Once more, we are back with another chapter! Now as previously stated in that last chapter, it was changed because of didn't think to google what language they speak in Brazil and instead just used Spanish which thankfully two of you wonderful readers pointed that out in your reviews, the change had been made and the apologies sent but we must press on, even if I do feel like an idiot for not seeing that sooner. Now, I've been watching a lot of RWBY lately and beside the plot and most of the characters getting more and more confusing and infuriating with each new volume-most of the fight seen are still on point. So I'll be using that along with the cannon fights in My Hero as a baseline for how I write fight scenes.
Overall, the response to my story have been largely positive as more and more of you read my work, which makes me so darn happy. This chapter will serve as a continuation of the last one as it started to run long so I had to separate it into two different chapters. I was able to introduce the foot clan(Yoroi Hero Agency)last chapter and Xever. This time around-another of the Shredder's minions will make an appearance-and before you all start to ask, the actual TNMNT may or may not make an appearance in this story as if I ever see the need for them to travel to NYC, then you can bet that they'll make an appearance but the issue is that one can't simply make a group of first year hero students in Japan go on a trip to the United States, I mean-even if they do go to help and are successful, there is no way UA can keep them around as that goes far beyond that Kirishima, Iida, Yaoyorozu, Midoriya and Todoroki did when they went to save Bakugo.
Chapter 29: Hoedown in Hosu
(Yoroi Musha Hero Agency)
"Good, good. You're starting to really pick this stuff up." Rahzar complimented as Midoriya worked on his strikes on the same type of dummy from the day before. It was their third day of the internship and the two had been progressing quite nicely, unlike the previous day, Midoriya was allowed his full kit, and the use of his legs drastically sped up his attacks and defense.
"Thanks, through it might have something to do with the fact you made my train till my arms were black and blue." Midoriya shot back as he struck at the dummy with both hands and feet, now that he wore gloves and armor he didn't have to worry about the pain from each strike.
"Still got the attitude besides, didn't I tell you that that gel I recommended would fix you right up?" Rahzar shot back as he had handed the boy a small bottle of a light green gel the previous day before he went to bed and told him to apply after his shower, by morning all the damage from the previous day had been mostly cleared with only minor bruises remaining.
"Why isn't that stuff more widely distributed, it'll work wonders on the field." Midoriya noted as if Eraser had access to such gel after the USJ, he wouldn't have had to spend so much time in bandages.
"Because it's extremely expensive to produce, you know how much that 200ml bottle costs?" Rahzar asked him.
"I don't know, 600 Yen." Midoriya answered as he performed a spinning heel kick to the head of the dummy and quickly avoided the counteraction before laying into it with palm strikes and quick jabs.
"More like 12,400." Rahzar told him blandly, the shock of such a large number for such a small amount knocking the boy off balance, and for that, he got hit right in the face by one of the dummy's arms, sending him into his back.
"The hell?! Why the hell would they charge that much?" He yelled as he propped his arms under himself to sit upright.
"Maybe it's cause the ingredients are extremely pricey themselves, or because of the fact, they're not factory produce? I could go on." Rahzar told him as he listed off the reasons on his fingers.
"Point taken." Midoriya grumbled as he got back up and started to work on the dummy again, focusing on speed rather than power for now.
"Good to see you two hard at work." A familiar voice called out as they walked into the training hall.
"Sir!" Rahzar stated as he turned to salute his boss while Midoriya turned and bowed to the man, who along with him-had Kodai following right behind him.
"At ease, I didn't come here to distract you from your training. I came here to inform you of new development." Yoroi informed the two of them as they stood up straight.
"What would that be, sir?" Midoriya asked him.
"It seems that the Hosu police department is requesting aid in hunting this Hero Killer. You and Mister X are to make ready, we leave in a couple of hours." Yoroi said as he pointed towards Rahzar. His announcement shocking the group as they had all been up to date with news and knew that the villain was still on the loose and already had taken down almost a dozen pros that had tried to arrest him. For them to call in one of the top ten showed just how much of a threat he was.
"Sir, if I may. What becomes of us?" Kodai asked from the man's side, still covered in some sweat from their morning training session.
"You two will stay here and continue your drills, I will instruct someone else to assist you there. If all goes well, we'll be back tomorrow afternoon." Yoroi answered the question as he could think of a few that could fill those roles. He may need to call some back from their patrols though.
"Sir, I will make preparations to depart." Rahzar answered as he bowed his head before he turned to the walkway. Meanwhile, Midoriya paused to think about himself about what was happening right in front of him. The hero killer was still at large and over the past couple of days, his worries for Iida hadn't diminished, if anything they grew stronger as he even had a nightmare the previous night, one where Iida tried to take on Stain and ended up dead in some back-alley.
All while he could do nothing to stop it. "Sir?" Midoriya spoke up.
"Yes?" Yoroi asked him, wishing to end this so he could prepare.
"Would it be possible for Kodai and myself to accompany you?" Midoriya asked him. The request itself surprising everyone once more as it came out of nowhere.
"Do you know what you are asking, boy?" Yoroi asked him with narrowed eyes, the boy didn't look like a glory hound but he had been wrong in the past.
"Yes sir, I do and I don't mean if we can help you talk down Stain but wouldn't be a good experience to see pros out in the field, even assist in the day-to-day activities?" Midoriya suggested as he tried to explain that he didn't wish to fight Stain, he knew what happened to seasoned pros. The best odds were that he didn't die.
"He is not wrong, it would be good for them to get a little field time." Mister X spoke up from another entry point, showcasing that skill as a former thief as only the pros had even heard him enter the room.
"Sir?" Rahzar asked their master who just stood there, thinking about it.
"….Very well, however you two will follow these two set conditions, if you break them, consider your internship here over." He came to a decision but he also laid out some ground rules. He trained heroes, not attention seekers.
"Sir!" Both Kodai and Midoriya answered at the same time, though Kodai didn't know why.
