Chapter 13 — Sinister Counterattack
Furious at seeing his students and fellow teachers in danger, All Might quickly jumps to move Aizawa, Izuku, Tsuyu and Kaminari away from the villains. Meanwhile, Tsuyu realizes that Izuku's regeneration is slowing down and helps him eat a protein bar and then drink some water (provided by a mangled Tae) so he can recover. When Tsuyu prepares to take everyone back to the entrance, Izuku stops her, because Lily is still in the Landslide Zone.Meanwhile, All Might takes the fight to the villains, launching an attack on Shigaraki, only for the Nomu to block the attack without suffering injuries. Aizawa asks Izuku to use his Quirk on him, because someone needs to warn All Might about the Nomu's powers, and Tsuyu reluctantly helps Izuku feed his blood to Aizawa.
In the Landslide Zone, the three girls are managing to hold off the villains thanks to their combined skills and Lily's SMG, but then the SMG runs out of ammo. One of the villains tries to charge her, only for Lily to answer by throwing the weapon at him so hard that it knocks him out. Lily feels the pull of Izuku needing her help, only for a villain that can go invisible to take her hostage - and Lily answers by biting off the villain's fingers and finishing her off with her Quirk, Discordant Song - which unfortunately also knocks out Momo and weakens Lily enough that she can barely move.
At the Downpour Zone, Tokoyami manages to hold off the villains, only for another villain with a chainsaw to attack Tokoyami, taking advantage of the numbers to force him on the defensive until another punches him. Angrily, Tokoyami - at Dark Shadow's suggestion - manages to use one of Izuku's suggested moves and combines himself with Dark Shadow, turning himself into a huge creature that is pretty much invulnerable, destroying the chainsaw and whaling on the villains.
At the Ruins Zone, Kirishima, Ojiro, Ashido and Hagakure keep fighting off villains, with Kirishima noting how the others are doing their part, when a spider-like villain manages to capture Ojiro, forcing Ashido and Kirishima to surrender. When the villain holding Ashido suggests raping her before killing the kids, Hagakure brutally attacks the one holding Ojiro, breaking his arm and giving the others an opening to counter, finishing off the remaining villains.
Back at the plaza, Izuku's Quirk has saved Aizawa, although Izuku is still far from completely recovering. All Might manages to take a hold on the Nomu and suplexes him, only for Kurogiri to take advantage of it by opening a portal, trapping All Might between the two parts while the Nomu attacks All Might, preventing the latter from escaping. At the last second, though, Todoroki arrives and spears the Nomu with his ice, allowing All Might to avert the deadly trap. The Nomu frees himself from the ice, and All Might and a now recovered Aizawa order Todoroki, Sero, Sato and Shoji to back off, and the two teachers go back to fight the Nomu and Shigaraki - who is shocked at Aizawa's sudden recovery.
Izuku, now recovered, has come up with an idea: if All Might manages to restrain the Nomu, he can jump in and force his blood into the Nomu's exposed brain, which might give him control and stop the creature. As expected, when Aizawa attacks Shigaraki the Nomu gets distracted and All Might manages to grapple him, and Izuku jumps in. However, All Might himself gets distracted at the shock of seeing Izuku putting his hand on the Nomu's brain and lets loose, allowing the Nomu to grab Izuku and wreck him before throwing him away - but not before Izuku grabs the brain, ripping it off and killing the Nomu. The other teachers finally arrive, and Kurogiri and Shigaraki escapes, while Izuku falls unconscious.
Tropes That Appear In This Chapter:
- Amazon Chaser: Kirishima is very interested when he sees Mina kicking ass at the Ruins Zone.
- Bridal Carry: Kirishima grabs Ashido in one, leaving the girl with butterflies in the stomach.
- The Cavalry Arrives Late: The teachers arrive just as Shigaraki and Kurogiri are escaping.
- Determinator: Even mangled as she is, Tae will not stop at anything that prevents her from helping Izuku.
- Fingore: Lily bites off two fingers from the villain that takes her hostage.
- Godzilla Threshold: Aizawa tells Izuku to use his Quirk on him, because he knows he's dying and Izuku's blood is the only thing that can save his life.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: When the Nomu punches Izuku as he attempts to drop some of his blood on it, Izuku was holding its exposed brain.
End result: Izuku flies off while holding part of the Nomu's brain in his hand, killing the monster. - Make Me Wanna Shout: Lily's Quirk allows her to emit a scream that has an extremely nauseating effect on people with Emitter-type Quirks.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: When Izuku takes advantage of All Might immobilizing the Nomu to attempt to use his Quirk on it, All Might is so shocked that he accidentally lets go - allowing the Nomu to brutally counterattack Izuku.
- No-Sell:
- The Nomu's Shock Absorption Quirk allows it to tank All Might's attacks.
- Tokoyami using his canon "Dark Ankh" move makes him invulnerable to the chainsaw-wielding villain's attacks.
- Shut Up, Hannibal!: When Shigaraki derides the fact that the students are committing violence against the villains, All Might remarks that Shigaraki and the villains are a bunch of psychopaths that only revel in the violence. It doesn't have much effect on Shigaraki, though.
