The Battle between Zorin and Izuku begins on this chapter.
At the Underground Zorin's Prison:
All members of Wild Geese raise their fists, or their weapons, in order to prepare any strike from the enraged demon vampire, who still swear in order to break their defiance:
"Hmpf!… I never expected to be received by a band of Tölpelhaftschweins or any Hanswurstraübers that stole my legitimate trophy!", as Zorin defies and holds their scythe against the Gara's Musarame sword.
"After all you spoke plain Japanese, Das kriminell...", Gara plays fool, while provoke her mixing some German loanwords on their speech.
Silver Fang also notice the remains of a corpse, where their yell was perfectly audible by Izuku, "I found some remains, in very bad shape, of another human..."
"There's some signature clothes, or artifacts ?", Izuku plays a little, in order to clear his mind, and prepare for the battle, since Gara will not hold more time the sword blockade.
"From the clothes remains,...", Silver Fang remembers some information from the media, "It appears to be from a wanted human villain, and he dies quickly once faces Zorin Blitz..."
Zorin Blitz reacts, "Wage es nicht zu gehen weg von mir, Dark Schneider !", and her demonic eyes pierces Izuku ones, "Warum kümmerst du dich überhaupt um das Schicksal von Stain?", as she ever care about their victims.
"Stain ?!", Izuku knowledge of German was poor, even he knew a little due to hard work taken to decipher his father's Grimoires, the younger vampire recognize this name, since the whole media was frenzy about him, "An old Vigilante that starts killing Pro Heroes, and suddenly begone ?"
"Ja!", while Zorin delivers a strong uppercut kick against Gara's genitalia followed by a strong punch against his stomach that pushed against the nearest walls.
"Son of...", spoke Pip when witness the Zorin strike against Gara, "Great bitch!...", and decide to fire his gun against Zorin.
Surprising, even Pip's revolver used a full clip of silver bullets, the enemy vampire don't suffer any sign of silver poisoning, or even dare to dodge. After all, Zorin decide to stay still and receive all shots, where she pretend to be fine, she just giggles.
"Es ist alles fertig, Schweineschwein?", but simply don't affect to much, "It's too bad… Silver bullets are not so effective as you thought…"
"Unbelievable!", Silver Fang and Serpico was also shocked.
And a fraction of second later, Zorin Blitz step further, and swing her scythe, while his speedy step was ever faster than the former Sound's Speed Sonic villain. It was that moment when Izuku grab his heavy sword and block Zorin's lethal move.
"Schließlich ist ein anständiger Feind!", scream Zorin with a demonic laugh of evil enjoyment.
"Argh!", Izuku screams, when Zorin reverse their scythe movement and stroke directly to the torso.
"MIDORIYA!", Pip screams, while Terzieff-Godefroy launches against Zorin, and tries to help the younger vampire.
Luckily, vampires endure wounds that could be fatal on humans, but Izuku was on severe difficulties to cast healing spells, "Damn it! My vitality pool was too low to use Healing Magic!"
"I will help you!", said the older healer vampire, "Phantomheilung!", who was about to be sliced if Gara don't recover and strike back.
"SHIN MAJIN-KEN!", shout Gara when tried to deliver a dark energy flare from his Murasame sword against Zorin.
"End of playground!...", Zorin eyes flashes red, as she raises her left hand, and conjure a terrible magic spell, "Schwarze Dämonen von freundlichen Albträumen!… Ich befehle den Tod, mein Schwert zu werden und den Feind zu verfluchen!", making everyone, including Izuku, astonished, "Don't mean...", as she releases several cursed magic chains, followed by a stream of magic cursed runes, "Ich ehre den Siegelvertrag und besiege meinen feindlichen Willen und seine Kräfte!", that could defeat all vampires at once, "EINHERJER!"
The green-haired vampire almost panics, but managed to react and cast a counter-magic spell, "Zam-zin… Zar-oni… Eni meto!…", that creates a reflecting magic barrier, "Old Goddess of Fortunate Warriors!… Lean your powers and protect me from the foes!...", but Izuku also activates the Witcher Sign Quen at Level 4, Quen Discharge, in order increase the barrier force, "Holy Explosion!...", that manage, by little, to deflect the cursing Zorin's magic spell, "CHROME ROSE!"
The sudden clash with both mages, cause an explosion that send Izuku and Zorin at opposite directions, clashing against the nearest solid thing. Izuku slams against a wooden crate, while Zorin slams against a cold and wet concrete slab.
"It appears that our enemy and Izuku are both vryko-warlocks !", Pip makes a random trivial remark, for much displeasure from his own colleges, since they thought in silence, "Don't make trivial crap just to skip your disastrous leadership responsibility on this mission!"
"I bet that both of them was barely display their powers at fullest!", Gara also recovers quickly from the explosion.
