Ladies and gentlemen, we are back with another chapter! As we all saw in the last chapter, things are going to get crazy in this chapter. With things IRL, I can say that I'll be able to post this and another chapter before the month ends, if things go well, I'll be able to fit in a third but you know how things are unpredictable. Anyway, I won't keep you here long, just know that this chapter WILL be kept to below 11K, with no exceptions, I have to start working on moderation more and not let chapters go on unchecked.


Chapter 42: Tower of I

(Previously)

"Guys, I think we should go to that party." Tetsutetsu voiced, sounding as hard as his quirk as he looked towards the group as a whole.

"What makes you say that?" Kendo asked him as Iida nodded his head and crossed his arms.

"Because that's the place we can find All Might and Professor Shield right now. If anyone would know what the hell is going on, it's them." Tetsutetsu explained his reasoning to them, getting most of them to look on in surprise, they had no clue that All Might was present.

"Wait, All Might in there?" Uraraka asked as this was news to her.

"Oh thank God, we're saved." Mineta calmed down as that was proof to be good for their morale. If he was here, then if this was a bomb threat, things should be taken care of pretty quickly.

"Mellissa, is there any way we can get down there without the elevator?" Tetsutetsu asked her, the American girl nodded her head as she gestured towards the door that Yu had spotted earlier.

"Sure, we can use the emergency stairs. That'll at least get us close." Mellissa explained as it was their fastest and only route to the reception hall. They needed to speak with her father as soon as they couldn't if he wasn't already addressing the situation.

"Then we'll follow your lead then," Todoroki spoke up as the girl started leading them towards them. They didn't know it, but they were about the get entangled in a villain attack/hostage situation.

Whether they liked it or not.


(And now – With Mina; Tsu and Hagakure)

"Our phones don't have a signal. And the internet's not working either." As this was all going down in the main tower, completely unaware of the situation, Asui, Mina and Hagakure were in their hotel room in their pajamas or just lazy clothing. Asui made that statement as she tried to get something on her laptop but every website was down and she couldn't even call her parents.

"What happened to all the channels? All I'm getting in the same old warning." Mina asked as she went from channel to channel but dispute the fact that there were supposed to get over 300 international channels, they were getting the same message on the TV as the one Asui was getting on her computer.

"We're roughing it ladies," Hagakure, wearing a sweater that looked both cute and odd due to her…well invisible said as she held up a deck of Uno cards. "But I brought some games along, who's in?"

"Uno? Really?" Asui asked as they all recalled that they learned goes on in the boy's locker room. When Jiro asked Sero why he looked all beat that day, he lied and said that he tripped in the locker room. None of the boys said anything more other than just glare at him.

"What, it's not like we'll get that adsorbed in it, right?" Hagakure argued as she didn't think they'll get that into it. It was just a game to pass the time.

"(Kero)I'm sure we can control ourselves," Asui said as she agreed with their invisible friend. It wouldn't be the first time she had to play peacekeeper, family game night could get intense when there were two small children involved.

"Alright, not like we got anything else to do," Mina said as she got up with new energy in her. "Deal me in, Toru."

"Sure!" Hagakure said with a tone that said she was smiling as she started shuffling the cards.


(Back in the reception hall)

Back in the reception hall, it was anything but fun and games as one of the armed men pointed his rifle right into the crowd and scared guests and captured pros. "Don't worry, if you stay quiet, there is no reason to hurt anybody." The redhead leader of the villains told everyone, which didn't make anyone feel at ease as he looked like the type that would sooner shoot one of them for fun than anything else. "We plan to release you safely when the time is right."

"What are you criminals after?" One of the pros that were restrained demanded of him. His reward for his question as a hard boot to the chin that sent laying on his back in pain. The leader, the same guy that had kicked him, didn't point his pistol at him but rather at the two terrified women that were close to him, getting whimpers from them as they both stared down the barrel of his gun.

"Is listening that hard for your pros? Stay down and shut up, otherwise I'll put a bullet in one the civilian guests here and make you watch, understood?" He threatened the pro who could nothing but comply lest he risk the lives of the civilians.

"Crystal." The pro ground out past the pain of the frustration of knowing that this man wasn't kidding about hurting the others.

"There's a good boy." The redhead mocked him before he reached for his ear, most likely his communication earpiece. What's up?...Yeah, I got it." He finished as he looked down at Sam, or more accurately the nametag and credentials he was wearing.

"Hey tubby, you're a researcher here?" He asked him, walking closer to the short, fatter man who looked close to a panic attack from the fright.

"Y-yes, I am." Sam replied to him. Though he was scared, he knew that it was best to answer the man as clearly as possible to avoid getting shot.

"Take this one up." The redhead instructed two of his men as they approached them, their guns at the ready.

"No please, don't-" Sam tried to plea as he could only imagine what they had in store for him.

"Stop it!" David said as he sucked in as much bravery as he could as he approached the group. "That man is my assistant, what are you going to do with him?"

"Ah, the famous David Shield. Bring him to." The redhead said as he looked at Dave and immediately recognized him for who he was.

"What if I refuse?" David asked him, though they both knew the answer to that one as the redhead gave him an evil looking smirk that promised nothing good.

"Then somewhere on this island, you'll hear a pretty little blonde girl scream." The man threatened his daughter and with the security system under their control added to the fact they had an unknown number of people involved in this, he couldn't be sure that there was a spot on the island where Mellissa was safe, wherever she was.

"Alright, lead the way." David reluctantly agreed with them before the two scientists were escorted out of the hall, all while all Might could do nothing but watch like a helpless baby.

'Dave….' All Might thought to himself as he tried to quietly break through his bonds but whatever they were made of was no joke. Heck, he wasn't sure he'll be able to both breakout and take out all the gunmen before they start shooting up the place. 'I have to subdue these villains and get the central security system back online, but how much power do I even have left?' he asked himself as it had been some time since he entered muscle form. Added to the fact that when he arrived on the island he was already in it, he couldn't be sure how long he had left.

'I have to find a way, because I am here, the symbol of peace!' Still, he didn't become the number one by surrendering when the odds were against him but dammit, this wouldn't be easy. It was as he struggled and thought of a way out that he noticed a small beam of light on the floor right in front of his face, it flashed a couple times and when he looked up, he saw that Tetsutetsu was trying to signal him with his phone's flashlight.

'What? Young Tetsutetsu?' All Might thought to himself as Tetsutetsu saw that he had his mentor's and predecessor's attention.

"Alright, He sees us. Jiro, is your jack in place?" Tetsutetsu asked as he and Jiro stood on the floor above the stage. It was just the two of them to avoid being detected. As Tetsutetsu asked her this, Jiro plugged one of her earphone jacks into the ground and after a second, she was able to hear everything going on down there.

