Inspirational Songs:
Escape Ost - Owari no Seraph
~NRK~
Fuyumi's eyes widened as Endeavor frowned, their rush coming to a halt as they reached one of the 'ten pillars' around Naruhata.
"What?!" Her eyes snapped around to the base of the flames, bluish-gray eyes not letting what reached them escape without scrutiny. "... there's something in the flames," she frowned as Enji followed suit.
It'd been something black and big, seeming to be a big ball of some sort that kept burning without so much as a single flicker. "It seems the villains are prepared… or…" He frowned as she blinked at him. "Ten pillars, the locations aren't random, either, Unity."
Her eyes widened as she considered what that meant. '... oh no?!' She quickly pulled out her phone, the satellite map app of Tokyo telling her everything she needed to know as she saw the small 'stickers' she'd inputted at the beginning of their internships.
"It's around the ward Obito's in!"
Their phones rang.
~NRK~
Onemu frowned as she followed after her Pro Hero. "Ingenium, this isn't good!"
"I know," the man said with his helmet on, the two of them rushing down the street. "Flaming pillars and the circle they're making."
"Why, though? What? Are they containing something?"
"... I'm worried about what that 'something' is if they are."
Their phones rang and they double-timed it.
~NRK~
"What?!" Hawks choked as Suiryu flinched at the news, Nagant grimacing behind them. "Hold on, that's… wait… aren't they arranged weirdly?" He frowned as his eyebrows furrowed.
"... I-It's a circle, I think," Suiryu said.
"And it's around the Naruhata ward…" Nagant grimaced. 'That's where Obito and Onemu are. Fuyumi is in a nearby ward but not at the epicenter,' so that was concerning when she considered she knew nothing else special about that ward.
This wasn't good.
~NRK~
Kamui lunged at the living corpse as more of that odd mist left its back 'exhausts'.
'It's something to block my fire skills,' the make-up of it looked like that of a fire extinguisher. 'Something's off about this?' And the heat was turning up.
He skipped to the side, dodging the downward slash of its 'claws' that carved into the ground before kicking out.
A burst of white fire sent its head snapping to the side and took it off its feet before the reborn Uchiha stepped down and in, left tonfa slamming into the side of its face where his kick had landed.
It was sent tumbling but he gave it no reprieve, his form appearing at its side with flaming steps and kneeing it in the stomach, sending the creature sky-high in another flaming explosion.
His form blurred as he appeared above it with sharp bursts of fire, right tonfa reared back.
The creature's face crunched inward as he brought the 'hammer' down.
"Aerial Prominence!"
The explosion rocked the air as it was sent into the ground in a crater that covered the street, form still sitting in the air with flaming feet-huh?
Kamui blinked as he stumbled, eyes widening as he looked down at his whit-red flames?!
'What?' But he was sure he'd been fast enough to escape that mist… his eyes widened as his Sharingan burned, looking around.
The particles of that mist… they were expanding in the heat?!
"This thing… the fires," it wasn't some random abomination-?
A form appeared at his side, hissing wounds healing into smooth black skin with its right claw raised-
A series of bandages wrapped around the creature's neck and shoulder, throwing it off-balance and allowing Kamui's kick to send it cannonballing back into the ground once more.
He landed next to the also-landing Eraserhead. "Eraserhead, this thing, it's-"
"Seemingly built to take down your quirk, yeah, I noticed," the man grimaced. "I watched as we planned, and this creature, it's not that strong. It's fast, though, but it doesn't have the power to really beat you down. It's made to tire flame users like Kamui out."
"Why?"
"..." The Pro Hero grimaced. "You might have made more of a splash than you ever could have wanted?"
"Sounds horrible," Kamui said as he looked around. "Those heated pillars, they're expanding the chemicals it's spouting… this was a planned effort to either get rid of every flame hero… or…
"Get rid of you."
The creature was back on its feet.
~NRK~
Ujiko chuckled maniacally as Dabi frowned.
"By changing the properties of nitrogen and CO2, we can suffocate his pyrokinesis while reassuring that any others who come too close will begin to lose themselves due to the concentration of the carbon dioxide."
On-screen, several civilians began to struggle to breathe, those closest looking like they were burning up.
"Apply the excess heat and we've got a dangerous case of asphyxiation and heatstroke!"
The young man frowned. "They don't seem too bothered," he said, pointing to the two heroes in combat with the Nomu.
"Well, obviously, the expansion keeps being evaded but, soon, they won't have anywhere to run! Even now, Dabi, the air's becoming mixed in above them. What do you think will happen if more CO2 fills the atmosphere?!"
His eyes widened as the mad doctor grinned.
"It'll ALL come crashing down!"
~NRK~
Kamui grimaced as he noted Eraserhead's sweat, the two of them tossing the creature before them around with as much force as possible.
"Hmph!" The Pro's eyes burned and the production of that chemical mist was deactivated. "30 seconds before I'll blink, five seconds until I can keep my eyes open for a long period of time again," he whispered as Kamui's eyebrows furrowed.
They kicked the living corpse away before his tonfa spun in the air by his head, the boy's hands blurring to his black box.
Four kunai slammed into their opponent's body by the throat, thigh, left of its sternum, and one right in between its 'fang crown'. Odd smelling wires coming off their handles were tracked back to Kamui's hands before he crossed them all by his mouth and he clamped down with a flame of red flames.
The flames slammed into the corpse's body before setting it ablaze in blue flames though to much less effectiveness than he would have preferred but he kept blazing it as Eraserhead grimaced, a pager on his belt ringing.
"We've got reinforcements coming! We can hold out!" The Pro told the boy as he grimaced. 'The CO2 is becoming a problem,' they wouldn't last in a battle of attrition!
"COMIN THROUGH!" Came a voice from behind before a blur slammed into the living corpse and dragged it down the street as a shadow shot overhead.
"BULL FORCE!"
The wind was tossed up, the wind pressure crashing into their opponent's chest and knocking it farther back as their newest reinforcements arrived on the scene.
"Eraserhead!" Ingenium called out as he skidded back by the two while a familiar girl landed moments later. "Bull Queen, keep your breaths steady, the air around us is full of CO2 and nitrogen!" He said as he held a finger to the side of his helmet, the sound of random whirling reaching their ears. 'This isn't good,' had they been fighting in this the entire time?
Of course, the current readings he could get were that the space around the four of them was less suffocating but that wasn't a big line to cross.
"Thanks, Bull Queen," Kamui said as she nodded.
"You alright?" The girl asked with a frown. "... and make sure to breathe through your nose more, Kamui, you'll need to keep as much of that in while we're here."
"You're right."
"Focus on me," she said slowly as he turned to her.
Hands by her chest, he copied.
"Sharp inhale and then a large one."
