku lied but he could feel the eyes of his classmates focus on him.

"It does so many different things that are unrelated." Tsuyu said.

"She does have a point there. You can make fire, ice, acid, and move stuff with your mind." Mina chimed in.

"Mina?" Izuku asked his friend nervously.

"You can make yourself run super fast and maybe do illusions too." Denki added to the conversation and Izuku's anxiety.

"Come on that's all just psychokinesis I'm just moving stuff with my mind." Izuku lied trying to deflect he never expected his classmates to ask so many questions about his quirk. What hadn't he been more careful with what spells he used?

"And you're always making those occult hand gestures and muttering before you make something happen." Tokoyami commented the avian headed boy joining the conversation and Izuku twitched at hearing the word occult. He did not want to reveal his magic to the class.

"Those are just mnemonic devices to help me focus on doing things. Moving around molecules takes a lot of concentration." Izuku said, hoping his classmates would buy the half truth.

"I do have to agree with Midoriya-san in that regard. Holding complex atomic structures in your mind in the heat of battle is arduous to say the least." Momo said and Izuku felt a little relief that one of his classmates was providing some cover.

"Then what about that odd piece of paper you used during the mock battle before you produced the illusion?" Iida asked, unable to stay out of the conversation.

"That was a cheat sheet. The illusion trick was new." Izuku quickly answered.

"I see but why did it disintegrate after you read from it?" Iida asked, giving Izuku a hard look.

"It must have caught a spark from Ka-chan's explosion and ignited. I was lucky to get the trick going at all after that." Izuku said laughing nervously.

'I'm screwed. I am so screwed they are going to see right through I'm going to get caught.' Izuku ranted inside his head waiting for the other shoe to drop.

"That does make sense." Iida said backing down a bit and Izuku felt relieved.

"But you have to wonder what he's going to do next." Mina said and Izuku gulped.

"Well I think I figured out how to copy my dad's fire breathing quirk so I hope I get a chance to test that out today." Izuku semi-lied he had prepped the Fire Breath Spell for today.

Sometime Later

The bus arrived at the site; a massive Epcot-like dome loomed over the students.

"This place is huge, it's like Universal Studios." Mina boggled as the students approached the entrance and a figure in a bulky spacesuit was there waving to the students.

"For this lesson we have an extra teacher for those of you not familiar. This is Thirteen the Space hero." Aizawa said, gesturing to the person he just named.

"I love Thirteen he's so cool." Ochako gushed over the rescue hero.

"I know right, such a cool quirk and he uses it to help people." Izuku also fan boyed, the black hole hero was no All Might but definitely in Izuku's top 20 list of favorite heroes.

"Welcome to the Unforeseen Simulation Joint or USJ for short. This training facility designed by myself to train young heroes like yourselves how to handle any kind of disaster. Fire, flood, earthquake, tornado, tsunami, all simulated here so you can be ready for what the real world can throw at you." Thirteen said his voice projecting through his containment suit, the students awed by the massive facility.

"Even though it seems like the heroes who fight villains get the most spotlight rescuing people from disasters is just as important if not more so for being a hero." Aizawa said and then the lights went out with an electrical crackle and thumps. A growing whooshing sound turned all eyes down to the base of the stairs where an inky black vortex swirled.

"Huddle up and don't move." Aizawa commanded as people crept out of the vortex.

"What's going on? Are those fake villains like the entrance exam?" Kirishima asked unsure if this was a part of the test or not. "Don't move, those are villains. Thirteen stay here, protect the students." Aizawa shouted, sliding on his goggles and letting his combat scarf come loose to prepare for battle.

"Eraserhead and Thirteen, where is All Might?" A voice from the portal questioned. "The schedule we received said he would be here." The voice said.

"Where is he? Where is All Might?" Said the first person who had come from the portal in a hoarse voice. "We came so far and brought so many people with us and he's not here." The man covered in severed hands arched his back. "Would he come if there were some dead kids?" That question struck fear into the hearts of the students.

"What kind of morons would attack a school for heroes? There's no way they could get away with this." Momo blurted out.

"This isn't just some random attack. They have so many villains with them, they have intel on where All Might would be." Izuku said looking down at the villains trying to match their appearances to his database any information he could find on them and their quirks could save their lives.