Izuku bites himself, and decide to cast a new spell against Zorin, in order to create enough confusion to flee with everyone. The green-haired vampire releases a enraged aura, while his green hair curls along the magic vitality lines, and starts his incantation:
"Go… Sai… Cross!...", and when stretches his right arm, and opens the hand, it releases several flares, like missiles, against Zorin, "Ancient God of Explosive Destruction!… Release my Wrath, and become the carrier of Doomsday Tempests!", that she managed to dodge partially, "VAN WAR!"
However, Zorin casts also a magic barrier that either deflects or explodes the flares before touch her at all. "Verfluchte Seelen aus alten Zeiten, beschütze mich vor der feindlichen Idiokratie!", and also reflects the magic energy back to the original caster, mixed with Zorin's own magic, "DIE APOKALYPTISCHEN REITER !"
Pip Bernadotte blinks as he use his general knowledge to mumble, "Another Heavy Metal Band Christianized as a Black Magic Spell ?!", and since he notice the confusion created by the last spell was enduring several seconds, he signals, "Quick! It's your chance to run!".
The explosion cause several debris fall, and releases huge quantities of ash, thus making a perfect opportunity for the Wild Geese team, while Terzieff-Godefroy picks Endeavor, run and escape to the original tunnel access.
Using the brief chaos as cover, Izuku cast another magic spell in order to confuse Zorin:
"Cyco, Cyco, know your worth!", where this spell creates a cloud of burning ashes that pierce Zorin's skin like a hot rod, "I granted your wills into a Ember flash of Ash and Wound!", causing several burns and an excruciating pain, making almost lose her consciousness, "SUICIDAL TENDENCIES!"
"Scheisse!", screams Zorin in agony, barely able to open their eyes.
"If she wasn't our enemy, it could be a fine rival!", thought Izuku in silence, while use the debilitating effects of Suicidal Tendencies spell to run away from Zorin, joining the others.
Izuku really don't like to escape at a middle of a battle, but he should prioritize to find a way out from the enemy basement, since he or his companions don't have any resources or reliable backups to face a prolonged battle.
"Wo gehst du hin ?!", Zorin quickly realizes that their adversaries escape from the confusion. Once she waited enough time for the dust settle down, pick some necessary equipment from his lockers, located inside the prison chamber, and dashes in order to catch their enemies.
"If you think that you will escape...", as she grits her teeth.
Moments later...
Once Pip and everyone reaches a tunnel bifurcation to three different routes, both filled with soldiers from the North Korean Army, not the vampire ones at first sigh, until some of them arrive to give backup, they realize the abnormal heavy presence of enemies could mean one thing:
"More enemies everywhere!", Gara said while raises his Murasame sword, "I never witness a bunker with such numerous garrison !"
"Hold your breath...", Pip intervenes, while trying, almost unconsciously, to amend the disastrous planning that face, "If there's such weaponry resistance, that means the main target are on our nearest corner!"
Both members of Wild Geese thoughts are cut, when the three North Korean soldiers groups fires with their Kalashnikov AK-74 sub-machine guns, while one or two of them also fires mortar grenades.
Since the bifurcation when the three tunnels converge to one, where Pip's mercenary group are placed, forming an acute angle of 45 degrees each, the artillery barrage converges to a single spot, without hit any of three vanguard groups by accident.
Both vampires have no choice but to step back, and use a shelter located on a ledge, in order to avoid to be on direct line of fire. "The real problem is that Zorin, since she can reach us at any moment!..."
However, some North Korean Army soldiers have useful quirks, specially an unidentified one that use some kind of pyrokinesis to propel a grenade like a guided missile against one hideout. Serpico and Silver Fang managed to deflect the grenade before it explodes, but don't avoid a disastrous explosion that force everyone to flee without been exposed again on the enemy's line of fire.
"One thing that I even could agree on North Korean policies, is when the majority of their own citizens had quirks, it's better to adapt the military, instead to create a freak circus show just to be a bunch of retarded celebrities!", said Pip.
"Mister Craptalk-taishou !", Silver Fang tease Pip, specially when the elder vampire was fuming when he had endured enough babble talking, "If you haven't noticed… No, of course you already knew… We are facing an enemy siege, and the first thing you come to mind is to appreciate the fact that our enemy adapt the quirks as a military weapon ?!"
"It's like that mission, about 100 years ago, when the quirks are not so dominant as today, on the slums of Rio de Janeiro. On that era, when we team up with the local Brazilian Military Police, where some units had persons with quirks, our superiors decide to assemble a death squadron to kill several bandits with quirks!", Serpico snaps an old memory, when the Wild Geese has one of the remaining mercenaries working at a time when the first Pro Heroes appear on some countries, first at the United States and his historical allies, then on Japan half a century later.
Izuku's eyes widen, while stare momently in shock, and barely question, "What you made… ?!"
