"Ah!" Midoriya hissed as wire after wire was plugged into him, creating little curs all along his arm. He was trapped, arms and legs bound by some circle shaped contraption holding him prisoner.
His hands and feet were bound by shackles and his watch was sat snug inside the biggest one, unable to be used.
"Test one, overloading." Vilgax said to one of his drone soldiers, Midoriya glaring at him. The robot seemingly nodded and typed in some codes. 'Overloading?' "500 volts."
"BZZT BUZZ BZZT."
"Ahh, szzz, ahhh." Midoriya groaned and hissed as blue bolts of electricity started to course near him, not yet painful but incredibly unpleasant. Then his eyes widened. 'Oh no, they're gonna….'
"1000 volts."
"AHH! STOP—AHAHAHHH" He felt tears begin to prick at his eyes as the unforgiving machine started burning him, leaving him gasping for air when it finally cut off. "Ahh….You….."
"No visible changes so far. I will get this watch, whether I have to kill you or not." VIlgax said simply, looking over some readings the greenette couldn't make out.
"Over my…..dead…..body….."
"That's the idea. Let's stop playing around. 500,000 volts."
'No! That's'
"Sir?"
"Do it."
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH STO AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH ALLL MIiGHHHHHTTTTT HELPPP….."
The muscular villain wasn't satisfied however, continuing to up the voltage and seemingly taking pleasure in the boy's pained and terrified screams.
"Sir, the Omnitrix is still not affected." The drone announced and the squid like villain laughed, seemingly causing the room's temperature to drop from that alone. "Sir?"
"Of course it didn't. Cut the power."
The greenette slouched forth, breathing heavily as the current ceased, tears falling freely and his whole body feeling as though it had ceased to exist. Vilgax stepped forth, lifting up the teen's head to look him in the eye.
"That….was for all the trouble you've given me so far. Now I will take what's rightfully mine. DNA Identification Code 2307861."
Though muffled, a voice replied, seemingly coming from inside the shackle with the watch. "Code recognized. Bearer reset imminent, please standby for DNA scans."
'Is that…the Omnitrix?'
"Release the brat's arm." Vilgax commanded and the shackle holding his Omnitrix was let loose. His arm dropped as he was still recovering from the shock and he felt his blood run cold, as it started to slip away.
Then, it fell off, clattering with the floor. The Omnitrix….was no longer a part of him. "N…no…."
"Finally, after so long, just picture it. An army of aliens, all under my command.…Droid, take this to that room I had you set up. It will need time to reset." The villain instructed and the robot took the watch away. Weakly, Midoriya tried to reach out to it but he ended up just falling on his face when the rest of the shackles opened up. "Cross, I don't want to take any chances with this brat still being on the ship after how long he's possessed my watch. Through him off the ship, preferably back towards his little cesspool of a planet."
"Cross is on it!" A gruff voice spoke up and the now watch-less teen forced his head up, surprised to see a bipedal tiger with claws and an almost luchador like outfit. 'Another alien?'
"G-good kitty…" He muttered dumbly, unable to think of anything else to say. Bad idea. Suddenly he was lifted up by his shirt with a pissed of alien tiger snarling in his face, fist reeled back to attack.
"Let me tell you something, ugly looking earth kid! No one calls Cross a kitty but Cross, and CROSS NEVER CALLS KITTY A CROSS!" Cross yelled in his face, fist incoming fast before it was intercepted by Vilgax.
"Did I tell you to beat him to a bloody pulp? No? Then don't do it! I don't have time for your antics." He chided, and the alien seemed to deflate a little before dropping the boy to the floor and dragging him away. "Now that's a good kitty."
"…"
Midoriya didn't recover for quite a while, yet fortunately the ship was quite large so he at least had time to rest as his back was dragged along the rough metal floor.
Cross muttered to himself annoyed the entire way to wherever they were going, constantly referring to himself in the third person. For some reason, the greenette couldn't help but feel Bakugou both would and would not get along with the alien.
He tried his best to think of anything he could do to escape, to run, to get away but there was no way he could get his hand loose from the alien long enough to escape him and even if he did, he still had to figure out how to face Vilgax and get home.
No matter what, even if he had to die to save it, he was not letting Vilgax keep his alien paws on the Omnitrix. 'But….he's so strong….how do I face somewhat like that without a quirk?'
How did you plan to prove your worth to U.A before you met All Might?
He winced as Cross dropped him beside a door and started fishing through his pockets, only to groan and shout. "AHH DAMMIT! CROSS FORGOT THE KEYCARD! LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING SOLID TITANIUM DOOR PREVENTING CROSS FROM DOING WHAT VILGAX ASKED! CROSS WILL HAVE A KEYCARD NEXT TIME AND CROSS WILL USE THAT KEYCARD ON YOU REAL GOOD, AHHH!"
With that he yanked the greenette back to his feet and stomped off, dragging him to a door and inputting some code, causing it to slide open. "PRISONERS! CROSS BROUGHT YOU A FRIEND, HE WILL BE GONE SOON SO ENJOY IT!"