"Thirteen evacuate the students while I hold them off. Kaminari try to send a distress signal with your quirk to signal for help, one of these villains must have some kind of jamming quirk that's blocking comms and security sensors." Aizawa ordered then he leapt down the stairs and entered the fray.

"Is he going to be okay." Mina asked, twitching in fear the memories of her last encounter with a villain creeping into her mind.

"He's a pro but his fighting style is based around single opponent capture and ambush tactics. I don't know how he deals with multiple opponents at once?" Izuku questioned kicking himself internally for not putting a buff on his teacher before he got too far. Then he saw his sloppy teacher beating the crap out of multiple villains.

"I think he's going to be okay." Mina said optimistically.

"Students follow me, we need to evacuate now." Thirteen called out waving the students towards the door. "Kaminari can you get a signal out?"

"No it's not working." Kaminari said hitting the send button on his transmitter but getting no response.

"Then we-I'm afraid I can't allow that." Came the voice from the swirling vortex of darkness that had completely bypassed Aizawa and loomed before the students. "Greeting we are the League of Villains. In our audacity we have come here today to end the life of All Might, the Symbol Of Peace." The darkness said taking on a more humanoid shape revealing a metallic neck brace with a tie and his words struck fear into the hearts of the students with just how casual he was speaking about murder. "His schedule said he would be here today but it seems to be wrong, no matter my role is unchanged." He said then began encroaching on the students.

'They want to kill All Might. I can't let that happen.' Izuku thought then started casting a spell.

"Take this you son of a bitch." Bakugo roared, blasting at the vaporous villain, Kirishima was close behind with a swing of his rock hard arm, both attacks landed scattered the vapor.

"You can't do anything if we take you out first." Kirishima said with pride, the vapor reformed.

"My that was close, you may be students but you are the best of the best." The villain said rising up again seemingly unharmed by the attacks.

"Magic Missile." Izuku shouted two bolts of force exploding from his fingers flying into the darkness and striking something eliciting two metallic thuds and the eyes shook wildly with a grunt of pain. "He does have a body." Izuku said to himself, starting to form a strategy.

"Get away from him now." Thirteen called out but it was too late the villain's body expanded encircling the class in darkness.

"BEGONE. Writhe in torment, until you draw your last breaths." The villain cursed and Izuku was swallowed by the darkness.

In a different part of the USJ

Izuku tumbled through the darkness, whirling and writhing in a weightless oblivion. Nothing gave him even the slightest hint of up or down or even a hint of horizon, until the moment he slammed into the ground.

"Look! One of the brats appeared!" a voice shouted.

"Kill him already then!" shouted another. That caught his attention, and Izuku scrambled to his feet as quickly as his sense of vertigo would allow him. The world was still spinning, but he could still tell there were three men charging him, each a jumbled mish-mash of animal heads and metal body parts; he wasn't sure if the one with three eyes was real, or just the dizziness talking.

'Crap, crap, crap!' Izuku panicked, internally. 'I've never had to fight multiple people at once!' he scrambled to his feet, mind racing through memorized strategies and highlight reels. An ghost-like image of All Might charging forward, sending the three men flying with a single Detroit Smash flitted across his sight for just a moment. That wasn't something he was capable of; he didn't have that kind of power, yet. He'd have to burn multiple spells to fight them, and who knew what kind of trouble the rest of his class was in.

When he thought of it like that, the answer became simple. "Expeditious Retreat!" Power surged through his legs, and with a swift pivot, he ran.

"What the- get back here, you little shit!" shouted one of the animal-headed henches, before choking on Deku's dust cloud.

'Great they can't keep up now I just have to find the entrance and the rest of the-' Izuku's thoughts were interrupted by a thunderous crack and a sonorous hiss, his head snapped towards the sound and he saw the massive iceberg flash into existence on top of the shipwreck training area. 'Did one of the villains do that or was it Todoroki?' Izuku questioned hoping it was the work of his icy classmate and not some high-powered villain. 'I really wish I prepared Resist Energy but even with that spell a quirk that strong would get me I would need Protection From Energy or maybe I could counter that with Fire Breath. Wasn't there a spell that would surround me with a fiery-.' Izuku was interrupted again by tripping over something and tumbling forward on the bare dirt.

