I Can't Go to a Hero School with my Little Sister!

by KyouManX57

Okay, uh, most of the characters have have powers and Kyousuke has powers and, uh, he goes to a hero school with his sister Kirino and he saves the world and the universe and stuff, doesn't get anymore complicated then that, I swear.

10. Chapter 10

Alright everyone (that's still here) welcome to the new chapter, I've changed a few terms "Side Effects" are now "Adaptations" and "super strength user" is now "super lifter" just thought those sounded better and if I get the change I'll change those terms in the previous chapters but anyway without further ado here's chapter ten.

Kyousuke's POV Monday, Gym class, last class of the day.

{Wham}

Ky: "Oof!"

Ki: "Jeez I finally get a sparring partner that can take my hits and he's completely inept at basic hand-to-hand."

Ky: "Hey your super strength gives you a speed advantage."

Ki: "Excuses, excuses."

"{Whistle!} Alright kids enough sparring for today, now gather around!"

The coach then rolled out a large dry erase board and as we sat on the floor in front of it he started writing a bunch of stuff and drawing some pictures.

"Alright kids it's time to talk about threats levels and superhuman levels, threat levels categorize how dangerous monsters and villains are, such as CAT S, for 'Small', the lowest threat level, then there's CAT L for 'Large', then CAT M for 'Massive', CAT T for 'Titanic', CAT K for 'Kaiju' and CAT A for 'Apocalypse'."

"Have there really been monsters as strong as CAT A?"

"Yes but they were classified as such based on their potential for destruction rather than any actual destruction they've caused, like the now partially exterminated Juicer bug and the totally exterminated Flesh Golem."

"Wait, there are such things as CAT A golems."

"Psh, yeah, golems occupy every level of the threat scale due to their high variety and proliferation, they're even one of the few lifeforms on Earth to inhabit every continent including Antarctica so it shouldn't be surprising that they have such a high potential for strength."

"…Shut up smart ass."

"Calm down you two, now onto superhuman levels the weakest being Intermediate, to give a point of reference for this an Intermediate level Super Lifter would be just strong enough to overpower a normal Grizzly Bear."

Ki: "Wow that is the weakest."

"Now next is Advanced, a level which most superhumans occupy, after that is Supreme, superhumans of significant strength compared to others with the same type of power or other supers in general. And finally, World Class, superhumans whose powers are significant on the world's stage and must be monitored regularly by the UN and/or their home country's government to prevent them from misusing their powers. Each of those classes also have tiers symbolized by +, - and blank, that should be pretty easy to figure out, + symbolizes top tier, blank is mid tier and – is bottom tier."

"Uh, sir what about God Level?"

"That classification has been abandoned since the early 90s due to no known superhumans being qualified to receive such a title, so there's really no point in teaching it to you."

"But…you just did."

"Shut up smart ass."

{RRRRRING!}

Ky: "Hm, that was interesting."

Ki: "Seriously? Most of that was common knowledge."

Ay: "I didn't know about the God Level being abandoned, I always thought it was still official and that the identities of the superhumans on that level were just being kept secret."

Ky: "Yeah I kind of thought that too."

We headed to our respective locker rooms to change out of our gym clothes and after finishing the class meeting we headed to our shoe lockers. Though, just like in any anime full of clichés, as soon as I opened my locker a bunch of love letters spilled out of it and got a few friendly chuckles from the other students.

"Whoo Kousaka gets all the ladies!"

Ay: "Wow Kyousuke you've really become popular."

Ky: "Heh, well I just transferred here, I'm not exactly in the market for a girlfriend."

Ki: "If you want I can burn those for you."

Ky: "What?"

Ki: "Nothing."

I collected up the letters and stuffed them in my bag to read later and we started making our way back to the dorms but as we left the school we saw Arika standing outside the exit.

Ar: "Ah, there you are!"

Arika spotted me out of the crowd of exiting students and she came towards us.

Ky: "Ugh what do you want?"

Ki: "Watch it, I have a water pistol."

Ar: "Geh! Alright just take it easy little sis, I just came here to tell you that there's someone that wants to meet you in private."

Ky: "Who is it?"

Ar: "He prefers if no one hears anything about this but trust me he's cool."

Ky: "Alright lead the way."

We followed Arika to a secluded area where a bunch of guys in non-CHA uniforms were waiting for us.

Ar: "I'd like you to meet my, uh…associate Satoru?"

Sat: "Associate?"

Ar: "I wouldn't call us friends, we only spent a couple of nights together. Anyway this is him and his gang of delinquent students from the high school near here, he likes to see himself as the Number 1 over there even though it's not a hero school and he's been in a sort of one-sided rivalry with Aoi until you came along."

Ky: "Arika, what the hell?"

Sat: "…AAAAhahahaha this is the guy that beat Aoi?! He's a friggin stick figure hahaha."

Ky: "Yeah I know I'm scrawny, just tell me what you want."

Sat: "Why else would we be here? To challenge you."

Ky: "Okay but how are we going to fight if you're not a CHA student."

Suddenly the gym coach materialized behind us.

"I'd be happy to explain that."

Ky: "Holy shit!"

Ki: "Where'd you come from?!"

"Under the school's rules a duel between two superhuman students from different schools can be allowed if the principals of both schools agree to the duel and only if at least one of the schools is a hero school equipped to host superhuman duels."

Ky: "Thanks…coach."

"No problem."

Ki: "That almost sounded like a poem…well if we were actually speaking English."

Ar: "Just accept the guy's challenge or else he won't stop bothering you about it."

Ky: "So there's no escaping this, great."

Sat: "Oh hey is that the Warrior Angel, I almost didn't see you, how've you been?~"

Ki: "Don't call me that."

Warrior Angel?

Ki: "And I know what you're about to say and the answer's still no."

Sat: "Maybe after your brother is beaten into the ground you'll have a change of heart."

Ki: "Yes, seeing my own flesh and blood humiliated and beaten is a total turn on."

Sat: "So Kyousuke, you gonna accept our challenge?"

"Or are you going to show everyone you have a massive vaj between those legs!?"

"Dude shit like that is why no one will date you."

Ky: "Haah, what are your powers?"

Sat: "I don't see why you need to know that, I'm not the one fighting you."

Ky: "Eh?"

Sat: "Kazu come here and introduce yourself."

A guy that was standing in the back of the group came walking up to me, he had straightened black hair fashioned in an emo peek-a-boo bangs style that covered his right eye.

Jeez what's up with kids and that hairstyle these days, is depth perception uncool now?

Fortunately, that's where the emo features ended, he also wore a different uniform than his friends and while he was muscular he was still the smallest among them though stood a couple of inches taller than me.

Kaz: "Hey, name's Kazuhiko."

It was then that Kazuhiko moved his attention to Kirino.

Kaz: "Hey Kirino, Ayase, nice to see you two again."

Ki: "Hey it's been a while."

Ay: "You've really changed since we last saw you."

Kaz: "I've been working out."

Ky: "Wait you two know this guy?"

Ki: "We went to school together before we transferred to CHA."

Ky: "Wait this guy's a frickin middle schooler?!"

Ay: "Yeah but last time we saw him he was much smaller, at least as tall as us."

Ar: "Now he's gotten all sexeh!"

Sat: "Thanks to all the training we've put him through."

Ky: "So you want to challenge me?"

Kaz: "Yeah."

Ky: "Okay what are your powers?"

Kaz: "Rubberized Body, Adaptation, Enhanced Regeneration."

Ky: "Hm, we don't have anyone like you at CHA."

Sat: "Well my abilities aren't exactly common, now as for you I already know your abilities, Thermal Manipulation, level Advanced recently promoted from Intermediate, Adaptations are Indestructibility and Pain Nullification."

Ar: "Huh, didn't take you for a researcher."

