The Tick vs... MY HERO ACADEMIA! Issue #10
As soon as Aizawa and the Tick leapt down the stairs, Thirteen turned to the heroes in training. "Alright kids, stick with me! I'll make sure no harm comes to you!" It was a good sentiment, even as Eraserhear and the Tick scythed through the mooks at the foot of the stairs.
"Shouldn't their be an alarm?" Izuku asked. "In case something like this happened?" Surely Thirteen, in designing the facility, would have planned for something like this... unforeseen it maybe would have been planned for.
"It should, yes, but something is jamming all our communications!" Thirteen replied. Izuku had to think fast, before turning to Tenya.
"Iida, you're the fastest one here, I need you to head back to UA. You're the only one that can do it." He told the Engine quirk user, who shook his head.
"I can't... I won't abandon you and the rest, Midoriya." Tenya protested.
"You're not abandoning us, Iida. You're going to save us. But I need you to run! You trusted me enough to vote for me? Then trust me enough to protect everyone!" With that, Tenya nodded. He could do this.
"How inspiring, but I think not." And between them and the exit was the Warp Quirk user, a pair of yellow eyes within a swirling black miasma of energy! Kastuki and Eijiro were the first to act, impulsively. It was however, ineffective, as they passed through the quirk user!
"Don't worry, kids! I got this one!" Thirteen faced the warp quirk user and opened up the Black Hole. "How long can you resist, tough guy?" It was the opening Tenya needed, and he raced out, successfully exiting the USJ.
"Damn you, Kurogiri!" They could hear the man standing next to the beast, shout. "If I didn't need you, I would kill you myself!"
"Sorry, Shagaraki!" Now that they had a name to the warp quirk user and the man with the hands.
"Wait! Thirteen! I think he's trying something!" Izuku called out and before anyone could tell, a wall of force seemed to come from the warp quirk, slamming into the Space Hero. Black Hole soon shut down.
"Well..." Thirteen started falling forward. "... that sucked." And the Space Hero was out just like that.
Down at the foot of the stairs, everyone was staring at the Tick.
"What? Have you never seen a man punch a black hole before?" He asked all of them. The lesser villains started to back away from him. That type of power was... unexpected. The man wearing the hands was scratching at his neck.
"Okay. Looks like we got a god modder. That's alright. I'll just have to deploy my developer's kit. Noumu?" The beast looked at him. "Kill the blue one!" The beast charged towards the Tick, a massive fist landing on the big blue bug of Justice, pushing him back as his heels carved furrows into the ground.
"Ha! I'm sorry, Mister Lipz! But you see, I am NIGH INVULNERABLE And I'm strong, too!" And he charged, landing a mighty blow! ... that appeared to do nothing. "Hmmm... I'm certain I did that right. One moment." He went through he motions and landed yet another mighty blow! That failed to do anything. "I'm not used to my foes not flying away after landing a hit like that... you're sturdier then I gave credit for."
Back to the top of the stairs, the students tried attacking Kurogiri again! "This grows tiresome!"
"Look out!" Ochako shouted, as almost the entirety of the class was engulfed by the warp quirk!
There was a feeling of weightlessness as Izuku went from top of the stairs to somewhere else. The crushing weight of water... with the light so dim, he wasn't sure he could swim up in time. He was drowning. Just like when he was suffocated by the sludge monster.
Oh, and there was a shark. Least he wouldn't drown, he'd just get torn to pieces!
Until he felt something wrap around his waist and soon enough, he was out of the water and on the deck of the boat, coughing up water.
"What...?" He looked around seeing Minoru and Tsuyu. "Mineta! Asui! What... where are we?"
"Looks like the water disaster zone." Tsuyu said. Her typical admonishment was unsaid, there were more important things to talk about.
"Your quirk, it's Frog, right? Why would they send you to the water disaster... unless..." Izuku trailed off, before at the same time with Tsuyu. "They don't know our quirks!" It was the only thing that made sense! They only knew they would be here, not what their quirks were!
