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LEGION: BATTLE FOR THE MIND AND SOUL
"Fighting a war tests a soldier's skills, defending his home tests a soldier's heart."
Nana was walking down one of the hallways, glad to see the Mindscape almost fully recovered from the damages of All For One's attack.
She was still worried however, All For One was not known to leave survivors and he had Izuku dead to rights with that attack.
Perhaps she was worrying over nothing. All For One was magnitudes weaker and Kaminari was able to save Izuku's life…
She sighed before heading over to the Main Complex.
Izuku's Mindscape had been mostly restored, and it seemed to have adapted for his survival once again.
For lack of a better word, there was now a command center in the center of the city that monitored Izuku's health, the Mindscape itself, and gave a constant view of the outside world.
And yes, it could be turned off for privacy reasons.
She was walking into said command center, to where she found clones more monitoring Izuku, with Dandy in command.
"How are we, Dandy?"
"All reports are optimal, General. We've just about fully recovered from the attack," The Commander of the Mindscape replied. Although she had tried to get them to stop calling her General, apparently they saw it extremely fitting.
She soon gave it up as a lost cause.
"And Izuku?"
"He's a bit tired, but he's doing well-huh?" A clone paused as he started to check something.
"Hikage's quirk is activating…Izuku's currently has a headache…"
"What could he be sensing? He's at school."
"I don't know," The clone replied before going to contact Hikage. "Hikage, come in. Are you sensing anything off?"
#I am…it's…something's wrong…nearby…but I don't know what…#
Nana frowned in concern and went to contact Izuku.
Then a resounding boom echoed in the Mindscape as the entire building began to shake.
They stumbled before regaining their bearings, multiple alarms going off in succession.
"What just happened?"
"Something just impacted the shell of the main complex!"
"Izuku's feeling worse! Something's wrong!"
"General… you need to look at this…" Dandy said, the Seventh Wielder looking to the massive screen in the room, displaying all of the clones outside the mindscape.
The thousand portraits, most were green, while some were red, indicating their current status.
Green indicated the clone was alive.
Red indicated them as deceased.
Each of the green portraits were rapidly turning yellow.
In the clouds of the Mindscape, something formed and then exploded in the sky before a large object screeched before crashing onto one of the buildings.
The object revealed itself to be similar to a giant robotic squid with a drill for a beak that began to spin as it gripped the edges and plunged forward, piercing the walls of the main complex.
Clones immediately reported to the scene with weapons on hand, taking defensive positions from whatever was occurring.
"I've got a bad feeling about this."
The beak then opened, and rows of droids spilled out before they activated and opened fire.
"DROIDS! OPEN FIRE!"
#Command Center! Droids have entered the Mindscape! We're under attack!#
"WHAT!?"
Nana was quick to act, slamming the alarms and issuing out a general alert.
"ALL HANDS TO GENERAL QUARTERS! WE ARE UNDER ATTACK! DROIDS HAVE ENTERED THE MINDSCAPE!"
She then tried to contact Izuku.
"IZUKU! WE'RE UNDER ATTACK BY DROIDS! IT'S ALL FOR ONE!"
"General! Vod's just passed out! We're dark!"
More impacts could be heard in the distance.
"General! More impacts at the other complexes, reports are coming in of droids breaching all across the Mindscape!"
"We don't know what's wrong, he just collapsed!" Ochacko shouted as Kix kneeled down beside his brother alongside Recovery Girl.
"Exhaustion? Now… hold on… these are signs of something like brain damage… nose bleeding, dilated eyes, sudden moments of blacking out… It's almost like he has a tu-" before he finished, Kix suddenly collapsed on top of Izuku, making quite a few of them step back.
"Kix! What are you-"
THUD
THUD
BAM
The students looked back to see several other clones also collapsing while others were supporting themselves against the wall or tables.
Shrieks from the hallway caught their attention, as they looked outside with their eyes bulging out, as they saw each of the clones acting the same way, more and more of them passing out and some tearing off their helmets while covering their mouths so they wouldn't throw up.
Familiar voices from their sister class could also be heard.
"Waxer! Boil! Wake up! Come on, guys! This isn't funny!"
"Fil… Niner… Bel…"
What in blazes is going on here!?" Vlad King exclaimed as he bursted out of his classroom and into the hallway.
The sight of clones looking sickly or passing out on the spot shocked him, as he entered Class 1-A's classroom to get answers from Izuku himself, only to be even more baffled at finding him passed out too.
"What's going on, Recovery Girl!? What the hell is happening to the boys?!" He asked only for her to shake her head.
"We don't know… it seems like whatever caused Midoriya to faint is affecting the clones in some way!" She replied before an open comm signal called out to them.
