alienhiro: Hey guys, you want to go take a free tour at Furin-Kazan? Our parents said that I could take our friends on Wednesday to check it out.
mightydeku: really? we get to see tour one of the top support companies?
airuka: Yea. We'll only be able to see stuff like the gallery of nonfunctioning duplicates of Furin-Kazan made support gear that were owned by notable heroes, though. We might get lucky and see parts of the labs they make support gear in.
rodeoponeo: oh that would be so cool to see!
earphonejack: I'm free Weds, so count me in
momomaker: I as well. It would be enlightening to see how a support company works, since we don't necessary get the chance to see one often.
uravity: Since it's a free tour, yea!
lizardqueen: You guys are gonna be blown away by it. I've been several times before, but it's always so cool!
alienhiro: Hey engine, what do you think about getting a free tour?
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"Well, at least that's better than him just not looking at his messages," Hiroshi said, sitting on his bed as he stared at the seen notification from Tenya. "But we should still try to talk to him in person. Though I doubt he'd be at his brother's hero agency, and he never gave us his address..."
"I'd contact him via telepathy, but that's a breach of privacy," Hero said. "He'd probably use all the tricks that All Might taught everyone to prevent telepathic Quirks from reading people's minds in the first place."
"Yea, hopefully we'll be able to check up on him when the break's over," Hiroshi muttered, as he scrolled through his newsfeed. He saw article after article about Hero Killer Stain and his victims, with his latest one, Ingenium, being a broken streak of victims that were left alive but crippled for life as only his arms were broken and he suffered internal bleeding. The reason why is unknown, as police and heroes involved with the investigation have yet to reveal more information beyond his injuries and the circumstances surrounding his mysterious 'survival'.
Despite how he should feel relieved that Tenya's brother was relatively alright, something about this broken streak bothered him. Just why would the Hero Killer rein in on his policy of crippling survivors when he's held to it and his murderous vendetta against heroes before?
Midnight at a mountain forest...
"Ah, you made it," Virus said, as he sat on a rock in the forest, legs crossed. Illne was standing off to his right. They stared as their huge muscular ally came out of a dark blue glowing portal holding a strange remote control-like device that looked positively tiny in his large hands, and a significantly smaller cloaked figure followed him through, with its unblinking blue eyes peeking out of the hood. "I trust that your interdimensional travel was no trouble at all, Dize?"
"I still see no reason why you want to hire someone like this," Disze said, his baritone voice practically booming through the air. He put a huge hand onto the cloaked figure's head, as he struggled to wiggle out of his grasp. "He's so... small. Insignificant. Overly reliant on weaponry. I could just crush his head already..."
"Now now, Disze, that's exactly why! I want to see how Ultraman Hero and his friends will handle someone like him. Besides, it's been a while since we've had an alien attack, so why not have some entertainment for now?" Virus said, as Disze released his grip on the cloaked figure's head, who rubbed his throbbing aching head.
"I'll never understand your fascination with lower lifeforms," Illne muttered, crossing her arms. "We should just go through with-"
"Ah, Illne. Always the straightforward thinker. But where's the entertainment in that?" Virus said, shaking his head. "We might as well make our time here a show. Not to mention get a better idea of what we're truly dealing with, with both that Ultraman Hero and this world's earthlings."
He got up, and walked towards the cloaked figure, and pulled a remote from one of his pockets. "You'll be paid handsomely for your service to us, and we'll even throw in a nice new Autogedon machine for you to use to distract Ultraman Hero, as well as some reversed-engineered Valis Raiders we've made. If you are to die, well, we'll send your payment to your next of kin."
"So, what do you say? Will you work for us? Because I can think of several reasons why you might want to," Virus added, as Disze cracked his knuckles. The cloaked figure gulped, and nodded.
"Excellent! A pleasure doing work with you," Virus said, sticking his hand out to shake the cloaked figure's, who accepted it. Virus handed the remote to him. "Your work begins tomorrow afternoon, at the building called Furin-Kazan Corporation. Go in, pillage as much as you want, chase some people around, and remember to have fun!"
"Baro baro barossa."
The Next Day, 11:30 AM
"Thanks again for the ride, Hayate," Fuka said, as they pulled into the parking lot for Furin-Kazan's main headquarters.
"No problem, glad I could give you guys a lift," he replied, as they all piled out of his van. "Just send me or Kana a message about picking you up later, I'll be going to our hero agency and do some short patrols for today. Just call me and I'll be here 'in a flash of wind'!"
"Yea yea, of course Hayate, see you later," Hiroshi said, rolling his eyes at his brother as he drove off.
"This is going to be so cool!" Pony said, as they walked inside. "I've never been inside a hero support company before!"
"Most of us haven't," Kyoka said, pointing at Hiroshi, Fuka, and Setsuna. "So where to first?"
"Well, I guess we can get started looking through the support gear gallery before heading to seeing some labs," Hiroshi said, as he headed to the support gear gallery doors. "Come on, they've got a lot of cool stuff."
Izuku stared in awe as he went inside, and like a kid in a candy store, kept going from one display to another.
"Look at this! It's a replica of Shark Hero Megalofang's Fang Hand Gloves! These were made so that he could attach any tooth that fell out of his mouth to use as claws or shoot them out!" Izuku pointed to large gloves that had clips at the fingertips and a sort of launcher on the gloves' back.
