Chapter 9: Deku's Exam with the Death Squad
[8:40 AM]
After that successful electric transportation ability I shortly did. I walk causally on the stone floor and too busy focusing of what I am going to do in my practical exams. Like I am going to meet another hero? A test of might perhaps, fighting something that I don't know off? Thinking of the so many possibilities, my excitement unfortunately got up to me as I misplace my foot between my feet and accidentally trip myself. Knowing it will be terrible start of my day if I smash my face on the stone floor.
"Are you alright?" About to embrace for impact of the fall, I felt a hand touch on my backpack and my feet got lighter from the ground. When realization fully hit me, I look down to see I'm floating off from the floor and my feet are off the ground. How did that happen!
Shock of what happen to me that I thought I would smack my face on the ground and panic that I can't get out of this floating state. I look over to see a girl with brown hair, brown eyes and rosy cheeks on her face as she gave me a warm, bubbly smile. Distracted by her sudden appearance, she grabs my arm and placing me back down on the floor, where I felt the gravity of my feet returning back to normal. Weirdly enough, this exactly feels like what the guy Zhongli did when he manipulate something on the ground.
"It's my Quirk. Sorry for using it without asking first. But it'd be bad luck if you fell from the ground, right?" I blushed slightly of seeing this bubbly girl saving my hide from the fall as her pink scarf scuffling around her neck.
"Aren't you nervous?" Hearing her cheerful voice, I try to form words and eligibly speak of what I'm going to say do her, unluckily I stuttered a lot than speaking.
"Let's do our best. See ya!" Watching her walk away, I think to myself I actually talk to a girl even though I didn't talk to her at all! Like wow!
Shaking my head and trying to focus of what I need to do, I walk up the steps and into U.A's exam I go.
[Exam Orientation]
Sitting down on my chair in this very dark room I am in. I notice Kacchan is sitting next to me, growling under his breath. Just hope he isn't still mad at me for wanting to be a hero when he pin me on the wall or getting saved by my disguised-self when I rescued him from the Sludge Villain almost a year ago.
So ignoring Kacchan's vicious growls, I waited for the orientation to start. As lights appeared at the stage and the screen glowed white to show U.A's symbol including a certain Pro-Hero standing behind a humungous podium. With that, I heard some kind of intro music being played in the background.
"For all you examinee listeners tuning in, welcome to my show today! Everybody say hey!" Oh my god! It's the Voice Hero, Present Mic! His voice can amplify to the highest pitch which he can easily subdue his foe by making them near deaf! For his Quirk, it also compliments his DJ like hero outfit he's wearing!
"What a refined response. Then I'll quickly present to you the rundown on the practical exam. But that's not all folks! We are doing something rather different for you young examinees today! I present to you the S.C.D Camper Initiates!" Wait a minute, what did he say of the last part?
"In your applications, it says you're doing a twenty minute mock urban combat in vague details because we preparing something new for this year! In which you're going to fight robot faux villains and playing a little element of Counter-Terrorism! A very popular S.C.D camp activity called Counter Strike! These here Campers are your Counter-Terrorist Initiates!" The lights at our left turn on to see surprise campers gasping in shock of what they heard on their seats and the lights above us turn on to see everyone gasping in surprise as well. Even I was still trying to understand of what Present Mic said to us. As both of the Examinees and Campers stare at each other in surprise that we are both being grouped together in this exam. Importantly, I saw the three misfit Campers I encounter back at the trail. Where the toxic guy name Marvin stare at me hatefully of why I am sitting with the Quirk Examinees while Clive look at me confuse and the girl name Chel sadistically smirk at me, making me gulp of seeing those three again.
"You can bring whatever you want with you. After this presentation, you'll head to specified battle center including our Conduit Campers going with you as well. Okay!" Looking down on my card slip of where I am going to station at. I heard Kacchan whisper to me in slight rage and disgust when he looks over to the Conduits besides us.
"In other words, they won't let you work with your friends, huh. Damn Conduits, why are they are here in my exam to ruin my fun." Looking over to his card, it appears our numbers are not in pattern but we are fighting in the same city.
"Y-You're right. Even though our examinee numbers are consecutive, we're assigned to different battle centers. But what about the Conduits and their involvement since they look they aren't prepared for this?" Kacchan sighed angrily when I mention Conduits again and he glared at me in ire. When he's looking over to the campers with an ugly look, the lights above us slowly turns off and everything went back to darkness.
"Don't mention the freaks near us Deku or I'll kill you. But damn it, I can't crush you right here." Kacchan still glaring at the Campers at our left, I continue to tune in Present Mic of what we're going to do.
"Three different types of faux villains are stationed in each battle center. You earn points for each of them based on their difficulty. Your goal, dear listeners, is to use your powers to earn points by them. Obviously, you can't attack each other or other unheroic deeds as they are prohibited. But here's the real kicker, you're going to deal with the second year S.C.D campers in which all of them are Video Conduits! As for these guys will be acting as a faux terrorist gang. They will multiply your points when you defeat one of them and a get a bonus for cooperating with the S.C.D campers or U.A Examinees. If you team up against them, you will earn your multiplying points all together. But don't get cocky because they are second years, they are the best of the best team in Counter-Terrorism as they beat you down with no hesitation including geared with Police Force equipment. If you get beaten or immobilize by them, you failed the exam, so both of you two different superpowers need to cooperate. Don't, I repeat, do not get greedy if you want to succeed!" Turning my eyes back to the screen, I saw Present Mic avatar is getting punch in the face by a Video Conduit multiple times. In which the said pixelated Conduit is wearing a black Kevlar vest, a SGE 150 gas mask, black combat boots and a black riot helmet over there head as the Conduit is wearing a blue, tight jumpsuit. When the faux terrorist done kicking Present Mic's avatar that is on the ground, the said Conduit hands glowing brightly and blasted him off from the screen with a gigantic blue beam out of his palms. In which bold, gold words says GAME OVER appeared.