He followed and felt that flow increase. 'I see,' he'd really need to look into martial arts breathing exercises. "Thanks."
"No problem. Just do the same in reverse and keep it up, don't let your breathing fall short!"
He nodded, focusing inward as they watched that zombie get back up. 'Again and again,' he needed something definitive…? "Hmm?"
He looked at its fang crown and blinked as the explosion from his Gas Kunai… the bones…
Weren't regenerating? "What?" He blinked as the others looked at him.
"What is it?" Eraserhead asked.
"The crown? Why didn't it regenerate?" Kamui asked and the group blinked. "I hit it with an explosion from my Gas Kunai. They've laced and filled with some of the most effective gas known to mankind and I exploded it onto its face…" He considered an idea. "... Make an opening for me," he said as he plucked another Gas Kunai from his black box.
He flipped one of his tonfa around and cranked the handle a bit.
An opening slot slid into existence and he notched the gassed-up projectile within.
"I'll end it."
"Kamui…" Ingenium frowned while Eraserhead sighed.
"It's life, we can't play with this thing… it's not alive, Bull Queen, Ingenium… it's a walking corpse," the Erasure Hero explained as the two flinched, the girl more so.
Looking back at the creature, they all blinked as its back bubbled.
"What?"
Then those 'bubbling masses' burst out and, in their place horrifyingly, were four pale-white figures with pants and humanoid forms, that was it.
Each of them had eyes and a deformed mouth with an exposed brain membrane, every one of their backs having a large exhaust in them.
The original being, the original corpse, stood up, its form now shorter by two feet but far less bulky.
"... That's just disgusting," Bull Queen nearly gagged as Ingenium and Eraserhead grimaced.
The original corpse made a roar of some sort, the four small minions turning to the group.
~NRK~
"Ugh," Dabi grimaced as Ujiko chuckled.
"Haha, well, it's helpful to separate the boy from the others," he said with a chuckle as the four separate lower-level Nomus began to rush off with impressive speed. "And they can spread the chemicals faster-"
A blaze of blue, a burst of white, and four dead bodies sat on the street.
Their eyes widened.
~NRK~
Eraserhead's eyes widened as Kamui hefted his one tonfa, the other put back.
The reason? The now blazing flames, a powerful blue, now covered the weapon with a spiraling white flame around it.
"Hmph," the crispy corpses were ignored by the young man as he turned to the large zombie. "You're next," Kamui said as it lunged at him. 'You're not that fast.'
Concentrated blue flames disarmed, literally, the black corpse, the creature flopping onto the ground behind him.
Kamui raised his tonfa, too aim, and allowed the flames to elongate into a puncturing beam-
It vanished from sight, alarming the former Uchiha.
"BEHIND YOU!" Bull Queen alerted him as he turned to see not a de-armed creature… but one with six liquid arms.
"What-?" The UA student couldn't block the him-sized fist that slammed into his side. "Hmph!"
Kamui was sent flying and through a bakery, the sound of two more crashes letting them know it was worse than that.
"SHIT!" She cursed before lunging at the living corpse. "You bastard!"
~NRK~
"Phew," the doctor leaned back in his seat in relief. "I didn't think he could force this one to use its fifth quirk."
"Increased speed," Dabi counted off. "The birthing skill, super-regen, the exhaust pipes, water abilities, it has five quirks?" He was alarmed while Ujiko chuckled.
"Five? You're thinking a bit too narrow there my boy."
Dabi's eyes widened.
~NRK~
"Bull Queen, don't!" Eraserhead grimaced before his eyes flashed red again, the corpse's water abilities dissipating. 'Dammit, kid, don't die on me!' He ran after his intern. "I'll keep its skills down! Handle it until we're back!"
"On it," Ingenium's thrusters ignited and he reached the creature at the same time as Bull Queen's fists did. "Turbo Charge!"
"Bull Force!"
The air pressure and high-speed charge sent the living corpse crashing down the street, tearing up the ground and leaving it in a smoking crater.
Eraserhead, meanwhile, grimaced as he jumped through two buildings to find his groaning intern. "Shit, kid," how had it attained such speed?
No, how did it have so many damn QUIRKS?!
Eraserhead grimaced some more as he helped the boy up before frowning at Kamui's right arm.
'That's not good,' as much as he didn't want to think it, Kamui had been right.
That thing, this fight, it was going on too long and they needed to remove it from the equation, no matter what and him killing those four corpses was for the best.
Now? The boy's arm was bent in odd places, the sleeve of his outfit torn up and leaving him with what was most likely a shattered arm and bloody skin.
"Tsk," he unfurled some of his bandages at the grimacing Kamui, the boy's eyes cracking open before he hissed. "This is gonna hurt but we need to set your arm… you're one of our best chances."
"D-Do it," Kamui said and Eraserhead nodded, his bandages quickly being tied around his arm.
The man sighed before taking in that 'steeling' breath and pulled.
"ARGH!" Kamui grunted as cracks were heard, the young man gasping rapidly as he felt each break forced back into form. 'D-Dammit,' still, not even close to being ripped apart by the Juubi's influence…
But oh did it rank in his top 15 most painful injuries.
There was a clatter of stone and footsteps before a towering explosion of fire came into existence, the two turning their heads to see Frost Unity who choked at Kamui.
"Oh my God!" She hurried over and kneeled by his form, eyes going to his arm which Eraserhead was tying off, a special knife coming around to cut his 'bandages' and keep the boy's arm together. "W-What happened, K-Kamui?" Frost Unity swallowed as the boy turned to her.
"That thing… D-Dammit, Frost Unity, it's not normal, it's a living corpse," her eyes widened as he nodded, the two helping him to his feet. "We need to kill it," Kamui said without hesitation as she froze.
"H-Huh?"
"... he's right," the Pro Hero said as she gasped. "It boasts super high-speed regeneration and has quirks that can deny fire-based quirks," his eyes trembled. "We need to hurry up, my quirk won't last forever!" He said as Kamui nodded shakily before hissing as he hobbled ahead. "Come on, Unity, you're working double-time as his back-up."
"Yes, sir!" She said, hurrying up to her friend and holding onto his injured arm. "... O-Obito-kun?"
"I'm fine, Fuyumi-kun, I… we can't let that thing get away… it's after me," he said as her eyes widened. "We're sure about that much. There's too much about it that's tailor-made to combat my abilities. Even your father's will be tampered with and yet it's so fast, faster than me? We think that's the most likely situation."
"The scenario is as such, Frost Unity," Eraserhead said with a frown. "Keep Obito Midoriya away from combat and help him regain some stamina while we either deal with the corpse or hold out until he can muster up the speed and power to end the fight."
She flinched but swallowed with a nod. "A-Alright, Eraserhead," her look of nervousness had him sighing.