Multiple of them.
#Mayday, mayday, this is Negotiator…something's wrong…I'm going down!#
#The Resolute here! All systems have ceased to function! Same for the Defender!#
#Sensei! Clones all over campus are collapsing! What's going on!?#
#Someone get some medical help! The council of The Thirteen looks like a mass suicide!#
Upon hearing this, several students rushed to the windows or outside to see what was going on, while suddenly someone let out a scream.
"DUCK!"
Just as they shouted, several of the jet troopers known as the 'Seekers' crashed into the windows and got stuck there, before slowly beginning to slide down, students quickly grabbing them before they fell completely and pulling them inside the classrooms.
And overhead, the LAAT was spinning towards a fiery grave with its pilot now unconscious.
Shoto was quick to react as he burst through a window and used his quirk to create an iceberg that caught the LAAT and held it in place.
The Resolute and Defender had been in the middle of a test that involved them climbing up a vertical surface, and were now hanging dangerously off of it, only four of their six legs holding the massive machines in place. Cementoss had to move quickly to provide rear support for them.
And it wasn't just on the school grounds this was happening.
In the dorms, Eri was trying to get Rookie who had suddenly collapsed out of nowhere to wake up, to no avail no matter what she did and Inko had let out a shriek when Cut had suddenly just fallen head first into the miso soup he was helping her make.
At the Diet, Fox who had just arrived with Thire, Rys, Jek and Stone were currently lying in a mess of limbs while Chuchi and those with her were trying to get them untangled and wake them up.
"Fox, Fox!" Chuchi cried out to her collapsed bodyguard.
"Mom?" Momo said in worry as she answered the call over her phone that had come through as an emergency.
"Momo, something's wrong with Wolffe and the others! They've all collapsed!"
"I know, something's wrong here, too! We're still trying to figure it out!"
Inside the Mindscape, everything had gone to hell once again, clones running around handing out blasters, keeping their younger brothers safe and constructing makeshift barricades to try and keep the droids at bay.
"Commander Trauma, status report!" Nana asked the recently promoted Commander Trauma, who had been with her ever since the license exam, to heal from his injuries.
"Not good, General. Sector five's in flames, sector three is barely holding on, Sector four needs reinforcements, sector six through ten is fighting for their lives. They're trying to get the warmachines in the hangar to start up, however they are facing technical problems as we speak."
"We've got ten thousand clones ready to fight, but they're destroying the bridges! Everyone's getting cut off!"
"Send in the Blaze Troopers, Commandos, ARC's, Purge Troopers! Everything, dammit!" Nana ordered as another impact quaked the building.
"We need reinforcements…if Todoroki were here he could ice up the bridges and let our brothers go through unimpeded."
"Yeah well, we don't!"
"But what if we could?" Dandy asked, catching Nana's attention.
"What?"
"Legion and One For All are intertwined thanks to the synchronization, Vod's always used the latter to boost the former to create the portals on his end. Could we theoretically force open a portal from our side?"
"Theoretically…maybe?" Nana said.
"Could you do it, Nana?"
"It sounds like we don't have much of a choice, do we, Dandy?"
"Nana… The chances of your spirit being destroyed if you do this is more than 95 percent!" Perceptor, a science clone who had recently re-entered the mindscape to see how things were going, warned her as he looked up at her with the telescopic lens on the left side of his helmet zoomed in on her.
"Never tell me the odds," Nana said with a grin before she took a more serious expression.
"It was an honor, Vod'e. Kyo'acyi!"
"OYA!"
Nana then left the command center and headed down the corridor to where one of the most recent additions of the Mindscape was.
The Core.
She theorized that it was a physical manifestation of the actual power of One For All, it looked like a nuclear reactor inside some kind of sphere, however, it was only partially contained.
Her second theory is that the Core room was a representation of the unity of both quirks. Once it was complete, it would represent the two being fully synchronized.
Perhaps if it was, this wouldn't be so dangerous.
Her train of thoughts were interrupted as the doors got hit by something with an impact strong enough to make them bounce slightly.
"No time for thinking. Gotta act."
She took a deep breath and focused on the Core. Extending her hands out, the bright green core began to shift and warp, changing colors as its energy reacted to her call.
She grimaced.
One For All had grown exponentially under Toshinori, the transfer itself boosted its power and Izuku was no slouch either.
This would be the hardest thing she'd done yet.
Magenta sparks began to appear across her body as the energy surged through her.
"Come on…I know it's been awhile…but Izuku's in danger…so I'm gonna need you to work with me…"
She grimaced again as a searing pain struck her body.
"One last time."