Midoriya was thrown across the room like a ragdoll, colliding with the wall and falling to the ground with a thud. 'Ow…'
The door slid shut and the greenette took a second to look around once there wasn't spots in his vision. It was a mostly barren room, however there was something almost akin to a large hamster wheel in the room, linked up to various generators. As he continued to look around…
"Uhh, hi?" A high pitched, curious voice said and the boy looked down, coming face to face with two aliens, standing roughly the same size as a ten year old child. They had full body pink clothing and white bodies, as well as pigtails in their head. The teen really hoped it wasn't racist to think they looked the exact same. "We're JJ. You're a human, right?"
"Uh yeah….I…wait, we?" He questioned as he started to stand up, finally feeling some…well feeling coming back to him. 'I'm recovering way to fast from what happened back there…Did the Omnitrix save me?'
"Oh, yeah, I forgot most human's don't know much about 'aliens' for some reason." One of the two laughed, rubbing the back of her head while the other took over. "We're a Splixson, we can split into multiples of ourselves!"
"Oh…so it's like…ah, what did Vilgax call him? A Sonosarian?" He questioned while looking for anything useful and the two JJ's looked at each other with crossed arms.
"I guess that's fair for someone who doesn't know much. The difference is a Sonosarian is a single shared conscious among multiple bodies more or less. They lack agency, doing everything the prime Sonosarian wants. We Splixson are independent, able to act of our own accord when split." The first JJ said with a flourish of her body, while the other sat down and started drumming her fingers against the floor as she took over. "So we can play games, and the like our even create full colonies from a single Splixson."
"That's….really cool." Midoriya said with a grin, wishing he had a way to learn more about aliens. 'I should start a notebook-Wait, not the time!' "That….whatever he is, Cross, he called you prisoners?"
"An Appoplexian." A new, weary voice spoke up and Midoriya turned to the corner where a large alien with a white body and grey bumps all over sat. He sounded so…old… "They're pure anger incarnates. They're also incredibly skilled and powerful fighters, so I wouldn't even think about trying anything. I can see the look in your eyes."
"But…I can't stay here! I just got kidnapped while my Da-Uh I mean…" 'Thank god All Might wasn't here to hear that.' "My teachers lives…My friends lives are in danger. Even with Vilgax gone!"
"Hmph. So were mine. So were hers. We never made it out." The alien said as he curled into a ball. Midoriya sighed and looked to the girls who just pouted.
"Oh come on Pelarota…" The first JJ whined and the other huffed as she hopped over to Midoriya. "Don't be so harsh, he's probably still freaked out."
"It's the truth. And my name isn't Pelarota! That's my species!
"Well you never tell us your name!"
"Because I don't remember it."
"Then all I've got is your species, why argue?!"
"Because there's nothing else to do here."
"Ahhh!" The splixson's groaned as they formed back into one frustrated alien girl. Fed up she turned back to the human. "So…there's an attack going on right now Vilgax took you away from?"
"Yeah….somehow I have a feeling he helped organize it…" Midoriya explained as he walked along, feeling up random parts of the wall and looking for anything he could perhaps use as a weapon. "And…you two are prisoners? Why?"
"Kinetic energy." The older alien explained as he uncurled. "With her clones and my shell, we can keep moving for long periods of time. They siphon the energy we make whenever the generators get low and the ship needs power. If we don't…"
"Cross punishes us…" JJ finished as she sat on the hamster wheel, making the greenette frown. 'So…slavery can be added the list of reasons not to let Vilgax go.'
"Right….Well either way, even if you two aren't going to do anything I can't just sit here. I'm sorry about whatever happened to you but my friends are still there, they still need me. I can't let him have the Omnitrix no matter what, so as soon as he comes back, I'm gone." Midoriya said as he pulled off a surprisingly loose rod from one of the generators, missing the Pelarota's reaction to what he said. 'Should work for now.'
"I….What's your name?" JJ asked as she hopped off the wheel and walked to the entrance.
"Izuku Midoriya." He said as he walked beside her and she took a deep breathe before smiling up at him, a determined look in her eyes.
"Well, I snuck out the other day. It gets so boring In here, Cross caught me but….I didn't see much but I did find these robots working on a room, I bet they were making it for whatever you were looking for if it's important to him. If you really think you can get us out, then I'll take you there."
If he could get them out?
"There's no can or can't, I just have to do it."
"Alright ugly human child, Cross is back and-" The Appoplexian began talking as he opened the door, only to pause when he looked up. "Ugly human child? Prisoners?"
Silence from the seemingly empty room. The bipedal feline didn't think to look behind him as he started to launch into a rant. "LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING MYSTERIOUS ABSENCE OF PRISONERS AND UGLY HUMAN CHILDREN, CROSS DOES NOT APPRECIATE-!"