"It's fine to not be happy with this, it's not wrong," he said. "But, sadly, it's necessary to have this mindset in the case of a situation you can't solve without possible fatalities."
"He's right but you have another job, Unity," Kamui said as she blinked. "You need to chill the air, we need to stop the CO2 from expanding and suffocating everyone."
Her eyes widened again before narrowing. "A-Alright!"
They hurried out of the buildings and Eraserhead shouted as Endeavor landed.
"My quirk's coming off!" He announced to the group who grimaced. "Tsk."
He blinked.
And the corpse slammed into Ingenium and Bull Queen, both heroes spitting out blood before being dragged across the ground and then tossed into two buildings by its powerful shovel-like hands.
"KAUGH!" They cratered against the apartment buildings they'd been slammed into.
"Tsk!" Endeavor's fists burned. "Flashfire Fist: JET BURN!" His arms reared back.
And then he unleashed two powerful bursts of orange flames that slammed into the creature's chest, sending it flying back and crashing into the street only for its hydrokinesis to curl around its form and heal up.
"Tsk! What the hell is this thing?"
Then it fell to the ground, quirks deactivated by Eraserhead as he landed by the Flame Hero.
"It's a living corpse! Don't let up!" He shouted at the No.2 whose eyes widened before they narrowed and he took a strong stance.
"Is that so?" He ran at the so-called corpse.
"There's a special chemical in the air, your flames won't be as powerful!"
'So that's what that was,' what a nuisance. 'Still, like this, it's nothing more than a target,' he jumped up with his raised fist burning. "HELL MINEFIELD!" Enji came down and slammed his fist into the floor, rupturing the ground.
Flames shot up towards the creature, his eyes narrowing as it jumped out the way before being engulfed by a second explosive tower of flames.
"Burn away, villain!" He shouted at it as he pushed more heat into it… but grimaced as his flames kept flickering. 'It progressed too far,' the fact that he was trying so hard for this meager car-sized tower of fire made his anger boil. "Tsk!"
His move ended and he grimaced as a hiss came from his forehead.
The creature crumpled to the floor… before jumping back onto its feet only to go on all-fours.
'What-?' He hadn't finished his thought before it jumped up and down into… a hole?! "No?!" He shot out a burst of fire that missed as the ground rumbled. "Dammit! Eraserhead!"
"It's still under my quirk's effects but we need to-" Eraserhead began to say only to barely jump away from a pair of shovel hands. "Dammit!" He skipped back as the hands sunk back into the ground. 'It's going for me now, huh?' This wasn't good.
~NRK~
"That's right, Flammen, go after Eraserhead," Ujiko said to a small microphone on his collar before sighing in annoyance. "Those damn heroes really just ignored the tower of flames," he grimaced as he turned several cameras to those ten towers' origins to find heroes of all sorts putting them out. "Tsk, Water Hose," that notable water-based pair of heroes.
Backdraft, Manual, Ace-Splash, Mizuyuki, and more heroes began to douse the flames.
"Tsk."
"Seems things aren't going our way," Dabi frowned as the scientist sighed, holding his forehead. "What's your next move?"
"... we can't grab the boy," the man pouted. "I didn't think he'd be willing to kill so easily, Dabi."
The young man frowned at that sentence. "... I didn't think he had the balls, either," which made him more annoyed.
Not afraid to kill the villain to save the day? That mindset meant more bad things for him.
"Dammit."
~NRK~
Frost Unity kept making ice towers as Kamui hid around a corner, blazing flames into his wounded arm.
'How long will this go on?' Were they making way with the flames? He couldn't see any more than one from here. 'This is such a horrible situation,' he thought before blinking as that tower vanished. "... well, that's good, at least."
He struggled to his feet before holding his tonfa once more with a sigh. Kamui tucked it into his armpit, hissing at the heat a bit but ignoring it, and pulled out another Gas Kunai.
He put it into the empty slot, not a hint of slag left behind from the previous 'cartridge', and resettled it into his hand. "Eraserhead's quirk's not going to last," he told himself as he peeked out of his hiding spot to see the group trying to dodge shovel hands from the ground, Frost Unity up above on the side of a building through some ice stairs.
He watched Endeavor's flames fizzle more and more as they fought but the decay of them slowed, the frost doing its work but it wasn't enough.
"Focus it," he told himself as he remembered Bull Queen's words. 'Short and then large, hold it in,' he took in those breaths and blew out a small stream of fire that circled his neck. 'Focus it all into one single point,' the red flame stream slowly trailed to his feet before encircling them, burning white.
He took a single step and grimaced at the slight 'bounce'.
Adjust, compose yourself, and breathe.
He kept breathing and the air around him grew hot but he kept the flames as close to him as possible, mindful of the CO2 particles that were deterred by a nearby ice pillar.
A single point of attack to bring that thing down.
He skipped out into the street, coiling flames acting as his support before he leaned low, Sharingan blazing as they watched the creature's hands keep popping up.
'Ready yourself,' white fire spiraled around his tonfa slowly burning blue before it blazed in the burning color. "Not yet…"
Eraserhead grimaced as he jumped over another sweeping hand.
"Not yet."
Endeavor growled as he tossed down more flames, the creature's power returning as water shot up a hole and tossed him into a building.
"Not yet," the world around him slowed as he saw the next set of sweeping hands barely miss Bull Queen.
Three more times and his eyes narrowed as the flames around his feet exploded.
"Divinity Point:-"
Ingenium grimaced as Eraserhead's bandages pulled him out the way of another set of big hands. "This is getting worrying, how long can it-?" He said to his fellow Pro who frowned, eyes narrowed as the hands began to retreat into the hole.
And then they saw the blazing blue trail that quickly formed above it, a familiar Divine Flame Hero above the hole.
"Burst Nova."
Blue flames expanded the moment the tonfa slammed into the space between the retreating hands, the holes all around the group glowing bright blue.
Then they erupted into towers of blue light before tossing heat into their faces as Kamui growled.
The flames doubled in pressure before it all came to an end, the boy gasping as he hit his knees, arm trembling as he hit his rear end, the others blinking or sighing in relief.
"Obito-kun!" Fuyumi called out as she came down on a long slide of ice, landing by him and kneeling to his level. "Everything alright?" She asked, concerned.
Obito basked in it for a bit. "I'm definitely in need of medical assistance," he said to her as Onemu came over with a hum.
"Well, t-that help-kaugh!" She said before coughing, covering her mouth with a grimace and looking at her hand to see flecks of blood on it. "I-I think I need to see a hospital," Onemu realized with a pale face.
"We all will," Ingenium said as he closed his phone, the sounds of sirens reaching the group. "And that's our trip."
~NRK~
Sitting in a medical room of Naruhata Hospital, Obito, Onemu, and Tensei sat in medical beds, Obito with the most drastic injury of a cast for his right arm.
