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Chapter 96:

"You saw him?" Tokoyami asked. The sixteen year old boy's eyes were huge as he stared at the one-armed hero he was working with while they stood at the edge of a roof in the middle of the night. They were looking out over the bright lights of the city below them from one of the tallest skyscrapers, and Hawks just mentioned something that had Tokoyami staring at his pro hero in shock.

Hawks glanced at his intern and then back out into the city. "A while ago," he replied. The blond man with big red wings curled in towards his back at the moment crouched and looked out farther through the city with his hands down on his knees. He had on light-blue goggles and looked through them around for any crime going on below that they were supposed to be taking a break from patrolling for. "Just after that stuff came out about him in the Philippines," Hawks added.

Tokoyami's eyes opened even wider, then they narrowed in a frustrated way. "Don't look at me like that Tsukuyomi, geez," Hawks scratched the left side of his face over his light beard.

"Why didn't you tell me?" Tokoyami asked.

Hawks glanced to his left at the boy on that side, and he sighed before looking up at the sky. "Well, there wasn't much to say. I just went where I heard he'd been, found him and the three he was with in that forest." Hawks scratched his cheek a couple more times then looked out over the city, "We talked. We fought. I woke up on a beach on some almost empty island."

Tokoyami stared at the pro hero next to him with his eyes wider than ever. Hawks had just mentioned off-handedly something 'Lifebringer' had told him, and Tokoyami heard from Zach that he had not met Hawks before so he knew it had to be recent. "You, lost?" Tokoyami asked slowly, wondering if that was what he was hearing, and understanding why it might be that Hawks had not brought this up before.

Hawks hummed and then responded, "I didn't expect him to suddenly attack his own comrade. I had her away with one feather, and he surrounded her in Death when he raced after her while I was fighting the Gentle Criminal." Hawks sighed and then leaned his head back, "Just touching one of my feathers… when I woke up it was two days later. They left me on a beach this couple lived on all alone, watching after me."

Tokoyami thought about what girl Hawks must have been talking about right there, but he was still bothered by something and his eyes got darker. "Were you," Tokoyami began. Hawks glanced to his left and lifted his eyebrows as the dark boy at his side finished, "Really trying to capture him?"

"He tried convincing me not to," Hawks replied with a dark, dry laugh. "Made some good points actually, but I was hoping to end the controversy which could only happen if he's tried here." Hawks looked back out over the city and Tokoyami turned to do the same. The teenager started thinking about how there still were many varying opinions on the Lifebringer Incident and what his old classmate's punishment for it should be. Hawks continued while they looked out together, "When he left me on that beach instead of, well, doing something worse, I decided to stop wasting my time on him. Too many villains here at home to chase that kid around the world."

Hawks stood up and looked down off the building towards a street where he heard an alarm going off like someone just broke into something. Tokoyami turned too, and Hawks said, "I know it's not what you want to hear, but push Lifebringer from your mind, Tsukuyomi. He's not what you should be focusing on."

Tokoyami kept frowning as he was upset Hawks had not told him about this earlier. He nodded his head though and then released Dark Shadow onto his back. The city skyline was lit up brightly, and the streets down below were even brighter so Tokoyami was not worried. Dark Shadow covered him and Hawks flapped his wings out to the sides while Tokoyami created dark wings of his own on his back. "Let's do it!" Dark Shadow called out excitedly, his red eyes flaring up in the darkness over one of the tallest roofs in the city.

The hero and his intern leapt off the roof to go fight crime through the city. Unfortunately, a villain they would be facing that night had the Quirk of Blackout. And only a couple of hours later, Tsukuyomi and Hawks would no longer be allies…

"That's so unfair," Ashido leaned in from the couch on Tokoyami's left side. "I didn't even know they could do that!"

"Suspending a provisional license," Ojiro began quietly. He looked from the couch across the room from Ashido's to the center one their dark classmate sat on, "Did they tell you how long it would be for?"

"Until I can prove control over Dark Shadow," Tokoyami said in a dark tone. He kept staring at the tv in front of him and spoke in a low voice because he did not want to make a big fuss over this, "At the conditions chosen during their testing-"

"So they could throw you in a pitch black room, and if you can't do it they won't let you be a hero?" Hagakure asked worriedly from next to Ojiro.

Tokoyami's mouth dipped down farther as he was really hoping that was not going to happen. The others in the common room looked over towards Hagakure and the invisible girl covered her mouth as she realized Tokoyami was probably worried enough about that without her saying anything.

"At the test, if you cannot control it at that point," Todoroki was standing behind Tokoyami's couch, and the dark boy in front of him glanced back at his classmate. "Then you should suggest to them a provision that you be allowed to take part in hero activities only during the day. At least, until you are able to control Dark Shadow's full power."