Kaz: "Well my original plans were to fight Aoi, that's why Satoru picked me, my abilities would've made a good counter to his."

Sat: "But the fact that you're the new #1 doesn't make a difference, so we doing this or are you going to chicken out?"

Ky: "Hmm…"

Ki: "What's with the hesitation?"

Ky: "Well I've never fought a guy like him before and he just seems a bit too confident, it feels like he has something up his sleeve."

Ki: "Yeah, I've never seen Kazuhiko use his powers for more than utility purposes and who knows what kind of training he's been through, just look at him, but it wouldn't be good for your rep to reject your first challenge after the Reranking Tournament but it's your choice."

Ky: "…Haah, alright let's do this."

Ar: "Good, now all you need to do is sign this and we can meet at the field later today when nobody is around."

Ky: "Wait don't I need to get the principal's permission first?"

Ar: "I already got him to sign it, see?"

Ky: "And let me gue- Oh yes, the other principal already signed it too, OF COURSE."

I signed the paper and Ayase and I headed back to the dorms while Kirino went to track practice. When it got close to time I headed to the lockers to change back into my gym clothes and we met at the field at the set time where everything was already prepared and we took our places while Kirino rushed in still in her running clothes.

Ki: "Jeez coach doesn't know when to take a hint, so did I miss anything?"

Ay: "No, you're just in time."

Aoi: "Hey there Kirino."

Ki: "Aoi? What the heck are you doing here?"

Ar: "Satoru told him about it and invited him to watch."

Aoi: "I tried to bring Daiki but he refused."

Ki: "Okay then."

Sat: "Just watch Aoi, our boy Kazu is going to beat a top ranked student and get accepted into CHA."

Ky: "Wait that's what happens if you beat me?"

It was then that the moderator spoke up.

"Yes, if a student from a normal school beats the top ranked student from a hero school they become eligible for acceptance into said hero school even if they have a compromising school record and/or bad grades, though they will enroll with the lowest rank."

Ky: "So that's why you guys have been rivalling with Aoi?"

"Kick his ass Kazu!"

"Shove your rubber foot up his tiny ass and out his mouth!"

"Alright take your positions."

Kazuhiko and I walked to the opposite ends of the field, the barrier projectors set up the walls and the moderator prepared to begin the match

Ky: "Alright Kazu since you're the challenger, I'll give you the first move."

Sat: "It's all he'll need to snap your twiggy ass!"

Ky: "…"

Kaz: "Sir can I say something before we start?"

"Is that okay with you Mr. Kousaka?"

Ky: "Sure."

Kaz: "…Kirino."

Ki: "Eh?"

Kaz: "So many things were left unsaid when you left and I thought I'd never again get the chance to say them to you but now I'm not going to let this moment slip through my fingers."

Ki: "I don't like where this is going."

Kaz: "Kirino Kousaka…I love you, I loved from the moment I saw you, from the moment you first talked to me, every day, no, every second I was with you felt like I was in heaven and blah, blah, blah…"

Why am I not laughing at this? Normally I'd find this absolutely hilarious but now…

Ay: "That's so beautiful."

Ar: "{sniff} Why can't more guys be as sweet as him?"

Kaz: "Blah and blah and blahblahblah, so I dedicate this duel to you in hopes that if I win…maybe we can finally be more than friends."

Sat: "Well that sure came out of nowhere."

Kirino sat there at a loss for words but she looked down at me and when we made eye contact I could tell she was thinking.

Kyousuke you better fucking win, I don't want to deal with the fallout when I break the poor guy's heart.

Yeah, yeah just don't get pissed at me if I lose.

Ky: "Alright Ref begin countdown."

"Three…two…one {Whistle!}."

Ky: "Alright Kazuhiko it's your move."

Kaz: "I'll make good use of it."

Kazuhiko quickly drew back his arm and he seem to twist around as he did so and when he thrust his arm forward it began to stretch and in the blink of an eye his fist crossed the distance between the two of us and hit me in the head with great force sending me flying right into the wall behind me.

{Crack!} {Wham!}

I fell to the ground though I felt surprisingly fine, I looked to Kazuhiko who was looking as if he already won.

Kaz: "Hm, too easy."

"Whoo!"

"Yeah Kazu, you're the man!"

Ky: "Um, is that it?"

Kaz: "Eh? You're…still conscious?"

Ky: "I have to say that hit wasn't very hard, no offense but I take more severe beatings from my sister on a regular basis, compared to that, that was a bitch slap at best."

Kaz: "Grrr, I'll show you a bitch slap."

Kazuhiko sent his fist flying at me, again slamming me up against the wall and before I fell he began assaulting me with a rapid burst of punches and I hit the ground with a thud.

Kaz: "What do you think of that asshole?"

{thud}

Ky: "A punch flurry? I'm sorry but unless you're super strong using that move is kind of…lame."

"Hahaha that was so lame!"

"Dude the stretchy boy is on our side remember."

"Oh."

Kaz: "Shut the hell up!"

Ky: "Calm down man, I wasn't trying to make fun of you!"

Kazuhiko threw another high speed stretch punch though with a slight dodge I was able to avoid it and I grabbed onto his stretched forearm and began freezing it, preventing it from retracting.

Kaz: "What the hell?!"

Ky: "Whoa, this really is just like rubber."

Kaz: "Why can't I pull it back?!"

Ky: "Don't worry I'll fix this, I'll just heat it back up."

I placed my hands on the arm but I accidentally applied too much heat causing it to rapidly retract and Kazuhiko hit himself in the face.

Kaz: "Gah!"

Ky: "Whoops."

Ki: "PFF."

I could see everyone including some of Satoru's guys snickered at that and that hit took out a small amount of his HP.

Kaz: "You bastard!"

Ky: "Jeez I thought emos always kept their cool."

Kazuhiko quickly recovered and angrily shot another punch at me and without me having to move it completely missed.

Kaz: "Shit!"

Before it could be retracted I quickly cooled it until it dropped limp onto the ground.

Ky: "Um maybe you should move your hair out of your eye so you can aim better."

Sat: "That's what I kept telling him but he insisted that he could see fine!"

Kaz: "Grrr."

Kazuhiko seemed at a loss of what to do, if he shot his other arm at me it wouldn't do much if it actually hit. Also once it made contact I could just freeze it, completely disarming him and I could actually make him damage himself if I heated up both his arms.

Ky: "Did you really just jump into this battle without any kind of strategy?"

Kaz: "Well…you didn't either!"

Ky: "Basic strategy, hold back power while gauging your enemy's power then improvise from there."

Kaz: "…"

Kazuhiko prepared for a battle with Aoi a student he was a perfect counter against but now he was fighting against the perfect counter to himself.

Kaz: "…Not…up."

Ky: "What was that? I couldn't hear you."

Kaz: "I'm not…GOING TO GIVE UP?!"

Kazuhiko then recklessly shot his other fist at me…but it missed too and just like the other one I cooled it rendering it useless.

Kaz: "…"

Ky: "Well you put up a good fight Kazuhiko but I have to make my move now."

I place my hands on both his arms and heated them up causing them to rapidly retract and shoot back towards Kazuhiko but just before they hit he quickly ducked.

Kaz: "Hm you fell into my trap."

Ky: "Hey you got your emo factor back."

His fists flew over his head and his arms stretched far behind him.

Kaz: "Checkmate!"

Ky: "Oh shit."

With the power of his rebounding arms Kazuhiko punched me back up against the wall and without giving me a chance to recover he assaulted me with another wave of long range punches stronger than before.

Kaz: "I will show Kirino that I'm strong enough the stand at her side and you will not get in my WAAAAY!"

