The Crossroads of Destiny (Chapter 4: Attack on the USJ: Part 1)

(Make sure to read the previous chapters so you are in touch on what is happening!)

(Batman and Deku art credit to: https://aminoapps.vertvonline.info/bocodamondo/art/Nightwatch-805649907 . I do not own the Image!)

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The day had finally come for the rescue training Aizawa mentioned yesterday. Damian was casually making his way towards U.A with a large metal suitcase in his left hand. He was excited to see what the reaction of his classmates was going to be to his hero costume, he considered it to be more superior than the ones everyone else had.

As he got closer to the school gates he saw Aizawa as well as his classmates in front of it, with a bus across the sidewalk, presumably for them. He walked up to the group, ing them. After Aizawa spotted Damian walking up to the gates, he finally spoke "Now that all of you are here, go to the changing rooms and change into your hero costumes, then meet me back here" The mentor spoke.

All of the students nodded to the order of their mentor and started making their way towards the changing rooms. The boys and girls split up, going their own separate ways of their own rooms divided by gender. Damian alongside his classmates also made his way to the changing room, walking up and finding his own locker again.

But considering the fact that he was proud of his hero costume, he would wait until he was the only one left in the room, to then grab the attention, as well as surprise, of everyone who would see him walking out last of U.A. He knew that it was not perfect, In fact, there were still modifications to be made, but for now, this Alpha version of his suit would do.

Since the lockers were lined up by the order students were in by their numbers, Damian's locker was located right next to the one belonging to Izuku. The greenette was changing into the typical gym outfit since his hero costume was destroyed in the training against Katsuki, but he still had a few modifications prepared like his knee and elbow pads for additional and protection.

Damian looked over to his side to see Izuku. Even he had to it, he was a bit worried about Izuku as well since he was unsure of what kind of fear toxin Scarecrow had poisoned Midoriya with. Some were lethal while some were not, and it seemed like Midoriya was lucky that his toxin was not the lethal kind. "How are you doing after the attack?" Damian muttered out looking at Izuku.

The head of the greenette perked up as he heard a question coming from Damian. "I am doing fine, thanks for asking! The Doctor said that I did not have any more issues so I was free to go." Izuku muttered out as he continued putting on his gym outfit. "But the quirk the villain has still interests me..." he says once more.

"It seems like the gas he produces causes hallucinations. I do not that many details from what I've been experiencing, but I was going through my biggest fears it seemed. Watching my loved ones die, and failing to be a proper hero" Izuku muttered out as a slight shiver went down his spine from trying to everything the fear toxin projected in his mind.

Damian slightly rolled his eyes "I was asking how you were doing...Not an autobiography of the quirk the villain had" Damian muttered out. Even he had to it that it was a bit cold, but he needed to not show any signs of knowing anything about Scarecrow.

"Oh...Sorry about that" Izuku said with an awkward smile and light chuckle, that was really embarrassing for the greenette. His thoughts quickly shifted towards this new rescue training they were doing, it must be extremely important if they had to go to another facility for it.

After a while, all the students got dressed in their hero costumes and headed out to meet their teacher outside. When everyone had left, Damian opened up his metal suitcase and started changing into his hero costume. He had learned to put it on fairly quickly, so it was not going to take much time.

After he was finished putting on the last piece of the suit, he started heading out the front doors towards the gate, where Aizawa and his other classmates were waiting for him. He had a feeling that Aizawa was not going to like the fact that he was a bit late, but he did not really mind.

The raven haired male stepping out of the front doors caught the attention of all his classmates, as they all looked at his hero costume.

Black Ballistic armor covered the torso of the suit, with the armor having a darker shade of red on the umbilicus part of the body. The shoulders and elbows were also covered in armor, with the rest of the arms covered in military-like black cloth, with of course the signature gauntlets covering the hands.

Around the waist of the suit was the utility belt where Damian would keep his gadgets. The suit was equipped with military-like tros, colored with black and red dots all over. The knees were also protected with ballistic knee pads as well as hard and sturdy boots.

The suit extended all the way to Damian's neck, and still gave him flexible neck movement. But he did not have a helmet or a mask on his face since he and Bruce rushed it a bit so Damian could show it off for the training. But a helmet will be added later on.

