The Amazing Deku
Disclaimer: I don't own Spider-Man or My Hero Academia.
Legend:
"I made this song for you" speech
'Still, I love him so much' thoughts or quotes
'I'm going to kill him' Mandalay/Black Cat's Quirk or All for One talking
"CHOCOLATE!" Symbiote/Kuri talking
Lightz: Thank you for your patronage. Also, if you will, please vote for Ultraviolet Eyes if you're interested. In this chapter, we continue with the Hassaikai Raid, the events that prolong it, and more of the Full Gauntlet Spider arc.
Also, you ever notice the similarities Hammerhead from Spider-Man PS4 has with Chisaki from canon? Let you think about that for a moment.
- Side Story: Full Gauntlet Spider Part 3 -
"Take this!" Izuku rushes forward throwing a punch at Mirio. The teen slips down into the floor. Looking around he takes a crouching position. "Where…"
His spider-sense acts up, and he turns around to see Mirio shooting out from the floor. He jumps away to his right avoiding a kick that barely grazes his chin. Rolling over to his feet, Izuku prepares himself for his next assault.
After spending a good deal of two minutes dodging his attacks, Izuku has gotten a grasp at Mirio's attacking speed. Thanks to his sense and spider body his defense remains strong as usual. That said, Mirio's are even more powerful; anything he throws will be avoided simply by passing through them.
Even more, he's well aware of the best strategy to use against such an ability, counters. He could dodge at the last second and make a strike for his chest or face, but he still phantoms them. It's impossible to hit him; good thing he's a hero.
On the plus side, Izuku is at least able to use One for All for a longer duration than usual. Now at Full Cowling, 20 percent, not only is his muscular and skeletal systems are intact, he hasn't coughed blood since the initial use. That means the protection is working; he can fight with the Quirk All Might gave him how it was supposed to be used.
Maybe it's a good thing he hasn't struck Mirio yet.
'Still, I need to do something or else we're just running in circles.' He jumps in the air, avoiding Mirio shooting out from the ground to punch him. While in the air, Izuku spins horizontally to kick his arm, only to pass through.
The two land again, both facing one another a good distance away from the other. 'Alright, think about what you do know. He can pass through anything solid, including his clothes, light, and oxygen. If he makes himself completely permeable, he'll sink into the ground. So like Sneak Peek from Batman Beyond, the only thing on Earth that can affect him is gravity.'
At that, a thought occurs to him. There's a plan. "Mirio, let's settle this! The next hit wins."
"It'll be the only hit any of us has made, well, not counting that one I did in the first round, but sure!" Smiling, Mirio readies himself as they're ready to finish this bout.
Izuku reduces One for All to 5 percent, before the two suddenly rush at one another, the spider boy moving at a slower speed that throws his opponent off. Once done, he watches as Mirio throws scissors fingers at his eyes. 'Not yet. Trust your senses.'
Though he tells himself this, he still keeps his eyes closed even as they pass through his face. Mirio's other hand clenches into a fist and is thrust at Izuku's stomach. As it comes close, the blond hero's world flips sideways as a painful sensation hits his ankle.
Izuku opens his eyes after feeling his attack connect, watching Mirio fall over on his side and hitting his shoulder. He watches him grab his ankle, wincing from the kick of a spider-powered teenager. Finding himself victorious, he takes a knee and holds a hand out to him.
Chuckling, Mirio takes his metallic hand and pulls himself up. "That was a great move. How did you know to attack my feet?"
So begins the murmuring...
"Well, it was all about considering your Quirk's flaw. I noticed that since you can pass through anything you must not need to make your entire body permeable, just whatever are the likeliest targets. Since if you turn completely intangible you sink into the floor, which means only gravity can affect you, that was the true key to your weakness; you can't hurt anyone unless you're tangible, so again countering was the only way I could get in a clean hit.
"That's when it hit me; it's your feet! You need your feet or at least one solid or else you'll sink. That is the one thing that I figured had to remain solid, and that was what I had to bet on. That's where my plan came."
