CYA: What Defines A Hero: Bad Path

by lumpeistbark3

this story revolves around the Entirety of Class 1A being isekai'd into the one-punch man world. The story contains light spoilers post-season 6. The story goes up until right after the psycho sister's arc so I guess spoilers for one punch season 3 as well. the alternative path on A03 is to be uploaded later here.

31. Month 3: Week 1: The Storm Part V

Oh boy, these months are going by so quickly, ughh...not going to lie the likely hood of returning to a consistent two chapters a month is fairly low (I just finished writing the bad Paths chp 35 and am currently on Good path 36), HOWEVER, I'll see if I can swap between single upload a month and two uploads a month following June. we'll see.

Going Ape in W-city: Tank Top Group

Shoji was out this time again with half of his usual posse that he normally worked with this time the half he was accompanied by was tank philosopher instead of tank girl who was in the hospital with still some of the recovering members from the hero hunter assault, part of him still felt bad for not just telling the rest of the class in the group chat instead of just ojiro was transpiring that day. When he was helping tank cop and some of the other tank tops handle some busy work revolving around finances, not that he knew much, he was just moving boxes and separating files into the designated bins. When tank top cop received the call apparently the police had found someone skulking around Z-city that matched the description of garou and wanted to report it to them while it wasn't a complete confirmation tank philosopher was right when it came to Tank Vegetarian and his wanting to take revenge the sighting might as well have been confirmed as he headed straight for tank maser office and told the man of the news. Tank master for his part likely didn't care if the sighting was a bust or not and wanted to support his protegee as best as he could but his demeanor also hinted that the man also did want to fight this person as well.

As they were leaving tank philosopher mentioned that maybe all of them shouldn't be out at once and that they should keep some people back in reserves in case of another emergency this immediately caused him and tank doctor to but heads again uttering that the mere suggestion indicated that tank master might lose in the coming conflict but before it could really begin tank master agreed. While Master didn't completely believe in tank top philosopher he has proven to be more right than wrong and he was correct in the fact that something could happen elsewhere and need the tank tops to be there and having everyone would draw too much attention and may scare the person off so he agreed out of the 15 of them there in the establishment he only took 12 of the other members it was a sufficient force but likely unneeded tank doctor remarked as he wasn't one of the chosen to accompany him. The master asked tank philosopher if there was anything he would like to inform him of, the man merely said that he shouldn't hold back whatever they are about to encounter out their bodies, a bad omen for any that decided to travel there, he couldn't make out or see what would transpire or happened but it wasn't good so he wanted him to be cautious.

Tank top master acknowledged his concern and continued forwards with it under advisement, shoji for his part was told very much the same so tank top philosopher advised him to only tell his friends that it pertained to the utmost importance, and after that, they waited he informed ojiro and he attempted to inform midoriya later but he was already informed. This made him relax at least somewhat given that midoriya was able to scare him off before so he should be able to do so again there was still a lot of worry in his system that the other tank tops could pick up on but they only told him that everything would be fine except philosopher who merely said things were going to be "ok." but didn't elaborate eventually a 1 hour passed and shoji was just about to head home when tank philosopher got up completely antsy and told the remaining three of them two follow him and that they were headed towards Z-city as well only remarking that the fog seemed to have lifted and he could see more but barely but whatever happened the group of 12 tank tops + master needed help and all of them didn't hesitate to take off towards the scene.

When they got there, it was a devastating sight, all of the tank toppers were scattered about in heaps of bodies on the ground even tank top master was also unconscious as well but what made matters worse for him was ojiro, he was badly injured and hurt toru was crying over him and midoriya was their as well along with Jackie, charanko, bomb, and bang. He could already guess what had transpired here but wanted to know what happened anyways so after waiting for the paramedics and toru was able to calm down again as well as stopping her from straight up mauling charanko, three of them walked home as she explained what had happened. Shoji had visited his friend a couple of times throughout the previous two days but he hadn't woken up yet and it always made him feel angry.

ojiro was always a standup guy and one of his better friends in the class and to have that done to him for essentially no reason always ground his gear even when he asked Midoriya what the hero hunter's reason was given that he spoke to him he reminded him of those extremists back home. things weren't going to change from violence if anything it would only worsen in that same instance it was because he understood their pain and the lack of progress being made that causes people to lash out and that went triple for a place like this monsters were completely hated and despised but that was for good reason here, he could understand the monster phobia usually every monster encounter was predicated previously by some just some random acts of violence for some reason other than it existing those monster he felt no pity for while he wouldn't kill them when other heroes did he never was affected at all by their death, now this wasn't always the case some monsters were more peaceful then others although they also received the same amount of scrutiny that violent monsters did which he even felt a taste of when he arrived. so he understood garou at least partly but he simply didn't understand where hurting heroes played a role in his goal or message people likely just thought of him as a psycho-maniac not whatever he was trying to prove.

Shoji and his squad were assigned to W-city this time around together with tank philosopher and tank demon. The city was mostly quiet this time around as the three of them went about their patrol. Shoji was surprised by how small this "city" was in comparison to the others and how the jurisdictions came to be, it seemed like whoever did those did not like the letters w,x, and especially T. Talking to the other two about it they didn't know much either they simply knew that for some reason that city despite how small it is, draws in a lot of trouble having 15 heroes present most of the time which was half the roster of U-city although U city also contained two S-class it was one of the larger cities around so that was to be expected. The jurisdiction was created long ago and they barely change since then, there had been rumors of T-city containing a population of people that considered themselves "pure" humans and wanted to segregate themselves from other "diluted" human species so that's why T-city was so small to accommodate that clan of people and to simply leave them to their own devices to avoid potential conflict well that was just how the legends go but it's been unconfirmed for the moment however. shoji simply nodded and made a reminder to not be assigned to T-city if he could help it, he couldn't imagine people that discriminated against their very own fellow person's thoughts when they heard of him and his friends.

Tank philosopher simply chuckled and replied that the tank top army seldom deploys their unless someone from the top makes them, mostly because even to heroes stationed there as they are a handful to monitor and contain, and switching heroes or introducing new ones agitates the situation. Well Shoji found that to be a relief at least somewhat, but he didn't know about coddling those types of people together would be such a good idea in the long run but he wasn't one to make those decisions. They continued their patrol and decided to stop to get something to eat, he was curious how tank top demons would eat and he still wore his mask while doing so only raising it before depositing the food in, seeing his curious gaze tank top philosopher started to talk about the uniqueness of tank top demon. He explained that the mask was something peculiar to the rest of them but like all of their names in the tank top army it held some semblance in what they did with the power of the tank top, originally tank top demon was just a normal recruit that had proven himself and wanted to join the army, he had proven himself by being inducted straight into the A-class of the hero association and thinking that the tank tops that they wore were pretty cool, he was one of the newer members about three positions before him. He was unique in the fact that something strange happened when he was first gifted his tank top he exploded with a surge of energy and started tearing up the place even with eight other tank toppers there they couldn't restrain him. Logically the next question that was asked was how were they able to defeat him then which was a humorous tale that the event had taken place during nightmare day so there were numerous masks around and during the fighting and flailing of bodies one of them which was handcrafted by tank stitches landed on the man face and he became docile again.

Shoji was always skeptical of the man's stories revolving around the tank tops and this was no different especially when he started to explain his theories about what was happening with the man, his initial theory was that the tank top power that he channels was simply too strong for his body to process. His second theory was that perhaps their maybe the tank top force or spirit in itself was trying to possess the man and speak to them directly and only true masters of the tank tops could understand him, the third was somehow even more outlandish saying that potentially it's something that is diluting the tank top energy being filtered into him like a demon of sorts and after that shoji was fairly done with the conversation he didn't know what to believe and he didn't much care to give it too much more thought but he was curious what tank doctor had to say about it as well but that was for another time.

Shoji was walking around with the group keeping an eye out while simultaneously looking at the concert that Jiro was supposed to be starring in with sweet mask it was coming down to the last part of the event where she or more precisely her hologram would take the stage when a rumble was felt underneath the ground and from his enhanced hearing he could tell the direction but their tremors seemingly seemed to start originating from everywhere at once making it almost impossible to tell where these things were going exactly so instead he just focused on the closest tremors to their group which seemed to arrive in a spectacle a couple blocks away things started to get out of hand straight away as multiple monsters started to spring up from the ground and assault the city and populus at large the number of monsters were completely unprecedented shoji for all his time being here have never seen this many monster together and working together no less but upon closer inspection he recognized a few of the monsters or at least similarities to the monster he saw in K-city in some of the parks, which lead him to the belief that this group of monsters were directly related to the group of monsters that they have been learning about so far.

A lot of the monsters attacking the town were not very strong if anything even to Shoji they were fairly weak in that regard but he had inadvertently spoken too soon things started to ramp up even more with more deadly monsters attacking everywhere even more in the next towns over they started small but now he realized that was likely to just to soften the heroes up for the second wave, these monster each of which was likely tiger level or above weren't just mindless beat like the wave prior these specific monster had an objective as they moved past the crowds and headed straight for the heroes participating in the battle. their weren't many hero's present in W-city that were above the C-class only being four in total 2 B-class and 2 A-class normally but with them included that would be three A-class for the day but even that may not be enough as the monsters continued to evade and destroy all seemingly without a rhyme or reason, shoji had held out a small amount of hope that this monster association wouldn't be a completely hostile force but just a group of similarly minded monsters that took safety with each other but off course that was moslty just a pipe dream for this world but maybe it was for that reason that it was happing a retalitaing strike against humanity against their "oppresors" as hetomorphs in his world would call it at least those that joined up with spinner and the league…monsters may just be inherently evil he started to think but soemthing with this level of intelligence to launch such an attack couldn't possibly be doing this just for that purpose he thought it would just mean more bloodshed to be spread, also it was strange in the fact that in the advent they came upon a defeated hero that the monster strangely enough left them alive for the most part just badly injured although if they needed desperate medication soon or that wouldn't last for much longer where they hoping on that or did they just wanted the heroes to suffer even more?

So many thoughts raced through his mind as he committed to combating the monster threats that were attacking the police force which was also supporting the effort of escorting most of the civilians away while their monster hunter unit and the remaining heroes attempted to drive them back. They had just gotten done driving the monster out of one town and carried on to the next during their transit shoji took the downtime to look over his messages and see what was transpiring he saw the state of an emergency message along with a couple of messages in the group chat and luckily for now during the first hour things were ok everyone was alright but how long that would last was anyone guest but he had faith in his friends they all were strong heroes in their own right so he was sure they'd be fine as he continued with the others. The next town over was fairly sparse on monsters but the monster around were fairly formidable each at least tiger shoji struggled to even take one of them on even with the entirety of the polices monster hunter unit beside him but just as soon as all hope seemed lost and the monster was about to kill one of the officers right in front of him shoji ran forwards wounded as he was and called upon the power of his tank top and at that moment something mystical happened out of the ground next to the monster emerged a large giant hand that completely eclipsed the monster in size and swatted it aside into the nearest building making him drop the man he was holding onto the ground but the hand wasn't just any hand it was his hand. He was astonished as the appendage seemingly just sprang up from the earth before slowly descending backward and disappearing again. The monster recovered but was dazed but continued its mad charge this time directly at him and his body seemingly moved on its summoning even more giant hands in front of him four of them before each of them slammed down on the monster repeatedly before it became too much and he coughed and took a knee, suddenly feeling light-headed the monster was knocked out and the police unit used the opportunity to finish it off combining their weapons directly on the creatures head killing it instantly the one that he saved came up to him to see if he was alright and after a couple of minutes he was the dizziness simply faded away. With that done they went to go help the other two heroes in their fights while they were only taking on one monster tank philosopher was taking on two while tank demon was taking on three, tank philosopher was just finishing up by the time they arrived and tank demon who's mask was off had just tore off the arm of one of the monsters he was facing before using it to smash the head in of the second he was blindsided by the third knocking him into a nearby shop but the combined force of the police and tank philosopher book throw completely took the creature out.