"Yeah." Jiro gave him the thumbs-up.

"You can talk to us, we're listening." Tetsutetsu motioned with his hand towards All Might so that he could tell them what the hell was going on. Lucky for them, All Might was able to understand what he was asking of him so he started to whisper into the ground to lessen the odds of one of the goons hearing him and getting suspicious.

"Hole you can hear me. Some villains have taken control of the tower. They have control of the security system and now everyone on this island is being held as a hostage. That includes the heroes are at this party. It's dangerous, get away from here as soon as you can." All Might informed them as he looked away for a second at all the tied up pros on the room. Dammit, it was embarrassing to be taken down by their tech like this. Hearing all this, Jiro quickly unplugged her earphone jack as she turned to her fellow student, nervous about what she had just learned.

"This is bad, Tetsutetsu." She told him before she gestured for them to leave so that they could tell the rest of the group what she just found out.


(Later – With the rest of the group)

"We're received All Might's orders loud and clear. He's our teacher, I suggest we follow his instructions and escape this place. Otherwise, we'll be going against his will." Iida told the group as they hide in the emergency stairwell that they had used to climb this far. Jiro and Tetsutetsu had only just got back and told them what they had seen and heard from the reception hall, leaving them divided on how the act with Iida being the first to speak.

"I'm afraid I agree with what Iida is saying, we're still only students. We can't fight these villains if we don't have our hero licenses." Yaoyorozu agreed with them, though he was clear to both Jiro and Uraraka that she was more concerned for her parents who were in that room with armed criminals.

"We could always try to get out of here and tell the heroes outside. They could help." Kaminari suggested as they knew there were a whole bunch of pros on the island. There was no way all of them were at the party which meant they could still be helpful for them but Mellissa had her doubts.

"It won't be that easy to escape. The security system here is on par with the Tartarus prison, where they keep some of the most dangerous criminals in the world." Mellissa told them, suggesting that just getting out of the tower and avoiding being detected as they searched for pros that could help would be extremely difficult if not impossible.

"So all we can do is sit and wait till everything is over then." Kaminari stated as he felt dejected at the notion that the deck was stacked so much against them, it wasn't even funny. Forget his finals, this was the impossible task.

"Are you okay with that, Kaminari?" Jiro asked her long-time friend as she didn't want them to just throw in the towel.

"Come on, Jiro, what can we do in this situation?" Kaminari asked her as this wasn't training or some thugs like the UJS, these guys seemed like professionals. What chance did a bunch of first years and one pro have against that?

"Don't you think we should at least try and stop them?" Kendo spoke up as she felt her fist tighten from the anger coursing through her.

"Hey come on! Those guys were able to capture All Might, what can we do when the actual pros are stuck?" Mineta gave a good point as none of them could hold a candle to the number one and he was wrapped up tighter than a Christmas present right now.

"But aren't we training to be pros?" Todoroki asked them as he didn't feel right just doing nothing. Even if the odds were against them, could they just turn their backs on all this?

"Just because our chances are small, doesn't mean we get to just throw in the towel." Kendo agreed with him, to her, this was just like the encounter with Stain. Sure they were in over their heads and this was something best left for the professionals but as the professionals were otherwise unaware or being kept in check, it was up to them to pick up the slack.

"Well yes, we're not allowed to work as heroes, you know that." Yaoyorozu reminded them both as they all recalled the reason why Iida was suspended and criminally charged. As morally right their goals were, there were rules for a reason.

"So does that mean that it's right for us to do nothing at all?" Todoroki rose the question, not just to her but to the group as a whole, leaving none of them willing to say yes because not a single person agreed with the laws right now and was happy about standing back.

"Well no, but it's….complicated," Yaoyorozu said as she lost the will to counter him and merely looked away instead.

"It's not too complicated really." Yu spoke up as she got back to her full height, messing with her hair a bit to ensure the bun was still intact.

"Mt. Lady?" Uraraka asked her as Midoriya looked at his girlfriend with a small hint of a smile, he knew where she was going with this.

"You say that you don't have the license to fight, but as a pro hero, I have the authority to deputize all of your to aid me, at least until the crisis passes." Yu told them group, giving them a chance to fight and not have to worry about the consequences.

"So we can fight?" Kendo asked her, happy that at least the sole adult with them was with them on this.

"Yes, don't worry about the law, I'll take care of that after we finish things here." Yu told her with a smirk, okay that was two for trying to help so far.

"Either way, I'm not letting her go alone. Those laws don't mean shit to a guy with no quirk to use." Midoriya said as he stretched a bit to get out the kinks in his back and prepare himself for a night he didn't see coming. That as three pro 'let's be heroes.'

"You're not serious. How in the hell do you think you'll match up?" Mineta asked him as though he feared the dude, he didn't have any of his tech right now, and last he checked, bullets beats flesh and bone. That wasn't even because they had no clue what those guys quirks were.

"He's right, do you think you can beat them?" Uraraka asked her friend, worried that he was about to get himself needlessly hurt.

"I'm not choosing to help because I think we can win," Midoriya told them all as he gave Uraraka a look that said his mind was made up. "I choosing to help because we have to win."

"You guys are nuts, you want to go fight them, Midoriya, didn't you learn anything from the USJ and Stain?" Mineta nearly cried out loud but restrained himself lest someone hears them.

"He's right, sentiment won't do you any good in a fight." Tetsutetsu asked his friend, he too was worried but he was already in the camp of those who wanted to help, they could tell by the look of determination in his eyes.

"This is different, we don't have to fight them. We just need a way of helping All Might and the rest of the pros at the party without facing the criminals." Midoriya replied as he had no intention of trying to fight his way through an entire mod. This kind of thing called for stealth and cunning.

"As he said, we don't need to fight them all, all we need to do is just get the security system back online. After that, the pros can take over and finish off the bulk of them." Tetsutetsu agreed with him as he knew that they didn't have much chance of just plowing through the whole lot. They needed to be smart about this and if they could retake the security, that'll go a long way in stopping these criminals.

"Hey man, I'm not a fan of doing nothing, but you know that it won't be that simple." Kaminari reminded them as this wasn't some game, they didn't get saved points or re-spawns.

"I still want to try, dammit. We can figure out all the details later but I still want to help. I won't be able to call myself a man or a pro hero if I just did nothing." Tetsutetsu said as he looked down at his fist. In it, was the power that was given to him by the world's greatest hero, if he didn't use it to help people now when as far as he was concerned, he wasn't worthy of using it at all.

"Mellissa, think you can help us take back the security?" Yu turned to the sole resident of the island among them.

