Nomu moved like a calamity given flesh.
One moment it was there, hunched and snarling; the next it vanished—reappearing in a blur of black muscle and violence. The air cracked as its fist tore through where Orion's head had been a heartbeat earlier.
Orion felt that whoever he had been fighting until now, considering them as boss monsters, were just fodder in front of this guy.
Orion dodge-rolled on instinct. And the next second, the impact rattled behind him.
Stone exploded. Concrete sprayed like shrapnel. The shockwave still caught him, flinging him across the ground despite his iframe timing only being slightly off.
He skidded; however, on the way he immediately activated another dodge roll to increase his speed and make more gap between himself and the hulking monster.
Panic rolling, as it normally states. But he wasn't ashamed; in fact, he just wished to have some breathing room between the monster's constant blows and him barely managing to dodge away with the right timing.
If he were to be off in his dodge timing even by half a second, either he was going to be plastered on a wall, needing him to waste one of his flasks, or he would go directly home.
"Oi, Mr. Pro Hero, if you're done watching, then help out here a little, would ya..." Orion shouted, scrambling to his feet as Nomu lunged again.
"What do you think I'm doing until now, brat?" Aizawa chided, even though he only fared a little better.
He wrapped Nomu's arm with his scarf, yanking, trying to redirect its momentum—but Nomu didn't care.
The thing powered through, dragging Aizawa along like a rag doll until he cut the scarf loose and barely flipped away in time.
"Use that power you used before, that golden disk..." Aizawa dodged an upcoming attack and shouted.
"I would if this monster gave me time... buy me five seconds and I can do that," Orion shouted back.
"Five seconds. At this point just tell me to commit suicide," Aizawa grumbled under his breath, but he still went on to distract Nomu's attention.
Erasure flickered uselessly. Nomu's regeneration stopped under his gaze, but its raw physical strength remained obscene.
"Tch," Aizawa clicked his tongue. "I shouldn't have become a teacher."
Nomu roared, charging again—straight at Orion, right when he was chanting the incantation.
Orion was ready to roll again; however, before that, a person came between them.
"Detroit Smash."
A green-haired boy suddenly attacked Nomu. The entire air pressure seemed to shift when that happened; however, as soon as the commotion died down, he saw that the monster was completely unharmed.
This green-haired boy was none other than Izuku, who decided to heroically sacrifice his arm in an attempt to take down the Nomu in one strong attack.
Little did he know that Nomu was created in a way to tackle All Might's super strength, which he now had and couldn't even use at one hundred percent.
Nomu's own attack came down on Izuku, to the kid's horror; however, by then Orion was ready.
"Discus of Light."
A DBZ-style golden destructo disk formed and was thrown at Nomu at breakneck speed. This time Nomu didn't try to tank the attack directly; he raised his hand to tank it, showing a bit of rational thinking, which sounded alarms inside Orion's and the others' heads.
#Boom...
Just like earlier, he was sent flying, his arm cut open, and even his chest had a long slash.
Aizawa saw the damage and immediately activated his quirk to stop the Nomu from healing. "Now! Use that light attack again!"
Orion skidded back, raised his seal, and began chanting once more while also tracking his Mana consumption.
Only for Nomu to vanish the moment he hit the wall again. Purple mist lingered behind where he hit.
'Kurogiri...' Orion gritted his teeth.
A shadow loomed just behind him, and his instinct told him to move.
"Oh... I'm so dead!"
He jump sideways as Nomu crashed down from above, the impact folding steel scaffolding like paper. A sidestep wasn't the right option in this case; the iframe was too little to protect him from all the damage. However, that was the faster of the two dodges he had.
Orion hit the ground hard, breath knocked out of him, vision swimming. And he found his shoulder dislocated by that attack.
"Shit..."
Nomu lunged again—making Orion ready himself for a desperate dodge step, since with a dislocated shoulder rolling wasn't possible. He could try, but what if he couldn't roll and the skill didn't activate?
Then he'd be paste sticking to the USJ grounds.
Just as Orion was about to dodge, a blast of ice slammed into Nomu's side.
"MOVE!" Todoroki shouted.
His quirk, half ice and half fire. Though he mostly use his ice for daddy issues.
Ice erupted, freezing Nomu's legs to the ground.
Bakugo streaked in next, explosions detonating around Nomu's upper body, throwing the frozen Nomu back once again.
bakugo can control explosion from his palm, and honestly, his personality was also like that, explosive.