Tokoyami hummed and he nodded at Todoroki in agreement. It was not perfect, but he wanted his provisional license back as soon as possible, and if that meant before he was able to control Dark Shadow he was willing to suggest a restraint on his own power himself. Tokoyami looked back at the tv and he felt some relief though it could not squash his embarrassment at what he had been seeing for the past few days. A stain not only on myself, but on Hawks, U.A., and Class A. Everyone, I am so sorry. Tokoyami could not apologize aloud as his classmates had scolded him already for trying to do so, pointing out that no one had been hurt… despite the amount of property damage Dark Shadow caused that night.

The news shifted though and did take Tokoyami's mind off of his own debacle with the intensity of the situation in the Middle East being discussed. Todoroki was about to head upstairs to his own room, but he stopped with his body turned and re-faced the tv in the common room. He walked back towards it, while Bakugo and Kirishima headed over from one of the tables near the kitchen. "Whoa, that seems pretty serious," Kirishima said with wide eyes as he looked at the screen.

"Oh I heard about that," Ashido began. "Wait," she continued, and her eyes opened wider. "Okay maybe, I- well I heard there were protests at least."

"A coup d'état," Tokoyami said in a low voice. "I had heard things as well, Ashido. But I did not think things were this close to…"

The students all looked at the screen closer and watched as the anchors started showing clips from inside the country. There was a man on the screen calling out in Arabic, with his head wrapped in a turban but the bottom of his face wrapped up too so all that really showed were his eyes. He was an abnormally big man around nine feet tall and five feet broad at the shoulders. He was muscular though his body was covered in a traditional robe that made it difficult to tell unless one looked closely.

Subtitles appeared on the bottom of the screen as the man called out, and the students watching started getting uneasy feelings at the sight of what his name popped up to be on the bottom of the screen. His name also came out sounding like it would anywhere else, as it was not as much an Arabic word as it was a name that did not sound real. Ojiro got a hesitant look on his face, and he said in an unsure voice, "Mongoloid? That, doesn't really…" he trailed off, not sure how to feel or react to what he was seeing.

"He's saying that it was a popular overthrow of the government," Ashido started. "But yeah, I guess he does look, a little intimidating."

The region has been less stable recently than it has been for over a decade, Todoroki thought while watching as the man on the screen got replaced by a video from protests earlier that month. He had seen similar protests over the summer, but he did remember ones at the start of the September seeming like they were bigger after the government suppressed smaller ones in mid-August. I wonder what the heroes in Saudi Arabia are doing? Shouldn't they have been protecting the government? Or did they agree with the protests, and join this Mongoloid's side in overthrowing the old government?

"Doesn't sound like this guy, is looking to be elected," Ojiro said.

Tokoyami nodded and hummed as the anchors started talking about how news of Mongoloid first came in after the coup was reported. Their old government was not elected either, but that was what I thought the protests were about. That and policies regarding villains which the old traditional regime would not change.

"Mongoloid claims that his 'Revolutionary army' has taken over the government," one of the two anchors in the early afternoon news said while looking to his co-host. "But now, this creates a bit of a situation for the neighboring countries. Many were allied with Saudi Arabia, and are already calling this a move by a villainous group overthrowing their ally."

"Others were against that old regime though, and are supporting the rebels' freedom to choose their own government. I think it's hard for us to say more in an informed way until we've gotten some more information from inside Saudi Arabia. We'll see what the nation's heroes do about this situation, and we will keep you updated as it progresses."

"Moving forward, the situation in Saudi Arabia is not the only big news in the Middle East today, as another terrorist attack in Gorran's capital of Hanai caused the deaths of twenty-two citizens this morning. The ISK Hero Group is currently tracking down the ones responsible, and Gorran's President Rami Hasseini has issued one of the country's rare kill-on-sight orders for the men responsible. Shakad and the SISIS have taken credit for the…"

At 10:00 a.m. in U.A. High School, Class A sat at their seats with All Might in the front of the room. They were all quietly watching the news on a tv All Might brought in. He had just turned it on, as there was set to be a press release from across the world at the UN headquarters in New York City soon. The class and their teacher watched as spokespeople for different countries left the building and stepped out towards the reporters from their home nations to speak to.

A Japanese spokesman for the ambassador who had not come out of the chambers yet stepped up in front of the reporters and then started his statement. All Might hummed while watching, and the skinny man with sucked in cheeks lifted a hand and scratched his chin with a thoughtful look on his face. Others around the classroom watched carefully too, though some were just sitting back with annoyed or bored expressions on their faces.

Bakugo had his head lifted to the ceiling, thinking about a new finishing move he had been working on the last few weeks. He lowered his head and looked towards Kirishima who had out his math book and was going through it quickly as he was nervous for the math quiz they had coming up after All Might's class. I'll test it on Kirishima. If it can break through his Hardening in one blow… Bakugo lifted his head up to look towards the screen and he frowned a bit more at what he just heard. "Ch, what the hell?" he muttered under his breath.