"You will do as you are told, at all times-no solo nonsense." Yoroi informed the two of them, waiting to see if they could detect defiance from them as he had trained enough youths in his time to know that if there was a defiance to him now, they will surely disobey. If he detected that, he would leave them here, under supervision in a heartbeat.
"Yes sir!" Lucky for them, he didn't detect such defiance from them. It seemed like they had actual sense.
"Second is that you must stay with either one of us unless told otherwise, if you separate from us-it'll be a swift punishment." He told them both with a fire in his eye as he held up one hand and let his blades shoot out from the gauntlet. He was a man that believed in the older forms of punishment and he would demonstrate that if they disobeyed.
"Yes sir!" They both answered, now visible paler as they could imagine what those blades could do to them. After seeing them cowed, he retracted the blade and turned to walk away.
"Hmm, see to it that you are ready when the time comes, I will not wait for you." He said as he walked out the training room, leaving the four to themselves as Mister X chuckled to himself before looking over.
"So looks like you just gave yourself a shot to impress the boss, any reason why?" Mister X asked out of curiosity. It wasn't often one who had the stones to request such a thing from the armored hero but it was always a treat.
"Not much just that I would like to swing by and see a friend interning there if possible." Midoriya replied, keeping his fears to himself.
"Treating this as a social visit? That'll get you killed." Rahzar noted with a dismissive wave of the hand.
"That's not it, I will only try it if the opportunity arises, if it doesn't, it doesn't." Midoriya countered as she shrugged his shoulders.
"So you say," Mister X said before he turned to the second teen. "And you, little lady, got any friends in Hosu you would like to say hi to?"
"No." Was Kodai's simple answer.
"I was expecting a little more life than that but whatever. Hope you two know what's to come, if all goes well-this stain character will be behind bars with a few broken bars come morning." Mister X laughed as he left the room along with Rahzar.
"Why did you volunteer us?" Kodai asked as she approached him as he threw her a towel to wipe away the sweat.
"Not up for it?" Midoriya counted with a smirk.
"Not at all, and don't dodge the question." Kodai deflected as she cleaned herself.
"…Truth be told, I'm worried for Iida. I have a feeling why he took an internship in Hosu and it's been bugging me since I found out." Midoriya answered her honestly. She was his friend so why lie?
"He doesn't seem like the type to allow emotions to control him to such an extent." Kodai said as she couldn't think of the boy being late for class so this was really out there.
"Most don't….till it happens. Look if nothing happens, I can rest easy if not, hopefully, I'll be able to assist in any way I can to bail him out." Midoriya said, trying to feel braver than he felt as the thought of the hero killer sent shivers down his spine.
"I'm sure he is doing fine." Kodai said to try and soothe him as she could tell he was nervous, just not how nervous he was.
'Let us hope so.' Midoriya thought to himself as he and Kodai quickly left to shower and get ready. It would be improper for them to head off still smelling of sweat.
(Later – Hosu train station)
"Greeting and welcome to Hosu." A tall and imposing man with the head of a beagle greeted the five as they stepped off the train onto a less crowded platform. The ride over itself was unusual for the two teens as they not only took a much more expensive express train but they had an entire car to themselves, apparently, each city made sure to reserve one or two in case the top ten came or left via public transport. It wasn't always used as Endeavour had a private helicopter, Hawks flew everywhere and many others used their own wheels.
The man that was waiting for them with an armed guard was on the other hand, the chief of Hosu Police, Kenji Tsuragamae. And along with him, he had four officers.
"Police chief, it has been some time since last we met." Yoroi Musha greeted as he stepped forward the shook the much, much taller man's hand. Midoriya would have found it funny if he didn't know that Yoroi could break the taller male in 10 seconds flat.
"Yes, however, I wish our reunion would have been under more peaceful circumstances." Tsuragamae replied as he pulled his hand away as their group started to walk towards the exit.
"That is the nature of your work, I understand that you requested our assistance?" Yoroi inquired, straight to the point as always.
"That is correct, might I assume that these are your sidekicks?" The Police chief asked as he turned to eye the four of them, his gaze staying a moment longer on Kodai and Midoriya.
"Just two of them, the other two are students interning under me." Yoroi said as the two took that as their clue to bow to the police chief. They knew that this was his city so they best be on their best behavior.
"Is that wise, bringing them here?" The chief asked though the two students tried not to take the remark personally.
"They have their orders and will know punishment if they go against them," Yoroi assured him as he eyed the two of them out of the corner of his eye, and even without him doing anything else, they both felt shivers go down their spines as what he would do to them. "But they have solid heads on their shoulders so that is a slim possibility."
"Very well, I will once more trust your judgment on this, shall we head off so I can brief you on the situation?" The chief suggested as they reached the platform exit and could hear traffic coming in and leaving from the other platforms and busy city streets near to them.
"That would be prudent," Yoroi agreed with him before he turned around and pointed towards the four of them. "Your four are to split up into two groups and start patrolling around. We only have an hour or two left of daylight so use it well."
"Yes sir!" They all replied to him in near-perfect sync but seeing how he had better things to do than make sure they reply in unison, the elder merely left along with the police.
"Let's get moving." Mister X said as they started to walk down a different path.
"You heard the boss, we just gotta get our feet wet without him." Rahzar confirmed as the four of them made their way down to the street level from the station.
"Steller, you're with me. Mister X can handle Kodai." Rahzar ordered as they walked along.
"Seems fair to me, you were always useless around the fairer sex." Mister X joked even as the two teens moved themselves to be behind one of the two sidekicks.
"I'm not even going to dignify that with a response." Rahzar answered as he massaged the bridge of his nose as this wasn't the first time his co-worker had taken shots at his less than average love life but for the love of, Kodai was a minor and he was 34! He was old enough to be her father, they both were!
"You just did." Kodai stated with her usual blank face, which just made Mister X laugh at his colleague's expense.
"See, even she gets it. See you at the police station." The South American reformed criminal chuckled out as they all reached the street level and he, along with Rule walked off down the road.