Staring for a minute at the boy, Izuku turns red before saying, "Sorry, I do that a lot."
"Don't apologize; that's what won you in the end." Mirio lightly fist bumps his left shoulder.
"Thanks. Though we're technically tied, and I doubt that'll work again." He shakes his head, agreeing with Izuku.
"Oh, it won't. Now I know another weakness to cover. Hopefully, you'll come up with something different next time." He now walks away, grabbing his underwear and clothing to throw on.
'I was wondering when he was gonna do that.' Inside the suit within the lenses, Izuku notes a notification popping up. "Uh... answer?"
The icon transforms, turning into a screen showing Melissa inside a picture-in-picture. "Deku, head back to the lab! We've got something to tell you about the data!"
Chapter 49: Crooks and Nannies 2
Over in Musutafu Japan, as the police and heroes are raiding the Shie Hassaikai compound, another issue is at work over in Musutafu General.
"This is very concerning, Izuku." Momo's melancholic words come to mind as she sits with him, speaking her worries to him over the elephant in the room. "Back when we trained no one but me, Bakugo, and Iida could lay a finger on you. Now you're just as exposed as everyone else."
"I know…" He glares down at his hands. "Even worse, all of my reflexes and training were tied into the spider-sense. Without it, I have to start over from scratch!"
He plops back on the bed face-up with a sigh. Momo asks, "How could this have happened?"
"Well, thinking about it logically," he begins his murmuring, "it could be related to stress and everything that happened without me taking the proper time to rest from it. But there's no reason for only part of my powers to not work while the rest do. What makes the most sense is that tool Hitomi used; she said it could shut down the spider-sense, but I figured it was just while it was active. Maybe prolonged exposure increased how long it'll be shut off. Maybe it's off permanently…"
Listening to his musing while watching the sweat fall down his face, the rich girl is indeed just as worried. From her recollection, plenty of his victories and close calls are because of that overpowered danger tingle of his. Now, any lucky criminal with a gun can kill him with ease.
Momo reaches over and grasps his hand with both of hers, bringing the teen out of his murmuring. He looks to her about to say something, only to stop upon seeing her shaky expression. This is added to how tight her grip on his hands is; she's more terrified about this than he is.
Knockings on the door capture their attention following, "It's me, Shino."
"Come in!" The door opens up and in steps the cat woman.
Dressed in casual attire, the adult woman faces the young couple while carrying a bag. "Creati, let's go."
"Go?"
"We got a new mission." Shino holds over the bag to Momo. "Get dressed; we're going to the Endora Mountains nearby."
Confused, Izuku looks between the ladies and asks, "Don't you mean Creati and Deku?"
"Not at all. You're staying here." Widening his eyes in shock, it's obvious he follows up on that.
"What? Why?" Momo, of course, gives him the look. Immediate obedience sits in him.
"Remember what happened two days ago before you ask that question again. Besides, you're missing your special power." She pats his shoulder before standing up. "We'll handle this and come back."
Frowning, Izuku says, "Now it's my turn to worry," causing his girlfriend to place a kiss on his forehead.
"Now you know how I feel." She walks away heading to the door, Shino watching with narrow jealous eyes. "Something wrong?"
The cat woman steps quickly to Izuku, grabbing his shoulders and pulling his face to hers. Her lips butter against his left cheek, leaving a purple smear of a kiss visible for the entire world. She then steps away, passing by the other brunette in the room.
"Let's go." Momo's face burns as she stares at the scene before her, and walks away with Shino. She'll have to get used to that.
Watching them go, Izuku sighs. He tightens a grip over the air. "I never thought I'd be on the sidelines."
With the ladies, they drive down the road. Momo has already slipped into her uniform, donning her shield on her back while Shino keeps her hands on the wheel. Her eyes narrow into focus at what is up ahead.
"This will be a dangerous mission. His Quirk allows him to rearrange anything he touches, so stay out of his range or he'll kill you instantly." Shino glances at the mirror to where Momo is, having put on her visors finally.