{WHAMWHAMWHAMWHAMWHAM!}

Dust was kicked up, the wall began to crack, faster and faster his fists flew until they were moving so fast that they had disappeared and Kazuhiko was turning red from the incredible strain he was putting on himself but…

Kaz: "Heh, haah, let's see you, haah, get up from that."

As the dust settled I STOOD there and looked at Kazu with a look on my face that I could only describe as a mix of confusion and pity when it was revealed that his aim drifted in his blind punching and had only torn up the area to the left of me.

Ky: "…"

Kaz: "…"

Sat: "…Dude."

Ky: "And you looked so cool too."

It was then Kazuhiko decided to slowly tuck the hair over his eye behind his ear and immediately fired his stretchy arm at me again but he was still exhausted from his last assault so it was easily blocked by a Thermal Blast.

{Boom!}

Then before he could retract it I decided to use a new move of mine that only ever played around with in my head but was easy to execute.

Thermal Rifle.

Just like with a Thermal Blast I concentrated heat energy into a tight ball and used some more energy to create a rotating cylinder shaped heat projection around the ball. Then just like, well, a rifle all the energy from the release was sent in one direction thus reducing its spread and increasing it's it range and impact though created more recoil.

{FwshBANG!}

The heated air hit with such speed and force that Kazu was sent slamming into the wall behind him and leaving only half of his HP.

Kaz: "Dammit!"

While he was down Kazuhiko threw another punch at me but again I blocked it, he got on his feet and desperately threw another punch, again blocked.

Ky: "Listen man I don't want to humiliate you, so if you want we can postpone the battle until you're better prepared."

Sat: "That's a good offer Kazu, let's back out now and try again later!"

Kaz: "NO! I'm going to beat you here and now!"

Ky: "Alright calm down, this isn't some theatrical drama, it's not like I'm going to shut down your school or steal your dream girl, who happens to be my sister, once I win, heck I don't even get anything for winning."

Kaz: "I'm not going to lose face in front of Kirino."

Ky: "It's a bit too late for that."

Kaz: "I will be with her no matter what!"

{FwshBANG!}

Ky: "And that's where you crossed the line between pitiful and annoying."

Finally having enough of this battle and Kazuhiko's shit I fired my Thermal Rifle again while he was having his passionate breakdown and then a few more shots to take out his HP.

{FwshBANG!}

Ky: "I gave you an inch."

{FwshBANG!}

Ky: "But rather than taking a mile like most others would."

{FwshBANG!}

Ky: "You decided to jump off a cliff."

"Winner Kyousuke Kousaka!"

The shield projectors broke down the walls and I approached Kazuhiko as Satoru and his gang helped him up.

Sat: "You alright man?"

Kaz: "Yeah, I can stand."

Ky: "So when should we plan the next bout?"

Sat: "I don't know, how does two weeks from now sound to you?"

Ky: "I was joking, I honestly don't care."

Sat: "You smug bastard."

As we were talking Kazuhiko decided briskly walk past me towards Kirino.

Kaz: "Kirino!?"

Ki: "Uh, y-yeah?"

Kaz: "…I know I wasn't able to win I still want hear your answer, do…do you love me too."

Ki: "…"

Kaz: "…Kirino?"

Ki: "I'm sorry Kazuhiko but…I don't feel the same way."

Kaz: "…Is it because I didn't win?"

Ki: "No! What kind of girl do you think I am?! It's just…there's someone else I like."

Kaz: "…I see then."

Without saying another word Kazuhiko put his hair back over his eye, turned and walked away though when he walked out of sight we heard him begin to sob like a baby.

Kaz: "AAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA! WHY KAMI WHYYYYY!"

Sat: "Uh well we may have lost this time but we'll be back with…something, come on guys."

Satoru and his gang headed off in the same direction as Kazuhiko and walked out of sight.

Ky: "Well…that happened but I'm glad it's over."

Ar: "Though you should get prepared for it to happen again and again and again."

Aoi: "She's right, Satoru is stubborn as he is muscular, I guarantee he'll be back to try again though this is the first time I've seen him try and get someone else outside his gang to attempt this but yeah this is going to be a regular part of your life at CHA."

Ky: "Shit."

It was then that Ayase decided to speak up.

Ay: "Kirino?"

Ki: "Yeah."

Ayase looked at Kirino with an excited expression and sparkling eyes.

Ay: "There's someone you like?!"

Ki: "I'm not telling you so you can just for get about it right now, anyway, Kyousuke let's get going it's getting late."

Ky: "Yeah, yeah Warrior Angel."

Ki: "{Kick}."

Ky: "Gah!"

Ki: "I'll see you guys later."

Ky: "Gah, night everyone, ow."

Ay: "Bye."

Ar: "Later."

Aoi: "Sleep well Kousakas."

After heading back to the locker rooms to change we headed back to the dorms.

Ky: "…So you like someone huh?"

Ki: "Why are you suddenly curious? Wait are you jealous?! Gross!"

Ky: "No! I am your brother, I'm supposed to give you some kind of advice or something, aren't I?"

Ki: "Hmph didn't think you'd care so much."

Ky: "Alright fine then don't tell me."

Ki: "…Honestly I just lied so I wouldn't hurt Kazuhiko too much, sure he's a bit of a drama queen but he's a nice guy."

Ky: "I see sometimes I forget that you aren't always the hell cat you are around me."

Ki: "Do you want to go for twice in one day?"

Ky: "Alright sorry."

Ki: "…Though what would you think if I did like someone?"

Ky: "It's not like it matters to me that much but I wouldn't be much of a brother if I didn't show any interest in it…and I wouldn't really like it if the guy turned out to be a jerk."

Ki: "{blush}Jeez…you're so nosy."

Wednesday, Lunch time.

{Ring, ring}

As Kirino and I were headed to the cafeteria my phone suddenly rang and saw that it was an unknown caller.

Ky: "Hello."

Ni: |Greetings Mr. Kousaka.|

Ky: "Who's this?"

Ni: |Don't you remember? It's me Nicola from the DSA.|

Ky: "Democratic Socialists of America?"

Ni: |N-no, the Department of Superhuman Affairs.|

Ky: "Oh!"

Ni: |I keep telling them we should put that H in there, well Mr. Kousaka we've made preparations at a facility over in Tokyo to perform some tests on you.|

Ky: "What kind of tests?"

Ni: |You know basic tests I developed on my plaaaa- I mean based on previous research acquired from other test subjects, just to find anything anomalous about your powers.|

Ky: "I see."

Ni: |We'll be in front of your dormitory in an hour to pick you up, you don't need to inform your teachers we already filled them in so I suggest you head to your dorm and get ready.|

Ky: "Got it."

Suddenly Kirino grabbed the phone from my hand and began to speak.

Ki: "Actually make it two hours, we were just about to eat."

Ni: |Well if you're hungry we have-|

Ki: "I said we're about to EAT, we. Will. See. You. In. Two. Ho-urs."

{Click}

Kirino quickly hung up and tossed me my phone back.

Ky: "Hmph, nice work, guess your bitching is good for something."

Ki: "{kick}."

Ky: "Gah!"

We grabbed our lunches, sat with Kirino's group and began to dig in though as I was eating I noticed Kirino looking at me.

Ky: "Ah, beefy seaweed ramen you are my heart and soul~"

Ki: "…"

Ky: "Uh, there a noodle on my face."

Ki: "…"

Ky: "…You know Kazuhiko was surprisingly easy to beat."

Ki: "Well that just goes to show that you need to have more confidence in yourself, low confidence can be really inconvenient in the battlefield. Though if beating the strongest student at our school isn't enough of a confidence booster then you must really hate yourself."

Ky: "I don't hate myself!"

We headed to our dorm and changed into some street clothes, our two hours passed and we walked outside to see a white sedan parked outside the entrance and Ms. Kirishima standing next to it and some guy in a suit sitting in the driver's seat.

