Scarecrows aren't supposed to be Heroes
Chapter Seven
Disclaimer: I don't own anything from Naruto or My Hero Academia.
EDIT: This story is/has gone through some editing again. I haven't cut anything important, it was mostly grammar and punctuation. So you're fine to keep reading ahead.
It should have been a normal day. Denki should have walked to school peacefully, should have attended class.
But no, he got kidnapped by villains. Again.
Flashback One Hour:
Denki hummed as he walked to class. It was a good day today. The sun was out and he didn't even need to go to work. His only obligation was school, after that he was free to train as much as he liked.
Denki paused mid-hum. 'A tugging sensation,' he thought, 'why am I feeling a tugging sensation? And why is it so familiar?'
Black mist began to enshroud the surrounding area.
'The League of Villains,' Denki remembered in alarm, 'they're here!'
Before the cloud of darkness could completely enclose him, Denki leapt outside of its grasps, dropping his bag and circling around the dome.
'Where is the perpetrator?' he wondered, 'they've got to be here somewhere.'
And sure enough, Denki could spot a metal glint hidden underneath the mass of mist.
He smiled slightly. 'If it needs to be protected then it's a weakness.' Denki let an inconspicuous spark of electricity travel up his arm. ' And metal is a great conductor of electricity.'
Denki let himself be tugged into the portal once more, this time positioning himself on the path of the perpetrator.
A pair of yellow eyes glanced up at him too late.
'Got you now!' he internally exclaimed.
"Tomura!" The figure strangled out.
A grey, flaky, hand emerged from the mist, grasping onto his foot.
'My shoe,' Denki realized, 'it's disintegrating.'
"Got him."
And with that, Denki disappeared.
Flashforward One Hour:
"So this is our little reward, our new item for the quest."
'Tomura' grinned. An ugly, twisted grin, made almost invisible by the hand clasped onto his face.
He squatted in front of Denki, taking in gleefully the chained and bruised image.
"Our little hostage," Tomura practically sang, "our little important hostage. Who has very close ties to a very annoying group of vigilantes." The man almost pouted. "They've made everything very difficult you know, made us change our plans again and again and again. It wasn't fair at all. But now," he smiled, "but now we have you. Our little example. One we can shove in UA's, All Might's, the Biju's, everyone's faces."
Tomura giggled, cackled, broke out in a burst of maniacal laughter.
"We're going to kill you," he sang again, this time accompanied by rapid scratching, "kill you in front of everybody. Before we kill All Might that is."
Denki frowned minuscully. 'All Might?' He thought in surprise, 'that's who they're targeting? How?'
"Tomura," 'Kurogiri' announced, "they're ready. We should get going,"
Tomura smirked. "Right then. Next stop. USJ."
Denki froze. 'That's where Aizawa is.'
Izuku was excited. He just met Thirteen. The coolest rescue hero ever! And he was in USJ, the Unforeseen Simulation Joint. It was sooo cool. Thirteen had given them a speech on the dangers of Quirks, which was very inspiring and very cool and very thought-invoking and damn he really needed to update his notes on Thirteen-
*crash*
A black cloud of mist began to converge behind the teachers.
'What is that?' Izuku wondered, staring at the haze of darkness, 'Is it a test?
The slightly panicked look on Aizawa-sensei's face answered that, Izuku felt a spike of dread in his stomach.
"Gather together and don't move," Sensei yelled, standing in front of them protectively, "Thirteen, defend the students."
"What is that?" Kirishima whispered.
Izuku turned back to the haze of mist. A hand emerged, then one, two, three, four, five-so many more figures.
Aizawa-sensei grimaced. "Villains."
Yaoyorozu turned to Thirteen. "What about the trespassing sensors?" She asked.
"Well," Thirteen answered, head flicking around the room," we have them but..." they didn't ring.
"Then they must have a Quirk that let them in," Todoroki concluded, "this attack, it was done with a goal in mind."
Uraraka gasped. "Wait! They have a UA student."
Izuku turned to the villains again, and yes, chained and worn, in the grasp of a villain with a hand on his face, was a boy wearing a UA uniform.
