Super Science

Ch 45: Attack of the Yakuza

Hidden within the many cities of Japan was a storage and package facility that was used as a crafty cover-up for the main base of the Yakuza. Within its confines is the office of its current leader, Overhaul, waiting impatiently for any news on his recently vanished secret weapon.

At some point, his second in command, a gray-haired man shaped like arrows known as Chronostasis, enters the office and stands before his leader while telling him, "Sir we've located where Eri is. She's been brought to that new research facility that opened recently. But the tracker died after a few hours. For all we know they could've taken her elsewhere."

"They wouldn't.", Overhaul says with certainty. His right-hand man looked at him in confusion as he continued, "They know about us and that we would find them. They're trapped and know it."

"What do you suggest we do?", Chronostasis asks.

"Well try diplomacy, then invade.", Overhaul tells him after thinking it over.

The gray-haired man bowed deeply and said, "Right away sir."

With that, he took the phone to his boss's desk and punched in the numbers for the NIP building, let it ring, then gave it to his boss. The phone rang for a second then was picked up where the voice of Josie.

"Hello, this is the front office of the Neo Icon Phoenix Research Facility. This is-.", She tried to say until Overhaul cut her off viciously.

"Cut the crap and transfer me to you boss. This is the leader of the Yakuza speaking.", He hissed at her in a firm tone that emanated ever but if his repressed rage.

The woman gasped before the line was cut and a moment later, Egon picked up, not sounding happy at all as he half yelled back, "Professor Egon Crystallo. Who is this and why are you making my staff cry!?"

"This is Overhaul of the Yakuza.", Overhaul told him.

There was silence for a long while until Egon spoke up again and said sarcastically, "Riiiiiiight! And I'm All Might's mom.", Overhaul said nothing in return and feeling what the man was putting out over the phone Egon observed aloud, "You're serious? Well, I have nothing to say to you. I'm reporting you to the heroes."

Before he could hang up, Overhaul slammed his hand on the desk and said, "I know you have her."

Egon paused and asked back, "Her? Who's her?"

"The girl, Eri. She's my asset. Give her to me and I won't dismantle your whole building.", Overhaul offered.

Suddenly the phone was taken from him and a new younger voice answered.

"Ah geez that sounds like a real convincing argument!", The voice said with heavy sarcasm, before drawing it out in silence and saying, "Buuuuuuuuuuut…nah! If you want her, come and get her, if you can. Don't worry, I'll make a spot ready for you and your group in our morgue. Toodles."

The phone line went dead and Overhaul slammed the phone back on the receiver with enough force to break it! After seeing this and waiting for his leader to calm down, Chronostasis asked, "Invasion?"

Overhaul gripped his hands tightly and breathed an angry sigh before affirming, "Invasion."


Sometime Later

"Here they come right on time.", Purah said as she looked through a periscope device attached to the building.

A few miles away from their location, several large carrier trucks were zooming their way. Not so inconspicuous ones that immediately tipped them off that they were part of the Yakuza invasion. They knew it would happen today, the planes for and calculated it, and the thugs proved them right.

"They are way too easy to predict.", Cho scoffed as she manned a set of controls that maneuver the many defensive measures in, on, and around the building and its land.

Seeing the trucks get within a mile of them, Purah told her, "Begin the defense measures."

Cho pushed some buttons and said, "Raising the gate and tower turrets."

As the trucks rapidly approached a long line of thick concrete walls erected up from the ground around the edges of the facility's property lines. 20ft high and 2 ft thick with an added Illusion Splinter on it making it appear to be made of something flimsy. Besides them were several small towers of concrete that had a single turret gun on top. The turrets locked into the incoming trucks and began to unload their ammunition!

The trucks sustained heavy damage but kept pressing on until they came to the wall! Thinking they would easily break through they didn't stop until they saw three trucks hit the wall and explode!

The ones who stopped short ended up exploding when the wall plasma cannons began blasting them point blank! All seemed well until one of the trucks, that was farther back, sped to the wall, and everyone inside jumped out just before impact! When it did, the vehicle exploded in a blast so powerful that it destroyed the wall and two of the tower turrets!

Purah groaned and reported, "They broke through our first line of defense. Activate roadblocks."

Cho nods and pushes more buttons to affect the outside. As several trucks rushed in through the new hole many more hidden traps sprang up! Road spikes that burst the tires, piping that spilled oil, and even mechanics that made the street uneven with potholes and bumps, making many more vehicles tumble over or crash, allowing the turrets to take them out! One even exploded which caused the oil around the area to catch fire and set off a chain reaction!

However, this didn't stop them for long as several more armored trucks with non-air-inflated tires barrel through all the previous and current defenses.

Purah sucks air through her teeth and says worried, "Aaaaaaaaaand they got through those. They sure are persistent."