Tank demon was still conscious however and came back through the shop this time through the door, the man was still without his mask so in his anger he couldn't tell his friend from foe as he went to attack tank philosopher who was closest retrieving his book but luckily enough the man seemed to have the mask prepared for such an incident and the man was completely pacified and his muscles noticeable shrunk down in comparison to what it once was the man seemed to take a moment to recover himself to take a breather heavily breathing. The next town was supposed to be taken care of by heavy kong the cities supervisor but had gone silent about 10 minutes ago which caused them to worry so despite being winded at this point the heroes proceed to his last known location before splitting off again, this town was mostly peaceful not much seemed to be damaged either but that association city center did explain that a monster was present it was an ape monster calling itself marshall gorilla a tiger rated monster that had fought heavy kong for a little over 20 minutes before he was defeated, the police had went and recovered the injured bloody hero while shoji and the tank tops split up in search of the monster. Shoji had decided to use the rooftops to search for the monster and found him surprisingly enough. It would be more precise to say that it found him as he was looking and the gorilla was surprisingly silent in its approach.

Another surprise was that the monster didn't want to fight him, firstly regarding him as not the "class" of prey he was hunting and the second was that he was on the "not to kill" list. Shoji immediately inquired about both topics and the gorilla specified that he didn't care much about what the monster association's mission was he only cared about increasing his disaster level even going so far as forgoing killing citizens even though they "stupidly" just stood around and watched as he beat that one hero, he was honestly disappointed in the A-class if they were all of similar strength to him and shoji kept the fact that from his knowledge that heavy kong was ranked if he remembered correctly 30th of the 40 A-class members meaning he was one of the weaker ones. The two talked about the second point and the monster simply explained that he wasn't paying too much attention to it all but apparently, those in the non-killing army weren't to be targeted as of yet and that was all he said quickly before redirecting the conversation back to the main thing he was therefore and that was to hunt A-class heroes until the association raised his disaster level ()

Shoji thought his reasoning fairly selfish and mostly just rather contradictory what would disaster levels mean in a world without the hero association, the monster explained that it was for respect the new world the monsters will create will be a lawless one built upon strength and those that are known to be rated higher such as demons will have others serve under him of course challengers will eventually come but it sure beat the fighting from the onset you never know when who could target you when your down but not out. Shoji questioned why would you even want to make such a world constantly having to watch over your shoulder he only responded with Beats living in a world where they have to hide away from everything or risk being killed shoji countered that if you all simply wanted to live then causing destruction and panic would naturally cause those others to fear and hate you even more but marshall gorilla simply blew on his cigar only replying that it was too late for things to turn back now and that humanity time in the sun is up before changing topics back to his hunt for A-class heroes.

He wanted Shoji to tell him of any other A-class heroes in the area given that he was a hero he should know about the other heroes' whereabouts he said why doesn't he call one of them down and for that shoji would do but not to satisfy the monkey himself only to call for assistance as he lashed out with an octoblow the ape monster was quick however it had managed to brandish it's knife in time to completely cut down each of his hands before they could make contact before speeding towards him faster than he realized and held a knife up to his throat warning him to be calm while he couldn't kill him the monster association said nothing of being unable to hurt him badly. Shoji gulped at the speed of his adversary he did beat an A-class hero after all even if he was on the lowered end his strength can't be underestimated but that didn't mean he would just give up using the monster hesitate to his advantage shoji called upon the tank top again to use that power he did from before and suddenly the ape monster looked down to find his legs captured by arms extending out of the building shoji used that opportunity to jump backward and using those arms rose them up high with the ape monster with them and used it to swing him down to the streets below but the monster was more agile than he expected as he corrected himself mid-fall and landed on his feet but cracking the ground with the impact force.

Shoji looked down upon the monkey monster and continued his attack this time summoning much larger hands conjuring from the buildings he was standing on and ten of them which all aimed downwards at the monster each fist was larger than his whole body so instead of cutting them to ribbons it instead opted to dodge out of the way completely but that was a fools arron given his limited rome to maneuver as he jumped away from two of the fist that slammed into the ground he was hit by two others that slammed into while he was mid air forcing him to block the strikes but they still forced him back a bit but he still remained standing, that was until shoji slammed the other six of his massive arms at him right on top of his head slamming them down over and over again before finally relenting there were multiple giant fist sized craters into the ground but despite that the monkey monster simply rose up like nothing happen cracking a few bones in his back and neck before proceeded to upon on him so fast and threw a knife his way the object was so fast that he couldn't react in time until the thing had embedded itsef into his right leg forcing him into a kneeing position with a shout of pain his conjured arms disappeared back into the buildings gone completely as his concentration suffered. He heard the shuffling of feet as the monster made his way back to him; he complimented him for the attack but they lacked any edge to them which he imagined was supposed to be a joke as he slowly approached him but he was suddenly stopped when shoji and he both heard the sounds of something mechanical reeling in towards them and from the side popped out the S-class hero zombieman.

Marshall Gorilla expressed a mix of excitement and some degree of fear but it seemed that he was more airing on the side of confidence as he gleefully believed that this would be his true test if he was able to at least defeat zombieman he would be considered a demon then but his excitement quickly turned to shock as with only but a quick shot from one of zombiemans desert eagle quickly evaporated the primates head as its body dropped to the floor lifeless. As zombieman went to work helping Shoji out with his injury, shoji asked about his friends and he told him that they had left elsewhere but they should be fine as things seemed to be wrapping up so together they climbed down from the building and met back up with the tank tops to see what we're going to be their next moves.

There is no trouble in Q-city: watchdog man, Garou, Tsu

Tsu started her day normally just as she always did she would talk to everyone in the morning before heading over to Q-city to start her patrol or mostly just training at this point, given the recent lax of monster activity watchdog man has now started to set his sights on more human targets such as robbers and petty thieves leaving her with practically endless time on her hands but that didn't mean she wanted to just sit there and do nothing with what's going on back on back home still in the back of her mind along with the hero hunter garou hospitalizing ojiro only signified to her that threats were always still around no matter how peaceful things could be so she continued to train and train as best she could which obviously involved strength training and calisthenics but also experimenting as much as possible with her quirk to push it to it's absolute limits she had asked midoriya about the quirk awakening stuff so she could get get a better idea of what she had to do which was before however momo had announced her going through surgery to artificially unlock it which she commended the girl for her bravery and after seeing the results was curious enough to be the next one up to mirror it but part of her wanted to do so by herself so she continual practiced as much as she could to hopefully draw it out. Unlike the other three that awakened so far ojiro, uraraka,toru had all awakened due to some intense emotion mostly revoked around love something which she didn't necessarily have she liked all of her classmates very much but love was something that escaped her… speaking of, tokoyami also was the most recent one to get an awakening and while she originally didn't plan to ask him the boys recent relatively newer closeness to her made it come up in conversation.

While she respected his wishes for privacy on the exact detail of it, he did explain to her it was in a similar vein to the others and it was mostly just about overcoming his past and letting himself go at least a little bit more, he even bluntly said that it was a large part in why he could more casually conversate with the others more often or make his input known instead of just "coasting along the shadows of life." dark shadow casually mentioned is why he was also getting at least partially closer to her which surprisingly he didn't deny but he did get flustered nonetheless. She still didn't know what to feel about the dark teen. She still found him cute but she feared that their personalities were mostly the complete opposite of the other and that anything between them would just be wasting time maybe he saw it differently she pondered. But she guessed that's what relationships were for, to simply test things out and explore what it would be like so in that sense maybe it wouldn't be so bad she could even learn more about herself from it. She ultimately concluded that she would still just wait things out and let tokoyami progress at his own pace and just enjoy the raven's company whenever he offered it, they may not be too dissimilar from each other once she gets to know him better.

Tsu focused again back on her trying to figure out ways she could get stronger and awaken the only other person that awakened was sero and that too was by artificial means but those means were mystical given his ghost inside of him at the moment and the way that ghost infects its victims seemed fairly extreme as well she didn't feel like getting stabbed anytime soon even if she could receive a power-up from it. So after coming up with blanks she decided to simply train as hard as she could. It was the only other way for her awakening to take place naturally according to Midoriya so that was what she did. She practiced with watchdog man with her hero suit that she strangely continued to struggle over the course of her practice which originally lead her to believe that it wasn't really helping her very much and she questioned watchdog man if that she could maybe change it up a bit for something else but the dog hero surprised her and simply replied that for every five days she got the suit he would increase the weight of it by 1 ton to quicken her improvement which explained why she would suddenly feel off randomly just as she began to get used to it, he also remarked that since she didn't notice is a sign that the practice is working as intended and asui couldn't disagree with that assessment as for reference the dog hero had gotten one of her previous suits and asked her to try it on and he was completely correct the first one seemed almost completely weightless for her to move around in often actually over jumping her leaps as she went to move, it always had taken some getting used when she had to reacclimate to how much weight was on her at a given moment, watchdog man explained that the suit served the dual purpose of strengthening but also managing her strength.

Given the weighted suit and the lack of mobility it provided she needed to carefully measure the strength of her hops to go a certain distance but this same thing had to be done and relearned for herself outside of the suit as well training her to constantly measure her strength and how much of it she would need to go a certain distance it was essentially an homework assignment for her since she never really took off her training suit when she was patrolling and that's a shame to because the upgrades the child emperor made to the original suit was nearly complete as mina talked about her goggles were shrunken fairly heavily and could see in multiple vision options, her slime sluggers on her gauntlets were similar to mina's acid throwers except they were on a fixed position although she still had coverage, her new suit was semi-permeable to her mucus at least so if she simply stored up enough mucus it would start to leak through the suit and coat herself which saved her time with removing her gloves to get at the mucus. Child Emperor went beyond her expectation in the shoulder of her boot however she just wanted something similar to midoriya but she got more instead not only was the whole foot section reinforced for hard-hitting kicks it also came with the perk of having multiple miniature explosions being able to ring out of them after the attack landed which he termed soccer dribble he remarked that if she aimed for a person's head it was great at causing concussions which he said with at least to much enthusiasm for a boy his age really should but she didn't disrespect the gift she received from him thanking him for his improvements and time spent on her gear.

