Minutes before...
Nucleon remained in a meditated state as Izuku and Shoto approached from two separate sides. He was now wrapped in Hanta's tape but remained composed and stationary.
"Y-You guys finish him off." Hanta whispered to Izuku. "I can't fight a force like him, and it's suspicious how happy he looks to be captured..."
"We know that he's going to target whoever has energy he can steal." Izuku mentioned back at the base camp. "Of those engaging him, if it's me, he'll most likely go for me."
"I'll go with you." Shoto volunteered. "You can act as bait while I freeze him in place."
Here they were now, each step closer was taken cautiously.
Nucleon's eyes remained closed yet a smile crept up on his face. He chuckled. "Good to see you again, young Deku."
"And I sense another. This one I'm not familiar with, but Promethys is. The Todoroki boy, is it?" He asked. His eyes opened and darted between them on separate sides of the clearing.
"Sasaki Nissho, AKA Nucleon." Izuku stated. "By order of the Tokyo City Police Department, the elite guard at Tartarus prison, and the representatives of Ogouchi Dam, we place you and your cohorts under hero's arrest and will take you to the police immediately."
Nucleon laughed harder now. "So authoritative. You like having false power?"
Izuku glared in anger at the villain, who returned a look of confidence. "Pretty soon, these titles... These social standings... They'll all crumble. There will be no more heroes nor villains. Just the loyal, the enlightened. And the blind, the damned."
"Enough talk, you psychopath." Shoto hissed and unleashed a wave of ice toward the sitting villain.
In a swift motion, he leapt off the ground, dodging the attack and charged the half-and-half Quirk user.
"He must have guessed we would assume he'd go for me because of my power... But he may already have power of his own!" Izuku thought.
Shoto's eyes widened and he unleashed a volley of fire in Nucleon's direction.
The villain laughed as he slid out of the way and returned fire, blasting a green laser from his hand.
Shoto jumped away, but not before feeling the backside of his suit burn from the laser blast. "Augh!" He shouted.
"SHOTO!" Izuku leapt forward and quickly tethered Nucleon with Black Whip.
Nucleon laughed and attempted to burn through the ethereal black tendrils.
"Midoriya, back away!" Shoto shouted regaining his balance.
Izuku backed away, keeping his arm out to control Black Whip.
Instantly, Shoto launched another wall of ice that rose in Nucleon's direction and coated his body entirely, except for his face which was looking upwards.
Mashirao rushed out of the bushes alongside the several other heroes. "Toru reached Inflictor! There's a machine about to launch the virus into the atmosphere on the roof!"
"Alright, let the police take Nucleon from here. Let's go!" Eijiro ordered as he charged along.
"Right!" Izuku and Shoto replied in unison before joining the others.
Katsuki roared out and began airborne, blasting himself off toward the roof.
"Get up there, Warpi! See if we can destroy the machine or if something else has to happen!" Izuku ordered to his intern.
"Yes sensei!" Hansuke replied. "By the way, I think I'll change my hero name after this. Warpi just doesn't do it for me."
"Go now!" Shoto repeated.
"Right, right! Going!" Hansuke snapped his fingers and made his way up through the door, up the stairs and to the rooftop.
Katsuki was closing in on the machine all guns a-blazing style.
Inflictor was typing something into a keypad. The hero Invisible Girl was laying on the ground with her suit covered in blood. And no one else was in sight.
"That must be the code to launch the machine!" Hansuke said to himself. "While I'm up here I might as well stop Inflictor."
As he rushed up to tackle the villain, he was knocked away by a large arm. A massive backhand.
Hansuke grunted in pain and tumbled to the ground. The effects of his Quirk started to wear him down very quickly, especially after that hit.
He looked up to see Promethys standing above him.
"Nucleon once mentioned you." He said. "He told me you had the chance to join the cause, but turned it down out of fear." The villain knelt down closer. "But now, what kind of fear is more compelling?"
The young UA student gulped and gasped. "The...duty...as a hero...to kick your ass..."
Promethys's large mandibled mouth smiled. "Your heart is concluded. I have no reason to spare you, child."
Hansuke quickly snapped his fingers, resuming time.
Promethys's eyes darted up to see Izuku above them. Before he could react, Izuku's fist made contact with the monster's face and threw him back.
Katsuki unleashed a Howitzer Blast on to the machine, putting smoke and fire all over the rooftop as the rest of the heroes arrived.
Inflictor groaned, having the force of the impact knock the keypad from his hands again and throw him against the nearest concrete wall. He looked up through his cracked mask to find the machine completely untouched.
Katsuki landed and had the opposite reaction. "Wha-"
Promethys recovered and found the roof swarming with the heroes.
"It's over, freak show!" Eijiro shouted.
Promethys sighed and looked down. "Over, you say?"
"Your buddy Nucleon is captured. You're surrounded."
"But the machine still stands..." Promethys turned his head towards the contraption still sitting on the cell tower unscathed as before. "And I can see the control panel. Only two digits left to type."
He raised his hand high in the air. "It is not over, dear children."
"All heroes, brace yourselves!" Hanta called, seeing people's capes, hair, and various loose pieces of clothing blowing in all directions away from the towering villain.
Promethys's eyes glowed brightly. All tattoos on his body glowed as well.
A wave of energy blasted from his hand down from the roof where he was standing, and hit Nucleon directly through his temporary ice prison, melting through it instantly and causing him to scream at first.
Everyone shielded their eyes from how bright this display was, then they could faintly see it became a two-way connection than just a simple one-way laser hit.
Izuku looked to Shoto. "...That day a year ago...back in Tokyo at the towers..."
"Nucleon tethered himself to a villain with a power conductor Quirk..." Shoto finished.
"ATTACK HIM!" Izuku yelled out and charged.
Then everyone was flown back as a black hole ripped open in the sky not far above their heads.
The heroes quickly recovered and heard screams and gunshots in the distance.
"Ground Zero! Come in!" Detective Tsukauchi's voice shouted in the radio.
"Tsukauchi! The hell's going on down there?!" Katsuki asked through his earpiece.
Mezo used his arms to form a set of eyes that observed the ground at the base of the dam.
"The police force is under attack! Hostiles are emerging from the portal!" He reported.
Promethys laughed. "Now, you will see a world where my power reigns supreme!"