My Green Sun Prince Academia
Chapter Three
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The Promise
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The logistics of this operation required perfect precision. It would be impossible to crack open the "Kumiko Shell" without putting both the building it rested on and the inhabitants of the surrounding city block at risk. Therefore, they had to transport it to a safer location, and only then could they crack it open to rescue the young man inside, who they temporarily named Yamada Taro.
They also needed to keep information packed down tightly, thus the name "Kumiko Shell" as opposed to what they initially labeled it: Nuclear Shell. They could not hide that it existed, and thanks to the video going viral around the globe and broadcasted on international news, could not contain the story of the hostage inside of it. Thankfully, there was no suspicion of the nuclear nature of the Shell. At least not yet. They knew that doctors at the local hospital were already following radiation protocols while trying to prevent a panic. The clock was ticking.
To make matters worse, the Shell seemed to have some form of awareness. It set off smaller explosions around itself at their prior attempts to move it. This was not only dangerous and frustrating but mystifying. The Shell didn't eject any material, nor did any opening appear to vent any explosives. Sand simply coalesced into the air around it before exploding with green fire, sending burned brass shrapnel in all directions. Their only relief was that the explosions only occurred when someone tried to push or otherwise disturb the Shell. Gang Orca's sonar did not seem to trigger the reaction, and he confirmed the boy inside was still alive even after the most recent of the explosions.
The first phase of the plan relied almost entirely on Cementoss, the Cement Hero: Ishiyama Ken. With his unique geological Quirk, he was to build a sphere of reinforced cement around the Shell so that they could transport it safely. The casing would need vent ports so that if the Shell released another explosion, it would not send the cement sphere outward as shrapnel. Unfortunately, this would massively increase the weight of the Shell and likely cause the collapse of the building. Therefore, the plan called for a pillar of cement underneath the Shell. They needed to build it in advance of the sphere's construction.
Once surrounded, it would be up to Mount Lady, Takeyama Yu, to lift it and transport it to the harbor. Indeed, there were other heroes strong enough to lift the Shell and the concrete around it, but Mt. Lady would be the only one who could both lift it and avoid putting too much stress on the building. During transport, they expected that the Shell would release multiple explosive rounds. The Fire Supporters, led by the hero Backdraft, would be on standby throughout transportation to prevent and mitigate damage on the route. Thankfully, the entire course was evacuated in advance with a series of road blockades, to avoid any traffic or civilian casualties.
Once at the harbor, they would load the concrete sphere onto the Oki Mariner along with two more passengers: Gang Orca and All Might. Then they planned to take it to one of Japan's most remote islands, and there All Might would crack open both the cement sphere and the Shell in an attempt to rescue the lone hostage. If the Shell's defensive behavior was any indication, the explosion unleashed once the surface was cracked open would be significantly worse than the initial detonation when it formed earlier that morning. No one wanted to think over what that could mean for the passengers or the crew of the Oki Mariner.
However, there was another set of complications that none of them could have foreseen.
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The van was marked NHK. There were several other news crews, but this was the news Inko turned on every night. She marched right up to a crewmember of the news team. There were no cameras on at the moment. They all seemed to be waiting for something exciting to happen or to get any updates from the professional heroes, but they certainly weren't waiting for a civilian to march up to them. They had finished collecting eyewitness accounts quite some time ago.
Inko simply held up her phone. It displayed a paused video, focusing on a fairly close up image of Izuku climbing the safety fence before that woman appeared. "This is my son in this video." She kept the message simple and direct to gauge their reaction.
At first, the camera and sound men barely seemed to understand her. Then a woman opened the front door of the van abruptly and almost jumped out. She was dressed professionally, which contrasted with her rabid eagerness. "You're the mother of the boy inside the Shell?"
Inko nodded. "I want to be able to get closer to the Shell, but for now, I'm excluded to the general population from the evacuation. My son is inside that," she paused, considering her next words. Each word felt painful to say. "He's trapped in that thing, and I want to know if… I want to know that he's alive, and I want to know what the plan is to get him out."
The newswoman outstretched her hand with her business card. "I'm Toyo Airi. It's a pleasure to meet you. Let's take a seat together and do a dry run of an interview. What's your name, ma'am?"
"Midoriya Inko. Thank you for your help. Please take care of me." Inko bowed, and the reporter returned the gesture. "After the interview, will you be able to get me up there?"
