Hayato woke up in a bed. He looked around and saw that he was in the infirmary with quite a few IV drips attached to him. Hayato guessed that these IV's were giving him nutrients so his body didn't starve itself after his display earlier.
Fortunately, he found that entering that mode had improved both his control over his energy and how much he could store. Looking into his body he found a new stream of hormones but these were slightly different from the original ones.
The new hormones improved his healing rate, as opposed to the original hormone's job which was just to nourish and enhance the entire body.
Hayato didn't see a disadvantage so he soon shrugged it off and got off the bed he was on while taking out the IV's attached to him. He looked around the room and saw Izuku lying on a bed as well with a cast on his arm. Hayato went over to him and poked his shoulder until he woke up.
"...5 more minutes...please..." Izuku tiredly mumbled out. Hayato wasn't having any of it and started poking him with more strength. Izuku soon woke up and got surprised by how Hayato was standing over him, going to poke him again.
After seeing if he was okay, Hayato helped Izuku sit up and said they'd wait until Recovery Girl got here before they left. It didn't take long for her to show up. She was surprised that both of them were awake this early. She gave them both the all clear and told Izuku that he'd need to come to the Infirmary again tomorrow morning so she could heal him fully.
After being told they could leave, Hayato and Izuku walked back to their classroom. When they arrived people came up to them and started speaking about how they both looked so strong in their combat training.
Hayato saw Kendo and Toga and felt guilty because in their training he really did hit them a bit hard. He walked over to them and apologized "You two, I'm...I'm sorry about earlier, I kinda get like that when I enter that mode..." his voice was much quieter than usual and seemed slightly nervous.
Kendo and Toga both started laughing at the site of Hayato looking nervous.
"It's okay, you big dumbo, we're both fine, see?" Kendo spoke with a bright smile on her face and with a reassuring tone. Toga also spoke to him "Don't worry about it, Tagami-kun, you'll just have to take us out for dinner one of the days~" saying this she winked at him and she and Kendo started laughing even more.
Seeing they were good enough to continue trying to tease him, Hayato smiled and nodded at them both. They both went a bit red seeing Hayato smile. He was quite a handsome guy.
Hayato looked over at the others who were introducing themselves to Izuku and walked over to them. He introduced himself to them and talked with them for a while. Izuku saw that Katsuki's desk was empty and asked the others where he went and he soon ran off to find him.
Hayato had a simple idea of what was about to happen, so he simply went over to the window where Kendo and Toga were talking and looked at the main gate of the school. Every now and then he'd talk to Kendo and Toga and he promised to take them out for something to eat tomorrow.
When Katsuki and Izuku were talking, Ashido Mina, Ochaco, and Asui Tsuyu came over and watched them with Hayato. When they asked why Hayato was watching he told them it was so he could stop Katsuki if he tried to hurt Izuku. Ashido seemed to admire him for that.
After seeing everything was fine, they all left the window and started speaking. Hayato was surrounded by girls at the minute, two of which kept trying to tease him. When the others realized that Hayato was a nice guy and wouldn't kill them for teasing him, they joined in. Hayato could only lament the fact that Izuku wasn't here and none of the boys in the class seemed like they were going to help him.
Hayato used a power most reincarnated people have: Thick skin. He wasn't bothered by their teasings, in fact, he fired a few teasings of his own back at them which soon made them either laugh or go quiet. Hayato was shaping up to be a social butterfly.
After all of this, everyone went home. Hayato walked to the station with his usual lot: Izuku, Iida, Ochaco, Kendo, and Toga.
Hayato got home quite quickly and devoured a few big plates of food while talking to his dad. After walking up to his room he looked at himself in the mirror. He had a new pair of horns but that was it. However, he felt so much stronger for some reason. His body was overflowing with vitality, which was because of the new hormone, which he called R hormone. But the original hormone's, the O hormone, production had sped up even further than before after his battle.
