A/N: 100,000 hits! So awesome! It's my 7th stories to get that many hits! And it's not even 6 months old! I'm surprised how popular it got so fast! Anyways enjoy the chapter as I might need to watch the movie again soon...
Chapter 39: Die Hard On an Artificial Island
Izuku got dressed, in between what happened with the mall and this trip, Hibiki took him and Mashirao shopping, if they were going to get glares during the trip and during the gala they minds as well look nice.
He struggled with his tie.
"Why do I not know how to tie a tie still?" he grumbled to himself.
A now a dramatization on why Izuku still doesn't know how to tie a tie…
Sanji's memories guarded a door labeled "Memories on how to tie to a tie".
"Why won't you let me use them!" cried Izuku.
"Trust me! It's better if you don't know how to tie a tie." Said Sanji's memories.
"Why?" cried Izuku.
"Because you're much cuter without that knowledge." Said Sanji's memories.
Izuku just sweated when he said that.
Back in the real world he gave up and since everyone knew he couldn't tie a tie, he just figured he'd head over.
He thankfully got to the meeting spot.
Of course Iida started to grill him.
"Do you know how long you took! We had a meeting time for a reason!" yelled Iida.
He saw he wasn't the last one there. Todoroki, Mashirao, Mineta and Kaminari were all there.
With the last two wearing their waiter uniforms.
Hibiki brought me here." Explained Mashirao, "I told him we were all going to meet up and he and Yuzu went on ahead."
"Okay… makes sense." Said Izuku.
At the Gala All Might was making small talk with some people. When Hibiki approached him.
"Hello friend from work!" he said somewhat loudly.
"Hello Orchestra Rave." Said All Might knowing that Hibiki was emphasizing that fact due to the fact he was hated on the island.
"Can I hang around you for a bit." He somewhat whispered, "Yuzu's doing her fancy party thing."
"What?" asked All Might.
He motioned to the buffet table and Yuzu was whistling nonchalantly (which is the universal sign of guilt) as she stuffed her purse with fancy foods. All Might could tell that her purse lined with plastic wrap.
"She does this every time and I'm sure she would do this even if her quirk didn't run on calories." Said Hibiki.
All Might only sweat dropped at that.
Back upstairs at the meeting location.
That was when the girls arrived.
"Sorry for being late." Said Ochaco.
Izuku looked at Ochaco who immediately start to blush. She was wearing a rather nice dress.
"Oh that's a nice dress…" he said rather nervously managing to push away Sanji mode thankfully.
"I had to borrow it from Momo." She said.
Ochaco looked at Izuku in his suit and immediately started blushing.
"You look really nice." She said fiddling her fingers.
"Yeah… Hibiki said if I was going to get glares we might look good." Said Izuku.
"You were the one who picked our suits." Said Mashirao.
"Really?" asked Toru.
Izuku started blushing, "Well I know it sounds weird… but my old world's fashion sense was really weird. Yeah it was filled with pirates, but everyone dressed in modern clothes. I wore suits most of the time in my past life and Luffy dressed like a beach bum most of the time."
Everyone stared at Izuku.
"Actually…" said Momo blushing, "My old world was a stereotypical fantasy world most of the time… but we had modern fashion too."
"Okay… just another reason to add to your past lives being too similar." Said Mashirao with a sweat drop.
"Actually…" said Ochaco, "Fashion was like that too…"
"Really?" asked Mashirao.
"I might you would see a lot of people wearing what you would think a ninja would wore but then you'd see a guy wearing a t-shirt and jeans…" said Ochaco.
"Exactly!" said Momo.
"I'm not kidding about the beach bum thing, he wore cut-off until his mid 20s." said Izuku.
"I had a thing for comfy hoodies in my past life when I was younger." Said Ochaco blushing.
"I once threatened a fashion designer to make one of my armors." Said Momo.
Before they continue the conversation about the strange fashions of their worlds (or pressed bout the last fact) Melissia showed up.
"Hey!" she called out.
