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A couple that will go down in legend
Chapter thirty-nine: Villain Siege part one- Tarnished Spoon
The teams that respectively represented U.A. High School and Royal Woods High were caught off guard by the sudden development in the team battle event today. At first, all of them thought that all that would be going on was their respective sides fighting against one another, with many on the U.A. team very much doubting that they would win because the Royal Woods High team had a total of four Sacred Heritage quirk users.
However, the battle never actually took place at all; right before Nemuri, the eighteen only hero Midnight, could finish the count to signal the start of the team battle event, everything was interrupted when explosions from outside of the Sports Festival Stadium sounded off in the distance, with said explosions followed closely by large columns of black, choking smoke slowly rising up into the skies above. Seeing the smoke and hearing the explosions made everyone on both teams take pause and look over to where they could see the smoke.
It was as all of the students, U.A. and Royal Woods High alike, looked at the rising smoke that they were all approached by a group of five U.A. teachers, those being Aizawa, Sekijiro, Hizashi, Nemuri and Hound Dog. The teachers were also accompanied by Mrs. Butterbean, the principal of Royal Woods High, and the two guests that were brought along by the Americans visiting Japan, Lori Loud and her kid brother Lincoln.
"Senseis, what's going on?" Izuku asked in a worried, concerned tone as he pointed to the smoke that was steadily rising up in the horizon.
"(What in the name of Odin is happening?)" Allison Ace demanded in English as she pointed to the rising smoke with Yonfour, her cherished four-iron golf club.
It wasn't just Deku or Asgardian who were asking what was happening; essentially everyone from both teams was wondering just exactly what was going on. After he gestured for everyone to settle down, Aizawa began to explain what was happening in Japanese, with both Lincoln and Aggro taking the cue to translate things for their English-only fellows.
"A large force of villains known collectively as the Paranormal Liberation Front has just started a massive attack on the city," the underground hero began, "We have no idea what their exact intent is, but we can reasonably assume that taking over the city is a very likely candidate in that regard. They may also what to kill as many pro heroes as possible." Aizawa, with a grim look on his face, crossed his arms over his chest as he spoke. "From what we were able to gather, there are well over one-hundred thousand villains in this attacking force."
Hearing exactly how many villains were all in the attacking force that was striking the city as they all spoke sent most of the students into a panic. Even the more belligerent among U.A.'s number, like Bakugo and Akuma, paled when they heard just how many villains were now in the process of attacking the city. The monster attack from a while ago, when the late warlord Hirajo tried to have his way, looked like nothing compared to what the Paranormal Liberation Front had just brought to the table.
Gesturing to the students, Aizawa said, "It goes without saying that we're going to have to put the team battle event here on hold. Hell, we may end up having to cancel the whole damn thing altogether." As Aggro and Lincoln continued to translate, Aizawa said, "As much as I don't want to have to say this, all of you kids are most likely going to be needed in helping to fight off all of the attacking villains."
"(Mrs. Butterbean said that everyone on Royal Woods High's team should help as well, if our hosts here are okay with it,)" Lincoln said in English to the students on the American team. The white-haired boy, at Mrs. Butterbean's instruction, told the Japanese hosts what he had just said to the English-only speakers, drawing surprised looks out of all of them.
Once they had collected their thoughts, the U.A. teachers all nodded in agreement. "Given what we're faced here with exactly," Sekijiro said, "I don't think that we're in any position to turn down any and all help we can get." Lincoln provided the translations from Japanese to English, then Mrs. Butterbean gestured for her students to come over.
After the ten members of the Royal Woods High team had gathered around, Mrs. Butterbean said in English, "(Kids, you all are going to have to help our Japanese hosts with fighting off all of the attacking villains. There's at least one-hundred thousand attacking opponents, though. Who here thinks they can do it?)"