"DIE ALREADY, YOU UGLY FRIDGE!" he roared, blasting point-blank.
Nomu staggered.
Izuku, who was still in a daze from his earlier missed attack, finally jolted out, ready to charge in; however, Aizawa, who was close by, stopped him.
"No, Midoriya... your quirk is not going to work on that monster. Stay out of it."
"But, Sensei, I—"
"That's an order. Stay back," Aizawa snapped, eyes still on the Nomu, preventing him from restoring his broken arm.
"Oy, brat, use that technique again," Aizawa shouted, but Orion was in no condition with that shoulder of his.
He, with difficulty, took out a flask and poured it down his throat. The moment the liquid entered his mouth, he was fixed, like it was magic.
"Man, that pain was crazy..." he grumbled, already moving toward Nomu.
[Hear me, O grace that circles eternity.
Take shape, take edge, take judgment.
Spin forth, res—]
Mid-chant, Orion had to stop since both Todoroki and Bakugo were in the way.
"Damn it, you idiots, get away from there," Orion shouted with irritation.
However, both boys were too into fighting the monster by now to listen to him.
"Fuck..."
The combined assault of both Bakugo and Todoroki drove Nomu back, cracking armor-like muscle and tearing chunks free—but even as smoke rose, the wounds began knitting together.
"Aizawa-sensei... he's healing," Izuku said with a nervous voice.
"I can't keep my quirk open for a long time. We have to deal a finishing blow within that time," Aizawa said, his eyes feeling like they were burning from not blinking and from constantly using his quirk.
His quirk was eye-contact-based; it erased every and all quirks it saw, as long as it wasn't a mutant-type quirk that morphed the body permanently. Like Nomu, which was generally strong by his body. Aizawa couldn't erase that; however, he could erase its super regeneration.
"Oh, you have GOT to be kidding me," Orion said, watching Nomu completely heal himself once Aizawa's quirk lifted from him.
"At this point, why do I even need flasks? Just give me some of your blood, dude... will save me tons of Valis..." he cursed under his breath.
"What the heck... this monster can also heal itself." both Bakugo and Todoroki also noticed Nomu healing, and they backed off immediately upon seeing him completely healed.
Aizawa didn't hesitate upon seeing both Bakugo and Todoroki back off; the space was clear now. "Kid. Now."
Orion also had a clear line of sight to his target. He inhaled, steadied himself, and raised the seal again. Golden light gathered, brighter this time.
[Hear me, O grace that circles eternity.
Take shape, take edge, take judgment.
Spin forth, return true—
Discus of Light.]
Orion sent the ethereal ring of light toward his enemy; however, by the last two times, Nomu had learned that tackling this attack wasn't wise.
The spinning ring of gold screamed forward. And following its path, Nomu tried to dodge.
But the light seemed to bend at Orion's will, at least to some degree. It made a curved trajectory directly toward Nomu.
Nomu ultimately crossed its arms, bracing for impact.
The discus carved through flesh like parchment. Holy light burned where it passed, regeneration stalling, flesh smoking and hissing as if rejecting the damage outright.
Nomu howled.
"Again!" Aizawa barked, eyes locked, pushing Erasure to its limit. Knowing that currently only Orion's golden attack was capable of doing any damage to Nomu, he had to pull that leverage.
Orion was ready to chant again, but he suddenly felt lightheaded.
'Shit, Mind Zero now...'
Bakugo blasted upward, noticing the delay from Orion's side, raining explosions to keep Nomu pinned. Todoroki reinforced the ground with ice.
By now, Orion was already gulping down the Mind Potion he got from Naaza. However, unlike the healing potion, the Mind Potion didn't activate immediately. There was a slight delay, which he didn't expect.
But in reality, unlike the healing potion, where Naaza didn't cut corners much, Mind potions were a bit too much diluted. Taking time to take effect.
Naaza do that to save money to pay off her Familia's debts. Orion didn't know that.
"Oy, golden boy, what are you waiting for?" Todoroki asked from further away, trying to support Bakugo.
"Mind Zero... out of juice... give me a few minutes," Orion gritted his teeth and shouted out, while trying to keep himself from fainting.
Internally, he was only wondering why All Might hadn't come by now. Shouldn't he be here by this point?
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A/N : What Level do you think Orion has to be to take on Nomu alone. Technically speaking, he can do it even now, he just has to be picture perfect with his dodge and keep going until Nomu can no longer can heal anymore. But that the most unlikely situation.
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