Author's note: I don't know if you guys get it about the last chapter's name or not. But it was meant to refer to the League of Villains teamed up with Mirko and Sirius in their battle against the Creature Rejection Clan and the formation of the alliance between the Ten Rings Sect and the Hand. Yeah, those are what the previous chapter's name were referring to. The previous chapter was also meant to introduce the Dark Elves and the League of Villains to one another as well but I decided not to because the previous chapter is already long enough.
Speaking of the previous chapter, I hope you guys like the introduction of the droids that serve as the troops of the third main antagonistic faction in this story. And yes, that faction's name is going to be revealed in this chapter, of course. So that we can finally get it cleared and revealed to everyone who they are and why they're the benefactors of the heroes and the de facto rulers of the Hero Society.
And in case everyone wonders why the Securitrons managed to punch through the door so easily, it's because I based originally based their abilities from the Dark Troopers. But I think the Dark Troopers might be "a bit too much" for the League of Villains. So I decided to go for the Kraang Droids because they are not too strong like the Dark Troopers and not too dumb like B1 Batte Droids either.
Speaking about Battle Droids, I know you guys who happened to be the fans of the Star Wars: The Old Repulic and the Jedi Civil War must have noticed the similarities between the Demolishers in this story and the Basilisk war droids of the Mandalorian Crusaders already. And that is because this story's Demolishers are heavily inspired by the Basilisk war droids in the first place.
Also, my apology for not be able to update soon enough. I was preoccupied with creating and submitting OCs for some MHA stories out there and was also trying to come up with the history of how things went when quirks were being witnessed for the first time in the public. Well, what I did was combining elements of Days of Future Past, Age of Apocalypse, the Messiah Complex, X-Men: Schism and the Messiah War together. I don't know if I managed to add the elements of X-Men: Second Coming into it or not.
So I am not sure. As for what I called the war between humans and mutants when quirks started to appear? I called it the Messiah War because a mutant who led them to victory over the Sentinels and Apocalypse was the destined Mutant Messiah. If that was not enough, I have to come up with the origins for the characters like Dragon of the Moon.
By the way, due to how things are going recently in the manga of My Hero Academia, I have been forced to reevaluate about my comparison between the Hero Society in MHA and the society of the pre-Islamic Arabia. Don't get me wrong. The whole "hero worship is idolatry" that I compared with the polytheism of Arabia before the rise of Islam and the injustices created by the society of that time are still there.
However, when it comes to the divisions within the society. It is much more similar to how things used to be like in al-Andalus because in al-Andalus, the Arab Muslims are at the top of the social structure while the Muslim Berbers and the Muwalladun, the name for the local Iberian converts in Arabic while they are known as the Muladies in Spanish and Portuguese languages, are at the lower ranks. After that, it's the Christians and the Jews. And since there are three types of quirks in MHA, Emitter, Transformation and Heteromorphic, I think I can picture how much similar the social divisions in the Hero Society in MHA is: The people with the Emitter type quirk is at the top of the society, followed by those who possessed the Transformation type quirks, then those who are Heteromorphs. And at the bottom, it's those who either have "weak" and/or "villainous" quirks, and those who do not have quirks. I do not know if those who are quirkless should be used as the comparison with the Mozarab Christians and the Jews in al-Andalus alone or not. So I added those who have "weak" and/or "villainous" quirks into this as well.
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Yes, I went to check the reviews there out! And did the same with the other stories that you've left reviews there as well! What's wrong with how I do things? Everyone has the rights to do things their way all the times! Who do you think you are to tell me what to do? You're just a heartless jerk who believed that you can do whatever you wanted and get away with it.
If one of your victims decided to commit suicide because of you, it will be your fault! And if that victim did not commit suicide and decided to track you down and beat you up to teach you a lesson instead, it is still ultimately your own fault because you are the one who brought this upon yourself! So why don't you stop being a heartless jerk and decided to become a decent human being? And if you do not stop this bullying, I will have no choice to report you the administration of this site.
Disclaimer: I don't owned My Hero Academia or anything else related Marvel. I owned nothing but my OCs.
Chapter 11 Divide and Distract
(Music: Demon Slayer Opening 1 - Gurenge)
Tsuyoku nareru riyuu wo shitta Boku wo tsurete susume
In the darkness, Izuku Midoriya is on his knees crying after being rejected by his idol, All Might, after he told him that he cannot become a hero without a quirk and using an armor similar to Iron Man is not an option or even being encouraged.
Suddenly, Tomura Shigaraki appears before the crying green-haired boy. The Leader of the League of Villains then offers him a hand to help him stand up. And slowly but surely, Izuku raises his right hand up and take it.
