100% power, all gathered into her arm.
She was going to win this, a d she was going to win, and she was going to win giving it her all. That was the kind of hero she wanted to be.
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There were very few things that all the sentient races of the universe had in common.
One of those very few things, however, was a concept, a description of a certain feeling.
It was a sense of incoming danger of enormous proportions, like a cold chill down into your soul.
Humankind called that feeling "Someone walking over your grave".
Venom understood exactly what was about to happen the moment they saw the maelstrom of green lightning that suddenly began dancing around Uraraka as a pattern of pink energy began to dance across the skin of her arm, not simply the air around it, but the muscles themselves began to glow.
They had a couple of seconds before the blow would hit.
Venom slammed a foot sideways straight down into the ground, black tendrils shooting beneath the heel, down into the concrete to anchor them in place. Then, a mass of black sprouted out in front of them, centered around the left arm as they braced the makeshift shield for the incoming hammer blow.
---
The Shockwave from Uraraka simply punching the air itself, was such that even the bystanders all around the area were affected, hats being blown off, hair going skyward for a good 10 seconds before falling down again.
Uraraka cradled her arm, her teeth clenched fully, and pain shooting through it.
The sheer power she had brought to bear had been enormous, astonishingly so. However, she wasn't anywhere close to having mastered the full power of this quirk. Her body still had so much room left to improve before- "Are you done, girl?"
Uraraka froze, her head shooting up to look at the center of her attack.
There, Venom stood, with one arm and leg having lost all it's additional black bulk, and each having been grotesquely broken in several places. It was a morbid sight, which brought horror to Uraraka, who had wanted to simply blow Venom out of the ring. Instead he had weathered the blow and with it, all the power she had brought to bear.
Then, as she stared at him in sheer horror, the bones snapped back into place, putting the body like it had never been broken at all, and then a new layer of massive black muscles began to form.
The quirk grinned evilly, as it dawned on Uraraka just how screwed she was.
---
The high was beginning to wear off.
That in and out of itself was bad enough, as the insane pain in everything began to set in.
However, the true problem came from another fact. Namely that Uraraka had just completely turned this battle around.
He could tell by her face she didn't quite understand this fact, not yet anyway.
Venom could put bones back together in the position they should be with absolutely no problem. Actually reknitting them, as well as all the muscles around them? Yeah, that wasn't something Venom could just do on the fly.
And so, by sacrificing her arm, Uraraka had effectively taken one arm and leg from them.
Venom could stand, and hold a stance, but they couldn't actually move from where they stood at all. Nor did they have the capacity to fire more cannonballs or at least not one's with strength enough to win this battle.
Shit, this was bad.
How to win? How to- Uraraka suddenly began to run at them at full speed.
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Uraraka forced herself into a sprint, the destroyed arm flailing limply with every step, pain shooting through her entire body, her head, her legs, her arms, her chest. Every single part of her body hurt, and it hurt badly.
Yet she knew what she had to do.
She had to finish this in one, final blow to get Venom out of the arena.
If he could just heal from any injury she threw at him, just beating him up would do it. She had to FORCE him out of it all.
And so, she sprinted. Not superhumanly fast either, her legs were too damaged from her previous movement to move like lightning with ease. She had one good burst of speed left.
She sprinted like someone in the absolute peak condition of humankind would sprint, making her way across the arena in a sprint.
At any moment, she expected Venom to fire away with vines, black cannonballs, or web lines.
Instead, he simply readied himself for a final clash.
Uraraka's legs exploded with energy once more, as she launched herself forward one final time, crashing into Venom's enormous frame. She hit the right side of his body like a truck and- The entire side exploded into black goo. It was in that horrible moment, as she became entangled in the black goop that had until just a second ago made up Venom's additional body mass, that something closed around her left leg with a grip like steel.
"You should have aimed for the spine."
She was wrenched up, and into the air, then, she sailed through it. She landed face-first into the ground beneath the arena.
Above her, she heard the sound. As Midnight declared a Victor.
"The final Match is over. The winner is Midoriya Izuku."
...
As she woke, Mei could feel the beginning of a powerful ache in her side, that punched through the fact that she felt incredibly drained. It was the early signs that her painkillers were about to wear off and that she needed to go and down some more as soon as she was able.
For the first few seconds, that was all she thought about. Then the memory of recent events caught up with her, and her mood soured immediately.
She hadn't managed to beat Izuku after all.
Then she remembered that even so, she had caused horrible, horrible agony upon him at least, and a smile planted itself firmly upon her lips at the memory.
His screams as Eren took him had not been any different than how the two of them had screamed as the lightning from Mikasa had wrecked through them earlier in the fight, but she knew better.
She had, after all, used herself as a test subject for Eren several times.
It was an agony beyond any other imaginable, so horrible that she had managed to get it approved as a glorified taser, given that anyone exposed to it, would immediately lose consciousness as the brain and body, wasn't able to handle it.
It was horrible pain, but only for a brief, brief moment.
Of course, she had not brought up the fact that if someone with, say, a healing factor that kept them awake through pain, no matter how bad it was, then this reaction would not happen. They would instead suffer hell for as long as Eren ran.
She wondered if Nedzu had seen this as a possibility, or if his forcing her to dial down the length of the process was just something he'd done just in case.
Either way, she had no means at the moment to hurt Izuku more.
At least, that was what she thought until she sat up, and noticed a sullen… What was his name? She wracked her brain, trying to dredge up his name until she remembered.
"Todoroki Shoto right?"
The sullen boy turned to look at her.
"Yes."
She looked into his eyes, and she saw it. The resentment. Perfect. Obviously, he despised Izuku for crushing him. She could work with that.
"I Must say you lost rather spectacularly against Midori back there. Lots and lots of ice with a body that's not equipped to handle it."
The boy's sullen look turned from sullen to a scowl.
"Please don't tell me you're also gonna give me a lecture about embracing my accursed flames."
"Of course not." She replied cheerfully. "That would kinda ruin my offer. You obviously need some help fixing that flaw of yours, and I happen to have an old suit I made for colonization of Antarctica, that should work for you."
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