(Izuku POV - 16 Days Ago - Dagobah Municipal Park)

The next day there was no school and All Might took me to training after lunch and spending the mourning helping my mother around our home.

It was nice between school, my training, and Erika I really didn't have with her these past two weeks until I got back with her. Add in the fact my finals as in about two weeks and I would have been busy.

So once All Might picked me up I asked him about it, and All Might said that due to my current progress I could take some extra time off to spend with her. Off course I would have to double down on the difficulty of my training once again.

Still he expressed that it was important that if I wanted to spend some more time with mom whenever I wasn't training or in school.

She is the most important person in my life, the first one to truly support me and the one has been with me through everything. I couldn't imagine where I would be to have such an amazing person like my mom.

Anyway as we approached Dagobah Beach, we saw that there was construction around a block away starting to set up and we where allowed through without any hesitation and I figured out what was going on.

"Monarch is blocking off the beach cause Erika is there already." I said, getting All Might to nod as he parked.

"They just got her here an hour ago, according to Serizawa she had been rather aggressive after a day in confinement and she is still being contained right now until we get to the beach. Otherwise that she could escape and no one wants a repeat of two days ago." All Might said as we got out of his truck, getting me to wince.

That would do it.

"I'm still surprised they allowed her outside of U.A.." I said honestly.

I know that they were going to allow her back with me today, but I didn't they would allow her to be brought her to Dagobah Beach.

"Serizawa was hesitant but he allowed it along with Nezu, considering it was probably best to keep you away from Kayama for now." All Might said with a wince, getting me to shudder in horror.

I needed a long cold shower when I got home, even then I could still feel her hands all over me...

I was shaken from the sounds of something breaking apart in less then a few seconds flat.

"You have got to be kidding me, I spent two days designing and building that!" I heard Aoki shout from down by the beach as a large cloud of spores rushed over to where I was.

Okay I just had a good idea at what happened right now.

I tried to take a step back, but Erika quickly reformed and began to wrap me up in her vines and began to nuzzle me against herself.

"Glade that you missed me Erika, but can you please let go of me. I do not think Monarch is happy with you breaking out like that." I said, getting Erika to let out a loud growl before she continued to nuzzle me.

I take that as no.

"I'm not happy about it, neither will the Director." Aoki said as he flew up towards us, follow after Agent Gordon and Snipe.

I guess they where here as extra security incase Erika tries anything.

"Looks like Nezu was right about mitigating her interactions with young Midoriya. If this is what she is willing to do after only one day apart, I would hate to see would she could do if she would wait even longer." All Might said, getting Gordon to nod.

"Have to agree with you Toshinori. I don't have a problem with it as long as she doesn't interrupt me teaching the bean sprout a thing or two about fighting." Gordon said, causing me to pale and my heart to nearly stop all together.

I was going to be training against Gordon, I was going to die!

"Gordon, please go easy on him." All Might sighed out.

Erika just growled at the Monarch agent as she held me tight with her vines.

"I wasn't planning on breaking the bean sprout Yagi. Just teaching him how to fight with that brain of his. The training feed from the robots and the security footage of him dealing with the brat has shown that he has an analytical mind. Just not enough true fighting experience to truly use it. You laid the groundwork work for 8 months and while now that you have gotten a decent start, now is the time to build up the foundation from which the bean sprout here will develop on his own." Gordon said sternly.

...He's right.

I need to do this.

A Hero usually finds himself in a life or death situation when dealing with villains.

Since the Slime Villain I have only had one such encounter and that was with with Shiten.

I managed to hold my own, but I could have done better. So despite my fears about facing someone like Agent Gordon I need to push forward.

Otherwise how else I will be able to inherit One for All if I gave up now.

"Erika you can let go of my now." I said, not feeling her vines slacking at all.

Nor were she tightening her grip on me.

Instead she was still growling at Agent Gordon, her eyes emotionaless and almost vacant. Minus a lot of what I could describe as a predatory anger.

A look that I had only seen when she smashed that one pointer weeks ago.

Add into the fact I could feel something starting to poke through her vines it had me concerned.

"Erika are you all right?" I asked again, she shifted her gaze into me before eyes returned to normal and her growling stop.

With that I saw an emotion in her eyes that I never thought I would see in her eyes.

Fear.

In a split second her eyes returned to normal as she released me from her vines and began to nuzzle against me letting out a soft roar.

"I'm alright Erika, I need to do this." I said, not letting it known how shook up I was by what I saw.

Erika was afraid of something. She has never been afraid of anything during my time with her.

If something could scare her, it was something that I didn't want to think about.

But I need to do so, if something is frightening her I needed to find out. Considering her behavior and the brief lapses both now and weeks ago and what she has possibly hidden in the walls of her greenhouse, it is best that it comes to light now.

And Gordon seemed to pick up on that as he gave the two of a scrutinizing gaze before giving a gruff nod.

"So you understand then bean sprout, you have 20 minutes to stretch yourself out and prepare for what is to come. 20 minutes and not a second longer. I am you don't, I will come after you." Gordon said, getting me to shudder as he turned to walk off, with Aoki and Snipe soon following suite.

Gordon begining to talk them as I faced Erika.

"Do you mind leaving me with All Might for a minute Erika, I will spend the rest of the time with you afterwards." I asked, getting her to huff and let out a small grow as she slinked off away a bit.

Sorry Erika, I need to talk to All Might real quick.

That and I would probably be cut short by your vines once again.

"Young Midoriya, what's wrong?" All Might asked.

"It's Erika, she's afraid of something and I don't think she seems willing to share what it is if what she had on the walls are of any indication." I said to him, trembling a little bit. "There is more, I could feel her her vines starting to change and her the look in her eyes when she roared at Agent t Gordon have seen it before. I am afraid something is wrong with her."

After I said that, All Might turned pale and looked towards Erika and me.

"If you are certain of this, why didn't you say so sooner?" All Might asked.

