Part two. Master Fu's full fight will be The Trial chapter.
Titan raised Midoriya up into the air before slamming him into the ground. He raised his other fist and brought it down against the inheritor, prompting a response from the heroes. Uraraka leapt off of the ledge with her Quirk activated and grabbed the still-intact lollipop cart hidden away. The cart flashed pink before she flipped over and threw it at the villain.
"RELEASE!" She called out.
The villain felt the cart shatter into pieces over his head, but the attack didn't hurt him one bit. His grip on Midoriya, on the other hand, loosened enough for him to escape. He struck the man's hand and slipped out from his grasp. He fixed his stance and struck him with a roundhouse kick to the crook of his neck.
Titan shrugged off the initial attack and tried to grab the inheritor only for Ladybug's yo-yo to wrap around his torso. The spotted heroine yanked him back as hard as she could, saving him from another attack.
Midoriya rolled on the ground in front of the heroes. "You okay Deku?" Uraraka asked with urgency.
The green-haired hero nodded. "Yeah, I am." He gripped the right side of his torso. "That hurt like hell though. Thanks for the lollipops," he said.
The gravity heroine smiled. "And the escape, Ladybug."
"No problem Midoriya, but now we got a problem," she said. She gestured to the villain as he looked on them with a sneer on his face. "How are we beating...THAT?"
"I don't think he can be rusted huh?" Cat asked.
Midoriya shook his head. "It's like Tetsutetsu's Quirk back home. He and Kirishima have similar hardening Quirks but his is steel hardening. We could use salt water and vinegar or something," he said.
"But I doubt he'll be open for an experiment," Uraraka commented. "So that means..."
Midoriya powered up Full Cowling. "We have to fight him head on...at least until we can figure out how to take him down."
When they finished talking, Titan leapt onto the ground where the heroes were situated. "MIDORIYA!" he bellowed. "FACE YOUR FATE, KID!"
With his brows scrunched and a determined glare at the villain, Midoriya spoke. "His Quirk allows him enhanced speed, incredible strength, and even better durability. Don't let him land a hit!"
The villain lunged forward. Ladybug grabbed Deku while Cat Noir used his staff to push Uraraka away, propelling himself in the process. Titan slammed into the ground and lunged for the cat-themed hero. He grabbed the staff, still extended, and pulled him toward his awaiting metal fist.
Before the fist could connect, Ladybug's yo-yo wrapped around him and pulled him away. As Titan followed his prey as he escaped, he barely noticed Midoriya coming in with his leg raised high. "Go home Muscular!" He called out.
Titan cracked a smile. "What? And miss out on a good fight?" He raised his arm to block a kick coming from the green-haired inheritor.
Midoriya's foot connected, sending shockwaves up his body. Titan reached around and grabbed his extended leg before yanking him backward. He threw him across the street and into a passing vehicle, nearly tipping it over as it passed by.
As the passing car stopped and its driver running out of it screaming, Uraraka came running in with her hands positioned to cancel her own gravity. Titan saw her coming and struck with a hammer fist. His forearm slammed into the ground as the gravity heroine leapt over it.
She kicked off of his arm and into the air. Titan followed her as she flew over and canceled her Quirk, landing directly behind him. "DEKU!" she shouted.
Titan turned to see the trailer from a sixteen-wheeler flying at him. The effects of Uraraka's Quirk had already worn off as it slammed into the furious akuma. He had caught the vehicle and thrown it to the side to see Midoriya running at him with his fist raised. "DETROIT..."
In the My Hero universe, All Might stood straight up. "Young Midoriya, NO!"
"SMASH!"
Midoriya's fist connected with Titan's face, sending a shockwave of wind and energy throughout the area. The winds died down and a wave of fear washed over the young inheritor as he saw Titan did not have a scratch on him. He smiled as his one good eye met his prey's. "Nice try kid..."
He reached over and grabbed Midoriya's arm before pulling him back. He held him in the air like a magician holding a rabbit fresh from a hat. "...but you haven't been getting stronger, kid. I thought beating me and escaping the League would've made you a better fight," he said.
