My Hero Academia: Graduation

Chapter 24: Overgrowth

Izuku chased after the plants that were pulling his intern through the forest at high speed.

He activated One For All and leapt from tree to tree in pursuit.

"Warpi!" He called to the ensnared boy. "Use your Quirk!"

Hansuke couldn't look around to meet eyes with Izuku. "I can't reach my ears! My arms are tied up!"

"Then think of this as a training exercise! You only need to snap your fingers by your ears to trigger it but I bet you can do it without them!" Izuku called after.

The boy breathed heavily. "I-I've never done it without snapping!"

"Just trust me! Concentrate on putting yourself in that plane!" The hero shouted. "Freeze time for everything except yourself! Just for a few of your seconds!"

Hansuke gasped and closed his eyes to focus. "Okay, okay, okay. Just....FREEZE!"

Everything around him began cutting in and out of being frozen, as if reality became like a scratched DVD, cutting every few frames per second out.

Izuku, having the incredible speed he did, could detect this. Hansuke wasn't able to do it entirely but he was cutting into it. Making progress. It looked as though they couldn't rely on Quirk training to get him out of those vines and leaves.

They came to a clearing where the plants whipped off of the boy, throwing him on to his back. Izuku leapt to his side and pulled him to his feet.

However, his attention was on the green-skinned villain in an orange jumpsuit standing before them.

"Well, well, well. Look who it is." He snickered and cracked his knuckles.

"...Dammit I know this guy." Izuku took one small step back. A defensive tactic in order to fix his fighting stance.

"Overgrowth." The villain proclaimed with pride as thorns burst from his arms.

"The plant-based villain. Low-level thug, in all honesty. But nonetheless an incredibly annoying adversary." Izuku announced.

"You're one to talk. Hell, that's your weakness to me. You TALK TOO MUCH!" The villain roared, swinging his arm which immediately unleashed a volley of large seeds toward the two.

Izuku, with lightning speed, grabbed Hansuke and pulled him to the side.

"Don't worry, I'll make quick work of this guy. Last time I fought him, I didn't know what he was capable of. But now I'm prepared." He said. "Just sit back and watch a pro at work!"

Hansuke rolled his eyes. "Fine. But I'm still useful. I can snap again."

"That's okay! Save your energy! I have a feeling he's not the only one working this."

"Wise decision to not underestimate me. But I was worried you were for a second." The Overgrowth villain said.

Izuku looked back at where the seeds landed and saw the ground covered in thorn bushes sprouting up fast.

"Wouldn't want one of those to hit ya, I assume." Overgrowth chuckled. "Now give me your best shot!"

Izuku glared at him before charging at high speed, faster than he could see.

He moved, from where he was just standing, to the other end of the opening in front of the green villain in less than a second of time.

"Whoa..." Hansuke said. He'd seen Izuku in action before, but every time, the power that he possessed never ceased to surprise him.

Just as the villain was about to react, desperately from the sudden maneuver of speed on him, another force came between the two.

Izuku's leg, which was swinging up to hit the villain's ribcage, was met with another leg.

The air compressed and blasted the grass and the trees and then became still.

Overgrowth, who was practically sucking his thumb in cowardice, was a few meters back and unharmed.

Meanwhile, a new escapee in the same orange suit stood blocking Izuku. His hair was very short and three growths sprouted from his head and reconnected in three different places on his back. He sported a wicked smile of victory and stood up straight, face to face with the hero.

"Now this is awkward." He chuckled. He turned his head only slightly to acknowledge Overgrowth. "How you doing back there, Overgrowth, any scratches? Thanks for playing the bait."

The green plant villain simply nodded.

Izuku himself was speechless.

"You look shocked. Was it sheer denial that was keeping you from assuming I would be a part of this?" The villain asked.

"Nucleon..." Hansuke whispered.

That prompted the villain to turn his head completely to get a look at the boy.

Izuku took his chance. He swung his fist swiftly into Nucleon's kidney, sending first the area of impact, then the rest of his body flying until he crashed into a thick tree's trunk.

"As a professional hero of the city of Tokyo, I hereby place you both under hero's arrest." Izuku declared. "Warpi. Get the capture tape from my right pouch and tie Overgrowth up. I'll get Nucleon."

Hansuke stood up and ran to Izuku, fishing through the red pouch on his right side and pulling out the strand of incredibly powerful tape.

"Remember to wrap his wrists behind his back." Izuku instructed.

"Right." The boy nodded and, under the eye contact of Izuku, was able to tie up the plant villain properly.

"Ohhh Izuku Midoriya..."

His attention turned back to Nucleon.

The villain sitting against the tree stood up in the most unnatural way Izuku had ever seen. His feet planted on the ground first, and his ankles lifted his body up. His back arched deeply then straightened out once he was standing up straight.

"I've heard a great deal about you from Nucleon." He said in a deep unrecognized voice.

"Wh-What is this? Who are you?!" Could it be Himiko Toga? The villainess who could become anyone she wanted as long as she tasted their blood? It could explain why Nucleon didn't put up as much of a fight as he would have. Not to mention, she's very flexibly strong.

"I've seen many things in my days... But you are truly one of the greatest spectacles." The villain said.

His body began to contort and grow larger. His muscles expanded, the jumpsuit burned off his body. His skin turned a deep pink with reddish pink tattoos. His eyes split into nine red eyes randomly placed on his head. His mouth split and expanded into four thick mandibles.

"Your existence pisses me off." This new mysterious villain hissed. Before it charged him at high speed.