(Izuku POV - Present Day)

18 days before today, that was when things started to take a turn for the worst for Erika.

An issue that was previously unnoticed with her came to light that day and it was something that had everyone concerned, especially towards me.

As for myself, as was suffering a problem on my own that day.

It had all come to a head after I had left school for the day, that is when it had all happened.

(Day 18 - U.A. Training Grounds/ Erika's Greenhouse - 3rd Person POV)

Not far from Monarch's temporary headquarters lied what could be described as a concrete bunker with  giant glass windows and security posted all over. This bunker was were Erika was stay most of the time when she wasn't being tested on, or with Izuku.

It was also more reinforced and secure with custom security outfitted by Agent Aoki as they were still dealing with a Kaiju. Who even in a reduced form was still potentially more then enough to be  a threat to most pro heros  out there.

Which explained the advanced security doors into it.

But not the nervious looking agents surrounding Yujiro along with Agent Aoki and one of U.A.'s teachers, Snipe.

It was time to run some more tests on Erika and it had been a while since the guards outside had heard any of her roaring so it was best to check up on her. Still it was not going to be a pleasent experience. With Midoriya not spending any time here for training today, Erika was less then pleased when she heard the news.

"I know this level of security is necessary, but I would have thought all of you would have been used to Erika's presense by now. So why are all of you nervious, especially you Snipe I am sure that you have many things scarier then Erika...well in her current state anyway." Yujiro said, getting the pro hero to nod.

"That I have, but she has lately been developing quite the nasty habit lately. One that I am certain would frighten most pro heros." Snipe said with a shudder as the second security closed with a hiss behind them as the group walked down a small hallway into the green house and two a final set of doors.

"Really now, and what has she done this time." Yujiro said, having gotten used to reports of Erika terrorizing anyone whenever she wasn't being tested on or when Izuku was within a 2 kilometer radius of her.

They were still trying to figure out how she was able to do that.

Anyway it seemed like Erika had a habit of terrorizing anyone when she was either particularly bored or if they had offend in her in some way. Like calling her Biollante, especially around Izuku.

One of the rookies found out the hard way once the boy left, it was all agreed that he was a moron for doing so. He was lucky that he only had a broken rib.

So he would prefer not to deal with any kind of nasty surprises, he already had to vacate his apartment as they were going to be spraying it for insects until tomorrow and he had to figure out how to sneak his house guest  into the base until it got the all clear.

"It is something straight out a horror movie. Erika breaks herself into spores and disappear into the dirt,waiting minutes at a time before resurfacing and reforming anywhere around us roaring and wrapping us in her vines. It is horrifying!" Aoki shouted with shuddering, getting the other agents to follow suit and Yujiro to sigh.

This is not going to end well.

The final door opened and all the agents and Snipe crowded around Yujiro.

There was no sign of her.

The group entered her greenhouse, the inside consisting of serveral rooms all fitted with dirt and a central room with a tv, couch, desk, some weights, a mini fridge,and a few other human necessities. That room was created for whenever Izuku visited and where Erika spent the most time around whenever he wasn't training.

The walls all had marks from any previous events to she had made to get out whenever she wanted to see Izuku after hours, bored, or dealing with putting her to sleep for the night.

Yet there was still no sign of Erika, unless she was still hiding in the soil. 

Still it was better to be on the safer side after all.

"Agent Aoki, did you recieve any kind of notfications from any of the systems you had in place?" Yujiro asked, getting the agent in question to shake his head.

"No sir, but then again the reception here always goes down in the surrounding area everytime Erika breaks apart into spores. Still the security systems should have captured if she tried anything to escape. The terminal should be in the central room." He said, getting the hemotologist to nod.

"Good, then you should be able to access that on your own." Yujiro said, getting Aoki to start to shake in fear.

He was going in alone to where Erika preferred to stay, with the Kaiju in question possibly lurking underneath his feet. With said Kaiju holding a grudge against him even after nearly two weeks for a simple mistake.

This was going to suck.