"Fuck what Shigaraki says, I feel like frog legs!" And before anyone could react, one the shark faced villains in the water was on the deck of the boat, surprising the three youths, Izuku grabbed hold of Minoru and Tsuyu, wrapped himself in the energies of One for All, feeling it in his skin just as the wicked looking claws of the man beast on his back. It shredded his costume, and he felt the pain from the impact, but the iron hard claws just skated across his skin.
"What!?" The surprise was just what the students needed, as Tsuyu managed to use her tongue to knock him back into the water.
"Okay, we need a plan. We need to get off the boat and we need to get back to the others!" It was agreed, they would have to use all their quirks in tanden to get off of this boat! Tsuyu grabbed both Mineta and Izuku and leapt, Izuku took aim and may have used a bit too much of of One for All in that finger flick of doom. He didn't break his finger, but he certainly dislocated it, the only thing hold it together being the struts on his gloves. He gritted his teeth and set his jaw to accept the pain.
The villains weren't expecting such power, as the cascade of water was similar to a bomb going off, sending the villains into the air with a water geyser, and with Minoru's pop off, those water based villains were stuck together!
"Ha! They'll be like that for hours!" Minoru shouted! Unfortunately, the force of the blast was enough to throw them off course, landing in the land slide zone. He could hear the explosions as they landed on a rocky outcropping. Of course Katsuki Bakugo would be here. He felt a tap on his shoulders.
"Hey, Midoriya... looks like Bakugo and Kirishima might have more company." Minoru pointed to another group of villains, watching as Katsuki and Eijiro made short work of the others.
One of them was familiar. Talon like fingers, sharp as razors, hard as steel, capable of cutting through bone and muscle and sinew with the greatest of ease. But it was the face that confirmed it. A face he would never, ever forget for the rest of his life, as he and his cohorts got the drop of Katsuki and Eijiro!
And all of the sudden, he's four years old again, in Coursan Park... his father holding him tight as they ran from the screaming and the pop pop pop noises.
"Keep your eyes closed, Izuku! Just keep your eyes closed!" His father pleading with him as he kept his wide green eyes screwed shut, holding onto his father desperately. They were soon out of the park... out of danger. Hisashi put his son down, trying to catch his breath. He wasn't built for sprinting, but they were out of the park. He didn't think the villains had seen them.
Sirens wee off to the distance. The police and heroes were on their way! He got down on one knee so he could look his son in the eyes. "Izuku... I need you to be brave for Daddy. Can you do that?" The boy nods, as he stands. "Find someplace to hide, and don't come out unless it's me, a police officer, or a hero. I'm going to go see if anyone needs any help, okay?" He didn't wait for his son to reply, before turning and suddenly stopping.
"D... daddy?" Young Izuku didn't know what to think, didn't know what to say. Why wasn't his father doing what he said? There was a wet squelching noise, and apprehension turned into fear as his father fell to his knees, then forward... a pool of dark red blood seeping under him and standing in front of Izuku Midoriya was a monster wearing human skin, fingers like knives and a smile that showed no emotion, no mirth, nothing but teeth.
The man monster approached Izuku, got down on one knee and laughed. "Hey, what's that behind yer ear?" He reached to the shock still boy, his eyes wide as saucers, reaching right behind his ear. Razor edged fingers, wet and sticky with his father's blood came back, empty. "Oh, wait. It's nothin'!" The monster before him laughed, as he stood up. "Just like you!" Izuku let out a silent, pained squeal as he felt those talons on his head, his hair rustled as his father's blood was smeared onto his scalp.
And just as suddenly, he's back to the present, as he and Asui and Mineta looked out from the rocky outcropping they were taking cover in. His throat was tight, he was having trouble breathing, but he was, staring down his nightmares made real. The man that murdered his father, rounding on his classmates. He could hear his voice, rough with age, but just as toxic on his ears.
"Ya know, some people think I'm psychopath that likes being up to my elbows in gore and viscera. They're right, but I ain't stupid." The knife fingered man made a sweeping gesture to the various low rent villains that Katsuki and Eijiro had already swept through. Of course, they couldn't do much now, one of the villains was some kind of ferrokinetic, and the two were both tied up tightly with thick iron chains the one carried.
