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A couple that will go down in legend

Chapter forty: Villain Siege part two- Fallen Power Line

Todoroki was chasing the trio of villains known as Dabi, Spinner and Toga through some alleyways during the ongoing villain attack on the city, an attack orchestrated by the Paranormal Liberation Front. The youngest child of Endeavor was in hot pursuit of the villain trio as Dabi was carrying the two-toned boy's girlfriend, Reiko Yanagi, under his right arm, having knocked the ghost girl of class 1-B unconscious.

"Hey Dabi, I think Mr. Strawberry-Swirl behind us is catching up," Toga said in a warning tone as she and her friends continued to keep a lead, albeit barely just as, true to what the psychotic schoolgirl had said, Todoroki was getting closer and closer.

Dabi, having turned his gaze to look behind him and see Todoroki getting closer, nodded once in acknowledgement as he turned his attention to Toga and Spinner. "We just need to get him far away enough to make sure that he stays out of all of the fighting," the blue flame villain said as he and the others continued to lead Todoroki on.

The two-toned boy heard what Dabi said, and growled a bit in annoyance. "What is it about me that has you so interested in keeping me away from helping my friends fight off attacks launched against us?!" Todoroki snapped, "So interested that you'd resort to kidnapping my girlfriend and using her as bait to lure me away?!"

"Girlfriend?" Dabi said, his tone resonating with piqued interest and surprise as he suddenly came to a stop. This likewise prompted both Spinner and Toga to stop as well. Todoroki came to a stop as well, with his arms respectively releasing their appropriate elements in a clear sign that he wouldn't hesitate to attack the bastards that dared to kidnap Reiko.

Gesturing to Todoroki, Dabi said with a mildly confused look on her face, "I thought that she was only the girl that you had a crush on."

Todoroki, even with all of the rage he felt towards the trio of villains before him, dropped some of his hostility upon hearing the shift in Dabi's tone. "…I was able to convince her to go out with me a short while ago," the youngest child of Endeavor remarked, "Reiko and I have officially been dating for the last few weeks." Dabi's reaction not only caught Todoroki by surprise, but also Spinner and Toga.

The blue flame villain actually laughed. In sincere, congratulatory-sounding amusement.

"Well hot damn!" Dabi remarked as he gestured to Todoroki, "You actually got yourself a girlfriend! Way to go, little man!"

"Why…" Todoroki began, his tone and expression both showing that he was lost and confused, "…Why are you congrat-"

Todoroki found himself cut off when an older female voice called out, "Holy shit, dudes! It's those crazy weirdos who attacked the mall where Harold's student lives!" The two-toned boy looked around in confusion, although the trio of villains, all apparently recognizing the voice that had spoken up, looked around like something none of them would find pleasant was about to be taking place in that alleyway.

"…Oh hell the fuck no," Dabi swore, his eyes widening with alarm, "Don't tell me that those crazy-" The blue flame villain was cut off when a certain trio of older shinobi plus a large dog with an eyepatch and a missing ear from the village of Konohakagure all landed in that area, between Todoroki and the villains. "Shit! It really is them!" Dabi exclaimed, "It's those old, crazy ninjas from one of the elemental nations, plus that old lady's talking dog!"

"Ah, so you remember the lads and I!" the pink-haired man of the group said as he walked forward towards the villains. Jerking a thumb at his chest, the pink-haired man proclaimed, "You three weirdos who assisted that fat sack of crap back in Royal Woods shan't be getting away with whatever it is you three are doing with that unconscious girl!"

Todoroki, as he looked on at what was going on, could not believe anything he was hearing or seeing. "Umm…" Todoroki spoke up, getting the old lady ninja and her dog to turn to face him. Gesturing to the shinobi, Todoroki asked, "Who…exactly are you guys?"

The large dog that wore an eyepatch and was missing an ear began to speak, and if it wasn't for the fact that the principal of Todoroki's school was a talking giant rat, then the two-toned boy would have been more surprised. "Tsume, her friends Harold and Inoichi, and I are shinobi from the village of Konohagakure, the resident ninja village of the Land of Fire," the talking dog began to explain, "We, as well as some other notable shinobi from Konoha, were here in the city when all of these villains started whatever it was that they're doing."

