"Alright guys!" Re-Destro said as he gestured, using his insane CEO skills, for his team to follow him to the door. But since Curious is still stuck to her seat and Trumpet is standing by the wall, only Skeptic and Miyashita went up to him. And since Miyashita is trying to invite himself yet again, his neck got snapped once more.
So the teddy bear person just grabbed the nearest stapler and patched himself back up, as well as getting some new needed bugfixes.
"Trumpet! On to me!" Re-Destro yelled at Trumpet, making Skeptic cry because he's standing right between them. Good thing he has his hair to hide in.
Trumpet walked up to them but he got ordered to face the wall once more because that's what insignificant characters do.
"Hey don't feel bad, Skepsman!" Re-Destro turned his attention to Skeptic, making sure he turned with his feet this time and not just spin like a cartoon character that got offended. "Now go get the token female! We have an entire day ahead of us!"
Skeptic went over to the still-stuck woman, and made sure to pay respects to the shattered lightbulb, whose family now mourning its death.
The totally-not-crying-from-earlier man went in front of Curious, who's just there staring into the abyss so much that the abyss tried to stare back, but went back in because she's hideous.
Skeptic waved a hand in front of her. When he got no response, he wrote something offensive on his palm – it was an offensive statement because he's sure it's clearly not defensive, and he still got no response.
He tried to stack plastic cups on her head, but Re-Destro went in and toppled it over, because he doesn't like people succeeding in things he hasn't done yet, and because it was fun.
Skeptic then took a good bash on Curious's head with a frying pan, and still no response.
Out of ideas, he had to do the last resort. He whipped up his RTX gaming laptop and browsed a bit on the internet.
Meanwhile, Re-Destro observed, not because he wanted to see what Skeptic can come up with, but because there's an image of a lobster about to carry a barbell saying 'Observe' and he just had to stare at it because it was silly.
Skeptic, now waving his laptop in front of Curious – whose head is now slowly turning to face the gadget. After a few seconds, the laptop crapped out a small paper from its back, which Skeptic picked up and began waving in front of the stuck woman's nose.
"Woah! It's working!" Miyashita yelled out in utter amazement before Re-Destro snapping his neck again because he stole his line, and no one should steal lines except him – so much in fact that he now has a huge collection of lines in a cabinet in his bedroom, and good quality lines they were too! Sometimes he gets squares and other shapes, but he doesn't mind.
"Woah! It's working!" the CEO repeated, making sure he waves his nose on the teddy with the snapped neck to assert dominance, only to discover it was Trumpet's neck he just snapped. Luckily, he's such a forgettable character that he got healed offscreen and went back to normal without anyone asking – except for Tohru Hagakure, who's also a character no one cares about.
"Whu…?" Curious snapped out of her trance and indirectly said it with a sexy moan, making Skeptic die of cringe before realizing he's gonna be a major character later on and went back to life.
"Hah! I knew it!"
Re-Destro raised both hands. "What did you do? Skepsman?"
"I printed out a 50% off sale coupon!" Skeptic said proudly as Curious devoured the coupon, assimilating it into her system to further enhance her skills of detecting big mall sales in the future. In typical MLA fashion of going beyond and training for Quirks, she spat out a 40% coupon she ate two weeks ago.
Curious, freshly installed with the skills to search for big discounts, closed her laptop and stood up. She took a good whiff of the surrounding air, before making a statement about the nearest 50% off mall sale is about 75 kilometers away.
Re-Destro nodded at Skeptic upon fixing the issue, for he's done it again! He replaced the freshly-killed lightbulb so perfectly that it's the reason he fired all the janitorial team in the building!
"What news?" Curious went up to him and asked.
Re-Destro giggled a bit because the news woman just asked 'What news?' and it's honestly kind of funny. And then he just laughed out loud when he saw there's still that crumpled paper getting comfy within her cleavage before getting sad that he doesn't have a beanbag at home to replicate it. He then got irritated at beanbags being so grossly overpriced.
Re-Destro didn't notice that he's been contorting his face to various expressions, and that Curious is already recording it.
But since he's CEO, he noticed it and it made him proud. If there's someone that can pull off insane facial expressions, it's got to be him. There was once another person that excelled in making even better facial expressions, and he was silently dispatched – and by 'dispatched' Re-Destro himself walked up to him and removed all of his patches and updates.
"Let's go guys!" Re-Destro turned around and led the team out of the room, making sure Miyashita stays inside and not invite himself yet again. To make sure he can't get out, the CEO placed a bucket of water on top of the door to make sure Miyashita drowns if he ever tries to get out.
The four of them are later join by Geten, whose insane layers of winter coat made him almost as round as Fat Gum.
"What's up, boss? Do you know that cold air goes downwards? So should I ask what's down?" the Iceman asked, holding up a trembling glass of scalding coffee just to warm himself up, because unlike heroes and their superior genes, he will absolutely freeze to death without his outfit – all the more happier for Re-Destro knowing he's inferior to him.
