A/n: HeyaReaders! Psychojack here, bringing you the next chapter of Mineta the Mayhem. It looks like Mineta and his teams' efforts of holding out have paid off, as now the other teams have regrouped with them. Also, Harukaze's main source of power for his quirk has been sealed shut, leaving him at the mercy of the combined class 1A task force. Victory is at hand! Let's begin!
Here is a reminder of the teams that were assigned for this operation.
Team 1: Deku, Tokoyami, Satou, Shouji, Uraraka, Mina. Led by Kamui Woods.
Team 2: Momo, Bakugo, Denki, Kyouka, Sero, Ojire. Led by Mountain Lady.
Team 3: Todoroki, Kirishima, Tsuyu, Kouda, Aoyama, Tooru. Led by Edge Shot.
Team 4: Mineta, Iida, Midnight. Led by Eraserhead (Aizawa)
Mineta held his gaze upon the now cornered felon, now with his mouth and nostrils shut tight by his grape jam. Harukaze held a furrowed brow of irritation as the bothersome grape themed hero in training had gotten the better of him. To make matters worse, such a short and physically frail hero was capable of putting him in such a position through sheer intelligence and craftiness as opposed to brute strength that the elusive bank robber was used to fighting.
Now, here in the middle of a rain storm that had yet to cease, stood one villain against a combined force of exactly twenty five heroes. The odds were grim.
Harukaze, due to the rain providing him his echolocation induced sight, took a look at the heroes gathered here. With a slow shift of his neck muscles, the villain observed the class currently surrounding him. From behind stood Midnight, Iida and Aizawa. From his front stood the other twenty two heroes.
Mineta and Harukaze's eyes met again. His deep dark purple orbs met the two ebony colored optics of the felon.
Harukaze narrowed his eyes towards Mineta's position before they relaxed and slowly closed them shut.
Mineta narrowed his eyes in confusion.
'What is he up to?'
Harukaze's shoulders, which were once tightly flexed for combat, slumped. Even his normally intensive breathing came to an ever growing slow halt as his breathing slowed and was more normalized. Considering the current muzzle on his face, he probably was trying to steady his heart rate.
Mineta looked on confusedly.
The other students noticed Harukaze's more relaxed body posture.
'Is he…surrendering?' Mineta thought to himself.
Bakugo could be seen walking a little more forward.
"C'mon I was expecting a little more from this guy considering the bodies we've found on the way here! You're telling me he's quitting already!"
Aizawa narrowed his eyes.
'Considering his mouth and nose are completely covered, Harukaze should have no way of turning into smoke again. His main means of avoiding damage is unavailable to him. With the damage he already suffered from his battle with Mineta, he has to know fighting a battle against an entire class along with pro heroes has to be a bad idea.'
"I wanted to see his Black Wind quirk for myself! Now he doesn't want to fight! Ain't this the same guy who killed his own brother!" Bakugo said as he made his disappointment clear.
Harukaze's eyes shot open. Harukaze's eyes furrowed. He slowly closed them. As he did so a vein became prominent on his left temple.
His wrists which were once displayed in a relinquished manner slid down to his sides as Harukaze arched his legs and held his chitin talons out in a fighting position. His muscles were steadily flexing, veins bulging throughout his lean body as they were prepped for action.
Deku observed Harukaze. "He's…he's not surrendering…"
"Even with all of us here he still wants a go. Looks like someone is overestimating themselves." Mountain Lady said.
Tsuyu added while shivering a bit from the rain. "But with his mouth and nose covered he can't really use his quirk right? He would suffocate before that slime comes off."
Momo could be seen with Mina. "It doesn't seem like Harukaze cares about that."
Sero looked at Bakugo. "You just had to go and open your mouth didn't you Bakugo?"
"Whatever!" Bakugo barked.
The students readied themselves.
Midnight unwrapped her whip as Aizawa readied his straps.
The thunder crackled harshly as lightning arched wildly. The storm was heavily active, as if the heavens were watching in on the event, the cosmos practically applauding the festivity with each crackle of lightning.
SWISH
BANG
A loud echo reverbed throughout the area. The students could only look on in shock as Bakugo was on his knees gasping for breath. His arms were clasping his chest as if he couldn't breathe.
