Enhancement vs. Mutation
The room was quiet, he sat down on the edge of his bed. Angered wasn't even the words to describe his situation. He couldn't even call it betrayal since that's how society is today.
Izuku cupped his hands while thinking about his upcoming match with a Mutant.
Truthfully he never had the chance to got at it with a Mutant. Only few Emitters and many, many enhancers. He doubted himself, that much was certain.
Mutants, their quirks were stronger variations of a emitter or enhancer. They either have both or one of those qualities but they have a massive arsenal of abilities.
"Fuck."
That was his life from start to now. As if Mutants abilities wasn't enough, he just remembered that they trained to be conquering all of the lower classes making sure that no one can possibly topple them except a few people who were smart enough to combat them. That's a small few.
Sure Izuku had techniques that went along with Full Cowling, but he wasn't sure who his opponent is or what their quirk is. Just hearing the word 'Mutant' put some doubt in his head.
He wasn't clear minded. Filled with anger and frustration, his quirk flared. Lightning crackled around him before he noticed the necklace around his neck glow.
Looking down, Full Cowl is activated. He reaches into his shirt to pull out the sliver chain and the ring attached to it. Looking back on it now, he rembered something...
Izuku, promise me that you will be happy someday.
Those were his older sisters last words before she was taken from him. It was silly really, how can anyone be happy in a world like this. Where the lower are considered animals, while middle are progressing people, and the highest are the powerful and correct one's. It was sickening to think about it.
Thud.
Thud.
The teen looked towards the door then back at the chain. Slowly putting away his sliver necklace, he deactivated Full Cowl.
"The door is open." Yea he forgot to lock his door again.
Hearing the nob turn and the door squeaked mildly, the boy saw his 'consent' partner.
Setsuna entered the room with a somber expression on her face. It stabbed her heart to know that tomorrow will be the judgment day for her partner.
"Hey." She tried to put more emotion in the greeting.
"Hey." His attempt failed to put any emotion at all.
Setsuna walked towards Izuku but not before closing the door and locking it.
Izuku saw the girl approaching him.
"Please, Izuku trust in me."
Trust. It was so hard to gain her trust in the first place from the day they met. Now he got it when everything was flipped all to hell.
"Are you sure? Because after we do this we can never go back?"
The tone was filled with uncertainty. He only felt so helpless once before in his life and now this was the second time.
Setsuna leaned in towards Izuku. Slowly she wrapped herself around the teenager. The only comfort she can give before they continue the process.
"They will take you away and I don't know if I will live long enough to see you again." The conflict in his voice said enough.
"I know. So will make sure I will do well in my part." The reassurance was not enough to prevent the emotions in Izuku's heart.
"Again. 'They' have won, I guess we can't fight it any longer." Izuku spoke in utter defeat before Setsuna shushed him.
"Let's not think of it like that. Tonight I will just be the two of us and only that. So please..."
Setsuna leaned in making sure her eyes were meeting Izuku's.
"Trust in me."
Just after she said those three meaningful words. The pair connected in a soft touch of their lips.
The next day... Eviction Match Izuku Midoriya vs Tsuyu Asui.
Glancing at the wide arena from its center, Izuku met the eyes and faces of all kinds of people. Some of which weren't even part of the military school. He would assume this time, it will be live broadcast for the country, maybe the world to see.
Looking back down to meet his opponent.
Her hair complimented the same color as his own however it wasn't as curly. Her outfit was odd. It seemed like a jumpsuit or a bodysuit of sorts. Green stripes with black in the middle and her flippers alongside with massive gloves. Izuku couldn't comprehend the unique design of the outfit.
He was just wearing the leather black-jacket, dark cargo pants, and combat boots.
"Kero. Your Midoriya? The upcoming enhancer?"
Was he poplar? He did not know anyone actually paid attention to him. Aside from that one pink girl.
"I suppose. What's it to you ma'am?" He did not hold back the rudeness.
