Dagobah beach was for all intents and purposes a dump, once a beautiful public place had been reduced to little more than a junkyard for anyone to dump their waste without fear of criminal charges, the dismal atmosphere was made even worse from the overcast sky and heavy rain. Such a place should be cordoned off as to stop more people from dumping waste ranging from broken cooking utensils to rusted out camper vans, yet for some reason it hadn't been fenced off and that had led to a recent rash of 'giant monster sightings', which in all honesty was likely just someone illegal using a giantification type quirk.
It was what had currently lead to Mt. Lady, Kamui Woods and Death Arms searching about the junk piles for any sign of the culprit, so far they hadn't found any recent signs yet something that had jumped out to them was how the junk had been moved into large piles deliberately. Almost as if to make nice large travel routes, the entire situation was odd and downright weird.
"There is no one here," Mt. Lady huffed whipping her wet hair out of her eyes clearly frustrated with being out in such dismal weather. "If there was someone skulking about here they'd have slunk off."
"We cannot be certain of that Mt. Lady, if they went through the trouble of moving all of this junk about to make pathways to use then they are likely still around." Kamui Woods offered as he stood atop one of the taller junk piles, his eyes scanning around for even the slightest of movement or sign of someone lurking about.
"For all, we know their quirk could be affected by the weather." Death Arms offered as he slowly pried up a large slab of metal paring into the recess that had formed behind it.
"That's stupid." Mt. Lady deadpanned, clearly wanting nothing more than to find an excuse to get out of the rain, "What kind of gigantification quirk would be affected by the weather? Are we even sure it is a giantification quirk?"
"There have been stranger quirks." Death Arms offered out, "Even some mutation quirks have odd outcomes on the body, so it's not entirely impossible for a quirk to be affected by the weather."
With a groan of defeat Mt. Lady went back to looking for the would-be quirk user, a pout of irritation on her face as the rain continued to fall. So far they had been searching for several hours having turned most of the beach turned junkyard inside out with no sign of the possible culprit for violating quirk use laws, it was fast becoming a frustrating point for the rank twenty-three Pro-Hero and one she would continue to vocalise.
Still, the strangeness of the situation left the three Pro-Heros sticking close during their search, as if anything could go wrong it would be that this was, in reality, an elaborate villain trap meant to take out the heroes. A crack of lightning echoed out over the ocean bathing the turbulent waters in a quick flash of blue light, as the light flashed for the briefest of moments something became visible against the darkened backdrop of the sky. large jagged rocks broke the surface of the water rising high into the sky, the sharp angular edges of each rock slicing the cloudy visage of the sky as lightning flashed behind them.
Breaching the surface at a slight forty-degree angle was one oddity about the rocks, a second was that they were identical in every way from how tall they were to the number of jagged edges each rock had as well as their size. In total the six rocks that breached the surface of the ocean sat equal distance apart in two rows slowly decreasing in size, almost as if they were not rocks at all but instead spins upon something large.
"What the hell?" Deah Arms asked, using a hand to shield his eyes from the rain, squinting so he could make out the rocks easier. Something about them didn't seem natural almost as if they had been created by something, possibly a quirk but why would someone go to the trouble of creating such large and jagged rocks so far off sure. It didn't sit well with Death Arms, he knew this beach well before it became a junkyard and dump and never had there been such a large rock formation off the coast.
"Those rocks." Kamui Woods began a hand rubbing the underside of his chin deep in thought, "They were not part of the view before." His normal stoic voice was shaky, the sight of the rocks had unnerved him. Kamui had been looking outwards the ocean more often than his three fellow heroes. Those rocks had not been there fifteen minutes ago, the ocean had been as clear as it could be with the current weather, whatever those rocks were they were not natural and it filled Kamui Wood with a sense of foreboding dread that something terrible was coming.
"Well, then those were likely caused by whoever we are searching for." Death Arms offered, before shielding his eyes as another flash of lightning ripped across the sky, as he blinked away the unexpected brightness he stared back at the rocks only to notice something unsettling. "Are those rocks moving?"
"That can't be right." Mt Lady snorted, not believing the idea that any rocks even those that had randomly appeared could be moving by themselves. "Rocks just don't move."
"Yu just look at them." Kamui snapped jumping down from his vantage point atop the junk pile to land next to his younger heroic companion. "They are clearly moving and are definitely not natural."