"I know where it is, it's on the top floor of the tower." Melissa nodded her head as she gave them the location of the central security system. "If these criminals were able to get control of it that would mean that the authenticity locks and passwords must have been disabled. If I'm able to get to is and initiate a system reboot, everything the villains did to take control of it will be expunged and only the real programming and protocols to kick in." he informed them as she thought about the possible ways that these criminals could have overridden their security.

"So we need to stay off the villain's radar and get to the top floor with as little fighting as possible." Midoriya muttered as he thought about all the ways they could do that and saw that though difficult, it wouldn't be impossible. They actually had a chance her.

"Sounds like a great game. I'm in." Todoroki said as he stepped forward. If he could help them repel these villains and save the people on the island then he was willing to help them.

"So am I." Uraraka said in agreement.

"Uraraka?" Yaoyorozu asked her friend who didn't back down but rather seemed even more determined now.

"You're right. We have to at least try." Uraraka agreed with them as she got up as well. They had to help and she wasn't going to let it pass her by.

"How will we stay on the low for that long in the first place?" Jiro asked as that was the main concern for them. They couldn't climb the tower if the villains blocked every entrance and exit.

"The security system hasn't discovered us yet. That means that the villains don't know how to use it. All we need to do is avoid cameras and setting off alarms." Mellissa pointed out since they were quite lucky that the villains didn't do some sort of scan to see who was where in the building. They all had IDs in the system. "I know where most of the sensors and camera as are, and how to avoid them." She picked that up growing up whenever she was board, playing hide and seek and other games to pass the time gave her an in-depth knowledge of the ins and outs of the building.

"Well, Aizawa-sensei always does say that one needs to be prepared at all times." Midoriya said with a smile as this was shaping up to be quite the night.

"That's not a bad plan, we can pull this off." Kaminari agreed as he could see that they had a good shot here. They just needed to be careful about it and they should be clear.

"Chances are, many of our enemies are gathered there on the top floor." Yaoyorozu pointed out as that seemed like the most logical place for them to gather since they didn't have to worry about fortifying the main entrances.

"If we're fast, we won't have to fight them. If the security system can be rebooted, it'll recognize them as villains and act and if not." Midoriya said as he took out two nightsticks and let them extend their full length, each one letting lose a small arc of electricity from the tips. "We're hold them off long enough for the pros to take them down."

"Should be surprised that you have those?" Todoroki asked, not as surprised by this was he thought he'll be.

"I told you guys," Midoriya started with a smile that leaked with mischief as he twirled one of his nightsticks around. "I never leave home without something to protect myself." He finished as he was glad that he finished these new personal defense weapons before coming. They were just as powerful as the relatively bulkier taser he normally carried but had the bonus of being more compact and lighter. The only real drawback was that they weren't as strong so he couldn't use them as bludgeoning weapons without risking them breaking.

"A quiet night ends with a bunch of people have to sneak their way up a tower, avoiding and fighting villains as they go to try and defeat them. Sounds like a great movie. I'm all for it." Kaminari said as he got up to his feet. He was feeling pumped right now!

"So am I, I don't want to just sit here and do nothing. We have to help however we can." Yaoyorozu agreed with them and agreed to go along with this. They had a pro with them after-all, that'll surely boost their chances of success. Seeing all this, Iida stepped forward to say his piece.

"I trust your judgment, Midoriya. More so than my own, that being said, the moment I think we've gone too far, it's over. If that is something you can agree to, then you have my help." Iida stated as he refused to let another incident like with Stain happen here.

"Thanks, we all need someone to pull our ass outta the fire every now and then." Midoriya told him as he gave the guy a pat on his much taller shoulder. Still, he got the message across as the group had by this point largely agreed to fight back.

"No way I'm not getting involved in this. I got some big ones to lend." Kendo joked as she made sure it was known she agreed.

"You had me from the beginning of this," Tetsutetsu said as he cracked his neck to the side with a wicked smirk on his face. "Too bad we're avoiding fighting, I want to punch one of those assholes in the face."

"Who knows, you might get the chance to." Jiro joked to him as he nudged him in the shoulder.

"Everyone on board with this?" Yu asked the group and with everyone, including Mineta who looked scared as hell, agreeing with this, she gave them her permission. "Then with the power vested in my as a registered pro hero, I, Mt. Lady hereby deputize all of you until the crisis has passed." She told them all which they all knew was just formality so when they have to deal with the cops later, they can honestly say that she did verbally permit them to act.

"This is going to end badly," Mineta whined as he got up to his feet. He didn't want to fight anybody when he took this trip but dammit, it was like villains didn't take a break!

"Came on, just think about the stories we can tell when this is all over. How many guys do you know can say they fought their way up a tower to protect an entire island?" Kaminari said to cheer him up as no doubt they'll have a great story to tell when they get back to Japan for their summer camp.

"Alright people, let's do this." Midoriya stated as he placed his hand onto the center of the group. "Let's save everyone!" Everyone followed suit and placed their hands on top of his before rose them up.

"Yeah!"


(With All Might)

A couple minutes after they had left, All Might noticed that Tetsutetsu had not only returned but with him was Midoriya. 'Oh no! That look in your eyes! Don't tell me you two…please ran away!'

'Sorry, All Might. I know what you're thinking but…' Tetsutetsu thought to himself as he guessed what was going through his mentor's head.

'It's too dangerous!' All Might thought to himself as he tried to will them to obey and get the hell away from here.

'But we have to do whatever he can to help.' Tetsutetsu concluded as he looked down at his mentor.

'I may not have a quirk, or most of my gear right now. But I'll be damned if I sit back and did nothing. All Might, we're going to help, wish us luck.' Midoriya thought to himself as he nodded towards his teacher before they two boys got up and quickly ran off.

'They're not going to leave. I should be furious that they're ignoring the wishes of their teacher but, who am I kidding. If he didn't act right now, I wouldn't have chosen him as my successor nor would the rest of them be my students.' All Might silently thought to himself as he felt like he should be cross with them but he just felt proud of them.

'I'll just have to keep this form up, and have faith that they can get us out of this situation on their own.' He concluded as he worked to ensure that his muscle form was kept up just a little longer. 'We're counting on you, fledgling heroes.' At that same time, Midoriya and Tetsutetsu re-joined their group who were waiting for them by the stairs that take them up the tower.

"Right, let's go!" Yu told the group as she turned around and started running up some stairs, with the rest behind her.

"Right!"


(Central Tower: Top floor – Control room)

"Here's the smart guy." One of the men that had escorted David and Sam up to tower towards the security room announced as they entered the room.

"Good, hurry up and unlock the vault." The one manning the console told them as the two scientists looked around. Aside from the two that had taken them up, there were only three present in the control room, counting the one manning the console.