Most of the class was amazed at how it looked, and it sort of resembled the hero costume Tenya wore. "Wow dude, that is an amazing suit!" Denki commented. Damian did not comment on the reaction of his classmates, but he was in fact happy to see how much they were iring his hero costume.

"Now that all of you are here again and in your hero costumes, slowly step into the bus and find your seats. Go in by the order of your numbers" Aizawa ordered as everyone gave him a slight nod and started making their way In front of the doors of the bus, stepping in one by one by the order of their numbers.

As all the students found their seats, Aizawa stepped in last and sat in the front of the bus as the doors closed, the engine starting up and the bus started driving towards the facility.

Damian found a place in the middle of the bus, sitting in a seat between Kirishima and Sero. Across him were Midoriya, Tsuyu, and Uaraka. Kirishima looked over to Damian's side and looking at the ballistic armor plates on his chest and shoulders.

"Man is that ballistic armor? Where did you get it? As far as I the company does not have that kind of material" Kirishima asked. Damian looked over to face the red haired male "When you have the money you can get anything you want. And the company did not participate in the making of it, I made it from scratch" Damian says crossing his arms, sure Bruce did help him out a bit, but he still likes to take the credit for himself.

"You made it yourself?! How long did that even take you?" Sero asked, ing in on the conversation. "Took some time, but not too much. I always make things on my own, you will not have a company to accompany you all the time." Damian commented. After Bruce took him in from the League of Assasins, he taught Damian a lot of things when it came to gadget work and engineering, to the point where he can make and design gadgets on his own.

Izuku Midoriya was listening closely to the discussion going on right across him. He still felt a rush of excitement every time he saw Damian because of the fact that he was quirkless. But he did figure that in order to get to where he was, Damian had to go through a lot more training and education than others.

He was proud of Damian, this just proves that you can become anything you want if you just tried hard enough. He was really proud to have Damian as his classmate, and even if he was not much of the social kind, he had a feeling that the two of them may become better friends in the future. Izuku smiled as he thought of all of that, continuing to listen to the conversation.

After around 20 minutes, the bus finally arrived at the USJ Facility where the students would be doing the rescue training. The students hopped off the bus excitedly and awed at how massive the facility looked from the outside. Damian also looked up to see how big it was not as impressed as his classmates since he had seen facilities that looked even bigger from the outside.

"Follow Me." Aizawa says to the class with a hand gesture, leading them inside the facility as the doors opened up. The interior revealed an enormous space with different locations for different natural disasters like a landslide, blizzard, fire, etc. The students awed again as they saw just how huge the interior was, and they thought the exterior was huge.

Even Damian was impressed with the side of the interior, and how they managed to put different natural disasters for training purposes in this facility. This really seemed like something his father would even be able to make with his money, but something told him that even he could not make it look this eloquent.

Izuku looked around in awe, he slightly hopped on his heels in excitement as he felt that he just wanted to run around and explore. Then his attention was shifted to a figure coming up the stairs while snapping their fingers, seeing the space Hero Thirteen. Izuku and Uraraka were doing their best to contain their excitement.

Damian observed the space hero, once again, just like most of the time, he was disappointed. To him, it just looked like a fat guy in an astronaut suit, but all of these weird hero costumes really had him a bit worried, even the villains in his universe had outfits and suits a lot more serious than most of what he saw from the students and the teachers.

The only suits he liked from the heroes were All Might's and Ectoplasm's, they were the example of how a real hero costume would look like, and so his suit as well. But he expected this astronaut hero to say something to them because this hero probably was the one who ran this whole facility.

Thirteen took a deep breath and began to speak. "Hello students. As Aizawa must have told you, we are going to be working on doing your quirk training on environmental spaces that best fit you. As most of you know, my quirk is black hole. It's a very useful quirk, I can suck up and destroy at my will. It is beneficial but it has its downsides. It has the potential to kill very easily if I make a wrong step. That's why I have a specific environment I work in, to avoid damaging others or structures accidentally. Today we're finding yours. So I welcome you to the Unforeseen Simulation t! Or as I call it, the USJ!" The space hero says enthusiastically.

