"Okay so this is STAR Labs huh?" Izuku asked
"Yeah it is, not bad huh?" Nightwing said as he and his two interns entered the labs, the interns looking awestruck about what was around them
"Ah Nightwing, good to see you again" a doctor said
"Same here, guys this is Dr Silas Stone one of the head researchers here at STAR Labs" Nightwing said
"Wow, it's nice to meet you" Izuku said shaking Dr Stone's hand
"And you as well, now I take it you're here to see Mei right?" Dr Stone said
"yeah we are, she has some valuable data for us" Nightwing said
"I'll lead you to her workspace" Dr Stone said before a siren flared up and closed shutters on the doors
"What's going on?" Nightwing asked
"I'm not sure" Dr Stone said "I have to check on something"
"Got it we'll try and find Mei" Nightwing said as his group
"NO MEI!" Iida shouted "NO!" as the blade came closer to Mei, who recoiled just in time to put her shield up and make the blade drop to the floor
"What was that?" Stain asked confused
"Wasn't that the shield you used at the Sports festival?" Iida asked as he slowly got onto his feet
"Yeah but I've been modifying it to be more powerful" Mei said
"So what now?" Iida asked
"I don't know, I haven't had time to get to work on the companion weapon" Mei said
"I see, well that's MEI LOOK OUT!" Iida shouted as Stain's blade was stabbed into Iida's shoulder
"IIDA!" Mei shouted
"It's just a flesh wound" Iida said
"Not for long" Stain said wiping his blade along his tongue making Iida collapse to the ground
"HEY WHAT HAPPENED?" Mei asked
"I can't move" Iida panicked
"It's your quirk, you must have a quirk related to blood' Mei deduced
"Correct" Stain said "But that's all you're going to find out" he menaced as he stabbed at Mei's shield hoping that it would hurry up and deactivate soon since he would be hoping it to deactivate soon, but the moment he went to stab it again a baton flew into his mouth "What?"
"So that's the hero killer huh?" Nightwing asked as the baton rebounded back into his hand as Izuku and Cassie showed up
"Who are you?" Stain snarled
"Who me, I'm Nightwing the Dark Squire, apprentice to the Dark Knight" Nightwing said
"A little far from home aren't ya?" Stain asked as he tried to cleave Nightwing with his sword. Which Nightwing recognised
"Yeah, but I'm here on special assignment, so tell me where did you get the sword?" Nightwing asked
"Why should I tell you" Stain said
"Because the original owner of it will be pissed" Nightwing said
"How is he?" Stone asked rushing into a room
"He's stable at the moment, and the bonding process is proceeding well, however it is only at 35%" an aide said
"Can you speed up the process?" Stone asked
"Not if you don't want him to be living" another aide said
"Very well, just make sure the power continues to him, otherwise we will lose him" Stone said
"Yes sir" the aides said as they went back to monitoring the subject
"YIKES!" Mei said as she dodged a blade that Cassie had deflected with her bracer
"Sorry Mei" Wonder Girl said
"Iida, can you move?" Izuku asked
"No, no I can't" Iida said
"Okay then" Izuku said starting to drag Iida across the floor
"What are you doing?" Iida asked
"Getting you to safety" Izuku said before Stain came at him making Izuku drop Iida to put his hands together to stop the blade
"Sword catch, not bad. But who are you anyway" Stain said "You look familiar"
"I'm The Noble hero: AQUA-KNIGHT!" Aqua-Knight said
"And I'm the Amazon Wonder Girl!" Wonder Girl said
"And we're here to kick your ass" Aqua-Knight said
"And save the world" Wonder Girl said
"Wonder Girl, Nightwing, Ingenium and Aqua-Knight what names, some of them may sound noble, but you all could have strayed from the path of the hero, but one thing has shown me you three haven't" Stain said
"And what is that?" Nightwing asked
"You came to save him" Stain said before quickly drawing three knives and scratching each one of them
"DON'T LET HIM LICK THOSE BLADES!" Mei shouted
"Why not?" Aqua-Knight asked before Nightwing slumped to the floor
"He's quirk, he must be able to paralyse people if he ingests their blood" Wonder Girl said hitting the floor as well. "Well crap"
"Not good" Izuku said laying on the floor.
"Huh, I see now where I know you from, there's a 5 million dollar bounty on your head" Stain said
"5 million! Geez someone wants you dead badly" Mei said
"NOT HELPING!" Aqua-Knight shouted
"I should be 5 million dollars richer, but your nobility is holding me back" Stain said before he sensed something behind him, looking backward he just managed to dodge five shards of ice
"Midoriya, are you okay?" Todoroki asked showing up
"Damn brat, oh well, he can deal with you" Stain said
"He?" Todoroki asked before the building shook.
