A couple characters received some very slight last-minute changes. If you notice the change on your character, and you have a big issue with it, feel free to message me and we'll talk it out. I hope you all enjoy, this one took me a little longer than usual
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Chapter 33: Joint Hero Interception Force
Gohan entered the lobby of Power Tech once again. Now in his costume, Gohan made his way to the elevator, and pushed the button for the top floor. Just as the doors began to close, Gohan could hear someone yelling from outside. "Wait! Hold the elevator!"
As Gohan put his hand in the small crevice of space left between the door and the wall, a familiar face stumbled into the elevator. "Kaminari?!"
"Gohan!?" He said as he attempted to catch his breath. "What are you doing here?"
"I'm doing my Work Study with Ajax since he's an old friend of a friend." He explained Kaminari turned around to push a button on an elevator.
"Eh… Oh! You've got the button pressed already!" Kaminari realized as he turned around with a thumbs up.
"The top floor? Does that mean you're going up to see Ajax, too?!" The thought finally hit Gohan clearly. "Are you supposed to be meeting at the top floor?"
"Yeah, Omega told me to be here today. I'm actually really glad that I caught you, he would have been pissed if I was late for the meeting." He explained. The two continued to chat until the elevator finally reached the top floor. As they walked off, and entered the hallway leading into Ajax's office suite, Kaminari's jaw dropped. "Woah, this place is huge!"
"Tell me about it. He has a massive dojo on standby one room over." Gohan told him as they stepped down onto the slightly lower level, taking in the view of the crowd of fifteen people gathered around Ajax's circular desk.
"There he is! Saiyaman, get down here!" Ajax called out. Behind the desk, Gohan could see that he had a black undersuit similar to the one that Amane was wearing. "Everyone, Saiyaman here is going to be our ace in the hole. He's a real gifted prodigy."
"Good one, Ajax." A man with red visor glasses spoke through a face mask with a lighthearted tone. ""He is a child, after all. What's his Quirk? Instant Annihilation? Or can he cause all of the puppies and dogs in the world to immediately turn on their owners?" He joked, chuckling slightly through his mask. "If you're finished bragging, and everyone is here, we can begin." He said as Kaminari joined the man with a long yellow coat. Next to the two of them, as well as another man that Gohan assumed was a Sidekick, was a familiar head of black hair. Wearing a white mask with arrow-like extensions on the bottom that crossed her cheeks and ended at her chin. She wore a white gi that wrapped loosely around her chest, securing itself over one shoulder. She wore a pair of brown pants, and a matching sash, and she wore black martial-arts shoes similar to what his father wore. Is that…?!
"Yeah, yeah, we all know you're jealous, Micronaut. Get over here, Saiyaman!" Ajax told his comrade as Gohan joined him and Amane, who was in her armor behind the desk. "Alright, let's start, everybody. As you know, there is an operation with several Hero Agencies to raid the Shie Hissaikai and apprehend the yakuza head known as Overhaul. Part of this operation is saving a little girl who is suspected of being used as an experiment." Hearing this brought Saiyaman's stomach into a knot. "We are known as the Joint Hero Interception Force. As our name implies, we are to intercept any oncoming reinforcements that'll try and attempt to combat their operation. We will also stand by as backup should their numbers overwhelm the initial assault force. Are there any questions about the operation?"
"Sir!" A young man spoke, raising his hands. "High Roller, Work Study student with the Luminous Records Hero Agency. I was wondering if it would be possible for everyone here to share their names and Quirks, so that we can better work together in the near future!" He was roughly four or so inches above Gohan, and had slicked-back brown hair and baby blue eyes. He wore a purple dress shirt with a black tie and slate gray vest, completed with black slacks. On his face was half of a white Thalia mask, and in his hands were a purple bowler hat and a cane, topped with a dome grip that melded into a cone, closing downward into the rod. "It's important that we understand the capabilities of our new comrades, should we see them cornered by particular villains that may counter their Quirks well." He explained.