"I don't understand, his body is showing all the signs of fighting off an infection but there's no infection," Recovery Girl reported, much to the worry of everybody there.
"We need to figure out something!"
"Reports are in, every single clone trooper from here to the Diet is unconscious, it's as if whatever's hurting Izuku is linked to them!"
"All For One!" Toshinori snarled. "This has to be his handiwork…I knew this was too easy!"
"We need to-"
The arguments were cut off as Izuku suddenly groaned even louder, One For All flaring to life in a shower of emerald sparks.
Aizawa almost used Erasure to turn it off, but the sparks suddenly changed color.
First from emerald to yellow to magenta.
Then suddenly, a small spark began crackling in the air, slowly beginning to expand outwards.
"Hold up… Isn't that…" Ochako began.
"One of the portals he uses to summon his clones?" Tenya added as it began growing bigger and bigger.
"But… the color's different!" Setsuna shouted, as she came sprinting out of the classroom, followed by Itsuka and Kodai.
"...Toshinori…" Izuku muttered out.
"...Izuku?"
"...Not…Izuku…" He ground out. "Seventh…"
Toshinori teared up.
"...Nana…?"
Those who were in on the secret gasped, much to the confusion of others.
"All For One's attack…was twofold…droids are somehow attacking the…Mindscape…"
Many more gasps of shock came out and Recovery Girl grimaced.
"The infection," She grimly stated.
"We need…help…the clones are getting cut off…can't do it…alone…"
"What do you need us to do?" Aizawa cut in.
"I can…open a portal…from this side…but you need to act quickly…I…need a bit of time…use it to get ready…"
The sparks then disappeared and Izuku's body ceased to glow with power.
"Sensei…" Ochako said.
"Mount up."
"Huh?"
"I said that if you did this without permission, you'd get cut. Well, right now you have it, especially since this time…I'm going with you," Aizawa ordered.
Ochako nodded back.
"Alright everybody! Suit up! Let's save our friend again! OYA!?"
"OYA!"
#Nana, whatever you did, we've got positive confirmation that they're getting ready to come in…are you alright?#
Nana rested on her knees, panting in exertion.
She was not looking forward to actually forcing open the portal.
"How is the counteroffensive going?"
"We're managing to hold the line, but more and more droids are pouring in! We're still getting cut off!"
Suddenly, the doors were hit again, starting to cave in under the impact of whatever was on the other side, followed by another hit as the dents began growing bigger and bigger.
#Nana! Reports are just coming in! Something big barreled through the defenses and is heading straight for the Core!#
"Yeah, you're kinda late on that one!" she answered sarcastically, as she kept on concentrating on gathering the strength to open the portal.
Suddenly, the doors were pried open, after the denting had turned into a hole, with Nana looking over her shoulder and saw what had tried to come in.
What she saw made her eyes pop out.
A Super, no. An Ultra Battle droid, was the only way to describe the huge monstrosity behind her.
Four arms, two big and two small and standing around four meters in height was peering down at her, the giant red orb in the middle of its head glaring through the darkness.
Nana gasped as it raised its arm to fire on her before black whips strung its limbs and wrenched it away from the door.
"NANA! WE'LL HOLD THIS THING OFF! KEEP GOING!" Daigoro said as he and Hikage engaged the Ultra, forced to dodge its redirected fire.
#Nana, we've got a solid copy, they're ready and calling out for you.#
Nana nodded and kneeled, extending her hands and once more manipulating the Core.
"Here goes nothing."
Just about every single hero course student, from all three years and teachers were in the gym to where Izuku's body was moved to.
Aizawa had oddly enough given the detailing to Ochako, since she knew more about the Mindscape than anybody else in the room bar Toshinori.
And unfortunately, he wouldn't be able to go.
Still injured from his fight with All For One, and to not give any risks. Recovery Girl had him healing manually with daily bacta patches applied.
The tanks were still being used.
"Alright!" Ochako said. "From what Izuku's told me, the Mindscape is the source of the clones. It's where they're created, where they train, it is their home!"
"It's basically an ocean with a city on pillars with round domes that have various bridges and connections to keep everything together and right now it's under attack by droids. We're going under the assumption that All For One did something when he attacked Izuku at Camino."
"What're we doing, Ochako?" Tsuyu asked, more than ready to help her friend this time.
"Simple, we help out our brothers and trash those clankers."
She then looked out at the crowd, and could tell that many of the older students were skeptical.
"Listen, the Vod'e have sacrificed their lives for us and our families. They've helped protect our homes, now it's time that we do the same for them."
"Uravity!" All Might called out. "I'm getting a response! Get ready!"
"Right!"
"I'll be joining you and the rest of your squadron, Uravity," Aizawa said. "Since this is an official op, call me Eraserhead."