Aoki broke out of his stupor once he realized that the others where checking out the rest of the green house. Not wanting to be left alone and easy pickings for Erika, he flew to terminal in record time.

In one of the makeshift rooms Yujiro, Snipe, and the two agents where searching for any traces where Erika was hiding. After a minute of searching Yujiro notice something on the ground and half buried in the dirt.

He pulled it up to reveal that it was one of Erika's fang like thorns, the bottom of it broken off.

The tip of it still looked sharp. but what was the most curious to him was that through several small cracks in the teeth were bits of concrete.

"Agent Aoki do you have anything on the camera's in this room, more specifically for Erika being around the walls?" Yujiro asked through his ear piece.

"Of  course, just give me a minute." Aoki said as he checked the feed on the terminal and noticed that it was for a better term...choppy.

Any footage with Erika in that room was overshadowed by her spores fluttering over the camera and blocking it's view.

Until an earlier time today where it captured feed of Erika sealing off part of the wall using here sap very carefully.

"The only clear footage of the room was of today and Erika was sealing wall with her sap recently. It should be easy to spot and I'll contact the base to help clear it up." Aoki said, contacting Yujiro.

"Make sure that you do and any traces of Erika so far?" Yujiro said as he found the spot and what looked to be fresh sap holding it together.

It was going to be difficult to clear away, but maybe if.

"Snipe do you have any incendiary rounds?" Yujiro asked through his ear piece.

"Normally I wouldn't, but considering we are up against a mini Kaiju I figured they would help. Also you might want to take a few steps away from your current spot." Snip said, getting the hematologist to back up as a shot rang out through the greenhouse.

The bullet hit the sap dead on and ignited the sap. Causing a small fire to lit around the wall and pieces of the wall started to peel of one by one.

"Curious never seen Erika's sap act like this before." Yujiro said as the fire died down and revealed a sealed portion of the wall. Getting his eyes to widen in horror. "Oh hell! Aoki-"

"I just saw and discovered on of the vents had been busted up! There is a freaking Kaiju stalker on the lose!" Aoki panicked from the control terminal.

"And on smarter then we should have expected." Yujiro said as he began to call the base.

The subject of Erika's intelligence was up for debate as her erratic behavior whenever Midoriya wasn't around and occasional bouts of animalistic behavior.

But this only solidified just how intelligent she was.

For carved into the wall and preserved by a layer of sap was something written in perfect kanji. With possibly even more judging by the revealed portion on the wall.

What was written though was what worried them the most.

It was dated to today and read simply as this.

'I am tired of the waiting and tests. I want to see Izuku again. Anything that tries to stop me will be destroyed.'

(Izuku POV - 45 minutes later)

School had just ended and right now I should have been on my way home by now...except I was being followed by Tsurugi.

He did the same thing to me two days ago before Kaachan called him over and All Might took me to training right after school yesterday.

At first I thought that it was just a coincidence, but this was the third day in a row he had followed me.

I had known him for the past 10 years of only from a distance. And in all that time I know that whenever he is around, Kaachan or Shiten could only be close by.

Surveying my surrounds I saw an alleyway that was a shortcut home and ran through it. With Tsurugi pursuing close behind.

I ran as fast as I could and saw a familiar fork in it and hide behind a dumpster on the right path as Tsurugi ran past it.

Alright he bought it, that path leads to a dead end, it should by me sometime away from him and whoever he is with and wait at home until All Might would come to pick me up for training.

Plus I needed to get out from behind here.

This was behind a Chinese restaurant. It smells and I am pretty sure a rat just ran across over my leg!

I bolted from behind the dumpster and ran back home without even looking back. When I had just about exited the alleyway something grey and reflective flew towards me.

Thanks to my recent training with All Might, it was easy to dodge.

Especially since this was always to opening move of Shiten.

"So the rumors were true, you have been working out. Or at least learn how to dodge. That won't still help you out you Quirkless loser!" Shiten said, a grey blob forming in his hand and rushing towards me.

He tried to strike me with the blob in his hand, but I pulled back and reached into my pocket.