"He always screwing with you?" Midoriya asked as the two of them went down the opposite way.
"More times than I care to count." Rahzar answered as he looked up and saw that the sun might even set sooner than they originally thought, which meant that this might turn into an early evening patrol.
"…Seems like my kinda guy." Midoriya joked as he could have learned a lot from Mister X on the art of roasting, even pick up some Portuguese(as he had found out he and Kodai were wrong about which language the dark-skinned man spoke).
"Say that again and I'll throw you into oncoming traffic," Rahzar threatened him but then followed it up with another as this wasn't the first time he dealt with his kind. "And if you wait till after he leaves the busy traffic zones to try, I'll use you like my new punching bag when we get back." He finished just as Midoriya was rising his hand.
"Dammit." Midoriya muttered to himself, he was caught before he even spoke up.
"Stop complaining, we have a job to do. Those two went north so we'll head south." The American pro said as they kept on walking, looking out for any signs of trouble. They may have been there for Stain but that didn't mean they couldn't do their jobs.
"And then?" Midoriya asked as he launched off Green Day from his rocket pack, the model was the same as the one used at the USJ since he couldn't find any real improvements to add to it so he just built a new one and added it to suit. As he thought this, Green Day started to fly high into the sky to give them a bird's eye view of things.
"We'll swing east from there while they'll swing west, standard patrol procedure at the agency." Rahzar replied as they came to an intersection.
"Then I'll follow your lead." Midoriya answered him just as an elderly couple approached the two of them, asking for directions.
(Same time – In another part of Hosu)
"Looks like we'll do a quick patrol through the shopping district. Sorry if that might seem dull." Manuel stated as he and Iida kept up their own patrol. They weren't too far from the station but were heading in a different direction so they wouldn't bump into either of the two groups.
"That's quite alright, it's actually better this way." Iida replied as he looked around, distracted. His eye never staying on one thing for now. His answer and tone stuck out to the normal hero who turned to look at him with concern.
'Just like yesterday, and the day before that. He isn't really listening and he is constantly looking for something…or someone.' Manual thought to himself as he sighed, he already knew what he had to do but it didn't mean he had to like it. "Listen, this is kinda hard to ask but I feel like I must ask it anyway." Manual said as he came to a stop and turned to face his young intern.
"Hmm?" Iida sounded, this was somehow different to their other talks, just from the tone alone of the pro, he could tell something was up.
"My agency, you only accepted my offer because you wish to pursue the hero killer, right?" Manuel bluntly asked him, silently giving his thanks that for the most part, the area they were in didn't have many people, and the ones who were there were either on the other side of the road or too far in front or behind them to hear.
"That's." Caught off guard by his deduction, Iida couldn't find the rights words to say to him to try and dissuade him from this correct conclusion.
"It wasn't hard to figure out really, I already knew it was a slim chance that you would accept but after hearing about Ingenium, it made sense." Manuel had heard the news much earlier than most due to the update of the situation being posted on the Hero Network a mere hour after the incident, still, it was kept secret as to who was involved in the attack till after the families were informed. "Besides, you have been on edge over since you got here, watching every rooftop and shadow as if he'll just appear out of the blue." He added to his reasoning as he had noticed that Iida had been hyper-alert for the past three days, on the first day he even seemed a bit too eager to head out on patrols.
'To think he picked that all up, but then…why let my stay?' Iida thought to himself as he saw that there was no way out, he was caught but the question now was, why was he still allowed to continue?
"Listen, I know this is going to be hard to hear but the truth is seldom fair or kind." Manual started, his eyes portraying how serious he was being as they didn't look the same as they did a few minutes ago. "You shouldn't act on a personal grudge." Iida stiffened at that as if the words had slapped him across the face.
"We heroes don't have the authority to arrest or punish and can only kill under exceptional circumstances. That is why the use of our quirks is permitted because they are regulated. That is why," Manuel explained to him as he looked to the sky, seemingly lost in memory before he took a breath and looked at him again.
"Heroes must never use their quirks for themselves. If anyone were to use their quirks for their own selfish desires such as revenge, then that will be a serious crime." He finished as he looked right into the eye holes of Iida's helmet. Laying down the rules of that pro of the past agreed to live by, rules they must abide by. Granted a hero killing someone in today's society was rare as in 9 out of 10 cases, lethal force isn't needed but when it is, heroes are given free rein to eliminate the threat by any means. Prior to the All Might, the crime was so bad that it was regrettably common for a hero to kill or cripple the villains or criminals they are fighting. It was the reason that many older pros were much better versed in deadly fighting styles and made much more liberal use of their weapons and quirks.
"I'm not saying the Hero Killer isn't guilty, he is and he will face justice for his crimes! But you seem to be such a good kid but you tend to have this tunnel vision whenever you focus so I was worried!" And just like that, Manuel was back to normal.
"Thank you for the warning, Manuel." Iida said as he bowed to him.
"As long as you understand things, you have a good heart and a bright future ahead of you, I just want to make sure you don't throw that away when we have systems to handle these types of things." Manuel replied with a sigh of relief at the fact Iida seemed to take his words to heart, so with that, they continued on with their patrol, though Iida wasn't as he seemed.
'I know...I know that is his wrong,' He could admit that to himself. 'That big brother wouldn't approve but then,' Iida thought to himself as he thought back to all the times his family taught him right from wrong, to how he would watch his elder brother carry out his duty with a joyful tone. 'What am I to do with these feelings inside my heart? This anger?'
(Meanwhile)
"Hosu looks nicer than I thought it." Tomura started as he walked out of the portal Kurogiri created for him. At present, he was speaking with Stain as he had been looking for him and found him on top of this here building, looking out to the city like some Assassin's creed character. "So, what're your plans then? After you attacked us, you asked to be dropped off here again, despite the fact that heroes are all over the place looking for you." Tomura asked as he reached for his shoulder, he still had the wounds from their failed meeting a couple of days prior. And since they didn't have any healers in their party, yet he would have to wait for his injuries to heal with only the assistance of whatever meds the mad doctor sent him.