Damian listened carefully to what Thirteen had to say, he thought about this quirk the hero had, Black Hole, as the hero called it. It has the ability to create a black hole suck up and destroy at will? Damian had to it, he was surprised at this power the hero possessed, it must have been one of the more powerful quirks out there, but he did it the mistake to himself, he underestimated Thirteen badly just because of the suit.

But he got interested in what Thirteen had to say about natural disasters and what he had to say about special environments, he instantly knew his place would be the one in the fire area since he and Batman used to rescue civilians from burning buildings back in Gotham, but he was interested in how he was going to do in other situations, like a landslide or the water.

Thirteen continued to speak. "Now I want you to all go to the environmental area that best fits you. If you find that it isn't for you, then you may go explore and test out another one. You will have obstacles in each area so watch your backs. You may go students." She ended her explanation.

Izuku looked around for what type of area should he pick for his power type quirk. Maybe somewhere spacious, since he can easily destroy things with his power. He ran over to the water area to be greeted by Asui who also chose the water area with the boat because of her frog type quirk.

Damian walked off to the fire area, as he was walking by he looked around to the other areas, watching Izuku running off towards the water area where Asui was, he always had a negative opinion of Asui, Asui to him was a weird mutant frog creature, and he always had a disliking for mutants, but he had a feeling that he may eventually get used to the frog girl.

He eventually arrived in front of the gate of the fire area, looking around to see if any other classmates would him in this area, and also waiting for the gate to open. He kept thinking to himself how this was going to go, will the people be weird simulations or dummies? Only time would tell.

Thirteen watched all the areas as everyone made their way to their space. Once they were all there and waiting, she opened all the gates at once. She was curious about how some students would do. She knew Tsuyu would be good in the water area, especially with her frog quirk. Thirteen made a mental note of that as she watched the students swiftly enter their areas.

Damian kept looking around and noticed that no one else was coming, everyone had gone to the winter, landslide, water and other zones "Looks like more credit for me" Damian says with a small chuckle.

He then noticed the gates open and walked into the fire area as he looked around, boy, that was a lot more fire than he had expected there to be, with almost the entire city like area being set ablaze, but he always loved a challenge. He took out his grappling hook and launched himself atop one of the buildings, also have a clear sight of what was going on outside his area as he awaited instructions.

Izuku looked around the area and noticed a whirlpool with fake Dummies to make it look like people were drowning. He had to save those to get credit. He climbed to the top of the gate and charged his legs with a fair amount of power, but not too much since he was not that good yet at controlling his quirk.

He pushed himself off and launched himself near the whirlpool. The dummies were tied up as if a villain threw them in there. He grabbed the dummies by the large rope and swung them as if he were swinging a baseball bat and had them land on a platform, Izuku landing on a platform a bit farther than them. He fell back because of his sore legs, not too intense but the soreness caused him to stumble.

Damian also started noticing some Dummies around the are as well. Some were inside certain buildings while a couple of them were on top of rooftops "If all I have to do is save those dummies, then this will be child's play." He says to himself as he leaped off of the building he was on and onto another on which a dummy was located.

He picked up the dummy in his left hand and looked at it. He already had experience when it came to saving and securing civilians, so this little exercise was going to be a piece of cake for the raven haired male.

After about 15 minutes of going in and out of burning buildings rescuing dummies, Damian saved what seemed like all of them. He piled up the dummies near the entrance gate and gave out a sigh of relief that he was finished. Some of the dummies were a bit burned up but that was nothing to worry about.

He walked up to a little intercom system that was attached to the wall next to the gate, pressing a button to get in touch with Thirteen "All the dummies are saved" Damian says as his index finger was still pushing down on the button as he was talking.

"Great Job Kiddo, you're the first person done! If you'd like, you can explore other areas. You may have more than one environment you are good at." Thirteen said proudly to Damian. She felt proud and knew Class 1-A this year was probably one of the best classes, seeing how swiftly they were all working.

Damian thought about it. He was interested to see how he was going to perform in other areas, he chose the fire one since he was more experienced in an environment where civilians needed to be saved from a fire or similar, he guessed that the might as well try out the landslide area next.

