Chapter 2
Thanks to the mental breakdown Priestess had entered, she and Kurogiri didn't notice Thirteen instructing Iida to run and get help. By the time Kurogiri noticed, Iida was already out the door.
"I've unleashed a monster! I've unleashed a monster! I've unleashed a monster! I've unleashed a monster!" Priestess continued to rant. "Priestess? Someone has gotten away from us," said Kurogiri. "It doesn't matter!" yelled Priestess. "What? Is this about the monster you unleashed?" demanded Kurogiri. "No of course not!" said Priestess, who seemed to be calming down. She took out her cell phone, which appeared to be a cheap burner. Having a cheap burner phone like that made sense for a villain. "Five bars!" she said, "I don't know if anyone noticed yet, but they took him down…"
In the mountain Zone, the three feral students stood over a man who had used an electrical quirk. He had tried to kidnap Denki, but that did not go well for him.
Back at the entrance, it was clear Thirteen was calling for help.
"Now that I'm calm we can take down the biggest threat in this facility," said Priestess. "That monster you unleashed?" asked Kurogiri. Another villain then came down from the ceiling, burnt and beaten. "Friction…" she explained. "What?" asked Kurogiri. "He learned how to use friction to set his leg on fire," she explained. She saw how the students were looking at her.
"I know what you're thinking! That makes no sense whatsoever! But you know what? His entire world made no sense whatsoever! They used sailing ships but cyborgs are a thing! They had islands floating around in the sky! A starfish learned how to talk because he thought he was human! But that makes no sense! Because a starfish doesn't even have a brain! So I'm guessing it's like the scarecrow!" yelled Priestess. "Should we do something?" asked Sato, unsure how to respond to the villain who had lost it. "Just let her rant, it's distracting both of them…" said the student Mina Ashido, a girl with pink skin and hair with horns and strangely black sclera. "We have to get rid of Black Leg! And I know his weakness!" said Priestess, "That's the only way we can escape!"
A few minutes earlier, in the Shipwreck Zone
Three students, including Izuku Midoriya, were tossed into the water thanks to Kurogiri's warp. As Priestess had implied earlier, the effects of her Quirk came in stages. The first stage was a catatonic state. During this stage, the target is catatonic for 30 seconds. One of the others sent to the shipwreck zone, Tsuyu Asui, saw him in the water. Thankfully, her Quirk gave her the powers of a frog.However, before she could grab him with her tongue, Izuku entered the second stage of Soul Revelation's effects, the feral state.
(Now, a quick pause to explain what the feral state is)
Once a target enters the feral state, they operate in an intense fight-or-flight state of mind made up of the instincts of their past life. Only 4 percent of targets fight. Most targets instead run and hide. Of that 4 percent who fight, three-quarters of them, comprising 3 percent of all targets, fight to protect the people they love, recognizing them as friends. The last and smallest group, comprising 1 percent of targets, will attack indiscriminately. We've already established that Izuku was not part of that 1 percent that attacked indiscriminately but of the 3 percent that fought to protect their friends.
Once Izuku entered the Feral stage, he ran towards the shark-like villain swimming towards him. And yes, he did just run toward the villain while underwater. He learned how to do that in his past life for reasons you don't want to know. With his past life, context would only make it worse, most of the time. Anyway, the point is that he could move in the water in ways that most people could only dream of. He saw another water villain swim towards him and managed to kick him high into the air, causing an explosion due to the force.
Tsuyu blinked and carried the other classmate sent to the shipwreck zone to the surface. When they got there, the small-statured classmate cuddled into her breasts. "For a frog, you have such nice boobs," he said.
That was Minoru Mineta. He was the class pervert.
Of course, she slammed him into the deck when she jumped up.
She looked at the water with explosions.
"What's going on?" asked Mineta once he recovered.
"It's Midoriya ribbit." Said Tsuyu.
That was when Izuku jumped out of the water, his entire leg on fire as he kicked the shark-like villain away.
"I didn't know he could do that!" said Mineta.
