This was officially the worst day of Insana's life.
On top of Japan being attacked by a madwoman who somehow commanded clothing to come to life, he was stuck with Todoroki. In a darkened room with some villain with a Darkness Quirk that was, to put it bluntly….Kicking the shift out of them
"Spoiled, ignorant! Lucky bastards!" Kuroiro snapped. "You have the chance to become beacons of hope in a dark world, but you squabble and limkt yourselves! While people like me are left with no choice to become villains!"
Ordinarily, he'd be theatrical in his talk, but he was too angry to and morons like these two needed to be spoken to at this level.
Suddenly, a bright light shone, blinding the three boys as a baby girl suddenly floated up to the Darkness user, a confused look on her face.
"…Sad man." The baby managed.
"W-what?"
"You're a sad man." Alas=Ramus said. "You wanted to save people, but people hurt you. So you hurt them, even though you don't want to."
Hurt him. Hurt them.
Yes, that was true. His parents, the neighborhood kids, his teachers…everyone hurt him. It was only fair he did the same right?
Right?
He then remembered her:
Kinoko.
She had gone through the same as him. She hadn't faltered. She always believed in him….
Him.
A villain's henchman. A monster….
This was not what he wanted.
"Please….stop me." Kuroiro begged the two boys. "And…don't tell Kinoko."
The two boys looked at each other. Without a word, they charged up their Quirks and landed a hit that finally ended the fight.
Kuroiro then lost consciousness and fell into a deep slumber, and Shoto and Insana had to live with the fact that a baby had saved them/made them act like real heroes.
SANCTUARY
Izuku and Ochacko were not sure who these new girls where, but they were grateful for their arrival. As Izuku tried to seal Nui's amputated arms, the two girls glared at Ragyo with all the hate in their forms.
"Well, isn't this a lovely surprise." Ragyo smirked. "All three of my daughters in one day. A pity you're all blind to the beauty of my work."
"'Beauty', mother?" Sastki managed, a smrik on her face as she drew a katana. "Ah right. How quickly I forget your warped senses. Makes me glad I found room with the 'naked apes' as you call them."
"And makes me glad pops kept me from ya." Ryuko added, drawing two red scissor blades the size of swords. "Now, we gonna chat or clash?"
Ragyo simply smirked.
"Very well. And girls? Do put up more of a fight than your father did."
She had expected that to enrage her daughters make them sloppy. So when they smirked instead?
"Funny you should mention the old man…" Ryuko smirked as a part on her uniform changed, becoming like an eye.
"Hello…"
Satski's uniform followed in suit.
"Ragyo…."
"…Clever man." Ragyo smirked as she raced to face her daughters, their swords clashing and sparks flying.
"Yo! Dragon kid!" Ryuko managed. "Get Nui and your gal-pal out of here! We can take this bitch!"
"Oh really?" Ragyo smirked, landing a lucky slice on Ryuko's back. The girl grimaced in pain but charge forward. "What about the Life Fibers?"
"Nothing you can do about those, the biggest is at the core of the planet!" Ryuko explained with a smirk, only to see her mother smiling as well.
"Oh you didn't…." Satski groaned.
"Oh but I did." Ragyo smirked. "Why else would I have bought that worthless Mech?"
It was then that Izuku finally realized something: A smell that was…. familiar. Not too familiar mind you, but…it was like Nui, but…older, ancient. And it was coming from right behind him, Ochako and Nui.
"NO!" Ragyo demanded. "THEY ARE NOT WORTH…!"
Too late.
From the wall the three younger teens had been resting, a mass of red fibers engulfed the room. The Kiriyuins were quick to leap away, Satski and Ryuko both stabbing the mass and trying to control it or slice it.
"Don't bother girls!" Ragyo smirked. "The very heart of the Life Fibers is the most feral and uncontrollable part of them…unless of course your me…as your little friends can see!"
"NUI!" The two older teens raced to their sister, but their mother cut them off.
"Don't interfere, it needs to work!"
Izuku tried to eat the Life Fibers and hold onto Ochako and Nui, but there was too much and he soon found himself drowning in time. Ochako tried to move Nui away, but found herself dragged towards the three fighting women.
"Well, what's this?" Ragyo smirked. "I'm being given the chance to punish you already?"
She rose her sword high, a maddened look on her face.
"SAYONARA FOR GOOD, URAVITY!"
Another scream filled the air, making all pause.
The life fibers suddenly released Izuku, moving towards the barely cousious Nui…right through the burnt stumps were her arms used to be. From the burns suddenly grew red and black glove like arms, which left everyone shocked, especially when Nui suddenly rose up like a puppet.
Ragyo cackled.
"YES! YES! MY PRECIOUS DAUGHTER IS WORTHY AFTER ALL! NOW, MY DREAMS SHALL COME TRUE AND THIS NAKED WORLD WILL BE…!"
"NUI!" Satski rushed past her mother, sheathing her sword. "Nui! Please! Do not! Lisetn to them or her! You are you! You're beautiful, sadistic, a genius designer…! These things care for none of that!"
