Phew, feels good to be back. And there is no sarcasm in my voice. I am genuinely glad to be back and writing.
Now onto the next chapter!
Uni couldn't help but let out a small grin, "This guy looks like he will be a challenge."
Standing before her was a large creature; one with many sharp claws, wings that had the span of a few meters, and horns that protruded from the top of it's head. It's beady yellow eyes stared down at the candidate, as it let out a massive roar.
Standing before her, was a dragon of the ancient variety.
It first swiped with it's right hand, hoping to cut the goddess into pieces, but Uni was able to back away before the claws could reach her. She then pulled out her rifle, and started taking shots at the hand that had tried to slice her. The creature roared in pain as it's hand got pelted with bullets, which prompted it to pull it's arm back.
Uni didn't waste any time, and started to pelt the dragon with more of her bullets. She seemed to be doing a decent amount of damage, much to the monster's displeasure. The dragon then used it's massive wings to cover it's body, which rendered the rifle projectiles ineffective.
"Crap..." she said as she dodged a sweeping tail attack that was coming. 'I don't want to use an SP skill yet. I really don't want to be bored again,' Uni thought as she dodged another claw attack.
She kept peppering the monster with her bullets, but only a few managed to get through, as the wings seemed to be too durable. All the while, she was jumping, flipping, and doing other acrobatic stuff to avoid getting hit.
However, there was one moment when she messed up a landing, and had to recover for a few seconds. The monster capitalized on this moment, and spun around, and swung it's tail at Uni. The result was the candidate being knocked off her feet, and her being flung to a tree.
Fortunately for her, she didn't go through the tree, so it wasn't as bad as it could have been. The monster then tried to stomp on her, but she managed to roll out of the way in time.
"Stupid Dragon..." she said to herself as she avoided another slice from the dragon's claws. 'Fine, I'll use an SP move...' she thought as she grabbed her rifle again, and thought of which move to use. After maybe a second, she came up with her decision.
"EX Multi Buster!" she said, as she shot 3 projectiles in quick succession towards her attacker. When the hits were about to connect, the dragon simply pulled it's wings towards itself, for protection. When they connected, it proved to be as effective as regular bullets.
'Damn. That didn't work. In order to defeat this enemy, I need to do something about those wings! Maybe shoot them off? Yeah, that could work,' she thought as she put her traditional rifle away, and pulled out something similar to a sniper rifle.
The monster saw the new weapon, and immediately started to charge at the goddess, hoping to catch her off her guard. It seemed to have worked, and caused her to be kicked by one of the legs from the creature.
She went flying back, and striked a rather large rock that was nearby. She let out a rather loud shout of pain at the contact. The rock had some serious damage, as could be told by the cracks that had formed because of her impact with it.
She slowly slid down it's surface, and was plopped on the ground. She saw the monster had started charging in her direction, and that caused her to leap out of the way.
'Geez, that last hit really did a number to me,' she thought as she dodged another attack that was sent her way. While the dragon was still reeling from the previous pursuit, Uni took that opportunity to use her sniper rifle to shoot at the possible weakpoint.
...However, when she went to lift it up, she found that her rifle wasn't in her hand.
"Eh?" she questioned as she started to look around for her sniper. She was only looking for a few seconds before the monster tried to slash at her with it's claws. She avoided it, but the attack was much closer to hitting its mark then it was when they first started.
'Shoot, That last attack did more to me then I thought. I might have to go HDD if this battle keeps going like this!' she thought as she continued to look for her sniper, while dodging attacks.
Eventually, she did find her lost rifle. It was near the main area that they had initially encountered each other. And that meant that it was right behind the ancient dragon.
"...Damn..." Uni simply said as she thought of various ways she could retrieve the weapon. There were many possibilities that she could go through, but most of them only seemed to end in failure. She did, however, come up with one strategy that could just get her past the dragon. Speaking of which, the creature swung it's tail in a horizontal way, trying to sweep the goddess.