"…Unfortunately, the Saudi ambassador was called back to his country so their was little to negotiate. We have decided not to send in heroes though as President Mongoloid has threatened action against countries who do so. However, the assembly has demanded that President Mongoloid allow in an investigative team to check that human rights are being recognized in this time of governmental change. If the new President fails to comply by the end of the month, it will be assumed that his new government is breaking international human rights' laws, while the investigative team would only be sent in to check on these rumored violations…"

"End of the month?" Ojiro muttered under his breath. "We're what, three days into October?"

One of the reporters near the UN headquarters had a similar question as Ojiro's and called it out. The spokesperson nodded and then responded, "This is a delicate situation in a nation that had been facing many protests leading up to the revolution. The new Saudi Arabian President's policy is a more isolationist one than the previous government's, and it is not up to the rest of the world to determine how a people self-governs."

"It's not just isolationist. We haven't been receiving word from any reporters or news stations in the country. Only the state-sponsored station is still reporting-"

"And what of the foreign nationals still in Saudi Arabia who have not been heard from since the coup?"

The spokesman lifted a hand to get the reporters to settle down. "As we have previously released, the country's precarious state at the moment does make it difficult to ascertain the exact situation inside the nation's borders. President Mongoloid has support from his people, and though we do not know how much, if he complies to the General Assembly's demands for an international investigative team to be sent in to assess the well-being and state of his country, we would take that as a great step in moving forward to establishing this new government as a legitimate regime in the eyes of the rest of the world. The investigative team would also be ascertaining the status of the foreign nationals who President Mongoloid's regime has imprisoned for reported actions against the new government. The majority of foreign nationals were expelled from the country at the start of the regime change, and those who were not have been arrested for charges of insubordination to President Mongoloid's regime."

"What does that even mean? Insubordination? Hisawa Kawaki, a fellow journalist for our Nihon News was in Saudi Arabia at the time of the regime shift. The last we received word from him his team was headed to Hatto to report on the sudden regime change. He and three other Japanese nationals are among the group still inside-"

"As we have said," the spokesman said, and he continued in a stern voice, "we are doing our best to avoid an international incident. We will get back our people as soon as we can. Once the investigative team is allowed access and given more information on what the detained foreign nationals did to warrant arrest, we will have more information for you. Until that time, we await President Mongoloid's swift response to the assembly's demand." The spokesman stepped back and bowed to the reporters who started calling up to him again, then he turned and headed back for the UN headquarters behind him.

"Back to you at the station."

"Well that was a live report from outside of the UN General Assembly in New York. I can't say I'm satisfied with that response."

"Neither can I," the female co-host on a mid-morning news show that All Might had put on knowing it would have the release from New York televised. "However, I would have to agree that it is not the job of other nations to decide how countries choose to self-govern. Let's put on the clip we got here late last night that some of our viewers may not have seen. This is a recording from the state-sponsored news program in Saudi Arabia." A corner of the screen covered in an image that started to enlarge as the host continued, "At a rally a few days ago where Mongoloid named himself the democratically elected President of Saudi Arabia."

"Named himself" the president? Uraraka thought with a strange feeling swirling in her chest. That feeling settled a bit though as she stared at the screen showing a huge cheering crowd outside of a magnificent palace in Hatto.

The camera was up on one of the outer walls of the palace, pointed down into the courtyard and then through the gates and out onto the streets beyond where thousands upon thousands of people were gathered and cheering. Many of them were waving flags, most of them were smiling, and a lot were chanting out their new leader's name. The camera turned back through the courtyard and then up onto the balcony on the third floor of the huge palace with domed roofs and ornate gold designs through the walls. There were big steel lances sticking up around the outer walls with Saudi flags waving around off of them, and in between some of those flags right on the middle balcony was the huge new President of Saudi Arabia.

Nine feet tall and five broad at the shoulders, Mongoloid stood in front of all his people still wearing the turban around his head and most of his face except for his eyes. Standing at his side was a woman with a thin black veil over her face and just as fancy-looking a robe on as the man next to her. Her left hand was locked with Mongoloid's right, and the woman lifted her own right hand to wave at the people who got a lot louder with their cheers for "Arma!"

Mongoloid lifted his left hand and clenched it into a fist. He quieted down the crowds pretty quickly, and then he shouted over the silencing courtyard and streets in a booming voice. He was yelling in Arabic, but subtitles had been made for the clip already and appeared on the bottom of the screen as he spoke. "Crime will never again be accepted in this country. The corruption, of our previous leaders, was a disgrace! Those who allied themselves with our old leaders and call this an unlawful revolt, are the same ones who stood by and allowed our former dictators to abuse us!" Roars of cheers echoed out through the streets. "They stood by and did nothing as our criminal justice system failed to stop any of the villains in our nation! NO MORE!" Another chorus of cheers echoed out.

"Crime in Saudi Arabia has dropped to ZERO over the past week. I have ended crime in this country!"