Many of those who were in that area turned to look at Allison when she gave an amused, boisterous laugh. "(Now that is more like it!)" the Viking Hero proclaimed, clearly amused by the sheer number of opponents that she and her friends were being faced with, "(And here I was beginning to think I would not face sufficient battle on this journey!)" She rested the swinging end of Yonfour over her right shoulder while still gripping the handle with her right hand. "(Let all of those foul villains come my way! I shall meet them all in battle!)"
Aizawa and Hizashi, who both knew enough English to understand what Allison was saying, felt a little relief wash over them. Having someone like Asgardian fighting alongside them would be a greatly appreciated boon to the efforts of the Japanese pro heroes in stopping the Paranormal Liberation Front. Similarly, the U.A. teachers became more and more relieved when the other Sacred Heritage quirk users also pledged to help them defeat the attacking villains.
Even so, since there was over one-hundred thousand villains attacking the city right now, a good number of the Japanese pro heroes had their doubts that the quirked heroes on their side would be sufficient to drive back the forces under the command of the villain Shigaraki. The heroes knew that they were going to need all the help that they could get just so that they could come out of things in the end alive.
…A luxury that some will soon learn not all of them will get to share.
As soon as a proper structure of command was set up, the heroes and the heroes-in-training rushed out of the Sports Festival Stadium, left U.A. grounds, and proceeded to make their way into the thick of the city. It wasn't long until they first spotted a large group of villains, totaling about twenty or so. All of them were quickly defeated by ranged quirk attacks, most of which were fired by the Sacred Heritage quirk users, all four of which had their elemental cloaks up.
"We're going to have to split up here, listeners!" Hizashi said, "Cover more ground so as to take care of more villains!"
"Do be careful, brats," Aizawa said before he and the other U.A. teachers took their leave from the students, "The last thing that any of us want is to have to tell your families that you were badly injured in the attack and are stuck at the hospital." After all of the teachers had taken their leave, with Aizawa having left a particularly lingering glance of concern aimed at Shinso before he (Aizawa) left with the teachers, the students all turned to face one another.
Soon after the U.A. teachers had split away from the students, everyone had broken up to go fight off as many of the attacking villains as possible, some of them choosing to go off on their own against the cautious, mildly worried advice of Yaoyorozu. Not all of the students had split off from the main bulk of the combined U.A. and Royal Woods High group in order to go it alone in the villain attack, though; Todoroki and his girlfriend Reiko went off as a pair, agreeing that staying side by side with one another was a safer idea.
The ghost girl gulped nervously as she walked alongside the dual-toned boy, a clear sign that she was cared by the fact that the city was currently being attacked by a force of at least one-hundred thousand villains. "Todoroki, I'm scared," Reiko admitted as she turned to look at him, "I can't believe that this attack is really happening."
"There is no need to be worried, Reiko," Todoroki assured the girl who had stolen his heart, glad (for more than one reason) that she decided to stick by him when everyone decided to split up to cover more ground in fighting off the villains, "So long as the two of us stick close to each other, then I fail to see anything that would possibly-"
Todoroki was cut off when Reiko gave off a pained grunt as she fell over face-first, only to be caught from falling by someone who stood behind her, throwing their arm around her stomach then picking her up and holding her unconscious form as if she were a sack of potatoes. When Todoroki saw who it was that had knocked out his girlfriend and was taking her as a hostage, the dual natured-quirk boy was not only enraged to see him of all people again, but he also felt a case of déjà vu.
Dabi, with Spinner on his left and Toga on his right, gave Todoroki a nod of acknowledgement as he carried the knocked out Reiko under his right arm. "We meet again, Son of Endeavor," the blue flame villain greeted in a casual tone, a tone that suggested that Dabi saw his talking to Todoroki as if he were addressing an old friend. Turning to face his right, which prompted the two other villains to do the same, Dabi gave Todoroki a knowing smirk as he said, "You know what to do."