Na: "Hello there children."

Ky: "Hey."

Ki: "Alright let's get going."

Na: "Ms. Kousaka, perhaps you'd prefer to stay here."

Ki: "I don't have anything going on right now."

Na: "Still this isn't going to take very long, we'll be back in about an hour."

Ki: "Kyousuke get in the car."

Ky: "Uh what?"

In response Kirino grabbed me by the ear and pulled me to the car.

Ky: "Owowowowow!"

She quickly opened the back seat and threw me inside before scooting in next to me and slamming the door closed.

Na: "Haah alright let's go."

The driver pulled away and exited the campus.

Na: "So Mr. Kousaka have you noticed anything else about your powers since our first meeting."

Ky: "Not really."

Na: "How about anything physiological? Appetite? Sleep requirements? Or maybe some kind of dream anomaly?"

Ky: "Nothing that I remember."

Na: "I see."

The rest of the drive was completely silent until we reached a tall generic looking building in the city and the driver pulled into an underground parking garage behind it. We entered the building and took an elevator further down to a generic looking hallway, Ms. Kirishima went left and we followed until she stopped in front of one of the doors and opened it.

Na: "We're here."

Ni: "Ah greetings Kousaka siblings."

Inside was Nicola Johannes dressed in a doctor's jacket and a stethoscope, the room itself was just like a normal examination room at a hospital.

Ky: "Hello Mr. Johannes, so what are we doing first?"

Ni: "First we'll just do a routine physical then a CAT scan, would you mind waiting outside Ms. Kousaka."

Ki: "…Fine."

Kirino reluctantly left the room and we went about all the procedures, reflex test, eye exam, blood pressure test, ear scoping, they attempted to take DNA samples with cheek swabs, skin flake harvest and by plucking some hair, unfortunately they were unsuccessful.

Ni: "Urrrrrrg!"

Ky: "Owowowowow!"

Na: "Come on Nick, pull harder."

Ni: "I'm pulling as hard as I can!"

Na: "Alright you can stop now."

Ni: "Gah, no skin flakes, nothing from the cheek swabs and his hair is as indestructible as the rest of him."

Na: "This doesn't make any sense, haven't you had a haircut before?"

Ky: "I really don't get it either, maybe I need to feel like I'm getting a haircut?"

Ni: "…Yes…that would be logical."

Na: "What's up with you?"

Ni: "Just…something I didn't take into mind until now, alright Kyousuke just relax and I'll give you the barber treatment."

After trying to emulate a barber atmosphere with what they had on hand they actually managed to snip off a bit of my hair.

Ni: "Success!"

Na: "Whoa it actually worked!"

Ky: "So, are we done yet?"

Ni: "Yeah let's head to the CAT scan room."

Na: "Are you sure a CAT scan is going to work on him?"

Ni: "His core should be in a sort of 'passive' mode so it should be fine…hopefully."

We exited the room and headed further down the hall with Kirino following, we quickly finished with the scan and they informed me that nothing was out of the ordinary though they didn't show me any of the scan images. After that I had changed into some white clothes and found myself in a sort of testing chamber similar to the one I used for my application test but it was twice as big and everyone else was inside the observation room.

Ni: "Alright next we'll be running some ability tests to see the current extent of your powers."

Ky: "So, what? Am I going to have to kill some monsters?"

Ni: "No, we don't have any on hand at this facility but these tests mainly involve ability assessment, Kirishima would you please initiate the first test."

Na: "Gladly."

I could see Ms. Kirishima flip a switch on the control panel and a big segmented metal shutter began to lower over the viewing window.

Ky: "What's going on?"

Ni: "We're initiating the first test, I ask that you brace yourself and cover any unprotected orifices you may have to prevent any unwanted debris from entering your body."

As soon as the shutter finally closed a bunch of panels on the walls opened up to reveal weapons of many different varieties ranging from projectile and energy based assault weapons, flamethrowers, missile launchers, railguns, sonic canons, tesla rifles and…

{Clack!}

Ky: "Huh."

In front of me was dropped a little plastic brick toy with a thumbtack stuck through it.

Ky: "What the…"

Ni: "Who put that in there?! Whatever, begin test!"

{BANGBANGBANGBANG!}

{PEWPEWPEWPEW!}

{FWOOOOM!}

Ky: "AAAAAAAAH!"

Every weapon then fired upon me at once, blinding me in a maelstrom of light, fire and smoke and knocking me around like a crash test dummy. When the haze finally subsided I was left laying face down, covered in soot and the toy brick and thumb tack that somehow survived that bombardment was now jammed in my foot.

Na: "Wow you really are indestructible."

Ki: "What would you have done if he actually died!?"

Ni: "Don't worry, we have some equipment on hand that could revive him."

Ki: "Uh, you okay down there?"

Ky: "{Twitch, thumb up}."

Ki: "Okay good."

Ni: "On to the next test."

TEST NO.2

Ni: "This weight is at least three tons, let's see if you can hold it."

Suspended above me was a large metal weight held by a chain.

Ky: "So my special abilities include super strength?"

Ni: "Probably, we're just testing if it does, so think fast."

Na: "Releasing weight."

Ky: "WaitI'mnot-"

{Bong! Crunch}

TEST NO.3

Ni: "Alright, we've filled the chamber with volatile gases, try to concentrate the-"

Na: "Uh, Nick he's already passed out."

Ni: "Oh, guess we should've given him an oxygen tank."

The rest of the tests continued, fortunately not all of them were so intense though I ended up failing all the ones where I couldn't apply my own abilities.

Ni: "Alright Mr. Kousaka that's enough torcher for today."

Ky: "So what did you figure out from all that, besides that I'd be useful in safety testing."

Ni: "We didn't figure out much aside from the fact that your indestructibility isn't actually an adaptation."

Ky: "It isn't?"

Ki: "It isn't?"

Ni: "No, it's actually a passive ability."

Ki: "There's no way, passive abilities take years to hone, nobody is just born with them!"

Ni: "Well yes but some rare cases do occur where a passive ability develops subconsciously amongst mentally gifted individuals and can even work similarly to an adaptation."

Ky: "Cool."

Ki: "So his immortality is derived from his initial power."

Ni: "Uh…yes."

Ki: "What kind of power does he have?!"

Na: "I already told you, that's classified."

I exited the chamber and was given a back my clothes.

Ni: "Alright we've gotten all the data we could get for today, we'll call you back when we need you again."

Na: "You two can just go back to the garage on your own and the driver will take you back, oh and you can just throw away those clothes."

Ky: "Alright then, later."

Ki: "Jeez it's almost curfew let's hurry back, I don't want to miss my show."

Ky: "Yeah, yeah, you go ahead to the car while I go change."

Ki: "Just don't take too long idiot."

Kirino ran off while I headed to a bathroom and began to change.

{Rumble}

Ky: "Hm? Earthquake?"

{Rumble!}

{BWEEEEP! BWEEEEP!}

"Warning! Villain attack in progress!"

Ky: "Dammit, why now?"

"Please evacuate to the nearest Shelter immedia-"

Ky: "OH SHI-"

{SMASH!}

Just as I was exiting the bathroom the building collapsed on top of me and I was knocked out.

…

Ky: "Ugh."

I came to several seconds later and in the darkness I could feel that I was pinned under a ton of debris but I could at least move enough to reach for my phone which miraculously survived but when I looked at the screen I saw that I had no service.

Ky: "Dammit."

I turned on my phone light so I could view my surroundings and fortunately I wasn't totally buried, I could even see that the door to the bathroom was still intact.

Ky: "Agh, can't move."

Seeing that I was completely immobilized I set down my phone and began to apply heat energy into the debris on top of me causing some of it to catch fire and the rest melted providing enough give for me crawl out just before even more debris came crashing down.

