➤( CHAPTER 008 ! )
"the unknown"

SHOUSUKE NOTICED THE LOOK ON HIS GOD-FATHERS FACE, a face of worry. Kirishima suddenly appeared, trying to get a hit on Shigaraki, but he was able to successfully dodge. "Crap!! I almost had him." Kirishima said.

"You're not all that misty mook!!." Bakugo spat at the wrapped villain.

"Scums like you could never kill the symbol of the piece," Todoroki stated. Shousuke hummed in agreement. Then moved his arms apart so that both of them were put on the opposite side of each other, then banded his back leg and straightened his front leg.

Midoriya looked at the student in shock. "Kacchan, guys." He mumbled.

"Frosty..." All Might said feeling the cold creep up his spine.

"You slipped up, you bastard and it's just like I thought! The parts you can turn into that foggy warp gate are limited! And you're using that misty carp to hide your real body, yeah?! Am I right!? If your whole body was mist and physical attacks don't work. You'd never say. "That was a close one.'" Bakugo smirked.

Kurogiri tried to escape from his grip, but Bakugo pinned him down even harder and used his quirk on him making the villain groan in pain. "Don't move!! If I decide you're doing anything fishy, I'll blow you straight to Kingdom Come."

"That's not every hero like, dude." Kirishima jokingly said.

Suddenly out of the blue, the sound of thunder was formed above Bakugo and Kirishima. Shousuke looked up at it and saw that the thunders were going straight to Bakugo and Kirishima so he hurriedly grabbed his umbrella run over to them.

He was able to make it there before the thunder and quickly opened his umbrella shielding all three of them from the incoming attack. "Damn, I see why you carry an umbrella," Bakugo said, but Shousuke simply ignored him.

"Nomu." The hand villain called out to the monster that started moving. It was able to remove itself from Todoroki's ice. when it released itself from the ice half of its body was shattered.

"Get back everyone!!" All Might said, moving his hand to the side.

'His body is falling apart, yet he's still moving? Just what is he....' Shousuke thought, moving his umbrella out of his face clearly showing his frown brows.

The remaining ice around Nomu started to break apart, as new muscles began to build up his broken side again. "...What the..?! I thought his quirk was shaking absorption!!"

"I don't remember saying that's all he can do. This is Hyper-Regeneration. Nomu is a super-powered living sandbag to withstand everything you got, thanks to a friend of ours." Shigaraki stated.

"You're welcome." A deep voice spoke. "My~ My, It's been quite a long time since I've seen you... Shou."

The others turn their attention to Shousuke who had a shocked yet confused look on his face.

"What you don't remember me? how sad." The person cracking a smile.

Suddenly he appeared in front of Shousuke and punched him in the guts making the younger fly back. "SHOUSUKE-KUN!!"

"Now, now calm down Psychical, first we need to free our method of escape," Shigarki said to him, making Shoko just roll his eyes at the older. "Fine, if you say so."

"Now get him, Nomu." He commanded. the monster was quick on his feet and hurriedly dashed over to Bakugo to free Kurogiri.

Nomu sent a strong punch, having the wind blow Kirishima, Midorya, and Todoroki to where Shousuke lay.

Their eyes averted to where Nomu was, too so that Kurogiri was free from Baukgo's grip, but no sight of the boy.

They looked there, seeing the wall in front of the monster crack. "Kacchan!" Midorya called out.

"Kacchan?" Midorya questioned upon seeing Bakugo right him. The other three turned their heads, seeing the bot on the ground. "You dodged that?! WOW!!"

"I didn't shut up you." Bakugo spat. 'I couldn't even see a thing.'

"Isn't it obvious?" Shoto said then pointed his finger to where All Might was. 'Don't tell me.' Shousuke thought, then turned his gaze to the crack in the wall, seeing All Might who had blocked it with his arm.

"So he protected that child huh?" Shiagraki muttered, then turned to All Might who was coughing blood while panting. "These are kids. You guys don't know how to hold back...." All Might questioned.

"Anything to save a comrade, right? Just like earlier when... That one... The plain one. He came at me with everything he had, But violence in the name of saving others is admirable? Isn't it hero?" Shiagraki stated.

"You know what, All Might, that pisses me off! Why do people get to decide that some violent acts are Heroic or villainous? Casting judge judgment on what's and what's bad, yet we're still categorized. You're good, You're evil. That's how it is!! You to you you're the symbol of peace? Haha, you're just another government-sponsored instrument of violence. And violence always breeds more violence. And ill make sure this world understands it when you're dead..... All Might."

"What a load of hooey. Idealistic criminals have different sot of fire in their eyes, you always try to make your actions sound noble but admit it, you're only doing this because you like it!! Isn't that right!" All Might stated, but the Villain kept silent.

"You got me, saw right through my thoughts. But face the face, you're just enjoying this yourself you big lair."