Dorodarake no soumatou ni you
Kowabaru kokoro furueru te wa
Tsukamitai mono ga aru Sore dake sa
The scene then switches to the group of pro-heroes consisted of All Might, Endeavor, Eraserhead, Present Mic, Midnight, Mount Lady, Kamui Woods, Edgeshot, Death Arms and Best Jeanist are standing proudly before the crowd of the cheering people and the reporters are taking pictures of them. The screen then zoomed out and reveal the darkness above them. In the darkness above the heroes, the mysterious red strings are secretly binded them to the hands of a group of the shadowy figures with glowing red T-shape on their masked helmets, indicating that they're benefactors of the heroes and the de facto rulers of the society.
Yoru no nioi ni (I'll spend all thirty nights)
Sora nirandemo (Staring into the sky)
Kawatte ikeru no wa jibun jishin dake Sore dake sa
The scene then changed to Tomura is putting on his father's hand on his face, Kurogiri emerged from the portal he created, Mr. Compress is putting on one of his masks, Twice is acting all crazy because he doesn't have his mask on until Himiko puts it on him, Lady Nagant turned her right arm into a rifle, Spinner is putting his sword into the sheath on his back, Magne's adjusting her glasses, Mustard emerged from the purple gas that he released, Blizzard and Dabi are walking out together from an alley and Black Knight is riding on Aragorn's back as the winged steed is flying high into the sky until only their silhouettes can be seen when the Sun is shown above them.
Tsuyoku nareru riyuu wo shitta
Boku wo tsurete susume
The scene changes to total darkness again. Then, it is slowly changed to become bloody red when the enemies of the League of Villains who are neither pro-heores or heroes-in-training but the other villains such as the cultivators who betrayed Li Lanying from the Ten Rings Sect like as Elder Raza Hamidmi al-Wazar, the Hooded Ghost Slave, the cultivators in black clothing, and the ninjas of the Hand named Kirigi and Kuroyama with an army of zombies in ninja outfits known as the Fists armed with the variety of weapons, ranging from katana to yari, standing behind them.
Dou shitatte!
Suddenly, the scene is changed to Izuku Midoriya as Black Knight is standing alongside with Tomura Shigaraki, Li Lanying, Kurogiri, Blizzard, Dabi, Himiko Toga, Twice, Magne, Mustard, Mr. Compress, Lady Nagant and Spinner on the top of the building in the middle of the night with the wind blowing pass them.
Kesenai yume mo tomarenai ima mo
Dareka no tame ni tsuyoku nareru nara
Nando demo tachiagare
Then, the scene changes to them rush out to confront an army of the Fists, who are firing arrows at them nonstop. Magne uses her giant magnet to hit one of the zombies in the head, crushing it while Mr. Compress uses his quirk to turn another one into a marble. Blizzard and Dabi stand side by side and the former generates a snowstorm that freeze all zombie ninjas in his way while the latter unleashes a swirl of blue fire that instantly burned them all to dead. Mustard simply fires a shot from his revolver into the head of one of the Fists before him while Lady Nagant fires her shot right through the heads of all remaining three zombie ninjas before her and Mustard with a single bullet.
Spinner runs around the battlefield and use his sword to behead all zombie ninjas in his way while Twice creates two clones of himself and they create more and more of their own clones to assist the League in the battle against the zombie. Li Lanying is using her sword to slash at all Fists in her way while nearby, Kurogiri uses his quirk to form a portal to transport all arrows that are heading toward to him back to the Fists that were firing at him while Tomura Shigaraki disintegrates two Fists before him into dusts by touching their heads.
Above the battlefield, Izuku Midoriya, in his identity as Black Knight, is riding his winged horse, Aragorn, towards the Giant Fist with Himiko Toga, who is armed with the knives in her hands, sitting behind him on his steed's back. As they're flying toward the Giant Fist, the giant zombie ninja unleashes a mighty and ferocious roar towards them as he's raising the katana in his hands to fight them. In the pocket dimension within the Ebony Blade, Izuku opened his eyes and turn his head to his right to look at the countless of spirits of his ancestors who had wielded the Ebony Blade and became the Black Knight before him. Suddenly, all of his ancestors disappeared and Izuku found himself alone before a giant cage with scary red eyes of Dragon of the Moon glaring down at him.
Sekai ni uchinomesarete makeru imi wo shitta
Guren no hana yo sakihokore
Unmei wo terashite
Izuku, in his Black Knight's identity, is fighting his former friend, Katsuki Bakugo, with the Ebony Blade. Katsuki fires a number of explosions to him but he always dodged successfully in time. Then, Katsuki unleashed a massive explosion to blast Izuku away.
However, Izuku stands firm and use the Ebony Blade to block his former friend's attack by pushing the incoming blast with all he has in him. After that, an explosion happened and Black Knight is walking out of the black smoke alone with the Ebony Blade in his right hand.
