Izuku looked around.
The first thing he saw was Momo and a few of his classmates tugging on rope connected to some sort of mechanism connected to the half of the ship that had ended up straight on top of him.
He blinked, trying to make sense of what was going on.
The entire world felt so…beautiful.
He could feel everything.
The gentle gust of wind from the cracked glass above blew, and the gentle warmth of the sun painted him in a golden light.
He turned to see the central plaza when he heard an explosion, but all he could see were vague shapes of the people there. His eyesight had gone so bad even the Nomu just looked like a black blob.
Wait no, when Izuku tried to focus everything went into HD, like he had switched the video from 144p to 1080.
He could even make out the individual expressions on the faces of the ones at the plaza; Katsuki's grin, Kirishima's shock, Aizawa-sensei's relief, the smoke guy looking like smoke (as usual) and the handy man's anger.
Oh, Izuku was falling now.
All he had to think was that he'd rather not go down, and his body stopped going down.
'I can float now? That's new.'
He looked back down when he heard a commotion. It seemed like Tsuyu had just come back from under the water and told Momo and the others something shocking, cuz they were looking up at him and they looked seriously upset.
A flicker of something black out of the corner of his vision, and he turned to see…
His reflection? Except it couldn't be him. Izuku's quirk gave him light powers. His whole motif was bright light moves, not this black lightning.
But that's what he saw in the water.
Izuku was floating. His legs (up till the knees) and arms (up till his elbows) were covered in some sort of black metal and his whole body was releasing some sort of black lightning.
Around him, the water droplets from his sudden rise floated, like frozen mid-fall.
From his back, he could see 4 black ropes reaching out to the heavens, and there seemed to be some purple smoke mixed with them.
His eyes, normally a bright green, were bright red, and he instinctively knew that this had something to do with whatever was going on with his vision.
'Grab my hand to use my quirk and save your friends'
Was this the red-haired guy's quirk? The ropes and smoke felt like something entirely different though. And black lightning shouldn't let him float like this.
Izuku didn't exactly remember much of that shadowy place he had been in, but he vaguely remembered that there had been vague shapes behind the man too.
Before he even knew what was going on, his hand was up with an open palm, killing the momentum of a giant rock.
Giant rock?
He turned to see that the Nomu was throwing stuff at him. The rock he had just stopped, a lamp post, 8 or so unconscious villains and 2 more big rocks.
Wait what the fu-
To both his and everybody else's shock, Izuku was able to weave through the projectiles and catch the villains before descending to put down the poor guys before turning to his friends.
"I'll explain later" he said strongly in a voice that didn't quite sound right.
Then, he jumped.
He was there in an instant.
With a quick flick of his fingers, Izuku released bursts of air pressure that tore Nomu's legs before dashing forward to neutralize the threat.
Clearly, he still hadn't gotten the hang of this new power. He overshot the Nomu by a huge margin and ended up near where his sword had fallen.
'Hmm… I wonder if…'
To his delight, when he picked up his weapon it shone with the same black energy as his body, with the black lightning and everything.
{GET DOWN!}
By the time Izuku registered the warning in his head, he was already down in a crouch and his sword halfway in an arc to slash Handy Man, who was angled in a way that he would have gotten Izuku's head if the hero hadn't ducked when he did.
The villain, who was as shocked as he was, had no choice but to completely take the attack Izuku unleashed; sending him skipping like a rock in a lake.
"TOMURA SHIGARAKI!" Kurogiri's voice finally showed a trace of emotion.
"DON'T TURN AWAY FROM ME YOU SMOKEY PIECE OF SHIT" Katsuki roared out as he blasted the villain before putting his hand on some sort of metal collar.
"I knew you'd have a solid form, otherwise you wouldn't have tried to dodge shitty hair up there" the blonde said with a bloodthirsty grin.
"Our hair's basically the same" Kirishima protested.
{ABOVE!}
Learning to trust these warnings now, Izuku leaped back to avoid the Nomu's large black fist from turning him mush.
With a roar, Izuku swung his sword.
"[DIVINE DIPARTURE]"
In a blast of black lightning, the beast was actually sent flying as Izuku suddenly fell on one knee.
"Wh-wha?"
He coughed, coughed so hard that when he looked down he saw blood on his (now back to it's normal colour) hand .
Shifting rocks and a loud curse from Katsuki to see the Nomu getting up, its entire body the same grey-ish colour as when Izuku overloaded its Shock absorption.
'Time to get back into it' he thought to himself as he got back up.
He tried to lift his sword , but his arms wouldn't listen.
'Whatever, kicks are good too.'
Except he couldn't as much as take a step forward.
'I'LL HEADBUTT IT TO WIN IF I HAVE TO GOD DAMNIT'
Except his entire body was swaying, and he fell back onto his knees.
Now was NOT the time for this! Izuku could barely stay conscious, and the charging monster was not exactly reassuring .
Or it would have, but…
"I AM HERE"
A golden blur blasted through the metal doors, past the frozen students and threw a punch at the grey beast that threatened his successor.
It gave no resistance. How could it, when the one who hit it was the strongest person in the country?
The Nomu went flying (again) and this time, it struggled to get back up.
"A-All Might!?" Izuku whispered as his head finally hit the ground "Oh thank god"
"Don't worry Young Midoriya" he heard the firm voice of his mentor, and looked up to see something that was scarier than anything else today.
All Might was not smiling.
"I'll deal with this, take a well-deserved rest."
"Wait!" Izuku called out with a voice so weak he could barely hear himself "It regenerates, and has shock absorption. Hit the same place a bunch of time and that place becomes grey. Grey means your hits will work."
Unexpectedly, his mentor actually chuckled before putting his face in his palm.
"You can't even stand but you still give me info like this? Seriously, what are you made of?"
"But," his mentor rose up to his full height and gave Izuku a thumbs up "This tenacity is also one of the reasons I chose you. Your information is appreciated."
With that, he was off.
'I barely have a minute left' All might thought grimly to himself 'But.. I MUST DO THIS'
He rushed forward to meet the Nomu's fist with his own
'BECAUSE I AM THE SYMBOL OF PEACE'