He pressed a green button next to the intercom to open the gates so he could exit the fire area, but weirdly enough it was not opening. He pressed the button a few more times before figuring that Thirteen must be the one to open them.

He looked at the intercom again and pushed the button to get in touch with the space hero again "Could you open the door for me so I can get out?" He asked. But all he could hear from the other side was static, as if the communication system was down. Damian instantly knew that something was wrong, a professional facility like this one would not have communication systems down.

In the center of the facility, some weird black mist started appearing as it then spread out within the blink of an eye, creating a sort of wall. From the mist, a light blue haired male, with a hand covering his face and arms stepped out, along with a number of other villains.

The blue haired male looked in front of him, observing a couple of students who have not gone to any area yet, as well as Aizawa and Thirteen with them atop the stairs near the exit. At the same time, another individual stepped out of the mist, a muscular bird-like creature, with its brain sticking out of its head, and wide-open eyes.

"Where is he...We went through all this trouble and rustled up so many of us to bring along. You cannot tell me All Might...The symbol of peace...Is not here." Shigaraki says in an annoyed tone, seeing that All Might was apparently not with the students here. The blue haired male let out another laugh, with one of his eyes sticking out between the fingers of the hand covering his face. "I wonder if he will show up if we kill the kids..." The blue haired male states.

"Thirteen, Protect the students!" Aizawa yelled out as he brought up his goggles, putting them on his face. The thing he was scared about the most was the fact that the majority of the students were already scattered across the areas, and only a handful stayed with them.

The villains started scattering across the facility, going in different areas to take on the students who were cut off from their mentors. Damian observed as all of this happened atop a building, through the glass that covered the fire area, but then he heard sounds coming from the metal door of his area, it sounded like someone was trying to force themselves in.

The door was then forcefully opened up by a villain with a mutation quirk that gave him four arms, as then four more villains stepped into the fire area. "Close it behind us...We do not want the children escaping" One of them said who had little containers on his fingertips, which would open up and shoot out bullets.

The four-armed villain nodded and forcefully shit the dual metal doors behind them so Damian could not escape. Damian was ducking down on the rooftop observing the villains who just entered his area. One had four arms which gave him increased strength, one had finger guns, another one had demon-like wings, another had some sort of electric quirk symbolized by him making little sparks in the palm of his left hand and another was a lizard-like mutant.

Damian was too focused on analyzing the villains to not notice the one with demon wings splitting off from the group. The villain flew up in the air behind Damian, attempting to spot a few UA students from above, and then spotting Damian as he was in a crouched position on one of the roofs.

The demon winged villain started flying over towards Damian silently, before picking up the pace once he got closer to him. Damian continued observing the villains below him as they were looking for him, and his eyes widened when he suddenly heard the sound of someone flying towards him. He quickly turned around but was too late to react, the villain slamming himself against Damian, sending him flying off the roof towards the ground where the other villains were "HE IS HERE, BOYS!" the villain yelled out.

Damian quickly re-adjusted himself in the air, pulling out the grappling hook from his utility belt to launch himself back on the roof. But this procedure was interrupted by the electric villain who let out electricity from his palms, firing it at Damian. Damian yelled out as he felt the electricity flowing through his body, as he slowly fell towards the ground.

Just before he hit the ground, the four-armed villain grabbed him with one of his arms, before slamming him down against the ground, making cracks on the cement. Due to the ballistic armor on his back, Damian was not hurt that badly, but without his suit that impact would have most definitely partially broken his back.

The villain then threw Damian a few feet forwards, as the raven haired male rolled for a few seconds before stopping. He groaned a bit before looking up, the five villains had regrouped and slowly started walking towards him. "Four Arms, you won the coin toss. Do you want to crush his skull or tear him in half using your strength?" The finger gunned villain asked. "Ooh, tearing him apart sounds good" the four-armed villain replied.

Damian observed as the villains slowly got closer to him as he was still on the ground. He cursed under his breath as he still felt the stinging sensation from the electric villain throughout his body, but it was slowly fading away. Damian knew that if he wanted to get out of the fire area, he needed to defeat the five villains in front of him.

TO BE CONTINUED...