Ky: "Damn that was close, now to get out of here and see what's going on."

I attempted to open the bathroom door but it was stuck in the frame so I rammed it down with my shoulder and when I got out the hall was just as dark. When I pointed my phone light in the direction of the elevator I saw that the hall had collapsed blocking my exit.

Ky: "Shit, maybe I can burn my way through."

Though given the condition of the structure that could be risky.

Ky: "Hmm."

I could melt everything together and cool it immediately to create support as I go through but I'm really going to need to max out my output to get out in a timely manner…I'm sure Kirino's alright but I should at least do what I can to make sure.

Ky: "Welp, let's get to work."

3rd Person POV

{Wwwaaaaaawwwoooooowwwaaaaaawwwoooo}

Ki: "{Cough! Cough!} Ugh, what happened?"

After being hit on the head by big chunks of rubble on her way to a shelter Kirino had spent the last few minutes out cold on the ground though the scene she woke up to was less than pleasant.

Ki: "What the hell happened?"

From what she could see most of the immediate area was lain to waste with only a few buildings still standing though a couple of them looked like they were about to collapse. She couldn't see very far out or even upward due to thick clouds of smoke and dust and with the sun being blocked out the only thing lighting up the area was the fires among the destruction.

{Rumble, rumble, boom}

Off in the distance, behind the haze of smoke and dust she heard what sounded like a battle going on and could see a few flashes of light.

Ki: "What's going on over there?"

"Hey you! Young lady!"

Suddenly she heard someone's voice and looked to see what looked like some people in hero suits with masks waving at her and she could see a group of civilians behind them.

"Are you in need of assistance?! If not then come over here!"

I don't want to leave Kyousuke behind but with whatever is going on up here he'd probably be safer underground, even if everyone else down there is dead he'd just go dormant so he can be rescued later.

So she walked toward the group and when she got within a few feet of them she could suddenly breathe easier.

"Are you hurt young lady?"

Ki: "No I'm fine."

"Here hun, have a bottle of water."

Ki: "Thanks."

"We're on our way to a nearby shelter so follow us."

"And stay close to the group, I'm creating weak force field to block out air contaminants."

Ki: "Okay."

"Alright everyone let's keep moving!"

The group continued forward for a few minutes until they reached a fallen skyscraper.

"Okay the shelter be just…here."

"Um, is anyone here an Earth Elemental or a Super Lifter…or just a really good digger?!"

No one lifted their hand and given that I was still a minor I wasn't in a position to volunteer.

"…Hm, well looks like we have no choice but to find a different one."

Ki: "…Wait."

"Hm?"

Ki: "I'm a Super Lifter, I could help."

"Well we appreciate the offer but we can't ask a child to-"

"How much can you lift?"

Ki: "About seventy tons, a hundred if I strain myself."

"Holy shit!"

"Hey we can't-"

"Listen, you hear all the chaos going on over there?"

{Boom, boom, rumble}

"If these people stay too long in this battlefield they might get caught in the crossfire and the closest shelter from here is ten minutes away. Our best option for getting these people to safety is by accepting this young lady's help."

"Hmph, alright let's see what you can do."

Ki: "Right."

They gave Kirino an extra gas mask they had and led her to where the entrance was buried and the civilians were moved out of the way in case she had to throw anything.

Ki: "Haah, alright goodbye manicure."

She went to work, digging away hundreds of pounds of rubble in single scoops and tossing big chunks of concrete and mangled metal.

"Whoa she's really getting the job done."

"You think she goes to a hero school?"

"With that sort of strength, I'd be surprised if she isn't."

She kept making progress through the collapsed building and as she did she could feel the earth occasionally shake but after a few minutes she banged her hand against a piece of immovable metal.

Ki: "Ah! Ow!"

"You okay in there?!"

Ki: "I think I found the entrance."

"Awesome, just dig it out and we'll get the civies lined up to enter."

Ki: "Got it!"

Kirino continued digging though as she dug anytime she accidentally hit any part of the entrance it didn't dent or give at all and if she hit it a little too hard it would actually hurt.

Ki: "What's this made out of?"

{Crash!}

"AAAH!"

Suddenly she heard a commotion outside and ran to see what it was.

Ki: "What happened?!"

Kirino came out to see a man lying on the ground covered in bruises, splattered with blood, clothes in tatters and appeared to be unconscious, he had black hair which was now in a mess and his face was too beaten to really identify him. But then she looked at his outfit, she saw it was a hero suit and from what was left of it she could see the recognizable Japanese Rising Sun pattern on the chest, the man on the ground was Japan's strongest and most iconic hero, Sergeant Sunrise.

"Oh my god."

Ki: "What the…"

{Crash!}

Then just as one of the other heroes was about to go over and help Sergeant Sunrise something else came crashing in.

"Heeey…don't konk out on me yet, things were just getting good."

It was a shirtless man about seven feet tall, had short dark brown hair, his face made him look like he was in his early thirties and while muscular he wasn't bulky.

"Hm? Oh more pests trying to escape, though I'd rather not bother with little bugs like you so I'll just let my minions take care of it."

The man then pulled out a flare gun and shot a multi-star flare into the air.

"Now if you don't mind I have a national symbol of peace to murder."

The man took position to make another strike and it didn't look like Sergeant Sunrise was going to wake up any time soon.

"Honestly you were really disappointing, well time to put you down."

The man raised his fist but just before threw a punch a little boy jumped on top of Sergeant Sunrise in an attempt to protect him.

"Aida no!"

"Hmph."

"I won't let you hurt him!"

Then a few of the civilians ran over to stand in between the man and Sergeant Sunrise before the rescue heroes ran over to join them.

"L-listen, we won't let you hurt these people and I'm sure you don't want to, not every villain is heartless so I ask that-"

Suddenly the man quickly kicked up a piece of rebar and shoved it through the hero's chest.

{Stab!}

"KAH!"

The man then lifted the hero up by the rebar so he could look him in the eye.

"You're right I'm not heartless, which is why I give you invasive maggots the mercy of a quick death, heh, well except you there on the skewer. Though I make no exceptions on who is or isn't deserving of extermination, young, old, man, woman you're all the same in my eyes, nothing but pests poisoning this world and even allowing the smallest infant to survive will ensure your continued infestation, so do you really think I'd back off to spare a child?"

"Gahhhaaahhh, you're a monster."

"In the eyes of a pest what else would an exterminator be?"

He then dropped the skewered hero to the ground.

"Agh!"

"Anyone that wants a few extra moments of life, get out of the way because in that time everything in front of me will disappear."

Nobody moved as the man drew back his arm and Kirino looked away.

"RRRAAAH!"

{WHAM!}

After a few seconds of silence, Kirino looked back to see…

SS: "Grrrrgggrrrr."

"So the mighty Sergeant still has some fight left in him."

Sergeant Sunrise had gotten back up and used both his hands to block the man's punch but even with that the man was able ram his fist into the Sergeant's chest.

SS: "Everyone…everyone head to the shelter now!"

On his command everyone began to run towards the shelter and one of the other heroes picked up their fatally wounded friend.

"I don't think so!"

Suddenly the man grabbed Sergeant Sunrise by the wrist and threw him with incredible force at the building over the entrance and Kirino moved out of the way as the tunnel she dug collapsed.

"I'm not letting any more of you little pests get away."

Sergeant Sunrise climbed out of the rubble and rushed over to the man to punch him with the strength he had left but the man grabbed his forearm and with his thumb just snapped it in half.

SS: "AAAGH!"

The Sergeant reeled back while he held his broken arm.

"You were somewhat fun at first but now you're pitiful, just give up and breathe in the pesticides."

"Hey Nuke, we're here!"

"Took you long enough."