"You're not the boss here." One of their escorts said as he removed his helmet to reveal the face of a man in his late 20s to early 30s with salmon hair and purple tattoos on his face. He may have put his weapon down but then he rose his arm up and from the elbow going down, his hand mutated into a sharp-looking blade which was aimed for David's neck. "Well, you heard him. I'll move quickly if I were you. That is if you want to keep your head."

"Sure." David agreed with him as he was clear that if they tried anything, they'll be dead before they could accomplish anything.

"Take em. Make sure they don't try anything." The salmon haired man told the two masked men that had been present as he walked towards the guy operating the console. As to why David didn't know.

"This way." The two criminals ordered them as they used their guns to direct them towards where they wanted their help with whatever it was they wished to gain from this.


(Central Tower – Emergency stairs.)

As this was going on, with only All Might knowing of their presence, the group of students and their pro escort made their up the stairs of the tower. Unlike the first couple of floors, the rest of the emergency stairwell was well lit and marked at each corner. As they were all either pro, hero students, or training to enter the hero course, they couldn't found themselves approaching the 30th floor no worse for wear than when they started. They will have to thank Aizawa-sensei when they get back for all those surprise P.E. sessions. "Level 30." Iida noted as they saw the big, white marking on the wall that told them the floor they were one. Already this was taller than UA and aside from Todoroki, not even the pros they interned with had office spaces this tall.

"Mellissa, isn't this building 200 floors?" Midoriya asked her as he hoped that he was wrong but her eyes said otherwise.

"Sadly yes, the security room is on the top floor, so we still have a ways to go to get there." Melissa, who didn't look all that winded from running up almost 30 flights of stairs replied as she pointed up.

"There are how many?" Kaminari cried as he knew the tower was tall but not 200 floors tall!

"That's way too many stairs!" Mineta cried out, he was always dead last in P.E. there was no way he could climb all 200 and still be able to fight some villains.

"But it's still better than running into the villains." Yaoyorozu stated as the group kept on running up the stairs with Yu, Todoroki, Iida, Midoriya, and Kendo leading the group with Mineta, Uraraka and Mellissa trailing behind them.

"What are you doing?" Kendo asked as they just passed the 40th floor mark. To her left, Midoriya was keeping pace with her as he fiddled with his phone.

"Trying to see is I can't connect with Neko main server," Midoriya replied as he tried to use every scrap of is knowledge to see if he couldn't bypass the security and make contact with his home-bass.

"I thought you already couldn't." Iida said as he recalled the boy saying something like that earlier.

"Partly, the server where she's housed is back in Japan, right now I only have a small fraction of her in my phone. I'm trying to see if I can't use a backchannel to try and bypass the security system." Midoriya replied as they crossed the 43rd floor.

"Any luck?" Kendo asked as she started to sweat a bit from this work-out.

"Some, I'm connected but I'm not a computer expert, I go any further and I risk being discovered." Midoriya told them as he put his phone away now that he knew he couldn't go any further.

"Maybe that'll come into use later?" Yu suggested as they kept up the pace.

"We can only hope." Todoroki added in as they kept on moving. They didn't have time to chit chat, not now.

"Mellissa, how you holding up, do you need me to use my quirk on you?" Uraraka asked their guest as they reached the 50th floor.

"No, it's fine. Save your strength, I can handle this." Mellissa replied as she kept pace with the shorter girl.

"If you say so." Uraraka finished though she seemed a little worried for her, so much so that the rest of them stopped for a moment to make sure he was good.

"Trust me, it'll take more than some stairs to take me down." Mellissa said as she reached down and quickly removed her shoes before leaving there. She felt so much better running without them.

"She's got the right idea," Yu said as she too removed her heels and tossed them aside. "To hell with those things, how people fight with those, I'll never know." She said as her feet thanked her for that as they continued to run up the stairs, with both Melissa and Yu moving faster than then they before without the odd footwear.

"I gotta agree there." Jiro agreed as she had chosen to not wear any fancy footwear like that because she found them uncomfortable.

"You get used to it." Yaoyorozu said as they ran passed the 54th floor and kept going, with heavy breathing becoming the norm as everyone started to feel the burn.

"I'll take your word for it, but now isn't the time to break in new shoes." Kendo replied as she had tossed her heels aside from they started this thing. She'll pay Yaoyorozu back later. That continued one for a while as the group went up, fortunately never detected by the rather lacking security in the emergency stairwell, though it was slowly becoming clear that running up almost 200 flights of stairs was taking a toll on them as even the front runner started to slow down a bit as those in the back started to lag even more, forcing those in front to slow down lest they get separated but their luck seems to ran out when they came across an obstacle in their path.

"The route's blocked." Iida called out as he was the first to take the corner and see that the stairs in front of them had been blocked off with a thick, grey metallic bulkhead.

"What should we do? Breakthrough it?" Todoroki asked as he, Yu, Kendo and Midoriya made it and saw the obstacle as well. By now all of them were breathing heavily with sweat working its way down their exposed skin.

"If we did that, I'm sure the security will pick up on it." Mellissa said as she and the rest of them made it and saw what had caused them to stop.

"Then why don't we go through this door instead?" Mineta asked as he walked over to the service door on the side.

"Mineta, no!" Midoriya called out as he turned around to try and stop him from doing something very stupid.

"Don't open that door!" Mellissa called out and lucky for them, before he could touch the door handle, Yu had closed the distance between them and grabbed into his arm, a little too tight if you asked him but the look in her eye stopped any compliant from being aired.

"You idiot! Is there a brain underneath those balls! Think, with the path ahead of us is blocked, you do think that the only door forward, which is armored and has a weird looking door handle, wouldn't be booby-trapped or have some sort of sensor?" Yu yelled as she pointed towards how high tech to door looked. Even the handle looked more like some kind of bomb trigger than anything else. For all they knew, the door was rigged to blow in case of emergencies like this.

"Right…Sorry about that." Mineta replied as he backed off from the door, scared stiff as the pro took a breath to calm herself down.

"You need to be observant, Mineta. Otherwise, you risk not just your life but the lives of the people you're trying to save." Yu told him, calmer then she was before as he didn't wish to make him feel like shit but this wasn't a situation where they could afford errors. Not when those criminals could start shooting people at the slightest provocation.

"Mellissa, is there a way past here that doesn't alert the villains to our presence?" Midoriya asked as he and Mellissa stepped forward to observe the door and look for anything they could use.

"The door itself doesn't have any sensors, it's the lock and handle that do. Of you try and open it, it'll send an alert to the main system that this door was touched." Mellissa explained as the door was mainly just a slab of reinforced metals to prevent blasts and fires from spreading.

"Then how will we get passed the door without disturbing the lock?" Uraraka asked as she looked around for a possible alternative route like an air vent.