"Oh oh! This one's Clockwork Hero Control Gear's Gear Discs! He was able to use his Quirk's ability to control gear-shaped items to throw these! Each one had different functions that he could activated upon throwing them!" Izuku stared at a belt with hand-sized gear-like discs strapped to it.
"This is Laser Heroine Rei Light's laser gun and baton! By using her ability to create solid light, she was able to fire light bullets and use a solid light rod!" His eyes sparkled at looking at the sci-fi like round 'gun' and short handle.
"Wow, you really know your stuff, Midoriya," Fuka said, walking past a case containing the air boots of Jumping Hero Spring Heel. "A big handful of these heroes were in the Top 500 at one point or another. Only nine in the Top 50 were ever Furin-Kazan customers, but the fact that our parents had a lot of ranked heroes in the first place is what really helped the name get spread within the first few years of Furin-Kazan's creation."
"And I have to thank your genius of a father for it."
Fuka and Hiroshi turned around, and Fuka had a large grin as she smiled at a mountain of a purple-eyed man with a square jaw covered by a short beard that connected to the sideburns of his slightly shaggy reddish brown hair with pure crimson streaks, and dressed in a sharp tuxedo, who was followed by their parents. "Hi there, you must be Hiro's and Fuka's friends! I'm Takehiko Hiyama, co-owner of Furin-Kazan Corporation!"
"Uncle Take!" she said cheerfully, running to the giant man and giving him a tight hug.
"There's my favorite little girl!" he laughed, ruffling her hair, being sure to not touch her back. He looked at Hiroshi, who was smiling as he walked towards him. "And there's my favorite alien hero!"
"Hi Uncle Take," he said, giving the man a fist bump.
"That's the co-owner of Furin-Kazan Corporation!?" Kyoka whispered to the others, surprised at how absurdly tall and wide he is. "He looks like he could give All Might and Endeavor a run for their money!"
"Their parents are the ones that owned Furin Industrial, right? That means he's the owner of Kazan Fashion!" Ochako said, her eyes wide.
"Yea, you'd think it'd be the reverse with how their dad looks and how he looks," Pony added.
"Hahaha, we get that a lot!" the giant man laughed, overhearing them. "I've always loved designing and making clothes! Though admittedly, I'm much more in charge of the business side of things, since that's my strong suit compared to Hitomi."
"That's how it was with Kazan Fashion. Takehiko handled the business side of things while I handled the fashion side of things as a model and designer," Mrs. Furinji said. "Never was particularly good with business myself. While I rarely model nowadays, I work with our employees and hero customers to make sure their costumes and gear are to their aesthetic desires."
"And while I've studied up on business partly because of my father, I've majored in engineering, so I tend to be a little more involved with the research and development end of things," Mr. Furinji added. "That's just how we three ended up working so well together. All three of us just excelled in different fields that we each needed the other for to make the Furin-Kazan Corporation into what it is."
"Wow, that would explain how you two are the way you are," Kyoka said, looking at the Furinji siblings.
"Yea, those were two big tenets in our family. Be smart, be creative," Hiroshi said. "That's why we have that big artist studio room and a couple of rooms as libraries."
"You really need to give us a house tour later!" Pony said.
"I guess we could do that next time," Hiroshi laughed.
"Well, we must be going, we have a business meeting that we all need to attend to," Mr. Hiyama said, as he and the Furinjis' parents started to walk off. "I just had to meet you all before it, though. Enjoy yourselves! And help yourselves for anything you want from the cafeteria and food court, just tell them to put it on a tab for me!"
"And you're free to check out Lab 14 and 15. 15 is the one opened for tours since it's a simulated version of the other 14 labs and the work that goes into our company, while Lab 14 is the one they test custom support gear that's supposed to be ready for the hero they're made for," Mr. Furinji said. "That one's usually closed off to tours, but since you all are Hiroshi's and Fuka's guests, we'll make an exception for you all."
"Thanks, Uncle Take, thanks dad!" Fuka said, as they waved bye to the adults. "Well, let's keep looking through the gallery. The next part displays all the limited time general support gear and costumes they made before the merger. We can go to Labs 14 and 15, and then get something to eat at the cafeteria and food court."
"Sounds like a plan," Hiroshi said, as the group continued on their tour.
"Good afternoon, everyone!" Virus said, as he and Illne appeared in the bar. Tomura growled and turned away, while Kurogiri went on wiping another glass. Stain was still on the chair, screaming into the towel, though he was noticeably regaining some depth to his flat form. "I see that we're all doing well."
"I'll be doing better when this society of hypocrites is gone," Tomura grumbled, scratching his neck. "When are you going to finally do something!? You've done nothing but stand around, ripping off my fingers, and bring that gross-ass poster in here! Where are the aliens you promised to give us!?"
"Calm down, Shigaraki," Virus chuckled. "I've already planned an alien attack for today, it's just a matter of waiting."
"What!? You did!?" the Doctor's voice said through the monitor. "Why didn't you bring one for me to experiment on!?"
"Where's the fun in that?" Virus said, wagging his finger at the monitor. "Why not make a show of it instead? In fact-"
Virus snapped his fingers, and the TV turned on, revealing a strange-looking alien walking in a dark corridor of a basement. "- I have a small camera drone recording everything our friend can do."
