Chapter 9: First Encounters

"So, Kotomine…" Kirishima is standing next to me, a rather pensive look on his face "Where did you learn how to fight?"

"My Father taught me." I reply back to him "After that I spent some time at the Kendo Dojo alongside Ojiro." I raise an eyebrow at him "Why do you ask?"

He shrugs "You basically kicked my ass during the training simulation. Thought it would be a good idea to learn some actual you know…"

"Fighting technique beyond swinging your fists?"

He chuckles and scratches the back of his head "Yeah… gotta give you a challenge for our rematch haven't I?"

"I suppose."

"Class Representative Kotomine!" Iida runs up to me and comes to a stop "The Buses have arrived! Shall we organise the class into lines?"

I nod back to him "Organise it according to class register."

"Yes, Class Representative Kotomine!" Myself and Kirishima stare at him as he withdraws a whistle from...somewhere and proceeds to blow into it.

"Class 1-A, gather round! Class Representative Kotomine has commanded that we organise ourselves into two lines going via class register! Act accordingly and swiftly as per his instructions!"

"Hey...bro?" Kirishima turns to me a slightly nervous expression "I think that your subordinate is really getting too into the job."

I turn back to him and shrug "Do you see a way to stop him?"

He goes to speak then stops himself. That answers that then.

"It's too early in the morning for this…" Aizawa's tired voice calls out behind me.

"Um...Sensei, it's one in the afternoon…" Kaminari calls out.

"My point stands." He releases as sigh as the buses turn up "I don't care how you do it just get on the damn bus."

There's an awkward silence as Aizawa climbs out of his sleeping back, a dull look still on his face that makes him look like he's about to keel over.

"Right away, Sensei!" Iida replies immediately as he rushes everyone onto the bus "Now organise ourselves…" he cuts himself off as we realise a simple problem with the organisation tactic. The bus seat layout is ill-suited for the two lines of people. The seats are lined up alongside the bus facing inwards instead of forwards. Iida looks rather dejected by this.

I stick me head back out the door to where everyone else is approaching the bus "Ignore the seating plan. Just find a seat." I get a few odd looks but most of my peers just shrug. I doubt they cared in the first place.

I make my way towards the middle of the bus and seat myself down.

"Kotomine-san?" A voice calls out to me, I turn my head to find Yaoyorozu staring at me "Can I sit next to you?"

I nod to her "If you wish." she gives me a small smile and sits herself down next to me.

"We haven't had a chance to properly introduce ourselves have we?"

"Not as such no." There's a rather brief pause in the conversation where Yaoyorozu doesn't appear to know how to continue. If I were to hazard a guess I would say she is very much unused to interaction with people.

"I noticed during the Battle Simulation that you were able to fight Kirishima despite his hardening quirk." She says after a moment, desperate to create some form of topic for us to discuss.

"Indeed."

"Might I inquire as to how?"

"A mixture of my quirk and my martial arts knowledge."

"Oh?" Now she looks interested "Forgive my rudeness but may I ask how the combination works?"

I shrug, no real need to deny her request "My quirk allows me to strengthen myself and increase my durability. As for my marital arts. I simply focused on targeting doing damage to Kirishima's insides rather than his outsides."

Yaoyorozu nods "I see. You realised you could not get passed his hardened skin, so you simply devised a way to bypass it. Certainly an innovative method." she then looks my costume up and down "Although if your speciality is close range fighting, your costume seems rather...thin?"

I turn to her and raise and eyebrow, I not so subtly look her up and down "My quirk is not limited to strengthening myself. I can strengthen objects I touch for a period of time."

"Really?" Her eyes flash and an intrigued look makes its way onto her face "I assume this means that you can make your clothes more durable."

I nod "As of now I can reinforce my clothes to durability of a stab proof vest. It means I can keep myself light without having to sacrifice survivability in situations."

"Certainly a versatile quirk." She nods "My quirk allows me to create any object, aside from living matter, provided I can understand the atomic configuration of it."

"Oh?" Now I'm intrigued "I assume this allows you to create any tool for any given situation?"