Airi gave the older woman a comforting smile. "We can try, Miss Midoriya. We can try."
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Katsuki found his mom. They hugged without any of the awkwardness he had felt about it since growing to be a young man. There was unspoken gratitude between them that both of them were still alive and well, that they were lucky to still have each other. Neither of them wanted to continue dwelling on Katsuki's responsibility for the mess they were in.
"Are you ok? You were in there a long time." Mitsuki's warmth and concern sharply contrasted with the tough love she administered earlier that day.
"It was weird. I think that the explosion earlier caused tricks in the way shadows look in the building. It was creepy." He did not elaborate. "And then Kamui Woods found me."
With a sad expression, Mitsuki handed her phone over to her son. "We found Izuku… sort of."
Katsuki was shocked and briefly was relieved. However, when his mom didn't elaborate further, he feared the worst. Holding the phone up, he pressed play on the video. Katsuki recognized Deku on the roof above. Cold dread spread through him as he watched his friend ascend the fence on the outside perimeter of the roof. His fears became muddled, then replaced with confused arousal.
Yeah, he was supposed to focus on Deku, but that woman that appeared was smoking hot. Every curve of her body was a fantasy that played across the back recesses of his mind. With a body like that, he did not care that she was bald. And then, when she transformed, it opened whole new worlds of possibilities in the hormonal crevasses of his imagination.
All of that was drowned out with stunned shock when she began to tear Deku's clothes from his body and administered soul-scorching kisses across his lips and his face. Just as he started thinking that stupid Deku was the luckiest bastard in the world, shit got weird. "Holy shit…." He uttered as she melted across Deku's body, trapping him beneath her.
Katsuki's breathing became more rapid as his lungs demanded more air. He felt like the Sludge Villain that had attacked him just the day before had wrapped around him again, suffocating him, paralyzing him. He watched Deku go limp under the translucent fluid and could easily see himself in that situation.
"Can't breathe," he muttered. Katsuki thrust the phone back into his mother's hands as he turned to walk away, unable to finish watching. He did not look back as she called out to him and did not see as she stretched out an arm towards him.
He didn't come back for over an hour. Katsuki didn't say where he had gone or what he had been doing, and she did not ask. There was no way he could confess that he found a dark alley and cried. He could not explain his bloody fist from punching the brick walls in that alley. He could not find the strength to admit how guilty he felt, how terrible. He did not cling to the same hope that Deku's mother was holding onto, the vain belief that Deku was alive.
Instead, Katsuki stubbornly finished the rest of the video when he got back. However, he found no real hope in it. His friend's body was trapped in there, but the Shell had formed around a liquid core. There was no way after this much time that Deku could still be breathing.
The shadows that haunted him were right. Deku was gone.
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Yagi Toshinori had not felt guilt this palpable in a very long time. All Might, the Symbol of Peace, the Number One Hero everyone looked up to: at this moment, he felt like a fraud. Yesterday he had a choice to encourage a young man with true heroic spirit and potential, to do for him what his predecessor had done and to make him the next recipient of One for All. He considered it, tempted by the prospect. Midoriya Izuku had shown the correct moral fiber and indomitable spirit needed to be the next Symbol of Peace.
However, he held back and instead told the boy to give up on his dream.
At the time, he told himself it was a necessary sacrifice. To choose a successor whose Quirk would one day incorporate itself to One for All, he decided to let Young Midoriya down. Unfortunately, it wasn't until now that he saw the inherent selfishness of that choice. He chose to sacrifice the hopes and dreams of a young man who had nothing but hopes and dreams to hold himself together. For what lofty greater good did he sacrifice Izuku on the altar? Simple: to favor a sight-unseen youth who had been lucky enough to be born with the right Quirk.
Watching the Youtube video and recognizing Izuku from yesterday was painful enough. That, though, was nothing. Watching his mother's dry run interview tore Toshinori's heart out.
"All Might was his inspiration, the man he most wanted to be like," she said.
"Was?" Airi asked in response.
Midoriya Inko's eyes darkened. Toshinori knew that look. The anger and rage of those eyes were unmistakable, all of it caused by deep intolerable pain. "That was before he met All Might yesterday."
The look on Airi's face was one of deep concern, but Toshinori caught the worry in her eyes. "What happened when your son met All Might?"
