Greetings!
Tomorrow's Hero: SBR is goateddd. And in regards to that, read to find out!
TehStorm: Soon, but also...not soon. You'll get it in a few chapters.
Annonymous: Thanks! But yeah, Kota will find out soon.
MrBigBottoms: It was too good to resist lmao
AllAboutNothin: Glad to see what you really liked in the chapter! Hope you continue to enjoy!
Harleking31: Wdym by Dark Shadow being underutilized?
ZexyZane: Idk, I guess they just did it because fun lmao. Tbh, I think that with all types of Quirks and stuff, simple games like that could actually become quite good actually.
DeadwoodT: Ah, I see. Here's hoping he got back to work lmao
Omnipotent X: Don't worry, I will have him interact with Melissa at some point. I may even have the I-Island attack just take place at a later date.
wild arms13: Yep. Mainly, I just wanted to add in Kuroiro's new ability since it obviously isn't explained when he gets it in the anime.
AnimeFan13579: Damn it, I forgot to reference the fellowship! I will now proceed to commit seppuku. And yeah, that's actually good advice on the whole I-Island thing, thanks. I'm thinking of either doing it in their second year, or maybe just around wintertime in their world.
PasiveNox: Thanks as always, and yeah I get that point. I'll amend the mistake at some point.
Chainthatbinds: Thanks!
Phobophobophobia: Yeah, I was just pretty sure that Shield developed the device to deal with the problem of his Quirk apparently dropping, since he didn't know anything about OFA or AFO.
Simbylosis: Accurate analysis lmao
OmnipotentUIJudgeOfCharacterOG: Yeah lmao, but is your name changing?
Jamesbucag: Well, there're reasons as to why I can't do that.
Spiritofchaos: You really do.
SakkaKun987: Glad to see you enjoyed the fic! And yeah, all the points you listed were thingsI was going for, so it makes me happy to see people picking up on those. Hope you continue to enjoy!
Cresenes: Underrated opinion lmao
Death Fury: Glad to hear it!
Leicontis: SHHHHHHH, I WAS SAVING THAT JOKE FOR WHEN MINA MET MS. JOKE! And yeah, I actually did bring Mirio up as a candidate but I glossed over him pretty quickly, mostly because I didn't actually have a good reason lmao. And yeah, I think I'll have Izuku allow that, just out of pride for his Quirklessness? Idk yet.
Tribernator: Yep, you seem to be the only person to get that hint. As of now, the only way to beat Izuku is with a mental Quirk.
Anon: Glad to see what you're liking! And yeah, the Mineta bashing is about to end! Next few chapters! Anyway, hope you continue to enjoy!
blazingwolffang: Do you mean the OPM manga? Because if so, I've not caught up yet.
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A while before Muscular got his cheeks clapped...
"So, what's the plan? What is it? I'm getting hyped up here!"
"Shut your mouth..." Tomura groaned, irritated. "If you would let me talk, you would know what the plan is by now." All of the other Villains gathered -Dabi, Toga, Moonfish, Magne, Spinner, Twice, Mustard and Mr. Compress- nodded in agreement, tired of the tall blonde's antics at this point.
"Aww." Muscular pouted, looking for all the world like a small child who had been denied their favourite snack.
And speaking of snacks.
Even Dabi, used to the gruesome sight of his own skin or the charred remains of previous opponents, could only stare in revulsion at Muscular. The man had his arm out and was constantly creating muscle over his arm, only for Moonfish to chomp down and eat the newly created muscle off, drooling and muttering about meat and flesh as he gorged himself on his seemingly never ending new food supply.
The Villains were, for lack of a better word, disturbed.
"Uh, okay." Tomura just decided to move on, raising a picture of a student with a head that was almost buglike. "So, due to intel gathered by different members of our party, and pre-existing tutorial info, we've got our targets for this mission. Obviously, we're going after Togaru Kamakiri, due to Bakugo's orders." He made his feelings about that particular order blatantly clear with how he spat his leader's name out like the taste of the word had personally offended his tongue.
"Great! Who's next? I don't care. Can we just go home already?" Twice called energetically, making just about everyone stare in confusion. He was still new, so they were all trying to figure out just which part of the sentences he actually meant.
"Our next target is Neito Monoma. To see if we can help him join our party." Shigaraki continued, scratching his neck slightly as he raised the next picture.
"Eh." Dabi interrupted. "Didn't Bakugo precisely say not to do that?"
Tomura grinned. "And that's exactly why we're doing it." He snickered as he reached for the next paper.
Dabi shrugged, knowing there was no point in arguing. Although he knew that he wouldn't make any extra efforts to get the Monoma boy.
Itsuka Kendo
"Already on her way to being a fake, she started interning with Uwabami in order to learn how to use Hero fame in order to earn money without actually doing any Heroics."
A hand was raised. "Hey, 'Mura-sensei?"
Tomura rolled his eyes. "Don't call me that, bitch. What do you want?"
Toga rocked from side to side as she sat, legs in a basket. "Shouldn't we get the other one that did that too? Yaoyorozu?"
The blue haired Villain shook his head. "No. If it was me in charge, I would only send you after one student, maybe two. But due to Bakugo telling us to get fakes, we have to get more. 'm bringing five fakes. If he doesn't like it, he can kiss my ass."
Magne thought back to the match between Bakugo and Shigaraki and grinned. "No, he'll explode your ass till your atoms are scattered."
Shigaraki glared at her and snatched the next paper angrily. "Shut it!"
Minoru Mineta
"We can hear his dumb ass being a pervert from here, and they want to release him on the streets to uphold the law? There would be fifty rape attempts before his first week was even over. There is nothing Heroic about this guy. He's basically worse than us. And finally..."
Kyoka Jiro
"This one couldn't even decide whether to be a musician or a Hero, apparently. If you're gonna be part of that Hero trash, at least commit." Shigaraki spat.
Everyone had been giving approving nods as each target was named, but at this one, even Spinner, Stain's most loyal fanatic, paused. "Isn't... Isn't that Deku's girlfriend, though...?"