"May I ask a question!?" Gulping to myself that we're going to fight Conduits who are pretending to be terrorists, this is going to be hard of what I've thought that we're going to fight experience people. Before my mind can ramble in strategies of working in solo or joining alongside a group to fight these Faux Terrorists, I heard someone got up from his seat and raised his hand to see a neatly, welled person in a sandy suit. Wearing eyeglasses, his black hair is well-trimmed and his face shown extreme seriousness within the dark. Giving a hint that he might be going overboard and being overzealous about this.
"Okay! Let out your question Examinee!" One of the lights turns on for us to see him clearly. He pulled out a paper in his right hand and starts to point on the print closely.
"On the printout, there are four types of villains besides the faux terrorists. If that's a misprint, then U.A, the most prominent school in Japan, should be ashamed of that foolish mistake as well tricking us on working alongside with S.C.D campers! We examinees and the campers besides us are here in this place because we wish to be molded into exemplary heroes. Can you elaborate what will the Faux Conduit Terrorists do in the urban environment? Also, you over there with the curly hair!" slightly jolted up when his finger pointed at me and heard Marvin muttering to himself quietly in which I heard calling him a faggot in absolute toxicity as he spoke in Japanese. I pointed myself if he's asking me and surprise that Marvin can speak in fluent Japanese.
"You've been muttering this whole time. It's distracting! If you are here for pleasure, I suggest you should leave-and to the green haired camper!" Watching him points his finger to Marvin, resulting him to angrily snarl at the overzealous Examinee. In return, he extended his birdie at him, telling him to fuck off and leave him alone. But the overzealous peer starts to aggravate Marvin's attitude even more.
"You shouldn't call someone a faggot without knowing their sexual orientation first and shouldn't be rude to others who are talking!" Pushing Marvin to his limits now, he shot up from his seat and started to shout at him in unspeakable rage.
"Okay then you retarded overzealous fuck, how about I shove your goddamn glasses right up your own ass and teaching you to keep your opinions to yourself! So here's one thing I have to say: I have Freedom Of Speech bitch!" Before Marvin can insult him more and heard him spoke in perfect Japanese which is sort of a surprise for me, Present Mic interrupted him to calm the snarling Conduit down before he can make a scene here.
"Camper Lenus Peste aka Marvin, can you please calm down or do you want to get drop out from S.C.D campground to do your toxic behavior here?!" Hearing Present Mic's voice, Marvin or Lenus Peste calm down when Mic threatens him with expulsion. He silently seated back to his chair and still holding his grudge towards the guy with the glasses. While Chel snickered to herself in glee of Marvin's own embarrassment and Clive patted his back to calm his nerves which it doesn't help where I heard him grumbly snarl maliciously under his lips. Giving me an impression that he might legitimately murder someone if he has the chance to do so.
"You know what? I really like that Conduit than the other freaks surrounding him." I heard Kacchan who stare at Marvin with positive views of him for standing up against the guy with the glasses, he grins at him excitedly and having a new rival to deal with. Thinking about it, I nervously fidget that I might have two possible Kacchans to deal with now.
"Alright then Examinee Number 7111 and a very informative question you asked. The fourth villain we have in stock is worth zero points. This Faux Villain is more of an obstacle than an opponent so to say. There's one of them in every battle center. An obstacle that will go crazy in narrow spaces, it's not impossible to defeat this villain but it's not worth of your time since it doesn't give you points. I recommend to flee from it unless if you want be mauled by it or get targeted by the Faux Terrorists while you're busy fighting the humongous thing." As I stop thinking about my blonde explosive childhood friend who has a short fuse. I carefully listen on the Faux Terrorist and their tactics will be. As the screen changes to see Conduits in black Silhouettes, where a number below them says 2X in pixelated, bold black.
"For the Faux Terrorists, they will strike with no warning. So watch your back on alleyway corners or somewhere you don't suspect them to attack. If you are down for good from them, you the campers and examinees will fail this exam! So be on your toes and stay very cautious of your surroundings. I will say this again: those Faux Terrorists are based on teamwork than fighting them alone. As these second year campers are no pushovers and aren't afraid to use their all on you. Even though their multiply points are tempting, but please, don't get ignorant because of it. By the way. Exactly at ten minutes, a specially trained S.C.D official will appear that quadruple your points to the max. But for the catch, this guy is extremely hard to be taken down and is wearing a special type of suit that makes this person nearly indestructible. So be very careful when ten minutes are up or you might get screwed over by this guy as he's hardcore! So my suggestion again: FLEE!" Everyone nervously whispered when he mentioned their new predicament in this exam, for I heard both campers and examinees quietly spoke among themselves.
"This whole thing feels like a video game."
"Yeah but those Conduit freaks will be joining alongside with us and we have to be careful when we're facing those tough Faux Terrorists if we want to pass this exam without getting screwed over by them."
"God damn, I heard about those second year Video Conduit campers back at New Empire City. They are nerdy as hell, clever in tactics and tough to beat."
Gulping to myself that I might encounter those highly trained campers in my exam, Present Mic continue his lecture and giving us inspirational quote of the school's motto.
"Finally, I'll give you kiddies a present. Our school motto! A certain hero Napoleon Bonaparte once said: A true hero is someone who overcomes life's misfortunes. Go beyond: PLUS ULTRA!" After that small inspirational speech, the screen behind him went all flashy with big golden words saying Plus Ultra.
Oh boy, this is going to be tough for me…
[Battle Center B]
Riding on the grey bus that's filled with Quirk Examinees, I nervously sat down on my chair and rubbing my arms to cope with my nervousness. What happen if I mess up and my two superpowers go haywire? Does it require using emotions to activate One For All? Will my Quirk show my Conduit side to everyone here which they will pick on me because I am a Conduit all of the sudden who hid amongst them? So many possibilities, so many disasters I can think of that ruin my path of becoming a hero.
