"Get down, get down!" yelled Tenya as he tried to shield Ochako from the tidal wave coming their way, called up to the platform by the enemy leader, a long-haired man in a bespoke charcoal suit called Niven. His Quirk had been unknown, and now he could see it was a very strong hydrokinesis, water control.
The tsunami crashed into the oil rig, washing over a few knocked out goons into the sea, dragging debris between the team. The operation had gone well at first, disabling the anti-air defences had been easy with Hatsume´s gadgets, the first wave of enemies they had encountered had been little more than militia with weak Quirks and guns, no match for pro heroes. But on as they reached the central platform, where the enemy missile battery was, and started to disable it, they had been attacked by a small team of strong villains. One was some sort of ninja in a cybernetic suit, another was a man with the features of a shark. The last one had been the leader, Niven.
And now they were here, the sea below the oilrig a stormy mess as Niven moved around millions of litres of water to attack them, displacing it around the rig, creating a huge maelstrom around them. And now, with a tsunami, he had split them up, and his other men stepped in to fight in more even odds. The water moved, turning into a wall rising three or four meters. Niven slammed the wave against Todoroki, Tsuyu and Tokoyami, splitting them from Tenya and Ochako, and Hatsume and Yaoyorozu were already fighting the shark man.
As the water hit their friends, the cyborg ninja rushed at them with a glowing katana, a downwards cut that hit the ground between them, cutting the metal. "You know who I am? You know why we do this?" asked the ninja between cuts they narrowly evaded. "No and we don't really care!" said Ochako, aiming her lightweight javelin at the enemy and throwing it with deadly speed.
"I´m neither enemy nor friend, I´m back from a world where such words are meaningless. I´ve removed all obstacles, now you and I will battle to the death!" said the ninja. "Was a that a reference or something?" asked Tenya, leaping over a cut to his legs. He had taken a good deal of time in making his armour much sturdier against blades after fighting Stain, but that katana looked like it could cut through anything.
He looked over to Ochako and said, "Formation B!"; they would attack from both sides so the enemy could not fight both at once. A single touch of Ochako´s hands would put him out of combat, a Recipro Burst kick would knock anyone out. Tenya took the right, Ochako the left, striking with a javelin flying low and a roundhouse kick to the head. The ninja twisted his body as he leapt, evading the blows, but in instants they were on him again.
Tenya aimed a flying kick at his chest, his engines increasing his speed bit by bit as he turned into a rotating downward kick as he landed; Ochako stabbed with her javelin to shorten the distance between herself and the enemy. The ninja was extremely fast and agile, evading their every move and counterattacking with dexterity, but Tenya was picking speed and Ochako was getting very close.
As they pushed him towards an empty helicopter pad, the ninja looked around and changed his sword guard, trying to keep the blade between them, but Ochako was on him and she touched the katana´s hilt. She smiled as she brought her finger tips together and the sword started floating. She had strengthened her Quirk to lift objects away from the Earth´s gravity at will, so it would send the ninja flying unless he let go. The ninja let the sword go, just in time to catch a foot in his stomach.
As he recoiled, shuriken appeared in his hand, and he threw them at Ochako, pinning her to a nearby wall. But he was finished, Ingenium had him against the ropes! Speakers on his helmet started blasting "Running in the 90´s" as he yelled "Recipro Burst!", kicking fast and hard, driving the ninja to the edge of the platform. A kick smashed open the ninja´s helmet, but it didn't seem to affect him until he was a meter away from falling. Then he smiled.
Ingenium´s last kick, a leaping push kick, was caught by a kick from the ninja, who started laughing. "My Quirk, No Fall Damage, allows me to fall from any height without hurting myself or dying! Unless I fall on my side or head, I´m unstoppable! And it translates to damage absorption on my legs!" Tenya thought that would be a convenient, strong Quirk for a hero, and as they exchanged kicks, he asked "Why be a villain? Surrender and the law will treat you rightly!" "The lawsuits from people I fell on by accident led me to crime, and I love it! Falling into action! Heists, money, women!" "There are rules against jumping on people for reasons! And turning to crime is never a good decision, so we will arrest you! And you know what? Taking down a petty criminal gives me Déjà vu! Recipro Burst, Nitro!"
His legs were flashes of light striking the ninja as more Initial D blasted from the speakers, pummelling him to submission. On the ground, he tied up the villain with Hatsume´s special cuffs, and left him there to go help Ochako. "Ochako! Are you alright?" "Yeah, these shuriken seem magnetic though"
When she was free, they hugged "That move against his katana was awesome Ochako! Is it still floating?" "I think it is somewhere in the clouds…that Recipro Nitro is so cool! Is it new?" "Yeah, I developed it with Tensei!"
They held hands for a short while, until a crash of waves caught their attention. Their friends needed them!
Freya turned her shield over, looking at all the new scuff marks and where the wood was starting to splinter. "Oooh, a bullet hole…" Room by room she had cleared the upper and ground floor of the school, encountering two kinds of enemies; stealthy assassin types, and bulky, strong tank types. For all their strength and training, they were little match to the two, agent and hero. She wasn't the number one hero in Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland for her good looks, after all, she was mighty!