He turned and threw Midoriya over the roundabout by the Palais. He bounced off of a corner and disappeared down the street. As soon as he settled, the young inheritor groaned as he crashed into a wooden table with a cup of coffee still present. Titan laughed as he sped off through the street.
As he charged through the park, Ladybug swung over the villain with Cat Noir behind her on his staff. "Cut him off Kitty!"
"Good idea, a giant, metal madman with muscles coming out of his body is easy to stop," he said.
Ladybug smirked. "Sarcasm is unbecoming of you. You and Uraraka stall for now while I check on Midoriya. We'll provide backup once his bearings are in place," she explained.
"Got it."
Cat Noir raised his staff and swung it down to meet the akuma's forehead. The strike did nothing except irritate him as he stopped to grab it. Cat launched himself off of it and landed on the ground in front of him and took a fighting stance. Uraraka appeared next to him with a broken fire-hydrant in her hands.
The akuma smiled before dropping the staff. He raised his left foot and stomped on the ground, cracking the cement under the statue displayed there. "I can see you decided to grow a pair, cat," he growled.
Cat said nothing; his gaze fixed on his opponent with a fierce determination. He eyed his staff before turning his attention to the gravity heroine. "Ready?"
Uraraka nodded. They both charged the villain.
In the My Hero universe, the class and the adults all watched with held breaths and racing hearts. The Uraraka parents were clinging onto themselves as they watched their daughter fight the villain. Inko was busy hyperventilating inside a paper bag that Momo provided (from the pantry, not her own body).
Mr. Aizawa and All Might were watching for a different reason. "You sure that's Paris?" the Erasure hero said.
"No doubt about it, but it's day over there right now...unless it truly is an alternate dimension," All Might said.
"Regardless, I'm concerned about how they got there. I'm going to have to punish them for breaking curfew when they get back though."
All Might rolled his eyes. "You and your punishments. How does your wife handle you?"
Aizawa coughed before rolling his eyes. "It shows how little you pay attention since I'm not married," he mumbled.
The former pro hero sighed. "...that was the joke, Shota."
Sero peered over the Tsu with a look of confusion. "Are those pros with them?" he asked.
"Sure looks like it. But I don't see anyone else coming in to help them," the frog heroine-in-training said.
"Sure are some funky costumes. I mean, the leather is nice...but are those real cat ears?" Mina Ashido asked.
"And the bodysuit on the girl...isn't that a bit much?" Todoroki asked.
Mineta, who was scrambling to get a good look, shook his head violently. "Doesn't matter since she doesn't have the asse-"
The sound of something heavy striking a body stopped his train of thought. Ojiro had used his tail to 'secretly' thwack Mineta upside the head, nearly knocking him out. The strike did make him bite his tongue however.
Mina sighed. "Thanks Ojiro," she said.
He nodded. "You should really be respecting women and their various body types, Mineta. And also you should keep your mouth shut when there are several adults in here," he told the perverted child. He turned his attention back to the crack as it showed Uraraka leaping over Titan.
"Oh c'mon, you all were thinking it," he muttered.
Ojiro slowly turned to the grape hero-in-training. He raised his tail up as he stared at him with a furious aura emanating from him. "I'll knock you out this time," he warned.
"P-P-Please don't..."
Back in Paris, Uraraka grabbed Cat Noir's staff from behind Titan. She extended it enough to slam it into the bend behind the villain's knees as he moved to strike at the cat-themed hero. He lost his balance and fell to his knee as Cat came and stomped on his face.
The attack still didn't do much, but it allowed Cat to leapt into the air into a backflip. Uraraka tossed him his staff before slipping away from the villain's area of attack. Cat extended his staff at the base of his flip and propelled himself forward and slammed his staff onto the villain's head again.