"I didn't think anything of it, the first time was with Erika smashing the one pointer and we thought she was being protective. Agent Gordon seems to suspect something, but there seems to something else going on with her." I said, worried what might happen with Erika.

There were so many possibilities going on from the most likely scenario of her mind reverting back to a beastial state, or the most unlikely being involved with the crystal she crashed with and similar to her own DNA. Given that there was no one else with a similar DNA structure, there is a while myriad of possible problems that could be going with Erika and each and every possibility was just getting me more and more-

"Breathe Young Midoriya, breathe." All Might said, placing his hands on my shoulders as he cut me off. "Quit your mumbling and breathe. I know that you are worried for Erika and so am I. But worrying about what might go wrong will only make things worse for yourself and the situation as a whole. So just remember to keep breathing until you are ready to continue."

So for about a minute that was all I did, just breathe.

Thinking of nothing else except just focusing on my breathing. Feeling some of my worries melting away.

"Feeling better now young Midoriya?" All Might asked, getting me to nod a little shakily.

"A little..." I said honestly.

"Good, I am going to talk to Gordon and half the time you would have been training today along with Serizawa. The slightest sign that something is wrong with Erika and we are packing up and taking her to U.A.. We might not be able to find out what is going on right here, but Serizawa might be able to. And the fist attempt at a cure should be done today. We are going figure out what is happening to Erika Young Midoriya, just be patient alright?" All Might asked while coughing up some blood, getting me to nod.

"Alright, I just hope we can get to the bottom of this soon enough." I said, getting All Might to nod as he separated himself from me.

"Good I will go talk to Gordon. Just remember what I told you about envoking Murphy and we should be alright." All Might said with his smile as he began to run off. "Also don't rough him up too much Erika!"

Oh no...

I turned around to find my earlier guess was correct and Erika had wrapped me up in her vines and pulled me towards her.

"Hey Erika you know I have to head down to face Agent Gordon sooner or later." I said to Erika.

She let out a soft growl at that before beginning to nuzzle against me once again.

"I know that I would rather not have to face Agent Gordon and I am certain you wouldn't want me too either." I said, getting Erika to roar out in agreement. "But I need to do so in order to become a hero. In order to help people like you."

Erika let out a soft grumble at that before held me even closer and let out a soft growl. I just sighed at that.

"Everything will be alright Erika, just trust me on this okay?" I asked, getting her to let out a relcutant nod and a growl. "Thank you Erika."

She just let out a soft roar as she nuzzled up against me even harder and for me to shake my head.

"Erika you know if something is wrong, you could always tell me or write to me right?" I asked, getting Erika to briefly pause. She was stilled for a few moments, as if to comtiplate a choice before resuming her nuzzling letting out a soft and getting me to sigh.

Erika... just what is it that you are hiding?

(3rd POV - Temporary Monarch Base - 3 hours later)

"And there still has been no progress in breaching the last of Erika's secrets?" Director Serizawa asked over the phone as he had agents combing through both Erika's greenhouse and her containment cell for any traces anything that could lead to whatever Erika was hiding.

Currently he was in the lab with Graham and Principal Nezu. The only other people in the lab were Dr. Toga and Dr. Mifune, both of them testing the effects of the first batch of the completed cure.

Everyone in the room was on edge from what All Might and Agent Gordon had reported three hours ago.

Serizawa already had a team to breaking down the sap in the greenhouse, which had only turned into more of the same results as before except for the giant patch of sap they still were breaking down.

Once the report about something wrong with Erika reached him, he had a team investigate her containment cell.

If she went to so much trouble in order to hide so much under the walls of her greenhouse, she might have hidden something in her cell as well.

Given the possibility of there being something dire going one, there was no such thing as being too careful right now. Every possible detail needed to be explored right now.

"No sir, it has been covered and uncovered so many times compared to the others that it made it extremely difficult to get rid off. Though given by the present thickness we should finally be able to break through it any minute now." The agent on the phone explained, getting Serizawa to nod grimly.

"Notify me the moment you break through it and tell me everything." Serizawa ordered before hanging up his phone and sighing. "Graham, please tell me that you have some good news?"

"Not necessarily, Agent Dupre is still on assignment in Jamaica and will not be able to report back here in about two days." She sighed out. " But we do have news on the path on the path of Erika's reentry. Nezu was right."

"As I figured, though even I was surprised anything came up from my prediction." Nezu said with his paws crossed.

Nezu had long since predicted the trajectory of when Erika crashed and photos from various satellites pointed a path that she had came back to Earth from within the Solar System itself. Having bypassed both Mercury and Venus after passing the sun.

Given Erika's biology it was believed that she might have possibly stopped around Mercury in order to replenish herself from traveling through deep space without being pulled in by the sun's gravity.

Though given the mystery of the crystal and this recent news gave cause to focus more on the issue.

Along with a theory that even with his High Specs quirk, Nezu thought it was a bit out there.

But now it seems liked a possibility.

"There are reports of two objects of equal size reported in Mercury's orbit, 21 hours and 14 minutes before Erika's return to Earth. 14 minutes before a massive solar flare erupted and both objects and any chance of any pictures taken reaching Earth. The objects were believed to be asteroids until Erika was discovered." Graham said seriously.

"So one of the objects were Erika, then the other one was possibly another Kaiju of equal size." Serizawa said grimly and getting Nezu to nod.

"One possibly created from Erika herself, one who did not survive the solar flare or might have been the cause of it. Given Erika's aggression around the crystal and the brief flicker of fear Midoriya supposedly saw. If that Kaiju was still alive, it would have made its presence known already." Nezu said grimly.

"The origins of which are completely unknown, but given what is believed about the crystal what might be occuring with Erika could be a parasitic reaction to her cells." Serizawa said, the news troubling all three of them.

If this was true, then it could change everything with their operations concerning Erika...