"OW watch where you are going, Midoriya." An indignant voice came from nowhere.

"Hakagure is that you?" Izuku quickly asked then quickly checked his pocket for the item inside and to his relief it was still there.

"Yeah its me and you need to be more careful. Running so fast without looking where you are going." The invisible girl huffed and Izuku was about to bring up the logical paradox of watching out for an invisible girl when he saw the villains catching up.

"We have to go, the villains are coming." Izuku said getting back to his feet.

"Villains?" Hakagure said then Izuku assumed she turned around. "I'm not ready, we have to get back to the others." She said in panicked tones.

"Take my hand, I know how to get back to the entrance." Izuku said and he felt a hand grab onto his then he started running towards the center of USJ. They hadn't been going for very long when.

"Izuku slow down I can't keep up." Hakagure said her invisible feet desperately slapping against the ground.

"We can't slow down, the villains will catch up." Izuku answered looking back and seeing that the villains were still pursuing and were closing the gap.

"Come on you have to have some kind of trick that you can pull." Hakagure pleaded and Izuku knew he could stop the villains with one of his remaining spells but he had to save them.

"Get on my back I'll carry you." Izuku offered and he felt something heavy land on his back staggering for a second before recovering.

"You offered, now onwards my mighty steed." Hakagure called out proudly and Izuku hooked her legs through his arms to support her weight. He looked back through the girl to see that the villains were falling behind.

By the time his spell was running out they were close enough to see the central plaza of USJ. IT was littered with icebergs of various sizes and in a larger one in the center was one of the villains, the big muscular one with the angular fang filled mouth and the exposed brain.

"You froze Nomu how inconvenient." Said the other villain, the one wearing what looked like hands all over his body. "You are very lucky your student was here to save you Eraserhead." The villain rasped and Izuku looked around. He saw Mineta and Tsuyu hiding behind one of the icebergs while Todoroki and Aizawa hid behind another talking strategy, the pro-hero had one of his arms in a makeshift sling..

"This is crazy we have to get out of here." Hakagure said, grabbing onto Izuku's shoulders.

"Hakagure you can go try and get to the others by the door. I'm going to help Aizawa-sensei." Izuku said crouching to let the invisible girl off his back.

"But Izuku, that's a real villain, we're just students, we can't fight them." The invisible said pulling on Izuku's arm to get him away from the danger.

"It's not my first villain. I'm going to go help them just stay safe." Izuku said running towards Todoroki and Aizawa hoping the villain hadn't seen him. His composure broke when he stepped on an icy patch and slid across the ground coming to a stop at his teacher's feet.

"Midoriya what are you doing here? I told you to evacuate." The eraser hero grunted.

"I can't do that Aizawa-sensei I'm going to help you." Izuku said getting to his knees and looking Aizawa in his bloodshot eyes.

"Fine, just follow the plan and don't get hurt." Aizawa said and Izuku nodded. "Listen up we only have one shot at this. Midoriya I want you to get up that stone thing you did to your fists during the combat simulation. You will go right and Todoroki will go left, when you get into range, I'll erase his quirk. Midoriya, do your best to hit him so Todoroki can freeze him." Aizawa ordered, then looked towards the two-toned student. "Todoroki can you keep going?" Aizawa asked and Todoroki nodded. "Good then we go when Midoriya is ready." Aizawa finished and Izuku was already casting his hands transforming into blocky stone. He gave a thumbs up that sounded like scraping stone.

"Whatever happens, don't let him touch you. And go. "Aizawa said and the two boys rounded the iceberg and ran at the villain.

"Sending your students to die Eraserhead. how cowardly." The villain rasped readying himself for the two students. Izuku pumped his legs wishing he still had Expeditious Retreat going for him. He knew Aizawa's plan was the most logical one and the best shot they had on hand to beat the villain but something felt wrong like he was missing something, something important. He was closing in on the villain ready to answer anything with a smash.

"Now." Aizawa signaled leaping from his hiding place and erasing the hand clad villain's quirk. The villain didn't panic even as Izuku and Todoroki drew closer, he just made gestures with one of his hands, very familiar gestures impossible gestures.

