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Chapter 7
Speedsters' Enemies
Fumikage and Dark Shadow moved around to dodge the rainbow beams that Rainbow Raider was firing at them both. "Dark Shadow seems to be very susceptible to his attack!" the former thought.
"Haha! What's the matter? Can't handle the power of the rainbow?" taunted Rainbow Raider. While he was busy trying to hit Fumikage, Ochako rammed into him from behind, using her Quirk on him the moment she touched him so that he became lighter and flew across the room, hitting the wall.
Rainbow Raider fell to the floor and then got back up, but before he could do anything, Dark Shadow swipes its claw at him to send him tumbling away. The villain got back up while groaning in pain and anger. "You've asked for it! Let's see how you like this!" he said as he glared at Dark Shadow, and then his visor glowed in red light.
Dark Shadow's eyes turned red, and then the shadowy being let out a roar of anger and began thrashing around. "Dark Shadow?! What are you doing?!" asked Fumikage in surprise. He tried to get Dark Shadow to obey, but the latter was behaving aggressively and even threatened its master.
"My visor can also be used to alter the emotions of people, and I've inflicted rage on whatever that thing is!" explained Rainbow Raider.
"How dare you?! Change him back at once!" said Ochako before running at Rainbow Raider.
"Would you like to let loose your rage as well?" the villain asked her as his visor glowed red. Ochako closed her eyes and held her hands over her face to avoid seeing the glowing visor, only to get hit by a rainbow beam and knocked back. "Ha! Fooled ya!"
Ochako got back up while groaning in pain. When Rainbow Raider fired at her again, she hurriedly lightened her weight and leaped into the air at a fast speed. She then fell towards the villain with a drop kick, increasing her weight in the process.
The villain jumped back, so she only managed to hit the floor right in front of him. However, almost as soon as she landed, Ochako performed a leg sweep that knocked Rainbow Raider onto the floor, and then acting fast, she elbow slammed him in the abdomen hard. While he was in pain, she removed his visor and turned to Fumikage, who was still trying to control the enraged Dark Shadow.
"How does this thing work?" she wondered as she put on the visor and felt her hands all over it, and it suddenly released various lights that shined onto Dark Shadow. A few seconds later, the shadowy creature returned to normal.
"You're back to normal!" Fumikage said to it. The latter felt embarrassed for what it did.
"Why you?! Give it back!" said Rainbow Raider angrily as he grabbed Ochako by her shoulders from behind. Because his body was still light, Ochako was easily able to flip him over herself just by bending forward at a fast speed, and he was thrown into the air. "Whoa!"
Dark Shadow then swatted him out of the air, sending him into a wall hard. Ochako canceled her Quirk on him after that, and he fell onto the floor and passed out. "All right! That should teach him!" said Ochako happily.
"The darkness of justice has overcome the rainbow of evil!" said Fumikage.
Katsuki yelled loudly as he charged at Girder and thrust forth his palm, colliding it with the latter's fist. After the impact was made, an explosion came out from Katsuki's palm, pushing back Girder a number of steps.
Eijiro charged at Girder afterwards with his body hardened, hitting the villain in the side with a shoulder bash. He then punched Girder nonstop. "You brat!" said Girder in anger as he slammed down his fist like a hammer onto him. Eijiro held his arms over himself for defense, though the force of the punch was so strong that he was made to bend against his will, but he mustered his strength to push against the fist.
Katsuki ran at Girder and slammed both his hands into the villain, generating an explosion after doing so to blast the villain away into a wall so hard that cracks appeared on it.
Eijiro ran up to Girder to punch him again, this time trying to hit harder than before. Girder caught his fist after a few times, however, and then picked him up to slam him against the floor multiple times before hurling him away. Eijiro was able to land on his feet and come to a sliding stop, revealing a body that had become extremely rugged and monstrous-looking.
"You'll have to hit harder than that to break through my defense!" said Eijiro. He charged at Girder, ramming the metallic villain with all his might and pushing him into the wall, making more cracks appear on it.