His chest had a deep fist shaped impact that went back to normal before his breathing normalized. He coughed out blood.
Harukaze stood with his right fist extended, small bits of smoke emanating from his knuckles.
He then swung his left fist towards the large group.
SWISH
BOOM
CRACKLE
A large black shockwave went towards the group, who now realized that despite his lack of breathing, Harukaze still had some leftover smoke attached to his limbs.
Mineta jumped out of the way along with the others.
'He could use his smoke like an air cannon through his fists!? Why didn't he use that earlier? Unless, he relied on his breathing for most of his normal fighting style. Now without it he's forced to use everything else! He developed a fighting style for this kind of situation beforehand!'
Harukaze swung both fists downward, his knuckles hitting the already cracked concrete beneath him.
BOOM
The whole street shook like an earthquake and a large explosion could be heard. Black smoke shot through the concrete in multiple areas causing large chunks of the street to blow upwards, debris being flung everywhere.
Uraraka looked behind her as her eyes widened.
Behind the class where they were gathered was a large sinkhole. It was wide enough to go from one end of the street into the other. It was deep enough for one to fall in, but not deep enough that it entered the sewers. Black smoke could be seen emanating from the sinkhole.
'He used his smoke to attack from below!'
She looked at Harukaze's fists that were against the street.
There were cracks already there.
'He slipped his smoke through the cracks!'
Class 1A looked at the impact Harukaze made with that move.
WHOOSH
Harukaze had practically dashed in a split second towards the students while they were distracted. He threw himself in a manner so his body would launch itself midair. He turned his body in a horizontal position.
He tackled them.
This caused him along with Deku, Uraraka, Denki, Bakugo, Sero, Kouda, Aoyama, Tooru and Mountain Lady to crash and roll sloppily down the sinkhole, the rain causing dirt grime and mud to stain their clothing as the lightning flashed against the sky.
The rest of the class were further away in their attempt to dodge the air cannon shot from Harukaze, and thus had to run opposite of the edge of the sinkhole, witnessing the group rolling down to the puddle of rain mixed with mud.
As they ran to intervene-
BEEP
BOOM
Each remaining bomb that Harukaze had planted along the buildings detonated, debris, bricks and glass raining downward towards the rest of the class.
When that stopped, some of the building collapsed nearly on top of them, causing them to have to save the task force and lure them away from the collapsing buildings.
--Inside the sinkhole--
Denki got up from the mud, gasping as his vision was blurred by the bothersome grime blocking his retinas. Through his vision he saw Harukaze quickly dashing and punching him hard, causing Denki to hit his back against the steep wall of the sinkhole.
Kouda was trying to crawl out of the sinkhole as he couldn't get in range with any animals nearby. In fact, considering how many dead flies he encountered, he was sure that his quirk was currently useless here, all the other animals were silent to his calls thus far.
GRIP
Kouda was dragged downwards. He flailed desperately before he was thrown banging his head against a rock, rendering him unconscious.
Harukaze then grabbed Sero who, when he had toppled against the mud, had accidentally shot off some tape from his elbows in retaliation. Harukaze grabbed the wet tape straps and pulled Sero by his arms.
"Woah! What the-!" Sero screeched as he was dragged by his arms towards Harukaze before he spun and threw him far away, crashing on top of a car, the impact causing the tape hero to fall into slumber from the hard blow to his back.
Tooru was trying to sneak behind Harukaze in his relentless attack, however due to his echolocation he grabbed her by the throat.
The invisible girl, her body shape visible through the rain and mud on her body, was shoved on the floor hard. Tooru turned on her side to nurse her wounded side, gasping for breath all the while.
Aoyama shot a stomach shot at Harukaze who at the sound of the blast, ducked and dashed using the smoke on his arms to thrust rapidly forward before using an air cannon from his fist to shoot Aoyama far into the sinkhole wall.
Bakugo, still struggling to breathe from the earlier blow, held his right arm as he aimed for Harukaze before launching a blast.
The moment he did, Harukaze immediately thrusted his palm against Bakugo's outstretched limb downward.