"I will reform this city, but to do so, I will need to take down more false heroes." Stain answered him, never taking his eyes off the landscape filled with dozens of possible targets.
"Might I ask, but is that the business you are referring to the other day?" Kurogiri asked him as he stepped through the portal and closed it behind him.
"Looks like someone gets it." Stain commented.
"What are you trying to say about me?" Tomura shot back, holding back the urge to kill him where he stood.
"This society has corrupted what he means to be a hero, turned them into false idols when a hero is supposed to be someone you accomplishes great feats! There are too many, too many who dare to wear the title of 'hero' while being nothing more them fame and money hounds." Stain spoke as he looked towards the setting sun, they had about 30 minutes of daylight left.
"Until the world is set straight, I will continue to appear, and more pretenders will die by my blade." Stain finished as he pulled out his blade and jumped off the building, running off somewhere as if he already knew where his prey lay.
"He sure does love to preach. But for real, he wants to have pure and honest heroes while going around killing people? That's a kind of crazy even I don't wanna touch." Tomura stated as he reached for his neck.
"But you can't really make too much fun of him. The reality of it is that in every city where Stain appeared and killed someone, the crime rate went down by 35% at least, the master believes it's because the heroes are pulling up their socks in a bid to capture him." Kurogiri told him as news of the Hero Killer had lit a fire under the heroes to find and catch him, which meant there caught more criminals as a side-effect of conducting longer and more thorough patrols.
"That's just great then, isn't it?!" Tomura laughed as he heard that little piece of info. "Heroes are working overtime to catch him, which means they can stop more crimes than usual and bring down crime rates, for a guy called the hero killer, all he seems to be doing is encouraging their growth while breading more! He's like some kind of hero-farmer." He laughed as he recalled playing some farm sim where all he did was grow grapes and bananas just for the hell of it.
"That's too indirect for me. We not only can't agree on a basic level but he also really annoys me." Tomura said, sounding much tamer as he looked over to Kurogiri. "Well, at least we didn't bring these along for nothing."
"Kurogiri."
"At once." Kurogiri replied as he opened up five different portals, from them monsters poured out, each one different from the last but all sharing the fact there were basically brain dead and had their brains exposed.
"You think you can get away with insulting me, Hero Killer? Attacking me? Stabbing me?" Tomura asked as he couldn't help but giggle at the thought of what his Nomu could do. "I'm gonna enjoy watching your honor and pride crumble, it'll be way more fun than just killing you." He finished as the last one stepped through unto the rooftop.
"Now then, let's see how much of Hosu can be burned to the ground before I find you." He said to himself as a mad glint came to his eye as he looked in the direction that Stain ran off in.
(Later)
"When are we expected back?" Midoriya asked as he and Rahzar kept on walking through the streets. The sun had gone down about 30 minutes prior but the two kept up their own search, though Midoriya would admit that Hosu had nothing on the nighttime views of Kyoto as the night before they came, he had taken some time to just relax in his room and looked out towards the city just before bed. He could appreciate how beautiful the city looked at night.
"The master instructed us to head back in the next 20 minutes." Rahzar replied as he checked his watch to make sure he was right. Yoroi had sent them all a message informing them when he expected them to make their way to the precinct and at their current speed and area, the two of them would need to start heading there in 20 if they wanted to arrive on time. "Anything on that toy of yours?"
"It's not a toy and no, Green Day hasn't picked up anything." Midoriya pouted as he tapped the side of his helmet to check how things were going with the drone about 100m above them.
"Still things have been rather calm. Aside from that failed mugging and the elderly couple asking directions, we hadn't had much to do." Rahzar stated as the only real action they got was when they stopped a guy from mugging some middle school kids in an alley. Midoriya's palm strikes needed work but he was heading in the right direction.
"Maybe Mister X and Rule have had better luck them us." Midoriya suggested as he used the touchscreen panel on his gauntlet to try and connect a call. "Rule, Rule you free to talk?" He asked, speaking through the microphone built into the helmet.
"That is correct. Is everything fine on your end?" Kodai replied after a couple of seconds.
"That's a positive. All quiet this part of town. And your?" Midoriya asked as the two of them reached a small zebra crossing and waited for the robots to allow them to cross.
"Just a small gang trying to rob a convenience store. We handled it." Kodai replied as she looked down to the gang bangers they had tied up, the manager was more than willing to allow them to use some of the rope he had for sale, though after Mister X whipped out his switchblades, they didn't stand a chance as about all of them had some cut of cut on them. At the moment, the pro was discussing something with the police who came to arrest them and the store workers.
"That sounds like fun, wish we had something like tha-…Hold on, that's strange" Midoriya said as he saw that Green Day picked up something moving over the rooftops, something quite large.
"Is something wrong?" Kodai asked him.
"Not sure, Green Day picked up something moving across the rooftops." Midoriya replied as he gestured to Rahzar to be on the lookout for something coming from above, the older male nodded his head and kept his eyes open.
"Something? Can't your drone identify it?" Kodai asked him, she didn't know much but she did know that he loved to talk about his tech.
"It's heading towards us-What the hell!?" Midoriya was in the middle of responding but was interrupted when Rahzar saw it coming right towards them so he quickly grabbed onto Midoriya and another civilian before jumping out of the way.
"Steller? Steller! What's happening!?" Kodai tried to get him to respond, her minimal use of emotions catching the attention of Mister X but before they could do anything, something exploded around the corner from them, and with it, screams of panic and terror.
"What in God's is that?!" One of the people near Midoriya and Rahzar asked in fear as he scrambled back up to his feet and saw that there was a monster in the middle of the road. The beast was quite large, standing three whole heads taller than Midoriya, covered in pale yellowish skin. It also had a sort of gas mask attached to its face. The hands were a bigger mystery as the left had tube-like holes ending on all the fingers and thumb while the other hand looked like the inner portions fingers were covered in a hard rock-like substance.