Before he could continue, Izuku slid in front of him and swung around the makeshift baton he'd picked up right into the underling, right into… "AHH, CROSS' KITTY MAKERS!"
"NOW JJ!" The boy shouted and pink blur after pink blur began to dog-pile atop their captor.
"Hey over here!"
"Nah look here!"
"Better yet"
"JUST DISAPPEAR!"
"RAAH! LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING, REBELLING CLONES OF ONE OF MY PRISONERS, CROSS DOES NOT APPRECIATE SNEAK ATTACKS!" The tiger like alien roared as he shook them off, throwing them all around and smacking one off the ground, throwing her back. The room was suddenly chorusing with the pained shouts of all the JJ's. 'They share pain?' "CROSS WILL PUNISH YOU!"
"Oh not on my watch!" The greenette announced as smashed the baton against the alien's face, only to pale when it snapped in two.
"YOU DON'T HAVE YOUR WATCH!"
Clawed fists came at his head.
"IZUKU MOVE!" Came the older voice of the Pelarota and the greenette jumped to the side, turning back to see a curled up grey ball colliding with Cross and throwing him back.
"Roller?!" The greenette questioned and the cannonball like alien looked at him confused. "Well I need to call you something."
"Right….Sorry about being harsh, it's easy to forget what it's like for someone new after spending so much time here….but….As long as there is a chance we have to get you back." Roller said as he turned back to Cross with a glare. "My race are peaceful, we don't fight typically so I never retaliated. Time that changed, take JJ and go! I'll hold him off."
"Uh, right!" Midoriya nodded in agreement and ran off, JJ reforming back into one and running with him.
"LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING PELAROTA! CROSS DOES NOT APPRECIATE BEING KNOCKED ACROSS THE ROOM, ONLY CROSS DOES THE KNOCKING!"
SLAM!
The teen stopped running for a moment and looked back to see that a door had slid down, cutting them off. "Roller!"
"He'll be fine! Those shells are some of the toughest things in the galaxy, we need to keep moving!" JJ assured him, not stopping her sprint.
"Right!"
"Actually….We should take a quick detour, think you can handle some drones?"
"….Well….No time like the present to find out."
"Alley up!" JJ shouted as she threw another clone into the air, who grabbed a smaller flying drone and lead it into a nearby wall. The clone looked back with an annoyed look. "It's alley oop!"
"It doesn't matter!" Midoriya shouted back as ducked and weaved around a human sized robot, who by sheer luck was lacking any deadly lasers. He dodged under its legs, tearing one off and smashing it through the robots head. 'Never have I been so glad for All Might's training regime…' "Is there a reason you brought me here?"
"Yeah!" A third clone said, brushing away the remains of another slower drone and running to a nearby wall, riffling through the cabinets. "I know it's a little rude to say but human's don't really have much going for them, compared to the usual stuff Vilgax would go after so….I thought you could benefit from a few toys."
"Toys?" He questioned and the girl came back holding two guns of some description and two odd boards. "Also I think whoever decides that stuff needs to reexamine earth now we have quirks…"
"Yeah, well either way, here." She shrugged, passing him one of the guns and one of the boards. "You know how to use a blaster right?"
"Press the trigger and hope for the best?"
"Yeah, as far as I understand it that's about it. The board I think you might get more of a kick out of."
As she said that, she pressed a button on it and Midoriya watched as it fell to the ground, extending out to resemble a snowboard made of glass…and…. "A hover board?! Awesome!"
"Told you it was worth the detour." The splixson grinned, morphing back into one. "So what exactly are we trying to get back anyways? What's an Omnitrix?"
"Oh…well…"
So, as they continued to walk through the halls, being careful to avoid most of the drones and taking out some from behind, Midoriya explained how his watch worked and everything that had happened until that point as they hovered through the halls.
"…And that's why…Even if I can't get it back on my own wrist, I can't let Vilgax have it."
"So this watch, it makes you a hero?"
He started to say yes, then he paused as an image of All Might passed through his mind, of the day he saved Kacchan and he realized what he was doing right now.
"No, it just gives me powers. With or without it, I will be a hero. The Omnitrix just makes me better at it." He said with a grin, reloading the blaster. It was surprisingly easy to figure out, not to unlike a gun on earth. They got out onto a catwalk between two sections where fortunately no drones were present. "And between you and me, I'm totally keeping this board if I get out as well."
"INTRUDER ALERT, INTRUDER ALERT!"
Red lights flashed as sirens wailed and the boy felt his heart drop in his chest. "Great, now we better hurry!"
"Hurry where, Midoriya?" A voice asked and the greenette's eyes widened as he turned to see Vilgax standing tall. "You didn't think you'd get it back would you."
"Ahhh…." JJ shouted in fear as she fell off her board.
"And you….You shall be sharing his fate now for this insolence." The squid like alien said as he began to stalk towards them. Without another thought, Midoriya gritted his teeth. 'I AM a hero, watch or no watch…' "JJ, GO FIND THE OMNITRIX!"
And he charged at Vilgax.