"Stupid baby sister!" Ryuko snapped as she followed in suit, tears in her eyes. "You listen up, you brat! We did NOT come all this way just to lose you! You pain in the ass…!"
She then began to cry.
"Please…Give her back. Gimme back my baby sister!"
"No use, girls." Ragyo smirked. "Gifted as she is, I doubt Nui has the mentality to handle billions upon billions of years worth of power and knowledge."
The girls didn't hear her, trying in vain to bring their sister back. So distracted they were, they failed to see Ragyo raise her sword.
"IT'S YOUR QUIRK, NUI!" Izuku shouted suddenly. "YOUR POWER! NOT HER'S! OR THERES!"
Nui's head turned to Izuku.
"Nui…" Izuku struggled. "You've come all this way…! Please, please don't let it end here…W-what about the costumes you said you'd make?"
Nui then leapt towards Izuku, fists raised high as her mother aimed to kill Ryuko and Satski…
"NUI!"
She landed on Izuku, face blackened…
"Well duh, you silly boy!" Nui suddenly beamed.
Ragyo dropped her blade in shock.
"Of cpurse I'll make those costumes! I never leave a commission undone! Oh! That reminds me!"
She rose her ahds upward as threads left it, changing color and forming a green, scaly scarf.
"It was supposed to be your birthday present." Nui admitted. "But after all this? I think you more than earned it. Sides, a dashing hero with scarf ? Ladies looooooove!"
Ragyo just stood there in shock.
No.
No, no, no.
This was NOT how it was supposed to go! This was HER moment! Through Nui! But the illegitimate brat was throwing away all her hard work…for friends?!
"Daughter, dear…" Ragyo said, far too calmly, before her face became like that of a demon's as she leapt towards the kids. "WIPE THAT SMILE OFF YOUR FACE!"
Ryuko and Satski leapt in front of their underclassmen, drawing their blades and ready to die to delay their mother, who…suddenly fell face first on the ground?
"…Wait, wha?" Ryuko and Ochako asked together.
"Yeah, what?" Izuku, Satski and Nui followed.
"Kindly….step away…from MY daughter…her sisters…and schoolmates." A smooth and calm, yet noticeably enraged voice, demanded.
"YOU!"
"Hello, Kiryuin."
"BEST JEANIST!" Izuku and Nui shouted in elation and no small amount of fanboy/fangirl giddiness.
"Wait…daughter?!" Ryuko and Ochacko both asked in shock.
"Explanations later!" The Pro promised, struggling to keep Ragyo in hold, until a heel kicked the fashionista's cheek and sent her flying back. While this broke Jeanist's hold on the madwoman, no one worried, since Nui closed the distance and cracked her new knuckles.
"I have been wanting to do this since I was eight years old….!" Nui announced with a demented smile, her teeth suddenly sharpening before she landed a brutal stomp onto Ragyo's stomach.
"SATSKI-NEE!"
A dagger hand between Ragyo's legs.
"RYU-NEE!"
Two punches to the face.
"PAPA!"
A sucker-punch that had Ragyo throwing up.
"SAORI-SAN!"
Two knees to the chin.
"OCHACKO!"
A headbutt that broke Ragyo's nose.
"IZUKU!"
The blonde girl slammed her mother's face into the ground.
"AND THIS ONE'S FOR ME!"
A brutal uppercut sent the fashionista flying and then crashing to the floor.
"Rei!" The madwoman snapped. "I need your help! Forget the intruders and save me! REI!"
"Oh, so sorry love." A thick, Texan accent smiled. "Rei can't come to the phone right now…she's learning empathy."
Fear filled everyone as they raced forward to the madwoman, who seemed motionless.
"Heh."
"Heh ha..!"
"Heh ha ha!"
Tears streaming down her face, Ragyo cackled and cried as she glanced at her foes.
"…Okay, I'm lost." Ryuko admitted. "Sis?"
"I have no clue." Sastki admitted. "Jeansit-san?"
The Pro shrugged, only to see Nui holding back a laugh along with some tears of her own.
"Oh, poor mama." Nui sighed, a sense of ironic cruelty in her tone. "The Life Fibers say…she's not worthy. Never was."
Ragyo suddenly turned to the assembled.
"If I can't save the world from its horrid state…I'll kill all of you!"
Jeansit leapt forward to face the madwoman
"RUN!" He ordered.
The kids did not. Nui made her way to the screen her mother sued to broadcast and then shouted:
"HEY! LIFE FIBERS! YOU WANT YOUR HEART?! COME AND GET IT!"
SANCTUARY
On the ground, earthquakes began rumbling across Japan. Everyone did their best to keep their footing as the kids of Sanctuary realized that this was the moment.
"Alright, Lucy, light 'em up!" Jinx cackled as golden energy formed from her hands and went into Lucy.
As she felt the power welling up, Lucy remembered a brief chat with Mamako and Nedzu.
Flashback
"So, you don't actually know the limit of your vectors?" Nedzu asked as he and Mamako helped Lucy move in.
"No." Lucy admitted. "No matter how many tests or torture? I never tired using them."
"Interesting…." Mamako said before smiling.
"Darling?" Nedzu asked.