The villain groaned as he shook it off. He grabbed the staff and yanked the cat-themed hero toward him. Cat yelped in a surprised tone as he met the villain's fist. The strike connected with his stomach, sending him through the air into a nearby building. He crashed into a window, startling the occupants inside.
On the other side of the battlefield, Ladybug landed right by Midoriya. He groaned in pain as he grabbed the cup of coffee still in one piece. "Wha-who drinks coffee this late?" he wondered out loud.
Ladybug smiled before rolling her eyes. "Some people work the night shift and need the energy," she said.
Midoriya stared at the mug some more. "This-was this on the table when I landed?"
"Probably. Why?"
Midoriya smiled. "Remind me to make some armor made out of coffee cups," he said as he tossed it into a nearby planter. He rolled off of the table and landed on his hands and feet.
Ladybug helped the green hero up. "How are you feeling?" she asked.
Midoriya's left hand flew to his right arm. It was until now when the spotted heroine noticed that his glove had ripped around his hand and up his forearm. His knuckles were a dark shade of purple. "I may've lost control for a moment and used my Quirk at full power...and it did nothing to him," he said as he raised his hand to inspect it. "He's too strong."
"Well we need a plan. Cat Noir and Uraraka are holding him back for now but..."
Midoriya's eyes rose to meet hers. "Wait, they're both facing him?"
Ladybug nodded. "Let's get back there before..."
Midoriya activated Full Cowling without warning and sped off toward the park. Ladybug sighed before throwing her yo-yo out to chase after him.
At the park, Cat Noir dodged a flying tree directed at him by performing a backflip as it landed where he was originally standing. As soon as he was clear, Uraraka came in and used her Quirk on it, creating the world's largest baseball bat. "Ready!" She called out.
Cat smiled as he leapt over the gravity heroine. "CATACLYSM!" He called out his special move and slammed the ground in front of them, distributing destructive energy into the ground.
As the energy surged into the ground, Bakugo raised a brow at the action. "Did he just...?"
"Huh, nice Quirk," Jiro said. "Too bad it reminds me of that villain at the USJ."
Aizawa flinched at those words. His hand instinctively inched toward his right elbow. "Yeah...me too."
As soon as enough energy surged into the ground, debris began to float into the air thanks to Uraraka using her Quirk on it before. Titan looked on the scene with an intrigued expression. "Take this Titan! The Comet Home Run!"
She swung the tree at the floating debris, launching it at high speeds toward the villain. Dirt and rock slammed into Titan, nearly dislodging his 'serious' eye in the process. Titan backhanded a large piece of the ground and dashed toward the two heroes.
Cat was about to bolt along with Uraraka when Midoriya leapt over the both of them. With the tree in her hands, the gravity heroine-in-training watched as her friend's Full Cowling disappeared as he landed. He raised his right arm and grasped it with his left. "Take this, Titan!"
He drew his middle finger in and felt the power of One for All swell inside of him. "100% Delaware...!"
Titan flashed a smile as he continued to charge in. "SMAAASH!"
Midoriya flicked his finger, sending a powerful shot of compressed air at point-blank range against the villain. The shockwave blew the heroes behind him back as Uraraka's tree went flying, thankfully it was still under the affects of her Quirk.
The shockwave shook half of the city to its core. While at the Arc de Triomphe, Alya felt the air blast and barely saw a flying tree over her head. Her head, previously buried in her phone, snapped toward the street where the fight was coming from.
As the winds died down, the trio of heroes found themselves at a junction leading down the street where the Arc was. Ladybug had a random suitcase smashed into her face while Cat Noir rolled off of an awning that had previously survived the initial assault. He groaned as he picked himself up; his hair blown backward as if something exploded in his face.
In a way, something did.
In the park, Midoriya was panting heavily. The throbbing pain that came from his middle finger had returned from months of careful use of his Quirk. His eyes had shut thanks to the close proximity of the blast, leaving him with no way to prepare for what came next.
