Here we are, the home stretch, the final chapter. How am I going to end this in a semi-coherent manner in under a week? Eh, I'll figure it out as I write, it's not like I actually plan half the crap I put in this stuff anyway. On to the villain murder!
By the way, it's at this point that the writers of the movie clearly checked out so expect some pretty pointed criticism during this part. And don't worry, it's mostly ability-based criticism and the character's utter lack of a plan where there really should have been one. You'll see what I mean when you get to that part.
"Alright, I'm back and it didn't even take a week! Sorry about the whole, freezing you in space-time thing. I've been dealing with quite a few issues lately and this is just a security measure to keep my stuff safe." Asobi burst into the watching room, freeing his priso-I mean guests from their frozen states.
"Safe from what? Do you need assistance?" Toshinori asked, outwardly relaxed but internally worried about anything that could make their usually unflappable host afraid enough to set up security measures.
"Don't you worry you're sunken little eyes over it. I got it covered, now, let's get onto the story. In this episode, Deku straight-up murders a fool!" Ignoring the wide-eyed looks and choking coughs Asobi turned on the projector while everyone who wasn't there to see it rushed Izuku to ask him what happened.
"J-just watch, I think I know what he's talking about but I was hoping that the villain survived…" Now the others were really interested, they were sure that it was a case of self-defense but still. What could have caused Izuku to even accidentally kill a villain?
When last we left our heroes the villains finally decided to get serious. Now instead of sending out two untrained and moderately annoying mooks they sent out a couple dozen Dalek rip-offs that would be better described as punching bags. Their main claim to fame? Tanking a full-powered shock from Kaminari...That's it. They were soon punched to death all at once by a single 30% smash courtesy of the green cinnamon roll.
"I can't help but agree, I expected a lot more from I-island security. If I knew that they'd just charge at us in a straight line and that they were only equipped with grapple guns I would have never wasted time creating those smoke bombs." Momo's relief and disappointment were clear to see. At least it made fighting them easy.
"Wow, Deku-kun that glove is amazing where'd you get it?" Ochako had only seen Izuku pull off something similar a few times before and they all cost the boy at least a finger. Whoever made that thing had her thanks.
"It worked perfectly Melissa, thanks!" ...And jealousy. She couldn't be angry though, it really was an amazing invention. Though this brief hint of jealousy was quickly turned to amusement when she learned that Izuku only brought it because he had no idea how to take it off his arm.
"Girl, you're too cute sometimes you know that? By the way, am I the only one that thinks red looks good on Midori-kun? Maybe you should add a bit more of that to your costume along with the usual green." Mina suggested. It would certainly give him some variety. Plus, green, black, and red were a pretty good combination.
"I'll think about it." Izuku wasn't against it, it's not like his current costume would be his last one. He still had time to update it before making his heroic debut. And even then, All Might had several costumes that were highly varied over the years so there was no reason why he couldn't do the same.
The villains had gotten smarter. Now they completely cut off their own communications on the off chance that the enemy students had quirks that could spy on them. Which to be fair, they did...About two minutes ago until Kaminari went full retard, but hey, they couldn't have known that.
Of course, that meant that the Daleks now had to rely on their base programming to apprehend the hero students. Programming that was taken straight from the CIS, huge numbers, walking slowly towards their target with no actual plan. It took a single kick, some sticky balls, and...A cannon for some reason to take them all down.
"Note to self, think up a lesson plan to teach these kids the meaning of pacing themselves at a later date." Aizawa wrote into a notebook that he always kept on himself to the nodding approval of the other teachers. Overkill might be the best kind of kill, but heroes were taught to avoid killing in the first place.
Ok, that was a stupid metaphor but you get what I'm going for.
"Don't stop Deku-kun, we need to keep running or everything Iida-kun and the others did would be for nothing!" And if she were being honest, she was pretty sure they had this. I mean, those robot things weren't much of a threat, it would be a pretty embarrassing battle to lose.
Meanwhile with the unnecessary sacrifices
"Out of mana! I need healing!" The speedy bruiser yelled as his engines jammed, stranding him in the middle of a sea of Daleks that proceeded to tie him up and then gently bump into him.
"Out of ammo, Yaomomo we need more!" The girl who forgot that she could disable machines with a tap of her earlobes yelled out in panic.
"I-I can't do it anymore. I'm at my limit, n-need. N-need a buffet to recharge." Why did they think it was a good idea to leave every fighter with limited stamina back here again? Mineta was also at his limit and was bleeding profusely from his scalp. Kaminari was still wheying so no help from here either.
In the immortal words of Tony Stark. "Not a great plan."
Back to the love triangle
Izuku Ochako and Melissa finally made it outside where they found a giant wind energy farm. At the top of which was an emergency exit, they could enter while avoiding all of the robots without much issue. All they needed to do was use Zero Gravity to make it up there, a prospect that made the determined blonde nervous she'd admit.
Unfortunately, the Daleks found their location before the nerd couple was halfway up, forcing Ochako to stand her ground so that her quirk didn't release accidentally. Which wouldn't really be much of a problem, she wasn't sure why those two were so worried when all that it would take was a touch to disable these bo- *Boom!