"Out of the way!" shouted Katsuki as he released explosions behind himself to propel towards the villain at a fast speed. Eijiro got out of the way just as Katsuki got close to Girder and pressed his hands against the villain, releasing an explosion that blasted him through the wall and outside the museum.
Girder soared through the air and crashed onto the pavement hard, and all the cars stopped just in time to avoid running into him. Looking out, Eijiro said as he returned to normal, "Yeah! We did it! Our manly teamwork took him down!"
"You want to take on me?" Tar Pit asked Shouto, who approached him.
"I feel like my powers are the most fitting to take you down," said Shouto.
"Haha! Talk big! Whatever power you have won't be enough to take me down!" said Tar Pit. "Eat this!" He hurled a chunk of molten tar at Shouto, who hurriedly created an ice wall to block it. However, the temperature of the tar melted through the ice wall at a fast speed, so he had to get out of the way.
After doing so, Shouto sent out ice along the floor at Tar Pit, freezing him starting from the feet. Due to Tar Pit's high body temperature, however, the ice wasn't able to get far before melting, and the villain laughed. "Ha! Ice powers? That's the worst possible power to use against me!"
"You won't know until I get serious!" said Shouto.
"I'd like to see you get a serious burn on your skin!" said Tar Pit as he threw more tar chunks at him, but Shouto generated ice under his feet to slide out of the way fast.
"No thanks. Getting burned once was enough!" replied the latter, referring to the scar on his face he received from his mother. He then fired ice shards at Tar Pit, but they melted shortly after embedding into his body.
Tar Pit was suddenly hit in the side by a strong, concentrated blast of water. "What the?!"
It was Momo who created a high pressure water gun to shoot water at Tar Pit, and cold water at that. Steam came out from Tar Pit's body when he was shot with the cold water, and he could feel his body temperature dropping, as evident of the glowing orange parts of his body slowly becoming dim.
"Now's the chance!" thought Shouto as he released ice along the floor and towards Tar Pit again. Due to the villain now having a lower body temperature, the ice was able to climb up him without freezing this time.
"Why you?!" said Tar Pit angrily as he attempted to heat up, but with Momo shooting cold water at him nonstop, he was unable to do so properly. Soon, the ice was able to freeze Tar Pit completely.
"All right! We did it!" exclaimed Momo.
"That's that," said Shouto, and then he turned to Momo and thanked her.
"I'll show you what the Still Force is capable of!" said the Turtle as he created a chain made out of green energy.
"What?! He can do that as well?!" asked Izuku in surprise. "I thought it was simply generating a dome that causes slowness?! And Still Force? Is that related to the Speed Force?"
"I can also create solid constructs, and whatever they hit will slow down for several seconds!" said the Turtle as he swung the chain over his head several times. "Try to dodge it if you can!" He swung the chain at Izuku and Tenya, who used the help of their Quirks to dodge the swings.
Eventually, the chain construct disappeared due to reaching its time limit, and so Tenya dashed at the villain. "He has a cooldown of 2.7 seconds! I must hit fast!" the former thought. He attack the Turtle with a jet-powered kick, but the villain was protected by his turtle armor, and Tenya felt as if his bone broke from the kick. "YEOW!"
"Fool! You think you can easily break my turtle armor with a kick?" asked the Turtle while smiling evilly. When the cooldown time was up, he created a sword construct and swung it at Tenya, who tried his best to escape, but was still cut in the shoulder.
Not only was there was a visible wound on his shoulder, his movements also slowed down. "Oh... no...!" Even his talking slowed down.
The Turtle tried to stab Tenya with the sword while the latter was still slowed down, but Izuku dashed at Tenya and carried him out of harm's way fast. Tenya's speed returned to normal afterwards, and he placed his hand over the wound on his shoulder and grunted in pain. "Are you all right?" Izuku asked him in concern.
"It's not a big problem, but I feel ashamed for messing up!" said Tenya. "I thought my kick would be strong enough to knock him over, but his armor is tough!"
"That's right! A turtle's shell is not something you can break through so easily! My turtle armor is easily several times harder than a normal turtle shell! Even the Flash running into me at a fast speed can't knock me over!" boasted the Turtle.