Before she could offer a rebuttal another flash of lightning ripped across the clouds once again illuminating the 'rocks', showing they were now close to the shallows of the beach. Before any of the four heroes could move or even voice any concern something breached the water's surface sending a sizeable wave cascading over the beach. Quickly thinking Mt Lady activated her quirk drastically increasing her height, to just shy of sixty-eight feet, before reaching out to grab her two fellow heroes just before the wave broke against the shoreline.
As the wave impacted into the sandy junkyard a torrent of water flooded between the various piles of junk with the force of a freight train, yet nothing moved even Mt Lady as she crouched down to better weather the force of the rushing water did not budge. Almost as if the piles of junk had not only been created to allow clear travel routes but an odd barrier against such large waves hitting the bashing, by forcing the water around a myriad of interlocking pathways to bleed off much of its destructive force and speed. Whoever had done this had been smart and meant to protect the city. Slowly the water began to lose its momentum and flowing back into the ocean, dragging with it small amounts of detritus and refuse washed off from the large junk piles.
Setting her fellow heroes down Mt Lady began to return to her regular size, a frown on her face as she caught sight of the lower half of her costume. It was coated in a disgusting thick muddy sludge, a combination of the sand, sea water and dirt pulled from the junk, to say her hero suit was ruined form what was coating it would be an understatment. "What the hell caused that wave?!" She spat through gritted teeth as anger welded up over her ruined outfit.
"Probably her." Death Arms muttered pointing upwards towards someone towering far above them.
A confident smirk spread across My Lady's face, so the person abusing their quirk had shown themselves, just in time to pay for ruining her hero suit, with the typical bravado of a hero Mt lady hurled her gaze upwards to were Death Arms was pointing, "Oh, I am so knocking out before we arrest them th…." and almost immediately upon setting sight on the culprit responsible her bravado and confidence died instantly.
The three pro heros had expected someone with a quirk similar to Mt Lady's but this was a whole another level entirely, staring up brown black and purple eyes locked with two of the largest vibrant green eyes they had ever seen. Green eyes that held a hardness and level of restrained anger they had never seen on another person.
Taking an involuntary step backwards at the sheer weight of the commanding aura that bled freely from the greened eyed giant the three heroes took in more of the titanic sight before them. This woman towered over the three more so then they realised, her height was easily triple Mt Lady's with her quirk active such a height alone would be enough to validate the idea that she was a 'monster' yet it was further given cause to be a valid identifier from the multitude of what the heroes had once thought to be rocks but instead were two sets of spines running down her back and along a long scaly tail that gently swished in the shallows of the beach.
Between the two sets of spines flowed long black hair that faded into green towards its ends, in the neon blue light from the arc bolts of what could only be electricity jumping between the spines on the strange woman's back, the combination of colours gave her a otherworldly look.
Across her tone and well-endowed body ran a set of off green and black scales that took the appearance of long sleeves, thigh high stockings and a two-piece bikini.
Deciding to try and not only gain the giant woman's attention but take charge of the situation Mt Lady stepped forward once again activating her quirk and growing to her maximum height, it did partially achieved what Mt Lady wanted and gain the Woman's attention. Before she could utter a single word the giant woman had brought her face down to eye level with Mt Lady, the cold calculating glare from the giant green eye kept Mt Lady frozen in place. It felt as if she was being studied and judged by a predator, but regardless of the slowly welling pit in her stomach and want to back away from the titanic woman before her such a thing was not what a hero would do.
"For illegal use of your quirk and disrupting the peace…" Mt Lady started her tone trying to sound authoritative in an attempt to impress on the woman the severity of the law she had broken, she quickly found her voice dying in her throat as the green-eyed woman before her let out a low growl and barred her sharp fang-like teeth.
Before either Kamui Woods or Death Arms could speak themselves the green-eyed titan lifted an arm out of the water and dropped a slightly crushed submersible onto the beach, as the submersible hit the beach from the inside a groaning could be heard showing someone was trapped inside.
With the clear sign of people trapped before them, Kamui Woods and Death Arms broke from the stupor induced by the titanic woman and rushed towards the submersible to free those trapped inside. All the while Mt Lady and the woman had never broken eye contact, but now with the submersible on the beach and those trapped inside being freed the titanic woman rose back to her full two-hundred and two foot nine inches of height before turning and striding back out into the ocean.
"WAIT!" Mt Lady yelled at the retreating form of the titanic woman, this woman had either saved those trapped in the sub or been responsible for them being trapped and only rescued them to avoid any ramifications for their deaths, she had to come in for questioning.