(Music End)
After Spinner stabbed a Securitron in a head by throwing a plasma dagger, the League of Villains found that their hideout are being compromised by a group of armed droids outside. Suddenly, five more Demolishers fly down and landed in a middle road along with the other droids that arrived first.
As they're beginning to march toward the League's hideout, the glowing bright blue aura suddenly covered them and elevate them in the air while slowly crushing them into pieces. In just a few minutes, a group of Securitrons and the Demolishers are completely turned into nothing but scrapped metals.
"Okay... what just happened?"Asked Tomura after he saw the droids are being somehow crushed into pieces out of nowhere.
"ROAR!"
Upon hearing that familiar roar, Mr. Compress, Magne and Twice immediately come out of the bar to see where the roar came from despite the fact that it is still raining outside. When they looked to their left, they see three Dark Elves are riding on the backs of their mounts, which appeared to be croc-headed bear-like creatures, toward them.
"If seemed we don't have to wait for tomorrow to find them anymore."Said Mr. Compress as he's looking at the newcomers and their mounts along with Magne and Twice. Back inside the bar, Tomura had had enough of this and wanted to know what is going on! Who are the people that came with Diablo, who were those droids, what destroyed them and why are they all here!
With these questions in his mind, he gets up from his chair and walk out to talk with the three people who came with the Immortal Alchemist earlier. However, Diablo steps in front of him, blocking his way.
"Out of the way, old man!"Said Tomura
"I know what you're thinking, young man. Wait a little more. After that, you and the rest of the League will received all the answers that you wanted."Said Diablo
"Listen to him, Tomura. Patience is virtue."Said All For One from through the monitor. And with his Sensei that, the young leader of the League of Villains decided to wait a little more. After that, Mr. Compress, Magne and Twice walked back inside along with the three Dark Elves who arrived earlier.
"Alright! But let me ask what I have in my mind first! Who are you three?! Who were those bots that were coming after you guys? And who are those medieval fantasy-looking trio that just arrived?!"Asked Tomura
"First thing first, those were not bots. They were droids."Said Magne
"As for who we are, my name is Mr. Compress. And these are my associates, Magne and Twice."Said Mr. Compress as he's introducing himself and his associates by taking of his top hat off.
"Hey."Said Magne as she's raising her right hand to as a way of introducing herself to him and the League.
"Nice to meet you, hand-faced dude! Definitely not!"Said Twice as he's pointing the index fingers to him like he's teasing him.
"Need not to mind him. He's always like this ever since something bad happened to him. Just take what he said first as the truth of whatever he said."Said Mr. Compress
"And those three?"Asked Tomura as he's eyeing the three Dark Elves, who're standing behind them.
"Believe it or not, they're Dark Elves from Svartalfheim."Said Mr. Compress as soon as he said that, Tomura and some members of the League give him the "you're serious?!" faces to him.
"Ashlimar, Lengereel."Said Alflyse, in her own language, known as Shivaisith.
"What did she just say?"Asked Tomura
"She said "hello, humans" to you."Said Mr. Compress
"Right..."Said Tomura, still not convinced that they are Dark Elves for real.
"Tomura, I am a cultivator. That means I can cultivate qi to empower myself and extend my lifespan. And you find the existences of the Dark Elves to be unbelievable?!"Asked Lanying
"Plus, I heard there is a guy with a hammer named Thor is being a vigilante in Norway."Said Black Knight and when they said that, Tomura begins to think about what they said. Indeed, he had seen and heard about the arts of cultivation from her and Sensei before and also heard of the powerful vigilante with a hammer known as Thor from the foreign news on TV before as well. So what they claimed to be might be real.
"Fair enough."Said Tomura and then, one of the Dark Elves, Waziria, steps out while pulling some sort of glowing bright blue crystal out from her pocket.
"No need to be cautious. She's just going to use that thing to translate her language."Said Mr. Compress as he and the others are looking at Waziria is waving the glowing blue crystal around her neck for a few times.
"Now, I can communicate with you all."Said Waziria, clearly in Japanese language.
"And who are you three?"Asked Black Knight
"My name is Waziria, the Royal Shaman of Her Majesty, Queen Alflyse of Harudheed, known to the other realms as Svartalfheim."Said Waziria then she turned to look at the Queen of the Dark Elf and the Darl Elf knight.
"Here is Her Majesty herself and one of our knights, Sir Wormsong."Said Waziria as she's introducing her Queen and Dark Elf knight to the League of Villains.
"So what brought you here? And how did you know these three?"Asked Tomura
"We're here for two reasons."Said Waziria and she turned to look at Mr. Compress, Magne and Twice.
"Do you have what we asked?"Asked Waziria
"Of course, we do."Said Mr. Compress as he's pulling a small brown box from one of his coat's pockets.