She was wearing a rather nice dress and appeared to be wearing contacts as she wasn't wearing her glasses.
"Is everyone here?" asked Mellissa.
"Except for Bakugo and Kirishima." Said Iida, "I tried calling them but I haven't gotten ahold of them."
"Maybe it's better if they're not here." Said Kaminari.
"Yeah… it's Bakugo and he and Midoriya still can't get along." Said Kyoka with a shrug.
"I'm sure they're fine though." Said Toru.
That was when Izuku got a strange shudder.
"Deku what's wrong?" asked Ochaco.
"Just a bad feeling." Said Izuku.
Note: Said bad feeling had to do with what was going on with Bakugo and Kirishima… not was what was about to go down. It was something closer to home for him and far stupider.
Anyways…
In the gala, with All Might there was pushed to give a speech about David.
As he was, suddenly the security system was triggered.
All of the heroes at the Gala were suddenly bound by strange bindings.
Followed quickly by men in masks carrying machine guns entering the room.
All Might tried to break through his.
"Are you sure that's a good idea?" asked one of the men, "There's a lot of civilians here…"
All Might gritted his teeth.
All through the island, emergency alerts were set out about an appear net bomb threat and everyone had to seek shelter for those who were outside.
With the teens they became concerned when elevator wasn't working.
Not only that but their cellphones were putting up the alerts.
"That's weird." Said Melissa, "If it's a bomb threat then there shouldn't be a lockdown like this."
"Something must be going on." Said Izuku.
"But the trackers are working" said Toru tacking out her transceiver.
"Seriously." Said Mashirao with a sweat drop.
"That's weird… everything's interconnected here." Said Mellissa.
"Not unless you're a smug jerk who rubs it in the faces of everyone on the island…" said Mashirao with a sweat drop.
There was an awkward silence.
"What happened today?" asked Ochaco.
"You don't want to know." Said Mashirao while Toru patted his shoulder.
"Tried to kill him with tehir minds…" reminded Toru.
"Either way…" said Momo, "We should check what's going on."
Down in the Gala, some of the criminals demanded a scientist and was about to take David's assistant, however David insistence on coming as well.
Shortly afterward Izuku found a location that overlooked the gala, and right above where All Might was being held.
All Might looked up and saw both Izuku and Kyoka who was with him.
Thanks to her quirk. All Might knew he could speak quietly to tell them what was going on.
"A group of villains have taken not only the building but the isnad's security system. They've also taken Dave and his assistant." Explained All Might.
Kyoka relayed this to Izuku.
They nodded and left to rejoin the others.
On the Gala floor, All Might sighed in relief knowing that Izuku was safe at least.
That was when he saw a small metallic spider scurrying towards him.
He began to sweat as it climbed on him and put something in his ear… he quickly realized whatever it was it wasn't from the criminals.
"Hey… how you holding up big guy." Said Hibiki from the thing placed in his ear.
"Should have realized it." Said All Might quietly like before.
"Yeah… there's a reason why I'm hated on the island." Said Hibiki.
"Because you are a smug jackass and can't stop showing off how better you are even if the reason why because in a past life you graduated from MIT as a teenager while in a world where Prestress never went after you, you would more than likely be the star a viral video of someone filming you trying to use Amazon then you get so angry you do something incredibly stupid that they talk about it for a long time." Said Aiko who was also connected to the earpiece that was given to All Might.
"Thank you Aiko." Muttered Hibiki, "So… about my question earlier."
All Might quickly realize he meant his time limit.
"It's hard to say right now." Said All Might.
"That bad huh…" said Hibiki.
All Might sighed.
"On the bright side the kids weren't captured." Said All Might.
"They weren't?" asked Hibiki.
"No." said All Might.
"Aiko! Emergency Procedure 2320." Said Hibiki.
"Right away sir!" said Aiko.
"What's going on?" asked All Might.
"I might have lied to the kids when I said Aiko can only enter the transceiver if they hit the buttons." Said Hibiki.