Fresh tears wet her cheeks as she spoke. "You have to understand that my son is Quirkless. He's been bullied all of his life. Still, he never got angry, never wanted to get back at anyone, never allowed himself to be beaten down."
Inko paused with a moment of horrifying self-reflection. "No, it's worse than that. No one encouraged him to chase his dream. The one thing he always wanted was to be a hero and to save people. Somehow, he even endured it when I would tell him that being a hero wasn't possible for him. He kept on believing in himself and his dream."
Toshinori's heart broke when he heard what she said next. "There's no way All Might knew any of that… but when he told my son that he couldn't be a hero… my son broke. The boy that came home no longer wanted to be a hero. He was just… all he wanted was to die." She broke down crying, and Airi moved to comfort her.
"Are you sure you want to see the rest of this?" Airi asked him over his shoulder as he stared into the abyss of her phone's screen.
"I have to. I owe it to that young man… and his mother." He was stern, yet it was clear that his anger was self-directed. Toshinori watched the horror unfold. He learned about the notes. He realized that Izuku planned to jump off the building after Toshinori told him he would never be a hero. Too late, he knew in the depths of his soul that he had made an irreparable mistake. He had broken an unbreakable spirit, and he had done it for a selfish desire to see One for All grow more powerful.
Toshinori grimaced when it occurred to him that All for One would have been "proud" of his decision.
"Airi, I need a favor."
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"Hello, I'm Yamada Ken with NHK. Welcome back, those of you who have stayed with us on this story. And for those of you who are just tuning in: an unknown Villain Attack has devastated the city of Musutafu." Segments from the now-trending Youtube video filled the screen as the narration continued.
"What began as an act of desperation was thwarted by an unknown pursuer. Two eyewitnesses corroborate that the woman with the teleportation Quirk seen here was pursuing the young man through the streets of Musutafu below before his ascent to the roof of this apartment building," he began, stating a neutralizing spin on the events of the day.
"Here, the young man is seen desperate to escape his pursuer, yet chose to surrender rather than risk his life by extending the chase," he continued, showing a short excerpt of the video. "Her subsequent conversation with him, where she talked him away from the roof's edge, was short-lived, however, as the unidentified woman attacked the young man."
The video shifted, skipping the erotic nature of the woman's "attack" to focus on her melting across Izuku's body. "She then, through the use of an as yet unknown Quirk, liquified and trapped him inside a metallic shell. Upon formation, the Shell unleashed a series of explosions into the area, raining down fiery shrapnel onto vehicles and pedestrians below. Heroes assisted the authorities in the evacuation of all buildings within a city block and are hard at work to resolve the situation."
The video shifted to drone footage of the Shell itself. "We have learned that fifty-three people have sustained injuries. Hospital authorities have deemed seven such cases to be critical, but have reported no fatalities at this time. The young man in the now-trending video has been identified as Midoriya Izuku. He is a senior at Musutafu High School. He is registered as Quirkless but is an applicant at six different Hero Programs, including the prestigious Yuei Daigaku Hero Program. We have an exclusive interview with his mother, Midoriya Inko, conducted by Toyo Airi."
The view shifted to a camera at the park near the incident, where Toyo Airi help a microphone out towards Midoriya Inko. The bottom of the screen identified her with the subheading: Mother of Midoriya Izuku (Trapped in the Uknown Shell). "Miss Midoriya," Airi began. "Thank you for joining us today. Is there anything you'd like to share with us regarding your son?"
Inko took a calming breath. She had been prepped just beforehand by Airi about the eyewitnesses accounts of Izuku flight from his pursuer. This was the first she had heard of it, and it caused her to lose her emotional balance. She lost track of every talking point they had discussed during the dry run interview. "Yes, thank you. I came here today hoping to find my son after he... ran away from home." She paused on her words, finding it impossible to admit her son's suicidal ideation on national television. "I know from a letter he wrote that he came here because this is where he met All Might yesterday." Again, a calming breath. "I'm glad that he didn't jump, no matter how much he needed to escape. This is terrible, not just for us but for all of these people. I know that it's selfish, but I just want to know if my son is alive and what the plan to get him out of that thing is."
Airi gave her a conciliatory smile. "I'm sorry for what you are going through, Miss Midoriya. You'll be pleased to know that we've received a statement from the Professional Hero Association that Gang Orca has conducted a sonar investigation of the Shell and that your son is, in fact, alive." She placed a reassuring arm out to lightly touch Inko on her arm. That light touch became a steadying arm as Inko seemed to lose balance.