"I like it. Luminous Records, you said? Does that mean he's yours, Luminary?" Ajax asked, pointing to a shorter man with a classic tuxedo, completed with a black vest and tie. His jacket went down to his ankles, and he carried a microphone and briefcase in his hands. His glasses were blacked out, making it impossible to see them from the outside.
"Down right…" The man simply said. His tired answer faded into silence, making everyone wonder if he was even finished.
"Okay… So why don't you go first…?" Ajax told him slowly, prompting the strange man to smile.
"(My name is) Luminary… (My Quirk is) Dulcet Tones… (It) lets me support comrades…" Several of his words seemed to fall under silence, leaving a lot of people confused.
"Okay, look, Tuna Roll, can you translate for us?" Ajax asked, pointing to High Roller.
"I'm sorry, Sir, but I'm not too sure myself. I've only been interning for about a week. His Quirk is still a mystery to me…" As he finished his statement, a much older woman put her hand on High Roller's shoulder. "Allow me to explain, and continue with my introduction. Mitsuki Moriyama, Luminary's Quirk allows him to affect certain aspects in battle by singing. It works based on the lyrics and the feeling he has behind his words. A lullaby will sedate those around him. A romantic ballad will cause infatuation, and a trance song causes peaks in defense. A rock song boosts offensive capabilities, and an aria will boost everybody's combative capabilities, but at the cost of his stamina. He can only sing an aria for roughly a 120 seconds before he drops." She explained. "He also has trouble speaking whole sentences that aren't in song form."
"Yeah, that'll get annoying, so you're going to remain most quiet." Ajax commented as he snapped his fingers. "Go ahead, gimme your deal."
"Kuroi Sukorabe, I'm called Ghost, Sidekick at Luminous Records, and my Quirk is Shadow Force." She began. She wore traditional black ninja clothes, complete with a hood and face mask that exposed her eyes, but nothing else. "I can enter my shadow, and can't be damaged when I'm inside of it. However, I can only enter my shadow, but exit other shadows. It's essentially like teleporting on the surface, but I can only travel to certain spots. For instance, on a bright Summer's day, I can enter my shadow with no issue, as it's incredibly long. But I'd only be able to exit from the shadow provided by a bench, or an awning, if it's large enough for me to climb out of. Areas with a lot of clutter and shadows suit my fighting style best." She explained, crossing her arms over her chest. "I can stay in the shadow for approximately 120 seconds. A common finishing combo for my agency involves a move called the Aria of Shadows, where Luminary will enhance my capabilities so that I can more efficiently take down my opponent with my Quirk." She finished. Turning around to gesture her student to continue, Gohan could see a bag attached to her belt, and a long ponytail stretching from within her hood, slumped along her shoulder. It was difficult to see at first, but her hair was long enough to reach her waist, and somehow remained slim the whole way.
The student nodded before stepping up, crossing his hands over his waist. "Kichiro Shirashi. It's a bit of a tongue twister, so I normally tell people to call me Hiro. My hero name is High Roller, and I'm doing a Work Study at Luminous Records,. My Quirk is Dice. It allows me to create a set of dice that can change the outcome of a situation, whether I roll it or someone else rolls it. The higher I roll, the more likely the desired outcome. Impossible outcomes will not come true if I roll high, like if I wished to have a different Quirk or wanted to be taller, rolling high would do nothing." He explained.
"What about when you actually want to fight?" Ajax asked, as he lifted his cane.
"My cane doubles as a flamethrower, Sir. I can focus it into a small point for more concentrated power, similar to a torch, or swing it for a wide range of coverage." He explained as he removed the grip of his cane, revealing a small flame.
"Fair enough. Can we get the next agency?" Ajax asked as High Roller secured his grip back into place.
