Eraserhead and Midnight landed at the base of the stairs in a crouch, the hundred-strong villains cautiously encroaching on them.
Something wasn't adding up, why didn't they just rush at them the second they landed?
The man wearing hands hummed to himself, "Wasn't expecting Midnight…oh well. A difficulty modifier just increases the score." He raised his voice and spoke to his apparent lackeys, "Anyone with a gas mask, target Midnight! Mutant Quirks on Eraserhead!"
The villains followed their employers orders, a six armed man with rock-like skin leading the mutants and a large man with a skull-faced gas mask leading those that had brought a gas mask. Their teamwork was disconcerting even if it was lackluster, villains didn't often work together and certainly not in numbers like this.
The large man with a gas mask made to look like a skull stomped forward and confidently growled, "She's mine."
Midnight scoffed, "You're definitely not my type."
His fists lit with fire one second only for them to fizzle out the next.
Midnight smirked, "Performance issues?"
Midnight tore at her costume, a cloud of her Quirk escaping. She swept the cloud not towards her opponents but Eraserhead's, sending several into a slumber. The skull-masked man and a huge green man with horns swept back over his head lunged for her despite their quirks not working and interrupting her attack on the unprotected villains.
Midnight snapped her whip at her assailants, giving them pause. The horned villain rushed her half cocked and with little to no strategy. She snapped her whip at his head with practiced accuracy, ripping it off his face and shoving a cloud of her Quirk up his nostrils. The villain swayed and swung a lazy punch that went wide before he collapsed onto his face snoring loudly. She struck out with her whip at the skull-masked man only for him to lunge forward and offer up his arm in sacrifice, the whip wrapping around his forearm.
He pulled the whip taught. "Rush her," He sneered, several others with gas masks moving quickly to capitalize on the opportunity he had created.
Eraserhead scanned the rest of the crowd with glowing red eyes, only to be engaged in melee a second later. He wrapped his capture scarf around the leg of a villain with a gecko Quirk and slammed him into the pavement, rendering him unconscious.
"Those goggles don't have lenses, do they?" The six armed man asked rhetorically before grabbing up a handful of powdered cement from where the gecko villain had landed and throwing it at him.
Eraserhead winced as the debri made it past the slits in his goggles and blinded him, he tried to blink the debri out of his eyes as he dodged one wild swing after the other.
"Shigaraki, he's still somehow erasing my Quirk," The ethereal bartender stated.
"L.O.S. behind Nomu then! Remember, blow your C.D. right away!" Shigaraki snapped out.
The sharply dressed mist moved behind the hulking abomination as ordered and after several seconds of being obstructed from Eraserhead's line of sight, he disappeared.
The class had formed a protective circle with himself, Mei, and Nejire floating high above the group ready to intercept any incoming threats. They were ready for anything, at least that's what he thought.
The group below him was suddenly enveloped in a massive dome of swirling purple cloud that had to be from the teleporter villain.
The only conclusion he could come to was that the villain's aim was to kidnap his entire class at once.
The instant we went to move, Nejire grabbed him and Mei by the arms in a vice-like grip and yelled, "NO!"
Not even a millisecond later the dome vanished to reveal Thirteen alone and whirling in search of the rest of the students.
The villain reformed in front of Thirteen as a towering amorphous wall with sinister yellow eyes. The villain cordially addressed Thirteen, "Congratulations Thirteen, you have been chosen as the sole survivor and witness of what will be known henceforth as the 'USJ Massacre' committed by the League of Villains-"
Nejire let loose two massive blasts periwinkle spirals that crashed nearly straight down on the villain with a ,"Nejire Flood!" The full power energy attack demolished the floor and kicked up dust from the debri that filled the newly made crater.
Izuku switched to infrared and saw some kind of metal cage laying at the bottom of the crater too small to be a body. The thing moved and Mei gasped, she must have been watching it as well.
Nejire's attack must not have scored a clean hit.
Mei fired one of her Electrogel rounds at the villain only for it to disappear into a portal.