"I don't know what to do here… is it good to leave him behind?" Momo tightens her gloves.
"I don't want him in danger, Shino," the girl adjusts herself in her seat before she pulls up her right boot, "He's so reliant on that he'll be at a disadvantage, especially against Chisaki."
"How did he lose that... what do you call it, Spider-sense? He can still cling to walls."
Pausing mid dress up to cup her chin, Momo surmises her thoughts. "It probably has something to do with what that Hitomi did. It's just one unlucky thing after the other."
Shino sighs in agreement. "Maybe I'm to blame for spending time around him. I am a black cat after all."
"That reminds me." Turning to face Shino, Momo asks the adult, "Why did you call yourself Black Cat?"
Thinking about it, there is only one reason why she ever called herself that name. With everything that's happened in her life, she's done nothing but bring bad luck to the people she cares about. Being a member of a cat named team, the name just jumped out at her like a shark with a gun for a mouth.
"… it all started when my sister got married…" The car continues to be driven.
Elsewhere Back To The Action…
Over at the Shie Hassaikai compound, the outside wall explodes open. From it, a large man comes out with fists clenched. This brawler of a human being rushes forth, blitzing away the police officers in his path. "You want us?! Come get some ya pussies-"
Before his fighting spirit could get pumped further, he's pushed straight back into another wall with extreme prejudice. His attacker is a pink dragon, the woman in the red qipao transformed, far larger than him. She roars smashing her palm directly into his body, pinning him in place.
"Go, now!" she tells the others, and the heroes charge forth.
Among those heading in are Fatgum's group and Sir Nighteye's, as well as police officers. As an officer reads off his warrant to three Yakuza before him, they're taken down before too much trouble could be made.
Inside the building, they make their charge stopping their foray in a meeting room of sorts. Sir Nighteye looks around the area, remembering something he learned from Shino.
"And you're sure we can trust this information?"
"We can. Please, trust me."
'For now, I will. The future I've seen will work just perfect.' "This way leads to Overhaul's secret escape route…"
His and Fatgum's agency follows him as they make their way to a nearby passageway. On the way, a couple of thugs stand in their way.
They move in to strike, stopping seeing bubbles floating in front of them. Bubble Girl takes this moment to grapple one of the Yakuza's arms and slams him face-first into a bubble, knocking him unconscious. Centipeder extends his centipede arms to coil around the last two; their screams are doused as he slams them into the walls.
"Proceed!" Sir Nighteye leads the others in through the foyer.
As they make their way ahead, the landscape shifts around them. "Mirio!"
"Got it!" As the pathways close up, Mirio rushes forward. His body passes through, a phantom in the light as it were.
Ten Minutes Later…
Overhaul, Chronostasis, and another in a plague mask walk down the hall making their way to the nearest exit. Until…
"Hold it!" The gangsters turn around at their new guest, the semi hero standing with his crimson cape over his left shoulder.
"Well, look at what we have here…" The criminal mastermind behind the Yakuza faces Lemillion, his eyes expressing disgust.
"Well," begins the blond hero in training, "is this the part where you monologue and tell me I'm foolish to-"
A flurry of spikes comes out of the ground trailing toward Mirio, who remains still as he's completely covered. Overhaul narrows his eyes at the scene, skeptic as an owl. "Something's up…"
"He must have an invisibility Quirk," says Chronostasis before taking out his pistol. "We need to be on edge for whoever-"
BAM!
Before he could finish his sentence, a blow strikes his face and sends him flying over the floor. His plague mask spirals in the air in the process. Mirio comes out from the wall following his red fist.
Once he lands, he quickly turns to face a spear of stone coming out of the wall. Again, the danger passes by him with ease as he remains stationary. "That won't work."
"Shin…" The anonymous Yakuza steps forth taking out a gun.
"I'm not one for monologues, but I do enjoy a conversation. How does your Quirk work?" asks Shin of the young hero.