"I take it that you have come to a conclusion concerning the crystal as well." Dr. Mifune's voice called out, getting all three of them to see him and Yujiro approaching them, each carrying two cases.

"Dr. Toga, Dr.Mifune, does the cure work and if so is there any basis with the crystal?" Serizawa asked, hoping for a clear answer.

Both scientists shared a look before placing the cases on a nearby desk and Mifune going to get a microscope.

"It is better to see for yourself." Yujiro said, opening three of the cases

One contained a vine, one of a few reluctantly given by Erika. Another contained the crystal. And another contained the file and multiple syringes filled with a very pale green color, bordering on near white.

"The cure." Graham said breathlessly as Mifune set up the microscopes next to the cases.

"More accurately the Shiragami compound as we taken to calling it." Mifune said as he opened the final case to reveal several microscope slides containing several blood samples.

"You all are familiar with Erika's cell by now, but the others, not so much and we are going to get to it in a minute. First it is best to show you the first attempt of the Shiragami compound. And under my suggestion after the second batch is completed that we terminate the first batch all together." Yujiro said seriously as he picked up on of the syringes, shocking everyone there besides the Mifune.

"I knew the first attempt at the cure would be flawed, but to say something like that implicates their is more to it then we expected." Nezu deduced, getting Mifune to nod

"Correct, it works. Too well. It is better to show then to describe, Tōga you know what to do." He said, getting the hemotologist to nod.

"Right, now then through trial and error the Shiragami enzyme is found to work best when administrated through the bloodstream directly. Anywhere else and effect is localized and would soon be undone given her regenerative factor. In the blood stream it would flow throughout her entire body by her heart and we should see results in about a few days to weeks afterwards. But with this batch, it is a failure and a success and you are about to see why." Yujiro said as he injected the Shiragami enzyme into a blood vein.

And the area around it began to calcify and it slowly started to spread before breaking down and corroding.

An effect that horrified the three of them, the process reminding all three of them of something long since forbidden.

"Genshiro Shiragami didn't create a cure, he created a way to create micro oxygen." Serizawa said horrified.

The creation of micro oxygen had been forbidden after the Age of Kaiju due to extreme dangers of it and the fact it created the Kaiju that ended the era, Destoroyha.

A living extinction event only surpassed by Ghidorah.

It's and Gojira's death ended the era as they were the last Kaiju alive and no one was willing to create a repeat of that.

All traces of micro oxygen were wiped out and anyway to recreate it was made non-existent.

No one was dumb enough to recreate it until now.

"Similar, but Shiragami made a way for Erika's biology to effectively create a self contained and sufficient micro oxygen. A lot less reactive and the only immediate danger is if you were Erika." Mifune said as both Graham and Serizawa to see the effects it had on Erika's cells and seeing them quickly decaying.

"And what on humans? Does the Shiragami enzyme have a different effect on human cells?" Nezu asked, getting Yujiro to shake his head.

"Yes and no. Given my position we had plenty of spare human blood to experiment with. It does have have an effect on human blood." Yujiro said as he replaced the slide with another, in with human blood injected with the Shiragami enzyme. "Instead of breaking down the human cells though."

"The enzyme itself breaks down." Graham said shocked, seeing the enzyme dissolving into nothing upon contact with human cells.

"Correct, but it also complete destroys any foreign object in Erika's body, even if it comes from her very being itself." Mifune said, looking back at the now half calcifyed vine.

And a small crystal, about the size of a a child's thumb emerge from her flesh before instantly crumbling away to duat, stunning them once again.

"So I was right, the crystal...it never came from another Kaiju at all. It came from Erika herself." Nezu said, getting Yujiro to shake his head.

"Not quite, take a look at this slide right here." He said, switching the slides out once again.

Serizawa took on look and noticed it was more blood cells, fairy old yet still preserved.

They were not Erika's cells, infact he would have said they more closely related to Gojira's cells minus the crystal growths on the cell membrane and a similar structure to Erika's cells.

Yujiro quickly took it away and subsidised another slide to reveal one of Erika's cells, only it seemed more fluid for a better term.

They were almost a complete match

"The samples are from the blood on the crystal and what little samples we could manage to procure from one of Erika's spores. The only result we can come up with the crystal was a last attempt at Erika, tell me weren't there any major events within 24 hours of Erika's arrival?" Mifune asked.

"There was a solar flare, it might've exterminated this second Kaiju. But given the results, it made one last attempt at Erika." Serizawa said.

"In theory anyway, given their similar properties and Erika's nature after being injected with Gorjira's cells, it is safe to say that this new Kaiju was a result of Erika suffering a extreme amount of damage similar to her first defeat by Gojira. Turning her into the form she is in today after the radiation of the atomic breath caused another mutation. Erika must have suffered severe enough damage as from what you picked up director a place of high and extremely dense cosmic radiation. Enough that she herself healed up, but enough of her DNA left behind and suffering a possible one and a million chance." Yujiro said.

"Causing the Gojira cells to effectively almost take over completely and form another Kaiju using that and traces of her form as a template. Given her ability to split into spores, this Kaiju had a similar ability. Yet given the state of the cells it probably as a effective last ditch attempt. They are and were effectively dead by the time of the solar flare." Mifune explained.

"And given their similar DNA, it might have used that ability to take control of Erika if the solar flare didn't burn up these 'spores'." Graham said, getting both doctors to nod.

"Except one did manage to land on Erika, and now it is affecting her." Serizawa stated.

"Like a reverse of the parasite Trypanosoma brucei, except for rearranging it's own DNA it is rearranging it's hosts inorder to create a new body for itself. Cleaving the strands of her DNA until it is the only this left." Nezu said grimly. "Are you certain the Serizawa enzyme completely destroys the crystals?"

"Completely." Yujiro says as he removed have of the original crystal that had been cut in half and applied another syringe of the enzyme to the one in the case.

As soon as it made contact with it, the crystal immediately started to break down, much faster then Erika's vine had been.