I honestly should have expected Shiten to have acted like this sooner with Kaachan threatening him.

But I didn't expect this!

"Tsurugi now!" Shiten called out as he pulled his arm back and my former friend grabbed me by the arm.

Before I could move away two gray blobs slammed into us, binding his hand to my arm and his other hand into the wall behind us before they hardened.

"Shiten what the hell." Tsurugi shouted as Shiten lobbed a few more blobs at our feet, binding them to the roadway.

"Sorry about this Tsurugi, just need to make sure Deku doesn't run away." Shiten said, not looking sorry at all. "I am going to free you after I knock some sense with the quirkless loser."

"Knock it off Shiten. We both know that your lying and that you will leave us both here." I said, catching both him and Tsurugi off guard. Before getting the former the laugh.

"Nice jest Deku, almost made me think that you gained some guts." Shiten said as he generated a grey blob in his hand. "It has been a long while since I showed you your true place Deku."

"And if you did so Bakugou will spill everything he knew. I thought you were going to talk down to Deku, not lay your hands on him." Tsurugi said, getting Shiten to shake his hand with a smirk.

"Really now, well you will just have to wait here because I am going to get Kaachan here to see you and Deku and give him a warning. Try to take me down and I will carry him down with me. Add in the fact he will cut you lose when he finds you like this. Add in a slightly battered Deku and I call that a good day." Shiten said with a sadistic grin.

Normally I would have to think twice against Shiten.

Even now I was a little frightened, Shiten was always been like this and had only gotten worse since his suspension.

His idea of slightly battered was to coat his hands with a thin layer of his quirk Mercury and hitting his victims once or twice.

I've only experienced it once and believe me it hurts.

Considering his quirk allows him to create a liquid like metallic substance from his calorie reserves and how harden it is by the amount of iron in diet it hurts a lot.

But this time I wasn't a first year scared of the possibility that he would  become a second Kaachan.

I knew his weakness, and the reason why he did not mess with Kaachan.

Shiten coated his hand in the metallic blob and rushed towards me.

Only to recoil his hand in pain as I lit the pocket light I had in my free hand.

While Shiten's quirk was excellent for capture, it had a glaring weakness to heat. Even a small flame was capable of burning away his metallic constructs quickly. More then once Kaachan had to put it mildly, make sure Shiten didn't get too full of himself with his explosions.

"You are not going to do anything to us Shiten, I came prepared." I said to Shiten, before he formed a metallic blob and used it as a whip to steal the lighter from my hand.

And I was counting on it.

"Of course you had this you quirkless stalker. Should I be honored or disgusted that you probably have pages about me.in your journal. Maybe both." Shiten said before he flung the metallic blob with the lighter in it onto a nearby wall.

While he did that I leaned over to Tsurugi and reached for another lighter in my uniform's pocket.

I had made sure to carry two or three lighters on me since I overheard their conservation the other day. Hoped that I was being paranoid, but they proved useful.

"What are you doing?" Tsurugi asked as I ignored the lighter and freed his hand.

"Getting you out of here." I said before handing him the lighter to his surprise. "Shiten is after me, not you."

"Not true Midoriya and a foolish choice to hand him your only means to escape. That coward is just going to run as soon as he-my eyes!" Shiten shouted out in pain while clutching his eyes.

"You talk too much." Tsurugi said as he retracted two of his  fingers and ignited the lighter and quickly freed his other arm and then my feet. "Now were even, let's get out of here."

"Good idea." I said, knowing that if I could get home and possibly get Tsurugi with me it will be all over for Shiten.

Considering I have been on the receiving end of his threats for years, I know Kaachan will follow through with them.

"You are not going anywhere!" Shiten shouted and swung his arm while creating a metallic whip.

Midswing it split apart into several blobs that spread out in random with me and Tsurugi dodging all of them as best we could.

All Might's training to dodge was finally paying off.

Both me and Tsurugi continued to dodge this same tatic before a metallic blob slammed into my former friend's hand.

