Let It Rip Chapter 14

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“Took you long enough,” said Izuku as he looked up at All Might.

“Sorry about that, I guess I’m running a little slow in my old age, HAHA,” said All Might making a slight joke before getting serious as he looked at the Nomu. “Izuku, is the villain that attacked all of you?”

“One of several,” said Izuku standing up and dusting himself off. “We can handle the small cannon fodder, just deal with the big guy.” Izuku looked around and only saw the only a few villains still wanted to fight. ‘Not like we have a lot to deal with now.’

“Very well, I will entrust the rest of them to you,” Said All Might as he squared off against the Nomu. “This one is mine.” The Nomu roared and charged at All Might, throwing powerful punches at the hero, All Might returned the blows. ‘Strong, but not enough.’ as All Might started putting more power into his punches slowly pushing the Nomu back.

Izuku then turned to Vlad King and Aizawa. “Come on we should wrap up the other villains while All Might is dealing with the Nomu.” As All Might tossed Nomu across the central area of the USJ. “Rin, can you still fight?”

“Yeah,” said Rin rubbing his arms where he blocked Hades Beyblade from killing another villain. “Me and Rock Zurafa are still able to continue.”

Aizawa sighed, “As a teacher, I should be telling you two to go back with the others but right now we could use the help.”

“Just this once though,” Said Vlad King firmly. “Don’t expect us to be so lenient after this.”

“Let’s move then,” as Izuku loaded Tanku into his launcher, as they ran towards the group of villains that still had the will to fight.

All Might was going blow to blow with the Nomu, “You are a tough one, I’ll give you that, but you aren’t enough to take me on.” The Nomu didn’t respond and kept trying to punch All Might, though All Might noticed that the Nomu was slowing down, “I see you have the ability of shock absorption, not shock nullification. You’re slowing down.” As All Might realized he was running out of time. “I need to push it myself, I need to GO BEYOND,” As All Might cocked his fist back and threw one massive punch. “PLUS ULTRA!!! UNITED STATES OF SMASH!!”

Everything stopped as they all turned to see the Nomu get sent flying again, this time being sent through the ceiling of the USJ, but this time it was clear that it was sent flying miles away. Izuku turned to see All Might standing victorious and couldn’t help but smile. “Nice job old man,” he shouted over to All Might.

All Might laughed. “Thanks and I hate to admit it you’re right, back in my hay day I would have ended that fight in only a few blows, but this time it took well over a hundred mighty blows to defeat this villain.”

“Hey, you think you still got a few blows left?”

“Of course young Madoriya.”

“Ya hear that?” as Izuku turned to the remaining villains. “You still want to fight us, now that All Might is good to join in, or are you going to do the smart thing and surrender with your bones intact.”

The villains hesitated for a moment before everyone heard a gunshot near the entrance for a moment Izuku thought a villain had a gun, but then he saw it was Snipe, with the other teachers from UA along with Principle Nezu. “Have no fear everyone,” said Principal Nezu. “The cavalry is here.”

Many villains surrendered at the sight of the other teachers, those that still wanted to fight were quickly dealt with. As the other teachers went to work Aizawa caught up with Izuku, “Okay kid, when we get back to the school, you’re explaining everything and no bullshit this time.”

Izuku sighed, “Fine, let me just make a phone call first.” As Izuku pulled out his phone. “Kai is not going to like this.”

~o~

Kai arrived at UA with Natsu in tow, along with some people hauling equipment inside, for a moment Natsu was tempted to look around, “Come on,” said Kai. “Izuku is waiting on us.”

“Right,” said Natsu as he followed the old blader inside, as Natsu moved through the halls he saw that new windows were being put up after Zeo’s Cerberus destroyed them. After that, they made their way through to a series of small presentation rooms, and in the big one, all the teachers and the students of classes 1A and 1B were gathered. “Shoto.”

Shoto turned to see his brother. “Natsu!” before he noticed Kai. “Mr. Hiwatari.” As he gave Kai a bow. “How are you?”

“I’m doing fine,” said Natsu. “Mr. Hiwatari on the other hand..”

“I’d rather not be here, but it seems that someone couldn’t keep a secret.” as Kai looked at Izuku who was sitting at the front of the room. “I thought you wanted this to stay quiet?”