Out of nowhere a bunch of people showed up counting at least fifty, some men, some women, and they seemed to be associated with the man fighting Sergeant Sunrise which they were referring to as Nuke they also all had a similar build to Nuke, seven feet tall, muscular but not bulky.

"I should probably introduce you Sergeant, this is my team of Reborn humans."

SS: "Reborn?"

"Yes, normal humans reborn with superhuman bodies."

SS: "H-how?"

"Sorry trade secret but it is quite an amazing process especially since each one of them has the same power that I do, heck even close to the same level."

SS: "…"

"Jeez you still haven't killed that guy."

"Ugh, shut up and kill these people already, we still have to find our target."

"Heh, more meat to mulch."

"This is starting to get boring now."

Nuke's cohorts began to bear down on Kirino and the group with looks of delight, disgust and hatred but before they could do anything a sound stopped them all in their tracks.

{Beep}

Nu: "Hm?"

{Beep, beep, beep}

Nuke then pulled out a small beeping device.

Nu: "…"

Nuke then started pointing the device in different directions as his minions stood in place watching as if transfixed.

Nu: "Hmm."

{Beep. Beep. Beep}

Nu: "Mmm."

{Beep, beep, beep}

Nu: "Hm."

{Beepbeepbeep}

When Nuke waved it in the direction Kirino's group had originally come from the device began to go nuts.

Ky: "Alright the shelter should be over here…"

Then around the corner came Kyousuke with his shirt over his mouth and cell phone in hand using it to locate the nearest shelter.

Nu: "…"

Ky: "Hm? …Oh hey Kirino there you are."

Ki: "…"

Ky: "Is that Sergeant Sunrise?"

Nuke immediately teleported in front of Kyousuke and pulled him up into the air by his collar.

Nu: "WE FINALLY FOUND YOU!"

Ky: "What the heck man?!"

Nu: "Alright team we have our target and you know what that means right?"

"We get our wish!"

"Hell yeah!"

Nu: "Now let's finish things here and get going."

"No! I don't want to die!"

Suddenly one of the male civilians decided to make a run for it but before he could get thirty feet away one of the Reborn that was in front of the group disappeared and reappeared behind him. He was already posed to kick him in the ribs then the moment the Reborn's kick landed the man vanished and a blast of wind blew in every direction.

{CRASH!}

But as soon as he disappeared a sudden massive crashing sound could be heard and everyone looked to see one of the still standing sky scrapers collapsing.

"Did he just…"

SS: "No."

Ky: "Holy…shit."

Nu: "Nice shot."

"Thanks."

Nu: "Now come on we don't have all day, take care of the rest of them."

"Roger."

Some of the Reborn took position in front of Kirino and the civilians and began to raise their fists to strike. Kirino stood there having flashbacks of almost being killed by the Juicer Monster and became paralyzed, as the fear jolted through her Kyousuke's core detected the negative energy sending signals through the newly formed connections to his brain and subconscious.

Ki: Kyousuke.

Ky: "Kirino."

"NOW DIE!"

Ky: "KIRINO!"

"AAAAH!"

SS: "Don't!"

{WHAM!}

Each Reborn struck, holding back enough to allow the bodies to spatter rather than vaporize, at least they would have had they not been blocked.

Ki: "Kyousuke!"

Nu: "Eh? …EH?!"

In the blink of an eye Kyousuke had disappeared from Nuke's grip and appeared in between the reborn and the civilians and had erected a barrier that absorbed their punches and in response they quickly backed off.

"How in the hell did he block all of us?"

Ki: "K-Kyousuke? Can you hear me?"

Kyousuke turn to Kirino with the same expressionless face as the last time she had witnessed him like this and his irises produced the same electric blue glow but their eye contact was momentary as Kyousuke looked down at the hero with the rebar in his chest and was on the edge of death and he just bent down and yanked it out.

"Gah!"

"Hey kid what the hell are you thinking?!"

"Wait look?!"

The injured hero's friends looked at his chest to see that there was no wound or any sign that he was hurt and he was quickly recovering.

"What the hell?"

"He's going to be okay!"

Nu: "Hm seems our target has a few tricks up his sleeve, whatever, break through that barrier and grab him."

"Roger, alright guys let's pop this bubble."

The Reborn approached for a second assault but once they drew back their arms Kyousuke somehow morphed the rebar into a five foot long blade and quickly used it to sliced off all their heads.

"What the hell?!"

Blood sprayed from their bodies as their heads fell to the ground and seconds later the bodies fell too.

SS: "So easily?"

Nu: "Hmph as they say, if you want something done right then go and do it yourself."

Nuke approached Kyousuke calmly staring him down.

Nu: "I'll take you on now kid but how about we keep it fair and set aside any weapons, that sound good?"

For a few seconds Kyousuke didn't respond until he pointed the rebar blade at Nuke then tilted it downward a little before quickly flipping into the air at incredible speed sending it flying through the barrier of smoke hovering over the area.

Nu: "…Huh, still not coming down, whatever, though before we start I should introduce myself, I'm Nucular Fist, Super lifter, World Class and as my name suggests I can punch with the force…of a nuclear bomb."

SS: "No, if he hits with full power even if that boy isn't killed instantly the force will kill everyone else."

Nu: "Now how about you?"

Ky: "…"

Nu: "Heh, suddenly big boy gets some extra power and he becomes mute with overconfidence, doesn't matter, LET'S GET THIS STARTED!"

Nucular Fist quickly leaped toward Kyousuke as he called out the name of his first move.

Nu: "NUCULAR IMPAAACT!"

Everyone braced themselves for shock but when the punch landed…

{Smack}

"Eh?"

Nu: "What?"

SS: "…"

Ki: "Whoa."

Kyousuke had caught the punch in his hand with ease absorbing its full force making it look as if Nuke had only tapped him.

"He just caught it?"

Then with Nuke's fist tightly gripped in his hand Kyousuke moved his arm to the side and spartan kicked Nuke in the stomach with twice the force of Nucular Impact but more focused so the energy wouldn't spread out. The kick sent Nuke flying backwards a Mach speed into a pile of debris while his arm was ripped out as it remained in Kyousuke's grip.

{CRASH!}

Nu: "Gah!"

"Boss!"

Pieces of jagged metal jutted from Nuke's body now, blood was spilling out of the holes they made and his legs were paralyzed after the kick had snapped his spine. Nuke then pulled out the flare gun with a shaky hand and fired a parachute flare to signal the location of the target.

Nu: "G-get him, GET HIM NOW!"

The Reborn acted quickly, the closest one to Kyousuke began to charge at him but the moment he got close enough Kyousuke slammed Nukes severed arm down onto his head with enough force to shatter his skull against the ground. Then without pause he teleported to the next reborn that was right behind the other one and before she could act Kyousuke kicked her head clean off and sent it flying to another one, hitting them in the face hard enough to break their neck. Kyousuke then grabbed the decapitated Reborn threw it at another knocking them both to the ground and before the living one could get back up Kyousuke forced long piece of rebar through both their chests. Another one that got too close Kyousuke proceeded to rip out his head and spine Predator style then used it as a razor-whip to slice three Reborn in half in rapid succession before it finally broke apart. One of the Reborn then tried to punch Kyousuke but he caught it, snapped his forearm and forced his arm backwards into his face stabbing the broken bone into the Reborn's skull then used his corpse to body slam another Reborn coming up behind him.

"He's just slaughtering them."

"And Sergeant Sunrise wasn't even able to lay a finger on one of them before, this guy is on a whole other level."

As Kyousuke quickly brought down the Reborn Sergeant Sunrise snapped out of his stupor and decided to take action by rushing over to the buried shelter entrance and used his good arm to dig away the rubble careful to keep more of the skyscraper from collapsing. When Kirino saw what he was doing she ran over to help him out and while he usually wouldn't accept help from a child for moral and legal reasons he welcomed her help in the dire hour.