Adjusting my cyan colored tracksuit, I felt the bus jolted in a halt to see we arrive at a giant concrete wall which inside contains a densely urban city. Next to us on our right, I spotted a blue bus with the S.C.D bird log imprinted on each side of the giant hulky transportation vehicle to see Conduit campers stepping out from the bus's stairs. When all the Examinees saw our superpower counterparts, they have a rather…mix opinions about them.
"Yup, those freaks are here indeed. Goddamn this institution."
"Hmmm, they could be good allies but I am not so sure ever since their Conduit brethren bomb a Pro Hero building."
"Well this is going to be interesting to work alongside with them."
Listening in of what the Examinees has a say about them. I heard the bus door's creak loudly and turn back to see our bus's entrance door is open which all the Examinees begin to exited out from the bus in an orderly fashion. So getting up from my chair, I got in the line and walking down the stairs of the bus I was in.
Feeling the fresh air blowing through us and the clear blue sky above us, the Conduit Campers stood next besides us at our right while the Quirk Examinees standing left next to them. As both of the Examinees and Initiate Campers stare at each other in distrust and the air of hostility becomes bigger by the second. By which, I saw Kacchan walks up to the green haired Conduit name Marvin, or Lenus when Present Mic called out his true name, in a cocky like smile.
"Hey, hey Mr. Loud Mouth Freak! Nice burn on that bitchy dork that really pisses me off when he keeps talking. I really like you Americans in spite of you eating fuck tons of damn hamburgers and making shit loads of fat people in your country." For Marvin, his head angrily turn to Kacchan with a hateful stare. As he spoke out in the most toxicity tone I ever heard. Making me think he could rivals Kacchan's aggressive attitude in which both of them aren't pleasant to hang around with.
"Yeah, so what about it you little bitch Japanese fag? What? You scared that we nuke your damn country to hell? How about you shut the fuck up and keep your own thoughts to yourself faggot!" As both of them insultingly make fun of their countries, I saw the girl name Chel step up and still making that cold smile creeping across her face. Knowing full well she will try to make both of them a lot angrier than before.
"Oh what a fine Chow Chow I found here. How about you keep barking at my retarded Bostonian friend over here as both of you can be two angry best friends!" Watching Chel insulting Kacchan when he called him a fluffy lion dog when she step next to Marvin in which the scowling Conduit glared at her. My old childhood friend snarls at her in rage of why she called him a dog in the first place.
"Who the hell are you and who are you calling me a dog you Conduit freak bitch!?" Hearing Chel sadistically laughs while her beanie orb is bouncing around her head in joyful glee, she looks back at Kacchan with a mischievous smile widening across her face with a cold aura surrounding her very being. Making everyone including her campers, except for Clive and Marvin, to shiver in frostbite as the temperature around us suddenly dropped out of nowhere. As she enjoys Kacchan's angry reaction towards her and amused of his colorful words spoken to her like she's craving for more attention. Giving her now twisted smile than her mischievous smile she expressed.
"Oh boo ho! The owner of his Chow Chow has gone rogue and you fluffy haired Chow Chow with the temper of a Chow Chow should put in a leash! Along getting garishly bitch slap by Marvin over here to learn who the bitch is!" As she continuously insult Kacchan saying he is a dog by his temper and his puffy hair. Both Kacchan and Marvin angrily glare at the mischievous Conduit's comments.
"Okay then, how about you shut the hell up bitch!" Interestingly, Kacchan and Marvin spoke simultaneously at the smiling Chel as the two rudest people I ever known stare at each other in wonder. Afterwards, they dastardly smile each other in rivalry and making an unstable friendship of how similar they are. Thinking about it, I begin to sweat heavily of knowing both of them can pick on me to do their new sense of unity to do their common attitude.
"Oi! Calm yourself you three, this here exam is design for us Examinees and Campers to get in our respected grounds, not to fight over trivia things. So let's get our heads up in the game. By the way, here you go Marvin to awaken your Aspect." As the Hawaiian fellow name Clive step between the three who are about to throw down in any second. His hands are extending away to face them on signalling those three to stop. Pacifying the situation all together before it gets ugly.
After he separate the three from fighting. The tall Hawaiian guy then grab something under his robe to pull out a clear bottle of pure vodka in his left hand. Tossing the pure poisonous drink at an arc to Marvin, for he perfectly catch it by the neck in his right palm. Wait a minute, isn't he too young to drink and especially straight up vodka which is mostly pure alcohol?
"Wait, Marvin. Aren't you too young to drink alcohol and isn't forbidden to carry drinks like that in campus?" After saying that, he gave me a dirty look and scowl furiously of my presumptuous statement that he is going to drink it.
"Fuck no! Alcohol taste like ass and I'm not going to drink it. For example, like this!" In a mere second, his left palm burst and emitting out a sickly looking cloud which look like it might choke you to death by the miasmic gassy appearance alone. Giving out a pestilence and deadly look to it, either it can knock out a person or gassing them to death just in mere seconds. Looking up, his green hair is now emitting out a deadly looking gas in each strains of his hair.
"You see kid, my Conduit Aspect power is Poison. You can either call it miasma, toxic, knockout gas or whatever the fuck you Japs call your poison. For this bottle poison is a requirement to fuel me in my dire needs." After explaining of what his Conduit Manipulation Trait is. Marvin's left hand glowed bright green as the cork of the bottle suddenly burst out and a stream of pure alcohol swims into Marvin's gassy hand, consuming the liquid poison all entirely in just a second. When the stream of floating alcohol was gone, the Vodka bottle in his hand is now transparently clear with zero trace of alcohol in it. Just a clear bottle he is now carrying. Staring back at his left hand, the cloud that's emitting out of his hand has grown bigger and giving out a deadly pestilence look.