Tomura glared at him. "And?"
"Well... I just don't wanna die right yet, that's all."
Shigaraki looked around for support, but everyone seemed to be nodding in agreement. "I don't really think it would be the best idea to go and snatch her from right under his nose, you know?" Magne concurred.
Tomura sighed. "Well, that's fine, because he'll be in a hut over on that cliff," He said while pointing to a rock outcrop moderately far away from just about anything on the property, "When we attack. So we won't even need to face the dickhead. To be honest, the main reason I'm kidnapping her is to fuck with him."
Muscular groaned. "Aw, what?! I was looking forward to beating his ass!"
Everyone looked at him blandly.
"Beat his ass." Mustard replied dryly.
"Yeah! He looks like he'll be such a good fight! I can't wait!"
Tomura just shook his head. And yet again, Bakugo's fucking one-upped me.
"Well," The pale haired Villain said venomously, "Bakugo already anticipated that. He said that he'll allow you to go and attack Deku, but only once all our objective boxes have been ticked and we've pulled out. Because if Deku gets alerted before we're done, then it's game over."
"Hmph." Muscular reluctantly agreed.
"Now, for the strategy. We've got seven objectives. There're ten of us, and about fifty cannon fodder that Kurogiri will bring, along with four Nomu-" Shigaraki started, only to be cut off again by Toga.
"Wow, can't believe Sensei really gave us four of these things." She giggled, dancing around the hulking creatures.
"Yeah." Tomura said curtly, wanting to be done with this accursed mission as soon as possible. I wonder if Sensei would have offered that many if I had been the one in charge of the mission...
"Are you planning on splitting us up?" Mustard asked lazily.
"Duh." Tomura said, snapped out of his thoughts. "There's no way we'd be able to complete the full mission if we went about in a massive group. Dabi, you'll stay in the forest, cause fires, create chaos, whatever. Twice, you go with him, and direct your clones to the places I'll
tell you."
"Tch. Whatever, dustfuck."
"Sure, boss! Why the hell are we taking orders from you, loser?!"
"Mustard, you're gonna go in and suddenly activate your Quirk close to as many of them as possible to take them out. Act first, and see if you get one of the targets afterwards." Shigaraki said, folding his arms and spitting to the side with a sadistic grin.
"Whatever. I really can't wait to knock some of those high and mighty U.A. guys off their stupid pedestals, man. Hey, you're actually a better leader than I thought, what with this plan and everything." Mustard said as he adjusted his mask.
Behind his mask, Mr. Compress rolled his eyes. For the record, Magne, Bakugo and I came up with this plan. This man-child simply gets everything handed to him on a silver platter.
"Oh yeah, and here are walkie-talkies that Giran gave us. Apparently they also transmit our coordinates with the call, so Kurogiri can open up a portal next to anyone when they get a hostage, no need for a rendezvous point or anything."
"Now, for the rest of you..."
"Well, as this is the last night of the camp, I won't harass the remedial children. You guys are free to go with everyone else."
All of the previously unlucky children cheered at Aizawa's words, turning to their classmates and sharing eager looks. "So what are we gonna be doing, Aizawa-sensei?" Kaminari grinned.
Aizawa shrugged. "Whatever you want. Campfires, scary stories, I don't care, as long as you don't go too far away from the base. We do still have to be wary of Villains, after all-"
Now, Aizawa wasn't one to believe in superstitions.
They were illogical, after all.
But looking frozen at the sight in front of him, the only thing that came to his mind was the phrase, 'speak of the devil and he shall appear'.
Really, was jinxing an actual thing?
Because either he was hallucinating, or the purple smoke from the USJ -the Quirk belonging to Kurogiri, he remembered- had just enveloped the entirety of the two classes in a dark globe.
The teacher blinked in shock, then immediately activated his Quirk. But it was too late. Kurogiri and the students were gone -he could hear their panicked shouts from all over the forest, so at least he knew they weren't dead- and in place of them stood a group of Villains, all leering dangerously at him.
Shota took stock of the predicament, looking around and evaluating his situation in a matter of seconds. With him stood all four Pussycats and Vlad, meaning it was only the students that were taken. He saw Mandalay raise two fingers to her ear as if talking into a communication device, and thus was unsurprised when her Quirk entered his mind as it presumably did for all of the students.
"Villains have attacked, kittens! Try to regroup with each other and make your way back to the base!" The woman looked at Shota, and he just nodded, knowing what she had been about to ask. She nodded back and reactivated her Quirk. "And by Eraser Head's permission, you are allowed to use your Quirks to aid you if you come across a Villain!"
And opposite the Heroes were twenty-six Villains in all. Twenty of them looked like general rank and file thugs, similar to the bulk of the forces at the USJ.
(Shota really didn't like how much he was having to think about that incident all of a sudden. He'd almost died there, damnit.)
The three at the back looked a little more dangerous, however. Watching over the situation with self assured smirks, those three looked like they would have valuable information on the League of Villains, being proper members.
There was a human shaped gecko, wearing clothes almost identical to those Stain wore, and in possession of way more blades than Eraser thought he would ever have to see at once.
The one on the other side was a guy with shoulder length hair, sunglasses, and lips rivalling Sato's, something Shota had thought would be impossible when he'd first seen the boy.
And the one in the middle was a man that looked like he'd had patches badly sewn onto him, both on his clothes and skin. He had hair that was almost reminiscent of Bakugo's, if not for the black colour, and blue fire licked across his fingers every couple of seconds, giving a big hint as to the nature of his Quirk.
And to each side of those three, stood three creatures that looked almost identical to the one thing Aizawa really wanted to forget from the USJ incident. "Nomu." He growled angrily.
And as the opponent's sized each other up, it was the flame-Quirked man that spoke, blue flames flickering into existence on each fingertip as fire of the same colour somehow flared up in the forest and started devouring wood.
"Let's get this party started, yeah?"