"But not very smart. They still haven't entered the building and are using the same strategy. Bum rushing.", Cho observed through several monitors.

"With how this attack is going, you'd think they're just trying to distract us.", Cluck added while sitting beside Cho.

Otto, who was running calculations, noticed something on the sonar and said, "Looks like they are."

Cho sighs and asks, "Lemme guess. From the rear with the same strategy?", Otto only nods and she says with disappointment, "I thought these guys were supposed to be a threat, not a joke."

"Ever since heroes became a thing, the Yakuza have been taken down so far that they are no different than regular thugs.", Cluck informed her.

At this time, Izuku and Egon, who was standing silently in the back and watching this unfold, spoke up and stated firmly, "Thugs or not, they're still dangerous. Keep an eye on their progress. If they enter the building we'll have to take drastic measures!", Egon told them.

Purah waves her hand and says back, "Righty-o boss man! But don't worry, they may have gotten to the front door, but the defenses are taking them down quickly. And it doesn't look like they have a large force."

As she said this, from outside the armored trucks pulled up to the front and began to unload people only for things to go backward for them! The moment the doors opened a hail storm of bullets and cannon fire was thrust on them! Any that survived or were lucky enough to keep the doors closed has to deal with the plasma rail cannons! One by one trucks began to explode and people were torn to shreds by the gunfire! Any who got close enough to the front entry was attacked by strangling and tickling vines, grass as sharp as blades, snapdragons with teeth, hypnotic pitcher plants and roses bushes, the whipping willow, pine tree, and cactus that shot its needles, daisy flowers that screamed loud enough to damage an eardrum, and so much more.

Robbie, who was looking through another periscope, informed them, "Don't look now but we have a large carrier coming this way."

"What's it doing?", Izuku asks him.

From the outside, as stated, a large carrier truck positions its at the destroyed concert wall and when it parks several vast people all come out. One of them is a short man in a purple parka with fur trim, black hair, sharp eyes, and a uniquely designed bird mask.

"Wait, is that the Yakuza boss?", Robbie asks.

"Lemme see!", Izuku demanded while pushing him aside. Looking through he saw the man and said, "Yep, that's him."

Purah looks through her scope and says, "Looks like they have a warper."

Back outside, the Yakuza had all converged just outside the concrete protection walls with one man in a strange mask that had purple hair and was beginning to do something with his glowing hands.

"Is the anti-warp quirk generator up and running.", Egon asked his people.

"Long before they got here.", Honey Lemon announced from another room

"I'm sending out a sniper drone.", Cho told him as she pressed some buttons, and an opening revealed on the outside of the facility.

There a single object was launched into the sky shaped like a ball. After being launched up 100 feet it unveiled at 50 and began to fly at 30. It was shaped like a drone with four fan rotors and a single sniper rifle built into it. It flew over in near silence to the gangsters and aimed its barrel at the warper. Within a moment, the shot was taken and the warper dropped to the ground.

"Got 'em! Now for the leader.", Cho announced as she maneuvered the barrel towards the leader.

Once she had the man in her camera's sight, he turned and looked at the drone, suddenly causing the picture to go static for a moment before he did some kind of motion and the drone was knocked from the air before hitting the ground and cutting off the video feed.

"What the? Something shot down the drone.", Cho announced.

"What are they even trying to accomplish? They lost their whole armada. How are they expecting to get in?", Robbie asked as the back security measures were also breached and fending them off.

Thinking about all they have witnessed so far from the Yakuza's invasion, Izuku thought it over in his mind while muttering quietly to himself. Then a thought crossed his mind and he said with dread in his tone, "Wait a second, I've seen this before!", he looked through one of the cameras and saw Overhaul doing something and remembered his quirk. "Oh no this is bad!", he exclaimed while jumping back.

Everyone looked at him and Egon asked, "What!?"

"Cannon fodder!", Izuku exclaimed as he ran to grab something sturdy.

"Cannon fodder? Wait. Oh no!", Egon exclaimed as he too realized what Izuku was saying and doing. Before anyone could inquire as to what their bosses were talking about, he too grabbed onto something sturdy and yelled, "The attack was just to clear a path."

"Take cover!", Izuku yelled as the other scientists scrambled to hook themselves down.

Back outside Overhaul had removed his glove and placed his hand on the ground ever so slightly. Upon this, the very earth shot out like a wave mixed with a bullet and hurtled right for the building! The security measures could do nothing at all as all of them were destroyed or uprooted by the blast of earth and stone! The front of the building took the brunt of the impact and caved in a huge blast before carving the front entryway inwards and violently shaking the whole building!

After the shaking had stopped and the staff regained their composure, Izuku announced, "We've been breached! Places everyone, we're taking down these wannabes once and for all!"


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