Tsu was out in the forest again mostly just training with her quirk during her down time, it was still slow and watchdog man was taking care of most of the regular more mundane threats while she was at it, her training wasn't just physical either she also did a lot of research revolving around frogs learning and figuring out there were a ton of frog species out there and if she was a betting girl she would like to say few unique ones to this earth as well. It was in her last few moments of training after her camouflage and stealth practice that she noticed a change she didn't know how or very much why but when she was reading up on some of the frog species and came upon the frog species called horned bullfrog and saw the two large horns on its head she thought that they looked fairly cool and little moment later she felt a weight suddenly grow on her forehead and out sprouted horns of her own she was so shocked as she made her way to stand up before being pressed back down and losing her balance again and face planting into the muck sticking her horns into the ground but she pushed up good enough but still marveled at them as she touched she could feel them at an if touching a nail, and that wasn't all either she miraculously also gained an ear piercing and as she touched she realized and went back over to the book she had and gasp as her horns and nose resemble that of the frog…did she just?

In the next instant cutting off her thoughts watchdog man was there his surprising appearance startled her and made the horns on top of her head suddenly shrink away and disappear, watchdog man remarked that he was there because her smell was slightly off in a way but before she could tell the hero about her discovery he was off again but when he didn't return and the monster sirens in the city started to blare out for a solid minute she began to get worried and started to make her way towards the city…she was about 20 km away and normally she would be able to cover that distance rather quickly but thanks to her new weighted suit that was up to 6 tons at this point the fastest time that she could arrive was in about a minute time. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary and that wasn't for the lack of sirens still going off nor were people really that drastically disturbed from their everyday habits but things were definitely amiss as she closed in on watchdog man plaza, there was a crowd of people that slowly crowded around where the hero would sit on the podium she could hear the chants of cheers coming off the crowd as well as the squelching, shrieking, cracking, and wet sounds of combat coming from past them, she could only guess what was happening on the other side of it all but instead of simply attempting to muscle her way through the crowd she instead scanned the buildings looking for a perch that she could set herself up in to get a clear view of the area. She found a suitable spot and focused her strength on her legs before leaping up and away as high as she could before shooting out her tongue and reeling herself up the rest of the distance one of the disadvantages of her training suit was that due to not being made with her quirk in mind meant that it did not allow her mutant abilities to shine through so she couldn't stick to walls nor could she camouflage well as it didn't extend to the suit around her just the skin making her stick out more if anything. So when she was finally up enough to get her arms up and over the ceiling she pulled herself up to get on top of the building she finally could look at what the people were so enamored with but she could already reckon a guess.

As she assumed it was nothing but a complete butchery that watchdog man was exhibiting and the crowd just ate it up in praise while the heroes attempted to keep a safety circle around the place where the fighting was commencing it reminded her of a gladiator pit of some kind or those rumored underground fighting arenas that used to go on back in her world but she doubted they would be as brutal and one sided as this was right now, all of the monster seemingly had sprung up from the ground of different sizes and shapes a mixture of demonic animals or things that you would only think of in myth but it didn't matter to watchdog man to them they were just ants as he simply crushed and swiped them all killing them all swiftly while maintaining that emotionless face the entire time which was contrasted by the crowds exotic demeanor it only stood to highlight to her the massive difference in their worlds people and citizens even more, she couldn't imagine a hero their world just mercilessly killing villains out on the street and being praised for it even if it was in an obvious case of self defence as watchdog man was doing right now. As she ruminated over the carnage in front of her and scanned the crowd below she stopped for a moment at a certain individual in the crowd below his silver V-shaped hair sticking out of the crowd like a sore thumb…could it be him? He looked to be similar in build to what was described by her friends and the association bounty board but it was a shame that she didn't have her phone on her at the moment.

She needed to go and get it but just as she turned her head away to look in the direction of where her things were she turned back around to ensure that she had the right person he was suddenly gone from the crowd below.

"You know how to pick your seats, well sure as hell beats sticking down there." someone remarked suddenly next to her surprising her and making her jump backward and the man with the silver hair was right there.

"Garou?" she questioned just to get 100% confirmation.

"The one and only," Garou remarked before disappearing from her sight again just as her paralysis spray completely missed her mark and she suddenly felt a hand on top of her head.

"Easy now…wouldn't want to end up like your friend in the hospital, would you. I'm not above hitting a girl. All heroes are fair game if they choose to get in my way." the man taunted as he roughly bounced his hand on top of her head in some sort of rough petting before remarking that her costume looked stupid and childish and walking back over to the edge of the building and looking down at the carnage below.

"What is it that you want then?" asui asked

"What else? I'm here to hunt heroes but I've got no interest in you or any of the other runts, I'm here for watchdog man…I just got through beating that bat-wielding dork and Now I feel invincible." Garou remarked with a smile looking over the carnage, he also remarked that he wouldn't attack while the hero was busy so for now he would just sit back and enjoy the show while he learned from the fighting. Asui was concerned for numerous reasons but the first thing that went into her mind was that he had supposedly beaten metal bat already which meant something might have happened to koda as well when questioned the hunter remarked that he didn't have the faintest idea of who she was talking about and that metal bat was alone when he fought him and that some giant centipede flung him directly his was.

she didn't know if the hero hunter was lying or not but even if he was she was still worried as he remarked that monsters were attacking S-city as well so she aired on the side of caution and decided to retreat she want to go get her phone and ensure that her friends were ok and get an understanding of the situation along with the fact that she could ping for bang to arrive as well she was sure that watchdog man was strong and him fighting those monster proved that fact even more but even despite garou witnessing it as well he still believed he could win in a fight but she hoped that was just him being overconfident but before she retreated away garou did have one final message for her it wasn't for though it was more precisely for midoriya and how he wanted to fight him again or more precisely he was going to hunt him as well. Asui simply filed that away for later and continued onwards to her things as she got there the first thing she did when she got out was to immediately press the button that would notify bang of a garou sighting so he would be on his way while she got to change while simultaneously looking through her chats to see what's been going on. Hopefully watchdog man could manage on his own for a while.

What the hell is with this man? Garou thought as he finally was able to launch his attack on the S-class hero those monster chumps didn't prove to be much of a challenge for the hero even further reason why that monster association is worthless but they give him at least some insight into how the guy fights and he should have been able to come up with countermeasures at least that's how it went in his mind but as soon as the fighting actually started he was just in a whole nother league from what he seen previously even when he started using the water stream rock smashing fist it seemed fruitless and if almost to add insult to injury the dam hero started to shake his hand along with each of his counters and he still felt like the guy was still holding back it was all a bad joke to him but after finally getting some room to breath finally he could start to see the issue, his fist held a weakness that bang never taught him how to overcome even if the man could do so himself, yes this was an anti-humanoid martial arts and while the dog hero was obviously humanoid he fought completely differently than how a traditional person would moving around on all fours bouncing and spinning around it looked so amerturish but it got results as he was pummled from all sides all he could do was block and prey for the assault to end eventually which thankfully for a split moment it did he didn't know why but he didn't care as he took the opportunity to get out of dodge he would return one day but for now he'll let this freak have this round as he escaped and ran unsurprignly he felt the wind breeze towards him and realize the dog hero was chasing after him and attempting to come up with some plan he started to scoop up rocks in his hands and throw them at the citizens they were passing forcing the hero to divert and cach the bullet like pebbles from reaching their target and successfully slowing him down so he could get away he didn't have the time to consider where he was going but he knew it was further away from his base of operations and when he finally felt his lungs boil with exertion and hard breath from his wounds and exhaustion he tripped up he recovered as gracefully as possible but he was certain that freak should have been able to catch him and in that moment he believed that was going to be it…he was going to be caught but a peculiarity occurred to him as he turned around and saw the watchdog man had stopped following him the distance between them got wider and wider and he stopped running as he continued to look at the hero that simply stared back and literally growled at him turned, kicking up some dirt and started to walk away?

Garou was completely confused by the scene but opted not to look a gift horse in the mouth. Remembering what he read about in the hero guide he wasn't going to take a chance and try and sneak through Q-city again which was marked as watchdog man's territory, so he will have to take a more roundabout way to S-city and heal his wounds but despite his loss, he still felt great, things were looking up he beat another S-class hero and his lost now just showed him that he still had room to grow, he was having so much fun right now! And just when he thought that he would hate for the day to end another hunger catch sprung into his lap and this one may have been the biggest catch of all…he was still abled-bodied enough and while he didn't think he could win if he lost to the dog freak if he could glimpse that pinnacle of power and where it stood, he could get a clear picture of what he would have to surpass what he will surpass and with that thought in his head, he dashed forwards his eyes keen on his prey's line of sight, center gravity, and posture to predict his next move. King, I will hunt you!

The next thing garou knew was that he had suddenly woke up in a clothing store with a killer headache and pain flowing throughout his body, he struggled to stand up and remember anything that happened before his incident only vaguely remembering seeing king and nothing else was the man just that fast that he couldn't even pierce the attack that hit him? Huh, that man sure is a monster he couldn't even come up with an effective counter when he inevitably fought him again, he stepped out of his shaped whole of the store and scouted his surroundings for a moment it was night time and no one seemed to be around that was until he looked down the street and found another hero going by his looks and that gun it was undoubtedly death gatling he considered should he go and attack him but his body completely throbbed at that moment making him slide down against the wall he guest that was his body telling that it was at its limit he guessed, he would just leave for now hopefully the man didn't hear his minor slip up.

A Harmful Truth, A Powerful Discovery: King, Saitama, Garou, King

Mineta and king were in M-city heading towards O-city, things started off fairly simple for mineta given the laxed monster activity lately he's has been able to get through his standard physical training fairly easily but most of his troubles came from the monster hunter portion of it and to make matter worse due to him complaining to king about his training not being hard enough the man added an time limited amendment to his training which required him to completely both within a set time frame from one another which meant he had to plan things out to he assumed king assigned such a task to work on his thinking skills but along with that he also included quirk training along with it, he likely forgot about his quirk since they weren't from this earth so he didn't take it in mind but he praised him for his efficiency in the matter when regarding his orbs that dotted the side of the buildings that served as his launched pads but he wanted him to be even more thorough in his practice while he looked for a proper teacher for the small boy to learn from as their fighting styles are to incompatible for him to teach him much on how to use his quirk. So in that stead, he simply referred to his judgment and how he used to train his ability which was just to rip them straight from his head constantly to increase their recovery rate and to harden his scalp before it started to bleed.

Given that basic description, he also wanted the boy to work on his accuracy giving him his own designated area next to his apartment recent apartment that he could practice on, it was a fairly simple task all he had to do was hit a few circular training darts but the targets themselves were fairly small just the size of a dart board and on top of that he had to fire while in the air bouncing between his pop off orbs and hitting the target directly. He should learn to not open his mouth so much but his training has been paying off he was able to capture a C-class bounty by himself the man was a serial killer of some kind they called him the headstalker he killed with an unorthodox weapon a spear head, not the entire spear mind you just the head very peculiar but he didn't give it to much thought but found safety in the fact that he was no behind bars. His next two targets were also on the lower end of the spectrum in terms of threat level mostly just petty crooks that he stopped combined with a petty purse robber which was surprisingly unsatisfying to beat given what he's recently gone up against but that was turned completely around when he received a complimentary hug for his efforts from the women he got her purse stolen it felt incredibly good but part of him had some PTSD from his encounter with tiffany still so he didn't enjoy it as much as he thought he would have that or he was just a different person of how he used to be which is what he likes to believe more.