"What is that?"Asked Black Knight
"This is the Casket of Ancient Winters, the mystical artifact that contained the infinite cold from Nilffleheim."Said Waziria
"You three came here to Earth just for the mystical box that supposedly capable unleashing a massive snowstorm?!"Asked Tomura
"We also have the other reason as well. We're here for the current wielder of the Ebony Blade with request for aid."Said Waziria
"You guys are here for me?!"Asked Black Knight and with that, all three Dark Elves turned to look at him.
"Yes, we're here for you, the current Black Knight."Said Waziria
"But I don't even know any of you before!"Said Black Knight
"But we know your ancestor, Henry Bart."Said Waziria
"Who?"Asked Himiko
"Henry Bart, one of the Black Knights who lived a long time ago on this world."Said Waziria
"No offense but this is the first time any of us ever heard of him."Said Kurogiri
"None of you know who he is?"Asked Waziria and the answer she received from them is nothing but silence.
"So... what do you need me to help you with?"Asked Black Knight
"To help free our world from occupation."Said Waziria
"Sorry, lady. Please tell your Queen that we, the League of Villains, do not help people. So why don't you three take this to the heroes and ask them to-"Said Tomura
"The ones who occupied their world are the A.I.M."Said Mr. Compress and when he said that, everyone in the room turned to look at him.
"The A.I.M? As in, the Advanced Idea Mechanics? The massive conglomerate that produced support gears for the heroes and other products that related to them across the globe?"Asked Mustard
"Now, this got my curiosity. Please, tell us how this came to be."Said All For One through the monitor.
"The A.I.M, as you called them, arrived with a contender to the throne after they somehow discovered him. With his help, they launched an invasion on our world and occupied it."Said Waziria
"And who is this contender to the throne that you spoke of?"Asked All For One and with that, Waziria presses on the right side of the Dream Gem and show the face of the contender to the throne in the fashion similar to the holographic way.
The face of the male Dark Elf before them has an unusual feature because instead of having the same color skin like Waziria and the other Dark Elves, this Dark Elf's face is sort of split because the right side of his face is as pale as snow while his left side has the same color like the other Dark Elves.
"This... is the contender to the throne. This... is Malekith the Accursed. Long ago, he was the ruler of our people. Before that, he was just one of the unknown descendants of the Discoverer who resided on the streets because of the war between us and the Rock Trolls of Vanaheim. He eventually became an apprentice of the previous Royal Shaman. Together, they deposed the ruler before him, King Kraw, and installed himself as the new ruler of Harudheen. However, he was turned out to be simply just another tyrant like his predecessor. So the previous Royal Shaman began to look for another possible descendant of the Discoverer out there. And he found the current Queen, Alflyse, and took me, a friend of her, as his apprentice."Said Waziria
"And let me guess, you guys launched a rebellion and overthrown him?"Asked Himiko, knowing the answer already.
"Yes, we did. And the Queen banished him here to Midgard after we put him into hibernation."Said Waziria
"Why didn't you guys just executed him after he was defeated back then?"Asked Tomura
"Her Majesty wished not to be viewed as a tyrant like Malekith and his predecessor by her own people."Said Waziria
"And that worked out so well in the end..."Muttered Tomura
"We dumped the coffin that contained his body into the sea. So we never expected him to be discovered. Plus, it has been many hundreds years ever since we took a step on this world. So we do not have much knowledge about how much your world has changed."Said Waziria
"So you wanted us to help with your rebellion? Why? No offense but why your people do not support you anymore if they hated this Malekith guy?"Asked Black Knight
"That's because-"Said Waziria but then, the sounds of the smartphone's ringing interrupted her. They all turned to look at its source, which was Lady Nagant, who is taking it out from the pocket on her belt.
"Sorry!"Said Lady Nagant as she's holding the phone in her hand. When she checked who's calling, she's surprised to find that it's Lady Deathstrike!
"I need to take this! Sorry!"Said Lady Nagant and she immediately turned around to give herself some privacy in order to talk with Lady Deathstrike.
"Deathstrike, can we talk later! Me and the League are in a middle of-"Whispered Lady Nagant but Lady Deathstrike yelled back at her.
"WE ARE UNDER ATTACK BY THE HAND AND THEIR FRIENDS ON THE FLYING SWORDS! WHATEVER THAT YOU AND YOUR LITTLE LEAGUE ARE DOING AT THE MOMENT, STOP DOING SO AND GET YOUR BUTTS OVER HERE TO HELP US!"Yelled Lady Deathstrike so loud that the rest of the bar can hear it.
"We'll be there as fast as possible."Said Lady Nagant and then, she ended the call.
"Sorry to interrupt but our... friends. They ran into some troubles and they needed our helps."Said Lady Nagant as she's putting her smartphone away.
"You mean Stain and Lady Deathstrike?"Asked Black Knight, knowing that the only allies of the League of Villains out there are the Hero Killers.
