On the other side of the arena, Mei was making her way towards him, though this time she went slowly obviously not wanting to put herself into the air again.
Izuku could feel blood on his lips. That could not be a good thing.
...
For a moment, panic began to set in. Then the adrenaline really began to flow.
The pain began to fade, though not go away completely.
His mind began to kick into overdrive, as Mei continued towards him.
He considered his options, what to do now.
Then, he decided that it was time.
A black line formed from His hand, then, with all his might, he brought it back, then forward like a whip.
One of Mei's arms immediately went to catch it.
Then, in a burst of whining machinery, a white scythe-like blade, punched straight through it.
Mei halted immediately. Then her other arms shot up to disentangle the scythe-like tooth sticking into the busted arm, only for it to disintegrate into nothing.
As Izuku brought his second shy the forward, Mei did not catch it, instead, she forced her arms out of the way, and backed away from him.
Then he brought out a second whip, and with a snap, it also went forward, this time biting at the end of arms, though she barely managed to wrench it out of the way in time.
And so a dance began, as Izuku brought his whips and scythe forward, Mei dance back, to the sides, up and down, battered away the scythe heads, all while constantly trying to move forward and reach him.
Then, finally, he caught her.
One of the still-functioning arms suddenly was impaled with a tooth.
This time, however, rather than let it disintegrate, he wrenched Mei off her feet and straight towards him.
His fist connected HARD straight into her face, and he could feel her nose crunch beneath it.
Then she was flying.
Like Izuku she almost did go straight over the edge, only to be saved, as her arms dug into the ground.
This time, however, Izuku charged, planning to kick her straight out.
Mei was helpless, two arms busted, one holding her locked to the ground, while the other- Izuku stopped immediately, then was in the motions to jump back, as a metal ball sailed through the air straight at him.
Then, as it was still 2 meters away from him, a flash of red.
And he was dead ! He had died and gone straight to HELL!
It was PAIN beyond imagination! Beyond anything, the human body and mind was ever meant to comprehend!
His skin was flayed off of his body, and he had been thrown into fire! Hooks dug into every single part of him, and PULLED every sinew apart!
His lungs were dissected, and every single bone in them was wrenched out with plyers!
He screamed, screamed , screamed! Venom screamed too, a horrible, pitying sound in the back of his head, echoing through his brain!
His eyes were wide open and his eyeballs burst apart!
His mind was opened up by the hooks, and daggers were shoved straight into-
The pain ceased.
It took Izuku a moment before his mind comprehended that blessedly the pain was gone.
He was lying on his side in the middle of the arena, a pool of whimpering black liquid pooled around him, giving him the appearance of lying in a pool of black liquid.
At that moment, he didn't want to do anything, other than just lie there, and take in that the pain was mercifully gone.
His body was so, so weak. He just wanted to-
A metal claw snapped around his neck, then wrenched him to his feet, until he was once more face to face with Hatsume Mei. Now the feral face was gone, having settled back to her usual smile. But they eyes… They were still the same.
"How do you like Eren Midori? I got the idea from Darkseid's agony matrix. It directly stimulates every pain receptor in the target's body. All of them at once, times a thousand. I made it JUST for you, on the off chance I one day ran into yo-"
Izuku stomped his right foot into Mei's left side, with as much force as he possibly could muster without a foothold with the other to anchor himself.
Mei immediately dropped Izuku, then fell to her side, her arms floundering.
For a second stood there, having fallen right on his feet. Then the RAGE took him.
He raised his foot, the STOMPED it straight down into the side Mei was cradling. She immediately went completely limp.
But he wasn't done there. He bent down and grabbed the metal harness with such force that the metal bent under his fingers. Then, he threw Mei right out of the Arena with such force that she slammed into the wall of the arena, then fell to the ground unconscious.
At that moment, as he looked at Mei's unconscious body. Izuku felt a level of satisfaction that dwarfed ANY other he had ever felt in his life.
Then the adrenaline high faded, leaving only pain. Venom, finally managed to push himself together again, and the two of them managed to walk, shaking and quivering all the way out of the arena, and on their way to the infirmary.
...
Venom was generally not surprised by much anymore. Having lived for millions and millions of years, you generally reached a point where you had seen it all. And even if you hadn't, new stuff generally wouldn't leave that much of an impact.
Planet earth had so far managed to hit him with two such true surprises.
The first had been the amazing, glorious wonders of chocolate, that had surpassed any food, Venom had ever tasted in their life. It was a true wonder.
The second was the horrible, horrible pain and suffering of Eren, Hatsume Mei's terrifying device. It had caused a level of pain beyond ANYTHING Venom had ever suffered in their entire existence, and they had suffered A LOT over the years.
They had suffered hosts being burned alive, Sonic weaponry, lasers that made their host explode like water balloons, slow torture to the death, and so much more. But nothing, absolutely nothing had ever compared to that pain, that horrible, HORRIBLE pain!
They would have vengeance for this pain, this…. Horrid, horrid pain. Hatsume Mei would rue the day she had dared to inflict such horrible suffering upon them.
She would PAY for this day.
...
As Izuku walked to the infirmary, his entire body was shaking. The worst of the pain was gone, leaving only the feeling of the other beatings and bruises he'd taken during the battle, but frankly, though they hurt, compared to the shaking that was wrecking his body the remaining pain wasn't that much of a problem.
Not even the pain in his ribs was anything compared to how his body shook with every step.
As he finally reached the infirmary, he opened the door to be greeted by the sight of Mina in one corner of the room hunched over a bucket and judging by the sounds was not having a particularly good time, her mom sitting in a chair to her side, Todoroki lying in one of the two hospital beds in the room looking up into the ceiling with a lifeless expression, Mei(Who seemed to have been brought here quicker than he had walked) lying in the other one unconscious and with her harness having been taken off and put in the corner.
Finally, there was the person he had actually come to see, recovery girl, who was standing by Mei's side.
She and Black Cat both turned to look at him, as Mina had another round of throwing up.
"Ah, so you did come."
She quickly stepped over to him, and with a smooch, the old woman once again blessed him with the gift of healing, making all his pains go away.
What did not go away was his shaking, which remained.
And making matters worse, while his shaking went away, this time rather than feeling just fine, he felt a sense of… Numbness set in.
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