Tenya rushed down where the police forces were camped.
Using a Recipro Burst, he scooped up Detective Tsukauchi as he was about to be pounced upon by one of the mysterious new attackers.
Stopping and setting the detective on his feet, he turned around.
"Who on earth are these guys?!" He asked.
"I was about to ask you the same thing!" The detective said, staring ahead.
Before them, attacking the other police officers and task forces, were legions of strange humanoid creatures with dark purple skin and large toothy mouths. Their eyes glowed a reddish pink, identical to Promethys's eyes.
Katsuki blasted down and immediately began to protect the police forces...by attacking the strange and hostile alien creatures.
He flew overhead and left a trail of explosions on the ground behind him, wiping several of them out.
"Looks like they're getting that under control." Hansuke said. "Deku-sensei! Let's take out the machine!"
Izuku nodded and went for Inflictor, but Promethys leapt between them and stood in his way.
He backhanded the hero and slammed his body against the dam's wall.
"Enter the code, Inflictor. And the world will know what a doctor you are again." Promethys ordered.
Inflictor stopped himself. What a strange choice of words. How would the world respect him as a doctor with this monster destroying everything in his path? Out of fear?
"DO IT!" Promethys roared.
"Y-Yes!" He said.
Hanta Sero quickly flung a strip of tape in his direction and wrapped his arm, holding it away from the keypad.
Promethys turned toward the Tape-Quirk hero and marched his way, until Izuku and Shoto blasted him off the edge of the roof with fire and Fire Sight.
Promethys tumbled down the hill and landed in the chaotic battle between heroes, cops, and the aliens.
Before more orders could be given, a portal ripped open above the roof as more creatures descended upon the heroes. They distracted Hanta and cut his tape and pushed the other heroes back for Inflictor to reach the controls again.
Suddenly the sky grew dark for a moment as a shadow cast over the scene.
Inflictor looked up to see the portal tear apart and an old fishing boat crashed on the roof and crumbled apart, crushing several alien monsters.
Momo took a rough landing on the roof carrying Ochako in her arms.
"I told you this was a bad idea!" She shouted.
Ochako simply nodded, looking too weak to do much else.
"You used your Quirk even though you're sick?!" Inflictor shouted.
More of the purple alien warriors charged the heroines with long claws and teeth exposed.
Momo set Ochako aside on the ground. "Don't worry, Ochako. I'm gonna protect you and get to that machine!"
Before she could fight the incoming enemies, large needles burst through each of their heads and retracted back.
Inflictor stood with all of his prosthetic fingers shrinking back into place.
"Your world is dying, heroes! Why fight for people who will never take you seriously?! Nobody ever cared about me and the world needed me! Without people like me, people die!" He shouted angrily.
"Doctor Akihisa!" Momo called to him. "That's exactly why we do this... The world needs us, even if they don't see it."
"It's easy for you to say, even if you're not the most popular, you have your big strong men to save you from being thrown into the streets..." He hissed through his chipped mask.
"We know we're not perfect people... And next to the people we love, we know we could never surpass them with our powers." Momo said taking a step forward cautiously. Ochako nodded weakly and continued to sit on the rubble.
"But we go with what we have... We train and study and work until our powers are just what the world needs. You are needed. Don't disbelieve that. It's not too late to be redeemed as a doctor again."
"Sh-She's right!" Ochako shouted. "You can still make this right, Doctor!"
Inflictor sighed and removed his beak-like mask and large hat. "I can't put my trust into anything anymore. If I do help you, how do I know you'll get me my career back?"
"We can't promise that we will." Momo admitted. "But we want you to see that you should fight for yourself and show that you are needed and that you are willing to work extra hard, in spite of your disabilities and past."
The troubled doctor sighed, then dropped his mask and hat to the ground. He pressed a button to a small pouch in his coat then raised two fingers at the girls. "Hold still."
Faster than they could see, needles launched forward, breaking through their skins and injecting something.
Momo and Ochako gasped and squeaked at the sudden action but soon felt strength returning to them they forgot they had lost.
"What was that?" Ochako asked.
"...The cure." Doctor Akihisa said. "Help me pour the rest of it into the machine. It'll kill the virus and we can unleash it into the atmosphere like we would the virus."
"Right!" They cheered.
Momo looked over the edge at the fighting below. "What about them?"
"All this hinges on what happens with this machine, Creati! They'll be fine! Dozens of Japan's finest heroes and officers are down there." Ochako assured her.
Doctor Akihisa nodded in agreement. But as he turned, Promethys's laser blast struck him directly in his chest and launched him into the wall.
The towering monster of a villain was then attacked again by Izuku and Shoto.
Ochako and Momo ran to the doctor lying against the cracked wall.
"F-F-F..." He gasped. "45-67-83... The code to cancel the viral launch..." He weakly pulled the pouch from his coat and handed it to Momo. "57-32-57." Code to launch the machine once the cure is inserted..."
"Doctor Akihisa..." Ochako addressed him with tears filling her eyes.
He chuckled weakly. "I figured I'd die for a silly dream...that one day it could all be just the way it was..."
"No... That's not true." Ochako sniffed. "You fought for your dream..."
"Do you think it came true?" He asked.
Momo entered in the codes and launched the machine.
It whirred to life and fired a missile shaped object high into the sky beyond view.
Everyone briefly stopped to watch the projectile.
Promethys smiled. "Say goodbye to your abilities."
Minutes passed, the fighting continued. Heroes continued to use their Quirks and take out the alien attackers swiftly and professionally.
Izuku and Shoto looked at each other, then up to the rooftop of the dam maintenance building, then back to Promethys with confident smiles as police surrounded all three.
"Yes... You did it, doc." Ochako smiled.
But by then, Doctor Akihisa was gone. His eyes, watery, were still and glasslike.