"If there's anything toxic or harmful for humans to consume, either natural or artificial, my power will immediately eat that poison and measuring the said poison of how lethal or nonlethal it can be to humans, either knocking them out or straight up murdering them by one whiff from the smell. You get the idea right traitor?" For a S.C.D camper, that type of power sounds really dangerous if you ask me. It could probably fit the Blood Brotherhood's bill of such vile description he made of himself…or Kacchan. For I saw a black vein appearing under his neck and felt a sickly vibe radiating out of him. For I felt his hatred towards everyone he sees, his antipathy, his scornful view on man. Making me believe he wants to gas everybody he hates and recreate a German war crime here, despairing that there's no hope for man in this world.
In the end of his sentence, what does he mean I am a traitor to him?
While I processing and memorizing the information that Marvin informs me on his Aspect Power, I heard footsteps coming besides me to see a blonde haired Examinee who is twinkling like crazy and making the most flamboyant like smile as if you want to punch him in the face for being so pretentious like hell. Around his waist, he is carrying a belt with a blue orb in center. Is it for fashion sense or utilizing his Quirk more efficiently?
"Merde! How rude of you Conduit creatures with zero sense of elegance-!" Before he can finish his sentence, an icicle went flying pass by his head like a speeding bullet. Almost closely landed on his forehead but instead grazing his skin and cutting some of his sparkly blonde hair. Causing him to sweat tremendously and shaking out of fear. But his sparkly face remains unchanged.
"Hey wannabe spineless Frenchie, how about you remain quiet or do you want an icicle going straight up to your brain you inferior sub-human?" In a flick of her fingers, her entire arms are submerged in snow and ice. As the temperature in this area suddenly drops to sub-zero level, for I felt the air becomes so cold that my body begin to shake for warmth. It has gotten so cold that both of the Campers and the Examinees begin huddle together to avoid hypothermia. Also, did she call him a sub-human?
Looking down, I saw pure white snow beginning to pile up on the ground from a miniature blizzard that surrounded Chel and icicle like spears shut out from the snowy floor. In which the said spears are made out of out of pure ice. Looking back to her, her grin has grown worse which she's giving out a Joker like smile and laughing out manically like this is actually funny. It didn't stop there. Her appearance change dramatically in which her pale skin becomes deadly grey, under her eyes starting to form tear like ice and the white markings on her bangs starting to spread as half of her brown hair is slowly becoming snow white. The veins on her wrists become unhealthily pure black like something has corrupted her blood vessels. Finally, she is radiating out a cold menacing vibe from her and giving us the impression that she's the Ice Queen who enjoys your suffering.
"Come now Chel, we discuss this before of not going overboard with your Sub-Zero level powers of making everything into ice or snow. So please…I'll burn your goddamn creation down for forcing me on protecting these lowly degenerates!" Looking back at Clive, his once carefree appearance and his brotherly warm smile that plastered across his face is then turn into a raging maniacal bull that is lit on fire. As his sudden change of mood made his arms turn into intense heat and flames starts to spit out of his palms like volcanic cinder. Looking up, his hair is lit in orange fire and the strains of hair are dancing wildly like they want to burn anyone who is next to him.
Suddenly, I felt the ground starts to shake so violently. It feels like a volcano eruption is happening right now! After couple of seconds of a miniature earthquake, a huge crack on the ground split open and pops out of it are massive molted burning lava leaking out on the soil, causing a lot of smoke and producing gassy sulfur in the air. Making the campers who are near Clive start to cough furiously and difficult to breathe to do the sulfur that the lava is creating.
When he brought the lava onto the Earth's surface, the snow and ice around us immediately melts into water till it evaporates into the air by the high temperatures. Unfortunately for us, he is radiating out so much heat from his very body that it made us sweat like crazy by Clive's lava manipulating abilities or his pyrokinesis at his palm of his hands as the fire starting to slowly spread to his arms to hair. Like Chel, his appearance changes horribly where I saw his lips made a bloodthirsty scowl, black veins slowly appearing at his skull to neck and his golden-orange eyes turn into red-orange color, revealing his true demonic-self to everyone. I felt an uneasy aura around him like he came straight out of hell and a demon who wants vengeance against humanity for their sins. In short, he's absolutely livid!
After melting the snow and ice while having a sudden fit of rage along the chance of giving us hyperthermia which my tracksuit is covered in moist of my sweat, the lava below us retract backs down and the soil closing up when his palms clapped together. After he clapped his hands for a few seconds, the flames on his arms and hair slowly begins to extinguish. For his mood randomly shifted back to his calmer, relax-self including the black veins on head to neck faded away, his eye return back golden and making his usual warm smile. Almost making me believe he might have a mood swing problem or a mental disorder he's experiencing.
Staring at these three misfits who I thought are harmless at first glance, are letting out a dangerous aura in them. In which each of them are giving out different yet deadly vibes around them. Where one who is deprived of hope, one who is straight up insane and the other is letting out pure burning rage. While they are showing off their powers, I felt their minds and powers are corrupted to the edge. Detecting there's no trace of purity or any sense of virtue in them to uphold their humanity. Thinking of why they are Campers in the first place instead of joining the Blood Brotherhood ranks with that sort of infamous vibe they're making?
"Further ado, let's focus on what we're doing or else my temper will burst again to incinerate anyone who is next to me. So let's do this!" Rubbing his hands and the fire on his hair finally dissipates. The other two Conduits who are besides him then stop emitting out their Conduit aspects out of their body and their former appearance are returning back to normal. As the deadly veins on their skin are gone and the pale look they formerly have return back to full color. While they're readying themselves for combat, the Campers who are behind them and the Examinees in front of me shiver in horror of what they've perform here.
"Holy hell! Did you see what they just did?"
"Fuck. I recognize their sudden change of appearance. I believe they're reaching to Infamous status. By all means, why the heck they are here in the first place?"
"Man, these three really are freaks but I don't want to tangle with them in combat like they can kill us in one hit."