"Permeation allows me to pass through solid matter. If I make my whole body intangible I fall due to gravity." His hands slap against his mouth, wondering why he just said that.
"A Quirk that makes someone a ghost…" Overhaul extends his hand to the floor. More spikes come out at Mirio from all directions.
"Phantom Menace."
Mirio takes in a deep breath and dives into the walls avoiding the attacks. Taken by surprise by this, the Yakuza look around for their adversary. This lasts until Mirio rockets out from the wall towards Shin. A punch hits him in the face, knocking him off balance until at the last second Mirio phases through him and enters the wall.
Of course, the Yakuza leader is flabbergasted by what he's seeing. 'His speed! Is that from turning tangible?'
Overhaul watches as he comes out the wall again and catches Shin in a lariat with his left arm, dragging the villain to the wall. Once more, Mirio passes through entering the wall while slamming the Yakuza headfirst into the concrete.
All alone, Overhaul goes over to Shin extending his hand out to him. Before he could touch him, Mirio comes out from the wall toward Overhaul at his left. Seeing it coming, the villain raises his hand to the incoming fist. The red punch passes through his hand striking him in the face. Mirio's attack sends him roaring across the floor.
Sighing out of relief that follows with a smile, Mirio raises a finger to his ear. "Sir, I've found and taken on Overhaul. Bring some backup." He glances over at where Chronostasis is, doing a double-take. "What?"
Chronostasis has dissolved into a sort of white puddle. "Is… is this a part of his Quirk?"
Laughter follows, catching the phantom hero's attention. His eyes trail back to Overhaul, recovering. "Amazing job. You actually managed to surpass my abilities. Too bad it's wasted."
"… wasted?"
"Chronostasis isn't here, and neither am I." He sits up facing Mirio. "In the time you've wasted on me, the real Kai Chisaki is already gone."
Mirio narrows his eyes, his smile faltering. "A Quirk that makes a perfect copy of someone… there was someone like that in the report that attacked my kohai during the summer."
"It's a necessary sacrifice, but it won't be in vain." The fake Overhaul stretches his hand over the floor. "We will cleanse the world of this poison, no matter what!"
Mirio charges forth, passing through the incoming wall of stone to slam Overhaul in the chin. His blow causes the villain to explode, turning into goo as well. After landing, Mirio glances at Shin, being the only other person left in the room. "They duped us…"
He grinds against his teeth before taking a moment to recall his nerves. He then taps the intercom. "Sir…"
Elsewhere…
Out in the woods neighboring Musutafu, Overhaul and Chronostasis can be found at a fancy cathedral at the tip of a cliff. Exiting his vehicle, the Yakuza leader looks around at the setting, a chill in the air blowing his locks back.
"I can't believe we're coming back here…" says Overhaul with disgust.
"I believe this was where Deidoro was captured by a certain Black Cat and the Spider-Man while we were making a transaction with the Society of Assassins." Scuffing at Chronostasis' recap, the leader makes his way to the front door.
"Now we just wait for Tomura Shigaraki."
'Oh good.' Hearing this voice, Overhaul goes on the edge looking for the source of the voice.
"Sir?"
"If Shigaraki's arriving here, that saves us the trouble." From the steeple of the cathedral, two figures can be found looming down on the duo below. Both dressed in their hero clothing are Momo Yaoyorozu and Shino Sousaki.
Rather shocked by this sudden development, Overhaul shouts, "We've been followed?!"
"No." Shino extends her claws. "We just knew you'd come here, thanks to Mirai." 'But he never told me why.'
"Damn it…" Angered, the Yakuza steps back as the women jump down. He places a hand to the ground and summons three spikes to shoot up and converge on them.
'Creati, give me a light grenade.' Shino the Black Cat grabs hold of Momo as she wields her Oscillite shield. Each dirt spire shatters against her shield yet her body holds against the earth without falling.
As that happens, Momo stares at her lenses while a grenade comes out from the exposed part of her back. The Black Cat grabs it and jumps from behind Momo, throwing the item at the Yakuza. It explodes, releasing a bright light.