"Maybe this is just the idealist in me, but perhaps the reason you never found your limit was because you were dampened and had no emotion attachment to the tests."
"So?" Lucy asked, not quite understanding.
"I believe when you find something or some people worth being a hero for? You'll know your limits."
Flashback End
She forced her arms through the ground, towards the earth's core. She ignored the burning and rocks, looking for something else.
It was soon too much and she fell to her feet, sweating and gasping, even with Jinx's help.
"Luce!" Jinx begged, She then channelled more power into Lucy…but suddenly the horned girl was on her feet,
"Protect…." Lucy managed
"Um, Luce?" Jinx asked.
Lucy ignored her, countiuning to send her Vectors downward..THERE THEY WHERE!
Oh kami, it was heavy!
Blood dripped from Lucy's eyes and nose, but she still kept going.
"I will…"
Her classmates were out there, defending the city from this madwoman and these things. Her friends….!
Friends.
:I will…!"
Tooru. Mina. Kiri. Izuku.
To HELL with her limits! So what if this crippled her?! They were worth it!
"I WILL PROTECT THEM!"
And with everything left in her, Lucy tossed the red mass upwards, sending the entirety of the Life Fibers towards REVOCS tower before she collapsed, Jinx barely grabbing her with a worried look on her face.
"LUCY!"
Jinx turned to see Tooru, Mina and Kirishima racing towards the scene….as did Lucy,
They worried about her.
They came for her in all this madness.
Them.
Her friends.
The horned girl's eyes softened and glistened as a smile overtook her face. Just as Mina, Eijiro and Tooru made their way to her, she fell asleep after saying a single word:
"Nyu."
Worth it.
SANCTUARY
The COVER had taken longer than either Kaneki or Seras would like to admit to defeat.
And quiet frankly, they were exhausted. So when the Earthquake hit, they just groaned and waited for the crushing of something.
Only to find themselves pulled inside the café Kaneki had taken several All Might level ounches to defend.
"You may be heroes, but they need to think of their own safety as well."
Kaneki looked at the speaker: a blonde and black haired boy he knew very well.
"Hide…" He managed before being taken into the arms of a pretty girl with bke hair. "Touka…"
"Rest." She demanded, gently planting a kiss on his nose as an older man with closed eyes handed the two heroes cups.
"Have some coffee." He smiled. "Stay until the Quake is done. You've both earned it."
He motioned them to look; the café was crowded with civilians, all of whom had seen the two fight the COVER.
"Yo did wonderfully, both of you. The world may see you as scary, but us? We only see heroes."
Sniffling filled the air.
"Ken, mate?" Seras asked. "Are…are you…crying?"
Kankei didn't respond.
SANCTUARY
Meanwhile, the once composed Hero Killer was now lunging, raving and dodging like an animal.
Akira and Dorthy had hardened their skin so his blades shattered and he couldn't get any blood from them. Usually not a problem, the spikes on his boots were not just an aesthetic choice. But the Skycrawler's Quirk kept him from landing any strikes, and the boy in armor was relentless, keeping up with his pace.
He had all but forgotten about the rabbit girl until it was too late
"THIS IS FOR WHITE SWAN, YOU NOSELESS HYPOCRITICAL SON OF A BITCH!" Velvet roared as an aura surrounded her; white petals and two short swords surrounding her as she rose a leg and slammed it onto Stain's face, sending him flying towards Akira and Maine, who both pulled back their arms to deliver powerful punches that knocked the wind and some blood out of Stain.
Dorthy was quick to use a pressure point techqiye to freeze Stain just in case.
He was unconscious before he even knew it, ranting that only All Might should've been able to do this and his cause was a just one….!
The kids their teacher gasped for air, relieved they had managed to win. Velvet looked up at the sky, a rare an true sense of pride in her form
'Summer? Ruby? Coco? We did it. We got him.'
Sadly, Stain would soon become a footnote, as…
"WHAT?!" Koichi screamed suddenly.
"Sensei?' Dorthy asked in concern.
"THE BABY'S COMING!"
"Hop on." Akira ordered. "Maine. Make us a way."
Maine did as ordered, shooting a hole through six buildings,
"I reall hate using this…but we're in a hurry! VIOLENCE MODE!"
Akria grew even taller, his skin turning red and his hair like flame as his eyes went pale. He then grabbed Maine and RACED towards UA, nothing stopping him.
SANCTUARY
"SANCTUARY SMASH!"
The combined might of a quake bubble, Luz's glyphs, Amity's Abomination canon arm stuffed with said glyphs and energy strikes from the Shinketsu Elite would've been more than enough to demolish an building.
But with Melissa channeling every ounce of One For All as well?
REVOCS tower AND the Life Fibers were soon shattered, cloud parting and COVERS collapsing as well.
In the actual tower, however, things were not quite so upbeat.
"EVERYONE!"
Izuku had managed to push the others away from Ragyo the exact moment the Smash impact the tower, sending them all falling to the ground . Satski and Ryuko were quick to grab Nui and hold her close, determined to shield her no matter what as they felt their own powers disapate.