She nods, rather pleased with herself "Yes. Although depending on the size of the object it takes longer to create. I also need to have exposed skin for it to emerge." she holds out her palm and a rubber emerges from a rather bright pink light in the centre of her hand. She extends her hand to me, I reach out and pick up the rubber.

I look it over, it's a standard white rubber, three centimetres in length, two centimetres in width and two centimetres in height. "A rather impressive ability."

She nods "Like yourself I also pursued a more martial arts approach when it came to combat."

"So, you are proficient in armed combat?"

She nods again "I prefer the usage of a Bo staff."

"If were talking about flashy and strong, it's gotta be Bakugo, Todoroki and Kotomine." Kirishima's voice calls out from the front of the bus. Myself and Yaoyorozu look down to see him engaged in conversation with Midoriya and Asui.

Asui shrugs "Bakugo is always mad, so he doesn't seem like he'll be popular, though."

"What the hell!" Bakugo immediately leaps to his feet at the rather blunt assessment of his personality "You wanna fight!?"

Yaoyorozu leans over and whispers too me, her face set in a grimace "He's rather vulgar, isn't he?"

"He's always been like that." I reply to her, Bakugo still screaming at people "I find it easier to simply ignore his existence."

"What'd you say Dead Eyes!?" Bakugo rounds on me, evidently hearing what I said.

I smirk at him "Merely regaling my classmates with a story of your heroic youth...to my great regret it was a rather short tale."

Midoriya is making a gesture to tell me not to rile up Bakugo, said boy in question looks like he's one more sentence away from leaping across the bus to try and throttle me. I still find it amusing how easy it is to get a reaction out of him, it's almost becoming disappointing.

Almost.

"By the way, why do you keep calling Kotomine 'Dead Eyes'?" Kirishima looks at the two of us in confusion.

Bakugo turns to him as if he just said something stupid "Are you kidding? Have any of you ever actually looked at his eyes?" he gestures at me while I simply raise an eyebrow, only doing so to suppress my frown. The fact that Bakugo had so readily seen through me still irks me.

"Stop messing around back there." Aizawa turns to us, a tired frown on his face "We're almost there."

"Yes, sir." On cue, the class responds to him while other look out the window at the rather large dome we are approaching.

"How does the school afford this?" I turn to Yaoyorozu while gesturing to the rather giant structure we are approaching.

"Government grants." Yaoyorozu nods to me "Hero schools in general are given a certain amount of money by the government depending on how successful they are. Given that U.A. is one of the top schools in Japan…"

"They would naturally get the largest grant." I finish her sentence, I turn my head back to the dome. Well, not that is of any real concern other than a passing curiosity.

The bus ground to a halt as we stopped at the entrance of the dome.

"Alright." Aizawa called out to us as the door opened up "Everyone out, we're here."

I stood to my feet and swiftly exited the bus before, Aizawa was standing next to-

I swiftly did a double take as I got a good look at the person standing next to him.

Was that the Michelin man?

"Everyone." The muted voice of the individual in front of my brought me out of my confusion, their hero attire was very reminiscent of wearing a large white bag over their bodies, similar to an old space suit "I've been waiting for you."

"It's the Space Hero, Thirteen!" Midoriya's excited whisper now identifies the bizarrely clothed individual. He continues his exposition while I simply tune him out, less out of disinterest and more out of the full knowledge that he won't stop for a few minutes.

Thirteen gestures to the entrance of the "Let's go inside without delay."

"This is pretty exciting, isn't it bro!" I become aware of Kirishima swiftly marching up next to me "We get to do real hero training!" I turn to see a rather wide grin on his face.

"It is certainly...intriguing." I reply back to him, his smile loses none of it's width, I'm not lying to him when I say that. I myself am curious as to how this training will play out, my abilities at combat aren't questionable but my utility when it comes to rescues, save the enrolment exam, haven't been tested.

Yet as I look around the others, I see faces of excitement at the prospect of rescue training.

So why do I feel so hollow?

I'm not thrilled at the task of rescue training, more curious as to whether or not I am physically capable of it. Perhaps because it is simply training rather than the real thing is the reason I can't find true motivation.