SS: "Thank you."

Ki: "No problem."

With the two them working together it wasn't long before the entrance was once again dug out and Sergeant Sunrise talked into the intercom.

SS: "Hello?! This is Sergeant Sunrise!"

"Sergeant Sunrise!?"

SS: "Yes and I have a group of survivors that require entry."

"Yes sir, opening door."

SS: "Everyone into the shelter!"

Everyone began to rush over to the shelter and entered the Secure Entry Chamber, a small room that could fit at least a hundred people that granted people safety without risking any threats entering the actual shelter.

SS: "Alright that's everyone close the door."

The doors closed quickly but just before they shut a hand got in the way then another hand came in and they forced the door back open breaking the automatic shutter and revealing one of the Reborn.

"I'm not letting you get away-"

{Stab}

Before he could get in he was killed by a piece of metal through the chest.

SS: "Shit, the door is broken, operator open the main door!"

"I can't, it won't open unless the SEC door is securely closed and I don't have the authority to override it, I'll call in a team of officers with proper clearance to let you in, it's going to take a minute though."

SS: "Dammit!"

"I wish there was more I could do sir but you're just going to have to wait."

SS: "Hopefully that boy or whatever he is can handle those things."

"Given what we just saw I don't think we need to worry about him."

Ki: "…Hopefully."

Back at the fight Kyousuke had just killed his thirtieth Reborn by ripping out his lower jaw and smashing his head in with it and was now drenched in blood and his face was still as blank as before.

"What the hell is up with this guy!"

"Every time we hit him it's like he doesn't even feel it!"

"What do we do now?!"

"Hey reinforcements have arrived!"

"Oh thank god!"

Before the Reborn continued their assault more of them arrived adding around two hundred to their forces.

"You're in for it now you little bastard!"

"Alright everyone let's rush him!"

All the Reborn jumped at Kyousuke at the same time from all directions and as they were coming Kyousuke began concentrating energy, more and more as the milliseconds passed. Then when the closest one got within a foot he instantly projected a massive bubble of intense heat energy.

"AAAAAAGH!"

The blood covering him was burned away and the Reborn within range immediately caught fire, the ones closest were incinerated down to the bone and burning corpses rained down around Kyousuke. The death toll was around 180 with at least twenty-four fatally injured though anyone outside the bubble remained unharmed since the heat was perfectly contained.

"This kid, he's some kind of monster."

"There's no way we can beat him, what the hell did we get ourselves into?"

"A meat grinder."

The remaining Reborn turned to the still breathing Nucular Fist.

Nu: "He knew about this, he knew about the kind of power this kid had and sent us in here to assess his strength. Like guinea pigs sent to test the venom of a new snake species he sent us here unsure and uncaring of whether we would live or die."

"Shit."

Nu: "Run now while you can and don't ever look back."

"…"

The remaining Reborn did as Nuke said and ran, Kyousuke reabsorbed the heat energy but just as Kyousuke was about to pick off the retreating Reborn something made him stop in his tracks.

Nu: "What's wrong? Did you just remember what mercy was?"

He stood motionless for a few seconds but suddenly a jolt shot through his head and a disembodied voice rung in his ears.

"You shall not interfere."

The light in his eyes began to flicker like they were shorting out and his face contorted into a grimace of pain before finally he came back to his senses.

Ky: "Hm? What…happened?"

Kyousuke then notice the scorched corpses all around him.

Ky: "Ugh, Ohmygod…Kirino? Kirino?!"

Kyousuke looked around for her fearing that she was among the bodies but then he heard her voice.

Ki: "Kyousuke?!"

He looked back towards where the shelter was to see her and Sergeant Sunrise standing at the entrance.

Ky: "Oh thank god she's alive, what the hell happened?!"

SS: "That's what I'd like to know, there's no way that power of yours is natural."

Ky: "The heck are you talking about?"

As Sergeant Sunrise began interrogating the two no one notice another individual arriving on the scene, appearing next to Nuke.

"So it seems you failed."

Nu: "What the hell are you doing here?"

"To lend a hand."

Nu: "Lend a hand my ass, you sent us into a slaughter."

"Sort of, I assumed his core would still be dormant but at the same time I was hoping there would be some kind of activity. Though, heh, I didn't expect him and his core to be so…interconnected, perhaps you deserve a second chance to complete the mission."

Nu: "Second chance? If you haven't noticed I'm sort of a crippled pin cushion right now."

"I can fix that."

The man stood before Nuke, his glowing blue eyes staring into his.

"How would you like to be reborn?"

Nu: "…Heheh don't really have any other choice, do I? Well let's see you work your magic."

Ky: "Well I hardly know much myself, if you want to find out more you can talk to the DSA."

SS: "Democratic Socialists of America?"

Ki: "Department of Superhuman Affairs."

SS: "Oh."

Nu: "HEY!"

Suddenly a loud voice resounded through the area and everyone looked to see someone heading towards them, he was ten feet tall, grey totally hairless skin covered in pitch black segmented armor plating, red eyes with vertical predatory pupils and a mouth full of pointed canines.

Ky: "Where'd he come from?"

SS: "Who are you?"

Nu: "Heheheh, don't you recognize your friendly exterminator? Nucular Fist, God Mode."

SS: "But…I saw you, you should be dead!"

Nu: "Hmhmhm come on it happens in every story, the strongest villain is temporarily defeated only to come back at the end of the fight even stronger than before, don't you read the script?"

SS: "…Get back to the shelter."

Nu: "OH NO YOU DON'T!"

Nuke leaped at us at blinding speed but Kyousuke's enhanced reflexes allowed him to push Kirino out of the way just as his fist struck Kyousuke, he was sent tearing through piles of rock, metal and glass with such speed and force that he melted a circular path a half-mile long.

Nu: "HAAH! That felt good and that wasn't even full power."

Nuke then looked to Kirino and Sergeant Sunrise.

Nu: "I'd kill you both now but I feel so good I think I'll save you for last and don't worry…it'll be quick."

Nuke then disappeared and reappeared in front of Kyousuke.

Nu: "So you dead yet?"

He looked down to see Kyousuke crawling out of the vertical crater he was planted in and when he stood up he began to stumble around like a drunk idiot.

Nu: "Looks like I didn't hit you hard enough."

Ky: "Gsh."

Kyousuke stumbled over to Nuke and attempted to throw a punch at him but when it landed it Nuke didn't even feel it and Kyousuke fell to Nuke's feet.

Nu: "Pehahahah."

Nuke then kicked Kyousuke several feet away onto his back and walked over to press his foot down on his chest.

Nu: "Where's all that power of yours now? You're not much of an OP protagonist without it are you?"

Nuke began to press his foot down preventing Kyousuke from breathing.

Nu: "Maybe I can't take you down with brute force but maybe a little pressure oughta' do it."

Kyousuke grabbed onto Nuke's foot and began freezing it but Nuke displayed a new ability by pumping heat into his foot to counter the freezing.

Nu: "After watching you murder most of my allies forgive me if I take too much enjoyment from seeing you struggle, though the fact that I can't kill you really irks me. Guess I'll have to take out my frustrations on that girl you were with and don't worry I won't violate her I'm not a monster but I will enjoy ripping her apart bit by bloody bit."

Ky: "Hiih."

Nu: "Heh look at me ramble on like some comic book villain, well let's hurry this up, just let that CO2 flow to your brain and go to sleep."

Ky: Kirino…bit by bloody bit…

With the little oxygen left in his body Kyousuke created a blade shaped thermal projection and attempted to stab Nuke in the leg but while a lightshow of sparks flew out, the blade didn't penetrate.

Nu: "Heheh you don't cease to entertain, do you?"