Causing Bakugo's arm to not only be smacked aside, but it also caused the explosion he had charged to fire downwards towards his feet, the explosion launching him towards the wall of the sinkhole as well. The blonde slid downward as his body was caked in mud.
Harukaze began punching Bakugo into unconsciousness, the explosion hero hearing nothing but white noise and suffering shellshock as his eyes were wobbly from the blows that Harukaze made with such rapid succession.
Kamui Woods slid along with Edgeshot down the sinkhole as they engaged with the rampaging villain.
He immediately dashed and kneed Kamui Woods, breaking through the wood he had shot out in his attempt to restrain him.
Edgeshot used his Foldabody quirk, launching a quick ranged based attack to try to pierce Harukaze, who with his chitin limbs was able to utilize his arms and leg as armor against his blows.
Mountain Lady got up from the mud, coughing as the sinkhole was deep and already filling to the brim with mud and God knows what else. The sounds of brutal punching and counter blows echoed in her ears as she wiped her eyes clean, vividly seeing Harukaze launch a beatdown on her teammates, who couldn't hope to match the beast's ferocious blows.
Edgeshot, though intelligent, was not capable of making a defining blow considering Harukaze's chitin armor blocking his strikes. His attempts to gain distance also led to Harukaze using his air cannon and sent the Shinobi like hero to be hurt from afar, as the shockwaves were really big and hard to dodge. Harukaze was not letting him have time to think, or to even breathe.
Mountain Lady immediately turned big and smashed downwards with her left leg towards Harukaze who threw himself into the muddy water away from her after clawing Edgeshot who fell to the floor bleeding on his chest.
"You son of a bitch! This is for wrecking my hair! Do you know how long it took me to get it this good!" Mountain Lady said.
BANG
A black air fist cannon was shot from the mud, immediately decking Mountain Lady in the face. Harukaze was shooting from below the mud, thereby preventing her from knowing exactly where he was hiding. Combine that with the fact that the other students and pro heroes were lying around in said mud pit, this rendered Mountain Lady incapable of going all out.
'He did this on purpose, taking out a whole team and using his environment to its limit. He knows I can't strike with the others in the way!'
BANG
Another black cannon shot through the mud. This one was bigger than the last. Mountain Lady was hit square in the jaw and launched into a building, collapsing right into the bricks and smashing it to bits accidentally.
Uraraka was pulled up by Deku, before the green boy was pulled and sucker punched three times rapidly before taking a vicious high kick in the face. The green clad hero was launched causing him to splash against the mud and concrete.
"Deku!" Uraraka was grabbed by her left shoulder, the girl immediately catching the right hand of Harukaze in a joint lock, rolling and pinning the felon in a self defense move.
Uraraka's training for self defense proved useful as Harukaze being pinned prevented him from doing further damage to Deku nearby.
Harukaze then dislocated his own right arm to reverse the joint lock using his left hand to land a solid gut strike in Uraraka before quickly kicking her, launching her a few feet away as he realigned his right arm with a sickening sound.
POP
The other teams had barely caught on to his position. He struck so fast, they didn't even have time to catch up.
Inside the sinkhole, Harukaze stood amongst the wounded students and heroes.
He looked towards them standing at the edge of the sinkhole. He turned ominously towards them, his eyes clenched tight, as he had them closed during his prolonged attack.
He opened his eyes and looked at the students and beckoned them over with a wave of his right taloned hand.
Kirishima took this as a challenge.
"Let's do this!" Kirishima roared out as he bulldozed his way towards Harukaze.
The villain tilted his head and extended his hand, letting out a gust of black smoke. Kirishima began coughing wildly, practically suffocating. It was like breathing in coal. His hardened body resoftened as he lacked the proper focus to maintain the hardened form.
Harukaze used an air cannon to launch Kirishima upwards before a small black tornado carried him off and flew the hardened hero into a brick wall.
Ojire, Satou and Shouji surrounded Harukaze. Behind them was Tsuyu who was ready to use her tongue at any given moment, followed by Mina, Tokoyami and Todoroki.
Aizawa called out to them. "Stop! At this rate he'll just outmaneuver you, keep your distance and wear him down until he suffocates."