The class goes silent as we enter the dome and immediately get a good look at the interior of the structure.

It is certainly...an impressive feat of construction, the entire area is split up into individual sections with each one being geared towards a specific disaster zone from what I can see.

I'm faintly aware of Thirteen explaining the different zones to the class while the students are still clearly enraptured by the UA facility.

"Damn...It's like Universal Studios Japan!" Kirishima gapes next to me as he takes in the view "Look at this place? How the hell can they afford all of this!?"

I turn to him and shrug "Yaoyorozu told me it was government money."

He whistles next to me "That's a looooot of money...wonder what this place is called anyway."

"It's called the 'Unforeseen Simulation Joint'!" We both turn out attention to Thirteen, whose finishing her small speech completely oblivious to our conversation "Or as we call it USJ!"

I pinch the bridge of my nose while Kirishima scratches the back of his head, the reaction of the rest of our peers is one of equal disbelief that this facility shares the same acronym as Universal studios Japan.

I notice Aziawa walk up to Thirteen with a look of minor irritation on his face, the two engage in a quiet conversation in which Thirteen holds up three fingers to which Aziawa scoffs and says something.

Hmph, rather curious…

The two break away from their private conversation and Thirteen steps forward, gaining the attention of the other students once again "Let's see… Before we begin, let me say one thing… er… or two, or three…" she fumbles her way through the conversation and I can't help but raise an eyebrow at the display.

It seems every teacher has some bizarre gimmick to them.

"I'm sure you are all aware of my Quirk. Black hole." Thirteen gestures to her hand "It lets me suck up anything and turn it to dust."

"You've used that power to save loads of people in the past!" Midoriya excitedly shouts out, completely ignoring the fact that one wrong move and she could very easily kill someone.

"Yes." Thirteen nods to him "However, this power of mine can very easily kill." their head sweeps across all of us "Some of you have Quirks like that, don't you?" the class become silent in the wake of this rather obvious piece of news, it just occurs to me that very few of them seem to have understood how easily they could kill someone. Perhaps it is just my personal inclinations that made me consider the rather dark uses for an individual quirk.

"In superhuman society, personal Quirks have been certified and stringently regulated." They continue on "Therefore, it doesn't appear to be a problem at first glance. However, please do not forget that there are many Quirks that can easily kill with one wrong step. With Aizawa-san's physical fitness test, you found out about the possibility of your own hidden powers, with All Mights person-to-person combat training I believe you experienced the dangers of using these powers against others." I see Kirishima wince in the corner of my eye "This class is a fresh start. You shall learn how to use your Quirks to save lives. You do not have powers so you can harm others. I hope you leave here with the understanding that you have powers in order to help others."

I realise that this is no doubt an important message for my classmates. Yet… I feel nothing, the thought of saving others… my mind goes back to the U.A. enrolment exam, where I saved Kirishima and Jiro. I felt nothing, no elation or positive emotions.

Simply the filthy curiosity of what would have happened if I wasn't there, would they have been escaped unharmed? Would they be injured? Crippled?

Dead?

I shake by head, I shift my thoughts away from such things as my class begins to applaud Thirteen's speech. I clap alongside them, more so to keep up appearances that out of actual emotional response.

"Alright." Aizawa waves the class down "First we'll-" he's cut off when the dome lights begin to flicker.

Given Aizawa's surprise at this, I can only assume that this wasn't planned. Or he has a far greater level of acting talent than I gave him credit for.

I shift my head to look past Aizawa and at the courtyard. Space begins to distort as a large black cloud manifests itself and begins rapidly growing.

Aizawa turns around in a flash and fixes his attention on the number of figures who begin to exit the cloud "Gather together and don't move!" without looking he points in his colleagues direction "Thirteen protect the students!"

"What's that?" Kirishima speaks out as he walks up next to me and looks down at the central courtyard "Is this like the entrance exam where the lessons already started?"

'Unlikely.' I find myself thinking 'Aizawa appears far to panicked for this to be a simple training exercise.'

"Don't move!" Aizawa shouts again and causes a few students to flinch "Those are villains."

