I'm really sorry that these are taking so long! It's just...well there is a lot going on for me right now, and this month was really, really sucky for me.
Anyway here is a new chapter and we'll be reaching the end of the Dracula arc in the chapter after this once, for sure.
"Me and Hood will go after Dracula, the two of you take on the minions," Izuku ordered.
"Let's go kick some vampire ass!" Himiko said.
The four of them charged forward, into the army of a hundred vampires, led by Dracula himself.
"Turn them." Was Dracula's simple order.
The vampires charged forwards, running on all fours like animals. With only four vampires staying by his side.
"Flashfire fist!" Endeavor charged forward and let out a burst of flames, intending to take out a good chunk of the enemies.
"Light-eater. Take care of Endeavor." Dracula turned to one of the vampires beside him, this one was a big seven-foot-tall muscular vampire.
The muscular vampire opened his mouth and started sucking up air, and then suddenly, Endeavor's fire swerved upwards and moved into the vampire's mouth, as the foe sucked it all up.
"He ate his fire?" Momo said.
"Hey, no fair shouldn't he be cured?!" Himiko complained.
"The fire was sucked up into his mouth. It didn't make contact with his body." Izuku explained. "I figured they would have someone like him. Focus on taking him down above all."
"RAhhhh!" The vampires were now upon them, and all four of them took a battle-ready stance.
Izuku and Himiko moved in sync, jumping up and spinning around with their whips, hitting six vampires in the face and taking them out. Before the two of them jumped onto the oncoming surge of vampires and hopping across their heads while occasionally whipping and kicking some vampires.
Endeavor took down five vampires in front of him with a burst of flames, but before he could take on anymore, the large vampire, Light Eater charged at him.
Endeavor dodged to the side, avoiding his swing.
His speed is nothing to scoff at. And that punch looked heavy as well. I suspect his quirk boosts his physical abilities by consuming significant quantities of light. Endeavor deduced.
While Endeavor fought Light Eater, Momo was taking on the vampires.
Seeing the overwhelming amount of them coming at her, she threw a light grenade at them.
PEWM!
The grande exploded, some of the group managed to jump away in time to not get affected, but about six vampires were hit and cured by the explosion.
Once the explosion died down, the vampires started rushing her again, this time with even greater numbers.
Seeing over a dozen foes charging her at once made Momo panic for a moment, and she almost threw out a few bombs in fear.
Don't let panic guide your actions. When you're in a bad situation, think quickly, but clearly, be aware of your surroundings and look for the correct course of action. Momo remembered Izuku telling her.
"Hisss!" Momo heard a hissing from above and looked to see that some of the vampires had climbed to the top of the cave and were planning to attack from above.
With the hoard in front of her almost upon her, Momo acted.
She took out three light mines and threw them on the ground in front of her.
"RAHH!" One of the vampires jumped down from the top of the cave to attack her.
Momo jumped back, and as the mines exploded she whipped the falling vampire in the face.
If I had spent time aiming and throwing the grenades, the one on the ceiling might have gotten to me. Momo realized.
She didn't have much more time to think about it, however, as the vampires kept on coming.
Meanwhile, Izuku and Himiko were jumping across the vampires, of course, the attackers tried to leap at them or pull them down, but they were all met with a swift solar-powered kick, punch, or whip.
They were nearing Dracula, and the vampire lord glared at them. "Blitz, Mist, Vanish, turn the intruders."
The other three vampires charged forward.
Suddenly a grey blur moved at supernatural speeds charged at Izuku and punched him in the face, knocking him a few feet away into another section of the cave.
"Batsy!" Himiko looked at where Izuku was punched and attempted to move towards him, however, there was a red flash behind her, and she was suddenly grabbed and thrown in the opposite direction.
Himiko flipped mid-air and landed on her feet, and saw that one of the vampires that were beside Dracula, the one called Vanish, was standing right behind where she had stood.
In a flash of red, it disappeared and reappeared in front of her, and she barely managed to backflip out of the way of its swipe attack with his claw-like nails.
"Another teleportation quirk? Man, I know a pirate with a quirk just like yours!" Himiko quipped.
"HISSSSSS!" The vampire roared as it teleported again, this time behind her.