From the moment she had burst into the building through the hole in the roof, her music bellowing over the explosions and gunshots, she had moved like a juggernaut of pain, her axe carving a path through the enemy, trying to be as non-lethal as possible, though many would need to die on self-defence alone. It was war, after all! Mere seconds later, Holy Diver had joined in, firing short bursts into the enemy soldiers´ centre mass. She was deadly!
Using equal parts Freya´s shield to bash in the doors as Anna´s breaching charges, they moved room by room, neutralising all the hostiles. Only a few rooms remained, main of all Pestilentia´s office. "Ready to move, girl?" asked Anna. "Yah, lets do this!" They placed a breaching charge on the heavy oak doors and stood on both sides of it. "3…2…1, go." With a click, the charge´s trigger was fired.
Freya felt adrenalin spike in her brain as she rushed in through the blown-out door, taking the right side as her area of attack. Beside her, Holy Diver was taking accurate shots, one at each merc. A merc with a light machine gun raised his weapon at her, oh so slowly, just as Freya threw her axe at him. The axe was faster than the gun, splashing blood around the room. Next, she slammed shield first into a militia, sending him crashing against a wall. Grabbing her shield by the rim, she threw it at a third man, smacking his forehead and knocking him out.
One man left standing, she vaulted over a beautiful desk to avoid a stream of bullets, grabbed a heavy book from a cabinet, and tossed it at the merc, a loud crack followed the man dropping to the ground. As she went to retrieve her weapons (shield first) another man entered the room, wearing the armour the "super soldiers" wore, though his build was slighter than the hulking brutes they had already defeated.
"Who dares defile The Lord´s chambers? None shall step foot here and live to tell the tale while 113477 breathes!" bellowed the man from behind a blank white mask, which contrasted with his black armour. "Shut the fuck up" said Holy Diver, shooting with her battle rifle directly at White Mask´s head. But in an instant, he was a meter away, then a meter closer to them, teleporting a meter at a time!
"Bastard can flash step, Freya, watch out!" managed to say Anna before the White Mask was upon her, striking with a metal quarterstaff. The blow was fast and powerful, but she blocked it easily. Then he was behind her, then beside, then a meter away, attacking from a different angle each time "Impressive…no one has ever blocked two of my attacks together, let alone four…can you keep this up?"
He was everywhere at once, moving every second. Freya was fast, almost inhumanly fast, but this was faster. Her counterattacks were too slow to be effective, White Mask just flash stepped away before a punch could connect, though she managed to graze him several times. She retreated, he would not be wise to teleport to her exact place unless he wanted to screw up with physics even more…
Freya started to lose ground, her shield was starting to break at the constant onslaught, and the staff had managed to hit her a couple of times in her armour, strong enough to leave a bruise for tomorrow, she thought. "Freya, I have a plan, but you have to trust me!" "Anna, of course I trust you! We are pretty much girlfriends!" She was sure the operator was probably blushing behind her helmet, but she had more pressing concerns, like White Mask knocking her helm off with an upward diagonal strike, followed up by a lateral strike that split her shield in two. "Freya, do a roll, 2 o´clock!"
She rolled, directly evading a sweeping strike, and she heard a shot, ringing much louder now that she had no helmet on. As she got to her feet and turned around, she saw White Mask collapse to the ground, slowly, as his helmet´s plain white visor cracked and turned crimson. As he fell to the ground, Holy Diver shot him five times more, centre mass "Just to be sure" she said, shrugging. "All good?" "Yah, pity about that shield, it was strong Norwegian wood!". Taking her helmet off, Anna smiled a content smirk "So pretty much girlfriends, huh? Wanna make it official?" "Yes, when we leave this creepy school. Those brainwash rooms give me goose bumps, poor Toga!" "Good thing we´re torching it to the fucking ground then, babe." "We should call it in." "Yeah, good idea" clicking her push-to-talk button for her radio headset, Anna told the rest of their allies "This is Holy Diver, the upper building is secure, we have retrieved evidence from X-Ray´s office. Holding for confirmation the lower building has been cleared, over."
"This is Air Wing, skies are ours." "Armour here, we are pushing through." "Infantry moving to secure upper town, reactor and lower town are ours." Anna looked extremely proud of her operation "Great work, everyone. Keep it up, we have them on the ropes."
Mei Hatsume really should have stayed on the helicopter. She was sure she could pilot a helicopter well enough to escape a tsunami…maybe. She was glad she had some gear on at least; her thrusters, exoskeleton, vambrace, helmet and an armour vest that covered her chest, no more broken ribs! But fighting a goddamn Street Shark? This wasn't on her contract, at least not when she wasn't fuelled by adrenalin and mixed feelings for Izuku Midoriya. A shark guy!
"I´ll kill you and give your bodies as tribute to the Deep Ones!" A shark guy referencing tales of eldritch horror! "Momo, what´s the plan?" Her friend fired a freshly crafted harpoon at the Street Shark, slowing him down slightly, then she said, "You need to distract him, I´ll spring a trap!"