Overhaul and Chronostasis shield their eyes as the blindness hits them. Momo kicks off the spire she's still attached to, her alien-powered kick strong enough to shatter the rest of it. Black Cat then charges at Overhaul.
'Remember! He can destroy and reassemble anything his hands' touch. Stay out of his range!' With the cat woman's advice inside her head, the Swiss Army knife woman returns her shield to her back and pulls out a staff.
Black Cat slams her left palm into Overhaul's abdomen before spinning in the air and kicking him in the shoulder. As he rolls over, she takes a crotch and draws out a shuriken between her right index and middle fingers. Before she could throw it, she watches as the criminal overhauls his body, breaking himself down and reassembling. The man then gets up facing her.
"Of course, you'd use it to repair yourself."
"Do you know what happens to cats that stick their noses in where they don't belong?" Hands to the ground, what can only be described as a curvation of dirt comes flying at Black Cat from her left.
Momo moves in striking Chronostasis in the face. A follow up blow knocks off his mask. As it rolls over the ground, Momo pushes against the ground with her back leg to propel forward, jabbing the end toward Chronostasis' chest while making a battle yell.
Before she could reach him, something shoots out from his hood at her. Moving fast, she guards against it with her weapon, which ends up being pale hair in the shape of an arrowhead. A smaller one flies out and hits her right hand.
She remains stunned and unmoving after that hit, her grip left on the weapon. "Chronostasis." The man stands taller, revealing his handsome face to her. His hair retracts to him. "I meant to hit you with the bigger hand, but this will do."
From his pocket, he draws out a knife. The ground trembles in the background as a result of Black Cat combating with Overhaul while he raises the blade. "I don't know what your Quirk is, but we're only interested in Quirk-erasing abilities. You are superfluous."
His knife plunges forth, puncturing the peach flesh of her throat. Her wound oozes a black substance that spreads out and consumes the knife. Surprised by this new development, Chronostasis jumps back as his weapon is taken away.
"What is this?!" The black ooze collects around Momo and clings onto her as a skin-tight suit. The spider pattern forms over her chest, this time red, as even her face is covered in the substance save for the symbiote eyes it's wont to have.
Seeing it up close, Chronostasis concludes. "Now I see. It's that Symbiote."
Black Creati now lunges forward with her left knee raised, knocking a tooth loose upon contact with the man's chin. He falls over landing on his behind. "Your Quirk stopped her from moving, but it needs to touch me in order to stop me too."
"Is this where you've been this whole time?" grumbles the man as he takes out a Sig Sauer handgun. "We were set back so long after Spider-Man intervened in the transaction."
A splurge of black webbing hits him square in the face, blinding the villain. From Momo's right hand through the alien skin appears three balls attached to strings, that she throws at Chronostasis to wrap around his arms and body. Upon latching, the balls release a purple mist around the Yakuza, and without trouble or time wasted he falls backward unconscious.
Once done, the Symbiote retreats into Momo, closing up the hole left on her throat with no proof of there ever being an injury. Sighing, she says, "Thank you, Kuri," before moving quickly to Chronostasis once the smoke lifts around him. Swiping across the air to disperse any remaining smoke the creation girl picks up the gun he dropped and checks the magazine.
Strangely, all 14 of the bullets are just darts shaped like bullets, including the one inside of the chamber she quickly pops out and reinserts into the mag. "Darts?"
Pilfering his pockets she pulls out a second magazine, but only sees one dart cartridge inside. 'One clip filled with these dart bullets and one with only a single dart…' Placing a finger to her visor she scans the item. After the quick analysis, she gasps. "So that's it!"
She then extends a knife from out of her red arm brace and slices off the villain's clock head hairs. Better safe than sorry.
Over with Black Cat, she jumps away avoiding a tremor of spikes sent her way. Overhaul stands on the other side having summoned the attack. Seeing an opening with her landing, he places a hand to the ground for a follow-up. Just as he does, his eyes catch something in his peripheral, and a wall of dirt rises quickly, blocking two shots fired at him.