"It's just like when a bunch of Konoha's boys in blue were deployed to the city during the monster attack a while ago," the older man with the long blonde ponytail remarked. Turning to look towards the trio of villains, the blonde older man said, "Hey Harold, we need to pull out all the stops to take these jokers down."

The pink-haired man, apparently named Harold, nodded in agreement as he and his blonde friend walked forward a few steps. "Right you are, Inoichi." Suddenly, the two older men grabbed their clothes and, in one swift motion, ripped off everything that they wore, revealing that they wore outfits underneath their regular clothes, with said outfits consisting of nothing more than grass skirts and beaded necklaces that looked to be of tribal make. Both Harold and Inoichi also had pairs of mere clubs tucked into the wastes of their respective grass skirts.

The two older men both assumed battle stances, and proceeded to dance while chanting at the trio of villains. "Ka mate, ka mate! Ka ora ka ora! Ka mate, ka mate! Ka ora ka ora! Tenei te tangata puhuruhuru Nana nei I tiki mai whakawhiti te ra! A upane! Ka, upane! A upane, ka upane whiti te ra!" Harold and Inoichi finished their dance by sticking their tongues out at Dabi, Spinner and Toga.

"…Dabi?" Spinner said in a confused and lost tone.

"Yes, Spinner?" Dabi's tone was very similar to that of his lizard man friend's.

"What the fuck did we just witness, Dabi?"

The blue flame villain, with a dumbfounded expression on his face, merely shook his head. "I honestly wish that I could tell you that, Spinner." The villains did not have the time to wonder about what the fuck the two older shinobi men just did, as Harold and Inoichi both ran right at them, their mere clubs in their hands. Tsume and her talking dog likewise charged at the trio of villains, who were too confused and surprised to effectively stop the charge. As such, Dabi and his allies were forced to fight off the trio of older shinobi plus the large, talking dog.

Todoroki, who carried the unconscious Reiko on his back, was not going to question all that the older folks did just now. All he felt towards them was sincere gratitude, as they bought him both enough time and cover to collect his girlfriend and get her away from the villains. Even so, as he carried Reiko away and off to someplace safe to leave her until the villain attack was over, the two-toned boy still couldn't help but wonder about the blue flame villain, who he learned went by the simple name of Dabi.

This was the second time that villain had aimed to lure him away from the bulk of a massive fight. Sure, on both occasions Dabi kidnapped the cute ghost girl of class 1-B and used her as bait to lure Todoroki away, but other than knocking her out, Dabi didn't do anything to her. And Dabi likewise didn't have any intention with luring Todoroki away from the fighting other than to just lure him away from the fighting.

Todoroki could not help but wonder why the blue flame villain was so invested in making sure he stayed away from large fights where there were very many combatants involved. Dabi did refer to the two-toned boy as 'Son of Endeavor' at least twice now, so did Todoroki's father, the current number one hero, have something to do with Dabi's invested interest? As much as he had wanted to ponder this mystery wrapped in an enigma wrapped in a burrito, Todoroki had to put all of those thoughts to the side for now.

Getting Reiko, who was over his back unconscious and hurt, to safety was Todoroki's number one priority, even above his own safety and well-being.

Aizawa and Hizashi, who overlooked an area in the city where a massive bulk of the attacking villains were fighting any and all heroes who got in their way, paled when they saw the sheer scope of all that the forces of good had to face here today. "You young 'uns look like you both have seen ghosts," a gruff old man's voice called out from the side, making both Aizawa and Hizashi turn to see Gran Torino land next to them on the roof they all stood on. The retired pro hero landed next to Aizawa on his left, putting the underground hero in the middle.

"The city is being attacked by a force of over one-hundred thousand villains," Aizawa said as he gestured to the chaos in the streets below all of them. Gently shaking his head, Aizawa went on, "The sheer scope of this makes previous attacks like the monster attack on the city and the mercenary siege at U.A. both look like nothing in comparison! How the hell are we supposed to fight off so large of an invading force that has no problem with destroying and killing?!"

