(Now this is a rather long Chapter, hope that is alright and now were getting closer and closer to out of Anime Territory. Now I plan on taking this through the Manga as well so be ready for that! If anyone has questions about this story or just suggestions or anything ill gladly answer respond at the beginning of the chapters. Hope you all enjoy!)
'How did it come to this?' Izuku thought as he felt the sharp back edges in the back of the knife against the side of his neck. Looking down to see who had thrown the blade. He saw the hunched over man, just above the league's leader Tomura. His bag had fallen letting the notes inside slide out a bit, he grunted and moved his hands up to try and pull it out quietly as he heard the man speaking.
"So that little punk is with you as well." He said as he had both blades next to Shigiraki's neck, one already stabbing into his shoulder. "At least coming here saved me the time to find him." He said as Shigriki grunted.
"Kurogiri take this guy back… Now." He said as Izuku looked and saw the teleportation villain had a nasty cut on his arm which bled.
"I'm sorry, but I can't move… It must be the hero killer's quirk at work." He said struggling to make a portal. Izuku soon started to chip the knife from his hoodie slowly as the blade pulled away from the wood. He stayed completely silent as the Hero Killer began to talk about the current hero society and how fake heroes and petty criminals like them tarnish the good name.
"They must all be purged." Izuku's eyes widened when he saw the blade close in on Shigiraki's neck only for it to be grabbed.
"What do you think your doing, not this palm." He said holding onto the knife even as it cuts his hand. "If you touch it, ill kill you." He said sounding more annoyed and angrier as the blade Stain had suddenly crumpled into dust. "You sure talk a lot hero killer, conviction? Maybe I don't have anything as loaded as that. If it had to choose a desire though, yeah it'd be killing All Might." He said as He smiled crazily under his hand mask. "If this world wants to worship trash like him, ill destroy their beloved symbol of peace and crush them while they're in shock." He said before swiping at the hero killer who jumped back.
Izuku managed to get the knife out and drop to the floor but before he could do anything else another blade was pushed against his neck making him gasp out. "Nngh!" He saw Shigiraki momentarily stop as well.
"The last of my injuries were healed by that kid you have right now. Healers are hard to come by so why you don't let him go and leave." He said with an annoyed tone as Izuku still had the knife in one hand as the other was placed on the hero killers' arm to keep him from pushing the other knife at his neck closer. "Playing with knives is dangerous, he's our party's only healer you know." Shigiraki said, emphasizing on the word knives for Izuku to hear. The boy looked at him and understood what he meant and lifted the knife up just above the hero Killer's neck who was busy looking at Shigiraki.
Suddenly Izuku froze momentarily, he looked at the other knife, but it was clean of any blood, his hand was shaking, and he couldn't bring himself to do it. He started to breath quickly as he teared up silently and his arm fell to his side. He noticed Shigiraki's seething glare and Kurogiri's annoyed expression as well. "I see your true nature." Stain began speaking but it mostly fell death on the greenette's ears.
'WHY CAN'T I DO IT!?' He thought before he felt the blade press closer against his neck.
"And punk brats like this one are the ones keeping the present alive." He said making Izuku gasp out a bit as he dropped the blade making him take note of it. "Did you know he healed one of my latest hunts? Some sort of strange quirk." He said which made Shigiraki growl in anger. "I see you didn't, very well then this visit wasn't in vain then." Before he could properly kill Izuku Shigriaki let out an annoyed sigh.
"You really don't get it do you. That stuff you said about letting me bloom. Well he is a vital part of that process. He is part of the league. Even though is straining." He said with anger as Izuku shook. "But his quirk is useful, an immensely powerful healing quirk like that should not go to waste. He's still young but with proper guidance hell be an asset." He finished as the hero Killer looked at him for a moment.
"Fine, but if I find him healing another unworthy hero. He is dead on the spot whether you want it or not. Now, get me back to Hosu and ensure that he doesn't heal the next several false heroes ill attend to there." He said before letting Izuku go again and tossed him forward making him grunt and hold his neck.
Kurogiri made a portal to let him go. As Izuku was sitting up he was suddenly grabbed by the neck again and slammed down against the ground. "GAH! W-Wait shigir-MPH!" Izuku felt his mouth getting covered by a hand as each hand had one pinky off to keep himself from using his quirk.
"Healing dying heroes, now are we? And you wanted to join the league." He said with a burning hatred. Izuku couldn't do much but kick and move, his eyes looked around and saw Kurogiri holding his wound while just watching at the side. As if waiting for him to explain himself.