Ten members of Class B tumbled to the ground from a portal. Ibara's vines loosened from around their chests as they all gasped in relief. The girl had grabbed as many of them as possible just before everyone got portaled, so at least there were enough of them to make a cohesive unit.
"Villains have attacked, kittens! Try to regroup and make your way back to the base! And by Eraser Head's permission, you are allowed to use your Quirks to aid you if you come across a Villain!"
Monoma nodded at the message in his head and looked around to see the Quirks he had at his disposal. Shiozaki was there, obviously, along with Kodai, Yanagi, Kendo and Komori. The only other boy from his class was the Scales user, Hiryu Rin.
"Okay, so listen to me!" Monoma grinned maniacally. "We're gonna get back to the base and regroup with the rest of our class! And then when Class A, the losers they are, show up after us, we'll rub it in their faces!"
Hiryu shook his head as he helped Komori stand up from where she'd tripped upon coming out of the portal. "Not the time, Monoma."
Kendo nodded. "Right. We're being attacked by literal Villains right now, Monoma, you need to put away your rivalry issues. Everyone listen, we're gonna make a plan!"
Monoma gritted his teeth. Stupid Kendo. Why's she always in charge, and why do all of these simpletons follow her? Not to mention the fact that she got Class Rep instead of me, and she's always knocking me out for no reason! I want to be in charge for once, damnit!
And he opened his mouth in order to protest. "Hey, why's she in charge? Just because I insulted Class A? They deserve it! Plus, I-"
Suddenly, Shiozaki dropped to the ground.
Komori crouched down -not that there was much difference in height anyway- next to her friend as fast as she could, panicking. "Ibara-chan? What happened, shroom?!"
The vine haired girl gave no response, simply lying as if dead. Yanagi crouched down too and placed two fingers against the girl's neck.
"Well, she appears to still be among the realm of the living." She observed, feeling the weak pulse flutter against her index and middle digits.
Kendo frowned. "But we were all right here, we would have seen something… A Quirk that...knocks people out without even being there or being seen? That's...kinda overpowered, don't you think?"
But then, the usually silent Yui spoke up as she started to make something out. "Is...something in the air?"
Everyone's eyes instantly shot to their immediate surroundings, and noises of agreement were made as something started to become apparent. Coloured tendrils of... whatever it was... had started to visibly permeate the air, slowly all moving in one direction.
"Looks like...some type of gas? Oh shit, gas!" Kendo started, realising just what it had been that put her friend to sleep like that. "Come on, guys! It's probably a Quirk, so we gotta find the user and knock them out! He's probably somewhere nearby!"
They all ran around looking for the culprit, but there was no luck. No matter where they each searched -always staying where one of their classmates could see them, in case they were ambushed- they couldn't find the Villain anywhere.
However, Kendo had forgotten one thing. They would have been better off just running out of the gas cloud and fleeing, not wasting time looking for the Villain.
Why?
Because when one runs, they inevitably breathe harder and faster, and end up taking in more air.
A minute later, Hiryu Rin was the next one to crumple in an unconscious heap.
At the same time, a group mostly from Class A were also trying to make their way back to the base. Ojiro was leading, followed by Sero and Aoyama. Kosei Tsuburaba, Minoru Mineta and Denki Kaminari followed a few steps behind.
Even in the midst of this tense situation, surrounded by like minded people -Hanta, Kosei and Denki- Minoru couldn't help but make an observation he'd been thinking about.
"Oi, guys?" He whispered as they furtively looked around them to see if they'd been spotted walking.
"Wassup, bro?" Kaminari replied with a nervous grin.
"So, Hagakure."
"Hagakure?" Kosei wondered. "Oh, that's the invisible girl from you guys' class, right?"
"Yup." Sero murmured. "Keep your voice down, man. What about her, Mineta?"
"So I was thinking, imagine the class goes to the beach or something, and Hagakure wears a bikini."
All of them were already starting to get nosebleeds at the thought of any of their classmates at the beach in bikinis. "Go on..." Denki encouraged, almost stepping on a branch that would definitely have cracked louder than a damn gunshot.
"Yeah. So if Hagakure wears a bikini, and you stand behind her, guess what?" Mineta was almost moaning at this point. "You'd be able to see the indentations in the bra from her nipples, and even the folds in the pants from her pu-!"
Izuku wasn't there to curb the guy.
But Ojiro was.
"Shut the fuck up, Mineta!" He whisper-yelled, before swinging his tail and smacking the guy straight into a tree trunk in anger. He'd been trying to patiently bear with the purple boy's antics, but saying something like that about Toru was unforgivable. He marched off with Aoyama literally at his tail, not bothering to check whether the other four were still following.
Later, he'd come to regret that.
Kosei peeled Mineta off the trunk with a snicker. "Dude, you've gotta chill."
"Hey, boys~"
Sero, Kaminari, Mineta and Tsuburaba, the only ones that had heard, all slowly swivelled their heads to look at the origin of the sultry whisper.
A blonde girl in a school uniform was leaning against a tree a little deeper into the forest, fluttering her fingers at the four with a blush on her face. "Wanna come and play~?"
Mineta and Kosei were all for rushing for the girl, but Kaminari and Sero managed to yank them back by their collars, although with heavy blushes of their own.
"Are you crazy? D-Did all the blood in your brain leave and go waltzing down to your dicks that fast?" Sero admonished.
"Yeah!" Denki exclaimed. "That's c-clearly a Villain!"
"I don't care!" Mineta all but screamed, trying to rip free from Kaminari's fingers, which had started sparking as the blonde boy fought not to lose to temptation.
"Hey, hey..." All eyes turned back to the girl as she pouted cutely at them. "Don't get distracted~"
And with that, she picked up the bottom of her skirt at the side between two fingers...and started lifting it slowly. And lifting. And raising it even further, as she cheekily put a fingertip to her lips.
All four of the boys watched mesmerized as more and more bare skin was revealed, the smooth skin of the side of her leg captivating their eyes. At this point, all concept of Heroes and Villains had vacated their minds, and only one question remained in their almost hypnotized minds.
