Mr. Aizawa had seen a lot of things in his time as a hero. He had seen the rise of the Villain Factory, the resurgence of villains, the Nomu and the rise of the League of Villains and the Paranormal Liberation Front. Fighting a robot army led by a Quirkless Support student with a young woman with some of the physical properties of a ladybug and a man with an affinity for a black leather cat suit was a new one.
And yet, there he was as he watched Marinette fly through the air with the grace of a drunk duck and lassoing a QICD as it was coming toward him with its blade aimed at his chest. With her yo-yo wrapping around the mech's torso, Aizawa watched as the robot was then cut into a dozen pieces. As the clumps of metal fell onto the ground in front of him, Aizawa watched the other mechs falter.
As he and Vlad King turned, they watched as the children of Class 2-A surged past them and engaged the advancing QICDs. Sato flew into the air with Kirishima's ankle in his hand and swung his Unbreakable body onto the head of one of the units. His combined strength and Kirishima's power crushed the robot like a can in a wall-mounted crusher.
"Hey hey hey! Isn't that our job?" Present Mic complained to Aizawa.
Cementoss smiled as he willed a wave of cement to crush a small pack of QICDs. "This may be a fight for our lives, but it's also some excellent training. I have no objections to this," he said.
"Exactly. They needed this sort of training with these damned machines," Snipe chimed in.
Mr. Aizawa sighed as he launched his wrappings out. "Right then..." He ran off to join in the fight.
As the pros ran in, Class 2-A were already giving it their all. Bakugo kept low to the ground with his Mach Speed technique, keeping the attention of the Fairy QICDs while Mina skated around the battlefield on her acid. Aoyama kept blasting mechs as they were spontaneously being captured by Sero's tape and thrown into the air. While their armor did improve, so did the shining hero's Naval Laser. A well-placed shot would shatter them regardless of their countermeasures.
While they were fighting, Uraraka couldn't hold back a smile as she watched Marinette and Adrien fighting like back in Paris. The cat-themed hero bounced around the battlefield with his right hand glowing with destructive energy. With every pass of an enemy, a tower of once-Quirk identifying technology turned to dust. He's not stopping...can he use Cataclysm multiple times? she wondered.
Marinette, meanwhile, kept into the air with her yo-yo wrapping around mech units. As she lassoed one unit, another unsheathed its blade and attempted to cut through the toy only to find it to be indestructible. With a forceful tug, Marinette ripped a mech to pieces while using the blunt force of the yo-yo to knock another mech backwards.
Landing on solid ground, she continued her attack by weaving and dodging attacks while constantly wrapping up and destroying other mechs.
Error...Error...no Quirk detected! Unknown assailant detected! No Quirk detected! The mechs kept saying right before being destroyed by the spotted heroine.
With the broken piece of a QICD's blade in her hands, Uraraka turned and bellowed out. "NOW!"
Far behind them, hidden by a piece of debris. Midoriya and Yaoyorozu were enacting their plan. The Everything Hero jumped onto the inheritor's back and interlocked her hands and legs around him. "You sure you'll be okay?" Midoriya asked her. "Last thing you need is to get whiplashed or something."
"Terrifying image aside, I think I'll be okay," the Class Rep responded. "Remember: the service hatch is directly in between the robot's tracks. A frontal assault may be too much for us."
Midoriya nodded. "I guess we'll be taking the scenic route. Ready?"
"As ready as I can be," Yaoyorozu commented.
Midoriya then powered up his Quirk, matching his new limit of 25%. With Yaoyorozu snug on his back, the inheritor kicked the piece of debris hiding them into dust and immediately bolted toward the Executor robot.
The robot's Quirk Identification program immediately caught wind of them. ALERT! ALERT! Quirk detected! Subject identified as Izuku Midoriya! The system blared out.
Abigail watched as the inheritor gripped Yaoyorozu tightly and prepared to run. "Hang on tight and keep your head down!"