"Kero. Watch your tongue peasant. Otherwise you and that whore of a mate will suffer against us."
Izuku gripped his mask. Tightly, Izuku brought it up to his face before saying.
"We will see at the end of the day who will win."
The crowd roared in the boy's defeat, majority at least. He made the attempt to block out all sounds with his gas mask on. Charging up Full Cowl was his recognition to the audience that he was ready to start.
Full Cowling: Instantaneous Speed
Dashing towards the mutant girl, Izuku held nothing back. I need to end this fast, there is no telling what will happen if I don't take this chance! He shouted in his mind, as he instantly became a green blur.
Here he comes. Tsuyu thought as she shot out her tongue towards the incoming green lightning. Throw off his momentum or halt his speed, either way your done Midoriya! The frog-girl proclaimed mentally with slight grin on her face.
Izuku saw this incoming appendage and lowered his body incredibly to where his chest was almost grazing against the ground. Dashing lower and under the passed tongue, the boy gave the girl a rising elbow attack. The crushing joint of the elbow, had fractured the cheek bone on Tsuyu's face.
Flinching in pain and impact, the girl did not see the bow that stuck her. Now! Izuku roared in determination, as he interlocked his fingers thus hooking his hands behind the frog girls neck. Giving his next attack, Izuku landed powerful burst of power by striking with his knees upon Asui's face.
After a couple of seconds, Izuku felt something halting his next knee strike. Looking down, he noticed the same tongue he dodged earlier was now wrapping itself around his rising ankle.
"Pathetic. Kero." Izuku heard his opponent. With a quick tug, the enhancer was being pulled back violently. Rising up in the air without his consent, Izuku started getting swung around. Landing against the floor or the walls of the arena there were inside of. Each landing was more powerful and crushing.
After the fifth landing, he was swung upwards and into a tornado form building up acceleration by Tsuyu. The frog girl swung along with her tongue making sure to increase the speed so that the next landing would hurt all the more.
Damn! That was his thoughts before Izuku was brought down like boulder being dropped several feet upon a vehicle.
Slam! Crash!
The sound of a body colliding with the solid ground and the crushing floor as it creates a body sized crater. Bodies were silent. While some were silent because of the horror unleaded upon Izuku, most were waiting and anticipating the enhancers next move.
In the stands...
Bakugo was silent with rage and frustration. Kirishima was comforting Setsuna with a hug as she was crying silently. Please get up! Setsuna begged her mate to stand up once more. It was a lot for her to ask especially after they seal their fates last night.
"Come on Deku." Katsuki mutters with impatience.
Don't quit now! Get up! C'mon you stubborn bastard! He implored with everything he had by will. Gripping the steel bars which was to prevent spectators from falling down. His anger became apparent with the added smoke emitting from his palms.
"Get Up! Please!" A voice cried for his struggle to win. Oddly it caught Bakugo and the girls off-guard. As they looked and search for the source, Bakugo saw at the distance in the upper levels where the mutants seated, something pink stood out but he could not make out the figure.
Mina was sweating with nervousness, she only was seeing the first minute of the match and already her palms were sweating out acid melting the chair arms. Her crush-now friend, was being pummeled without hesitation by her own classmate. Asui, was never a girl she spoke too unless it was for class purposes. Because she was undoubtedly honest, Mina couldn't even hold a decent greeting together without something being said.
Now, at the moment as she sees the body of Izuku, buried of a crumbling crater, she couldn't hold anything back no more. As she stood up, her fellow classmates looked at her with some kind of confusion and curiosity. But when she yelled 'get up' it became very clear who she was rooting for in this match.
Her gaze did not meet the others, she was only concerned about Izuku. Not even a day had passed since he finally spoke to her. Finally, he had acknowledged her existence but she did not want to let him go.
"Get up Izuku! Please get up!" Mina was joined by another cry from below. Looking down, she saw his mate there standing on her seat cheering Izuku on. Please, don't give up.