Would they get a panty shot?!
Blood was starting to trickle from their noses as the hem of the skirt reached just below where her panties would be, and at that moment, Toga acted. Her hand shot out, and knives went flying, piercing each boy's shirt and pinning them to a tree, except for Mineta. Being a smaller target than she was used to aiming at, the knife pierced one of his Pop Off balls and skewered it to the ground.
One of Sero's arms was trapped between two boughs of the tree, so he lifted the other, aiming to wrap the girl up in his tape now that he'd come back to his senses after the mesmerising sight.
But alas, it was too late to act now, and another knife shot forth, penetrating right through the palm of his hand and pinning it to the tree as he yelled in pain and shock.
Toga skipped over and grabbed the small amount of tape that had started to shoot out of Hanta's elbow. Gracefully dodging a wall of solid air from Kosei's mouth, she leapt over and tied the tape around the bottom of his face, giggling.
She then hopscotched over to where Mineta was kneeling, still trying to process what he'd just seen, how freaking close he was to getting his first consensual panty shot.
She bent over behind him, hands behind her back innocently, and put her mouth next to his ear. "You naughty boy, you were hoping for a peek at my panties, weren't you?" She giggled.
A single tear simply rolled its way down Minoru's cheek as he nodded wordlessly.
"Well, want me to tell you a secret?"
Mineta just nodded again.
"I'm not wearing any~"
Blood shot from the Pop Off user's nostrils so hard that he actually achieved lift off for a few seconds, before passing out immediately.
Toga jumped up and made peace signs with her hands. "Targets neutralised!" She cheered. "It's really easy, since you guys showed us all your Quirks at the Sports Festival."
She pointed at Sero, who was fading fast, his mind slipping into unconsciousness as his adrenaline wore off and the real pain of having his hand started to catch up to him. "You can't use your Quirk well if both your arms are immobilised!" She suddenly materialised a massive syringe out of nowhere and started filling it with the blood from the open wound in the boy's hand, disappearing it back to whence it came once it was full.
Next she giggled at Kosei's predicament. "And your Quirk is useless if your mouth is obstructed, or you can't breathe well! So I did both!"
Tsuburaba glared at her. Why was he so scaroused right now?
Doing the same thing, Toga whipped out a new needle and got her fill from the Class B boy, giggling deliriously the whole time while he tried to cuss her out from behind the tape.
And next it was Kaminari's turn. Toga blew a kiss at him, but didn't get any closer. "You can't use your Quirk too much right now, otherwise you'll start a fire on the tree behind you! You ever been stuck to a burning tree before?"
Denki glared at her. "Can't say I have, no." He muttered, trying to pull discreetly away from the knives pinning him, but to no avail. He was stuck tight.
Toga pouted at him. "But I don't know if you've learnt any new tricks with directing that electricity since then. All you did here was plug yourself into a battery. So I can't risk getting close enough to you to get your blood. Pooh."
Now, many have said that Kaminari was a dumbass. But even he could figure out what that meant.
So they've been spying on us all week, huh?
Meanwhile, Toga had already turned her back. "And you!" She admonished Mineta's unmoving body, poking him. "You're such a massive perv, I didn't even need to do much. Ew. I don't even want your blood!" She giggled.
Then she straightened up, taking something from up her sleeve. "Hey, Kurogiri, I've captured one of the targets!" She cheered, bouncing around.
And to the shock of the three restrained boys, as another purple warp gate appeared, the girl turned and booted Mineta into it, then skipped through after him.
And only one thought coursed through the remaining three boys' minds.
We were just completely, utterly destroyed.
Meanwhile, at the League of Villains Bar...
The bar was almost empty. The only current occupant leant against the bar top casually, drumming his fingers as he waited.
"Why do I think Shigaraki's gonna do something that'll piss me off?"
"I have a similar feeling of foreboding, Katsuki Bakugo." Kurogiri said at that moment, appearing at his usual place behind the bar. "I have finished scattering all the students and transporting all of our forces." The Warp Gate user had foregone his butler's outfit for the day, simply choosing to go as a smoky mass.
It wouldn't do to have one of his smart suits ruined by some dimwitted student's blood, after all.
"Good, good." Katsuki muttered. "I wonder which of the extras they'll bring as fakes. I trust Dabi's judgement well enough, but Tomura's gonna mess shit up. I just know it."
Kurogiri's only response was a thoughtful hum.
They just relaxed in silence for a couple of minutes, until the device Kurogiri had set between them as he entered crackled to life.
"Hey, Kurogiri, I've captured one of the targets!" Toga's energetic and slightly crazy voice cheered into the bar.
Kurogiri's eyes flicked to the coordinates, before warping to the middle of the room, where he formed a portal to the forest. Suddenly, a small body came sailing through, smacking into the bar right beside Bakugo and crumpling to the floor. Toga skipped in after him, giggling as she went to a table and laid out two full syringes. "Hey hey, Tsuki-kun!"
"Shut the fuck up, bitch." Bakugo said shortly. "You brought Grape-Micro-Coccus, huh? Good. But why the fuck is he so white? How much fucking blood did you take?"
"Didn't take any of his blood." Toga giggled. "That one's from the guy who shoots tape from his elbows, and that one's from the guy who blows out air he can turn solid. Tell Toga when she gets here!"
At that, Bakugo grinned. "Sure thing." And with that, he stretched out his hand and let out a lethal explosion.
Kurogiri's breath caught in surprise, before he noticed sludge falling to the floor, and he sighed. "Couldn't you have killed the clone outside? Look at the mess you've made."
Katsuki grinned. "Whatever. I incinerated most of the muddy shit anyway."
Kurogiri rolled his eyes. It wasn't as if clearing the mess up was too hard, anyway. He opened a portal under the sludge, then let the mud fall through. Outside, they heard the wet smack as it fell into the alley beside the bar. Kurogiri hoped nobody had been there.
Bakugo grinned maniacally. "Now, let's see who's next!"
Shota Aizawa was having a bad time.