There were employees bowing down to them as they walked past, or so Re-Destro was sure they were all bowing down to him because he just tossed coins at everyone's feet.
The team went to the elevator.
"Alright guys! Today we be fightin' da League of Villainz!" Re-Destro said trying to sound hip as he heard from one of Skeptic's video games, little did he know he was just imitating troll speak from World of Warcraft. "I don't care about their stupid plot armor! I will defeat them!"
Everyone just agreed to him because they know their place.
The elevator door opened and the CEO instantly shoved all of them inside, with the insane size of Geten's coat pushing them all to the sides. Re-Destro then pushed some buttons that will take them down to the basement garage, mentally getting prepared to fight the basement garage dwellers that made it their home. Compared to regular basement dwellers, basement garage dwellers have deal 30% more damage.
"Why is there a crumpled paper in my-?!" Curious yelled out from the other side of the elevator.
"It was Trumpet!" Re-Destro responded. "Trumpet is suspicious!"
"Trumpet!" Skeptic yelled back. "Trumpet is really really suspicious!"
"It was Trumpet!" Re-Destro yelled again. "Eject Trumpet!"
The elevator stopped, opened, and Trumpet got thrown out before the door closing again, followed closely by snickering from both Re-Destro and Skeptic.
The remaining team soon reached the underground parking area. After a few seconds a huge wave of basement dwellers rose up from the shadows to attack them. But since they're so slow and fat, they just walked around them.
It was all going well until a voice that sounded exactly like Re-Destro called out to them.
"Stop using my comrade's codenames! Use your own!"
The group turned to see who it was, and it was a man that looked exactly like Re-Destro, wearing a white tuxedo with gold trim. They would be exactly twins if it weren't for the other one having his hair swept forwards, his hairstyle looking like a Syndey Opera House.
"Huzzah! An evil twin!" Re-Destro made his best Ace Attorney pointing pose. The camera even panned around him to show how great he looked from all angles, including a shot of his butt because the ladies need fanservice too.
"You're the villain here! You're the evil twin!" the man that looked exactly like him spat back, also making his best Ace Attorney impression. But this time, cameras were not spun around him. Good.
Re-Destro gasped at the plot twist. How could it be?! All this time it was always the protagonist with some evil twin and never he himself is the evil twin to some guy he had never met before. "Who the hell are you?!"
"Why I'm De-Destro! The good twin!"
Re-Destro gasped again. He accidentally swallowed the first one and he felt like his butt is about to interject within their discussion. "What do you want, good twin?"
"Use your damn codenames! I trademarked them for my own team!"
"You have your own team?"
"Of course I do! I have my own MLA – MY LIBERATION ARMY!" The man that introduced himself as Re-Destro's twin – De-Destro, said. "Pfft… Detnerat… Tarented is way superior in every way!"
"Psst," Curious nudged Re-Destro's side, but she didn't expect that he was very ticklish on that part and she instantly received an elbow to her ugly face, sending her tumbling down. "Ow! I thought you guys ejected Trumpet?! Then why is there a Re-Destro impostor right then and there?!"
"Trumpet is very suspicious…" Both Re-Destro and Skeptic nodded along. Geten just stood there behind them, thinking about why is he even here if he will not get a speaking role.
"What about those, De-Destro?!" Re-Destro asked his twin, cringing at the name. "What did I do wrong?"
The man named De-Destro snapped a finger, and the door next to him opened so hard that he got slammed into the wall, making an awesome imprint. If he didn't move under five seconds he would have been sold off to the highest bidder who bought the imprint with him still attached to the wall.
In came a huge bald man wearing a simple white T-shirt, revealing his well-toned muscles. He was carrying a brown folder. But the most distinct thing about him is his lack of eyes like a hentai protagonist.
"This is Doubtful!" De-Destro pointed to the huge man. "Board member of Experience Relaxation Porn Company!"
Skeptic gasped, fully knowing the next things to come, because they're just that not original anymore.
"And compared to your stupid Feel Good Porn Company, we have actual women in it!"
Re-Destro and Skeptic gasped again, this time one of them emitting gas from their other end. Who could it be? Both just muttered 'It's got to be Trumpet'.
The man known as Doubtful raised up his folder, with some pen drawings that made it look like a laptop. Skeptic was about to laugh at it when it started to glow along its sides even brighter than his RTX gaming laptop. The sound quality is insane too, and it can operate without a battery! It was enough to make a grown man cry.
"His Quirk allows him to turn people into inanimate objects! How cool is that?" De-Destro did his best Jojo pose impression, and he actually pulled it off which made Re-Destro mad. "Now let me introduce you my other member – Akiraka!"