Fuyumi and Eraserhead sat in the room, the girl by Obito's bedside while the Pro Hero sat in the middle of the area.
"Whelp, this week turned out more exciting than we would have wanted," Eraserhead huffed as Obito nodded along with Onemu. "Who knew taking on an intern made life so colorful?" He said sarcastically as Obito shrugged.
"Well, it's not like we could plan for it," the boy said as the man groaned before the entryway of the room was invaded by a familiar teacher.
"My precious students!" Nemuri Kayama said as she came in with a worried grin. "Everyone alright?"
"We're not your students," Onemu huffed as the woman wilted a bit. "And Obito's got the worst of it. So, it's more, how's your arm, buddy?"
"Eloquent," Obito said as the bull girl shrugged. "We're fine, for the most part."
"Should you be saying that?" The woman sweatdropped as she came over before looking at his cast and then the x-ray of his it, wincing at the sight. "What hit you, a raging elephant?!"
"... close?"
"Why is that close? Whatever the heck that thing was, it certainly didn't act like a person."
"Yes, well… it barely was," Obito admitted as she blinked while Shouta sighed before getting up along with Tensei.
"Come on, I'll tell you about it with Endeavor and any other heroes who showed up," he said to her as Nemuri nodded. "Alright… you all did well today, it's not wrong to say, every one of you was necessary for us to win, even you, Todoroki," the Erasure Hero said with a nod to her before leaving the room with his fellow Pros.
"You should be fine, Onemu, we got off with some busted blood vessels but we're good for now. We're lucky for both your transformation and my armor," Tensei said as the bull girl huffed.
"A lot of defensive martial arts went into that, I'm happy to be alive," she said with a nod.
The three Pro Heroes walked out, leaving the three students within to chat away.
"So, I guess you'll be ending your internship early, Obito-kun," Fuyumi said to Obito who nodded.
"Unless he wants me doing paperwork, I wouldn't mind, honestly," he said as she giggled a bit.
"I suppose, it'd still be something to familiarize yourself with. What about you, Onemu-chan?"
"Well, I know I'm fine to head out, at least, in a day. Unlike our tonfa-boy over there, I'm cool," Onemu said with a tilt of the head. "We should spar with those against me one day, I didn't know you were proficient."
"Oh, that's right, you're not in our stealth classes," Obito said as Fuyumi nodded.
"Obito-kun used one of them then, I didn't know he had more than one, though," she said.
The bull girl nodded.
They chatted the time away.
~NRK~
Enji frowned as the Shouta, Nemuri, and Tensei made it to the private meeting room of the Naruhata Hospital. "Now, we're all here," he said to them and the many other Pros in the room… hmph, I'm surprised, All Might didn't jump in to save the day?" Odd, not completely unpleasant, but… where was the No.1?
~NRK~
Kaoruko choked as she hit her rear end, eyes trembling, as All Might hissed out a bloody breath as he turned that… no, that wasn't a villain.
That 'man' had been a monster and she knew the only reason she was even alive right now was because… "I-I'm sorry!" She cried a bit as the No.1 hero shook his head while Nighteye grimaced behind her, the salaryman-looking hero grunting as he struggled on all-fours while gasping, blood running down the left side of his body. "A-All Might, I-I…" Kaoruko trembled like a coward as he shook his head.
"N-No, Kaoruko-shoujo, you weren't wrong for wanting to help someone, you aren't wrong," he said even as he grimaced, holding the left side of his abdomen. "D-Damn, you, All For One," he said to the basically defaced body beneath him, getting up on shaky feet. 'We couldn't have planned for this,' sadly.
Another person who knew more than they could have wanted… but he had an idea.
~NRK~
"So, this meeting is to discuss the recent events that took place in Naruhata," Enji explained as he picked a remote up off the large O-shaped table in the middle of the room and clicked a button on it.
A projector screen came down and, on it, multiple views/videos on the living corpse played.
Many looked sickened while others frowned.
Shouta was in the latter camp. "This thing… it didn't speak, it didn't make much noise, it didn't even seem to be bothered by the number of blows we were dealing to it."
The screen changed to show the onslaught Obito had unleashed on the creature time and time again. From blows that clearly should have broken its spine to bursting strikes of white fire that tore up the street.
"Damn, didn't know the kid was that brutal," one hero said as many of the others nodded, the clips on replay. "Still… this… you're not calling this a 'villain', are you?"
"It's not," Tensei explained with a frown. "It's… this isn't a person. As Kamui, Obito Midoriya, explained with his powerful sight, there were no brain waves in that thing, it was simply acting on… instinct?" He frowned. "Wait…"
"... it couldn't think for itself… So how did it do everything it did?" Nemuri asked with a frown as the room grew pensive. "I don't like this, that doesn't sound good."
"..." Shouta and Endeavor looked at one another before turning back to the group. "Then you'll be 'happy' to know that it isn't," he said as the other heroes frowned. "... I, Kamui, and Endeavor believe that this attack wasn't meant to cause as much chaos as it did… it was a ploy to kidnap Kamui before anyone could respond."
They all balked save for Nemuri who frowned harder. "Why?" She grimaced. "Just… What the hell happened that'd make someone want to snatch a UA student?"
"We don't know," Enji frowned. "Sadly, the only things we have to go on are this villain and the flaming pillars," he changed the video and clips to those giant black 'rocks'. "Water Hose."
"Those weren't rocks," a male of a pair said with a frown. "We did deep forensics, it was… i-it was like dead flesh," his partner shivered as many in the room looked green. "It was just constantly releasing a chemical to ignite the flames until we basically flooded them."
"It wasn't pretty afterward, either," the female half of the pair said with a look of disgust. "I-It was dead, at least… we think so," she frowned. "It had alive cells, you all, it wasn't normal."
"There's more," Enji grimaced as they all looked at him, the No.2 replaying specific clips and photos. "Our earlier hypothesis may seem particularly odd to you all, let's bolster our position by informing you all of the quirks this thing had."
"Quirks?"
"What? A-As in more than one?!"
"W-Why are there so many photos? Are you saying it had more than FOUR quirks?!"
He raised his hands and the mutters died down. "Eraserhead."
"It could release a mist-like substance that dampened fire-based abilities. From what my intern, Kamui, says, it expanded with heat, we believe that's another reason for all the pillars. Whoever was leading this thing was smart, they have the ability to modify beings and/or chemicals on a molecular level, and they were prepared to bring down a freaking layer of carbon dioxide on us if things went on for too long."
"It expanded so quickly?" The male Water Hose partner frowned. "As far as I know, there's no way for the CO2 to have expanded like that."
"Once again, we're assuming molecular science is involved. Next, the most notable quirks during our fight were that, its outrageous speed, its arms, and the healing ability," each quirk was emphasized by a change in clips. "Its speed had been nothing noteworthy when we got used to it after it first arrived… but then it split its exhaust quirk off its body and got significantly faster."