A voice came from within the smokescreen, "That was quite rude to interrupt." Tendrils of mist shot out of the crater towards Izuku, Mei, and Nejire. They all made to evade but the tendrils sought them out as they weaved through the air. The tendrils were moving too fast and Danger Sense wasn't triggering since it wasn't directly dangerous to him.
"Oh no you don't!" Thirteen yelled as they uncapped all ten of their fingers aimed at the crater.
"Sagittarius!" Thirteen yelled as their Quirk began to suck all the floating debri and mist from the villain away. The force of all ten of their fingers being uncapped was so great that not even light could escape, the inside of their cone of attack was as dark as the space between stars.
The villain was quickly revealed and was obviously struggling against the sheer power of Thirteen's Quirk.
"As a rescue hero you lack combat experience!" The warp villain mocked as he opened a portal in front of himself and behind Thirteen, Black Hole now redirected at its bearer.
Thirteen stood tall amidst their own Quirk's destructive force, completely unafraid as Black Hole washed past them like water around a rock.
"You may be Immune to your Quirk, but what about them!?" The villain mocked yet again as the portal behind Thirteen closed and reopened directly behind Izuku.
Danger Sense went wild as time came to a near standstill, he could already feel his mom's Quirk beginning to pull at him through the portal. At nearly the same time, the sound of Mei's rifle sounded and due to his heightened perception of time he could actually see the supersonic round travel. The round was aimed behind the villain and was carried by the pull of Black Hole in a wide arc that terminated as it struck the villain from behind. The villain's minimal emotions faded as the Electrogel round transferred all its kinetic force and electric payload in an instant. Time returned to normal as the portal closed and Thirteen switched off their Quirk with a panic filled yell of, "IZUKU!"
"He's down!" Izuku yelled.
Mei let out a breath she had obviously been holding for quite a while. "Sorry, took a second to figure out the math of that shot."
Nejire glomped onto her mid air and began kissing every inch of her helmet while Mei giggled. "You brilliant, beautiful genius!"
The villain's emotions blinked back to life as he began to stir.
Izuku slammed down into the crater and on top of the villain, he gripped the metal bracer in both hands. "Move and I see what's underneath this," He threatened.
The man, if the barely sentient puppet could even be called such, laughed…
A portal opened beneath them and they began to both sink into it, Izuku flew upwards with the villain in his grip.
A massive black hand reached through the portal and snatched the metal bracer in its titanic grip, it began to pull with immeasurable strength that made it immediately clear who would win in a tug of war.
Izuku let go and shot backwards into the air once more as the villain faded into his portal.
Mei yelled then with a horrifying mixture of relief and despair, "I can see our classmates in the simulations and the courtyard! Their fighting villains!"
Thirteen faced the stairs leading down to where Midnight and Eraserhead were trying to fight their way through the mob to reach where Momo, and two Rumis were holding off the tide of bodies as the villains were now all rushing them as one. They said, "Then there's still hope! Nejire-chan assist anyone you can in the simulations in a clockwise rotation around the USJ. Izuku, you go counter-clockwise. Mei, you provide overwatch from up here. I'm going downstairs. MOVE!"
There was a boom of displaced air as Nejire raced to the Ruins zone and Izuku towards the Hurricane zone. Thirteen hopped on to the edge of the stairs and began sliding down towards the courtyard.
Mei landed at the top of the steps and lightning-quick, shot a villain that was aiming his barrel-like fingers at Himi-Rumi while she was distracted.
"Hatsume Mei protects!" Mei yelled as the villain dropped like a sack of potatoes.
One second, Ochako was beside her classmates ready to fight off the villains and the next she was falling into water alongside Kirishima.
She was plunged deep into the water, with barely the presence of mind to hold her breath due to the suddenness of the plunge. She opened her eyes and attempted to gain her bearings as her eyes adjusted to being underwater.
A villain with a shark mutation was swimming at her at incredible speeds with his maw wide.