Yaoyorozu tapped Midoriya on his chest, signaling him to move. The inheritor then blasted off down the road in a flash of green light, dodging several lone QICDs as they tried to intercept him.
Inside the command center, Abigail gave the command. "Activate the Fairies! STOP HIM!" She bellowed.
The shoulders of the massive Executor opened up and several Fairy QICDs chased after him. While they didn't have any blades unsheathed like their grounded counterparts, they had the maneuverability to go after Midoriya and Yaoyorozu. The two quickly detoured down a mock alleyway with the mechs in tow. The Fairies were small enough to slip through without slowing down.
When Midoriya popped out onto a nearby street, he had no time to formulate a plan as the QICDs were hot on his tail. "HOLD ON TIGHT!"
"Any tighter and Uraraka will have my ass!" Yaoyorozu commented.
Brushing the image aside, Midoriya continued to run at high speeds. One of the Fairies grabbed a mock 4-door and threw it in an attempt to slow the inheritor down. He slipped by it with ease and quickly cursed his luck as more cars came flying in.
The sound of crushed metal around her spooked Yaoyorozu as she had her eyes sealed tight. While he continued to run, the Everything Hero couldn't help but notice every single contraction of Midoriya's muscles as he continued to dodge the oncoming traffic jam. His heart was racing almost as fast as he was running. It was a sensation she had not expected to feel.
As one truck rolled over the duo, Midoriya moved his right arm out from under Yaoyorozu's leg. "Wrap them around me tight; I'm going to use my Black Whip at the last second!" He advised.
Yaoyorozu nodded. I've been curious about that power of his...and here I am getting ready to see it up close, she thought to herself as she wrapped her legs around his torso.
As one of the mechs threw a minivan at the duo, Midoriya leapt into the air and rolled over the falling vehicle. Reaching out with his hands, he fired tendrils of black energy at the car and used its momentum to quickly counter the QICD. Pulling his whole body weight into it, he spun it around and fired it at the mech, crushing it before it had a chance to dodge it. Pieces of the van and the mech were sent all over the place.
Midoriya angled his body thanks to a few miniature Delaware Smashes and landed gracefully on the street. The mechs didn't stop to process the loss of one of their units; on the contrary, they flew down low and gained some ground against them.
Yaoyorozu raised her head up. She scanned the area and pointed toward a large mock office building. "In there! We can shake them!"
Midoriya smiled. "Man I hope you can't actually read minds," he quipped before dashing toward the front entrance.
Blasting through the mock lobby, the inheritor sped toward the emergency staircase and used his Quirk to make quick work of their ascension up the building. Several of the Fairy mechs crashed through the walls and made several attempts to grab them, only to come up short. Their quick actions weren't fast enough to keep up with the successor.
Before they rounded a corner leading to the rooftop, three Fairies slammed into the ground and raised their armor up to make a barricade. The two heroes-in-training stopped dead as the mechs began to approach them.
Midoriya began to back off when Yaoyorozu tapped him on his chest. Behind them were two regular QICDs with shock batons charged and ready for use. They approached the two heroes, boxing them in.
One of the regular mechs moved in to attack. "REAR LEFT!" Yaoyorozu called out.
Reacting immediately, Midoriya spun on the ball of his foot and delivered a roundhouse kick to the mech's raised arm, knocking the baton from its grasp. The other mech used this moment to swing at the two heroes, narrowly missing Yaoyorozu's head. Midoriya countered with a rising uppercut to the mech's head, raising it from the ground before it fell down the stairs.
Yaoyorozu turned behind her to see two Fairies closing in with their shields raised. Using her Quirk to create a bo staff, the Everything Hero swung at them to keep them at bay. She dropped from Midoriya's back and created her own shield as the two mechs charged her.
Back at the battlefield, the heroes were holding their own against the rising numbers of QICDs. Ojiro worked with Ashido to stun and melt at close range, allowing the acid-user's Quirk to burn through their armor more efficiently without losing potency over a considerable distance. While she didn't destroy the mechs, she was able to disable or destroy most mechs' lower bodies, compromising their combat ability.
