Izuku, Shoto, and Hansuke were making their way from the train station to the police station as quickly as they could.
Bystanders watched the trio run by with intrigue. If heroes were in a hurry, it's because there's an emergency. Some took pictures with their phones and cameras.
Hansuke smiled at the attention they were getting.
"The police station is just another block up the road." Shoto informed his unofficial partners.
Suddenly, Izuku felt something. A change in the wind in the air.
"Shoto, duck!" He shouted.
Instinctively, the half-and-half hero listened, ducking and sliding on his feet as a fiery red laser blasted right over where he was standing.
The heroes stopped and turned toward the source.
"Oh you've got to be kidding me..." Izuku gasped.
Promethys stepped out from a narrow side alleyway with all nine of his eyes glowing a pinkish-red. "If you'd like to speak with Inflictor, you'll have to go through me."
"So be it." Shoto declared. "Warpi, use your Quirk to get past this monster. We'll hold him off."
Hansuke took a second to realize Shoto was addressing him. He looked at the hero with concern before nodding.
"Do it, Hansuke. We can take him." Izuku assured him from behind.
The young hero in training nodded again. "Got it!" He said before snapping his fingers, and freezing time.
Promethys's body began to glow. Then jolted forward. And jolted forward again, taking a step.
"H-H-H-a-a-a-n-n-s-s-s-u-u-u-k-k-e." His bellowing voice glitched right into his plane of frozen time.
The villain's body jolted more and more until finally he snapped his fingers and began to move at normal speed.
Hansuke stared at him. "...What the fuck?!"
"Impressive Quirk, boy. With such power, I could win instantly. But opportunities like this should last. So I'll only make this fair." Promethys said, standing between Hansuke and the police station just down the road.
Promethys's body glowed again, his tattoos lit up. "Have you ever fought before in your own plane of existence?" A sharp edge formed from his forearm, extending farther than his hand and ending in a dangerous point.
Hansuke was frozen in place, full of fear in this villain's abilities.
All he could think to do, ironically, was snap his fingers over his ears. This is what he would do when he was a boy, and kids picked on him, thinking he didn't have a cool Quirk. Sometimes no Quirk. He used his power to hide.
He didn't realize it in that childlike moment of weakness, but he snapped back into resumed time.
Izuku launched forward at Promethys and prepared to strike him with his leg, when Promethys snapped out of frozen time instantly and blocked the attack with his massive arm, absorbing the impact like it was nothing.
Then the villain raised his other arm and punched Izuku, using the kinetic energy from his own attack against him.
"Shock absorption!" Shoto shouted.
"D-Deku! He followed me into my plane!" Hansuke warned.
Izuku turned to Hansuke and stared in horror. "Shoto! Don't let him lock eyes with you!"
Shoto nodded and launched a wall of ice toward the villain, completely engulfing his body in ice.
"I'll hold him in here. You go Hansuke! Izuku, cover me." He ordered.
"Right!" Izuku and Hansuke shouted in unison and darted in different directions.
Hansuke began to run toward the jail when a green laser broke across the ground in front of him.
"Tisk tisk tisk!" Nucleon wiggled his finger appearing in the street.
"Oh great." The boy sighed.
"Miss me?" Nucleon asked.
"No." Hansuke snapped.
"Ohhh. Is that anyway to treat an old friend?" He asked.
"Is this all some joke to you?!" Hansuke frowned at him.
"How would you feel if your god was fighting beside you this moment? I feel great!" Nucleon smiled.
"There's no way he's-"
"He is the reason I opened a black hole over Tokyo." Nucleon smirked and pointed at Promethys, who had since exploded out of the ice and was now battling Izuku and Shoto.
Hansuke stared at the titans fighting each other.
"How else could he just instantly have all these powers? Including yours." He asked.
The intern took a step back. "You're not going to win. What do you want with that villain in the jail?"
"We hired him to do what he did at the festival." Nucleon explained. "Now we need him to make more of the virus so we can mass-produce it. Now scram, little hero."
Hansuke raised his fingers to snap when he felt the ground beneath his feet crumble in a circle.
Promethys had his arm outstretched, controlling the earth under Hansuke. He flung his arm up and a large column of rock launched from below, sending the intern into the air.
"Hansuke!" Izuku shouted and whipped Black Whip around Promethys's arm, twisting it back in an unnatural way with his strength.
Promethys roared out in pain and stumbled aside as his arm snapped back into place by itself. His eyes darted toward Izuku and the rest of him followed.
Shoto's entire left side lit up in flames and blasted forward torching the villain from head to toe.
Izuku jumped up and caught Hansuke before he hit the ground but both of them were knocked to the ground by Nucleon's fist to his face.
Izuku groaned and tried to get up until Nucleon swiftly slammed his boot against his throat and held it in place.
"Deku!" Hansuke shouted.
Nucleon blasted in his direction to silence him. But Hansuke dodged the blast, rolling away into a parked car.
Police sirens were heard from the jail as armed officers approached the area.
Nucleon's body began to glow green. "I'll make quick work of anyone who interferes in our plans."
Before he could harm anyone else, Hansuke appeared from out of thin air and slammed his fist into his cheek, knocking him off balance, allowing Izuku to breathe again and swipe at his ankles, knocking him on his back.
Izuku used Black Whip to bind the villain on the ground by his arms and legs.
Then all eyes turned to Promethys holding Shoto by his neck.
"Allow me to pass to the jail, or I will kill Shoto Todoroki here and now." He threatened. His free arm had a large blade growing out of it pointed at Shoto's gut.
Izuku looked around first to see how Shoto could have let his guard down and noticed that he wasn't using as hot of flames as usual due to the narrow street and the civilians still fleeing the area. Not to mention how close he, Hansuke, and Nucleon were, with the incoming police forces.
"Tell them all to let me pass in peace, or I'll end this warrior's life." Promethys repeated.