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A couple that will go down in legend

Chapter nineteen: Total War part two- The one they fear

Izuku, along with Bakugo, Todoroki and Kirishima, all ended up landing on the roof of the main building for Azu-Daioh High, right when a large group of the warmonger monsters started swarming outside of the wall surrounding the regular high school. The green-eyed boy looked out and over to the large group of big, hulking, muscular brutes such as trolls, ogres and orcs. Izuku still couldn't believe that such creatures even existed, even though he and his classmates have seen Nomu before.

Cracking his neck a bit, Bakugo said to the others that were with him, "Well, extras, I say we get down there and give those monster assholes a warm welcome, if you know what I mean!"

Pounding a fist into his hand, Kirishima said, "Oh ho, just try and stop me from kicking some of their asses, Baku-bro!" As much as he was worried, Izuku could not help but agree with Bakugo and Kirishima; Todoroki likewise nodded to show that he was in agreement with his more excited classmates, even though he himself kept a cool head. Seeing the warmongers burst in through the gate, the heroes-in-training knew that it was time to head on in. The four of them, standing side by side, ended up jumping down from the roof of the school building to make a dynamic entrance.

"You fucking shitheads are SO going to get it now!" Bakugo declared while pointing at the warmongers. Turning to face the other three boys, the explosive teen continued, "Alright, guys. I'll take the lead, so you all back me up!"

"Kacchan, remember that we not only have a plan, but that we need to prioritize protecting the civilians," Izuku pointed out.

Scoffing a little bit, Bakugo replied, "You never can seem to completely grow a whole spine, can you, Deku?"

"I think that Midoriya's got a point, Bakugo," Todoroki remarked, "These are not regular, run of the mill villains that we're dealing with here. They're straight up monsters."

"Well what are we waiting for?" Kirishima said as he banged his fists together, "Let's kick some monster ass already! We can't afford to just stand around while these monsters pose a threat to innocent civilians! That would be hella unmanly!"

The warmonger monsters that flooded into Azu-Daioh High grounds all stopped short a bit when they saw the four hero course students show up. Pointing at the boys, one of the warmongers shouted at all four of them, "If you boys are going to get in our way, then we'll kill you just like with everyone else here!"

Bakugo snarled in annoyance as he glared at the warmongers. "Like fuck we'll be the ones to die!" the explosive teen yelled back as he threw his hands up so that they were aimed at the warmonger monsters, sending a bunch of explosions at them and taking them by surprise. "Go, you guys!" Bakugo yelled, prompting his classmates to charge in to help him fight all of the warmonger monsters.

Todoroki started by conjuring ice and throwing it at the warmongers, surprising them and making them all look at him in suspicion. However, they all looked alarmed when the half-and-half boy immediately followed his ice attack up with a fire attack. An orc tried running up and punching Kirishima, but the hardening quirk boy had his hardening quick active just in time, so the orc had to pull his fist back, which had suffered multiple cuts as Kirishima was also sharp in some places.

With an amused smirk, Kirishima said, "You and all of your pals here are pretty damn unmanly for attacking a bunch of innocent people." Jerking a thumb at himself, Kirishima continued, "That's why all of my friends and I from U.A. High School were sent here to beat you all into submission!"

While Kirishima dealt with that orc, a few warmongers tried charging at Izuku, but he sent all of them flying with multiple Delaware Smash Air Forces, thankful that he remembered to bring his special gloves that Hatsume made for him. While all of that was going on, Bakugo laughed as if he were having the time of his life right now, all the while he was blasting all of the warmongers that came up to him with explosions. Despite the numerical disadvantage, the four boys from U.A. seemed like they were having no trouble holding their own against the large number of all of those warmonger monsters.

The day started off well enough for Ryuko Tatsuma, also known as the Dragoon Hero Ryukyu. After she had gotten herself cleaned and dressed, leaving her home in a casual civilian outfit (she was not expecting to do any hero work until much later in the day), Rykuo made her way over to a certain someplace located in the city. The Dragoon Hero had been by this place many times, and the people there were always glad to see her come.