She aimed her grapple hook that her wonderful girlfriend Mei had made for her just the previous day and fired it. The cable shot through the water at reduced speeds, but quickly nonetheless, directly into the man's wide open mouth. He choked on the sudden obtrusion and reached to try and dislodge the offending object but Ochako was faster. Utilizing her knowledge on sharks she had gained from countless hours of watching nature documentaries with Tsu, she punched the motherlover right in his bitch nose. The man reeled in pain as she opened her fist and touched him with the pads of her finger tips, the villain sinking like a stone to the bottom of the lake.
She whirled in the water to try and locate Kirishima. There was an incredible disturbance in the water not too far from her. It was Kirishima! He was in his unbreakable mode and fighting off half a dozen villains even as he held his breath and sank deeper.
She launched her grappling hook once more, it connecting with his chest. She grabbed the line with all ten of her fingers in order to increase her Quirk's conductivity. Kirishima began to rise instead of sink. It worked!
She removed her own gravity and swam for the surface with powerful kicks. Once she reached glorious oxygen she rose still. Once floating above the water's surface, she grabbed the cable tethering her to Kirishima and yanked hard like she was setting a hook just like her grandpa had taught her. Kirishima's form burst from the water and sailed through the air like a freshly caught fish. He smacked into the yacht that was floating in the center of the body of water, denting the hull. He pulled on his end of the cable, causing Ochako to fly through the air and land on the deck of the ship only slightly more gracefully than he had. She quickly pulled on the tether and helped him aboard before surveying the villains wading in the water with murder in their eyes.
Kirishima was effectively useless in underwater combat and she wasn't much better since she couldn't exactly float a lake. They were truly out of their element, she could only hope that her classmates were faring better than them.
Fumikage was not doing well. The fires of the inferno zone were proving enough to severely dampen Dark Shadow's power as well as the Doppelganger's he had given Sero. Sero wasn't doing much better, the adhesive on his tape proved to be incredibly flammable and would catch fire if it was even close to the flames that enveloped the zone. To make matters worse, most of the villains hunting them had Quirks and bodies suited to the high temperatures of the zone.
They were currently running through burning streets trying to lose a villain whose entire body seemed to be made of flames. They ran down a narrow street with fire licking out of the windows above them and raining down soot, there was a corner up ahead that they could hopefully lose the villain at. They rounded the corner to find out that it wasn't a turn but the opening of what looked like a loading dock, the only light coming from the narrow street behind them.
Fumikage looked around the dead end realizing that this area was the first area they had found that wasn't engulfed in flames, an idea struck.
"Sero! Wrap Dark Shadow in tape!" He said quickly, unsure how far behind the villain was.
"Ok!" Sero agreed.
"Then me!" Sero's Doppelganger chirped from behind his shoulder.
Sero quickly spun his tape around Dark Shadow and added layers as it grew in power and size due to the little light hitting it. Once Dark Shadow was nearly encased he repeated the process with his Doppelganger.
Not a second after finishing, the flame villain rounded the corner and charged.
"Combo move: Shadow Mummy!" Fumikage yelled as the now monstrous Dark Shadow swatted the flame villain into the ground with a bestial roar. Dark Shadow raised his palm to reveal a woman's unconscious form, her flames snuffed out. Dark Shadow patted his palm against the ground to snuff out the tape that was attempting to light.
"We have to hold them off here, it's our only chance," Fumikage said.
"I won't be able to reapply the tape mid-fight if it gets burned off," Sero warned.
"If they can set the tape on fire entirely, Dark Shadow and Doppel will be weaker than ever and we'll be sitting ducks. We have to hit them hard and fast, we can't let them draw a fight out," Fumikage said.
Sero blinked, "Doppel? Is that its name?"
Fumikage's feathers ruffled, "Them," He corrected, "I just came up with it," He said with some embarrassment.
"Doppel!" They said excitedly, seemingly in agreement of their new name.
Sero smiled and gave a thumbs up, "Right on!"