Hizashi, with a nervous and mildly resigned look on his face, nodded in agreement with his co-worker at U.A. "He's got a point. The heroes are vastly outnumbered here, and unlike our foes here, we typically refrain from taking lives and causing collateral damage."

All that Gran Torino gave as a response to the worries of the men before him was a gruff snort. "Obviously, you two hadn't checked your phones. All pro heroes have been sent an official message via text from the Hero Public Safety Commission." Curious, both Aizawa and Hizashi pulled out their phones, checking them for texts. Both men got the same message, and when they saw what it was, they both went wide-eyed with surprise;

OFFICIAL ORDER TO ALL PRO HEROES FROM THE HERO PUBLIC SAFTEY COMMISSION

KAIJU PROTOCOL IS IN EFFECT

"…So the commission thinks that this attack by the villains is so bad," Aizawa said in a grim tone as he and Hizashi put their phones away, "That they're ordering the Kaiju Protocol into effect." Giving Hizashi and Gran Torino a serious look, the underground hero said, "They don't care if we cause just as much if not more collateral damage as the attacking villains, or if we kill more villains than what we capture alive. The commission just want us to stop the attack as soon as possible, and by any means necessary."

Gran Torino nodded in agreement with Aizawa, the air he gave off being just as grim as that which Aizawa was giving off. "Given the sheer number of villains, all of which have no such restrictions, that we're having to face here, I can see why the Commission would give us the same orders that they gave during the monster attack on the city a while ago."

As heroes, none of them took pleasure in having to take lives, even those of villains. But given the scope of the attack that was currently going on, an attack that was clearly so bad that the Commission themselves had to order the Kaiju Protocol into effect in order to deal with it, none of the men on that rooftop could argue. Steeling their nerves, Aizawa and Hizashi both prepared themselves to do what they had to do.

Gran Torino, having seen more stuff than either of the younger men with him before either was born, was more willing to do what the commission had ordered, even though he had long since retired from hero work. However, once the underground hero and the cockatiel-haired hero had riled themselves up, they quickly jumped into the thick of things, right after Gran Torino. At the very least, they could back the retired pro hero up.

Elsewhere in the city, Izuku, still accompanied by Mirio and Lincoln, was fighting a good number of the fodder villains, knocking them out right and left with various Smashes. After all of the fodder villains in that area were knocked out, Izuku and the others let out tired breaths. "Just how many villains are we going to have to take out before this attack on the city stops?" Mirio asked aloud, sounding a mix of annoyed and mildly worried. Crossing his arms over his chest, the blonde boy of the Big Three said, "I swear, it's like there's-"

Mirio was cut off when he, as well as Izuku and Lincoln, all heard All Might's voice call out 'A PHONE CALL IS HERE! A PHONE CALL IS HERE!' Izuku, recognizing the specialized ring tone, reached for his phone, thinking that someone was calling him. However, Mirio also got his own phone out and answered it, making Izuku realize that someone was calling Mirio rather than him. Sheepishly, the green-eyed boy lowered his right arm back down as he, along with Lincoln, both watched Mirio speak to whoever it was that was calling him.

"Hello?" Mirio said, "…Oh, Nejire! Hoo boy, am I glad to hear from-" Mirio stopped short when he heard Nejire say something from the other end. Neither Izuku nor Lincoln were able to make out anything that the sole girl of the Big Three was saying, but both could easily tell that not only was she upset, but crying as well. "…I'm on my way right now," Mirio said in a firm, grim tone before ending the call and slipping his phone back into his pants.

Turning to face Izuku and Lincoln, Mirio said, "Sorry boys, but I need to get to the corner bakery located two blocks away from here. Nejire and Tamaki were confronting this one leading villain from the attacking force, some fellow who can make large amounts of ice, and Tamaki took a rather serious hit from the villain before said villain was chased off by that Mexican fellow from the Royal Woods High team, the one who wears a sombrero and a poncho. Said fellow has a wind attribute Sacred Heritage quirk."

