Summary: Bryant confronts the leader of the operation, and goes well and a little too well at the same time. Gaining more forms to his arsenal, it's just a matter of time until he becomes a walking army.
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Heading to the right now, down the mountain and past the rocks, he checks on Kyoka and Denki, "Hey, you guys alright? Want to come with"? Denki still seems a bit out of it, but smarter than he was, "Yeah, we'll come with you. Better than fending off attackers all by myself while he recovers". Once there, he finally sees his best friend, using a katana to cut some minor villains, but only give flesh wounds. Momo notices them approaching, "Cover your eyes"! She tosses a flash bang and blinds some of the villains, before crippling their legs by stabbing them, and then using a baseball bat to knock some of them out. Bryant feels his heart pump, "Wow. You really held your own there", he heads over. She takes a breathe, "It's definitely not as easy as it looks. Good to see all of you".
Bryant asks, "How have you been since everyone got teleported? You okay"? She nods, "Yeah, I've been fine. It's tough though, I've been only using my quirk unless I need to. Haven't eaten lunch yet so I'm trying to conserve energy. How are you"? He answers, "The short version, is that I've been all over this place trying to help everyone. I've gotten acquainted with everyone at this point and taken down about 20 or more villains with help". She's impressed, "That's very admirable. I think I'll strive to follow your example. But as for right now, I'm glad you're all here. I could use the help". Kyoka chimes in, "We've got your back Yaoyorozu". Mezo informs her, "The right hand, Kurogiri he called himself, is dealt with". Bryant asks Momo, "Have you seen All Might? Hell, where are the damn teachers at this point. It's only a matter of time before one of us gets more than a flesh wound".
She replies, "No, haven't seen any of the teachers or All Might. But I'm sure Tenya will be back soon". Koda points over to the open area ahead of them. They all look, "That's the guy who started all of this", Allen brings up. Kyoka checks her equipment, as do the others, along with Denki who's okay now, "What'd I miss"? Bryant stops anyone from going after the guy as he approaches them slowly, "Don't! For all we know his power is close range, so until we know for sure, stay back". He picks up a rock and tosses it at him, which he catches, and before their eyes, it disintegrates into dust. Bryant could care less, but the other's eyes widen, "See. You guys hang back, I'll take him on". Kyoka chastises him, "So what, you can get turned into nothing instead of us? Pretty dumb plan". Momo seconds that, "She's right Bryant, take your own advice and just wait to see what his move will be".
He of course listens to her, and the villain comes over within ear range, "So, this is the next generation of Heroes? I'm disappointed. Someone here must be able to prove me wrong". Silence; "Come on now, is your 'symbol of peace' really worth dying over? Just let him die". Allen explains, "We don't even know where he is". The man, presumably Tomura as told by Kurogiri, has an outburst, "Do you take me for an idiot!? I saw the information I took, he's here, somewhere. And when he appears, I'll find your precious symbol, and turn him into ash". Bryant shakes his head, "You do realize you're a psychopath, right"? Tomura states coldly, "So I've been told". A minor villain runs over to him, "Shigaraki, we've found him. He's fighting the Nomu". He turns his attention back tho the students, "Hm, I suppose I have no use for any of you now. So just stay out of my way, while I go off to enjoy the show".
Kyoka says to everyone, "We can't just let that guy take off". Braynt begins looking through his selection, "I hadn't planned on it". He then get's a thought, 'I wonder if Denki and Kyoka have anything for me'. He turns to them, "I need you guy's help. I need to touch you both". They gave him weird looks, "It's how I get more forms. Now just do it, it could help". They stretch out their arms and he touches both of them, 'mutagens acquired, alien forms unlocked'. "Thanks". He goes back to his selection and quickly, as Tomura walks away. A humanoid crab with a huge cranium, a human jellyfish, and a small humanoid with earphones around its head. "Guess this one will do the trick"; he selects the jellyfish. His head is segmented into three separate pieces, his mouth and nose go, and six blue tentacles sprout out of the bottom segment, forming two sets of arms and a pair of legs. His voice is slightly nasally, "Well this is cool. I always liked sea creatures".
"Since I'm a jellyfish, how about this"? He stretches out his arms and zaps the villain with a large jolt of electricity. Tomura falls to his knees, but is mostly fine to Bryant's surprise, "Shit. Any normal person would've been down for the count". He cracks his neck and then scratches at it, "You pests! Can't you take a hint"?! He comes sprinting at them like a maniac, while Momo starts tossing javelins at him from her power. Kyoka sends shockwaves and Denki zaps at him along with Bryant. He's no pushover, as he easily evades the javelins and even recovers from the shockwaves. Getting close enough, he nearly touches Momo, but in the moment with little hesitance and plain taking a chance, Allen flies over in front, shoving her and Tomura's hand goes through his body. Shigaraki is zapped again, as Bryant looks down at his tentacles, "Whoa, thank God for intangibility".
