Thanks to one of the reviewers pointing out that I got the identities of the two androids from the previous chapter wrong! It's been corrected now.
Anyway, sorry for the long wait... I had severe writer's block, and stuff happening in life also demotivated me. I'm still glad that I got this out in the end, but I have to apologize first for the quality of this chapter, because I really do not find it to be very good...
Chapter 11
Attack of the Androids
Previously, two red androids with similar designs to Red Tornado broke into the young heroes' tower as if they were enemies, and that appeared to be the case, as after Red Tornado stared into their flashing eyes, he turned to face the students of Class 1-A and attacked them without a warning, unleashing a tornado from his spinning hand and sending Katsuki and Fumikage flying. Needless to say, the other students were shocked at what he did.
"Red Tornado! Why did you do that?!" Tenya asked the android in shock. Instead of answering him, however, the android unleashed another vertical tornado in his direction, but the class president and the others rushed out of the way fast.
"What's wrong with him?! Why is he attacking us all of a sudden?!" asked Denki.
"I think I know!" said Mei. "The lights that came out from eyes of those two robots! It must be their method of hacking into Red Tornado's CPU and making him turn against us!"
"Red Tornado is now under enemy control?!" asked Ochako.
"Then how do we turn him back to normal?!" asked Izuku.
Before Mei could answer, Red Tornado swept the entire room with a pair of tornadoes coming out from both hands, and the students found themselves having to be on the move again. Pieces of furniture lying around and picked up by the powerful columns of wind and hurled all over the place, and there was danger of them hitting the students.
Katsuki, who had gotten back up after getting blown away earlier, angrily ran at Red Tornado. "I don't care if you've got a virus in your head currently! I'm going to give you a good blasting for what happened earlier!" he angrily said before thrusting both hands forward to unleash a pair of explosions. The explosions struck Red Tornado just as he spread out his arms to the sides and somehow whipped up a tornado that covered him from head to toe. The flames of the explosions were caught in the wind and spun around him. When the tornado dissipated, so was the fire.
Katsuki didn't stop there. He lunged at Red Tornado with one fist pulled back, ready to punch him. Red Tornado responded with his own punch. When their fists came in contact, an explosion and a blast of wind were generated. The explosion blew Red Tornado back, while the wind sent Katsuki flying back. Red Tornado came to a skidding stop on his feet, and though the explosion was at point blank, his fist was unharmed for the most part.
The students were at a loss of what to do. If they were facing a normal villain, then they wouldn't hesitate to fight back, but their current villain was a hero who had been corrupted, so they weren't sure whether or not they should attack him in fear of harming him too much. They wished that the native heroes were here so that they know what to do.
"What do we do?! I'm not sure if it's the right thing to attack Red Tornado head on..." said Izuku.
"Isn't there some way to return him to normal?" Tenya asked Mei.
"I'll have to know the specifics of what made him like this first..." she replied.
Shouto looked at the two androids who made Red Tornado like this and said, "If those two are the ones responsible for this, then perhaps taking them out will change him back to normal."
"Sounds like it's worth a try!" agreed Eijiro.
Acting first, Shouto circled around the room to get behind the two androids, and then he pressed his hand against the floor to make large ice spikes grow in the direction. The feminine android turned around with her hand pointing at the incoming spikes and released a large stream of fire that instantly melted them and headed for Shouto, who rolled out of the way.
The android then launched herself at her using fire that shot out from the bottom of her feet and crashed into him, grabbing him by the neck when she did so. Shouto gritted his teeth as he grabbed her arm and froze it, causing her to let go. He then covered his fist in ice before punching her in the abdomen as hard as he could. The ice covering his fist shattered as soon as it came in contact with her body, but even so, he only succeeded in pushing her back a couple of feet. She generated fire from her arm to melt the frozen part of it.