Many footsteps thundered from around the corner, no doubt drawn by the commotion. They were coming.
Toru shivered as she picked herself up from the snow she had landed in and shook the powder from her hair. She was so glad she had changed her costume! She looked around and saw a frozen hellscape set on a mountainside, above was a domed ceiling barely visible through the flurry produced by machines on the ceiling.
"R-R-Ribbit" Tsu croaked weakly from somewhere nearby.
Toru spun in place and found the cute frog girl half buried in snow with only one eye open. Toru ran up to the girl quickly and began checking her for wounds.
"Tsu! Are you hurt?" She asked near panic.
"N-No, c-cold making m-me hibernate," Tsu shivered out a reply.
Relieved that Tsu wasn't injured she attempted to hoist the girl to her feet but Tsu stumbled and fell back down, unable to hold herself up even with help. Toru turned her back to Tsu and crouched low.
"Froggy-back ride, c'mon cutie!" Toru tried to say chipperly but the truth was she was terrified. Tsu was all but out of the fight and if there were villains here they could easily track her by her footprints in the snow.
She helped the half asleep frog girl onto her back and stood, Tsu was surprisingly much heavier than she looked. She activated her quirk and they both disappeared from view, her feet displacing the knee-high snow being the only thing to give away their location.
A glacier sprang to life suddenly, sending several people she hadn't seen flying.
She noticed Todoroki at the origin of the glacier just far enough away that he was barely visible through the snowfall. Still invisible, she trudged her way over to meet up with her frosty classmate. As she got closer she noticed Todoroki was visibly shaking, his lips were blue as well as the tips of his fingers. His ice Quirk was truly not well suited to being used in an already frigid environment.
Behind him, the snow stirred. Without warning, a blue skinned villain popped out of the snow like a daisy wielding a knife, about to drive it into Todoroki's back.
There was a sudden exhale of air from over her shoulder. The villain flinched before swaying and falling into the snow unmoving, Todoroki whirling just in time to see the villain collapse.
Toru uncloaked and looked over her shoulder at Tsu with amazement.
"I can s-still fight," Tsu said, her only open eye half closed as she clutched a blowpipe in her fist.
"I'm naming that move; 'Cloak and Frogger'," Toru mused, earning her an adorable ribbit from her passenger.
Kyoka landed with a 'oomph!' on to soft earth that still managed to knock the oxygen from her lungs. She pushed herself up with her arms as she tried to regain her breath.
She was on a massive hillside with trees, cars, and houses half buried in loose dirt. She could make out the rest of the USJ beyond the boundary of the zone. More importantly she could see at least six, of what she had to assume were villains, approaching her from not far enough away.
"DIE!" Bakugou shrieked from where she had failed to notice him as he let loose a massive explosion, blasting a nearby villain skyward.
Bakugou winced in pain as he clutched his heavily scarred arm.
The blast was loud enough to reach the threshold of the noise reducing headphones Momo had gifted her for her birthday. The blast was also big enough to cause the loose dirt of the zone to begin moving in a landslide that nearly swept them both away. Apparently they couldn't be too loud in the area, something neither one of them was capable of doing while also fighting off villains.
"Shit!" Bakugou somehow managed to screech under his breath, coming to the same conclusion.
Kyoka looked up to the top of the hill where a rock face marked the edge of the zone. "We have to get to the top before we can use our Quirks!" She whisper-shouted.
"Don't tell me what to do, Ears!" Bakugou growled under his breath but began scrambling up the hill despite his words.
Kyoka rolled her eyes before they both tripped and clambered as fast as possible up the difficult terrain, their pursuers hot on their trail.
Rumi landed on her feet alongside Himiko who had not only landed on her feet but also managed to keep Momo on hers.
They were in a sea of villains…FUCK YA!
"What are you doing here!?" Eraserhead yelled from somewhere in the swarm of villains.
"Now!" Handjob yelled from the back of the crowd.
Every villain swept forward like a tide.