"Something weird is going on." Said Tsuyu.
"What do you mean?" asked Mineta.
"If he was able to do this before why hasn't he done it? Ribbit," asked Tsuyu.
Mineta's eyes widened.
"Wait! Wasn't he hit by that weird Quirk?" asked Mineta.
"He was." Said Tsuyu.
Izuku landed nearby, seemingly looking for more of the villains.
"Midoriya?" asked Mineta.
He turned to the two and looked at them. Both of them froze, unsure what he was about to do.
Then his eyes erupted in pink hearts, and he danced strangely.
"Okay… he is acting strangely." Said Mineta with a sweat drop.
"Ribbit…" said Tsuyu nodding.
However, a villain in the water tried to use his Quirk on the boat. Thankfully, Izuku sensed it and went in for the attack before the villain could act.
They watched as he set his leg on fire again and launched the water villain into the air. Of course, this was the second villain to get launched like that.
"He's not attacking us, so that's good." Said Mineta.
"We have to find out what that quirk did." Said Tsuyu.
"Do we have to?" asked Mineta, watching him beat down the villains.
"Maybe later. Ribbit," sighed Tsuyu admitting that maybe it would be better to wait until after all the villains were gone if he was kicking that much ass.
Soon enough, the villains were all defeated.
Izuku looked around the facility. He jumped off the boat, but as he did, another warp appeared in front of him, which sent him back to the entrance.
"Are you sure that's wise?" asked Kurogiri.
"Yes." Said Priestess, "Once I was able to regain my composure I remembered his weakness…"
Izuku turned to Priestess.
He was ready to kick her, but he froze.
She smiled, grabbed his leg, and slammed it into the ground.
"He might be a monster," said Priestess, seemingly returning to how she was before her freak out, "But as I said earlier, he's a monster with scruples."
She kneed him in the back, forcing him to the ground.
"Priestess!" yelled Kurogiri.
"His adoptive father made sure he would never hurt a frail woman, but this almost got him killed multiple times! I should have realized that before! That's his weakness!" said Priestess.
"Priestess!" said Kurogiri.
"I just have to hold him down and run out the clock," Priestess said shortly before Sero's tape wrapped around her.
"What?!" she yelled.
Kurogiri grumbled. He knew Priestess often had a one-track mind, and she had completely forgotten that the other students were there. She was dragged over to the other students and punched by Sato. Once Priestess was off him, Izuku got up and glared at Sato. It wasn't a "You're my enemy" glare, but rather a "When this is all over I'm kicking your ass" glare.
"Why is he looking at me like that?" asked Sato with a sweat drop.
"Something tells me we do not want to know," said Sero with a sweat drop.
That was when Izuku turned towards Kurogiri. He flew towards the amorphous cloud, his leg turning black as he did. The kick launched the amorphous black cloud into the wall.
"Haki worked on him? Of course it did!" laughed Priestess as she got up. It was clear she had snapped again. "I've unleashed a monster! He can hurt Kurogiri! I've unleashed a monster! He'll teach other heroes Haki. I've unleashed a monster! I've unleashed a monster! I've unleashed a monster!" she ranted.
Kurogiri managed to get up. He looked at Izuku but knew it wouldn't be a good time to do anything to him, not while he was in the feral state.
He warped to Priestess, then warped both of them away.
That was when they all heard a terrible scream coming from the central plaza.
"Oh no!" said Mina.
"Aizawa!" said Mezo Shoji, a student with strange tentacles coming out of his arms.
"Before we do anything we have to…" said Thirteen.
Before the space-themed hero could finish their sentence, Izuku had already run towards where the scream came from. Not only was he running, but he was running through the air.
"Hey!" called out Mineta as he and Tsuyu showed up.
"You two are all right! That's good," said Mina.
They noticed the taped-up Ochaco struggling and looking like she wanted to help their teacher.
"Do you have any idea what's going on with them, ribbit?" asked Tsuyu.