Jeanist was quick to bring the girls close to him and slow the fall with his Quirk attaching to some of the skyscrapers, his sidekicks and other Pros already there to help.
Sadly, this left Izuku at the mercy of Ragyo, who had him in a chokehold.
"Why even bother trying, Midoriya? No matter what happens, you'll never be accepted by the people!" Ragyo cackled as she rained blow after blow on the boy.
Honestly, Izuku didn't care.
Nui and Ochacko were safe. Ragyo was ruined. If he died here?
He could rest with that.
"You'll always be a killer! Nothing more or less!"
By Kami, was she still going?
"Honestly, this whole farce of trying to be a hero is embrass…"
"WILL YOU JUST SHUT UP, ALREADY?!"
A pair of powerful feet landed in Ragyo's right cheek, dislocating her jaw and forcing the diva to release her victim, barely keeping cousious as she hit some debris
"Ochako?!"
The brunette didn't realize she was flying. All that mattered to her was helping Izuku.
Magenta energy flowed through Ochako as she held onto Izuku closely. The draconic boy's scales turned the same color as the energy as time-space seemed to distort around him, Ragyo's eyes widening in horror as he came down on her.
"GRAVITY DRAGON COMET CRASH!"
And with a mighty fist to the face Ragyo Kiryuin sped towards the ground, creating a massive crater when she landed, bloodied, battered and uncousious.
The two teens had little time to celebrate their victory, as the Life Fiber powers left Izuku and exhaustion finally caught up to Ochako, sending them falling down….
SANCTUARY
"GIRI! PORT ME!" Tomura ordered
"They're too far and too fast! You'd be splattered!" The shadow man tried to appease his charge.
"DOES IT LOOK LIKE I GIVE A TOMPANY FUCK?!" Tomura snapped. "PORT ME THERE! NOW!"
All for One, barely holding himself together, did something he had not done since he was a child: He prayed
'Please! Please….Save my grandson!'
Within their tubes, Inko and Hisashi actually struggled, as if trying to escape….
SANCTUARY
Izuku and Ochako were completely, totally and beyond any shadow of a doubt, spent from their fight. Despite the pain they were in, both moved to hold each other, smiling weakly as they did so.
"I'm sorry!" Izuku whimpered. "If we'd never met, you'd…!"
"Still want to help people." Ochacko smiled tearfully. "Izuku, I know I said I'd wait and I meant it, but if this is our last moments together? I….I loved getting to know you. I wish we could spend more time together…I wish we could've…"
Izuku hugged her a little tightly.
"….I love you."
He wanted to say those words. He truly did. But his throat was dry and he needed to make sure he landed first, to at least negate
Ochako returned the embrace with a sad smile, trying to force it to be happy. This poor boy had spent his life being hated and feared; the least she could do was giving him one smiling face as he
"…uku!"
The two teens stopped their tearful moment
"…Chacko!"
There it was again
"Wait..i-is that?"
"IZUKU!" Katuski and Himiko both shouted as they suddenly appeared, catching the two falling teens.
"HANG ON!"
The four looked to see Mukuro and Kohta leap toward them, slipping parachutes onto their back before they began to fall as well…or they would've, if a certain draconic boy's tail hadn't grabbed them.
Masato and Crona quickly joined, followed by the other 'mystics' and the 'Stain Smashers.' Before they knew it, all of the Sancutary students were falling towards the ground, aiming to shield the others from the impact and ignoring their own injuries.
Maine and Akira hit the ground first, both correcting their forms and ignoring the pain in their feet as the group began to skitter backwards, before the saw Noi and Tae join in, gritting their teeth and doing everything in their power to slow the fall.
"HAVE NO FEAR! FOR I AM HERE!"
All Might suddenly appeared at stopped the chain with a single palm, albeit with some force.
"CHILDREN! ARE YOU ALL…?"
What he saw melted and broke his heart.
These children. The future of Heroics. Already mistreated by the system, lay battered beaten, bloodied and broken…and yet, they all were focusing on each other, their eyes sayibg the sam thing:
'As long as they're okay, it's worth it.'
"…Good job, Izuku." Katsuki managed, his palms raw and his throat too.
"Ochacko are you..?" Nui and Himiko both asked, getting a nod.
The others all smiled and wiped tears in their eyes, fatigue beginning to catch up with them
"We just SAVED THE DAY, PEOPLE!" Jinx beamed.
"And beat down such a heinus villain!" Seyru followed.
"I think we deserve a team name!" Spinel added. "Something like…PERILOUS PUNKS!"
"'Perilous Punks?'" Amity asked. "You don't think something like…The Sanctuary 30, or….? Eh, forget it. we'll figure it out later."
GRUMBLE!
….
…..
"Anybody up for sushi? I'm starved after all this..." Tetsuo sighed.
"I would do anything for a giant pudding, right now…" Tang Yun admitted.
"Don't remind me…!" Akira followed.
"Some Mochi would be nice…" Ochacko mused.
"Hey, have you guys ever tried Shawarma?" Luz asked. "Maybe its post battle fatigue messing with my mind and movie references, but I think I saw a Shawarma place not too far from here. Never actually had one, want to try it with my best friends and awesome girlfriend."