"Too bad for him, he left his head wide open," Izuku said in his head while observing the villain.
Izuku approached the villain, getting ready to make a move, and the Turtle said, "You want a piece of me too? You won't be able to get to me in time before I use my Still Force!"
"We'll see about that!" said Izuku as he approached the villain. The villain was going to get ready to generate his "slow dome" when suddenly Izuku released a large amount of smoke from his body.
"What the?!" asked the Turtle in shock as the smoke engulfed him. "Where'd all this smo..." Before he could finish speaking, Izuku punched him in the face hard and sent him flying backwards until he hit a wall. The villain then fell over on the floor and passed out.
"You should've worn a helmet or a mask for protection!" Izuku said to him as the smoke dissipated.
"You did it, Midoriya!" Tenya said to him. "But where did the smoke come from? Did you create it?"
Izuku wasn't sure how to respond to him. The smokescreen was the Quirk of one of the previous One For All users, and he had wanted to keep his other Quirks a secret from his classmates, other than Katsuki ,since they do not know the truth behind his Quirk.
"I... I think my Quirk is still developing... New stuff are popping out all the time..." he lied to Tenya.
"Strange... I have never seen a Quirk with so many applications before that look unrelated..." said Tenya. "First, the black ropes, and now the smoke..."
"Yeah, I'm confused and surprised as well... Hopefully I can solve this soon..." said Izuku, hoping that Tenya wouldn't pry into things any more.
"I'm sure you can! You're smart when it comes to this sort of thing after all!" Tenya told him while giving him a thumbs up.
Izuku then looked around to see that his classmates had finished dealing with the other villains. He then asked, "Where is the Flash?"
"He was still here when we were fighting," said Tenya.
"Everyone! The Flash is fighting outside!" called out Eijiro, who was looking out the hole on the wall created when Girder was knocked outside. Everyone ran to him and Katsuki and looked out to see three speeding figures outside the museum running around and occasionally running into each other.
The Flash and Kid Flash ran around the place, chasing Zoom, but sometimes it would become Zoom chasing the two of them instead. They occasionally dashed into each other and traded super fast punches for a few seconds before running off to chase each other again.
"You cannot beat me!" Zoom said to him as he ran alongside the Flash. "I'm faster than you!"
"I wonder where I heard that before," said the Flash in a sarcastic manner.
Zoom zoomed ahead of him and then u-turned to run towards him. The Flash got out of the way to avoid getting rammed into by Zoom. Zoom saw Kid Flash running into him up ahead and so began vibrating incredibly fast to let the younger speedster phase through him.
When Kid Flash went passed him completely, Zoom reached back at a fast speed and caught him by the shoulder to hurl him away into a tree. The Flash charged at Zoom after that to throw a punch, but Zoom reacted in time and stepped out of the way. The two speedsters faced each other and threw punches that they either dodged or clashed against each other.
Meanwhile, the students came out of the museum and to the same area. They were amazed at the speed those two were moving at as they fought. "They're fast...! I can barely see them! This is more than my older brother and I can run!" said Tenya in awe.
"Wow! I've never seen such a fast-paced battle before!" said Izuku.
"Kid Flash!" said Momo, pointing at the younger speedster who was getting back up after hitting the tree.
The students ran up to him, and Ochaco asked him, "Are you all right?"
"I'm fine. Speedsters heal faster than other people," Kid Flash told him.
"Should we help the Flash?" asked Shouto.
"I don't see how we can help them, considering the way they are moving around..." said Fumikage.
The Flash spun in circles, generating a large amount of electricity until he formed a spear made of electricity in his hand. "Whoa! He can do that?!" asked Izuku in surprise.
"Kaminari would love to be able to do that!" said Eijiro.
The Flash threw the electric spear at Zoom as the villain ran towards him. However, the villain stepped to the side at the last second and continued heading for the Flash, this time successfully ramming into him and knocking him on his back. Zoom grabbed him by the neck and vibrated his other hand. "I've got you now!" Zoom said to him. "You're finished!"