"Heh, predictable." Himiko giggled.
At the same time the vampire teleported, Himiko swung her whip around, and when the vampire appeared behind her, it was immediately smacked in the face with the light whip. Sending the vampire flying away, and onto the floor, cured.
"Hehe. Teleporters are so predictable." Himiko cackled.
Back with Izuku.
Izuku flipped in the air, and landed on his feet, before quickly assessing the situation.
Speed enhancing quirk. Izuku thought.
He ducked his head and dodged an oncoming blow to the face, and the vampire, known as Blitz, rushed past him.
Judging by those two attacks, his next move should be...now!" Izuku ducked down as the vampire came charging towards him, and did a sweeping kick, catching Blitz and tripping him using his own momentum.
Izuku then stabbed the downed vampire with a Batarang right in the back, which exploded in a burst of light.
When the light died down, the vampire was now a normal man, and fully unconscious.
Done. Izuku thought.
"RAHHHH!" He turned around and saw another group of vampires rushing at him, but before they could get too close, a light grenade flew past them and exploded in a burst of sunlight.
When the light faded, Izuku saw his attackers on the ground, and Himiko standing behind them with a smirk on her face.
"So slow! I already beat my guy. At this rate, I'm gonna surpass you Batsy!" Himiko taunted.
Izuku shook his head and walked up to his apprentice. "You got an easier opponent, now let's go."
Himiko pouted and muttered. "I still beat him first."
Back with Momo.
Momo was doing her best to combat the hoard with a combination of her gadgets and some well-practiced acrobatics, jumping across the rocks so to avoid the lunges from her opponents.
They just keep coming. Momo was starting to feel the fatigue, but she knew she couldn't stop here.
It was at that moment, fog started to set in around her.
What?! A fog? Where did this come from? Someone's quirk? Momo went on high alert.
And then a fist formed out of seemingly nowhere and punched her in the face.
Momo was sent tumbling back, out of the fog and onto her but, shocked and dazed from the sudden attack.
W-what? Momo tried to regain her composure. Focus Momo! You can't afford to lose focus!
As Momo was gathering her thoughts, the fog was quickly moving towards her.
Wait is that fog-Momo didn't have the time to finish that thought, as suddenly the Fog condensed and transformed, into the female vampire that was standing beside Dracula, Mist.
Mist lunged at Momo, and the black-haired girl had to roll out of the way to avoid having her face punched in, as the missed attack pulverized the rock that she had been laying on.
Momo got to her feet and quickly pulled out her whip and attacked Mist.
But when her whip reached its target, the vampire turned into fog once more, and the attack went right through her.
The mist started moving towards Momo, and she had no idea how to attack a foe like this.
So she threw a light grenade and hoped for it to work.
She closed her eyes as the light went off, and when she opened them to see what happened.
WHAM!
She got a fist to the face.
"AHHH!" Momo stumbled back.
WHAM!
"GAH!" Momo shouted as another hit impacted her stomach.
WHAM!
WHAM!
WHAM!
Momo trapped inside the fog, as mist would reform her fist and hit her again and again.
AHHH! Think Momo! You've been trained for this! Momo thought, barely able to pool her thoughts together as fists crashed against her armor. Think! I can't touch her, and I don't think I can predict her movements well enough! What can I do?!... Wait a minute!
A few days ago, in the training Dojo.
"AHHH!" Momo shouted, as she was knocked onto the mats, her staff falling out of her hands and rolling away from her.
"Hmph." Izuku, the one to have knocked her down, looking at his students with slight disapproval. "You're still not making full use of your quirk."
"I...I'm trying, I'm making weapons as fast as I can." Momo had tried everything in their spars. She would create multiple weapons to try and take advantage of any openings she saw, and whenever she managed to get a good distance from Izuku she would make shurikens and throw knives to hit him with, but none of them worked against Izuku's pure skill.
"But that's it, all your making is weapons," Izuku told her. "But you're not limited to just making weapons."
Momo gave him a confused look as she picked herself off the floor. "But you told me-"
"That you should make weapons? No. I told you that you should never fight anyone hand to hand when you can make weapons. I didn't mean to limit yourself to weapons. Because that's not all you can make." Izuku said. "Tell, me. When you create something, it's forcefully ejected from your body, correct?"