"Oh, Izuku! It's like that ancient times, when this nice leader drags all of us, and the entire human backup in a middle of fighting. Due to his wonderful strategy, almost all human military policemen was killed, we suffer either quirk or heavy military-grade ammunition, but somehow managed to accomplish the mission… And been expelled from Brazil and elsewhere as persona non grata !"
"Hmpf!", Pip delivers a defiance hate glare.
Izuku quickly understands why Pip's most difficult mission ends almost to disasters, and also his vision of what a quirk society should to be, while notices that Pip's reasoning was very flawed.
On countries like Japan, who never had real major threats, and was a stable country, there's no room for mercenaries, or armed gangs. Before the resurgence of quirks there's no such thing, and later the formation of Pro Heroes was very inspired by the North American Comics super-heroes which fits nicely. Here, the Pro Heroes are more a kind of Police Special Unit to handle criminals. In practise, due to competition and patronage, the majority of Pro heroes are just buffoons who just want fame like the idols, but at least, it helps to maintain the peace and public order.
And also, rarely there's any killing on action, in sheer contrast of Pip's scenario where every public threat ends with a bloody massacre, and a fearful repression more characteristic of unstable countries ravaged by civil wars. Or on countries where dictatorships use military units to fire against any target, specially their own citizens, frequently with a disproportionate display of sheer force. On such countries the civilians with quirks are just a good excuse to the security and paramilitary use heavy weaponry mixed with quirks against them, in order to destroy and challenge against the tyrants.
But all Izuku's reasoning will be interrupted when another attack made by some quirks powers delivered by other soldiers, like an electric discharge and a flamethrower impact against the Wild Geese team. Such offensive will make Izuku cast the Witcher Sign Quen along the magic spell Danzig to block the impact, just when decides to strike back:
"Kings from Northern Mountains... Mages wandered by Ancient Ices… Unite their wills, and reflect the enemy foolishness!", and both spells managed to block the explosions, "DANZIG!"
"If you wanted to play not so fair and square, then...", Izuku snaps and overacts, like as it happens on Yuuei's Sports Festival, "I will display some real techniques..."
"Oh… Oh!… Izuku's goes mad!", Pip tried to calm down Izuku, as he abandons the relative safe shelter, and decide to strike back hard.
Izuku casts a new magic spell, while punches hard on the cracked floor, "The Great Impaler of Slush Marshes, I summon you to honor your Faithful Pact!", releasing several stalagmites from the ground that pierces and impales every enemy soldier on their path, killing scores of soldiers on both three tunnels, "DRASH GUN!"
"Great Lord!", Pip was astonished more due to the suddenly attack, "Since when Izuku could use Earth Elemental Magic ?!"
"Either way… It just annihilate almost all pests!", Gara sense a little relief.
The sudden magic strike that destroy almost the enemy, breaks the moral of the survivors, mainly the vampires under direct command of Zorin Blitz. Izuku uses the sudden fear breakdown from enemy to dash straight to several victims, just to bite their necks, and drinks his blood.
"Ops!", Silver Fang blinks due to the sudden Izuku's move, "We almost forgot that Izuku is a teenager… He need to drink a lot of blood..."
"Whatever!...", Pip sighed, while trying to figure out when he was a teenager vampire, some centuries ago.
Some instants later, Silver Fang and Gara destroy the remaining soldiers using their usual techniques, while Izuku recovers from his exhaustion once he drinks about five liters of blood, by biting several corpses or licking the spilled blood from the stalagmites created by Izuku's Drash Gun spell.
Either way, the famous three tunnel branches connects to series of several tunnels, forming a network graph of passages along the complex. It contains the dormitories of the garrison, and technicians, a mess with kitchen, and reinforced shelters, blocked by heavy blinded doors, intended to provide additional protection against direct nuclear strike, or a supernatural disaster comparable of.
No matter the initial tunnel, all members reach a suspicious amphitheater, filled with heavy machinery, most of them rust, along with rusted water pipes whose functionality was not obvious at that point. The only clue was an heavy blinded door with a warning sign written in Korean, and an additional graffiti written in German.
The secret weapon...
"WTF is this ?!", Izuku was annoyed when barely read, "Die Neue Magische Ureinwohnerwaffe Forschungszentrum..."
"It's curious...", spoke Terzieff-Godefroy, who had better German language understanding, "The New Research Centre of Magic Weapons…"
Like everything, Pip decides to take a led on main discoveries, "Very suspicious ..."
"Tsk! It's more a pure luck that we managed to find the real site...", Gara corrects is own superior.
"It's very strange that there's no remains of a North Korean Army division, or even two of them here… Since if it is the real place where the secret weapon are crafted here!...", Serpico adds to the fact-check.