"If you look under the microscope you should will see that the energy being created from the process creating the micro oxygen as the enzyme was created to break down the plant and Gojira's aspects of Erika's cells. Given the crystals are based on Gorjira cells they break down rapidly on a molecular level." Mifune said, as Serizawa looked into the microscope.

True to word it was a sample of the crystal rapidly breaking down and with no trace of stopping anytime soon. Soon it became too small to properly view on the microscope's current setting.

"And this is only Serizawa's work without the final ingredient, quite frightening to think about it." Nezu said with a shudder.

"Correct, though in terms of completion, I would say he never actually completed it. He identified the final needed component, a bounding agent to bind the enzyme without filling breaking down Erika's cells. He perished before actually making it safe enough to test on her daughter. With this batch it is 100% fatal to Erika and would be kill her slowly within days, her regeneration pushing it back and only causing a slow and painful death." Mifune said sadly, looking over at the vine that was now completely calcified with a few crumpled crystals sticking out.

"Of course given Erika's suggestions and our modern methods we could close the gap, but this is the work of the greatest geneticist in human history. I am not all that confident we can could. At least not before whatever is inside Erika can fully take over. Me and Mifune have compared cells from 2 weeks ago and yesterday. Comparing the results it has already starting and considering it already started when she was Kaiju sized, pulling any of her other spores from orbit could cause more damage and hasten the progress. Albiet a slim chance, but not one anyone would be willing the risk. The best option would either to bring her back and study her some more in order to find a true cure, or finally do what should have centuries ago and give her a peaceful end." Yujiro sighed out, getting both Serizawa and Nezu to be silent for a moment.

Either continue to work on curing Erika and putting her and everyone else at risk with something slowly taking over her body. Or finally putting her to rest.

It was a tough choice to make.

"We need more information first before we can come to a decision on this matter." Nezu deduced, getting Serizawa to nod before turning to Graham.

"Contact Agent Gordon and if you are somehow unable to contact him, contact All Might. We need to bring Erika back immediately." Director Serizawa said, getting her to nod as sh pulled out her phone.

"And tell Toshinori to tell Midoriya everything and to leave nothing out." Nezu said seriously.

"Are you sure about that?" Graham asked, getting the principal of U.A. to nod.

"Midoriya deserves to know, he is the most emotionally invested of us all in when it comes to Erika." He said, getting Graham to nod as she started making the call.

"Tōga, Mifune, how soon can we expect an updated batch of the Shiragami enzyme?" Serizawa asked, getting the two to look between each other before speaking.

"With Erika's notes, we should be able to synthesis a new batch within a few hours. But for more modern methods...we are going to have to need constant fresh samples from Erika and some new ingredients. It could take us a few days to synthesis the third batch." Mifune explained.

"That is without factoring in check up on Erika's condition and monitoring this parasite. So I take it that you already have made your choice then?" Yujiro asked. The Director of Monarch just shook his head at that.

"No, we need to gather more information before we can plan accordingly. Hopefully we will not have to resort to some more desperate measures and if if it comes down to the choice...we let Erika make the decision. She has spent nearly the last 300 years as a monster due to her father's choices. It is only fair for her to a say in her fate." Serizawa said, getting everyone in the room to nod in agreement.

"And if she doesn't?" Nezu asked.

"Then I pray it doesn't have to come to that." Serizawa sighed out.

Not even a moment later his phone ring. Pulling it out he saw it was was just texts from the agent leading the team uncovering the last secrets of the greenhouse.

It read, the last of the sap has been cleared out, and it is better if you had seen this.

The first was a tarp with a small pile of crystals on it, the sheer amount surprising him.

The second was a carving of Erika herself and of another Kaiju. One whose shape was mainly similar with Gojira and seemed to have several features similar to Erika's. Along with a lot of spiteful wording directed towards.

The final image was just a message carved into the wall.

'I am fading, I can feel it. Whatever that abomination did to me, I can feel it within my very cells. It is affecting me slowly, but I know it is only a matter of time.

Izuku...he cares so much for me and is always helping me out. Even in ways he doesn't know or if he is nearby.

Finding out could possibly break him.

I know he wishes to be a hero, but if he can't save me it won't be his fault.

Only the abominations!

Still I do not know how much longer I can keep it under control. My only hope is the cure.

Here's hoping it works.

And if it doesn't...I do at least want to find a way to thank Izuku one last time before I pass. You were the first reason I had to live in so many uncountable years. It is nice to meet you, if only we meet before I could encounter and kill that abomination...

If it does come down to that there is one thing he must know.

Thank you Izuku, for giving me hope after so long. I hope you will always cherish our time together...'

(Izuku POV - Same Time)

This was the most brutal thing that I have ever done in my life.

All the other times in my training I had thought this, sparing with Gordon had blown them all out of the water.

I have been battered some many times by him it was crazy, and he was holding back the entire time!

If he wasn't I am sure that I would have been critically injured by him many times over instead of numerous scrapes.

And no matter how much I improved or how hard I hit him what I did didn't even faze him.

Even when I dodged a punch from him that smashed through a car door window, he had several shards of glass stuck in his hand and didn't seem to feel a thing.

He did call a break and had it bandage, bit those came off within a hour.

A possible pain negation Quirk with a heal factor is the most likely the answer, though it didn't help me in the long run considering just about everything in my body hurts right now.

Thankfully there had been a lot of breaks over the last 3 hours with All Might constantly calling them whenever he thought that Gordon would have been going too far.

For the past 3 hours he had been doing so for my safety and in order to make sure Erika didn't get too agitated.

Aoki spent most of the time repairing Erika's containment cell and working on some kind of device. When I asked him what it was, all he said that it was a prototype to be able to use incase Erika tried anything. Something which I hope that he doesn't need.

Snipe mainly kept an eye on Erika, and to everyone's surprise she didn't have much problem with him. She she kept growling and glaring at him, but it was much less often compared to how she was to anyone else that wasn't me.