"No!" Kid Flash shouted as he ran into Zoom, but the villain threw the Flash into him, knocking them both away.
"Fool! No one can ever be fast enough to catch up with me!" said Zoom.
"That villain is good!" said Ochako in disbelief. "Even the Flash and Kid Flash working together can't take him down, and those two are supposed to be as fast as him!"
"How can such a fast villain be taken down?!" asked Momo.
"Simple! Just catch him by surprise!" said Katsuki as he pointed his palm at Zoom, who had his head turned away from them. He fired a concentrated exploding beam at Zoom, hoping to hit him before he could realize it, only for the villain to run out of the way the last second and appear behind a surprised Katsuki.
"Fool! This will be the death of you!" said Zoom as he vibrated his hand at an incredibly fast speed, ready to stab Katsuki's back. However, he was interrupted by Tenya dashing into him using his engines.
"If you want a battle of speed, I'll give you one!" said Tenya before running at Zoom. The student dashed around the place, trying to ram into Zoom, who was able to dodge his attacks with ease.
"You dare call yourself a speedster with a speed like this? You are an insult to everything fast!" said Zoom. When Tenya dashed towards him again, he stepped aside and kicked him in the leg to make him trip.
"Iida!" said Izuku in shock.
Before Zoom could do anything to Tenya, the Flash charged into him to stop him. Kid Flash also joined in on attacking Zoom afterwards.
The students ran up to Tenya, and Momo asked him if he was all right. "I'm all right. Just a small scrape to the knee..." replied the class president.
"It was unlike of you to charge into him head-on," Shouto said to him. "You're usually the one telling us not to be hasty."
"I know... You can say that I sort of got jealous seeing how the Flash and even Zoom are capable of running so fast, so I desperately wanted to prove that I can move faster than I currently am..." replied Tenya.
"You have your own way of utilizing your speed, so you do not have to force yourself to run like them," Fumikage told him.
"Right! You have your own way of fighting! It's not only about being fast, but also about using your speed in the right way!" Izuku told him. "There is more than one way to beat fast villains and not just simply trying to catch up with them!
"You're right... I have think a better way to deal with someone that fast," said Tenya in agreement. Looking at the three speedsters engaged in their battle, something came to Tenya. "Todoroki, try freezing the ground. Let's see Zoom try to run on slippery surface!"
"You sure this is a good idea?" Shouto asked him. "The Flash and Kid Flash will slip as well."
"Not according to what I've learned in the Flash Museum! Just do it!" Tenya told him.
Though unsure about what he said, Shouto still did as told. He stepped towards the fighting speedsters and then caused a large portion of the ground up ahead to be covered in a layer of ice.
When the ice went underneath Zoom, the villain was surprised as he struggled to not slip, and this resulted in him slowing down. The Flash, however, did not slow down even a bit, so he was able to catch up with Zoom and punch him hard in the face, knocking him down. Kid Flash didn't slip as well, and he punched Zoom in the face next.
"They got him!" exclaimed Izuku.
"All right! That was a smart move!" said Eijiro happily.
"While in the museum, there was a diagram showing the various functions of the Flash's costume, and it said that his boots are slip-proof," said Tenya. "I wasn't sure if Zoom applied the same thing to his costume, but it's good to know he didn't!"
"You paid attention well, kid!" the Flash said to Tenya. "I did indeed give myself slip-proof boots so that I can run on slippery surfaces without a problem! Kid Flash did the same. Too bad they don't help against the Trickster's marbles..."
Standing back up on ground that wasn't frozen, Zoom said, "You think a bit of ice is going to beat me? It will take more than..." He was interrupted by two blurs charging into him one after the other, hitting him hard.
"Oh nice!" said the Flash. "Time to finish this!" He and Kid Flash joined the other two blurs in attacking Zoom, not giving him the chance to fight back.
Zoom found himself outnumbered and even overpowered, so he decided to retreat for now. He looked for an opening and then hurriedly ran... right in the student's direction. Acting fast, Tenya kicked him hard with the help of his engines.
KIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICK!