While Nuke was distracted by the first attack Kyousuke charged up a thermal burst in his other hand ten times more powerful than normal then projected a cylinder around it to turn it into a thermal rifle, then quickly aimed it at Nukes head and fired.

{FwshBANG!}

The shot didn't do much other than blind Nuke and as soon as the smoke cleared he had an angry look on his face, it was then that Nuke took his foot off of Kyousuke and lifted him up by his head.

Nu: "You just seriously pissed. Me. OFF!"

Nuke then threw Kyousuke back to where the shelter was skipping along the ground like a stone until he stopped just at the edge of the pile of Reborn corpses and he got up and looked to see Sergeant Sunrise attempting to drag Kirino into the shelter.

Ki: "Let go of me!"

SS: "It's too dangerous we can't stay out here!"

Ki: "Kyousuke!"

Kyousuke struggled to get up despite not being in any pain.

Nu: "Look at them all, all they wanted to do was save the world, they were like my children but you stomped on them all like insects and do you know how much it hurt to see you do it all in front of me?"

Ky: "…"

Nu: "You know what? I change my mind."

Nuke walked over to Kirino and Sergeant Sunrise though before he could get close Sergeant let go of Kirino and ran into the shelter knowing there was no point in helping someone that didn't want to be helped.

Nu: "Why aren't you running?"

Ki: "…Because I know you're here for him and if I run now you'll take him away and I know I won't ever see him again."

Nu: "So you'll stand up to me?"

With a serious but calm look on her face Kirino looked Nuke in the eyes.

Ki: "If there's a chance I can save him I will but even if there isn't…I'll die protecting him because…I love him and I'd rather die here than run away like a coward while he gets dragged off to who knows where."

Nu: "Well aren't you sweet, perhaps if I didn't have such a burning hatred for mankind we could've been friends, heck I would've fallen for you, too bad that's not the case."

Nuke grabbed Kirino by the head and she struggled to get loose as he dragged her over to Kyousuke then held her up so they were facing each other.

Nu: "Now experience the same pain that you put me through as you killed my friends."

Nuke applied pressure to Kirino's head and while the pain was immense Kirino gritted her teeth and held back her screams, then blood began to drip down from her head to the ground.

{Drip}

Ky: {Drip, Drip, Drip}

…If you care about this world accept your death with grace…

…I want you to be my partner…

…You really scared me you jerk…

…there's no way he's a monster like you think he is!...

…Because…I love him…

…Harmony Link…

Nu: "You're a real tough one most people would be screaming their throat raw, hm?"

Nuke then noticed a dim light coming form beneath Kirino's clothes but then…

{Punch}

He looked down to see that Kyousuke had hit him in the stomach, in the moment when it landed Nuke was mildly amused at the effort but as the milliseconds passed the pressure increased and continued to increase until…

{WHAM!}

Ky: "HAAAAAH!"

The force became so strong that he lost his grip on Kirino and was sent skidding backwards a hundred feet.

Ky: "You okay?"

Ki: "Yeah but how'd you do that?"

Ky: "No idea."

Nu: "Wow that one left a mark but a little plot convenience isn't going to be enough to take me down."

Ki: "So did you achieve god mode or was that it?"

Ky: "That was it?"

Ki: "Crap."

Ky: "But I do have one more trick up my sleeve even though it's basically button mashing at this point but it's something I've thought about for a while but never really thought it would work and I'm going to need you to take cover if I'm going to do it."

Ki: "…"

Ky: "Don't worry, I'm not telling you to run away…I just don't want to burn your clothes off."

Ki: "{blush} Haah you're such a pervert…okay."

Kirino ran off to hide behind a big piece of broken concrete behind Kyousuke got in position in front of another massive piece of concrete.

Nu: "Sending her off are you? Are you about to unleash some super move that'll take me out in one shot?"

Ky: "Something like that."

Nu: "Well then SHOW ME WHAT YOU'VE GOT!"

Nuke began to run at Kyousuke but Kyousuke aimed the palm of his hand at him and uttered two words to call out his attack.

Ky: "Final Hail Mary, Thermal…RELEASE!"

{BOOOM!}

Kyousuke's hand began to glow yellow and faded to orange on his arm before a blast of pure white fire ejected out with the force of a gamma ray burst that forced him up against the rock.

Nu: "GAAAAAAAH!"

At first only a few flames lit up on Nuke's body but within seconds his entire body was engulfed in light and his armor began to fall apart. The blast was so strong that it generated high temperature winds that whipped up fires everywhere it touched even on Kirino's hiding rock and everything within three hundred feet of the mile long column of fire was instantly reduced to white hot molten slag.

Nu: "That's not going to stop me!"

Nuke began to plow his way through the torrential fire as his armor and skin burned away.

Ky: "JUST DIE ALEADY!"

Kyousuke somehow increased the output making the fire column a half mile longer and slowed Nuke down even more but unbeknownst to Kyousuke his arm and clothes caught fire and his skin began to burn away. But just as Kyousuke was about to collapse Nuke's armor was finally destroyed, then his skin was instantly incinerated exposing his muscle and bone and he was blown back.

Nu: "GaaaaaaaaaHAAAAAAAAAAAH!"

The white fire subsided and Kyousuke fell to his knees, all the flesh up to the middle of his forearm fell away into ash leaving only the bone and Kyousuke could only sit there in a daze from having his now mortal body exposed to intense heat.

Ki: "Kyousuke?"

Kirino came out from behind the rock to see Kyousuke sitting in front of the still white-hot landscape and saw what happened to his body.

Ki: "Kyousuke?!"

She ran over to him ignoring the molten orange and red earth burning her shoes.

Ki: "Kyousuke? Are you okay?"

His skin was sizzling and blemished with black spots of char, his face was blank and he didn't react to anything she did.

Ki: "Oh no…I have to get him to a doctor."

Nu: "Heheheh."

Suddenly Kirino heard something come from the direction of the blast and while all the white light blended everything together she noticed something dark rising from beneath the slag.

Nu: "You almost had me there."

Covered in white molten matter Nuke rose back to his feet.

Nu: "Oh seems he's out of commission."

Nuke then notice how damaged Kyousuke's body was.

Nu: "And even better, with his defenses down…I can kill him now."

Nuke began to trudge forward, his movements weak from having most of his body incinerated but it began to quickly regenerate, Kirino picked Kyousuke up and carried him over to a spot that wasn't glowing hot and faced Nucular Fist with an undeterred look.

Nu: "This is your final chance to run away."

Ki: "Like I said before I'll protect him until death."

Nu: "HmhmhmhmhmHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA THEN I'LL ENJOY RIPPING YOU BOTH TO SHREDS!"

{STAB}

Nu: "Gah!"

Just before Nuke had completely regenerated something came flying down from the sky and stabbed Nuke through the still exposed part of his skull and all the way through the bottom of his chin.

Nu: "Wha-what?"

{Thud}

And just like that Nucular Fist finally fell over dead and when Kirino took a closer look she could see that the object that stabbed Nuke was the rebar blade that Kyousuke had thrown up into the air earlier. She also noticed that it had hit with perfect precision as if this very moment was the reason Kyousuke had thrown the blade.

Ki: "So, it was check mate from the beginning, haah good, I really didn't want to die today."

Kirino, too tired to question everything, walked back over to Kyousuke.

Ki: "Those are some really freaky powers you have there bro but at least we're alive."

Kirino then noticed Kyousuke was looking pale and that blood was coming from his mouth causing her to panic a little but when she felt his skin and despite the surrounding temperatures, it was cold as ice.

AN: Yeah spoiler alert of course he's not dead but I thought this would be a good point to end it so I hope it wasn't too intense or boring for you guys and I hope the term changes weren't too jarring but until next time I hope you guys keep reading.