“Oh trust me I did.” Said Izuku honestly. “But I made the agreement with principal Nezu and All Might, and I’m going to hold up my end of the bargain. It’s time.”

“Uh, Izuku, who’s the old guy?” asked Kirishima.

Izuku was going to respond but Kai stepped forward and glared at Kirishima. “Care to try that question again, young man?”

Kirishima shrank under his glare but he didn’t answer, Momo did. “You’re Kai Hiwatari, one of the richest men in the country.”

“That is correct young lady,” said Kai. “And I am here to shed some light on the situation, but before that, I am going to warn you now this information should not be spread carelessly.”

“Yeah we know, geezer,” said Bakugo with no respect at all. “The mouse and All Might just got done telling us how important this information is, so can you hurry up.”

Kai eyed Bakugo. “You must be the brat Tyson told me about, you’re even ruder than he described.”

Bakugo flinched at the mention of Tyson. “You’re friends with that shitty old man.”

The temperature in the room began to rise as did Kai’s anger. “Tyson might settle with simply knocking you around but I assure you, I won’t be so lenient you brat.”

Bakugo was ready to jump out of his seat but Kirishima and Denki grabbed him and pulled him down, Izuku stepped between them while Natsu gave an apologetic bow to everyone else on behalf of his new boss.

Nezu seeing this clapped his hands. “How about we move on shall we, on why we are all here.”

“The principle’s right,” said Izuku directing Kai away from the Bakugo and to the front of the room. “But before that, let me ask you all a question, where do quirks come from, does anyone have any theories about that?”

The room was silent, “What the fuck kind of question is that?” asked Bakugo. “No one knows where quirks come from, genus.”

“Well if Izuku is asking then, he might know,” said Ochako

“It should be human evolution, right?” asked Kendo many in the room agreed with this answer.

“That is the best theory so far,” said Yui. “But…”

“But it’s going to be something ridiculous, isn’t it,” said Aizawa.

“Wait it isn’t going to be something like magic,” suggested Present Mic. “Magic isn’t real is it.”

“No,” said Izuku. ‘That’s close to the truth but we aren’t telling the absolute truth today.’

Setsuna laughed at Present Mic’s suggestion. “Yeah right, if magic exists, then what gave us quirks, some dark demon.”

“Impossible,” said Iida. “It has to be something grounded in science, some form of mutation.”

“Is it the star theory,” asked Pony in her best Japanese.

“Star theory? What’s that?” Asked Vlad King.

“It’s a theory about the falling stars giving us quirks, according to my grandpa, years before the first quirked person was born, several shooting stars and meteorites fell from the sky giving us quirks.”

“HAHAHAHAHAHAHA” Monoma burst out laughing while pointing a finger at Pony. “That’s utterly ridiculous. I never knew Americans had such a stupid idea.”

Izuku leaned forward to the idiot. “Hey, Monoma, she’s right.”

“Huh, come again?”

“Quirks came from space,” said Izuku before pulling out Tanku. “And these are the proof of that.”

This just made some more looks of confusion from the room. “I’ll take it from here,” said Kai. “I guess I should begin with my grandfather, Voltaire Hiwatari, he was obsessed with power and trying to uncover where quirks came from, to control them, that’s when he discovered the origin, meteorites, very special meteorites, ones that would react to peoples quirks.”

“OH, I GET IT!” yelled Mina jumping out of her chair, “Those top thingies are made from the meteors.”

“That’s correct,” As Kai signaled Natsu to hit a button on the computer turning on the boards behind them and showing a picture of a meteor being turned into a Beyblade. “Beyblades were forged out of the same meteors that gave humanity quirks ages ago.”

“Whoa!”

“Seriously!”

“Then why is it a top?” asked Tesutesu. “That doesn’t make sense to me.”

“The meteorite reacts to quirks and a person’s quirk factor,” said Izuku. “When that happens the meteorite begins to generate energy to the point that it might explode, to make sure it stays stable they had to change its shape.”