"Trouble, we need to stop it!" Midoriya yelled as he quickly got back up and gave Rahzar a silent nod of thanks before he started to yell for the people to get away from there while Rahzar activated his quick which caused him to drastically transform. His skin grew pale as black fur grew over it, his brown hair fell away as his head morphed into one that suited a member of the canine family better complete with a maw filled with razor-sharp teeth while his body grew about 10cm taller while muscle bulked up. The last big change was his eyes shifted color to grey while his finger grew longer while the fingernails grew stronger, sharper, and longer to the point where one claw was about 15cm in length 'Just what the hell is that thing doing here? It looks like that Nomu from the USJ, are they related?'
"Rahzar, requesting permission to eng-SHIT, LOOK OUT!" Midoriya tried to request but it seemed like this version didn't need to be constantly ordered like the last one as it tried to close the distance and go after the civilians, forcing Midoriya to fly in and try to tackle it. Something that proved to be a bad move as yes, he managed to ensure that they didn't hit the civvies but the creature's bulk and the momentum kept them going, even if they crashed into a thankfully closed restaurant. 'How the hell is this thing this fast?!'Midoriya asked himself as the Nomu tried to smash his head but he moved his head out of the way before socking the thing right in the cheek.
"Steller!" Rahzar yelled as he ran to enter the building, but had to pause when another thing popped up.
BOOM
'Just what in the hell is happening?' Rahzar asked himself as he looked to the other end of the road and saw a similar creature to the one that just appeared had shown up, this one having crashed into a car which he prayed was empty as the thing exploded on impact. This one was all fours and seemed to be skinnier and shorter than the first one but that didn't mean he'll lower his guard. It also had pale skin but it's was closer to white than anything else. Its arms and legs looked to be bulkier and longer than would be proportional for its body which he assumed meant he should avoid being hit by one of them.
"Midoriya, if you can hear me. You have full permission to engage with your gear." Rahzar called out into the smashed-up restaurant before he charged his own target, which saw him coming and screamed before running towards him on all fours.
(With Tomura)
"Yes, Yes! Make it flashy, make it loud! Find and fight every hero you can, you mindless companions!" Tomura laughed as he watched from a taller building, as his Nomu started to rampage across the city. Already fires were breaking out and even from this distance, he could hear the people screaming and fleeing in panic.
(With Iida)
"What did you say? Villains are attacking?! Message received, we'll head over to assist now!" Near the largest of the blast sites, Manuel had just been informed of what was going on. "Tenya, we gotta move!" He yelled as they both took off running.
'What the hell is this? Who is attacking this many places at once? Is it Stain?' Iida thought to himself as he ran along, keeping pace with Manuel. 'No, he has never been close to this flashy in the past.' He concluded as he looked down an alley and saw something amiss, a fresh trail of blood. Without thinking or bothering to alert Manuel, Iida ran down the alleyway in search of the one person that would use this as a cover for their own criminal activities.
(In a dark alley)
"That little brat, it seems he enjoys making noise." Stain said to himself as he looked to the blooming clouds of smoke coming from what he knew was Tomura's work. "Looks like I'll have to get rid of them later but for now," He concluded as he turned his attention to the pro hero he was holding up against a wall with a single hand to the face. The pro in question was Native and must like Stain's other victims, he found that he couldn't move a single muscle.
"I already have prey that needs to be tended to." Stain finished as he held up his blade and prepared to plunge the cold steel right through the pro's heart.
"Bastard!...I can't…move at all…What the hell…did you do…?" Stain struggled out as he tried to move so much as a finger but as much as he willed himself to move, he found that besides speaking, he was trapped in his own body. "Die!" He cursed out in frustration as he saw that this could very well be his last moment on earth. In response to his curse, Stain merely scoffed at him.
"As someone who calls themselves a hero, you should have picked your last words more carefully." Stain told him just as he picked up a presence coming towards and fast, but not fast enough to catch him off guard. 'Great, another distraction.' He thought to himself as he turned around in time to catch the sight of Iida trying to kick him in the head, with little effort, he easily avoided the rushed charge, and with the reversed side of his blade, he knocked his would-be attacker away, the blow knocking off the helmet the person was wearing.
"What is this? A child wearing a suit?" Stain asked as he saw that the person on the ground didn't look all that old, maybe their early 20s at best but more likely to be in their teens. "Get lost boy, this isn't a place to play dress-up." He told the boy as he prepared to continue on with his murder but the boy didn't seem to care.
"Multiple blades of varying sizes, a scarf as crimson as the blood you spill, there's no doubt about it," Iida said aloud as he accounted all that was known about the appearance of the Hero Killer as he worked himself onto his knees. "You must be the Hero Killer: Stain!"
'So he knows who I am, and yet he still stands there, and with such eyes.' Stain observed him as he could tell the look of hatred from a mile away and the fires of furry burned brightly in this one.
"I have been searching for you! Though I didn't think I'll find you so soon." Iida said as his eyes grew even colder, so cold that he didn't even notice that there was a third person present as he locked his attention on Stain and Stain alone. He would have gotten up and continued if not for the fact Stain moved his blade to within an inch of Iida's face.
"You don't need to say more kid, your eyes say it all. You're here for vengeance, aren't you? You better pick your next words carefully because depending on what they are, you may find out that even children can become a target of mine." Stain told him, he didn't have the time for the patience for a young fool getting in his way, if he proved himself a fake like Native, then he would die like Native.
"So what you're saying I'm not even a target, a threat to you?" Iida said to himself in both anger and slight disbelief as he locked eyes with Stain once more, showing that he wasn't scared of him. "Then listen here, criminal!" He started as he started to get back up to his feet, the blade never too far from his face or neck.
"I am the younger brother to a hero you attacked, the blood of man that was and will always be a wonderful older brother!" He said as he thought back to his brother and all the times he watched his work. "I came here to stop you in his place, to get justice for what you did to him! Remember this name for as long as you draw breath." He continued on with growing ferocity in his tone.