Hayato knew he wouldn't be able to discover the reason why, so he got undressed and got in his bed to sleep.
Waking up in the morning, Hayato got ready for his day at school. He got dressed, had some 'light' breakfast and then brushed his teeth before meeting Izuku outside of his house.
When they arrived at school, they were surrounded by the press. Hayato picked Izuku up and pushed through the reporters and cameramen and women. He didn't really feel like speaking to the press this early in the morning.
They had Math and English in the morning. Luckily, it seemed to pass quite quickly for Hayato. Before they were let off for lunch, they had to decide who would be the Class Representative. After a quick voting poll, Hayato was elected as the Class Rep and Kendo was elected as his deputy. Hayato didn't care much about it all but he guessed that it would help him get noticed by a hero agency quicker.
During Lunch, Hayato was gulping down food when an alarm went off. Knowing that it was just the press, Hayato just kept eating and let nature take its course with all the other students. They were charging towards the exit. Soon after Iida came to the rescue and calmed everyone down.
Hayato finished his food and got up and left to catch up with the others. They went back to class for their Heroics lessons.
Aizawa-sensei was there and he was waiting for all of us to sit down. He told them that they would be having some kind of special training.
"You're all heroes-in-training so we have to teach you not only to fight but to rescue people as well. You'll be dealing with natural disasters, terrorist attacks etc, so you'll need to know how to react in those situations. This is where Rescue training comes in." Aizawa-sensei's tired voice spoke with his usual no-enthusiasm attitude.
He also told the class that there would be three faculty members going with them and that they would be taking a bus to get there. So they should get changed into their hero costumes if they wanted to, while they had the chance.
Hayato took him up on this offer and put on his hero costume, once again, he looked like some kind of armored ninja.
They all lined up to get on the bus, Hayato was a much more lax Class Rep than Iida would have been and he thought the class was grateful for that. But they didn't factor in that his Deputy Class Rep was quite a handful.
"EVERYONE! Make sure to get on the bus in an orderly fashion!" Kendo yelled at the top of her voice, she seemed like some kind of army staff sergeant. When everyone was on the bus they all had a little chat with each other.
Katsuki was exploding at anything said to him, while Izuku was speaking to Asui and Kirishima about his power and how Izuku thought Kirishima's power was pro worthy. Hayato however, just sat there and occasionally spoke to Kendo or Toga, he just sat there with his eyes closed because he knew what was about to happen and he had a gut feeling that it would be worse than what happened in the show.
"Everyone, shut up because we're here!" Aizawa-sensei spoke in a derisive way, like usual and make sure everyone got off of the bus in an orderly fashion.
When everyone was off, they met the rescue hero 13. He wasn't tall, nor short and he wore a bulky space suit. He did a whole speech about how their powers aren't for hurting people but for saving people. Hayato agreed with the speech and respected 13 for his wise demeanor and his passionate attitude to what he loves.
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When Aizawa-sensei told them all that the training was about to start, a black and purple portal showed up, just like in the show, and from it, people started coming out of it. Everyone other than Hayato started asking if the training had started and some were getting worried. Aizawa-sensei roared at them to stay where they were.
"This is real! Those people there are villains!" Aizawa-sensei practically screamed the last parts as he told 13 to keep the students safe.
"Aizawa-sensei, I can help you--" as Hayato tried to convince the teacher to let him help, Aizawa-sensei glared at him and at that moment Hayato knew that Aizawa-sensei would never let him go up against those villains unless it was absolutely necessary.
The reason Hayato so desperately wanted to help was that there was something different. There wasn't just one Nomu, there were 3. Sure two of them were smaller than the one Hayato remembered from the show but a Nomu was a Nomu no matter its size.
Before he could make a more compelling argument, Aizawa-sensei jumped down to where the villains were. He was putting up a good fight, none of the villains could even touch him.