"Kaminari Denki!" Sasagawa exclaimed, hands covering her face in shock, "he's in Gen-ed,"
Izuku could hear Aizawa-sensei swear.
"Shit." The man clenched a fist, "Thirteen, start the evacuation. I'm counting on you."
And with that, Aizaw-no, Eraserhead, leapt into the fray.
Thirteen turned sharply to the students. "Alright students, head towards the-"
"I'm afraid I can't let you do that," a suave voice whispered. Black fog clouded the exit. "As the League of Villains," the wispy villain announced, "we can't let you alert the other Pro's. After all the aim is to kill All Might." The figure grinned at them. "You wouldn't happen to know where he is?"
"WHY YOU-" Explosions came bursting at the shrouded figure, but Bakugou was pushed back almost immediately.
"Now, now," the figure chastised mockingly, "that wasn't very nice."
An obsidian coloured dome surrounded the students, and just like that, most of them disappeared.
Tsuyu had been teleported to the Conflagration Zone of all areas.
"NOON! My laser is not good to attack the fire."
With Aoyama.
"MY GRAPES! THEY DON'T WORK WELL HERE."
And Mineta.
"Stay calm guys-ribbit- panicking will do us no good." She panted, wiping drops of sweat from her forehead.
Aoyama paused in his panicking, glancing at her in concern. "Madame," he asked, "are you alright?"
She gave him a weak smile. "The heat here isn't really good for me."
*chomp* *chomp* *chomp*
"Are these the little brats I can eat."
Tsuyu stared up at the scarecrow-like villain that was now approaching them.
'Crap.'
'They had Kaminari.'
That was the resounding thought in Shouta's head.
'Why? "WhyWhyWhy? He was in Gen-ed. He was supposed to be safe.'
Shouta gritted his teeth as he bound another villain, throwing them further to knock out more. He was slowly working his way to where Kaminari was, the grasp of the hand-villain.
'Damn it,' he cursed, 'most of these villains have mutant-type Quirks.'
"Ha. Look at the hero go," the villain exclaimed mockingly, "the masses don't stand a chance." he glared at Shouta from a distance, caressing Kaminari's neck with four fingers. "Right. Kaminari-chan," he gripped onto the boy's throat, "we need a bit more firepower." He grinned. "But that's what you're here for, right, Rappa."
A muscular man wearing a plague mask strutted up to Shouta, cracking his knuckles as he went. He grinned at Shouta. "Let's fight until our last breath, shall we?"
Shouta eyed the man carefully. 'He's not like the other grunts,' he thought cautiously, 'I need to be caref-'
"DON'T FORGET ABOUT US!"
Bullets came flying towards him, Shouta moved to defend himself but found them intercepted by the plague-mask villain.
"Don't interfere," the man said coldly.
'So he's got a speck of honour in him, huh.' Shouta let his binding cloth float above him as the mask-villain tsched.
"You uses weapons, huh," the man cracked his neck, "whatever, I'll kill you anyway."
'Bring it.'
"Ehhh," Tomura sighed, "he's one of those types." The man pouted at the villain and hero fighting, then the intercepted villains laying lifeless on the plaza floor. "How stupid," he scowled, "he only made it harder on himself."
"I think he's got a respectable sense of honour," Denki remarked, "it's quite impressive. You don't find many people like that often."
"But now the fight is going to take aggges." The villain complained.
'No, it won't,' Denki thought as he observed the fight, 'that man, Rappa, is holding back. He intends for Aizawa to win.'
"Does he work for you? That man?" Denki asked the villain curiously.
The hand-villain frowned, scratching his face with his other hand. "No. We borrowed him."
Kaminari hummed. 'So whoever they 'borrowed' him from must have another agenda,' he sighed, 'how troublesome.'
"He's losing," the villain whispered, "why is he losing? He's not supposed to lose. He's not allowed to."
"A good boss should be able to account for these things, you know." Denki pointed out.
"Shut up," the villain hissed, grasping onto Denki's neck tighter. "I have other plans prepared, I just need to wait for the right moment. For All Might."
"So when exactly is my death sentence?"
"Whenever I feel like it."