"Hold on, you said it'll alert the main system. Does that mean it's not on the same network or something?" Jiro asked as Mellissa caught that and realized that the girl was right.

"It's not, Izuku can I borrow your phone?" Mellissa asked as she put a hand out towards her 'little brother.'

"Sure, go nuts." Midoriya responded as he pulled out his phone and handed it to her. He didn't know what she wanted with it but she knew this place a hell of a lot better so she must have some kind of plan.

"Neko, are you there?" Mellissa asked as she looked at the screen of the device.

"In a limited capacity, but yes." Neko responded, the screen of the phone changing to that a single line that moved/wiggled/otherwise changed with different volumes and pitches whenever Neko spoke.

"I need your help bypassing this door, think you can lend a hand?" Mellissa asked as she held the phone up for the A.I. to use the camera to see what type of door they were working with.

"I'll do all I can to aid you, Ms. Shield," Neko replied to her as the girl quickly got to work, asking Yaoyorozu for a small screwdriver.

"What do you intend to do?" Yaoyorozu asked as she made the girl the required tool that she used to open up the small panel on the door below the handle. She then started looking around the small space before she found what she was looking for.

"The main security system may be on par with Tartarus, but not everything in the building is connected to that. Rather they operate on their own sub-systems to avoid viruses and other malware from infecting the entire grid." Mellissa explained as she pulled out a wire and connected it to the phone. Neko recognized the connection and with the blonde American's guidance, they started working on it.

"That means that the door has its own security system." Yu asked if not stated as she looked at the door as Mellissa worked her magic, breaking through firewalls and other security measures.

"Which isn't as powerful as the main, so I should be able to hack into it without alerting the villains to our presence and…." Melissa started before she pressed a button on the screen and with that, the blinking light that was on the handle appeared unchanged but she had done what she wanted to. "There, I'm rigged the all-clear signal from the lock and handle, it's on loop so we're good." Mellissa said as she disconnected the phone and stepped back, handing the device back to its user.

"Tetsutetsu, think you can break the door there? That way the door won't look off on the cameras or any of the sensors." Mellissa asked the grey-haired boy who nodded his head as he activated his quirk.

"Sure thing. One busted door, coming up." Tetsutetsu stepped up and after one quick jab, he busted through the spot right above the door handle and reach the other side. He then used this to help open the door.

"Any alerts, Neko?" Mellissa asked as they all watched how the blinking green light hadn't changed but they wanted to be sure.

"None. It seems your handiwork did the trick, Ms. Shield" Neko told them as they all breathed out a sigh of relief. They still had the element of surprise it seemed.

"Good job, Mellissa, you just made this a whole lot easier." Kendo told the girl as the group started to walk through the open doorway one at a time.

"And who says you can't be pretty and smart." Midoriya joked as he nudged her shoulder as he walked on by, quite impressed with her old friend.

"Happy to help came on. We got a tower to save." Mellissa said to them as she was the last one through the door. She was careful to close it slowly as to not disturb anything and to ensure that whoever was manning the cameras, wouldn't pick up anything odd later one.


(Later – 100th Floor)

"So far, so good. We haven't run any problems." Todoroki pointed out as he rounded a corner and took a second to scout for anything out of the ordinary before he gestured for the rest of them to follow suit. As they had left the stairwell behind, the group had been traveling through the empty passages and corridors, being sure to avoid cameras of any kind.

"Don't start celebrating just yet, we're still in enemy territory right now. We can't afford to slip up right now." Yu reminded them though she was pleased that they had managed to get halfway up without rising a single alarm to their presence. Clearly, these villains didn't expect any opposition and as a result, didn't plan for it.

"She's right, we need to keep our guard up." Kendo agreed with her as they made their way passed this new hallway towards the stairs on the other side of it. But as they moved, they noticed something.

"Hold on, is that a security station?" Tetsutetsu asked as he saw that in the middle of the hall, there was a single door with the sign 'security' overhead.

"Yeah, is it….come to think of it what did happen to the security? I thought I-Expo would be crawling with them." Midoriya asked Mellissa as he found it very odd that the villains took control so easily. Even if they gained control of the control room, there should have at least a dozen guards up there who would have blown the alert. However, before he could get any kind of answer, Mineta picked up on something as well.

"Guys…" The shortest member of their party called out, grabbing their attention as though he sounded scared, there was something….off about his tone this time around. The boy only pointed towards the door where to their collective shock and growing concerns, they saw a small pool of crimson leaking out from underneath the closed door. "Is that blood?" Seeing this, Yu once more stepped back and took the initiative as she quietly made her way towards the door and knocked on it, loud enough that whoever was in would hear but quiet enough to not draw unwanted attention.

"This is the pro hero, Mt. Lady, here with a group of hero students, is there anyone in there?" Yu called out through the door, suppressing as disgust at the fact she had accidentally stepped into the pool of blood barefoot. They had bigger things to worry about.

"No response." Todoroki stated as he got ready to fire off a stream of…well fire into the room at the first sign of trouble. Tetsutetsu steeled up while Midoriya got his nightsticks at the ready as well.

"There is no need to be afraid, we're on your side." Yu called out again, hoping for a response of any kind as Jiro plugged her earphone jack into the hall to see if she couldn't find out what was happening in the room. She didn't like what she heard or more accurately, what she didn't hear.

"Guys, I'm not hearing anything moving in there….or breathing." Jiro told them as she didn't hear anything moving in there at all. Now that pool of blood was starting to look scarier and scarier to them that they didn't have a good mental image of whatever was beyond the door. Yu decided that enough was enough and gestured towards Kendo to come forward and smash the door down.

"Brace yourselves." Yu told them as Kendo got ready before she activated her quirk in the one hand before smashing the door wide open.

The sight that greeted them wouldn't be soon forgotten.

"Oh my god…." Kendo whispered in shock and fright as she took a step back and would have fallen over if not for Kaminari who caught her but he, like the rest of the student, was in no better shape than she. The room itself seemed to be the typical guard station with a desk with a couple of chairs, a small TV, a microwave in the corner next to an electric kettle along with a small sink with a top. But all of that was secondary to them as what grabbed all their attention was the fact that there were three dead bodies in the room. The first slumped over the table with a bullet hole in the back of his neck, another was been shot in the chest and had collapsed near the sink, her eyes blank. The last and more gruesome was the one that was missing his head, his body had fallen near the door and was the source of the blood flowing out of the room into the hallway, in fact, the body was so close that when Kendo smashed the door open, it came close to striking it.

"Sweet Jesus…." Midoriya said as he worked to keep his lunch down as he took in the horrific sight before him. Nearly dropping his weapons onto the blood-stained floor from the smell of death in the room.