Mineta finally was able to finish everything in the given time frame and made his way back to kings apartment but things seemed to heat up as there was a large crowd of people crowding the doorway to the lobby which could only mean one thing which was that someone had inadvertently found king out and leaked it online and to confirm those thoughts king pshhed him over to a secluded alleyway where he had his bike and his full-on incognito get up which mostly was just a surgeon mask mixed with shades of some kind. He explained the situation to him and explained what had happened, so now king was relocating to one of his many "secondary" homes, spending time with the strongest hero really showed to him that being the strongest man on earth wasn't all it was cracked up to be as king tried to explain people would constantly crowd around him in the streets and by the mob invade his personal space, king admitted that originally it was great but now it he found it mostly just annoying and a nuisance which he could see as they simply made their way down and into the subway to make their way to O-city where another of his secondary him he remarked in the fact that at least they came at a decent time given the circumstances he needed to go out and wait in line for a new video game releasing soon and he would likely have t wait around in line for it to release mineta was momentarily taken off guard by such old school thinking questioning if why he couldn't just purchase the game online but he had to remind himself that gaming in this world wasn't as advanced as their world going by the games and console still reaching around the PS2/xobx era of gaming so it made more sense.

So as soon as the two of them got off the train in O-city they went straight for the closest video game store and began to wait in line it was mostly boring just standing there waiting given that he wasn't that invested in the game series so he didn't have as much enthusiasm as the others around him but hiding from the assumed it must have gained some sort of following seeing as some people were even dressed up in cosplay for it. The celebration made the wait a little more tolerable as they finally were able to get into the store buy the game and make their way over to King's second home this was another apartment complex but it was even smaller than the one he had in M-city but he found it comfortable enough to live in and discrete enough to be in, funnily enough, he still had a numerous game console stored in there so he could continue to play his game without worry. The two of them played around for a moment before the monster alarms started to flare outside, king seemed content enough to ignore it which mineta hesitantly followed King and then received a phone call from the association but he told them he was "busy" and he was fighting and defeating a boss at the moment which they were doing in a game …mineta knew that king was a heavy gamer but to throw off work for the sake of it seemed completely unheroic? Is that the reason why despite being the strongest man on earth he was rated lower than others? Or did he seem to think that the threat was likely so beneath him that some other hero should be able to handle it? The two continued to play games for a moment before mineta phone pinged with a notification and he was shocked as he read the state of emergency information along with several of his classmates in the group chat speaking about what was happening.

After figuring out what was happening and turning to King for their next move he was surprised by the man's indifference to the entire situation the monster alarms haven't stopped at all since the hour or so they have been inside his apartment not doing anything but waiting for their, mineta tried to encourage the man to come out with him and explaining the emergency situation that the entire world was in that he should do something about it at least something…he couldn't just sit back and play games doing nothing. Mineta begged the hero into action putting king in a hard spot..he didn't know if he should come out right now and tell the boy that he was a fraud right now or if he should come up with an elaborate ploy of some kind he constantly flip-flopped on what he should do with his hero career weighing the cost and benefits of it all people will surely be angered with him and all the adoration could morph into something worse people will try and deny it so much could transpire just from a single slip of the tongue. Not only would his reputation be tarnished but he could find himself in a lot of trouble not just with authorities but also with the people he "protected" Every time he felt it start to weigh in on him he just became more and more famous so many people mistakenly looked up to him and how many people would be saddened by revealing he's a fraud. King's lack of reaction or reply during the situation lasted for five minutes which proved too long for the teens liking as he excused himself to go out there and help others while King simply pondered his thoughts some more regarding what he should do.

Mineta quickly rushed outside and continued towards the sights and sounds of danger he didn't know what was happening currently and without king around he didn't exactly feel safe going off on his own to fight what seemed to be a wave of monsters attacking the city concurrently the mineta was off he didn't know when or where monster would strike out from but still went forwards their would be some of other heroes in the city surely and correct he was he had ran into a couple heroes on his travels and one surely made an impression for a single shred of a moment he thought dabi had appeared as wave of blue fire came brushing over the next rooftop of a building he was passing by not leaving things to chance he had immediately used his pop off orbs as a springboard to jump up and over the building to take a peek of what was happening down below as the flames died down they seemed to have originated from a man in dark hair and a dark blue kung fu suit but what drew his attention was one of his arms it was entirely replaced by a mechanical flame thrower of some kind that was just widning down, the monsters he had just incenerated were almost completely identifiable nothing but charred flesh remained of them which mineta found equal parts cool and scary. He scaled down the building and found that the hero was named simply enough blue fire his name was strangely familiar to him and then he remembered that he was one of the heroes that garou had beaten up when he first introduced himself ….he shuddered for a moment thinking about if garou was the one responsible for the robotic arm but he tried his best not to stare at it as he pulled along with the man.

The hero recognized mineta as well regarding him and his friends as a part of that "fake hero group" to which mineta took offense but after having a minor spat with each other about killing monsters mineta simply remained quiet, especially after the destruction being caused around them from said monsters. Blue Fire had just gotten off the phone with his superior silver chain although he spat out once the phone call was done that he hated taking orders from someone that was below him in the ranking he had to give the girl credit she had already swept up the monsters in 2/3 rds of the city and would leave the rest to him as she was needed elsewhere for the moment. So mineta and blue fire went to work searching around for monsters which wasn't hard given the problems they were stirring up they were joined by fellow heroes before dispersing out again. Each hero took their path to better get the most coverage and the monsters seemed to be retreating. Mineta had taken the opportunity to go back around and circle back to where King's apartment was on the way he had checked around multiple street corners bouncing around his launched Popoff orbs before arriving back at the apartment complex. Now mineta had hoped that the strongest hero would not be there when he returned and instead had left to defend the city on his terms maybe his stage fright was more severe than he thought or that his power could not be witnessed by anyone therefore he needed to fight alone which made sense given that even on hero guides and articles nobody knew how the man fought could it be like some sort of curse that killed anyone who witnessed it? He thought and in that way, he started to understand at least partially his reluctance to fight in large cities but as he opened and saw that the man was still in there playing his dumb game his thoughts immediately went out of the window and a small anger filled his chest as he went to angrily address the "hero" in question.

Mineta quickly turned off the game the hero was playing, and this time he wanted answers and he didn't care what happened next even if he heard the king engine start to roar he wanted to know why the strongest man, the best hero in the world was sitting in his room while the world outside was on fire, while people were dying, why he was sitting in his room trying to pretend that it all simply didn't exist escaping into video games to hide from his responsibilities someone that was essentially all might of this world doing that just felt inconceivable in his mind, all might would have been the first one out there at the scene, his successor midoriya would do just the same maybe even more and that's the reason he looked up to them and hoped to be just as courageous as them one day and he had hoped that king would be able to teach him to be that someday but when he thought about he hasn't learned much of anything from the man.

King said nothing he was speechless and despite his heart beginning to pound in desperation the teen wasn't stepping down, which meant he was serious about this and king knew he couldn't hide it from the teen for much longer given their close relationship he knew it was bound to happen sooner or later and part of him did dislike lying to the kid as he was fairly fun to be around as they had similar taste disregarding all the hero stuff that was and now his lies has caught up to him once again just like that time before just like saitama before him and just like that time just as he was about to tell the truth loud crash and grinding was heard down below him which was quickly followed by the screams of multiple people down the hall but the teen didn't say anything he simply grabbed him by the arm fairy roughly and was about to drag him out into the hall he was going to force him into conflict, king heart was pounding a mile a minute and he finally managed to find his voice he yelled for the teen to stop pulling him and while he didn't at first when he finally admitted that he was lying the teen fully stopped and in that moment he let everything out, the truth about himself about how his hero life was a sham, how when the association forced him to pick him the true reason why he chose him everything and after he was done breathing king had to take a several wheezing breaths as he caught it after his reveal.

King didn't look up at the small teen as he felt him let his arm go before soon after he heard his door scream open and then slam shut King sat there letting the sound ring out from the apartment and hoped for the boy's safety. As mineta stepped foot out into the hallway to see what was transpiring his thoughts were numb as he moved their was large gap where building was originally connected signaling that something large had ran through it, this large monster was still close by and luckily only passed by through the complex neighbors were already helping their neighbors out of the wreckage and doing what they can allowing mineta to run after the monster it was large iguana of some kine judging by the tail but as he persused king's voice rung in the back of his head and deep down he knew it…it was so obvious why would the strongest hero ever take a him under his wing with such a lack luster ability like his he wasn't like todoroki he couldn't produce ice or fire or even someone like kaminari who can produce lighting and he wasn't fearless or hard to break stone wall that was kirishima, but as he saw the monster turn over a moving car and about to take a bite out of the side he knew at that moment what he was and despite all of his deficits he was still a hero. So he launched his pop-off orbs at the monster multiple of them and to his shock as the first landed it erupted into a field of ice casing over the top of the monster's back making it drop the car in reflex the second orb popped open in the form of fire that stuck to the monster and continued to burn to force the creature into a roll revealing it's underbelly where the third one struck releasing a current of lighting that completely shocked the beast to its core and the last ball completely missed as the beast went down but the ball hit the side of the building indenting into its frame. Mineta was so taken aback by everything as he couldn't believe what just happened but threw a fist into the air as he believed that he just awakened! ()

That left mineta with so much excitement that he didn't know what to do so he inevitably went to his phone to brag about it but he stopped when he started to look at what was going down in the group chat and seeing what was happening didn't think it was the correct time to. He looked through the chat and many things were revealed. The monster had broken out of jail in A-city and had escaped and run wild for a bit on their way to Z-city. That meant they had made their way through B-city… to make matters even worse koda wasn't doing ok either it seemed, along with tokoyami. Despite everything being over the class didn't talk much but they all agreed to meet up at the B-city hero hospital it was where they were transferring bakugo, todoroki, and midoriya towards the fact those three were injured frightened him so he elected to start making his way right now not as he should return to the fraud that was king and whatever he was doing probably still playing his dumb game again it made him even angrier as he decided to run his way they're it may take him a few hours but things should be settled by the time he gets there.

The after battle: Monster Association, Class 1A

Midoriya woke up in a hospital bed with a shocked gasp rising to his legs and for a moment panicking thinking about what was transpiring before he was knocked out, his worries almost faded when he felt a sudden weight on his chest and the sight of the familiar brunette hair calmed him enough to slightly take a step back and calm down as he returned the hug. They embraced for a moment before Midoriya's worry ultimately won out and he slowly pushed his girlfriend away and asked for details and the status of everyone. She told him that everyone thankfully was ok for the most part both bakugo and todoroki being the only exception the two of them were extremely hurt and were still unconscious from their injuries, midoriya being the caring person he was immediately wanted to go check up on them and see for himself almost completely forging his current predicament until the explosive pain that flew out of his arm and then soon after rung out through his arm and an equal spike of pain ran through his body as he moved it which the second confirmed was the result of his quirk gearshift. Uraraka had unintendedly pushed her knuckles into him a couple of times and combined with the pain and increased gravity forced him back down into the bed as she reminded him that unlike in their world, they didn't have a recovery girl so he had to stay and be patient and wait for his injuries to heal over, the doctors said that it shouldn't take that long and that he would be out in two days on Thursday before releasing the increased gravity she put on him.

