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A.N.: VERY GRAPHIC SCENE AHEAD! ! ! YOU'VE BEEN WARNED! ! !

Ambushed

Lee yawned, eyes creaking open slowly before he blinked and stared blearily at his illuminated phone's screen. After a moment, he pushed himself up, rubbing his eyes before picking up the phone and checking it. He tensed instantly, swallowing hard. It was time. After days of waiting and not being allowed to say a word of what was going on in their Work Studies to anyone else, they were finally being deployed. It was time. He got up and quickly pulled on a pair of pants and a shirt before opening the door, stepping into the hallway at the same time as Mina, who was wearing a night gown, likely with only her underwear under it. They quickly headed to the elevator, finding Momo inside already. Momo nodded to them, and a moment later, the elevator stopped on the third floor, Toru stepping into it wearing pink pajamas with white hearts.

"It's finally time," Toru said.

"Yeah," Lee said. "All of you be extremely careful during this."

"We will," Momo said. "We'll leave any actual combat to you and Rumi."

Lee nodded, and they all fell silent until they reached the lobby, finding Midoriya, Su, Uraraka, and Eijiro were already present. They all exchanged knowing looks. They all knew the stakes, and they were all going to do whatever it took to succeed and save Eri.

"When are we going?" Mina asked.

"In the morning," Midoriya said.

"I'll make sure everyone has a good breakfast," Lee said. "Does anyone have any last-second things to say or do?"

"Only to Save Eri," Midoriya said.

The others all nodded and Lee glanced out the window. He wasn't going to be able to sleep again. Knowing that they'd be going in in the morning, his anxiety and fear of facing Instant and his newly-formed team were back and worse than ever. After a few more minutes of talking, they all headed back to their rooms, Lee pulling on his exosuit before leaving the room and heading to the porch. He gripped the dorm's railing tightly, trying to keep himself calm, trying not to think about it. But the more he tried, the more he failed. Something bad was going to happen. He just knew it. He wasn't sure what, but something was going to happen. His grip tightened. However, after another moment, a pair of arms wrapped around him from behind. He felt himself beginning to calm even before the other two sets joined the first.

"We'll be okay," Momo promised.

"We're not going anywhere," Mina agreed.

"And we're not letting you go either," Toru added. "But you need rest if you're going to be able to fight them. Any of them."

Lee sighed, turning around in their arms and wrapping an arm around Mina and Momo, who were on the sides, before tucking his face into Toru's hair. "Promise me that whatever happens, you'll all stay away from whoever shows up. And if it's Instant, Stitch, or Spider, you'll all run."

"I promise," they all said.

"Come back inside," Momo said. "We can all stay in my room tonight."

Lee smiled and nodded, allowing them to guide him back inside, then up to Momo's room. All four of them climbed under the blankets and the three girls cuddled into Lee as tightly as they could, Toru lying on top of him. He gently squeezed Momo and Mina, who each used the arm wrapped over Toru to squeeze her for him, then gave each of the girls a kiss before trying to force himself to sleep, Legacy promising to wake him up early enough for him to cook breakfast.

Lee adjusted his gloves, unable to make them sit comfortably, though it was probably just his nerves. They knew where Eri was. They would be starting the raid within a few minutes. Finally, Momo took his hand, smiling at him.

"Hey, it's going to be alright," Momo smiled. "We'll get in, save Eri, beat up whichever of his freaks Instant sends after us, and then get back out again in time for dinner."

Lee smiled and nodded, leaning forward and kissing her. Momo sighed, kissing him back. After a few seconds, Lee pulled away and smiled. "Thank you. For everything. For always being there for me, no matter what we were up against."

Momo smiled. "I'll always be here for you, come what may. So won't Toru and Mina. You'll always have us. So don't start talking like one of us four is going to die today. You know we won't let that happen."

Lee smiled, nodding, and kissed her again before pulling away and putting his mask on, the two of them heading out into the staging room where everyone else was waiting. Mina and Toru both slipped their hands into Lee's long enough to give it a quick squeeze, then, they turned to the front.

"Alright," Nighteye said. "Let's begin. Everyone split up and head to the police station. Be there before eight o'clock."