"I think I'm gonna be sick." Kaminari whimpered as he looked green in the face, not that they blamed him as Todoroki, Uraraka, and Mineta had already thrown up a bit in the corner, and Yaoyorozu, Jiro, and Iida looked close behind.

"Stay focused, there might be some stuff in here we can use." Yu told them as she started looking around the place for any useful equipment that they could use, stepping over and around the bodies. Seeing her dismiss the dead like that was very unsettling to them but then they recalled that she wasn't some teen in training, she was a fully trained pro with experience out in the field. As much as they didn't want to accept, this might not have been the first time she had seen death.

"…Right, I…I'll check around over there." Midoriya breathed out as he worked to keep himself calm as he moved further into the room to see if he couldn't find kind of gear he could use. If these criminals were willing to do this, he needed as much gear as he could get.

"Dude, this is messed up." Tetsutetsu said as he looked around at the dead bodies.

"You don't have to tell me twice." Jiro said as she looked worse than he did was they joined the two as they searched around the room, being careful to not touch any of the bodies. They carefully searched through the cupboards, drawers, and other compartments until eventually, they found some stuff.

"Okay, I found some tactical vests." Midoriya called out as he busted open a weapons cabinet and while there were no weapons inside, there were some ballistic vests and pepper spray. "We know they have firearms, at least now, there is a smaller chance of the bullets doing damage." He finished as he started taking off his jacket so and discarding it before he put on the vest and lucky for in, he seemed to fit him well enough. Afterward, he started passing around the few others in there to the rest of the group.

"Pass it to someone else, I don't need that." Tetsutetsu said when the last one of the vest was given to him.

"Tetsutetsu, no way you can hear someone shoot you and activate your quirk in time to stop the bullet. Take it." Kendo ordered him as she refused to lose him if she couldn't help it. Hearing the slight twitch in her voice, the boy relented as though he was confident in the fact he was most likely bulletproof, he couldn't keep his quirk up the whole time, it'll drain his stamina and iron reserves.

"But what about the rest of you?" Tetsutetsu asked as he took off his jacket as well, seeing that Midoriya and Todoroki had done the same before he put on his vest.

"I can make more for the rest of us. Soft armor, right?" Yaoyorozu, who had been quiet this whole time, asked as she appeared pale in the face. Jiro placed her hand on her shoulder to make sure she knew she wasn't alone, something which the heiress appreciated.

"Yeah, anything stronger will weigh us down too much." Midoriya, the resident body armor expect told her, getting a nod from her she turned round to start making them for the rest of the group.

"Izuku," Yu spoke up, getting him to turn around where she handed him something he wasn't too sure how he felt about. "Take this, you're the best shoot here." She said as she placed a semi-automatic pistol on his hand. He froze for a moment before he calmed himself down somewhat and gripped the pistol firmly in his hand.

"Yeah….got it." Midoriya said as he placed the pistol into the holster on the vest and continued looking after Yu handed him to additional clips of ammo she found along with the gun.

"U good, man?" Tetsutetsu asked him as he saw how he reacted to the weapon.

"Dandy." Midoriya responded in a tone that said there was more to this but I'm not going to say anymore.

"Will he be okay?" Uraraka asked as she watched as his friend seemed to walk like the reaper was hanging overhead.

"He's trained in firearms. It was how he was able to require a license to add submachine guns to his hero gear. So I wasn't lying when I said he's the best shot here." Yu explained as she checked just about every place there was in here and aside from the single weapon, the place wasn't much in the way of supplies.

"But?" Todoroki asked as even he could see this was bothering the boy.

"But…he's only ever used rubber bullets and other less than lethal or non-lethal rounds. He's never actually held a gun with live ammo inside." Yu signed as she told them. Truthfully, she wished that she didn't have to give him that burden but they didn't get to choose what they wanted and they needed Yaoyorozu to conserve her energy so she couldn't just make him rubber rounds.

"That must be heavy, having the power to kill with but the squeeze of a trigger." Iida whispered as he could only imagine such a burden. True, with many quirks, it didn't take much to kill but with a gun, all it took was a little squeeze, and 8 out of 10 times, that was enough to either kill or seriously wound someone.

"I'm fine. I'll pull through, it's not like I have to aim for organs, shooting them in the limbs should be enough to take them down, or slow them down long enough for one of you to take them down." Midoriya, who had heard them, spoke up as he came to join the group, having checked everywhere on his side and aside from some energy bars which he handed to Yaoyorozu, he didn't find anything.

"If I have to wear that, let me take off my top first." Iida said as he quickly removed his own jacket to put on the vest that Yaoyorozu had made. Himself being the last one as even the girls wore one in their dresses.

"Agreed, you're not supposed to wear one of these on top of a suit jacket." Midoriya told him as it was very impractical to wear your vest over your jacket.

"I feel weird." Uraraka voiced as she looked down at herself and how the vest did NOT go with her dress, none of their dresses when with them.

"Better feel weird now then feel nothing later." Yu reminded them, though the smarter ones in the group knew that even if the vest caught the bullet, it'll hurt like hell and leave a bruise for them to deal with later. "Come on, we need to move."

"I'm sorry we couldn't help you. I promise we won't let them get away with this." Tetsutetsu whispered as he gave a short, silent pray to the dead and promised to ensure that received justice for this transgression.

"We can't do that if I stay here. We need to keep climbing." Kendo told him as she patted the guy on the back as they had been the last two in the room.


(Later – 106th Floor)

"Which level is this?" Uraraka asked as the group quietly entered a new area of the tower. This one was vastly different from the other rooms in that the area looked like an aquarium with the numerous large tanks filled with fish. The lights had been dimmed so the area was bathed in a light of blue from the waters.

"It's the maritime research floor, we can take a short cut through here and use the elevator to go up three levels." Mellissa responded as they moved through the area, seeing all the terminals and other work stations around the place. They were at least happy no-one had been hurt here seeing how this area had been closed down hours ago for the reception downstairs but that didn't mean they could be careless. Most of the labs had security systems in place to alert the guards to unknown tampering or if something goes awry with the experiments so they needed to be careful not to touch anything.

"Hold on," Jiro called out as she crouched down and planted one of her jacks into the ground. "We have company."

"Do they know we're here?" Todoroki asked as they all crouched down as well and hide the best they could.

"Doesn't sound like it, they could just be standing guard." Jiro replied as she pointed ahead of them, where they could make out faint shadows of people. Lucky for them they hadn't heard them yet.

"Yu, what's our game plan?" Midoriya asked her girlfriend, seeing how she was the acting leader of their little group.