"But all that potential for Nomus-"
"I'll be giving you an alien subject eventually," Virus said. "For now, let's just enjoy the show..."
"Man, who knew that support companies had so much work to do?" Ochako said, as the group sat at the food court. "All that paperwork approval, testing, working with people to make the proper adjustments for Quirks, designing..."
"The Support Course kids must all be geniuses or something to be able to keep up with all that," Pony said, her brain mildly fried by all the information they learned. "Ugh, I don't know how they all keep it in."
"Maybe they just omit whatever doesn't interest them, like peoples' names or something," Hiroshi joked. "We should ask that Hatsume girl when we see her again."
"Yea..." Izuku said, thinking back to the tournament, but then to Tenya. "Iida would've thought this was an interesting trip."
"Shame he missed it," Setsuna said, sighing sadly. "Has he said something in the group?"
"Nope," Kyoka said, shaking her head. "Still just on seen."
"... Something has been bothering me about what happened to Iida's brother," Hiroshi said, crossing his arms. "Hero Killer Stain's modus operandi has been either murdering heroes, or leaving them so utterly crippled that they have to retire, right? Why did he leave Ingenium 'lightly injured' as he did? He'll still be able to run and use his Quirk. I'm glad that he wasn't crippled, but something about this is just... off."
"That is fair to point out," Momo said, after taking a sip of her tea. "It's unlike criminals who've had established patterns to suddenly change them."
"Not to mention that like, the police still won't release any information since the investigation is ongoing," Fuka muttered.
"Do you think someone might've interrupted him? Like another hero?" Ochako asked.
"Can't be, otherwise they would mention that another hero came and saved Ingenium," Hiroshi said. "I just-"
An alarm sounded off in the cafeteria.
"Giant alien sighting in downtown. Be prepared to evacuate or find shelter. Giant alien sighting in downtown-"
"Hiroshi-!" Izuku said, as they turned to him.
"Right!" Hiroshi stood up, from his chair.
"Hold your hand and call out-!"
"HEROOOOO!" A sphere of light formed around Hiroshi, and it flew through a window harmlessly, soaring through the air towards the giant alien. People around them had already began leaving through back entrances.
"We need to go," Setsuna said, as they got up. "We can't hang around here while there's-"
The group heard some glass breaking and some screaming coming down the hallway where the support gear gallery was. They looked at each other, confused.
"What's that about?" Ochako muttered.
"I don't know... but I feel like if we leave it alone, it'll only cause more trouble..." Izuku said, as he walked towards the source of the sound.
"Midoriya wait- Gah! He's right," Setsuna said, shaking her head. "Let's go with him. We can't let him go alone."
"Alright, but if it's something serious, we need to retreat and let a pro handle this," Fuka said, as they followed the green-haired boy.
A matte white robot walked through downtown slowly in a straight line, crashing through buildings that were in its way, while swinging its arms around. It was humanoid with football pad-like armor with rocket exhausts on its back, blocky white hands, silver limbs, and a cube-shaped head with three camera lens-like eyes. Its knees looked like they could bend in both directions, and its feet could rotate around.
Ultraman Hero landed in the empty streets, ready to fight the strange alien robot. The robot turned its around to face him, with its torso rotating a second later. It lifted its right foot and it rotated, becoming its left foot, while it lifted its left root and it rotated to become its right. It began to powerwalk towards Hero, and slammed its hands into him, knocking him back slightly as he forced himself to land on his side to avoid hitting buildings. He got up, and started to grapple with the robot, who fired lasers from its eyes.
"A robot? I guess we would face an alien robot, huh?" Hiroshi said, the light constructs of Hero's hands, feet, and mask over him. They fought the robot, struggling to find an opening.
"This is peculiar, though. It's an Autogedon. They're machines made by Alien Mechenicas to be remote controlled weapons. They have no cockpits or intelligences of their own, and they only have the most basic of autonomy," Hero pondered. "Wait... that means that there's an alien nearby with the remote!"
"What!?"
"That's the only reason why it has to be here. Some alien must be nearby, since Autogedons can only be activated if the owner of the remote control is within a certain radius!"
"But where would that be!?"
"We can't worry about that now! Autogedons are tough to break, so we need to focus on this!"
"Well, if they're tough to break, let's get a little muscle!"
Hiroshi held his arm out as he turned the Hero Hand's dial. "ORIGINAL! FLASH! MUSCLE!"
"Muscles that can move mountains!" he called out, slamming his hand onto the stylized H. He reared his arm back, threw his hand into the air, and yelled, "Shake UP! HEROOOOO!"
"MUSCLE HERCULES!"
Light covered Hero, changing his body's shape until it shattered and revealed his Muscle Hercules form. He grabbed Autogedon, and with a mighty grunt, flew into the air. Not too far away was Mt. Lady, who had grown to her giant size as she attempted to run at them.
"No! Come back! Let me fight too!" she yelled, as Hero and Autogedon moved towards the city limits. "I need time to shine too!"
She attempted to follow them, when she noticed that the way towards them had shrunk.
"Dammit! I can't walk through single-lane streets at this size! Looks like it's the long way around..." she lamented, as she shrunk to get through the single-lane roads.