All of his kids were scattered around the forest, fighting for their lives, and where was he?
Stuck fighting some lizard, and a guy who looked more patched up than his first sleeping bag.
Using his scarf to pull the gecko -Spinner, he'd been called at one point by the other guy- closer, he leapt forward and karate kicked him in the face. He went to follow up on his advantage, but was stopped by blue flames roaring between them.
Glaring at the Mahito cosplayer, he erased his Quirk and cut off the threatening blue flames. But before he could act on that, Spinner's massive sword made of what must have been a thousand blades whistled forward, and would've shredded the teacher if he hadn't flipped backwards.
Taking advantage of the stalemate, Aizawa took a second to breathe and survey his allies' situations.
Closest to him, Mandalay and one of Pixie-Bob's earth monsters were battling against Magne and the remaining five thugs of the original twenty. The other fifteen had been dealt with rather easily by the different Pro Heroes at the start, the ones remaining being a lot tougher.
Pixie-Bob was battling a Nomu by herself. Summoning beast after beast, and trapping it in waves of earth, she didn't give it any chance to press its attacks. Although, on top of the inhuman strength and speed that all the Nomu seemed to possess, this one had two more troublesome Quirks.
Its first Quirk was that it could emit bright flashes from anywhere on its body, and the second one it possessed gave it the ability to leave illusions of afterimages. Two relatively easy to deal with Quirks, but when coupled with its boosted physical abilities, they become dangerous as hell. A single distraction from one of them, a single slip up from Pixie-Bob, and it would be over.
As he watched, his colleague accidentally attacked an afterimage. In the second of free time that allowed, the Nomu raised a hand to blind her with light, but Shota's eyes flashed, and it ended up looking confusedly at his arm while Pixie-Bob backed up, yelling her thanks.
Aizawa's eyes flickered back to his own opponents, but the two were standing away, muttering away as they clearly started coming up with a plan. Shota started to walk slowly towards them, looking out for his other allies.
Ragdoll and Tiger were fighting another Nomu together, but they were seemingly doing so well that Aizawa didn't even have a chance to see what it's Quirks could be.
"Its knee!"
"Go for the side!"
"Abdomen!"
"Kick it in the face!"
"Shoulder!"
The two were working together like the well oiled team they were, Ragdoll skirting around the edge of the fight and calling out weaknesses based on the creature's posture and guard positions. Without hesitation, Tiger followed up on her calls, his feet and hands lashing out with the power of elasticity and truly packing a punch.
The final Nomu had just been restrained by Vlad King, who now stood over a cocoon of blood with a Nomu head sticking out of the top.
Aizawa nodded at his colleague as he sped up to a run, leaping the last few steps at his own opponents as his capture scarf lashed out. The patchwork man's flames roared out, but Eraser Head was no longer there. He'd noticed an obvious weakness, and gone for it.
Spinner looked up to see that the capture tape had somehow looped around each and every one of the belts that had secured all the blades of his sword in place. He immediately panicked. "Wait, no, do you know how much time it took to-!"
It was too late, however. Landing in an athletic crouch behind them, Aizawa smoothly pulled in his scarf, looping it back around his neck as the belts fell beside him and Spinner and Scars were buried under a mountain of blades.
"Dabi!" Spinner yelled in a panic.
Shota looked and saw a long sword fall and pierce straight through the Villain's head (Dabi was his name, he'd have to file that away for later), and his breath caught in his throat. Shit!
But then, the man melted into a pile of sludge, and the Underground Hero's eyes narrowed. Some type of cloning Quirk at work here, then. He glared at Spinner, activating Erasure even though he knew it wouldn't do anything against the heteromorphic type Quirk the Villain possessed.
And the intimidation factor he was going for definitely seemed to take effect, judging by the suddenly nervous expression on Spinner's face as he picked up a katana from the remains of his mighty weapon.
Eraser Head took care of him in seconds, now that he didn't have long range back up and a sword the size of a fucking sofa.
He then turned to Vlad, and the two of them started towards the remaining Nomu in order to help with their takedowns, as Mandalay had already finished with the five thugs and was now dueling Magne one on one.
But suddenly, Aizawa got that feeling in his gut.
He hated that feeling.
It was a premonition he'd only felt a few times in his Hero career. As any type of Hero, trust in one's gut feeling was absolutely necessary, but it was especially true for Underground Heroes, who regularly traversed areas where you could be stabbed in the back just for walking through the wrong alley.
The first time he'd gotten this feeling, he'd turned round to see an unfortunate civilian he'd been protecting passed out and bleeding out on the ground, a thug with a broken bottle standing over him.
The second time, Hizashi had almost died to some criminal whose Quirk made it easy to take potshots at people from tower roofs with a pistol. Accurately. Quirks were bullshit.
The next time he'd had the feeling, a fellow Underground Hero had died in front of his eyes before he could do anything.
"Wait." Shota bit out, slamming his arm round into Vlad's chest before his ally could step any further forwards.
"Eraser Head?" Kan grunted.
"Something's not right." Aizawa muttered. He activated his Quirk, glaring at everything that wasn't an ally. "I've got a bad feeling about this..."
Amongst the trees, Tomura was smirking to himself. "Everything's going great, heh heh. But... It's not enough... And I know just what'll change that."
His gaze fell on six people, and his smile grew grotesquely wide as he stepped forwards, flexing his fingers.
Bakugo this, Bakugo that… I'll get Sensei to focus on me again. This should get his attention, his support, again. This'll blow anything Bakugo can do right out of the damn water!
But suddenly, he saw one of them stop. Hair rose, eyes glowed, and immediately Tomura knew he couldn't use Decay.
The Villain smirked in admiration. "I've said it before, and I'll probably say it again, but...
"You're so cool, Eraser Head."
"What's wrong, Eraser?" Kan asked finally as nothing happened.
"I... I don't know. But something's wrong." Aizawa replied shortly, scanning the place cautiously.
Pixie-Bob was fine, creating beast after beast to fight for her.
Tiger was fine too, fighting away as he turned the tables on the Nomu.