"The last thing I wanted to do was go in without knowing nothing, so I let these dumb sonsa bitches do it for me." He started laughing, a dark hollow sound. He gestured to the ferrokinetic. "Laugh wit' me. Or I'll kill you." There was a brief moment, and then the ferrokinetic did so, nervously.
"That's the other thing I know. Be scarier then any body else, and there's nothing scarier then me right here, right now. So let's play a game. I like to call it... Ear, Eye, or Nose. Ya tell me which one I cut off yer friend... and then I feed it to ya."
Just beyond, in a rocky out cropping, Izuku felt his whole body shaking. It was a rage he didn't know he was capable of, a burning anger deep inside of him. His legs were moving on his own, but this wasn't the run into a stray hellfire spear or towards a villain made of mud, this was a purposeful stride, each step deliberate as he shook with fury.
"Midoriya!" He thought he heard Minoru hiss at him as he walked towards his targets. "What are you doing!?" They had barely lucked out from the water hazard zone! And here Izuku was, going to get himself killed!
Three villains, he raised his hand, charged One for All into two of his fingers and flicked, that same familiar sensation of forces his body shouldn't be able to hold, released! And slamming into the other two villains, and slamming them into the rocky cliff face. This was not unnoticed by the sharp handed villain.
"Who...?" He turned around, just for a reinforced glove to slam into the side of his head, sending him down to the hard ground. He spat out blood, and a tooth.
For Katsuki Bakugo, this was beyond anything he had expected. They had got caught being cocky, and here was Deku, coming to his rescue. He wanted to say something, but... he could see something, with that ridiculous rabbit hood down, he could see something dark in the green haired boy's eyes.
"Get up." It was quiet, almost a whisper, but a command like any other. The villain gladly did so, a snarl on his face as he got to his feet.
"I don' think ya erghk!" He barely got his sentence out before he found a fist driven right into his liver, coughing up a splash of blood as he fell over again. Tsuyu and Minoru used this as their chance. Two of the villains were out of commission, and Izuku was making a good distraction, they could free Katsuki and Eijiro.
"Get up." It was the only thing he said, the only thing Izuku could say, looking at the greatest nightmare in his life. And as soon as he was back on his feet, he planted his fist in the monster's gut, sending him crashing to the ground like the felling of a great oak tree. He looked down, his eyes still wide, looking at a point in the distance far beyond the Unforeseen Simulation Joint.
"Get up." He repeated himself, tightly balling his hands into fists. This... it felt good. It felt real good.
"How do you tie a chain?" Minoru asked to himself, as he and Tsuyu worked on freeing their classmates, Katsuki just focused on Deku of all people... toying with a villain. He watched as the knife fingered bastard finally managed to get a strike in, the claws of his hands cutting through Deku's costume... but their wasn't any blood. Not until he grabbed the villain's wrists in his hands and squeezed with a sickening snapping of bones. The cry the villain gave out was agonizing and he felt his stomach churn. Finally, the frog bitch and the crybaby had him and Eijiro free.
"Dammit, Deku! Stop taunting him, and finish it-!" He gave pause, as Deku pointed to him, not looking at him, but pointed to him.
"Katsuki, shut up. Or I'm dealing with you next after I'm finished with this piece of human garbage!" The anger was there... a rage that could only come through one that was completely calm. Still waters ran deep, they said, and Izuku Midoriya was as still as possible.
"Hey, what's that behind your ear?" He said to the beaten, battered villain, his one eye was swollen shut, but the other grew wide, as Izuku grabbed him by the hair with his left hand. "Oh wait, it's nothing!" He cocked his fist back, One for All flowing into his limbs, with his anger and his hatred and his fury and his rage. It would blow his arm up, but he didn't care. No one was going to suffer this trash ever again. It was funny, the tears were flowing as fast and strong as that day, but his eyes were open this time!
"JUST! LIKE! YOU!"
- To Be Continued!