Chapter 173
Naya continued to look at the strange figure wearing a dark grey cloak and a metal helmet covering his face. What was strange about this figure's helmet was that it looked like a resistance soldier's combat helmet, like the soldiers who attacked Bakugo and Rinji. However this helmet has a lot of scratches on it, an opening from the top to show his long hair, and one long almost cracked scratch coming down his left side of his helmet. What's even stranger is that the weapon he was holding is a modified resistance rifle with a sniper scope and what looks like parts of a military assault rifle attached to it, giving it a very strange but unique appearance.
The figure then looks over to Naya.
"Don't worry..." said the figure with a strange but calming voice coming from his metal helmet speakers. "Your safe now..."
"An ally?" Naya thought to herself. "Is he a resistance deserter?"
"Bastard!" Shouted one of the two remaining resistance soldiers as they begin their boosters.
"Your dead traitor!!!" Shouted the other resistance soldier as they flew towards him with speed.
The figure then quickly puts his rifle behind him as he pulls out two weird looking pistols as they were also modified with the same energy style ammunition. He fires the pistols as the small short energy beams hits one of the soldiers in the chest area, causing him to crash while losing balance from getting shot. The second soldier reaches out his hand and fires a quick energy blast from his palm while the figure turned to his side to block and resist the blast as he had metal arm and shoulder pads underneath his cloaked.
"Damnit..." the second soldier thought to himself.
As the second soldier was coming towards his target, the figure barley but successfully dodges the second soldier from colliding into him as he jumps away, the second soldier then flew up and turn back around to attack the figure again.
"It's gonna take more then that to get rid of me" said the soldier as he was aiming his hand to charge his attack again.
Then out of nowhere just before the figure can pull out his next secret weapon, Bakugo was now coming towards the second soldier with Explosive Speed.
"DIE YOU METAL BASTARD!!!" Shouted Bakugo.
"W-WHAT!?!?" Shouted the second soldier who was caught off guard.
Bakugo suddenly grabs him midair while using his explosions with his free arm to propel himself in a spinning motion.
"His quirk is working while grabbing on to my armor!?!?" The second soldier thought to himself while still being spun around as he couldn't believe his armor isn't effective against Bakugo's quirk.
With enough momentum Bakugo begins to throw his target as Naya quickly runs over and grabs Rinji before Bakugo finishes his attack.
"EXPLODE-A-PULT!!!" Shouted Bakugo as he throws the soldier to the ground below with extreme force that it causes a huge crater while the old gas station crumbles from the intense force, resulting in the soldier passing out and becoming unconscious from the shock despite being in his armored battle suit.
The figure quickly jumps away from the chaos while Naya and Rinji barley made it out without a scratch. Bakugo safely lands down after pulling off a more powerful Explode-A-Pult after his paid off training with Sam Washington. The figure slowly looks over after jumping away from a safe distance and seeing the destructive power that Bakugo just used.
"Incredible..." the figure thought to himself while Bakugo slowly walks over to the crater where the soldier was before spitting down in the crater in a disrespectful way. "So... he must be that explosion hero student I've been hearing about, the one called..."
The camera gets a close up on Bakugo's face as he was looking down at the crater.
"Dyna-Might..."
Meanwhile back at the Metal castle. A familiar character was walking down a hallway as she was heading towards the meeting place to discussed business with the other generals and Wada. She wore the same grey officer's style uniform with a officer's style hat with a Q crossed out as a symbol that the captains used to wear. her striped tiger tail was wrapped around her waist like a belt while she got closer to the entrance, when she suddenly sees a familiar face wearing the same officer's uniform.
"Your late..." said Index.
"Well gee, sorry for taking so long to get dressed up!" said Suki in a annoyed and sarcastic tone in her voice. "I don't understand why we have to wear this stupid outfit, my damn tail doesn't go well with these stupid skirts"
"It's mandatory for war time meetings" said Index. "It's also a sigh of respect from our late captains who gave their lives to the cause"
"Who gives a damn about those useless idiots" said Suki. "They can't even kill a bunch of brats without blowing themselves up in the process. At lest one of them managed to become a General"
Author's note: The Resistance still doesn't know that there were survivors at the shelter explosion 3 days back.