Todoroki squinted his eyes. "We've got them outnumbered, it's three on six." Midorya nodded and got into a fighting stance. "And Kacchan found that mist guy's weak point...!!"

"These are some brutal dudes but with us supporting All Might... We can beat 'Em back!!" Kirishima added then activated his hardening quirk.

"NO." All Might exclaimed, making all four of them turn to him in confusion. "Get out of here!"

"Things wouldn't have gone so well if we hadn't stepped in," Todoroki stated, making Shousuke nod in agreement.

"Thank you for your assistance, but this is different. It's going to be alright, just sit down and watch a pro at work." All Might replied.

"All Might you're bleeding. And I think your time is u-" Midorya immediately silenced himself once he saw All Might throw a thumbs-up sign to show that he was okay, which he was not.

Shiagarki came rushing in towards the student but stopped when Shousuke caught him in a psychic binding. 'This brat!'

Suddenly another villain appeared from behind Shousuke and tried to kick him, but Shousuke caught his leg and slammed it onto the ground making it crack.

He quickly got off the ground and a created pace between himself and Shousuke. "It seemed like you've gotten better, last time I saw you in action you would even lift a single weight, ah~ has the time gone by too fast, hasn't it?"

Nightmare suddenly stopped talking went he saw Shousuke in front of him, the younger was about to poke his eye out, but he deflected it. with his arm.

Nightmare stepped to the side, but Shousuke kept swinging his palms at him causing him to only defend himself.

Nightmare then tried to kick Shousuke's feet so that the younger could fall, he saw it coming and jumped over it and tried to kick Nightmare's face but the older blocked it with both his arms.

Shousuke was able to land a hit on the older making him back off a bit. Nightmare held his shoulder in a bit of pain and jumped away to create space between them.

'He managed to hit me! I didn't even see it.' He thought letting out a small smirk that didn't go unnoticed by Shousuke, the younger looked at him in confusion as to why he was smiling and why did he want to challenge him.

Once Shousuke closed the distance between the two of them he launched himself at the older and tried to hit his neck with his foot, but Nightmare moved his hand out of the way. Shousuke then went to kick Nightmare's head but the older ducked just in time.

But while the older was on the ground Nightmare's other leg was about to hit him but he was able to bounce back avoiding it, and creating a gap in between them.

But Shousuke was quickly able to close that gap when he tried to strike to older the shoulder but his hand slipped away when Nightmare pushed it away. 

The others that were watching them were too stunned to speak.

"Both of them are amazing... I can't even see them move." Midoriya muttered, he couldn't believe his eyes. He had never seen this type of fighting style so he doesn't know the amount to damage a single blow could cause.

While the Shousuke was sending constant strikes at the villain. The older of the two noticed that Shousuke had left his chest was left wideout and the older saw it, and before Shousuke could react he suddenly felt a sharp thrust to the chest.

Shousuke moved his gaze down to his chest and saw that the villain's palm was pressed down on it. Suddenly blood rushed to his throat as he spewed out his mouth. This was the first time this had ever happened to him. He could feel his heartbeat slowing down as the second passed.

He then looked back at the villain that was in front of him and a low yet harsh town he said. "Who are you...?"

"Would you like to know?" The villain squinted his eyes and then gave Shousuke a wicked laugh. "Your worst NIGHTMARE,"

"And I don't mean it metaphorically or rhetorically or poetically or theoretically, or any type of fancy way. I'm the nightmare that you're never going to wake up from~"

Wrath then grabbed a hold of Shousuke's neck picked him up and slammed him to the ground. His nails dug into the youngers neck as small drops of blood poured out.

Before Nightmare could attack Shousuke with a strong punch he was stopped when he saw a foot from underneath him collide with his chin as his neck went high up in the air. The kick was quite powerful due to him feeling a rush of pain all over his body as he glared down at Shousuke who was glaring back at him whiles wiping blood from his mouth.

Nightmare's body when started glowing purple as he was then thrown off Shousuke and onto the ground. He was able to stop himself as he slowly got himself off the ground and onto his two feet, there he saw Shousuke getting up from the ground, still facing him with a burning flame in his eye.

He started walking a bit closer to the older then, he quickly tucked to the ground twisting his body to the side, before pushing up his hand and using it to propel himself off the ground.

One of his legs was straight and the other was bent, the one that was straight aimed for Nightmare's rib making him trip over, but before he could but the ground the leg that Shousuke bent quickly and straight up kicking him on the stomach sent the older flying back.

Nightmare was able to land on his feet after stumbling a bit, he tried to land a sidekick on Shousuke but he avoided it by leaning back, once his back was straight again now he was face to face with Nightmare. Without knowing he gave him a light punch that still hurt sending him stumbling back again.

The younger didn't give him much time to recover, because he had pulled his arm making it go forward downwards. With that, he was able to climb onto his shoulders swinging his body side to side.

He had one of his hooked in with one of his arms spinning it around, before letting go and throwing him away not too far from where he was.