All Might turned off the tv right as the loudest round of cheers started blaring out through the recording. He turned to the class in there with him, and he asked, "What do you think?"

What do we think? Midoriya thought while staring at his mentor. His eyes lowered to his desk and he hummed to himself as he pondered the purpose of the question first, As heroes is it our job to, to… what are we supposed to do? Does what we think on this issue, really matter? I believe, I think, he has a lot of support. But why were foreigners arrested? Did they try acting out against the new government, against its censorship of news, or did Mongoloid suddenly change the rules and arrest them for new laws that weren't explained before? This is very political. Any country that sends in heroes to try and figure out what's going on, Mongoloid threatened retaliation against. Why wouldn't he want heroes to see what's happening? How hard-line are those policies he put in place to stop villains? Crime is at zero? Is the translation wrong, or, or did he do something-

"His name is Mongoloid, I mean, he's gotta be a villain right?" Ashido asked, glancing around at her classmates wondering if any of them had thought that themselves.

"I don't know, I think it's a cool name," Kirishima said, lifting his head from his book and looking to the pink girl to his right. "Bakugo's come up with some scarier names than that for a hero name-"

"Oi," Bakugo snapped in annoyance, not wanting to be brought into this when he was barely focusing again in the first place.

"Why was he hiding his face though?" Sero asked. "Seems like he's trying to hide something-"

"Or," Tokoyami began. Sero looked back and over to the dark boy with a beak on his face. Tokoyami continued while glancing over at his classmate, "There is still discrimination in that part of the world. It exists everywhere, but perhaps in his nation those who are born with Quirks that make them look different from 'normal' people are not accepted as easily. I know the former ruling class of Saudi Arabia were all of a similar Quirk lineage."

Sero hummed and had a sweatdrop on the side of his face as he did not really think of that. "Seemed like he was getting a lot of cheers though," Sero started again. "Doubt those people would suddenly turn on him just 'cause he looks different. Even without seeing his face he's already a giant."

Tokoyami nodded in some agreement, because although he had that counter he was not exactly sold on it himself. That Mongoloid sounded very, confident? He did not sound like a man who would mask his appearance to satisfy un-accepting people. Perhaps the covering on his head is to protect others from what his Quirk is. Or, perhaps there is truth to what Sero says.

"What do you students think of the resolution the UN came to?" All Might asked again, rewording his question this time.

"They're waiting too long," Ojiro said, deciding to say it instead of holding back since All Might was asking after all. He looked the teacher in the eyes as All Might turned to him, and he asked, "If Mongoloid really is breaking human rights' laws, then shouldn't- someone needs to, find out."

"And if sending in that team without waiting for Mongoloid's approval causes him to lash out?" All Might asked. Ojiro's eyes widened, and the teacher in front of them hummed at the boy's surprised look. "He has just overthrown a government. To assume that he has the same restraint, the same level of understanding as to how international politics work would be foolish. You may think it is outlandish that Mongoloid would just have the investigative team killed, or heroes who enter the country to investigate, but in his eyes those actions could be accounted as the same thing as foreign invasion. We have already seen that he was quick to oust most foreign nationals and arrest the rest, and in his speeches to his people we have seen him put blame on the problems of his country not only on the former government but on other governments who allowed their country to reach that point."

"What matters most to this Mongoloid is not how much the rest of the world supports him," Yaoyorozu began from farther back in the room. "But how his own people see him now. However, All Might, should we not be concerned that his consolidation of power in this way is not dangerous?"

"He's going to big lengths to keep his control," Jirou started.

"Maybe he knows that with a lot of foreign influence, he loses a lot of things he'd be able to control if he isolates himself," Shoji suggested with a glance back at Jirou.

"Yeah, but those are the things no one guy should have control over," Jirou countered right back.

"I didn't say he was right in doing it," Shoji said. Jirou leaned back as she had countered that a bit too quickly like she thought Shoji was defending this guy who seemed like a dictator to her. Shoji continued, "But as much as there is an international community, and as much as this world we live in now is globalized, it had been for the past several decades that the former ruling class in Saudi Arabia was in charge. If the Saudis do not see these things as helpful, or if they see a correlation between the existence of globalization and a collapse of their country's rule of law…"

"Shouldn't other countries have stepped in, earlier?" Hagakure asked softly. She looked from Shoji next to her up to All Might who turned the invisible girl's way. "If things really are supposed to be all globalized where the UN has to step in afterwards, I mean, if the country was at that point shouldn't other heroes have gone in to try and fix it before things got that far?"