"Ingenium! That is the name of the hero that will defeat you!" Iida proclaimed as he got back up, standing tall even against the Hero Killer. He made a vow to himself that he would take vengeance for his brother and right here and now, he would take that shot-no matter the cost.
"I see." Stain stated as he dropped Native to the ground and turned to face Iida fully.
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"Then die." He finished as he judged Iida to just be another fake, young as he may be, in his eyes, he was already too far gone to bother trying to reform, so he would meet his end in this alley. He won't live to see his brother again.
(Meanwhile – With Midoriya)
"Get off me!" Midoriya yelled as he struggled back up to his feet and used the leg from a broken chair to smash into the face of the Nomu on top of him, which gave him enough breathing room to tackle the thing out of the wrecked building using his shockwaves as an extra boost.
"Son of a-that was out of nowhere. Rahzar!" Midoriya cursed as he along with the Nomu crashed into a parked car, he quickly let go of the thing to take stock of the situation and saw the street was really messed up and down the way, Rahzar was in the middle of his own fight.
"Kind of in the middle of something here kid." Rahzar said as he tried to attack his Nomu which was proving to be unnaturally flexible and strong as he would dive and avoid him like elastic water before trying to strike at him.
"Listen, they're nothing but brainless puppets, you don't have to hold back!" Midoriya yelled at him as he dodged a swing from his Nomu before he landed a wicked knee spinning heel kick to its chest, blowing it back. "DO what you have to if it means they go down and don't get back up!" Midoriya finished his warning as he let one of his SMGs fold out into his right hand before he let loose a stream of rubber bullets against the Nomu.
"How do you know that?" Rahzar asked him as he clawed his Nomu across the chest, deep enough to hurt but not deep enough to kill and to his annoyance and slight fascination, the claw marks started to heel pretty quickly.
"They look a lot like the one from the USJ attack, though I would say they look weaker." Midoriya answered him as he pulled out his staff and set it to hammer form, just in time as well as the Nomu charged him, showing off that burst speed.
"So it'll be like attacking a training dummy, good to know!" Rahzar smirked as caught a blow from his Nomu and when it tried to wrap around him, he easily broke free when he clawed at its arm, nearly cleaving the two in two. The Nomu didn't look like it felt it as he jumped off of him and just like before, the wound started to heal but not as fast. With that new knowledge, Rahzar could see that their regeneration was good but not really fast as the claw marks he had left on its chest were still visible but not bleeding and slowly shrinking.
"Wait a minute, didn't that pathetic villain group take responsibility for that, the League or something?" Rahzar asked him as the two of them backed up closer to one another as their Nomu threat moved in on them.
"League of Villains, and yes, they did. This means that this attack is most likely their doing as well." Midoriya finished as he felt himself stand back to back with the seasoned pro, if this was any other time, he would be fanboying so hard right now but with a city under attack and their enemies spread far and wide, he thought it best if they focused on doing their jobs and not dying.
"Rahzar, Steller are you there?" They both heard their leader speak over the coms, though Midoriya was the only one with a hands-free system so he was the only one that could respond.
"Sir? Yes, we're here in the middle of a little situation though." Midoriya answered as he charged his Nomu and started to swing at his with his hammer, one blow landing to its kneecap with enough force to shatter it, slowing the living weapon down.
"You're not the only ones, monsters have appeared across the city. Heroes and law enforcement are engaging but they are spread all over the place. Where are you right now?" Yoroi asked him as he brought up his hammer to use the shaft to blow a blow from an odd stone looing hand as the creature tried to stand back up but lacking any real reasoning, it didn't get very far.
"South end, near the residential district." Midoriya answered as Rahzar threw his Nomu right into Midoriya, causing the two to crash into a pile in the middle of the street.
"Listen, when you get the chance, you are to head to the city center, three of those things are there right now. I'm already on route." Yoroi instructed the two of them.
"We hear you loud and clear." Midoriya said as he took his eyes off their threats for a second and nearly paid for it with his head as the flexible one sprung towards him and nearly caught him in a lariat if not for his reflexes saving him, but barely. "Shit that was close!"
"Oh and Midoriya, you have full permission to engage." Yoroi told him, just in case it was needed.
"Rahzar already gave me permission but thanks!" Midoriya replied to him for something crashed into the 6th floor of a building right next to them. "Great what now?!" He yelled as he didn't want to have to deal with any more of this beast.
"Is that another one? Looks like you could use a nice, big heat seeking-mi-hold on. Is that a hero?!" Midoriya started before his helmet's scanner's picked up two distinct heat signatures coming from the hole in the building. Soon enough the Nomu was thrown out of the hole and crashed onto the street.
"Looks like I chose a busy spot." An elderly man spoke up as he walked out and the hole. Midoriya would have thought him insane if not for the clear hero costume he was wearing.
"Elder? What are you doing here?" Rahzar asked him the man actually shot off the ledge and landed on the street level with ease, despite the height.
"This little freak attacked the train I was traveling in. I had to get it away from there as soon as possible." Gran Torino answered him as he took a second to survey the situation and saw that there was a pro on sight and the other kid from the sports festival, even if Midoriya was in full costume-he saw that the wings were far too similar to what he saw during the festival for it to be anyone else.
"Is the train-" Midoriya tried to ask, fearful for what the casualty list would look like if these things managed to derail a moving train.
"Asides from a hero who was smashed through the wall, no one was hurt then a left." Gran Torino caught onto his feelings and answered the question. "Are these the only ones?" He asked as he turned to look at the three Nomu and noted that each one was different from the last.
"We don't know, all we know is that they are all over the city." Rahzar growled out as he was getting tired of this, he had to get to the city center and meet up with his master as soon as possible and things monsters were in the way of that.
"Any pointers you picked up, kids?" Gran Torino asked the two as he already could tell these things could take a beating if need be.
