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A couple that will go down in legend

Chapter forty-two: Villain Siege part four- Vanquished Villains

"(We have to get out of here!)" Sam Sharp yelled in English as she, accompanied by Kyoka, ran through a somewhat wrecked ten story office building's ground floor, having entered in the hopes of being able to take a short cut to get away from some villains that they were too outnumbered to take on at that moment. The two teenage girls were met up by Luna Loud who not only was on the Royal Woods High team same as Sam, but was also Sam's girlfriend.

The trio of teen girls found another door on the office building's ground floor and ran through that, escaping to the other side from where they had entered. Kyoka and the American girls all panted hard after their sprint through the office building. Sam panted particularly hard, and Kyoka's attention was drawn back to the fact that Sam was a lot paler in the skin than she was when the U.A. team spotted her back during the team battle event that was interrupted before said fight could have actually taken place.

Since the three of them were moderately safe it seemed, Kyoka gestured to the pale blonde girl, getting both her and Luna's attention. "(…We really ought to find a safe place to recuperate,)" Kyoka remarked, "(I don't know what it is about this surprise paleness of yours, but whatever it is, I think you ought to rest it off.)"

Sam, with an understanding look on her face, nodded once in agreement. "(…Yeah, that's what Aggro told me after Luna got him to-)"

"Still you all fight against the worthy cause of free quirk usage?!" a familiar male voice called out in Japanese, making the trio of teen girls turn to look to see the purple-clad hero (?) who body slammed Kaminari into a vehicle earlier coming up to confront them.

"(Shit!)" Kyoka snarled as she, Luna and Sam were confronted by the purple clad man, "(This asshat is the fucker who wrecked Kaminari!)" All three of the teen girls assumed defensive combat stances, with Luna standing in front of both sonic wave girls as she bulked up into her muscular form.

The purple-clad hero (?) gently shook his head, as if he were disappointed. "Truly this nation is on the verge of being lost if even the youth staunchly defend the very oppressive laws that Chikara Yotsubashi fought to overthrow in the name of freedom." Pulling his right fist back, the mystery man began to quickly slide forward towards Kyoka and the American girls. "As much as this pains me to do so, you girls-"

"(Planes Pikes!)"

Suddenly, and to the surprise of all in that area, the purple clad hero (?) most of all, two cone-shaped pillars of earthen material, all radiating a brilliant golden aura so deeply concentrated that Kyoka thought them to be made of real solid gold, shot out from the earth and impaled the mystery man, one through his stomach and one through his chest. A gushing blob of blood puked out from the mystery man's mouth as he coughed out one his last breaths.

The pillars were pulled back and faded back into the ground, allowing the purple clad hero (?) to fall front-side down onto the ground. As Kyoka and the American girls stood there, they were met up by Amy Ace, who still had her golden elemental cloak up. Luna and Sam, recognizing their friend and teammate on the Royal Woods High team, turned to greet her. Kyoka, seeing the earth attribute Sacred Heritage quirk user as well, turned to face Amy too.

"(Thanks for the save, Amy,)" Luna greeted while gesturing to were the purple-clad man's body laid eerily still on the ground in a pool of warm life-crimson.

"(Well it's not like I can just stand by while I see someone trying to attack you girls,)" Amy replied. She put her left hand on her waist as her right hand held onto her staff. "(I don't suppose you girls would mind it too much if I were to join up with you, would you?)"

Kyoka nodded briskly in a manner to show how eager she was to have someone at Amy's level by her side during the villain attack. "(Yes, please join us,)" the rock lover remarked, "(We can use all the help we can get.)" Gesturing to Sam, Kyoka continued, "(Maybe you'll be able to stick around while these two explain to me why the blonde one here looks as pale as she does. I think she was saying something about that Aggro guy before we were interrupted by that man lying on the ground.)"

Amy, her interest piqued, turned to regard Sam specifically and give her a good look. Right away, Amy's eyes widened when she took note of how pale the blonde haired girl looked. "(Oh my goodness, Sam,)" Amy began in a concerned tone, "(You were killed earlier? What are you doing up and about? You need to rest now!)"

