Haha finals soon! scared.
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"Ignite me, and the fire travels up the way and hurts your friends. I'm flammable, and I can regenerate. The fire will just burn over and over again..." Ben smirked. "Or maybe I'm bluffing. What's your game plan?"
Momo froze for a moment. If he wasn't bluffing, she'd burn up her friends, but there was no real way to tell if he was. This mummy's voice was so...monotone, there was barely any emotion behind the words. Maybe boredom, at most. She wouldn't take that risk. She stowed the lighter for now and went with a different plan…
What could she do?
From what she could tell, Snare-Oh still had eyes. With a swift motion, she launched two canisters at Ben. Thinking they were on-contact explosives, bandages lashed out and wrapped around them, bringing them close to the helmeted "head" of the alien.
"Thanks for doing that," Momo said, quickly forming goggles and putting them over her eyes. The flashbangs went off, the force of them going off tearing through the bandages and blinding the mummy alien from both angles.
"Son of a-!" Ben yelled, covering his eyes in pain. The up close flashbang was too much for him. Shoji and Mina had their opportunity. Momo tossed her katana to Tsu, who caught it with her tongue.
"GO!" Momo yelled.
Tsu nodded and, after grabbing hold of the blade properly with her hand, she started to cut away at any bandages that got too close. Koda and Mina went back to back, dealing with the bandages in perfect tandem, while Shoji continued shredding the bandages in a whirlwind. With the bandages kept at bay, Momo made a break for the blinded main body. Ben's sight came back to him just in time to see Momo dropkick him in the face. While the pharaoh-like mask did protect him from being damaged too much, it did still knock him off his feet. Snare-Oh let out a dry growl and shot out more of his bandages to stop himself from hitting the ground, wrapping around anything they could find for support, be it wooden beams or exposed rebar.
Ben yanked his body backwards, severing his lower half before anyone could grab him. "Gonna have to try harder than that, kids." Ben smirked.
"Ohhh that's gotta hurt..." Mina winced a little after seeing the mummy's form snap in half. Some of Ben's bandages wove together and quickly regenerated the lost half, before he pulled himself away from the team.
"You're troublesome. You've clearly adapted to Snare-Oh...so, let's switch it up a bit." Ben said, slapping down the Omnitrix. Ben's papery body hardened into a metallic body, and his head separated from his neck.
Momo's face hardened. She knew this form- Lodestar.
"First things first," Lodestar droned and held out his hand. The blades Tsu and Shoji were using began to clatter and shake. With a quick motion, the katana was ripped from Tsu's grasp and the bladed gauntlets were torn from Shoji's hands. Even Mina's acid-storing gauntlets began to quake from the magnetism.
"Let's take those pesky things away. They shouldn't be in the hands of the inexperienced." Ben scoffed, as they slammed to the ground. "Second...let me ask you this. How much metal...do you think is in these weapons?"
Momo frowned. An average longsword has a finished weight of around 1.5 kg, and the blades on the gloves were around .45 kg. But why ask such a weird question?
Ben's hands focused on the weapons, and the metal suddenly broke apart into pieces of iron sand. Such precision! Momo thought, as the iron sand swirled around Lodestar.
The iron sand quickly coalesced, morphing into large iron spikes. With a flick of the odd alien's clawed hand, the spikes flew at the students like sniper shots.
Momo got up front, and made a giant riot shield to protect everyone behind her. The iron bounced off of it, and landed on the ground. Mina sprayed some acid on the iron, and it quickly melted away.
"He can collect iron from the area around us...he's got plenty of salvo." Shoji frowned.
"Then let's take advantage of that." Momo said, looking down at her leg. Small beads started to slowly fall out of them.
Mina raised an eyebrow. "What's..."
"We'll get to it."
When the first volley of spikes ended, Ben held out his hands to the sides and began ripping the rebar out from the rubble. Much like he did with the katana and bladed gloves, the rebar broke apart into metal sand and quickly reformed into more projectiles.
Momo slowly watched the beads she created float towards Ben. He didn't notice it- Momo smirked.
"When the substance inside that bead is exposed to air..."
The beads started to break down. And suddenly, Ben was launched backwards by an explosion. His head became detached from his body, and embedded into a random car.
"It explodes!"
"Oh that's cooooool," Mina beamed.
"Did...did we win?" Tsu asked, seeing the metal head of Lodestar jammed in the side of car.
Lodestar's head blankly stared at the rest of them. Momo walked over, as Mina rushed over. "So, how come he isn't just flinging that car at us?" Tsu asked.