"Burning Arc." The villain rasped and flames leapt from his hands onto Izuku, setting him on fire. Burning pain became Izuku's world as he fell to the ground rolling and slapping out the flames covering his body. They went out but his entire body throbbed with pain he could smell burning hair, fabric and paper.

'That was Burning Arc. He called it Burning Arc and he did the somatic gestures. How does he know how to do that spell? The book only lets people who are good read it how can a villain know that spell?'' Izuku screamed inside his head then refocused on the world.

"Well look who's fireproof." The villain said waist deep in an iceberg to the still standing Todoroki, the villain was already making gestures and muttering to himself.

"It's going to take more than that to stop me." The angsty teen answered and the villain finished casting.

"Then try this on for size Sleep." The villain declared and in a second Todoroki passed out and fell to the ground. "I guess he wasn't so tough after all." The villain said then he touched the ice with one of his hands and it instantly shattered into frost. "I had better kill him anyway."

"Like hell you will." Aizawa growled having gotten close enough to ensnare the villain in his scarf forcing the villain's arms flat against his sides.

"You managed to capture me by letting your student take the hit for you. That's so underhanded for a hero." The villain mocked.

"Shut up you scum." Aizawa growled, kicking the villain's legs out from under him and sending him to his knees.

"SCUM? YOU THINK I'M SCUM. YOU HEROES ARE THE REAL SCUM! NOMU BREAK HIS ARMS ." The villain screeched out and there was a great crash. Izuku turned his head towards the sound and was hit in the face with ice shards. The villain with the black skin and exposed brain had broken out of the iceberg and was gone. Izuku turned his head again and Nomu had pulled Aizawa away from the other villain and had him pinned to the ground. There was a sickening snap as Nomu broke one of Aizawa's arms it grabbed the other and snapped it like a twig then it pushed its bulk down harder on the hero's skull. "Now where was I?" The villain paused for a moment. "Yes I was going to murder this about that Aizawa I'm going to make you watch one of your precious students die and there's nothing you or anyone else can do about it." He said and started moving towards the unconscious Todoroki.

"Stop, stay away from him." Izuku demanded having gotten back to his feet.

"You think you can stop me? You are just another child playing hero. Run away now and you might live a little longer." The villain brushed off IZuku and took another step towards Todoroki.

'Crap he's ignoring me. I have to stop him or Todoroki could die. What do I have to work with. I don't think my cantrips are going to cut it with these villains. I burned my 1st level spells for today but I still have Fire Breath, Levitate along with my belt, pearl, and scrolls?' Izuku touched his chest where he kept his scrolls and he could feel them. He was worried the fire had consumed them. 'But can I do anything to this villain he has 2nd level spells he could have 3rd level or even higher. Plus there's that monster over there its so fast and strong it could tear me apart like I was nothing. But I have to do something. I need time for a better plan or reinforcements to arrive. I need to get him monologuing.' Izuku thought.

"Where did you learn those spells?" Izuku asked and the villain took another step towards Todoroki, Izuku started casting.

"Spells? What are you talking about? That was just my quirk." The villain said, bending over and reaching towards Todoroki's head.

"Varian Jeggare." Izuku shouted and the villain paused. "Does that name mean anything to you." Izuku said and the villain straightened then turned to face Izuku.

"Where did you hear that name?" The villain asked in a flat rasp. Izuku didn't answer, he just kept casting. The villain started coming towards him. "I said where did you hear that name you little brat." The villain demanded and he finished his spell but held it in.

"From his spellbook." Izuku answered and the villain's eyes widened.

"You found it? After all these years of looking some kid found it." The villain said, scratching his neck. "Wait how do I know you aren't lying? How do I know you aren't just bluffing?" The villain rasped in suspicion.

"Then test me, ask me something only someone who knows about the Count would know. Something only a Wizard would know." Izuku requested and he didn't like the look the Villain was giving him.

"Okay I'll humor you. Where was the Count born?" The villain asked.

"On a different plane of existence from ours. On a planet called Golarion, in the country of Cheliax, in the city of Igorian as the half-elf child of a human mother." Izuku answered.