Hayato shook his head and ran with the rest of the class to the exit. The shadow-y guy who brought all the villains here through his quirk appeared in front of Hayato and his class. And just like in the show, Kirishima and Katsuki attacked the shadow.
It didn't do any damage and the shadow enveloped everyone. Iida grabbed some people and dived out, while Hayato couldn't see anyone so he jumped out in a random direction. He appeared outside of the orb of darkness where most of the class were and he saw Iida and a few others to his right.
If what happened in the show happened now, everyone in that orb had been warped to a different location.
13 told Iida to run back to the school and tell the faculty what was happening. Iida needed some convincing because he thought that it was dishonorable to run from a battle but Hayato put a hand on his shoulder and stressed that he'd be saving all of his classmates.
The shadow, who introduced himself as Kurogiri lurched for Iida, luckily 13 used his quirk "Black Hole" and sucked in the advancing gas. Kurogiri found a way around this as he opened up a warp gate in front of himself and opened one behind 13 sucking him in with his own power.
Iida started running for the exit at this point. When Kurogiri tried to go for him, Hayato came out of nowhere and slapped the gas aside with the help of the air pressure from the result of swinging his arm with immense strength.
Kurogiri didn't appreciate this and sent another few torrents of gas, but Hayato stopped them all and brought some time for Iida to make it to the exit. As Hayato was stopping the gas, Ochaco used her quirk "Zero Gravity" on the neck armor Kurogiri had on his gaseous body. She threw it upwards and Kurogiri got dragged with it. Iida made it to the exit and started to pry it open.
Hayato appeared next to him and instantly blew the doors off of their hinges with a punch "Go Iida!" was what Hayato roared as Iida shot off towards the school.
Hayato turned around and saw Kurogiri spreading his gas towards him. Hayato activated his muscle mode and shot towards the main body with the neck armor. When Hayato got close enough he grabbed the armor and flung it with as much strength as he could, creating a wave of turbulent air from him at the center. Kurogiri shot off with his neck armor and strangely didn't come back, probably because he knew it was over; Iida would get help.
Hayato looked over to where Aizawa-sensei was fighting but all he saw was the two smaller Nomu head holding one of his arms and they kept periodically slamming his head into the concrete.
Hayato activated [Oni Mode: x5] and shot over towards them at his quickest speed.
By the time he'd got there, Izuku was about to hit Shigaraki. As Hayato looked at Shigaraki, he saw a pale, tall-ish man with light blue hair. He had 14 disembodied hands holding onto his body, their positions were his arms, chest, neck, head, and face. He looked incredibly sinister because of these hands.
When Izuku's fully charged attack was about to his Shigaraki, a small Nomu appeared out of nowhere and took the hit. The wind from the hit sent the water right next to them into turmoil and sent villains on the ground away like they were dead leaves.
But the Nomu only took a simple step back. It grabbed Izuku's arm and went to hit his face with a full powered shot.
Hayato saw this and a world burning fury came up from his stomach "Leave my friend alone, trash." Hayato spoke and even though he sounded calm, everyone around him could hear the burning fury in his voice, the underlying hatred he felt for those who would harm his friends.
Even though he was someone who didn't originally belong to this world, he lived here now. He treated this world and the people he called friends like this was his first life like they were his first friends.
Hayato went into [Oni Mode: x10] and appeared next to the Nomu and got Izuku out of its grasp.
'All Might hasn't appeared like he did in the show yet, so I've got to protect them, all of them, my classmates--!'
After throwing Izuku to the ground knowing he could take the pain for a little while longer, Hayato faced the Nomu and forced every last bit of power into his arm. He dug his feet into the ground, sending cracks throughout the surrounding concrete. He swung his right fist upwards toward the Nomu's face, uppercutting it.
"BANG!*
When the blow connected, the Nomu flew up into the air for about 10 meters before it dropped back down to the ground. The area around Hayato was cracked and destroyed and his right arm was bleeding as he pushed himself slightly too far. The wind from this collision was stronger than when Izuku hit it, not because of just raw power but because of the technique of the punch added to the raw physical power.