Momo groans where she stands, having aimed and fired at Overhaul. "Blast. I almost had him." She rushes over to Black Cat's side.
The man's eyes become bloodshot at his situation. Without Kurono, he's at a disadvantage. All she needs to do is hit him once with those bullets. "Put that gun down. You're wasting expensive bullets!"
At that, Black Cat stares at the weapon in question while Momo holds it. The latter woman says, "I thought so. These are the bullets you made to erase Quirks using Eri's DNA."
Overhaul scuffs. "Of course, Stain would blab."
"How could you do such a thing to her?" Momo shouts, enraged at the man at what he did to gain this weaponry. "She's just a little girl!"
"Be quiet." The barrier falls apart, showing the man staring her down with intense malice and killer intent. "You wouldn't understand anything. You're just another person stuck in the sickness that Quirks are giving the world, believing these powers are a benefit and not the plague that it is. I will cure everyone and make the world a better place!"
Momo tightens her hold on the gun. "At the cost of the childhood and future of a little girl?"
"Hold it." Black Cat makes a single step forward, eyes planted on the Yakuza. "You used that girl's Quirk to create Quirk destroying bullets, to what end? To make the world better, or to return it to where you Yakuza were in charge?"
A twitch appears on his face. "I know about you. Mirai and I researched you when we got Eri. We know the underlying reason why you're doing this, so don't even pretend that the ends justify the means. You only care about how to use people, like how you're being used by Shigaraki."
"Silence." Overhaul places a hand to the floor, but at the moment nothing comes of it. "All of you heroes love to talk and talk. I even know why you're doing it, just to stall for help to arrive."
The two women face their destructive opponent together. An eye from the adult glances at the teen. 'We'll take him from two different directions.'
"Got it."
Overhaul grumbles a laugh. "So was I."
Both of the lovely ladies make their approach, until…
"I was wondering why you didn't call us, and now I see why." Momo and Black Cat turn around to see the back up have arrived. Sadly, it wasn't for them.
Instead, they find darkness in the air leading to a portal where Tomura Shigaraki is exiting. With him are Muscular, Hitomi Yatsu, and another mysterious individual. While the muscle man is dressed in his casuals, Hitomi is full battle rattle with four tentacles extending from behind.
The mystery man is more of a monster, a black-skinned Noumu in fact, with a large, muscular build and a comparatively long neck. His head is shrouded in darkness by a hood of skin and the muscles on neck and shoulders are left exposed. Underneath his hood, his face consisted entirely of an exposed brain, distorted red eyes, and a mouth full of long, jagged teeth.
Seeing them, the two women raise their defenses. There's an intense danger about to come at them.
"So nice of you to get here finally," Overhaul tells the cyan-haired villain, his tone containing great annoyance. He points at Momo. "That girl has the bullets, including the final product."
"Hitomi." With a snap of his fingers, the octopus woman charges at the young Yaoyorozu.
Despite her closing in, Momo stays her hand and keeps her grip. The tentacles grab her limbs and pull her along with Hitomi as they jump over the cliff. Kurogiri forms from the darkness made and follows after Hitomi.
"Creati!" Black Cat watches as her partner is taken away over the side. Before she could make a move, both the nameless Noumu and Muscular block her paths off.
Of course, once again she would come face to face with the man she hates more than anyone else. It is taking a great deal of restraint on her part to remain civil in front of him. Right now, she can't make any foolish move.
"How's it going? Oh, wait, what was your name again?" Muscular scratches his head as he false wonders on her name. "Black Cat, that's right. But I prefer to call you Miss Punching Bag."
Overhaul steps forward turning to Shigaraki. "Looks like you were right to set the pick up here. There are no heroes to come out here, and this is the only back up they were able to send after attacking our hideout."
Desperate, Shino looks around for a possible out to her situation. She glances down at the forest before the cathedral, eyes widening with hope. A smile forms. "True; you did see pretty far ahead to get out of that situation and to corner us this far, but just as you said Chisaki, you weren't the only one stalling."