"Something's breaking through" Mei said as a massive figure broke through the walls and roared
"KING SHARK!" Aqua-Knight said
"What, how did he get out of Shadowgate?" Iida asked
"Shadowgate?" Nightwing asked
"Shadowgate penitentiary, it's a quirk prison where we send criminals with quirks just like Tartarus" Mei said
"Only Tartarus is triple MAX! meaning only the criminals are the worse of the worse" Iida said
"So where Stain will end up?" Wonder Girl said asked
"Probably" Todoroki said
"Uh new question, what is Todoroki doing here?" Wonder Girl asked
"My father is one of the heroes responding to the alarm" Todoroki said "We were in the area doing general patrol, and I managed to get inside just as the security shutters closed" he said creating flames in his hands before throwing them at Stain who jumped back.
"Careful, you might hit something!" Mei said
"Sorry" Todoroki said creating an ice sword to try and counter Stain's own blade, which did work
"You're wasting my time, I've got heroes to kill" Stain said
"Not if I can help it" Todoroki said
"GET ME IN THERE!" Endeavour said
"We can't those shutters are a specialised form of Titanium" a police officer said
"THEN HOW ARE WE GOING TO GET IN THERE!" Endeavour roared
"You're not going to" an older hero said
"Gran Torino, huh I haven't heard or seen of you in years" Endeavour said
"Well, I was getting bored of retirement" Gran Torino said "This is a tricky one to be sure"
"You got that right old man" Endeavour said
"Todoroki move" Aqua-Knight said as King Shark brought his hands down about to hit him, only for the element user to coat the floor in ice to slip away, only to fall onto Mei
"Sorry" Todoroki said
"No problem" Mei said blushing
"Hey Todoroki you froze us as well!" Iida said
"Sorry about that" Todoroki shouted before he fired out some flames at the others, Aqua-Knight was able to move
"His quirk must have worn off" Aqua-Knight said
"But how, I can't move" Wonder girl said
"You should be frozen unless you have O type blood" Stain said
"Yeah I guess so" Aqua-Knight said
"Damn it" Stain said as Aqua-Knight noticed the melting ice. Holding his hands out he formed two blades of water, quickly using them to block Stain's sword before jump kicking him in the head
"GET BACK This is my fight" Iida said
"Not anymore" Nightwing said
"But why?" Iida asked
"Because Stain has targeted STAR Labs it became all of our fight" Nightwing said as he struggled to get back up
"You okay?" Aqua-Knight asked
"I'm fine, I'll find a way to deal with King Shark, you deal with Stain" Nightwing said twirling his batons before rushing at the massive shark
"Over here fish sticks" Nightwing taunted as he ran up a wall and flipped over King Shark switching his batons to shock mode causing them to be electrified, he smacked them against King Shark's leg shocking the fish hybrid. Growling he reached back for Nightwing, who flipped over his hand and then jumped onto his back, hitting him with the electrified batons shocking him more. Finally King Shark grabbed him and threw him at the wall, Nightwing countered by wrapping a grappling hook around his leg and pressed a button to reel him in allowing him to kick King Shark in the gill forcing him to stumble back right into the path of Todoroki's ice trapping his feet
"WHAT!" King Shark shouted
"Time to put you on ice" Todoroki said before throwing some more ice at him
"And make sure you thaw him out so we can make him into fish burgers later" Mei shouted
Aqua-Knight performed an aerial attack by kicking his face. Growling Stain swung his blade at Aqua-Knight who blocked with his twin water blades forcing them up enough for him to slip under with a roll and slash Stain in the back, snarling Stain tried to attack him by thrusting the sword in the gap under his arm, Aqua-Knight rolled to the side and blocked one of them with his water blades
"That is becoming annoying" Stain said
"What can I say, we heroes can be annoying to you villains" Aqua-Knight laughed becoming distracted for a second, giving Stain enough time to cut Aqua-Knight and swipe the blade along his tongue "CRAP!" he shouted as he landed in a heap, "this isn't good"
"no it isn't" Stain said as he twirled his sword until it pointed down and lifted it up
"NO!" the others shouted
"I don't think so" a gruff sounding Australian voice said grabbing Stain before he was punched in the face dropping the sword "And I'll take that back now" the man said picking up his sword and slotting it onto his back, Everyone went wide eyed at who had shown up
"YOU!" Nightwing shouted
"I knew that the prince would be in trouble, but I didn't think the Boy Wonder would be in this much trouble"
"Why are you here anyway?" Wonder Girl said "No doubt to claim the bounty on him"
"No, I've been pay over 4 times the bounty on his head to protect him" the figure said as Stain drew out to spare knives as the figure in blue and orange armour drew his sword and pointed it at Stain
"You've got to be shitting me" Nightwing said
"So who are you?" Stain asked
"I'm just an Australian passing through, but you can call me Deathstroke!" he said.
G'day Guys Grizz here and yep the fight has began only with five new characters joining the original four in a new location, and yep Deathstroke finally makes his appearance as you all know that there has been a DC comics based story I've written that hasn't featured Deathstroke in some way and I brought back King Shark in Nomu's place, but don't worry the league of villains are going to be in this fic and one of them will show up at the end of this arc.
So until next time I'll catch you on the reefside