Her body was emotional tired by amount of events that had occurred in the last several hours. Setsuna knew Izuku was exhausted prior to the match because there mating process did not ended until morning. With only a couple of hours to sleep, she knew how much of a strain she put on Izuku. Nonetheless Setsuna still believed in her mate. Come on baby you can do it! Don't let that mutant take you down! Her eyes watered as she heard his returned call. Izuku coughed as if he had heard her but in reality it was just to get some lost air back inside.
Back to the fight...
*Cough* . It was faint and horsed but sill audible. Inside, were a boy was gasping for air. He barely grasp his mask and unequipped it. Staring blankly at it, one eye saw red while the other seemed halfway shut. Any attempts to open his right eye completely was futile, it was swollen from the beating. Lifting the mask up in the air, he saw himself in the cracked reflection on the plastic visor.
Blood leaked down to his left eye and covered that side completely in crimson. He was also right about his half-shut eye. It was swollen with a black bruise to which made itself completely visible.
There were also cuts on his cheek and neck but not fatal ones. Looking at his bleeding lips and bloodied nose, he should have expected this.
Tossing the mask aside, since the visor and the air filter was already beyond repair. Looking up to the sky, Izuku let out another cough but this time more louder and out of his control. As a result, some blood shot out when he coughed and added to the mess of crimson on his face.
Using his elbows to lift his chest up, he saw ahead was his opponent with a smirk on her face.
"Really? You still want more Kero?" She asked as more of a insult to Izuku's determination.
Move. Move Goddamit! You need to get up. Izuku screaming in his mind to move upward, his body was so heavy and numb. He wasn't exactly sure if he broke anything. Finally on his knees, Izuku pushed upward with his arms and set his feet on the ground so he can push himself upward.
"Ha...Ugh!" Izuku groans in pain once he reaches the highest he can go up too. Never keeping his eyes off of Asui. Activating Full Cowling. Izuku got into a lower position but kept his body stable and relax as the energy flowed through his entire body.
Relax. Don't think about the stress or pain. Focus on one step at-a time. Izuku slowly moved forward with a form of crouching. He was getting to half the distance until, Tsuyu smirked.
Kero. It's over now Midoriya. Taking advantage of Izuku's weaken state, Asui performed a technique that shocked the crowd and confused Izuku.
Frog Style: Camouflage.
As Asui slowly became invisible to Izuku, his mind was racing. Keeping his stance loose and nimble just in case for a surprise attack.
To his dismay, he felt his skin being hit and ripped off. "Argh! Fuck!" Izuku looked down and saw a patch of skin on his arm was ripped off and blood spewing out.
Second came a violent whoosh before his left thigh was hit as well. "Gah!" What?! What's going on?!
You just don't understand don't you? You are the bottom and I am the top, you will die an animal while I live like a goddess! Kero! Tsuyu proclaims mentally before hitting Izuku on his back.
Frog Style: Camouflage + Appendage Whiplash
Using her tongue as a whip, Asui makes contact with Izuku's body. Their are two points of the Appendage Whiplash, first the impact upon contact which was closely akin to a smack or violent slap. Then was the 'return', because of Tsuyu's quirk her tongue can do a lot of things even stick to object it's made contact with. Now add that with speed of both attacking and returning. The whole movement lasted less than a second.
Damn, I can't see her, and her attacks are invisible. Izuku grounded himself once more exposing his wounded back. If I could just grab whatever's hitting me then I can find her. So come on! You Mutated Toad! Hit me again!
Waiting for the opportunity, Izuku stayed still to feel around his body. He was challenged by the wounds on his arm and leg to feel around those areas. Most likely, another part of his body would be attacked.
In split moment, the piercing air was coming toward him from behind. Shifting his body to the side he immediately felt the 'slap'. Argh! Gritting his teeth he quickly gripped whatever had hit him. The object was sticky and did not carry any bone structure underneath.