Erika herself was okay for the most part, besides growing angry at Gordon whenever I got practically beat up. Other then that she seemed alright for the moment, on the surface at least.

Ever since what happened earlier this morning, she has mainly kept her emotions to herself. So it was difficult to tell what she was actively thinking of. Thankfully there hasn't been any signs that something was wrong, but for the past hour she has grown more and more agitated and it has gotten me worried...

"Remember keep your eyes on your opponent bean sprout." Gordon called out breaking me from my thoughts as I nearly gotten knocked onto my back from one of his punches if I hadn't dodged in the last minute.

Right I was practically fighting for my life. I spared a quick glance to see All Might getting a call and Erika growing noticably agitated, roaring at Gordon.

And once again nearly being knock on my butt.

Focus Izuku, you can worry about her later. There was only 20 minutes left to this madness and All Might call a break after his call. I just had to survive this.

Noticing a pill of debris near Gordon I ran towards it and barely ducked underneath one of his punches before running up the pile.

He tried to close the distance, but I jumped off and preformed a kick that struck him directly in the chest. It barely phased him and I ran away from him.

"Finally got your form right bean sprout, there was some decent power behind that kick. Let's see if it has transitioned to the rest of your skills." Gordon said, having done so our entire spar. Pointing out what I needed to fix in my form after everytime I managed to land a hit. Or he would block and counter one of my own.

It was usually the latter.

He rushed forward and I barely ducked underneath a hook he threw.

I countered by trying to trying to hit his side, but Gordon moved out of the way. I tried to hit him again, but he blocked it with his arm.

Gordon went on the counter attack, with me dodging a punch and an elbow strike from him. Before he threw an punch that I was forced to block and groaned as my arms felt a little numb from the force behind his blow.

I was pushed back at least a few centimeters in the sand before Gordon kicked my legs from underneath me. Erika let out a loud roar at that as I landed with on my back, my left arm brushing against a piece of trash half buried in the sand.

I got back onto my feet and Gordon went to punch me once again. I grabbed the trash in the sand, a burnt and rusted frying pan.

Acting quickly I brought it up to block his punch, his fist causing a clang once it hit and denting the frying pan.

"Not bad." He complimented before ripping the frying pan from my hand and tossing it into a nearby trash pile.

Gordon rushed forward and I barely pulled back from him landing an uppercut. He then tried to land serval more punches, forcing me back towards a pile of debris.

Some of my dodging I will admit without shame that I just nearly tripped from half buried trash.

He finally landed a jab at my gut, knocking some of the air out of my lungs and sending me flying into the trash.

I barely had anytime to collect myself before pulling myself away from Gordon landing another punch.

Seeing a chance, I climbed back onto the pile as Gordon pulled himself back. Not wanting to let my chance to get away I launched myself from the pile and managed to punch Gordon in the face with all my strength.

And had to pull away and hold my hand as pain flashed through it.

It felt like punching a brick wall!

Expecting Gordon to go on the counter attack, I was surprised when he didn't.

Instead there was a drop of blood leaking from his nose, that he quickly wiped away.

D-Did I really just do that?

"Got to admit bean sprout, you are doing better then I expected you to do today. I can see why Yagi took you under his wing." Gordon said before he vanished before my eyes.

Before I could wonder where he went, he reappeared and I had a fist launched into my gut and was sent flying once again.

"You still have quite a ways to go." Gordon said as I landed, trying my best to refill my lungs with air.

Struggling, I got back up hoping this will be over soon.

Gordon rushed over, before Erika's spores got between us. She reformed and let out a loud roar as she wrapped me up in her vines and let lose several
wads of sap towards the Monarch agent.

With her eyes glazed over once again.

This was bad, very bad.

Snipe loaded his gun and Aoki hurriedly began finishing up with with his device.

Gordon looked like he was about to call out orders, All Might appeared in between them and Erika in his buff form.

"Wait let's give Young Midoriya a chance to calm down Erika and we have to bring her back to U.A. now." All Might said seriously.

"Are you sure about this Yagi?" Gordon questioned as Erika's grip on me tightened.

Her gaze still holding firm, but I noticed something with her left eye. It was turning from her usual golden coloration into a dark reddish orange.

"Erika, what's happening to you?" I asked snapping her attention to me, her gaze dropping a bit. "I already told you could tell me what's wrong. I'm worried about you Erika, first the aggression, whatever it was in your vines, and now your eye has changed color. I know you are afraid and that you are trying to hide it. But please Erika let me know, that way I could help you. Please Erika."

Erika upon hearing that, fear appeared in her eyes as she let go of me and began to back away from me.

With a few crystals beginning to emerge from her vines.

What was happening to Erika!?

"Yagi  you better explain to what the hell is going on now." Gordon said to All Might.

"Graham told me over the phone that Erika was infected by the crystal, which they believe is to be the last remains of a Kaiju originating from her years in space." All Might explained, shocking us all.

"You have got to be shitting me." Gordon said in disbelief.

"It does sound rather farfetched to believe in." Snipe added in.

I would have thought so too, but given Erika was starting to spasm and more crystals started to cover her vines.

"Even Nezu thought it was crazy and he was to one to suggest the theory when the evidence presented itself. It turned out to be true from what we found that Erika had been hiding in the walls. But not to this extent, we need to get her out of here now!" All Might explained, his tone turning dead serious.

Aoki reached for a phone, most likely to contact more agents for back up, but I tuned it all out.

I was more concerned with what I heard...

So this is what she had been hiding...

That she had actually been affected for all this time and she has done her best to hide it from everyone.

I had so many questions that I wanted to ask her, but given the circumstances there was one thing that I needed to know right now.

"Why...Why did you keep this hidden from all of us? We could have helped you sooner if you only told us Erika?" I asked tersely, only for myself to go pale as Erika started to roar in pain as a crystal began to grow from her head. "Erika?"