Back at the meeting spot Izuku and Kyoka told everything that All Might told them.
"Is there anything we can do?" asked Ochaco.
"If we go to the top floor and go to the computers we can turn off the serenity protocols and free the heroes." Explained Melissia.
"But all of the Pros are being held hostage." Said Momo.
"Including All Might and Hibiki." Said Izuku.
"Emergency Procedure 2320 Engaged!" said Aiko's voice coming from Mashhour's bracelet surprisingly almost everyone, "Lost boy checking in!"
Everyone was surprised by the voice… with Melissa and Kyoka confused (and Mineta and Kaminari a little terrified due to the one time they met her).
"Pirate boy checking in!" said Aiko from Izuku's transceiver.
"Ninja girl checking in!" said Aiko from Ochaco's transceiver.
"Pony girl checking in." said Aiko from Toru's translated.
"Magic girl checking in." said Aiko from Momo's transceiver.
"Class rep checking in." said Aiko from Iida's transceiver.
"Tracker and transceiver are all engaged, working and are being held by their owners! Good I don't have to scold any of you leaving them behind." Said Aiko from all six devices.
"Aiko… I thought you couldn't show up unless we pressed the button." Said Izuku.
"Hibiki lied… we didn't want to bring up that in emergencies under his order I can enter them." Said Aiko.
"Okay… is that a thing he forgot to bring up or was it deliberate." Said Ochaco.
"It was deliberate… considering I said he lied… yeah." Said Aiko, "But the point still stands, right now I'm a middle man between you guys, Hibiki and All Might."
"Really?" asked Izuku.
"Are you honestly surprised by any of this?" asked Aiko, "I'm a smart ass AI talking to you through a thing that's really meant to track a guy who gets lost in a closet. Creating his own mini communication network is piddling compared to that."
There was an awkard silence.
"Oh come on! Can't someone say "that shouldn't make any sense."" Said Aiko.
"Most of us are used to Hibiki and his inventions by this point." Pointed out Momo.
"Ugh! Good point!" said Aiko.
"Um… what's going on?" asked Kyoka.
"Oh yeah… Jiro, Melissia, this is Aiko, she's Hibiki's assistant." Said Izuku.
"But my name is really A.I.K.O." said Aiko, "It stand for Artificial Intelligence knows Objectively."
"Objectively what?" asked Kyoka before anyone could stop her.
Of course it was her standard silence.
"That I'm better than you." Said Aiko who then played the air horns (though quieter than usual).
Kyoka looked at Izuku, "You know… this explains a lot about your exam."
"Oh… you saw it." Said Izuku.
"How do you two know her?" asked Kyoka realize that Kaminari and Mineta knew her.
"It's not important." Said Kaminari.
"There's other things to worry about." Said Mineta.
"They're right unfortunately… it's my job to get you kids to safety." Sighed Aiko.
Then she burst out laughing causing everyone to sweat drop.
"Look right now the entire island is under lock down and there's nowhere really safe right now… and in fact the safest thing to right now is to make sure that the pros are free to rescue everyone." Said Aiko, "Which means whatever plan you were going to going to come up with before I showed up…"
"What makes you think we were going to come up with a plan?" asked Izuku.
"I've known for you the past few months… also it's kind of obvious you were going to come up with a plan we're you're the only ones able to do something." Said Aiko.
"She's not wrong." Said Ochaco.
"Look… right now was have 6 devices with me on it, if need be, you can split up 6 into six group just in case… though I wouldn't recommend it like at all. But just in case…" said Aiko.
"Mellissa said that we can turn off the security protocols." Said Izuku.
"But we use our quirks we could get in trouble." Said Iida.
"But at the same time no one else is able to act." Said Momo.
"Which means you're going aren't you?" asked Aiko.
"This is incredibly bad idea." Said Iida.
"We get it. You're again after what happened with Hosu, but this isn't a black and white situation." Said Aiko.
"She's right." Said Todoroki, "We're the only ones who can do something."