He feeling the tug, Izuku planted his feet down hard against the ground. His side bleeding but mostly covered by the large object. Izuku felt its efforts in rapidly sawing and wagging in order to get Izuku off his feet.
It's her tongue! Finally realizing the appendage he is gripping. Izuku pulled a bit of it up towards his mouth. Opening his jaws, he knew that the lengthy tongue was right there. Biting down hard, his teeth sunk in.
He heard a distant cry to his left. He released his jaws to see blood forming and leaking out. Izuku grinned. If they all see me as an caged animal then I will show them that they are wrong. I will become a beast before their very eyes!
Chomping down once more, he made an effort to tear off some of the tongue. This time he got a whimper. Seeing the Camouflage wearing off. Izuku turn to where the tongue lead too. A girl, tearing up as she glared back at his stoic gaze.
"Full Cowl: Instantaneous Speed!" Izuku roared.
He took off into a sprint carrying his opponents appendage with him.
Tsuyu flinched in pain and fear as the incoming boy was charging toward her. What a bastard! "I'll Kill You!" She exclaimed with her breath before the green blur vanished.
"Full Cowl: Instantaneous Speed Level Two"
Hearing the voice behind her. She immediately felt something strangling her. Looking behind her, she saw Izuku using her own tongue against her.
"Grrrm" Tsuyu struggled to breathed as the gripped upon her wound tighten even more. Izuku had a hard gaze down on her before he started to have moment inside of his mouth.
"What was it you said? 'Watch your tongue'?" Izuku spat out something onto Asui's face. Immediately shaking her head in disgust, she was even left even more appalled. A saliva covered piece of tongue on the ground before her eyes.
"Should have watch yours though."
"Kero! A-Animal! Y-You vile creature!"
"Your right I am vile, but you don't understand, I am not an animal."
Izuku knelt down before Tsuyu looking with a cold glance as his Full Cowling remained active.
"I am a Beast."
Without a second to waste, he grasped the frog mutants head and turned it upside down. The blood spewing from her mouth as she made attempts to call for help.
"You threatened to harm my mate. That's was your first and last mistake."
Izuku let the frog girl go only to collapse on the ground. The crowd and world remained silent. The teen age boy started to walk away from the corpse of a girl.
Slowly as he walked towards the exit, he heard a clapping sound. Turning his head to see the principal looking back at him. Still carrying that smile...damned smile.
"Congratulations Izuku Midoriya! You have won against your first Mutant match."
Izuku said nothing.
"As a representative of the Mutants, we finally acknowledge and trust you with your abilities. Thank you young man."
"What for..?"
"Excuse me?"
"What For?!"
Principal Nezu seemed unfazed but the rest were taken aback. It was almost impossible to get away with shouting against the Principal's "kindness".
"I just killed a daughter of a family and you want to congratulate me?! She may be a mutant but she was still human. How can you be so willing to let go of your fellow people?" Izuku's voices died with sorrow and anger.
"I don't consider weaklings 'my people' young man. And besides if you just made her submit, she would have been turned into a breeding machine. So you did her a favor is what I am congratulating you for."
The teen slowly deactivated Full Cowling as a sign of defeat. Of course he knew that, but it wasn't right to kill unless necessary. He did save her from a fate worse than death. Any form of higher class losing to Enhancers would be punished in a unique way. Both men and women would be a nothing more than tools for the rest of Mutants to use. All in the hopes and will for a stronger next generation.
"Fuck you."
"I would but I am an animal, not a beast." Nezu joked darkly.
"Also speaking of fucking and animals, I want to say congratulations on completing your consent phase young man."
He found out. Izuku wasn't surprised just angered. His fist were tight shut, tight enough to bring about blood which was dripping down onto the floor.
"Anyway you should rest. You had a long day and it seems your peers don't want to associate with you."
Izuku looked up at the enhancers side, they all had looks of fear and shame. All but one. Setsuna was there smiling warmly at Izuku who in return smiled back. At least there was some light at a darkass abyss.
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