Hero slammed Autogedon against a mountain, leaving a dent in its armor. Autogedon's gears and motors whirled as it punched Hero in the gut, shoving him off. It picked itself up, it approached the Ultraman, throwing a punch at him. Hero dodged it, but Autogedon's chest opened, firing a small missile into Hero. He staggered back, and Autogedon pointed its left arm at him, firing a laser that forced Hero to cross his arms to form a barrier. The laser collided with Hero's barrier, pushing him back slightly before he planted his feet into the ground, preventing him from falling onto the buildings behind him.
Once Autogedon's laser stopped, Hero charged it, grabbing a hold of its left arm and crushing it. He pulled off the wrecked arm, and swung it onto the robot's head, before shoving it into its torso, piercing its armor. Autogedon staggered backwards, but it was undeterred by the damage it had received. Its right hand began spinning, and its it struck Hero, making the giant grunt in pain from the drill attack. Hero knocked Autogedon's arm away, and tackled the robot, pushing it farther away from the city.
The group of teens walked into the support gear gallery, and noticed that many of the display cases had been broken and the replica support gear had been taken. There were also a ton of unconscious (or possibly dead) security guards laying around.
"What's going on? Who'd-" Ochako began to whisper, when Setsuna and Fuka pulled everyone behind a large display case.
"I think I saw someone," Setsuna said, detaching her right eye and ear. "Whoever it is, they had a big bag. No doubt it's full of the stolen replicas."
Her eye and ear floated and landed on top of a nearby display, and what she saw slightly boggled her. "I think whoever it is, it's an alien..."
"What makes you say that?" Ochako asked.
"Well, he's got this silvery looking body with these weird fleshy gold pipes, some big bat ears I think, wings, and these really, really blue eyes with a swirly face," Setsuna described. "Also, he's muttering something in another language. 'Baro... baro barossa, ssa rossa baro ba baro...' What is he, a Pokémon?"
"What should we do?" Pony asked. "Should we stop him?"
"We don't even have provisional licenses yet," Fuka reminded them. "But then again, I don't know how the law works with intergalactic, possibly interdimensional, criminals..."
"They should really start writing new laws about aliens," Kyoka replied.
"We can't just stand here and do nothing, though," Izuku said, tightening his fists. "We're the only ones here who can stop him!"
"This is an alien, we don't know what they're capable of-" Momo said, when Setsuna jolted up.
"Guys we gotta go, he's heading over here-" she said, when the alien walked past the display case, before turning around and realizing that the teens behind it.
"Baro baro ba barossa!" him yelled, as the teens backed away from him. "Baro baro barossa, baro rossa ssa baro!"
"W-what is he saying?" Ochako said.
"Why are you asking? None of us would know!" Kyoka pointed out. "Though maybe Hero might..."
"Baro? Ba baro rossa ssa ba ba ba barossa ssa ssa," the alien grumbled, pulling out the replica of Rei Light's laser gun. "Ba baro ro rossa ssa baro baro."
He pointed the gun at them, and pulled the trigger. The teens bother with bracing themselves for the attack, as no laser came from the gun. He pulled the trigger again. Nothing. "Baro!? Baro baro ba baro ro ba ssa ssa!?"
"W-were you robbing the replicas because you thought that they were fully functional?" Setsuna said, as Ochako and Pony struggled to hold back laughter.
"Baro!?"
"Yea, this entire gallery has no working gear for you to take. Not that you'd be able to use them if they did, these ones are all designed for specific people to work with, like that gun," Izuku pointed out.
"ROSSA!" the alien screamed throwing the useless replica down, as well as its bag of now-useless plunder. "Rossa ssa ssa baro ro ba!"
"So was that your big plan? To steal gear? Are you responsible for that giant alien attack, too?" Fuka said, as the alien threw a tantrum over the unintended deception it fell for. They started to chuckle until the alien pulled out a real laser gun from nowhere and fired it at them, narrowly missing their heads.
"Baro ro ro barossa baro baro barossa!" he yelled, pointing it at them. "Baro rossa ba baro ro-"
Setsuna detached her fingers and launched them into the alien's eyes, poking them. As he screamed and rubbed his eyes, the teens ran off.
"Ba, baro rossa barossa ro!" he muttered, running after them. He pulled out a remote and pressed a button on it.
Autogedon's eyes lit up, and the rockets on its back began to flare up, lifting it up from the ground. Hero grabbed it by the legs, and pulled it down, preventing it from escaping. He slammed it against a mountain, and jumped onto its back, crushing the rockets to stop it from leaving again. Its right fist began to spin again, and punched Hero in the gut, knocking him off itself. Hero reoriented himself as the Color Timer on his chest began to flash red.
"Looks like we gotta finish this real quick!" Hiroshi said, cracking his knuckles.
"Indeed, and we must find the alien controlling this Autogedon!" Hero reminded him, as they prepared to finish the robot off.
Hero grabbed Autogedon, lifting it over his head, and flew into the air as fast as the slow form could. He tossed it into the air, and reared his right arm back as rock-like energy surrounded his hand.
"Herculean SMASH!" Hero yelled, throwing the punch. The rock-like energy flew from his fist, crashing into the robot as it beeped and whirled before following up with a physical punch, breaking through the robot's torso. It exploded into a giant cloud of dust, leaving only an H-shaped mark of light in the sky. Hero flew off, disappearing from sight.
Mt. Lady arrived to the edge of the city, only to see that the fight was over.
