"I'm not sure." I admitted, "It's just been so long since I've seen them. Though I do admit there is one thing I do want to ask them."
"What is that?" Kiri asked as he uncrossed his legs.
"To come back here."
Chapter 54: Test run.
I stood on the mock cities street, Crescent Rose in my hands as I looked at the army of Villain bots approaching me. I slowly rotated the scythe in my hands as I awaited the all clear. Slowly the bots spilled out through the side streets and surrounded me. "You may begin." Nezu's voice announced form unseen speakers.
I heard weapon around me power up and I pulled the trigger with the muzzle pointed straight down and I shot up past the roof tops as the ground where I stood was destroyed, I hung in the air for a moment before I fired another round and rocketed to the ground smashing the back hook of my weapon through the body of the machine, purple flames twirling around the blade on my weapon. I fired another round and the machine exploded sending flaming bits of metal through bots, windows and walls. I spun the blade around a slashed through another bot in half, I had moved onto another target before it fell to the ground.
I swapped clips to gravity rounds and planted the blade of my scythe in the ground and started pulling back the bolt in rapid succession, each gunshot marked the death of another machine as well as the three behind it as the bot were torn through like they were paper.
I ripped my weapon out of the ground and put away on my back before leaning down close to the ground, my body shaking as I stored up energy. I burst forward with a thunderous clap as the world narrowed around me. I heard nothing as I left sound behind me I glanced back to see the bots swirling in my back draft as I raced down the street. I slowly began to turn up toward the sky arching back into the center of the city, and landing with one leg sped to the side and my right hand on the ground, I looked up at the mountain of rubble and machine falling down as me. I raised my hand and unleashed a torrent of purple flame melting away all the metal and turning the stone to dust to be blown away in the wind. As the molten metal splashed down around me, three massive robots entered the battle.
I heard massive canons powering up but I paid it no mind as I looked down at the boiling lake of metal around me, I lifted a hand and swung it, picking up the metal in the wind and spearing one of the machines through the face with a spear of molten metal, I saw the lights flicker and die as it fell to the ground with crash. I closed my eyes and took in a deep breath as the wind picked up and rain fell. I opened my eyes and snapped my fingers, twin arks of lightning that illuminated the entire city around UA struck the two the machines with such force that the ground shook as they fell dead.
"Test completed." I could hear the fear in his voice.
Fear.
What a funny thing? Fear.
I walked into the class with all of my classmates who had just watched the test of my new abilities. "Maiden of Destruction is way to fitting for that power." Sero said as he backed away from me.
"Yeah, I did do quite a number on the mock city though, I have to learn to control this before I even think of using it in a real fight." I said.
"Well it just means we have to work even harder to catch up with you." Uraraka said with smile which I returned.
"It's not like I'll have this power forever, once I get to be too old, by what ever measure magic dictates that be, it'll move on to someone else who's worthy of this power." I said with a smile. "Besides, Todoroki still out classes me by miles in skill and control and pure fire power, after all he took out seven zero pointers at the sports festival like they weren't even there, Kaminari would just need one good chance to use his full power to take me out. I'm powerful, not immortal."
"You underestimate yourself Ruby. A bit more training and you'll be more powerful then All Might," Kiri patted me between the horns.
"Do you really think so?" I asked him.
"Yeah, I do." He smiled at me.
I waited in the classroom for the others, the sun had long since set over the city, it had been a week since the battle with All for One, now we were leaving for Remnant, everyone had made so much progress on their auras in such a short amount of time. 'Haven Academy.' I thought.
I was actually thinking of going there myself, but plans changed when I got a letter from Ozpin. Pyrrha told me.
I looked at the sack I had packed for the trip, it had extra ammo, clothes, and a few days of rations. It also had what Lien I had left in a side pocket as well as some that I had found in my mothers things. 'Let's hope were not to late.'
Indeed.
The door opened as the others walked in to the room, All Might had bulked up a bit with his quirk, I had extended his time with the power he held by a few months at best, he had to find his semblance soon if he wanted to keep being the Symbol of Peace. He wore a white tee shirt and green pants held up with his silver belt buckle.
Kyoka wore the speaker gauntlets, Sonic Boom as we called them, that we had made together, her hands encased in dust forged steel, he large boot the same as when I last altered them, the only other big change was her jacket, which was now sleeveless.
Aizawa was the same as ever, can't change perfection I guess.
Monoma's hero costume was... inspired, I looked at the over the top formal clothing and chuckled to my self.
Eijiro walked in last, his costume as red as ever, but now he had two crimson bracers on his arms, and hooked to his belt was a pair of axes with gravity dust embed to the butts of the weapons. This was something I had been working on since I met him, twin axes and bracers to bring them back to him. He hadn't named them yet.
But his head piece had changed as well, from the bridge of his nose down he had a inversed grimm mask, red with white markings, black fake teeth pointed like daggers grinned at us.
Bakugo's Hero costume hadn't changed, except for the lack of a mask. "Let's get this started."
"Your just ready to go?" I asked.
"Of course I am, you wanted me for this." I rolled my eyes at explosion boy.
Tenya held his helmet in his hands but there was one major change to his gear, an expanding round shield on each arm. "Let's hope were not too late."
"New mask? Do anything?" I asked Kirishima.
"I realized I was way to exposed to gas attacks, and if it hadn't been for the gas mask that I was given during the attack at camp things could have gone a lot worse he said. "So I talked to Hatsume and Power Loader about it."
"Oh you talked to Hatsume about it." My eyes narrowed.
"You can help me make a proper one when we get back," He laughed it off.
"Right." I said.
"Well let's get this started." Aizawa said as he drank from a juice pack.
I turned to Monoma, "Just the Silver Eyes."
"Of course, of course." I pulled on the power, a slight burning sensation ran through me and he tapped my neck and his eyes began to softly glow silver. "I'm ready."
I switched to the Maiden's power as we both raised our out put of power.
"Hey Kirishima I forgot..." Hatsume said as she entered the room as every breathing thing was pulled into a portal.
"... one thing... What just happened?" She asked from a tree branch, two large cases in her hands
"Shit." I said while looking around us, we had teleported into the middle of a massive pack of Beowulfs.
And done.