"They're nothing but puppets, break them as much as you need to." Rahzar replied as he lashed out with both hands, sending spikes of his claws towards the Nomu, the flexible one dodged easily while the other two found themselves impaled by the tough as steel claw knives
"I don't even want to know where they came from." Rahzar said as Midoriya chased after the flexible one but found himself caught by the one with the odd hands, the thing was able to grab onto his face and throw him back towards the ground but he caught himself and rolled with it, getting back up to his feet fast enough to smash the Nomu across the face with a heavy hammer blow.
"Oh, I have an idea!" Midoriya joked as he dodged another blow from a Nomu but before he could counter, Gran Torino took care of it with a heavy double kick to its chest.
"Focus, we need to take them down as soon as possible." Gran Torino scolded the two of them just as they all heard a women's scream and to their horror, they saw that a couple had just left the building they were taking shelter in, most likely thinking this was a good time to flee. Sadly for them, the flexible Nomu saw them coming and started to go after them. 'Shit, its going after civilians!'
'Is that thing only concerned with hurting people?' Midoriya thought to himself as he found he couldn't get to their aid as he was busy trying to fight off a Nomu while Rahzar was too far back. "Stop!" He yelled at him, opting to try and blast the thing with his SMG with the hopes it'll draw its attention but before he could even pull the trigger.
"Stop right there!" Kendo yelled as she came right around the corner and used her two enlarged hands to grab the couple and carry them out of harm's way.
"The hell?" Rahzar said.
"Battle Fist!" Gran Torino called out, recognizing his intern.
"Kendo!" Midoriya called out, just as confused as Rahzar as he didn't know she was in Hosu.
"Gran Torino!" Kendo called out as she carried the couple in her hands to a safe distance before letting them down where they quickly ran off.
"What did I tell you? Stay in the train!" Gran Torino yelled at her as he launched himself at her and landed a soft kick to her forehead.
"Sir, another hero showed up and said they had it covered! So I thought it best to follow and see if you needed aid." Kendo explained herself as she rubbed her forehead. It would have been funny for them to have this little chat if three Nomu's weren't breathing down their necks!
"[Tick] As if I needed more things to deal with." Gran Torino muttered to himself as he turned around to get back in the fight. "Well as long as you're here, make yourself useful. You have full permission to use your quirk." He said aloud just to be sure of all the rules.
"Thank you, sir!" Kendo answered him with a smile full of confidence as her hands shrunk a bit but were still very much big. "Now I can fight!"
"If you fight them as you fought me during our match, they'll gonna be in for a world of hurt." Midoriya joked as he knocked off the Nomu he was fighting only to notice the thing start to let out some kind of mist from the holes of the one hand. 'What is that stuff, is it a gas?'
"The hell is it doing?" Rahzar asked as he too noticed the mist, though it was from the smell of the stuff.
"Don't know. Neko can you identify it?" Midoriya asked his AI as he activated ran towards the thing with his hammer raised for combat. The Nomu screaming out unknown words and sounds as he ran towards him as well.
"I'll need a sample to do a quick analyse." Neko replied to him, leading to him sighing in annoyance as he swung his hammer around so that he could pull off a rocket-assisted uppercut to the Nomu's jaw, getting the sweet noise of its jaw being smashed to pieces.
"Of course you would." Midoriya said to himself as he turned to face Kendo who was helping Rahzar with his Nomu. "Lend me a hand?"
"Of course." Kendo replied as she got a nod of permission from the sidekicks before she ran towards him and with one hand in the air, brought it down hammer style on the Nomu, smashing the creature into the ground.
"Dammit, Yoroi isn't going to be pleased with our delay." Rahzar said to himself as he slashed the arm off his Nomu before punching the thing so hard it crashing into the side of a building quite the distance away from where they were standing.
"Wait, as in the equipped hero?" Kendo asked as she paused a bit as she recalled the one classmate she knew was interning with him. "Does that mean-"
"Yes, Kodai and here too, and no, I don't know where she is right now." Midoriya answered her as it was already a worry on his mind as he didn't know where the hell Iida was in this mess. Green Day was looking for the two of them but so far, had only located Kodai who was still sticking close to Mister X as they moved people away from the combat and fires. At that same moment, he noticed that Neko had found a type of chemical in the gas cloud that made him nearly piss himself.
"Watch out, that gas is explosive. Nobody light a thing!" Midoriya yelled out as he immediately deactivated his rocket and turned his weapon back into a spear, thanking his lucky stars that he hadn't already blown them all to hell thanks to the wind blowing the gas away from him.
"Wait, if the left releases the gas then the right could-GET DOWN!" Rahzar called out to the two interns as she saw the Nomu in question scream at them before snapping two of its stone-like fingers together, creating a spark that set off the gas surrounding it and them.
BOOM
The explosion was a large one that blew out the windows of the buildings to any side of the road. It was so powerful that Gran Torino lost control of his jump and nearly crashed into a wrecked store while Rahzar had to bury his claws into the ground to anchor himself.
"Kendo!" Gran Torino yelled in as he saw that the two interns were the closest to the blast.
"Kid!" Rahzar called out, praying that he didn't lose an intern like this.
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"We're good!" Thankfully for them, they both heard Kendo call out to them as the smoke as. "Just as the nick of time too." She finished as the smoke cleared and they saw that Midoriya had tackled her to the ground where he expanded his wings around them in a dome-like fashion similar to what he did at the USJ, only this time-his wings showed much fewer signs of damage.
"Well, I wasn't expecting to be caught in an explosion today, where it go?" Midoriya commented as he didn't even give himself praise for wisely upgrading the heat and explosive resistance of his gear as he noted that the pale blue Nomu Gran Torino had brought there was missing. The one with the gas was not too far from the, slowly getting up while covered in minor burns from the blasts. 'So the thing has good resistance to explosions then? This will be difficult.'
"Dammit, we lost one." Kendo cursed as she could already that thing running amok somewhere else.