"We take them out, but quietly." Yu replied, speaking as softy as they all hard since entering the room before she patted Midoriya on his back and did the same to Kendo. "Kendo, Izuku. You two get into position and take them down." She instructed the two of them.

"Got it." Both of them replied as they slowly made their way forward to carry out their task.

"Damn, why they get to get their hands on them?" Tetsutetsu asked as he wanted to knock some heads.

"Because they have better martial arts training than the rest of us." Yu replied as they needed quick and quiet takedowns right now.

"The boss tell you anything?" One of the two villains standing guard asked the other as both Midoriya and Kendo silently made their way to them, the two picking a target each and branching off to go at them from behind.

"No, nothing. Still can't believe we have to stand guard here, like who the hell could even get this far without being noticed?" The other asked as Midoriya got Kendo's attention and gestured towards the rope hanging off the wall behind her before he pointed to the one behind him. Seeing what he intended, Kendo nodded her head as she calmly grabbed the rope off the wall, the same as him as they made their approach, making use of the shadows and the terminals to mask themselves.

"I know right, maybe he's just being an ass." The other stated.

"I'll watch what I say if I were you, you know what happened to the last guy that crossed him." The second one warned him, shivering as if remembering a bad memory but they didn't have the time to analyze this.

"How can I forget?" the first asked him back. As they were now close enough, they decided to act.

"Wha-!" One started to say but being grabbed by Kendo's enlarged fist made it impossible for him to talk seeing how she was careful to cover his mouth. She then quickly landed a brutal chop to the back of his neck, knocking him out.

"The he-ARG!" Before the second one to do anything, Midoriya made up, grabbed his jaw, and forced his mouth shut as he jammed his nightstick right into the folds of the villain's ballistic vest and gave him a powerful shock. He then quickly smacked the guy over the head with that same nightstick, dropping him to the fall knocked out.

"Go to sleep, asshole." Midoriya said, this time louder now that they didn't have to worry about these two. They both then took the rope that had brought with them and quickly tied the two of them up and made sure to stuff their shirts into their mouths so that they couldn't speak before hiding them away.

"We're good." Kendo called out to the rest of them, letting them know it was safe to move up.

"You got them?" Iida asked as he looked around and saw there was no evidence of a struggle. They had worked fast.

"Yeah, we tied them up and put them in separate closets before locking them in there." Midoriya gestured to one of the broom closets where he had stuffed his guy. In front of it, he had shoved a chair to prevent the door from being opened from the inside.

"That may not hold them for long." Yaoyorozu pointed out as she could think of a few ways those guys could break out and alert the others to their presence here.

"Agreed, we need to keep moving." Yu told them as they quickly ran off, making their way to the service elevator that could take up a couple of floors undetected.


(Central Tower: Top floor – Control room)

"Alpha team, report." Sometime later, the villain manning the security performed a roll-call to make sure everyone was where they were supposed to be.

"Our side is clear."

"Beta team, report." He called out.

"Nothing to report here, guy." This went on for a while as he checked up on the teams until he reached g.

"Gamma team, report." He called out, giving it a second for the two of them to respond to his call.

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"Gamma team, report, now." He said again, now irritated that those two are most likely messing around like a bunch of morons. "What in the hell is happening with those idiots?"

"Something wrong?" The salmon haired guy from before asked as he smoked a cigarette behind him.

"Gamma is dicking around and not responding to my calls." The one manning the terminal, who by the way had shoulder-length grey hair and was wearing some kind of headpiece that had a single eyepiece. "Hold on, let me…." He started but then he didn't see them where they were supposed to be on the camera feed. Their entire floor was empty!

"What the hell are they?" The asked as he felt like he wanted to shoot those idiots. Why the hell did they abandon their posts!?

"Do a complete scan of that area. Now." The pink-haired guy told him as he snuffed out his cigarette, chances are he'll have to go set them straight now.

"They're there but they don't seem to be responding." The grey-haired one replied as he scanned the floor and while he could see them still down there, he couldn't see where they were.

"As in they can't respond. Looks like someone is up here. Scan the upper floors passed that point for any IDs, if they came to I-Island all proper and legal, they should show up on screen." The salmon haired one deducted as this was too weird to just be two idiots being idiots, something was up.

"Got it, I'm tracking several….no 12 IDs moving on the 122nd floor. I'll try and get picture." The grey-haired one said as one of the cameras spotted a group of people, all in formal wear making their way down a corridor.

"The fuck, how the hell did they get passed you, dumbass?! You said you scanned each level and there were all clear." The salmon one yelled at him, these idiots had gotten to the 122nd floor without being noticed, how was that even possible?!

"I did. I don't know how the hell they avoided the scans, I thought we got everyone." The grey-haired on replied as he keep tracking them.

"You thought wrong," The salmon haired one coldly replied as he reached for his comm. The boss will not like this. "And I'll be sure to let the boss now."


(With the boss)

"How many of them?" With said boss, he was still in the reception hall and he had just been contacted so that he could be notified of this….unforeseen development. "They got how far?" He asked as he felt himself growing not just in annoyance at hearing of their progress but also interest. This could be interesting. "I'll deal with you later, these punks certainly have some guts to them, and skill or maybe luck. Either way, ran their IDs and match them to facial recognition. I want to know who thinks they can screw with my plans and get away with it."

"Sir, I just scanned their faces and IDs. They almost all hero students, from UA." The grey-haired one said as he looked through the info the systems had just given them and he felt like this was going to be a rough night.

"Damn, looks like we got some junior heroes? What year?" Their boss asked as though he wasn't from Japan, most knew of the school that produced a hero as capable as All Might. To have students from that same school running around could be very bad for them if left unchecked.

"First years, but they are mostly made up of those who made it to the 1v1 in the festival. Including the kid that took first place." The grey-haired one said as he looked at the image of Midoriya on screen alongside his performance at the festival. Hearing this, their boss just chuckled as if he had just heard an amusing joke.

"So some quirkless kid and his friends then. What about the others?" The boss said to himself, though at this time, he had moved to stand near Inko and Hisashi, allowing both to hear him and they could only think of one person that he could be talking about.

'Izuku?!' They both thought to themselves, worried sick that their son was about to do something both heroic and very stupid.

"They have David's daughter with them, they also have a pro with them. Someone by the name of Mt. Lady." The grey-haired reported as he also made out two blondes in the group, one of whom was their insurance to ensure the good doctor did what he was told. The other was a pro from Japan, known to be quite popular and rising in the rankings back in her home country.

"Great, so they have actual hero back-up." Their boss ticked to himself as this just got harder. He didn't know who the hell this Mt. Lady was but odds are, she was trouble. "You two, end them off on the 130th floor." He said as he gestured for two of his men to rush out and go meet their uninvited guests. "Make sure that they don't get any further than that, understand?"