"So you do know of the count. Then tell me what's the difference between a wizard and a sorcerer?" The villain asked, Izuku watched the man's hands looking if he was going to make a somatic gesture.

"A Wizard is someone who gains arcane power from the study and practice of spell formulas requiring a focus for their power. A sorcerer is someone who was born with arcane power inherited from their ancestors in most cases one that was a magical creature." Izuku answered and the implication settled on his mind.

"And that's one of the differences between you and I as students of The Count." The villain said and Izuku stepped back.

"Who are you? How are you a sorcerer?" Izuku asked, he knew the Count's book inside and out, he had mentioned sorcerers and his own sorcerous nature but he never said anything about their being sorcerers in this world or training any.

"Who am I? My name is Tomura Shigaraki, the only sorcerer in the world." Tomura said, taking another step towards Izuku. "You know about the Count's life but what about his death?

"What?" Izuku said he knew the count was gone but he had never really thought about how the half-elf had died.

"The Count was killed for daring to challenge my master. His life was taken with his treasures including his book of Sorcery."Shigaraki reveled in the look of horror on Izuku's face. "And these are his hands." Shigaraki pointed to the hands clasping his wrists. Izuku was shocked speechless, his thoughts scattered at the morbid display in front of him."Now you are going to tell me where you hid the Count's book."

"I'm not going to give it to you." Izuku said defiantly, he could feel the power of the spell in his throat waiting for the command to be released.

"I didn't think a hero in training like you was just going to give it away. We will get it out of you through torture, I wonder if your school has taught you how to keep your mouth shut when your fingernails are being ripped off one by one." Shigaraki rasped.

"I'll never tell you. I'll take the secret to the grave." Izuku shot back lying to himself as much as the villain.

"Oh is your heroic spirit that strong. Does it not matter what we do to you? Then how about we take some of classmates like the frog girl or the purple midget. You'll have to watch helpless as we torture them in your place." Those words cut Izuku like a knife. "But you could save them and yourself if you give me the book right now." Shigiraki offered but Izuku knew it was a lie, even if he could give him the book he would be killed anyway.

"I'm not giving you the book and you aren't going to hurt any of them." Izuku raised his fists ready to fight.

"Doing things the hard way. I'm going to make you regret the day you ever dreamed of being a hero." Izuku ran forward swinging his fists and Shigaraki dodged around them throwing in swings of his own that Izuku barely dodged until one of Shigaraki's hands snaked towards his face. Izuku acted on instinct, throwing up his left hand in front of his face he felt the tips of Shigaraki's fingers touch the back of his stone hand then horrible pain exploded from his hand and Izuku threw himself backwards clutching his bleeding limb. He looked down and could see his knuckle bones, the skin on the back of his hand was just gone. He didn't have time to freak out about injury as Shigaraki advanced on him swinging at his under protected left held his ground and released the spell and a gout of flame roared from his mouth blocking his vision. When the flames faded a smoldering figure loomed over Izuku, it was Nomu it's flesh scorched and cracked from the flames, Izuku barely had time to process this when a black blur slammed into him with a thud and he was sent flying. He spun through the air in a daze heading straight for a jagged patch of icicles on the enormous iceberg floating in the man made lake. He closed his eyes and braced for impact.

Instead of cold unforgiving ice Izuku felt a set of arms grab onto him, then he felt whoever was holding him land.

"Young Midoriya are you alright." Izuku opened his eyes to All Might, setting him down next to Todoroki and Eraserhead.

"Yes." Izuku said it hurt to speak, his chest felt like someone had parked a car on him.

"Good, do your best to get back to the entrance and leave everything to me." The Symbol of Peace turned towards the villains, a scowl in place of his usual smile.

"Wait All *cough*cough*cough* Might that villain the one with the hands on him. He's a sorcerer, he can do magic like me." Izuku warned not caring who heard.

"Thank you young Midoriya. I'll be wary of him." All Might never looked away from the villains.

"Nomu this is what you were built for attack All Might." Shigaraki ordered and Nomu charged forward with a wordless screech, All Might intercepted the monster with a uppercut that barely tilted its head, it made a grab at All Might who deftly dodged it and landed more punches on the beast but they did nothing. "Having trouble All Might? Nomu with his shock absorption quirk can withstand any attack you can dish out." Shigaraki taunted watching All Might futilely pound on Nomu in between dodging the monsters telegraphed attacks.

