As she got to her feet she shook her head, clearly shaken by the blow.
So far, she had definitely been taking the worse of this dance.
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Then, in a burst of pink, Uraraka launched herself forward again. Almost twice the speed she had been demonstrating throughout this match.
Had Izuku been more prepared, he might have been able to react to the incredible speed increase, but unfortunately for him, he had become used to the speed she had demonstrated so far, and his own instincts betrayed him.
This time, the blow came so fast, and with a speed, Izuku just hadn't expected that he did not manage to get his hand up to block it in time.
Instead, a blow hit him across the face so hard that 3 of his teeth broke, and once more he was sent flying, and once again, only the stickiness of the alien goo saved him from an out of bounds.
Had he not been pumped up on adrenaline already, the pain would have been insane. As it was, Izuku didn't realize just how badly the punch had damaged him.
His body though, shook even harder as he got back on his feet, than Uraraka's had after she took his knee to the head.
Head blows were always a thing you had to watch out for.
This time it was Izuku's turn to spit out some blood, though in his case there were also quite a few broken teeth pieces amongst the blood.
He forced himself to his feet, and once more got into stance, sure that Uraraka would launch another attack at him.
She did not.
Instead, she had a look of pain as she turned to face him on shaking feet.
Had Izuku's body not been pumped up on adrenaline, and had he not just taken a massive blow to the head, he probably would have been able to figure that Uraraka had just damaged her own legs with that little stunt. Not enough that she wouldn't be able to move, but certainly enough that she wasn't going to be able to jump around like she had so far.
She had gambled her ability to move like lightning on a decisive blow and had failed.
Lucky for her, however, Izuku, brain still shaken by the blow, made the mistake of going on the offensive, when a much smarter move would have been to take it nice, slow, and take her down by attrition.
The adrenaline pumping through his veins, screaming for him to act, to attack, to move, Izuku launched himself at Uraraka.
He easily avoided the hook she tried to hit him with, and instead took her straight in the side with a hook of his own.
Uraraka buckled over from the blow, but as Izuku brought back his hand for another blow, her right hand shot forward and hit him straight on with a hook of her own.
It wasn't an ideal blow, but the sheer power and force from it was easily enough to send Izuku flying as 2 ribs flat out broke.
Another dulled burst of pain shot up through his body, and once more the amazing adrenaline let him keep going relatively well, as he staggered to his feet.
Once more, he took the offensive. This time, however, he jumped over Uraraka as she tried to hit him with a swing.
He brought his leg up, and into her side once more. Uraraka screamed as the already damaged part of her body took another massive blow. Then she grit her teeth, and swirling around, she hit Izuku in the face with another blow.
This time, the bone of his lower Jaw broke in two along the left side as another of his teeth shattered.
Uraraka did not stop there though, as she followed it up with a straight right into his face.
Izuku felt it as his nose crunched beneath her fist, and he saw stars as he went flying. Once more, only Venom's timely intervention saved him from going straight out of bounds.
Meanwhile, the mask that hid just how severe his damages were was the only thing that made it so that Midnight didn't stop this fight immediately.
However, she did not, so as Izuku got to his feet shakingly once more, Both Teenagers got into stance once more.
Uraraka on wobbly feet, and with a hunched-over posture that screamed that her side was hurting like nothing else. Izuku with a shaking body that was wrecking with instinctual pain and conclusions that Izuku could not truly feel.
Either way, as the two teenagers looked into each other's eyes, they reached a mutual understanding.
It was time to finish it.
A back line shot forward straight at Uraraka's face, only to be blocked by her hand which wrenched backwards, clearly aiming to bring it's originator to her.
Izuku however, disconnected the line the moment it hit Uraraka's arm, and instead made a jump straight at her, now that she had left herself open as she tried to wrench Izuku at her.
Once more, he hit her in the side with a hook, making Uraraka buckle over with pain, and then- he lost all momentum as he tried to bring his other fist into a blow to her face.
Uraraka's left hand had closed around Izuku's arm, and with that touch, robbed him of his weight.
He had been so focused on her brute strength, that in the heat of Battle, he had completely forgotten about her other quirk.
Then her entire being exploded once more into pink lightning, as she hit him straight in the face with another punch. But she didn't let go of him, as her hand closed around him in an iron grip, and she hit him again, and again, and finally, putting all her back into it, she hit him Straight on with a massive hook.
Not that it mattered. Izuku had lost his consciousness at the second blow.
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As Uraraka let go, she could feel it as Izuku flew from the sheer weight of her final punch.
Her body hurt all over, her legs felt like she had pulled every single sinew in them(She hadn't of course. She knew what it felt like to do that, and this wasn't near as bad), her side felt like it had caved in, and her head throbbed like nobody's business.
Still, it was over. Or so she had thought.
As she was hunched over, just cradling her side, she had expected to hear Midnight announce the end of the fight. She didn't.
She knew what that meant, and with a sinking feeling, she looked up.
There, near the end of the ring, Izuku got to his feet once more.
But the way he did it… It was not the movement of a regular person, not even the one in pain. It was jerky, like a puppet on strings, being forcefully jerked on it's feet.
Then, suddenly, Izuku shot up, his spine straight as a rod. And in an explosion of black goo, he expanded. His body grew, becoming taller, wider, bigger. Muscles of black liquid solidified into a massive, hulking frame, a good two meters tall.
From Izuku's normally sleek head sprouted a mouth of large jagged white teeth that Uraraka had seen many a time before, and honestly, she had grown used to them to such a degree that now that she saw them like this it was a complete shock.
His eyes, which usually were perfectly sleek and like two white patches, now became jagged and far, far more expressive as they narrowed at her, a grin forming beneath the eyes.
This… This was gonna suck.
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Ah… Venom would never stop loving this feeling.
Full, and total control.
During the initial bond with a host, a Klyntar usually got to experience being able to take the body out for a joyride or two as the host slept.
That however was something one lost as the bond crystallized, the connection becoming so strong that it became impossible to do so and not wake the host.
Venom had only gotten to take control over Izuku's body a single time before they reached that stage, and that had been the night they finished the bond.
Still, that didn't mean that Venom wouldn't get to take control again, as the little spat with the boy called Shinsou had proven. Of course one didn't need supernatural powers to make Izuku take a backseat in this relationship.
Not when their host being knocked out would allow Venom full control.
Usually, that meant a shit ton of pain along with said control, but today Izuku was absolutely doped up on chocolate, and by extension, so was Venom.
Still, if there was one thing today's final battle had proven, it was that Izuku could not be permitted to fight doped up like this. He became sloppy, headstrong, completely unlike how he normally fought.
One only needed to see the difference between his sloppy and embarrassing display against Uraraka, compared to his pretty good performance against Mei to see the difference between fighting while you were level-headed, and fighting when you were high.
Oh well. This was gonna be fun.
"So… You're in control Venom?"
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