"Unfortunately, Young Hagakure," All Might began. "Although the world's heroes have been working in conjunction with heroes from other countries more often as of late than ever before, it is the opposite for sending heroes to a country to stay and assist with increased crime. Heroes may team up now and again to travel to other countries and help in the most intense fights or when villains have been located and heroes want the most assistance possible for individual missions, but for a nation to send its heroes to stay at another country and fix a problem such as a failure of the judicial system, corruption in a government, or a very high level of crime, it is impossible with crime rates as high as they are in every country of the world. Imagine for a moment if our government were to send Endeavor, Hawks, Best Jeanist, Miruko, and Kamui Woods to China to help with their increased crime levels. For three months."

All Might glanced around the room and then asked, "How would you feel? Or, how do you think the public would react?"

"Angrily," Todoroki said, responding to the second question.

"Our crime rate is already so high itself," Uraraka began softly. She understood why the question was being posed, but she did not like that it countered the ability of their country to help out others.

"They might be quick to call for new leaders," Asui started. A couple of others looked over to her wondering what she meant by that, and the short frog girl continued at their looks, "The public would blame the government for sending away our best heroes, whenever crimes occurred. And the people would call for new leaders to take charge over the old ones."

"That was part of the problem in Saudi Arabia," Yaoyorozu began. "I do recall one of the issues of the earlier protests was an accusation that the government was too involved in foreign issues around the Middle East and the world while their own country was full of crime."

"Something like that wouldn't really happen here though," Hagakure started.

"Why not?" All Might asked the girl who opened her mouth and froze as she did not really know why she thought that. All Might took in a slow breath and then the scrawny man said in a soft but stern voice, "As much as you may think that we are in different places of the world, and though you would be right to say that we are very different peoples, we are all human. Not everyone in our own country is satisfied with the current government's handling of villains. Whenever Endeavor is called out to assist neighboring countries' heroes, there is a danger that Japan becomes weaker in his absence. And more than that, there are deep rooted issues that may not have been seen as issues before but could be soon. Problems that many people looked over in times of peace… Anyway, I would like all of you to keep up to date on the ongoing situation in Saudi Arabia on top of your individual studies. Next Friday you have your preliminary reports on the countries you chose. You should have a comprehensive outline of what your chapters will be and how you plan to continue your research through the fall. This term paper is your final exam for this class in the fall, and I hope you all take it as seriously as you did your finals upon returning from summer break."

"Yes All Might," some of the students responded. A few did not say anything though, as they had stopped focusing that much in the middle of what All Might was saying.

Problems, people overlooked. Things like how only heroes can use their Quirks, and people who use them to fight villains without licenses get in trouble. The fact that the general populace is weaker than villains as a whole. Jirou glared towards the front of the room and then sighed while looking down at her desk. I can't get angry, every time I think about stuff like that. I'm only going to have to start thinking more about it, and even though it's not about him, he's the one who made me start thinking of those kinds of things in the first place. And I, I don't even want to get mad just thinking about you anymore either, Zach. Because you could be dead out there. I thought you were going to go out on your own and become this vigilante who ignored all the rules, someone who would get caught quickly so they could bring you back- But you've been missing for months. No sign of you since the start of the summer… Did you get killed fighting some villains? No one would even know. We'd, never hear from you again. Maybe that would be better.

"You're sure we're cloaked?"

"If we were not, they would be shooting at us would they not be?"

"Even if they can't see us, they could still hear us. Shut up you two." Gentle looked over towards the two who started arguing on top of the sand dune they were cloaked on. There were five people standing on the dune, though at the far side closest to the military base and border checkpoint one of them was crouched and held a pair of binoculars up to his face. Darling turned away from the young Arab man in front of her and marched over to crouch next to the boy looking through the binoculars.

"And they are leaving again," the young man cloaking their hill in the desert muttered in an annoyed voice. He looked out past the hill towards the barracks, the training grounds, the parking lot full of military vehicles, and past the base to a couple of humvees that were sand-colored and started driving away back to the west. "What are we even doing still here? Hello?"

"Calm down, Akhmed," Zach stood up from where he was crouched and glanced over his shoulder towards the young man who was still three years older than him. He spoke English to the man behind him, as everyone on the hill had been speaking while he observed the base in the distance. Zach lifted his right hand up to his head and with his index finger inside the fabric of a black glove he tapped a button on his headset. "Rebel, they're driving away. You have the time?"

A couple of seconds passed and then Zach heard a voice in his ear, "Yo that wasn't even half what it took before. Ten hours the last gap, this time only three and a half. Gets you an average 'bout six-seven hours."

Zach shook his head. He thought for a second to make sure of what he had just heard, as the English was difficult to understand in Rebel's gangster-like American accent. Then he responded back, "It won't take as long each time. Instead of an average, I see it as it's taking them less time to pass along messages. Getting the flaws of their system worked out, even this far towards the border."

"That tower," Gentle said, walking up towards Zach while listening in to the conversation. He stood next to the boy a head shorter than him and started while pointing out towards a radio tower in the distance past the military base. "We can assume it's being used-"

"Take out any radio towers you see," Rebel cut in, though he stopped quick as Gentle's voice started reaching him and made him realize he was speaking over the man.