"We don't have to use our quriks to get up there." Pointed out Toru.
"As always it's a tricky gray area for you." Said Aiko.
"I'm definitely going." Said Izuku.
"So am I." said Momo.
Almost everyone started to agree.
Iida sighed.
"If something goes wrong though, I will be the one to drag us out there" said Iida.
"I agree as an approximation of a responsible adult." Said Aiko.
"Iida's more mature than you are…" said Mashirao with a sweat drop.
"Says you." Said Aiko.
"I'm pretty sure everyone who knows you will say so." Agreed Ochaco.
"I just met you, and I'm pretty sure arguing with "Says you" says everything about your maturity level." Pointed out Kyoka.
"AGH!" grumbled Aiko.
"I'm coming too." Said Mellissa.
"Wait…" said Izuku, "What about…"
"Does any of you know to ho to turn of security?" asked Melissa.
"And before you say me, even if I'm able to do this I lost a lot of my capabilities when they shut down communications. So I can't exactly help with that right now… because these things don't have a USB port so I can only enter these and any sort of device that Hibiki has on him so, she has to be the only turn everything off."
"She's telling the truth." Sighed Momo.
"Probably." Added Mashirao.
"What have ever done that to add that "probably"?" asked Aiko.
The six that knew her well was about to say something.
"Okay! I don't need to answers!" said Aiko.
"We can't keep talk about this!" said Momo, "We have to go now."
"I know where the stairs are." Said Mellissa.
"I'll tell Hibiki and All Might. Time crunch after all." Said Aiko.
They followed her to the stairs, with all the teens (mind Mineta who was scared) ready to go.
As they headed there, Aiko told Hibiki and All Might the plan.
"Of course they're going to do something stupid." Sighed All Might.
"Can't blame this time…" said Hibiki, "They're kind of our only hope."
All Might chuckled.
"You sound kind of proud." Said Hibiki.
"Of course not…" denied All Might.
Hibiki chuckled this time.
"By the way I was wondering." Said All Might, "Why didn't you give Yuzu one too?"
"Various reasons." Said Hibiki.
"One is your health issues. She can't know about them…" said Aiko.
"Good point." Said All Might.
"And just a bunch other of reasons." Said Hibiki.
One of which would be revealed right then and there. With Yuzu needing to voice a thought.
"Hey… I was thinking about something." Said Yuzu.
One of the criminals walked over to her.
"Look… just let me get my thoughts out." Said Yuzu, "It has nothing to do with being a hero."
"You better not try anything funny." Said the criminal.
"So we're in a skyscraper right?" asked Yuzu.
"Yeah…" muttered the criminal.
"And this a big party." Said Yuzu.
"Yeah…" said the Criminal.
"And you all took over a skyscraper in the middle of a party." Said Yuzu.
"Yeah." Said the Criminal.
"Son of a bitch! We're in Die Hard." Said Yuzu.
Several people looked at the bound pro-hero who was next to the buffet table. Most of the people were confused, Hibiki looked like he wanted to face palm but couldn't, All Might had to stifle a laugh as even found it a little funny… one of the criminals on the other hand.
"We're not in Die Hard!" he yelled then it was clear he was joining in the joke, "It's the middle of summer and not Christmas! Ergo we can't be in Die Hard."
The man who was the clear leader looked at him.
"What? I found it funny!" said the criminal, "And I happen to watch it every Christmas! I have interests you know!"
The leader just shook his head.
And with that the teens were now in a in a situation that was truly hard… a Die Hard one…
Sorry…
But in all seriousness… this was a bad satiation and the only hope was that they could to the floor and fix everything.
Next Time: The group of teens try to go up to the level where the security system is. But of course isn't easy... plus of course they get discovered. What will happen? And just where were Bakugo and Kirishima were? Find out next time!
A/N: I'm going to be comply honest and say I've never seen Die Hard... please don't make fun of me... but I also knew I had to do this... because come on... the plot is so Die Hard...
