Chapter 5: Heroes and Villains
"RUUN!" One of the Villains yelled. Two others were joining him as they avoided a swing from Rath before missing him in their line of sight. Quickly zipping around a corner, the three realized that they were now in a life or death situation.
"Oh crap, where is he?!" The second one looks about on the rocky terrain.
"I don't wanna die!" The first one cried out.
Cutting off to a secluded part of the Mountain Zone, the three Villains panted as they leaned against the cold, hard walls of the rocky landscape. Running as fast as they could to avoid the terrorizing alien, their levels of fear quickly rose.
"C-Come on guys, we have to keep moving! Come on, double-time… Hell, I'd settle for just single-time!" Another one of them breathes in as he stands up.
"M-Maybe we should just fight!" The first one pants, a hand holding him up against the wall. "I'm afraid he's gonna start picking us one by—"
Suddenly, Rath punches right through the wall that he was leaning on and grabs Villain #1 by his throat. Everyone gasps in terror as the tiger alien grins in an unsettling matter.
"HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERE'S RATH!" The alien announces himself.
"—One!" Rath then pulls him forward, slamming his face into the wall, then steps back and kicks it away, sandwiching the Villain between a pile of crates that were lying around after destroying the rock wall. "OW!"
Quickly, a Villain #2 raises his arms and points them at Rath as they were about to light up, but the alien darts forward, lifts them up just before he fires a ray of light, then punches him in the stomach and flings him towards Villain #3 who was a little while away from him. Stumbling forward as he was thrown, his head rams right into Villain #3's crotch, causing him to scream in pain. Not even a second after that, the tiger alien rammed them like bowling pins, crashing through a crate before flinging them into a pile of barrels, sending them scattering across the floor.
While he was busying himself with those two, Villain #1 emerged from the rubble, gasping for air while looking back. "Oh man, forget this. I need to get with some reinforcements!"
Running alongside to another corner, he looks up to see another Villain huddling in fear alongside some giant boulders. "Hey, help us!"
"How?! There's nothing here to help us out with! Those other brats are probably long gone by now!" Villain #4 yells from above.
"G-Give me some of those boulders then! Maybe they have stuff in them!" He frantically responds. Glancing at them, he reluctantly throws them down, only for them to smash onto the floor and break apart. However though…
"…Wait a second, I can probably use these! Wow, that actually worked perfectly, thanks!" Villain #1 thanks him, picking up several decently sized boulders with his arms.
Running along back the path to where Rath was, another Villain yelps as he meets up with him. "Dude! What the hell's going on in here?! Where's everyone else?"
"You gotta help us! You know how to use your Quirk?!" He points down to two handles on his hips.
"My Energization?! Heck yeah I know how to channel my life energy into objects. What's hard to understand about swish, slash, stabbero?" He responds. "They're melee weapons, not a complicated piece of technology like a rock—"
"—Yeah, yeah, whatever. Just come and help me." He growls. The two quickly began to run off back to the area, hearing all sorts of mayhem along the way.
In the secluded area once again, as the two Villains staggered to their feet, Rath lifted and kicked a barrel towards them. Villain #3 quickly ducked down and let the barrel hit Villain #2 before getting up and firing spikes from his palms, but Rath rolls forward to avoid the projectiles. He then grabs the two by their throats and smashes their heads together, before knocking Villain #2 away with some punches and kicks.
Villain #3 opens fire again but Rath knocks his arm away and begins pounding on him with some powerful punches that ended up knocking him to the floor, holding onto his right leg with one hand then raising his other in a fist. The Villain's eyes widened in horror as he did so.
"Wait-wait-wait—"
"Lemme tell ya something, Needle Projecting Villain associated with the League Of Villains…!" Rath growls, striking him really, really hard in the groin, then kicks him across, right into a crate. As he struggles to get up, a giant boulder falls on him, smashing him through the ground and making him ride an underground slide. He flies out through another end just as Rath knocks Villain #2 aside.
"…Rath is gonna BREAK you!" He finishes.
"Waaaaoowww…" The Villain groans in pain. Rath was about to smash him again, only to smell something in the air. He quickly ducks, avoiding a small rock that had a faint blue outline around it.
Growling, Rath turns over to the direction it was thrown at. Seeing Villain #5, the sword wielder grins as he brings out two energy sword like projections through his handles.
"Hey, freak show! Step away from the lousy duo!" He taunts. Slowly approaching Rath, the two standoff. Villain #1 was seen mounting himself atop a cliff side from afar.
"Oh God, please don't let him see me…!" He gulps. Lifting up several boulders, one of his arms enlarged significantly as he prepared to take aim at Rath's back.
Hearing the rocks' crumbling sound however, Rath turns around and snarls. "Rath doesn't like what you're doing!"
"Ah, crapbaskets!" He yells. Throwing one of the large boulders, Rath jumps aside to dodge it, before grabbing another rock and throwing it to his side. It circled around in a slight arc, hitting him in the hip.
"Oh shit!" Grasping his side in pain, he then tripped on a pebble, falling down to the rolling to the floor. As he tumbled, Rath grabs him by the throat, turns around, and kicks him towards Villain #5.
"Holy crap that was—Agh!" He groans in pain as the former Villain slaps his face into his. The two moan a little as the other two Villains join up with them.
"Shit. What do we do?" Villain #1 cries out.
"I don't know! I've never fought with a damn bipedal tiger before in my life!" Villain #2 barks.
"Yeah, I freaking noticed! We need to try harder!"
"How?!" Villain #3 shouts out, grabbing a rock to protect his nether region.
Rath charges forward, catches Villain #2's light shooting arms and slaps his face, and then punches Villain #5 aside. Kicking Villain #1 so hard that he bounced off the wall he slammed off against the cliff side of the mountain, he turns to the groined Villain.
"Son of a painful biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii—"
As Rath turns towards Villain #3, Villain #1 flies out and knocks right into him, pushing him straight into another kick in the groin. He slams him onto the floor with his foot and points his arm at him, one of his claws growing out right in front of his face.
"Ah, shit!" Villain #1 gasps.
"Protect me, rock!" The pinned helplessly holds onto the small rock as Rath stomps on him, before swinging his fist into his crotch like a golf swing, knocking him into the former as they were sent flying off a fair distance.
"Watch it!"
"You watch it!"
"Damn it, you lousy studs! Lemme show you how it's—AOWH!" Insulting the two, Villain #2 turns around, only to get slugged in the face, knocking him back to the other two.
"Wow, nice demonstration." Villain #3 sarcastically says as the three stumble about.
"Ah, shut the hell up."
As Villain #5 groans a little, Rath cracks his knuckles. He looks behind him, seeing a giant slap of rock that looked very slice worthy. Everyone else notices this, looking up in interest.
"Hey, look up there." Villain #1 whispers. The other two nod, giving a sort of signal to their ally near Rath.
Generating some more energy blades, Villain #5 then cuts off the slap side, causing the formation to cut off. Quickly diving out of the way, he slides a little as he goes over towards the three, grinning.
"HA, eat rock, tiger! I can't believe that didn't work!" He yells, only to gasp.
Rath catches the gigantic rock, with the ground visibly cracking under his feet. "GRRRRR…!"
"Oh shit, that didn't work!"
Yelling, Rath throws the boulder towards them. The three Villains start to panic as #5 pulls up another sword. "Don't worry guys, I got this! SWISH!"