The screen behind them then changed to several pictures, a metal ball, a wheel, and a prototype Beyblade. “At first my grandfather tired a ball,” said Kai as the screen played an old video of a ball bouncing around destroying everything. “It kept the metal from combusting but it was unstable, uncontrollable, next they tired a wheel.” The screen then showed a wheel circling a scientist. “It worked quite well, but there were, still some issues keeping it steady for study, it’s only when it fell on its side did they get the right idea.”

“A top,” said Momo without realizing it getting their attention. “If the top feeds off of someone’s quirk factor then it can gain and burn power simultaneously while it spins, and since it’s a top it can stay in place.”

“Correct again young lady,” said Kai. “With the correct shape, they were able to fully examine the powers of the meteorite. They soon discovered that not only does it feed off of someone’s quirk factor but it also gains powers of its own, to be honest, there is still much we have yet to uncover about the power of the meteorites.”

As the others digested the information Ochako slowly stood up. “Okay, but what does this have to do with Izuku?” As she looked at Izuku directly. “How do you connect with all of this?”

Izuku let out a breath before looking at Kai who nodded. “Hisashi Midoriya, before he died he succeeded where my grandfather failed, in the end, my grandfather couldn’t harness the power of the meteorites, but he did pave the way. One way or another, his research got out and beys slowly made their way out around the world, to those who were compatible with them. One thing you all must understand is that Beyblades can’t be used by anyone, there are only a few people on the planet that are compatible with each of them.” Kai then took out Dranzer and showed everyone. “I am the only one in the world that can use this bey, if anyone else tries to use it, either the quirk factor will bounce back and harm the individual or it will spin like a normal top.”

“Wait go back,” said Aizawa. “Hisashi Midoriya is Izuku’s father right, what do mean he succeeded?”

“The arrangement,” said Izuku. “That’s how.”

~o~

“Arrangement?” said a very beat-up Mirko who was resting against a tree, for the past few days she has done nothing but try to attack Ryuga with almost no success. “That’s what made you?”

Ryuga who was sitting up in the tree eating an apple, “Yeah, it was originally designed to improve one’s controls with their bey, but that bastard Hisashi found a way to use it to alter someone’s quirk to fit a bey.”

“So more people could use Beyblades.”

“That and to alter peoples quirks and their quirk factor.” as he took a bite out of the apple.

“So he could just make it so anybody could wield a Beyblade, even yours.”

“No, the thing about the arrangement is that it’s deadly and the pain alone could kill someone, you have to be one tough bastard to survive, even then there wasn’t a very high chance it would work.”

“So you would have to be crazy as hell to agree to it.” As Mirko thought it over. “Who the hell would be crazy enough to accept that?”

Ryuga threw the apple core to the ground. “Some didn’t have a choice, the thing about the arrangement is that the odds of success improve the younger the subject is and with no volunteers, he had to make one.”

~o~

“Me,” said Izuku looking at his classmates and friends. “With no one crazy enough to accept it and his boss telling him to get results, he made a test subject all on his own. A few weeks after I was born my father took me away claiming I was having breathing problems and I had to be taken to the hospital, in reality, he put me through the arrangement, altering me for his sick experiment.”

Ochako looked on the verge of tears after hearing this, Kendo looked like she wanted to punch something, Momo looked sick to her stomach along with several others who had similar reactions.

“I was his prototype to making the perfect blader.” As he looked down at Tanku. “He tricked my mom just so she could give birth to his perfect weapon.”

“Wait a minute,” Bakugo got everyone’s attention as he looked at Izuku. “What about your quirk, no, you’ve never used a quirk. You’re quirkless, aren’t you?”

Izuku smiled at him, “That’s right, I’m quirkless.”

“WHAT?!?” shouted a few.

“I think they need a demonstration,” said Natsu as he showed a strange machine with two hoops on the top. “Shoto, would you mind coming down here for a second.” Shoto got up and went to his brother. “This machine right here is quirk factor scanner, you put your arm in like so,” as Natsu put his arm in the machine beeped before a hologram showing Natsu’s quirk factor appeared, 616. “And it, tells you how high your quirk factor is.”

Shoto then put his arm into the hoops getting, 520. “Is that good?”

“Not really, it depends on the quirk,” before Natsu looked to the crowd. “You can have a quirk factor of 1000 but if your quirk is just having zoomed vision, it doesn’t do much for you.” Izuku then stepped forward. “But Izuku’s a special case.”