"Oh, thank God. Oh, thank God." Tears visibly washed down Inko's face.
Airi continued. "We're also being granted permission to have you come with us to the temporary headquarters for the rescue operation with a correspondence pass. It seems All Might wants to have a word with you personally."
At this, Inko seemed genuinely shocked. This woman must have taped the dry run of their interview and sent it onward to the Hero Association. She could have had a salacious story with a grieving mother placing at least a chunk of blame at the feet of All Might, the Symbol of Peace. Instead, she chose to maneuver this situation to be helpful and to get Inko the one thing she wanted most: involvement in her son's rescue. "Thank you…" She cried. "Thank you so much."
She lunged forward, hugging the other woman tightly.
"Back to you, Ken." Airi signed off.
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Mitsuki almost fell over at the receipt of a simple text. "He's alive," was all it said. Inko then continued. "Gang Orca's sonar proved he's alive. I'm being allowed into Hero HQ to learn about the rescue plan. Thank you for helping me today. I will never forget this for as long as I live."
"Mom?" Katsuki grew concerned watching his mother almost cry while reading her phone. He came over and read over her shoulder. In a move that surprised her, he embraced her tightly. She could tell that he was having trouble holding back tears of his own.
Deku was alive.
"You're going to get my blouse wet," Mitsuki teased, still holding onto her son.
"Shut up," he said, holding her tighter.
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"This is getting more and more interesting," said a tall, well-dressed figure standing behind a bar. He was mixing a martini as he spoke. His shadowy features flowed smoothly as he worked.
"Annoying, but interesting," the ashen-faced man sitting near him spoke up. Even though the conspirators were safe in their hideout, he obscured his features with a hand that clung to his face. "I want us to learn everything we can about that Purple Woman. From what I can tell, she has at least three Quirks. Teleportation, Transformation, and then that Shell Bomb trick. For now, the Midoriya family is the only lead we have on her." He lifted the palm of his obscuring hand-mask to sip at the martini once he said his piece.
The shadow behind the bar countered with his observations. "The fact that she targeted a Quirkless teenager is odd. Even stranger is she targeted one that was about to commit suicide," he said, slicing through the official story with nonchalant dismissiveness. "Why would she do that? To what end?"
The pale-faced man smiled. "Maybe it wasn't his demographic profile… maybe it was something specific, or even personal. Either way, let's do our research. I want to know everything there is to know about Midoriya Izuku," he paused, taking another draft of his beverage. "He's the bread crumb trail that will lead us to the Purple Woman."
The shadowy figure did not bother correcting his companion regarding his overly simplistic view of the color spectrum or how to apply it when naming a stranger.
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The command center was a converted apartment in the building across from the rooftop where Izuku was trapped. From here, Inko had a clear view of the Shell, even though it was still far away. Seeing it with her naked eyes rather than through a screen was horrifying. It was massive, far larger than her tiny phone earlier would have let her believe. The thing had to weigh several metric tons at least and was approximately three meters and almost as wide.
She'd heard it described as having some similarity to a conch shell, but this twisted metal structure was far more nightmarish than that description would have suggested. It twisted at painful-looking angles, appearing both huge yet tightly cramped. It was almost physically painful to look at, forcing the eyes to trace along sharp edges and unnatural bends. Jutting out from it at odd angles were green-hued metallic spikes. Each seemed to glow with malicious energy.
"Miss Midoriya, thank you for coming," a deep yet calm voice spoke behind her. She turned away from the monstrous cage that trapped her son and looked at the tall, muscular figure of the man he had idolized his whole life. She wanted to hate him, wished she could slap him, or even to blame him. However, she couldn't.
Inko knew deep down that All Might's words, whatever he'd said that hurt Izuku, matched her own, words she had spoken far too often to her son. He was just the last straw that broke her son under the weight of the world. She, as his mother, was a whole metric ton of that weight.
Inko extended a hand in greeting, choosing to look him in the eye. "Thank you for having me."
To her surprise, the Symbol of Peace bowed low to her, his face downcast to the floor. "I apologize, Miss Midoriya, if my words to your son yesterday caused him or you any pain. It was not my intention, and I accept responsibility for the hurt I have caused. I am truly sorry."