She made eye contact with Himiko and they both smiled in a way some had called 'creepy'.
Himiko's form shifted and took on her own appearance…damn, she looked good in a dress.
Some dumbass screamed a war cry from behind her, she jumped and spun mid air with her heel extended, catching the moron right in his mouth, feeding him his own teeth. Serves him right.
"Keep them off me!" Momo ordered as she blasted a villain with spiraling pig tails away from her with a 40mm bean bag that Rumi could hear break at least a few ribs.
"Did tall and busty just give us an order?~" Himi-Rumi asked salaciously as she threw one of her spikes with greatly increased strength into a man's outstretched hand, nailing it into another villain's shoulder.
"She did and I think I like it!~" Rumi said with a wiggle of her nose despite kicking a man's knee backwards. She didn't know what he was crying about, it's not like he was going to die.
Momo's face was bright red as she shot another villain square in the groin, folding her like a wet tissue. "Would you two please focus?"
"YES MA'AM!~" They both snapped out with needy undertones as they continued to wrack up a body count.
The telltale slap of one of Mei's gelly shock what's-a-ma-call-it rounds sounded and a guy with what looked like gun fingers dropped to the ground as fast as gravity could carry him. She heard Mei yell from up the stairs.
Rumi's smile turned feral, now these villains were really fucked.
A few seconds ago Mina had landed hard among a crumbling cityscape, just her fall being enough to cause a piece of a building to crumble away. The city was in complete disarray, some buildings lay on their sides, while some balanced precariously on compromised infrastructure. The streets, if you could call them that, were uneven, broken, and littered with abandoned cars and pieces of buildings. Above, where she expected to see the sky, she saw the familiar dome of the USJ.
She was currently limping on what was likely a broken ankle through the wreckage as quietly as possible in search of her classmates.
She heard footsteps to her left. She spun her head in the direction. Nothing was there. The soft footsteps sounded again...right where she was looking.
"Toru? Is that you?" She asked nervously, hoping against hope that whatever lay out her sight was her girlfriend.
She was answered only by silence.
Footsteps again, this time they were almost right on top of her.
"C'mon, this isn't funny," She nearly begged.
The footsteps were back, but this time they were loud and fast as stealth was forgone.
"I ain't joking!" A male voice said that was certainly not Toru's.
Mina squealed in terror and flung Acid in a wide arc on reflex, some hitting the wall and some hitting something right in front of her.
A man with a chameleon Quirk appeared as he screamed in pain and grabbed at his face, the knife he was holding clattering to the ground.
As the man writhed in pain Mina was hearing every insult every bully had ever thrown at her, saying that her power was only good for maiming and how she had just proved them right.
Aoyama rounded a corner, his eyes shot wide when he saw her, he leveled a palm aimed right at her.
He fired his laser.
The beam of energy went right over her shoulder followed by a cry of pain. She quickly turned to see a woman with skin like concrete lying unconscious on the ground, a scorch mark on her stone like face.
The ground shook and more buildings crumbled.
Iida came running around the corner then, barely able to maneuver the uneven ground and somewhat cramped spaces due to all the fallen buildings. He held one of his arms close to his chest, the metal of his suit dented and leaking blood.
"They're trying to bury us!" He yelled as the ground shook once more.
The buildings all around them began to crumble.
Mina began throwing globs of glue anywhere she saw a crack forming, it was helping but there was too much damage already done. The tall buildings began to collapse on top of them.
A blue blur crashed into the ground between the three of them.
Hado Nejire stood amidst the collapsing city with palms raised high.
"Nobody hurts my cute Kouhais!"
Huge spirals of energy exploded from Nejire's palms, the recoil causing her feet to dig into the ground. The debri falling down on them was blasted up and away as Nejire kept channeling her attack skyward.
Hitoshi was wet and, he could admit, afraid. He was in the middle of the zone meant to simulate Hurricanes, complete with gale force winds and torrential downpour. The small town meant to recreate a coastal fishing village was completely boarded up, leaving no way to escape the storm.
