Just when things seemed tough and they were all pushed to the edge, the machines froze and deactivated. At first, they were reluctant to believe it actually ended. But a few moments without being assaulted was enough to convince them. " Midoriya did it!" Cheered Sora.
A few floors beneath them, Iida and the rest were also freed of their ropes and were relishing their freedom. " Midoriya-kun and the rest did it! You hear that Seijin-kun! They did it!" Shouted an ecstatic Iida who kept on shaking the purple head, trying to wake him up.
All over I-Island, the security system was safely restored and the heroes captured in the venue of the reception party were all freed of their bounds.
Yet unbeknown to any of them, the fight was still raging on...
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" Yuu!" Sora ran to check on her friend who was being hauled by Iida.
" Don't worry, he just passed out." Assured Iida.
" Man, what should I do with you?! Always so reckless!" Complained Whisper while resuming his spot.
" The elevator." Jiro pointed at the panel above them and they could see the elevator climbing their way.
" Is it them? Are the villains still after us!?" Mineta cried but with a soft ding, the elevator opened up to reveal an empty space.
" It's Melissa-san. She wants us to join them on the top floor," said Sora. And so, they all climbed into the lift which sped upwards the length of the building.
But then, a strong churn happened that the lights flicked for a moment. " What was that?" Asked Todoroki worriedly. The elevator's doors opened to what seemed like the aftermath of a fight. Smashed walls, contorted rodes of steel and chunks of concrete strewn about the place.
Jiro quickly plugged her earphone jack into the nearest wall and listened on. " A fight... it's happening above us!"
" Above us? But that would be the roof?!" Exclaimed Yaoyoruzu.
" Could it be, Midoriya is fighting on his own." Everyone heard the hint of worry in Todoroki's voice.
" Let's go! If it's true then it's our duty as his classmates to support him!" Stated Iida as he looked around for stairs or anything that could lead them up.
" But-" Sora wanted to point out that they could hardly fight anymore, save for her, Bkaugo, Todoroki and Kirishima. But seeing how worried all of them were, she couldn't say that. Instead, they followed Iida as he ran up the nearest stare case.
" This way, Kaminari!" Said Mineta pushing Kaminari in the right direction while the boy still had that blank expression on his face.
The quaking of the building and the loud rumbling continued and it was getting worse the further they went. Most of them were horrified when some pieces of the walls and a roof peeled themselves off. However, they had only one direction to go, on.
When the chaos got very intense, the ceiling began collapsing, Todoroki shielded them while Bakugo blew away the debris. Amidst the cacophony, their path was blocked. " How to move on now?" Wondered Uraraka impatiently, clearly worried for their classmate.
" How to get out!" Iida looked feverishly around for an opening when the boy on his back stirred. " Seijin-kun!"
" Yuu!"
" Iida-san..." Yuu murmured as he struggled to look up. " There's an elevator... right behind that lump of concrete... I glimpsed it earlier..."
" Alright! Leave it to me!" Kirishima crossed his arms together as he hardened his whole body and went to break the cement. Soon, the door to the elevator was revealed. " Everyone! This way!" He called. They all fell back to the lift and Bakugo hit the top button.
The lift zoomed up and when it opened, they were met with the most terrifying sight, All Might being squeezed under numerous pillars of iron and steel launched by a giant misshaped villain.
They acted almost immediately, Todoroki froze the pillars and Sora broke them down, Bakugo attacked the villain as he roared at All Might to get himself together, in his rather unique way.
" We'll take on the lumps of metal!" Kirishima stated.
"These things are nothing at all!" Smirked Sora as she hovered ahead.
" Yaoyoruzu-kun, take care of things here!" Iida said letting Yuu down.
All three of them dashed forward. Since Sora didn't have the fantasy-like strength to break those down with one kick as they were like Iida and Kirishima, Todoroki supported her by freezing them first. It was a piece of cake afterwards. " Thank you, Todoroki!"
The ones they couldn't break, All Might took care of them as he made his way to the villain boss. However, the top hero was caught in the enemy's tough wires. The man glowed red and his size doubled, grabbing All Might by the throat and squashing his side. However, that was as much as she could see of them. They were preoccupied with the lumps of metal she hardly paid them any attention until Midoriya dashed to rescue All Might when he was about to be flattened.
As retaliation, the villain compressed masses of misshapen metal objects and fired them at both All Might and Midoriya only for Bakugo to decimate them.
But from the smoke, lashed more of the iron poles.
" I won't let you!" The ground froze around him from his cold wave as he frosted them. " Go! Shirogane!" He yelled smashing half of them using his shards. Sora flew ahead at top speed, ignoring the feathers growing all over her body as she stuck them head-on.
" Her head is truly like a rock!" Whisper couldn't contain his smirk.