I stepped closer in order to check if she was alright, but the look Erika gave me caused me to freeze.

It was remorse, pain, and fear.

I had never seen such and expression before, but to see it on Erika made my heart retch.

She made a sorrowful roar before she something in the sand with one of her vines before she started to spasm once again.

Looking down in the sand I sw that she had hurriedly written into the sand was two words, the latter getting my blood to freeze.

The first one read simply as 'I'm sorry'.

The second one read as something far more urgent and convoyed what Erika desperately wanted me to do.

'Run'

I wanted to help her, but considering the sickening crack and the end of Erika's warning it is best to follow suite.

No matter how much I wished otherwise.

Before I turned to run I saw what had happened to Erika and immediately began to back pedal.

Erika-

No that thing was not Erika, it might have held her body but one look from it's eyes I could tell that it wasn't her.

For one it's vines were decorated with small crystals. With one of them completely covered in them. And secondly on it's head stood what best could be described as some kind of trans-orange crystal crest that was heavily fractured.

The worst part was it's eyes. They were still the same for when her left eye changed color. But instead it was the emotions and it's more bestial roars clearly displayed it's feelings for me.

Seething hatred and loathing, directly towards me.

I have no idea on how I managed to anger a Kaiju to a level beyond how angry I have seen Kaachan, but I have no intention of finding out!

The Kaiju let out a rage filled roar before charging after me, it's vines dragging it towards me at speeds that I had never seen Erika is before.

It's vines lashing out at me and I soon found it catching up towards me.

Until a device was thrown between us and blew up creating a cloud of smoke.

"Stay behind  bean sprout, this won't end for you." Gordon said tersely as walked past me.

"Gordon's right, this will not end for you Young Midoriya. This situation is one you should not have been a part of. This is beyond anything you could do at the moment, Erika is not the one in control." All Might said grimly. "Aoki keep Midoriya back."

"You don't need to tell me twice, come on then." Aoki said as he flew by me and grabbed me.

"Wait" I tried to protest, but All Might flashed me a smile.

"It's going to be fine Izuku. Things might look bleak for Erika and yourself, but I swear that make sure everything will turn out all right. Because, I am here!" All Might declared as the Kaiju dragged itself out of the smoke cloud and started charging in my direction.

Only for it to roar out on pain as both Gordon and All Might rushed forward and punching it right in the flesh like sac for a stomach, getting it to double over.

And to tell in pain as a bullet from Snipe struck and cracked it's crest. It quickly shook it's head before letting out a loud roar and spitting out radioactive sap from it's mouth and vines, forcing both Gordon and All Might back as to not be hit by it.

It lashed out with it's vines in an attempt to bite or impale them. But Gordon and All Might preceded to rip or smash the vines when they got close.

Snipe meanwhile stayed back and began shooting what I guessed were incendiary rounds and blowing chunks on the vines up.

They quickly regenerated, but the Kaiju seemed to have learned from it's mistake. Keeping both All Might and Gordon at a distance and attacking them with vines and sap.

This should not have happened, if Erika had known and told us then no one of those could be happening right now...

But there was no way to change what had happened, but hopefully there is a way to get rid of that thing controlling Erika.

If not... I'm not sure I want to think of a method or if it could even be feasible.

"Midoriya I need you to snap out of it, now I need you to hold this for a minute while I rewire this thing." Aoki said seriously as he broke me from my thoughts and handed me a glass cannaster filled with a familiar looking gas while continuing to work on the device from earlier.

"Wait isn't that gas from from Midnight's Somnambulist Quirk? Don't you use that and anesthesia to get Erika to sleep. I take it that this is part of her containment cell." I asked, getting the monarch agent to nod.

"Got that right, though it is mainly anesthesia with enough desflurane to suffocate 8 people mixed in to get her to sleep. Luckily I made the distributors in her cell durable otherwise they would have been scrapped. Took me forever to repair both of them though. There was enough in their to knock her out instantly for about 15-20 minutes. But that is for both of them." Aoki said as continued to rewire the gas distributor.

"The you believe one of them should slow what is controlling her now." I said getting Aoki to nod.

"Correct though with the help of the agents we stationed around here. Though I would have to administer it directly through the flesh in order to successfully flood her system. With enough tranqs we should have slowed or drugged her enough to get her to the containment cell." Aoki said as he finished rewiring.

I hate this, I honestly hate this.

In order to save Erika, we had to basically drug her. But considering that she wasn't herself and from what I could see, the Kaiju didn't seem to be slowing down all that much.

It was missing most of it's crystals and it looked like it was tired all the injuries cause by All Might, Gordon, and Snipe. But it's overall ferocity kept it going strong as it continued it's onslaught against the heros and Monarch agent. Even as at least a dozen more agents showed up and had their firearms drawn.

To reiterate, I hate all of this but it seemed like the only way to stop this Kaiju and to save Erika...

"Is there any way I can help?" I asked, hoping that there was at least a way some way to help out in this madness.

Aoki looked at me for a few moments, as if to decide on what to do before sighing.

"Honestly I have no idea. The best you can do is if you notice any change in Erika's condition call it out and help out anyone in trouble while staying back. Everyone would just chew me out if you got heart and quite frankly you are not trained for this kind of scenario. Neither am I...unless you had some firearm training?" He said, getting me to shake my head.

"Not at all." I said.

"Then stay back. We'll handle this and hope that you will not have to become even more involved in this mess. Just stay back and if you see a chance to help while hanging back. Take it. Also can you hand me the gas back now." Aoki said as I did so with a reluctant nod.

He fitted the gas canister into the distributor and began flapping his wings and reading for an ear piece.

"This is Agent Aoki, all agents are clear to open fire. Stick to tranquilizer rounds unless your life is threatened or you run out. And also make sure not to accidentally hit Agent Gordon again. It will not end well for training tomorrow." Aoki said, before drawling  a tranquilizer pistol. "Here's hoping we can end this madness soon"

With that he took off into the air and flew towards Erika.