"Oh, that's Bobby that you're talking about," Lincoln confirmed.

Nodding once in thanks to Lincoln for the identification, Mirio said, "I need to go see if the others in the Big Three with me are alright. Can I trust you two to be okay on your own?"

"You can count on us, Mirio-sempai," Izuku said with as much confidence as he could muster. Lincoln likewise gave the blonde boy a single assuring nod. Putting his faith in the younger heroes-in-training, Mirio turned around and ran in the direction of the bakery that Nejire and Tamaki were both located at, leaving Izuku and Lincoln be.

After Mirio was out of sight, Izuku and Lincoln both turned to face each other. "…I have no idea who that ice quirk fellow that Bobby chased off is," the white-haired boy began, "But I have no doubt that Bobby will soundly defeat him when he catches up to-"

Lincoln was cut off when he and Izuku both felt the ground around them shake. They got their answer for what was going on when they saw the pro heroes Mt. Lady (in her giant form), Mirko and Pixie-Bob come over to them. "Oh, thank goodness you two are okay!" Pixie-Bob said as she let off a relieved sigh, "After what the girls here and I heard about what happened to one of Ryukyu's interns, we're all fearing the worst for all of you kids!"

"By the way, you know what the Kaiju Protocol is, right?" Mirio asked, "It's the orders that were given during the monster attack a while ago that told us heroes that we had permission to use lethal force on the guys we were fighting. Well, all heroes have been given those orders again, so you kids shouldn't be afraid to take the lives of some of the villains if need be."

"Wait, what's the Kaiju Protocol?" Lincoln asked, looking confused and a bit worried.

Izuku, with a resigned look on his face, let out a mildly troubled sigh. "…It's something like an absolute last resort order issued by the Commission when something gets really bad. Basically, with the Kaiju Protocol in effect, we have to stop whatever trouble that required the protocol in the first place by any means necessary, regardless of how much collateral damage we cause, or if we kill villains rather than take them in alive."

The trio of female pro heroes nodded in agreement with what Izuku said, confirming his explanation for the white-haired boy. "We already got word of the orders to the other Americans that came here with the party you're in since they're helping with dealing with the villain attack," Mirko said to Lincoln, "So if you hear of any of your sisters' classmates killing a villain or two, or destroying some property while trying to fight a villain, don't be surprised, and don't worry about repercussions."

Lincoln, silenced by what he had heard from the pro hero's mouth, looked like he was considering something for a while. After a few moments, he looked up at the three female pro heroes and simply said, "…All that tells me is that Aggro-sensei's twin sister Allison is going to be fully allowed off her leash."

"Well if letting that girl you speak of run wild on the villains will help save the day, then hey," Pixie-Bob said with a shrug, "More power to her."

"…But still…" Lincoln began, a concerned look on his face, "…The very idea of heroes killing anyone, even villains…"

Mt. Lady, still in her giant form, crossed her arms over her chest as she looked down at the white-haired boy as she wore a contemplative look on her face. "…You know, kid," the giant pro hero remarked, "For a budding hero who looks to have an assassin-theme going, you seem pretty hesitant to actually carry out an assassination."

Gesturing to the knife that he held, Lincoln explained, "I have the whole assassin theme because my training that I got was designed to best help me make use of my quirk. I cut someone with my knife here, lick their blood off the blade, and they become paralyzed." Looking up at the trio of female pro heroes, Lincoln said, "I've never killed anyone before. I prefer to incapacitate the villains I take on and turn them over to the police while they're helpless."

Mirko crossed her arms over her chest, giving Lincoln an approving nod in the process. "It's good that you have the mindset of refraining from killing whenever possible, and it is one of the key points that makes up a proper hero." With a gentle shake of her head, Mirko said, "However, it doesn't change the fact that we aren't really being given a choice here, what with the sheer number of villains that we're facing, along with the fact that should they win today, the villains will go on to-"

"Hang on a minute," Izuku interrupted suddenly, cutting Mirko off in the process. There was a mildly rattled look on the green-haired cinnamon roll's face as he turned to look at Lincoln. "You said that your quirk lets you paralyze someone by ingesting a bit of their blood," Izuku asked as he looked down a bit at Lincoln, "And that you got your assassin-esque training to help you make the most of it."