" Out of my way!" The only option left for the villain was to throw them off by destabilizing their footing. Sora was hit hard and slammed on the cracked ground. As she came up again, clutching her aching right side, she saw Midoriya and All Might making for the last attack against the villain's gigantic cube.
" Shirogane-san!" Sora snapped her head in the direction of Yaoyoruzu and the rest when she was called and glided to where her classmates gathered, all watching with battered breaths the two of them breaking the villain's last shied.
" Go!" Shouted Uraraka with all her pent-up feelings.
"All Might!"
" Midoriya-san!" Half unconscious and tired as he was, Yuu's voice joined the rest of his friends.
" Get him!" Finding it hard to move anymore, Todoroki, Bakugo, and Sora put all their energy into words.
With a Plus Ultra, the two heroes struck their foe and crushed all of his gears and metal weapons. The impact was so strong and loud Sora was left with whistling in her ears. When she was able to hear perfectly again, she was greeted with the cheers of her friends. " They did it!"
Those three words were all her knees needed to hear for them to give way and she fell down, all her strength drained. She hardly managed a small smile at Todoroki and Bakugo who later insisted that it must have been her imagination and that he hardly as so much as smirked.
By the day break, Kaminari was gaining consciousness and Yuu was able to stand on his own. They all turned to Midoriya and Melissa a few meters away from them, waving at them mirthfully. " Aren't we allowed so much of a break? Will every vacation of ours turn out into a fight?" Snorted the ghost.
" It can't be helped, Whisper." Yuu smiled softly as he looked at the green-haired boy just as the sun began rising behind him. " We're heroes after all."
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The next day, All Mighty treated all of class 1A to a barbecue party, mostly as a reward for those who worked hard during the villains' incident. So the second day of their stay on I-Island was spent by the ocean and filling their stomachs with delish meat. " Mineta-kun! You shouldn't take so much on your own! Some of us might be left without steak!"
" Calm down, Iida-kun! We still have more grilling on the brazier!" Midoriya tried to pacify their class rep.
" Ochaco-chan, would you want a bite of mine? It has vegetables."
" Mine has mochi, Tsuyu-chan, take some!"
" Eh? Mochi? Does it even fit in there?"
" It fits anywhere!"
" That's our mochi girl." Laughed Whisper.
" While mine!" Sora held her spits in two hands. " They have shrimps! Want a bite?"
" Yaoyoruzu, are you sure you will be alright... having eaten all of that?" Tokoyami asked worriedly seeing the pots and sticks accumulating before the girl.
"That's fine, Tokoyami-san, I'm still open for the dessert." The girl answered.
Yuu almost choked on his juice hearing that. " She can still eat?!"
" Yaoyoruzu's appetite is rather impressing." Noted Todoroki by his side.
" Aoyama, put that phone down and start eating. Hagakure isn't satisfied with her share," stated Sato.
" I want more!" Shouted the invisible girl.
" But I must sparkle as I eat them, it will make them taste better!" Retorted Aoyama as he made different poses while holding his stick.
" You guys..." Ojiro sweat dropped as he found it hard to keep up with the trio.
" Hey Bakugo! We got yours! They're with pepper!" Shouted Kirishima as they made for the blond who continued to pretend that the rest of them didn't exist.
" We added red sauce too!" Smirked Kaminari. " Hope you find its spiciness to your likeness."
" It's a good thing I brought drinks along," Said Sero bringing out two bottles of coke.
As all of them took their deserved break, Sora turned to Midoriya, still munching on her steak. " So it was all David Shield's doing, but he was hoodwinked by his assistant and the faux villains turned out to be real ones aiming to obtain his invention?"
Midoriya scratched his head with an awkward smile. " You heard it, didn't you."
" You know we can't help it with our Quirks," stated Sora.
" We didn't mean to eavesdrop though!" Added you hastily.
" Ah, don't worry about it." Midoriya shook his head with a smile.
" So, what's going to happen to that professor then? I doubt they would be allowed to walk out of it like that." Pointed Whisper.
" I'm worried about Melissa-san though," blurted Sora.
" I heard he will be taken for questioning as soon as his wounds are healed. As for what will happen to him... that remains to be seen." Hearing that, Yuu and Sora dropped their eyes in disappointment. The man wanted nothing but peace, and he acted in the way he believed was most befitting to accomplish that. It couldn't have come to that point if his work wasn't frozen.
" But, Melissa-san said she will be fine," Midoriya assured them with his ever-so-confident smile. " She has a goal to fulfill. And she will work hard to make it come true, for her and for her father."
Sora's lips curled into a small smile at those words. Even though he was worried himself. She must assure him too." True. That would keep her looking forward. And we all must live on too."
" Hey you three!" Kirishima called out. " We're going for a volleyball match. Wanna join?" He said holding the ball over his head with a broad smile.
All three of them exchanged smiles and nods before joining their classmates at the beach...