"Mmmnmpph-" Izuku suddenly stopped struggling when he saw the cut on Shigiraki's shoulder. 'Huh, it's actually pretty deep. Almost like the knife hit his bone but didn't break it. Wow and he's still so lively after that.' He felt the blood drip down onto his hoodie and slowly his hand went up a bit. 'I wonder… how long would it take to heal?' He though and placed one hand on the wound making the blue haired teen hiss before suddenly he started to use his quirk and heal it quickly. Once it was done Shigiraki noticed and moved his arm, no more pain came from that area and he moved off annoyed, while Kurogiri looked confused. Izuku sat up and held his neck which was threatened multiple times tonight. "Agh… I'm I'm sorry… im so sorry." He said as he took deep breaths.
"Your on thin fucking Ice Patch, you're the league's healer, not the heroes." Shigiraki said while he rubbed the area that was healed. He was less pissed but still very much angry.
"I-I can't help it… Im sorry Shigiraki… whenever I see someone hurt… I can't help but use my quirk on them." He said whimpering a bit while looking at Shigiraki. His eyes full of both fear and need. 'M-Maybe if I heal his other wounds itll be alright.
"Ah I think ive seen this before Tomura." Kurogiri chimed in. Both looked at him before he continued. "It seems Patch is one of those individuals who have a sort of obsession because of their quirk." He explained as Izuku began to nod a bit. "If he sees the need to heal, he will heal no matter the faction, while it's a detriment it could also prove useful."
"How can it be useful if he's healing the enemy player?!" Shigiraki whined as Kurogiri responded.
"It means hell be desperate to heal whoevers injured including those in the league." He finished as the greenette nodded.
"Y-Yeah! Shigiraki ill... ill eagerly heal you or Kurogiri sir!" He said slowly standing up. Holding his hands up to show no hostility he slowly walked over to Kurogiri's side still shaken up by the two attempts at his life before he placed his hand on the wound. 'Wow… That Stain guy did this… its so deep, it probably went down to the muscle…' Izuku thought while he kept his eyes on the cut and watched as it stopped bleeding, but due to the mist he couldn't see the wound seal shut, something he always liked to see. "S-See… I healed Kurogiri Sir's wound…" Izuku said before looking down and biting his lip scared.
"Grrrnn fine! But one more mention of you healing a hero to perfect health and your out of the league…Permanently…" He said before leaving. Of course, it was a fake threat, even Shigiraki knew the importance of having a healer. Even if said healer healed the enemy. Izuku went over and picked up the notes and his bag before walking over to Kurogiri again.
"Im… im sorry about that. I have the notes that we can use." He said as the mist man sighed and picked one note book up and looked through the notes before looking at Izuku.
"Good then, Shigiraki's mood might get better after seeing this." He said as Izuku smiled softly at the sound of that. "He had an assignment for you. A way to prove yourself to the league so to say." He went over and opened the closet, pulling out a nice sturdy wooden bat. "Here you'll need this." He said as he handed it to Izuku.
"Uhhh… Whats this for?" Izuku asked as he held the light but strong bat in his hand.
"It's a bat, you use it to defend yourself." He said as Izuku raised an eyebrow. "Look, your problem with your quirk is that you can't help yourself from using it." He pointed at the bat. "You use this to knock out any heroes you heal. At least it wont anger Shigiraki as much." He said as Izuku looked at the bat again.
"I…I don't know how to use a bat though." He heard Kurogiri facepalm and shook as he gripped the handle. "I-I mean I can learn!" He quickly said as Kurogiri gave him a look. "Just… swing to their head for a knock out right?" He asked while swinging it a bit, accidentally hitting a shot glass.
CRASH!
"…."
"…."
Izuku closed his eyes and heard a deep sigh as Kurogiri went to get a broom. "So… whats this assignment?" He asked as the mist man then spoke up.
"You'll be joining one of the Noumu who doesn't have regeneration. Stay back and heal it by calling out a specific word.
"What is it?" He asked as Kurogir held out a small mic.
"Say it to this when I press the button." He said all too quickly before pressing it.
Izuku's eyes widened when he saw the device and suddenly blurted out a random word. "Pineapple!" He said as he noticed Kurogiri's stare and blushed in embarrassment. "S-Sorry I panicked." He said as Kurogiri sighed and put the device away.