He splits the formation with his sword, but the two halves go to either side of the three, nearly killing them as they buried them in a now collapsing pile of rubble.
"We were crushed though, damn it!" Villain #3 growls from under the new debris. Villain #5 rubs his head sheepishly, before turning back.
"Ah, damn it. Hey, can you—OW! Rath kicks him in the head, irritating him as he growls back towards the alien. "Alright, you know what, that's it! Come here!"
The Villain swings his swords out towards Rath, making swishing noises as he does, but the alien dodges each swing and strikes his exposed parts. As the swords wielder thrusts his blades out, Rath grabs his arms, slaps his forehead against his, twists his arms, and then kicks him across the room, disarming him in the process.
"Ya plum done gone daggone did it now, Villain!" Rath barks.
"What the—Oh come on! O-aow, bullshit!" He yells as he slides away. Rath then runs forward, kicking him and knocking him into Villain #3 before grabbing his leg, pulling him back and punching him to the ground so hard that he bounces painfully off the ground as he skids back towards Villains #1 and 2.
"AHOWWW, OWWW!" He screams out while clenching his jawbone. "He fucking punched me and made be bounce off the freaking floor!"
"Wait, your Quirk allows you to enhance the objects you throw, right? It gives them heat-seeking properties?" Villain #2 turns to #1. "This is the perfect opportunity to use it!"
"Huh? Oh, right, I forgot about that!" He says, grabbing two boulders next to him. Activating his Quirk, they begin to glow blue as they float slightly. Aiming his arms out, he blasts them towards Rath.
"Fire in the hole!"
Flying towards his large figure, the alien turns around and runs off. As he began to get closer to the wall that was in front of him, he leaped off into it, kicking and wall jumping off of the rock wall. After rolling, Rath grins, flipping out the other side and then running straight towards the group; the missile-like boulders still on his tail.
"Are you fucking kidding me?! RUUUN!" In horror, the four try to scatter off. However, Villain #5 bumps into Villains #1 and 2, causing them to stumble.
After pumping his fist, Rath roars as he runs up and knocks all three of them down with a single punch, before sliding right under Villain #3's legs. He looks up and spots the mobile boulders moving right towards him.
"Oh God, not my ba—" Covering his family jewels in a pathetic matter, fortunately they pass through his legs. Sighing heavily, he turns around with a grateful expression. "Oh thank God. I thought I was—"
However, that all went downhill as Rath rolled off, jumping through the crates and slapping them in their direction. After careful observation, one could see a danger signal on them as Rath jumps off the cliff side.
As the boulders hit, the barrels ignite and jet towards the Villains like mini-rockets. Villain #3 is sent flying by a tank that hits him square in the groin while the others are knocked into the air by the tanks' explosions. Meanwhile Rath rolls out the other side of the formation he jumped off from and watches with Jiro, Momo, and Kaminari as they come crashing down to the ground. They waits as the final Villain finally comes crashing down, unfortunately…crotch-first on top of a particular convex formation of rock.
"Ooaaah! Just…kill me." He grunts, finally fainting alongside his allies. Rath growls, looking up at the group.
"…The next time you do something like that, be prepared for the afterlife…" He says. Everyone else could only frown, stare in awe and shock, or all three.
"Holy—"
"—SHIT!" Jiro and Kaminari swear. Momo growls, slapping them both with paper fans.
"LANGUAGE!" She persists.
…
"Kuuuh… Black Hole, the Quirk which sucks absolutely everything into that finger void of yours and incinerates it to dust." The Void user grunts as he struggles to hold his ground. "What an astounding ability."
"It's a strange thing to see though, coming from a person like you, Thirteen. You are a Hero who works to rescue people from disasters. You're not meant for a situation like this, where battle experience is the heartfelt advantage!" He grins, generating a void right in front of him.
"Oh no!" Kirishima gasps.
Behind Thirteen, the Villains creates the linkage that in turn has Thirteen's Quirk going through. Essentially, he averted the path of Blake Hole to behind him now.
"A warp gate?!" Thirteen yelps. The Villain's eyes narrow in success at his work. Thirteen's Quirk, while destructive but used for helpful situations, was now doing the opposite. Tugging at their back, Thirteen's uniform began to crumble and deteriorate, pulling in from both ends. Everyone looks with shock as Thirteen's eyes widened.
"You've turned your own Quirk against yourself. Now, it is you who is turning into dust." He says. As he says his last word, Blake Hole begins to cease function, with Thirteen groaning as they began to slowly descend to the floor.
"He…got me…"
"SENSEI!" Ashido screams out. Sato reacts similarly, but quickly turns to Iida.
"IIDA, NOW! GO, RUN!" He calls out.
Turning to him, Iida hesitates for a moment. However, the words of Thirteen echoed in his mind. Gritting his teeth, he yells loudly as he begins to circle about, unleashing Engine as he began to speed towards the exit. However, the Void Villain turns to him, creating another portal.
'One of the students that weren't dispersed… We're only here for All Might. If the other teachers of U.A. are called upon to this location, this will get hard for us…' He notes.
Widening his eyes slightly, Iida grunts as he attempts to stop himself. Right as he was about to be dragged into the portal, a shadow of a figure invaded his line of sight, only for Shoji to lunge forward, bear hugging the Villain in its entirety.
"S-Shoji?!" Iida blinks.
"GO! HURRY!" He roars, tackling him to the ground. Iida quickly retreats from his stopping motion, bursting through once more with all his might.
'I will be back, everyone! Please, survive until then!' He utters in his mind. From within Shoji's grasp, the Villain tries to gas out from his hold, his head phasing out ever so slightly.
"You impertinent little—I will not allow you to go outside!" He roars.
Uraraka kneeled down to check the condition of Thirteen's body, but from the corner of her eye, she noticed something from within the Villain's body. They seemed to be like…metal plates of some sort that seemed to arrange around his neck.
Iida continues to run along, passing the half way mark. As he looked forward, his eyes widened slightly at the exit. "The exit! Wait, it's an automatic door. Should I kick it down? Is it a thickness that I can even kick down?!"
"Your quite impudent, four-eyes!" The creeping voice of the Villain shivered upon Iida's back as his shadow began to chase him. "Begone!"
"Not if I can help it!" Uraraka yells out, grabbing onto the metal parts with her hands. 'I don't know the theory behind this, but if these things are here, then that means he has a physical body!'
Activating Zero Gravity, she growls loudly, throwing the Villain up into the air. "Go for it, Iida-kun!"
"My body?! Still!" Even so, as he hovered in the air, he surged his body forward as much as he could.
"Oh no you don't!" Sero yells, blasting a line of tape. Sticking itself to his metal neck like contraptions, he turns to Sato. "Sato!"
"I got it!" He yells, ripping the part off. Twisting his body, he began to initiate a grapple throw, spinning rapidly for a while until he threw the entire body of the Villain in the opposite direction.
As Iida manually opened the door, the Villain looks down with distraught. 'He's going to call for reinforcements… This, is Game Over.'
…
"Man that was totally wicked!" Kaminari jumps up and down repeatedly. "Why haven't we seen that form before?!"
"Because…I use Rath when I want to vent out my frustration." Ben sighed as he dusted himself off. "My transformation into Rath stimulates some of my emotions; anger and rage specifically."
"Anger…oh. Ah…wouldn't want to get you angry then." He chuckles nervously, before turning back to the girls. "Alright, now what?"