She hesitated for a moment before continuing however causing even midoriya to worry, she told him that while all of their class was mostly fine besides todoroki and bakugo, that was mostly just her talking about them physically, mentally, however, it was a different situation entirely the first things that she told him was that the monster's association had planned a breakout and all of them had escaped out into the wild where they rampaged towards Z-city. Midoirya's mind started to think about that and what Natalie told him earlier on in the day about monsters rampaging another day because he left them alive but that was just the tip of the iceberg for things to regret as uraraka went on. She explained how both Jackie and sigismund had died likely due to the escaped monsters from prison when they were passing by B-city and also several other casualties had occurred as well she didn't want to mention it but the class was taking it as their fault. Kirishima was there for the initial breakout; four of the shining prodigies were killed during the conflict and darkshine was well, Kirishima says he was injured in some way but not physically he described it.

After having described all of that, she also explained that the monster group called itself the monster association and had orders not to kill them directly as they had some plan for them but none of them knew what it was and they had captured the son of an executive member that was under the watch of koda and metal bat and the memories flashed into mirodiya's head of elder centipede immediately asking about what happened to it and if koda was ok and she reaffirmed that he was fine although torax was killed likely protecting him which put him in an even more downcasted mood, they all got to see him one more time before aki ate him she explained they attempted to wait for them to wake up but aki grew out of patience she was now fully grown up but haven't been herself which midoriya didn't blame her for giving the everything that happened. Jiro was the one that busted into the room first however, surprising them both she had explained that an hour ago that Kamianir had left because volten had summoned him and their students but no one has been able to get into contact with him for the past few minutes, leading all of them to worry they knew that he was going to be near the border of Y and Z city however he gave them the address before he left but when they were discussing about volten another man had approached them someone called suiryu and he told them that votlen had turned to the monster side during the day and this immediately got both of their attention as midoriya used 8% full cowling to stand up remove the medical equipment on him as uraraka deactivated her power of him as he was about to leave out again, but Jiro stopped him and demanded that she… no they were going with him but not just her all of them were going to go with him,midoirya didn't want to argue so he agreed although all of them knew this was a trap of some kind they weren't going to leave one of their own out their by themselves.

Midoriya tested his arm multiple times as he headed out of the hospital despite his hurry he made sure to inform the nurse of his absence just so they weren't panicked about his whereabouts. The group of 17 quickly left towards the front of the hospital after that and to save everyone strength for what could be awaiting the uraraka strained herself to lighten everyone while having midoriya hold on to her orbs for her so that she wouldn't strain herself either while using tokoyami's dark shadow for direction and flight, the flight over took a little over 8 minutes to get there once they were forced into landing when midoriya danger sense suddenly flared white hot in his head and in the next moment a flying bird monster that went by phoenix man told them to land downwards the class was hesitant to follow the bird's direction but relented anyways seeing as this was definitely a trap by the monster association and they still don't know where kaminari was at the moment. As the teens all set down the "talks" began or there would have been but the bird was only there to stop them from flying overhead he simply said that down the road would be the people that would like to have a word with them but said nothing of the subject they which to discussed of course it was fairly obvious to them all what they wanted to talk about, they wanted to discuss which side will they choose between the monsters and the humans but they proceeded nonetheless that was until the bird remarked that midoriya wasn't allowed to progress forwards with the others shocking the group into stopping when quizzes why was a practically simple matter.

They likely knew what their response to the discussion would be and would like to separate the S-class from the others they assumed they could be rid of them if they liked which put midoriya on edge when sero questioned what if they just decided to barge through anyways his answer came in the form of both of the buildings beside the group being cut down to pieces and falling, midoriya to was taken by surprise as his danger sense kicked in a moment after all the dust had settled suddenly next to the bird monster was a large humanoid cat that let out a yawn and remarked that if you try such a thing that those buildings will be their bodies next as it licked it's elongated claws while looking at them menacingly. The class looked at each other before looking to midoriya for guidance on what they should do next, they gathered around for a moment before all of them proceeded forwards without him midoriya clutched over tokoyami's shoulder for a moment longer and the birds head boy looked at him nodded before he relinquished his hold and let him go.

Tokoyami was stronger than the monster likely though given that he was an A-class officially but his abilities went into the S-class so it was up to him to protect them if things got rough which going by the monster's actions so far going so he just hoped for the best and everyone safety. As he watched his classmates slowly make their way down the darkly lit street, the bird monster had flown away leaving only him and the cat monster it said nothing as the two of them watched his friends progress it wasn't until five minutes later that he couldn't quite properly see the less colorful ones in the dark of night, that was when the cat monster spoke again reminding him not to make any sudden moves, suddenly his class was suddenly assaulted by a large smoke cloud completely enshrouding all of them and leaving them obscured to him but what nearly made him jump into action the only thing that stopped him was the suddenly extended claw right next to his throat he was forced to watch as several figures had jumped into the smoke, the sound of scuffling and shouts occurred and then more shadows proceeded outwards from the smoke and as the smoke cleared his class were completely gone.

midoriya couldn't physically move to go see what was transpiring but he didn't have to at least not now as he thrust his danger sense out to its absolute limit he could feel them all, their surprise and sudden anger of being taken by surprise out of nowhere, there was a huge spike of anger from someone in his class the aura he was feeling if he was to remember correctly would be from sero and he was curious about what had set him off so much or was it just saren taking over his body again? He questioned but his concentration was interrupted as he felt the bloodlust of the cat next to him, he quickly activated 100% full cowling and retreated backward away from the claw swipe although it still touched him, although it didn't do any damage.

"I thought you said that you all just wanted to talk? What are they doing? " Midoriya questioned as he got ready in case the cat went to attack him again. But it simply flexed its claws and retracted them for a moment.

"They are going to do just that." the cat monster remarked simply before chucking an object directly at him midoriya caught it and turned his hand to view what he just caught, it was something like a weird fruit or fungs of some sort it throbbed in his hand almost like it was alive before he could ask what this was the cat monster continued answering his question before he even asked.

"That right there is a monster cell, if you eat you will become a monster like us, and for you in particular a very strong one at that given that you're already a part of the S-class. You may even be granted the status of an executive in the monster association." the cat monster remarked

"Executive?" midoriya questioned, the best he could do for everything right now is gather information.

"Think of it as a role similar to the S-class of the hero association. Only the strongest monsters of the association are allowed to be executives. We had 12 originally but now after the day's events were down to 11, which comes to us as a surprise, goketsu was a strong monster; he was rated as the top two after all." the cat monster said and midoriya tried to see if he could memorize the name but came up blank. Could that have been the name of the monster he faced in C-city? His thoughts were again interrupted when the cat disappeared and spoke directly next to his ear making him jump back again, losing track of the monster again as it showed up next to him.

"Something is strange, however. You don't seem strong enough to have done him in or are you secretly hiding something up your sleeve." the cat remarked simply even with 100% full cowling he couldn't see when the cat even moved from its position meaning it was verified fast and nimble which meant if he tried to run towards his friends it would be able to get their first and he didn't even want to think of the result as he looked towards the destroyed buildings before quickly turning back to answer the cats' query.

"And what if I did?" Midoriya stated simply implying that he was the one that beat the monster.

"Well, I would hope that you take us up on our offer then, think about it your friends are nothing but freaks to those regular people, what has humanity done to help you all, they let everyone you know die in an attack that they obviously should have seen coming and what did they do directly afterward? They built a base right over their ashes and caged you all away, probably running several experiments on you all. What do you owe them?" the cat monster said.

"And what do you propose instead? What is the actual goal of the monster association because from what I saw today, you all are only worse in every way, you killed, destroyed, and harmed so many things and people, and for what?" midoriya questioned

"We simply want to turn society on its head, several monsters are forced to hide afraid of coming out due to humanity and their heroes but I don't care about that I simply want to do as I please in this world without people bothering me whether that be killing, stealing, or napping doesn't matter to me." the cat monster remarked and midoriya was fairly unconvinced so the monster had no goals after they won, they simply will continue to be monsters.

"But what will happen once all the humans are gone? Won't society just drive itself into chaos? Where are all the monsters attacking each other?" Midoriya questioned and for a moment the cat creature pondered that for a moment but merely shrugged its shoulders.

"Well at that point it will just be the strongest monster for themselves, that is if the monster king doesn't express his authority over everyone that is." the cat monster said simply.

"Monster king?" midoriya questioned

"Obviously there has to be a king, as you said monsters typically don't work well together unless we're forced to and while forced isn't the word I would use we all respect his strength enough to serve under him at least for now, once we destroy the association all bets are off, although anyone foolish enough to attempt to fight that thing can be my guess I'll probably just slip away and live life comfortably as I see fit." the cat remarked simply.

"Why not join the humans then? Humanity creates and innovates and can make life easier on not just you but everyone or at the very least can't you all just be granted a city and leave the rest of humanity alone? Aren't you afraid of dying in the coming conflict wouldn't that conflict with you living life easily? " Midoriya tried to reason and after a moment's pause, the cat monster laughed for several seconds.

"And why would we want that? Humans will simply use it as a way to get rid of us. We can't trust them and they can't trust us. the conflict would be inevitable. Do you think humans would just allow monsters to not only live peacefully but take over an entire city from them? You must be incredibly naive to think so." the cat remarked with another laugh before there was a loud sound behind him from the direction of where his classmates were, things had apparently started to heat up and the cat turned back to him.

"Well as expected things are not going how they had hoped, at least we gave you all a chance. So make your choice hero or monster?" the cat remarked getting its elongated claws ready to attack, midoriya already knew his choices and he attempted to use the downtime to crawl his black whip to surround the monster as he asked that question he sprung his trap the black whip rising out of the ground wrapping around the creatures feet and legs before coming up and up to its head but midoriya suddenly lost his grip almost as if the thing body became malleable and completely slip out of his grasp behind his danger sense flared but even before that his clothes on his back ripped out the swipes of the creates claws but the attack failed to draw much blood and the monster complimented him for that feat, although he wondered how many cuts could his body take before he finally drops dead and he couldn't wait to use him as the perfect scratching post to sharpen up his claws, midoriya just wanted to keep the creatures attention on him and hoped that his classmates were doing ok.

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Koda, Aki, Asterius

As koda and aki were walking with the others, aki had said nothing she was fairly large likely even bigger than her father was by this point in time even on four legs she was large enough that her head would hang around his chest level he couldn't have imagined her on two legs and what that would have looked like but she wasn't very much in the mood to do much of anything after she had eaten torax and thinking about it everyone she known has been killed now besides asterius and he didn't know how close of a relationship was to the bull monster maybe she was holding out hope to meet him hear perhaps, she has been silent for a long time now even before she had eaten torax she didn't speak much on anything just deciding to lay down and huff mostly to herself. In terms of appearance, she looked a lot like her father but likely in the remembrance of torax her body held the black stripes of a tiger along with a similar tail that was white and black instead which contrasted her dark red fur.