Tensei frowned at that as they saw the clip. "... he made the right move, Eraserhead," he said with a look of acceptance as the other heroes looked confused, Midnight included.
Then they saw what Kamui had done and many flinched and grimaced while others nodded.
Nemuri crossed her arms while kissing her teeth. "Dammit, he shouldn't have had to make that decision," she muttered as Shouta nodded.
"If those things had gotten away, even one, we don't know what would have happened," he said to the heroes who all mostly nodded, others still looking uneasy. "... I understand your hesitation but, despite how this sounds, I think it's good that we have students who understand that there are situations where it needs to be reigned in. Once again, we don't know what that thing could have planned if those things got away, it was literally sending them away for a reason."
The clip played and all eyes narrowed as that living corpse directed the four off-white copies to scatter before they saw Obito's decimation of their numbers once more.
"Instant annihilation," the female Water Hose member winced. "They're crispy, my God."
"They're certainly not getting up again, that's for sure," Enji shrugged. "I already have my own forensics team transporting them back to my agency, we'll be looking into them. For now, we need ideas on the next step to this situation, Obito Midoriya is to be assumed as the target for whoever this was. That means, they'll eventually try again, and, right now, he's more vulnerable than before."
"We know this isn't some one-off thing," Tensei said with a frown. "At least, not the concept of corpse creatures. Whoever's doing this, they're messing with quirks and making amalgamations that cease to be human."
"Then, the kid, he needs to be put under witness protection, right?" One of the heroes, a black man with a yellow eye mask and a medium-length afro, said. "He's a kid, he shouldn't have to worry about being kidnapped."
"We understand, Rock Lock," Nemuri frowned. "But we shouldn't be taking this kid's life from him."
"No one said that but the fact remains that he's clearly a target of interest for someone or a group of someones who'll likely not stop after one attempt… unless the kid hasn't said anything about this before," he offered and the group of heroes considered it. "He's young, he might not want to call a 'spade' a 'spade' if he's unsure, ya know?"
"We can check," Enji nodded. "Any other ideas?"
~NRK~
Obito nodded to the TV, Keigo, Nagant, and Umi on its screen from his casting phone.
-Dude, it's been, what, a week? We just got done beating the crap out of each other and you're back in the hospital?- The bird boy asked in disbelief as Nagant rolled her eyes.
-How are your wounds? Does anything feel amiss? Did you take a hit you feel is worse than it led on?- She asked in concern. -Your arm got fractured, you'll definitely want to get another look at it so they don't miss something-
"Obito-kun's scheduled for two more x-rays before he leaves," Fuyumi explained as the boy in question nodded. "Right now, I'm more worried about your right side, that also took a hit and his hip bones barely didn't fracture," she frowned as Keigo winced.
-Yikes-
-So, how long will you be out, Obito-kun?- Umi asked as Obito rubbed the back of his head.
"I'm supposed to stay out of commission for the rest of the week and see Recovery Girl for a home visit Sunday," he explained as Onemu came into the room with some tea cans in her arms.
"Oh, ya called 'em?" She asked as she passed the two some black coffee and french vanilla coffee to Obito and Fuyumi, respectively. "What's up?"
-We'd ask the same to you- Keigo said.
"Eh, I'm here for maybe the rest of the day before being released."
-Sounds like it's only Obito who got it bad this week- Nagant said with a hand running through her hair. -Man, my students are getting involved in a lot of weird stuff-
"... I can't blame you for that remark," Obito admitted before the six hear the sound of running. "... Oh, I think that's-"
"DUDE?! WHAT HAPPENED?!" Came Yu's voice as she, Bocho, Ryukyu, Rumi, and Yoha slid into view by the entrance to their medical room. "WHAT'S THIS ABOUT YOU FIGHTING A-!?"
"Alright! Alright! Quiet!" Yoha said as she covered her underclassman's mouth. "Honestly, he's injured, do you really wanna grill him right now?"
Yu pouted, somehow, behind the hand as Yoha moved it away.
"You good?"
"Yes, I'm going to be out of commission for a couple of days but I'm still manageable," Obito answered as Rumi came in with a grin. "... I get the feeling you-"
"Saw the fight on video?! YES!" The third-year said with fire in her eyes.
Wearing what could only be called a white skin-tight bodysuit, atop the outfit she had on a purple, yellow-furred, vest, a pair of armored toeless stocking, and a metal band around her waist, the band holding two pouches on both sides of her hips and a yellow crescent moon at the break by her stomach. Last but not least, her bare feet were covered by what Obito knew to be purple 'shoe-socks' that he'd only ever seen once.
"You ripped that villain a new one!" She said with a big grin. "Use those bad boys against me in the upcoming exercise!" Rumi declared with a tone that brokered no argument.
"... sure?"
"NICE!"
"Well, someone's well enough to handle her, at least," Ryukyu said with a smile. "How's the arm?"
"It could be better."
She snorted as Bocho and Yoha went to Onemu's bedside.
"Mu-chan, what happened?" The Noh Girl asked. "Y-You didn't get super hurt, too, did you!?"
"Eh, not really," the bull girl shrugged. "But I got hit like I stole something, damn," she rubbed her sternum. "That villain did not play."
"Hmph, you should make sure your lungs aren't impaired," the Snake Woman Hero said as she shot her underclassman a look that she nodded at.
Wearing what could only be called dark red battle-mini-dress with long sleeves and a small cleavage window, Yoha had certainly not forgotten the femininity of her appeal, having on black high-heel boots, a small black vest, and a pair of ruby-red earrings, her snakes each bearing a small cotton neckband.
"I get it, senpai."
"You all really had it rough," Yoha nodded, turning to Obito with a concerned look that he shrugged at. "Still, Rumi-senpai is right, I don't think I've ever seen you so… ruthless."
-Well, I think he was this way with Keigo-kun- Umi said as Keigo sweatdropped.
"... a bit," Fuyumi said. "I don't think I'd like getting kicked in the chin like you did."
-E-Excuse me?! Who likes getting hit so hard you're not sure if you woke up that morning?!- The bird boy squawked as Rumi snickered.
"I don't know. If it's a well-fought battle? I can live with it," she said with a smirk as he huffed.
-Anyone who isn't getting off on that?-
"Stuff it, birdie, you got your shit rocked, losers got no rights."
-She's insufferable-
As the group chatted, Obito blinked as his phone beeped, the boy blinked as he reached over and picked it up. "Hmm?" He looked at the number on it and raised a brow at the message on the top of his screen. 'Kaoruko? Why'd she send a text?' Obito schooled his expression and opened it up before casually looking at the text.
Then he saw the contents and his schooling barely shifted but it did.