I could only watch as they started to open fire on the Kaiju, tranquilizer darts starting to stick out of the Kaiju as the agents and Aoki focused on subduing it. Agent Gordon and All Might focused on the brunt of the attacks as offense and defense while Snipe had been shooting at the crystals and providing cover with his smoke bombs.

All in all a good plan of attack given the current situation.

But I still hated it.

I felt so helpless. Erika was suffering and there was no way I could help out.

So I did something that I never thought I would ever do.

I disobeyed him, a little.

Aoki did point out to see if I could help anyone out and away from all the fighting.

As I ran along the outskirts of the fights, looking for any way I could help.

Or at least if there was any hope that Erika fighting back.

Sadly I could see non as the Kaiju while using it's vines to defend itself, lash out at it's attackers, or strike at them from beneath the sand kept on roaring and directly focused it's hatred towards me.

Seriously, what did I do to anger it?!

Although it's admitted terrifying hatred of me proved to be an advantage as it opened itself to more attacks.

Though it only seemed like now the tranquilizer starting to take effect

Upon noticing this Aoki flew in my direction and tried to create an opening to use the distributor.

However the Kaiju noticed this and launched a large amount of sap spray from it's mouth.

Only to stop when a smoke grenade landed in between it's eyes, causing it to roar at in pain as it was blinded.

Taking the chance both All Might and Gordon rushed forwards towards the Kaiju in seeming perfect sync.

"Doesn't this remind you of anything Yagi." Gordon said as they both uppercuted the stunned Kaiju.

"If you mean New Amsterdam 20 years ago, then you remember it differently then I do."  All Might said  as the two of them slammed their fists on top of the Kaiju's head and severally damaging the crest.

It tried to let lose another sap spray, but roared in pain as both Gordon and All Might slammed their fists into it's gut and caused it to double over.

"Hold her jaw open and hold your breath!" Aoki shouted as he flew between them.

"You better know what your doing Aoki." Gordon called as both him and All Might pried open the Kaiju's jaws. As Aoki shoved the distributor down it's throat and activated it, the Kaiju tried to snap it's jaws shut.

However an incendiary round from Snipe blew a chunk out of it's throat and caused it to roar out in pain as the gas started to pour out of its mouth.

Aoki kept flapping his wings inorder to keep the gases away.

They kept it up for a minute before the Kaiju had enough and slammed it's jaws shut.

Not before All Might and Gordon grabbed it's jaws shut and slammed it's head into the beach.

As it struggled and All Might began coughing up blood, all the other agents and Aoki kept firing into it's back with tranquilizer rounds.

They kept this up for a minute before all three of them pulled back.

The Kaiju let out a weak roar as the gases and all the tranquilizers began to take effect. It was moving sluggishly right now, but judging by how fast it started to move it's vine and launch wads of sap the Kaiju still had plenty of energy left in it.

Snipe prepared another smoke grenade, but found himself out of them and was unable notice the vine shooting out towards him from underneath the beach.

And for the second time in this past year, my body just moved on it's own.

I ran as fast as I could and by the time I reached Snipe a crystal tipped vine burst from the sand and would have impaled him through the stomach.

If I didn't push him out of the way.

But not before it managed to tear through my shirt and leaving a shallow gash across my left shoulder.

It hurt so much!

"Young Midoriya!" All Might called out, but was soon deafened out as the Kaiju let out a sound the sent a chill down my whole body that wasn't just from the pain.

It was laughing, or at least a series of roars trying to mimic a laugh. A dark, almost childish sounding sadistic laugh. As it if took any kind of sick pleasure in enjoyment in my suffering.

But that laughter soon turned into a horrified and rage filled roar that seemed to startled the Kaiju.

A roar that I knew well enough by now.

"Erika." I said weekly as I could hear he roars grow more and more paramount and and the Kaiju seemed to be struggling to stay control before to everyone's shock, the vine began to rip each other apart violently.

Erika was tearing  out the crystals from it's vines and with each crystal ripped out the Kaiju's control lessened until it was too weak to resist as Erika ripped out it's crest.

It let out one final roar before Erika's left eye returned to her golden color and she collapsed back to the ground.

I let out a sigh of relief as it was finally over, before wincing in pain.

"You're crazy kid, running up for me like that with a Kaiju attacking and all." Snipe said, hoistering his gun before ripping off part of his cloak.

Before I could even wonder why he was doing, Snipe quickly wrapped the cloth around my open gash and with a wince applied pressure to it and tied. I winced at the sensation, but it felt a lot better then before and thankfully it stopped the bleeding.

"Thank you." I said with a wince, getting the western themed hero to shake his head.

"I should be the one thanking you kid, if you didn't push me out of the way we wouldn't be having this conversation. At least for a few days, I've been impaled once in my career, not looking to doing so once again." Snipe sighed out.

"Like several years ago, when you used the hero name Positive. You were forced to change your fighting style and take the identy of Snipe after being impaled by a villain. One that missed your heart by a few centimeters." I said, getting the masked hero to look at me before letting out a chuckle.

"A hero fanboy I take it, not many people remember that any more. You certainly picked quite the boy Yagi. He will become quite the spectacular hero someday." Snipe said, getting to beam with pride a little to hear such praise from a Hero.

"He certainly will, but he still has a lot to learn. Like staying back when I ask him to." All Might said with a sigh as he approached the two of us before smiling. "Though I am proud of what you did. I saw it all, you are getting are coming closer to becoming a hero faster then I expected, though at least I could wish it was under better circumstances."

"Agreed." I sighed out.

Normally I would be over the moon at having All Might praise me, but now wasn't the mood.

Right now I just wanted to know if Erika was alright or not.

That and how to explain the gash to mom.

Not even a moment later Erika let out a loud roar before breaking into spores. Both Snipe and every agent around us drew their firearm at the cloud of spores.