Sam gave a helpless shrug. "(Well hey, with all that's going on right now, I don't think I can exactly afford to heed the advice that you and Aggro both have-)"

"(Wait, wait, wait, hold on a minute there,)" Kyoka said in a mildly skeptical tone, interrupting the American girls in the process. Focusing on Sam, Kyoka said, "(You were killed earlier?)" After the blonde girl gave a single confirming nod, Kyoka shook her head in disbelief as she crossed her arms over her chest. "(Yeah, I'm finding that very hard to believe.)"

Sam gave a helpless, mildly embarrassed chuckle. "(Heh, yeah. Well, here's the thing.)"

"(El Muerte!)" Bobby Santiago, still protected by his cloak of golden winds, exclaimed in a grim, angry tone as he threw an uppercut at Geten, an ice quirk villain that he had been chasing ever since he saw the villain attack some U.A. students near a bakery. The uppercut was by no means close enough to actually strike Geten in the jaw, but that was not necessary as Bobby only needed to make the motion of an uppercut in order to conjure his true technique that he was going to strike the ice quirk villain with.

The act of that uppercut conjured a mini-tornado, about twice as tall as the average male adult human, so still well under the size of an actual tornado. The winds of that tornado, however, were made of the golden winds associated with Bobby's quirk. The golden coloration of that attack was so deeply concentrated that to Geten it looked like the tornado that was coming his way was made of actual solid gold.

The golden mini-tornado flew right at the ice quirk villain, absorbing him into itself, resulting in Geten being tossed around inside of the tornado, thrown around like a helpless rag doll as the fierce winds tore into Geten's very person at sharp, searing speeds. His pained cries and gurgled gasps were mostly drowned out by the sheer volume at which the winds of Bobby's quirk blew. Eventually, after about ten or so seconds, the winds of the mini-tornado died down, the tornado itself dissipating.

The instant that happened, Geten's torn, bloodied body fell with a sickening thud to the ground, landing front-side down. Nothing had been sliced off of him, but there were a good number of rather terrible lacerations all over the ice quirk villain's body. Bobby's eyes narrowed grimly as he looked at where the villain had fallen, before he turned around to see the brown ponytailed girl on the Royal Woods High team, using some sort of power to heal an injury on a civilian woman that was huddled up next to a car.

"(Is that lady going to be okay, Fiona?)" Bobby asked as he walked up to the ponytailed girl in white robes. Looking up from her patient, Fiona nodded once, drawing a sigh of relief from the Hispanic young adult. "(Good,)" Bobby said, "(I was worried that she might have been really roughed up by the guy I just took down. I saw that bastard horribly beat this one guy from U.A.'s team for the team battle event before I started chasing after him.)"

As she helped the civilian woman to her feet, Fiona said to Bobby, "(What I would like to know is where all of these villains even came from! How the hell is Japan's villain problem so bad?! You don't see stuff like this over in Royal Woods, let me-)" The brunette ponytailed girl was cut off when she, as well as Bobby, saw an older, pink-haired man wearing only a grass skirt and a beaded necklace run on by.

As they watched the eccentric older man run into the distance, both Bobby and Fiona wore looks of confusion. "(…Was that the pink-haired man that Lori told me is her sister Luna's old music tutor?)" Bobby said in a confused, dumbfounded tone, crossing his arms over his chest, "(What is he doing here?)"

"(I think the more pertinent question is why is he running around wearing only a grass skirt and a beaded necklace,)" Fiona remarked dryly, drawing a nod of agreement out of Bobby.

Aizawa, Hizashi and Gran Torino were all helping the heroes fight the large mass of fodder villains that were in the heart of the city. Sure, the three men were surprised to see it when the heroes were joined and sub sequentially aided by various allies, and they were all grateful when they saw members of the monster world, mages from the resident mages' guild of Magnolia Town, Fiore, and even a few Konoha shinobi show up to help them drive back the villainous hordes. But the sheer numbers that the villains had brought to the table were making Aizawa and the others pale with dread, worried that even with what they had, things may not end up going so favorably for those who would give all to defend what is good.