Heard everyone nervously whisper of how menacing they look and their infamous aura they are giving out from their very souls. What would make them so dreadfully horrifying and how did they change their karmic appearance so drastically with ease? Importantly, where did they come from and why are they here in the first place to be campers? What motivates them to be part of the S.C.D organization in the first place?
"Okay, start!" With so many questions flooding my head of whom these three are that their mental state could rival with the Blood Brotherhood's mental health. Zoning out, I didn't notice all of my possible classmates and camper allies are running at the opened door. Couple of seconds later, I snap out of my muttering and realize the exam already started!
Watching everyone run straight into the city, I panic and chase after them that they're going to hog all the points for themselves. But now my worst fear is resurfacing back again that my Examinee peers would know that I am a Conduit if I reveal my powers in plain sight! So I got to be extra careful when using my electric powers near the Examinees along hiding my inherited Quirk to my Conduit peers so they wouldn't give me the funny eyes. Other words, this is going to be hard to joggle both of my powers and concealing my superpower duality to the two super powered groups who are vastly different.
Running through the streets and passing through buildings to buildings to find myself a faux villain. In just my luck, my head pulse again to see two-wait, four are coming after me as they are breaking through countless walls of a nearby building at my right when I see their electric circuits flowing inside of them.
Leaping to my left hastily, the wall at my right crushingly burst open with a grey dust cloud covering the robots' appearances briefly. As I suspected, four mechanical green robots appeared when the dust settled down and all of them are pointing their sharp claws at me with their robotic voices spoke simultaneously.
"[Target sighted: ERROR! ELECTRIC ANOMALY DETECTED! Protocol: examinee safety procedure program disabled. KILL!]"
After processing my mind of what they said. My electric powers might attract their sensors to me and making their programmed minds go frenzy of my presence. Sadly, I was surrounded by Examinees and Campers near me as it's not a good idea to reveal my powers to both groups. So what would I do in this situation?!
"Hey bots, fetch!" Before I can formulate a plan of action for me, four sharp icicles went flying pass my head that is a size of javelin spear. Watching the spears implanted and tearing through into the center of their metal jagged chest as the icicles fired off like the speed of a bullet which their insides are shredded by the high penetrating velocity. Looking more closely of where the icicles penetrated at, some of the robots' electric wires are flying everywhere and black oil spilling out of their chassis by the sheer damage that the spear made. Combining the cut wires that are still running with electricity and the oil that looks quite flammable that's inches away from touching the expose circuits, the bots are then spontaneously combust into orange blazing flames. Following behind a loud BOOM ringing within my eardrums as a cloud of black soot covered the metal scorched remains.
Turning behind me who fired those icicles and knowing full well who created those icy spears. It is no other than Chel and giving out her Cheshire like grin to me while cold-heartedly snickers to herself like she enjoys destroying them for the fun and giggles of it. With her hair fully turn into snowy white like a blizzard, her skin become deadly grey as if she is the undead and that unholy aura of insanity I felt back at the starting entrance which is radiating out of her. After silently snickering to herself, she callously cackles in enjoyment of the destruction she made here with an insane look in her eye.
"Glad I save you traitor. How about this time I wouldn't help you and I really need to head back to my pack before they enjoy all the fun without me! So goodbye and use your quirk powers for once you liar!" After she called me a liar and a traitor, her body transforms into a white snowflake mist and flown into the air quickly, emitting out a trail of white snow in the ground.
"SEVENTEEN MINUTES!" Seventeen minutes-oh crap! I forget I didn't score at all and not getting any points from staring!
Focusing and not hesitating anymore. I run to find any nearby robots or terrorists who are hiding in any building corners. But my head pulsed again to detect all of the robots are immediately being taken one by one. The only ones who are ripe for the taking are the faux terrorists. But the group of Examinees and Campers are having a difficult time on taking those guys down as they are still standing.
To give it a visual example, I see their electric neurons in their nervous systems and I can perfectly see them straight through the buildings. Unfortunately, I have to witness the Examinees and Campers getting their ass handed by the second year Campers as Present Mic wasn't lying about them being the best. For I see Campers getting subdued by fake terrorists on the ground while Quirks and Examinees try to rescue them by charging straight at them with no tactics at all. Unluckily again, they…well, sadly failed when I saw the Video Conduits raising their palms at them and then later hearing a lot of loud screams echoing down at the streets. I can't see what the Video Conduits are shooting out from their palms but it is sure as heck sounds painful enough to actually feel their pain out there.
Slapping myself, I remain focus and concentrate to find myself a bot to destroy. Running, I look around the streets to see more remains of destroyed metal scrapes on the ground. Meaning that's not a good sign for me. Panicking, I look around for a bot that is worth any points but there is none in this area!
Come on! Come on! Come one! I just need one point to get into U.A!
[Surveillance Room]
"Ah Nedzu, you mad genius! This is either the best or worst idea you have ever conceived of!" Staring at the many screens in the computer mainframe area to surveillance all the kids who are fighting, Nedzu has the great idea on grouping the new campers with their new potential examinees. Sure, it seems both of them want to murder each other for petty things at the start but they are now starting to work together when we throw in the campers' cooperation test in the mix. Which they need to fight off the best fighters who are acting as fake terrorists, knowing if they can work together and not fucking around in there if they don't want to get their asses kicked by them.
Sitting at the opposite of Nedzu who is behind me in this dark room, I stare at the big screen and watching all the kids kicking ass within the city. There are some kids who successfully subdue the fake terrorists while the others…let's just say they failed this exam to do them being extremely cocky on taking them on their own. For the blonde boy name Katsuki though, he seems smart enough to avoid them despite of him having a short fuse in his temper.