'Or Bakugo could just blow them all up at once. That's cool too I guess. Kirishima and Todoroki are also here, that's nice.' She wasn't gonna complain about the backup but internally she just thought that she had it handled either way.
"Huh...What was wrong with us back then? We're usually way smarter than this! I could have propelled myself with full Cowling and a few 30% Delaware smashes and we would have made it up there way faster. We wouldn't have even needed Kacchan and Todoroki-kun's cool heat engine trick to help us make it." It was almost like they forgot half of what they could do for the sake of teamwork and plot convenience? Nah, that couldn't be right.
"Deku, we're going to hit the wall!" Melissa warned as they approached the completely metal wall at speeds that could rival a car, yet Izuku wasn't worried. After all, he still had Melissa's gift and knew exactly what to use it for. One full-powered smash later and they made it in, allowing Ochako to finally release her quirk and focus on the Dalek.
It was too bad that Izuku and Melissa were still about ten meters high off the ground. And upside down. The poor fools crashed into the ground, reverse lotus style, though thankfully Izuku's thick skull took most of the impact and was more than used to heavy blows.
"...Whoops." Was all Ochako could say as she rubbed the back of her head sheepishly. Her bad.
At this point, dollar store Magneto has had enough and decided to make his way up the tower himself. The only way to get a job done right was to do it yourself! But first, he'd send his second in command mook just in case it was an overreaction.
"Oh yeah, time to show these kids what a real villain is like." Dollar store Soul Evans muttered before jumping Izuku and Melissa who were just looking over each other for injuries, landing blade first right into the floor as Izuku noticed the attack coming and got them both out of there before blocking another slash with his Full Gauntlet.
Deku, who was too shocked by the sudden attack to think rationally, decided to question the villain who had a blade centimeters from his face instead of activating Full Cowling, causing him to fall victim to a second arm blade and nearly take a literal fall off the tower if he hadn't grabbed onto a nearby ledge.
The villain made an attempt to finish the job but was held up by Melissa who bought Deku a few precious seconds, earning a small cut on her arm for her troubles. Thankfully this bought them just enough time for Izuku to climb back up and nail the villain with a direct 30% smash to the face, sending him spinning and into a crater several meters wide and over a meter deep…
"Well, that guy's fucking dead. Not that he didn't have it coming but damn, remind me not to piss of Deku too much sometimes." Bakugo personally appreciated the swift action, brutality aside. He wasn't gonna stop giving Izuku shit of course, but his respect for the guy just went up several notches.
Looking to All Might for what they expected to be disapproval, they instead only got a shrug, shocking both Izuku and Bakugo. "What? He tried to kill my successor and my niece." Hell, he would have probably done the same thing in the heat of the moment if he weren't so experienced in these kinds of things.
After a quick heart to heart, the titular Two Heroes made their way further up the tower. Possibly murdering or giving severe brain trauma to two more mooks with machine guns along the way. Modern-day body armor could only do so much against what could equate to a cannonball to the chest and a fall at terminal velocity from some stairs after all.
Finally, after making it to the top floor and finding David and his assistant there Melissa, in particular, was met with something horrible. A betrayal that would scar her for all of two hours for how relatively minor it was compared to the rest of the crap she had experienced that day.
As it turned out, this whole situation was really just an elaborate ruse for the sake of taking back one of David's inventions from the sponsors who called for the project to be canceled. A project that would help return All Might to his former strength. Which brings up the question...Why didn't he just make a backup of all the data he collected during his research and put it on a hard drive or something?
"...Shi-" David nearly cursed at the blatantly obvious solution that he could have taken instead of listening to Sam's half-baked plan. It's not like he ever needed the prototype anyway! He could have always continued his research further and made a better one later down the line!
"Fake villains? Would a fake villain try to kill us!" Melissa showed the cut on her arm from the previous villain, shocking David and completely derailing his already weak faith in the plan. He looked back at Sam who was sweating heavily.
"Of course it was all a performance, but the real act was pretending we weren't criminals." Dollar store Magneto made his dramatic entrance, only for Deku to rush him immediately after realizing that he was the boss of the villains from earlier. Only to be slammed back and help up against a wall by several steel ropes made by Wolfram.
"You'd be smart not to resist. Sam, hand it over." He ordered, and the portly assistant responded instantly, showing just who his loyalties lied with. It was only made worse when he revealed that his motives were something as pedestrian as fame or fortune, something he'd never get now that he dealt with criminals. Instead, the only reward he got was an arm full of red hot karma courtesy of Wolfram's pistol.
And the masked villain would have finished the job too if David hadn't jumped in and taken the second bullet for his former colleague. Seeing this, Melissa couldn't keep her emotions in check any longer and tried to run in and help only to get pistol-whipped by the villain. By this point, Deku's blood was boiling, his restraints straining to keep him where he was.
Not that Wolfram noticed of course, like many villains before him and many after he was doing the time-honored tradition of monologuing! "In the end, it doesn't matter whether we were acting or not. You planned to commit an actual crime, congratulations Mr. Shield. You're one of us now!"