Todoroki wasted no time in giving chase the moment Dabi, Spinner and Toga took off with the ghost girl of class 1-B. The youngest child of Endeavor couldn't believe it; once again the cutest girl ever was being kidnapped by villains and used as bait to lure him off somewhere. As he ran after the villains, intent on rescuing Reiko from them, Todoroki began to calm down a bit when he gave the blue flame villain's last line a bit of thought.
You know what to do.
If this was anything like the last time that Dabi had kidnapped Reiko and used her as bait to lure him off somewhere away from a lot of action, then Todoroki suspected that Dabi's goal here, just like it was when he showed up on U.A. grounds during the mercenary siege a while ago, was to take him away from all of the action for his (Todoroki's) benefit. The two-toned boy still had no idea why Dabi had so much investment in securing safety for him, but all questions related to that trail of thought were the last thing on Todoroki's mind.
All that concerned Todoroki at the moment was that Reiko was in danger, and he wouldn't rest until he got her back from the villains, safe and sound.
"This is insane!" Gray Fullbuster yelled as he took out a group of several villains by casting Ice Demon's Rage at them. Turning around, the ice mage of Fairy Tail saw his fellow mages Natsu, Gajeel and Erza fight many villains themselves, with Erza even slashing a villain from head to toe, bisecting him and creating a rather gory mess in the process. "Where the hell did all of these guys show up from?!" Gray exclaimed.
Gajeel, after slamming a villain square in the face with the blunt end of an Iron Dragon's Club, turned around to face his cryomancer ally. "I have no fucking clue, Fullbuster!" A villain tried to run up from behind the Iron Dragon Slayer mage from behind, but that villain's attack was useless as Gajeel had his Iron Dragon's Scales up, that sneak attack did nothing but alert Gajeel to the fact that someone was behind him.
The mages continued to fight off the villains that they had caught attacking the area outside of the hotel they were staying at while they awaited for more of their allies from Fairy Tail to come to the city here. Originally, the four mages were set to go pick up a party of mages from their guild from the train station, then head over to the stadium located over on U.A. grounds to watch the big team battle event.
But when the villains started to attack, Natsu and the others were caught off guard, as they at that moment just walked out of the front doors of their hotel. Natsu and Gajeel, knowing that the party at the train station was already in the city, sent Happy and Pantherlily to go over and tell the party what had happened. It was the hopes of the Fairy Tail mages that the two exceed would make it to the train station and alert the others over there of the villain attack, although all four of them suspected that the others would probably have noticed things by now.
"Detroit Smash!" Izuku yelled as he slugged one of the fodder villains square in the jaw with a five percent Detroit Smash, sending that no name villain flying. The green-eyed boy was not alone fighting in that area; fighting alongside him were the duo of Mirio and Lincoln. Sure, both were surely proving themselves in the ongoing villain attack, and Mirio technically had taken out more villains than Izuku had so far.
Even so, the blonde boy of the Big Three was technically quirkless, as he lost his awesome quirk a while ago due to getting hit by a quirk destroying bullet. And while Lincoln, the protégé of Sengoku, had a quirk that eerily reminded Izuku of a certain hero killer from a while ago, that did not change the fact that the white-haired boy was an elementary schooler. Izuku could not help but worry about his companions, as one was quirkless and the other was a school kid.
Lincoln, using a unique bowie knife, cut the exposed left forearm of a female fodder villain, drawing her blood. Jumping back, Lincoln licked the blood on his bowie knife off, and not one second later the female fodder villain dropped to the ground, completely overcome with a strong case of paralysis. As for Mirio, he quickly took out three of the fodder villains by slugging them all in their respective stomachs, in quick order. When the blonde boy took out his third villain from that number, all of the villains in that area had been defeated.
"Wow, you're pretty good for someone who hasn't even been enrolled in a hero high school yet," Mirio remarked to Lincoln as the two of them and Izuku gathered up the defeated villains and made sure none of them would cause any more trouble.