"Crystal." The grey-haired one replied as he gulped down his fear. He figured that his boss will have words with him on how these brats and one pro got passed his watch.


And that is that. The chapter is done. What did you all think of it? I tried to do what I normally do and shake things up, one of those things being that Mineta DOESN'T open the door and get them spotted early on. I figured that with a larger group here and the bonus of there being an actual pro with them, one of them could have stopped him from pulling that very dumb move. Honestly, even if you're not a hero student, anyone who has watched any action, thriller, or horror movie would know that opening doors is never a good idea, especially when that door looked super high tech and you're trying to avoid being detected. I recall watching the movie for the first time and when I saw that scene, I was thinking to myself 'If this was a horror genre or movie, Mineta would be the first one to die'.

With how they got past it, I admit right now, I'm not an security expect so if how they got passed the door without tripping the alarm seems off, I apologize but this isn't my field of knowledge. With everything else, as you all saw, with Yu present they don't have to worry about breaking the law like in the movie so they were more worried about how the odds were against them in this. After all, though the plot seemed like a Die Hard movie, they all know that this isn't a game so they needed to be serious about things. Still, they all chose to help which was a good thing as they'll need as much help as they can give.

With the changes outside of that, as stated last chapter and the chapter before that, Mellissa is training to enter a hero course so while in cannon she's not out of shape, she's much more fit here as she was able to keep up with them no problem, not the forerunners but she didn't slow down the group as much, only stopping to remove her heels(much like other girls in the group) since I can't imagine running with those things is easy, going up steps must be even worse. Another change was the fact that they found dead bodies, I know that in the movie Wolfram told them not to kill the guards but that was only the one group and we saw that this guy isn't exactly slow to the draw so it would possible that some people were killed. You can guess who beheaded one of the guards. With their reactions to it, I tried to keep things grounded but not too exaggerated as they all react very poorly to this but they don't break down or focus too much on it, mostly because as they look around the place, they would mentally try to not think about it or look at it.

With the gun, I know that he has used weapons before that seem more dangerous such as his lasers or missiles but guns in Japan are seen as inherently bad due to their culture surrounding them. The country has like 1 gun-related death per year….they have extremely strict gun regulations and teach people to avoid them on principle so while he is trained with them, he has also be conditioned to see them as bad. That might not be the best reason but I wanted to show that for all his experience, all his smack talk, he's still 15 at this point, so a gun, a weapon that can kill just about anybody with a single shot is a scary thought to consider.

Anyway, hope you enjoy this, and please remember to keep safe, keep healthy, and make sure to tell your friends and family you love them. See you next time.


Reviews:

Yamajiji: Oh, I have a few ideas for how that will go down, but you'll just have to wait and see.

D3lph0xL0v3r: Well, since I don't read the manga, I can't say for sure that the MLA is racist against the quirkless. As far as I know, they'll just see him as another fool protecting a system that stops people from being able to use their meta-abilities as they see fit. With Edna, she and the others from the Incredible movies will make an appearance…a long way down the line as I can't just shove them in, I have to build up a reason for it and with everything else already happening, don't expect much until at least past season 4's material. Please remember that Splinter didn't father the boys, he adopted them. More on his past will be revealed when he and the rest of the TNMT cast came into play. With Edna and Nezu, that as the story that gave me the idea to include her into this in the first place.

PuppyCake: Why would I give Denki a rail gun? That seems very….extremely….excessive. Plus Bakugo might take offense if he's no longer the most destructive in class.

Blaze1992: Yes it was, they don't always have to have happy fun times.

NinjaFang1331: Thanks.

tacktician: Not gonna lie, Captain Marvel did play a role in it but I tried to keep that away from it since I was already trying to incorporate other designs into it. With Big Hero 6, that slipped my mind, though I already have an idea for what hero she'll be based on, that doesn't mean I can't pinch stuff from others. Thanks for the suggestion.

JesusFreakkk: Yeah, I didn't use Grammarly for the earlier chapters but I did use it for this one.

bauers374:...I can't believe I didn't see it. I feel so stupid right now.

Guest: You and I both know that the things that go on in the boy's locker room/bathroom are stupid weird. Still, I picked something that seemed out of place even for a boys as who would have UNO cards in their locker for these things?

Zukafew119: With those two, I had something bigger planned but cut to as the chapter got too long for my tastes. With Mellissa and Izuku, those two are close, brother sister close and while incest is (unfortunately) a thing in anime, I just want to make this clear. THEY ARE NOT DATING NOR WILL EVER DATE IN THIS STORY! I've gotten way too many PMs from people asking about it and it's starting to tick me off and worry me at the same time. With Momo's costume, I have nothing against what she has in cannon, the reasons for its style are made apparent from as far back as season 1 but you have to admit that performing hero work at night or in winter will be a real pain for her. With Izuku asking for help in its design, the guy may be more confident in himself but he knows that his sense of fashion is…shit, same with the rest of his family, they just don't get fashion trends which is odd as they'll all geniuses in some way as his mother is a whiz with accounting and finance, his father is an animal expert and biologist and Izuku himself a tech head. The underwear was more for laughs but like the costume, has its purpose.

When it came down to the staff, I wanted a mix of both Gambit and Nightwing as they are some of the most well-known heroes in DC and Marvel. Denki will have to learn how to use them though as any martial artist can tell you that learning how to use any weapon takes time and dedication. You can't half-ass it. With Mellissa, nothing is saying that hero colleges don't exist and this way, Mellissa will finish her course so she'll be in a better position than Izuku to get in as she has more training in building support gear to make up for her lack in quick. With her speech, I wanted something that felt like it'll fit her character and I'm very happy with the results of that. Tetsutetsu making her make that promise was his way of showing support for her, so you can be sure that she'll make her debut as a pro/hero student soon.

At this point, the ship between Denki and Kyouka is pretty clear, still they won't do anything with that for a while. As I said, they are siblings in all but blood so they will fight like siblings, heck, I don't know how many times I've gotten into actual fights with my brothers in the past despite the fact the youngest of us is 18….boys will be boys no matter their age. With the Penny thing, I was going for Amy but changed it mid-way as Penny seemed more like her. The thing with the criminals you mentioned, yeah that was an error on my part, and it's been fixed so thanks for noticing it.

Guest: Thanks.

BrokenLifeCycle: Shoutacon(not sure if I'm spelling that right) is generally little boys, like pre-puberty little boys with women so 'developed' that it's insane. Even at this point, he's the taller of the two and is quite muscular. Plus he does fall within the age of people you can date without it being weird. And with this chapter, I did use Grammarly so there should be a lot fewer errors.

bauers374: Yeah, I got it confused with plasma weaponry but it does still sound cool.