"It doesn't matter, just remember that this Noumu will be your top priority alright?" He said as Izuku nodded. He did not really know what a Noumu was but if it could be damaged, he'd eagerly heal it. "Get yourself ready, you'll be going to Hosu as well." He informed Izuku who nodded.
-Later-
After he was led into an empty dark room, he held the bat in hand and checked over the 'costume' he had, unlike Shigiraki or Kurogiri he wanted to keep his identity secret. Mostly so he could still go out into public without immediately being arrested. He pulled up his surgery mask with a plus symbol on it before checking the tape that kept down his smaller jacket sleeves. He put his hat over his head and then slipped the smaller hoodie over it to keep his hair from being seeing as he tapped the tape around his thighs and lower leg to keep his pants close against his clothes. 'Now I can't exactly fight so I have to rely on movement. Can't get hit.' He thought as he rubbed the neck guard around his neck. 'I know the metal plate might be overkill… but its necessary.' He thought as the front of his neck was covered by a thin light metal to keep anything from causing too much damage to get to his throat.
As he moved around, he bumped against what felt like a wall of muscle and looked up. "Uh…. Hi?" He heard it groan and could barley make out what it was before he saw it had no upper head with its brain exposed. "Ah… that's…" He did not know what to say but moved his hand up to gently rub the surprisingly soft brain. "I wonder though…" He said before using his quirk on it. His eyes widened when he heard it groan and before long a fully grown scalp covered it but. "E-Ehh!" It had no eyes, mouth, or nose. Just a flat round and faceless. "Well at least the brains protected somewhat." He mumbled before he noticed large purple portals forming around him and the Noumu. "That must be Kurogiri" He said before they all walked through, and he followed as well.
Once out his eyes went wide a bit as he was on top of a roof in front Shigiraki and Kurogir, putting his bat behind him in a strap he walked to the edge with the Noumu in front of him. He could hear him talking as well. "How about I crush your honor and your pride first? What do you say big bad hero killer?"
'Wow he really doesn't like Stain.' Izuku thought as the two looked down with Shigiraki's stare being more indifferent now. "So, um… Which one am I following?" He asked as two Noumu suddenly left leaving Izuku behind the winged one.
"That one, if it dies on your watch consider yourself done." Shigiraki said as Izuku nodded. Looking at the Noumu it had some sort of filter for a mouth he walked over and grabbed onto its shoulders before getting on its back. He heard an explosion and looked up to see that the other two were already causing mayhem, that's when the yellow one he was on took flight and soared into the air. Though Izuku was not ready for it.
"AHHHHHHHHHH!" He screamed as it flew towards the most populated areas while Shigiraki and Kurogiri watched from afar.
"… I hope he doesn't make it back." Shigiraki said while crossing his arms as Kurogiri looked at him. The way he said it didn't have much malice or annoyance.
"T-Take us near those parked cars!" Izuku said as he held onto the noumu for dear life. Landing down he fell off and fell right onto a windshield. "GAH!" He groaned a bit and sat up to see the Flying Noumu lift a car and suddenly drop it on top of a few people. "Eesh..." He's seen people die before, but normally the aftermath of fights or attacks. Seeing them suddenly just go made him unnerved. Getting off the car he made to follow the Noumu to make sure he could get it out of trouble and heal any wounds it would have. Pushing through the crowd he was mostly ignored due to his height and what he was wearing. 'I must look like a wannabe sidekick.' He thought with embarrassment.
During all the chaos being caused by the noumu Izuku noticed one of the heroes getting grabbed by the flying one and soared over him before dropping the poor blonde down. She landed with a sickening crack and he looked side to side before going over. "Please be alive please be alive." He whispered checking her pulse before he noticed one. "Yes!" he said exited before noticing her largest injury was a broken leg. "Okay Izuku remember what Kurogiri said." He said putting his hands down at her leg and using his quirk. The woman was barley conscious and could only see a strange figure healing her leg.
"Who.. Who are-"
"Wow!" Izuku exclaimed as he smiled under his mask "A broken Tibia and Fibula! I never got to heal these at the same time!" He said as the bones were popping out as well until his quirk did its work and quickly realigned and connected them as if they were never broken. He then healed the flesh wound the bone caused as the woman was creeped out by him. His eyes were full of joy an excitement despite what was going on. "Huh? Oh!" Izuku kept healing her leg with one hand and fumbled to get the bat with the other. Unknown to him there was one other person who stopped what they were doing and looking at him. "Sorry about this." He said and before she could say anything, he quickly smashed the bat against her head knocking her out cold.