Fumikage attacked the android next by sending Dark Shadow after her. Dark Shadow collided into the android and pushed her towards the window, but she recovered and swung a fiery fist across the face of the shadowy entity. Dark Shadow easily tanked it before lunging forward again, this time pushing the android against the window with such a force that she was forced through it and out into the air. This wasn't an issue to her at all, however, as a fiery cyclone appeared around her lower half and kept her afloat in the air.
Pointing her body forward, she rocketed back into the building with her arms folding forward and her hands folded into fists. Ramming into Dark Shadow, she knocked the shadow entity aside before heading straight for a widen-eyed Fumikage and tackled him across the place and into a wall.
Shouto attacked her again by firing blasts of cold wind from his hands. The cold wind was able to freeze the android, only for her to defrost herself in an instant by generating fire from all over her body. She then charged at Shouto and attacked him with a series of fiery punches. Shouto covered his arms in ice and desperately attempted to defend himself against the onslaught of punches. Unfortunately, the fiery punches of the android easily melted through his ice-coated arms and even burned his skin. On top of that, the fists were hard like steel, so the hits felt painful.
The android was eventually able to sock him across the face, followed by punching him in the guts so hard the he flew up to the ceiling and hit his back against it before falling back down.
Hardening his body, Eijiro threw a punch at the female android. Despite him throwing all his might into the punch, the latter was able to catch his fist and stop him with ease. She then heated her hand to burn him, and as he cried in pain, she lifted him into the air and slammed him around the floor over and over multiple times before throwing him at the window and right through it.
Tsuyu lashed out her tongue at the water android, catching him by one arm. The android responded afterwards by propelling himself at her using bursts of water coming out from his feet, much to her surprise, and punched her in the face. She uncurled her tongue and flew back as a result. Tenya rushed at the android afterwards and kicked him with an engine-powered leg. The android was able to block his kick in time with one arm, and then using his other hand, he slammed it down on to Tenya's leg hard and knocked him to the floor. As if that wasn't enough, the android stomped the class president's leg afterwards, bringing great pain to him.
"You get away from him at once!" Denki shouted as he ran at the android. The former threw a punch at him, only for the latter to catch his fist. A smirk appeared on Denki's face as he said, "You use water, and I can still feel wetness on your hand! Too bad for you, water conducts electricity!" He then generated electricity from his body, hoping to damage and short-circuited the android and thinking that his water-based powers would make things even deadlier to him. The android, however, didn't seem to suffer at all when he was zapped.
After a few seconds of generating electricity, Denki stopped, and a confused look appeared on his face. "Eh...? How come your'e not getting zapped...?" He was then flung away by the android.
"Sorry, Red Tornado..." Izuku said in his head as he activated his Quirk. "I don't wish to hurt you, but I can't do nothing and let you keep on being like this! Please! Return to normal!" With his powers activated, he shot himself at the android at a fast speed and slammed his fist into his abdomen with a force strong enough to knock him back, but not enough to punch a hole through him.
If Red Tornado was human, he would've grunted in pain. He planted his feet firmly against the floor to avoid getting pushed back to far, and before Izuku could pull back his fist and retreat, he attacked him with an uppercut and at the same time generated a tornado. Izuku screamed as he both knocked into the air and sent spinning circles within the tornado, which traveled around the room aimlessly and made a huge mess out of the place, and the other students had to get out of the way as well.
The two androids then approached Red Tornado from behind, and the water android said to him in a masculine, robotic voice, "Our father is waiting for us. It is time that we leave." Red Tornado said nothing, however.
"I will eliminate the people here right away," said the fire android in a robotic, feminine voice. She stepped forward, and then fire suddenly generated from all over her body as she started unleashing flamethrowers from both her hands all over the place. The students held their hands over their faces to shield themselves from the heat, and some ducked down instead. Due to the intensity of the flames, the whole place was set on fire in no time.
Seeing that their job here was done, the androids began to leave the place. They were about to leave through the window when Katsuki angrily shouted at them. "You're not getting away that easily! I'm not done with you yet! DIE!" He angrily ran at them, but Red Tornado used a tornado to blow him back across the room in an instant. "GAH!"