"This is starting to look bad," Hizashi squeaked in feared worry as he, while standing next to Aizawa and Gran Torino, overlooked a mass battlefield where pro heroes, backed by their various allies, were still outnumbered by the villains by a mile.

Gran Torino scoffed in a grumpy old man sort of tone. "Don't let their numbers scare you, boy," the retired pro hero scolded, "Sure, all of these villains vastly outnumber us and those who came to help us in our time of need. But they're all low level threats at best. There's no way a force of quantity can take out the force of quality that we-"

*THUM*

The ground shook with the sounding of that very heavy footfall, cutting Gran Torino off and prompting him, as well as Aizawa and Hizashi, to look over in the area that the sound seemed to have come from. Turning the corner around a large building was something, or rather someone, whose very presence was the first thing today that instilled any amount of fear, dread and worry into Gran Torino's old heart.

Gigantomachia.

The gargantuan villain let out a loud roar as he strode towards where the bulk of the fighting was taking place, any attacks thrown at him merely bounding off of his resilient, gigantic form. Raising his right hand back, Gigantomachia swung it forward in a backhanded slapping motion, sweeping up many heroes, some of their various allies, and even a few of the fodder villains that were on his side technically in a single motion.

"You…" Gran Torino muttered in a barely audible tone as he looked at where Gigantomachia had entered the fighting, "…You have got to be kidding me. The villains somehow got ahold of that monster, and they brought him to help them destroy the city?"

"He's just swinging wildly at the heroes," Hizashi pointed out, "Without any care of who gets in the way of his attacks. Look at how some of the people tossed up by his backhanded smack attacks are some of the fodder villains."

Aizawa gently shook his head in disbelief, his head spinning beyond all reason by what he was witnessing. "…There's just no fucking way that-"

"Mr. Aizawa!" a familiar male voice called out from behind where Aizawa and the others stood, making all of them turn to see Aggro and Allison, both with their respective golden elemental cloaks up, having run up to join them. It was clear that Aggro, who is male and speaks Japanese unlike his twin sister, was the one that had spoken up. "Aizawa," Aggro began, both his tone and expression serious, "Can you give me and Allison a quick summary on what's-"

"(Jötunn!)" Allison exclaimed, her eyes wide with surprise as she looked right over where Gigantomachia was on a rampage. To the surprise of Aizawa, Hizashi and Gran Torino but to the lack of surprise from Aggro, Allison spoke with a very clear and noticeable hint of amused excitement in her tone. The Viking Hero pointed her golf club right at the gargantuan villain as she said while addressing Aggro, "(I was not told that there would be a jötunn here, brother!)" Allison gave a darkly amused grin. "(I care not what the other warriors in this battle want, but I am claiming that jötunn as mine to vanquish!)"

Aggro, again with a total lack of surprise on his part, merely shrugged, a close-eyed wry look of amusement on his face. Aizawa and Hizashi, both of whom know enough English to understand what Allison had just said, looked surprised by her declaration. Gran Torino, on the other hand, looked completely lost. Gesturing over to the Viking Hero, Gran Torino looked up at Aizawa and the others, a mildly annoyed and confused look on his face.

"What in blazes did she just say? Why isn't she speaking in Japanese?!"

Letting out a mildly resigned but overall still mostly amused breath, Aggro said, "My sister Allison here doesn't speak Japanese, only English and Swedish." The male twin then turned to face the retired pro hero. "…And to answer your question, she says that she wants to claim that giant villain over there as hers to kill."

Gran Torino's response to Aggro's translation actually surprised him; the older hero was actually laughing. In an incredulous tone.

Gran Torino gestured to where Gigantomachia still rampaged against the heroes, as well as whoever was unlucky enough to get in his way. "There's no killing that monster," Gran Torino declared in a skeptical tone, "Hell, I doubt that there's any wounding that thing either! That beast is nothing short of a walking disaster!" Gran Torino crossed his arms over his chest as he looked up at Aggro, his scowl unchanging. "Fighting that thing is a fool's errand, I say!"