Everyone nodded and headed to the police station, finding dozens of police present. The officer, or possibly detective, in charge gave them a short briefing. The Hassaikai's headquarters were underground, and that while they were unable to map out the entire facility, Nighteye did manage to figure out the shortest route when he found the facility by using his Quirk to see a Hassaikai member who was buying a little girl's toy deliver that toy to Eri. Then, they passed around a list of Hassaikai members and their Quirks, along with the list of extras Instant had sent Lee, just in case. The reactions to that list were as expected. Disgust at some, fear at the implications of Instant's abilities, now officially listed as "Possible control over time to an unknown extent" and marked as "excessively dangerous," and fear at the thought of facing Spider.

"Alright you four," Rumi said, walking over. "Hero names only today. Be careful during this. If Lee's right about Instant wanting to say hello, we're going to run into some serious opposition. Be ready for that."

"Understood," the four of them said.

"Good," Rumi said. "Now, let me see if I remember your hero names correctly. Mach, Creati, Pinky, and Invisible Girl." She pointed to each of them in turn, each of them nodding, with Toru giving a thumbs up, since nodding would be useless for her. "Okay. Then we're ready."

They were all told the operation would begin at eight thirty, giving them about twenty minutes to get into position. They made it with time to spare and settled in to wait. However, just as the head cop was about to ring the doorbell to begin the operation by reading the warrant, after which they'd all have the legal authority to enter the house, a massive behemoth of muscle that stood more than ten feet tall exploded out through the door, punching three cops, only for Aizawa and Midoriya to catch the three of them.

"What do you want?" the behemoth asked, his plague mask distorting his voice slightly. "It's too early for visitors."

"Oh man!" the black hero, Rock Lock, said. "You kidding me!? How do they already know we're here!?"

"We're not exactly very subtle," Lee said.

"No time for questions," said a white one with a black body suit with a gold mask and gauntlets said, ripping out a handful of hair, which grew into a sword instantly. "Let's go!"

"That's good," the behemoth said, shifting from one foot to the other before bending forward and pulling a fist back. "I'm waking up a little." Suddenly, his arm began to bulge, his muscles growing rapidly.

"Brace yourselves!" Ryukyu said.

"Why are you people here!?" the Yakuza thug demanded, punching at the crowd of heroes and police, the force of the punch kicking up a massive gust of wind and filling the air with dust, only for Ryukyu to expand into a massive, white-scaled dragon, catching his fist, her mask now her right hand's claws.

"Listen to me!" Ryukyu snapped. "We shouldn't split up too many of our forces yet. The Ryukyu Agency will take care of this villain! The rest of you, go!"

She slammed him to the ground hard and everyone else streamed into the property.

"This is the heroes and the police!" the head officer shouted, holding up the warrant. "We have a warrant to search your premises on suspicion of the manufacture and sale of illegal drugs!"

"They've got a search warrant!?" one of three thugs, all of whom lacked plague masks, shouted.

"Who cares!" another said, swiping a hand forward.

A bush beside him began to fire its leaves as green spikes, only for Lee to zip to the front, arms blurring in circles and forming a tornado that knocked the spikes out of the air and slammed all three into the wall where the police and the hero with a black fur covering his body quickly detained them, everyone else sprinting for the door.

"They sure led with a brawler!" Rock Lock said. "These guys ain't scared!"

"Quickest route!" Fat Gum shouted. "Let's go! Get to the girl!"

The door burst open, and they were mobbed by thugs, only for the police to go after them with their heavy metal riot shields, the major heroes and their sidekicks and work studies all ignoring them, leaving the hero with the hair weapons and the one with black fur covering his body to deal with them.

"Hate to just barge in like this, but we're kind of in a hurry!" Fat Gun said as they burst through the front door. "Haven't seen any signs of suspicious activity yet!"

"Yeah, bro," Rock Lock said. "Same here. But, hey, we're in it now, right? We got no choice but to see it through!"

"I'm guessing the suspicious activity begins with the underground tunnel," Lee said.

"You're probably right," Rumi said.

"Is it possible that somebody leaked our plans for the raid?" Amajiki asked. "There must be a reason they all came pouring out like that."

"No, if there had been a leak, I think they would be fighting more cohesively!" the head officer said. "Groups like this are used to working together!"

"There's nothing that matters more to these guys than their bond to their boss and their brothers," Aizawa said. "Being part of the underworld only makes loyalty that much more sacred to them. All those people outside, but we haven't caught sight of the top brass yet! They're probably underground hiding or getting ready to flee."

"How is that supposed to be loyalty!?" Eijiro demanded. "Forcing their henchmen to fight for them while they run away isn't manly at all!"

"It's not about being manly, Red Riot," Lee said. "The men are expressing their loyalty to their superiors by trying to buy them time to escape so they don't go to jail. In their eyes, they're sacrificing themselves."