"Well, we got rid of the Villains in this Zone, so our next goal should be to exit the facility as fast as possible." Jiro suggests. Momo nods in agreement. "If we can get out of here, we can call for help."
"Iida's already on it." Ben says, tapping his visor. Looking down towards the plaza, his smile instantly went upside down, suddenly flipping off into a different scenario…in horror.
"…No."
"Huh? What's—" Momo blinks.
"—NOOOOOOOOOO!"
Screaming hysterically, Ben grits his teeth in anguish as he clenches his fists. From his visor's zoom vision, from down onto the center of the plaza, Aizawa was pinned down to the ground, his stomach and head facing the floor as the bulky Villain's arms stomped down on him. Right next to him, the Void Villain watched as the leader with the hands zipped right over to Midoriya and the others. His right hand was right on, touching—
"—I TOLD THOSE GUYS THAT THEY WOULD GET HURT!" He yells, the Omnitrix flashing green. It blinded everyone as XLR8 took his place, manipulating friction to dash down the Mountain Zone as fast as he could.
The three could only look down in confusion as XLR8 took off. Momo quickly generated a pair of binoculars and zoomed down onto the area that the alien viewed. She was a bit worried, but that worry soon turned to horror as she saw something that she thought she wouldn't see until much, much further into her Heroine career.
"Y-Yaoyozoru, what do you see?" Jiro blinked frantically, only to catch the binoculars in her hands as the Creation girl fell flat onto her bottom, her face fully visible with shock.
"W-What, what is it?" The two then looked into the binoculars, Kaminari on the left and Jiro on the right. Showering down until they reached the center, their eyes also widened in shock as Kaminari's jaw dropped.
"Oh no…" Jiro covered her mouth. "Is…that what I think it is?"
"Yeah… That's…" All three of them gulped.
"A blood bath…!"
…
During the same time…
'Shit…!' Eraserhead curses as he avoids a punch from the bird beaked Villain. 'What the hell's the deal with this muscle freak? I can't damage him no matter what I do.'
"You must be thinking, "Why can't I hurt this guy?", yes?" The hands Villain says, itching his neck. "I must say, this situation's more than perfect to test the capabilities of this test subject."
"Test subject?" He blinks, dashing back a fair distance. "What do you—"
"—25 seconds."
"That's the time you got until you have to close your eyes…" The Villain mumbles, dashing forward the moment that Eraserhead's hair lowered, meaning that the Hero's Quirk wasn't currently active.
Narrowing his eyes from the sight of his goggles, Eraserhead activates his Quirk once again as he prepares to engage with the Villain. Throwing his bandages out, the Villain swings his head to the side, quickly catching that part of the weapon with his right hand as the two drew closer. In his mind, the Villain counted down…
Extending his arm, Eraserhead took caution, quickly tugging back the part of the bandage the Villain held onto. While there wasn't any sign of visual surprise on his face, Eraserhead knew he was slightly disclaimed from the act as he pushed forward with his right leg, sweeping down and elbowing him in the stomach. However, thanks to his reflexive timing, the Villain grins behind his hand covered face as he catches the attack with his left hand, which included all of his fingers.
"…Gotcha, Eraserhead." He states. The Hero clicks his tongue as his hair goes back down.
"You know, it's pretty hard to see you since you keep moving around like a moth…but there's always the instant in which your hair falls. The moment…of when you blink." The Villain reveals. Eraserhead's eyes widened slightly as he feels his elbow start to feel weird, uncomfortable to say as an understatement.
"That's when you've finished an action." He growls as the cloth covering his elbow disintegrates. "And the space between that…has gotten shorter and shorter between the two of us."
"Grr…"
"Well, I suppose I should say…"
"Gaaaaruuugh…!" Eraserhead groans in pain as his skin begins to crumble away as well, revealing the flesh of his arm.
"Don't push yourself, Eraserhead!" He finishes.
Blinking once more, Eraserhead activates his Quirk, punching away his hand. The Villain falls onto his back as he leaps away, grunting as he looked at his exposed arm. Observing his damaged elbow, he pants a little as he stands a fair distance away from the duo.
"That Quirk of yours isn't meant for long fights." The Villain stands up. "I was planning to tire you out with numbers alone, but whatever the hell that thing was came up and slaughtered these worthless thugs in record time… No matter though. I have the advantage in this scenario."
"…What about it?"
"You normally don't fight like this. You two did that daring jump down to ease the rest of the students, didn't you? That's so coooool! So cool…but disgusting at the same time." The Villain responds.
Grabbing his bandage weapon in response to his disgusted tone, Eraserhead quickly senses something behind him. Frowning, only his eyes reacted in time to see the titanic Villain right behind him all of a sudden.
"By the way though, Hero. If you thought I was the last boss, you're gravely mistaken. Nomu there's the secret boss!" He snaps his fingers in a comical matter as Nomu swats Eraserhead out of the area like a flea.
Eraserhead yells lowly as he attempted to block the attack with his arms, even with his elbow in pain. However, it was almost a disaster as a result. The attack wasn't deadly enough to break his bones, but it was powerful enough to swing him away all the way towards the main entrance's staircase. He crashed through with enough force to break through the stone like material, creating a large crater on the staircase as he groaned.
"Kuuuuh…! Such monstrous strength. A body that's able to deal with massive amounts of punishment, move with great speed…and this guy…I think he almost slapped me as hard as All Might…!" Eraserhead stuttered as he laid down.
From afar, on the outskirts of the Shipwreck Zone, Midoriya's group watched with horror as the monster known as Nomu effortlessly slammed their teacher into a corner, and quite literally at that. Mineta was practically pissing his pants…or whatever he was wearing as Midoriya and Asui watched over with pained faces.
"…Aizawa-sensei…" The frog girl ribbited sadly. "What do we do?"
"…W-We have to go help him!" Midoriya stutters, his fist shaking. Despite so though, the two watched as he tried to exit the waters. Mineta gawks as his classmate, tugging down on his arm in desperation.
"Midoriya, you're freaking kidding me!" He yells. "You saw how that big black thing swatted away sensei like a fly! And besides, he took all of his attacks like they were nothing!"
"But he'll kill him at this rate!" The mop head teen growls. "They know of his Quirk and his time limit for his vision! We have to help him before it's too late!"
"But what can we do?" Asui ponders. "You think we're fast enough to get him out of there?"
"…We can only try." The green haired teen responds as he exits the water. "It's what Ben or Kacchan would do."
"No, they would go all ballistic! DIE, DIE, DIE for that explosion guy!" Mineta retorts.
As the three continue to bicker on whether or not springing out into the open seemed to be a good idea, Nomu's lifeless eyes turned to the three in an ominous fashion, causing all three of them to freeze. The Villain looks away as well, to which Eraserhead then frowned.
"What… Wait, no…" His eyes widened from behind his goggles. "Why are you three there for…?!"
"…H-He sees us!" Mineta croaked.
"Ah, how wonderful… U.A. students ripe and ready to kill. These three will be perfect for calling All Might over." The Villain grins. "Nomu, keep Eraserhead in a…comfortable position, will you?"
With a snap of his fingers, Nomu turned back and walked over to Eraserhead, grabbing his collar and slamming him onto the ground after dragging him next to the other Villain. Gasping in pain, the bioengineered monster then proceeded to sit on him, grasping his arms and waiting for the command to break them at any time.