"Dammit, I missed it again!" Mt. Lady grumbled, gritting her teeth. She turned her head slightly, and noticed that there were some of her fans down behind her. She gave an award-winning smile to them. "Well, at least I still have fans somehow..." she thought to herself.
"Baro?" the alien said, pressing the remote. Nothing happened. He kept pressing it, only for no response. "BARO BARO!"
He tossed the remote aside, and kept on chasing the teens, firing his laser gun at them all the same.
"What should we do!?" Ochako asked, as lasers soared above them.
"I don't know, but I'm really glad that this guy's a terrible shot!" Kyoka said.
"Baro baro baro barossa ssa ro ba!"
"Speak Japanese! Or English!" Pony shouted at the alien. "We don't understand what you're saying!"
"Ro! Ba baro rossa ssa baro!"
Izuku took a deep breath, and swiftly turned on his heels as he let One for All flow through his body. He charged at the alien, who was shocked at what he was doing.
"Baro!?"
"Midoriya, what are you doing!?" Fuka yelled, as he tackled the alien hard, making him drop his laser gun.
"SSA!"
"I'll keep him busy until Hero comes! Just run!" Izuku yelled, struggling to keep the alien pinned down.
"Not without you!" Setsuna said, who took this opportunity to detach her right hand and grab the alien's gun. Her hand flew back to her, and she pointed the gun at the alien as Izuku leaped away. "Now who's got a gun!?"
"Ba baro barossa ssa baro!" The alien pulled out another laser gun, pointing it at them.
"Oh, so you have another one..." Setsuna said, though she still kept the gun pointed at him.
"Ba, ro ro rossa baro," the alien said, its unblinking eyes on them. "Baro-"
Setsuna fired the gun and the laser struck the alien in the face, knocking it backwards as it fell onto the ground, unmoving.
"Setsuna!" Fuka said, as everyone stared at her.
"I'm sorry! This trigger's a lot more sensitive than I thought!" Setsuna said, horrified that she just shot someone in the face, even if that someone was an alien. "Oh man, I really hope I don't get in trouble for that!"
"Guys, we have a situation," Hiroshi said, having finally found his friends. "The giant alien I thought was actually a robot, and Hero said that there should be an alien nearby that was holding the remote-"
"Yea, I think we met him," Kyoka said, pointing to the alien on the ground.
"Oh shit, what happened?"
"Tokage shot him in the face with his own gun."
"Shit, really Setsuna?"
"It was an accident!" Setsuna said, making sure her finger was completely off the trigger. "This gun's way more sensitive than I thought! I was just pointing it at him to get him to back off 'cuz he was chasing us, and he only dropped it when Midoriya tackled him!"
"Whoa, really Midoriya?"
"Y-yea," Izuku said, scratching the back of his head. "I figured that I could keep him busy while everyone escaped and until you and Hero came back."
"That's an Alien Barossa," Hero said in Hiroshi's head, as he told the others what he was saying. "They're a race of space pirates that steal weapons and treasure from others."
"That would explain why he tried robbing the support gear gallery," Fuka said, crossing her arms. "Though I wonder how he figured that this was a place he could get them... Not to mention that I'm sure that these are like, way weaker than any alien tech that could exist."
"So he is a Pokémon," Setsuna said. "All he's been saying was like, syllables from 'Barossa'."
"Yea, according to Hero, there's a number of Alien Barossas that refuse to learn how to talk in other languages."
"How do they tell the difference between words?" Ochako wondered.
"Apparently there's a lot of subtle intonations that they use. Hero apparently knows a little bit, since he studied a lot of languages from different planets in case he' ever encounters the planet or a traveler."
Hiroshi walked over to look at Alien Barossa, who was still unmoving. He picked the gun out of the alien's hand to disarm it of a weapon, but before he could check Alien Barossa himself, he shot back upright, and leaped backwards from the teens.
"Baro ba ssa baro!" Alien Barossa said, pulling another remote out, and pressed a button. A large circular portal opened, and a troop of one-eyed robots materialized from it.
"Valis Raiders!?" Hero said. "How he'd get those, the being responsible for creating them is destroyed!"
"Dunno, but I think we need to fight them all!" Hiroshi said, rearing his arm back.
"Right, hold your hand and call out-!"
"HEROOOOO!" Light surrounded Hiroshi and Hero appeared in his Burst Helios form. He charged at Alien Barossa, using explosions and fire to break as many of the Valis Raiders as he could, though several got past him and ran towards the others.
"Everyone! Be careful!" Hero shouted, as the Valis Raiders pulled out swords and started slashing at them.
"Looks like we gotta fight back!" Fuka said, taking a deep breath and blowing a few Valis Raiders away with her gale breath. "Hopefully this is just considered self defense!"
"Yea, I mean, it isn't every day that you have to defense yourself against an alien, right!?" Setsuna said. She distracted a few of the Valis Raiders by separating her body and making them fly around the robots, while Izuku punched a few, knocking off heads and creating holes in some of their chests. Pony began launching her horns out and spearing several Valis Raiders with them. Momo created a sword for Kyoka to use while she made a rod for herself, and they parried the Valis Raiders' swords back to back to protect each other. Ochako dodged and weaved between the Valis Raiders, touching them and making them lose gravity, holding her Quirk long enough to let her friends destroy them.