Another man in a skin-tight red jumpsuit appeared from the door where Doubtful came from. He looked like he's absolutely burning and could use a good bath covered in ice cubes that it made Re-Destro roll his eyes at this man – who's claiming to be his good twin brother, blatanly copy Geten.
"Up next? Trumpet!"
"WHAT?!" The MLA all yelled in unison as Trumpet himself walked out from the room where De-Destro's crew came from.
"I knew it was Trumpet! He was always suspicious!" Re-Destro said out loud, before realizing that there's another Trumpet right beside him.
"What?! What the hell?!" both Re-Destro and De-Destro yelled in unison, seeing each other's Trumpets. Compared to Doubtful and Akiraka – and their respective counterparts, the two Trumpets looked exactly like each other, same clothes, same hair, same aura of 'You Thought He's Gonna Be A Major Character But He's Not' and so on.
"Koku Hanabata!" the Destro twins said out loud at the same time, pointing at their Trumpets. "Holy crap they even have the same name!"
"I don't care about your Trumpet!" Re-Destro spat a perfect line in front of him. "Mine is easily the most useless character ever made!"
"So is mine!" De-Destro spat a rectangle, and he was slightly mad that it wasn't a square.
Both Trumpets sighed.
"So Trumpet's always suspicious huh? Pfft, you think you knew a guy…" Skeptic muttered before shoving Curious forward. "I'm awaiting the token!"
"Me too!" Re-Destro hurriedly fixed his suit and combed his hair, as well as spray mint in his mouth. When you've been hanging around with Curious's natural ugliness and old age-
"Excuse me?!" The blue-skinned woman glared at the CEO. She must have heard what he's thinking.
"Miss Curious?" Skeptic tapped her back, making the crumpled paper fall out of her cleavage. "You're 50 years old, right? Like Lisa Lisa from Jojo?"
"WHAT?!"
"Skeps-boy is right in this one…" Re-Destro turned to face Skeptic. "Do you know that there's a 5-year difference between Mount Lady and Midnight?"
"Who are those?" Skeptic asked.
"Some heroines with skin-tight suits?"
"Do you have any idea how little it narrows it down? But anyways, I think you're right boss! Women past 20 and above all look the same to me. Like in we're some kind of anime world!"
"Right you are Skepsman!" Re-Destro then faced Curious and drew multiple lines on the sides of her eyes for crow's feet. It suited her so well that it made him remember his lack of a granny and cried for a good while, making De-Destro cry as well because both of them have no grannies.
Until…
She arrived…
Re-Destro felt the world came to a stop as a woman stepped out from the same door as her crew. She's outworldly beautiful, so much in fact that the basement garage dwellers began piling money in front of her. The woman trailed a hand across her waist-length hair, almost reaching the tips because her hair suddenly got tangled, but she ran through it anyways.
She walked with grace and poise, making fancy bubbles appear in her background to signify her almost legendary beauty.
She had smooth and delicate-looking pink skin, hair in the lovelist shade of blue, and she's wearing a vibrant orange dress with a navy blue jacket to compliment her colors. She's stunning, to say at least, and now everyone there except Curious now has little swirly lines atop their heads to signify the 'Stun' status effect.
Literally stunned by her beauty…
Re-Destro took one good look at the beautiful woman's face, noticing the same black eyes like his token female has before pulling his gaze back and realizing that they're just color palette swaps of each other. There's literally nothing different about the two of them and they look exactly the same, until his gaze went to her body and realized that De-Destro's token female is flat-chested. But still, she's very pretty, unlike his ugly teammate.
"Meet Inquisitive! Executive Director of Koudannsha Publishing!" De-Destro yelled out loud to snap them back to reality from staring too much at his lovely co-commander.
"Hey De-Destro!" Re-Destro called out. "Can we swap token female members?" he said, making Skeptic nod his head and drool so hard his laptop drowned.
"What the hell?!" Curious yelled back. "You guys can't just replace me? I published the goddamn MLA Book-"
"Hey Inquisitive!" Re-Destro called to the beautiful lady.
"Yes hmm?" Inquisitive asked with a seductive tone. Re-Destro's not sure but he can feel his nose getting longer a bit.
"Can you publish my books?"
"How about no? I'll not publish anything from someone with a close connection to rival companies…" Inquisitive glared at Curious. It's been years of Shoowaysha and Koudannsha battling it out on who gets to publish the greatest mangas and are always neck-in-neck.
"So anyways…" De-Destro spoke again, stopping everyone from ogling from his insanely attractive color palette swap of a teammate. "It's been nice knowing ya! Bye!"
The other MLA team simply exited the door where they came from.
"What the hell was that?!" Curious blurted out, waving her arms around and increasing her ugly meter by around 23% and effectively bringing down the horniness levels from her team.
"I dunno, but since they introduced themselves to us, they may be major characters soon…" Re-Destro muttered. "On to fight the League I guess?"