I fix my eyes on the figures that continue to pour out of the mist, reinforcing my eyes I pay closer attention to the skinny looking man who seems to be wearing human hands on his face and body.

"Oh…" I breathe out as a rather gargantuan bird faced figure stomps his way out of the portal and stands next to the hand wearing man. The creature is standing well above everyone else and is muscular to the extent that patches of his skin and beginning to tear open to reveal the actual muscles in its body.

"V-villains!?" Kirishima shouts out in a panic "No way, how could they get into a hero school!"

"Sensei!" Yaoyorozu turns to Thirteen in a rather anxious state "What about the trespasser sensors?"

"We have them of course...but…" Thirteen cuts herself off.

"If they have the means of transporting large groups of people here…" I place my hand on my chin as I observe the development. I can feel something in my heart...its certainly not fear but it's not excitement either...anticipation, perhaps?

"Then there's no way of knowing if they appeared only here or around the whole school." Todoroki finishes off my train of thought "Either way, it's obvious that the sensors aren't responding…"

"Meaning someone has a Quirk which can nullify them." I click my tongue, a rather well thought out plan for what appear to be no more than common street thugs.

"An attack on an isolated area of the school in the middle of a class. They clearly have some goal in mind. This attack was planned out, they may be fools but they clearly aren't dumb." It seems Todoroki and myself and thinking along a similar wavelength.

"Thirteen, start evacuating the students." Aizawa walks towards the steps "Try and contact the school. These villains clearly have something to counteract the sensors. It's possible they have radio-types with them." He turns around and faces Kaminari "Try and call the school Kaminari."

"Huh?" Kaminari blinks at him before his eyes widen in realisation "Yessir!"

"What about you Sensei?" Midoriya shouts out at Aizawa "Are you going to fight them all by yourself? Even if you can erase all their Quirks your fighting style is more suited to capturing villains after erasing their Quirks…" his face turns downcast "A frontal assault is…"

"You can't be a Hero with one trick." Aizawa replies instantly "I'm leaving it to you, Thirteen." With that said, he races down the steps at the thugs.

"Come on students." Thirteen gestures to us "Hurry back to the entrance while Aizawa-san deals with them!"

I nod and immediately the class makes a bolt for the entrance, we don't get far however before the ground in front of the entrance shifts and becomes the same black cloud that the thugs first arrived in.

"I'm afraid I can't allow that." The cloud speaks as it begins to expand, large yellow eyes emerge and stare us down as we grind to a halt in front of them.

Thirteen places themselves between us and the individual, the eyes seemingly scanning over everyone.

"It is a pleasure to meet you." The cloud speaks again, their voice is clearly male in origin and has a more intellectual tone to it than I was expecting "We are the League of Villains. It may have been presumptuous of us, but we invited ourselves in to the home of heroes, U.A. Sch-" he's cut off when one of my black keys goes straight through the presumed head.

I narrow my eyes as the cloud shows no sign of damage, it seems that it isn't his real body.

"My, oh my." The cloud chuckles "That was rather rude wasn't it? Attacking while I was still talking. Still, taking the initiative is to be expected of Hero students. Though…" he takes his eyes off me and scans the class "I was under the impression that All Might was supposed to be here. Has there been some kind of change? It is rather difficult to kill a man if he isn't here in the first place." He grumbles to himself, I raise an eyebrow at him.

Their goal was to kill All Might? A rather lofty task they have set themselves.

"Well…" The cloud sighs "That is neither here nor there…" it suddenly expands even further "It is time I fulfil my objective here."

Before he expands further, both Bakugo and Kirishima rush towards him. Bakugo letting loose a subsequent explosion which kicks up enough smoke to block out view of the cloud for a few moments.

"Did you consider that you'd get beaten by us before you could?" Kirishima boasts from in front of us, I am less confident.

My earlier attack proved that aiming for the expected areas such as the head evidently deal no damage.

"Oh dear…" The same voice speaks up again, more amused than injured "That was quite dangerous, as expected of the U.A. golden eggs."

"Both of you!" Thirteen shouts and raises her hand at the cloud, a cap pops off the tip of her finger "Move away from him, now!"