"The body is the troublesome one." Momo said, pointing at the body stumbling around. "The head and body are two 'separate' beings, similar to the biological concept of mutualism. The head gives the body direction, and the body provides offense for the head."
"Alien biology is weird." Shoji scoffed, as Mina picked out Lodestar's head.
"Alas, poor...uh." Mina paused. "Hey, Momo- what was the name of the dude in the 'alas, poor whatever' phrase?"
"The name you're looking for is Yorick." Momo said. "We read Hamlet- how do you not remember his name?"
"Ask my terrible lit grade." Mina rolled her eyes.
"Also, be careful with the head. We need to keep it at least 10 meters away from the body." Momo said, creating a jar from her stomach. Lodestar's eyes got wide when he saw that. Momo scooped him up, and put him inside.
"Haha, severed head in a jar." Sato smirked.
Momo smirked as she held up the trapped head like a trophy. Her smirk faded when the jar flashed with green light, nearly blinding her. When the flash faded, instead of the severed head of a Biot-savartian, an entire Echo-Echo clone was shoved in there.
"Uh, what?" Sato asked.
"He...he was an Echo Echo?" Mina asked.
Momo blinked. "I...I don't follow." She said, shaking the jar. The Echo Echo soon faded.
"Aw, what!? It was a decoy!" Mina whined.
"Wait...if that wasn't the real thing...where's...?" Shoji began.
"Why the HELL are you extras following me!?" Bakugou yelled, not bothering to turn to face his classmates.
"To make sure you don't get your ass royally handed to you." Sero said.
The group had went to the landslide area of the USJ. This zone simulated sloped terrain with assorted debris.
"Well, THEY'RE here to make sure you don't get harmed." Tooru said. "I'm your collection of brain cells."
"Tooru, no offense- but didn't you do poorly on the exam?" Kirishima remarked.
"Test anxiety." Tooru stated.
Sero nodded in agreement. "Yeah, that's a bitch."
"But, I have a reason to be here. I know exactly how Ben's gonna get the drop on ALL of us." Tooru insisted.
Bakugo stopped trudging, and looked at Tooru. "…okay, you have my attention. How?"
"So!" Tooru began. "He needs an alien that can cancel out your explosions, make any of Kirishima's strikes useless, let him destroy any tape with ease and resist Kaminari's lightning attacks. You'd think "Big Chill!" But he's been shocked by lightning before! And that looks like it hurt like a bitch."
"Getting off topic here." Kaminari snapped.
Tooru nervously laughed. "Ha...sorry. The only alien who can invalidate all of us is…Swampfire."
"Swampfire? Stupid name, but...that's the plant alien with fire powers, right?" Bakugou asked.
"Yep, think about it. Kirishima's powers would mince anyone else, but that's not a problem for someone who can grow back body parts. Same thing with Kaminari's shocks. His fire can counter your blasts and burn through Sero's tape," Tooru explained.
"So then how does he counter you?" Kirishima asked.
"Easy. He can release flammable gasses from his palms and he'd see my silhouette."
"And that flammable gas can prevent me from using my explosions...damn it!" Bakugou yelled.
"You're telling me! Now my ambush is ruined!" A nasally voice yelled.
"Ha! Called i-" Tooru cheered, before her confidence turned to fear, "Uh oh."
Swampfire burst out of the ground near Bakugou, and landed a good distance away. "Gotta say- I underestimated the invisible girl. I just thought you were some ditzy exhibitionist..."
"Hey!" Tooru frowned. Swampfire then opened up his attack with a barrage of fireballs.
Bakugou jumped backwards, as the others ducked for cover. Bakugou blasted himself backwards, and landed on the ground.
"Great. This is gonna be annoying." Bakugou said. "And you smell like shit, trashfire!"
"Huh, almost like I've heard that hundreds of times before," Swampfire rolled his eyes.
I can't launch any of my super moves at him. And neither can anyone else. I hate to say it, but if Icy Hot was here... Bakugou got angry just thinking about that. He propelled himself at Ben, yelling "DIE!" as he flew.
"He's gonna get his ass kicked." Kaminari said, watching him fly.
"Unless we help him," Kirishima added.
"You're right but...god this is gonna hurt," Tooru sighed.
"What the hell can we do, though?" Sero asked. "Using Swampfire against us is overkill."
Kirishima looked to Tooru.
"Hey, don't look at me! I'm only good at deduction." Tooru said, putting her hands up.
