Wheel 1: Junior High arc — Rebel 6: Awakening the Chaos
Almost three weeks had passed since the day the relationship between Rumi and Naoto evolved. The days at school were running smoothly as Naoto continued to go smoothly. It was 5 days before his probation period ended, and consequently also his relationship with the people he had known so far…
"Iiiiiit's summeeeeer!" Nejire shouted as she jumped into the air, bumping up her hands.
"Nejire…" Naoto just facepalmed as he saw Nejire's action. "Come on…we're in public"
Glancing around her, Nejire chuckled as she noticed what Naoto said. Scratched the back of her head, the periwinkle haired girl spoke. "Ups~"
'This girl…!' Naoto's left eye twitched for a few seconds. The two junior high students were currently in the city of Atami, along with the rest of their class as a 3-days school trip.
With a sigh, the brown haired boy shook his head. "Anyway, where are the others?" Naoto asked his friend.
"Mhh…" Taking out her phone, Nejire touched its screen a few times. "They're at the MOA right now, but we're late. If we run, probably we can meet them!"
"The MOA…?!" Naoto managed to hold his surprise. He never thought that Okada lived in this world too. 'Excluding the whole Quirk thing, it seems that this world isn't so different from mine'
"Let's go, Nao-kun!"
"Huh?"
"Come on!" Grabbing the boy's hand, Nejire suddenly started to run, surprising the boy when she suddenly used her Quirk to create a pair of small spiral shockwaves under her feet to increase their speed.
"STOOOOOOOOOP!" He shouted, but without success. Naoto's requests were completely ignored by Nejire during the journey. As the two were almost flying thanks to Nejire, they surpassed a certain girl.
"Target Acquired. Waiting for orders…"
"Luna…Arc!" Mirko shouted, delivering the front-facing axe kick to her current foe: An Electro-Quirk type man. The strength behind her kick was enough to send the man against a wall, KOs him.
Landing, she suddenly turned around to sweep a pair of fireguns wielding men. "Now, Erased!"
Suddenly, the familiar cloths enveloped the criminals before the user pulled the criminals against the ground. With a sigh, Aizawa retrieved his weapons. "They were the last. Good job, Mirko"
The Rabbit Hero nodded as she walked towards the Erasure Hero. "Of course, you're talking about me after all!"
"One day this confidence will be your fall" Aizawa stated as he began to walk away from the criminals' hideout: A warehouse. "How's that Naoto kid? He's staying out of trouble, right?"
"I'm just telling the truth" Mirko shrugged as she followed him. She stretched her arms as the two Heroes were finally out from the building. "He's fine, by the way. Right now he's with his school for a trip at Atami"
"It's good to be confident with your strength, but you should never overdo it. Overvaluation often leads to problems" Someone said as they walked towards the two Heroes, which turned their heads towards the new arrival.
"Red Devil" The two Pro Heroes nodded to their colleague, the Red Devil Hero: Iron Tager.
The first time Rumi saw him that morning, the only way she could describe Tager was only one: He is massive in stature, standing just under 8 feet, and has a body with muscles bulging out of each and every corner. His most defining trait, however, wasn't his muscles, or his white streaked spiky black hair, nor his prominent square jaw, with two sharp canines protruding from his bottom teeth. No…it was his crimson red skin, the reason behind his epithet as "Red Devil". He wears small orange glasses that do not seem to fit his face while on his forearms he has large, magnetic gauntlets that come up past his wrists; Tager's hands are covered in metal gloves with a single red dot on their palms.
Complimenting his muscular physique, the man wears a tight fitting, sleeveless jacket that leaves his thick arms bare. This jacket is a light red in front and cinnabar on the sides, separated by white zips with two metal zippers. He wears a large brown belt attached to a red skirt and two metal pleats that cover his thighs. Finally, Tager's look is completed by a pair of beige boots with red metallic toe caps.
"I see you managed to defeat the gang. Good" The crimson skinned man nodded a little. "The Sector Seven Agency thanks you for your help"
"Don't worry, it's our job after all" Mirko smirked at Tager. "Buut, since you—"
"I'm not going to bring you to my Agency for take that leg equipment" The Red Devil said. "It is for one of us, sorry"
"Aaaaw…"
"Now you can report to that woman that we did it" Aizawa stepped between the two as he spoke, trying to hide an unknown emotion from his voice. "Add 'Aizawa said 'We're done now', okay?' to the report, by the way"
"Heheh, it will be done, old friend" Tager chuckled as he adjusted his glasses with one finger.
'What was that…?' Rumi raised an eyebrow when she heard Aizawa. "What do you mean with that, Erased?"