"My job was to simply scatter you all!" The shouts out and engulfs us in a mist, I can't see anything save the black fog in front of me and the panicked shouting of some of my classmates.

I suddenly feel weightless and look down to see the ground rapidly approaching me, I widen my eyes and reinforce my legs and spine to take the impact. The ground cracks slightly under my feet as I make contact.

Looking around I see I've been transported to a mountainous area.

"Owwww…." A pained groan has be turn my head to spy Kaminari lying on his back, not far from him are Yaoyorozu and Jiro. Both of whom are also getting their bearings.

"Well, well, well…" A rather nasally voice has me turn my head again, directly in front of me is a large ground of armed individuals staring us down. Each of them as at least a knife or some other form of bladed weapon "Looky here boys." A rather thin man steps towards me, a switch-blade flicking around in his hand "A buncha scared lit-HRK!"

Rather lazily I take another Black Key out of my coat, extend and reinforce the tip and throw it at the man's face. It impacts his nose and the rather loud crunch I hear indicates that something was broken, and like that he drops to the ground unconscious.

That seems to be the straw that breaks the camels back as many of the group begin to rush me, I could most likely outmanoeuvre them but that would leave Jiro, Yaoyorozu and Kaminari exposed behind me.

Is it worthy putting your life in danger to protect them?

Yes...That's what a Hero does.

But…Are you a Hero?

I can't respond to my treacherous thoughts before I'm dodging slashes and strikes aimed at my body.

I tilt my head to avoid the knife aimed at my throat, I see a brief look of surprise from my attacker before his face contorts into one of pain as I slam my palm into his side, he stumbles back slightly and I seize the advantage and smash my elbow into his temple, he drops to the ground.

The sound of steel striking steel has me momentarily shift my attention behind me, it seems Yaoyorozu is awake and has created a long metal staff to combat the others who have rushed past me, however both Jiro and Kaminari are still getting their bearings.

I bite back a scowl and rush over to support Yaoyorozu, smacking a grey haired woman in the back of the head as I pass her, and skid to a stop next to her.

"We are in a disadvantageous situation." I speak to Yaoyorozu as we observe the group now surrounding us "They have us cornered."

"Indeed." Yaoyorozu narrows her eyes and frowns "Yet none of them appear to be well trained."

"I would surmise they are simple street thugs." I nod, taking a quick glance behind me I see that Jiro and Kaminari are back on their feet, the latter now looking around with wide eyes and a panicked expression while the former simply jogs up to us.

"Don't suppose I could get a weapon?" At her request Yaoyorozu ejects what appears to be a machete from her forearm and hands in to Jiro.

The thugs surrounding us are now more wary given the rapid take downs when we initially arrived.

"Ummm...guys?" Kaminari's nervous voice has us cast a quick glance in his direction as he backs up to us "We got a plan?"

"Defend yourself as best you can." I reply quickly "Avoid dying, you keep trying to contact the School. It is safe to assume our classmates were also displaced."

Before he can reply however the thugs begin to rush towards us, Kaminari lets out a panicked yelp as a rather muscular man wearing a helmet takes a swing at him.

I am in less of a position to help as I'm rushed my three individuals, I dodge a punch aimed for me head and lash out with a quick. The man to my right takes my boot to hid knee, his legs give out and he collapses onto his knees. I can't take advantage of his incapacitation as I'm ducking under a rather large sword, the owner however overshoots and stumbles slightly, giving me enough time to respond with an uppercut to his chin, sending several teeth flying out of his mouth.

I swiftly turn my attention to the third individual, whose now staring at me with a face that promises pain "You little shi-" A swift punch to the throat silences him, he stumbles back and coughs violently before a strike his solar plexus with a kick and send him to ground.

The man I kicked in the knee earlier stumbles to his feet but I quickly send him back down with a punch to the face.

In the corner of my eye I notice a man wielding two knives rushing Kaminari, I take out a black key from my coat and throw it at the man, it strikes him just behind the knee and causes him to stumble to the ground. Yaoyorozu quickly takes advantage of this and hits him in the head with her staff before blocking another sword aiming to decapitate her.