Uravity nodded. "Yes, sir."
They then turned towards the now sparking Izuku, magenta violently pouring out of him as he groaned.
"Are…you ready?" He groaned out.
The others kept remaining silent, seemingly nervous about all of this. If what Midoriya had said were to be believed, nothing organic besides the clones and Izuku could enter the place.
"I am." Kodai spoke up, cracking her neck and slammed her vambraces together, creating some sparks by doing so while also inserting a gas cartridge into her blaster pistol.
One by one, those who stood by Uravity the first time to save Mand'alor all called out their own desire to help.
"What…wonderful…friends…he has…" He muttered before screeching as a magenta portal burst to life.
The portal itself was unlike the others previously created, barring the color, it was turbulent, the edges spiking and twitching every which way.
"FORWARD!" Uravity roared, Eraserhead and the Camino Students right behind her.
As they entered, they could feel the odd energy pass through their bodies before finding themselves on the other side.
Shishida was one of the last to enter but was stopped as his body met resistance, the same happening to Tetsutetsu.
"What in the world?"
"What's wrong, Shishida? Tetsutetsu?"
"We can't enter! It's like some sort of barrier is keeping us out!"
"Honestly, can't you extras do anything right!?" Bakugo snarled as he approached the portal.
"Bakugo, wait!"
VA-ZAP!
His finger barely touched the portal before he was sent flying back to the other side of the gym.
"WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT, DEKU!?"
Izuku's body groaned.
"It's…a security measure…I can't override it…his subconscious is in control…only those that he fully and completely trusts can enter the portal…I'm sorry…"
"We barely know each other…it makes sense but…" Shishida grimaced.
"We need to send more people in."
#Uravity to U.A. How copy?#
"Loud and clear, Uravity!" Nezu said.
Miraculously, the comms managed to work.
#We made it through to the other side, I know about the situation…I think I have an idea!#
"What's your idea, Uravity?"
#Mand'alor told me that he was able to go into the Mindscape when he was unconscious after the USJ. He might be here…if we can find him then he can consciously open the portal and allow the reinforcements to go through regardless of who it is!#
Principal Nezu hummed and tapped his paws together.
It was as good an idea as any.
"Very well. You may proceed with these plans. The rest of the Hero Course students and any teachers that can't pass will be on standby."
He motioned for the teachers to go through quickly, notably, most of the ones that Izuku had any interaction with were able to pass.
Present Mic, Midnight, Snipe, Hound, and Vlad King were able to pass through.
"The rest of you, standby. Once we've received confirmation that Mand'alor can open a portal, we'll go through."
Ochako gently helped Nana to a seated position, the latter completely exhausted from what she'd done.
"Izuku said that he'd explain everything later to you, sensei…I guess this kinda cuts things short," Uravity said to her teacher who was staring at the woman in shock.
"Just know that there are people here, and that they can be trusted."
Kyouka's jacks moved around a bit, before she began to sign.
'I hear water… Were you serious about the ocean?'
"...What is she saying?" Ochako deadpanned, not knowing sign language.
"She said, 'were you serious about the ocean?'" Denki answered her.
"According to Izuku, yes," Ochako replied, just as she ducked her head, with a red blaster bolt zinging her hair, making her look to her right, where she saw the absolutely massive droid fighting other hero looking people.
"Hold the line, dammit! Let's show these clankers what real soldiers are!" An ARC Trooper known as Colt shouted, as he held a carbine and fired it full auto into the horde of metal.
"Colt, I've gotten news from the command center!"
"Spill it! Kinda busy here!"
"The reinforcements have arrived!"
Mina grunted as she spread acid out to where the Ultra was fighting Daigoro and Hikage, weakening its legs before Uravity came from behind and jumped on top of it, firing her blaster into its head several times before getting slammed away.
Setsuna tried to get behind it while it was distracted, but instead let out a shriek as it aimed its arm at her and engulfed the girl in a sea of flames shooting out from the limb.
Uravity growled as Daigoro used his whips to restrain it, and this time she grabbed the Darksaber and boosted forward with her jetpack, slicing off two of her arms, the flames stopping the moment the arm was disconnected from the main body.
Setsuna may have only been hit by flames for a few seconds, but that still hurt like hell, as evidenced by her swearing to her heart's content while rolling on the floor trying to put out her suit and hair.
Iviin was quick to loop around with his speed and grab her wrist before helping her cut through the other side as he kicked it's knee joint with so much force that it collapsed.
Momo then arrived with a bladed staff that she created, having taken inspiration from Sentinel and leapt on top of the Ultra and stabbed straight through its power core, destroying it.