"There's a few second delay between our messages going up to the satellite Rebel's tapped into, and when they come back down," Zach said while looking at Gentle who had an annoyed expression on his face after that cut-off. "But it's better than no communication at all, which is what the people in there have." Zach turned again and looked back towards the military base where there was a lot of activity moving about inside of after those two vehicles drove off. "One of Mongoloid's Seven Demons was there this time. He didn't come with the last convoy."

"This is not why I am here," Akhmed snapped. The others on the hill turned to him, and Zach looked back to see the young brown-skinned man had his fists clenched at his sides and was looking at him in such an angry way that they started having this conversation while ignoring his complaints.

"I know," Zach said. He took a step towards Akhmed and said, "And I know after the SISIS bombing last night, you want to go back to Gorran-"

"You do not know," Akhmed said in a harsh, angry voice. "I joined you because you said we would stop Shakad, and SISIS, but we have left my country to fight in Saudi instead? We-"

"Your goal is to stop Shakad, stop SISIS," Zach said, taking another step towards the slightly older man in front of him who was a few inches taller and kept staring harshly back into Zach's eyes. "But do you want to stop them for revenge, or because until they are stopped, your home country is in danger?" Zach paused for a second, and then he pointed his left hand out to his side, "Well do you really think your country is safe, with a villain like Mongoloid consolidating power next door? Do you think he will be satisfied with just taking one country? We will get back to SISIS, I promise. But we can't do what everyone else is doing. We can't just, wait, for Mongoloid to amass more power."

Zach turned back himself as Akhmed tssked and turned to the military base. "We don't know how long it will be before the next check comes here. We have some time though. It's time to move in." The other four on the hill looked in at Zach, and he lifted his right hand and tapped a button to talk to Rebel again, "We're doing it. Are your guys ready?"

"Oh yeah. They're on standby. Connecting, and, here we go… Everybody check in."

"Anon 1, ready." A voice masked by a deep voice modulator checked in.

"Anon 2, standing by," another modulated voice added.

"Anon 3, just waking up but ready to go," this time the voice did not sound-altered at all, it was high-pitched and sounded like a young girl's.

"Whoreslayer42 ready for action sirs!"

"I told you not to use your fucking trolling name," Rebel snapped in a pissed-off voice.

"I am not a troll, but an internet warrior-"

"Rebel, it's fine," Zach muttered. What kind of team is this?

"Ah, whatever. Alright, Anon 5 you there?" Rebel asked.

The five on top of the dune were tapped into comms with Rebel and his team. They all stood around waiting for a response, and then they heard typing over their headsets. "Hold on," Rebel said in a low voice. "It might take a little longer to get in touch with him, being inside and all."

"Anon 5 is your guy on the inside?" La Brava wondered. The girl walking up to Gentle glanced up at him, and the taller man hummed while glancing down at her to see her hesitant look.

Darling looked back at Zach and frowned as they kept standing there in silence. Zach frowned deeper himself as the silence was starting to make all of them nervous. This guy is the reason we're here. If he's not there… No, don't think of it as a trap. Don't distrust, just for the sake of not trusting anyone. Anon 5 asked for help. The reason messages aren't escaping the country, reason social media presence has nearly vanished isn't a censoring by the government. WhyFight, Quirk: WiFi. He's not one of Mongoloid's 7 Demons, but he's one of the only ones in Mongoloid's ranks our source actually got us info on.

"What if it was all a hoax?" Akhmed muttered behind Zach.

"Hold on," Rebel started, "I'm getting a message."

"Oh shit," one of the deep modulated voices said.

"What is it?" Gentle asked.

Rebel took a breath and then started in a deep voice, "It's in Arabic. My auto-translator reads like this: 'The person you are trying to contact has been arrested for insubordination against President Mongoloid's government, in accordance with article 6 of Saudi Arabia's new constitution. Who is this?' They must've tracked his I.P."

"Guess he wasn't lying when he said it was dangerous." The Anon 3 girl's voice came through their headsets.

"Or maybe he wrote that message himself- hey, he's trying to track me," Whoreslayer42 snapped in a pissed-off voice.

"They won't be able to," Rebel said. "There's no way. So don't worry about it."

"I'm not getting arrested for attacking Saudi Arabia," Anon 1 muttered in a low voice. His comms cut off.

"They already arrested one of us-" Anon 2 began.

"They didn't arrest him," Zach said. His voice was low and he started glaring out towards the military base and then beyond it, in the direction of the capital Hatto. "They killed him. And you don't have to worry about that, because you're not in Saudi Arabia. You're not living under Mongoloid's occupation. But you could help me end it."

"You think they killed him too?" Rebel said in a low, angrier voice.

"That idiot," Anon 3 whispered. "He should have gotten out of there when he had the chance."