It turned out it wasn't necessary as Erika reformed right in front of me and collapsed onto the ground.

Reaching out a vine towards me she let lose a series of small roars as she wrapped her vine around me and dragged me towards her.

Erika...she was blaming herself for hurting me.

It wasn't here fault, directly at least.

Though it was her body, she wasn't the one controlling it at the time.

There was so much that I wanted to ask her. So many questions I wanted answers to. So many things I wanted to ask her about.

But to see her like this.

Injured, on the verge of crying, and barely conscious due to the stress, gas, and uncountable tranquilizers sticking from her.

I knew what I needed to do.

"It's alright Erika, I'm okay." I said trying to reassure her.

I was not.

Erika gripping in her vine was only aggravating my shoulder wound even more.

But she needed to hear this.

"I will be alright Erika, I'm more worried about you. You need to rest and let Monarch help you Erika. Just please stop resisting and allow them to help. No more secrets about this, whatever you wish to tell me, please tell me and I will be ready." I said, laying a hand on her head as she let out a weak roar and started to nod off.

"I promise that by the next time you see me everything will be alright. Just please, get some rest Erika." I said with a small smile.

The one thing I knew was I was not going to see Erika again for a while. Monarch was going to make sure of that much until they figured out more in depth of what was going on.

But I do know is that the moment things are looking better, I would be able to see her.

She let out a weak roar at that.

"I promise." I said with a smile.

Erika stared at me for a few moments before letting out a soft growl before she stopped resisting.

She collapsed unconscious, looking at almost at piece.

"You did the right thing Young Midoriya." All Might said as he walked up toe and place a reassuring hand on my shoulder.

"It doesn't feel like it." I said a liytle hoarsely.

"Sometime it never does, nor is it ever easy." All Might said with a sigh.

"Please tell me there is some good news on the cure?" I asked, hoping that out of this whole mess something good came out of it.

However the look All Might gave me told me it was clearly anything but.

"The first attempt was a failure, it will kill her slowly band painfully. Along with the Kaiju infecting her. They hope that her additions and more modern methods they could have a better chance at increasing her chance of survival. But without the final ingredient...they are going to allow Erika to chose to either wait until a cure or finally be at peace for good this time." All Might said sadly.

"I see." I said trying not to lose it at this point.

Should have thought of such a possibility, but given that they were working on the next chances of the cure it was still hope.

But there was one thing that I needed to know.

"Did they find out why Erika never told anyone?" I asked.

Getting All Might to go silent for a minute before he spoke up.

"You were her first hope of anything in her life since her death. She knew that finding out about her infection and that you would blame yourself if you couldn't keep your promise. She was worried that if you couldn't save her, it would break you." All Might said sadly as I started to shake in his grip.

It took all of a few seconds before it finally hit me and I had let out everything I had been holding in since   the incident started.

So that's why she didn't tell me...

Erika was worried what would happen if I found out and there was no chance of a cure happens.

The worst part was that she was probably right about how I would react...

But it never came about...

There was still hope...

So it made this whole situation a whole lot worse for me...

(Modern day)

Even 16 days later it still hurts to think about.

It all could have been prevented, but that is all in the past now.

After letting lose my feelings, All Might and Gordon brought both me and Erika back to U.A.

Aoki and Snipe stayed behind to deal with the crowd of people wondering what all of the commotion was and picking up each and every crystal left behind.

Erika was still unconscious when I last saw here and they began to figure out the true depths of Erika infection.

As for me...they examined me to make sure the crystal had no adverse affects on my body. Which thankfully it hasn't, even as of today there have been no signs and the crystals don't affect human DNA. Though they affect human flesh just as much as being cut by a elephant's tusk or a rhino's horn.

Basically very painful.

After that I saw Recovery Girl and I was healed up. Minus the exhaustion and an aching shoulder with a small scratch.

All Might suggested I only do light training for the next two to three days while it healed up.

Made things easier to explain to mom about the shoulder being from training. After she gave All Might a few stern words of course.

After that day I was distraught by what had happened for a bit. I had become more withdrawn and quite according to mom and what I heard Erika was worst off then I was.

We were separated for 2 whole days and I thought that it was probably for the best.

I guess I needed some space after what happened.

It was the lowest point in the month with everything that happened.

I still have a tough time reminiscing about that day and probably will for a long time...

But after that aweful day, and  days of keeping to my self. Things started to take a turn towards the events of today.

For 10 days ago, for the first time in what seemed like forever...we finally did it.

We found the final component to Erika's cure.

(Chapter 8 end)

Hey guys Mukuro7 here and I hoped that you enjoyed all this chapter.

As promised, it has been quite heavy isn't it.

The cure being a bust and Erika all along had been had been infected by Spacegodzilla. Well not that anyone in Monarch knew as that Kaiju never reached Earth and here is realitivly new and I will go into that next chapter.

And for those to claim what happened it is impossible... look up what happened in the Godzilla manga between her and Ghidorah. With enough damage and assimilating enough organic material she could undergo another mutation. Given the similar genetic nature to each other, it could go either way but Erika has the advantage.

As for its hatred for Izuku...not going to share on that particular subject and let you find out on your own or when the time comes.

Speaking of which, here's hoping I did a good job showing that despite his training and his current situation Izuku is still just a teenager. He hasn't been officially educated at U.A. yet or the scholastic nightmare that is U.S.J.

Be he will become stronger from this experience.

Still I hoped that I have lived up to what I promised in this chapter.

Anyway next chapter will cover days 13 and 10. Featuring recovering from the events of this chapter and the final secret to Erika's cure is revealed. Along with Izuku having two encounters during those days. One is his future teacher and the other another addition to the harem... not going to reveal who though.

Also I am admittedly going to have too rescind one of my own rules I made long. Couldn't resist anymore and given the latest chapters I figured Izuku could use it.

So anyway until  next time, ciao!