"Yeah, I'll go." Another man said in a similar accent to Ajax. "Daniel Johnson, Viperscales with the Hidden Scales Japan Branch." He was a muscular man, about the height of High Roller, with a mess of a head of brown hair similar to a mullet, just not as long as such. His blue eyes seemed frustrated, as if he didn't want to be here, and his light green suit was tight, with black marks crawling from the shoulders and hips towards the center, as if he himself was a snake about to sink its teeth into its prey, and he had several small bags buckled around his shoulders, chest, waist, and legs. "My Quirk is Tradeoff. It allows my injuries to heal, including fatal ones like the loss of a limb or a shot to the heart. However, it shortens my lifespan and causes me to rapidly age depending on the severity of the wound. If I were to get shot through the heart, I'd age by several years, whereas a cut on the finger wll only heal and age me by a number of seconds. It's basically like a video game, where you use a Super Regeneration power to heal HP, your wounds, at the cost of SP, which would be age in this instance." He explained as he gestured for his Sidekick to continue.
Joseph Nelson, Hero name: Influence. Sidekick for Hiddenscales. Quirk: Contact High." He began to explain as Ajax rested his hand in his palm and shook his head. "As the name implies, I can amplify and spread the feeling a substance gives me to those nearby." Gohan wasn't quite sure what the shorter, stocky man meant by substances, standing at roughly 157 centimeters and wearing some light brown cargo pants with a white belt tucked into some black boots, topped with a white undershirt and a long brown overcoat with white cuffs. He dragged his hands through his coppery-red short hair, similar to Ajax, and everyone looked over to his tired green eyes. "For the sake of the children in the room, I'd prefer to not go through what each substance does."
"Half of them may end up like that anyway, but sure." Ajax claimed as he pointed to the young woman that Gohan had noticed before.
"Videl Satan. My name is Athena, and I'm performing my Work Study with Hidden Scales. I'm Quirkless, but I was trained by my father." She explained. "I'm as good as anybody when it comes to combat, Quirk or not." She threw a fist forward, full of determination. It's funny that they'd be here together after the Sports Festival… Gohan thought to himself, looking over to Kaminari and Videl.
"And my name is Lúcas James, also a Work Study student at Hidden Scales. My Quirk allows me to channel my aura and harness it as a weapon, allowing me to create short-ranged blasts or enhance my physical abilities. I can also focus to allow myself to see the auras of the enemies around me." He was also around 182 centimeters, with a short, brown, textured crop hairstyle, and blue-gray eyes. His costume included red pants, seemingly made of polyester, tucked into a pair of black boots with a black strip along the length of the pants that ended at the waist. With a white undershirt, he also had a slim black jacket, both seemingly made of the same material. At his neck was a gaiter that held over his nose, blending seamlessly into his shirt and covering his face with the black Domino mask on around his eyes.
"Alright." The man next to Kaminari spoke. "My name is Akiba Sutorai. Ajax, you already know me as Omega, and my Quirk is Battery. I can absorb electricity and use it to enhance my speed, reflexes, and overall fighting capabilities. If I use too much, I can paralyze myself for a few hours. To combat that, I've trained myself to be able to handle utilizing absorbed electricity for an hour." He explained. He was one of the tallest men in the room at 184 centimeters, and sported a short black crew cut that matched the black circles on his yellow domino mask that pointed towards outwards and back towards the sides of his head, as well as over his nose.. He was lean and muscular, and his costume was a long yellow cloak over a black suit and pants with black boots. His cloak contained several black lightning-shaped patterns across the chest and back.
"Jason Johnson, no relation to Viperscale," the younger man next to Omega and Kaminari began, stepping out of the way to reveal that there was another student next to him, "and Omega forgot to mention that we're the Batteric Hero Agency." The man mentioned.
"Oh, uh, thanks for covering me there, Blaze." Omega told him with a fist bump to his shoulder.