Izuku put his hand through the hoops as he did the numbers started to rise and keep rising, “ERROR, ERROR, ERROR…..QUIRK FACTOR UNREADABLE QUIRK FACTOR UNREADABLE!”

Izuku quickly pulled his arm out before jumping back, after a moment he did nothing but stare at the machine. “It didn’t explode?”

“No,” As Kai put a hand on the machine. “After the last few machines blew up, I made sure to invest in some safety features.”

“That’s a nice change of pace, I was getting annoyed with how much those were blowing up in my face,” said Izuku before turning back to everyone else. “So pretty much I am nothing but quirk factor, I guess you could say my body was turned into a raw quirk.”

“That means, you stay far as hell away from him, Monoma,” said Rin to the copy boy.

Monoma raised an eyebrow, “Whyyyy”

Izuku shook his head. “Monoma, I am raw quirk, you copy quirk meaning you scan a fraction of someone’s quirk factor, I make these machines explode on the regular, the last time someone with a copy quirk touched me, they literally explode.”

Monoma then began to sweat as he realized what would happen if he tried to copy Izuku’s power, and since it isn’t a stockpile quirk, all that power might flood him and without that right body, it would kill him. “I see….please stay away from me.”

“Wait, so you’re a human quirk battery,” said Mineta. “That doesn’t sound so bad, what the hell I thought we were about to hear some sort of tragic back story but you’re just fine, you were experimented on so long ago, you don’t even remember it and thanks to that you can wield a power almost no one else can, why are you complaining?”

Almost instantly everyone glared at Mineta. “Are you serious?!” screamed Kendo. “Izuku was robbed of his quirk and made into a weapon by his own father.”

Mineta looked nervous before trying to hide behind his hands. “Yeah but it’s not like his father can do anything now, he’s dead right, so everything should be good.”

“Aside from the fact that there are now several people out there with the power to wield Beyblades,” said Aizawa. “And I doubt many of them are on our side.”

“That statement is very true,” said Nezu. “With Hisarshi’s experiment, many of the Beyblades that were collecting dust have users now, with the knowledge alone of the arrangement and the meteors will cause trouble, more will arrive soon like Midoriya.”

“Principle Nezu is right,” said All Might. “Hisashi, used Izuku like a guinea pig for much bigger experiments, he may be gone but his experiments still live, some of which are as young as you.” As he pointed at the crowd earning several surprised looks.

“I was just the start, that guy you all saw earlier today, Hades is the same age us, he was born into Hisashi’s program, like several others I fought. Before he died he found other ways to expand the project to include others that were younger than adults.” Natsuo looked away for a moment as he knew he was one of them. “I’ve fought quite a few of them.”

“Why didn’t you go to the police?” asked Iida. “You’ve clearly known about this for a long time, why didn’t you go to the police or a hero to handle this?”

“It’s complicated,” said Izuku. ‘And while my secrets are coming out it’s All Might’s place to talk about All For One.”

“How is it complicated, you could have found someone to handle this. Your father has done several heinous acts of villain, and you should have reported it to the proper authorities.”

“Iida, you have no idea how big this situation is, okay,” said Izuku getting agitated. “I didn’t want to get any of you involved in this.”

“Then why are you here?” asked Iida. “If you’re the one Hades is after then you’re doing nothing but endangering the rest of us.”

“I had no idea he would show up,” Izuku shot back. “I didn’t know any of this would happen, I thought I would die before meeting him.”

“Wait?”

“That would be the sound strategy,” said Nezu. “But it seems that Hades isn’t one to be patient.”

“Patient, what are you saying, is some else trying to kill Midoryia?”

“Kid, there several people trying to kill Izuku, but age will most likely get him first,” said Kai earning more confused looks. “The arrangement does give one power, but it heavily damages the body, Izuku will most likely die before he turns twenty.”

This realization rocked the room as they turned to Izuku, “The Nomu,” he said, “A genetic weapon made from a human being, Hisashi’s original plan was to wait until my body started to break down before turning me into a mindless puppet, a Nomu for his master. That is what I was supposed to become and several other kids that got the arrangement at a young age, that’s their only choice for survival.”