Izuku not miss the chance to intervene, "If I recapitulate all the disaster called First Hero Internship Week on SDF… First, even on Japan, the enemy sends a single but powerful enemy to confront us...", and many of vampires nods positively, "And already knew our plan…", making Pip fuming, "And basically, except the fight with Zorin, we only fight against pawns, just to waste time..."
"And why they destroy our entire backup team, as escape routes… Mister Strategist ?!", Pip delivers a cold glare.
"Because it was plain far-fetched, just in case to cut-off our escape route", and this was when Izuku delivers his true feelings, "And all evidences points that this facilities was not been used to create the new Anthrax weapon! Or better, they already move the complete weapon design to another unknown site, where the security are highly tightned", and here Izuku's eyes was reddish, and his face enraged, before resumes, "And we just invade a phony site, wasting innocent soldiers on a terrible and WTF bad plan, that even one drunken sapper from the Battle of Flanders on First World War could made a better one!"
When Izuku finishes his hatred speech, Pip punches hard against the young vampire face, prompting Gara and Serpico to hold the two vampires cursing each other, "Below a sapper ?!… You have rotten guts to insult a men who faces death at every corner, window, and tea cattle…."
"And the human soldier families… How they react when notice they died almost in vain..."
"Humans ?! The ones who treat us below their own shoe soles ?!"
"You… you… Even I don't trust much them… There's no motive to mistreat them… The Army, the police or even the Heroes had the main objective to serve and protect… After all, why you had almost no medals during your work ?!"
"You are making… me… furious...", just when Silver Fang delivers a strong slap against Pip, ending the swearing.
"Sorry for this...", before scream at Izuku and Pip, "And when you will… GROW… and assume your RESPONSIBILITIES ?!", making Pip drop their head, and stay silent, "That's your FAULT the paramount DISASTER this mission unfolds… An entire Black Ops unit lost, and no real blow on enemy capacity to strike against Japan!"
"Your cheater...", Pip overacts badly, even he was badly controllable.
"ENOUGH with this!", Gara yells, "Midoriya… Let's open this door, and check inside… I think you should prepare your most destructive magic spells to wipe this site, either ways..."
"Fine...", Izuku nods, but without delivering a mad face against Pip.
Izuku orders to everyone stay way from the blinded door path, as he interlace their fingers, and starts the spell incantation:
"Great Ancient King of Northern Ices, I pledge your forged Pact!", making a swirl of magic ice around his hands, "May your enemies be annihilated by the Realm of Ice and Snow!", before shoot an ice stream against the door, "Extreme Zero Intense Froze Wave!", that breaks partially the door, "BISCAYA!"
Meanwhile, Endeavor who was slowly recovering, and listens the intense fray between Izuku and Pip, but still not knowing about what's really happening, awakes when Izuku casts the last ice spell:
"Until when you will imitate my son's quirk ?!"
"Good morning, Endeavor...", Izuku sighed, "It's just one Archaic Ice Elemental Magic I use..."
"Whatever..."
However, Izuku decides to try another magic spell, "The Biscaya spell don't make all the way… Then I will try to use this...", as Izuku cups their hands, and releases his magic energy, somehow partially recovered due to the improvised blood meal, "Wandered Demons of Forbidden Lands, I honor your blood pact!", releasing an heat ball of dark lightning energy, "May your Fire become my Spear, and destroy your enemies!", that transform to a beam of plasma discharge, "Destructive Scorching Heat Wave!", that melts and blasts the door, at least, "DIO!"
"And please, don't imitate my quirk too", Endeavor sighs.
Once the heat calms down, Izuku, Endeavor who still need the help of Silver Fang and Terzieff-Godefroy to walk, and the rest of Wild Geese enters to a bigger underground workshop.
"A giant dragon-motif armor ?!", Izuku exclaims.
"It appears that your enemy found us...", said Gara, when Zorin Blitz managed to find the group again.
"Wie traust du dich zu fliehen!...", spoke Zorin, with a dreadful malign aura.
"And another one...", Silver Fangs notices a worried scientist running to this strange device.
A few seconds later, a kind of mad scientist appears, much due to the sudden door explosion, "Was ist mit der Sicherheit passiert?… Warum haben es diese Vampire geschafft, hierher zu gelangen?!"
"Well… well… We hit the jackpot...", Gara pokes fun.
"Even Antrax-dono was got their final weapon, I will never permit to steal my final prototype..."
"After all, the weapon was here...", Pip makes an annoyed remark, as he tries to counteract the verbal fighting earlier.
"It makes sense...", Izuku smiles, "In reality, it's a scale down working prototype that can be discarded..."
"Don't pokes fun with my creation… The Dragon Knight Lucifer Armor DKL-01 is my legitimate creation, and will never falls on your filthy hands… Dark Schneider!"
"Interesting...", it was all Izuku could answer.
Finally, they reach the final stage of their mission.
To be Continued...