"It's my turn", he shouts while phasing through Tomura's body, giving him another jolt. "Go. Down. You. Son of a bitch". The villain finally backhands him, and it's oddly strong, sending him into the ground a few inches away. "I have no time for your so called heroics"! Denki chips in and starts blasting him too, but it's then that while idle, Bryant notices a new power inadvertently while concentrated on the psychopath. In seconds, he sees why he is the way he is as it flashes through his own head. "Why does dad hate me". Followed by, "Grandma was a Hero"? Then seeing a man drag a little boy down a dank hallway, "You'll learn to respect my rules in this house". The little boy is seen in just about every situation, Bryant 'seeing' it all. Him playing with his friends, his mother comforting him, and the photo of his grandmother. On the other side of things he sees the man again, abusing the boy in multiple ways, even grabbing him by the face.
Abuse after abuse until he sees the worst of it, as one day the boy pets his dog and it disintegrates before his eyes. One by one as his family tries to comfort him, his sister and mother both die among others, sending the boy into a broken heart. The father shows up, ready to kill the boy who is in tears, "This is all your fault Tenko". It echoes, as the father grips his face but the boy grips back, and only the evil man's hand is left attached to the boy's face along with all his other relatives. In one last flash he sees a rainy day sidewalk; the boy crying and pretty much everyone passing him by, day in and day out. Until finally, a man in a black mask encounters him under a bridge and holds out his hand. Unafraid of him it seems, the boy happily is embraced by the man as he explains his own ideals, "All these people, all these so called Heroes, and no one has helped you"? He further goes on, "This is what society is child, nothing but soulless acts of selfishness. As for you. Would you like to come with me"? Tenko accepts and the two walk off. Bryant finally snaps out of it, in tears, "Jesus Christ...he…". Coping with what he's seen, Momo, Kyoka and Denki are tag teaming that boy, while Mezo starts tossing rocks as he can't physically touch the villain.
Koda notices Allen and goes over, "Are you alright"? Bryant responds, "It wasn't my life. Yet I felt every bit of it. The hatred, the resentment, the anger, and above all...the sadness". Koji continues listening, "That psychopath right there. He was just a little boy born with a terrible power and a father from Hell. His family comforted him yet never stood up for him. One day his whole family is dead then...nothing but abandonment and loneliness. No one helped him". The rock headed man puts a shoulder on him, "It's okay. Nothing you could do to change it". He finally hovers up and gets over himself, "sniffles, I feel for him. But you're right, whatever he was is probably gone by now. He can't be allowed to kill innocents no matter the justification". Turning back, he selects the crab manually, "Might as well use what I've been given".
Pressing the faceplate in, six pointy legs sprout out of his abdomen while the regular ones recede. His cranium grows exponentially to the point more than half his body is head. An emotionless frown and immovable mouth, while his brain is so big it's exposed, if though briefly. Two skull plates form and cover the brain, and lastly and arguably less painful than the rapid skull expansion, his fingers split to form two sets of thin claws similar to Attractor. He now has a British accent, "Well, this specimen isn't quite as top heavy as one might assume. Ooh, this feeling of electrodes flowing through my largely enhanced cranium will be quite useful, though the probability of it being more concentrated than the Amperi form is doubtful". Koda looks at him with indifference, "What? A large vocabulary is better than none at all I say. Or is it the Cerebrocrustacean saying it? Regardless I need stop blathering and get about taking down this imminent threat to my acquaintances".
He quickly crawls over to his comrades and exposes his brain case to blast Tomura with potent electricity, "Stand back everyone, I need the utmost of space to prevent collateral damage". The huge bolt blasts Tomura, who seems to feel it this time, possibly due to all the previous shocks. Bryant then combines his jolts with Denki's through his claws as well. Before anything further can happen though, Tomura grins and takes a gas mask he had on his belt. Caught off guard, a purple mist engulfs everyone including Bryant, who tries to even levitate with his powers, which works, but despite that it catches him. Falling to the ground, he turns back to normal as the guy producing the gas, wearing a WW2 Nazi gas mask, takes Tomura away. Everyone is knocked out, and an undetermined time later, they all wake up.
"God, it feels like a slept on a rock", Denki complains. Kyoka cracks her back, "You DID sleep on a rock Kaminari". Bryant looks around and sees Koda, who is looking over them all, "Koji, do you know how long we were out"? He nods, "Only about ten minutes". He sighs, "Too long. God knows where Shigaraki went, and who knows the status of All Might". Momo suggests, "We could still check the center of the USJ, you said that's the only place you haven't gone'. He concurs, "Worth a shot. You guys coming with? If not I get it". Mezo brings up, "I think some of us should stay behind. I'll stay with Koda". Kyoka too stays, "Me and Kaminari will stay, but only so we can recuperate. We might catch up with you". He looks to Yaoyorozu, "That just leaves you". She looks at him, then her friends, "It's infested up here. I think I'll stay just so I can help protect them". Bryant nods, "Alright. But you make sure to keep yourself safe too, got it"?