"Comeon..." she said as she waited for the tail to make it her way. When it did, she preemptively jumped, and quickly moved her arms so she could grab the tail. She was successful, and managed to get a ride on the tail. The monster seemed to not have noticed her, and simply turned itself around so it could face the direction Uni was previously in.
This gave the candidate the opportunity to jump off the tail, and run back to her rifle. She made sure to be rather stealthy about it, so as to not alert the dragon of her position.
As she was making her way over to it, the monster was looking rather confused. It seemed to have lost it's opponent, and it didn't know where they went. The ancient dragon started looking around the area, hoping it could find their prey. This caused Uni to run faster towards her target, while also being somewhat sneaky.
The candidate eventually found her way towards the rifle, and picked it up. She then pointed it towards the dragon, and aimed at the section that connected the dragon's wings to the back torso. Once she had lined her shot up enough, Uni let rip a powerful sniper projectile.
It tore though the enemy's connector, and a large wing fell to the ground. A dust cloud picked up from the weight and the height of the drop. The monster roared in pain, and snapped it's neck towards Uni. It's eyes full of bloodlust. It then started in a mad sprint towards her, hoping to run her down, and be done with her quickly.
Uni thought she could simply move out of the way, but the dragon was multitudes faster then it was before.
"Hyper Dri-," the candidate started, but was interrupted by a green blur that zoomed past her. She looked behind her to see what had happened, but was only met with the greenery, and damage that had occurred with the battle.
"Detroit...!" was the next thing she heard. She whipped her head towards the source of the noise, and saw what looked like a teen with green hair and a weird outfit right in front of the dragon.
Uni couldn't believe this new person's stupidity. Sure they were trying to save her, not that she needed saving or anything, but what were they expecting to do by yelling, and throwing their body at the enemy.
The goddess was really starting to question the adequacy of her nation.
"Hey you idiot! You're gonna get yourself ki-," she started, but was stopped by the boy and his shouting again.
"...SMAAAASH!" he yelled as he punched the dragon in the face. The monster was sent a good distance away, and fell to the ground. The boy, since he was in the air, started to fall.
As the boy fell to the ground, he seemed to fail at sticking the landing, and fell somewhat hard. Uni rushed over to the person to see if they were okay, not that she cared that he helped her, or anything.
When she saw the boy's condition, she almost wanted to throw up her sandwich. His left hand was covered with 3 purple fingers, and his right arm looked twisted and broken.
'This guy is an idiot after all!' the candidate thought as she continued to look over the boy. He then shifted his position a little, and shot right up a few seconds later; almost hitting Uni in the head.
He looked at his broken arm, and sighed, before looking at Uni, "Are you okay?"
Uni was quite surprised with the question. This person's arm was completely broken, and they were asking if her, a goddess of Gamindustri, was hurt.
"You idiot! I should be asking you that question! What the hell did you do to your arm?!"
Izuku then exited his hero persona, and entered his meek, and shy self again, "A-Ah, well I-" However, he was interrupted when he, and the goddess, heard the sound of a monster getting back up.
The pair looked on in shock as the monster lifted itself up off the ground. However, it had definitely been damaged from the teen's attack. The creature's face was caved in, and one of the 2 horns it possessed was broken.
'How did he manage to do that much damage in one punch?!' Uni thought, totally not amazed at the power the boy had.
Meanwhile, Izuku was looking at the creature in shock and fear. 'T-That was a 100% punch... H-How is the monster still moving?!'
The monster let out an ear piercing shout, that caused Uni to cover her ears, and Izuku to do nothing, as his fingers and arm were not functional. It then started to charge at the 2, going as fast as it could so it could pummel its opponents.
Both Uni and Izuku jumped out of the way of the attack, and then regrouped behind the monster, so they could come up with a potential plan of attack.
"Okay, what can you do besides break yourself?" Uni said to the teen next to her. In response, he looked away from her judgmental face.