"Damn it!" Tsurugi shouted as he tried to stretch his fingers out to attack Shiten, but another blob collided with his hand and body and slammed into the nearby wall.

"That's it, time to teach both of you losers your true place!" Shiten shouted and looking quite a bit exhausted, coating both of his hand in metallic slime before hardening it around his fists while adding a set of metallic spikes too them on the knuckles.

H-Has he gone insane!

I didn't have time to continue my train of thought as he rushed forward and I barely got my head out of the way o his fist.

Which embedded itself a few centimeters into the wall.

He was trying to kill me!

"Stand still you quirkless loser and accept what you deserve." Shiten said as he removed his from the wall and rushed towards me.

"Why would I do that! Your trying to kill me!" I shouted as I barely dodged one of his fists.

"At least not on purpose! All I am trying to do is cripple you and reduce you to your true place! In the dirt at my feet like the quirkless loser you are Deku!" Shiten said sadisticlyas he took another swing and barely getting me to dodge.

That was worse!

If I get hit even once it will all be over.

So I just continued with All Might's training and continued to dodge.

After a few near misses I started to notice a pattern with his strikes.

Each time he tried to hit me, he couldn't quite hit me. He was slower then I was, but he made up for it with reach and power.

An easy enough pattern to dodge and with Shiten getting angrier and angrier with each strike missing he only got sloppier.

"Stand still Deku, you are only making it hard on yourself!" Shiten shouted out before he noticed something behind me and grinned.

He tried to delivere a sloppy haymaker to my head and getting me to dodge.

Only for him to rush past me and towards...

Tsurugi!

"Leave him alone!" I shouted before running after him. It only took me a second to catch up to him.

"Too late Deku, I'm taking you both down!" Shiten said as he turned and tried to hit me in the gut.

Noticing his stance I tripped him and caused Shiten to fall backwards.

Mid fall he hooked his leg with mine and sent us both sprawling to the ground.

He was the first to the recover and tried punch in the stomach, giving me barely enough time to roll away from his iron clad fist.

That was too close!

I needed to get an opportunity to get free from him or else I was finished!

Shiten placed his knee onto my stomach and pulled back his left arm to atrack.

"Just give up  already!" Shiten roared out as he tried to hit me

If there was ever a time to react, now would be the time!

Without even a second thought I pushed myself off the ground and  kicked his free leg out from under him. Shiten was sent falling down into the ground, but not before trying to hit me once again.

But not this time.

I grabbed his left forearm with both my arms and pushed it back, causing his metallic clad fist to slam into face.

Shiten screamed out in pain as he melted the metal over his left and and clutched his bleeding face.

I really hope that I didn't hurt him to badly.

Still...

"I can't believe that I just did that..." I mumbled out in disbelief before pulling out my last remaining lighter and ran over to the equally as stunned  Tsurugi.

8 months ago I couldn't even dream with something like that. All Might's training had paid off, but if my brief scuffle with Shiten showed anything I still had a long way to go.

Despite my training and All Might's beginning to teach me how to fight for the past almost 2 weeks I barely made it out of fighting Shiten without a scratch and that was from utilizing the weakness in his fighting style and 2 years of analysis.

Even then I knew that he wouldn't be down for long.

I needed to free Tsurugi and get us out of here and hopefully home. Once there we need to notify someone of what Shiten has done.

He had crossed the line too far, admitting to wishing to cripple me and didn't care if he killed me or Tsurugi. Add into the fact his previous behavior and what Kaachan knew about him it was safe to say he was well on his way to be coming a villain...

Shaking off this thoughts I freed the still surprised Tsurugi.

It took a few seconds to get the lighter on and I had managed to free Tsurugi from the wall his expression quickly turned into panic.

He pushed me away from him, just in time for Shiten to strike right where we just were.

Shiten turned towards me, a piece of metal imbedded under his left eye and bleeding quite a bit.

Possibly either one of the spike from is metallic fists or a piece he created to slow the bleeding and seal the wound.

Either way add in the pure murderous look in his eye, he was honestly quite terrifying!