"Nice job kids." Daigoro said as he landed next to them.
"Only thanks to you, sir."
"Nah, none of that sir stuff, just call me Banjo, Lariat, or 5. Never been big on formalities." He chuckled.
Looking at the downed droid, they shuddered at the sheer size of it.
"Where in the world did they blaster tech from? I thought only the Vod'e had it." Kodai inquired, the question had been bugging her ever since she was shot back at the camp.
"We don't know, but it's inferior to what we have. Just look at this mess… Overheats, no bracing and the handle isn't even fit for human or humanoid use."
"Yeah, that's fine and dandy and all, but will someone please give me some bacta?!" the slightly fried Setsuna said as she stood up, still smoking after getting torched like that.
Looking at her in worry, Itsuka came over with a bacta spray and began to apply it.
"You're surprisingly calm despite having witnessed a flamethrower up close…"
"My mom has a mythological salamander quirk. I have some resistance to flame, but not as much as she does." the reptilian girl coughed, a bit of smoke coming out of her mouth as the bacta started to heal the burns. "Ugh… And it took so many months to grow it out this long…" she grumbled as she noticed her hair now only reached her neck.
"I'm sure Waxer will love it though." Itsuka snorted, only for her friend to swipe at her.
After a few seconds though.
"Hey…are you doing alright?"
Itsuka remained silent.
"I'll be better once I find her…and put her where she belongs."
With that, Setsuna placed a hand on her friend's shoulder as they began to make their way towards the sounds of fighting, making sure that the droid had been shut down for good.
She didn't mention how Itsuka didn't specify what exactly 'belongs' meant.
"Damn clankers! Get out of our house!" A purge trooper hissed as he ran through a group of droids, swinging his electrostaff, shutting down dozens of them by the minute as he jabbed, swung and thrusted his weapon of choice into the chests and cores of his foes.
He wouldn't last for long out there however, as more and more appeared and fired their blasters at him, a few shots hitting him in each limb as the agile commando droids ran towards him, vibroswords at the ready to cut him down while he laid defenseless on the floor.
Just as they got ready to strike him down, two more of his brothers came running and jumped into the air, intercepting the droids in mid air, their own vibroblades extending out from their greaves and clashing with the Commando Droids' swords.
Landing, they got into fighting stances, the long blades humming slightly as they brought them up while more clones wielding heavy shields arrived and began to drag the purge trooper back and provide cover for him as the two others had a standoff.
"Alright, let's see if these new babies are as good as the engineering department said. Shall we, brother?" he said to the other clone who just nodded, before both of them charged towards their metallic foes.
#General, how went the process?# Ochako heard from Nana's comm, helped the weak woman sit up, and spoke through it.
"This is Uravity to all units! Reinforcements have arrived but we'll have more on the way if we can get Izuku to manually open a portal!"
#Uravity! It's good to hear from you! I'm Dandy, Commander of the Mindscape. The last time Izuku appeared here was at the Initial Complex, but the bridge there has been destroyed!#
"Then we'll need to make our own way across!"
#The general can lead the way!#
Ochako acknowledged the advice before turning to Nana.
"Never thought I'd meet you like this…"
"Nor did I… You look even cuter up close. Izuku made a good choice." she grinned, causing the brunette to flush as red as the U.A Guard's armor.
"We'll have to chit chat later. Right now, we need to make sure that the young ones aren't getting hurt or this droid virus manages to cause some permanent damage."
"Young ones?"
"I don't know what's up with Legion sometimes honestly, at first clones appeared instantly, but my guess is that due to the increasing amount inside the Mindscape, it's slowed down production by creating clones that look like kids before aging to the appropriate size," Nana explained as Ochako helped her up.
"We can send a squadron there to support, but we need Izuku to open up the portal."
"The Initial Complex is down this way…the young ones are in the opposite direction."
"I can lead a team down there to support, Nana. You get Nine and get us help!" Banjo said with a grin.
"Alright… We have approximately four hundred commandos in here along with a hundred and thirty five natural ARC's… If we split them up to the sectors, we should be able to hold out longer. The ARC's will act as leading officers and the commandos will find the source of this infection."
A large impact made everyone stumble, the lights flickering as the complex shaked.
#General! We've got another one of those squid things on top of the main complex! Reports are coming in!#
"What's going on, Commander?"
#...General Grievous is inside the complex!#
"...What!? How's this possible?!"
#I don't know, but… Oh no… By the Lost Legion!# the voice of the commander screamed as the sound of blaster fire increased, before being followed by an insane laughter that most of them would be able to recognize.
"Commander? Commander!" Nana screamed before stumbling.