"Thanks Delsin, having the U.A staff and S.C.D members spectating this special event sure is fun and something fresh than throwing in plain old robots over and over again. So…what about those three interesting misfit camper kids that might be members of the Blood Brotherhood to do their extreme behaviors?" Oh, them…I remember they were former members of the Blood Brotherhood who calls them Auschwitz Squad aka the Blood Brotherhood's Leg-Breakers to Death Squad to betrayers when they become campers on redeeming themselves. Thinking about them, my lips frown when I learn of their tragic yet brutal history of how they become the most efficient kill squad in the Brotherhood.
"Oh…those misfits, let's just say they're former Brotherhood's Death Squad who are efficiently doing their jobs on taking out certain undesirable groups that deem them trouble. As the three kids specialize in certain roles when the Brotherhood tasks them with something like murdering, interrogate or burning evidence, like incinerating people alive. Example, Lenus Peste aka Marvin, he's the pseudo-leader of the pack as his Aspect specialize in knocking people out or gassing them to death quickly by a small sniff from his poison or touching his pool of acid. Making a quick, easy genocide that the Brotherhood deems some people as degenerates, inferior sub-humans or anyone who betrays them like if it's a German concentration camp." Rehearsing my memory on Lenus Peste history, he is a Nazi. I mean he's actually a Nazi who really hates anyone who isn't a Conduit to them or seeing a traitor to his kind for supporting Quirk users in general.
Learning his history back at Boston, his parents are horrible. He's constantly being bullied by Quirk kids when they thought of him as Quirkless and then getting kidnapped by an anti-Conduit group called the Purists at the age of five when he showed his powers. As the Purist Organization is everywhere in North America during that time while later getting detained in D.U.P prison when the D.U.P raided one of their hideouts, making his mind extremely warped during his constant isolation and torture, making his own conclusion that all man deserve to die. As all non-Conduit humans are evil. In which I recall a certain Nazi Philosopher of calling all men are evil, giving him a severe case of superiority complex and serious anger issues to others. At the same time, he got busted out alongside with Chel when they fleet to the cold woods.
Unluckily for the Purists, they were outright gone nine years ago until the D.U.P records revealed that all of the Purists members got their heads exploded out of nowhere like their brains had just burst spontaneously when the D.U.P forces stormed into their secret compounds holding imprisoned Conduits. Making me believe that the Purists are the stepping stones for the rise of the Blood Brotherhood organization to do their horrible treatment on Conduits when they got captured by them. Like torture, rapes and all kinds of nasty things that the Purists brewed up for them to make the Conduit situation much worse. Especially when karma bites them in the ass as their Purist leader's head instantaneously got exploded by psychic powers.
"Next is Chell Skaði Talvi aka Chel, she is the interrogator, torturer and the Laughing Octopus or the Joker in the Auschwitz Squad. Back at Alaska at the age of four, she and her parents got kidnapped by the Purists. As they were brutally tortured by them who they believe she and her parents are suspected Conduits while little Chel watches them getting beaten, her mother getting violently molested and later mutilating their bodies in a slow, agonizing process. Scarring her mind forever and scream during the cold blizzard night at Alaska, where no one heard her pleas. Later, they demanded her to enjoy this or she will suffer the same fate as her parents, making her of what she is today, like that…" Pointing at the screen to give an example of where Chel was at and making my own skin crawl from watching her. Of what I saw is...brutal.
As all of the S.C.D members and U.A staff frozenly shock at what Chel is doing. She manically laughs and her blue, frozen dead eyes widen in twisted joy when she grabs hold onto a number two faux villain robot on the ground while she repeatedly stabs it over and over again with no sign of stopping at all. Making her laughter vile and heinously cruel in each second when she calmly sits on it while her legs are crossed with an icicle like dagger in her left hand she's carrying. Puncturing and stabbing the metal chassis with no hint of mercy in her face. Meaning she really needs a psychiatric help…like bad. But I am a little worried that she might murder them to do her severe mental state.
"Furthermore after she escapes during the cold winter of December from Curdun Cay, she met a Brotherhood member in the dense forest and offers her to be a torturer to the former Purist members after most of their prominent Purist organization members got their heads exploded by the Brotherhood's leader's mind bending abilities as she happily agrees in some kind of sadistic payback of what they did to her parents. For she gutted them alive while she laughs out of their suffering for making her suffer, enjoying the same way of what the Purists did to her family. As she butchered and torturing her victims in her unspeakable enjoyment." Cringing my lips when I read of her official biography file and learning of how she is mentally insane as hell. I would probably be like her if I was in her shoes, making me glad that the D.U.P isn't brutal like that when they first showed up to my tribe.
You know after reading about her, I felt some kind of respect for the D.U.P authority in spite of them locking up Conduits or crippling anyone in pain who doesn't give them their information fast. But they don't outright murder them slowly in the brink of death or going beyond the definition of cruel punishment unlike the Purists which their methods are pure barbarity compare to the D.U.P. So I would give them credit for it. So time to read the last member of the Auschwitz Squad, Tito Maverick aka Clive, the incinerator, the tank and the muscle man of the group with a conflicted personality disorder he has. Which his mind can horribly changes from a really nice guy to a mad fucking bull that is ready to rip your head off in a mere second from out of nowhere, almost mistaking him as a heir of Pele to do his splitting personality with his hot temper.
"Finally Tito Maverick aka Clive, he is the incinerator who burns the remains of victims that Chel tortured and burning some of their victims alive out of spontaneous rage. He lives in Hawaii at a small town near a volcano before, you guess it again! The Purists came and ruin everyone's day as they shoot everyone in sight. Clive who was around six during the time, saw his parents were rapidly got shot by bullets. Seeing the injustice of his parents' deaths, his Conduit Gene is awaken and causing a huge volcanic eruption at the nearby volcano. Burning all of the Purists in sight and well…accidentally murdering the townies in the process, resulting in his dual personality he is having. He would probably be a S.C.D member if we exist during that time, but unluckily for us, the Brotherhood found him and making his temper issues worsen." This kid is rather interesting as he can be nice but outright furious in a split second.