“That’s also another reason, why UA and the government have tried to keep this quiet.” As the principal stood up on All Might’s shoulder. “Many of the experiments and criminals that we’re talking about don’t have much of a choice because they are kids just like most of you here.”

Ochako looked horrified, “Then is there any way to save Izuku and the others?”

“Because this all started with my grandfather, I have been working to find a fix for those like Izuku,” said Kai as he turned to Izuku. “I even have a new drug that might help stabilize their condition, it will at least take the pain away and might add five years to your life.”

“Cool,” said Izuku unenthusiastic. “I’ll try it, less pain sounds great.”

Aizawa stepped forward. “I know Izuku’s condition is bad all, but how many experiments are we talking about here?”

“I’m the first,” said Izuku, “So as many as he could make between my birth and roughly four years ago, when Hades killed him.”

“You have no idea then,” as Aizawa feared the worst. “So there could be an entire army of people with modified quirks that can use those Beyblades.”

“Not quite.”

“While there are several Beyblades out there the art of making new ones is very limited,” explained Kai as several other pictures appeared on the screen. “Finding a meteorite is one thing but you have to make it stable and forge it into the correct shape, the process of all this is quite extreme.”

As Kai was explaining everything Momo noticed a picture of the atomic structure of the finished Beyblade, curiosity got the better of her and she activated her quirk, though activating her quirk got the attention of those around her. “Hey, Momo what are you doing?” asked Jiro.

Momo opened her hand revealing a finished Beyblade, “Whoa, did you just make a Beyblade?” asked Toru.

“MOMO!” shouted Izuku as he saw the Beyblade in her hand.

Momo looked at him for a second before looking back down as the top began to slowly spin in her hand. It was at this point she felt something very wrong, her body felt a painful sensation, before she could figure out why she coughed up blood that hit the Beyblade in her hand splattering her blood on those around her. Momo heard their screams but couldn’t say anything as she fell out of her chair, her body spasming as she felt her quirk activate, she began making several small objects from all over her body at an uncontrollable rate, spoons, dolls, pens, and other objects came flying out of her. As all this was happening she noticed that the Beyblade she made was picking up speed.

“Dranzer!” Shouted Kai as his Beyblade flew through the crowd with precision and hit the out-of-control bey into the air before Drazzer slammed it into the wall above them in a small, controlled fiery tornado.

Momo quickly regained control of her quirk as she curled herself in the fetal position as Izuku and her friends checked on her and sat the girl up. “I...I…”

Izuku whipped the blood off of her mouth with his sleeve, “Calm down it’s alright.”

Rin ran up to the wall where the bey Momo made was stuck. “I don’t get it,” he said as he grabbed the bey and ripped it from the wall. “She made it and she wasn’t compatible with it?”

“Compatible?” said Midnight confused.

Aizawa was starting to understand. “Is that what happens when someone uses a Beyblade when they’re not compatible with it?”

“Yes,” said Kai before turning to Natsuo. “Secure it.”

Natsuo nodded before taking the bey and putting it into Kai’s briefcase. “It’s locked.”

“Don’t underestimate the power of a Beyblade.” Principal Nezu. “They are made of the same metal that gave humanity quirks, they must be treated carefully.”

“This is insane,” said Denki as he looked at Momo. “So aliens gave us quirks, why?”

Izuku turned to Denki and gave him a looked that asked if he was crazy. “Aliens?”

Natsuo put a hand on Denki’s shoulder. “Kid, we’re talking about meteorites, not aliens.”

“But these things came from space, right. How do we know that aliens didn’t send these rocks to earth in the first place?”

Natsuo opened his mouth but shut it as he didn’t have an answer, he turned to his boss, who shrugged. “That is a theory I guess.”

“Let’s leave the conspiracy theories for now,” said All Might, “We should focus on the here and now.”

“From the sounds of it, we have a secret war that’s about to be not so secret,” said Aizawa.

“It’s going to be the next big news,” said Present Mic.

Nezu gave a nod. “Modified quirks, weapons made of quirk metal, and human experimentation. We are telling you all this today to not only explain today’s events but to also warn you all about the dangers to come, the world is about to go through a massive shift, so you have to ask yourselves if you can step up to this challenge.”