"Ok...then I guess there's only one thing we really can do then," Sero said, lowering his helmet's visor.
"Oh, so you're thinking what I'm thinking then?" Kirishima asked.
"Think so."
"Mind letting us in on the plan?!" Kaminari yelled.
"Easy!" Kirishima grinned as his body hardened, "We get super lucky!"
"That is not a plan!" Tooru and Kaminari yelled in unison.
"Shut up! You try thinking up a plan against a hard counter!" Sero said, putting his helmet over his face. "I trust your word that there's no beating this guy."
Toru frowned. Crap, they're right.
"Ok fine! Guess we're doing this then!" Kaminari said, taking a few deep breaths and hyping himself up, "Ok...ok. On three, we rush him?"
"Got it!" Kirishima grinned, slamming his fists together, "1..."
"2..." Sero continued, readying lengths of tape.
"3!" Tooru finished.
Kirishima ran up ahead, just as Swampfire swatted Bakugou off of him. Swampfire sneered, before he chucked some seeds at the three of them.
"I don't need to waste my time on you." Swampfire laughed, before Sero caught the seeds with his tape.
"Sorry, Mr. Tennyson- but we're gonna need to DEMAND your attention!" Sero yelled.
"Nice one-liner!" Tooru yelled, readying some of her smoke bombs. Sero grinned and threw the seeds back at the plant-like alien. Fortunately for the tape Quirk-user, these seeds where the 'explode on hard impact' type, so when they slammed into the floor by Ben's feet, they detonated.
The invisible girl of the team took the chance and threw two of her smoke bombs into the fray as well, giving them all a bit of cover to use. Swampfire was a good shot, a pretty tough opponent in all honesty, but he still needed to see what he was aiming at.
It may not be the most effective thing, but we have a small advantage on him! Tooru thought, as Sero sent her tapes at Ben. They wrapped around his head, and Ben struggled to tear them off. He spluttered and coughed, as Kirishima rushed in. His fist hardened-
And he punched Ben's head right off his neck.
"RED GAUNTLET!"
Swampfire's head bounced away after Kirishima's fist cut through the alien's plant body. Bakugou rushed in from behind and held his hands up to the now headless. With a mad grin, the explosive student fired off two blasts of his Quirk at point blank range and annihilated Swampfire's body.
Tooru's face fell (though no one could see it). As the smoke cleared, only Swampfire's legs remained.
"Uh, GUYS? Did you just forget he can REGENERATE!?" Tooru yelled.
"What the-? I thought I blasted all of him away!" Bakugou yelled, taking aim his hand at what remained of Swampfire, "DIE ALREADY!"
Swampfire's body regrew faster than the blink of an eye. Ben grabbed Bakugou's gauntlet, and smashed it.
"That was me being nice. I was just gonna be a pushover, honestly..." Ben's eyes lit up. "But now I kinda wanna be 'even' with you." He reverted back to human. "Besides…I can tell you're in need of 'a real challenge'."
Bakugou grinned. "And here I was thinking I'd just found a way over your bullshit powers." Bakugou rushed over, and swiped at Ben with an explosion. Ben jumped back- wow, he was a lot more agile than he looked.
Bakugou began throwing out explosions, but Ben easily avoided them. He quickly circled around the young hero, and jumped off a nearby rock formation. He quickly kicked Bakugou's remaining gauntlet off of his wrist, and smashed his foot into his face. Bakugou cursed loudly, as Ben landed on the ground.
"You motherfucker..." Bakugou cursed, rubbing his face in pain.
"Come on. You don't need some fancy gauntlets to take on little ol' me..." Ben smirked.
Bakugou growled. "Damn right."
"Too bad you're not just fighting little ol' me," Ben slapped down the Omnitrix, and started to change forms. Ben's body started to become covered in fur, and his body started to become more beast-like. Ben let out a threatening roar, as his arms became big and beefy, with a single claw shooting out near his wrist.
"RAAAAAAAAAAAATH!" Ben roared, as Bakugou smirked.
"Now THIS Is a real fight." Bakugou smirked.
(And the author couldn't agree more. She had been dreaming of writing this fight for God knows how long.)
"LEMME TELL YOU SOMETHING, BAKUGOU KATSUKI!" Rath yelled. "YOU WANNA PIECE OF RATH?! YOU GOT A PIECE! BUT YOU JUST BIT OFF AN EYE BIGGER THAN YOUR STOMACH CAN CHEW!"