"Shock absorption you say, not nullification." All Might said then he delivered a punch that rang out like a thunderclap pushing Nomu back. "Then all I have to do is pummel him until he overloads." All Might landed more thunderous blows pushing Nomu back further.

"Kurogiri now as we planned." Shigaraki ordered his hands already making arcane gestures and the dark vapor swirled around Shigaraki's upper body obscuring it only for it to emerge from another vortex of darkness behind All Might. "Hideous Laughter." Shigaraki declared pointing at All Might's back.

The Symbol of Peace stopped swinging his fists and grabbed his sides he strained against something then his mouth popped open and laughter poured out. It wasn't his usual heroic laughter that banished fear and brought hope, this was manic forced laughter and the hero fell to the ground unable to stop himself. Nomu capitalized on this by raining down blows on the fallen hero.

"What happened to All Might?" Mineta said in total fear at the top hero fell into maddening laughter.

"It must be that villain's quirk he did something." Tsuyu added just as afraid but not paralyzed by it.

"Prop me up." Aizawa ordered struggling to sit up but it was clear the beating he had taken had sapped his strength. "I need to be able to see the quirk to cancel it."

"Don't aim for Shigaraki, you can't stop what he's doing, it's not a quirk. Aim for the black vapor." Izuku strained to say.

"What?" Aizawa questioned.

"Just trust me on this Aizawa-sensei I know what he's doing.I can help All Might you just need to get Shigaraki away from him." Izuku forced out trying to sit up but his body was just not responding. He was fighting the blackness at the edges of his vision. There was a pause.

"I will." Aizawa said then Tsuyu and Mineta propped him up and his hair spiked up.

"Tomura retreat, my quirk is being erased." Kurogiri warned and Shigaraki ducked down just before the portal would have cinched his head off.

"Midoriya what do you need to do to help All Might." Aizawa said, holding his gaze on Kurogiri who had condensed down a more humanoid shape.

"I have to touch him." Izuku answered by pawing at one of his belt pouches with his stone hand but it was too clumsy and he couldn't stop shaking.

"But Midoriya you can barely move." Mineta said on the verge of a panic attack.

"I can fix that too, I just need to get what's in my belt." Izuku said then he felt a hand brush against his, he looked over to see his scroll float up out of his open pouch and hover over his face.

"Is this it?" Toru asked, holding the scroll.

"Yes thank you, now open it." Izuku said and Toru opened the scroll and Izuku read it aloud the red glow of transmutation magic enveloping the scroll then jumping to Izuku. He could feel the magic flowing through his body bolstering his wavering strength and he sat up just as the scroll crumbled to dust in Toru's unseen hands. "Good now slap Todoroki."

"What?" The invisible girl asked, flummoxed by the order.

"No time for explanations its the only way to wake him up." Izuku said getting to his feet and grabbing his belt. By the time he had pulled the spell into place and started casting, Todoroki was up and moving.

"What happened?" Todoroki asked then he saw the situation. "What do I need to do?"

"Can you freeze the Villain attacking All Might?" Izuku asked the moment he finished his spell and Todoroki nodded. "Then let's go." Izuku shouted sprinting straight towards All Might, the trails of ice racing ahead of him hitting Nomu's feet sending cold through the monster's body it kept attacking until it's arms were frozen solid. Izuku pumped his legs to cross the distance the spell flaring in his mind.

"Acid Arrow." Shigaraki declared and the caustic projectile whistled through the air stabbing into Izuku's back and splattering him with acid. Pain exploded through his body and he could feel the spell slipping away from his and the darkness of unconsciousness flowing in.

'No no no. I can't lose it if I lose it people will die. All Might will die. I'm not going to let anyone die." Izuku raged inside his head forcing the spell to stay in place he ran with a stagger towards All Might running through the pain. He was almost there mere inches from All Might.

"MAGIC MISSILE." Shigaraki called out three bolts of force screaming from his fingers and they were halted by a wall of ice. Izuku touched All Might and let the spell flow into the hero.

"Protection From Evil." Izuku collapsed next to his mentor and the laughter stopped.