I turn me attention to a figure I see sprinting towards me, I face them and almost lost my concentration when I see who it is.

A dark haired woman wearing a bunny suit.

"What the…" I narrow my eyes in confusion and am so off guard that I almost take a heel kick to the face, I turn to the side just before the kick makes contact and lash out my right palm to hit her stomach, only to see her body twist in a way that wouldn't be physically possible causing my hand to sail over her.

Her right hand comes up with a small blade, I lean back as she slashes at me causing it just barely cut my cheek and nothing else. She thrusts the knife towards me, I turn my body so her wrist sails past my torso and grip her forearm. Before she can try and kick me again I punch her in the side, her body stills in shock before I twist the knife arm causing her to drop the blade to the floor.

"Damn kid!" The woman shouts at me before spinning around to try and punch me again, unfortunately she spins right into my headbutt, I hear a loud cracking noise and the woman goes limp before falling to the ground.

"Kotomine-san!" I turn my head to see Yaoyorozu gesturing me to join them while Kaminari effectively turns himself into a human stun gun, figuring she has some sort of plan I sprint over to her, rolling under a swipe at my head.

Coming to a stop next to her I have little chance to react before the back of her costume suddenly splits open to reveal a large sheet of some form of material "Get under!" she shouts at me and I oblige.

"Kaminari-san!" She shouts to him, he turns his head and stares at us in slight confusion "It's one-hundred-millimetre insulation." she says with a smile, I then realise what her plan is. She drops the sheet and covers us, outside I hear shouts of confusion from the thugs, which is swiftly followed by a brief silence before I hear a rather loud crackling noise and screaming.

The screams continue for a few seconds before they fall silent. Yaoyorozu raises the sheet for us to get a view of what has occurred, I'm immediately pelted with the tell-tale smell of something burning and as I look around it is clear that Kaminari's electrical blast has incapacitated a the thugs surrounding us.

"A good plan Yaoyor-" I cut myself off and turn away from her, it seems her costume has taken more damage than I thought as her chest is now exposed to me "Ahem. Your costume is...in a state of disrepair."

"It's fine." She replies quickly, a little too quickly "I can always make new clothes...but please don't look."

"I wasn't planning on it." I reply as I make my way out from underneath the insulation, Kaminari is still standing up although he seems to be unaware of himself.

"Kaminari?" I say as I walk up to him, when I don't her a reply I place my hand on his shoulder and turn him around to face me.

"Whey…" And am immediately greeted by a simpleton, a rather droopy expression on his face with his eyes not focusing on anything.

"How's Kamniari-san?" I hear Jiro shout from behind me, I give a sideways glance to see her picking herself up and standing protectively in front of Yaoyorozu exposed chest.

"He's...incapacitated right now." I sigh as I watch him stumble on his feet "It seems that using his Quirk like that has problems for his mental faculties."

"So, no change?" She jokes, getting naught but silence in response "Sorry."

The sound of groaning has me turn to one of the goons on the floor, it seems they are not quite as unconscious as I previously thought, which gives us an opportunity for information gathering.

I stalk up to them and flip them onto their back, the individual is a rather small blonde haired man wearing a black vest. His rock like skin gives me an idea of how he was able to withstand the massive electrical charge.

I grip him by his vest and hoist him into the air, reinforcing my arms to actually support the weight of the rather heavy man.

"Who was in charge of this little escapade." I say firmly, staring into his eyes.

"Huh...w-what?" He slurs out, still somewhat lucid. I tighten my grip on his vest and shake him slightly to reorientate him.

"Again, I ask who was in charge of this. Who gathered you all?"

"Pft. Why would I tell you anything, kid?" He smirks down at me, I simply raise an eyebrow and grip is other hand and pull it up.

Reinforcing something is delicate process, I found early on that if I reinforce something past the points it can handle it the object itself will rip itself apart.

I could imagine very easily what that would do to my body.

I place my finger on one of the outer plates on his skin and stare at his confused face, then immediately I reinforce the plate to the point it begins cracking and the mans eyes widen.

"W-wait!? What are you doing?" his other hand grips my wrist in a vain attempt to free himself from my grip.