Lincoln nodded once in confirmation. "…My quirk is called Vampiric Stun," Lincoln explained, "Like I said, I can paralyze someone by ingesting a bit of their blood. The length of time varies based on the type of blood I consume compared to my own, as well as how much blood I consume." The white-haired boy looked at the blade of his knife, a look of mild trouble on his face. "The current minimum length of paralysis my quirk can inflict is six and a half minutes. According to some research that my little sister Lisa did on quirks, my quirk is functionally similar to the quirk of a villain that operated here in Japan some time ago."

"Yeah…" Izuku remarked with a bit of a nervous chuckle, his memories drifting back to a certain hero killer, "…I was just about to say."

"And that's all the more reason why I'd rather avoid killing if at all possible," Lincoln said as he looked up at Izuku and the female pro heroes, "I don't want people thinking that I'm going to be America's Next Top Villain. I want to be a hero, to prove that whatever powers someone has doesn't have any say on if that person becomes good or bad."

Mt. Lady, Pixie-Bob and Mirko all exchanged looks with one another, silent agreements between the three of them. After a brief moment, the female pro heroes turned to face Izuku and Lincoln, their focus on the latter. "…If anything, the Kaiju Protocol was issued in order to make things easier for the heroes fighting do defend the city from the attacking villains," Mirko remarked, "There are still a good many heroes who, despite knowing full well that the Kaiju Protocol is in effect right now, they still refrain from killing."

"Hasn't stopped some from going whole hog with the collateral damage, though," Pixie-Bob remarked with some snark, prompting Mt. Lady to roll her eyes in annoyance.

Mirko gestured to the two boys, saying, "We ourselves still want to try and defeat the villains that we fight here and bring them in alive, and with a quirk that can paralyze people, that will make captures a hell of a lot easier."

"I don't suppose you two boys would be willing to join the three of us in knocking out and capturing villains, would you?" Pixie-Bob asked Izuku and Lincoln as she gestured to herself, Mirko and Mt. Lady. Both of the boys accepted the offer, Izuku because he was relieved to have some pro heroes with him, and Lincoln because with the pros there to handle a lot of the heavy work, he would be able to avoid taking lives.

How could either of them turn down such an offer?

Kyoka, plugging her earphone jacks into the speakers on her boots, fired some sonic waves at a small group of villains, sending some reeling back while the others had to cover their ears due to the loud volume at which Kyoka was hitting them with. The rock music lover would never have been able to predict that her day would have ended up like this; she woke up earlier that morning with the dread of facing a team she felt she and her schoolmates stood no chance against, then before the first hit in said fight could actually be thrown, a massive villain attack on the city interrupts the whole shindig.

The interruption in question was a few hours ago at around nine-thirty in the morning, and looking at a large digital clock on the side of an office building, Kyoka saw that the time was now at around noon. She, as well as everyone else trying to defend the city from the villain attack, had been more or less fighting villain after villain nonstop for about two and a half hours by this point.

"I really hope those scary powerful guys on the Royal Woods High team is helping with fighting off all of these villains," Kyoka remarked aloud to herself as she sent a random fodder villain flying back with a particularly powerful and surprising sonic wave. Right after the villain that she had sent flying slammed into the side of an abandoned car, Kyoka was caught off guard when she was slammed in her own side by someone that sent her stumbling back. Once she had regained her footing, Kyoka saw who it was that had struck her.

When she did see who it was, Kyoka was confused; standing before her was a rather buff, well-toned man wearing a mostly purple costume that had green gloves, a small green cape, black boots and a black mask that only covered the upper half of his head. By all appearances, this guy should actually be a hero, and yet Kyoka was attacked by this guy. Before she could even get a single word out, the mystery man pointed dramatically at her.

