"Patch"
"I'm honored you know me, Stain. Although I respect you, I don't agree with how you're doing what you do. No matter how you look at it, killing is wrong. And that's why I'll have to hand you in." Patch took a stance as Stain lifted up his sword.
"I would like to see you try!" Stain charged at Patch and sliced his sword at him. Patch dodged and sent a counter toward Stain's face. Stain took out a hidden knife and Patch was forced to evade it.
Patch stood up from his retreat, looking at Stain with anger in his eyes. Stain just smiled a wicked smile as he let down his guard. "Do you really want to fight me, hero?" Stain asked.
"You've said it yourself. I wouldn't be a true hero if I didn't." Patch smirked at Stain as he smirked back. Then, Stain charged again as Patch returned the attack. Patch sent a fist to the face but Stain managed to dodge it.
Stain sent a knife up at Patch's abdomen and it graced his stomach. Patch winced a little from the pain but stood his ground as the two got a little space between them once more. Stain's knife was in the air and blood was seen from the blade. Stain looked at it amused and ran toward it, clear in what his goal was.
"You have to get it before him!" Iida yelled from his laying position behind Patch as he knew what would happen if Stain tasted some of Patch's blood. Patch didn't question the hero in training and instead ran toward the knife as well, using a maximum 17% of OFA. With the boosted speed, Patch caught up with the headstart that Stain got and managed to grab the knife just before his enemy.
Stain looked saddened by the fact that his plan didn't work, but he had no idea what was about to come. Patch's eyes shone red and he swung the hand with a knife down on Stain. The knife sliced Stain's upper right arm before both of them landed on the ground.
Stain held his right arm tightly to try and suppress the blood and put pressure on the wound. Patch looked at Stain with disgust before he threw the knife at him, making Stain dodge and leave himself open. Patch was not going to wait until heroes came and ruined his moment.
Patch ran at Stain and kicked him in the thigh, making Stain drop to his knee. Patch stood over him menacingly as Stain only smirked from their position and how this battle had gone.
"You know, Stain... It didn't have to be like this. If you hadn't gone around and killed people, then maybe I would be more forgiving." Stain looked up at Patch as he spoke down on the beaten vigilante.
Stain suddenly started laughing, slowly making it higher and higher, scaring the three paralyzed people and making Patch flinch. "You may be right about some things... Patch... But my ideals are not far from yours... You want to fix the world. I want to heal it by sacrifice..." Stain slowly stands up and Patch backs off. The immense blood lust emanating from Stain was something he'd never felt before. Not even Overhaul had such malicious intent.
"I must make things right..." Stain's eyes started glowing a bright red as he took a heavy step toward Patch, who stepped back in fear. "Someone must be dyed in blood..." Stain lifted his hand and a knife could be seen in it. He had a wicked smile and crazed eyes as the area around them started to get darker but the red became brighter.
"I must take back what it means to be a hero!"
Stain rushed at Patch and sliced at his head. Patch was so frozen in fear and shock that he was unable to dodge. The knife cut over his eye but Patch closed it in time. A huge cut could be seen over Patch's left eye as he quickly put his hand over it to comfort the bleeding and stop the pain.
Stain looked amused by the situation as he had his body turned away from Patch. He licked the knife and consumed Patch's blood, making the heroic vigilante fall to the ground. Stain slowly turned around toward Patch, shutting out the other three victims from his mind at the moment. It was just him and Patch. And he was winning.
Patch looked through his right eye in pain as Stain slowly moved up to him. They had now completely changed positions, with Stain being the leading man now. "I must say Patch... You have my respect..." Stain said slowly. He was rising his katana over Patch's head slowly as he prepared for the finishing blow. "But the only one I'll let defeat me... is the only true hero... All Might!"
Patch watched as the blade came down upon him but right then and there, something awoke in him. In a flash, he raised his arm and moved the blade to the side before rising up and uppercutting Stain with his bloodied left arm.