"Once again young Midoriya you have saved me when I should have been saving you." All Might said and with crack like thunder he exploded upwards shattering the frozen Nomu and sending it's head flying. Izuku wanted to cry, he hadn't failed, he hadn't failed. "I'm giving you one last chance to surrender now." All Might declared having come out from behind the ice wall in a burst of speed, he was battered and bloody but the hero stood unbent.

"You fool you wasted your last chance. Hideous Laughter." Shigaraki declared unleashing the power of the spell on All Might once again. This time there was no laughter and Shigaraki was sent flying by All Might's fist.

"Tomura." Kurogiri called out his body dissolving into vapor to catch his airborne master.

"MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE." Bakugo exploded into the battle colliding with Kurogiri in mid-air like a human missile, the vaporous villain was knocked off course then Bakugo grabbed onto his metal collar and unleashed a barrage of explosions right on it. All Might raced below the two of them until he was directly under Shigaraki then he leapt straight up and slammed his fist into the villain sending Shigaraki even higher. The sorcerer spun through the air screaming the ceiling was rushing towards him he was going to die. Then All Might was there standing on the ceiling as though his strength could overcome gravity, the hero dropped shooting towards Shigaraki and grabbed him in mid air, the pair of them crashed to earth like a meteor kicking up a massive cloud of dust. When the dust cleared Shigaraki was on the ground his hands held behind his back.

"NO THIS ISN'T FAIR YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO DIE." Shigaraki screeched, wriggling against the superhuman grip holding him down. All Might held him by the wrists pressing his palms together rendering his quirk useless.

"If you wanted a fair life then you shouldn't have become a villain." All Might said looking around to see Bakugo had brought down Kurogiri with Kirishima there as back up.

"I'm not going to let you win. Nomu where are you?" Shigaraki called out for his monstrous bodyguard.

"I don't think he's coming to help you." All Might said trembling but tightening his grip tiny wisps of steam were curling off the back of his neck. He was proven wrong by the bellow of that monstrous villain loping straight towards him. All Might released Shigaraki and met Nomu's charge with a swing of his mighty fist unleashing a shock wave that staggered everyone too close to the titanic clash. The two traded explosive blows like a fabulous vampire and a stoic high schooler.

Shigaraki was not idle in this opening he ran around the edge of the clash and cast a spell. "Magic Missile." The three bolts that exploded from his fingers crashed into Bakugo dislodging the boy from his grip on Kurogiri, the warp gate villain took this chance to escape and warped next to Shigaraki.

"Forgive me for my failure Shigaraki." Kurogiri apologized.

"That doesn't matter. Can you get to him? Can we do plan B?" Shigaraki asked his henchman.

"No, I can not, the shock waves are repelling my gate." Kurogiri emphasized this by trying to spread his mist into the fray only for it to be scattered by the shock waves.

"Then its all up to Nomu to finish off All Might on his own." When those words left Shigaraki's mouth the monster was losing ground against the hero they met fist to fist and Nomu's arm twisted it's bones breaking then repairing. The writing was on the wall. Nomu was on borrowed time in this fight without intervention.

"I advise we retreat while All Might is occupied." Kurogiri suggested observing the state of the battle including the fuming Bakugo being held back by Kirishima.

"Not yet I think I can salvage this, but while All Might is distracted. Capture the green haired boy, he has something Sensei wants." Shigaraki had a cruel grin at the tortures that awaited the student.

"It will be done." Kurogiri said, working his quirk to abduct Izuku.

The dark vapor swirled around Izuku who had been fighting against unconsciousness. He did the only thing he could and let out a second blast of fire, the magical flames destroying the destroying the black vapor.

"Impossible." Kurogiri grunted flinching in pain.

"What happened?" Shigaraki demanded.

"He destroyed the gate with a blast of fire, that shouldn't have happened." Kurogiri answered.

"Try again he's a wizard he can't keep that up ." Shigaraki ordered then there was an explosion followed by a split-second crash. All Might stood there triumphant, his steaming fist raised, Nomu was nowhere to be seen and wind rushed in through the hole in one of the ceiling panels.

