Shigaraki Tomura was furious. So much time was spent on the plan for killing All Might, how many pawns were collected with the help of his Sensei... And all in vain!
"You're weakened? Now that I can see... We're completely outmatched. How dare you Do that to my Nomu?! You cheated...!"
The villain's breathing hardened and he began to scratch his neck even harder than before.
"He's not weak at all! They... They lied to me?!"
Kurogiri walked closer to his master and waited for further instructions. The dust around Hero Number One did not settle and he just looked at the Villains with a smile on his face.
"Well? Going to get me?! What happened to clearing the game...? If you can take me, than bring it on!"
A shadow fell over All Might's face, giving him a menacing look. Pure strength was visible in his bright eyes... At least he hoped it seemed so from the outside.
Several years ago, the Symbol of Peace barely survived the battle with a very dangerous enemy and received an irreparable injury. Right now, he had seconds left in this form and he wanted to force the villains to leave USJ. He won't be able to protect his students if he dies.
"Uoooohh...! If only we still had Nomu! If only! He was taking those hits so well!"
Kurogiri decided to intervene and approached Shigaraki's ear.
"Tomura Shigaraki... Calm yourself. It's apparent that Nomu did deal some real damage. The kids are holding back for some reason. And reinforcements from the school are bound to arrive in a few minutes. But If the two of us double-team him, we still have a chance..."
The villain stopped scratching his neck and looked at the Symbol of Peace.
"Yes... yes... yes... Right... Right... Right... We can do this. The final boss is standing right there."
The villains jumped off and ran into the attack. Shigaraki jumped through the portal and reached out to All Might's face. But at the last moment, he changed the direction of the attack on Midoriya, who appeared from the side with incredible speed.
The teen broke his leg from the recoil of his Quirk to interrupt Shigaraki's attack, but the villain had only one goal: the Symbol of Peace.
"Get away from All Might!"
The villain's hand passed through another portal and approached the Hero's face.
"I won't get another chance!"
Midoriya prepared to hit Shigaraki with his Quirk, but in the next second, several things happened at once.
"Got him..."
Shigaraki looked down sharply and saw a shadow that pierced his left side. In the shadow itself, a green eye and an open mouth were visible, which at the same moment bit into the flesh of the villain. The second attack came from the entrance to the USJ, a bullet piercing his right wrist and knocking him out of the way of the attack.
Everyone turned to look for reinforcements, eleven teachers and Tenya Ida were standing at the entrance. Some of the students began to cry with relief.
"Sorry, we're late. We brought everyone we could." said the white mouse-dog-bear Nezu, who was sitting on the shoulder of Cementoss.
"Vice President of class 1-A! Tenya Ida! Reporting for duty!"
Shigaraki destroyed the materialized shadow with one touch and stepped back a couple of meters.
"Ahh, they're here... game over. Guess we gotta try another time, Kurogiri."
Snipe did not wait for the villains to escape and started shooting, but each of his bullets hit the portal and did not reach the target.
"Only ne'er-do-wells we got a shot at wrangling' from this distance are..."
The portal began to suck into the black hole the Thirteen had created, but Shigaraki was already halfway inside.
"This is...!"
"That's me!"
Each finger on the Heroine's glove was open, he tried to stop the villains from escaping, but the portal continued its work.
"I may have failed here, Symbol Of Peace... But the next time we meet, All Might... You're dead."
The portal closed and the last villains disappeared from USJ territory.
"I couldn't do anything..."
Midoriya was lying on the floor next to All Might, trying not to cry from pain all over his body.
"It's not true... If you hadn't won me those few seconds, I would have been dead!"
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At the same time, Harry watched the Symbol Of Peace slowly change shape through Midoriya's shadow. The teenager could not understand what the hell was going on and why in the place of the great Hero there was a skinny matchstick coughing up blood.
"You 'got him'?"
Ojiro's voice distracted Harry from his thoughts and he wiped the last of the blood off his nose.
"A wound on the abdomen... without attention... lose consciousness... then die..."
"Oh..."
Two students were approaching the steps leading to the exit from the USJ, where their remaining classmates were already standing. Mina was the first to notice the new arrivals.
"Hey! It's Ojiro and Harry! They're okay!"
The girl pointed at them with a smile and hit the air in triumph.
"Hey, Ojiro...?"
"Yes?"
"Forty eight hours..."
"What?"
As soon as Harry finished speaking, he deactivated Envy and Pride. His body immediately relaxed, and his eyes darkened. The teenager went to the world of painless dreams.
"Oi! Wake up! Damn!"
Cementoss walked over to the two students and looked at Harry's unconscious body. The teenager's suit was torn almost everywhere, there was dried blood and ash in his hair.
"He's unconscious. Put him on the floor, I'll take care of the rest myself."
"Okay..."
Ojiro laid Harry's body gently on the floor and joined his classmates.
"What the hell happened? Potter looks even worse than Midoriya..."
Sato couldn't take his eyes off the broken form of his classmate.
"I'm not sure. He fell out of the eighth floor with the villain, and when I came down he was already... Like that. But he gave villains hell, I didn't know his mouths could do so much damage."
Harry was put into the same ambulance with Izuku and sent to Nurse's office.
"What happened to Aizawa-sensei and Thirteen? I don't see them among the other teachers."
"Sensei got hit by that Nomu, and Thirteen got hit by her own Quirk... Her back looked terrible... I hope they are okay."
Ojiro nodded in understanding and turned to ask the nearest detective about his teachers' wounds, but Tsuyu was ahead of him.
Shota Aizawa had both arms broken to pieces, his eye socket was damaged and there was a serious chance of long-term loss of vision.
Thirteen, as Kirishima said, suffered terrible injuries to his back and arms, but his life is out of danger.