The white-haired boy nodded only once in acknowledgement of Mirio's complement. "Well I did learn everything I know about fighting from Aggro-sensei."
"Yeah, Mirio-sempai," Izuku remarked after he finished tying up the female fodder villain that Lincoln had paralyzed, "Remember that story I told you about what happened to me and some of my classmates during our field trip because Mineta essentially used us as scapegoats?" Pointing to Lincoln, Izuku continued, "Yeah, it was his sensei that did that number to all seven of us."
Mirio let out a whistle, one that sounded a mix of impressed and mildly shaken. "Wow, and he's one of the guys on the team that we almost fought had it not been for the sudden villain attack on the city." Gently shaking his head, Mirio said, "Royal Woods High must really be desperate to win the team battle event if they threw multiple Sacred Heritage quirk users like him onto their school's team."
"Things for quirked persons over where Aggro-sensei and I live aren't as liberal as they are here in Japan," Lincoln explained, drawing mildly surprised looks out of Izuku and Mirio. The white-haired boy nodded once in confirmation. "There are no schools or any sort of programs that help those with quirks learn how to use their powers effectively," Lincoln went on, "The closest thing that we got to all of that is a League of Heroes that my little sister Lisa started up. But other than that, there's no command structure, no proper training programs, nothing." Looking up to his counterparts that lived in Japan, Lincoln said, "You guys here in Japan have the Michigan area beat by a mile in a number of areas."
"You guys lack many of the resources and programs that we here take for granted?" Mirio asked, looking a bit surprised.
Nodding once, Lincoln explained, "That's part of why my sister Lori's friend Carol, along with Principal Butterbean of Royal Woods High, went through as much trouble as they did to assemble the team to represent their school against you guys in the team battle event. If Royal Woods High won against you guys here, then the schoolboard for Michigan would have to divert some resources in order to start up many of the programs you guys are accustomed to here for not just Royal Woods High, but for schools all over the state. It would save so much trouble in the long run by avoiding accidents where elementary school kids younger than me accidentally cause a lot of damage because they don't know what to do with their quirks."
Izuku and Mirio exchanged mildly concerned looks with one another; the programs offered by hero high schools in Japan, the establishment of the pro hero profession, various quirk-related laws, and other such things that help to set up the life in Japan that they had long since grown accustomed to, seemed to be virtually non-existent over in Royal Woods, as well as most other parts of the state of Michigan.
Not only that, but the reason why Mrs. Butterbean brought as much firepower to throw against the U.A. team was because if she won, then steps would be taken to give that area of the country the very things that quirked Japanese society now currently takes for granted. At first, Izuku and Mirio both thought that the Americans simply wanted to not only beat the top hero high school of Japan, but to do so in a way that not only humiliated U.A., but did so in a way that would make it clear that they weren't even being given a fair chance. But now…now that both Izuku and Mirio knew that Royal Woods High brought four Sacred Heritage quirk users with them because they wanted to ensure that their students and students all over Michigan would be able to get what they in Japan have grown accustomed to?
They realized that U.A. wasn't the only one forcefully placed into a tight spot.
At some point during all of the fighting in the city, Uraraka and Eunice ended up meeting up with and joining Artemis Norio of class 1-B. "Goddamn it, where the hell did all of these villains show up from?!" the exoskeletoned boy exclaimed as he floated overhead while firing energy shots from his hands at the villains below. Similarly, Uraraka was using her quirk to fly above the villains below, and Eunice, her noise-canceling headphones worn over her ears, was using her powerful telekinesis quirk to stay in the air.
Gently shaking her head, Uraraka said, "I have no clue at all, Artemis!" Canceling the zero-gravity she had put on a dumpster, the gravity girl flung said dumpster at a group of villains, making them all scramble to get out of the way, even though three of them were hit by the attack. "Hey, how are you able to fly, Artemis?" Uraraka asked.