"Perfect. Now then…who shall we pick first?" The Villain then started to look over in the trio's direction, waving his finger over them. "Eeny meeny miny moe, catch a froggyby it's—"
Before he could finish his melody, Midoriya's eyes widened as the masked Villain dashed forward with the same tremendous speed he had earlier. Turning to his side, Asui's vision was soon replaced with that of the Villain's hand approaching her face.
"—Life…!" He finished. The frog girl could only react with her eyes as the grey palm of her enemy drew closer.
'…No…' Flashes of Eraserhead's elbow crumbling zipped and blurred in Midoriya's mind. The crumbling of skin, the elimination of flesh…the charring of bone. These rapid images burned themselves as Midoriya watched as the Villain drew closer.
...It wasn't even then, that time began to slow down in his mind. His body turned, his feet drawing themselves off from the bottom of the soaking Zone of the water. At this point, Midoriya wasn't thinking about anything but—
"—TSU-CHAAAN!"
Between the area of the two, everyone watched as the green haired teen blurred in front of the frog girl, covering her in his arms as the Villain's hand placed itself right onto his back. Immediately destroying the P.E uniform that covered his body, the Villain narrowed his eyes as he clawed at his back, beginning to tear away at his skin as the mop head screamed in pain.
"M-Midoriya!" Mineta gasped. "NO!"
"Midori…chan?" Asui's eyes widened, her pupils contracting as he withdrew a scream to a loud groan. Mineta was about to intervene out of fear, but the Villain gave him a sharp glare, scaring him off.
"…So the little boyfriend is taking the punishment for the girl? How heroic...and disgusting. I'll kill you right here and now then!" Cracking his fingers, he began to swipe at Midoriya's back, tearing the flesh and causing blood to fly in pretty much every direction.
Eraserhead could only watch in horror as he laid helplessly. Being pinned down by Nomu meant he would only watch the blood show as the Villain began to slowly snicker, growing into a maniacal cackle as he then kicked the two teens down onto the water. As his fingers twitched, even Midoriya could tell that the Villain was grinning behind the hand that covered his face as he turned his face.
"This agony, this pain… Let this be the last thing you feel, before knowing that All Might will die after you…" He stomped on him. Diving down, his hands began to go towards his temple, murderous intentions bright and clear as Mineta then…
"Game Over—"
"—MIDORIYAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Mineta roared. Stopping for a split second to scowl at the purple boy, he then frowned upon seeing his crying face turning upside down…and into a hopeful smile.
"…What's going—GAH!" He winced as he was suddenly kicked away. Landing on his rear next to Nomu, Midoriya and Asui could only look up to see a figure of green and black standing in front of them.
"…B…en…" The green haired teen murmured, before fainting in Asui's arms. Mineta's smile continued for a lack luster amount of time, before noticing the now hysterical look on Ben's face.
"B-Ben, you're here!" He cried out. The visored Omnitrix wielder took a moment to stand up, glancing at Mineta and Eraserhead with a blank look.
"…I thought I told you guys to not get yourselves involved." He merely grunted. Mineta was about to respond, but Ben quickly grabbed his scarf as his hover board came and swooped Midoriya and Asui off their rears. "…Get out of here."
"R-Right…" The short teen gulped as the platform began to fly away. Eraserhead grunts as he tries to look up.
"T-Tennyson… Watch out… This guy can—"
"—I know. He's the one who destroyed the U.A Barrier the other day." Ben answered. Eraserhead could tell he was trying insanely hard to stay rational. "Because of that, the League was able to send in a spy that got a copy of the schedule for today's lesson."
"…Quite the smart one, are you?" The Villain stands up. "What are you going to do about—"
"—Tomura Shigaraki" A voice, the Void user's, suddenly is heard as he teleports next to him.
"…Kurogiri. Why are you here for? Did you complete your elimination of Thirteen?"The man, now properly revealed as Tomura, asks as his bloody hands drooped the dark liquid of blood onto the floor.
"I did place the Hero out of commission for the time being." Kurogiri, the Void user, answered. "However…"
"…However what?"
"…I was unable to disperse all of the students. The group that I was fighting managed to get one student out of the facility. He has begun his journey back to U.A." He revealed.
"…Huh? What. Did. You. Just. Say…?" Tomura turned to his accomplice. "Make sure I didn't hear myself wrong, Kurogiri."
"…It is as I said." Kurogiri merely answered. "For us, it is now Game Over, at least for this situation."
"…Really… For the love of God…" Tomura sighed heavily. Placing his hands on the exposed parts of his neck, he began to growl furiously as he began to scrape at his neck. "If you weren't a warp gate, I would strangle you with my bear fucking hands…!"
Continuing his angered act, after a few more seconds, he merely sighed again, this time in the joy of this ambush being sucked away. "Well…we can't win against a dozen or so Pros…so it really is a Game Over… I guess we'll just have to go home then."
"…Game Over. So, this is just a game for you all." Ben muttered, his voice full of bloodlust, but his expression as calm as a gentle breeze. "Please, elaborate."
"And what would you like to know now, green bee?" Tomura shrugged. "Please, elaborate."
"If you were to retreat after committing this much destruction, and for your purpose of killing All Might? U.A. will just increase every degree of defense they have. For every location, every scrap of land that they monitor…" Ben explained. "What will you do then?"
"Well, here's one thing that'll I do… I only got one plan… It involves you, a lot of pain, and destruction on a devastating scale…!" Tomura growled as he cracked his knuckles.
"…I can't wait to beat you senseless." Ben growled as the Omnitrix flashed. Everyone but Nomu shielded their eyes as Tomura was suddenly grasped and sent flying towards the wall next to the staircase.
"That's…" Eraserhead groaned upon hearing the familiar sizzle of Heatblast. Neither of the two had time to react as the fire alien generated a large fireball in his arms, slamming it down and causing a massive explosion to occur.
"Burn out!" Heatblast yelled as he leaped out from the smokescreen. Leering at the sight, he waited for the area to clear out, only to grunt at a large silhouette standing where Tomura should've been.
"Sheesh, the craziness keeps coming above to us, doesn't it Kurogiri?" The masked Villain sighs a little as he stands up. "Nomu here has to entertain us until we can get out of here now."
"I stand corrected." The shadowy being nodded. "Though… I am a bit curious now."
"About what?" Heatblast raised his fists, his flaming head burning dangerously high as the smoke cleared out. In front of the downed Tomura was Nomu, whose arms were crossed as he blocked the attack from the Pyronite.
"About how you'll do against our latest experiment. Our bioengineered Nomu, versus the shapeshifter that is you. Our Anti Symbol of Justice is our greatest weapon at the moment." Kurogiri explained.
"…Donuts." Heatblast murmured as Nomu roared. Blasting forward, the monstrous being slugged its fist right across Heatblast's face, sending him crashing through the fountain, destroying it in its whole.
"Tennyson!" Eraserhead yelled.
As the middle of the USJ crumbled, steam could be seen forming around as the water layered onto Heatblast. With the shaking of the debris, a fiery inferno could be heard as all the surrounded water was evaporated due to the self-induced explosion. Standing up and turning to Nomu, Heatblast sighed as Tomura chuckled.
"Ha! Fireproof, candle boy!"