"YOU WANNA FUCKING GO, YOU ROIDED OUT ENDANGERED ALIEN PIECE OF SHIT!?" Bakugou roared back.
"YEAH, RATH WANTS TO FUCKING GO!" Rath and Bakugou lunged at each other, and the fight of all fights began.
"Wow, Bakugou met someone who's got anger issues on par with him." Kirishima blinked. "Should we get involved?
"Naaaaah," Kaminari said. "This is one of those fights that just needs popcorn and some chairs."
Sero scoffed. "Guys, come on- be sensible. Does the popcorn have butter on it?"
Kaminari shrugged. "Duh."
Sero grinned. "Then I am pleased."
"10$ says they'll kill each other." Tooru added.
The punches Bakugou and Rath threw at each other were all directed at the face. Bakugou was enhancing his attacks with his explosions, using them to try and overwhelm and blindside Rath, but Rath's durability and sheer stubbornness overpowered that. "EAT SHIT IN HELL, YOU SPIKY HAIRED DUMBASS!" Rath yelled.
"DIE, YOU FUCKING CEREAL MASCOT!" Bakugou roared back. In a similar case, Rath was throwing all the hardest punches he could. He could've sworn one or two of them would've dislocated Bakugou's jaw, but Bakugou was much more durable than he could have thought.
Bakugou threw an explosive uppercut, launching Rath into the air. Rath flipped through the air, and landed on his feet. "Is that all you got?!" Bakugou yelled, clearly unimpressed. "THAT WAS WEAK!"
"RATH WAS ABOUT TO SAY THE SAME THING!" Rath roared back. Rath jumped up, and leapt off the stone formation- he was going for a body slam! Bakugou dodged out of the way, and used the moment to grab his remaining gauntlet. He equipped it back on. Bakugou grinned.
"You're not so tough!" Bakugou laughed. "I dunno why a chump like you even HAS that thing."
Rath slammed his fist into the ground, and flipped himself back up. "THEN LEMME SHOW YOU, PIPSQUEAK!"
Bakugou and Rath attacked again, but Rath grabbed the child and flipped him upside down. He launched himself into the air.
"POLARIS PILEDRIVER!" Rath yelled, as Bakugou slammed face first into the sand. Bakugou was released from the alien's grasp, but getting slammed into the Earth wasn't enough to stop him.
"STUN GRENADE!" Bakugou yelled, blinding Rath with a bright explosion from his hands. Rath shielded his eyes, and Bakugou struck back with another few wild hits.
After his eyes adjusted, Rath quickly grabbed his arm and smirked. He grabbed a hold of his head, and rammed it into the nearest wall. "OPHIUCHUS FACE-PLANT!" Rath yelled, right in Bakugou's ear.
Once again, Bakugou didn't stop. Bakugo grabbed the opponent and smashed into their chest with a right hook, followed by spinning them around and hitting them with a series of explosions that blasted them backwards. "EXPLOSIVE SPEED!" Bakugou yelled, slamming Rath into the same wall.
And Rath decided it was just time to stop doing wrestling moves, and just embarrass this kid. This was him being nice. Rath grabbed Bakugou, and tossed him into the air.
"SIRIUS BUTT KICKING!" Rath shot up, and slammed his foot into Bakugou's ass, sending him flying across the map. Everyone just watched in awe.
"I wish I had my phone." Kaminari quipped, mouth agape.
"WWE is popping off!" Tooru grinned.
Bakugou quickly flipped himself around in mid air, and blasted himself back at Rath. Rath's eyes widened- Bakugou was approaching at a rate faster than the eye could see-
Bakugou grinned, with murderous intent in his eyes. He aimed his gauntlet forward, and pulled the pin.
"HOWITZER…"
A giant explosion launched from out of the nozzle on the gauntlet, sending Rath flying into the ground, and burying him into the faux Earth. The others had to jump to avoid the blast.
"IMPACT!" Bakugou was sent flying through the air, before tumbling on the ground. He was bruised, bloodied…but he fucking won.
The peanut gallery of extras ran over to him. "Dude, are you good!?" Sero yelled.
"That was the stupidest and coolest thing you've ever done!" Tooru yelled.
"...I won." Bakugou growled. "And don't you EVER fucking forget that."
Kirishima rolled his eyes. "Okay, okay. Jeez. You and your pride, man."
Kaminari walked over to the sight of the explosion- there was a giant Rath shaped hole in the middle of the ground. Kaminari chuckled. "Well, if he's down for the count…might add insult to injury."