"Ryukyu, welcome!" a mid-twenties woman greeted the number ten pro hero as Ryuko walked into the Autistic Children Development Care building, a sort of school slash daycare in the city for children that have autism. This woman wore a long-sleeved light gray baggy sweater under a light blue apron, a pair of baggy jeans held up with a belt, white socks and black slip-on shoes. The woman was fair-skinned, had a relatively cute and friendly face, and she had long light brown hair in a straight hime-style cut.

Ryuko flashed a smile to the young adult woman, a sign that she was feeling the friendly welcome. "I just figured that it was about time for me to stop by here with the twice-per-month donation that I was going to make," the draconic hero remarked.

The young adult woman, although still smiling in a friendly and thankful manner, looked a bit confused. "Isn't it a few days early?" the woman asked.

Ryuko chuckled a bit before explaining, "I got a massive bonus when I stopped a group of villains that were going to attack the market district here in town." More amusement entered the Dragoon Hero's expression when she said, "I even showed up Endeavor in the process."

"Yes, that was rather impressive," the woman replied. Gently shaking her head, the woman continued, "Even though he is the current number one pro hero, and he has made a bit of a turn for being a better role model, the other teachers here and I still don't think that Endeavor is all that good of an influence that we would want on the children here."

Smiling warmly, the woman added, "Unlike with you, Ryuko. A lot of the children here love you, and we owe so much to you, especially considering that all of the donations you've made here make up ninty percent of what we get donated to us by pro heroes, and what we get from pros make up forty percent of our total funding overall." The woman gently shook her head before saying, "We would be in a rather serious bind if the pro heroes who donate to us, especially you, were to stop, since what we get from the government isn't quite enough to cover everything that all of the children here need in order to truly help them."

Ryuko let out a resigned sigh as she turned her head to look up at the ceiling in the main reception room that she stood in with the woman. "…I told you about Anahthyne, didn't I?" Ryuko asked, never moving her gaze from the ceiling in the main reception room.

The woman's expression softened a bit, as well as take on a hint of somberness. "…Your kid sister, right?" The woman asked, drawing a somber nod from the number ten pro hero, "Yeah, I remember the story. Back when you were twenty-four, your kid sister Anahthyne was eight when she was drowned by a housemaid your family hired, because said housemaid couldn't deal with handling an autistic girl like her." Placing a hand on Ryuko's left shoulder, getting the Dragoon Hero to look down from the ceiling to her, the woman continued, "We miss her here too, you know."

A single tear fell down along the right side of Ryuko's face. "…I wish that Anahthyne was still alive," Ryuko said, "Her tenth birthday would have been later this week. I would have gone all out in spoiling her on her special day, you know."

"I bet that she would have loved all the attention from her pro hero older sister," the woman agreed, "And we would have thrown Anahthyne something of a party here, too. In fact, one of the boys here who had something of a crush on Anahthyne when she was still alive would have tried to look into getting her a really nice toy, I bet."

Ryuko perked up a bit at what the woman mentioned. "Ah yes," the Dragoon Hero remarked, "I remembered that some boy that you guys see here regularly, I think his name is Samidare, had the cutest little crush on Anahthyne."

"Yes, you got his name right," the woman confirmed as she nodded once in agreement, "And he still comes in from time to time." The woman would have continued, but she was cut off when Rumi Usagiyama and Yu Takeyama, who were also respectively known as the pro heroes Mirko and Mt. Lady, came running right on in. Seeing Ryuko, the two female pro heroes proceeded to practically bum-rush their draconic fellow hero.

"Ryuko, there you are!" Rumi said, clearly in something of a panic, same as Yu.

The looks on the faces of her fellow female pro heroes did not escape the attention of the Dragoon Hero. "…Girls, what's going on?" Ryuko asked, "Also, do try to keep things down as quiet as possible. A lot of the children here are not fond of loud noises at all, and they scare really easy."

Rumi and Yu tried to calm themselves down as much as possible. "…Look, here's the TLDR," Yu began, "Monsters like ghosts and goblins from fairy tales are real, a bunch of monsters such as trolls, ogres and orcs have just started attacking various areas here in the city, and the only force that's been organized to counter the monsters are hero course students from various hero high schools like U.A."