'For Christ' sake… This is like battling Vilgax all again from two years ago, only that this guy isn't a Chimera Sui Generis but some weird black humanoid bird freak-a-zoid… Wait, speaking of birds…'
Blasting himself into the air, the Omnitrix flashed, blinding everyone for a second as Nomu was suddenly covered in green slime. Eraserhead grunted as he slowly stood up, only to frown and cover his nose.
"What the… What is that smell?" He looked up, only to see Ben as a different alien.
He now had an olive green bug/insect body and four insect-like flat legs with two arms, whose hands were human-style ones with a black coloration, similar to fingerless gloves, and had three clawed fingers. He had four pedunculated eyes that were greenish in color. These eyes were linked directly to the sides of his huge black head. He possessed pale green wings that were nearly transparent and very fragile with lines on them, and he had a tail with a blade like protrusion. He wore the Omnitrix symbol on the top of his forehead and had a fingerless and legless black and green uniform.
"What a stench…" Kurogiri glared at the flying alien.
"Float like a butterfly… And sting like a Stinkfly…!" Stinkfly muttered as Nomu uncovered himself.
Releasing streams of slime from his eyes, he flew around the hulk-like monster. Climbing onto a nearby light post, Nomu then leaped into the air, high enough to reach Stinkfly's level. The bug alien attempted to fly up, but at the last second, Nomu latched onto his tail with his hand outreached.
"Tennyson, watch out! I don't know what his Quirk is, but he's got enough physical strength to crush practically anything…!" Eraserhead warned as he gripped his elbow.
'Right, pretty much like Vilgax… But I bet ten bucks that this Nomu is braindead compared to him!' Stinkfly looked down at the enemy hanging onto his tail. Opening his mouth, he blasted Nomu off with a blast of slime, sending him crashing down onto the ground.
"There's still the matter of kill…I mean defeating him without destroying this place, as much as I want to utterly destroy and desecrate this abomination…" Stinkfly thought out loud. As he flew down, Nomu ripped itself from its sticky shackles, cracking the floor as the beast attempted to sweep the bug alien into its arms again. Dodging a few more attempted grabs, the Lepidopterran landed on the edge of the staircase, with Eraserhead next to him.
"I'm probably going to regret asking this…but you don't happen to have any forms that can take these guys out all at once, do you?" He asks.
"…Admittedly, yes. But for now—" With another flash of the Omnitrix, Four Arms replaced the green bug-like alien. "—I want to vent out this frustration I have."
Before the bandage using Hero could retort, the Tetramand dashes off, leaping slightly into the air. The beast known as Nomu promptly walks into a blazing roundhouse kick that rattles its skull. He starts to fall…but a split moment revealed that the powerful strike was effectively absorbed.
"What the—"
Nomu's foot then slams into Four Arms' ribcage before he could respond. And with the force blown into his head, Nomu then grabbed one of his four hands and slammed his head into the red alien's.
Back and forth. Right leg, left leg. Lifting him with each kick and forcing him to remain standing. Nomu then wraps his arms around its opponent's head and holds him up as he thrusts wicked knee shots into the other fighter's ribs.
Pain explodes in Four Arms as he then gets kicked away. His breathing comes to a slightly labored level as he maintains balance. He then grunts, quickly reacting to an uppercut that sends him up into the air, and although he blocked most of the force, the momentum from his attack ended up sending a bit of numbness.
"Hits as hard as a rock…!" The red alien yelps as the Omnitrix flashes.
"Oh, what now?!" Tomura growls. "Why is there always a flash—"
"—Look out!" Kurogiri yells, tackling him out of the way from a dozen green lasers. The two quickly look up to see Jetray flying tail up, firing beams from the tip of his tail. "Nomu!"
"Get that stupid stingray!" Tomura yells.
"It's Jetray, you psychopath!" The Aerophibian roars as he blasts Nomu with eye beams. Once again, it was a game of hot potato for the bioengineered being. Tomura clenches his fists in anguish, turning to his associate.
"Kurogiri, make a worm hole, now!"
Acknowledging his order, the Void user makes a portal in front of Nomu. As the beast enters it, Jetray frowns upon hearing another frame open right on top of him, allowing Nomu to slam its legs right on his back and smash him towards the ground. A large field of debris was seen as Jetray struggled to escape the grasp of his enemy.
"Let. Go. Of. ME!" Jetray's Omnitrix dial flashed once more, revealing this time Big Chill. Turning intangible and flying through Nomu's body, he froze the large enemy solid, leaving it covered in ice as he hovered above it.
"Ice, fire, speed and flight…what a Quirk he has." Kurogiri noted. "He's basically a one-man army."
"…Rrrrrr...rrrrrrrr…!"
From within its icy prison, Nomu growled. Big Chill looks down as the ice begins to crack and crumble, and within seconds, Nomu breaks free, roaring loudly. Tomura grins underneath his hand mask as he points at the moth-like alien.
"Yes, yes, YES! Go, Nomu! Kill him!" He cackles. Nomu shrieks as it tries to grab Big Chill, but the ice alien quickly turns intangible once more, this time sinking into the ground. A moment later, he quickly appeared a fair distance away, this time seemingly both as Diamondhead and XLR8 somehow.
"WHAT?! Duplicates as well?!" Kurogiri's eyes widened. "Impossible!"
"Trouble for you, I see." Diamondhead smirks as he turns to XLR8. Forming his arm into a sharp, single blade, he snaps his off and equips it onto the speedster's wrist.
"Now then… Nomu here might be invulnerable to physical trauma…"
"But what about single, decisive strikes?" The Petrosapien smiles as he vanishes with a flash of green.
XLR8 draws his wrist blade and stabs it the ground with a slight screech. The cry catches Nomu's attention.
"Huh?" Tomura blinks. "What is that weasel doing…?"
As the speedster alien stands upright and pulls his sword from the ground, Kurogiri looks at him with suspicion, turning to face Nomu after realizing what he was trying to do. Nomu growls savagely, leaning on all fours in preparation to lunge.
"Come on, you big lug…" XLR8 murmurs.
"Wait, he's going to—" Before Kurogiri could respond, Nomu leaps forward. XLR8 lowers his arm, smiling at the sight. Nomu continues to scream, its eyes turning ballistic and a burst of wind erupting from its plunge at the alien. It then jumps and dives at XLR8, drawing its fist back as the alien begins to speed up. In quick reaction, XLR8 swiftly draws his bladed weapon, swinging it through the air at Nomu as his max speed was achieved. Everyone present could only look in shock as Nomu flies through the air, the lower half of its arm completely separated from its body. It lands with a sluggish thud next to Eraserhead, twitching erratically before ceasing to move any further.
"…Impossible. He broke through Nomu's Shock Absorption." Kurogiri muttered as Nomu landed on the floor, laying there on its side, completely still.
"…Still got it." XLR8 slowly skims toward Nomu's seemingly unconscious body and swings his sword out to the side, casting blood from its blade. Before he can reach it, Tomura begins…to chuckle, the chuckle quickly turning to laughter. "What's so funny…?"
"Ha… You think you bested Nomu just by taking out one of its arms? Nomu is not called a "bioengineered being" for nothing you know?! We've done many things, including…well, take a look, speed freak." Tomura simply gestures back to Nomu. As XLR8 looks down, suddenly, Nomu grabs his leg with his left arm, gripping it tightly.
"Huh?" Looking down at his body, XLR8's eyes widened behind his visor as new flesh began to grow out from where Nomu's arm used to be at. It didn't take long for a brand new right hand to grow back as Nomu roared in his face. "Aw, man…!"