"If he had, I never would have believed him," Zach said in as low, and angry a voice as the one Rebel had just used. "The pictures he got to us, they confirmed what he said about Mongoloid's men. Firesale, Quirk: Photoshop and Algebra Man, Quirk: Divide and Multiply. Those weren't real crowds around the palace. And those spikes around the building, weren't really holding flags. The old government leaders, the pro heroes Mongoloid's men went around the country calling back to the capital, all of them. This Revolutionary Army is a collection of villains doing Mongoloid's bidding. Help me stop them."

"Whoreslayer's with you," Anon 4 said without hesitating.

"Yeah, me too," Anon 3 agreed.

Anon 2 paused for a few more seconds, then his modulated voice said, "Let's do it."

"We'll keep comm lines open between you guys through the attack, but know that the farther you get from each other the harder it will be as long as WhyFight's towers are still up. They had to have set it up before the actual overthrow," Rebel explained. "Setting something up like this takes a lot of planning, but not as much to tear it down. Go fuck shit up, Commander."

Zach turned away from the military outpost and walked back to the other side of the hill. Gentle and La Brava turned and walked behind him on his right side, and Darling ran up to walk just next to Zach on his left though she hung back a few feet too. Akhmed kept glaring out off the side of the hill closer to Saudi Arabia, while Zach walked to the other half that was still cloaked by Akhmed's power. He looked down off that side of the hill, and men and women in black clothing who were fanning themselves off or sitting in the shade of the vehicles near them stood up.

Zach tapped a button on his headset that connected him to everyone in front of him. He took in a deep breath and then spoke in his strongest and most determined English voice. "The Seven Demons of Mongoloid were his tools to take over this country without resistance. With them he brought dozens, maybe hundreds of other soldiers, whose Quirks have kept the world from doing a thing. One of them, Algebra Man, can split himself into hundreds of people. Another, Firesale, can change the appearance of people and things to a certain degree over cameras. Using these Quirks they created fake public displays of support. And WhyFight's blocking of signals in and out of the country has kept people who found out what has been happening from telling the rest of the world." Zach looked around at everyone on the sand down at the bottom of the hill. Thirty-five people stood around the two sand-colored military jeeps, the two black humvees, and the three helicopters they had been sitting in the shade of. The ground vehicles all had turrets on top of them of different sizes, though only one of the helicopters looked like an attack chopper with rockets on the sides and a minigun attached to the front.

"The government of Saudi Arabia wasn't perfect before Mongoloid," Zach continued to the people looking up at him, all of them listening over their headsets. The people behind him and the ones just giving tactical support from afar all listened in too as he called out, "But Mongoloid's a villain who's killing the people he conquered with his evil army, and heroes aren't doing anything about it. Mongoloid's men are consolidating control over the military, and how long until they're conscripting forces for an army around villages that don't know what he's done? How long will it take this organized group to militarize and mobilize the country they've taken over? People are being recruited into his army, forced or invited in, and we have to stop them before Mongoloid turns the entire country into a force of villains strong enough to invade other countries, because someone like Mongoloid will not be happy with only one."

People down below in their black costumes walked up closer to the hill. Some of them lifted up their helmets and put them on, while the boy at the top of the hill was doing the same with the helmet he grabbed from where it was clipped to his waist. He rose it up and put it down over his head, a round black helmet with a black visor over the front. He wore a tight black costume with a thick vest over his torso and back, thinner material on his sleeves and legs though his upper thighs had a lot of thick pockets on them. His belt was strapped with a dozen blades, and there were more knives strapped under his armpits and sideways down along his sides. He had two hilts sticking out over the top of his shoulders in opposite directions diagonally, and a katana on the back of his waist with the hilt pointed out to his left and the blade in its black sheath pointed to the right.

Everyone down below and around him started putting on their helmets too. People's wings spread out behind them, others flexed their extra arms or waved tails behind them, and others checked the ammo in the guns they had on their backs on in holsters at their sides. Some of them were covering up nervous looks as they put on their helmets, others calm ones, others excited expressions. Gentle just frowned in annoyance while looking at his helmet, then he sighed and rose up the only helmet in the entire group's that had a different color to it. He put his black helmet on with a purple visor, matching the highlights on his shoulders and belt and the cape of his costume. La Brava put her helmet on too, and Darling already had hers on from the moment Zach lifted his to put on his head.

"We're not here to fight the people of this country," Zach said in English down to the multi-national group of people down in front of him. "Mongoloid likely has many of them believing he is the rightful leader associated with the protests. Those of you who speak Arabic have the most important jobs. We can't do this if we're fighting the whole country. They're probably concerned with the censorship too though. They should have distrust for the new government as things stand. We have to tell them the truth. We have to stop Mongoloid. We will not wait and give him time to amass more power. We will not leave the people of Saudi Arabia for him to do with as he pleases. I know this is scary. I know, the idea of taking on an entire country sounds crazy. I know he has more men than we do. I know, we haven't known each other for very long. But I also know, Mongoloid will never see us coming."