"I could eat five bars out of business and still have room for more..." Michiru laughed before a yawn escaped her mouth.
"Let's get back home, first. I think we all deserve a nap beforehand..." Melissa said, stifling a yawn of her own.
"Yeah, I ain't THAT hungry." Ellie admitted, many nodding in agreement. "Um, Maine? Akira? Noi? Tae? You lot okay?"
The two giants gave thumbs up as they struggled to their feet, bloodied and raw. They soon found themselves lifted upwards by an absolute giant of a man.
"Rest, Akira. You earned it."
"…Thanks, dad." Akira managed before fatigue caught up with him.
"….THAT'S YOUR DAD?!" Melissa asked in shock, many other eyes as wide as her own.
"Oh, your poor mother….!" Kohta whimpered.
SANCTUARY
"Damn. Still alive after all that, eh?"
Ragyo, barely alive and struggling to move with every bone in her body broken and blood oozing from most of her pores, looked up to see Takeshi Kongoh, holding a screen that displayed the face of Flect Turn.
Neither of them were amused.
"To be so public. Upfront. And sadistic." The blue skinned leader of HumaRize scorned. "Did Machina's death teach you nothing? What sort of new world would rise if someone like YOU were the one to change it, in the way you did, no less?"
The injured woman could say nothing; Izuku and Ochako's punch had dislocated her jaw, which she was trying to reset.
"We invited and tolerated you for your resources and skills." Flect said. "Your plan has given our followers and allies fuel for the fire, but your usefulness is at an end. We never once trusted nor cared for you for reasons you know yet refuse to change. After this debacle, however?"
A rare smirk overtook the blue man's face.
"REVOCS will be a thing of the past in hours. Your loyalists are arrested or dead. You damned yourself with your showmanship. Ragyo Kiryuin? Your membership of HumaRize is, effective immediately…revoked."
The screen then shut off, just as Ragyo fixed her jaw. She gasped in pain and struggled to stand, reaching for Takeshi to help her.
"Don't worry. Someone's coming to pick you up." Takeshi smirked, the sounds of sirens filling the air as he turned to leave.
"Tell me something…do you know what prison is, boy?" The madwoman chuckled as she struggled to her feet. "A place to grow stronger. No court will convict me. Juries have families, after all. Besides, even if they did? The most meager gangbanger can rule a city from a prison cell…I. Own. Nations! Kongoh!"
She chuckled.
"I'll be back. In the end, I always win."
She was so full of herself she failed to notice Takeshi looking behind her and smirking.
"….Nah." He smirked as he turned to walk away. "Nah, not this time."
Ragyo realized there was someone behind her. However, she had no time to realize or even guess who; a cloth was clamped over her mouth and she quickly fell into a deep slumber.
"Time for the next game." Riddler mused as he dragged his latest victim to a car, nodding in gratitude as he saw Takeshi drive away.
SANCTUARY
"A toast to Sanctuary! Our glorious future rivals who saved this day!" Curator said, holding up a glass of whiskey, everybody else in the League mimicking his motion.
"And took that pest out of the loop!" Bearhead added.
"TO SANCTUARY!"
Glasses were clunked and then downed as the League watched livestreams, news hours and breaking news, all about the defeat of REVOCS.
From his own chair, All for One focused on one paused screen: A screen that showed the glorious image of his grandson striking down the absolute worst woman he had ever known.
"You lost, Ragyo...the deck was stacked against you from the very beginning. From the very start, you were doomed to fail." The supervillain smirked behind his mask, delighting in the fact that Ragyo had suffered such a humiliating defeat.
Meanwhile. Tomura was still catching his breath, having not yet downed his bourbon. Relief of Izuku's rescue filled his heart and if he'd been a religious man, he'd have prayed to every deity he knew in thanks.
"That's my cousin..." The decayer smiled warmly as he glanced upon a picture of the draconic boy, now with an admittedly cute brunette girl in a star dress in his arms. As he pondered about the two younger teens, he felt two slender arms wrap around his neck and two soft mounds on his back.
"Feeling better?" Dusty Ash asked sensually, getting a nod. Smirking, she positioned herself into Tomura's lap. "Good. Now, how about we take care off all that stress you felt when he was falling?"
"EVERYBODY OUT!" Tomura hollered at the top of his lungs. "PRIVATE TIME!"
Everyone obeyed as soon as Kurogiri whipped up a portal, but All for One was quick to throw a few plastic squares at his protégé, as Volcano tossed some pills to Dusty.
"Safe sex, please and thank you!"
"I'M NOT CLEANING THAT UP!" Kurogiri added.
SANCTUARY
As Sanctuary rested up, Japan carried itself back together.
Jin, the man Himiko saved, was allowed to become a tenant at Sanctuary and even become a probationary hero under Nedzu's tutelage.
"If the HPSC has a problem with that they can take it up with me."
To the surprise of many, Kuroiro was also offered rehab since he was never fully loyal to Ragyo and regretted his actions. In particular, a certain mushroom girl in Class 1B was delighted to see her dearest friend (perhaps even more, there were talks of foster care and or dating) again.