After he blasted another villain with an energy shot from his right hand, Artemis said without turning around, "My quirk is called Martial Ki. It lets me control and manipulate a kind of energy that I've come to call Ki." He fired another energy shot at another fodder villain, striking said villain square in the face and sending him reeling back. "By manipulating this energy, I can do things such as fly, fire energy shots from my hands, and enhance my strength and speed," the exoskeletoned boy continued to explain, "My quirk also has had the side effect of giving me the appearance that I have."
"You must be really strong!" Eunice remarked to Artemis without turning to face him as she unleashed a powerful telekinetic push attack at some of the fodder villains below her, Uraraka and Artemis. After the fodder villains were thrown back by the force that they were hit with, Eunice went on, "I bet that you can-"
Eunice was cut off when she, as well as Uraraka and Artemis, all heard a loud, draconic roar from the distance. Looking over, all three of them saw a large dragon with gray scales, some human skin tone over various parts of its body, and it appeared to be wearing a red sleeveless dress that was clearly of oriental design. Artemis looked a bit confused, but both Uraraka and Eunice looked relieved upon seeing the dragon, not paying mind to the fact that it appeared to be carrying something in its arms.
"Oh, it's Ryukyu-sensei," Uraraka said in a relieved tone, "Thank goodness that she's here to help us fight all of these-" The gravity girl was cut off when Ryukyu, in her dragon from, flew past all of the fighting, as if she wasn't even aware that said fighting was taking place at all. In fact, the Dragoon Hero flew by too quickly for either girl to keep up with what they were seeing, although Artemis did get a vague look at what Ryukyu was carrying in her arms.
The exoskeletoned boy, with a confused look on his face, said, "…It looked like she was carrying an injured person away from all the fighting."
"Injured person?" Uraraka said as she dropped another heavy object that her powers were floating on the villains below, knocking out at least two of them.
Artemis nodded once in the affirmative. "From what I saw, the person that Ryukyu-sensei was carrying had long, dark-colored hair." Artemis put his hands together, charged up an energy attack that started off as a sphere of energy in between his hands, then he threw his hands forward, creating a giant energy beam attack that tore up the battlefield below, tossing up many of the fodder villains and knocking them out. "That's all I saw of the person Ryukyu-sensei was carrying, though."
Uraraka and Eunice could not help but worry about whoever it was that Ryukyu was carrying away from all of the fighting. But since they were being escorted to safety by the Dragoon Hero, the two 1-A girls had all the confidence that their sensei, the pro hero that employed the two of them and their classmate Tsuyu as interns, would make sure than nothing bad would befall that person, whoever he or she was.
All that Artemis could think about the matter was that he noticed the tear-filled look of heartbreak on Ryukyu's face as she flew by with whoever it was that she was carrying. Neither of the girls that were with the exoskeletoned boy noticed that look, and Artemis did not want either of them to worry about that poor person, not while there were still a good number of fodder villains below them for them to take out.
Using a metal staff that she had conjured with her quirk, Yaoyorozu struck several fodder villains upside their respective heads, knocking them all out. A few more fodder villains tried to rush the wealthy girl from the side, but they were quickly tied up and bound by green, thorny vines that came in out of nowhere. Looking over, Yaoyorozu saw that she was joined by the timely arrival of Ibara, who severed her hair vines that bound the captured villains, only for said hair vines to quickly grow back to their standard length.
"Thanks for the save, Ibara!" Yaoyorozu replied in thanks as she gave the devout Christian an appreciative salute.
Ibara nodded only once in acknowledgement. "There is no need to thank me, Yaoyorozu." The vine-haired girl turned her attention to face another group of villains, taking them out with a massive burst via her Via Dolorosa super move. "If these villains were to have their way, then all that is precious would be forfeit. Their evil must be stopped here and now, and in the name of God, I swear that I will see to it that-"
Ibara was cut off when something large and heavy was sent flying her way. It wasn't until the devout Christian was barely able to catch it with a mass wall of her vines that she saw that it was a car that was chucked at her. "…What in the name of God could have done that?" Ibara said, shocked that someone was able to so casually throw a vehicle at her.