Suki then begins tugging her officer's collar.
"Also this uniform is a bit tight, it's riding up my chest" said Suki in discomfort.
"Then undo a button or two" said Index.
"No way!" Shouted Suki. "Then my cleavage will show!"
She begins to imagine Baby making a weird hand motion while laughing sinisterly in her mind.
"I don't want that little creepy bastard getting any ideas" said Suki while being creeped out.
"Then suck it up and shut up" said Index. "The meeting is about to start"
Index opens the door to a round table in the middle of the room with all the remaining Generals sitting down and wearing their respected officer's uniform. However some of the Generals were dressed differently. Ring was wearing her officer's uniform, but she was mostly cover by her grey robe while still wearing her metal mask covering her mouth and nose. Dr. Stein was wearing his officer's uniform, but he was also wearing his lab coat over it and didn't have a officer's hat since he was wearing a black glass bowl for his head. While Middle didn't wear a officer's uniform due to his body being mostly Machine, but still wearing a officer's hat in a sigh of respect. And finally Thumb was still wearing his Lucha door mask with his officer's uniform.
"Hey Suki!" said Baby as he stood up from his chair and put his arm up and points at her skirt. "That skirt looks really cute on you"
"Shut up you little shit!" Shouted Suki as she sits down in her chair from across the table while getting a little embarrassed. "Don't you dare come near me you little pervert"
Suki then looks over and faintly sees that Ring wasn't wearing a skirt, but normal officer's pants just like what the guys have.
"Hey! What the hell!!!" Shouted Suki as she pointed at Ring. "How come your not wearing that damn officer's skirt, why am I the only one wearing mine!!!"
"Mine doesn't... fit me... I'm too... skinny" said Ring.
"Bullshit! It's not fair that I have to wear one despite my tail getting in the way, but your allowed to wear pants like a normal person because your too skinny?" Shouted Suki in anger. "Your getting special treatment!!!"
"Who cares, she's part of the hand" said Thumb. "Of course she has more authority over you, besides wouldn't pants be more difficult in your situation"
"With pants, I can cut a hole to make room" said Suki. "But with skirts it's more complicated than that, you wouldn't understand"
"Just cut it off" said Middle. "You hate quirks like the rest of us, so what's stopping you from just getting rid of it"
"I already tired long before I met you guys... trust me, it's easier said then done" said Suki.
"Then stop complaining like a spoiled brat" said Thumb.
"What did you just say!!!" said Suki as she got up from her chair when suddenly the door opens.
"Hey look!" said Baby. "Wada's here"
Everyone looks over to see Wada with a soldier as his guard coming towards them while Suki slowly sat back down in disappointment.
"Now then" said Wada as he and the two soldier guards stood in front of the around table. "Let's discuss our invasion plan, before the world sends in their large forces"
Back at the now destroyed abandon gas station after Bakugo used Explode-A-Pult on one of the soldiers, Naya sets Rinji down as she then walks over in a very angry mood.
"What the hell is wrong with you!!!" Shouted Naya while Bakugo was brushing himself off to get rid of some dirt. "You would've hurt Rinji, what were you thinking!!!"
"You saved him in time didn't you" said Bakugo. "Everything is fine"
"Fine!?!?" said Naya. "That wasn't fine!!! What if I was too slow to rescue him, what if you got us hurt in the process instead!!!"
Bakugo turns around to face Naya.
"That's impossible, your very skilled" said Bakugo. "Besides..."
Bakugo looks away.
"I... trust you..." said Bakugo quietly.
Naya blushed a little and shook her head.
"Even so, you were still careless" said Naya as she was still scolding him.
While she was still scolding him, the other resistance soldier who got shot in the chest and crashed earlier, slowly moves his upper body and aims his hand blaster at Bakugo from behind. Unaware that he was still alive as he was about to shoot him from behind.
"I may... not have... much time left..." said the soldier who was barley alive from the ground while his hand blaster was now charging for a surprise attack. "but at least... I'll kill a freak... before I die"
The figure then notices the soldier aiming his hand blaster at Bakugo.
"LOOK OUT!" Shouted the figure and he pulls out his arm that is covered by a metal gauntlet that has 3 holes around it when suddenly an arrow pops out from one of the holes.