THWACK!
The greenette shook his hand a bit and placed it on her head. 'I hit hard enough to leave a large skin cut and bruising. Wow can't wait for the noumu to do more!' He thought before he started to drag her to an alley to stay out of the way but stopped when he looked into it. "You've…. You've got to be joking." He said as he saw who was in the alley, the hero killer Stain. Standing above an injured armored teen with the pro hero Native at the side unable to move.
"YOU!" He said while holding his sword. "You healing an unworthy hero again!?" He said as Izuku dropped the woman and shook his hands.
"N-No! its not what it looks like! Sh-Shigira-" Izuku suddenly saw a blade headed straight for his head. Doing what he could he leaned back, and he felt a sharp pain on his neck before he fell back onto the ground and the knife landing next to his head. "AGH! Ghagh! Nngh!" The metal on his neck protection was bent backwards and he managed to unstrap it as he started to breathe deeply. 'Th-That could've killed me! I would've died!' He thought and saw the hero killer right above him. Izuku suddenly pulled the bat out and held it sideways before blocking a downward sword strike from Stain. Though he struggled greatly as the tip of the sword slowly cut against his cheek. "NNgh…. NNNgh!" he couldn't hold on much longer and kicked his legs out to no avail. 'No! no! I can't die now! Not now!' He thought as he kept trying to push up, but Stain was much stronger physically as Izuku looked up in fear before he recalled something. "Nnnghnnn P-Pine…" He said but the blade suddenly went down and cut into the ground as Izuku moved his head aside, giving him time to say what he wanted to say. "PINEAPPLE!"
Stain looked at Izuku oddly, and Ilda also had a look of confusion on his face but couldn't see who had just saved him from dying. "Was that supposed to be your last word?" Stain asked ready to kill the kid who had wide eyes.
'It didn't work! It didn't work!' He thought panicking as the hero killer picked up the knife from before and got ready to end him.
"Prepare to di-GAH!" That's when a sudden yellow blur flew right above Izuku and he was free. He sat up and panted quickly as he saw Stain getting carried by the flying noumu from before and slammed into an Airvent. "AGH!" The thing smashed right through with Stain before dropping him down on the Asphalt and flying off to cause more ruckus.
"It… It worked?" Izuku said before quickly sitting up and crawling over to the bodies. Getting to the armored one he saw that he had mostly shoulder wounds. "D-Don't worry my names Iz-Patch!" He said taking note In a puncture wound on one arm and stab in the other. Had Izuku had more time he would've looked at It more but he was pressed for time. "Sorry about this but-" Before he could knock him out he heard groaning and both of them saw Stain standing up with rage fueled in his eyes.
"THAT'S IT! YOUR BOTH DEAD!" He yelled as Izuku looked at Ilda quickly.
"S-Still think you can fight?" He asked before fully healing him. Giving him a nod Ilda didn't have much choice since Stain wanted to kill them both. "Just... come to me if your injured." They then saw stain charge at them with his swords in hand as they stood up ready to face him.
'I hope Shigiraki doesn't hear about this.'
(As a start of some future chapters I will also be adding In Omakes. Now these omakes are noncanon to this story. Oh, one more note a nice friend of mine helped me do this one.)
Omake 1
Ragdoll struggled to control her breathing and the tears that she wanted let loose as she laid limply on the ground. Her mind a wreck at what had just transpired moments ago. To think that one man... no, after the carnage that villain unleashed, he was not a man, he had been a monster. One who heartlessly cut down her and her team down, leaving her and all of them for dead.
Every part of her being was in agony, she could feel herself bleeding profusely, yet her body couldn't muster the strength to move, let alone cry for help. The sense of dread and fear gripped her chest with the haunting reality. She was going to die here.
'Pixie...Tiger... Mandalay...' She shut her eyes tightly as tears stream down her face. 'I'm sorry...'
After a few more moments footsteps could be heard behind her. Izuku has just come into the scene, He heard the sound of bodies hitting the floor and was going down the alleyway, checking each hero that was there. "Dead... dead... dead... ah.. so close." Izuku said checking the dead hero that was just behind Ragdoll, all were lower status heroes so they wouldn't be missed as much. He went over to her and his footsteps grew louder as he walked over. Once he was right behind her he leaned down and moved his hand to her neck and checked for her pulse, once he had gotten it he smiled. "Alive.. good." He said before smiling brightly under his mask. He turned her onto her back to check for the injured her just had to heal, letting her see him in the process.