"None of the pro heroes have been organized to counter the monster attack because the Commission doesn't want to get involved as it does not involve criminals or quirked villains," Rumi further clarified, "So the few pro heroes that are involved in trying to stop the monsters are either teachers at the various hero high schools, or a few random pros that saw what was going on and decided to join in voluntarily."

Gesturing to Ryuko, Yu said, "Rumi and I need you to join us in helping to fight off the monsters, and one of the people working at your hero agency told us you were coming here. That's the end of that story."

Both Ryuko and the woman working at the building were wide-eyed with confused surprise and shock. Sighing in a resigned tone, Ryuko said, "…I'll ask for more details later. For now, I think that I ought to go with you girls." The Dragoon Hero turned to the woman, told her that she would come back later, and then left with Yu and Rumi. Right after the three female pro heroes left, the building, Yu grew giant before Rumi hopped up and landed on the giant heroine's right shoulder, standing there and essentially allowing Yu to act as her ride. Right when Rumi landed on Yu's shoulder, Ryuko transformed into a dragon and took up off into the air, flying at about shoulder level with Yu.

"…I also received word from one of the heroes who teaches over at U.A. that the government of the monster world that is trying to deal with the attacking monsters has given any and all heroes that are taking part in trying to end the fighting permission to kill the attacking monsters if need be," Rumi explained to her fellow pro heroes.

Hearing that they essentially had the go ahead to end the lives of the monsters that they were going to fight shocked both Yu and Ryuko. As pro heroes, they had to set an example of doing some good, and killing, regardless who or what the target was, is not quite the way to go about being said example. Ryuko felt especially reluctant to take any lives regardless as she was afraid that, should the children who are cared for over at the special school she had just left hear what she might end up doing, they might get scared of her if they hear that she's killed. The Dragoon Hero does not want having scared the kids on her conscious.

Over at Azu-Daioh High, Yaoyorozu had just finished using her quirk to create a cannon, similar to the ones used in the American Civil War. She also created a number of cannonballs to go with it. "Yeah, I'm pretty sure that some of those warmonger bastards we were warned about will be coming down this hallway," Mina said as she and Sero stood behind their rich classmate, "All we have to do now is wait for the monsters to-"

The pink-skinned girl was cut off when she, Yaoyorozu and Sero heard some screaming coming down the end of the hallway that they were facing. A total of five Azu-Daioh High students, three boys and two girls, turned the corner and started running down the hallway towards the U.A. students. The five Azu-Daioh High students were all clearly so frightened that they all had no idea that they were running towards heroes-in-training.

What alerted Yaoyorozu, Mina and Sero was when one of the large warmonger monsters that they had to keep an eye out for turned the corner and proceeded to give chase to the five students that were running towards them. Wasting no time, Yaoyorozu used her created cannon to fire a cannonball right at the warmonger. The sound of the cannon going off made the five Azu-Daioh high students jump to the side.

The warmonger, who took the cannonball hit right to his abdomen, let out a pained cry. The five Azu-Daioh High students all turned their attention to where Yaoyorozu stood. "Hey, you five!" the rich girl shouted at the five civilians, gesturing for them to get behind her, "If the lot of you are all civilians, then get behind me and continue running in that direction! The way is clear, and my friends and I will cover your escape!" The five civilian teens all nodded in agreement as they all took advantage of Yaoyorozu's offer, rushing past her to continue running away as Mina and Sero rushed forward past Yaoyorozu to go take on the warmonger.

Sero ran on Yaoyorozu's right while Mina ran on the left, but that changed when Sero used his quirk to shoot some tape out, grab ahold of a fixture, and use the momentum to jump up and swing around and over Mina, who was skating along by secreting acid from her feet, which got out thanks to her special shoes. When she got close enough, Mina skated around the warmonger to his right, skating behind him in an arc pattern as she shot blobs of her acid at the warmonger from her fingertips with her hands in gun-like gestures, shooting the blobs of acid like bullets.