"He was a tough one, took at least 100 punches to send him flying." All Might boasted putting on a determined smile with a stream of blood trickling from the corner of his mouth and a spreading red stain on his shirt.

"Nomu may have failed but he did wear down All Might in the process we could still kill or capture him." Kurogiri said, eyeing the bloodied hero.

"Yes you're right, we can't retreat now he's on his last health bar." Shigaraki said moving his hands in somatic gestures and Kurogiri swirled around him creating a circular barrier around the sorcerer.

All Might readied himself for the assault trying to come up with a plan to bypass the warpgate protecting the villains before his time ran out.

A shot rang out and Shigaraki screeched in pain from the bullet blasting through his bicep.

"Shigaraki!" Kurogiri called out to his ward, who clutched his bleeding bullet wound and started casting a new spell. The villains looked up to see that the cavalry had arrived and the pro-hero teaching staff were rushing down the stairs mopping up the villains and securing the students.

"No we aren't retreating I can still get him, Vanish." Shigaraki disappeared and a salvo of bullets peppered the ground where he was a moment ago. Kurogiri scattered spreading around All Might in a snaking tendrils of mist that concealed his true position and whirring concealed softer sounds like Shigaraki's footsteps.

Five burning points of pure agony ignited on All Might's back the hero turned and swung his mighty fist at the suddenly visible Shigaraki. The sorcerer was saved from the attack by a wall of mist that took in All Might's fist and warped it into the hero's own back. All Might staggered from the force of his own blow and Shigaraki's hand snaked for the hero's face, three shots rang out striking Shigaraki knocking him back from All Might's face with a millimeter to spare.

"No I'm going to kill you even if I die too." Shigaraki screeched taking a step back towards All Might and took four more bullets for the effort crumpling to his knees.

"Shigaraki we must retreat." Kurogiri engulfed Shigaraki and he struggled against the warpgate.

"No it's not other we can still get-." Shigaraki was cut off by his head passing through the portal.

"That was too close." All Might said to himself wishing he could relax but if he let his concentration slip now, he would deflate and blow his secret to too many people.

Izuku was unaware of this as he had lost consciousness from the pain.

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Hours Later

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"Where am I?" Izuku groaned his voice dry and raspy his head feeling light and his thoughts slippery, he tried to move but he felt restrained looking down he saw that he was wrapped in bandages.

"Young Midoriya you're awake." Toshinori said, approaching the bed.

"I didn't think we'd be back here again so soon." Recovery girl said, holding a clipboard. "All of your ribs broken, contusions in your arms and legs, acid burns on your back and you somehow flayed your entire left hand. I've seen worse injuries but you won't be leaving here today."

"Is everyone else okay?" Izuku asked if he felt like everything was tilted.

"Yes, out of all your classmates you are the only one who was significantly injured." Principal Nezu chimed in from the chair he was standing on. "Thirteen and your Home-room teacher were also injured but he'll be fine."

"I can speak for myself." Aizawa said from the bed next to Izuku.

"It's good that you are okay Aizawa-sensei." Izuku said things coming back into focus.

"Yes but Midoriya-san you have some explaining to do on the matter of you being a magical wizard." Nezu emphasized the incredulous words he as a super intelligent rodent said.

Izuku swallowed and looked at All Might who gave him a look that said 'This was going to happen eventually.'

"It started when I was looking for All Might's biography in a used bookstore." Izuku started.

End of Chapter 6.

Name: Izuku Midoriya

Race: Human

Class: Wizard (Transmutation School) level 4

Stats

Strength: 16*+3

Dexterity: 12 +1

Constitution: 14+2

Intelligence: 17*+3

Wisdom: 13+1

Charisma: 13+1

Additional stat point TBD

Opposition Schools: Necromancy and Enchantment

Arcane Bond: Belt Of Giant Strength

School Abilities:

Physical Enhancement

Telekinetic Fist

Feats:

Scribe Scroll

Eschew Materials

Craft Wondrous Item

Spells Slots:

0:4
1:4
2:3

1 additional spell slot from Bonded Item from list of spells that can be cast.

Equipment:

Belt of Giant's Strength(+2 to strength score)

Headband of Vast Intelligence (+2 to intelligence score bonus to knowledge local skill)

Pearl of Power 1st Level