"Watch each other's backs. Listen to my orders. Take down WhyFight's towers. Stop the Seven Demons and their subordinates. Try as hard as you can not to kill, but capture these villains so we can show the people of Saudi Arabia what they were. Get ready to fight. We're moving in. Everyone, we're invading Saudi Arabia."

A/N Time for an invasion! XD Zach's back! Some guy named Mongoloid's taken over Saudi Arabia, Zach's got a lot more people with him now, and shit's about to go down! Hope you enjoyed and are looking forward to the invasion of Saudi Arabia next chapter as well as some explanation to what just happened there at the end! Thanks for reading, and leave a review below telling me what you think/ predictions for what's coming!

Bass4penguin chapter 95 . Oct 16

It would be really interesting to see Deku and Zach fight after both mastering their quirks.
On the kurogiri to contain him you'd either have to destroy his quirk or make him brain dead so that's not really an option
It feels like their should be people out in the streets saying the apocalypse has begun with Death and shigarakis Decay that could be seen as pestilence all you need is War and Famine and you have all four horsemen of the apocalypse

I think that would be an awesome fight... we'll see though. I actually don't know how they're handling Kurogiri's capture specifics in the manga, but yeah def what Zach was thinking as he took him out. As for the Apocalypse... don't know how much the Japanese know about the four horsemen, but yeah I could def see people seeing that, and maybe we will too? Thanks for the review!

born75th chapter 95 . Oct 16

Every time i see an update from you i get happy and read it immediately no matter what I'm doing. I should be studying now lol. Please give me more Zack i need crazy adventures and power trips and escaping heroes and another motorcycle but with flying capabilies. Keep up the amazing work

Haha glad to hear you're so into it! Thanks for the review and hope I didn't keep you from studying for too long! (though editing this rn is keeping me from doing the same :P ).

Super Power Sensei chapter 95 . 19h ago

Your version of Sero has always been interesting to me. He shows a level of understanding few people have. I would like to have him as a friend and hang out with him.
Sero attempting to get with Ashido was a welcome change and their shared opinions on Zach is weight off my heart(at least they still care for him).
The world is slowly but surely starting to change and for once, not because of the League(fuck them).
While the sinking of Momozachi was painful, I'm perfectly fine if it never comes back. Although Zach HAS to get laid at some point.
Finally, did you know the longest piece of American literature is a fanfic on this very site? It's about 4 times as long as this one. I only know about this because of a IGN video talking about how long the script for Red Dead Redemption 2 is.

Yes! Sero fan! Lol I really started liking his character in Death and with Kaminari being evil, and Kirishima being too close to Zach, I felt like he was the best one to focus on with a positive reaction towards what Zach did. Sero and Ashido didn't work out... but I'm glad you liked their scenes together. I had some fun writing in the 'meanwhile back in Japan' chapters. I didn't know Zach getting laid was a requirement of this T-rated story... lol just kidding of course I knew that. I've actually heard that bit about the longest fanfic before. I was writing a diff one where I hit 2 million words b/w the two stories I split it through, never did reach that peak though *sighs*. Thanks for the review!

IntricateHummingbird chapter 95 . 16h ago

Oh dam. Is Tenya saying he'll arrest Zach, even though his intentions are good? Even though Zach saved him?

Uh huh. Iida's on that good and righteous "rules are rules" path. Big reason rest of the class didn't argue with him is exactly that last part though, knowing how much it's gotta mess with him to say that/ think those things even after Zach brought him back. Thanks for reviewing!

Shade11224 chapter 95 . 16h ago

I hate to be that guy, but I really don't want to read more about other characters than Zach. I'm saying that because you've managed to build an OC who has literally grown from a kid with a sad past to a emotionally and physically scarred man who has built his convictions upon his experiences that I've managed to read chapter by chapter since probably around chapter 30-40ish if not before then. This fanfic is good enough that it's most definitely in my opinion surpassed the original story and you should contact the writer of My Hero Academia and see if they'd consider this for a more mature AU spin off of the original.
That said I honestly think you should write more about the mundane things Zach does sometimes rather than his classmates who really aren't TOO important right now.
Thanks for the Chappy!

Always a reason for everything. Didn't want to spend too many chapters getting Zach to where he is now, though there will be some explanation next chapter. I'm really glad you've been into this story for so long, and really really glad to hear you think it's as good or better even than the original. Get that you want to see Zach in all he's doing, but it keeps intense chapters like the forest one a few back from happening when Zach's shown constantly with all his plans and everything being explained in his thoughts before they happen. Gotta keep up the world-building for the story though anyway, and who's to say those characters aren't important right now? Who knows what's coming next? I've got plans all the way through to the end of Death by this point, and I'm good as things are with proof-reading. Thanks for reviewing though, and I hope you enjoyed the new chapter!