Coming to a stop the titanic woman slowly turned her head a single eye gazing back at Mt Lady almost as if daring the giant hero to try and stop her leaving. For what felt like an eternity the two stared at each other, before the green eyed titan turned back towards the turbulent ocean and slowly vanished beneath the surf.
"Are any of you hurt?" Death Arms asked slowly as he helped one of the three people, likely scientists based on their attire, who had been trapped inside the slightly crushed sub only to be dismissed by each one of the once trapped scientists.
"No but thank you for the concern." A dark haired man with circular frame glasses resting on the bridge of his nose spoke up adjusting his glasses.
"Was she," Kamui Woods gestured out towards were the titanic green eyed woman had been, "Responsible for your situation?" While his tone was laced with accusation towards the unknown titan of a woman it was one born out of concern for the innocent the desire to see justice served.
"Doctor Ishiro Serizawa." The dark haired name introduced himself as he removed his lasses and withdrew a small rage from his inner sui pocket to wipe away some of the grime on the lenses. "No she was not responsible for us being trapped, but she did save when she had no need to."
"Then how did you get yourselves into a situation where you would need to be saved by someone violating quirk usage and regulation laws?" Kamui Woods asked, something felt off about this entire situation, and he could not be sure if Serizawa was lying to protect the green eyed titan or he himself was in fact a criminal and was attempting to mislead the hero.
"I can understand your concern hero," Serizawa paused for a moment looking Kamui Woods up and down studying him like a scientist studies lab results . "Pro-Hero Kamui Woods but I assure you no laws have been broken."
"I find that hard to believe," Mt Lady snorted dismissively her arms folded below her ample chest as she stood just off behind Kamui Woods. "How can someone that large not be in violation of the quirk usage and regulation laws?"
"Tell me have any of you heroes ever head of the organisation of Monarch?" Serizawa asked, his voice level and calm.
"You mean the group that researches quirks and studies how they evolve?" Death Arms offered, the mention of Monarch sparking old memories for him back when he was a child and going receiving his quirk counseling, partly due to both his parents being quirkless.
"That is partly correct as far as the public is concerned." Serizawa chuckled a mirthful smile on his face as he turned to the brunette woman and whispered something into her ear. The woman turned to look at Serizawa giving a nod in understanding before moving away and reaching into her pocket pulling out a phone inside a waterproof case. With the brunette moving away Serizawa turned back to the heroes. "While yes Monarch does study quirks we focus our research on one singular type of quirk. Tell me how many types of quirks are you aware of?"
"There are only four types." Mt Lady rolled her eyes, clearly not interested in were this was going. "Emitter, transformation mutation and sure the fourth type accumulation quirks are the rarest ones but they are being studied so why would your organisation focus on a singular quirk type?"
"Those are the four known quirks yes, but there exists a fifth type of quirk, one that is even rarer than being born quirkless." Serizawa spoke maintaining eye contact with the three heroes. "A quirk type that is so rare in the last two-hundred years there have only been sixteen documented cases of it emerging, now seventeen with her." Serizawa gestured out towards the ocean.
"And what type of quirk is so rare there is an entire organisation dedicated to studying and I'm going to assume covering it up?" Mt Lady accused pointing a finger at Serizawa.
Unphased by Mt Lady's accusation Serizawa kept his expression neutral. "We have named this quirk type the Kaiju class." Looking over to the brunette woman who had made her way back over and giving him a single nod, one which he returned before turning back to the heroes. "It would be best if we waited for someone who is intermittently familiar with your would be criminal and our research subject."
"And who could possibly be that familiar with her?" Kamui asked pointing out towards the ocean, his patience started to wear thin.
"Who else could be more familiar with a child than their mother." Serizawa smiled at the look of shock on the heroes faces. "It would be best to wait for her to arrive, she will be able to explain more about the situation."
A pregnant silence settled over the three heroes and three members of Monarch, the silence only broken by the rain striking against the rusted metal junk lying about the beach and the occasional crack of thunder off in the distance. This silence lasted as the heroes and Monarch scientists moved their way to stand under a canopy of a beach side cafe that had long since closed down.
It was once they were out of the rain when Kamui Woods spoke up again staring at Serizawa the entire time. "You never answered my question about how you got yourselves into such a dire situation were you needed to be rescued."
With a sigh Serizawa pulled out an old chair from one of the tables still left outside and sat down, rubbing his eyes gently to relieve some tension, leaning back in the chair he looked around at his two colleges then towards the heroes before speaking. "We were tracking her thanks to one of the unusual results of her quirk, while following up on the readings our submersible was coat in an unforeseen rip current dragged us deeper than the hulls structure could manage were it not for her being close by I am certain we would have been crushed by the pressure of those depths."