Koda was completely taking off guard by the sudden smoke that surrounded them, he heard Iida remarked that they should stay together but as soon as he said that as sudden shadow had filled his vision, something had grabbed him hoisted him up and began to carry him off, he let out a shriek from his anivoice equal parts stunning maneuver and a call for aki to help him but nothing came his feedback didn't activate and to make matters worse the monster that had held him didn't' seem affected by his voice which meant it either didn't hear or it had counter measures in place because it knew of it, he was shocked when the creature that had held him put a massive paw over his mouth and told him to shut up, the monster voice was unmistakable even though it was somewhat deeper and as they cleared the smoke it was confirmed that the creature holding on to him was in fact aki herself, koda's mind suddenly raced with questions on what was happening and where she was taking him at first he had hoped that she was just protecting him but she was teking him away form his friends and she was oddly cooperative when they said that they should travel to this trap and he didn't know if how me she saw or heard of the figthign while he was unconscious so a erie creeping sensation went up his spine and considered that maybe aki was with the monster instead, he attepmeted to struggle in her grasp but she growled at him waring him to stopp his pointless struggle and he hesitantly did so.

They rushed by several things at a blinding pace before they seemingly met their destination and aki roughly set him down as she moved forwards down an alleyway. Aki told him to follow her and for a moment he considered against it and opted to run back towards his friends but aki was faster than him she would just chase him down so he relented and followed after also curious about what this was about, the two walked in silence as koda lumbered behind the atmosphere was fairly silent until a large step was heard through the alleyway. the clumps have proceeded to get louder and louder until finally out of the shadows stepped out none other than asterius, koda would have taken a sigh of relief but he believed that things weren't as simple as a mere get-together as the minotaur scanned over the two of them.

{Given your appearance and the absence of one of you, then that must mean.} asterius said and aki nodded.

{Torax was killed …..by humans} aki said in disgust, the remark surprising koda as he shuffled back a few steps.

{What? How… why?} Koda questioned, aki looked back at him with a minor look of disdain gracing her features.

{Because humans and monsters just can't get along….he tried protecting us …he fought them and what was he rewarded by? Bombs! Metal Knight killed him.} Aki yelled at him, making Koda take a sudden step back from the cubs Pained shout.

{Will you help me get "revenge" against him as well, huh?} aki asked but koda knew it was more a rhetorical question, she knew he wouldn't do that, the girl let out a small laugh and continued on that same vein.

{Were you ever going to help me get revenge? I bet if it were a monster you would have no problems helping out.}

{that's …not true.} Koda offered weakly in reply and Aki simply looked at him for a moment before shaking her head.

{koda….how did my father die.} she asked suddenly, koda took a moment to ponder the questions and their relevance before realization dawned on his face, she had eaten torax which meant that she had a certain amount of his memories and that could include…he hung his head down.

{I'm sorry...I didn't want to-}

{Yet you did anyways and….I get it…I don't hate you, you did what you thought was best for my safety so to that end…I'm doing the same thing for you right now just as torax said before me…join us and become a monster.} aki said she had moved deeper down the alleyway next to asterius and suddenly down in front of the two of them two more monsters came down from above he recognized one almost immediately this being farukuro and that meant the person beside her was none other than…Chemonille his head was misshapen at a weird angle and his ear was pointed up almost like an elf from myth and his fingers were replaced with sharp demon-like claws along with a sharp tail. The man entered with a bow before throwing something out in front of him and he walked over to koda and handed him an object that he called a monster cell. If he ate it he would become a monster his powers would be amplified even more.

{koda judging from what I've seen the hero association won't win this coming battle, that huge centipede was just too strong.} Aki remarked

{there exists an even stronger monster in the association gyro-gyro, as well orochi the monster king his strength is unmatched even to something of this caliber. } asterius added on.

{I can't …. Please don't do this… if we come together we could wind maybe even find a path that doesn't involve everyone killing each other.} koda pleaded with all four monsters, they looked at each other and Aki simply sighed.

{monsters and humans won't come to terms anytime soon, they will always hate each other.} aki said simply

{you could say that this coming conflict was the direct result of all the fighting and whoever wins will predict the future of the world.} asterius said.

{me and my brothers…we originally wanted to use our powers to our advantage that was the main reason we wanted to train under you to get stronger and now with monsterification, we can achieve our goals and I would love it if you joined us. Think about things you could control once you monsterize you could maybe even control people. The skies are the limit with monsters.} but Koda shimmed back while shaking his head.

{this will be your last chance. Gyro-gyro won't offer this invitation again.} Chemonille said

{No.} koda said definitely and Chemonille simply sighed but said nothing else as he proceeded the opposite way.

{we were ordered to kill those that declined but out of respect we will let you go, but when we meet again it will likely be on the battlefield.} asterius remarked as he turned and marched away. Koda spared one last glance at Aki as she was about to turn around as well and go along with them, Koda reached out a hand as if begging her to stay. She shook her head.

{goodbye koda.} Aki remarks turning her back on him and continuing forwards..koda let his head drop loosely as a single tear left his eye, he needed to get back to his friends he can think about this later he wiped his face before proceeding back to where he came releasing a large shout of his anivoice to all the insects and mice in the area to find where everyone has been carried away too.

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The lightings reunion, Jiro

The three lighting students had met up on the edge of B-city given kaminari's lack of equipment he didn't have much of a chance of keeping up with them so they had to make a quick stop at D-city so that kaminari could get charged up from before going down towards the area, they didn't know what their teacher needed but they assumed that it likely was something urgent max had told him that he had went missing after the tournament and suggested that where they were going could be a trap set up by the monster association so they wanted to be prepared before they arrived their once they arrived an hour or so after the SOS was sent kaminari had a managed to gather two lighting god charges but using one immediately to speed up their pace to get to the meeting point only left him with one left, the instructions indicated that they needed to come alone and to not tell anyone so the possibility of it being a trap was likely 100% but they complied fearing for their teacher's safety. As they were fact greeted by monsters two of them each of which was the same monster that had attacked Genji previously it was eclectic catfish man and maiko plasma as the two introduced themselves but while the three of them prepared for a fight the monster simply told them that they were merely escorts to lead them to their precious master catfish remarked that they shouldn't make any sudden moves one signal from either of them and their master would be killed so they slowly proceed both Genji and max cased their surrounding searching for other monsters while they couldn't see any they knew that there had to be more of them around.

Kaminari on the other hand was more focused on this electricity he was feeling, the power of which was rapid in comparison to even the two monsters in front of him, his eclectic sense could feel several different being around him which he figured were monsters but he didn't feel any human-like signals which were strange if volten was here he would at least sense him somewhat but that could mean that he was unconscious maybe? Whatever it was, where the monsters were taking them, it was to a pretty large eclectic power of some kind as he could feel it even as they stepped into the street. The five of them slowly made their way closer and closer to that electric source, they were gestured down an alleyway directly to wherever that electricity was being generated, kaminari questioned if this was a trap and the catfish monster bonked him over the head partly because of his stupidity and the equal part about his comment from early before replying that if this was a trap they would just kill the three of them now and be done with it. Kaminari rubbed the top of his head and nodded anyway before proceeding in with the other two as they continued forwards that electric power increased even more and kaminari ensured to tell the heroes in front of him of the likely threat ahead but they had no choice but to proceed, forwards, it was then when they heard his voice and the two disciples rushed forwards kaminari was behind him but that worrying feeling never left him as they reached a finally spotted who they were looking for but they stopped as the man had undertaken a monstrous wardrobe change and kaminari found where that electrical disturbance was coming from.

10 minutes prior

Jiro didn't like what was happening one bit and she grew angrier and angrier with everything that transpired, part of her was skeptical when Kaminari's teacher suddenly requested for all of them to show up but she wanted to believe that the former hero was maybe calling for something special such as a ritual or something that lightning did and this world would likely be strange enough to disregard even the day's events to still commit to it. She should have insisted on going with him or better yet insisted that he stayed there and take whatever consequences that may have dwelled for him which apparently would have been nothing as the former A-class number one decided to turn in with the monsters, she would wonder why but the only thing she was worried about at the moment was what her boyfriend had just gotten himself into. The group walked forwards without midoriya which she had to admit was like taking the safety cushion away from a car in her eyes as she definitely expected things to go wrong and with the haste of their arrival not back was likely to be coming to help them. She heard the whip and whisper of the wind as she used her spy-ears to enhance her hearing a keep a watch out for things coming along but all she heard was the crack of the wind and her vision was filled full of just smoke and nothing else she hears Iida voice but by the time she moved to react, she felt suddenly get lifted and carried away up and away before she was harshly thrown a couple of feet away. She was able to slightly stop herself from crashing into a wall with her arm attachments slowing her descent before she slammed her back against the wall.

The impact knocked the wind out of her and she needed to take a moment to catch her breath as she took in her surroundings, and noticed something, or rather someone on the rooftop, and upon her vision clearing up it seemed to be a woman with drums. Connected to her back? The lady played a tune and out of the drums emerged a shot of electricity but it wasn't at her but further down the road which probably indicated that they wanted her to go that way and looking back down the road that she just came from she realized that something was blocking her path back down, it was another monster this one similar to an armadillo of sorts so she didn't really have much choice she guest as she got up and proceeded down to the path suggested cranking her spy ear to the max she heard everything within a kilometer range of her and she immediately started to hear the sound of electricity and started to run in that direction following the sounds to their source boosting up and over the rooftops and running into an alleyway. Where she found the source of the sounds.

Jiro stood at the edge of the cross alley and looked down it as an array of light and sound highlighted the surrounding alleyway, she couldn't make out much of the fighting but she knew kaminari was likely a part of it she could see his electricity trails along with others things such as smoke, sparks, and another eclectic trail this one being blue which contrasted kamianri's yellow. Due to the flashing light and smoke, she couldn't make out who was fighting and what was happening but she could imagine that the kaminari, Genji, and Max were fighting their monster teacher since she remembered that his lighting was also blue, and confirmed that kaminari was suddenly slapped into the side of the alley slamming down and getting dazed and the other two followed suit soon after the creature looked like an embodiment of electricity it poured out of his body and his facial features were almost hollow his eyes completely black, his faced cracking towards the top as his electric hair shot skywards up into the air. She took her eyes off of the monster and straight to kaminari as he called for her to get out of there but before she could move she felt her hair suddenly stick up and the air around felt charged as the monster that was just meters away closed the distance with incredible quickness, it hoisted her by the throat and restricted both of her arms with his other hand and slowly walked her into the alleyway.