"None of your business, Mirko" Aizawa glared at her, causing the scene looks amusing for Tager. "I just don't want to help that stray monster cat again—"
"Who's the monster cat, Aizawa?!" A distorted female voice from a radio came from Tager's right gauntlet, surprising Mirko.
"What the—" Mirko turned her head towards the man's gauntlet.
"Tch, good grief…" Aizawa shook his head. "Of course its's you…"
"Go to hell, you dry eye bastard" The woman said from the radio. "Tager, give me your status"
"All green, Kokonoe" Raising his right arm, Tager spoke to the woman called Kokonoe. "All the criminals are defeated, and soon the police will come to confiscate the drug lot"
"Good. I'll call the transport then. Kokonoe, out"
"Who was that woman?" Mirko asked to the two men, receiving a glare from Aizawa once again.
"No one" The Eraser Quirk user stated.
"She is my boss" Tager said before he glanced at Aizawa. "And she shared a…story with Aizawa"
"Don't say it, Tager!" Aizawa gritted his teeth towards the Red Devil.
"Story?" Mirko repeated the word for a few times as she glanced at Aizawa before— "...Oh…OH!" A mischievous grin appeared on her face. "OOH! This is gold, haha!"
"Not. A. Single. Word" Aizawa sighed as he facepalmed his face. That period was something he wanted to forget. Fortunately, his phone saved him with a call. As Mirko and Tager were talking- no, doing gossip, about Aizawa and that Kokonoe woman, Aizawa answered the call. "Aizawa here—...We're coming!"
With her sight on Aizawa, Mirko raised an eyebrow. "Something happened?"
"Tager, frequency on the police radio" Clearly ignoring Mirko, Aizawa barked orders. "And call that transport and tell them to bring us to Atami as fast as possible!"
With a nod, the Red Devil accomplished his first task with a simple gesture of the right hand. He knows when Aizawa is dead serious.
"What—"
"Shhh!"
"To all units, hold your position! Heroes are coming asap for stop the Villain from destroying the city!"
The rabbit woman couldn't believe what she was hearing…and her thought was only one: Naoto!
The sun that, as it set, seemed to vanish beyond the sea was a fantastic spectacle of nature. With the last lights that caressed his skin, Naoto enjoyed being bathed by the sunlight as he and his class were at the Atami Beach. Since it was a sudden stop, they are still weating their clothes and not proper beach clothes.
As his classmates were playing around him, the Bloodedge Drive user was just sitting on the sand, observing the twilight sky.
"Wanna go and buy some ice cream, Nao-kun?"
Turning his head to the familiar voice, Naoto shrugged to Nejire. "Sure, I don't have anything to do. Go to ask the permission from our sensei"
As he saw Nejire walking away towards their teacher, Naoto flexed his fingers before standing up when he noticed Nejire return to him with a bright smile on her face.
"We got the pass!" Doing a 'V' with her fingers, Nejire spoke. "Let's go, Nao-kun!"
"Aye ma'am" With a small smile, Naoto rolled his eyes as he started to follow Nejire as she was walking towards the street, leaving Atami Beach.
"What kind of ice cream do you want? I want a lemon-mint ice cream" The girl stated.
"Mh…maybe something with chocolate, I'm not sure"
As the two students ordered the ice creams, Nejire walked away for a moment, leaving Naoto to pay for the ice creams. "She's wonderful, isn't?" The salesman suddenly asked.
"Huh?" Naoto glanced at the man. "What do you mean?"
"I mean, she's your girlfriend?"
Hearing those words made Naoto blush as he coughed, spitting some ice cream on the ground. "What the heck?! Hell, no! We're still too young, by the way!"
"Ahahah!" Laughing, the man shook his head. "You're right, you need to enjoy the last years before you step into that world called adolescence, nay?"
"Ugh, shut…" With a sigh, Naoto walked away from the shop, walking towards Nejire. "Oi Nejire, what are you doing?" He asked when he saw Nejire talk with another girl: a barefoot thin girl with pale skin, large, yellow eyes and white hair, which were kept in a very long ponytail. Her height was almost the same as his and Nejire's height, so they probably share the same age.
The boy frowned when he saw that the girl's clothes consisted of just a simple dark green sleeveless one-piece jumpsuit with short leggings. There are metal harnesses on her jumpsuit on the nape of her neck and under her chest.
Shifting her gaze towards the boy, Nejire raised a hand. "Oh, Naoto!"
As he walked towards them, Naoto asked. "Who's that girl?"