Sero continued to tape up mechs and arrange them into targets for Aoyama's Naval Laser blasts. This provided an excellent change for Sero to demonstrate great strength in launching the robotic enemies while giving Aoyama better practice with aiming. The mechs had previously tried to deflect his lasers, though other mechs would not be situated in a way to continue deflecting, resulting in some accidental double kills.
While Sato continued to use Kirishima (with his permission) as an unbreakable hammer, Jiro elected to move closer to her enemies and either plug into them and disrupt the harmony of their inner systems or use her amplifiers at close range to cause extensive damage to the mechs. She lined up one angled uppercut to a mech's chin while firing a Heartbeat Soundwave attack on contact. She couldn't stop smiling as it worked everytime she got close.
While they continued to dominate the battlefield, a few heroes struggled, including Hagakure. While her gloves and boots would give her away, another trait of hers would make fighting the mechs difficult: her heat signature. While the mechs couldn't actually see her, they used thermal technology tested during their first fight in locating and keeping her at bay. This was evident here as the mechs would swing at her as she closed in on them.
The mechs kept their 'eyes' on her as she moved around. Her heat scans showed every step she took and how she was wanting to fight. She would try to throw punches, though the mechs would simply dodge or block them with ease. Eventually, she began to get frustrated. "THESE GUYS ARE CHEATING!" She bellowed out as she stamped her foot onto the ground. "Of all the people in the world to see me, it had to be these things!"
Tsu leapt over the invisible girl and launched her tongue out and wrapped around the mech's sword arm and torso. "At least they're not perverted like Mineta!" She said as she threw the mech away and into the clawed darkness that was Dark Shadow. "I'm surprised he didn't try heat tech before."
One QICD moved in toward the invisible girl with its sword prepped for a fatal stab when an earphone jack jammed into the mech's head. Jiro stood behind the mech as it fell with her arm raised behind her. "Let's not give him any ideas. Last thing we need is summon him by saying his name three times!" She said as she plugged in her earplug into her amplifier and blasted a QICD at point-blank range.
As the mech fell, Bakugo flew over the small group with two Fairies behind him. "Damn mechs are more reliant on those sensors. We gotta blind them if you want a shot Vanishing Girl!" He bellowed.
On the ground, Todoroki knew what to do. He breathed in a big sigh as he brought his hands up to his face. Balling his fists, he raised his left hand, which held the flame, to his mouth. He then raised his right, which had a small block of ice in the palm to settle in front of it. "It's going to get pretty steamy real fast!" He warned.
Bakugo sighed as he blasted straight into the air. "Damn half and half bastard!" He flipped in the air and fired an AP Shot at a Fairy at close range, breaking through the armor.
Taking in a deep breath, Todoroki blew into his hands, blowing out an incredible display of power. The fire, encompassed by left hand, blew into the iced hand and expelled a cloud of concentrated steam. It quickly grew to encompass the area they were in, surprising many within his own class as well as the QICDs.
Todoroki's Sauna Blast had a counterpart, though, which worked very similar. Though, as the cloud of steam enveloped the area, thermal scanners were picking up more heat, making their campaign against Hagakure pointless.
Pleased at the display, the Invisible Girl went on the attack.
The explosion of steam drew the attention of the Fairies that were surrounding Midoriya and Yaoyorozu. When the mechs turned, the Everything Hero jammed her bo staff into the nook of a mech's head and blocked an incoming strike from another mech with her shield. She bounced the strike back and used her shield to slam into the mech, sending it down the stairs.
Behind her, Midoriya kept blocking strikes from the mechs and countering, though they were able to quickly predict his movements. When Todoroki's Sauna Blast erupted down the faux road, the mechs stopped for a second, giving Midoriya time to land solid hits against them.
With all mechs down, Yaoyorozu leapt back onto Midoriya's back, surprising the young inheritor. "Let's get going!"