He couldn't hear anything over the squall, which is why literally running into Kaminari when rounding a corner nearly caused him to soil himself.
"You scared me half to death, dude!" Kaminari shouted to be heard over the winds and rain.
"Same!" Hitoshi shouted back.
"Whaaat?-OH SHIT!" Kaminari screeched in fear as he pointed over Hitoshi's shoulder and shot a bolt of electricity from his finger.
Every muscle in Hitoshi's body locked up as he fell to his hands and knees, he peaked over his shoulder to see a man with crab claws for hands lying unconscious on the wet ground.
"Shit, sorry! All this water is going to make it hard to use my Quirk!" Kaminari shouted an apology and an explanation.
Shoji came running up to them from around a boarded up gas station. "You all right!?"
"Ya! Just a little-" Hitoshi stopped mid sentence when he saw a dozen villains come out of the woodworks.
"Hey! Hero school dropouts!" He taunted.
"What did the corpse just say? I can't hear shit over this storm!" A woman wielding a katana asked.
"Shut up! We aren't supposed to talk!" A huge crocodile man barked.
Well shit…
The villains charged.
Shoji engaged the woman with the katana, Kaminari tried to get distance from his allies but they were encircled.
Kaminari was focused on dodging attacks as they came, giving a small shock when he could that wouldn't transfer through the wet ground. A villain managed to land a hit to Kaminari's jaw that sent him sprawling to the ground barely conscious.
The woman with the katana sliced through one of Shoji's arms that was swinging for her and was very surprised to see the limb grow back nearly instantaneously. Shoji was unrelenting as he continued to barrage the woman while deflecting any attack aimed for his torso, but the woman got closer with each swing of her sword.
A nearby villain shot what looked like a harpoon through Shoji's calf and began to pull.
The crocodile man lunged for Hitoshi, snapping his jaws. Hitoshi unwound his capture scarf and wrapped it around the man's maw, sealing it shut. The man spun and lashed out with his powerful tail, sweeping Hitoshi off his feet. The man clawed the capture scarf off his face and towered over him.
"Why are you doing this?" Hitoshi asked with as much faux desperation as he could.
The man didn't say a word, he only smiled with far too many teeth and shook his head.
Thanks to Izuku, It was enough.
The man's eyes went white. He was now fully under Hitoshi's control. He pointed at the woman slowly overwhelming Shoji.
"Kick her ass!" He ordered.
The crocodile man moved to obey, he ran up to the unsuspecting woman that was wholly focused on her own fight and sucker punched her. The woman shot through the air and slammed into a building where she didn't get back up.
Before he could tell him not to, Shoji punched the man still under his control. The huge man barely flinched but his eyes returned to normal and he snarled.
"You're dead!" He declared. He dropped to all fours and swiped Shoji's feet from under him before rushing straight at Hitoshi, his maw snapping and his eyes feral.
The rest of the villains decided that was their que and fell upon them.
Soaked to the bone as wind tried its best to knock him back down, Hitoshi wondered how the hell they were going to get out of this alive let alone in one piece.
Thunder cracked and light shone through the dome.
There was an explosion of water powerful enough that the rain was forced away in a sphere originating where the crocodile villain was.
Izuku was crouching over the villain with his fist connected to the back of the very unconscious man's skull.
The villains were trembling as Izuku rose to his full height with blazing green eyes and viridian energy arcing off of him. He looked at him, then Kaminari, and finally Shoji. His eyes widened in rage at seeing the harpoon sticking out of his leg. Izuku followed the cable with his eyes and raised a finger pointed at the trembling villain holding the harpoon gun.
"You're next," He promised in a deep voice.
The villain dropped the weapon and raised their hands in surrender but too late. Izuku's knuckleduster clad fist was already flattening their nose flat against their face in an explosion of blood that painted Izuku's face. Izuku turned from the limp form and stared at the rest of the villains as the rain and blood ran down his face.
"Next?"