"New plan, why don't Battle Fist and I try to try it down, I can get Green Day to track it from the sky?" Midoriya said as he redirected Green Day from keeping track of Kodai to tracking down their missing Nomu.
"Alright, we'll stay here and try to take these down for the count, remember to meet city center." Rahzar agreed to his suggestion as they needed to split if they wished to handle this mess. It didn't help that they heard an explosion not too far from them and even more screams, didn't the people get out of here? He hated the fact that people would crowd to watch heroes at work, didn't they understand that all that did was make their jobs harder? This is why he preferred to work late-night shifts, fewer idiots to get themselves into trouble and hurt!
"We will, let's go!" Midoriya said as he turned to Kendo who nodded her head in agreement before he activated his wings and grabbed her in his clawed feet, being careful to keep enough force to have a firm hold of her but loose enough as to not hurt her. With that, the two flew off, leaving their betters to handle one mess as they looked to try to help with another one.
If only they knew that by the end of the night, they'll actions and names will again be remembered and spoken by the masses, and not for their epic duel during the 1st year sports festival, no.
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But for their fight against the Nomu, against Stain, and for their actions in times of dire straits and high stress.
And that is the end of this chapter but is only the beginning of the Stain Arc. There were already changes to the flow of things as unlike cannon, Midoriya wasn't just passing through when shit hit the fan but rather he was there to help to look for Stain and yes, he was being serious about stepping past his boundaries as one must know their own limits and unlike in a school like an environment like UA, out in the field, going beyond those limits almost never ends well. Take the last episode of season 4 for example, yes Endeavour defeated the High-End Nomu by going past his limits but I can assure you that if any member of the league showed up to fight him, he would have been defenseless.
I also made a change to Manuel little speech to Iida as I always found it odd that on Hero kills on-screen, it's always capturing or subdue like in the comics but we do know that happens as All Might thought he killed AFO and not only was it covered up but the man didn't even look a tiny bit remorseful for taking a life, which makes sense, AFO is an evil dude. So I gave heroes similarly but lesser power to police as anybody can tell you if police try to arrest you and your resist, they'll either get aggressive to subdue you like break your nose or arm but more often than not, if you may prove a threat to their own someone else safety, they'll shoot you. No, they won't shoot to kill but most likely aim for your leg or something. Heroes do have that same power but because they can use their quirks and are trained in how to make the best use of them, they have fewer situations where they can kill the criminal unlike other branches of Law enforcement.
I also included that little detail about how bad things were before All Might as it made out to say that AFO had a small army of followers at his height, that's a lot of criminals running around so I can't see a justice system being able to cope if cops and pros weren't given more freedom to do their jobs as AFO had the one bodyguard(the giant from Kirishima flashback) who is strong enough to destroy a damn mountain(even if it was a small one), if there was a time where he wasn't the only heavy hitter under AFO, I can imagine that the authorities would treat them like American law treats terrorists, kill them now and worry about it never.
As for the Nomu fight scenes, I hope they are up to standard and were enjoyable to read as I did enjoy writing them. this chapter would have been longer but the next chapter will move on to other parts of the Hosu incident which I was honestly surprised didn't get more media exposure as with that much chaos and destruction, the fact that the heroes on sight were mostly ineffective against the Nomu and because Tomura is sort of insane, you would think there would have been quite the casualty list of injured if not killed people for the news to talk about but no, it's all about Stain.
NoahRed: Thank you for pointing that out, the correction has already been made. And with the name, I made sure to double check it just to be sure so that's the right spelling.
tenebras et lucem: Once more thank you for pointing that out, it's kinda of exciting to know that so many people of different countries read this story to be honest.
Blaze1992: That would certainly be an interesting story as seen stories on this site where Izuku moves to New York-mostly since his mother discovered how bad his bullying issue was-so it's not impossible. He and Donny would probably get along just fine.
D3lph0xL03r: Thank you, I will. You're the first one to notice that. Don't worry-chances are that we'll see what Mt. Lady has in store for Mineta in the following chapter. As for Yoroi telling to learn to fight without their quirks, it's a valid point as we see both villains and heroes rely on their quirks to the degree that going up against someone like Eraser or being shot with Overhaul quirk suppressing or God forbid-erasing bullet would be the death blow to them. Sure we saw that Mirio could manage for a while without his but what about someone like Endeavour or Jeanist or Present Mic? Also, you do remember that Tetsutetsu said he'll only take OFA after internships, right? Trying to learn to use such a power during such a time would be next to impossible as Izuku was only able to do it because Gran Torino knew about the quirk and its history-Fourth Kind does not and would probable get sick of the boy breaking himself every other day since in the festival-he was just fine. After the internships-the only thing they have in their term finals and then summer break-a break he and All Might can use for training purposes.
NinjaFang1331: Thank you.
Bauers374: I'll check it out. Ferb and Vanessa did get together wasn't 'Act your Age' the final episode of Phineas and Ferb as it was the last episode Disney XD aired for like to months before they started airing episodes in random order? SO as far as I'm concerned-that ship is cannon and sailed. Though knowing Ferb, I can only see the parents shocked as the teens and kids probably didn't read too much into it. That Iron man quote has already been done, but I'll consider it. And yes, he isn't a self-made dick, he's still a piece of shit and can tell if Ashido and Kirishima knew how much of a piece of shit-they would have left the Bakusquad by now but I don't think he's hopeless. That does sound like something he'll say just to screw with everyone. Sadly, you aren't the first to figure that out.
ocomhdhain1: Well I do like throwing in stuff like that. He is an interesting character and with you throw out his jealousy and hatred towards Splinter, a worthy teacher.
Erogard: Again, thank you pointing that out. The correction has been made.
GunBlade2020: Thank you for the kind words.
Valkrus: That was changed from chapter 2 onwards so don't worry about it. Romeo and Akito are just throw away names for neighbours that used to help Izuku study. There were so unimportant that when I read that review I asked myself 'who is he talking about?'