Ragdoll was clearly fine, bouncing around on her toes at the edge of the clearing and calling out targets on the Nomus' bodies.
And Mandalay was fine too, attacking and coordinating attacks.
"I... I think I was wrong..."
Aizawa blinked.
Erasure deactivated.
And Shigaraki Tomura appeared.
Aizawa and Kan both froze in shock, immediately recognising the man from the USJ and taking breaths to yell warnings to the Pussycats. But they were too late.
A right hand to Ragdoll's face.
His left to Mandalay's thigh, the woman having been right next to Ragdoll at that moment by coincidence.
His right hand coming back into play, smacking Tiger on the back of his neck.
And both hands to Pixie-Bob's shoulders as he pushed her out of the way.
And due to Tomura's freakish speed, that was all accomplished in a couple of seconds, while Shota and Sekijiro stood frozen.
And now, the Villain's hand was reaching out for Vlad's face.
Erasure activated just in time, and Shigaraki leapt away, a wry smile on his face. "So cool. Although you couldn't save them."
And with that, he sprinted away. Aizawa's capture scarf and a spear of Kan's blood flew after him, but he spun mid-step and brushed his hands against both of the attacks, decaying them with ease before sprinting into the trees.
"Oh no...Oh no, oh fuck, you gotta be kidding me..." Vlad King groaned as his eyes gazed over the aftermath of Tomura Shigaraki's visit.
Pixie-Bob was dust.
All that was left of Tiger were two legs, rapidly disappearing.
Ragdoll was dust and a yellow headset.
And only Mandalay's torso, arms and head were left as they rushed over to her.
"Shit, Sosaki..." Vlad King groaned mournfully.
Mandalay groaned as she focused on Aizawa's face, grabbing his hands quickly.
"K-Kota...Take care of him. And tell him I love him...we all do. Please, Aizawa."
She dropped his hands before the decay reached her arms, waiting frantically for his response.
Shota could only nod quietly. "I... I promise."
Mandalay smiled, the expression the last her face would make as the bottom half of her head flaked away.
"Thank...you."
And with that, Mandalay was gone.
Aizawa gritted his teeth. "Fuck." He ground out.
Then he realised he could hear sounds of fighting behind him. And that Kan hadn't been at his side since Mandalay had made her final request.
He turned to see Vlad, armed with two tridents of blood, trying to fight off three Nomu at once. During his escape, Shigaraki had obviously dusted the blood restraints around the one Kan had previously defeated.
And Tomura Shigaraki had decayed his capture scarf too, the little fucker.
Aizawa rose to his feet, knowing there was a high chance both he and Vlad were about to die here.
Well, I'll fight to the damn bitter end if I have to.
Just after the start of the attack...
Ochaco Uraraka, Tsuyu Asui, Fumikage Tokoyami and Shihai Kuroiro stumbled out of a portal, looking around warily.
"Is everyone okay, kero?" Tsu asked quickly, to which everyone gave noises of assent.
"Villains have attacked, kittens! Try to regroup and make your way back to the base! And by Eraser Head's permission, you are allowed to use your Quirks to aid you if you come across a Villain!"
"Well, this is just great." Uraraka pouted. "And here I was thinkin' we were finally about to get through something school related without bein' attacked at least once."
"It does seem to be our fate to be hounded after by beings of the abyss." Tokoyami mused.
"Hmm, hmm." Kuroiro nodded in assent.
"Let's try and make our way back to the base as soon as possible." Tsu put a fingertip to her lips. "After all, we don't know anything about the Villains; identities, Quirks, numbers. It's better to run than fight in this situation, kero."
"Yeah." Ochaco agreed. "Let's get out of here, guys."
"Hey, hey!" A voice cheered, its source dropping from a nearby tree and landing lithely with a bloodthirsty grin. "You guys aren't going anywhere! You haven't played with me yet!"
"Who are you, kero?"
"The name's Himiko Toga! And you two are so cute!" The girl giggled, pointing at Tsu and Ochaco happily.
"This girl is...strange." Asui remarked, tensing her limbs in preparation for action.
"Nope, I'm normal too! I'm just someone who has gone through certain experiences that made me embrace certain parts of myself that others wouldn't!"
Kuroiro shook his head. "And it is that which makes you wrong. Do you think only you have experienced the darkness? I have pitch black skin. One of my classmates believed me to be a demon upon our first meeting, and still carries those reservations, along with the actions that come with them. And that is only my high school experience of the pitch blackness. But do you think that would make me use my Quirk for Villainy?"
Toga grinned at him. "Well, I find that it's much more fun to do all this. And life is so easy, too!"
Tsu closed her eyes, shaking her head quietly. "And that's just it, kero. You've taken an easy way out, where others have made the choice to try to be good people. After all, the hardest choices require the strongest wills."
Himiko's smile dropped for a moment. "Well, I think you'll find our will-" A knife appeared in her right hand. "Equal-" Another appeared in her left."To yours." She stepped forwards into a classic knife fighter's pose.
Tokoyami and Kuroiro were used to finding nuances in speech due to the way they talked all the time, and immediately picked up on the girl's mistake, however.
"Our?"
Only Tokoyami and Dark Shadow with their extra experience, though, were quick enough to react to what came next.
Fumikage's eyes flicked up, and Dark Shadow shot up from his shoulder, punching the incoming missile sideways into a tree with the boost given from the darkness. Tokoyami gritted his teeth as he fought to maintain mental control over his Quirk.
The missile peeled itself off of the tree with a grunt, and dropped to the ground with a smirk. "Yo! I'm Muscular, and I'm gonna kill you!"
Five thugs appeared out of the trees, and immediately rushed the kids as Toga and Muscular leapt forwards, eager for blood.
Tokoyami and Dark Shadow engaged with Muscular, the large black Quirk swinging wildly as it tried to pulverise the Villain.
Ochaco and Tsu started darting around with Toga, all of them trying to land a hit but everyone being too agile to be hit.