Aggro, with a wry look on his face as he regarded the retired pro hero, turned to face his older twin sister. "(Hey, Allison.)"

"(What is it, brother?)"

Aggro simply jerked a thumb over his right shoulder, pointing out where Gigantomachia was still fighting the heroes and their allies. The Samurai Hero then gave an amused grin as he regarded his Viking counterpart. "(…Send that jötunn to meet Loki's daughter.)"

The battle-hungry grin on Allison's face could not be mistaken for anything else as she dashed forward, making a beeline for Gigantomachia. Gran Torino went wide-eyed with total shock as the girl cloaked in golden lightning ran right for the unstoppable force that was Gigantomachia. As for both Aizawa and Hizashi, they were loads less surprised, as well as loads more assured that the Viking Hero would not fall to the gargantuan villain.

Allison, as she ran right towards where Gigantomachia was rampaging against the heroes and all others who got in his way of said heroes, simply said, "(Fenrisúlfr.)" After Allison had said that one word, the cloak of golden lightning that enshrouded her completely surged suddenly, becoming larger, and covering more area. The mass of golden lightning, after it reached a certain size threshold but still continued to grow larger still, began to take a more defined, wolf-like shape as the Viking Hero continued to make her way towards battle.

…

Gigantomachia, with a swing of his mighty arm, sent a mass of about a dozen pro heroes flying backwards, a few of which even crashing through windows. …Located on upper floors of multi-floor buildings. The gargantuan villain was fighting the heroes as he was ordered by Shigaraki, the chosen successor of the esteemed All For One. At first, Gigantomachia had his doubts about his master's successor, and as such was by no means in any rush to start working for the gray-haired young adult man.

But Shigaraki had made a name for himself, had proven himself in a truly glorious fashion. Having first-hand witnessed Shigaraki's glory himself, Gigantomachia, with a tear in his eye, had finally seen in Shigaraki what All For One did, and as such now acknowledged him. It was with a sense of pride that the gargantuan villain now served under the orders of his master's chosen successor, as if said successor was the master him-

Gigantomachia's trail of thought was cut off as, before he could swing his mighty arms at the mass of heroes again, he was tackled from his right side by…something…that had to be at least as big as him. Furthermore, whatever it was that had tackled the gargantuan villain also had some sort of an electrical element to it, and said element was powerful enough to actually cause him some degree of physical harm/damage.

Gigantomachia, surprised that there was anything aside from what his old master could pull off that was able to actually damage him, turned his attention to see what it was. To the surprise of Gigantomachia, he saw that he had been tackled by a gigantic wolf that looked to be made entirely of golden lightning. Gigantomachia also spotted what appeared to be a regular-sized human inside of the wolf avatar's head, but he did not pay that puny human within the wolf all that much mind, as the wolf itself opened its maw to let out a challenging howl.

Without warning, the gold lightning wolf dash right towards the gargantuan villain and lunged up, slamming its front paws onto Gigantomachia's shoulders as its claws dug into flesh, sending jolts of pain into Gigantomachia's form. The wolf avatar then reached forward with its open maw and crunched down on the right side of Gigantomachia's neck, mauling the area between the right side of the neck and the right shoulder.

The gargantuan villain let out pained bellows as claws and fangs of golden lightning pierced his once impenetrable flesh, the golden lightning electrocuting him slowly. Gigantomachia, with all of his effort, tried to push the wolf avatar away, pry its maw open and make it let go of him. During that struggle, the human within the wolf avatar's head threw her right arm out, before a large hammer of golden lightning formed on the side of the wolf avatar's head, right before said hammer smacked into the side of Gigantomachia's head, stunning him.

Seeing that the jötunn she had engaged in battle was stunned, Allison gave a smirk as she thrusted her golf club so that it pointed straight up into the skies above. A surging mass of the Viking Hero's golden lightning began to form, and the mass flew right in the direction of the gargantuan villain after she made a flinging motion towards him.