"You are truly making a grave mistake here, young lady!" the hero (?) said as he began chastising Kyoka, "What we are trying to do here is to do away with all of the laws and whatnot that deny quirked individuals the basic right that all of them are born with! By standing in our way, you stand in the way of the greatest civil movement that-"

The mystery man that attacked Kyoka was cut off when he was struck by some streams of electricity, sending him stumbling back as he tried to recover. Looking over in the direction that the electrical attack came from, Kyoka saw her classmate Kaminari standing there, his fingertips aimed at the hero (?) who had attacked her. Kyoka was instantly flooded with relief to see Kaminari there, but that relief was soon mixed with concern and worry for the electric quirk boy's well-being.

Kaminari, as his electrical attack that he fired just now finished discharging, was panting hard with exhaustion. Furthermore, he had some scrapes on his hands and a cut under his right eye that will most likely require stitches (although not much and barely), and after he dropped his hands, he held his right one to cover the bottom area of the left side of his rib cage, wincing in pain as he did so.

Even so, Kaminari grinned through the pain as he looked at Kyoka. "Heh…" Kaminari chuckled despite the situation, "…I just can't leave you alone, can I?"

"Kaminari, you're clearly hurt!" Kyoka remarked, worry painted clear on her face, "We've got to get you out of-"

"Now you see?" the mystery man's voice called out, cutting Kyoka off and making both her and Kaminari turn to face him. Dusting himself off, the mystery man went on, "If it weren't for those laws that are in place right now, then people wouldn't get into trouble for the simple act of saving themselves from danger! But no, it's always 'can't do this, can't do that'." Pointing at the two U.A. students, the hero (?) said as he pulled out a book and held it so that the hero students could see it, "Chikara Yotsubashi had it down right when he started his preaching for the free usage of quirks!"

Scoffing in an annoyed tone, Kyoka snapped, "Oh stuff it!" The rock lover then fired a sonic wave at the mystery man, hitting him dead center and sending him flying back into another abandoned vehicle. As a side effect of her attack hitting the hero (?), Kyoka ended up destroying the book that he had pulled out as he spoke the name of that Chikara Yotsubashi in praise.

When he regained his bearings, the mystery man saw the ruined remains of his book flutter down from the air, its pages floating down, with some carried away in the breeze. His eyes widened in total, absolute shock when he saw what Kyoka's attack had done. "…That…" the mystery man began in a calm yet dangerous tone, "…Was an original printing copy of Meta Liberation War, the true, unaltered words first penned by Chikara Yotsubashi himself."

Kyoka's eyes widened with alarm and fear as the mystery man, practically frothing at the mouth with rage, surged forward and right towards her with a blinding speed, his left shoulder aimed so that he could shoulder ram her with every last bit of force that he could muster. "You've just destroyed a part of history!" the mystery man exclaimed, looking and sounding like he was now beyond the point of being reasoned with.

Overcome with fear, Kyoka could do nothing but raise her arms up to block at least some of the oncoming full-force assault that was now quickly sliding right towards. She closed her eyes tight, let out a frightened scream as she feared the inevitable attack that would strike her. She was indeed thrown back by a force, but it was not the mystery man that was sliding right towards her. Rather, she was thrown back by something, or rather someone, who shoved her from her right side rather than her front.

As she was sent reeling back by that shove from her side, Kyoka saw when she slowly opened her eyes that she had been shoved out of the path of the mystery man by Kaminari. Time itself seemed to have slowed down for her as Kyoka saw that, due to how he got her out of the way of that attack, that Kaminari was going to take the hit in her place, despite both his exhaustion and his clearly injured state; there was no telling how badly Kaminari would be hurt when he got hit by the mystery man's sliding force attack.

Kyoka also saw Kaminari look at her with an expression that told her that he didn't mind doing what he had just done, that he was okay with it. She could see his mouth move as he spoke to her as time was seemingly slowed for the both of them, and while Kyoka practically couldn't hear what the electric quirk boy was saying, she was able to tell what he was trying to say to her, as if he was right there next to her.