Suddenly, Nighteye stopped beside a small alcove with a blue vase containing some kind of white flowers. "This is it! There's a device here that opens a hidden passage!" He moved the vase and the small purple stand it was on out of the way, beginning to press the floorboards. "You press down the floorboards in a specific order, and then..."

The wall level with the alcove sank back into the wall a bit before beginning to slide left.

"It's like a ninja hideout!" Bubble Girl said. "How cool!"

"Thank goodness for your Quirk, sir," Centipeder said as Nighteye stepped aside. "Guards up. We don't know what we might be facing in there."

Just then, a hand grabbed the edge of the retracting wall and more thugs began to swarm out.

"Let's get the bastards!" one of them shouted.

"Bubble Girl, you handle the third!" Centipeder said instantly, his arms extending as centipedes and wrapping around two of them, yanking them into the air, leaving one with a yellow mask over the top half of his face and a knife.

He stabbed at her, but she knocked the knife to her left using her right hand, catching his wrist, then swiped a hand, sending a short burst of bubbles at his face, one popping and getting in both of his eyes.

"Agh!" he shouted as she spun him into an arm bar. "My eyes!"

"Sorry!" Bubble Girl said, pinning him. "We'll make sure these guys don't follow! You go on ahead!"

"You heard her!" Nighteye said, everyone flooding into the passageway and down the stairs inside.

"We'll catch up when we can!" Bubble Girl promised.

"We're almost there!" Nighteye said. "Hurry!"

However, they stopped as they rounded the corner, finding a dead end.

"It looks like a dead end!" the head cop announced. "So, what now?"

"So much for your foresight, Nighteye," Rock Lock said.

"Hold on," Mirio said. "Let me go take a look."

"Lemillion, if you go through, you'll be naked!" Eijiro reminded him, only for Mirio to run toward the wall anyway.

"It's okay," Amajiki said. "Mirio's costume was constructed from a special fiber made of his own hair. It's designed so it becomes permeable when he activates his Quirk."

"It's Overhaul," Lee said. "After he realized we were coming, he probably used his Quirk to block off the fastest route, and he may have rearranged the other hallways as well, just to be safe."

"You're probably right," Nighteye said.

"The hallway's been blocked just with this wall," Mirio said, having stuck his head through it. "Unfortunately, breaking through it's not going to be easy."

"I knew this Chisaki creep could tear crap apart and put it back together, but damn!" Rock Lock said.

"It was just a cheap trick!" Fat Gum said.

"Thank god," Lee said, walking forward calmly. "If it's only this wall and not the entire hallway, it'll be a quick fix. Red Riot, Deku, mind giving me a hand?"

Both of them nodded and joined him at the wall. All three pulled a fist, or in Midoriya's case a foot, back, lightning flying over Midoriya's body, Lee's fist blurring, and Eijiro's arm hardening so much it actually grew substantially. Then, their strikes crashed into the wall and it all but exploded away from the three of them, revealing the rest of the hallway.

"Damn!" Rock Lock said. "That'll work!"

"We need to keep moving," Mirio said, walking past them, everyone else following, only to stop as the walls and floor of the tunnel seemed to come alive, shaking and rolling like the ocean in a storm.

Then, bits of metal began to reach across the hallway like tendrils and Lee launched himself backward, grabbing Momo and the others just as Mirio took off running, slipping through the walls whoever was controlling the building had formed. Then, Lee took off at a sprint after Mirio, escaping the rest of the group just as the floor opened and they all fell in. Lee jumped, holding the others out of the way before his kick demolished a wall. Then, the floor opened below where they were going to land and Lee swore loudly, flipping and landing on his feet, setting the other three down as the hole sealed.

"Everyone okay?" Lee asked.

"Yeah," Mina said.

"But where are we?" Momo asked.

"And where'd everyone else go?" Toru added.

Lee looked back, seeing a solid wall between them and where the others had most likely landed. "We can't worry about them. They can take care of themselves. We need to focus on catching up with Lemillion and helping him save Eri. He can't handle this alone, even as skilled as he is."

"Right," Momo said. "We got separated from Mirko too."

"That's fine," Lee said. "She prefers to work alone."

"Hey, there's a tunnel over there," Mina said, pointing.

"Alright," Lee said. "Let's go. And whatever happens, stay behind me."