"I do… that villain is known as Priestess." Said Thirteen. "And she can force her victims to relive their past lives."
In the central plaza, the strange bird-like monster was beating up Aizawa, though beating up was a misnomer. In reality, he was crushing Aizawa.
That was when Kurogiri and Priestess appeared in the central plaza.
"So have you two taken out Thirteen and the next generation?" Shigaraki.
"There was a slight problem," said Kurogiri.
"Oh really? What?" asked Shigaraki.
"I've unleashed a monster! I've unleashed a monster! I've unleashed a monster!" said Priestess.
Kurogiri faltered, still reeling from the kick.
"What happened!?" he demanded.
"I just screwed up royally is what happened! I've discovered a brand new level of power when it comes to reincarnation." Said Priestess, twitching all over, "And he is seriously OP if you know what I'm saying!"
"Please don't speak video game lingo. That's my thing, not yours," said Shigaraki.
"Yeah… you can pull it off, but I can't," muttered Priestess.
"How OP is he?" asked Shigaraki, "I mean if you're saying that."
That was when suddenly Izuku practically came from the sky and delivered an extremely harsh kick that sent the strange bird-like creature reeling and freed Aizawa.
"His kicks are incredibly strong. He can use friction to set his leg on fire giving him more firepower, can harness his willpower into a sort of armor for his legs which not only gives them another power boost but can be used to harm Kurogiri, can use the same power to predict movement and sense people… he can even run in the air and water," said Priestess with her eye twitching.
"What else has gone wrong?" asked Shigaraki.
"They have gotten in contact with the outside world. When she broke down over the monster she unleashed, we were distracted and a student was able to escape," said Kurogiri. Shigaraki began to scratch at his neck.
"It's game over, soon we will be swarmed by Pro Heroes. We're back at the start screen," he muttered. Neither Priestess nor Kurogiri said anything else. "There is no way this can possibly get any worse!" yelled Shigaraki.
Momo suddenly showed up and chopped off the strange bird-like thing's arm with a sword, Kyoka and Denki close behind.
"You have got to be kidding me!" yelled Priestess, "She has a freakin' sword! Why does she have a sword!"
The bird-like creature regrew its arm and knocked the sword out of Momo's hands, but she created another weapon to replace it. Now, she had a battle axe while Denki took the sword.
"Oh and her quirk makes up for her lack of magic!" said Priestess, "Great!"
Izuku looked at Momo and started dancing like earlier, but Momo gave him a death glare that stopped him.
The four looked at the strange thing that stood before them.
"So do you think those four can stop Nomu?" asked Shigaraki. "I don't know… I know nothing about Nomu, so I don't know if I should underestimate or overestimate it." Said Priestess.
"How long do they have left?" asked Kurogiri. "I haven't been keeping track," said Priestess. "You know we should see if we can get rid of these pests before the Pros get here," said Shigaraki.
"Life is precious," she muttered, "But these four… I've just created a group that if they live will be among the strongest heroes in history…"
Meanwhile, with Iida, he continued to run. He stopped when he saw someone on the way there.
Back at the USJ entrance, Thirteen finished their explanation about the Quirk. "That Quirk is really weird," said Mina. "So all five of them remember their last past lives," said Shoji. "Yes, and unfortunately, most hit with that Quirk will quit being heroes," Thirteen explained. "What!" yelled all of the students in shock, looking at Ochaco.
"However there is a rule of thumb when it comes to her Quirk. If any hero fights back without hurting their allies, then they will remain a hero," explained Thirteen. The students looked hopeful. "Unfortunately, that rule of thumb was only seen with adults, as she has never used her Quirk on teenagers before now. We don't know what would happen in this case," sighed Thirteen. This part caused all of them to look uncertain.
Back in the central plaza, Izuku, Momo, Denki, and Kyoka looked at the creature known as Nomu, all ready to fight. Unfortunately, they were unaware that the feral stage was only temporary and that the third stage of Soul Revelation's effects would soon hit and knock them out. Hopefully, time would be on their side.