WHOOSH
Aizawa felt something against his back. He looked.
His eyes widened. He was hit by debris and rolled into the sinkhole.
Aizawa groggily got up as realization hit him
The sinkhole, though enabling the teams to fight an uphill battle and surround Harukaze, was now surrounded by a black whirlwind. Slowly the whirlwind was closing the teams in, steadily driving them further into the sinkhole as they were prevented from going through.
'He's bending the battleground to his advantage. We can't escape!'
Iida and Kyouka had picked up Aizawa who coughed a bit of blood. Mineta slid into the sinkhole, his feet sloshing against the mud.
'The more we wait the more the whirlwind will get closer, if that happens, we're gonna get torn apart by the wind. How the hell is he doing that while fighting with his fists!' Mineta thought to himself.
He analyzed the veins on Harukaze's head and his clenched eyes.
'I get it! He's running out of time to breathe! He's desperate!'
Momo came towards Mineta's position.
"Mineta, are you okay!?" Momo asked as she noticed some of the claw marks on his body from his earlier battle with Harukaze.
"I'm okay? How's Aizawa?"
"He's fine, for now. *Looks towards Harukaze.* I'm sure you noticed his eyes are closed." Momo asked.
"Yeah! He's only able to see with echolocation. But now he's probably busy trying to regulate what's left of his air. No telling how long he has left, but that whirlwind is going to tear us before he suffocates." Mineta analyzed.
Harukaze extended his claws with his smoke.
Mineta's eyes widened.
"Get out of the way!" Mineta screamed as he used his jam rope to pull Ojire, Satou and Shouji.
Harukaze bluffed as he immediately thrusted himself with his extended claws towards Mineta.
CLANG
And was blocked by Momo who created a heavy steel plate shield.
Mineta fell on the ground from the shock.
"Thanks for the save, Momo!" Mineta said.
"Harukaze is trying to get rid of you. Considering how long you fought him off alone, he knows you're the biggest threat to him thus far." Momo said.
Momo looked back towards Mineta.
"You really are changing Mineta." Momo said with adoration in her eyes.
Mineta blushed. "Only because of you, Momo."
She blushed.
Harukaze was about to be attacked by Tokoyami from above via his shadow.
Momo immediately grabbed Mineta and threw herself from the strike.
Harukaze pounced on all fours spinning in the air to dodge the strike as it uprooted the ground upwards in a grand explosion of mud and concrete.
His spinning air dodge enable him to claw Kyouka, Tsuyu, Iida and Satou before using an air cannon to blow them away.
Tsuyu bled from her forehead. "He's...he's nothing like the report says *ribbit*. The frog girl said before the damage done to her head put her into unconsciousness.
Todoroki wanted to get a shot via his ice but Harukaze was constantly thrusting to and fro, dashing with his black smoke to make blows to Ojire and Shouji and overwhelming them. His strikes hurt through their defenses as he was using his air cannon technique in small bursts to both enhance his fist strike and to make every strike fast enough to slip through their reflexes.
'Dammit! With everyone here I can't use my fire! I have to stick to ice!" Todoroki began freezing the mud where he thought Harukaze would be. He shot a few ice in Harukaze's way as he almost attacked Mina.
Harukaze stopped and then extended his hand towards Todoroki.
BEEP
BOOM
Todoroki took an explosion close to his person, shattering through the ice wall he used to defend himself. Despite protecting himself from the brunt of the damage, it still launched him midair.
Todoroki used his arms instinctually to protect himself, but before he could react.
Harukaze had dashed towards him and kicked him upwards in his ribs.
Tokoyami attempted to strike, but the darkness blocking the sun made his shadow act as if it were night time.
'No! Not now! Don't lose control!' The bird face hero thought to himself as his shadow was ready to go berserk.
Harukaze then dashed and gripped Tokoyami and shoot himself upwards and slammed him upside down on the ground.
Tokoyami was rendered unconscious.
GRIP
Harukaze was caught via a strap by Aizawa on his left arm palm as he was ready to strike Todoroki.
Aizawa said. "Mina!"
Mina sweatdropped and shot acid.