Right on cue, figures shoot out from the forest charging for the cathedral. The villains watch and notice the monsters coming their way; golems made of dirt, stone, and tree branches. Some are shaped as Panthera beasts while others resemble traditional humanoid golems. The former reach the villains first.
"Hood." From the back of the Noumu fires jet engines that propel him forward at the first beast. One swipe of the left arm slams the beast into loose soil. The next two golems bite down on his arms, blood squirting from his flesh to splash onto their forms.
"Don't go around bullying my Earth Beasts!" From up above the villains and Black Cat look to see one of those golems flying down atop in the form of a pterodactyl. Two figures jump from the being and land between the Noumu and the villains.
The first is Ryuko Tsuchikawa, also known as Pixie Bob, dressed in her hero outfit. Next to her is her partner, Yawara Chatora staring down the villains in a brown version of Pixie-Bob's outfit.
Seeing them, Shino runs over to her friends. But before she could get two steps in, Muscular grabs her right arm and pins her standing up. "Uh, uh, uh!" His eye turns to the remaining Wild Wild Pussycat members. "And now we have the rest of the weaklings! Or, most of them. What, she couldn't walk out here?"
An anger tick forms on Ryuko's face. "You keep saying some shit, don't you, Muscular?"
"You're walking to your deaths," Shigaraki tells them. "Two hands aren't going to make a difference!"
Hood roars before he rips free of the beasts pinning him down. He then jets toward the cat heroes, his teeth snarling to rip them apart. Seconds away from murdering them, he gets crushed under a figure launched from above due to a pillar of fire shooting down. Pinned into place, Hood grumbles as he is subjugated to flames burning his body.
"Who said we were the only ones here?" Rising from the back of the Noumu stands the Number 2 hero in Japan, the Flame Hero Endeavor.
"Endeavor…" groans Shigaraki, his eyes narrowing at the fire user. "He finally recovered."
A Minute Earlier…
Momo and Hitomi continue to fall, a shallow pit of grass and dirt down below for them to crash into. Using her tentacles, the villainess pulls herself to the side of the mountain cliff and forces her feet on to cling to. Once stopped, she pilfers the gun from Momo and leaves her to fall.
Thinking fast, Momo pulls out her shield and aims it at the ground. The alien darkness surrounds her arms. Like this, she lands on her shield hitting the ground with a soundless thud as well as an up splash of dirt.
A sigh of relief, Momo gets back up as Kuri retreats into her body. "Impressive." She glances back up to see Hitomi coming down upon her using her tentacles. She then shows the handgun is empty. "Not only did you steal the bullet inside the chamber and magazine, but also survived that fall."
The gun is crushed in her palm before she lands adjacent to the brunette. "I was hoping to run into you sooner or later."
Hitomi sends her tentacles towards Momo. She raises her staff, which is ripped out of her hands before she's struck in the stomach and sent back. "Momo Yaoyorozu, I presume?"
Recovering from the strike while ignoring the ensuing chaos around her, Momo looks up with a mild surprise. "You know who I am?"
"Of course, I do." Hitomi removes her mask, showing her face to the rich girl. "You're the whore who seduced Midoriya into following this path to be a hero."
"What do you know about-" Momo gets struck at her left arm just as she is about to summon a katana from the exposed skin on her leg.
Lifting herself on her metal limbs, Hitomi approaches Momo with hateful eyes. "Midoriya would have been fine as a scientist; the world has had quite enough heroes. What it needs are bright minds to pave the way to the future!"
"It's what he wants!"
"If he wants to save people, he could do so as a scientist! As someone of actual respect! As my friend!" One of her free tentacles shoot out and strikes Momo in the face, knocking aside her glasses. "And he would have been fine resigning from that path whether that spider bite happened or not."