Hayato looked incredibly worn out even after just one punch but the strength he put into that punch was immense and it wasted a lot of his stored energy.
Hayato's face paled as what he thought was gonna happen, happened. The smaller Nomu got up. It was missing it's lower jaw and its brain seemed partly damaged but it still got up. It didn't seem to have healing abilities like the Large Nomu but it still charged at the weakened Hayato and started punching him, it used one hand to hold him and the other to constantly bash him.
The Nomu slammed its fist into Hayato's face, his chest, his stomach, whatever it could. It pushed his head into the ground repeatedly.
Even after all this physical pain, Hayato was still alive but only barely.
'Jesus Christ, how does All Might do this, everything hurts...Heal...just fucking heal, get back up...!'
As Hayato looked at the dome above them with his surprisingly still working eyes and mentally screamed for his body to get back up, for it to heal. But it was useless, he was weak, he couldn't do anything.
Thinking all these thoughts, Hayato couldn't help but get mad with himself, he thought he'd at least be able to handle the smaller Nomu for a little longer than he did. As he was thinking this, his smaller horns were going into overdrive producing the R hormone, his body started stitching itself back together but stronger, better, more durable this time.
Hayato slowly tried to get up as Shigaraki spoke "Oh? Is he still getting back up after that beating? What an admirable youth." he spoke with mocking derisiveness as he looked at Hayato. "I hate admirable people the most, Nomu kill him."
Multiple people nearby screamed but they soon stopped as they saw Hayato put his hand on the arm of the Nomu which was holding him down. They got quieter when they saw him slowly lifting himself with his feet firmly planted on the ground.
"Hey villain, you ever heard these words? Go Beyond--!" Hayato's voice broke the silence as he quoted All Might, he spoke with a brilliant smile on his face showing off his sharp canines, his mask destroyed in the beating the Nomu just gave him. His voice burned with passion, with anger and heat as he pushed against the Nomu who was trying to push him back down into the ground.
Weirdly, Hayato had a new horn right in the middle of his original horns it was about the same size as the original ones but it was slightly bigger. All his horns together looked like a five-pointed crown.
If the original horns focused on nourishing the Muscles and Tendons and the second pair focused on nourishing Hayato's blood, internal organs and overall healing ability, then this singular horn focused on nourishing his bones and his skin to be harder and denser.
Black lines stretched from his eyes to his jawline, they were jagged but had a certain beauty about them.
By now, Hayato was fully standing up with one of his hands prying the Nomu's giant hand off of his face and the other cocked back in a fist. "PLUS ULTRA!!" Hayato roared at the Nomu as he threw his fist forward and hit the Nomu right in the chest.
A massive boom of sound went off as his fist collided with the Nomu's chest as the air around them practically exploded around them.
The Nomu was sent flying by the punch and went straight through a mountain. As he was flying through the air though, his chest and back exploded as they couldn't handle the shock they'd just absorbed.
Hayato's arm was bleeding and looked slightly red, he'd pushed himself much too far. But he'd done what was needed.
"Do not fear, FOR.I.AM.HERE!" All Might had appeared, he looked absolutely furious as he roared.
Hayato fell down onto his knees as he felt incredibly worn out and hungry. He pulled out some small, round pills which were the hyper-compressed food pills and ate them all. After doing this All Might appeared in front of him "Well done, Young Tagami, you've done us, Heroes, proud!" All Might smiled at Hayato as he patted him on the shoulder.
The other small Nomu appeared out nowhere and All Might instantly crushed it with a quick punch to its head.
"I'll deal with you guys later." All Might spoke in a serious voice as he glared at the villains.
"All Might be careful, that Large Nomu was made to kill you..." after saying this in a weakened voice, Hayato collapsed.