After Mina came sliding out from behind the warmonger on his left, Sero landed behind the monster with a length of his tape landed over then around onto his neck, strangling the monster a bit as if the length of his tape was a garrote. The monster struggled a bit as he fell back while Mina shot more acid and Yaoyorozu fired more cannonballs at him. "Hey Sero, Mina," the rich girl said, getting her classmates' attention. When they both turned to see Yaoyorozu, Sero and Mina both noticed that Yaoyorozu was panting in exhaustion, sweating a bit, and even a bit skinnier than they remembers.

"Can we hurry this up here?" Yaoyorozu asked, looking like she was getting a bit tired, "I'm starting to run low here."

"Damn, Momo, you ought to stop producing so much and find someplace safe to recuperate after we take this big guy down," Mina girl remarked in a concerned tone.

Yaoyorozu, who had produced a bit more than she should have in all honesty, nodded in agreement. Jerking a thumb behind her in the direction the five civilian students all fled in, Yaoyorozu said to Sero, "Hey Sero, can you make sure those civilians make it out okay?"

Giving the rich girl a somewhat playful salute, Sero replied, "Aye, aye, captain!" As he ran past her, Sero asked Yaoyorozu, "You want I should pick something up for you after I get those civilians to safety?"

"Some take-out from a nearby burger place would be really useful, given how much I've burned through making this cannon and the cannon balls for it," Yaoyorozu called back to Sero as Mina aimed her right fist at the open mouth of the warmonger monster and proceeded to pump a rather large volume of her acid down the warmonger's throat, making him go bug-eyed in alarm and pain as he flailed about futilely on the floor.

Letting the beaten warmonger monster drop to the floor of the hallway, Mina turned to look at her very wealthy friend. Crossing her arms over her chest, Mina remarked to Yaoyorozu, "You know, I'm kind of worried about how everyone else is doing. When I got to class this morning, I was not expecting Aizawa-sensei to tell us that we and a lot of the other hero students at U.A. were being deployed to this area because of an attack launched by an army's worth of large, muscular monsters like orcs, trolls and the like." Shaking her head in a manner of disbelief, the pink-skinned girl continued, "If you were to tell me sometime before today that evil monsters from the fairy tales I read when I was in preschool were actually real, I probably would have laughed in your face."

Giving Mina a somewhat dry look, Yaoyorozu replied, "…You do realize that we're both teens with superpowers, don't you?"

"Well that is something I'm used to!" Mina exclaimed as she flailed her arms about in the air, "Teens running around U.A. with their varying Quirks! These big hulking monsters that we've all been fighting since we've been deployed to this area!? NOT something I'm used to!" The rich girl could only roll her eyes in mild exasperation at her pink-skinned friend's mild freak-out.

Over in another part of the city where a lot of the warmonger monsters were attacking, one of said monsters was trying to keep the very giant foot of a very giant lady from stomping down on him. Struggled as he did, the warmonger eventually could not push back any longer, thus he ended up being crushed under the stomping force of the pro hero Mt. Lady. Even though she and her fellow female pro heroes had the okay to use lethal force against the warmonger monsters, Yu still felt a very slight shiver of revulsion go down her spine as she felt and heard the sickening, crunching splat of the monster under her right foot.

Rumi hopped up and, with her right foot leading the way, flew at another warmonger monster, striking him in the side of his neck with such pinpoint precision and force that she snapped his neck, dropping him like a sack of potatoes to the asphalt of the road that was in that area the three female pro heroes came to when it was Mt. Lady, with her height advantage, spotted the first group of warmongers that she, Rumi and Ryuko came across.

The warmongers were randomly attacking random civilians that were trying to run away. One such warmonger came close enough to a relatively slender mid-twenties woman and was about to strike her in the back with a very large fist, but before the monster could even swing his big meaty fist, he cried out in pain as large claws raked into his back, cutting bone and rending flesh.

He then felt large fangs bite into his neck, jerking his head around until the neck snapped, ending the warmonger forever. Ryuko, in her dragon form, spat the monster's neck out of her mouth before she turned to look over to where her fellow female heroes were fighting, warmonger blood coating her lower jaw (mostly on the right side) and front draconic hands and claws. Ryuko also saw two of the warmonger monsters try to square off against Ruki while Yu tried to crush another monster under foot.