"You guys know Stain and Lady Deathstrike?!"Asked Shuichi
"Yes, and their hideout is under siege by the Hand and people from the Ten Rings Sect."Said Lady Nagant
"But what about-"Said Waziria but Izuku interrupted her.
"Don't worry, miss. Please tell your Queen that we will help her as soon as our friends are saved."Said Black Knight and then, he turned to look at Kurogiri.
"Kurogiri, a portal, please."Said Black Knight and with that, Kurogiri quickly uses his hands to form a portal in the middle of the bar, astonishing the three Dark Elves in the process.
"So who will come with us?"Asked Black Knight as he's walking toward to the misty portal with Aragorn and Lady Nagant.
"If you go, then I go!"Said Himiko
"Sorry, kid. But I am sitting this one out. Me and those two... we're not much fans of each other."Said Tomura as he's crossing his arms.
"I'm a bit tired. So I'm sitting this one out too. Sorry!"Said Mustard
"Well, I would like to go! I have to make sure Stain and his partner are okay!"Said Shuichi as he's raising his right hand.
"Me and my associates would like to prove ourselves to your group. So we would like to accompany you as well. Plus, the lady might need some protection."Said Mr. Compress as he's looking at Lady Nagant lovingly from behind the mask.
"This lady can protect herself, thank you!"Said Lady Nagant, feeling annoyed at what the magician-themed villain just said.
"The Ten Rings Sect is my responsibility. So I'm in!"Said Li Lanying
"Anyone else?"Asked Black Knight but nobody says anything or raise their hands at all. So he will only have Himiko, Lady Nagant and four new guys to come with him.
"Let's get going then."Said Black Knight as he's getting on Aragorn back and ride toward the portal with the other volunteers following him.
A few seconds later at the Hero Killers' hideout in Hosu, the members of the League of Villains and their new recruits who volunteered to come to assist the Hero Killers emerged from the misty dark purple portal. As soon as they emerged from the portal, they found the hideout to be a total mess. Dead bodies of the Fists, the zombie ninjas that served the Hand, are everywhere.
Suddenly, a beheaded zombie ninja is suddenly being thrown into their direction with another zombie ninja behind it from their left! When the two zombie ninjas are slammed into the wall near them they turned to look at where it came from. That's when they see Lady Deathstrike are engaging another Fist in combat. She easily dispatched it by beheading it with her claws like she did before and throw it body away out of her sight. Not far from her, Stain beheaded three more zombie ninjas in a single combat!
"Summoning Jutsu!"Said Kirigi as he's slamming his right hand with his own blood on it to the ground, thus summoning more Fists to fight for him and Kuroyama. As this is happening, the entire building has been cut from the outside world thanks to the formation established by the cultivators who are the Formation Masters, who are doing this while standing on the top of the building itself.
As for Elder al-Wazar and the other cultivators in the black clothing, they are hiding somewhere in the building, waiting for the moment to strike the League of Villains and their allies from the shadow.
Back at the members of League of Villains and their new recruits, one of the zombie ninjas that were thrown at them get up and run toward the League and their new recruits. However, his actions made enough noise for Lady Nagant to turn around and ended him by shooting him in the end once she extended rifle from her right elbow. Once being shot in the head, the Fist falls to the ground and no longer move.
Once it fell, Spinner steps forward and take a katana from the right hand of the zombie ninja as his weapon. Then without saying, the League scattered to help Stain and Lady Deathstrike dealing with the zombie ninjas. Spinner uses his newly-acquired katana to slash all Fists in his path while Magne applies her quirk on to the bodies of all Fists before her, magnetizing them and throw them into the southern direction of the building, some ended up crashing into the walls, some crashing out of the windows and some landed right into the other Fists. Twice uses his quirk to create two clones of Magne and Mr. Compress to aid him in the fight while Himiko is running all over the place while also killing all zombie ninjas in her sights by slashing them all with her knives.
Black Knight allowed Lady Nagant to get on Aragorn's back to open fire on the zombie ninjas from the air while nearby, Mr. Compress throwns five of the marbles from his pockets to incoming five Fists and snap his fingers, reverting those five marbles into five bricks that slam right into the faces of the zombie ninjas. And while they are down, he touches heads of two of them, decapitating them when their heads are turned into marbles while for the other three that are getting up, he simply takes a sword out from his cane, revealing it as a cane-sword in the process, and behead the three Fists in one slice.
As for Black Knight, he mounted on Aragorn's back and ride out to behead and slice all zombie ninjas in his riding path with the Ebony Blade. Nearby, Li Lanying covered herself with glowing aura and slap all five of them in the faces, decapitating all five of them in a single blow! As for Black Knight, he is slashing all Fists he laid his eyes on with the Ebony Blade.
As the League are helping the Hero Killers fighting against the Fists, Elder al-Wazar and the cultivators in the black clothing are watching from the outside by standing on their flying swords and spears with the Hooded Ghost Slave as they are watching and listening to what is going on inside through the windows.