Two of them looked appalled at what their former master was doing while kaminari looked furious, even downright blood hungry going by his eyes. The monster spoke again this time complimenting kaminari about his good job, remarking that the invitation that the monster association extends was not only to him and his students but also to their group as well and he brought them there. Jiro was completely confused so the monster caught her up explaining that the monster association was offering them a chance in the new world by becoming monsters and joining them in the coming conflict however as expected the other three didn't seem to see it that way despite his sacrifice he made to give this opportunity and while he hated to do things the way he was about to be ordered kaminari and the two other to eat the monster cell on the ground or else he would kill her. All three of them looked shocked but that turned into a fit of bitter anger as they looked at the monster cells that were scattered across the ground. Kamiari looked back and forth from the pieces scattered and jiro she couldn't speak each time she attempted to a shock would be administered directly through his body making her words come out as a jumbled shout and Kamianri's body twitched with worry as he gathered his strength stood up and went over to pick up the monster cell, he dusted it off to shake some muck off as the other stared at him the two pro heroes didn't move from their spot only holding their hands tighter on their weapons. Kamiari looked at jiro one more time her eyes immediately told him that she didn't want him to do it but he couldn't figure out another way through the situation besides volten somewhat keeping himself in check after monstertizing maybe he could as well or at least he hopes as he raised the thing and was about to eat it when Jiro let out a resounding cry of no!

Then suddenly out of her mouth a shockwave emerged and it flung everything in front of her backwards for a moment including kaminari and the heroes as well, she was zapped particularly hard and she found her jaw fairly locked as almost like it was fused shut unable to open it even if she wanted it to, the people in front of her looked at he girl with wild eyes at what they had adjust witnessed for kaminari realization dawned on him on what just happened a smile cracked at the edge of his lips but it turned back into a frown once the monster again told him to pick up the cell and eat it, his former pupils tried once again to ask the man to stop with everything and to put her down but the master was fully confident in his reasoning stating that the coming conflict was something humanity just couldn't win against and that max saw it first hand earlier he saw goketsu so he should know how strong the monsters are and he had heard that there were monsters even stronger than that so wanting them all to still live he gave in and ate the monster cell he was doing this for all of them. Genji looked at Max and Max grits his teeth. He took only a single glance at the monster cell but still did not make any moves to retrieve it and instead brandished his weapon towards him, still remarking that heroes are ready to give their lives at any time no matter the cost.

Kaminari was the one that completely broke the silence as he remarked that if he was talking about the large humanoid monster in C-city it was killed as well by someone, volten faced for a moment faltered and questioned if kaminari was joking but kaminari was dead replied that he was completely serious and that heroes weren't as soft as he thought. This moment made volten think for a moment as he pondered the possibility but as he began to speak he still was fully committed to still joining the monsters in their upcoming battle and in that moment jiro struck out, she wasn't going to be used as bargaining piece for her anyone surrender so while the monster was pondering on what kaminari said she unhooked her earphone jacks from her shoulders and activated her knife-ears before waiting for the man to answer and when he fully committed to the monster cause she struck out sharpening the knives to their sharpest point and stabbing deep into the monster the shock and surprise completely delayed its reaction as jiro did her next move vibration maximum output, she sent massive amount vibrations through the monster amplified by the ears but as they flowed through him it had an immediate effect. The monster struggled to move and the electricity that flowed through his body completely started to fluctuate and expel itself more randomly before exploding outwards the monster exploded in a rush of electricity and small body parts, jiro braced herself for the pain of the electricity but it never came she opened her eyes and was mystified as the electricity simply carved around her as kaminari absorbed it all, his lighting god form soon turned blue as it absorbed it all but his stare was off in the distance elsewhere.

~(DF)~

As he absorbed the lighting of the now-dead monster to protect jiro, Kaminari's vision suddenly blanked for a moment, he started to see things that weren't there. The first thing he saw was a parking lot of some kind he was with koda, aki, and torax. And they had appeared to be meeting with some other monsters of some kind before he saw volten himself. The next vision he saw was someplace else it looked like Drive Knights lab and he was staring at one of the cages and inside said cage was volten looking at him. The last vision he saw before he turned back into real things and it made him sad, the last vision was of the four of them volten, Genji, Max, and himself all together volten was still a monster but they were working together and all of them glowing a bright white of electricity facing off against a monster of some kind. Then his mind slowly fluctuated back into reality as the energy of their former master finally was fully absorbed.

~(DF)~

The next thing he did was hug jiro who had ran up to him, he felt the small amount of electricity in jiro and pulled it out the girl could finally open her mouth again but she still struggled to speak only hugging him closer and that was when she finally spoke telling him to never do something like that again even for her banging him on the head luckily after switching to her armored-ears variant thankfully, and kaminari kissed the girl on the cheek before looking up to the other heroes trying to tempt their reaction..while somewhat distraught over what had just happened they had recovered quickly and wanted to get a move on, jiro questioned about the two monsters that were close by them but kaminari said he would deal with them as he suddenly disappeared from their sight the next thing they knew was that one figure flew down from the building above it was the girl with drums that jiro saw when she arrived and that was soon followed by the monster armadillo afterwards covering over her kaminari had come down and told them to leave or else as he pointed his spectrum launcher in their direction. The monsters looked at him and swore that they would get revenge on him one day. Both heroes told kaminari to finish them now and save them the headache later and given what he's heard and their plan on top of watching what jiro just did. He….he relented and just as the monster had picked up his wife kaminari opened fire using his drive shot the blast of overwhelming plasma engulfed the two monsters and the street incinerating the both of them. He didn't know what to feel about it but at least he could not let jiro be alone in her conflicted thoughts of what just happened. The heroes complimented him but that didn't make it any better for them but they still had their classmates to help and jiro requested that he go find them and they will follow behind him Kamianri nodded as he zipped away.

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The organization, Momo

Momo was surprised by the smoke that suddenly clouded her vision as the group was suddenly under attack before she could make something to clear it away she felt the cold touch of metal hands touch her and rushed out of the smoke she was taken back by the speed of the object that grabbed her she could distinguish at least some of the things features being able to tell that it was robotic in nature but before she could discern anything whatever robot that had grabbed her put her down and she took a moment to recover from the whiplash of the sudden movement but as she looked up she noticed that a large machine staring down at her she looked up and was shocked to see a robot of kind it looked almost similar to to drive knight having a singular red eye that stared at her but it's body resembles that of an samurai fully complete with dual katanas attached to his hips it drew one of them and brandished it directly at her making her back up for a moment it gestures for her to rise up on her feet but still maintained the sword just under her chin as she did so, she took a glance behind her and saw two other robotic creations one had what ooked like a hex screw for a head with a basic deign display but around each of it's arms wind seemingly generated from him and the second was had a more humanoid face shape almost like a bionicle from the old cartoons this one gaunlets generated a flames from each of it's arms.

"Gale, hellfire secure the perimeter and ensure that we are alone." the robot in front of her remarked and both robots nodded before disappearing from her sight she turned back around noting that the robot in front of her had sheathed his sword again and stared at her with that menacing red eye.

"Uhm….ummm you wanted to speak to me?" Momo questioned finding her voice after several moments passed, the robot didn't respond for several seconds before reaching behind itself and taking out a small fleshy object of some kind.

"You have three options, this is a monster cell. If you consume it you will turn into a monster and join the monster association or you refuse to eat the monster cell and I will strike you down here and now." the robot said with a cold and calculated tone, momo gulped for a moment but asked the next obvious question as both of those options were unacceptable, she didn't know the capabilities of the robot before her or if she could even get away from it if she tried but if she didn't have to fight she tries not to and hurry to help her classmates.

"The third option, miss neith, is that you come to work for me. " The voice that came out wasn't the cold voice of a machine but of a person, a man that seemed to be speaking through the machine.

"And who are you exactly?" Momo questioned while shocked it seemed like the best options of the three presented to her so she might as well investigate it.

"Never mind that particular detail for now, just understand that we do not have to be enemies, we are both human after all." the man remarked through the machine.

"But you aid the monster association, why?" momo questioned immediately

"We simply share a similar goal of sorts, you could say not the destruction of humans mind you only the destruction or at least weakening of the hero association once that is complete it is likely our alliance ends there." the man remarked, even more questions flowed through momo's head questioning why they would want that but given that he didn't directly say it yet she assumed he didn't want to tell her just yet.

"And what would you want with me?" momo asked

"Come now, you know what someone of your…capabilities value should be." the man remarked simply and Momo looked the machine up and down and grimaced slightly.

"Ah, ah, ah no no don't be mistaken we do not want you to create a machine army the G-series are mostly just stop gaps to are real plans which you will assist with much simpler as well." the man added, could he see her? She wondered.

"And if I refuse then I die, is that correct? " momo said

"Unfortunately yes, these units were given orders by gyro-gyro to kill you if you all refuse their invitation. Do keep in mind if you do decide to fight each of the robots present each remark as demon-level threats mind you." the man remarked. Momo was irked by that, the person could just be bluffing but did she want to risk that if she didn't have to? With a heavy sigh, she replied

"Ok…not that I have much of a choice given the circumstances, however, I would like for you to withdraw your aid from the monster association, given your goal I would not ask for you to aid the association but withdrawing your forces should be enough for me to at least to believe you have some good faith," Momo asked and then there was a long pause. The robot suddenly looked up almost as if it was looking at something and the next thing Momo knew was down next to her kaminari was there or more as he crash-landed right next to her rubbing his back from the rough landing. The robot looked back at her and finally rescinded but the robot did not recognize the man behind it.

"Those terms are agreeable, we will withdraw for now and we will receive you in the coming month." the monster said simply before turning and walking away the two robots joined him sometime later and the three of them completely disappeared thereafter away from sight. Momo released a breath that she didn't realize she was holding before checking up on kaminari.

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Poison sisters and horn buddies

Mina was taken off guard by the smoke but was even more surprised when she felt something playing with her horn thing she snapped her eyes open only to stare fully at the female monster in front of her each of which with barely anything on along with but their voice was almost unmistakable to her as the two monsters in front of them revealed themselves as both reptora and raptors the reptile sister she known from before the two of them had undergone monsterization and overheard about this assignment they had for their group and wanted to be the people to convince her to join them, a mina was confused about why or how they became monster in the first place and that's when they showed her the fleshy fruit that they were told to give to her. Their reptile exhibit was rudely crashed by the monsters that had attacked earlier during the day and one thing led to another as multiple of their animals had also turned into monsters by eating monster flesh and some of them even gain the ability to speak ad they wanted them to take on the transformation as well so they did. They would do anything for their little creatures besides they could be more like them and if they didn't the monster around them might have killed them so they decided to take that plunge and digest one of the dead monsters transforming them into what they were now.

They quickly joined the monster association after that because they had no other place to go and monsters should stick together after all, they then proceeded to gloat over their newly impressive horns and scaly skin and wondered what type of monsters she would turn into after eating the monster cell but mina quickly put a rain on that parade as she explained that she would not be eating it causing both of them to look at the girl with shock as if that wasn't obvious, she wouldn't join the monsters that caused so much destruction and pain to so many people and how heartless they were for joining such a group. The twins still persisted, however maybe that showing the girl how strong they become from transforming into monsters would maybe convince her and they decided to show that strength by completely bullying her on top of the roof despite her best efforts to defend herself from the conflict she couldn't beat even just one of them despite the pain she was feeling they really wanted her to reconsider her choice or else they would be forced to ill as gyro-gyro ordered it as a show of loyalty if not then they will be killed along with all of their monsterized pets so they once again urged her to change her mind but mina was hard fast in her choice standing up again against the edge of the rooftop, she had sent multiple blast of acid out and away from her during the fighting and simply hoped someone would notice and help her out but in the worst case scenario she may have to leap off the building but it seemed like the twins were done with asking as they sympathetically sicked another monster at them this seemed to be flying reptile of somekind it had a large head with a relatively small body but with huge wings that propelled it in the air.