"I ask again. Who gathered you all?" Not taking my eyes off him while adding a few more cracks into the plate.

"You! You're crazy!" He thrashes around even more.

"This is going to take awhile, and I fear that your rocky skin will onto last so long." To emphasise my point, another rather large crack appears in his arm, followed by him wincing at the sound and the pain.

"I don't know his name! Just some guy came up to us! Asked if we wanted to take down All Might!

I raise an eyebrow at him "A man comes up to you and asks you to aid him in killing the number one Hero… and you just say yes?"

"He said he could! Said that the big guy was getting weaker! Said he h-" his head snaps to the side suddenly and his grip of my goes limp.

I drop him in surprise and hear the startled screams of my classmates behind me and the corpse in front of me, a rather large black knife protruding from the side of his head.

I immediately jump away from him and back to the others, my head focused on the direction the knife came from. My hand slipping into my coat pocket and coming back out with several black keys.

Seems someone wasn't supposed to talk about this.

"Yaoyorozu, can you make cover?" I ask sternly, without taking my eyes off the rocky outcrop.

"...Y-yes." she responds I immediately hear her creating something behind me, I keep glancing around the outcrop.

"Jiro. Get Kaminari over here." I gesture to the still unaware Kaminari stumbling around, he's a rather obvious target.

"Right." She replies and sprints over to him, in the corner of my eye I see something gleam in the light. I recognise what it is and immediately dash in front of Jiro and smack a throwing knife out of the air.

"W-what the!" Jiro stumbles away from me, I'm still focused on the new direction the knife came from, it seems this is no amateur.

"Keep going. Yaoyorozu, have you made cover?" I shout over to her as Jiro grabs Kaminari and drags him over to Yaoyorozu.

"Yes, as best I can." I look over to see a rather large sheet of metal "Can you reinforce it?"

"I should be able to." I turn and sprint over to it, continually glancing over my shoulder and at my surroundings. I slide to a stop behind the metal and immediate place my hand on it.

I reinforce it as strong as I dare, evidently not a moment too soon as a rather large dent makes itself know in the centre of the wall. The others jumping back in surprise.

"This one is smarter than the others." I say, a frown on my face "It also appears that the villain spoke too much as was silenced. Meaning that he knew something we weren't supposed to."

"R-right." Jiro sounds slightly anxious, I myself am more worried. I could deal with some rabble from the street easily enough but a seemingly trained individual like this is a different obstacle entirely.

"Is Kaminari still incapacitated?"

"I'm afraid so." Yaoyorozu sighs out, I stare at the derpy looking boy lying down on the ground and drooling.

Another dent in the shield has us refocus out attention, this time it is in another spot "They're testing us." I frown "Trying to find a weakness in our defence."

"How long does your reinforcement last?" Yaoyorozu whispers to me, a slightly nervous look on her face which is mirrored by Jiro.

"An object this size? Probably a few minutes at most." They frown at my answer, seemingly not the one they were hoping for. "Keep an eye out on our flanks in case they try and get around us." I turn to me left without waiting for an answer and stare at the rocky outcrops looking for any sign of movement.

I reinforce my hearing, I can hear the others panting and the slight groans of the thugs on the ground but behind it all, I can faintly hear the sound of footsteps.

I throw my black key in the direction of the footsteps, there's a slight cracking sound as it makes contact with stone.

"It seems I underestimated you." A male voice calls out from the direction I threw my projectile "It was to be expected, you did deal with a significant numbers advantage easily enough."

A black cloth drops down in front of me, the others turning and startling slightly as the figure stands up.

They are remarkably tall.

"It appears that half-hearted measures will not put you down, therefore I will have to deal with you properly." They shift their body behind their cloak and their arms appear from underneath, each one holding black painted throwing knifes.

I narrow my eyes and stand up.

My focus on the skull mask covering our attackers face.

AN: USJ incident.

And yes, if you look closely enough in the episode there was genuinely a woman in a bunny outfit.

But yeah, Hassan.

Also...yeah took a while to upload this. It was kind of on and off while I was writing my other stories.

So… don't know when you can expect the next chapter but hopefully won't be longer than a month next time.