"What was it about her quirk that let you track her and how long have you been studying her?" Death Arms asked, finding what was going on here rather unsettling, as the memories of hard to answer questions and strange tests during his counciling. To here that he was not the only one was a shock that was both comforting and disturbing all at once.
"Sir if I may?" The brunette woman offered, Serizawa merely offered a nod in approval to allow her, taking the time to deal with the growing headache that had been developing and was only get worse with the Kaiju class quirk users mother would arrive.
"Every recorded case of a Kaiju class quirk has shared one thing in common, those with them once they activate give of a unique radiation signal." The brunette while she spoke tapped away on her phone before placing it down on the table facing towards the nearby cafe wall so it could project a graph to show two sets of radiation readings ins, one in red and one in blue. "Now the blue line are normal background radiation found across the earth, over the years there has been a steady increase in the radiation which is believed to be a result of quirks. But if you look at the red line we can see that the beta and grammar particles are identical there is a significant spike in a noticeable difference in alpha particles and x-rays."
Pausing briefly so that the heroes could absorb this information the brunette waited for any questions, it was Mt Lady who voiced the obvious question. "If this type of quirk does that." She pointed a finger out toward the ocean, "Why wouldn't they apply to a hero academy? It seems like such a waste of potential miss?" Mt lady left the question hanging to prompt the brunette into introducing herself.
"Vivienne, Doctor Vivienne Graham." The now named brunette introduced, leading to the heros eyeing her more as it was now clear she was not Japanease, now hearing it her accent making it more than likely that she was British, "What we have been able to theorise based on data collected from other cases of those with Kaiju class quirks is that it changes their personality to something completely different, almost as if it reverts them back to a more primal mind set with a need to establish a territory and locate a source of natural radiation their quirk adapts their bodies to need."
"But aren't the only sources of natural radiation from deep sea thermal vents?" Death Arms spoke up rubbing the back of his head, as he tried to recall a subject brought up during a middle school lecture from his youth. "If what your saying is true shouldn't she be down there instead of at the surface, were she was spotted?"
"That is why she is of extreme interest to us, on top of her Kaiju class quirk." Serizawa spoke up again slowly rising to his feet watching as a black unmarked van pulled up, its side door opening to show a bright interior and the slender legs of a woman seated just out of view. "Four the past four years we have been aware of her she has only sparingly descended to the hydrothermal vents around the Japanease coast-line, she mainly hangs around near the surface and from what we have observed intervening in disasters when a hero is not close enough to make a difference."
"Wait you don't mean the reports Selkie got from those oil rig works he found adrift were true?" Kamui Woods interjected remembering hearing about how a bunch of adrift oil rig workers had reported how when the rig they had been manning suffered a major explosion that weakened the entire support frame and buckled only for them to be saved by some unknown titanic monster from the depths.
He gestured towards the waiting black van, indicating for the heroes to enter. "This might seem suspect but with you three heroes seeing as how you three saw her on two separate occasions, I assure you all of your questions will be answered."
Their curiosity raised about having seen the titanic woman before, the three heroes followed Serizawa, Vivienne and the third still unnamed Monarch member into the well lit back of the unmarked van. Once inside they found themselves face to face with a lean woman with long flowing green hair and matching green eyes, both the same shade as the titan they had seen. Making the quick and correct assumption that this was the still unnamed woman's mother, they went to voice their questions only to be stopped by a raised hand from the subject they were about to direct their questions towards.
"Four years ago a villain with a sludge villain took a young boy hostage with an explosive quirk." She moved her gaze between the heroes watching as each of them began to delve into their memories until they each made a face of recollection, "Then you remember a young quirkless girl who did your jobs for you?" Slowly Kamui Woods and Death Arms felt their expressions shift into those of shame as they recalled how they had berated the young girl for acting more like a hero then any of them had.
"Then please explain to me what the last thing you said to my daughter that would have caused her to feel unwanted and big enough burden to runaway from home, before having a quirk of such magnitude spontaneously generate?" Inko Midoriya asked, her voice full of the hardness only a mother who had passed worry and was determined to find their child could muster. "It has been four years and I will get my Izumi back."
Authors note: Right so figured I needed to get this diea out and started before the mojo slips.Yes this is not beta read, but I shalt be looking for one, feel free to post your criticisms and helpful feed back and enjoy this and the future coming chapters.