"Yes?" Momo didn't see where he was going with this.
"Meaning that when something is created it never makes direct contact with your body." Izuku pointed out.
"I...suppose so." Momo thought about what Izuku was saying. It was true that technically whenever she created something when it was fully developed, it never touched her body, rather it was ejected out of her.
"That means that you can create things like fire, acid, liquid nitrogen, and toxins, without them hurting you, as long as you're careful," Izuku explained.
Momo's eyes widened. "I-"
"For example, lightning." Izuku listed. "If you were to create lightning, then it would be ejected from your body, however, it would go towards the closet thing around, which in most cases would be yourself, unless you had an opponent directly on top of you, or you had something to insulate yourself."
"I could...turn myself into a human taser...like Kaminari!" Momo realized.
"Yes, very similar to him, although like I said your opponent would have to be making direct contact with you, and you would have to be wearing protective equipment...like your armor," Izuku suggested. "Try to use your work in more...creative ways."
Back to the present.
As Mist kept landing hits on Momo, sparks of electricity started crackling off her suit.
"Kaminari, sorry, but I'm borrowing your attack! Indiscriminate Shock!" Momo shouted, as electricity burst from her body.
"RAHHHHHHHH!" Mist fist hit Momo's body, and therefore was electrocuted by her attack, forcing her to change back into her physical form.
"Now!" Momo ended her attack and threw out a light grenade.
PEWM!
The grenade exploded, bathing the stunned vampire in sunlight.
When the light faded, Momo saw a normal woman, laying on the floor.
"Yes!" Momo celebrated her victory and took a huge sigh of relief.
However, she quickly reminded herself that she was still in danger.
Although much to her surprise, there were no other vampires coming at her.
And a quick look around told her why.
It seemed that while Mist was attacking her, the other vampires went to reinforce Light Eater while he fought Endeavor, and the pro hero was actually struggling quite a bit.
So Momo did what she was taught to do in these situations by both Aizawa and Izuku.
She stayed back and analyzed the situation.
Meanwhile, with Izuku and Himiko.
Izuku whipped a group of vampires out their way, as him and Himiko finally reached the cause of it all.
Dracula.
Who had been standing on the highest rock he could find, overseeing the battle.
"Ah, so you have arrived." Dracula turned to them and moved his cape aside dramatically. "I expected you to have had a more difficult time with my generals."
"Yeah the thing about super-speed and teleporting, is that they can be super predictable if they aren't used creatively, or if the person using it is under, I don't know, mind control and is only following basic orders," Himiko explained cheekily. "Although thanks for giving us the easiest fights, we appreciate it!"
"It's Dracula, time to face the light!" Izuku shouted.
"Oh, nice one bats!" Himiko praised her mentor for his well-said quip.
"Peh. You think your toys can defeat the prince of Darkness!?" Dracula scoffed, glaring at the two of them intensely. "And you, Batman. My pretender. You dare copy my image and-"
"Your image? What do you own the copyright on bats?" Himiko snarked. "You two don't even look that similar, since when did Dracula wear a helmet? Did he have big pointy bat ears? Or use a bat symbol?"
"I was just mimicking the attributes of a bat, not Dracula, and definitely not you," Izuku added. "You're just an overdramatic lackey of All for One. You probably just had a strong quirk and sense of loyalty to All for One and decided to make you into what you are."
"Enough!" Dracula shouted, stomping his foot so hard it cracked the stone he was standing on. "I will not be mocked by such lowly worms! Have at you!"
Dracula charged forward, and with overwhelming speeds, he was in front of Izuku before he could even react.
The vampire lord picked up Izuku by his neck and threw him at the castle.
Izuku went soaring through the air until he eventually crashed through the castle wall and was forced into the building.
"Bats!" Himiko made the mistake of tearing her eyes away from Dracula for only a moment, but that was a mistake as when she looked back, Dracula was standing right in front of her and shoved his hand into her chest, pushing her away and sending her flying and landing right next to her mentor.
"Owww." Himiko groaned as she pulled herself off the stone castle floor.