"Baro ba-" Alien Barossa said, shocked at how these humans had powers and that the Valis Raiders were being dispatched so effortlessly by them, before getting blasted in the face by an explosion from Hero's hand.
"Seems like I'll be your opponent!" Hero said, striking Alien Barossa in the chest, letting another explosion go off.
"BAAAAAAA!" Alien Barossa screamed as he flew backwards. When he came to a stop, he pulled out a strange rod-like weapon with a ring handguard and hooks at the opposite end. He swung it at Hero, who moved left and right before heating up his hand and punching the alien across the face. He dropped his rod weapon as he held his slightly burnt cheek. "BARO BAROOOOOO!"
"Had enough-" Hero said, when Alien Barossa pulled out a spear with a four-bladed head, and thrusted it at Hero. Hero kept moving back and back, before clasping his hands together.
"Sun Flare!" he shouted, releasing a blast of light and smoke from his hands. Alien Barossa coughed, but decided to take this as a chance to escape through a window. "You're not going anywhere!"
Hero leaped out of the window, with the teens following close behind, having destroyed all the Valis Raiders there.
"Don't worry, we're coming to help!" Izuku said, as they ran after Hero and Alien Barossa. When they were far away enough, Alien Barossa came to a stop, and pulled out a pouch of what looked like seeds.
"No! Those are Juran seeds! If he eats them, he'll grow! We have to stop him!" Hero said, readying himself to fire a blast at Alien Barossa's hand. The swirl pattern on Alien Barossa's face unraveled, revealing a large gaping hole in its head.
"Oh god, is that it's mouth!?" Fuka said, disgusted by the appearance. Pony and Ochako were equally disturbed by the sight. Before Alien Barossa could swallow the seeds, however, a laser was fired and it struck his hand, burning the seeds and his hand.
"BARO BARO ROSSA!" he screamed as his hand caught on fire. He dropped the burning seeds, and tried to put out the fire on his hand by blowing on it and waving it around. Everyone looked at Setsuna, who held the laser gun she took from Alien Barossa and had it pointed at him.
"What? You said we had to stop him," she said. "And I still had the gun..."
"Thank you, Miss Tokage, but now I'll handle the rest!" Hero said, stepping forward of them. He took a deep breath, and stuck his arm above his head, moving it in a circular motion, creating a ring of fire.
"Helios Halo!" The fire ring moved vertically, and Hero threw it, sending it flying into Alien Barossa's chest. He tried to stop it by clasping his hands together, though his hands had gone through the center of the ring. It spun and spun, digging into the space pirate's body.
"BARO BARO BAROSSA!" he screamed one final time, exploding into a dust cloud, with a H-shaped mark of light remaining where he was standing.
"Uh oh," Hero said, apparently a little troubled by the final words Alien Barossa said.
"What's 'uh oh'? He's dead!" Setsuna said. "Which admittedly is something we shouldn't celebrate 'cuz we're heroes and all."
"Did he say something that's concerning, Hero?" Fuka asked.
"Yes, his final words were 'My 9,999 older siblings will avenge me'," Hero answered, crossing his arms.
"Excuse me, did you just say 9,999 older siblings?" Kyoka said, as everyone stared at him, bug eyed.
"Yes. Alien Barossas lay eggs in clutches of 10,000. It's why they all go by their species name instead of individual names. Way too many to name. This one was apparently the last one that hatched of his particular brood."
"So are we going to see an invasion of Alien Barossas!?" Pony said, jaw dropping.
"There's no way we'll be able to handle an alien invasion like that!" Ochako said, sweating nervously.
"Luckily, Alien Barossas also have a tradition of 'Only one can be on a planet at any time', since they all love to steal, and they're very, very greedy. Only planet that's exempt from this is their home planet," Hero assured them. "Still, we'll probably be seeing a number of Alien Barossas coming in the future..."
"Wow, that alien was shit," Tomura spat out, barely holding back laughter. The camera feed had gone to static, no doubt because the miniature drone that was following Alien Barossa was destroyed by the explosion. "You aliens aren't nearly as great as you think-"
His head slammed onto the table, and as he moved it back up, he glared at Illne, who, while at first glance was in the same seat as before, was just ever so slightly off from her original position. "Bitch!"
"A superb show from Ultraman Hero and his friends!" Virus said, ignoring Tomura's grumblings. "Just what I wanted to see from them! Humans, standing together against an alien! Truly entertaining!"
"Hmph, an unimpressive specimen..." the Doctor said through the monitor. "He wouldn't have been very interesting to experiment on..."
"You've forgotten that this wasn't about experimenting on aliens! This was simply having fun for the sake of it!" Virus said, crossing his legs. "After all, things were getting awfully dull for a while without an alien attack, wasn't it?"
"I suppose so, Virus," Tomura's Teacher replied thoughtfully. "Since you had your little 'entertainment', though, I think the next alien you'll bring should be given to the Doctor."
"That sounds fair," Virus said, as the red V glowed on his helmet for a while. "And I have an idea of what alien I could give. Well, an alien sample at least..."
"So the alien that was here was trying to rob Furin-Kazan Corporation of support gear?" Detective Tsukauchi said, as he interviewed the teens. Hiroshi's and Fuka's parents and Mr. Hiyama had begun talking to security and discussing possible ideas on how to improve it to prevent any more break-ins, as well as showing police officers the security cam footage from the support gear gallery and hallways to show them what had happened.