"P-please, just stop this! Give him back!" Melissa begged with tears in her eyes, but the villain didn't seem to care. Well, he did care about getting rid of loose ends and David's attachments so he aimed the pistol at the downed blonde. An amateurish mistake really.
"If he had done it I would have done everything in my power to kill that man." David freely admits to the shock of no one. Never underestimate the determination of a man out for revenge. And never piss off the guy who you want to make your high-level weaponry...The Imperium of Man knew this lesson well.
Not that our hero of the hour would have allowed him to of course. Deku had broken out of his restraints and was making a B-line to Wolfram only to be blocked by a giant metal wall courtesy of the metal villain. Luckily, Deku had mastered the art of communicating entire sentences with only his face and told Melissa to go save the others while he saved David.
"Genius, foreign, busty blonde, quirkless, probably rich, can communicate with Deku like that after only a day…" Ochako muttered, realizing once again how utterly out of her league she was. Thank god Izuku was a complete and utter shonen protagonist when it came to taking hints.
Accepting Deku's silent signal Melissa made a run for it and was almost followed by a slightly less random mook only for him to get stopped by Izuku who managed to get in front of him despite Wolfram's attempts to stop him. Izuku did however get pinned down by four pillars of metal soon after.
Thankfully the mook was too busy shitting his pants to stop Melissa from making it to the tower's security panel and hacking it back to normal mode in less than a minute. Allowing the previously restrained heroes to escape and knock out the surprised armed guards. In a single punch. Even from a seemingly non-power typed heroine who looked to just know martial arts…
Yeah, those dudes that Izuku smashed into solid metal walls a few minutes earlier were totally dead. But enough about irrelevant mooks, back to the fight between dollar store Magneto and Small Might! A Small Might who had just freed himself from the four pillars holding him down and was making his way towards David and the villains by following the injured scientist's blood trail.
"Here we go boys, girls, and creepy adults!" Skeletor, homeless Batman, and the dominatrix took exception to that. "We're getting to the good part now, are you all ready to watch little Deku and Dadmight beat up some bargain bin villain? Well too bad, we're doing thi-" Asobi was cut off as several dozen portals opened up in his pocket dimension which immediately raised red flags.
"N-Nani?!" He exclaimed as several the space around him warped and shook at the appearance of what had to be several beings of his level or higher…"Well, I think it's about time for me to skedaddle! Sorry kids but the fuzz finally found me, later!..." He said and made a visible effort to move but to no avail. "I said later!... Ah, crap." He should have guessed it wouldn't be that easy.
"Asobi. Former member of the council. By the power of your former colleagues, you are hereby under arrest for manipulating mortal timelines, showing mortals worlds beyond their perspective, and most importantly, working with the known interdimensional criminal Rick Sanchez-"
"Oh please, half of those things are barely even crimes. The other gods do the same thing all the time, the only difference is that I don't bother with the formalities and that I refuse to use their stupid astral projection crap." I mean sure he called in a few favors from Rick but so did every other god who got in over their head or was just too lazy to do dimension hops themselves.
His captors slapped him across the face for being interrupted. "You didn't let me finish. And you're crimes committed during the last ZK-class scenario in universe-343. How do you plead?" She finished, smirking at Asobi's wide-eyed look of realization as his face paled.
"You'll never catch me alive, Copper!" Yes, that was her actual name. "You or those stick in the muds on the council. I'll come back, stronger than ever! And with thousands of pranks on standby, I so swear on my many names!" The inquisitors holding him down smirked and the Satsuki impersonator decided to call him out on it.
"You look pretty caught to me. How do you plan to prank us all again while you're stuck in dimension zero?" She taunts, a shiver coming down her spine when she noticed the smirk on Asobi's face. That could only mean trouble.
"Since when were you under the illusion that I was ever here? Renegade for life bitch!" And just like that, the body that was caught exploded into purple smoke which knocked out anyone who wasn't prepared for it. Including the junior inquisitors and the mortal watchers.
Seconds later, Copper's perspective
…"Shit!" The chief inquisitor cursed, she was getting demoted for this she just knew. "*Sigh, I'll deal with that bastard later, right now I have to wake up the rookies, it's about time to take these mortals back to where they belong." After doing just that the rookies asked their superior what they should do with the former watchers. They knew too much.
"Administer class C amnestics, I'd make it A, but at this point that probably wouldn't get rid of everything they learned either. At least this way we can erase the existence of that bastard from their memory and get these mortals back to a somewhat normal life." Memory erasure was tricky like that, even more so when you were dealing with the work of someone like Asobi. The snake always had some kind of contingency plan in the background.
They could only hope that they could find him before he could make good on his threats.
Good luck with that, and yup, I went there. I ended this series on a premature climax with only the barest of traces of a possible continuation to keep people on their toes. Whoever understood the terminology at the end there should know that they have quite the reach in the multiverse. Look out for more of those at a later date.
But for now, it's over. I apologize if it's not what the good people who followed this story from the beginning expected but sometimes life throws you a curveball. Sometimes it throws you a rapidly rotating nuclear warhead but hey, such is life. I hope you all could at least enjoy the ride till the very end. So long, and I hope that my other stories can pick up the slack.