Take care, Kyoka.

Everything suddenly caught up with the present as the mystery man shoulder rammed right into Kaminari with such a forceful tackle that it knocked what air was in his lungs out of him. He also had Kaminari somewhat hooked over his shoulder, and the sliding attack actually didn't stop until the mystery man had rammed right into a nearby family vehicle, with Kaminari serving as a cushion to block most of the blow for the purple-clad man. The electric quirk boy coughed up a bit of blood in a pained gag as he was slammed right into the side of that van, the sheer pain that was washing over him overriding everything else.

After he had finally come to a stop, the mystery man stumbled back and saw that he had rammed into some boy with yellow hair instead of the girl who destroyed his original print copy of Meta Liberation War. As he turned around to look for the girl that had drawn his ire, the mystery man was struck by a sonic wave that sounded like a banshee's scream. Said attack came flying out from Kyoka's right side, making her turn to see who it was that had attacked the man that just brutally rammed Kaminari into the side of a van.

To her surprise, Kyoka saw that she was assisted by that blonde girl with a streak of blue in her hair from the Royal Woods High team. What caught the rock lover's attention about this girl was that her skin looked rather pale, almost sheet white. She also panted hard in exhaustion as she looked at Kyoka.

"(Do you know enough English to understand what I'm saying?)" the pale blonde girl asked Kyoka in English, letting out a tired breath every so often, as if she had just finished giving some great physical effort of some kind.

Nodding twice, Kyoka said, "(I know enough, yes. You're that one girl on Royal Wood's team, right?)" Stepping forward, Kyoka asked, "(What happened to you? Why do you look a lot paler than you did earlier this morning when the team battle event was interrupted?)"

Gently shaking her head, the pale blonde girl said, "(I'll explain later. For now, we have to-")

"How dare you!" the purple clad man exclaimed in Japanese, picking himself up from where the pale blonde girl's attack had thrown him into a sedan. Pointing dramatically at the two girls, the mystery man declared, "I shan't be letting either of you get away with-"

The mystery man ended up getting cut off when Kyoka and the pale blonde girl both fired their respective sonic wave attacks at him, both attacks striking him dead on, and sending him flying back with such force that he ended up crashing through the front window of a store front, getting knocked unconscious for his troubles. With the mystery man defeated, the pale blonde girl was able to turn back and give her attention to Kyoka. "(…Like I was trying to say before that asshat interrupted me,)" the pale blonde girl said, "(We have got to get out of here!)"

"(But Kaminari-)" Kyoka tried to say, but before she could get one more word out she was taken by her right hand by the pale blonde girl, who proceeded to drag her away from the area. All the while she could still see where he laid on the ground next to the family vehicle he was rammed into, Kyoka did not once take her eyes off of Kaminari, who laid front-side down on the ground, his expression tired with his eyes only half-open as a slight trickle of blood slowly oozed from his mouth.

That sight, the sight of seeing the guy who only wanted something special with her lay so eerily still on the ground, was an image that was burned into Kyoka's mind, an image that she had no doubt she would ever be forgetting.

TO BE CONTINUED…

END, CHAPTER FORTY

Author's notes;

For those of you who are familiar with 'The Loud House', another series that I write stories for, you should recognize the girl who saved Kyoka near the end of this chapter as Sam Sharp, the girl who Luna Loud has feelings for. Kyoka also made a note of how Sam looked a hell of a lot paler when she rescued her than she did earlier during the team battle event that was interrupted. Sam's paleness will be explained later.

Speaking of others, I have something big planned for chapter forty-three; I can't quite say what it is, but I can say that it'll be the reason why so many others from outside of BNHA are showing up to help Izuku and the other heroes fight off the Paranormal Liberation Front. The ongoing villain siege is by no means ready to be drawn to a close just yet, mostly because Shigaraki has yet to show up to play his part in the festivities.

…What? You didn't think something like this involving the Front could be done, and the big boss of the Front himself not take any part, did you?