"My new friend!" Nejire smiled as she glanced back at the girl. "Naoto, she is Tau. Tau, he is Naoto"
'Tau…?' Naoto thought as he saw the girl's face. 'She's…familiar…'
"N…ao…to?" The mysterious girl, Tau, glanced at Naoto with her yellow and curious eyes. "Nao…to"
"Y-Yo" Raising his free hand, Naoto tried to smile until a certain girl hit him with an elbow.
"Naoto, presente yourself properly!"
"Jeez Nejire! Ok, ok! Fine!" With a sigh, Naoto scratched the back of his head as he offered a hand to Tau. "I'm Naoto, nice to meet you"
Glancing at the boy's hand, the girl went silent for a few seconds before she grabbed the hand. As she did it, her eyes widened. "Nao…to…Naoto…Naoto…Naoto…"
"Huuuh, yeah? I'm Naoto?" Naoto murmured. 'I don't like this…'
"Naoto…Kurogane" The girl suddenly said, shocking Naoto and Nejire. No one of them said Naoto's surname, but what Tau said after completely shocked Naoto. "The Azure Heartbeat…I felt it…the Azure…" Suddenly, Tau made a creepy…homicidal…and lustuful smile. "I felt the Azure!" She shouted as a white energy came out from her, her right hand trying to grab Naoto by his throat.
'She knows about Azure?!' In that instant, Naoto mentally shouted as he was pulled away from Tau by Nejire before he grabbed his friend's hand.
"Nao-kun!" With an incredible speed thanks to the usage of Wave Motion, Nejire managed to reach him fast enough before Tau could grab and do something on Naoto with whatever her Quirk is.
"Nejire, let's run!" Naoto shouted as he suddenly started to do it, followed by Nejire.
"What does she mean with 'Azure', Nao-kun?! Do you know her?!" Nejire shouted.
'Damnit, I cannot explain anything!' Naoto mentally cursed himself for still keeping the secret as the two continued to run until they reached a lifeless street. "No, I don't know what she means!"
"Don't run away, Azure!" With a more robotic voice, Tau suddenly appeared before them as she shouted to Naoto, but the two students saw that she was wearing a strange armor; infact, she looked like a mecha now: Her face is covered by a visor with horn-like antennae and a single, glowing red eye. Over her jumpsuit, she wears a harness which is attached to a blue jewel and to her shoulder guards. The shoulder guards are attached to her arm guards, which have small blades. The armor's most distinctive feature is the plate armor covering her legs. These armored leggings are mounted with swords that serve as weapons for her. These swords often float behind her in a pattern similar to wings.
For Naoto, it took zero seconds to recognize the girl's armor. "A Prime Field?!" He suddenly shouted, confusing Nejire.
"Prime field…?" The girl said before her attention fell on the mysterious girl once again.
"Second objective's target localization: The Azure fragment—" Raising her left hand, around Tau appeared several white swords from thin air. "—Commencening recovery of the Azure"
'Those swords…!' Gritting his teeth, Naoto glared at the girl as he recognized those words. "Nejire, go away!" He said as he pushed Nejire inside another street.
"Nao-kun, no!" Nejire shouted as she tried to reach Naoto with her hand, but she stopped when the white swords were suddenly thrown towards Naoto, the latter dodging them. "I cannot leave you!"
"You have to! Say to the sensei that I've escaped towards the north side of the city!" Naoto suddenly rolled when more summoned swords by Tau were launched towards the boy before they were thrusted in the ground. "Now!"
"B-But—"
"Go! I'm the target, not you! If you dare to do something…I'll never forgive you!" Naoto shouted. He glared at Nejire before he ran inside an alleyway as Tau flew after him, continuing to summon and fire the swords.
"Nao-kun!" Lifting her hand, Nejire concentrated as spiral shockwaves appeared around her limb—
I'll never forgive you!
Gasping, Nejire lowered her hand as she dissipated the spiral shockwaves. She never saw Naoto glaring at her in that way. "Nao-kun…" Taking her phone out, Nejire tried to call her homeroom teacher until she raised the glance up to the sky, noticing seven enormous pillars of white light appeared in the sky, followed by an incredible explosion that raised a literal dome of dust around the city, releasing a powerful shockwave that made the buildings tremble.
Nao-kun…!
The 30 years old man, Jien Ramhel, was having a good day. Under the identity of the Mysterious Hero "Zet", he simply wears his casual clothes under a black coat around his body with the hood on his head.
He has been helping the police escort a group of villains since dawn. Honestly, the Hero was going to go back home and hit the bed until he received a notification on his phone.