Knowing that they are completely distracted with the Hand and their undead underlings, Raza quickly takes a glowing tree-shaped rainbow token out from his robe and hand it to the Hooded Ghost Slave. Down below, three formation masters who appeared last time have use their cultivation to form the formation around the building to prevent the Hero Killers and their allies from escaping and to prevent the heroes from the outside from intervening in their affair.
"Use this Rainbow Crystal Token to capture them. To use it, just empower it with your qi and fire the beam to them."Said Elder al-Wazar as he's holding the mystical object known as the Rainbow Crystal Token in his right hand. The floating green ghost in hood slowly and gently takes it from his master and then fly away to join the battle above.
As soon as he emerged from the grond, he immediately empowering the Rainbow Crystal Token with his qi and then shoot rainbow beam from it to Lady Nagant, who is still firing on the zombie ninjas down below from the cradles above. However, Twice saw this and quickly told Mr. Compress' clone about this. The clone immediately jumps in the way of the beam, thus getting hit by it and get crystalized instead!
When the crystalized clone fell to the ground, the clanking sound that came after earned enough everyone's attentions, including Kirigi, who ordered all of the remaining active Fists to stop the fight, knowing that this bloodshed might end here in his favor now that his allies have made a move on the League of Villains and the Hero Killers.
"What the heck just happened?!"Asked Magne after seeing the crystalized clone of Mr. Compress.
"That's the Rainbow Crystal Token!"Said Li Lanying
"The what now?!"Asked Magne
"The Rainbow Crystal Token is the artifact that allowed its user to shoot a rainbow-colored beam that can crystalize the target!"Said Li Lanying as she's beheading three more Fists in front of her before turn to look at the floating green ghost in hood.
"Since you know what this token is capable of, Li Lanying. I would advise you to surrender! If not, all of your friends will become crystal statues!"Said Hooded Ghost Slave
"How about... no!"Said Li Lanying and she raises her left hand and unleash a massively powerful wave of glowing bluish dark energy towards the hooded green ghost. Believing that it cannot hurt him, he simply decided to float around and do nothing. But that turned out to be a grave mistake!
"AAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!"Screamed Hooded Ghost Slave once the wave of glowing bluish dark energy hit him! Once the wave hits him, it began to electrocuted him while imprisoning him inside some sort of electrified cage made out of energy in the form similar to a cocoon but still visible for the others to see him.
"Hope you like the Purifying Hand of Yin. This technique has been created to deal opponents who are the living and the dead alike."Said Li Lanying as she's looking at the green ghost in hood before her being electrocuted, tortured and purified.
"AAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!"Screamed Hooded Ghost Slave as his body is beginning to glow bright light and explode! Once the light died down, the green ghost has ceased to exist. Down below, Elder al-Wazar and his men are astonished and terrified at the same time due to the fact that the daughter of the late Mandarin has successfully purified one of their enslaved ghosts!
They never know that she had studied such a technique before when she was with them in the Ten Rings Sect! It seemed that her being at leveled up to another realm of cultivation is no longer the only advantage that she has.
"If you wanted something done right..."Said Elder al-Wazar as he's looking through the window with anger.
Back inside, the fight continued to rage on as the members of the League of Villains are assisting Stain and Lady Deathstrike in the battle against the ninjas of the Hand and their army of zombie ninjas. More shots have been fired by Lady Nagant while those like Black Knight, Himiko, Shuichi, Mr. Compress and Stain use their swords to slash, stab and behead their opponents.
As for Twice and Magne, the former simply keeps creating more clones of Magne and Mr. Compress to assist him while the latter simply uses her giant magnet to bash at the heads of all zombie ninjas in sight. But suddenly, the battle is interrupted once again when Elder al-Wazar himself bursts through the wall by hitting it with a wave of red energy from his hands.
"Li Lanying..."Said Elder al-Wazar angrily as he's floating inside the building by using his flying sword. The cultivators in black clothing soon joinedh im and they immediately jumped down from their weapons and rearming themselves by using those swords and spears that used to fly in earlier.
"Elder al-Wazar..."Said Li Lanying as she's beheading another Fist without turning to look at it because her eyes are intently on one of the trecherous elders of the Ten Rings Sect.
"Surrender and we will spare your friends and also willing to take you back to the Ten Rings Sect alive!"Said Elder al-Wazar
"And then what? Becoming the usurper's toy of pleasure whenever he wanted to perform dual cutlivation?!"Asked Li Lanying angrily
"As one of your former tutors, I can gaurantee you that such thing won't happen to you."Said Elder al-Wazar
"The words of a traitor has no meaning to me!"Said Li Lanying
"Well then, dead is your fate!"Said Elder al-Wazar and with that, all cultivators in black clothing immediately run out with their weapons to kill the League of Villains and the Hero Killers. However, Li Lanying acted first and gather qi enough at her blade and swing it out! In a blink of an eye, the golden yellow crescent-shaped energy blade slice all of Elder al-Wazar's men to dead in one slice!