"Yea, but he picked the support gear gallery to start at," Fuka said. "That place only has nonfunctional replicas of support gear that our parents' company had made over the years."
"Good thing he didn't bother checking for the labs, those are on higher floors than the gallery or the basement," Hiroshi said.
"I see... and you're sure that the alien was also responsible for the giant robot attack from earlier?"
"Yea, Hero and I went back to look, and we found the remote Alien Barossa used to control and activate Autogedon," Hiroshi answered, pointing to the evidence bags the police had collected. "He must've used Autogedon as a way to distract us from interfering, and to keep heroes busy with saving and evacuating people from the rampage."
"And one of you shot the alien with its own gun after it dropped it?"
"It was an accident!" Setsuna said, nervously. "I was trying to intimidate him when the trigger when off! That thing is really sensitive!"
"But you said you shot it again to make sure it didn't eat these seeds that would've let it grow gigantic, right?"
"Yea..."
"Right, about that... I've been thinking-" Hiroshi started to say.
"No, we can't extend the agreement letting you fight alien threats to your classmates and friends," Tsukauchi said, predicting what he was going to ask for.
"But Detective Tsukauchi, the fact that my classmates are the people most likely to encounter aliens thanks to being around me-"
"I understand your concerns, but there's been a lot of unconventional things we've had to take thanks to Hero and the fact that aliens exist," Detective Tsukauchi sighed. "There's only so much that people will accept before asking 'Why not me too'? At the very least, we can consider what happened to you all as self-defense today, even if you decided to poke your nose into seeing what had happened. I can't promise you all that you'll be able to get away with doing something like this again."
"That's fair enough, I suppose," Hiroshi said, sighing.
"Still, I suppose I should bring up the idea of an official response team for alien threats to the chief of police whenever I meet him," Detective Tsukauchi added. "The fact that this Alien Barossa managed to think up of a plan like this just showed us that we're still not nearly as prepared as we think."
"What are you going to do about the laser guns?" Pony asked.
"Most likely nothing, though maybe some scientists can study-"
"I can't let anyone reverse engineer them," Hero said, quickly possessing Hiroshi. "Leaving advanced alien technology like that in the hands of humans can have dire consequences. You can keep them as evidence for now, but I will need to destroy them as soon as possible."
"Fair point, but we can use them to arm this hypothetical response team-"
"I. Said. No."
Everyone stared at the possessed teen, who stared at Detective Tsukauchi unflinchingly with furrowed brows and frown. "I understand the need for better weaponry to deal with aliens, but I refuse to let it be done through reverse engineering advanced weaponry. What if a villain manages to grab a hold of them? What then? It'll be better if humanity on its own made its own advancements, which is already happening with support gear."
"... Alright, I'll tell my superiors about what you said," Detective Tsukauchi sighed, closing his notepad. "I'm sure that there'd be a number of people against you destroying these weapons, but it makes sense for you to be cautious."
As Detective Tsukauchi walked off to talk to other officers, Hero released his possession of Hiroshi, who sighed.
"Sorry guys, I really thought that I could get you to become a sort of support team for me, but I guess that's just a bit too much," he said, shrugging.
"Hey, that doesn't mean we can't," Fuka said, nudging him with her elbow. "We just have to wait for like, provisional licenses or something to be able to 'officially' help you two out, right? In the meantime, we just do what we can to help!"
"Yea! I know that we're won't be allowed to actually fight, but maybe we can serve as eyes and ears for you!" Izuku said, his hand on his chin in thought. "We'll keep any aliens we see within our sight, and make sure that they don't escape before you can come and defeat them!"
"That'll be way too easy for me," Setsuna said, popping her eyes and ears off. "I'm a master of keeping eyes and ears on people!"
"Oh! Oh! What if we make a name for this group?" Pony said, grinning. "Like those defense teams you two talked about before! They had names that all stood for something right!? How about SiDE Team!?"
"'Side Team'?" Kyoka said, raising an eyebrow. "What would that mean?"
"'Situational Defense Emergency' Team!" Pony explained.
"What's the I?" Ochako asked.
"It's from 'Situational'! Here, lemme write it down," Pony said, as Izuku pulled out his Ultraman Hero and Aliens Journal #1 and handed it to Pony. She wrote the name down, showing everyone how to write it.
"Acronyms don't usually include the second letter of a word, but I think this works," Fuka said, shrugging.
"It is a good name to use for something like that..." Momo said thoughtfully.
"And it describes us kinda perfectly, since we'd be working as your sidekick team, right?" Ochako said.
"You're not my sidekicks, you're my friends," Hiroshi stated plainly. "But this is a pretty neat name to use, Tsunotori. So if you think we should be the SiDE Team, then we will."
The teens talked over ideas for what they as the SiDE Team could do, Detective Tsukauchi shook his head and sighed before smiling a bit. "Those kids are gonna be something else, huh?" he thought to himself. "Hopefully All Might and Principal Nezu will be able to reel their excitement in."
Later, at Night that Day
"So I assume you've enjoyed watching that lower lifeform be destroyed," Disze said, watching Virus and Illne appear in front of him as he sat on a felled tree that appeared to have been punched down.
"I did," Virus said. "And I see that you've made yourself comfortable. How is that tree?"