Right on Harukaze's tied up hand.
His hand had melted off as it was already a bit melted by Mineta's burning jam from earlier, the tender chitin was already weakened severely and thus was helpless against the acidity of Mina's quirk.
Black blood sprinkled Mina's face as she couldn't believe what she was seeing. Her hands clasped her mouth. She could control the acidity of her acid and had dialed it back ready to only sizzle chitin. She did not take into account that Harukaze's left arm was already burned to the point that the chitin was already melted off and too tender to survive a blow like that.
Harukaze's focus being broken led to the whirlwind dissipating.
His muzzle prevented him from screaming out, but the agony and pain was on his face, his eyes widened at the intrusive sensation of his left arm completely torn off. The stump burned as the exposed flesh was still melting a tad, causing Harukaze to claw off a piece of the stump before the acid could spread.
Harukaze dashed in an enraged frontal assault on a shocked Aizawa, dodging Mineta's whip and narrowly dodging a cannon shot from Momo's creation.
Midnight got in the way, getting into a brawl with Harukaze who headbutt her before tripping her with a sweep kick
He dashed using his stump to bash Aizawa's face over and over again.
Aizawa had slipped onto the mud floor as Harukaze punched him using his smoke thrusts to propel his fists with soundbreaking speed until Aizawa was unconscious. Blood stained the stump as he broke Aizawa's nose while punching the professor.
Harukaze slowly turned to Mineta, Momo, Mina and Midnight.
He took a step forward as fear caused the four to step backwards. Mud stained their persons as the currently enraged villain was clearly beyond his self awareness. Pure animalistic rage was on the forefront of his mind after losing his arm.
His black eyes looked towards Mina.
He then spun like a drill towards Mina and used the smoke to wrap around the stump of his arm and form an enlarged black hand made of smoke to strike her with an extended taloned strike.
CLANG
It collided with something tough. Something thick.
It was not like before, made of metal.
Whatever it was, it was purple.
Harukaze's eyes widened in recognition.
SPECIAL MOVE: GRAPE BUCKLER
Mineta used his grape jam in a rush to form a thick round shield. Unlike before where he needed a large amount of spheres in order to form a shield, Mineta was able to make this from only three, using the jam to mold a thick shield. It wasn't meant to be so tough however.
'My grape buckler! With my grape jam I could make it without the need for something metal to hold it together! Now take this!'
Mineta launched a counterattack as he used the grape shield to immediately mold into a grape shaped fist before shooting outwards into Harukaze's face.
WHAM
Harukaze was launched into the air before dashing himself away from the remaining conscious heroes.
SPLASH
Harukaze stood there gauging the four still left standing.
Mineta looked towards Mina.
"Are you okay Mina?" Mineta asked in concern.
Mina looked at Mineta with a blush.
She smiled a sincere smile.
Before pulling him into her breasts, smothering him with them.
"Thank you Mineta! I thought I was gonna die!"
Momo could be seen blushing at Mina's display.
"Mina what are you doing!?" Momo said before Mina let go of Mineta, rubbing the back of her head as Momo's eyes were white in fury.
CRACK
The echo of the sound caused all four heroes to look towards the felon.
Harukaze cracked his neck and his shoulders. Veins filled his lean frame in exertion.
'He's low on oxygen! Just a little more! It's a miracle he even lasted this long without breathing!' Mineta thought to himself.
Mineta looked at Harukaze's scars and his now stump of a left hand.
'Just how many fights like this have you had in Hydra Prison. All those 17 years, was this normal for you?' Mineta frowned, noticing Harukaze's tolerance for pain was probably from years of battle, not just from his background as a bankrobber. The monster in front of him was clearly molded by Hydra Prison considering his deformed body, now made worse with the loss of his hand. Despite that, Harukaze keeps going.
"Must take a lot of willpower in order to survive Hydra Prison." Mineta said aloud, causing Harukaze to look at him.
Momo held her shield and made herself an electric baton.
Mina readied her acid as Midnight readied her whip, despite limping on the leg Harukaze had kicked when he swept her earlier.
"Well then! We'll show him how much willpower we have as well!"
CHAPTER END