"When the Brotherhood got them together at the age of seven, they are known as Auschwitz Squad. A dangerous team of professional killers on taking out important targets in the Brotherhood's hit list or causing tremendous terror within the public by their countless massacre throughout different countries. Making them the most wanted criminals in Earth, even though they fight in such a young age. I am really surprise they become campers to do a certain legendary Conduit on convincing them to abandon their ways when they got their asses kicked by him." Looking back at my seat of where Cole is standing. He is wearing his Scoutmaster Assistant uniform and standing next to Williams coolly. He sure has charismatic ways on convincing people in spite of their ideological differences...which is a surprise for me.
"My goodness, they really have a rough life. Still, how are you going to redeem them when I know who they are and the ones who murdered the well-recognized Pro Heroes throughout the world? You know what I am saying, giving them unsavory deaths to show terror in the public as a message?" Knowing what Nedzu is talking about, the Auschwitz Squad have a history of brutally torturing well known Quirk Heroes to their deaths and showing off their mangled, naked remains in major cities for the many citizens to witness. When the world saw these incidents, it causes a huge uproar and terror towards Conduits as a whole. Including Nedzu here who is having second thoughts of them when he learns they are the ones that cause the massive hysteria throughout the years and responsible for the brutal murders of Pro Heroes.
Sighing tirelessly and rubbing my temples to figure out of how I should rehabilitate these three messed up kids and making society forgive them of what they've did in the past. It's going to be a tricky unless someone can guide them to the good path. Pfft, yeah right that would happen. Seeing their kill count is around at thousands and their warped mind is so beyond fucked to be mentally healed, I doubt they can be redeemed of their scarred state they are in. Just hope Cole knows what he is doing or I'll kick them out from camp to do their criminal history.
Looking back at the kid name Izuku at the screen, he looks like he's panicking and isn't showing his Conduit powers or his recently established Quirk that All-Might has informed me during the night. It looks like he's scared to show either of them to his two different types of peers, undecided if he should be a S.C.D camper or a student to U.A. Better he makes a decision quickly or he wouldn't pass this exam at all.
"Anyways before I have second thoughts on those former Brotherhood members, who would be the lucky Conduit who is going to ruin everyone's day? By the way, where's Eugene in this facility as I don't see him anywhere?" Oh, you will find out soon little guy. As this special finale will happen!
"Oh you will see Nedzu of what's going to happen next. So…Kiko! Would you mind announce our special terrorist into the battlefield to wreck everyone's good mood?!" Turning to Kiko who has a black set of headphones over her hazelnut hair, she taps at the microphone near her lips and telling our special Conduit to get ready for battle.
"Testing, testing! One, two, three! Get ready for combat and see if these kids can withstand you!" Oh boy! Here comes the fun!
[Izuku]
Sprinting through the streets and detecting if there's any more robots in this area. I was about to lose hope that I can't enter U.A in this state I am in since most of the bots are already been taken.
"AHHH!" About to fall into despair, I then heard a loud, painful scream echo at a nearby alleyway at my right. So stopping my tracks to see what it was. My head pulse again to see many people lying on the ground and three individuals standing on their feet. Speaking of neurons, their nervous system is absolutely blood red and the electricity in their frontal lobe is lacking any kind of activity. Knowing who could it be, I jog towards the alleyway and inaudibly lean on a wall so the three people who are standing on their feet wouldn't see me.
Cautiously tilting my head at the entrance to see who they are, I shot my head back away instinctively when a sharp icicle went flying pass by my skull, slightly grazing my left temple with some drip of pure red blood spilling out from my minor cut.
"I know you are hiding over there Jap! Get over here and face us like a S.C.D slave you are!" Heard Marvin's livid voice echo out from the alleyway, they are fully aware that I am here. So giving up the stealth factor I tactfully plan for, I step out from the wall and facing directly of where the three infamous campers are standing at. Below them are blue suited Conduits with riot gear equipment are down for the count along heavily wounded.
Staring at them, their Scout uniforms and faces are all bloody. Looking down on the ground, I saw four heavily injured Faux Terrorists on the ground breathing, indicating they are alive. Observing of their critical condition, I see the many sharp icicles sticking at their limbs, burn marks on their expose skin and their faces turning green when I smell a noxious gas in the air. Sicken of what they did here. I saw some of the downed victims are heavily stabbed to death in the chest area. Knowing who's the culprit on making those lethal lacerations, I turn to Chel who is holding a very sharpen yet bloodied icicle dagger in her left hand and pointed to me in glee with her improvise blade. Their appearance went back to their unhealthy and intimidating look as their skin turned absolutely grey like they are almost dead, black veins appearing on their flesh that looks extremely unnatural and that impulsive aura they are making that would make you tremble in fear by their presence. Staring in terror of what I've saw, I heard Chel spoke first in pure sadism.
"So you have the guts to follow us isn't kid? You could just walk away and do whatever you Quirk Examinees do! Besides, why did you go into our camp in the first place? Harass us? I don't think so faker!" In a blinding speed, she leaps at me with her dagger in hand as she viciously slashes at my chest. In a miraculous stroke of luck, the blade is nearly inches away from cutting my flesh when I lean back, only to see some of my track suit got slightly torn open by her precise cuts while she's laughing crazily.
As my rip track suit is exposed to reveal some of my muscled bare chest, I look back at them in readiness when my graze wound at my temple is fully healed by my rapid healing abilities from my Conduit Gene. Only leaving left is a scar.
"What's with you guys?! I mean, why did you take them down so brutally and isn't illegal for you attack an Examinee or Camper just like that?!" Asking of why they brutally take down the second year campers and Chel is attacking me so openly while dodging her knife made out of ice. Marvin toxically replied back with his palms spouting out gassy poison that's drifting into the air. Tightly gripping his fingers and pointing his fists at me, he swiftly opens his palms and releasing out a gigantic green flying gas at me.