Swinging him up into the air, Nomu begins to spin him around like a nun chuck, before chucking him into the stairs with a loud crash. Eraserhead cursed himself for not cancelling out Nomu's additional Quirk, as the shock of XLR8 slicing off his arm paused his senses. Turning to the staircase, he watched as Nomu leaped towards it and began to pound away at the spot XLR8 slammed into.
"Tennyson!"
"Yeah?"
Yelping just a little bit, Eraserhead turned to see XLR8 standing right next to him. "Wait… How did you…"
"Super speed, remember? I landed against the wall with a lot of force, but used the momentum as a start up to start a speed burst. Easy level of manipulation of physics with these roller wheels of mine." He explained.
"…You've seemed to have calmed down quite a bit." The Hero rose an eyebrow.
"You could say something like that. Fighting Nomu made me remember something. Something that I have…interesting memories with. Anyways…" He surmised, before grinning. "Hey, let's say we end this?"
"End this? How?" Eraserhead then asked. XLR8 merely turned around, grinning behind his visor as he slapped the Omnitrix dial.
"Like this."
…
"Crap…! I'm late, I'm late!" All Might yelped sheepishly as he leaped from building to building. "Why did there have to be so many people in the city being targeted by Villains…"
All Might was currently traveling on foot towards USJ. While he was initially going to be there along with Aizawa and Thirteen…unfortunately for him, Villain activity in the nearby area around the school forced him to act. He was the Symbol of Peace, after all.
'I spent too much time in my muscle form, and had to recuperate back at the school… I hope I'm not too late for the lesson.' He wondered. Leaping off and onto a particularly tall building, he looked around for the overall direction of the facility.
"Now then, USJ should be in that direction, so if I…wait a minute. Isn't that…" The #1 Hero squints his eyes, seeing a trail of dust speeding along a highway, dodging cars. Immediately, his eyes widened as the figure revealed itself to his vision. "Young Iida?!"
Blasting off with a surge from One For All, he quickly landed onto the ground as Iida stopped to catch his breathe. Gasping as he leaned against a stop sign, he looked up in shock to see All Might swooping down, his eyes almost tearing up in hope.
"All Might!" He cried out. "Thank goodness!"
"What? What's the matter, young Iida? Aren't you supposed to be at USJ with the rest of your class?" The blond asked. The Engine user frowns, averting his gaze. "…What happened?"
"…Villains." Was all he said. "The League of Villains ambushed us at the facility."
"WHAT?! How many are there?!" All Might gasped, before frowning himself. He grasped Iida's shoulders firmly as he did so. "How's everyone?! Speak, young man!"
"W-We appear to be doing fine so far. Eraserhead and some of the other students are trying to hold them back. They did so to allow me to escape and call for support. Our communications seemed to have been jammed by some outside interference, sir." He quickly explained. "I must return back to UA and inform the staff!"
"…Yes, I see." All Might then stood straight. "Please, hurry. How long do you think it'll take for you to get back to the school?"
"…At this rate, a few minutes at the most. Please sir, hurry to them!" Iida pleaded. With a nod of confirmation from the blond, he then gritted his teeth as he turned back around. "…Thank you."
"Engine… BOOST!" He roared off, blasting off into the distance. A grim expression filled itself onto All Might's face as his full figure buffed out. Particles of steam could be seen as the floor beneath him crack. A moment later, he sprang into the air, leaping in USJ's direction.
"…The League of Villains…? So, you've decided to make your move. This…will change things." He muttered to himself as his face hardened. "...I'm sorry, young Midoriya, but I have to diverge for this moment."
…
"Ball Weevil!"
XLR8 yelled this name out as the Omnitrix flashed once more. As everyone else opened their eyes, they were surely surprised to see a small creature. Before anyone had time to react, Ben quickly spat out a round, sticky substance from his mouth. Contorting itself into a ball, he began to roll on it over the surrounding debris, collecting them into the now growing shape. He was a small bug-like alien. Being yellow in color with black eyes and green pupils, he had four stick legs and a beak along with a big antenna. He wore the Omnitrix symbol on a green and white brace around his neck.
"Eraserhead, distract Nomu for me!" Ball Weevil called out.
"Distract, what do you mean dis—Hey, what the hell?!" The underground flicked his head towards the alien's direction, only to find the ball now being sent towards him at a modest speed.
Frowning, he quickly took his bandages, using them as a makeshift bat to slap it towards Nomu. Tomura and Kurogiri watched as their experiment stopped to turn around, only to get slammed into the stair case. A moment later, Ball Weevil narrowed his eyes as the ball suddenly exploded.
"It collects matter, making it grow in size, and then makes it explode? How bizarre can this guy be…I really need to take note of how many forms he has…" Eraserhead mumbled.
The large smokescreen took a few seconds to disperse, leaving an injured Nomu breaking out from a field of debris. The scars on the monster's body began to heal within a matter of moments, leaving it practically healed up as it walk out with its deadpan look.
"Gonna need a bigger ball of plasma to subdue this guy. Luckily there's debris everywhere, but…I'm going to need distraction. Eraserhead, gonna need another scape goading!" Ball Weevil quickly yelled at Eraserhead as he spat out another ball. Climbing onto it, he began to roll out towards the Ruins Zone.
"Exploding goop! What the hell… Nomu, kill him and—OH for the love of…" Tomura face palms, or at least attempts to as Eraserhead dashes behind Nomu, jumping up and kneeing the back of his head. "Get Eraserhead first, then the bug brat!"
'Well, here comes round two of this guy's angry flailing.' Eraserhead placed his goggles back on, activating his Quirk as Nomu charged. "Oh, look at you. You're really going curse and dwindle like a little a kid while your henchman fights me. Well, not—not really "fight", more like, "flailing angrily"."
"Make your jokes while you can, Hero. Because I can now see the peak of your power, while Nomu has only beginning to tap and show you all his..." Tomura growls, pointing at him. "Nomu, go!"
"Well, this certainly isn't what I had in mind…! Tennyson, you done yet?!" Eraserhead growled. A loud roar from Nomu was heard as he dodged a swipe at his fist. "Shoot!"
"Kurogiri, stop him!" Tomura barked.
"How does he have so much precise control when his body is literally a fraction of a size of that thing?! It's harder than it looks when he can turn around at an instant!" The Void user barked back.
"Ha, can't catch me, huh?! Lookie here!" The cricket-like voice chirped. Tomura and his associate dodged from the wrath of a gigantic green ball, and on top of it, the small yellow-like creature resembling an insect. "Now I'm over here!"
"Some kind of dung beetle or something…?" Eraserhead thought out loud as he used his bandages to drag himself out from another attack.
"Stay still, you pest!" The Void user growled as he attempted to throw out several worm holes in his direction. With ease, Ball Weevil drove his giant ball of plasma out from the direction leading to disaster. Growing larger in mass as he drew into the Zone, Kurogiri watched as it grew to sizes even larger than Nomu itself. "Such a large mass of that substance…a smaller one caused a giant explosion, so if that one were to detonate…"
"Alright then…" Ball Weevil grunted as he leaped off the ball, stopping it from rolling any further. Looking down, he could see Kurogiri glaring at him while being ominously weary of the large bomb next to him. Looking to his side, he witnessed Eraserhead dodging another punch from Nomu. "Time to let this bad boy go."