"Jeez Yaoyorozu! If I didn't know it was you, I would've flipped you over my shoulder!" He exclaimed with wide eyes.
The Everything Hero's eyes were wide. "G-Good think you knew it was me then..." She squeaked.
Overcoming the initial shock, Midoriya wrapped his arms around her legs and kicked the door down in front of them. Back in action, the young inheritor blasted off across the roof and toward a taller building. Yaoyorozu crossed her legs around Midoriya's torso as he leapt into the air and fired his Black Whip up along the side of the building. Securing an anchor point, he ran along the side of the building and leapt onto another rooftop.
Somewhere deep within the core of One for All, Daigoro Banjo smiled as his Quirk was being used the proper way.
Once he touched down onto the roof, Midoriya kept moving. He repeated the Black Whip technique as he came across taller buildings, amazing Yaoyorozu and Uraraka as they both marveled at his mastery of the power.
As he continued making progress against the massive Executor robot, more Fairy QICDs flew in to intercept the heroes. With their swords raised and prepped to strike, the duo felt a metal death surging toward them.
Until...
On the ground, Jiro plugged in one earphone into her right wrist amplifier and her left leg speaker. Flipping on switches located on the opposite sides, she turned to the resident DJ hero: Present Mic. "Ready sensei?" She wondered.
Present Mic's smile grew wide. "Oh this'll be fun. It's a good thing you finally got the new equipment too!" He exclaimed.
The Hearing Hero smiled as she raised her wrists and took a boxy stance. Present Mic stood next to her, and with the battlefield relatively clear in front of them, they were given the green light. "MAKE SOME NOISE HEROES!"
With a mighty shout, Present Mic unleashed a massive soundwave toward the QICDs. Jiro pumped her heartbeat through her amplifiers and her speakers with similar results. At the highest possible pitch for her, the two soundwaves slammed into the flying group of QICDs with great force. Unable to protect themselves from the onslaught, the mechs all began to shut down and fall toward the earth.
The two heroes ceased their attack and angled it at the re-emerging crowd of QICDs. "Joint Ultimate Move: SubSonic Super Slam!" They both bellowed as they fired off their Quirks. The charging crowd of mechs pressed on their assault, fighting through the chaos with no fear.
With the sky cleared, Midoriya and Yaoyorozu landed once again onto the battlefield and sped off toward the massive robot. Marinette watched from above as they went, glad that the two were nearing their destination. She made eye contact with the Everything Hero and pointed to her own ear.
Message well received, Yaoyorozu created two small communicators in the palm of her sealed hand. Keeping them in place, she pressed herself a little tighter as Midoriya ran.
Up above inside the head of the machine, Abigail growled as she watched their progress. She pressed her fingers into her temples as the wheels in her head turned. Behind her, her new mechs were standing idly, awaiting any new orders.
She approached the control terminal situated on the wall with several monitors. Pressing a button, a microphone appeared as she relayed her command. Executor Titan...new orders: Crush Izuku Midoriya and anyone breaching the perimeter! She ordered.
The various eyes of the Executor Robot shined bright as it accepted the order. It raised up its fist and began to drive it down to where the duo were running to. Yaoyorozu sensed it coming before she saw it and instinctively tightened her grip on Midoriya's neck, nearly choking him in the process.
The young inheritor peered up just in time to see the massive fist looming over them. Time felt like molasses for him as his mind began to race with possible ideas. On the corner of his eye, Midoriya made contact with Yaoyorozu as she looked on in fear. Despite his speed, he wasn't going fast enough to outrun it.
STOP! Izuku, that's not the right thinking! He felt himself argue with his previous thoughts. Yaoyorozu is counting on you; your friends are counting on you; Ochaco is counting on you...
With fire burning in his eyes, Midoriya felt his heart racing as he poured more energy from One for All into his entire body. Already he felt more of a spring to every step he took and Yaoyorozu was noticeable lighter on his back. He eyed his destination with determination as he sped off. "One for All...35%!"