The others nodded they followed him down the hallway out of the room in silence, all of them tense and waiting for someone to attack them. After a few minutes, they slowed to a stop at the door to a massive, darkened, rectangular room with stairs leading from their door down to the floor of the room twenty feet below. They started down the stairs, all four expecting a trap. Sure enough, as they reached the center of the room, the other three doors out, each in the center of one of the walls, slid upward into the ceiling, light spilling through, silhouetting the three people inside. For a moment, Lee though it was Instant, Stitch, and Inkling again, but the laugh that echoed into the room didn't belong to any of those three. It was soft, feminine, and more unsettlingly sinister than even Stitch could manage, and he was the star of more of Lee's nightmares than Instant was. He could also tell at a glance one of them was Twitch, since she was obviously a child just by height alone. The three started down into the room as Lee had Legacy activate his night vision, Lee being pleasantly surprised when his vision turned black and white from white phosphor night vision rather than the green of infrared that made everything bleed together and hard to focus on. Then, he looked to the three enemies walking toward them and a pit settled in his stomach. Twitch, Ion, and Pornstar were just reaching the base of their stairs, now standing barely twenty feet from them. As they stopped, the lights came on, Legacy switching off Lee's night vision, and the stairs began to sink into the floor, the four doors closing.

"So you're the welcoming committee?" Lee asked.

"Not really," Ion said. "We weren't sent for the heroes. Just the four of you. We have permission to do whatever we like to the four of you. See, Instant talked some big shit about you being strong enough to beat the three of us alone, but we beg to differ. With the three of us here, we think we can kill you all on our own."

"Can I play with the pink one?" Twitch asked. "I wanna see what she looks like inside!"

Lee clenched his teeth, taking a step to the side, cutting off Twitch's view of Mina, who shrank back from Twitch in fear.

"And I'm going to have so much fun with the naked one," Pornstar said, one hand actually inside her pants and four slimy, smooth tentacles waving slowly around her, the slime covering them dripping to the ground and making Lee want to vomit.

"So, big shot," Ion grinned, a pair of violet dagger silhouettes made of electricity forming in his hands. "Any last words?"

Lee's eyes flashed from one to the next, his neural implant giving him as much extra time as it could to decide who to break first. In the end, his heart cracked as he decided he'd have to break the little girl first. "Yeah. You should have listened to Instant."

His helmet deployed and he exploded toward Instant, only for a piercing scream to ring out behind him as Mina collapsed to the ground, convulsing and contorting, eyes wide with surprise and agony, tears flooding from her eyes. Her muscles strained and popped loudly, but Lee was helpless to stop it. Twitch was controlling his nervous system as well. The agony was beyond anything Lee could have every imagined. It was truly indescribable. In that moment, feeling so much pain that he felt like his limbs breaking would be less painful, he actually wanted to die. And she'd only been affecting him for a second. He had only just hit the ground. His body contorted, arching off the ground as though an electrical current were being sent through him, his muscles contracting until only the top of his head and his heels were on the ground, both arms curled up and his elbows touching behind his back, as well as pressed into his back. He felt muscles popping in his body, something in his left shoulder tearing. And then, there was a scream.

He willed his eyes open and to the side, retracting his helmet and seeing Momo fighting Ion using a pair of rubber shields that apparently allowed her to block and deflect his knives like they were solid, Ion cackling and cheering as he forced her to retreat from his rapid and savage slashes and jabs, pressing her harder than she could handle. However, past those two, awful as it was to see the terror filling Momo's face as she fended off Ion, Pornstar had captured Toru. For this moment, out of a pure desperate need for him to see, Legacy was forcing him to see Toru. It wasn't a scene he wanted to see, or that he'd be forgetting anytime soon. Pornstar had a dozen tentacles holding her a few inches in the air, her own pants lying below her as a pair of tentacles worked her own holes. She also had a tentacle wrapped around each of Toru's arms from wrist to shoulder, holding them out to her sides, one around each leg from ankle to mid-thigh, holding her legs apart, one wrapped around her throat, and one around her abdomen. Then, there was a tentacle shoving itself down Toru's throat over and over, a tentacle wrapped around each breast, tightening and loosening over and over to stimulate her breasts as the small openings at the tips were attached to Toru's nipples, and a single tentacle trailing up and down through Toru's lower lips over and over, lubricating her with its slime. Tears were flooding down Toru's cheeks, and she was staring at Lee, though he could see in her eyes that it wasn't her own situation she was worried about. Rage flooded through him on a long list of levels. How dare this rotten, psychotic, little brat cause Mina the kind of pain Lee himself was feeling? How dare she threaten to kill Mina? How dare Ion force Momo to feel the kind of fear he could see in her face and shining from her eyes and the tears running down her cheeks? How dare he try to kill her? To take her away from him? How dare any of them try to take the women he loved away from him? How dare that ginger, American whore molest Toru? How dare she try to rape Toru. And the single largest source of anger to flash through Lee's mind: how dare Toru be more concerned with his pain than the fact that she herself was about to be raped by disgusting, slimy tentacles?