As he was about to push it down however, footsteps from behind the alien made him stutter. "Woah! What the hell is this?!"
"Kirishima?" Ball Weevil turned around to see the red head and Bakugo climbing from the bottom of a debris field. "I guess you guys were okay by yourselves?"
"Pfft. Those weaklings were nothing. Anyways, the heck is that?" The explosive boy grunted, pointing to Ball Weevil's ball of plasma.
"A large ball of plasma." He answered, before looking back down. "Hey, Kirishima."
"Huh? What's up?" The hardener blinked as he walked up. Looking down, he frowned as he witness the Villains and Eraserhead. "Hey, aren't those guys…"
"Yeah. You see that big guy trying to punch Sensei? I'm going to use this thing to trap it." Ball Weevil tapped his ball. "Mind helping me give this big lug a big tap down? You too, Bakugo."
"Ha? What's this going to do, explode on him?" Bakugo turned to the green ball.
"It could. But…what I'm going to do is trap him within it. This thing isn't sticky for a reason you know?" Ball Weevil chirped as the Omnitrix flashed. Bakugo and Kirishima simply closed their eyes as Ben transformed into Gravattack.
"…That's a big one. Not as big as Humungousaur though." Kirishima smirked. "Alright then. Bakugo, you ready?"
"Whatever." The bomb boy clicked his tongue as the two stood behind the ball. "On a count of 3."
"On it!" Kirishima grinned as he hardened his right arm. As he did so, Bakugo lifted his own arm, lighting it up with sweat. It began to glow yellow as Gravattack stood on the sidelines.
"I'll count off." The alien turned down. "On 3."
"3—"
"—2"
"1…"
"Now!" Bakugo yelled as he and Kirishima unleashed their Quirks. Shouting loudly, Kirishima punched the ball as hard as he could, while Bakugo held his right arm with his other as he created a powerful blast. Both attacks gave the ball a great amount of force, launching it down towards the plaza center. Kurogiri's eyes nearly popped out as it began to zoom near down towards Nomu.
"Now, here's the finale!" Gravattack lifted his arms, activating his gravikinesis around the ball. Adding more and more G's to it, it's weight garnered more momentum as Eraserhead began to hear the rolling sound as it gather even more debris from rolling off.
"Eraserhead!" He yelled. Hearing him from the distance, as well as the rolling plasma ball, he quickly latched himself to Nomu using his bandages. As he launched itself downwards, with a small grunt, he delivered a final knee to its face, sending it into the staircase once more.
"It's done!" He yelled. Watching it roll down, Tomura watched with shock and anguish as Nomu was consumed by the plasma ball, as if he laid dormant like a preserved creature as he and the ball collided into one another. While he struggled inside the containment sphere, the lack of oxygen in the plasma ball soon took its toll on the enemy Villain, rendering it silent as it floated.
"…Well shit." Tomura folded his arms. "Now what, Kurogiri?"
"It doesn't seem like he's trying to explode that substance, but it appears to have some other kinds of properties to it. We really are in a sticky situation now, are we not?" Kurogiri responded as he expanded his body. His void like substance created a warp gate underneath the trapped Nomu.
"…Was that a fucking pun just now?" Tomura growled, turning to him as the two then vanished. A moment later as well, Nomu was sucked into the portal. "Because I swear to All For O—"
Vanishing through Kurogiri's Warp Gate, he didn't have a chance to finish off his harkening. Kirishima and Bakugo joined Gravattack as the alien placed them on his head, guiding them down to the main plaza. As they jumped off from them, from the Landslide Zone, Todoroki arrived via an ice slide he created. Gravattack took a moment to gaze around the area, seeing only the Villains that he took down as XLR8. With a sigh of relief, the Omnitrix flashed, reverted him back to Ben.
"It's finally over…" He grumbled. "Where the hell is All Might?"
"I don't know…" Kirishima looked around with a disheartened look, before grinning and slapping Ben's back. "But DAMN! We just survived an ambush from Villains of all things!"
"No, you dumbass!" Bakugo growled. "We may have gotten out, but not everyone was seen coming out from their respective Zones."
"Quite the logical situational thinker, aren't you? You really are the calm and rational type, ya know?" Kirishima joked.
"I'm always calm and rational, you asshole!" Bakugo exploded a few times on his hands to emphasize his point. "Now, how should we start with searching for everyone else?"
"Well, it's likely that we weren't all separated into singles or doubles. Some of us may have been divided into three or more." Todoroki started. "But…there may be some people who have been warped and stranded by their lonesome."
"Then we have search and rescue then!"
A voice from above suddenly was heard. Looking up, Ben slowly smirked as a group of individuals came towards the top of the stairs. Panting heavily, Bakugo and company came into the view of Iida standing in front of the crew with the rest of the students that were with Thirteen.
"Class 1-A! Your representative has returned!" He yelled out. "Everything is going to be alright!"
"Everyone! Secure the perimeter and rescue any remaining students!" Nemu ordered from atop a man's shoulder.
The reinforcements that Iida managed to bring over consisted of Nemu, and ten Pro Heroes that were a part of U.A.'s staff. Some of these Heroes included the likes of Present Mic and a few other familiar characters that were the proctors from the Entrance Exams.
"Ectoplasm, Present Mic. Go further on ahead. Your abilities will allow yourselves to protect and fight at the same time." The animal Principal first off goes.
"Sir!" The two responded, jumping down. Present Mic quickly descended down the stairs by sliding down the rails, blasting off with a burst from his Quirk, Voice, into the nearest Zone. For Ectoplasm, as he jumped down, he opened his mouth, allowing ectoplasm in its literal form to release itself. Shortly after, the substance began to split off and form into clones of himself.
"Spread out." The main one muttered. With a nod from his clones, they all dispersed. From above, Nemu then smiled as the man he rode on placed him down.
"Good. Everyone else, disperse as well. Snipe, keep an eye out with your bullets. Cementoss, prepare to neutralize any potential disasters created in USJ. Use your Quirk to block them off." He quickly pointed in several directions.
"I'm on the job." Snipe quickly ran down with Cementoss, the man seemingly made of concrete. Snipe himself wore a gasmask, but his appearance resembled that of a cowboy.
"What should I do, sir?" Another Hero asked. Nemu turned to her, with face a bit grim to be honest as he then looked up.
"Midnight… I'm going to have you put this one to sleep for me." He replied. Midnight blinked, before looking up as well. She flinched a little upon seeing Ben's hoverboard come up to them.
"S-Sir, Midoriya needs medical attention…" Asui croaked. "He's badly injured."
"B-Badly injured is an understatement! The guy literally tore through his flesh!" Mineta cried out. "Principal, are there any medics around here? Midoriya's whimpering out like a wet cat!"
"I can see that, young man. Midnight, if you'd please." Nemu then snapped his fingers. Midnight then nodded, turning to the other students.
"You might wanna hold your breath for a second." She warned as she grabbed onto her costume. Midnight's hero costume was very similar to one of a traditional dominatrix. She wore a black breast-less leotard over a white bodysuit, which emphasized her breasts, body, and legs along with translucent black thigh-high stockings and black knee-boots. She had a small mask outlining her eyes, a handcuff on each wrist, and a utility belt around her hips. She sported a red domino mask and carried a flogger-style whip.