"Do I give a shit about you and them?! You were at camp, you were at the exam with those inferior Quirk fuckers and you followed us? Now you really starting to piss my off of what you are hiding from us!" Sidestepping to my left when a flurry of green gas that looks hazardous that's inch away from my face and jumping back to avoid Chel's knife that's almost lunge at my stomach. I heard rumbling under my feet to see a crack is forming!
Felt a sudden tectonic shake on the ground, I quickly jump away from the small earthquake to see red-orange lava starting oozing out on the cement floor rapidly. Instantly, the lava starts to float out of the ground and a stream of hot melted rocks went flying at me! Feeling the raging heat almost melting my skin and making me sweat like a waterfall from the unbearable heat!
Dodging all of the gassy green orbs that is a size of a human, watching out where Chel is about to stab me and avoiding the ground where lava is flying out at me. Why the heck did the S.C.D let them join to be campers in the first place and why are they acting so evil to me?! To make things worse, when Chel is close to my distance and about to strike at my opening for an opportune stabbing, her blade is almost inch close to my skin. I thought I would die from this but a miracle and a curse happened.
Before she can sink her cold knife into my warm flesh of my shoulder neck, a loud boom followed with a large dust cloud came at our left side of the alleyway. Resulting in Chel getting interrupted and flew away to the opposite side of the wall. As she violently smack onto the right side of the brick wall by the intense force from the explosion has made. Hitting at the back of her head and making humongous cracks on the red pavement including her blood dripping out of her forehead. To make sure if she's okay, my head pulse again to check if she's still alive. Fortunately or unfortunately, I see her neurons are operating fine, meaning she survived from that blast although heavily injured when her body got slammed into the brick wall like a cartoonish comic book character.
Turning to the explosion of who made that. I saw blue flickering images and binary numbers flying everywhere. Within the dust cloud, I see a suit with blue lights of static images and numbers radiating out from it, seeing the hexagon shape design and inner lights behind the casings.
"Well, well, well! Looks like you gravely hurt my campers that I train them so hard on making the best players here. Looks like you screwed them up real time and I'm pretty mad about it." Out of dust clouds to see a pretty well build dude and who looks like a nerd at the same time. He has a well-combed sandy blond hair and square, black glasses over his eyes. On his suit, I see varieties of video game advertisements like Heavens Hellfire and logos of well-known video game companies plastered across his body. Underneath it, I see light blue shell casings all over his spandex like armor suit.
Distracted by his sudden appearance, I heard a cough below me to see a camper who notices the stranger and gleefully look at him in hope.
"Archangel Eugene Sims Sir! This-Ack! These guys fuck us real hard when we try to subdue them. But we got fucked up real hard man!" Hearing the camper dryly whisper and having a Danish accent to the-wait…did he say Eugene Sims? Oh no!
Recalling a well-known S.C.D member who is part of the top circle of organization and extremely famous among Gamers around the world in spite of him being a Conduit, he is Eugene Sims! The Archangel of the Video Conduits and a famous E-sport professional player of all times! Gulping to myself deeply, this is not good for them or me when he thinks I am part of this. At this time, I look back to see Chel slowly getting out from the brick hole she made and bleeding pretty badly from the concussion she had. But she is still standing while losing her smile in the end as she dangerously glared at him. Seeing all the destroyed bricks scattered across the floor, seeing she's bleeding out of her skull. I immediately know she's pretty angry right now.
As Eugene looks down at the Video Conduit who is still breathing, he turns his head to the others who are unconscious but badly hurt by those three infamous like campers. Couple of seconds of staring, he silently stares at us four in an unsettling glare.
"Can-can you fuck them up for us sir…?" The Camper, who is slipping into unconsciousness, pleads for him to fight us. After he said that in utmost desperation, he fell from the ground and remains quiet in the remainder of the scene as he's knockout from the blood lost. As Eugene remain silent until he starts cracking his fingers. Meaning we are going to fight a top S.C.D member and he looks pretty piss now of what happened here.
"Well, seeing how you treat my Gaming Campers. I'll give you some advice." In a flick of his fingers like Chel, a glowing blue great sword materializes in his left hand that is inscribed with strange Nordic runes at the edge of his blade. Radiating out with blue hologram squares as well with ones and zeroes floating out in the air. Addition, his fancy sword is cartoonishly long like it's a flag pole in his hand.
"If you hurt my favorite campers, you'll suffer." When he said that, he sprouted out translucent angelic wings behind him that are glowing bright blue with white blue holograms radiating out of his digital feathery wings. Emitting out pure holiness in them like he is a major boss we are fighting in a video game.
"If you made them suffer from your powers on doing inhumane things, you will suffer!" In an instance, his eyes are glowing bright blue and around his head formed a golden bright halo that shines upon his virtue. As his body now radiating out many square holograms and numbers frequently, giving out a heroic and righteous vibe from his soul like a true hero would have.
"Like a certain Video Game skeleton would say. You four kids are gonna' have a bad time with me!" After saying that, he is then engulfed in bright blue hologram lights and out came a shiny, humongous armor he is wearing that is trimmed with gold lines and shine in sliver like he's a Dark Souls' character!
"For that…I WILL SMITE THEE! RECALL!" Stomping his right foot on the ground and yelling out a deep monstrous voice to us, all the second year Campers who are lying on the ground in agony then disappeared. As they are engulfed in Video blue colored lights and only leaving behind is an empty ground with only four of us standing here with an angry Archangel in front of us. Where I saw the many angels in bulky armors materialize by the blue hologram lights in the air. Forming around twelve of them and holding massive swords in their hands!
Thinking of how we are so screwed here! I heard Chel spoke out who is also stun by his sudden change of appearance and said something that fits our situation along not helping to improve our said situation when she emotionlessly said this.
"Well fuck…we're definitely screwed here."
AN: I really shouldn't be making these Notes. But I think it is safe to say I'll put it in rated M section. Just in case if I make things graphic in the later chapters.