Rei was initially going to be shipped off to Tartarus, but Victoria and Penny managed to convince Nedzu to instead arrange for to be sent to an asylm for trauma treatment.
Ochako was, through the aid of Ryuko, Satski and Nui, eventually separated from the Gravity Regalia, which she was given to keep as a trophy or fancy dress once Ryuko ate the Life Fibers in it. It was still a very lovely dress, all things considered after all, so Ochacko had it ingrained into her old costume.
And of course, everyone welcomed Koichi and Kazuho's baby into the family. The students all stood around, their eyes glistening with tears, and it wasn't from the pain of their wounds.
"Peek-a-boo! Daddy sees you!" Koichi opened his hands to show his face to his daughter, who giggled as his face morphed into a funny one. His mother was currently holding the newborn, gently kissing her forehead as she handed her to her mother.
"You did a wonderful job. Both of you." The older woman smiled, then turning her attention to Emi, Anya, Momo, Jin and Shiro with a stern look…before she bowed graciously. "Thank you."
"….I should've been here." Koichi frowned.
"You came back." Kazuho smiled. "And you're here now. And besides, look at it this way; we'll never have to worry about a babysitter,"
"Baby!" Alas=Ramus cooed in Crona's arms. "Baby!"
"Yes, that's right. We got another baby!" Crona beamed. "And for once? I look forward to not knowing how to deal with that."
"Sides, you DID bring in the Hero-Killer." Tamao pointed out
"No, my students did that. Darn committee won't give them credit…" Koichi grimaced before he felt a hand on his shoulder.
"Kid."
"Yes sensei?"
"I know how ya feel. You know I do. But right now? They're happy enough…and YOU better be squeezing in as much daddy-daughter time as you can before you got to head back to work!"
Koichi smiled, knowing his sensei was right. Yes, it was unfair for his students, but they couldn't be bothered to care at the moment; all they wanted to do was rest, heal and make sure they were all alright.
"Would you like to hold her, sensei?" Kazuho asked. No sooner had she finished, the baby was already in her husband's mentor's arms. Now, most infants might've cried at the sight of a scrred older man, but the baby? She just laughed, waved and touched his beard.
To see the gaint of a man act all adorable melted everyone's heart.
"Oh, you are just the cutest wittle thing I have ever laid my eyes on!" the man formerly known as Knuckleduster cooed. "Second to my daughter of course, but still so adorable!"
"Daaaaaaad!"
"What?! You ain't denying it!" The man then handed the newborn to her father, whose arms she nuzzled into after a yawn.
Soon, but slowly, everyone got a chance to hold the baby.
Suddenly, Koichi's phone rang, a familiar name on the caller ID. Kissing his wife and child while motioning them to wait a second, he went to the side to answer. Worry filled him: it was deep into the night in the states, why would she be…?
"Pamela?"
"Koichi…I-it's Chris...he's...he's dead."
*A Few Hours Earlier, in America*
Pamela had just gotten back from getting groceries and saw her young son playing a game of catch with someone. Someone she and her husband knew very well.
"Howdy, Pam!" The blonde-haired man said. His hero costume was predominately blue with some red accents as well as red gloves and boots, eagle-shaped pauldrons, and a cape styled after the American Flag. "You're looking as lovely as ever."
The diminutive woman smiled. "John, nice to see you. I take it you're off the job?"
"Yeah, ol' Edgar was willing to let me take five for a day. But you know what they say; Heroics never sleep."
Pamela rolled her eyes as she made her way to the house before John, or rather known by most as 'Homelander', placed a hand on her shoulder.
"Hold it, Pam...You see, the reason I took your kid outside for a game of ball is that...well..."
Pamela was concerned as John opened the door and led her inside. What she saw made her gasp in horror.
Her husband, Christopher Skyline AKA Captain Celebrity...was dead. A hole punched clean through his chest and blood trailed down his mouth.
"A Villain broke in and attacked him. I tried to help but it was too late...I didn't want the kid to see the body."
Pamela fell to her knees and began to sob, John giving her a gentle hug.
"Mom?"
Pamela and John turned to see the little boy walk up to them in concern. John tried to move so he wouldn't see the body, but was too late. Realizing there was nothing more he could do, he took a deep breath, kne;t at the boy's level and told him:
"Your daddy was a brave and great man…I didn't want you to see this."
John hugged the boy and made a vow as several vans arrived.
"Me and the others WILL find who did this. Meantime, you are your mom are going on a vacation. When you get back, this will all be done."
Several officials and officers helped the mother and son in as cop cars swarmed the area. Once John was certain Pam and the boy where gone, he took to the sky at amazing speeds.
However, if one could see however, his determined and angry glare suddenly shifted to groan and then a confident smirk
"Well, that took way too long…"
Vought HQ, New York City
"That was quick."
Stan Edgar. CEO of Vought International. One of the richest, most powerful and successful men alive. The man who all but OWNED heroism in the United States and controlled several other superheroes abroad with an firm but strong fist. The man with the leash on some of the few people who could truly destroy the world.