And Fuyumi noticed, the Todoroki looked at him oddly as their friends chatted about their current internships. 'Something happened?' She wasn't sure.
Their eyes met Obito simply typed back to the text and shook his head as he put his phone back on his nightstand.
Fuyumi pouted a bit and rolled his eyes.
'Sorry, Fuyumi-kun,' he couldn't let you in on this as he remembered Kaoruko's message.
Obito, I need to meet you ASAP, it's… t-this isn't a situation I can handle alone.
His eyes closed. 'I'll meet you eventually, I'm in the hospital, still,' he didn't know how long it'd be until he could venture out, especially if he imagined what the Pros were going to do. 'If they decide I'm on lockdown,' he'd need to sneak out.
The group lessened maybe an hour or so later, Obito already having gotten calls from his parents, brother, and the Bakugou family about the news.
Come evening, Obito hummed curiously as he walked down the hall, wearing most of his UA uniform save for his blazer while his dress shirt was simply thrown over his shoulders. At his side, his father walked with his bag and suitcase as they made it outside the hospital.
"Honestly, Obito, you're really something else," the man frowned as they looked out towards the smoke in random parts of the city. "Just one week? And you're in the med bay again, I didn't think your student life would be so… exciting."
"I understand, father… it's not something I was expecting, either. Most of this week had been, collectively, five times less exciting than this," Obito said with a huff as the man nodded, the two of them moving to the hospital's garage and finding the car. "Well, at least we got patient parking as a first-in-line."
"Haha."
The drive to Mustafu had been an hour-long, ignoring the traffic, the ride was slower than usual to compensate for his injuries.
"Actually… dad," Hisashi hummed. "I need to go and see a classmate tomorrow, it's really urgent."
"Just you?" He asked as Obito nodded.
"She… as far as I know, she was both worried and yet secretive. I'm worried about what happened at Nighteye's place that she'd be so worried."
"Well, if you need a ride, I'm here. It's another two weeks before my next deployment."
"Thanks."
"Always."
~NRK~
His return to his house garnered an explosive embrace from his mother in the living room, both her, the Bakugous, and the Todorokis seated inside minus Enji.
"Baby! What happened?! Are you alright?!" Inko was in mother hen mode as she checked Obito's cheeks, teeth, arm, sides, and hair. "Y-You don't look too injured," she sighed in relief as he grinned nervously while Fuyumi and Rei giggled as the boys came up to him.
"Nii-chan?! What happened?!" Katsuki asked in disbelief. "You're supposed to be back by the end of the week!"
"I-It was a villain, right?" Izuku asked nervously but Obito nodded.
"I handled it."
"Nee-chan said it was a weird exhaust villain," Shouto said as Fuyumi nodded the moment her and Obito's eyes met.
He understood in an instant. "Yes, thankfully, with your father, Fuyumi, and many others, we made it out without much damage."
"... nii-chan, your arm is…" Natsuo began to say with a sweatdrop as Obito rubbed the back of his head.
"It's… yes, I did get a broken arm-"
"It was shattered," Hisashi supplied helpfully as his son's eyebrow twitched something fierce while Inko squealed in rising, face-paling, horror. "My boy, you have to be honest, Lord knows you don't want to worry your mother but this is kinda severe."
Obito didn't get to answer before Inko was embracing him with a waterfall of tears running down her cheeks.
Rei hummed. "Fuyumi-chan."
"I-I'll tell you, mom, I promise," Fuyumi said immediately. "Obito-kun's just… he's someone who believes in the big picture too much," she whispered as Rei nodded.
"We know that but this is the first time I've seen it in this fashion."
Fuyumi nodded. 'Still, he should trust in us more,' Obito wasn't a perfect being, and… a-and they'd learned that he might be a target. 'Still, we're all that know,' outside of Onemu, they'd been sworn to secrecy.
By Pros, to be fair, but secrecy nonetheless.
As Obito was ushered into a recliner by the couch she was in, the female UA student hummed at his huffing form before giggling a bit, his eyebrow twitching more than enough amusement for anyone there.
~NRK~
Early the following morning, at maybe 7 am, Obito and his father were heading towards Kaoruko's location, the former dressed in a baggy black top, baggy black pants, and a pair of his notable ninja sandals.
His father, meanwhile, wore a simple copy of his own clothes but with the top being white, the man's own ninja sandals something the Uchiha had made.
"So, Kaoruko-kun needed help, huh?" Hisashi asked and Obito raised a brow. "We heard from Fuyumi-kun, the only one not there was her and since you're making this private, it's none of the others."
"... Yes, she wasn't descriptive and I'm worried about what that means. Still, she needs my help, it's probably urgent," Obito said.
'As always, the little silent hero,' the man chuckled as they rounded a corner to the building she went to. 'The Nighteye Hero agency.'
Parking, Hisashi nodded to his son.
"This is probably related to being a hero, take care, I'll probably loop around to that cafe we passed. Pick up something for Inko and Izu."
"Alright, I'll let you know when I'm done. Well, that or I'll just fly there," Obito shrugged as Hisashi chuckled with a nod.
Going into the agency, Obito's eyes widened as he saw the familiar figure of Nighteye, the salaryman-looking hero currently having a sling of his own for his left arm, his open white dress shirt allowing the boy to see his injuries.
"Ah, Obito-kun, welcome," he said to the boy who nodded, Obito's cast in a tender sling. "Come along, you don't need anything, do you? Painkillers?"
"I'd ask the same thing, Sir Nighteye, what happened? Where's-"
"Shh, in time, she's below with All Might," the Pro whispered as Obito's eyes widened before they narrowed.
They traveled for a time, going into an elevator and heading down two floors via a special keycard. The two remained silent for the trip, the door opening before they exited, Nighteye gesturing down a hallway for them to go.
Following for maybe three minutes, they arrived at what could only be called a hidden medical bay, within?
Obito grimaced as he hurried in to see Kaoruko sitting in one of a trio of chairs besides All Might's medical bed.
The medical bed All Might was in.
The girl, wearing a white dress shirt, black slacks, and a pair of brown sandals, looked up, allowing Obito to see the paleness of her face and the horror in her eyes.
"S-Senpai?" She stuttered as he quickly sat down next to her, the girl clenching her hands around her phone. "S-Senpai, it's all my fault-"
"N-No, Kaoruko-shoujo-kaugh!" The laid-up No.1 tried to reassure her before coughing up blood. "I-It's, once again… haaa, not wrong to help others."
The way his friend seemed to scrunch in herself made Obito grimace, not knowing what to do.
"What happened?" He asked the room before noticing the huffing, third, adult within it as Nighteye entered. "Recovery Girl?" Obito blinked as he frowned, the woman sighing as they all looked at All Might.