Inko suddenly knew without a doubt that Airi taped the dry interview and that All Might had seen all of it. All the same, she was somewhat grateful that he was willing to take such responsibility like this wholeheartedly. Even so, it still didn't seem right. "Please, stand," she said. "Let's just talk for a bit."
The fact that she had to crane her neck back just to look him in the eye annoyed her, but it was basically what she had asked for. "You're far from the first person to tell my son not to pursue his dreams. The truth is, I'm the worst offender. You didn't know him. To you, he was a fan, just a kid, but I don't have that excuse. I'm his mother, and I should have encouraged him. I only found out today that he applied to those Hero courses. Oh yes, he also applied to the universities that I hoped he would go to, the ones where I helped him with his essays and his applications… but those he did on his own without me knowing. That was the kind of young man my son was: someone who never was going to give up…"
Inko took a long breath to steady herself, to avoid crying. "Help me bring my son home safely, and I will finally give him the encouragement that he's needed his whole life."
With grim determination, All Might placed a hand on her shoulder. The sheer mass of his arm should have weighed her down, but his touch was light and careful. "I promise to bring your son home to you no matter what it costs me. You may be very forgiving of me, and I thank you for it, but I will bear the responsibility of my words."
She had to wipe a tear away. "Thank you… for being a good role model for my son for so many years." Inko could not bear to share the pain she felt when she found her son the night before destroying everything that reminded him of All Might.
"I'll try to be a better one for him. I promise." He seemed deadly serious. She had to wonder why he was regretting this so much. Did Izuku downplay just how harsh All Might had been to him?
The intercom near them suddenly blared to life. "This is Cementoss. I am in position at the lowest survey marker, directly below the Shell. I am ready to begin."
Again, it buzzed to life. "This is Mount Lady in position west of the Shell."
Another pause. "This is Gang Orca, in position with the Fire Supporters. We're on the roof, ready to begin."
All Might picked up the intercom from the Support crew and gave the order himself. "Cementoss this is All Might at Temporary HQ. You are cleared to begin the operation. Operation Eggshell is go."
Inko looked up at him. There was so much hope emanating from him it seemed to fill the room. She had heard some of the details of the plan. She knew they were going to make a concrete sphere around the Shell before picking it up and moving it elsewhere to crack it open. It was cautious, but that only made her feel better. It was a good plan. It was going to work.
Izuku was going to come home. Everything was going to be alright.
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In less than a few minutes, everything had gone horribly wrong.
Once signaled to proceed, Cementoss created a base for the cement pillar that would eventually extend up through the building. It would cause a great deal of structural damage on the way, but he could account for that and have the pillar act as temporary support for the surrounding structure. He felt terrible about the possessions within the apartments that the pillar would tear through, but given that this was a rescue operation that could not be helped. He spared a glance at family photos on the wall of the apartment he was currently in and prayed that nothing irreplaceable would be lost.
Unfortunately, he never got it tall enough for it to extend past the third floor. Thankfully his instincts were good because he was suddenly in genuine danger. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw wisps of green energy and whirling sands solder together. Unfortunately, it was not some lavender skinned beauty that coalesced near him but a hulking brutal creature. It was ape-like, with tough red leathery skin and dark coarse hair on its long arms. It uttered a deafening dual-tone roar at him, both a piercing scream and low rumbling at once. Just as quickly as it formed, it began to attack. He threw up concrete barriers, and it tore through them like fire through paper. Over and over, it continued the assault as he beat a tactical retreat.
"This is Cementoss. I have enemy contact. I repeat enemy contact," he shouted into the comm system. Cementoss ran outside only to see more sand floating through the air. Mount Lady was running towards him only to trip as another creature like the first formed at her feet. It stood its ground and used itself as a falling hazard. No sooner had she braced herself to fall onto her hands and knees, the creatures swarmed around her. Seven more monsters appeared to join the previous two.
Cementoss finally got a good look at them now that he was out in the sunlight. Their eyes were as red as their skin, and their fur was to composed of small sharp quills. More alarmingly, they were armored and armed. Their backs and chests displayed tough-looking green-hued brass breastplates, and they wore some form of gauntlet or vambrace on each arm. These ended in long punch-daggers. Worst of all, they were huge. Each creature had to weigh half a metric ton.
While the beasts swarmed he and Mount Lady, Cementoss was grateful that All Might was nearby. However, his earpiece lit up with more unwelcome news. "This is Gang Orca. We also have enemy contact."