Not much was said about All Might's wounds, but everyone was sure that the Hero was in perfect order.
Izuku Midoriya broke his leg and a couple of fingers on his hand, but a session with Recovery Girl would quickly get him back on his feet.
"What exactly happened to Harry? I couldn't see the wounds due to the suit, but there was so much blood..."
Tsuyu squeezed her hands together and waited for the detective's answer.
"There are lacerations all over his body, a piece of his left shoulder was bitten off, but fortunately the bone was not damaged. He has a serious blood loss and our scans show that his brain is... overloaded."
"Before he passed out, he said something about forty-eight hours... Could it help?"
Detective glanced at Ojiro and nodded.
"Perhaps he knew he would pass out and gave us a time range to work with. Then it probably has to do something with using his Quirk."
Present Mic clapped his hands, drawing the attention of the students.
"Okay little listeners, the show is over! We're going back to campus! Chop-chop!"
The students left the USJ discussing their battles, while Detective Naomasa watched them leave deep in thought.
"Potter, huh... Sounds familiar."
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Shigaraki Tomura fell out of the portal and groaned, the attack was a complete failure! The familiar bar greeted the two villains with only a white screen and static noise.
"I was shot, both arms and legs... and stabbed... We got crushed!"
Blood flowed to the floor from fresh wounds and the villain pressed on his side to reduce the bleeding.
"He got Nomu too... Our cannon foddler was taken down in a flash... Even those kids were strong... The Symbol Of Peace is in perfect health! You were wrong, Master!"
The picture on the monitor remained white, but a calm, deep voice of a man came from the speaker.
"No, I wasn't. We merely got ahead of ourselves. Yes... We underestimated him. Good thing that League Of Villains came cheap. Anyway... What of our creation? Nomu? Did you retrieve him?"
Kurogiri bent down to Shigaraki and began to bandage his wounds, they could not be ignored for too long.
"He was sent flying. And unless we ascertain his precise coordinates, no amount of warping will let us find him. I just couldn't spare the time back than."
"After all the trouble we went through to make him as strong as All Might... Well... That's too bad... A real shame."
Shigaraki looked at the monitor, trying to see at least the silhouette of his Sensei.
"Strong... Right... There was one... one kid who seemed just as fast as All Might..."
"...Oh?"
"And the shadow brat! Without these pests, we might have killed All Might!"
Tomura rolled onto his back and began to chase his neck.
"No use crying over spilled milk! This endeavor was not a complete loss. Find stronger troops! Take all the time you need! We can't move freely! That's why we need a symbol like you. Tomura Shigaraki!! Next time the world will know of the Terror you represent!"
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Harry's consciousness returned to the familiar abyss inside his soul. The teenager looked at the stones and noticed a new addition in the form of a third stone. The new Stone was still the same blood red color but had no shape... Harry wasn't sure if he could call it a jelly stone.
Now Envy and Gluttony slowly revolved around the Stone of Pride. Harry didn't try to touch the Stones themselves, he just watched them move around. After a couple of minutes, the teenager decided to try something different and activated Pride. The smooth stone sparkled with a faint red lightning, but nothing else happened.
Harry frowned and tried to change the color of his eyes with Envy. A similar lightning flashed across the cracked Stone. The teenager looked at the last Stone deep in thought. He had a primitive knowledge of what Gluttony was capable of... This new Quirk gave him a lot of passive abilities.
His teeth could now bite through anything, his sense of smell was better than that of a chasing dog. Shadow mouths could absorb and place anything in their own dimension... In addition to all this, he acquired immunity to many poisons. Harry thanked the higher powers - Jasmine - that he did not have an obvious drawback from receiving the new Stone.
"Well... I should wake up."
The green-eyed teenager looked around and saw nothing but endless darkness. He sighed heavily and concentrated on leaving the depths of his consciousness.
"It'll still hurt like a bitch..."
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A green-eyed teenager with long black hair was lying In a hospital in Musutafu. Right now his entire body - except for his head - was bandaged. A plump woman with purple hair sat next to his bed, quietly leafing through a thick notebook.
Of course, that teenager was Harry Potter, and Azumi Sato was sitting next to him. The woman left her post at the Orphanage and came to observe the condition of one of her wards. She took one of his notebooks from Harry's room, which was filled with a variety of different drawings. Azumi smiled softly when she saw the drawing of Harry holding a laughing Karin on his shoulders.
"Ugh..."
The woman looked up at the unexpected sound from the teenager. Harry opened his eyes and stared up at the ceiling with a displeased face.
"Good morning Harry." Azumi said softly.
"I'm in the hospital... I don't like this."
The woman closed the notebook and put it on the bedside table.
"Whether you like it or not, it doesn't matter. How do you feel?"
"Do you remember that time when I slept for about a week? Well, that, but I can't sleep because of the pain."
Azumi stroked the teen's hair and sighed heavily.
"...Karin didn't like your absence."
"...how bad is it?"
"She was only told that you were in the hospital, so she doesn't know about..." She gestured at the bandages "This."
Harry breathed a sigh of relief.
"That's good... good... How long I was out?"
"Six hours, so you haven't missed the next school day yet."
The teenager turned his head and looked at the dark sky outside the window.
"Ah... it's night now."
"Yes, so go back to sleep. Recovery Girl will check your condition tomorrow."
"...Azumi, why are you so calm?"
The woman just looked at Harry like an idiot.
"Right now, I'm not calm at all, Harry. It's just that years of working with children have taught me to keep all my emotions to myself."
"...I'm sorry."
"Just... try not to get hurt anymore, okay? I don't want to see Karin cry."
The teen nodded and closed his eyes again, his body still clamoring for rest. It was already a couple of minutes before he slept again, Azumi sighed heavily and left the room. The orphanage cannot work for long without her.