The usually jolly, powerful, figure was currently groaning in his medical cot, bandages all over his body which was bereft of his usual impregnable costume and replaced with normal medical scrubs.
"Hmph, didn't think you'd see me until Sunday, hm?" She said to him as he nodded.
"I wasn't aware you, All Might, and Nighteye were so close."
"Hmm, fishing for answers, even now? You're something else, no wonder the PHSC is looking into you," she said as his and Kaoruko's eyes widened.
"What?" The girl asked in disbelief while Obito frowned softly.
"... there's more of a story to explain than this. For now, focus on this issue at hand," the old woman said with a huff. "Isn't that right, Nezu? Gran Torino?"
The two students froze as their eyes turned to two small figures at the door, one very familiar while the other wasn't.
Nezu blinked at the two students, surprised, while the man beside him huffed.
He was as short as Nezu himself, had fair skin covered in wrinkles, red eyes that creaked open to look at the students while having a decent beard and short head of hair, both gray.
Wearing similar medical scrubs to All Might, the short man walked in with a cane, Nezu at his side.
"Hmph?" The old man, Gran Torino, looked more at the kids. "You're that kid… the one with the impressive control over his quirk… I see, is that why you brought him here, Toshinori?"
"W-Wait, what's going on?! N-Nezu-sensei?" Kaoruko looked lost as her principal sighed, coming over and patting the two on their knees.
"Listen, there's a… you were there, Kaoruko-kun, you were there when the greatest villain in all of Japan's history was defeated," the principal frowned at the way she flinched at 'defeated'. 'God… was she… 'there' there for him to…' He might need to call a psychiatrist.
He didn't want this rising star to spiral into a bubble of despair from the No.1's, sadly, greatest method to protect Japan.
"Yes, there's a lot to this situation that you will find odd," he said to her before looking at Obito. "Good morning, Obito-kun, I'm… no offense, why are you here?"
Kaoruko blushed while All Might coughed but spoke up.
"I… I told her to call him," he said as Nighteye raised a brow.
"So… is he the one you wish to be your successor?" He asked but Obito blinked. "There are things in this world that can seem more supernatural than the quirks of today do, Obito-kun."
"... you're not about to tell me magic is real or some such, are you?" Obito asked with a raised brow at the amused heroes.
"No but it can seem rather mystical," All Might chuckled before coughing up some blood, Obito up and out of his seat in an instant by the man's bedside. "Hehe, I know there's a whole story to this."
Obito nodded before holding up a handsign and breathing out white flames.
The group watched as a rather large amount of it raised into the air, into a ball, before splitting into streams that slipped into the No.1 hero's body.
The man groaned a bit but sighed out a long breath of slight relief as Obito's Sharingan blazed, looking up and down the man's body.
"... what in the world did all this damage?" His eyebrows rose. "A malformed stomach… one of your lungs is missing a bit off the bottom of it, the blood vessels around your chest aren't exactly doing so hot and the less said about the damage to some of your cells and bones the better."
"Hmm?" Recovery Girl blinked as she walked over and looked at the boy's eyes. "I didn't know your eyes could see through the human body," she asked, curious.
"My Sharingan, the eyes of my quirk, allow me sight on a molecular level," he said as the woman, Nighteye, All Might, and Gran Torino looked surprised. "It's a big part of grabbing oxygen to enhance my flames into their more powerful states."
"I see," Nighteye cupped his chin. "... These are the notes and medical examinations that Recovery Girl was ascertained about All Might," he handed the boy the files, Obito flipping through them on his sling. "It's a lot-"
"Done," Obito said, closing the files, shocking the man some more. "I have an eidetic memory, sir," he added as he handed the files back to the man with a frown. "That damage… is that recoverable?"
"... No, sadly, even my quirk can't just bring back organs. It's about healing and fixing, there's no recreation on my end," Recovery Girl sighed. "Though, thanks to Kaoruko-chan, the damage could have been far worse," she said as the girl perked up but looked down in shame. "Now, none of that, you're not God, none of us nor this big lug are. You did your best and it helped, take pride in that fact."
"Hmm," Obito focused back on his flames, eying the connections of small vessels, the dead cells, and some of the bronchioles with their severed states gaining most of his attention. 'Can these be fixed?'
He focused on the hero's lungs, deeper, moving the flames from mere surface-level, on the organs, to something smaller.
All Might let out a slow hissing breath as Gran Torino's eyebrow rose. 'Who is this kid?' The old man wondered as he looked at the boy with the evolved quirks. 'Is he the one Toshinori wishes to pass on One For All to?' Being honest?
The old man wouldn't have minded, he'd seen the boy, his videos from his latest event, his previous ones, his scores, his aptitudes, and more.
He was basically the way Toshinori had been once he had One For All but without the quirk, he mastered multiple aspects of herodom and made it his own. The short man was sure, once the boy reached full maturity, he'd be just as much of a threat to villainy as All Might and Endeavor. It'd be hard to say otherwise.
And if he received the blonde's power… well, he'd likely become something greater than All Might ever could have been and smarter, that'd be a crazy hero!
"..." Obito released a slow breath as he released his flames from the No.1 hero's body, the white heat half the amount it used to be and dissipated without much fanfare, leaving All Might sighing in relief, flexing his arms.
"Thank you, Obito-shounen, while it didn't solve all my problems, I feel much better," the man said with a nod as Obito nodded.
"Alright," Obito went back to his seat and sat down, bumping shoulders with Kaoruko who bit her lip but pinched his shirt's lower portion. "Give it to us, the truth. I can tell this is going to change a lot of my perceptions I'll have on the world of quirks."
"Very well, to be fair, while spectacular, this isn't as widely spanning as you believe," Nighteye explained. "In the beginning, over one hundred years ago," the two teens' eyes widened. "There were a pair of brothers."
'Oh fuck me, please, do not tell me Indra fucked up again!'
"Their names aren't known to us but they're the beginning of all of this."
He went on to explain the two quirks, All For One and One For All, their history, their powers, and the people that held them… or, really…
All For One's one holder and One For All's eight lights.
Come the end of it all, tying off with the last fight with All For One that ended in his complete defeat, Obito was left with one question while Kaoruko's mouth fell.
"... where's the body?" He asked the group of adults who winced. "Where's the body of All For One? Did you burn it? Did you make sure he didn't have some godforsaken come back from death quirk?"
"..."
"..."
"..."
"... That's ominous news, Obito-kun," Nezu frowned as Gran Torino followed suit. "... but… he's right. What did you all do with the body? Or were you unable to due to your bodily states?"
Nighteye's head fell while All Might looked down with a frown.
"You need to go back," Obito said with a determined frown. "... where is it?"
"That's enough!" Recovery Girl said to him as he grimaced. "Do not throw your life away at the possibility that he might be alive. What do you think you'll be able to do to him if he is? Do you think he'll just take another beating?"