Stain was sent flying up in the air as Izuku for the first time used 25% of OFA without getting hurt. Patch watched as Stain plummeted down to the ground fairly quickly and did a flip mid-air before landing perfectly.
He looked pissed.
"I won't let you kill heroes anymore, Stain!" Patch said as he took a weak pose with one eye closed and leaking blood on his outfit as well as the ground. "Not as long as I'm still alive!" Patch charged Stain and went for a Leopards Force. Going around Stain so fast he couldn't react in time, Izuku sent many hard blows to the body. It chipped down on Stain's energy greatly and he fell to his knee a second time.
This time, Patch would not taunt his enemy or get cocky so he went straight for the finish, sending a kick toward Stain's face. It connected and Stain was sent to the ground where he created a crater and stopped moving.
Patch panted heavily as he straightened out his back and let his hands stay at his sides. "It's over, hero killer." Patch turned around, only to feel a sharp pain in his back. He wobbled forward, and barely kept his balance.
Even before he managed to fully stop, two hands grabbed his back and did a 270 spin, smashing him into the alleyway wall. Patch felt like his body was going numb as he fell to the ground, his knees buckling under him.
Stain bent down toward Patch and whispered in his ear, "This has been fun, Patch." He then grabbed his katana and stabbed Patch through the left shoulder, keeping him stuck in the ground. Patch let out a scream so horrible, Iida, Shoto, and Native looked away and tried to close their ears.
Patch felt his vision falter until Stain started walking closer to Native, who he knew was the first on Stain's list. Luckily for Patch, Stain had yet to paralyze him, which gave him an opening to his free back.
He grabbed ahold of the blade of the katana and pulled it out, inch by inch. He felt his right palm slice itself open and blood started dripping down the katana. However, he kept pushing and managed to get the katana out of the ground.
Patch sat up, and the katana fell out. Slowly, he rose to his feet only to see Stain hold Native hostage, knife on the hero's throat. Native had shut his eyes. He was shaking.
"I must say I like your will-power, Patch." Patch's eyes turned from angered to desperate once he understood the situation. "Stain, you don't have to do this. There are other ways." He pleaded, trying to draw as much time as possible as he could see Iida struggling to get up behind Stain.
"This world has been corrupted by heroes like this..." Stain pressed the blade into Native's throat, drawing a little blood. "The only way to fix this world is by using extreme measures. Heroes should place others in front of themselves and they should quarrel with other's business in order to help them. It is such a shame a talent like you can't realize that." As Stain kept going on about how what he was doing was right, Iida managed to get up and nodded toward Patch.
"Once I'm done, the world will be a better place! It will be pure! IT. WILL. BE. CLEAN." Stain laughed hysterically, giving off vibes Patch feared. "Too bad I won't let that happen." Patch let his guard down.
"And how do you plan to do that with your arm in a state like that?" Stain asked mockingly. "Simple, I'll let others do the dirty work." Patch grinned under his mask. Stain looked confused for a millisecond before he tried to turn around only to be met with a boot straight in the jaw.
He let go of Native as he slid across the cold ground, jaw unhinged and barely conscious. One thing was certain though, Stain was defeated. Patch looked at Stain, then Iida, and then Native. Iida collapsed then and there, passing out due to exhaustion and pain. Native fell to his knees and tried to catch his breath.
Patch was just about to turn around and leave when a yellow and white blur came down from above and landed on him, pushing him to the ground.
"Sorry, kid, but I'll have to turn you in too." A hoarse voice said as Izuku saw an old and short man stand on him. He just grunted before he pushed the supposedly retired hero off him and sprinted up the walls too fast for even Gran Torino to catch up to.
Gran Torino looked around and saw a panicking Native with two UA students, one passed out on the floor and the other slowly standing up from the paralyzation quirk deactivating. However, what shocked him the most was the sight of a blacked-out hero killer looking like he'd just been to war.
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A/N: Finally! Some good action-based chapter (not that good). And guess what, Izuku isn't invincible! I know, weird, right? Anyway, I'm actually a little bit proud of this one and I hope you enjoyed it too.
Peace!