Momo glares up at Hitomi, her cheek bleeding from the blow. "But then he met people like you and the rest of those others from your school and he stopped caring about what he had! He threw away the friends he made in our club just to be a hero, jut for something he never would have had if not for blind luck! I'll hate him for leaving the only person who actually cared about him, but I'll never forgive you for taking him away from me!
"And that's why I'm going to kill you both for what you've done to me!" Her upper left tentacle transforms into a swirling blade, spinning fast enough to replicate a buzzsaw. She then throws it at her opponent.
The weapon is shattered, pieces of it flying everywhere. Surprised, Hitomi pulls back her tentacle scoping the damage, seeing how ineffective it is against the shield Momo pulled from behind her. Her tentacle reverts to three prongs.
"Not a scratch?" Momo gets up and faces Hitomi, her normal calm expression showing what can accurately be defined as ultimate livid. A vein forms over her forehead and her eyes turn white.
"What I've done to you?" she says quietly, staring forth at the woman towering over her. "Izuku has been dealing with loneliness, prejudice, and suicidal thoughts for as long as he's been diagnosed Quirkless, and all he wanted was to be a hero. How dare you call yourself his friend, AND NOT HELP HIM THROUGH ALL OF THAT?!"
The sudden change in voice causes the spider octopus to flinch. "Did… did your voice just change?"
Kurogiri lands as well, stepping to the side to be ready to interfere. "That little girl... is she..."
"You're not his friend at all! You just want someone around to make yourself feel better for your shortcomings! You want to control him because you're a horrible snob who thinks she's better than others!" She opens her shirt and draws out another hilt.
Hitomi sends her lower right tentacle to attack, but it's slammed to the ground by Momo's shield. "Kuri, stay back. I'll call when I need to."
'You sure? Well, if you say so.'
"Who are you talking t-" In a swish, her tentacle is cut, sliced clean off by the katana Momo drew from her breasts.
Stepping over the detached piece, Momo stabs the silver-colored sword pointing at Hitomi. "Those arms twisted you more than Melissa warned. I'll slice them clean out of your back!"
Regaining her composure, Hitomi chuckles slightly. "You? Defeat me?" She reattaches the mask. "I unmasked your boyfriend. What have you done?"
She then takes a crouch, one Momo recognizes as Izuku's signature spider stance. "Referring to you as Midoriya's girlfriend is highly appropriate because that's how everyone's going to remember you. You're just a fanservice girl you'd find in a Shonen manga. You'd probably never be on his radar otherwise. What exactly do you have to offer anyone besides those water balloons?"
"Let's find out." She then charges.
Elsewhere...
Over at the compound, the dragon woman continues to keep her opponent pinned. Once done, she looks over to the floating periwinkle girl surveying the scenery. She lands down in front of the dragon saying, "Looks like everyone's wrapping up, Ryukyu."
The dragon woman turns her head to scan the area. "Good. We'll remain on guard as the police collect the criminals."
Nejire looks over and sees a very muscular Fatgum walking over while shouldering Tamaki and Kirishima. All three are battered and bruised since their last appearance, including Kirishima bleeding from his arms.
Fatgum looks around asking, "Is everyone out?"
"Why are you skinny?" asks Nejire as she examines him.
"Long story, longer fight." The heroes make their way past the gate while Nejire looks around. "Nighteye left a message for you guys."
"Message?" The two ladies, and Tsuyu pushing a Yakuza into a secure van, listen in to the thinner hero.
"Fliers head to a certain location as soon as possible."
Kei: Yeesh. This was rather difficult.
Yusei: It's still bad compared to the other two featuring the attack on the Shie Hassaikai.
Kei: We can't do the same thing as they were, and I'll gladly spend five minutes writing why. Besides, I don't like copying scenes from another writer, no matter how awesome it is. And Chisaki absorbing the heroes is something I'm glad I didn't write up yet. Eri isn't around to rescue them after all.
Wanda: Let's see... in the next chapter, we'll show battles between Black Creati and Superior Wolfram/Kurogiri, Black Cat and Muscular, Pixie-Bob and Overhaul, and more.