The Dragoon Hero rushed at one of the monsters squaring off against Rumi, taking him from behind and rending his back much the same with the warmonger she had previously killed. As the monster Ryuko attacked cried out in pain, his fellow who as attacking Rumi with him turned to see what had attacked his ally. Upon seeing Ryuko, the warmonger monster went wide-eyed in alarm and absolute fear.

"DRAGON!" the warmonger cried out in alarm. Turning to flee, the warmonger tried to run as he screamed, "DRAGON! EVERYONE FALL BACK AND RETREAT TO THE OTHER AREAS OF THE CITY! THERE'S A DRAGON HERE IN THE-" The warmonger failed to get one more word out as he was killed with a neck-snapping kick to the back of his neck, courtesy of the Rabbit Hero.

After the warmonger she slew dropped to the asphalt, Rumi, with a mildly curious look, turned to face Ryuko. "…Was that one actually afraid of you, Ryuko?" Rumi asked, "Because he was acting like he's seen something like you before."

"…Maybe I'm not the only person who can turn into a dragon out there," Ryuko replied as she spun around in place, slamming a warmonger in the chest with her powerful tail and sending him flying into the side of a brick building, causing the back of his head to smash a bit, resulting in his instant death.

Over where Yu was trying to stomp on a few more warmongers, the monsters all looked over to where Rumi and Ryuko were standing. Spotting the latter in her dragon from, the warmongers all proceeded to cry out in alarm as they turned tail and tried to run away. Although she was glad that the monsters were turning tail and running away, the pro hero Mt. Lady knew that she and her fellow pros could not let these dangerous monsters flee.

The gigantic pro hero proceeded to chase after the monsters, each of her steps a mighty stomp that shook the ground a bit. Rumi and Ryuko hopped and flew past Yu as they proceeded to cut off the escape of the monsters. Rumi used powerful kicks aimed at necks while Ryuko, with her claws and maw, ripped and rended the necks and flesh of the warmonger monsters. Yu stomped a few of the warmongers herself, and as such the monsters were wiped out before long.

Looking around at her surroundings with a look of grim disgust on her face, Yu remarked, "Yeech. At least all of the monsters in this area have been dealt with, so any civilians still hiding in this area or are trying to flee will be safe."

"What still has me confused is the fact that the monsters tried to turn tail and run the instant they spotted Ryuko here," Rumi remarked as she jerked a thumb over her shoulder at the transformed Dragoon Hero.

With a shrug, Yu said, "Hey, if Ryuko using her dragon form gives us an intimidation advantage over the monsters, then hey, more power to her. We need all the advantage that we can get." While the three female pro heroes stood in that area of the city, a police car came driving up to them. The police car stopped, and coming out of the driver side door after the police car parked was Detective Naomasa Tsukauchi.

Holding up a hand in greeting, Naomasa said to the female hero trio, "Greetings, heroes! I'm glad to see that a few more of the pro heroes took the initiative to help save the city from this monster attack, even though the Commission didn't deploy any of them due to lack of criminals or quirked villains to deal with!"

"Oh, you're that police detective who's friends with All Might," Yu greeted as she, Rumi and Ryuko approached Naomasa, with Yu and Ryuko changing back to normal.

Nodding in the affirmative, the detective explained, "Yeah, Toshi's the one who told me pretty much everything that I have on the current situation." Shaking his head in disbelief, Naomasa continued, "I still can't believe all of this is happening, monsters being real and attacking a human city. At least the heroes are helping to fight back against the attacking monsters." Giving the female heroes a concerned look, the detective said as he pointed to behind the female heroes, "I was actually on my way over in the direction of the bank in that area."

"Why? Are the monsters planning to attack and rob the bank?" Rumi asked.