The arrow shoots out from his gauntlet with incredible speed as it flies passed both Bakugo and Naya. The arrow pierces through the soldier's helmet, instantly killing him before he could fire his hand blaster at Bakugo.
Both Naya and Bakugo were quite as they couldn't believe they didn't even realize that the soldier was still alive. The figure walks over to the body that has the arrow lodged into the soldier's head.
"Zibranium arrow heads" said the figure and he begins to tug and pulls the arrow from the corpse. "I made these myself after modifying some Zibranium metal parts I stole from other resistance soldiers I've killed these past few weeks, It's really hard to make these so I just reuse them when I can"
Bakugo was quite for a moment as Naya looks over at Bakugo.
"This new metal is very strange indeed, normal bullets and quirks don't work well against this strange new material" said the figure as he wipes the blood off of the arrow. "However, if you play your cards right and find yourself using the same metal..."
The figure then walks over to the crater where Bakugo made after using his Explode-A-Pult against the soldier, aims his gauntlet at the unconscious soldier and fires another arrow from a different hole in the gauntlet. The second arrow killed the unconscious soldier as it pierced the helmet.
"Then you can break it's almost unbreakable metal" said the figure. "By using the same metal against it"
"That's amazing!" said Naya as the figure gets down to the crater and retrieves his second arrow. "Does this mean we can use their metal to fight Zibran?"
"I don't know, I heard rumors that Zibranium from the Generals and Zibran himself is a lot stronger then the regular metal the soldier and drones (bots) use" said the figure as he gets out of the crater and was now looking at his gauntlet. "But then again, I've never fought the Generals before, so I can't say if it will work or not... but I have met Zibran before"
Bakugo quickly turns back at the figure.
"You met Zibran!?!?" said Bakugo as he couldn't believe that he, Midoriya, and the 3 other vigilantes that were with them aren't the only ones who face Zibran and survive.
"... Yeah..." said the figure as he took a second or 2 to respond. "I met him..."
Bakugo looks back down at the crater and then back at the figure again.
"Then tell me" said Bakugo. "Just who the hell are you?"
The figure puts his arm down and looks over at Bakugo.
"My name isn't important at the moment" said the figure. "But I do appreciate the help from earlier, Dyna-Might"
"Well, if you won't tell me your name..." said Bakugo. "At least tells us how you managed to run into that bastard Zibran without getting yourself killed"
"Oh, that..." said the figure as he begins to walk away from him a little. "It's simple really..."
The figure stops for a moment
"I'm not like you kids..." said the figure as he turns his head back to Bakugo. "I don't have a quirk"
Meanwhile... in the pitch black void. Ryo's dream body was concentrating and forming a new copied soul on his own, the red mist watched from a distance as he couldn't believe how far Ryo was becoming in constructing both copies souls and shadow quirks. Suddenly the soul he was constructing was now finished while Ryo's eyes begin to open again.
"It's good to see you again..." said Ryo while right in front of him was a naked man with light red skin as his head resembles that of a vulture's. "Ichigo..."
"W-Wait? What's going on!?!?" said a cloned soul of Ichigo as he was checking himself out. "What happened to my junk!?!?"
Ichigo was confused to see that his "body" was now completely different with light reddish skin that resembles that of a manikin while his eyes were blacken with yellow irises.
"Don't freak out, everything is going to be alright" said Ryo with a calm and soothing voice. "I managed to bring back all of your past memories before your original soul died fighting for the cause"
"T-That's right!?!?!" said Ichigo's clone. "I remember now, that four eyed U.A. freak beat me and I had to use... it..."
Ichigo's clone falls to his knees and put his vulture head down in shame.
"I'm... sorry, I've failed you" said Ichigo's clone.
"That was a minor setback, you've done very well for the cause" said Ryo. "In fact, I've brought you back to reward you for your duties"
"Re-Reward me?" said Ichigo's clone as he looked up at Ryo's dream body.
"Yes, right now I'm currently going through a metamorphosis" said Ryo. "I'm becoming a god you see, a god that will help change this sick world into a normal and peaceful one. A world we've been fighting for, a world we've all dreamed about"
Ryo then reaches out and placed his hand on Ichigo's clone's head.