"What the-"Said Elder al-Wazar but Li Lanying wastes no time and jump toward him with a very high speed while also gathering qi at her empty hand. Once she reached him, she punch him in the stomach, not giving hi ma chance to defend himself! With such powerful force, he is immediately being sent flying out right into the glowing yellow barrier that is covering the entire building!
As he's recovering, he's also coughing up in blood as well! Before he could do anything, Li Lanying's suddenly flies toward him and impale him right in the chest with her sword!
"AAAHHH!"Screamed Elder al-Wazar as Li Lanying is impaling him with her sword, making him spilling blood from his mouth nonstop!
"I-I..."Said Elder al-Wazar as he's slowly raising his hands, admitting his defeat and surrendering to her.
"You're what?! You're sorry for siding with the usurper?!"Asked Li Lanying as she's pushing the blade deeper into him, torturing him even more!
"This... is for your sins!"Said Li Lanying and she swings the blade up, slicing his chest and splitting his head into two! After that, he fell down to the ground and landed before the three Formation Masters! Upon seeing his dead body, they got frighten and disband the formation around the building and flee!
Back inside the building, the rest of the League of Villains and the Hero Killers successfully slaughtered all of the Fists deployed by Kirigi. Once the last zombie ninja is slain by Stain, they've noticed that Kirigi is gone and that Kuroyama never even shown up.
Once realized that, Stain and Lady Deathstrike immediately began to search around their hideout for the metal scraps that the two ninjas like to call as "artifacts". However, the search ended in vain because they cannot find them anywehre like at all. This could only mean one thing. Kirigi and Kuroyama have successfully retrieved the artifacts from them!
"So... what's the big deal with some metal scraps?"Asked Magne, did not understand why the ninjas from Hand were so interesting in collecting some metal scraps and referred to them as "artifacts" at all.
"Those metal scraps were the keys that will allowed the Hand to return to power! And once they collected all of them, they will waged war against the villains who opposed their domination of Japan's criminal underworld! And the last thing we wanted are the gangs wars across the country to contribute to level of the society's messes!"Said Stain as he's angrily turned to look at Magne.
"And in the battles between various groups of villains and the heroes, people will died. Many people are going to die!"Said Lady Deathstrike
"Ooh... sorry for asking then."Said Magne as she's holding her hands up in defense.
"So... what do we do now?"Asked Mr. Compress
"You guys can return to your hideout. We will go look for a new one for ourselves and be on the look out for them while doing our works regarding the fake heroes."Said Lady Deathstrike
"We will be there. And if we cannot, we have some people we believe that can help you two if we are not available."Said Lady Nagant, remembering about the plea for help from the Dark Elves earlier and also thinking of the possibility of helping them reclaiming their homeworld from the A.I.M.
"Thank you."Said Lady Deathstrike and wit hthat, Lady Nagant contacted Kurogiri to come to her location and pick her and the others. Once she did, Kurogiri soon emerged from nowhere and form the misty dark purple portal before them while the Hero Killers are leaving this place to search for a new hideout to live.
Later, at the Hand's underground lair under their ramen shop...
"At long last..."Said Kirigi as he's holding some scrap metals in his hands as he and Kuroyama, who are holding the two gauntlets, are approaching the altar by the stairs. Once there, they see a greyish torso armor and a red mask with the face similar to that of a dragon with two horns, white beard and long white hair on two sticks while on the ground below the sticks that hold the mask and the torso armor is a double-edge kanabo.
Suddenly, the metal scraps in Kirigir's arms begin to glow red and magically float into the air while the gauntlets in Kuroyama's hands fly right to where the red dragon-like masked helmet and the torso armor are and postion themselves in the places of the lower arms and the hands, causing the tremors each time when each gauntlet attaches position itself and shake the entire area!
In the air, the metal scraps merged together into a piece of plate armor specifically for the shoulder! After that, it automatically attached itself to just below left side of the dragon-like red mask. Once attached, another tremor occurred, shaking the entire area!
After a moment of nothingness, the eyes and the mouth of red dragon-like masked helmet glow bright white and unleash a roar!
"ROAR!"
(Music: Inuyasha Ending Theme 11 - Diamond)
Mou kimi ni aenakute mo
Mae wo muite
Arukidasana kuchanai ima wo
Izuku, in his winter gears, which is a green coat with long arms and green scarf, is standing alone in the light with the darkness surrouding him while it is snowing all around him.
(Nalva. Nalva. Nalva. Nalva. Nalva. Nalva. Nalva. Nalvaaaa!)