"Yeah, I want to know who it was too," Yaoyorozu said as she turned to face the direction that the car was thrown from, roughly at the same time that Ibara herself turned to look in that direction. When the two U.A. girls did so, they saw a balding, orange-haired man in a business suit and riding in what appeared to be some special, three-wheeled wheelchair. The man's arms were both very large, pitch black, and let out arcs of raw energy.
The man scoffed in annoyance when he saw that his attack had no effect in the end. "Feh, foolish fledgling heroes," the man sneered, "If you think that the likes of you can stand up to the Paranormal Liberation Front and its exalted Grand Commander, then the two of you both have another thing coming!"
Ibara came up to Yaoyorozu's side as the two of them faced off against the villain that stood before them. "…I get the feeling that this one here is a leading member of the massive force of villains that are attacking the city," Yaoyorozu muttered to Ibara in a grim and worried tone as the villain before them, his arms still big and radiating energy, slowly approached.
"Oh, I am glad to see that you fledgling heroes aren't too stupid to realize the obvious!" the villain taunted as he clapped his black, massive hands, apparently having heard what the wealthy girl had said despite the distance and volume. Bowing in a mock respectful manner to the two U.A. girls, the villain said, "Please, allow me the pleasure of introducing myself. I am the great Re-Destro, and I serve as one of the lieutenants under the Paranormal Liberation Front's supreme leader."
Yaoyorozu and Ibara backed up a bit as the both of them prepared to fire attacks at Re-Destro at a distance. But the PLF lieutenant would be having none of that. Pulling back his massive hands, Rikiya used his quirk to focus all of his stress, anger and fear into more of the energy that had made his arms and hands so large and radiating with raw power. To the ever-growing alarm of the two U.A. girls, more of Re-Destro grew larger, stronger and became pitch black.
Yaoyorozu and Ibara both took steps back as their opponent grew larger and stronger still. By the time he was done, Re-Destro was a truly large, hulking black monster that towered over the two of them, looking down at them with a sneering grin. "No doubt Shigaraki will be most pleased with me when I tell him of my victory over two of the brats under U.A.'s protection!" Re-Destro proclaimed as he swung his massive fists towards Yaoyorozu and Ibara.
The two girls both jumped to move out of the way, with Ibara pulling herself out of the way with her vines that were grabbing onto a nearby streetlight, and Yaoyorozu quickly running while she was forming a rocket launcher out of her stomach. When her weapon was finished forming, the wealthy girl took aim and fired at Rikiya, hitting him on the outer side of his left bicep. It was to Yaoyorozu's worry that her attack hardly did anything other than get the villain's attention.
Re-Destro tried to throw a swinging fist at Yaoyorozu, but the fist was quickly caught by vines that flew at it, tied it up and tried to hold it back. Only Re-Destro's piqued curiosity was what stopped his fist from actually hitting Yaoyorozu. Looking over, the villain saw that Ibara was trying to keep his attack from hitting the wealthy girl. "Oh? Trying to save your fellow fledgling hero now, are we?" Rikiya asked in an amused, mildly taunting manner, "That's quite the noble gesture there, young lady." With a tug, the villain yanked Ibara towards him, as her vines were still wrapped around his forearm and fist.
"Too bad it will cost you a world of pain!" Rikiya proclaimed in a somewhat hysteric manner as Ibara flew towards him. When the devout Christian got close enough to him, he swung his free hand up and, taking aim at Ibara, swung his hand down as if her were swatting a fly. Due to the angle, Ibara wasn't smacked into the ground face-first like the villain intended, but rather he dealt her a painful grazing smack that knocked the wind from her lungs and made her vines on his bound arm loosen their grip.