From the cloud of smoke and dust, Titan's steel-like hand shot out and crushed Midoriya's injured hand, causing him to scream in pain. The villain popped his head from the smoke and flashed a wide grin toward the hero. Using his free hand, he readjusted his prosthetic eye and grabbed the back of the inheritor's head. "Ya-Ya know something, kid? I have to admit that I got scared for a moment," he said.
He pulled Midoriya back and applied pressure to his injured hand by squeezing it. "But...it's the same as before: you're making these promises that you can't keep. You keep pretending to be a strong and capable hero when all I can do..."
He squeezed harder, earning another scream from Midoriya. Back home, Inko nearly had to fight Kirishima and Hagakure off of her as she instinctively tried to run out to save her son. "...you're just a kid. My cellmate realized who I was immediately and how I was defeated. Word spread throughout Tartarus that I was defeated by a kid! A DAMN KID!" Titan boomed.
He raised his prey into the air, barely noticing the heroes running in to try to save their friend. "You made me a laughingstock to the entire underground community! Now...Now I'll enjoy this!"
He swung the wounded hero-in-training and threw him into the group of heroes approaching him. Uraraka leapt out and grabbed her best friend before he could crash into something. Cat and Ladybug pushed forward; Cat's Miraculous began its 5-minute warning alarm. "Bugaboo I'm running out of time!" He said urgently.
"Go recharge as soon as we get an opening. Uraraka and I will stall," she responded.
Titan stomped the ground. "No more! I WANT THE KID AND THAT'S IT!" he boomed.
"Not likely, Titan!" The spotted heroine declared.
Ladybug launched her yo-yo low. Her weapon wrapped around the villain's legs and she used her enhanced strength to pull herself toward him. Titan growled as he snapped his legs apart, ruining the momentum of the spotted heroine.
Ladybug rolled on the ground as she retracted her yo-yo and immediately shot it into the air. Latching onto a nearby street lamp, she used her momentum and strength and pulled herself into the air. Titan swung out and barely missed catching his prey at that moment. She latched onto another anchor point and swung around the villain.
While she distracted him, Uraraka and Midoriya had crashed into the wall of a building but not before Midoriya grabbed his friend and twisted his body so he hit the concrete instead of her. The two were sprawled out on the ground with Uraraka on the sidewalk, facing the young inheritor.
Midoriya grasped his head as he sat up, his right hand throbbing in pain as he tried to pick himself up. "Ur-Uraraka?"
As the gravity heroine-in-training picked herself up, Midoriya immediately turned bright red and turned away. "Uraraka!" He said with urgency in his voice.
"Huh, what's-?"
Midoriya began to unzip his jacked. He unclipped the left glove and arm brace from his uniform as he passed the garment toward his friend, leaving him in a white tanktop. "Pu-Put this on!"
Uraraka tilted her head in confusion before looking down on her costume. There were obvious tears in the fabric, and while the skin underneath wasn't showing anything too revealing, the suit did look like it would...
The gravity heroine-in-training quickly grabbed the jacket with a hurried 'thanks' as she put it on. The other, un-ruined glove had also been removed, and once it was on, Uraraka felt...weird. The jacket was comfortable and a bit warm, but it was...well, it was his kind of warm.
She shook her head. "At least Mina isn't here right now, otherwise I'd never hear the end of it," she muttered.
Across the multiverse, Mina watched the exchange of the jacket and pumped her fist into the air. "Hell yeah Ochaco! GET IT!"
The room was silent except for Ojiro's awkward cough. The acid-throwing heroine quickly brought her fist down as she rubbed the back of her head. "S-Sorry Mr. and Mrs. Uraraka," she muttered with a lilac blush forming on her cheeks.
Back in Paris, Midoriya helped Uraraka to her feet. "You okay?" he finally asked.
She nodded before seeing the hand he was trying to hide. "D-Deku! Your hand!"
The inheritor nodded. "We have to stop him right now. If he continues this rampage, then..."
"WHOA!"