"(Ragnarök!)"

The mass of golden lightning, its golden coloration so deeply concentrated that it looked as if it were made of actual solid gold, struck Gigantomachia right in the torn wounds on the area of his right shoulder, not only striking the gargantuan villain true but allowing some of the electrical power to course through his obscenely large form. Never before in all his life had Gigantomachia taken an attack so painful, so powerful.

The true golden lightning tore him asunder, damaged him so. In his pained throes as he was shocked, Gigantomachia felt something within him burst. Suddenly, and to the shock of many who were seeing this, blood erupted from not just Gigantomachia's mouth, but also both his nostrils and both of his ears. Stains appearing suddenly on both the front and back of his pants were a sign that his anus and urethra were erupting with blood as well.

After the true golden lightning had finished, Gigantomachia, his form eerily still, slowly fell backwards. The force of gravity, combined with the epic weight of so large a being, sped things up near the end, and everyone was barely able to avoid being crushed under the very large body of the gargantuan villain. Gigantomachia landed on his back with an earth-shaking thud, a sight that took many in that area by surprise.

Chief among those who were surprised was Gran Torino, his mouth opened wide with slack-jawed disbelief. "…She…" the retired pro hero said, his tone barely above a whisper thus was barely audible, "…That girl actually did it." Gran Torino turned his attention to Aizawa, Hizashi and Aggro, the last of those three looking like he was sort of expecting what his older twin sister had just pulled off. The trio of pro heroes and Aggro then proceeded to watch as the wolf avatar, its front left paw on the fallen villain's chest while its other three paws all stood on the ground, raised its head up and let loose a skyward howl.

A group of lesser-known pro heroes were fighting a mass of fodder villains off to the side of the bulk of the fighting in the heart of the city. As that fighting was going on, two lesser pro heroes spotted a villain in a dark colored long coat stalk towards the fighting, giving off an oppressive doom and gloom vibe in the process. Seeing this, the two lesser pro heroes, both intent on putting a stop to the villain before he could do anything, rushed in to confront and defeat him.

…Only for Shigaraki, the villain in question, to grab both by their respective throats when they reached him, activate his quirk, and turned both to dust, ending them for good. After the leader of the Paranormal Liberation Front lowered his arms, he was joined by Skeptic, one of his many lieutenants in the Front. The long dark-haired villain landed next to Shigaraki on his right, in a three-point landing position.

"I got some really bad news, boss," Skeptic said in a worried, mildly apprehensive tone, "I just received word that some notable members of the Front have been killed in the ongoing battle."

Shigaraki turned to regard Skeptic, who was barely able to notice that the gray-haired villain arched a wry eyebrow. Skeptic let out a resigned sigh before he continued. "…I don't know all of whom has been killed thus far, but I have been able to confirm that we lost Trumpet, Geten and Gigantomachia to the heroes and their various allies."

"What?!" Shigaraki exclaimed, suddenly surprised, suddenly showing some manner of emotion, "You're telling me that Gigantomachia has been killed?! How is that even possible?!" The leader of the Paranormal Liberation Front growled in annoyance, in anger. "This is all Re-Destro's fault!" Shigaraki exclaimed, "It was his idea to launch this attack two months before I had all that I needed in order to be truly ready! And in the haste of this attack, we've just lost one of the greatest powers that Sensei had left to me! Does Re-Destro know how much effort the League had put into convincing that gigantic oaf to listen to me?! I swear when I get my hands on him I'm going to-"

"Boss," Skeptic interrupted, making Shigaraki turn quickly to face him. There was an angry, dangerous look on the face of the leader of the Front. "…In Re-Destro's defense, there was no way that any of us could have seen Gigantomachia falling in battle coming," Skeptic said in as calming a manner as he could manage, "We should have been more prepared to deal with any and every possible setback that our attack here could have had on us."