'Well,' Denki smirked, 'we can't have that now, can we?' He let a buzz of electricity surround him.
The villain frowned. "What ar-"
Using the moment of confusion, Denki broke free from the man's grasp, pushing himself onto and off the ground, driving his feet into the man's chest and sending the villain back a couple metres. Sparks of electricity still flickered at the point of impact.
*clank*
A pair of metal cuffs were dropped to the ground.
After the first blow had been delivered, Denki moved in for a second, taking advantage of the split-second slowness. He swung a leg underneath his opponent, effectively tripping the man. Tomura, not to be outdone, immediately pushed himself off the floor and made a grab for Denk's neck.
"Got you now," the villain exclaimed.
Before Denki could twist himself away a white cloth grabbed him by the waist, pulling him back.
Amongst a cloud of dust and dirt, Aizawa came skidding forward, yanking Denki towards him.
Once the dust cleared, Denki could see bodies scattered across the Plaza. Including the very much conscious one of Rappa's.
"Stay back kid, I've got this," Aizawa panted, pushing Denki behind him. Denki eyed Rappa's limp figure, judging by the way Aizawa was acting, he didn't seem to be aware that the man was still conscious.
Tomura smirked, lunging towards the hero, fingers outstretched. "Pretty words, hero," he clasped onto the man's elbow, "but I'm not the final boss."
The shadow of a monstrous figure blanketed the hero.
Denki gritted his teeth and sent jolts of electricity down his arm.
'Crap.'
"Young Iida! What are you doing?"
All Might slowed down as he saw the boy speeding towards him.
"Villains," the boy panted, "at USJ." He finally let his engines come to a halt,
All Might's expression hardened. "Alert the rest of the teachers," the man instructed.
Iida nodded, and both of them sped off in opposite directions.
'Hold on 1-A.' All Might grimaced, 'I'll be there soon.'
*crash*
Shouta scrunched his face up in pain as he felt his spine crack ominously. It was as if his guts were being ripped out of him, bit by bit, in the most agonising way possible, while the rest of him were being pelted with metre long knives. The Nomu smashed Shouta into the ground again. His mouth was turning into a fountain for blood.
"Not so confident now are you, hero." Tomura cackled.
Shouta could only lie limply on the ground, eyes shakily trying to keep a grip of the situation. 'Is that,' he realized blearily, 'golden sparks?'
A fist, followed by a burst of electricity, plunged right into the heart of the creature. It let out a strangled cry before collapsing to the ground.
'Kaminari?' Shouta could make out the vague outlines of his face.
The hand-villain stomped his foot. "What!" He exclaimed, "that's cheating! You're not supposed to be that strong!"
A warp gate appeared next to the tantrum-throwing villain.
"Tomura," a wispy villain stood respectfully by the villain as he analysed the situation. The man sighed. "Thirteen has been incapacitated, but one of the students escaped. The heroes will arrive soon, should we leave?"
"NO!" The hand-villain gritted his teeth, turning angrily to the creature. "NOMU!" The monstrous creature got up, the hole in its chest slowly disappearing. "KILL HIM!" The villain screamed.
The 'Nomu' lunged for Kaminari, who skidded away from the creature, but wasn't fast enough to evade the inevitable blow. The boy, however, didn't collapse to the floor as Shouta did. Instead, he surrounded himself with an electric glow and pushed off from the ground, kicking the beast's jaw. From there, the boy's attacks only sped up, pounding into the creature faster than it could keep up with.
'No,' Shouta realized, damaged eyes still trying to keep up with the boy, 'Kaminari isn't speeding up. The Nomu is slowing down.' Shouta continued to observe the fight. 'Kaminari's not trying to defeat the Nomu,' he noticed, 'his attacks don't have enough power too. Comprehension dawned on Shouta. 'He's trying to buy us time.'
"NOMU!" The villain exclaimed, "FINISH HIM!"
The creature paused for a second, observing the boy, before grabbing him mid-punch. The thing moved to crush the boy and-
*CRASH*
The Nomu was thrown onto the wall and Kaminari was deposited on the floor.
"IT'S FINE NOW," All Might boomed, lacking the signature smile on his face. "I AM HERE!"