The three androids then leaped out the window, and using their elemental powers in the form of cyclones covering their lower bodies, they floated back into the air and then took off into the distance.
The students watched in defeat at the androids leaving the place, and Katsuki was back on his feet and in front of the broken window, shouting angrily at them. They then realized that this wasn't the time to be sulking in defeat, as the whole place was burning down. Smoke was also filling up the place. "Quick! We have to get out of here first!" shouted Momo while pointing at the door that led to the staircases, as it was too dangerous to use an elevator at this time. "And carry the injured ones as well!"
Izuku rushed over to Tenya, who was down on the floor all this time due to his leg being in great pain. "Hang in there, Iida!" Izuku told her as he placed his arm over his shoulder. "We'll get you out of here!"
"I'm sorry to be a burden to you..." said the class president.
Tsuyu had to be carried by Ochako and Mina as well, as being related to frogs, she had a weakness to high temperature as well and was in no condition to move because of the intense heat.
As the group headed for the emergency exit, the ceiling above them suddenly collapsed. Everyone panicked as they tried to get away, and as Izuku tried to do so, a large debris struck him in the head hard, so much that he fell to the floor and passed out.
Consciousness returned to Izuku as he slowly opened his eyes and checked his surroundings. He found himself in his room, lying on his bed, and Tenya was on his bed next to him. He sat up while rubbing his head, trying to recall what happened and how'd he ended up in his room. That was when he noticed Kid Flash sitting on a chair at the back end of the room, looking happy that he was up. "Oh! You're finally up!" said the speedster. "You had us worried!"
"What... What happened...?" asked Izuku.
Kid Flash sat down next to his bed and told him, "You folks were pretty banged up when we rushed back upon finding out that the tower was under attack. Man, you could've been burned to crisp if we didn't rush in to help you guys in time and put out the fire!"
That was when Izuku recalled everything. They battled the three androids but were ultimately no match for them, and then the female android set fire to the whole place. The last thing he remembered was passing out from being hit by a debris in the head.
"I remember now..." he said. "Red Tornado... He..."
"Yeah, we know what happened from security footage," Kid Flash told him. "Had a hard time believing what happened... But hey, at least you're still alive! That's all that matters!"
"Where's everyone else? Are they all right?" asked a worried Izuku. "And Kirishima! He fell out of the building!
"Don't worry about them! Other than minor injuries, they're all doing well!" Kid Flash assured him. "And Kirishima is fine too. We found him lying at the bottom of the tower in. His hardened body saved him from the fall, though he's still in a bit of pain... Nothing too bad, though."
Izuku sighed with relief to hear that his classmates were all right, though he wasn't sure if they could sit with the fact that they failed to take down those three androids, even though they had the number advantage. He himself felt bad about this too. They trained so hard at school, only for all those skills to be put to waste...
"We're sorry... We couldn't stop Red Tornado and those two robots..." Izuku told the speedster. "On top of that, we let the tower get burned down..."
"Told you it's not your fault, so don't blame yourself!" Kid Flash told him. "And the tower is still fine. Only that particular floor is a mess, but it's no big deal! We can get it fixed up in a jiffy!"
"What are we going to do about Red Tornado now?" Izuku asked him. "He's one of the Justice League, right? Shouldn't the League be doing something about this?"
"About that... No idea myself..." replied Kid Flash. "Nightwing was going to pass on this news to them, so we'll wait and see what they have to say."
The living room was a complete mess. In fact, it was no longer recognizable as the living room, as the female android did a great job burning up the place. The entire place was pitch black, and the pieces of furniture lying around were more or less nothing but piles of ashes. Had the fire no been put out sooner, the entire tower might be burned down.
Superboy, Miss Martian, and Nightwing were currently in that room, surveying the place to see if they could learn anything, though that was unlikely. "They sure did a number to this place..." grumbled Superboy. "I knew I should've stayed here, then this wouldn't happen..."
"I can't believe Red Tornado would do something like this..." said Miss Martian.
"It was clear that he wasn't acting himself," Nightwing told him. "Whatever happened to him, I'm sure we'll be able to change him back.