#...KRkr…sorry 'bout that, General…Command Center was temporarily breached by Toga who appears to have come from some sort of…mud clone quirk… She managed to stab quite a few of us, but luckily our armor managed to stop most of the blades.# the commander replied, as one more blaster round was fired, most likely to double tap.
"Toga from a mud quirk? That… sounds like those Twice clones mentioned before…" Nana muttered, before she heard someone pop their neck and looked to see Itsuka with a fire burning in her eyes.
"Looks like I'll have to settle for a copy for now… I'll take care of that blonde bitch…" She muttered before turning to Ochako. "Tell them that Battle Thorn is on the way and will take care of those mud clones with extreme prejudice."
"I can lead you to the Command Center," Hikage said as he motioned for her to follow.
Eraserhead clicked his tongue over how aggressive Itsuka had become lately, then again, she most definitely was in the stages of grief. Looks like she currently was in the anger stage of it all and needed something to vent it on.
Nevertheless, he made sure that she wasn't alone, sending Tokage, Kodai, and Yanagi after her.
As the group set out, they ran outside to take a shortcut to the Initial Complex and was greeted by a raging ocean in the middle of a storm, with most of them looking dumbfounded at it.
"Huh… Guess we know where all of the Midoriya tears Ms. Inko told us about are from, huh?" Denki tried to joke as they ran, only to be smacked by Kyouka in the back of his head.
"Sorry, sorry. Just my way of coping."
Kyoka merely shook her head before they moved on.
"Look! It's the squid droids!" one shouted as one of said droids jumped out of the water and onto one of the domes, drilling into one of them.
"Look at the size of them! How are we gonna take them out!?" Setsuna asked, due to the fact that the thing was just about the same size as the walkers that had come out not that long ago, if not bigger.
Nana grimaced as she raised her wrist and activated the comm.
"Commander, how are our counterattack efforts!?"
#All the LAATs are online and leaving the hangar as we speak!"
"Um… Guys… I don't think we may have the time needed to wait…" Denki said nervously, as the others looked to him for answers.
Just then, one of the droid's giant arms slithered up the edge of the platform as it crawled up, 'looking' at the group while aiming its mounted blasters.
A whistling sound caught their attention as a bright blur impacted against the droid and exploded, knocking the droid down with a slump before it slid off back into the water.
Looking over at the direction of the rocket, they barely managed to see a few clones waving at them before returning to the fight.
#This is Red Squadron on approach. Keep your heads down!#
The students observed the LAATs veer past them as their doors opened, rocket troopers launching their salvos at the droids and knocking them off the complexes while also making sure to report to the command center.
"No time to waste, we need to keep going!" Nana shouted as they nodded and went back to running as fast as they could, gunning down what few droids they ran into along the way, doing their best to alleviate the burden of their friend's brothers.
Running across one of the platforms, the rain poured down on them as they headed towards the other side of the complex, Denki stopped and looked down at the water, noticing something strange, before droids began jetting out from the waves, these ones being white with a single red monoeye and a long blaster cannon on their right arm while their feet had propellers.
A few weeks prior
"Uncles…I'm not sure if…" Denki hesitated as he looked at the targets.
"It is completely understandable, Denki," Uncle Yan said as comfortingly held the young boy's shoulder. "You have gone through a traumatic experience. You doubt your own power, just as much as you doubt yourself."
"That is why we are here, nephew. To help you grow," Uncle Iroh continued as he demonstrated his own power. "Our family has the unique fortune of being the most diverse family of elemental users…although your mother's family is in particular an offshoot of the original clan, you are no less family, and that means that you have the power within you."
Denki nodded, he was currently dressed in a gi, in his Uncle Iroh's old dojo, the two were helping him train his newest increase in power thanks to the Quirk Evolution.
And his newest abilities.
Even though he very much didn't want to use them.
His uncles were adamant however, that despite the tragedy of what had occurred, it was only by mastering his new power that he could prevent such tragedy from occurring again.
"What if I lose control again? I hurt mom so badly that she…" He trembled as he tried to force the words out. "She'll never be a hero again…if it wasn't for Kyoka-"
"Exactly, nephew."
"Huh?"
"Remember that you are not alone, Denki," Yan said. "Relampago's foolishness in his youth was due to his pride and arrogance. He refused to accept any sort of help and by the time that he truly needed it, the moment had passed."
"But you, nephew," Iroh continued as he and Yan began to move to opposite ends of the dojo. "Do desire help, to control yourself and your power. Which is why we know that you will not fail, despite your own doubts."
Yan then began to weave lightning through his fingers, the spectacle admittedly beautiful and awe-inspiring.
"You care deeply for others, showing your love for them through your actions. Our hearts control our desires, and therefore our actions. It is why the Jirou girl was able to help you, your heart desired to be saved by her, and thanks to her, you were able to come back."