Along with that he was defiantly aiming to kill both me and Shiten for real this time!

"Die Deku!" Shiten roared out as he was too close for me to dodge properly!

I tried to think of a way out but he began to generate a metallic blob in order to trap me.

There was no way for me to get out of the way without being hit.

So I began to brace for the invetability of the metallic blob to at least hit me, until I saw a light.

More accurately something that should have been impossible at this location.

Erika's spores.

Why and how was she here!

"What the hell!?" Shiten shouted out as the spores wrapped around his arm and formed into vines that pulled him into the center of the alleyway and began to gather together.

All of his previous behavior turned into fear as he came face to face with a pissed off Erika growling at him.

I could only hope that Erika had mercy on him as Shiten began to scream out in fear as Erika let out an ear piercing roar.

I moved closer to Erika in the hopes that I could calm her down enough so she didn't rip him apart.

Only for Tsurugi's elongated fingers to wrap around my arm and drag me away from her.

"Tsurugi what are you doing?" I asked as he fearfully began to drag me away from Erika.

"You were almost killed in this alley Midoriya, I don't know about you, but I feel like not dieing here to some unknown villain or Shiten!" Tsurugi screamed as he began to pull me even harder.

Considering Erika was here and was possibly about to kill Shiten I couldn't let that happen while also being thankful Tsurugi believed that she was a villain and not...well Erika's former self.

That would have set her off even more.

However I was also caught off guard by something he said.

"Did you just call me Midoriya and not Deku?" I asked in shock.

He never called me anything but Deku since he stopped being my friend a decade ago... along with Kaachan.

"Talk later, run for our lives now!" Tsurugi shouted as he continued to drag me along.

Turning pale white when he caught Erika's attention.

She looked between the two of us and Shiten wrapped up in her vines before letting off a soft growl and tossing Shiten to the ground.

She turned towards us and let out another roar before slamming one of her vines into Shiten's face. Causing him to collapse onto the ground and spasm as he coughed up blood and spat out quit a few teeth.

The good news was that I believe Erika was done with Shiten for now and he was alive. Though I doubt that he was going to be alright for quite a while after that.

The bad news was that Erika let lose one more roar before she began to break up into spores and float towards us.

"You have got to be shitting me, Midoriya we have to get out of here now!" Tsurugi said as he began to run with myself following suite.

I had an idea on how to separate Erika from Tsurugi and save him from her wrath and possibly share Shiten's current fate.

Along with the possibility to by time so I could contact Monarch on where Erika is.

"Tsurugi when we get to the fork in the alleyway I'll lure the villain away, you go get help." I said, getting him to stare at me in shock.

"Are you crazy, we are dealing with a villain with not only a horrendous mutation quirk but the ability to break themselves into some kind of light! You alone barely managed to get hit by Shiten, so what are the odds of you winning against that!" He shouted, pointing at the cloud of Erika's spores.

"None at all, but if I distract the villain for a minute you should be able to escape to go get help. With it's speed we will be caught in no time. It will be better if the villain had one target to capture instead of two." I said seriously, getting Tsurugi to look at me in surprise. Before looking back at the rapidly approaching form of Erika's spores.

"Don't need to tell me twice. After I make sure the police are on the way I that will come back for you. Just make sure to get of this alive." Tsurugi said, getting me to nod as we reached the fork.

I took off towards the dead end and Erika's spores soon followed.

Not even a minute later I reached the dead end and Erika wrapped me up in her vines as she reformed and began nuzzling herself against me.

With how tight her vines were I could barely move and if I moved even the slightest bit they only tightened around me.

Looks like I was going to be stuck here for a bit...

(Outside the alleyway - Same Time - 3rd POV)

"Are you sure this is place." Gordon said as he and All Might in his normal form stepped out of the later's truck.

For nearly the past hour Monarch had been combing the city for Erika with no sign or trace of her except for the radioactive signiture from her spores with spectrometers that Aoki had quickly whipped up keyed to it.

Yet they could barely tell where she was as they registered her signal all spread out throughout the city and there.