"Right. Anyway, I'm a Sidekick for Batteric, and my Quirk is Blood Wave. Similar to Omega, I can enhance my fighting capabilities, but at the cost of rapid vaporization of my blood. I can use this ability in three stages, all of which depleting my blood count at varying speeds." He explained. "Everyone in the agency is provided with a Type-O Neg Blood Injector should my costume run out of blood to inject." He gestured to his costume, which seemed to have similar material to the other younger man by Kaminari's side. It was a black bodysuit with pads of armor along his arms, chest, crotch, legs, and feet that were colored in midnight-blue with red trims, much like veins and arteries. On his back were six massive vials, along with another four on his arms and legs, all filled with a viscous red liquid. He stood just an inch shorter than Omega, and scratched the top of his unkempt, shoulder-length light brown hair. His light blue eyes seemed to be practically drained of life.
"Alright, My turn." Kaminari stated with a smile. "The name's Denki Kaminari, but you can call me Chargebolt!" He raised a finger and simulated the recoil from a gunshot before continuing. "I'm doing my Work Study with Batteric, and my Quirk is Electrification. I can cover my body in electricity and spread it over a wide area, but recently I've begun to pick up sharpshooting with my power!" He said with a big smile.
"They call me Mystik, but my name is Arnold Hubbard. My Quirk is Rebreather, and I can change my fighting style and capabilities based on my breathing pattern. Long, deep breaths allow me to hit harder but move slower, short, quick breaths allow me to move faster but not hit as hard, and so on." He explained. His stature was lean, and he was an average height with caramel brown eyes and a short afro. He wore a royal blue and carbon black ninja-like gi with a carbon-steel set of shoulder armor resting with a raised plate to protect the back and sides of his neck, his nose and mouth covered by a blue-plated mask that had a black grate in front of his mouth with smooth, curved filters on both sides. It seemed as if he didn't want to say much more, so the last agency decided to speak up.
"Micronaut, or Sukoshi Hiro." The man that was degraded by Ajax said. "Smallmen Bigstrides Agency, my Quirk is Shrink." With his visor and face mask, Micronaut wore a purple-and-black spandex costume, and despite his Quirk name, he was significantly taller than a lot of the people in the room. "I can shrink myself to a molecular size, along with anyone or anything I'm touching, and return to normal size. I can't make myself any bigger, of course. If I could, I wouldn't be a divorcee." He said with a hearty laugh. His short, spiked black hair and brown eyes were very much unlike the last speaker, full of joy and life.
Not wasting any time, the young man next to him took a deep breath. Looking over, there was something familiar about him, to both Kaminari and Gohan. "My name is Kiai Hatsume, or Apoth. I'm a Sidekick for SMBS Hero Agency, and my Quirk is Kinesis. It allows me to absorb and release any incoming attack, but I can only absorb long-range or short-range attacks independently. Meaning, if I absorb a wave of electricity, I can only absorb attacks like electricity, fire, ice, beams, lasers, and more. And the same goes for if I were to absorb the force of someone's powered-up punch. I'd only be able to absorb physical attacks until I release it all. When active, I can absorb attacks for 180 seconds after absorbing the first attack." His face was dry and stern, with gold eyes and cyan hair that flushed into a pink color at the top. Looking closely after hearing the name, Gohan, Kaminari, and Videl's eyes widened.
"You're Mei's brother?!" Gohan shouted as he looked over.
"Yeah, what of it?" He asked before staring intently at Gohan. He smiled slightly, and Gohan took a step back. "Oh, I see. You're that golden boy from the Cell Games." He mouthed clearly, allowing Gohan to read his lips. "You two are from UA, right?" He asked the boys. "I know because my sister's talked about the gear she made for the electric kid, and all of the inventions that she could test on you if she got a hold of you."
"Hey! You're forgetting about someone!" Videl yelled, stomping her foot.