On his back, Yaoyorozu felt herself perk up a little bit. One for All...is that what he calls it? And what's with the percentage? She thought to herself.
"Yaoyorozu, you're gonna have to press further in. Hang on tight and be ready to slow us down!" Midoriya advised.
"H-How?"
Midoriya gripped her legs tight. "We're gonna need a lot of drag..."
Before she could inquire further, she felt him blast off with renewed power. From Uraraka's and Marinette's point of view, the duo disappeared into a flash of green light. Midoriya broke his previous speed record as they skimmed the metal fist before popping out onto the other side.
Cleared from being squashed, Yaoyorozu peeked up just enough to see a service hatch closing in. Activating her Quirk at her back, she tore through her shirt to create a backpack with a zip chord on her shoulder. She quickly pulled the chord, releasing a parachute from the pack.
The sudden feeling of drag nearly ripped her from Midoriya's back had his grip been loose. His momentum began to slow as well as his speed, though he was still traveling too fast for his own good. He dug his feet into the ground in an attempt to slam on the brakes.
Feeling the parachute wasn't stopping them, Yaoyorozu discarded the pack by creating another one behind it and releasing another chute. Midoriya felt his speed slow down enough for him to move his right arm from the Everything Hero's leg and firing his Black Whip at the service hatch twice; once to unlock the hatch itself and the other to rip it open.
As soon as they got close, Midoriya launched into the robot bounced right off of a wall, releasing Yaoyorozu in mid-air and shielding her as they landed. Finally settling on the cold steel of the robot and ignoring the throbbing pain in his feet from breaking his limit, the inheritor breathed a sigh of relief. He got up off of his classmate and moved away, respecting boundaries and his relationship status too much to be caught in a stereotypical anime situation.
They were inside...and they were ready to shut the robot down.
Meanwhile, Marinette wrapped her yo-yo around the leg of a QICD unit and swung it around and into the awaiting claws of Adrien's Cataclysm. Bursting through its torso with ease, the blond model/superhero then grabbed his bo staff from his back and blocked a strike coming in from another mech's sword. "Man having the whole team here would be awesome, wouldn't you say Bugaboo?" He checked in with his communicator.
Marinette rolled her eyes as she flew toward the ground with her yo-yo in hand. "Ehh I don't know...Alya and Nino would probably feel overwhelmed with all of these robots..." she said.
Adrien smiled as he activated the taser feature on his staff and jammed it into a mech's head. "Good point...though I wonder how they're doing back home. It'd be great if we could check in," he said. "I bet they got their hands full with a bunch of akuma."
The spotted heroine smirked as she dodged a strike from a mech that got too close. "Probably...if Hawkmoth hasn't noticed we aren't even the-"
"Hello? Ms. Dupain-Cheng?" A woman's voice suddenly appeared.
Marinette jumped in place. "H-Hello? Who is this?"
"It's Midnight. I was with All Might getting info about our favorite Tinkerer," she responded.
Adrien looked over at the spotted heroine. He could hear Midnight from there. "What's going on? How'd you get onto this channel?"
"Don't worry about that. Listen, I went back to speak with Mr. Winters to get some more information about Abigail. I got something new to report," Midnight said.
"Oh?"
"Yeah, and I don't like it. I feel like we're going at this the wrong way..."
Marinette and Adrien listened to the intel. Once Midnight finished the report, they two Miraculous heroes met each other's gaze. "It's like she's an akuma..."
Adrien nodded and eyed the massive robot. "Yeah...and the sad thing is: I kinda get it..."
Sorry this took so long. I hope everyone is being safe and healthy out there! We can overcome this crisis together!
Also, I've been playing Dragon Ball Z Kakarot recently. Imagine this: Similar setup with open world mechanics and massive playable area...but with My Hero as the main stage...eh...?
Anyway, feedback for this chapter is always appreciated. Even if it isn't good, your reviews help. Until next time...
-Newage