Nodding in the affirmative, the detective replied, "That's what a lot of the boys in blue and I think, hence why as many squad cars are on their way to that area to try and stop the monsters that are attacking." Crossing his arms over his chest, Naomasa continued, "There are also a few other places in that direction that we're worried the monsters will try to attack, such as the Shady Acres retirement home, that one special school for autistic kids that's located across the street from the bank, that one fancy restaurant that Ryoga Yaoyorozu has been known to dine at with his family, and that one-"

Naomasa was cut off suddenly when Ryuko, instantly transforming back into her dragon form, turned around and took off up into the air before flying right in the direction that the detective was talking about, a look of enraged determination on the Dragoon Hero's draconic face as she flew off with all due speed. Looking in the direction that Ryuko flew off in, Naomasa had a bit of a bemused look on his face. "…Well, she seems to have the right idea," Naomasa remarked, "Doesn't even wait for me to ask her and the other two of you for help."

"Yeah, we better give chase so we can back Ryuko up," Rumi said as she and Yu, the latter transforming back into her giant form, proceeded to go after Ryuko to back her up. Likewise, Naomasa got back into his police cruiser and proceeded to drive after the female pro heroes, as some of his fellow police officers were also going to be in the area of the bank that they all were worried would be attacked by the warmonger monsters.

He was glad that he and his fellow boys in blue would have assistance from some pro heroes in stopping the attack on the bank and that fancy high-end restaurant; the police chief said that the bank and the high-end restaurant were the two main places in that area that needed protection from the attacking monsters, so all police effort should be focused on them. Naomasa also knew that, as per the chief's orders, he had to try to direct the attention of the on-site pro heroes to also focus on prioritizing the bank and the high-end restaurant. The good detective found it suspicious that he and the others were under orders that were clearly made with the intent to blatantly cater to the whims of the wealthy elite; the chief, when he gave said orders, looked like he wasn't all that happy with them, but had to make them either way. All in all, any heroes that Naomasa came across still had to be directed to help carry out the protection of the bank and the restaurant.

…Little did Naomasa know that the Dragoon Hero was going to prioritize protecting something else in that area entirely.

Over in the business district of the city, Aizawa and Sekijiro were standing outside the building for Shirayuki Offices when, to their alarm, a gigantic creature that looks like it came straight out of Lovecraftian horror suddenly was summoned in that area. It had multiple lengths of neck that ended only in 'Alien'-style toothy mouths, spiked ribs that jutted out and curved around part of its body, multiple tentacles coming out from the top, along with at least two bat-like wings and many arms that ended in what barely qualified as hands, huge portions of its body looked like giant, pulsating hearts, a large circular portion that was approximately in the middle of its body, and various other parts that added to the horror factor that it had going.

"And just how in the hell is anyone expected to take down that thing?" Sekijiro exclaimed as he pointed a finger at the gigantic horror, "We're going to need someone like Mt. Lady to tango with that beast!"

"Calm down, Sekijiro," Aizawa said to his fellow U.A. teacher in something of a scolding tone, "All we have to do is try to keep it occupied until backup gets here to-" The underground hero was cut off when both he and Sekijiro saw, to their surprise, a large red dragon appear practically out of nowhere right behind the horror, then promptly spewing a large volume of its fiery dragon breath at the horror's back, scorching the abomination alive as it cried out in pain.

A few seconds after it was struck by the dragon's fire, the horror fell over onto the ground, creating a mini earthquake of sorts as its form slammed into the ground. At that point, the dragon swooped down onto the horror and began raking it mercilessly with its claws. The melee barely lasted a few seconds, and it was clear when the dragon was finished that the horror had been slain. As the dragon took up and flew off in the direction of Shirayuki offices, the two men that confronted the horror saw its form fade, as if into the ether.

"…Aizawa," Sekijiro said as he turned to face the homeroom teacher of class 1-A, "I don't suppose you can tell me what the fuck the two of us had just witnessed was?" As he and Sekijiro continued to look at the area where the horror had laid when it was being torn apart by the large red dragon, Aizawa could only shake his head gently in a gesture of disbelief.

"…Sekijiro," Aizawa began, "Even though both you and I have seen many things since our respective careers as pro heroes began, there are still things that can leave us dumbfounded." Gesturing to where the horror had laid before it faded into the ether, Aizawa continued, "That was just one of many things that we as humans just cannot come up with an explanation for." Sekijiro, who was just as unsettled as Aizawa, could only nod in agreement.