Just as Izuku and Himiko were getting back to their feet, a black blur sped by and grabbed Izuku, and Himiko turned to see Dracula holding Izuku against one of the stone walls by his neck.
"What was that earlier about super-speed?" Dracula asked sarcastically as he held his fist up. "How easy is it to deal with now?"
"Agh! Easier, than I expected." Izuku grunted as Dracula pressed him against the wall. "Especially when your opponent loses track of you."
"What!? I have you right-" Dracula's eyes widened, as he suddenly remembered he was fighting two people and looked behind him where Himiko had been.
Only to find that she had vanished.
"WHAT!?" Dracula looked around. She was gone, completely gone! He couldn't hear her with his enhanced hearing, smell her with his enhanced nose, or see her with his enhanced eyes. In only a few seconds she was gone without a trace. "HOW!?"
"The same way a magician pulls a card out of your ear." Dracula looked at Izuku to see what nonsense he was spouting, only to see that he was holding up a light grenade that was about to go off. "Misdirection."
PEWM!
"KAHHHHHH!" Dracula hissed as he dashed backward, his skin bubbling and burning against the light.
Dracula shook his head and blinked rapidly, as his skin started to heal and regenerate.
In a few seconds, he recovered from the blast of light but found that now both his prey had vanished.
"Damn you! Face me, cowards!" Dracula shouted, but he got no response. "Gah! Do not think you can flee from me! I am the ultimate predator of the night! I will find you, and I will drain the blood from your corpses!"
He stepped forward...and stepped a light mine.
PEWM!
"AHHHH!" The vampire lord screamed in agony.
Back with Endeavor.
The former number two hero was having a tough time with Light eater.
Despite what his unoriginal name might tell you, this vampire was VERY tough.
Basically, all of Endeavor's attacks were gulped up by the quirked vampire, meaning that his main method of attacking and mobility was nearly useless, and made his opponent stronger.
Of course, Endeavor had noticed a few weaknesses with his foe's quirk.
For one he couldn't move while he was eating his fire. He seemed to need to stay completely stationary during the process.
It also wasn't passive. Meaning that if Endeavor could distract him, then he could get in a clean hit.
Lastly, the power enhancement he got from eating light, didn't last long.
And while normally Endeavor would have been able to take advantage of such weakness, the rest of the vampires came in to attack him, meaning that he couldn't get close to Light Eater.
He basically had to constantly emit fire, to keep them from just swarming him, which Light Eater would then consume.
All he could do was just run in a circle, emitting as much fire as he could while avoiding any attacks from Light Eater.
Until his back hit the wall.
"Tch lucks ran out." Endeavor muttered as the vampires descended upon him.
Light Eater Charged forward at insane speeds, and just as his fist was about to collide with Endeavor's face.
PEWM!
An explosion of light erupted from behind him and engulfed everything around them.
"Agh!?" Endeavor has to close his eyes from the unexpected burst of light.
When his eyes opened, he saw Light Eater, and all his other attackers stopped in their tracks.
And cured.
They fell to the ground, unconscious.
"Endeavor!" Momo, the one who had thrown the light grenade, ran towards the hero. "Are you alright! I'm sorry I didn't jump in sooner but I was waiting for just the right time!"
"Don't apologize." Endeavor told her. "You jumped in just at the right time."
Momo looked around for any more attackers but saw none. "D-did we beat all of them?"
"No, if I had to guess they're just replenished their numbers by biting the people we cured." Endeavor explained.
"W-wait! Shouldn't we stop them!?" Momo asked in a panic.
"We can't. There are too many victims scattered in too many places, we'd only be wasting our energy." Endeavor said as he picked up Light Eater and started walking back towards the drill. "Our best course of action is guard Light Eater, and make sure he doesn't get back up again."
"Shouldn't we try and stop all the quirked vampires from getting back up?" Momo asked.
"No, just this one. I have a feeling that this one is the most important." Endeavor tossed Light Eater inside the drill and closed the door.
Once this was done, he pressed down on his earpiece. "This is Endeavor to Batman, the rest of the quirked vampires have been defeated, including Light Eater."
"Good," Izuku said. "Then we're moving to phase three. I'll tell Mandalay to order a retreat for all other teams, and I'll tell Hagakure it's time for the nuke."