Not that he flaunted such privilege That would be bad for business. A booming business. That's what it was all about. Including the business of eliminating naysayers or 'stool pigeons' in his own ranks.
"CC is D&Ded, Stan." Homelander smirked as he landed into Stan's office.
"Wonderful to hear. One less nuisance to deal with."
"I'm just glad that I'm the only flying blonde hero now." Homelander smiled.
"Yes, that will help marketing immensely. On the matter of marketing, I do believe your toyline's newest series is about to be streamed?"
Homelander smirked and left the room, eager to see what kind of toys would have his likeness. Once Edgar was sure he had reached the marketing floor, he pulled out an old phone from a side drawer in his desk and dialed a number.
"I take it everything is going according to plan?"
"To the most minute details, Shigaraki." Stan said as he sat back down. "Come this time in three months, Vought will be in league with the Japanese HPSC and one step closer towards monopolizing the hero business worldwide."
"Excellent...The Cabal is glad to have a man of your genius, Stan. Good work."
"Of course...and do be cautious of John...he's, how you say, unstable."
"Don't worry. He and his friends in V-Elite will be warned that if they step out of line...their Quirks are as good as gone."
Both men shared a chuckle out of that.
SANCTUARY
"SAY WHAT?!"
"I said 'Nui, you are Izuku are now engaged.'" Satski smirked as she sipped at some tea.
Three days had passed since what history would call 'The REVOCS Revolution'. Everyone was now well enough to walk around, although many of them still wore bandages aplenty.
Sastki, who had only been at Shinketsu to upgrade a mark, had quickly taken over what was left of REVOCS, having the other Elite Six members hunt down/search for any minute details of her mother's hold in the company. None had been found, but she would take no chances.
And on the matter of chances, came her sisters: Ryuko was very happy with Mako, as Sastki herself was with Nonon. Heroics and music were excellent careers and if you knew how to work them, stable to. But Nui, her precious baby sister? She had no such cushion or support,
Sastki and Ryuko did not doubt Sancurtary; if anything, 'The REVOCS Revolution' had proved beyond any doubt the kids were indeed more than capable heroes. It had also proven that they were only human, with ways to go and flaws to overcome.
Sastski did not think she'd ever enter battle again with Ragyo gone. So, within this line of thinking, she had come to the idea of an arranged marriage for Nui, a precauition in case anything happened.
Pragmatic and privacy breaking? Yes, but Sastki had not gotten as far as she ahd in life without being such.
"Dunno what you're complaining about, sis." Ryuko teased. "You like him, he's tough, got a great Quirk..and that scarf you made for him works."
"I DON'T EVEN KNOW IF I LIKE BOYS LIKE THAT!" Nui snapped. There was another reason she was against this of course, but she wasn't going to reveal it just yet!
"You blushed with the Frenchie." One of her classmates passing by noted.
"SHUT UP, LUZ!"
"…which 'Frenchie'?" Best Jeanist asked in a cold tone.
"Papa, non!" Nui begged
"Papa, oui!" The Pro snapped.
In the days the kids had been recovering Jeanist had stayed close to his daughter: It turned out Ragyo had managed to steal some of his sperm, her goal of using his Quirk to not only create the perfect daughter/vessel for the Life Fibers, but also hurt his family, who had caused hers' no end of grief.
Jeanist was very much new to fatherhood, yes. But Nui had already looked up to him, so they bonded quickly. That being said, the #5 Pro was already proving to be VERY protective of his little girl, a sentiment Nui would've apricated….
"Yuga Aoyama. Son of France's Representatives at the UN." Satski noted. "Navel laser quirk."
"…Yeah still not seeing why you're against this, sis." Ryuko said; she NEVER trusted bishounen boys.
"Like I said, I'm not sure I even like boys! Or girls! Besides, Izuku's heart already longs for someone else!" Nui added, then faltred. "Maybe…kind of…Its complicated."
Her sisters and biological father were intrigued by this: Said Draconic boy was currently hosting a party of his own, so they decided to put this topic on hold.
SANCUTARY
Mitsuki Bakugo had never been more proud of her kids; saving the world, each other and taking down such a horrid bitch?
What mother wouldn't be proud? And she most certainly didn't care how badly she looked as she hugged, kissed and lectured Katsuki, Himiko and Izuku.
Okay, less on the lecture for Izuku…Actually, no he still got lectured, only he was given the single most awkward talk of his life.
"See Izu, when a boy and a girl find themselves thinking 'damn that bae looking like an absolute snack…'"
The one good thing was that Izuku was not alone in this: Ochacko's parents had stormed their way into the Sancutary dorms to personally check on their daughter and thank the boy who saved her.
"Thank you, thank you!" Mrs, Uraraka cried over the phone. "Thank you for saving our baby girl!"
Izuku didn't say anything; overwhelmed by a new feeling in him: Happiness and…pride?
Tears stung his eyes
"Izuku, was it?" Mr. Uraraka said, taking the phone. "There are no words that can describe how grateful we are for…"
"Ochacko saved my life, too." Izuku added, not wanting to leave his…what was she now? Friend? Girlfriend? Lover?