"And now with this new power..." said Ryo while a bright red light brightens up the dream void around them. "That world-"
The bright red light slowly fades away as Ryo then summons a large mirror next to Ichigo while holding a black orb.
"-will soon become a reality" said Ryo with a faint smile while suddenly destroying the black orb with his hand.
Ichigo's clone slowly looks into the mirror... what he saw was unbelievable. He begins to touch his face and couldn't believe the new reality he was facing. He no longer had red skin, black eyes with yellow irises, and most of all his vulture's head was now completely gone... and was replaced with a normal human head.
Suddenly, Ichigo's clone begins to shed tears while he begins to cry with happiness.
"M-My face!!!" said Ichigo's clone. "It's... it's..."
More tears begin to fall down from his new human face while Ryo still had his faint smile.
"Normal..." said Ichigo's clone. "I'm finally... normal..."
While ichigo's clone continues to cry, Ryo then turns around... what he was looking at is a large crowd of clones that were watching them this whole time.
"Do you see now..." said Ryo with a calm and relaxing voice as he was now talking to the large crowd of clones. Clones from the same people Ryo has killed in the past, including some heroes, some minor villains, and people from Tokyo when he destroyed it. "I'm not a monster, all I wanted is a world without quirks. Quirks have caused nothing but suffering, pain, and demise in our world"
Ryo then turns back to Ichigo's clone who was still crying.
"Just look at Ichigo..." said Ryo. "He suffered a lot for having a quirk, just look how happy he is now for being... normal..."
Ryo then turns back to the crowd.
"It's true that I've killed your original souls, I can't deny that" said Ryo. "But I had no choice, some of you people were too corrupted with your so called 'powers' that you all became... freaks... But now everything is different, I've cleansed your new souls from their original state and gave you new life, I've made all... normal"
Ryo then begins to raise his hands up a bit.
"Once I've purge all the remaining freaks in this world and give them new lives" said Ryo. "I'll begin construction of a new world, a perfect world! A WORLD WITHOUT QUIRKS!!!"
"But what about Izuku!?!?!"
Ryo stops and slowly looks back at the crowd of clones while lowering his arms as he sees a small chubby lady with green hair in between the crowd.
"What about my son!?!?!" Shouted a clone of Inko. "What are you going to do with him!?!?"
Ryo gives a blank stare at her clone for a moment as he slowly begins to raise a hand. His hand was beginning to glow red as if he was activating one of his shadow quirks. He then waves/swipe his hand across the crowd of clones, every clone was now suddenly lost in thought as Ryo had done something to every clone in the crowd... including Inko's clone.
"I'm sorry madame" said Ryo. "Can you repeat what you just said?"
The clone of Inko was now confused as she was no longer lost in thought.
"About your son..." said Ryo. "You've asked me a question about your son, did you not?"
the clone of Inko was quite for a moment.
"I-" said a clone of Inko. "-have a son?"
Ryo slowly makes a smirk.
"Oh I see" said Ryo. "My mistake, sorry for troubling you... just forget what I said"
"That's a good girl..." Ryo thought to himself. "The less you know about him... the better..."
Back in the real world as Bakugo, Naya, and Rinji were sitting down at a fire place the figure put together after everything that happened back at the gas station. They were getting really close to the rendezvous point as Rinji and Naya were eating and drinking their foods they got from the abandoned vending machines, while both the figure and Bakugo didn't touch their food.
"I'm still amazed that you took down most of those guys by yourself" said Naya as she took a sip from her drink. "Your really skilled"
"It's nothing" said the figure. "I was in the military after all"
"You were in the military?" said Bakugo.
"Yeah..." said the figure. "I couldn't become a pro so I joined the military, Since I'm quirkless and all"
"You wanted to be a pro hero!?!?" said Naya.
The figure was quite for a moment.
"Yeah... when I was a kid" said the figure. "But obviously, that didn't work out too well. Since I'm basically a quirkless loser"
Bakugo was quite as he didn't say a word.
"You're not a quirkless loser!" Shouted Naya. "You've saved our lives!"
Naya then looks back at Bakugo.
"Right Bakugo" said Naya.
Bakugo was still quite.