Shigaraki turned to face forward, growling with annoyance. The decaying quirk villain wanted to very badly destroy something out of all of the building frustration that was engulfing his very being. One of the top things he wanted to dust was that idiot Re-Destro, for it was him who had convinced Shigaraki that attacking now, while the city was distracted by the big event that U.A. was hosting in conjunction with a high school visiting from the United States, was a good idea rather than wait the remaining two months like what was in the original plan.

Yes, Shigaraki decided then and there. The major setback that was in the form of Gigantomachia getting killed would be pinned solely on the head of Re-Destro, and dusting him would be the first thing that the decaying quirk villain would do once he found him. Shigaraki even thought about what exactly he could do to torture Re-Destro, but his thoughts were interrupted when he heard something very large running towards him, the footfalls of whatever that thing was getting louder and louder.

…

"…You have got to be kidding me," Aizawa said, paling a bit as he, Hizashi, Gran Torino and Aggro all looked in the same direction, having spotted a gray-haired villain appear on the battlefield, wearing a dark long coat. Letting out a resigned breath, the underground hero said as he pointed to said villain, "The leader of the villains just showed up."

Aggro, with a curious look on his face, focused in the direction that Aizawa was pointing in, his gaze squinting a bit. "…You mean that fellow with the messy gray hair and he's wearing that dark coat?" The Samurai Hero saw Aizawa nod in the affirmative to his question when he turned to face him. Turning his attention back around to face where Shigaraki stood a ways away, Aggro said, "What do you guys know about him?"

"If he touches you, you turn to dust," Hizashi summarized simply, drawing confirming nods out of both Aizawa and Gran Torino. The former of that pair was even rubbing his right elbow unconsciously, as if it was on reflex due to remembering something of a rather unpleasant nature.

Aggro turned back to look in the direction that Shigaraki was in and, to his unsettlement, saw the decaying quirk villain turn two lesser pro heroes to dust as he had them by their respective throats. Aggro nodded once in a grim manner, acknowledging Shigaraki as a very serious threat that had to be dealt with before he could go on to do more harm. Luckily for him, the Samurai Hero had a good idea on how to put an end to that problem.

"…I'm going to use Flames of Rebuke on him."

Before Aizawa, Hizashi or Gran Torino could stop him, Aggro took a running sprint towards Shigaraki, his cloak of golden flames growing larger and larger as they began to take on a more defined shape, much like what Allison did when she created the wolf avatar that she controlled. However, rather than take on the shape of a wolf, Aggro's flames took on the shape of a gigantic fox with multiple tails. With a speed quicker than his sister's wolf, the Samurai Hero got closer to the decaying quirk villain, the footfalls of his multi-tailed fox avatar just as loud and strong as those of the aforementioned wolf.

When he was within what he saw as good range of his target, Aggro thrusted his right hand forward. "Flames of Rebuke!" The palm that Aggro had aimed towards Shigaraki started collecting a mass of flames, their golden coloration so deeply concentrated that it looked as if it were made of actual solid gold, began to form. After the mass became big enough, it ended up shooting forward right towards Shigaraki in a focused, pillar-shaped beam. Aggro also spotted a long dark-haired fellow next to the villain leader, but said fellow jumped out of the way before the attack got close.

The decaying quirk villain barely had time to turn to see what was going on when he was struck by Flames of Rebuke, causing a burst of brilliant golden flames to erupt around him, engulfing his slender form completely as he cried out in pain. The sheer force the attack was hitting Shigaraki with made him convulse as the flames scorched him terribly. The damage and pain was so great that something within Shigaraki burst, causing him to puke up an oozing blob of rich, warm life-crimson that forced the hand-mask off of his face. Shigaraki then fell over backwards, landing face up on the ground and laying there, eerily still.

Skeptic, as he saw what had happened, was beyond shocked, his eyes wider than he would have ever imagined to be even conceivable. "No…no way…" Skeptic muttered to himself, having no idea how to comprehend it that the Paranormal Liberation Front had not only lost two lieutenants and its strongest warrior, but now it had just lost its Grand Commander. The dark long-haired villain was now finding himself agreeing with the words of (the now late) Shigaraki.