Well, regardless, he was not going to leave Ochacko hanging from getting praise, especially when she saved him from Ragyo. This had made the Urarakas like him even more, as he detailed how Ochacko helped him land the final blow on Ragyo.
Unfortunately, when they noticed how close the two teens were, the construction couple allowed Mitsuki do what she was doing.
"…That Poor. Poor, bastard." Katsuki groaned, saluting his best friend alongside Himiko.
SANCUTARY
Then despite all the awkwardness, came the big reveal:
"Guys? A second?" Izuku called out, getting everyone's (jnclduing Class 1A) attention. He lost his courage, so Ochacko stepped up
"Now, I know that a lot of you think that Izuku and I would make a cute couple…Not naming any names…Mina, Tooru, Momo, Luz, Seras among others."
The aforementioned girls manifested halos.
"Well, after everything that's happened…" Ochacko smiled sweetly to izuku, who took a step forward.
"We're…giving this 'dating' thing a try." Izuku admitted with a shy smile as he and Ochako held hands.
All activity at the dorms ceased. You could hear a pin drop.
"Um…G-guy…?" Izuku started, only to be cut off by:
"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"
The entirety of windows and glass in the dorms cracked or shattered at the delighted squeals from the entire female population of the UA first years, and the female teachers as well.
"YES! YES! YES! YEEEEEEEEEEAH BABY!" Mina and Tooru cheered as they danced together. "SHIP! IS! SAILING!"
"STILL DON'T KNOW WHAT BOATS HAVE TO DO WITH THIS, BUT DON'T CARE! GREAT JOB, LITTLE BUDDY!" Akira beamed as he noogied Izuku.
Ulqiorra surprised everyone by suddenly pulling 21 into an embrace and giving her a passionate kiss
"Oh, wow!" Sophia realized, making Maine cove the children's eyes as she saw the other couples following suit.
"Lucky bastards and bitches…." Mineta grumbled, only to be slapped by Kyoka and Tsuyu.
"Shut up, grapist! They earned this!"
However, not everything was ending happily...
SANCTUARY
The next day,Izuku was taking Ochako home, her healing was just about done, but UA insisted on a weekend away to recover. Her parents were sticking around to throw their daughter her 'first legendary deed' party and had demanded Izuku come over as well.
"W-what if they don't like me anymore?" Izuku asked worriedly. "What if they've realized the societal and moral implications of you dating me will affect their business? What if they never actually did thank me and will make me have an accident the second you leave to help with..?"
Ochacko stopped in front of Izuku and cupped his face, giving him a warm smile. She then rested his forehead on her own and nuzzled his nose with her own.
"Izuku. They adore you." She reminded him. "And so do I. If they DO have a problem? Well, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it. So…can I see that smile I love so much?"
Izuku, now calmed, smiled and, in a shock, pecked Ochacko on the cheek, making her blush.
"You're too good for me, Mochi Maiden." Izuku smiled, before falling back. "O-oh…W-was that too forward? Was that nickname mean?! I thought…!"
Ochacko kissed Izuku on the cheek and took his hand into her own with a smile.
"Come on. Dinner's getting cold…my daring Dragnon." Ochacko teased, making Izuku smile.
Unfortunately, when they got into the house...
"DAD!"
Ochako saw her father, lying on the floor in a pool of his own blood. Izuku gasped as he made his way over, clapping his hands and using [Transmutation] to seal up the wounds. Placing a clawed finger to the man's neck, he breathed a sigh of relief at the fact he was alive.
"Sweetie?" Ochako's Dad breathed weakly as he was picked up, Izuku going to call 119. "Oh god, thank heavens you're safe..."
"Forget about me! What happened to you?! Where's Mom?!"
"He...He took her..."
Ochako's dad, despite being saved from near death, soon passed out as Ochako held him close. Unbeknownst to her or Izuku, a blood-stained card was laying on the floor...
A card depicting a JOKER.
Knightmare Lord A/N:
So much shit has happened in this chapter, you would not believe it! We finally cap off the REVOCS Mini-Arc but set up an arc centered on The Boys in the far future!
Also, Ochako's parents were assaulted, and her mother was kidnapped. Who was the attacker? Well, anybody who is a tried-and-true Batman fan should know who the culprit is!
Anyway, with Ragyo out of the picture, it's time to return to BNHA canon. Class 1-A and 1-B will be taking their Final Exams, Sanctuary will be figuring out the Riddler's latest challenges for them, and the League of Villains will be doing some recruiting into their fold.
Stay tuned for all this and more in the next chapter! Alright, Mrotrax, it's all on you!
Mrotrax
Thank you for being so patient and sticking with us! Hope this lived up to your expectation!
There was a LOT more packed into this chapter, but considerin how long you've had to wait, we'll be making four special chapters in Snippets to showcase the awesomeness we just couldn't find the right words for in here. Some these include:
-Noi and Tae and FranChou protecting civilains
-An extended Lucy going Plus Ultra on the Life Fibers
-All Might and Homura action/setting up a major arc
-An extended Stain fight
So be on the lookout for those! The next arc will come much quicker and we hope you stick around
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