"I'm surprised to hear that, Athena, but make sure you do your best, alright? True heroes don't need a Quirk to exceed." He told her with a surprising smile. In an instant, his face lit up, causing her to blush before it reverted to it's dry and stoic state. Who is he… This Work Study is introducing me to so many mysterious people… Gohan thought as he looked Apoth up and down. "I went to UA once, myself. I was one of the top students before graduating half a decade ago." Apoth stood as the second tallest person in the room, standing about as tall as Aizawa would, and had a black hoodie with cyan marking of a symbol Gohan recognized from an old assignment his mother gave him regarding Norse history. It was called a 'Ægishjálmr,' or Helm of Awe, and symbolized victory and protecting. The Helm of Awe symbol was centered on his back, and the eight forks reached over his body and met in the front, stopping just short of connecting in the center. His plain, teal shirt and black cargo pants made his costume seem casual, only further supported by his black boots, even if his pants were tucked into them. A teal sash rested around his waist, and the cyan soles of his black boots made the entire costume uniform of the short selection of colors. On his hands were black, fingerless gloves that contained another symbol Gohan recognized, Yggdrasil, or the 'Tree of Life,' the conduit between the nine realms that the Norse believed in. Thinking about it, Gohan believed that this made it seem as if he was sucking enemy attacks into another dimension, and saw that it fit his Quirk well. His head was shaved on both sides, with the middle of his head covered with hair that peered over her hairline, forming a set of short bangs.
"Alright, my turn!" The last young man said. "My name is Atsushi Akiyama, and my hero name is Propulse, a work in progress…" He explained with a nervous chuckle. "My Quirk is Rebound and Repulse! I can attract metal with my right leg, and repel it with my left! It doesn't seem practical on the surface, so understand that I got here because of my own strength! I guarantee that I won't let any of you down!" With a smile and a thumbs up, his words were brief. His costume consisted of a blue track jacket with silver lining along the arms that ran up his shoulders and met in the small of his back, crawling down the length of his back in one, bolded line. He wore shorts, unlike everyone else, and had black shorts that were connected to his hi-top form shoes by support bands. Around his chest was a micro lattice sash, and attached to his back was a shield that was rounded at the bottom and resembled the bottom part of the french fleur-de-lis at the top. His brown pompadour-styled hair emphasized his joyful smile, unlike his dark eyes. He was actually shorter than Gohan, making him the second shortest person in the room, after Videl.
"Now, I'm not going to waste your time, after all, this is for the students and Sidekicks. So, Richard Powers, Ajax, powerful, handsome, my Quirk is Erudeer. I can make about anything I put my mind to, and it helps me understand almost all the essentials of constructions and technology. Yuri Amane, White Knight, Metal Manipulation. Gohan, Work Study monster, Quirkless, though able to beat my Sidekick, so I'm excited to see what he can do in battle. Are we all clear?" He asked, standing up with a stretch.
"I believe we are. How's your ass?" Micronaut asked him, pointing his finger out with his thumb raised.
"I can't feel it. Anybody seen my ass?" He asked as he turned around.
"Don't worry. If you lose it, you're still plenty of ass without it." White Knight retorted as several people began to laugh.
"Alright, that was fair, I deserved that." As he clapped his hands and rubbed them together, he smiled wide. "You all want to beat up some bad guys? Good, Operation Mayday begins in two days, the same day as the raid. You will all meet here at noon, where we will leave from immediately to surround the perimeter of their base of operations. If there are no questions, then I'd like for everyone to vacate my office. Are we understood?"
As everyone nodded in unison, the Joint Hero Interception Force filed out of the large office, leaving the Power Tech trio alone. Two days… "Huh?" Gohan looked up as a paper ball hit his head. Amane's armor began to fold back on itself, receding to her back once again as the two smiled.
"Hey, look alive, kid. You'll be able to show us what you're made of. Don't tell me you're scared." He teased with a mocking smile.
"No, sir. It's just…" Gohan looked down at his hand with an open smile. "This is going to be my first task as an actual hero. What if I mess up?" He asked, thinking back to the fight with Cell, and the training summer camp.
"Saiyaman, you're going to do fine. Trust me. I don't know a lot of people who can take down this beefcake so easily." Ajax joked as he pointed to his Sidekick, earning a hard punch to the shoulder. "Just do your best, but try not to kill anyone. Sound good?"
"Right, sir!"
Man! This was a thicc chunky boi, and it sure took me a little longer to get it out! For these characters, I'd like to thank:
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