Which left Kuroiro with five grown ass men bearing down on him, all of them readying their Quirks and yelling war cries.
Normally, he'd be apprehensive about this.
But here, he just grinned. Why?
The dumbasses had been wearing all black to help blend into the night.
The boy ran forward and leapt at them, disappearing into the first man's shirt and shooting out of the back of it, knocking the thug at the back out with one punch.
Another man threw a punch at him, but he simply melted into the man's glove and emerged on his back, clinging on and beating him about the head until he went down too.
The next two came at him both at once, and the boy panicked, stumbling back over his feet efore one gave him an uppercut to the stomach, leaving him coughing on the floor.
The last one pulled out two knives and went to end him there and then, but suddenly Kuroiro shouted in triumph...and disappeared.
"Huh? Where'd the bugger get off too?" One of the thugs demanded angrily, waving off a fly.
"How the hell am I supposed to know?" The knife wielding Villain snapped back, swinging his arm at the same fly.
"Hmph." The last Villain said. "It's just a fly, what are you guys so scared o-"
He was cut off by Kuroiro shooting out of said fly with all its momentum and clocking him in the jaw so hard that he floated backwards a few feet.
Kuroiro turned to the last two, his smirk back on his face. The inky blackness has truly blessed me, allowing me to unlock my dark ability of controlling objects that can already move in such a timely manner to be used here.
The second last thug was taken out by Kuroiro stretching out a hand, touching a fly and using the same move again. He turned to do the same to the knife wielder, but the man swung his blade and the bluebottle fell to the ground, split cleanly in two.
"Impressive." Shihai grinned at the man.
"My Quirk, Halves, allows me to slice any object in half, as long as my blade hits them with enough power, and my blade is bigger than my target." The Villain bragged, spinning his two sided knives to bring attention to them.
That was a mistake.
Kuroiro's eyes were instantly drawn to the knives, and that's when he noticed that both weapons were pitch black- the handle, the blade, the whole thing. The student grinned. This can be turned in my favour.
A blade swung for his face, and he grinned as he prepared to melt into the black blade as soon as it touched his nose. But suddenly, his head jerked backwards and he staggered along with it, yelling out in shock as blood erupted from the clean cut going diagonally across his face.
"Argh… But how? My face is bigger than your knife blade!" And it was, barely. Although it was quite a long knife, the blade was only as long as the distance from his chin to halfway up his forehead.
"Keh heh!" The burly man snickered, spinning his knives again and attacking. "You thought I told you everything? All I needed to do was focus on the skin of your face! My blade is longer than the depth of the skin, so I can bypass that limitation easily! Plus the activation of my Quirk shocks you too much to pull those dirty tricks of yours!"
Kuroiro shook his head as he dodged a final time and front kicked the man back a few feet. "Enemy of the deep, you talk too much."
"Huh? GAH!"
What the man hadn't noticed was that Shihai, knowing he couldn't beat the man in strength or speed, had been strategically fighting, pushing the guy towards a certain spot. And as he'd predicted, his plan was successful.
Standing too near the fight behind him, the man was only aware Dark Shadow's claws were coming for him on their way to Muscular when he saw them right in front of his face.
Kuroiro smirked. "Perfectly done." He then collapsed to his knees, the real shock from the cut on his head and blow to his gut finally catching up to him. He picked up the black knives the Villain had dropped as he went flying and tucked them into the waistband of his trousers. "These could be useful."
He was about to fall to the side and pass into his favourite realm, that of darkness, when suddenly he heard Asui scream in pain. "KERO!" Then-
"TSU!"
And all hell broke loose.
Ochaco and Tsu were losing, that was clear.
As soon as they'd engaged the girl in front of them, it was clear how outmatched they were. She'd opted to swap out one of her knives for a syringe-like object connected to some Support equipment on her back, and she kept talking about wanting to get their blood, which really didn't inspire the two girls with confidence.
The battle had opened out with Toga immediately getting a slash on Ochaco's arm, and as Tsu grabbed the Zero Gravity user with her to give and yanked her away, the Villainess leapt forward and scored a cut on Asui's longest muscle, too.
And that led to where they were now.
"TSU!" Uraraka yelled in distress, to which the frog girl assured that she was fine. But it had set their opponent off on another crazy tangent.
"Tsu...Tsu...Tsu...Tsu! What a cute nickname!" She exclaimed with a blush as she lowered the black and silver mask she'd had covering the bottom half of her face. "I'm gonna call you that, too!"
"Don't." Asui said shakily, her voice growing firmer as she continued to speak. "The only people I want calling me that are the ones who I want to be friends with." She remonstrated curtly as she leapt to the side.
Toga's arm shot forwards and the syringe went flying, pinning Tsu to a tree by the elaborate bow in her hair. The Villainess danced and spun over to her, kicking Ochaco away with ease I. The process. "Yay, then I'm your friend, too! All right!"
"Tsu!" Ochaco yelled, leaping back up by temporarily removing her own gravity, then starting to sprint towards them again.
"You're bleeding, my friend Tsu… Oh, you're just so cute. I love blood."
"Get away from her!" Uraraka demanded as she reached them. Toga's knife flashed forwards, but suddenly Ochaco dodged to the side, the knife stabbing through where her face had been seconds ago and taking a few locks of her hair with it.
Ochaco glared at the girl in front of her determinedly as things seemed to move in slow motion. Against someone with a knife, she remembered, pivot on one foot to disappoint from your opponent's line of sight, and grab the wrist and the base of the neck.
As she remembered her training instinctively, she followed through with the motions, grabbing hold of the Villainess triumphantly. Then, with all your might, pull!
Gunhead Martial Arts!
And there Toga was, face down on the ground, with Ochaco straddling her in victory.
"That was amazing, Ochaco." Tsu croaked quietly, still hanging painfully from her hair.
"Tsu, can you restrain her hands with your tongue?" Ochaco asked frantically, although the firm expression on her face showed no hint of that. "Does it hurt?"
"Give me a second for my tongue." Asui confirmed as she started to try and get down from where she was pinned.