He extended his finger and released a little charge of electricity... However, nothing happened.
"Huh?" Kaminari inquired. Kaminari was suddenly caught by a jet black tendril. The tendril wrapped around the boy's wrist. They looked almost like…wires. Kaminari's eyes widened, but it was too late to stop his energy. The energy felt like a nice, warm blanket being wrapped around Feedback's body.
"IDIOT!" Bakugou yelled.
"Thanks, kid." Feedback said. "I needed the charge after your spiky haired friend beat the daylights out of me…now I can taze his ass again."
"SHUT UP!" Bakugou cursed, before blasting himself right at Feedback. "DIE YOU WALKING POWERLINE!" Bakugou held out his gauntlets, and Kaminari ducked for cover.
"DIE!" Bakugou roared, as his explosions blasted Feedback.
The blasts slammed into Feedback who really didn't have a good defense against point-blank explosions. The barrage sent him flying, roughing him up quite a bit, but he still landed on his feet. He reached to try and slam down on the Omnitrix again, changing forms, but a band of tape wrapped around his hand and yanked his arm in the other direction.
"Don't think so!" Sero grinned.
Feedback struggled around, as Sero wrapped him up tightly. "How do you like my 'tape coating' technique? Turns out my tape's a pretty great insulator."
"How about that armor of yours?" Feedback shot back, one of his antennae charging up an electric current. Feedback shot out a blast of electricity, but Kirishima intercepted the blast. He hardened his body, and let the blast hit his chest. The blast left a small burn, but it wasn't too bad.
"I know I sure can!" Kirishima smirked. Before Ben could even do anything else, Tooru appeared and just socked Ben in the jaw with a few mean right hooks.
"You...you pulled a me?" Kirishima asked.
"All I could think of on such short notice!" Tooru sheepishly admitted, before jumping out of the way of an electric-infused swipe from Ben.
Ben struggled to get back to his feet, as Sero kept wrapping him from head to toe. Soon, Feedback was trapped in a tape cocoon.
"So." Bakugou said. "Now I can easily beat the shit out of you..."
"Try to hold back a little. Remember, he's still being mind-controlled," Kaminari reminded.
"I'll hit as hard as I have to in order to snap him out of it then!" Bakugou countered.
Bakugou cracked his knuckles, and heated up his hands. "And I know exactly the way to deal with this." He reared back his fists, and began to barrage Ben with numerous blasts.
"DIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIE-!" Bakugou yelled like a mad man. The others staggered backwards, almost blown away by the force.
"Dude, a bit overkill to do the Ora Ora thing-!" Sero yelled.
"Plus, that's kinda MY thing!" Kirishima added.
"SHUTUPSHUTUPSHUTUPSHUTUPSHUTUPSHUTUPSHUTUPSHUTUPSHUTUPSHUTUPSHUTUP!" Bakugou roared, as Feedback suddenly transformed in a green flash...back to an Echo Echo.
"Huh?" Bakugo stopped his latest punch a few inches away from the Echo Echo's face, "What the hell? It's the shrimpy one! The walking megaphone!"
"You mean Echo Echo?" Kirishima asked.
"Yeah, that one!" Bakugou yelled, kicking the tiny body away.
"Great. I think we just beat up a decoy." Sero said.
"A decoy!? Oh, that's so unfair!" Tooru huffed.
"Then where the HELL'S the real one? GET OUT HERE AND FIGHT US FOR REAL, COWARD!" Bakugou roared.
"Dude, you seriously need to calm down." Kirishima said. "You're at a 13 right now-"
"AND I'LL TAKE IT TO A 14 IF I HAVE TO!" Bakugou yelled, as he blasted away. The group watched him 'fly' away.
"...I think he'll be alright." Kirishima frowned.
"Hey, where's Kaminari?" Tooru asked.
"Found 'im," Sero said, pulling over Kaminari with some of his tape. The poor boy was giving two thumbs up and looked absolutely out of it.
"He overused his Quirk? When?!" Kirishima asked.
"Either when Feedback sapped the energy from him, or when Bakugou blasted him in the face." Tooru said.
"Either sounds plausible." Kirishima nodded.
"Wheeeeeeyyy!" Kaminari agreed.
"So I know ours was a fake...you don't think everyone else fought a fake too, do you?" Sero asked.
"What are the odds of that happening?" Tooru asked back.
"Pretty high." Kirishima frowned, looking around.