A plan that involved running her mouth to trash talk a Street Shark while she zoomed around with her gear? A worthy task for Mei Hatsume, CEO! "Hey, you! Why do you look like a children´s cartoon from the nineties? How can you expect us to take you seriously when you are wearing khakis?" The enemy didn't answer, he just roared and started chasing her around the platform. Mei zoomed just far enough from his reach, still speaking "The Biker Mice were cooler than the Street Sharks, mate! And don't your khakis get all wrinkled in water? They are not proper attire for a sharkman!"
"Stop talking about my trousers! I´ll tear you apart!" Maybe he wanted to tear may apart, but for some reason, he instead delivered a punch to her abdomen when he managed to catch up, sending her a few feet away, almost falling to the floor. "I´ll bite you to death!" he yelled as he ran to her, but Mei was unharmed with her new armour, and had flown a few meters away with a burst from her thrusters before running towards Momo. She had bought her friend almost three minutes with this chase, so that tall girl better be ready.
Dashing with the Street Shark just behind, Mei made it to an "x" marked on the floor, sliding over it and blasting behind a few crates for safety. The moment the shark man made it to the spot, a metal cage fell on him, before constricting. "The Baby number 302! The coil prison!" she yelled as Momo sprung the trap and folded it around the Street Shark, catching him in a tight cylindrical prison. Then the entire cage was engulfed by electricity, and the shark was tazed unconscious. "That finish was quite shocking, Yaomomo." Mei quipped as they performed the "engineer´s salute" they had invented, a secret greeting they only shared with fellow tech enthusiast Izuku.
"Let´s leave that 90´s cartoon there and go help the others!"
Shouto almost felt his arm rip off as Momo was washed away from his hand by the enemy leader´s power, a ridiculously strong control over water. Niven, the enemy leader, had split them apart, hoping his underlings could take care of his friends, but they looked to be on the weaker side. Niven himself seemed powerful, by far the strongest person with a water quirk he had encountered. Some heroes, like Manual and the deceased Water Hose duo, Kouta-kun´s parents, had a similar hydrokinesis Quirk. Shouto did not remember if the Water Hose duo could produce water from their bodies, like Shouto could with fire and ice, but Manual could only manipulate existing water.
Niven could move a hundred times more water with his Quirk than Manual, lashing the oil rig with tidal waves, forcing his friends and their foes to fight in the other two platforms to the sides. In the centre, the support struts were shaking from the attacks, and the waves on deck had swept Tokoyami to the edge of the platform, holding on only through Dark Shadow´s claws.
The water was too much for Shouto to freeze completely; Niven only bent some more water over the ice to whip at Shouto and take him to the ground. Fire proved less than effective as well, as his attempts at evaporating an incoming attack were halted, his left side soaked through. The water was freezing, so using his ice Quirk was even more dangerous than usual.
Momo´s strategy had taken into account a variety of Quirks for the terrorists, but they had not thought to encounter a man strengthened by the battlefield being in the middle of the ocean. "Tsuyu! You are our best hope for defeating him!" As an amphibian hero, Tsuyu could weather the water much better than him or Tokoyami, who was held back by a constant barrage of waves. With a determined face, she replied, "I´m on it, kero."
Shouto had to make an opportunity for Tsuyu to get close and kick the guy in the face, so he would use as much of his power as he could to make himself the target. A Prominence Burn would thaw him out before frostbite set, wouldn't it? Focusing, Shouto pushed his hand forward as another wave was pulled from the ocean to hit him. The moment his hand touched the first drop of water he started freezing, pushing his body to the limit, his right side readying a super nova of flame to counteract the ice.
The iceberg he had made was dozens of meters wide, a few times taller than it was wide, a chaotic array of icicles and icy stalagmites. And drawing back his fist, he punched with all the power of his fire "Prominence BURN!", the white-hot ball of flame punching through the ice and evaporating instantly the wall of water Niven had called around himself. He had survived unharmed, but he looked quite dried up in Shouto´s eyes…in a radius of three meters all moisture had been dried up.
Niven kept fighting, though. As Shouto fell to one knee, exhausted at using his powers to that extent, he saw the wave Niven was calling next; it would engulf the entire oilrig and definitely crush the supports. It would kill them all…
And then from the iceberg Shouto had created jumped the Rainy Day Hero, Froppy, her big feet connecting with Niven´s face in a brutal dropkick. Niven collapsed, knocked out and maybe even dead from the hit, Shouto couldn't tell, and as he fell, his control over the wave dissipated, sending the water in every direction, creating smaller fierce waves all around them. "Looks like I won the battle, kero. Fumikage-chan, does salt water affect your feathers?" A drenched, completely dejected Tokoyami replied "Please take me away from this dreary place, Tsuyu-chan, my existence here is most horrible." Seconds later, their friends joined them. They had overcome their foes as well.
"This is Yaoyorozu, the oil rig operation was a success, the only casualties were ten enemy mercenaries, who fell down to the sea below, killed by the drop. All threats neutralized, mission accomplished."