“Either way, we ask you that you all stay quiet about this,” said Kai. “The fewer people that know about all this, the better. People can be incredibly stupid at times and we want to keep the peace.”

~o~

Ryuga looked down at Mirko, “Just stop, you’re beaten up. We can spar again tomorrow.”

“No,” said Mirko as she slowly pushed herself up. “If what a fraction of what you just told me is true, then I need to kick it up a notch, I got to be ready for what’s coming.”

Ryuga couldn’t help but smile. “I like your spirit, I wish more your drive.”

Mirko smiled, “I’m a hero, to be a hero you got to know when to push it.” Ryuga’s smile disappeared. “What’s with that look.?”

“I’ve seen many heroes but a lot of them are more interested in a paycheck than actually holding up the law.”

“Then look forward to the next big fight, cause it will show the real heroes from the other, when faced with adversity the real heroes will push forward no matter what.”

“Plus Ultra, huh.”

~o~

Natsuo was taking a look around UA when he saw Shoto walking towards him, “Oh hey bro, how are you doing? Any of your friends thinking about quitting?”

Shoto shook his head. “No, it seems that they all are agreeing to keep things quiet for no and none of them are leaving the school.”

“That’s good,” even though Shoto barely showed emotions, he could tell something was off. “What’s wrong?”

Shoto was quiet for a moment. “The arrangement that shortened Izuku’s life, is that same for you?”

“Not to the same extent, but yeah,” said Natsuo confirming Shoto’s fear. “Izuku had his whole quirk altered so he can be nothing but a giant quirk factor, I just had enough adjustment to improve my connection with Gemios. Though my chances of living past sixty are slim.”

“What about, Rin or Mr. Hiwatari?”

“They’re both naturally compatible with their beys, they won’t have any issues like me or Izuku.” as Natuso comforted his brother. “Don’t worry, Kai has been working on a way to help Izuku for a while now and I will have lived a full life by the time I’m sixty. So don’t worry I’ll be just fine.” Natsuo then noticed Izuku walking away from the building. “And someone else needs a lot more help than me.”

Shoto understood what Natsuo was saying, “He has worse than us.” Natsuo nodded as Shoto walked towards Izuku, “Izuku, where are you going?”

Izuku stopped and turned to Shoto. “I’m heading home, we got an extended weekend cause of all this and I’ve spilled enough of my guts for one day.”

“You have internal injuries?!”

“What no, it’s just a saying for that you’ve just talked too much, haven’t you heard it before?”

“No, I haven’t.”

“I see,” there was a long awkward pause between them. “Is there something else you need?”

“Are we friends?”

Izuku blinked for a second making sure he heard right, “That’s a stupid question, of course, we are. Why do you ask?”

“Sorry, I never had friends before.”

“Holy shit, dude,” said Izuku before thinking what to do. “How’s your hand-to-hand combat?”

“To be honest I have none.” He said honestly, for most of his life he would just use his quirk and nothing else.

“Let’s fix that, I meet up with Rin at Tyson’s dojo, if you want to join in.”

“Sure.”

“Alright, then I’ll see you this weekend after I deal with some stuff.” said Izuku before leaving, “We need to get stronger before our enemies do.”

~o~

“WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT!!” as Shigaraki threw a chair at Hades who simply blocked the furniture, Shigaraki then used this as a chance to get close to almost touching Hades before his Beyblade got between them. Shigaraki batted the top away but opened himself up as Hades kicked him in the gut.

Tomura skidded back but took destroyed part of Hade’s pant leg. “My pants you son of a-”

“ENOUGH!” roared Kurogiri getting between them.

“Move, I need to kill him.” seethed Shigaraki.

“You are the one that will die here,” replied Hades.

“That’s enough,” said a new voice causing the two to look over a  TV screen, “Both of you will calm down, while today might have been a failure, you two got a chance to see your opponent, Midoriya’s boy. In time I want both of you to prepare, he will not sit idle, he will get stronger and so will both of you and you will do it together am I understood.”

“Yes, master.” they both said with a bow.

“Good,” said All For One, “Soon both of you will have the power to destroy.”