She worries, "I can take care of myself. You should be the one to take care though. If you're going after that guy again". He departs and makes way to the non-zone area. He decides to name his forms for the hell of it, while cylcing through them. "Okay so the diamond guy, 'Rockhard'. Crystal guy, 'Gemstoned'. Crab will be 'Duracell'. And the Jellyfish, 'Energizer'. Sounds good to me". He hears a crash to the ground, and sees All Might, fighting in the flesh. Yagi is punching with all his might at some kind of mutant, even though he was just smashed he recovered near instantly. The mutant has a beak of sharp teeth, skull shinguards and above a hulk physique, an exposed brain. All Might manages to knock him away with a Detroit Smash, "Hello there Allen, have you by per chance seen young Midoriya"? He shrugs, "Not since I escaped the Flood Zone". He changes the subject, "I can help". He declines, "You're more than capable, but this villain is much too dangerous". The mutant smashes him in the face but he counters with a Texas Smash to blow it back, "But I suppose if you're feeling gutsy you can give it a shot. Just be careful".
He agrees and starts to select a form, "Man, fighting with All Might. This'll be cool. Better choose wisely. This last new guy looks pretty good". His entire skeleton is rearranged as the most aching part, shrinking him down to about the size of Mineta. His skin becomes some kind of silicon suit, while the whole of every blood cell becomes living soundwaves. His nose of course is gonzo, while his back gain sound kind of MP3 Player pack which connects to his head. His head most importantly gains a set of headphones fixated to where his ears would be, and last but not least, his mouth expands to the near length of his head, opening up into a large amplifier. His voice is now entirely robotic unlike Integrator, "Don't worry All Might, I'll do what I can to help".
He begins concentration, "Okay, think. Last time I did this something good happened…". A carbon copy of himself appears in a flash of light, followed by a second. He looks at his clones, "Well, three heads are better than two". He orders them, "Follow me guys". Tomura is watching from the sidelines, barking orders for the monster to follow if need be, "So, this guy again. He's persistent I'll give him that. But if he's going to protect All Might then he can die too". Bryant and his clones leap onto the 'Nomu' as Shigaraki calls it, and start ineffectively punching on its arm, "Take that", "You", "Big Freak", him and his clones shout. The Nomu knocks them off like mice and Allen hits the ground with force, while All Might follows up with assistance by way of a Missouri Smash to the back of the head. "Are you okay young Allen"? He helps himself and his clones up, "Yeah, we're okay. But you know, I wonder how many more I can make". He concentrates again and in an instant he now has, including himself, 20 clones. He punches his palm, "If we can't beat him by force, we'll beat him by numbers". Toshinori gives him a thumbs up, "Good plan".
The mutant is resilient if nothing else; "Get him in a headlock already", demands Tomura towards it. "How fast is your throwing arm, All Might"? He responds, "Pretty dang good. Why, what's the plan"? He tells him, "Grab my clones, and toss them at the freak. I'll pump out more and more until he's covered". He accepts, "Done". Yagi starts chucking the clones, and while some are knocked away, a lot of them start to bombard the Nomu. About 40 clones later, the monster is drowning in Braynts, who keep punching at him. Tomura shouts, "Just do something already"! With the command, he sends every single clone flying, some crashing into the ceiling glass and 'dying'. The Nomu speeds over like a freight train and knocks away the clones and even Bryant himself. All Might tries to defend himself with a Carolina Smash, but the mutant takes him by the throat and just keeps smashing him against the ground over and over, with Yagi's strength starting fail him unbeknownst to Allen.
He stands up, "All Might, quickly. Do something"! Tomura shouts, "Finish him"! Bryant grimaces and creates another 40 clones, sending half after Tomura, while he and the other contend with the Nomu while it's preoccupied with All Might. He surrounds him in a huge circle, "Hey ugly! How about you pick on someone only a quarter of your size". He looks to Yagi briefly, "Cover your ears, trust me". He looks to his clones, "Now guys"! Opening up all of their mouths at the same time they begin to scream soundwaves at ultra frequency at the mutant. The beast drops All Might and starts covering it's ear holes, "RAWR"! Bryant pauses a moment, "Louder guys"! Meanwhile, the clones start to attempt to do the same to Shigaraki but before they can get a real chance he starts disintegrating them all by running around the circle. He then checks up on the Nomu, and to his chagrin, it's not going well.
"Louder guys, louder. Screech". Within a few more seconds, the monster's head explodes, covering the area in blood. "Bryant tries not get any on him, "HOLY SHIT. I expected to knock him out, not kill him. But, he was a mutant zombie thing so, I guess it's okay"? The body falls to the ground, and Tomura's anger gives him away loud and clear, "GAH"! The man in the Nazi mask comes over to him again, "We need to retreat Shigaraki. Now! The UA teachers are here". He pounds the rock near him, "Fine, get Kurogiri and let's get out of here". He and the other guy go to find Kurogiri, while Bryant turns back and helps up All Might, "Are you okay"? He agrees, "I'll be fine. I've been beaten within an inch of my life before, so I'll live. But what about him"? Allen explains, "I had no idea I'd kill him. Just thought he'd go unconscious. But, he was a zombie more or less. So it's okay, right"? He sighs, "I suppose that's true. Unfortunately a death is a death. Just, try to constrain your powers from now on, alright? But enough of that. You did do a good job. Possibly saved my life. Thank you". Bryant smiles.