Over in the area of the city were the bank and the one high-end restaurant were both located, the attacking warmonger monsters were picking up whatever they could-mailboxes, trash cans, other objects of similar size- and chucking them at the police cruisers that were parked outside of the bank and high-end restaurant. "Fucking humans!" one of the warmongers scowled at one of his fellow monsters, "They're keeping us from getting to raid the places that have the most spoils of war for us to take!"

"At least they're smart enough to protect their value," another warmonger replied as he yanked a mailbox out of the sidewalk and chucked it at a police cruiser, smashing the window of the driver side door and greatly denting the door itself. As those two warmongers and a few others were in the middle of trying to take down the police barricade, a third warmonger came jogging up to his fellows, staying behind respectable cover.

Jerking a thumb over his shoulder, the third warmonger said, "I noticed that the bank and that fancy human restaurant are pretty much the only places that the humans are protecting. We can bust into other locations here to get some lesser loot, and maybe find a few hostages to take and use as bartering to make the police stand down and let us raid the bank and fancy restaurant!"

"Good idea," the first talkative warmonger said as he and the second one turned to regard the third, "But where can we go?"

Jerking a thumb over his shoulder again, the third warmonger said in a tone of mildly piqued interest, "That place behind us is some sort of school where the humans look after some of their defective kids."

The second warmonger, with a mildly confused and surprised look on his face, said, "Wait a minute, you're saying that the humans actually allow their defects to live?" After the third warmonger nodded twice in the affirmative, the second one laughed, "Ha! No wonder that humans are so damn weak! They don't have the balls to kill off their peoples' defective brats unlike our races!" Gesturing for the first and third warmongers to follow him, the second one said, "Come on, let's go grab some of those defective human kids and use them as shields to-"

"LIKE HELL YOU'LL HARM THEM!" a vengeful, angry female voice roared out, cutting the second warmonger off and making him and his fellows look up in the direction the shout came from. To the horror of the gathered warmongers, Ryuko in her dragon form flew down from the sky, like a bolt from the blue, and slashed the second warmonger from the upper right side of his collarbone to the left side of his waist with such force she rended his internal organs, his bones, his flesh.

Not even bothering to waste any more attention on the warmonger whose torso she had just torn asunder, the Dragoon Hero immediately turned to focus her attention on the other two monsters that were aiming to take some of the kids at the academy as hostages. She had heard what they were going to do, heard their cruel words aimed towards the children.

Naturally, Ryuko became absolutely livid.

One cruel person already took the life of her late kid sister Anahthyne, and Ryuko refused to allow the same to happen to any other child, especially any of the ones that were in the academy behind her. The Dragoon Hero flew into a berserker rage when she heard what those monsters had declared, so after she tore out the chest cavity of one monster, Ryuko raked the torso of the one on her right while she used her left draconic hand to grab the one on her left.

Ryuko reached forward towards the warmonger on her left, her maw opened wide, and she brought her jaws crunching tight around warmonger's neck, mauling him without mercy. At the same time, she was multitasking as she raked the torso of the other warmonger, making him cry out in pain as the left hand (from his view) side of his rib cage was actually ripped off/out by the Dragoon Hero.

The few other warmongers, all of which were still involved in fighting against the police standoff, stopped short as some of their fellows were attacked by, what they were all horrified to see was, a fucking dragon. One of the warmongers that were distracted ended up taking a few shots from one of the human police, and when the others turned to see their fellow who was shot fall back, the pro heroes Mirko and Mt. Lady, followed by Detective Naomasa in his police cruiser, arrived on scene.

With the additional pro heroes on site, the police were able to stop and take out the remaining warmonger monsters. By the time all of the monsters laid either defeated or dead, the three female pro heroes went to talk to the police, with Yu and Ryuko transforming back to normal. "Thanks for showing up to assist us, heroes," a lieutenant-ranked police officer said as he and his fellows greeter Yu, Rumi and Ryuko while Naomasa parked and got out to go up to them, "We'll need your help in safeguarding the bank and that high-end restaurant."