As they were looking around, they realized that Superman had arrived at the place, and he entered the tower through the hole on the window previously created by the androids. Looking around the room, he said, "Wow... Quite a mess this place has become... The Hall of Justice's siren for this place went off, and I was notified by Cyborg about it, so I came over. Batman's on his way here too."
"Good timing! We were planning to contact you and tell you what happened," Nightwing said to him.
"What happened here?" Superman asked him.
Nightwing let out a sigh and then replied, "Red Tornado happened..."
Not too long afterwards, Batman arrived at the place. Along with Superman, he headed over to the tower's main computer room, and there, Nightwing, Superboy, Miss Martian, Kid Flash, Tigress, and Aqualad were gathered together. They were watching the security footage that showed what happened. After reviewing the footage, Nightwing looked at Batman and Superman. "Well, what do you think of it?"
"Those two androids are most definitely the creations of T.O. Morrow," replied Batman.
"Yeah, I was thinking the same," said Superman with a nod.
"T.O. Morrow?" asked Superboy, confused.
"He is the creator of Red Tornado and an enemy of the Justice League," Batman told him. "As a matter of fact, Red Tornado was supposed to be our enemy, created by him to battle us."
"But lots of things happened, and Red Tornado ended up being on our side," said Superman.
"Whoa... Didn't know about this..." said Kid Flash in disbelief.
"So I assume that this is all T.O. Morrow's doing so that he could get back Red Tornado, right?" asked Tigress.
"That's pretty much the only explanation, considering that those two androids resemble Red Tornado, so he should be the one who made them," said Superman.
"Then Red Tornado wasn't acting on his own will after all. We should be able to change him back!" said Miss Martian.
"There's always the possibility that he was waiting all this time to turn against us," said Batman. "Remember that he is made by an enemy and meant to destroy us."
"You're thinking too much, Batman," Superman said to him. "But then, you wouldn't be you if you're not paranoid..."
"We have to consider all the possibilities," said the Dark Knight.
"Please let us handle this," Nightwing told the two older heroes. "Red Tornado looked over us when our team was still new, so we are in his debt. Therefore, I think it is only right that we repay him by rescuing him!"
"Right! And we'll teach those villains a lesson for taking our friend!" said Superboy, folding his hand into a fist in anger.
Batman and Superman looked at each other for a bit before turning back to the young heroes. "Very well, we well let you deal with this situation. Normally, we should be the ones dealing with this, since Red Tornado is a member of the Justice League," said Batman. "If things do not go right, however, we will be stepping in."
"Don't worry; it's not like we're going to destroy Red Tornado or anything," Superman assured the young heroes. "He's our friend after all, so we'll definitely help him! Either way, I have faith that you can do it!"
"Oh, by the way... How are those children from the other world?" asked Superman. "Are they all right?"
"Most of them are fine, though some are a bit more injured," replied Nightwing. "It's nothing serious, though. They'll be able to rest it off in no time."
"That's good to know! Feel bad for them to run into something like this while we're gone..." said Superman.
After leaving the tower, Red Tornado and the two androids flew across the sky until they arrived at a mountainous area out in the wilds, and there, an industrial building was located, somewhat hidden among the rocks.
They entered the building and walked through a long hallway before emerging at a large room filled with lab equipment and computers. In the room was a black-haired man with a bit of facial hair around his mouth dressed in a lab coat. Realizing that someone had entered the room, he stood up from his chair and turned to see the three androids. "Ah, Red Tornado! My son! You have finally returned home!" said the man, T.O. Morrow, happily.
TO BE CONTINUED
Honestly saying, I don't like how the fight in the tower turned out. I seem to especially have problems with battles that involve several people at once. Perhaps if it's a simple one-and-one fight, I can write better. If you didn't like that part, then I apologize for how lackluster and sloppily done it is... I even skipped out mentioning certain characters...
Feel free to criticize this chapter if you think it's poorly done. I will try my best that the next chapter is better.