Zoom was knocked back into the air and came crashing back down. Combined with the beating he received from the other speedsters previously, the kick and the fall was finally able to knock him out.
"All right! We won!" said Eijiro happily.
"That was a fast reaction time!" Momo said to Tenya.
"Fast reaction times are necessarily for speedsters, and I can assure you that I do practice that!" said Tenya.
"Great job!" the Flash said to Tenya. "That was a nice kick! You really gave him a boot to the face!"
The other two new speedsters stopped. One of them is an old man wearing a metal winged helmet, while the other one is a brown-haired teenager in a white and red suit. "That old man! He's the first Flash! The same one we saw at the museum!" said Izuku in excitement when he saw the former.
"It really is him!" said Momo in surprise.
The two speedsters approached the students, and the old man said to Tenya, "Nice move there, young one! He really could've escaped if you didn't stop him!"
"I am glad to be of help, but it wouldn't have been possible without you in the first place!" Tenya said to him.
"Sup, folks! Impulse at your service!" said the speedster in white and red, and he shook their hands at a fast speed.
"It's nice to meet other speedsters! I feel honored!" Izuku happily said to them.
"This is Jay Garrick, the original Flash who inspired me to become a hero after I got my powers," the Flash explained to the students. "And Impulse here is my grandson. He comes from the future."
"From the future?! Then how is he here?!" asked Ochako in surprise.
"Time travel! Speedsters are capable of doing this without the need of time machines if they know how!" Impulse told her.
"Time travel is real here as well?! Man, this world is full of surprises!" said Eijiro in disbelief.
"If you come from the future, then why are you here?" Shouto asked Impulse.
"Felt like meeting my ancestors, that's all! Not like I don't go back to my own time period at all, mind you," replied Impulse. "Even if the world now is primitive compared to where I am from, it's still got its own neat tastes!"
"You know, we should be making sure that the villains don't get back up and run first..." said Kid Flash.
"Right! Let's deal with them first!" agreed the Flash.
Several minutes later, all the villains were taken away by the police. The students learned that the police departments of this world have access to power dampeners so that they can easily detain metahumans.
After going to a place with lesser people, the students explained to Jay and Impulse about who they are. "Neat! A place filled with superheroes that make money through crime fighting sounds like my kind of thing!" said Impulse.
"It's always nice to see someone who agrees with this!" said Ochako.
"While that may sound like a dream job for folks like you, it's important to always take saving lives as number one priority," Jay told them. "Even in circumstances you can't get anything in return, you should still continue to fight for what's right. That is what is most important about being a hero! I've been fighting crime for several years already, and not once did I get a physical reward for all that I've did, yet I never complained even once. The smiles on the people's face are good enough rewards!"
"Indeed, saving lives is important, and we will do it regardless we get rewarded or not!" said Tenya.
The other said the same, though Ochako still thought having income does bring about more motivation.
After that, Izuku asked the Flash, "While I was fighting the Turtle, he mentioned that his power is something called the Still Force. It sounds a lot like the Speed Force. Are they related?"
"It's a cosmic force similar to the Speed Force," the Flash told him. "Whereas the Speed Force is all speed and motion, the Speed Force is the opposite."
"I see... Are there several of these cosmic forces in the universe that grant people powers?" asked Izuku.
"I'm not an expert in other types of cosmic forces other than the Speed Force, so I can't really give you a satisfying answer..." said the Flash. "All I know is that this universe is full of mysterious and unexplainable stuff that if solved, may very well answer every question in life. Perhaps the question to the origin of Quirks in your world may be answered!"
Hearing this made Izuku interested. It would appear that this world, or even the entire universe, is a lot bigger than he thought, and he wondered if he would be able to find out more about all the mysterious things in the universe.
TO BE CONTINUED
And that's the end of this arc! I hope you enjoyed this one better than the previous one! And please, cut it down on story suggestions in your reviews...
Izuku will be using more than just power stockpiling in this story. You can see that he used Smokescreen here, and you can be sure that he will be using some of his other Quirks down the line!
Next chapter, new characters from the MHA world will be arriving and meet the students they thought got kidnapped!