Ladybug screamed as she went sailing through the air before crashing into a parked car behind them, startled the young heroes. Midoriya sighed as he powered up Full Cowling. "Cat Noir is recharging, I think," he began. "Titan is going to keep wrecking the city unless we do something."
"Nice pep talk, Deku."
"But we have a chance. He looks to be pretty top heavy and that could be our way to win. We have to shake up our routine and stop attacking where he is the strongest. Instead, we focus on weak points."
Uraraka nodded. "And where is that?"
Midoriya pointed to Titan's lower half. "His legs. They're powered up, but the kneecaps and undersides are still vulnerable. His strength is equal to when he's fully augmented his Quirk."
The inheritor imagined him opening his journal by mimicking the action in front of his friend. He began to scroll through 'invisible' pages until he stopped at somewhere. He pressed his finger down and smiled. "He's too proud of his abilities but he's also highly distractible as well. If we all hit him from all sides, we can wear him out!" he concluded.
Uraraka, meanwhile, was looking at her friend's hand. "Invisible notes?" she muttered in confusion.
Midoriya shut his invisible notes. "Ready?"
Uraraka looked up at him and saw a smile on his face. She returned the gesture and nodded. "Ready."
The two heroes looked up to see Titan approaching them. Uraraka looked down on his right arm and noticed the sleeve he was wearing underneath. She shook her head and ran out with her friend toward the raging inferno that was Titan.
On the other side of Paris, Hawkmoth quietly paced his lair. He was clutching his cane as he walked with a free hand at his chin. "Wh-what the hell am I doing?" he was muttering to himself. "He's capable but...is this...?"
The elevator leading into the lair roared to life, prompting the villain to turn. He was face to face with his assistant, Nathalie. "Sir, I checked Adrien's room like you said and he isn't there. I've been trying his cell but with no success. I'm contacting his friends in a moment to see if he is with them," she said.
The villain sighed as he hung his head. He squeezed his cane before raising his head. "Keep trying."
Nathalie nodded before exiting toward the elevator. Before she left, however, she turned back to her employer. "Sir? If I may..."
Hawkmoth said nothing. "Sir?"
"Go ahead Nathalie," he said.
"While I do agree on helping you take their Miraculouses, I'm on the fence about allowing this man to be an akuma. He seems...unstable and extremely violent. Remember that they are children too," she said.
"Children who should've listened when I gave them a chance to surrender!" Hawkmoth turned and stalked toward his assistant. "Children who refuse to acknowledge that all of this...it's on them! I will not treat them as simple children; instead as merely an obstacle to my plans!"
"Sir...?"
Hawkmoth raised his hand. "Silence! The akuma will continue on until I have those Miraculouses. In regards to the heroes, I don't care what their conditions are!"
"Even at the expense of Paris?" Nathalie burst out. "Even at the expense of your missing son!"
Hawkmoth's face turned bright red. "GET OUT!" He boomed.
Nathalie's eyes were wide with fear. Her face had grown pale as her tablet was shaking in her hands. She said nothing else as she descended down the elevator and out of the lair.
The villain turned back to the giant window. He reached out telepathically to Titan. "Titan, remember our agreement! Bring me those Miraculouses or I take back your powers! You are in no position to lose and it better stay that way, understand?"
He waited for a response. After not receiving one for a few minutes, Hawkmoth growled. "TITAN!"
"Loud and clear, Butterfly Man. Let me do my job and you'll have what you want. Just be ready to clean them after I deliver," he responded.
Hawkmoth dropped the psychic link and sighed. He wasn't going to admit it, but he was beginning to regret his decision.
Hey guys, sorry this took sooooo long! I know it's past when I said I would update but I've been sooo tired after finals. Right now, grades have been turned in and I'm not feeling confident with how my grade turned out for Environmental Politics. In fact, I feel like I failed it.
When fall comes around, I'll see where I stand. But, hey the school year is done. I should be back on track after this goes up so I hope you enjoy what's next. Let's just sayyyy, I don't know if I should change the rating on here. Hmm, it's too early to tell. Anyway, until next time!
-Newage