Denki flushed…they still hadn't talked about what exactly was going on between them.
"That still doesn't…" Denki sighed. "Then what do I do to retain control?"
"You remember, my boy," Iroh said as he took a familiar yet odd stance. "You remember what drives you, and you keep yourself focused."
Yan then thrust out with two fingers after taking a stance of his own, the arc of lightning shooting forward towards Iroh much to Denki's shock.
To even further astonish him, Iroh managed to take the lightning and redirect it so that it exploded against the wall instead, ending up in the exact same pose that Yan was.
"...How?" Uncle Iroh was a fire user…Uncle Yan, lightning…it should have been impossible.
"That…and many other things will be explained to you, Denki," Iroh said with a grin, Yan responding in kind.
Before he could even scream out a warning, one of them aimed at his friends who hadn't noticed them yet, but before it could get even a single shot off, he thrust his fingers forward and shot out an arc of lightning, electricity flowed through its systems and circuits, roasting it as it fell to the ground and catching the attention of the others.
"KEEP GOING! I'LL CATCH UP!" he bellowed as he gave them a nod, before ducking a hit from one of the droids. "Hey! It's rude to interrupt a conversation, y'know!" he growled, giving it the same treatment as its scrapped copy.
It wouldn't be long before he was surrounded by the mechanical monstrosities, the electric blonde taking a deep breath in, before he got into a fighting stance his Uncle Iroh had taught him and let a small flow of electricity run through his limbs.
Just as one of them fired its first shot, he dodged and thrusted his arm forwards, managing to break through a weakness in its armor and short circuited it, the water helping immensely in doing that, while another one attacked, Denki using its fallen comrade as a shield and threw it at the other robot, knocking it into the sea.
Hearing blasters firing, this time several at once, he ducked and glided on the floor, knocking a few over with his arms, before stepping down on one of the downed droids and broke off its cannon barrel and poured electricity into it like a baton.
Charging forward, he smacked one droid and shot the other with his pistols before kicking off and landing on another, jabbing the broken off barrel into its monoeye and let it fall to the ground, as he noticed that despite having destroyed a few, he was still more or less surrounded.
Cracking his neck, he noticed how his friends seemingly had disappeared into the storm, making him smile beneath his helmet.
"This fits me just fine… Means that I can go all out." he chuckled as he charged his hands and looked down to the floor where water was gathering. "One point three million volts should be enough." he said to himself, before he slammed his palms into the water and began electrocuting the droids who started to spark and smoke before collapsing.
"That… should be enough… To buy some time…" Denki grinned, before feeling his mind slipping into his 'dumb' mode as he walked into one of the poles on the edges of the platform and fell on his back.
'Focus…focus…'
"Focus…" He whispered as he thought of his family, his friends, and Kyoka.
The fog began to lift from his mind.
Sitting up, he sighed as he pulled up his helmet and looked to the main complex before lifting his wristcomm.
"Might have to sit here for a bit and recharge. Sorry guys," he chuckled.
"No worries, Denki! You did great!" Ochako replied.
While the group kept running, leaving their electric friend behind, they saw the light show he put on through the rain, which had caused them to stop and ponder if they should turn back to get him, right up to him informing them of the situation.
"Shoto!"
"Right!"
As they approached the broken walkway, he stomped forward and caused a large bridge of ice to appear.
"I need to make it more stable for the clones to evacuate!"
"Right!"
Shoto then leaped off the bridge, activating his jetpack to slow his descent before freezing the turbulent water below him.
Said water however, was rapidly pounding against the ice he made, and to add more trouble, he could see glowing dots appear from below.
'More droids…'
"Gotta push deep…" He muttered as he began to breathe deeply, reminding himself of his old man's lessons.
Internships
"Again."
Shoto huffed as he punched forward with his left fist, a puff of flame emitting from it.
"Sigh…No. Power in using fire comes from the breath, not the muscles," Endeavor explained. "If you keep doing that, your flames will never get the power required and will only be small, warm breezes at a distance. In other words, they'll dissolve too fast." he said before showing an image of the Sports Festival.
"That, or you'll overextend yourself horribly, just like the Sports Festival."
"How is it any different than what I've seen you doing," Shoto snarled in frustration.
Endeavor sighed deeply before looking up at the ceiling, as if he was trying to recall something.
"In the words of my mentor: The breath becomes energy in the body. The energy extends past your limbs and becomes FIRE!"
FWOOOM!
A horizontal pillar of fire exploded forward from Endeavor's fist, burning the wall on the opposite side.
"Here, perhaps it's best that you learn the basics that my mentor taught me."