He brought his and down to the ground that was holding him up while he brought his right leg up then tried to hook it under the older neck with his leg to bring him down, but Shousuke was able to dodge it just in time.

'His attacks are too low for me to do anything,...' Nightmare thought before getting down on one of his knees. 'I should get down, and go for a low blow of my own, he won't be able to dodge this!' He swung his leg trying to hit the younger head, but he was able to dodge it by going down into a box split, with both of his hands touching the ground and both elbows in the arm.

Shousuke quickly twisted his body, and now his legs were in the air, before Nightmare could even move from his spot, one of Shousuke's legs came slamming down on his head. Making him fall on the ground and bleed out his nose. 'H-How is he this flexible, It doesn't even seem human!'

Shousuke then jumped away created space between them and moved his arms so that both of his were put to the opposite sides of each other and flattened with psychic energy coated on them. He brought his right palm in front of him and his left palm was facing the same way but was lowered to his waistline.

Although he was in pain and his eyes were now bleeding, Shousuke then rushed towards the older.

Nightmare was coming and tried to land a hit on the younger but Shousuke had jumped over him and kicked the side of his lead making the order's brain rumble for a while. 'This brat.'

Shousuke quickly got gown from the air and is now in front of Nightmare. The older didn't have time to react when he felt Shousuke's extended arm stretch out punching his stomach and breaking his ribs in the process causing a large gust of wind from the impact.

He was sent flying back, to where Shigaraki and Kurogiri were. "Monster..." Shigaraki whispered at the sight he just saw. He was shocked at Shousuke's strength, Shousuke eyes were bleeding putting him at a disadvantage when it came to see, but it seemed like the younger didn't need his eyes at all in his fight.

Just then All Might had just finished penetrating Nomu through the glass ceiling of USJ.

"What is this, a comic book?" Kirishima asked trying to get a closer look at All Might but he couldn't because of the smoke that was leaving All Might's body.

"It's like he pounded the shock absorption out of him... The Ultimate meathead."

"So that power was just a waste in the end... And he even beat him to a pulp so fast that his regeneration couldn't activate in time..." Bakugo pondered.

'So this is the top... This is the world of the pros.' Shoto thought then turned over to Shousuke. he saw that the younger wasn't breathing at the right pace his chest was moving up and down but he still had shortness of breath. He quickly ran over to the dark purple-haired boy and placed a hand on his back checking if Shousuke had any wound.

"Komi! Are you alright?!" He questioned. Shousuke looked up at him and then back at the ground, he put a hand over his mouth as he started coughing little by little, his trout and body felt so dry, he felt like he wanted to throw up.

Just as Todoroki was about to ask another concerned question Shousuke, All Might started talking again.

"I have gotten weaker... In my heyday, it'd have taken five good punches, tops... Now I threw more than 300 of the suckers." All Might then turned around to the villains at slowly started walking toward them. "Now then villains. We both want to put an end to this dance of ours quickly, don't we?"

"You used cheats!! You've gotten weaker? You lie... You were overpowered. How dare you lay a hand on my Nomu! You used cheats, there's no way you're any weaker now!! Did he... Did he lie to me?" What Shigaraki was saying didn't seem to have any effect on All Might whatsoever.

"What's the matter? Where'd your bravo go!? What happened to clear the game? TRY IT IF YOU CAN!!"

"Well? What are you waiting for." All Might asked getting into a fight stance, making Shigaraki so so be began to scratch his hard that blood started coming out.

"Shigaraki Tomura... Please calm yourself. if you look more closely, you can see the damage that Nomu succeeded in doing to him." Kurogiri stated making Shigaraki calm down a bit.

"It would appear that the children that the children are rearing away." Kurogiri then brought his attention to the four students who haven't moved from the spot they were in ever since the fight had begun. "It's true that the reinforcement is certain to make its appearance in mere minutes. However, I tender the proposal, Shigaraki, that if you I, and Nightmare combine our effect there might still be efforts, there might still be a chance to murder him."

"Yeah, You're right." An idea then suddenly popped up in Shigaraki's mind. "Utterly on the nose... After all this trouble..... How could we fail to defeat the final boss."

Kurogiri's body started getting bigger as both he and Shigaraki started rushing towards All Might, But just as Kurogiri was about to cover All Might, Midoriya suddenly appeared in front of him and Punched his stomach where his body is.

"LET GO OF, ALL MIGHT!!"

"There won't be a second chance!!" Shigaraki's hand reached forwards to grab Midoriya but a bullet pierced through it making him hiss in pain.

"SO THEY FINALLY ARRIVED."

Two more bullets were shot toward the Mountain zone, where Yaoyorozu, Kaminari, and Jiro were. It shot went through the villain that had a hammerhead making him, drop Kaminari.

"Sorry partners," Snipe said before blowing out the smoke from his gun

"We're regrettably late.." A squeaky yet calm voice spoke making the student look at the entrance of USJ."

"I came back with all the people I could scrape