The thing's mouth produced smoke from its mouth before opening completely to reveal fire and it burst forth with extreme speed right at her and it was almost too late for her to think of jumping as the ball of fire was simply too fast her life nearly flashed before her eyes at that moment but as the fireball connected and exploded. The twin sisters were simply remiss that it was a shame that she didn't join they could have been the poison horn trio but as the smoke dispersed Mina responded stating that she wouldn't want to be a part of that as she had her horn buddy right their as their bodies became revealed to mina had also taken under her transformation but it didn't seem like monsterization it was something different as both she and Kirishima were both hardened to unbreakable her pink skin showing deep ridges and grooves. The monster's shock allowed Mina to lift her arm to shoot acid at the creature in front of them. She was slightly surprised when it was almost like her acid was solid when it left her finger gauntlets but as they splashed over the flying monster it may have just been her imagination, the monster screeched in pain and anguish before falling and the two sister anger flared as they charged at the two of them.

The fight was much more stable now that kirishima was their to help, their hand never parted as mina used her rhythm mirror to match his movements to the best possible chance as she guessed that the reason why she was hardened at the moment was due to him and she figured out that she wasn't justs seeing things either when she shot out acid it also was hardened until she let go of it, the four way fight came to an sudden end as kirishima and mina's hands finally broke apart from the scuffle just as mina was about to drive an acid spear into one of the girls shoulder, she hoped for the acid to stay hard to stay solid or else the acid would splash allover the women face and either permanently scar her or worse she thought but luckily just as it was about to it regained it's structure and impaled into the girl shoulder just liek she wanted the sister let out a pined screech and her sister immediately came to the rescue quickly kicking mina away and despite the pain tore the acid spear from her sister shoulder, mian couldn't see much more of anything as she tried to balance herself but failed and ended up falling off the building and kirishima was right after her diving in to help her, he opened her arms to him and he somehow caught up to her during free fall and embraced her as he both hardened. In any other situation, he would have been excited to fall from such a place and feel nothing at all but they still had things to do, sato who was climbing up the building had jumped down to see if they were ok which they were, they opted not to go back up there and just regroup with the rest of their class and the giant blue beam towards the sky told them exactly where they needed to go.

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Mineta, Goddess glasses

Mineta was taken away amid all the smoke and shuffled the monster that had taken him however was one that he least expect she wore a black dress that held a heart-shaped boob window along with to match if he were being honest the woman looked pretty hot but he didn't let that distract him from what was happening he questioned the women if she was a monster which she was revealing her razor sharp teeth to him. She told him that he had two options for the moment option one was to accept the gift that the monster association has given them by the monster cell and turn into a monster or option two was to become her love slave obviously both were less than ideal although a lot more on the former side than the latter case but he quickly snapped his head free of such thoughts he needed to overcome those burgers but the monster who referred to herself as goddess glasses too his shaky head movement for a no on at least the first part of her options as she then yelled that he would become her love slave instead and suddenly too quickly for him to avoid a circular pink and red beam emerged from her glasses engulfing his entire body.

Suddenly he felt hot way too hot like his body wanted to explode and release everything he had been saving, all of his thoughts no matter how hard he tried completely focused on the monster woman in front of him he hair, her curves, her breast, her butt, he wanted her, he wanted her bad and nothing would stop him, she was a monster right so…she wouldn't mind correct? And he wouldn't get in trouble for doing anything right? She was the bad guy but she was also so much more than that.

Under the effects of the love spell that goddess glasses all of Mineta's inhibitions that he had been suppressing had suddenly been unleashed at that moment he was not a slave to her but to his urges that he's done so well to keep back for so long were struck right to the surface and he would not be deterred by anything he will do what he must to express his newly awakened feelings with them an explosive boost of power emerged as well.

Goddess Glasses attempted to order mineta forwards but the small boy had just stayed there patiently grabbing at his head, confused the monster approached closer again telling him to follow her commands but the boy again did not listen after getting closer she was shocked to see that she was suddenly assaulted by a countless number of orbs, she was fast, however, being able to doge a number of them but she had lost track of the child, she felt something grab her posterior and though surprised quickly turned to anger as he did a hard turn punch into the ground but she hit nothing, the fractured ground showed nothing she was confused for her before something spilled down on top of her head..it was saliva? She looked up the purple head boy was perched on the wall like a spider using his purple orbs his eyes were completely bloodshot and his pupils were changed into the shape of a heart and he was frothing at the mouth his eyes were staring directly at her cleavage instead of her even following as she moved. She was slightly disturbed by the incident but was confident that another beam may due the trick although she worried about if it would only make matters worst.

but the boy quickly bounces off and away becoming a blur as he bounced around the alley way she had put them in, realizing that the plethora of robs he sent her way wasn't solely for attacking but utility, he made several passes at her and "attacked" he several times which was mostly just him groping her body but the boy was quick to retreat again and again back to his wall she attempted to run way but the ground beneath suddenly turned to ice as one of his orbs hit it queuing her to slide around but she was still going the way out of the alley but she didn't get far as she slammed into a solid wall made of cement that seemingly just conjured up from nowhere she attempted to break through once she got a good footing but the boy was on her like a hawk rubbing across her back with his body she swung around hard narrowly clipping him as he retreated but then she received several shocks to her system as more popoff orbs struck her directly in a wave of water followed by lighting, she was perplexed this wan't what he stated his power was was their someone else here?

The fighting between the two was equal parts creepy and strange, mineta had managed to pin the girl against the wall of the alleyway his pop-off orbs held a quicksand-like element to them where the more she struggled the more they would grow she was trapped and he could do what he Pleiades to her body as the heart-shaped pupils began to beat more and more rapidly. But before he could do much of anything he was suddenly struck hard from inside in the alley, the blow being able to send him clear through the cement wall he constructed but while goddess thought she was saved it was something else entirely. As mineta got back to his sense he created a grenade-type ball to completely pulverize the wall and get back to his prize but he was shocked at what he saw, there were several humanoid shapes in the wall monsters with different kinds of appendages and animal-like features but what drew his attention was that on the wall layered glasses dead she had her entire abdomen gouged out and her head was slumped. The effects immediately left him as her life left her body but before then his body was already in motion sending out all sorts of hazards down the alleyway, fire, plasma, and lighting the balls struck home on their targets in the cramped space making dodging nearly impossible and they all in the alley simply began to scream in pain and tournament as they were roasted by the elements. Mineta had snapped out of it sometime later before but by then everyone in the alley was dead, only the smell remained he was later picked up literally by Shoji and sero who heard the commotion but neither questioned it and only kept moving headed towards the blue beam in the sky.

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Everyone is back together again

Multiple similar situations played out for the other students of 1A but ultimately they all managed to get towards the blue beam which was correctly Aoyama, tokoyami ad tsu was already there with him, and kaminari and the other lightings arrived soon after along with Iida. which was proceeded by the rest of them all except two people one of which was midoriya they believed that he could hopefully take care of himself but the second that was missing was uraraka. That was when she appeared but she was not alone and she was looking worse for the ware as well. A large grotesque monster with a pig held her in its clutches, choking her clearly as her face was a deadly pale of blue from being suffocated but it still allowed her to draw enough breath so that she could stay cautious. All of them demanded that the monster let her go but it simply laughed at them as even more monsters started to surround them coming out of grated and even buildings they had uraraka hostage and were going to kill her if they made any sudden moves well they were going to kill them anyways but if they wanted the girl in her grapes to love at least a little longer they will just stand there and let it happen and not fight back. Koda having gone through such emotional turmoil and having one of his classmates no all of his classmates threatened in front of him suddenly occurred another growth this time on the top of his head sprouted a horn he remembered what his mother had told him about this horn and how it allowed animals to feel his emotions similar to his anivoice he could send out help without signaling that he was doing so and there was one thing on his mind right now.

he had been asked by bakugo to fight against a monster called mosquito girl during his time taking everyone for the VGS stuff and while he was under no illusion that he would beat her he wanted to see which one control over animals would win out and the most part hers did because she was the stronger being the insects chose her over him and would swarm him dead and that is what he wanted to do the monster holding uraraka at this very moment. They didn't all at a single time but bit by bit under the cover of darkness they were almost impossible to check and then once he gathered enough near her they struck instantly first going for the arm that help Uraraka's throat all of them focused on single point draining all the blood from the vessels made it useless in a split second then making her drop her, that was when he unleashed the hoard of them like a plague or swarm of locust they descend on the monster consuming it completely as Iida and kaminari rushed to help uraraka stand the other monster witnessed this and one had quickly blown flames over the comrade bruins the insects but if they hoped to save the pig then it was far too late it was only a husk of its former self but it did succeed in neutralizing the insects in the area so the same didn't happen to them.

The class looked around them while they had successfully saved uraraka they now had to deal with the others as they seemed to be 30 and compared to how weak they were from fighting during the day combined with protecting the wounded it would be an uphill battle at least it was going to until the neo hunters had arrived and joined the conflict. The battle strength was enough to at least repel several monsters, a number of the 1A teens simply not holding back to spare them to boot. The fighting all stopped when a large bright light illuminated the area things a man in a phoenix outfit had landed he was humanoid and he had introduced himself as phoenix man although he was different from how he was before much more human and less bird shaped and they could see his face now inside the costume, the monster thanked tokoyami for his gift he gave him by nearly killing him he inadvertently made him stronger than ever, tokoyami didn't seem pleased as he unleashed dark shadow Ragnarok at the new arrival but the shadow demon was completely banished as the light monster admitted scared it off and to their surprise the monster had stopped one of its compatriots from killing shoji as the cat being made its presence known again slicing off a number of his larger arms he was using from the building but was halted when he was about to stab shoji himself. He remarked that since he was in a "good mood" from the events he would let them go for now.

Midoriaya arrived several seconds later, his costume from the waist up completely gone and several claw marks all over his chest. The cat monster at first wasn't going to let them go but the phoenix was adamant in his endeavor stating that he would deal with the monster king and gyro-gyro once they got back the cat creature laughed that off and remarked that he couldn't wait to see that and left and slowly the other monster did as well leaving only the heroes around to take stock of the wounded or losses. Midoriya thanked Accel for his help as he scooped up uraraka in his arms accel said accepted his thanks and he remarked that he was glad to see that some of your members are finally realizing the truth of this world if they had not he suspected there could have been more people hurt or worse. midoriya didn't know what to think about that as he looked to the rest of his class for what he meant but uraraka shaky breath put that to the side for now as he needed to get her to the hospital quickly, accel remarks he would take care of his own wounded so they refused a ride and the 1A teens left back to the hospital a number of them hurt more than when they left midoriya once again collapsed after uraraka was secluded as he had used gearshift for the second time that day despite the seconds warning. No matter what happens now the class was just satisfied that all of them were back together again.

A new symbol joins the mix ~(DF)~ is what I'm calling dimensional fractures, it's a peak into the alternate paths and how the relationships of characters evolve in those paths.