Being a Hero's a Gas
Okay so chapter 1 was well received enough for another chapter of this series and I will answer a few question asked.
Q: Is Bruce going to have an anurism from this?
A: probably
Q: So Joker settled down?
A: nope.
Chapter 2: Batman
"Well fuck." Recovery girl tisked as she watched the first lot of students out of the USJ get well clear of the door before removing their gas masks. "How much did he have to use?"
"We saw atleast four canisters used. One in the shipwreck zone and three in the central area. The first one is what made the fireball that alerted the school." Kirishima admitted as he carried an unconscious Mina on his back.
"And what happened to her?" Recovery girl asked as she pointed to the pink skinned girl who was sweating up a storm and honestly had already melted half of Kirishima's hero costume, luckily he wore acid proof underclothes and in his hardened state was about as resistant to acid as Mina was.
"Some weird guy wearing a sack on his head sprayed her with something, she just dropped and started screaming until she passed out." Kirishima stated. "The others couldn't even grab her as her quirk just went nuts."
"Gain way!" Mineta screamed as he sprinted out, nearly knocking over a paramedic who was tending to Toru who's lower legs had visible frost bite from the knees down which honestly freaked the normally invisible girl out. Mere feet behind him Bakugo was snarling in anger as he tried to punt the short teen.
"GET BACK HERE YOU LOUSEY FUCKER!" Bakugo shouted.
"I'm sorry! How was i supposed to know that was your mum?!" Mineta screamed.
"DIE!" Bakugo shouted as he tried to tackle the teen only for two officers to restrain him by the arms. "Let me go! The little shit needs to pay!"
"What happened now Bakugo?" Aizawa sighed as he limped out of the USJ, nothing more than some bruising and a sprained ankle to his list of injuries.
"Once signal returned after the shitty clown took out those extras the grapist started boasting about his porn stash. HE HAS MY MUM'S FASHION PICS IN THERE AND NEEDS TO DIE!" Bakugo screamed in anger as he sent a death glare at the cowering grape.
The two officers who were restraining the explosive teen were merely wondering if they could get away with letting the teen punt the midget. It was understandable though, both were sure they would be pissed if it was their mothers in the situation.
"Mineta, detention for two weeks, Bakugo detention tomorrow night for trying to punt him." Aizawa huffed. He too didn't like the midget but Nezu had restricted his ability to expell students to appease the HSC. How was it his fault the entire class last year was shit?! Five were no shows, 1 was arrested before school for selling drugs, 3 had their parents bribe the examination board to get in on recommendations, two actually quit day one after seeing one girl who had gotten in on bribes die from incorrectly using her own quirk and he expelled the rest for laughing at the sight and some for even goading the deceased girl into using her quirk so recklessly.
"Hey, everybody Ok?" An American voice asked making many jump in shock as a red and yellow clad hero suddenly appeared with a blur of red.
"Great. The justice league." Aizawa groaned while most of the others looked star struck. While he did believe they did good most of their league were untrained, mentally unstable, kids, only operated in America or Batman. Not to mention Flash and Hizashi got along way too well for his sanity. "We had a watch case have to use their level 6 bio-risk equipment multiple times inside the facility."
"Level 6? What was it? Bubonic plague? Antilife virus?" Flash asked with concern.
"Smilex." Aizawa deadpanned making Flash gulp nervously as he took a look at the evacuating students, all of which had masks on until they were well away from the doors. "We also have a potential exposure of Fear toxin in one of our students."
"One sec." Flash requested before he blurred off to the side and put a finger to his ear. "Bats, yeah you were wrong, Joker isn't here but Crane might be. Send a biohazard team and a few tacos could you?"
"Is all you think about food?" Batman asked from right besides him. Flash shrieked in fear as he literally jumped to the amusement of the others, Batman had appeared mere seconds after Flash mentioned Crane using the watchtower teleportation devices and frankly nothing was happening up in the tower.
Despite no longer being a completely solo hero Batman preferred to work with little to no assistance where possible and under the wording of the heroics laws in America didn't have to register his identity as long as he didn't kill someone, something most of the justice league liked to stick to, only Wonder Woman, Cyborg and Raven had actually had to register but for various reasons. Wonder Woman was a diplomat for the Amazonians, Cyborg accidentally killed his father when his augmentation was initially completed and Raven had killed two villains in her career, granted one tried to Nuke jump city and the other was her father and would be back later once he reformed but the courts disagreed on the matter.
"Flying rodent." Aizawa huffed as he flatly stared at the hero. He had no lost love on the hero with the no killing rule knowing that sometimes you just had to put a villain in the ground to stop them.
Batman merely stared back for a few moments before turning his attention to one of the villains the paramedics in masks were pulling out of the USJ. Pale skin and the forced grin were clear signs of Smilex poisoning however what was different was they were breathing and just unconscious. "Who did it?"
"The deku clown." Bakugo scoffed, refusing to stop glaring at Mineta as he did so. "Calls the shit a mood improver, it ain't lethal but it is fucking scary."