Rumi, with a confused look on her face, replied, "…I was actually planning to protect that retirement home from the monsters. My grandaunt actually resides there."

"And Ryuko here is probably keen on protecting that school with the special needs kids," Yu remarked to the police, a comment that drew a nod of agreement out of the Dragoon Hero. Gesturing to the lieutenant, the pro hero Mt. Lady asked, "Why do you want us to focus more on the bank and that fancy restaurant?"

"Chief's orders," the lieutenant replied, "He believes that protecting the bank, which is where everyone keeps their money, and that high-end restaurant, where wealthy persons such as Ryoga Yaoyorozu and his family are known to dine at, are more important." Crossing his arms over his chest, the lieutenant said, "Personally, I would rather protect the places where the elderly citizens and those children respectively are cared for, rather than blatantly cater to the needs of the city's wealthy elite. The chief likewise seemed unhappy with having to give such orders, but he looked like he didn't have much of a choice in the matter."

Naomasa crossed his arms over his chest himself before saying, "Yeah, I have to say that I feel that something fishy is going on here." With a bit of an amused smirk, the detective jerked a thumb at the trio of female heroes and went on, "Luckily for us, pro heroes such as Mt. Lady, Mirko and Ryukyu are more inclined to prioritize protecting citizens than the pocket books of the wealthy big wigs that try to run things around here in the city."

The lieutenant nodded in agreement with Naomasa before turning to face the three female pro heroes. "Although I am obligated by orders from my chief to request your assistance in protecting the bank and the high-end restaurant from the attacking monsters, I by no means have the authority to force you three to help, as only the president of the HPSC has that authority to give direct orders to pro heroes such as you ladies. That being said, it would be great if you three were to help us, but I would be just as happy if you were to prioritize saving the citizens."

The three female pro heroes nodded in understanding, with Yu and Rumi saying that they'll head over to the retirement home to look after protecting the elderly citizens there while Ryuko stayed outside of the Autistic Children Development Care building to protect the children. Looking down at herself as she was still in her regular form, Ryuko suddenly realized that she was coated in warmonger blood from head to waist.

"…I REALLY hope none of the kids see me like this," the Dragoon Hero thought worriedly.

TO BE CONTINUED…

END, CHAPTER NINETEEN

Author's notes;

And the fiercest foes rout when they hear Ryuko's shout. All joking aside, this chapter continued the ongoing attack in the city that had been launched in the previous chapter, showing some of the folks from U.A. assisting in fighting the warmongers and getting civilians to safety. I also threw in a few scenes to focus on Mt. Lady, Mirko and Ryukyu, as I wanted the lady heroes to have a good bit of spotlight. I likewise gave some development to Ryukyu that her character is going to need for some minor bits that will crop up in the next few chapters.

Anyway, I'm sorry if the idea of seeing some of the BNHA heroes killing anything, even if it's a bunch of warmonger monsters that are very clearly evil bad guys, strikes any of you as bad, but given that the warmongers would otherwise stop at nothing when they aim to kill anyone and everyone that they can get their hands on, the heroes don't have much of a choice in the matter. But I have taken measures to show that, even though they kind of had to, the heroes aren't taking a lot of pleasure in having to take lives, with Mt. Lady getting at least one or two lines that suggest she has such reluctance to kill.

In this way, I am trying to show that I not only agree with how many superheroes are in the right for not wanting to kill, but also showing what they are capable off when the gloves come off. It's a good thing that superheroes, as a whole, like to keep the gloves on.

But I digress. The next chapter will see the heroes, both pros and students in-training, continuing to fight against the attacking warmonger monsters. I'm aiming to ultimately wrap things up in this mini arc in the next chapter; we should see the city-wide fighting draw to a close, along with cleanup and damage assessment. There will also, given the nature of the attack in the mini arc, sadly be a few casualties. No one really important, mind you, but it'll big enough to grab at least some attention (in-universe, at least). I will also try to wrap things up in other works that tie back to the monster siege event.