"Soft. One weak punch was enough to bring it down," Disze replied.
"Yes, what a very soft tree you punched," Illne said, knocking on the hard wood. "So. What alien or alien sample are you going to give to that Doctor? A Dada? An Alien Zetton? Or, dare I say it, a Lunah?"
"Oh, that last one would be a fun one! But alas, it isn't," Virus said, when a dark blue portal opened, and the high collared jacketed female came out of it, holding a large suitcase. "Ah, Maladi, you're back. I trust that you and Ceteria were successful in acquiring what I asked of you before?"
"Took a while from what you asked of me several days ago, but I've managed to get a good number. Ceteria's close behind, just finishing up some business," the high collared jacketed female said softly. Soon enough, the tall red scarfed female came through the portal, her right hand on fire while her left also had a large suitcase.
"It was a messy start, since those weaklings wanted these so desperately, but the retrieval and cleanup went smoothly," she said in a sultry voice, as she shook off the fire in her hand. She and Maladi handed Virus their suitcases as he snapped his fingers, creating a shadowy "table" to put them on. He opened them, and revealed that they were full of strange reddish orange stone-like shards.
"Excellent, the good Doctor will enjoy these," Virus said, picking up one of them to examine.
"Devil Splinters? You're going to give those fools of human villainy Devil Splinters!?" Illne said in disbelief. "Why would you waste something as powerful as Devil Splinters on them!?"
"Not all of them. Just a few," Virus assured her.
"But all that power from Ultraman Belial-"
"- Will be in the hands of humans who don't know any better," Virus said, practically grinning under his helmet. "Don't you want to see what these lower lifeforms will try to do with something as powerful as a Devil Splinter? The chaos? The madness?"
"It is still unwise to hand over something like that. It would be wasted," Disze said. "It would be better if we hand them an alien first to see what they can come up with that."
"Indeed, I would rather not hand it over so easily to them after all the trouble we went through," Maladi whispered.
"While I would enjoy a good show like you, my dear Virus, I'll have to side with the others on this," Ceteria said, sighing. "After all, it was difficult to track all of these Devil Splinters to begin with."
"Hm, fair enough," Virus said, closing the suitcases and putting them into his trench coat as they vanished into shadow. "I suppose we should start things off slowly before getting into the meat of the entertainment."
"Disze, Maladi, Ceteria, go ahead and pick any alien you feel like would be a suitable subject for the Doctor to test on. Illne and I will continue to entertain the pawns for a while," he finished. The three other aliens nodded, and they opened up different portals, going on their separate ways. "Shall we go back to the bar, Illne?"
"Might as well. Better there than just standing here doing nothing," Illne said, as they prepared to walk into a tree to turn into shadow. "Besides, messing with Shigaraki is the most fun I'm getting from here."
ORIGINAL AO3 NOTES:
- And we've got the names of Virus's companions, Disze, Maladi, and Ceteria! Disze's from disease, and it's pronounced "dehze". Maladi's just malady with an I instead of Y, and is pronounced "mala-deh" instead of "mala-dee". Ceteria's from bacteria with another "e" after "c", and is pronounced as "seh-teria". I was actually debating whether or not to reveal their names, but I figured that it would take way too long to reveal them later in an organic way, so I decided to do it here. That, and to remind people that Virus and Illne are still in contact with them.
- Difference between the dark blue portal and Virus's and allies' shadow teleportation is basically that the blue portals are more for interdimensional/interplanetary travel, is technological in nature, and takes up a lot of power that they can't use it often, whereas their shadow teleportation is more for local/planetary travel, is a natural ability of sorts to them, and doesn't take up nearly as much energy to do.
- This is admittedly a pretty filler-y chapter with not much substantial to it. Just mostly here to resolve the fact that there wasn't been a giant attack for a while. In an Ultraman fanfic. Well, at least it has a handful of reveals, doesn't it?
- I chose to use Alien Barossa for this 'cuz I really ended up liking them a lot. There isn't a 'translation' of what he's saying, I just used random syllables and the like for its speech. No actual meanings. I know that the other two that appeared could speak in Japanese, but I like the idea that there are just Alien Barossas that just don't speak human languages because it's beneath them.
- I straight up forgot that all Ultramen have the ability to communicate telepathically. Probably would've been a lot easier for the two to figure out One for All on their own. Let's just pretend that Hero revealed it sometime after Hiroshi and the others found out the secret, and promised to not use it to invade people's minds without permission.
- I guess one of the trivia notes I should mention is the H-shaped light. The reason why it exists is that it absorbs as much debris as it can that's created by destroying the aliens/kaiju that Hero defeats, therefore minimizing any chance of it falling onto the surrounding area. Hero has always been particularly cautious about causing damage, even before landing in the World of MHA. It's admittedly something I came up with while writing this chapter to justify the H-light's existence, and the fact that there never seems to be any debris left behind. But it makes a little sense, right?
- One of my thoughts about writing this was that the Hero Course kids WOULD be allowed to help Hiroshi and Hero fight against aliens, but then I began to think that even with Hiroshi's and Hero's status as the world's first alien heroes, that they wouldn't go so far as to actually let them perform hero work without even provisional licenses. I still thought it would be fun if they had an 'unofficial' team name, though.
- The weapon that Alien Barossa used against Hero is Alien Valky's weapon.