Feeling the loosening of those vines, Re-Destro pulled his bound arm free, then swung his now free fist at Ibara, striking her on her left side and sending her flying into the side of an abandoned family vehicle, hitting said vehicle rather hard. "Ibara!" Yaoyorozu cried out of worry for her fellow U.A. schoolmate as she watched the devout Christian fall to her knees before falling over face first onto the ground. Incited by seeing the beating that Ibara had just been dealt, Yaoyorozu quickly spun on her heels to face the villain that had attacked the vine-haired girl.
"You bastard!" Yaoyorozu yelled as she put as much effort into her quirk to quickly create a cannon to fire a cannonball at Re-Destro. Although she did successfully create the cannon, the wealthy girl barely got it out and sitting on the ground by the time Re-Destro swung his large left fist towards her, striking her right side and sending her stumbling over a good bit. Yaoyorozu wasn't even given time to regain her footing when Re-Destro, with an overhead swing, swatted at her, striking her brutally hard.
The air knocked from her lungs, Yaoyorozu fell over onto the ground, the pain of some broken ribs and fractured bones in her right arm over whelming her. Yaoyorozu was conscious when she heard Re-Destro boast loudly about how he had just defeated them, saying that it was his right to put fledgling heroes like her and 'that vine-haired girl' as he called Ibara in their place for daring to question the Front and its esteemed ruler in any way.
It was a stroke of luck that Rikiya turned around and left that area, believing his work in that area of the city during the villain attack to be over. Yaoyorozu was barely able to hold her head up as she watched the departing villain take his leave. Turning her head, Yaoyorozu saw that Ibara laid just a few feet away, laying face-down on the ground. "H-Hey, Ibara," Yaoyorozu said weakly, "Can y-you get-"
Yaoyorozu stopped short suddenly when she noticed something about the look on Ibara's face, something that filled her with heartbreak. The half-closed, tired looking expression that Ibara had was not moving in the slightest. Ibara did not look over at Yaoyorozu at all as her eyes looked like they were losing all of their light, glossing over somewhat as the devout Christian laid on the ground, still and unmoving.
"N-No…" Yaoyorozu muttered weakly in despair as the vine-haired girl of 1-B wasn't moving at all, not to anything that she tried to say to rouse her from her slumber, a slumber that she would not be awakening from. Yaoyorozu tried to force herself up off of the ground, to go over to Ibara to try and do something, anything. But all energy failed her as she tried to get up, having been overcome by a mix of her injuries and generous usage of her quirk since the villain attack on the city had started.
That villain…the one in the custom wheelchair-like contraption that he used to get around. He did this. It was his actions that resulted in Ibara's ultimate fate here. Yaoyorozu tried to use the rage that suddenly fueled her to get herself up, but even that wasn't enough as she collapsed back onto the ground, her head turned to look at where Ibara laid eerily still. The wealthy girl felt all of her efforts, all of her own energies, start to fail her. "I-Ibara…" Yaoyorozu muttered weakly as her lazy gaze started to close, "I'm…I'm…" With nothing more available that she was able to give, Yaoyorozu's eyes closed.
All of her world then faded to black.
TO BE CONTINUED…
END, CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE
Author's notes;
Well the villain's attack on the city has just kicked off in earnest. It will be going on for quite some time over the next few chapters, and by the time all is said and done, things aren't going to be the same. Even with some of the heroes' allies showing up in this chapter, with more various allies showing up over the next few chapters as well, the forces of good will still take some serious hits, as well as losses that won't be leaving any dry eyes. Such is the way of things when a large force of villains decides to attack everyone and everything.
Anyway, the next chapter will be seeing more fighting in the ongoing attack as the heroes struggle to stop the Paranormal Liberation Front from trying to destroy all that the innocent holds dear to their hearts. A good number of villains will be taken out, but the good guys will also end up taking a few lumps as well. It wouldn't be really realistic if a battle like this happens and the good guys emerge in the end without a scratch.