It went nowhere until All Might and Gordon were investigating around Isuku's home until they got a positive reading towards this alleyway.

Add in that All Might knew that Izuku was hardly late home even after months of training and there had been no sight of him meant that Erika probably gotten to him by now.

"I am sure, there is a dead end in this alleyway and not that far from Young Midoriya's apartment. Add into the readings of this spectrometer and she is here." All Might said, dreading what  to expect to find with considering what they found on the green house wall and were still working on uncovering.

"Most likely, and that kid is possibly a good sign as well." Gordon said as a fearful looking Tsurugi emerged from the alleyway and began to look around. "I'll find out what happened from him. You go grab the string bean."

"Just go easy on the kid." All Might before turning into his muscular form and disappeared in a burst of speed, startling Tsurugi.

"I make no promises." Gordon said before walking up to the startled student.

"What the hell was that!" Tsurugi shouted before cowering at the sight of Gordon approaching him.

"My partner." Gordon said before pulling out a badge getting Tsurugi to freeze up.

"Agent Gordon, Interpol. I take it from your expression that you just ran into an ugly ass villain, multiple tendrils, and can seperate into multiple sphere's of light?" Gordon described, getting Tsurugi to nod shakily. "Good, this individual is extremely dangerous and you are lucky to have escaped with your life. Now tell me everything that happened here and do not leave a  single detail."

A pale Tsurugi could only nod as wondered what the hell he had just gotten into and spilled out everything to him.

(Present Day)

Erika had kept nuzzling in me in that alleyway until All Might had found me.

After that it took them an hour for them to get Erika ready enough to transport her back into UA with plenty of coaxing from myself in order to do so.

To learn what they had discovered on that portion of the wall had honestly worried me.

Considering what she did to Shiten and possibly also Tsurugi, she could very well keep her promise on the issue.

But besides Erika there were a few other major issues.

For one, Mom was extremely worried when she found out.

After all I was ambushed by one of my fellow students and was nearly set upon by a villain wanted and apprehended by Interpol agents.

Something I later learned was a common tactic by Monarch in order to keep it's existence a secret. But often caused headaches and unessisary paperwork for both agencies.

Still with how worried she had been training was canceled for that day and for a while afterwards it was agreed upon that I would be picked up from school for a while afterwards in order to her fears. Something All Might agreed with.

With All Might he thought I had gotten a decent handle on the situation with Shiten and Tsurugi once he learned about it. He said  there were a few areas  that I could have improved upon, but this was technically my first encount with a villain and that I would use what I had learned from here and the improvements that he would be making to my training inorder to grow from this experience.

Something that would greatly help me out later down the line...

As for Shiten, he was gone.

By the time anyone got to inspect the back entrance he was gone. There was splatters of blood, most likely from him coughing them up.

They lead out into the roadway before they disappeared, presumably someone picking him up.

The fact that he actually had the energy to even move after what Erika did to him. And only increased my worries that he would come back after me again once he recovered.

Especially with the aftermath his actions caused the next day.

But they paled in comparison to the ones caused by Erika escaping and the full depths of what remained on the walls.

The sap of some parts had hardened enough that it took two whole days to uncover everything that she was hiding. And when they uncovered the final secret hidden within those walls it was too late.

(Chapter 6 end)

Hey guys Mukuro7 and welcome back to a new chapter of The Hero and the Kaiju.

It has been a long time so I figured that I would post the first third of the chapter I had promised long ago as it's own separate one...one that could use a change of name if anyone has any suggestions.

Now as you can see here things are starting to take a turn for the worst with Erika escaping and Izuku only managing to get so far against Shiten with his knowledge, analysis ability, and his training. But whose to say the next time things will go for the worst.

Anyway next chapter will defiantly be a long one. Covering both Days 17 and 16. The aftermaths of what happened the day before, a few dark truths about Erika, and a turn for the worst.

Hope you all enjoy the next chapter when it comes out and if you have any suggestions for names for the next chapter will be appreciated.

Until next time, ciao!