Somewhere else, Tomura, Kurogiri, Li Lanying, Blizzard, Dabi, Himiko, Twice, Mustard, Mr. Compress, Magne, Lady Nagant and Spinner are standing on top of the building as the snows are falling too.
The scene then changes to the snowflakes with snows are falling.
Hontou ni taisetsu omou tabi ni
Hontou no jibun wo kakushiteshimau no?
Okubyou wagamama ni narezu ni
Himiko happily plays sled in the empty park with Mustard, who is appearing to be holding on her shoulders for his own life while sitting behind her on the sled while Twice is running after them down from the hill.
On the top of the building somewhere in Musutafu, Blizzard and Dabi are secretly observing a villains' attack down below as Endeavor, Burnin, Kido and Onima are rushing to the crime scene to fight the villains.
Back inside the Bar with No Name in Kamino Ward, Tomura, Li Lanying, Spinner, Lady Nagant, Mr. Compress and Magne are sitting at the counter while having cups of hot cocoa together while Kurogiri is washing a glass of mug behind the counter.
Kimi ga inai machi wa
Hitori ni wa hirosugiru ne
Doko he arukidaseba ii?
Somewhere else in Musutafu, Izuku is walking alone on the sidewalk as the snows are falling in the middle of the night. Then, the screen is closed up to his face, which is seemed to be sad.
Afuredasu DAIAMONDO
Hoho wo tsutai
The scene then changes back to the front of the Jaku General Hospital with six snowflakes near the edges of the screen, hinting the importance of the hospital and its possible connection with the League of Villains.
Kirakira maiochiru Donna ni kanashii toki mo?
Kizutsukanai Tsuyosa ga hoshii to negau no?
The scene then changes again to the front of the Bar with No Name in Kamino Ward with Izuku is walking toward its door. Later, when the door is opened. The rest of the League of Villains looked up to see that Izuku is entering the bar. Everyone, except for Tomura and Kurogiri, smiles at him, happy to see him return. Like them, he too is happy to see their faces again.
(Nalva. Nalva. Nalva. Nalva. Nalva. Nalva. Nalva. Nalvaaaa!)
The scene then changes to the dancing snowflakes with snows are falling.
(Music End)
Author's note: You guys may wanted to know what the Dream Gems are, right? Well, it is my take on the Dreamstones, the rare mystical artifacts used by the Dark Elves to manifest their desires into realities. But here, I renamed them as the Dream Gems instead. And unlike the Dreamstones, they're quite abundance on Svartalfheim as long as the Dark Elves know where to look for them. As for why I had the three Dark Elves talked normally back at the end of the Acts of Vengeance chapter, that is because they were alone. There were no humans for them to talk with. So why should I waste my time making it difficult for both myself and you guys to understand what they were saying to each other? Plus, Shivaisith appeared to be very hard to understand for me because not many words are available for me to use and the verbs in this language functioned very differently from English in the writing and reading forms. For examples, I've been trying to find the words "allow" and "let" in Shivaisith but I cannot find them anywhere at all!
And yes, the final major antagonistic faction of this story is none other but the A.I.M! As for how the A.I.M ended becoming a massive and powerful conglomerate with its own droids army? Well, that is simple. They publicly sold their goods and products to the heroes while also secretly making businesses with the villains as well. And remember, it has been more than a century at least since quirks existed and the word "hero" has been institutionalized and commercialized ever since the time when the Peerless Thief was in his prime. So like those megacorporations in Star Wars like the Trade Federation, the Techno Union and the Commerce Guild, the A.I.M started out as a small company that grew to become incredibly wealthy and very powerful due how much the heroes depended on them like how the Republic ended up highly depending on the Trade Federation and the other megacorporations so much in the end. And how did this happen? It's simple. It has something to do with trust and favoratism.
Also, I know that in canon, Spinner's sword simply resembled a katana and not an actual one. But hey, I decided to give him an actual katana anyway since he happened to be in a middle of a fight against the zombie ninjas. As for Mr. Compress' cane-sword, I got that inspiration from Sherlock Holmes' cane-sword.
As for when and how did Kirigi and Kuroyama escaped with the artifacts? Well, the League of Villains and the Hero Killers were preoccupied with a horde of zombie ninjas at the moment. So when Kuroyama found the artifacts, Kirigi and him use the smoke bombs to get outside when nobody noticed. And the formation is disbanded after the Formation Masters fled the scene due to Elder al-Wazar's death, they immediately go for their hideout.
I also know that you guys must be wondering how did the Dark Elves know about one of the previous Black Knights and who is this Discoverer that Queen Alflyse claimed to be descent from, right? Well, that will be answered in the next chapter! Why? Because Izuku will get to meet another one of his ancestors! This time, it's the Black Knight from the Elizabethan Era! In other words, everything will be explained in the next chapter.
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