"Umm... I-I'm s-still n-n-new to t-this," he said rather meekly. He turned his head towards the girl again, and was met with an angry scowl. "B-b-but I c-can attack o-one more t-t-time with my l-last finger!" He showed his pinkie finger on his left hand was unharmed.
'This is what I have to work with?,' Uni couldn't help but think to herself.
She sighed as her mind tried to formulate a plan. Meanwhile, the monster had stopped it's charging sprint, and decided to turn around, and try for the same thing again, to which the pair dodged, went behind it, and continued their conversation.
"W-What c-c-can you d-do?" Izuku asked the black girl.
She turned towards him, and showed him the sniper rifle that she was holding. "I'm a pretty decent shot with almost any gun."
"Hmm..." the boy hummed as his mind went into overdrive to try and formulate a plan. After maybe 10 seconds, he finally came to a solution that could defeat the dragon, and save both of their skins.
"Do you think you could defeat the monster by shooting at the caved in area? I will create a distraction for you."
Just as the boy said that, Uni opened her mouth, and was going to tell him her plan. However, after hearing what he had to say, the goddess was left with her mouth open, and with nothing coming out of it.
"Get ready," the greenette said to his partner, who was shaken out of their brief state of pause, "It's coming back this way. Remember to aim for the head."
"Of course I would go for the head! We want to kill this thing! You just make sure your plan works," the goddess huffed as she started to aim with her weapon.
The dragon, meanwhile, had turned itself around again, and saw the pair. Like before, it charged at them with impressive speed. Izuku broke out into a sprint towards his enemy. He was pretty scared of the situation he had put himself into. He was running towards a freaking dragon! How would one not be scared of the situation?! However, he remembered what All Might did whenever he faced a villain; he would hold onto a smile. So now, he was smiling a forced smile all the way.
'Comeon, Izuku. You did it before, now do it again. Imagine the microwave and the egg...' the boy thought as he was preparing himself to use One for All. When it was close enough, the dragon tried to stomp on the child with it's leg, and hopefully crush him.
When he saw the dragon's foot from above, he felt the familiar sensation of his quirk running through his legs. He also tried very hard to use the same amount of energy when he had flicked that slime away. Now this was a rather big gamble. If he failed to maintain his quirk, then Izuku would be useless for the whole fight, if it continued any longer. And if he didn't get it right in time, then he would get crushed.
It took a couple seconds, but the boy finally managed to find the percentage he had used before. His legs didn't feel as stressed as they were when he would use 100%, and he could still tell that his quirk was flowing through him. He then leaped to the left, narrowly dodging the foot, and landing next to a stump.
"Now!" he yelled to his companion. Meanwhile with Uni, she was starting to contemplate whether this person was brave, or extremely suicidal. She could think about that later, as it was her time to take her shot. Mere seconds passed after Izuku said the signal, and Uni shot the bullet at the dragon's head. You could almost hear it whistle through the air as it went cleanly through the skull of the creature. It then dissipated into data a few moments later.
Uni didn't realize she was panting until after the battle. It was a rather tough one. Maybe a little too tough. She remembered when she could solo ancient dragons in her base form, and it wouldn't be that much of a hassle. Now, she had almost taken into HDD because of the dragon. And the fact the dragon knew to engage her when it saw the sniper rifle.
Something was definitely wrong here...
"G-G-Good w-work." a voice said to the candidate, which had knocked her out of her musings. She turned, and saw the boy was still here.
Thinking back to the moments that just happened, and how he managed to deal that much damage to a dragon, Uni realized she only had one thing to say to the boy.
"Who are you?"
Hope you all enjoyed the battle.
For comments, I'm going to give a few replies from the last chapter.
To fangs of death: You'll find out how Mineta lost his quirk in a later chapter.
To Shadicgon: I originally had the CPU's be stronger than All Might, but I might change things based on future events.
Hope you all have a good rest of your day!