"Like I said, it was nothing" said the figure. "I just did some extreme military training, I put everything I had into becoming a good soldier. However, it wasn't enough to get me acknowledged"
"But you fought Zibran and survive!" said Naya. "That's extremely amazing for someone who doesn't have a quirk!"
"Who said anything about fighting him..." said the figure. "I didn't fight him"
Everyone was quite.
"But... you said..." said Naya as she was a little disappointed.
"I said I've faced him" said the figure. "I didn't actually fight him. And I only survived because he spared me for being quirkless"
"You said he spared you..." said Bakugo as he finally spoke.
The figure was quite for a moment.
"Yes..." the figure finally answered.
"How did he spare you?" said Bakugo.
"I... rather not talk about it" said the figure.
"Come on mister!" said Naya. "Pretty please?"
The figure was quite. He then looks into the fire as he begins to remember what happened while playing everything in his mind...
"Saturn's Ring!" Shouted Zibran as he swings his arm back while making a circle motion around the military with his glowing arm.
One by one soldiers, trucks, and tanks were destroyed from the attack as it caused a huge circle explosion around the area. The soldier watched in horror as he heard screams and cries from soldiers being burned alive or ripped apart from Zibran's attack.
The figure continues to look at the fire as he then remembers Zibran ordering him and his comrades to shoot his officer. Suddenly 9 of his fellow men begins firing their weapons at their commanding officer as he falls to the ground. The figure then begins to plays in his mind of what Zibran told him a few months ago...
"You'll be thanking me" said Zibran as the young soldier's face was frozen in place...
"Hey!" Shouted Bakugo.
Suddenly the figure snaps out of it as he then looks up at both Bakugo and Naya as she was worried about him while Bakugo was a little annoyed about ignoring Naya for a good minute of silence.
"Oh, sorry..." said the figure. "I lost my train of thought"
"Well, if you can't talk about it" said Naya. "Can you tell us your name? We would like to get to know you more"
The figure was quite for another moment.
"I rather not" said the figure. "But... I guess there's much I can do about it. Alright sure, but I must warn you, I have a really nasty scar"
As the figure sets down his helmet, Bakugo and Naya couldn't believe that this guy had a young looking face for his age. The figure had a 5 o'clock shadow and his eyes looked like they seen hell while there was a large nasty scar on his left eye.
"That explains the large scratch on his helmet" Naya thought to himself.
"My name is Daizen Miyano" said the figure. "But you can call me Mando for short"
"Mando? Why's that?" said Bakugo.
"It's short for Commando" said Mando. "Also it's a mixture between both my first and last name"
"But all you did was removed I and Y from your last name and put a D from you first name between N and O of your last name" said Naya as she pictures a chibi drawing of the figure replacing the letters name in her mind.
"All that trouble just to use a bootleg version of commando..." said Bakugo. "Why not just use commando instead of trying and failing to be original"
"At least I didn't try to find an excuse to put 'Might' in my name" said Mando.
"SHUT UP, I WANTED KING EXPLOSIVE MURDER!!!" Shouted Bakugo. "BUT THEY WOULDN'T LET ME USE IT!!!"
"Like that's any better..." both Naya and Mando thought to themselves.
"I know that might sound a bit rude Miyano" said Nya. "But how did you get that nasty scar"
"Oh this" said Mando as he touches it. "Some bastard got a lucky hit on me with some sort of saber katakana, I was able to escape but it still hurts a bit... I believe he's now one of the captains I've been hearing about lately"
"Captain!?!?" said Naya as she sounded like she already knew what he was talking about.
"I take it that you U.A kids already knew about the captains" said Mando.
"You could say that..." said Naya.
"They attacked our shelter" said Bakugo. "Those jerks are responsible for destroying the underground shelter. Come to think of it, I think that idiot Denki fought that saber katakana guy you were talking about"
"Really?" said Mando. "Did he win?"
"No, he lost and that guy ran away after reinforcements showed up" said Bakugo as he was then quite for a moment while looking down until he spoke again. "You know, after what you just said and how you were able to take those guys down from earlier... your not that bad. For someone who doesn't have a quirk I mean"
"Bakugo..." Naya thought to herself.
"So... I was thinking..." said Bakugo. "That maybe... you should come with us"
Miyano looks at Bakugo for a moment.