Re-Destro really is a complete and total idiot.

Izuku, as he ran with Lincoln, Tsukune and Natsu, was trying to get innocent civilians in the section they were in and get them to safety before heading back in to fight off the seemingly countless number of fodder villains. "Well wowee," Natsu remarked in a casual tone as he slugged a fodder villain in the face with a fiery punch, knocking said villain out cold. Turning to face the other guys, the Fire Dragon Slayer mage said, "I've fought bandits on a few quests, but all of these villains take the cake in a number of fields compared to the bandits."

"Which you should take as all the more reason why we have to find any civilians in this area and get them to safety before the villains find them first," Izuku replied, "The last thing that we want is for even one civilian to get-" The green-eyed boy was cut off when, as he and the others sensed something swing at them, they all leapt out of the way, narrowly avoiding getting struck by a large, pitch black-colored fist that pulled back when it failed to hit any of them.

Looking over, Izuku and the others saw the large, muscular, towering form of Re-Destro (though none of them knew his name) coming up from his custom three-wheeled wheelchair. The pitch-black skinned villain, using his quirk to its fullest extent, looked down at Izuku and the rest of the party with a gleeful, self-amused sneer. Re-Destro cracked his knuckles as he pounded a fist into his hand.

"More heroes that are intent on getting in the way of the glory that is by right owed to the glorious leader of the Paranormal Liberation Front?" Re-Destro said, clearly sounding intent on attacking Izuku and his party regardless of what they would end up doing, "It matters not. Every last one of your kind will either kneel before the Grand Commander, or be put to the chopping block for daring to-"

The large, pitch-black villain was cut off when he was kicked square in his gut by someone dealing a foot-slam style kick, sending him reeling back a few dozen feet or so. To the surprise of Izuku and the rest of his party, they were saved by a pink-haired man who looked to be in his very early sixties, and that said man wore only a grass skirt and a beaded necklace. Izuku and Tsukune all had no idea who this man was, but Lincoln and Natsu seemed to recognize him.

"Mr. Fisher!" the white-haired boy exclaimed, prompting Harold to turn and face the party.

"Ah, young man!" Harold said in a mildly surprised but also mildly amused tone, "I'm glad to see a familiar face!" Turning back around to see where Re-Destro laid, the pink-haired older man gave the villain a serious, grim look. "…I take it that this one here is an adept?" Harold said as he reached to the right side of the waist on his grass skirt, pulling it and his beaded necklace off in one swift, fluid motion to reveal that… he wore a long-sleeved shirt under a baggy t-shirt, a pair of shinobi slacks, a pair of shinobi sandals and a Konoha ninja headband underneath his previous outfit.

As everyone aside from Lincoln looked at Harold with surprised, confused looks, Harold said as he cracked his knuckles, "Alright, lads, I'll be joining you guys to fight that clown over there."

"How did you manage to hide that entire outfit underneath just a grass skirt and a beaded necklace?" Izuku asked, completely dumbfounded by what he had just bore witness to.

Harold held up his right index finger as he said, "Very carefully."

"Either way," Izuku said as he and everyone else turned their attention to where Re-Destro was now picking himself up and getting ready to charge at them, "If all of us here are ready, I suggest that we fight this villain and take him down. The green-eyed boy, with Harold, Lincoln, Tsukune and Natsu all following him, proceeded to run right towards Re-Destro, intent on stopping the villainous lieutenant of the Front once and for all.

TO BE CONTINUED…

END, CHAPTER FORTY-TWO

Author's notes;

Things are beginning to wind down in this arc, with the final climax set to happen in the next chapter. Also, sorry if any of you have issues with a number of villains all being axed, but the stage has to be cleared for some of the next arcs, as the man who can be considered the ultimate villain of this story as a whole will begin to take actions in earnest. Said ultimate villain will be having truly unforgivable things done, things that are too much even for the other villains.

Said ultimate villain will also have some actions taken at the end of this arc.