Cementoss cursed under his breath. Everything was going from bad to worse. Thankfully, Mount Lady was strong enough to be a significant threat to these things. He moved to support her, but one of the beasts flanked him to cut off his aid to her.
That's when one of them barked out orders to the others in a language he had never heard before. He knew then that these attackers were sentient and organized, a dedicated military unit. This realization was terrifying when he saw what they were doing: as more sands floated through the area, a team of the beasts reached out to grasp at it as links of a long and terrible chain formed in their outstretched paws. Cementoss knew he had to do something, or else they would use that to restrain Mount Lady.
Thankfully, a large oak branch reached forward to grab one of the creatures out of nowhere, chain and all, flinging them to the side. Kamui Woods had been waiting in the background and chose now to enter the fray. His actions bought enough time for Mount Lady to stand up while Cementoss used his powers to repel several of the creatures. However, the fight was far from over.
"This is All Might. I can see the enemy leader from here standing next to the Shell. Unless anyone has an objection, I am moving to engage." He spoke to all of them via intercom.
Mount Lady didn't even use the com system. She simply shouted. "Go kick some ass All Might. We'll do the same down here."
Cementoss noted there was no reply from Gang Orca or the Fire Supporters. If the enemy leader was near the Shell where they were, then All Might had to have determined their need for aid was significantly greater than the heroes here on the ground. It was a sobering thought.
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Inko watched the proceeding alongside Airi and her news crew with paralyzing horror gripping their spines. Far below them, the indomitable Mount Lady had been tripped and found herself swarmed by monstrous ape creatures. Cementoss and Kamui Woods came to her aid, but they were all significantly outnumbered.
All Might was shouting orders to the Support crew to "Bring everyone: every hero in range. Call every agency if you have to one by one." The urgency in his voice was frightening to hear.
Despite their dire need, All Might couldn't just jump down there to help them, as one might expect. On the roof, Gang Orca was caught entirely by surprise, as were the entire Fire Supporters team. Creatures manifesting from thin air is not something they had ever thought of, much less prepared for. Due to this unexpected catastrophe, they were outmuscled and outmaneuvered on the rooftop of a seven-story building. Backdraft and the Fire Supporters were ill-equipped to handle the creatures emerging from nowhere, and Gang Orca was also faring poorly. Although there were five heroes on the roof, the seven creatures that manifested were organized and well-armed.
That was when She appeared.
Though imposing, she was small compared to the creatures at her command, no taller than perhaps two meters in height. A wispy cloud of black hair trailed behind her, which she capped with a golden wolf eared crown. Below that was a pale face with blood-red eyes similar to the creatures at her command, an eagle-like nose, and a grim set of lips painted a reddish-brown by dried blood. Her armor was black and hugged her body protectively, tightly. At her sides, a great sword and broad ax hung on her hips. Where the woman that assaulted Izuku earlier was a figure of eroticism, this woman, by contrast, was a pure terror.
Immediately upon stepping forward from the sands that formed her, she raised her hands to either side and unleashed two explosive blasts towards the heroes where they stood, corralled by the hulking brutes surrounding them. Shrapnel and green fire rained down on them with enough force that Inko feared them all dead. They fell to the rooftop and did not stir.
"This is All Might. I can see the enemy leader from here standing next to the Shell. Unless anyone has an objection, I am moving to engage," he spoke to the heroes below by comms. He did not share that Gang Orca and Backdraft were down and possibly dead. The blow to their morale would be lethal, that much was clear. The loud roaring response of encouragement from Mount Lady did not stir the confidence of the Support Crew the way it should have.
Inko watched helplessly as the red-eyed woman pointed through the window towards All Might from the rooftop across from them, then gestured for him to approach. She was smiling, and the facial expression seemed predatory. It was clear that even though they were across an entire street and in an apartment that she knew exactly where the temporary headquarters were.
"Help will be here soon. I will keep my promise. Your son is coming home to you," All Might spoke to her reassuringly. Before Inko could reply, he ran through the glass of the balcony before jumping across the street. He jumped towards the creatures, the red-eyed woman, the fallen heroes, and the twisted Shell where Izuku was trapped.
With a lead weight in her heart, Inko remembered that All Might promised to bring her son home. No matter the cost to himself.
"No matter what it costs me," she whispered his exact words to herself as tears streamed down her face.