Lee felt something snap inside of him and felt warmth...power...energy flood his veins. Electricity arced from his eyes, reaching the entire short length of the room and blasting the walls in less time than it took to blink before Lee clamped down on the energy, instantly feeling it all but shining from his brain, control finally within his grasp. Electricity screamed over his body, racing through the metal of his exosuit, the black bodysuit burning off in an instant. But Lee didn't care about that. Pornstar and Ion were beginning to turn to him, seeming to be barely moving, even without Lee using his neural implant to increase his cognitive abilities. Lee shoved electricity through his entire nervous system, through every nerve, along every axon, every synapse firing in a constant flood of pure electricity, overriding Twitch's control and causing her to shriek in agony, though Lee was already moving as she did. He focused, keeping himself just below the speed of sound, for the girls' sakes, but still reached Pornstar in 18 thousandths of a second. Exactly ten miles an hour slower than the speed of sound. He straightened his fingers and swung his hand down behind Pornstar at the same speed, his arm slicing through her tentacles like the world's sharpest blade. Then, he let his Quirk end, the electricity disappearing, just long enough to catch Toru before reactivating it and releasing her, this time not streaming electricity through his exosuit but moving just as fast as before, Toru seeming frozen in the air to him from the speed he was processing the world around him and moving. He ripped the tentacles away from her body, then once again deactivated his Quirk once he was holding her again.

Twitch's shriek of agony from having him override her Quirk rang out, joined by Pornstar's as she staggered away from him, eyes wide with fear and surprise. Lee set Toru on the ground gently as Pornstar sent twenty five tentacles at him, all tipped with foot-long, needle-like stingers, only for him to appear in front of her, electricity screaming along his right arm and her tentacles suddenly shredded.

"You're going to pay!" Lee snarled, grabbing her by the face.

The scream of his electricity was joined by her own scream of agony as he channeled his electricity through her brain and nervous system, effectively giving her a similar level of pain to what he had experienced from Twitch. Then, after only one second, he stepped forward and hurled her using his Quirk's speed, sending her airborne into Twitch, both bouncing along the ground and landing in a heap, unconscious and with blood coating Twitch's forehead and the back of Pornstar's head from where their heads had collided.

"Behind you!" Momo shrieked, only for Lee to use his Quirk's new speed to turn, finding a wolf formed out of purple lightning and connected to the left side of Ion's body by multiple lightning bolts leaping at him.

The electricity was full-speed, but the construct itself was slow still. However, Lee allowed it to hit him, skidding backward a few feet and gritting his teeth against the burning sensation, however, that was all it was. A burning sensation. He smirked behind his mask. He was officially electricity proof. He walked forward calmly, Ion staggering back a step and sending out a dozen more wolves, sweat pouring down his face instantly. Lee shot forward, out of the wolves way, allowing them to all impact where he had been, setting off an explosion. Then, Lee grabbed Ion by the face, pulling downward, Ion sinking to his knees as his fear won out over his motor control, robbing him of his strength.

"You're going to take a message to Instant!" Lee snarled. "You're going to tell him that if he, or any of you, ever lays a hand on someone I care about again, I'm not going to play the hero. I'll run electricity through your brain until you choose to die in order to escape the pain!"

"Okay!" Ion whimpered. "I-I'll tell him!"

Lee turned, once again using his Quirk to swing his arm faster and hurling Ion across the room to Pornstar and Twitch, Pornstar having woken and catching him with tentacles.

"Kurogiri!" Ion almost screeched into his communicator. "Get us the hell out of here!"

A Warp Gate opened below them, and all three fell through instantly before the Warp Gate closed. Lee let his Quirk deactivate fully and turned, running to Toru and kneeling beside her, pulling her into a hug. Toru clung to him, sobbing into his chest and shaking. He held her tightly, wishing he knew what to say or do to make anything that had happened okay. After a moment, Momo helped Mina over, allowing her to sob into Lee's shoulder, Momo kneeling between the two crying girls and holding them tightly.

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