"Ochaco… You're amazing too…"
They both froze.
And that was all the opportunity Toga needed. Twisting her hand behind her back, she stabbed the needle into Uraraka's thigh, and blood started flowing along the tube as the brunette stared in horror.
Toga suddenly flipped them, throwing Ochaco to the side. As the student staggered to her feet, the Villainess was already dashing and weaving towards her, knife at the ready with murder on her mind.
She stabbed forwards at Uraraka's neck.
And Tsu leapt in front of the blade.
It ended up in her shoulder, a relatively non-life threatening injury, but that didn't make having a blade stabbed up to its hilt into you any less painful.
"KERO!" Tsu ribbited loudly in pain, stumbling back a little as blood spread on the shoulder of her shirt. And suddenly-
"TSU!"
And suddenly, the situation had changed.
Tokoyami and Dark Shadow were getting pissed off.
Well, Dark Shadow was already pissed off, but yeah. More pissed off.
They weren't winning. And to make it worse, their opponent was taunting them.
"Come on! You're so weak! And I'm just a clone, too! Come on! Hit me!"
"You do not follow the laws of clones at all." Tokoyami snarled, over eighty percent of his concentration solely on reining the fury of Dark Shadow. "Should you not go down in a few hits?"
"Nuh uh!" The Villain cheered. "See, the way it works is that the amount of hits we clones can take is proportional to what our original version could take. So like, you could take me and hit me a whole load of times, and I ain't going down cos original me is a badass mothafucka! But take that bitch ass Shigaraki and clone him, and he'd go down in like two hits from your Dark Shadow."
Tokoyami spat to the side. "Curses." He muttered, seeing blood mixed along with the spit from where Muscular had grazed his face and made him bite his tongue.
He and Dark Shadow rushed the man again, but their coordination was off. Instead of their usual, seamless teamwork, their combos were disjointed and clumsy, and Muscular shrugged their attacks off with ease. Shit, I really need to figure this out with Dark Shadow.
Just then, Muscular planted a foot in Tokoyami's solar plexus, and before either of the avians could do anything, he created a ton of muscle around his legs and pushed.
Fumikage was sent flying so hard he smashed into a tree on the other side. But he was starting to lose control as he sprinted back at Muscular, Dark Shadow growing bigger little by little. He could tell, by the way he barely noticed as Dark Shadow casually swatted a man through a tree on his way to Muscular, Kuroiro collapsing in relief near them.
Muscular easily blocked Fumikage's kick with a forearm, then frowned. "Yo, why are your Quirk's eyes turning amber? Oh! Oh! Are you gonna get stronger! I-"
"KERO!"
Both Tokoyami and Dark Shadow's eyes widened, and their heads swung round in time to see a knife in Asui's shoulder, a flower of blood blossoming on her shirt as she cried out in pain.
Tokoyami grimaced, but he knew it was too late to hold the wrath back. He'd let it go too far, and this was the last straw.
Dark Shadow's eyes flickered, then flashed into a deep red.
Both he and Tokoyami's beaks turned upwards, and they roared.
"TSU!"
Suddenly, Dark Shadow grew to massive proportions, Tokoyami getting gathered up in the beak. He was in tears from the pain and wrath emanating from Dark Shadow and leaking into him, but the two avians screeched in fury, ready for their revenge.
"YES! NOW COME AT ME WITH YOUR FULL STRE-"
The Muscular clone was suddenly no more, his voice disappearing instantly as Dark Shadow's talons flashed down and pulverised him into sludge.
And in all the commotion, nobody noticed a gloved hand reach out for Ochaco's back.
Next on the avians' kill list was Toga, who had already started running. Dark Shadow started crashing after him, but Fumikage had retained enough presence of mind to know that if they caught Toga, they would kill her, and he wouldn't be able to stop it. He wanted to hurt her badly, sure, but he wouldn't stoop to her level.
"WAIT! SOMEONE STOP ME!" He roared in agony. "PLEASE!"
Kuroiro staggered to his feet upon hearing his new best friend's cry. "I gotta try."
He staggered forwards, and his fingers brushed against Dark Shadow's side before he melted into the surface of the Quirk. And Dark Shadow came to a halt, his eyes growing a clean silver.
But suddenly they flickered red a few times.
And then they were red in full force, Kuroiro being expelled from the Quirk with all the force of an explosion and smashing into the ground, actually unconscious this time.
Dark Shadow swung his head around, but there was no sign of a the bitch that had hurt Tsu. He roared in anger, Tokoyami's mouth being forced open along with him.
Then Dark Shadow saw sparks and signs of a fight and went crashing off towards it.
If they couldn't make Toga pay for it, they'd make someone else pay.
Tsu collapsed to her knees upon seeing them leave, croaking sadly. "No… Tokoyami, Dark Shadow…"
She then got up and quickly hurried to Kuroiro, checking for injuries as she rolled him over. "Are you okay, Ochaco?" She croaked without turning around.
She was answered by complete silence.
This time, she did turn around.
"...Ochaco?"
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Yo, what's up everyone? Been a while.
So, yeah, pretty heavy chapter, I know. If you didn't enjoy it, then don't worry. There's only the other half of the Villain attack, which I've already almost finished writing, and then things will start to ease up a little again.
How did I do with it, though? I'm not really used to writing stuff like that, so I don't know if the chapter had the right amount of emphasis something like this should carry. I think I did okay with it though.
Yep, the Pussycats got deaded. That wasn't even in my plan originally, but then a close relative of mine, and I just went fuck it. Time to take it out on a completely fictional character.
On a happier note, who's hyped for all the new anime coming out soon? I was looking at the lists the other day, and I swear I almost cried of joy. Komi-san, Jujutsu Kaisen 0, Stone Ocean, Takagi-san, Attack on Titan, with Demon Slayer and Chainsaw Man coming soon too. I will literally not have enough time to watch it all.
Also, questions for you guys!
Bakugo Hero name?
And how do you all feel about potential Villain Monoma?
See you next time!