"No, I think I'll take his life-"
"Senpai!" Kaoruko covered her ears as Obito flinched and she shot him a watery-eyed look. "D-Don't say that!"
Obito winced at the look of horror on her face. "..." He sighed as he leaned back in his seat. 'Dammit,' the former Uchiha shouldn't have said that in front of the 'delicate' Kaoruko. "... I'm sorry, I didn't…" What words could he say here? "I…"
She tugged on the bottom of his top. "Don't… you shouldn't be speaking like that… not you."
He sighed again while Gran Torino simply held onto his cane with a look of understanding.
'It's best not to upset her,' she was already reeling most likely.
Hearing her friend say what needed to be said, despite her feelings, was probably not something she needed.
"... so, what are you going to do now?" Obito asked the adults as Nezu cupped his chin. "Even if we ignore the possibility of what I implied, what will happen to All Might?"
Nighteye frowned before adjusting his glasses. "You should retire," he said to his Pro Hero. "It's not wrong to say, even if he comes back, you've done more than enough damage to him, he won't ever be capable of being as big of a threat as he used to be. You… you've done enough."
All Might looked down at that, fists clenching. "... no, I can't… not now, not yet," he said, looking up at Obito as Recovery Girl hummed.
'So, he's going to ask him now?' Well, it'd be for the best.
"Obito-shounen," Obito looked at the hero as Gran Torino and Nighteye hummed. "Your brother… would he wish for the responsibilities of this power?"
The entire room was tweaked.
"TOSHINORI?!" The group shouted sans Obito, Kaoruko, and Nezu, the former because he considered the question while the middle balked and the latter hummed.
"All Might?! That's ridiculous!" Nighteye said but All Might's eyes were only on Obito.
"..." Obito considered the question with closed eyes even as Kaoruko choked. "... I need to know more about One For All," he said calmly even as Gran Torino's mouth dropped. "There are several things about One For All that I need to know about before I so much as consider the idea of Izuku getting that quirk."
"H-Hold on, boya! Do you understand what kinda danger you'd be putting him in?!" Recovery Girl gaped as Obito nodded.
"Of course, I do, it'd be the same danger I'd be subjecting myself to, after all," he said with a sigh. "... there's another question I'm going to ask you all," the room blinked. "Have you all heard the recent news about my attempted kidnapping?"
"SENPAI!?" Kaoruko jumped in horror, paler than pale, while the heroes flinched.
"What?!" All Might's eyes widened. "W-Wait, hold on, why are you bringing this up in relation to… no…" His heart sank as Obito closed his eyes.
"The creature that tried to kidnap me… had multiple quirks," their eyes widened. "Whoever is controlling it made a large-scale trap to contain me, my fire powers, and bring me to a crawl. Had I not been near Eraserhead at the time, had I been alone with that thing, I'd not be here right now… that creature had several quirks. One of which was high-speed regeneration."
Gran Torino's mouth fell as his eyes trembled while Nighteye pulled out his phone, shakily rushing through it only to pale at the recent videos on the UA Hero website.
"You may want to speak with Endeavor, Nighteye, I think he'll have been considering this entire situation for the past day," Obito said. "It'd be very convenient, wouldn't it? That two villains with multiple quirks, one of whom required instructions on behalf of literally being nothing more than a walking corpse," Kaoruko covered her mouth. "Attacking at the same time, on the same day, when the No.1 hero would be busy with one and I'd be fighting a being that was easily my match in skills and styles? That's just too much of a coincidence for me to think they're not connected."
"... t-this is bad," Kaoruko uttered as the group frowned. "I-If that's true, what do we do?"
"... we plan, we strategize," All Might said with narrowed eyes. "Thank you for bringing this information up to us, Obito-shounen, it was a good idea to bring you here, more than for that question I asked of you."
"Right, back on that, yes?" Obito asked.
~NRK~
That's a wrap and we've got some changes already.
One, All Might already has a proverbial successor in mind. In that same vein, Izuku has been training ever since he knew he was quirkless to become strong enough to become a hero, those two facts will make a bigger change in the future than anyone could imagine.
Second, Kaoruko is in on the secret. I figured, this would be the best time to have the fight with AFO take place. Think about it, all this madness would easily cover up a fight with someone far FAR away. This is probably the most likely place for this to take place.
Three, well, the connection between the Nomus and AFO are being made WAY earlier in the timeline while we still don't know what was up with that robot from chapter two. Ominous stuff that one.
Finally, now that Obito's a known 'wanted' by Ujiko, even if they don't know it's the doctor, people want information and/or… changes in Obito's lifestyle. Some heroes, others the PHSC.
~NRK~
~CANON Omake: Hanatarou III~
Hanatarou waited in his hanger.
The robot stared at the walls of his Master's bunker, the area covered in numerous mashed-together mechanical beings who were for his time.
The day they'd assert against the one known as Enji Todoroki, the Number 2 Hero, Endeavor.
As Hanatarou continued not thinking, the door to the hanger opened to reveal her Master.
"Hmph, that kid almost got 'napped?" The man ruffled his hair, frowning as he walked into the area. "Hana."
The robot activated. [Yes, Master?]
"We might be making another move for one of the UA brats," he said with a hum. 'Think, think, when would be the best time?'
From here, the UA students would be handling more exercises before doing their First Semester Exams in a month and some change. Then, they'd go on some sort of retreat… I think that's our chance. After their first semester, we'll be able to find their location," he grinned. "And I know how to do that. Get that bastard on the phone, I need to ask him for one of his powerful followers," he chuckled. "Re-Destro's owes me for some of his stupid technology."
Hanatarou Mark III saluted his Master. [Yes, sir.]
"Hmph… I'm surprised, Hana, you didn't ask what we need that girl for," the master of the robot said with a raised brow.
[I live by your orders. You gave me life, I'll give my life to you.]
"... hmph, that's what's gonna secure your greatest upgrade, don't worry," he said with a grin. "After that, using that bastard Endeavor's own kid, I-No, we are going to destroy him and All Might!"
Hanatarou's eyes shined.
~NRK~
Didn't forget, just needed to hammer out the kinks.
Ciao.
P.S. Can someone actually give me a year-long breakdown of UA's curriculum?
So far, what I've got is this: First day of classes to the first half of the second month where they're doing the Sports Festival. Following that, the Internships are for the next week and, after that, they don't DO anything, right? At that point, it's a month and some change until their First Semester Exams hit, right? After that, it's Summer and they're doing the training retreat. Following that it's... well, I don't remember what follows directly after. I know the License Exams hit some time after that... right? Or is it MORE internships? I'm not sure.
P.S.S. For those who read it, I'm working on the next chapter of 'Nao-Shi', SOL is just a bit harder to write, alright?
~NRK Out~