"I know your probably busy with your own shit, but..." said Bakugo. "I think it would help us a lot if someone with your skills would join us and raid the castle"
Miyano's eyes widen with surprise for a second.
"We got a few others waiting at the Rendezvous point near the castle" said Bakugo. "And well..."
Bakugo looks up at the man.
"It would be an honor... to fight along side you, against the resistance scum" said Bakugo.
The area was quite except for the fire the was crackling in the fireplace. Miyano slowly stands up from his seat and looks down at Bakugo. Both Bakugo and Miyano look at each other for a moment...
Suddenly out of nowhere, Miyano quickly sucker punches Bakugo without warning as he falls to the ground.
"Kacchan!!!" Shouted Naya.
Bakugo slowly gets up while being pissed.
"WHAT THE HELL!!!" Shouted Bakugo with extreme anger. "WHY DID YOU FREAKIN HIT ME!!!"
"Because you're an idiot..." said Mando. "Do have any idea... what you're saying, AT ALL!!!"
"Of course I do!!!" Shouted back Bakugo. "I was asking you to join us!!!"
"Moron!!!" said Mando as he was getting more angry with him. "I'm talking about you kids raiding that freakin castle!!!"
The camera then shows a silhouette of Zibran's castle as it zooms out and becomes a dark creepy castle that's made out of Zibranium while dark red aura surrounds it to give it a creepy and dangerous feel.
(Author's note. If you want a better description of what the Castle looks like, basically think of it as a bootleg version of Minas Morgul from the lord of the rings series.)
"That place is known by the people hiding around the area of where that castle stands as the modern day Auschwitz, inside that death trap are hundreds if not thousands of resistance soldiers inside with weapons and anti quirk armor waiting to kill anyone with a quirk that dares enter that place" said Mando as it continues to show the castle while silhouettes of the generals begin to appear. "Not only that, but Zibran's Generals are inside and they're extremely dangerous!"
The camera cuts back to Bakugo as he looked really determined and doesn't care about Miyano's warning.
"Are you kids really that stupid for even thinking about going into a place like that!" said Mando. "Let alone raiding it! IT'S SUICIDE!!!"
"Shut up!!!" Shouted Bakugo. "We taken down all of the captains and two generals already, we can take those bastards since we train with the best of the best!!!"
"That's right!" said Naya. "We have to raid that castle! Besides our friend Izuku Midoriya is going to fight Zibran tonight and he's gonna need all the help he can get!!!"
"Don't be stupid" said Mando as he looks at Naya. "Even if you kids somehow get yourselves into that castle alive and take down a few Generals, are you even positive that your friend will even show up at all? If doesn't show up then you kids will be good as dead, if not by the Generals, then definitely Zibran himself"
"He'll be there..."
Miyano then looks at Bakugo as he looks at him with a serious and determine look on his face.
"Deku will show..." said Bakugo.
Miyano looks at Bakugo for a moment until he spoke again.
"Do you really trust him?" said Mando.
Rinji, who was quietly listening and watching the conversation the whole time continues to do so as Bakugo then makes a big smirk.
"With my life..." said Bakugo.
Naya and Rinji were quite as Miyano let out a big sigh.
"I see you're that determined..." said Mando. "Fine, I'll come with you... but only to see your other classmates. If I see that you kids aren't capable of raiding Zibran's castle..."
Miyano then reaches down and picks up his mask while he puts it on.
"Then I'll have no choice..." said Mando. "Then to stop you kids from going anywhere near that place... with everything I got"
(Author's note: Happy New Year! Sorry this took longer then expected. This month was a bit crazy despite being in lockdown during Christmas. I was going to make a Christmas bonus for this chapter but I was so busy that I didn't have time to come up with one that would set the mood. I hope you can understand... also I didn't have time to upload that new chapter for my other story, but I'll probably try to finish that soon. I'll still try to write a new chapter for January or sooner depending on what happens, but I hoped you guys liked this chapter. The next chapter is going to be crazy considering special characters will up to help and we finally get to see the gang take on Zibran's castle while he's still in his cocoon. Also, the canon in the manga is getting a bit well... nuts. But I'm pretty sure some of you already know that. Anyway stay safe and have a wonderful new year :D)