Ragdoll's blurred vision could barely make out what was going on. It being late at night make it no better. She heard a faint voice, followed by footsteps approaching her, getting louder by the second. Which made the verdette desperate want to know who this newcomer was. Were their a hero? A Villain? What were their intentions? She grunted, when she was placed on her back. Hissing in pain, but also being given a chance to see a masked person staring down at her. Before she could even attempt to ask what was going on, a sense of relief started washing throughout her body. Her pain beginning to subside as her vision started to clear up.
Was... was this person... healing her?
"Heheh... lacerations to the arms..." Izuku mumbled as he healed them first. "Deep cuts in the thigh and sides." He noticed that they were caused by sharp blades and eagerly healed them, watching as the Greivous wound slowly healed and sealed up. Keeping Ragdoll's insides in. "Ooooh~" Izuku let out an exited noise as he tilted Ragdoll's head up a bit. "An attempted slit throat. My favorite~" He said with his glowing green eyes looking at her wounds. His hands placed on her neck, healing the attempt at her life. Sealing up with no scar or sign of injury. Afterwards he began to heal up other small cuts and scratches on her front arms and legs. Once he was done he turned Ragdoll onto her back again, not caring how rough he was as he noticed several cuts from small Blake's on her upper back and started to eagerly heal them. "Almost done..."
Ragdoll couldn't help but grow steadily uncomfortable with this guy. Which she noted, by the tone of his voice, was fairly young. Possibly a young to mid teen. Was he a UA student? It seemed likely what with him having a quirk and all. But that wasn't the point, what was, was the boy's unsettling glee. The way he listed off her injuries as he healed her, put her off, so much that she couldn't even be grateful that he was even healing her in the first place. It was almost as if he had been hoping to find her in such a bad shape.
"It's too bad the others were dead. I would have loved to heal a broken bone and sliced eye." He mumbled, not knowing that Ragdoll was awake, healing her upper and lower back. "Oh thank goodness the tails fake." He said as he tossed it aside and took a final synopsis of his patient. His hands trailed over healing whichever area there was as he had a big smile on his face, which could be faintly seen through his mask. "Finally done~" he said happy that she was saved as he lifted her arm and checked her pulse, it was good and strong. "Nice and healed."
Was this kid mentally unstable?! What kind of person talked the way he did?! She had been at death's door and her comrades laid slain all about and all this young man seemed to care about was wishing he had more opportunities to heal certain injuries. He was not right in the head. She laid still, not wanting to grab his attention or spook him, whoever he was, he needed to be looked into and see what type of person he was. If he was a UA student especially.
"Hmmm..." he looked at her more closely and his eyes widened with excitement. "Oh! Your Ragdoll! Quirk search the ability to find specific people in a wide radius... its so useful for search and rescue!" He said getting all giddy like a fanboy. "Your other members must be worried if your hunting for the hero killer." He mumbled as he soon slowly pulled out a phone. "The cops were called of course... it's really too bad I didn't come here sooner. Though. Judging from the injuries the others had, only two of them bled out before I got here. It's a shame. I really wish I could have healed disembowlment." He Then dropped The old phone on the ground next to her head and stomped on it, crushing the device. "Hehe... if you keep hunting the hero killer... i really hope you and your other hero friends survive long enough for me to find~" Izuku said with a rather creepy obsessive happy tone before he stood up and left The fully healed Ragdoll on the ground, thinking she was still unconscious and leaving without a trace except for the intractable destroyed cheap phone
"That child... is nuts." She whispered, For the first time in her life, the normally cheerful and energetic Ragdoll had a scared expression as she slowly sat up. Once she had determined that the boy was gone and out of sight. "Whoever that boy was, he clearly needs to be watched out for." She still couldn't process how giddily he spoke just now.
Izuku was beyond exited as he went back to the league. He couldn't wait to let Shigiraki know about the Hero Killers latest targets. Though he'd have to leave out Ragdoll of course, couldn't have him be suspicious about his healing of her. Though the way she had green hair exited him more, it's been a while since he's healed someone with. "Green hair..." he stopped in his step and stood still for a few moments before shrugging it off, entering the bar though his smile before was genuine, now he kept up a fake one. He wished he could heal her again.