Villain attack in the center of Atami
Many greetings at his well-deserved sleep. Jien had made his way to the attack site as quickly as possible, but upon his arrival he made a nasty discovery—
"Oh my Lord…!"
The entire zone of the city was a literal battlefield. Buildings were ablaze from being damaged by explosions, streets were missing entire sections as if someone had gutted them with a kilometer-long sword, and around the Pro Hero, countless civilians were fleeing…or hadn't made it.
Gritting his teeth, Jien saw that various Pro Heroes were at least trying to help everyone they could see, but the damages the zone sustained were beyond their current powers.
"Zet!"
Turning his head to the one who called him, the Hero nodded at the muscular man known as— "Deatharms, what the hell happened?!"
"Hell, if I could explain—" Deatharms stated before a sudden explosion came out from a building from the other side of the zone. "—Damnit! Zet, go there! Your Quirk is perfect for this crap!"
"All by myself?!" The hooded Hero glared at his colleague.
"Do you see a different option?!" Deatharms pointed around them. "All the Heroes gathered here are Heroes suitable for rescue! You're the only chance we have to stop the Villain!"
"Do we have any—Ah, forget it!" Jien gritted his teeth when another explosion happened. "You owe me a beer if I survive!"
"Just go there, bastard!" Deatharms glared at the man who was running towards the explosion. Inhaling, the Pro Hero started to shout orders to the civilians and the other Heroes as well, but Jien was too far away to hear his screams.
Ignoring the civilians and destruction around him, Zet runned towards the new explosions until he stopped when, from a burning building, someone…flew out of it.
"A…girl?!" Jien watched in horror as the figure of a preadolescent ginger haired girl landed in front of him. She appeared to be wearing a mecha-like suit, as if it was taken from an anime.
"Azure: Lost" The girl spoke to herself. Jien was shocked when he noticed that her tone of voice was cold like a machine. "New objective: Scanning for find the Azure"
This girl…she's really the culprit? I cannot believe!
Exhaling, Jien stepped towards the girl. He cannot hesitate if she was really the culprit! "Stay where you are and don't move! In the name of justice, you're under arrest!"
"Scanning…scanning…scanning…" The girl repeated those words, clearly ignoring the Hero's actions.
"Y-You leave me no choice then!" Zet clenched his fists. She was a kid, but she destroyed an entire zone of the center of Musutafu! Dashing towards the girl, he raised his right fist as he shouted. "Zero!"
Zero, or as he loves to call it "Zero Force", allows its User to power up his body beyond his natural limits, but losing resistance as a toll. A simple run will result in a 'teleport'-like movement, and raising a mere train is proof of his strength!
With such speed and power, Zet has the ability to aim at the Top Ten Heroes…but he never knew that this will be his last fight when his foe moved—
S-She saw my movements?!
Indeed, the girl not only saw his movements, but she swerved around him as she was still hovering. Bringing his left arm back, the Hero parried a prodigious jab from the girl, but what shocked the man was the force behind the girl's blow. She was so strong that made the man fly away from her, smashing his back against a car with enough strength that Jien could hear his back crack.
Holding his chest, Zet coughed blood. She's strong…!
"The Unit found a new target" The girl said. "Begin elimination of the target. Authorized the use of Sword Summoner"
Elimination…?! Glancing at the girl as he stepped out from the car, Zet saw a group of 8 blades be deployed from the girl's back before she threw them towards him. He tried to get free from the car, but— "My…legs…I…I don't feel them…!"
"Commencing elimination" Raising her hands, the girl threw the blades—or to be fair, the blades flew without someone throwing them with their hands, toward their target.
"Heh…guess I'll never drink…that beer, Deatharms…" Zet closed his eyes. He knew when something is over, and it looked like his Hero Career and his life were going to end very soon—
— If only someone did not stomp the ground between them, followed by a sound of blades clashing against different blades and the voice of a boy. "Thanks, old man. Now you can leave this to me"
"W-What…?" Zet glanced at the boy. Between him and the girl were a boy with eye-length messy brown hair with an ahoge poking up at the top of his hair. "A kid…? Go away!"
"Sorry mister, but I can't do it" The boy said as he walked towards the girl, who started to speak again.
"Original target: The Azure…found. Commencing operation of retrieve the Azure"
Azu…re?
"Oi, Murakumo" The boy started to talk as he raised his right hand. "This will hurt, but I won't let you do more damage than this. I'll break that thing, and I'll save you!"
"Commencing attack"
"Bloodedge!"
Before he passed away, the last thing Zet saw was a crimson blade clash against several snow white blades.
The Wheel of Fate is Turning…