Grabbing onto her sleeve, Mineta and Asui held their breath as she ripped it, releasing a pink aroma. Midoriya was in too much pain to move, but as the aroma came into his body, his eyes quickly widened, before sinking down into slumber.
"This Quirk…is…Mid…" He uttered, before falling asleep.
"Midori-chan…" Asui looked down at her classmate as Midnight attempted to cover her exposed arm.
"There we go. See, it's going to be alright." Nemu then smiled. "Just wait here. No one else is going to harm you all."
"Hurray…!" Mineta cried out once more, before wiping his tears. "…Hey, where's All Might?"
"That… I'm having him do something else. He was going to come here, but I had him dwindle off at the last second because we had enough reinforcements." Nemu explained. Asui rose an eyebrow at his seemingly non-convincing tone, but decided against it.
As she leaped off the board, she watched as it began to fly down to Ben. With Midoriya in her arms, she smiled a little as she brushed his bushy hair. Giving him a small peck on his forehead, she gave off a heavy sigh as she looked up.
"…Thank you, Midori-chan."
…
A few hours have now passed. The Heroes that were deployed into USJ by Nemu's orders were able to find and regroup all the members of Class 1-A. To the surprise of practically everyone, many of the students remained unharmed. Save for Midoriya's attack by Tomura and the rest, Eraserhead's injured elbow due to said Villain's Quirk, and Thirteen's self-harm, all was good.
…Was how it should have been, but Ben didn't think too highly of the situation.
It was now sunset, almost for the hours for the students to leave school in fact. A bit of time enabled the rest of the authorities to come by and investigate the location for any other harmed individuals and the like. Fortunately, all that happened was that the second rate Villains that Kurogiri brought in were arrested, but everyone present was curious to as why every single person that was a part of the ambush was beaten to a pulp, literally.
"Regarding the mis-communication mishaps, we found out culprit." Momo coughed as she turned to a tied up Villain that was next to her on his knees, he wore a skull-like helmet. It was revealed that he bore a Quirk similar to Kaminari's. He remained unharmed from the electric boy's human stun-gun act, but a timely unluckiness from Rath's assault caused him to be buried underneath a mass of debris. And while he attempted to his interference to a top, the police were able to bring in equipment that tracked down electrical anomalies.
"So…let's count here. We got…1…17, 18, 19, 20… Yeah. Other than the boy that was injured in his back, we have practically everyone here from your class, Iida-san." An investigator counted off from a sheet.
That made a sigh of relief from everyone. Everyone smiled with worried looks with each other as they began to gossip about the events that just happened. Ojiro was patted by Hagakure. Apparently, Ojiro was one of the few selected, or rather, unfortunate students that managed to get warped by Kurogiri to a location in isolation.
"I heard you were quite fired up at first!" She gave a thumbs up. Ojiro chuckled nervously in response. "You were alright by yourself, I hope?"
"Well, pun not intended I know, since I was sent out into the Conflagration Zone, so it was quite hot. To be honest, I thought everyone else was sent off to their lonesome. I had to survive by using hit-and-run tactics." He scratched his head. "Where were you at, Hagakure-san?"
"Oh, I was in the Landslide Zone! Todoroki-san was super-efficient, taking out the Villains with minimal effort!" She boasted as she pointed at him. "You should've seen him!"
"Ah, that's good then." Ojiro smiled.
From where he stood, Todoroki actually sweat dropped. '…I almost froze her. I didn't realize that she was trying to sneak up on some of the Villains until I saw her gloves on the floor.'
From another group, Kaminari, Kirishima, Tokoyami, and Koda stood together. The Shadow user sighs a little as he clenches his hand.
"It was quite cold out there… Koda-san and I fought some of the Villains, but I can't help but think that they were…"
"Second rate?" Kirishima finished.
"Yeah, that's a good way of putting it." Kaminari nodded. Koda also nodded in agreement. "I guess they underestimated us because they thought we were kids or something."
"The nerve of them though! To bring such a huge amount of guys here?!" Kirishima barked, hardening his fists and slapping them together in anguish. "Sheesh…!"
From another perspective, Sero, Sato, and Shoji discussed about the late-game situation. They seemed to be curious about the noises that took place towards the center plaza, as the three were busy keeping Thirteen safe from the top of the stairs.
"So, what happened after we threw that guy and let Iida escape?" Sero wondered.
"From what I heard, Ben tried to go around and help some of the other groups. I guess that's where a bunch of those explosions came from." Sato replied with curiosity. "What do you think, Shoji?"
"Similarly to you all. We've only seen a few of his forms, surely. But don't forget we have some other students capable of creating a few loud noises themselves." He reminded them. All three nodded for that. Definitely.
"…I'm still worried." Asui looked down in dejection. "We barely made it out there, if you think about our situation."
"…What happened specifically?" Momo patted her shoulder. "Ben…doesn't seem to be willing to talk at the moment."
"Can you blame him? He pretty much went ballistic!" Mineta flailed his arms wildly. "Not to say that I don't appreciate what he did, but man he was scary for that time!"
"…I apologize for that." Said person muttered from where he stood. Mineta shuddered and backed up behind the two girls. "I've just been thinking."
"About Midoriya-kun?" Momo asked. "I think he's—"
"—Oh no, if you're worried about his back don't worry about that." Ben then looked up with a neutral face, waving his hand in a calm matter. "I have something for that."
"Eh? You do?" Asui looked up, grabbing his shoulders. "What is it?"
"…That's a secret, Tsu-chan. It's nice to see us be worried about one another though." He smiled, placing a finger on her lips. "Midoriya had no regrets doing what he did, so just wait. You can thank him later. Well, if Recovery Girl doesn't get to him first…"
As the groups continued to chatter amongst themselves, the detective coughed once, garnering their attention as Eraserhead came next to him, wearing a cast on his arm. He smiled as he looked down at his sheet again.
"Anyhow, we've got most of the stuff under control. So for now, we'll have Eraserhead take you all back to your classroom." He announced, turning to another officer. "We won't be taking them in for questioning right away, right?"
"Yes, sir." The officer responded. "We'll wait a little until then."
"Uhm, what about Thirteen, sir?" Ashido walked up. "Thirteen's life isn't in danger, yes?"
"Ah… Thirteen has been treated. A bit of laceration to a bit of their back and one of their arms, but they'll be expected to make a full recovery from this." He smiled. A majority of the students breathed another sigh of relief at this.
"And regarding Midoriya-kun?!" Iida and Uraraka stepped up. "He's fine too, right?"
"Midoriya…? Oh, we're also transporting him. Recovery Girl's treatment will be enough to—Hey, weren't there 20 of you here?"
"20?" Momo blinked, before turning around. To her expectations, she sighed a little. "…Oh, that boy…"
"Huh? What's up, Yaoyorozu-san?" Jiro turned to her.
"Ah, it's…nothing. I just forgot something and remembered it now." She simply smiled back. 'Does he actually have a way to help Midoriya-san, and a better way than Recovery Girl's? I guess I'll have to find out later on.'
"Hmm… Alright. Everyone, into the bus then." The detective ordered. "Sansa."
"Yes, sir?" Another officer, one with a cat head, responded.
"I'll be leaving the rest to you. I have a bit of private business elsewhere." He then said. Nodding, the two watched as the students entered the bus, leaving shortly to arrive back as UA. The detective sighed a little as he took out his phone.
"…Toshinori, what the hell are you doing now? Where are you?" He mumbled.