"Whoa, did he just admit it scared him?" Ojirou uttered in shock.
"Weird." Kirishima muttered in awe.
"FUCK YOU!" Bakugo snapped. "You weren't the one who saw the creepy deku make it with that crazy goggles bitch."
"Goggles?" Batman asked in deadpan at the blonde as he pulled a small computer connected to the batcave from his belt and began making notes.
"He means Mei Hatsume. Another watch case in the support department." Aizawa stated bluntly as the paramedics started to work on 13 who had been hit by her own quirk early on in the attack.
"Lethality?" Batman asked as he pulled up the relevant files.
"None." Aizawa replied as he blinked lazily. "Its a mix of laughing gas, a mild nerve toxin and a knock out gas based on Midnight and Miss Joke's quirks."
"I see." Batman hummed as he put away the computer and looked around. "Where is he?"
"There are four students left inside stuck in the landslide zone, we won't be able to reach them until the wild pussy-cats get here due to how unstable it is." One of the officers stated simply with a shrug.
"I'm going in." Batman retorted as he donned a small rebreather and entered the facility, the blue flash from the eyes of the mask signalled the use of one of the cowl's many vision modes as it cycled through until it settled on one to detect gasses and other airborne compounds.
Wading through the gas filled lower areas he was surprised to note that the smilex varient stayed 2 foot or so off the ground keeping the unconscious villains from suffocating due to lack of oxygen. Several large crators dotted the area that resembled something Bane or Killer crock would do when they got annoyed at someone. He frowned briefly at the several crushed villains under the hull of a slightly burnt yacht that he knew was donated two years ago and was supposed to of been able to withstand All Might punching it.
Movement ahead made him take a step back as he pulled out a Batarang. A large black creature with a similar build to bane but with a bird like head and exposed brain stood twitching as a empty container of smilex sat in its beak.
"Hey, I think I hear someone." A young woman's voice was barely audible but thanks to audio receptors built into his suit it sounded as if someone was right next to him talking. Looking up Batman caught sight of a purple haired girl with a gas mask above on a cliff trying to see through the dense green fog.
Unclipping his grapple hook he aimed upwards and pulled the trigger. The girl yelped a she fell back and away from the edge as the line shot up where it hooked onto one of the beams that supported the building. As he released the trigger the automatic retraction started as he was flung skywards and able to see the students bellow him on the cliff.
A large crator was visible from the top as were several unconscious villains who hadn't been knocked out by the gas. A blonde teen was wondering around in a daze, his cowl identified it as electrical damage to the brain that was quickly fixing itself. The purple haired teen who he had noticed initially had scooted back to her feet and had her fists clenched and in a basic jujitsu stance that was armature at best and Hollywood movie at worst. There was a black haired teen who had her hair in a ponytail who made a staff appear from her chest, the red leotard she wore looked to be the same type wonder woman had only a singular colour and the minicape was obviously inspired by what Canary used to use. Lying on a stretcher unconscious was a teen which made batman do a double take and make sure Joker was still in Arhkam via the inbuilt inmate listing he had installed after the third time clayface impersonated someone who was meant to be locked up.
The teen looked much like a younger joker, green messy hair, a slim but fit build with some baby fat still present, a pale complexion with a few freckles in a diamond pattern on each cheek. Their clothing was a simple purple pinstripe tuxedo with a matching tie and black slacks, their jacket was open revealing a white undershirt lined with pockets which were mostly empty asides a box of matches, some medical supplies and a cumpus. To their side was a splintered purple and green mallet that looked like a shorter version of the one Harley Quinn was fond of using. Their ribs were obviously broken and one shoulder was dislocated. Fresh bandages on the face and wrist indicated recent medical attention and the likely one to of provided it was the black haired girl.
At this point he landed with a soft thump making the two girls jump infront of the unconscious teen defensively.
"Relax." Batman grunted as he stood up, his cape draping over his shoulders and concealing his arms and legs, a neat trick he had learnt to allow him to surprise anyone trying to fight him that he learnt from Kendo training. "I'm here to get you all out."
"Batman, if we can get to the ground we should be good. Izuku is immune to his own concoctions and our masks are good for 2 hours in that stuff before we need to change the filters." The black haired teen stated as she relaxed slightly. "He took a beating from some bio engineered creature that broke his ribs and snapped his wrist, he has a dislocated shoulder, singes along his back from an explosion earlier and a possible concussion."
"And the gas?" Batman asked.
"It should dissipate within ten minutes, it lasts around half an hour before the oxygen decays the gas harmlessly." Kyoka explained. "I don't understand the specifics of it, I only heard it after the panic attack he caused in our first training session when he gassed the entire building."
"I see." Batman hummed as he held a finger to his cowl, activating the radio link. "Flash, I need you to call for a rescue crane, we have a student here with a possible concussion, minor burns and multiple broken bones."
"Okay bats, it may be a while so get comfy." Flash replied. "I know you're not the social type bu-" at that, he hung up, no need to put up with Flash trying to have him socialise any more than needed.
End.
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