"I thought you learned how to use your fire from grandfather."
Endeavor slightly stiffened but shook his head.
"Not anything that was useful…my mentor's the one who truly taught me how to use my fire…although…nevermind," Endeavor said as he shook his head before facing him again. "This exercise will help you breathe better, and as an added bonus, should help you whenever you do those iceberg attacks you're so fond of."
Shoto growled, but nodded before deciding to ask.
"...Who was your mentor even?"
"...His name is Iroh. Although you may know him as the Dragon of the West."
Shoto took in a deep breath before exhaling forcefully, repeating the process multiple times as fire began to burst out in short breaths.
He was increasing his body temperature to great heights in preparation for what he was about to do now.
'NOW!'
He slammed his hands to the ice below him and his power expanded outward, the entire sea freezing between the two platforms, ice even trailing up their supports for extra strength as pillars rose up and met the ice bridge above, supporting it from its own weight.
And right below him, just barely touching the floor that he was on were a good amount of droids, now completely frozen.
Shoto shakily fell to his knees, his breaths coming out in foggy gasps.
"Bridge is secured…but I'll need some time to rest too." he said as he sat down the moment they'd reached the other side, as he began to slowly warm himself up using his fire.
"Great work, Shoto! Clones are already moving to the other side! We're nearing the entrance!"
Opening the doors, they ran down the hallways, meeting a few clones who began to follow them, fighting off any resistance they faced on their way there.
Soon they reached the Initial Complex and headed inside, the students looking around in awe as they observed one of the innermost parts of Izuku's mind.
There seemed to be some sort of core in the middle of the room, glowing a faint green and pulsating every now and then, almost like a heartbeat.
It honestly seemed…very personal to be here…as if this wasn't just part of a Mindscape.
But rather, they could be looking at Izuku's very soul.
"It's… Beautiful…" Ochako said, before she noticed some strange capsules in the room and went over to look at them, only to notice that she was unable to see inside of them due to the material that seemed to be opaque glass.
Before she could admire it for too long, she snapped out of it and ran to the control panels with the others who looked at all of the different buttons, levers and valves.
"Nana, which one of these will lower the barrier?"
"I… Don't know… The only one who knows Legion in and out is… Izuku," she sighed, feeling slightly useless right about now.
"Did any of you say you needed my help?" a familiar voice called out, as a small, miniature hologram Izuku appeared on one of the boards.
"Oh. My. Gosh… You're so tiny!" Ochako exclaimed at the hologram dimly lighting up the room in emerald green.
"That I am. Allow me to introduce myself. I am Izuku, however, I am only the subconscious part of this place. But I should be able to help by giving you some instructions here and there."
"Wait, if you're the subconscious…how are you?" she asked in slight confusion.
"I am currently only active due to Izuku being unconscious. As soon as he wakes up, I will return to dormancy." the small AI looking Izuku said as he walked on the panels. "If he was conscious, then he would more or less look like either the mainframe here or just walk around with you.""
"Hold on, if you're the representation of his subconscious…and we're speaking with you," Ochako said as she got closer to him. "Is it possible for you to open the portal and allow more people inside?"
"Well… I don't know if that would be the best idea… You are sort of intruding into his mind and his more private memories if you get what I mean. Imagine what would happen if some of the students who didn't like him had the opportunity to mess with something in here, y'know?"
"Midoriya, I can assure you that none of the students would dare to do something so stupid and if they did, they would be expelled faster than a blaster bolt," Aizawa replied with a stern look that promised to follow through.
The construct grimaced and nodded for the reasoning but was still wary.
"Izuku, right now the entire Mindscape's under attack, we want to help you, but we can't do it alone."
"Where would his memories be stored? Can we lock it up just in case?" Momo asked, to see if they could compromise.
"I am afraid the closest thing to locking down memories is erasing them from his mind. He isn't a machine where you can just upload things to a hard disc, y'know? And I won't allow anyone to intrude into them if they have any intention of using them for blackmail. I don't care if they get expelled. If they do and they have these memories, it'll give them ammo, y'know?" The subconscious said, getting a very serious expression as he squinted his eyes, with his entire body glowing red for the briefest period of time.
"I think he means Bakagou and those who doesn't like his clones." Kyouka signed, Momo fortunately able to translate for her.
"Izuku…I know it's hard to trust people…but we all want to help you," Ochako said as she raised her hand up to gently caress her thumb over the construct. It slightly passed through but the thought was there. "Do you trust me?"
The construct looked down slightly, slightly flushing.
"You know you can't ask me that," He said with a sad smile. "You already know the answer, y'know."
"Then trust me when I say that I will do everything in my power to make sure that you won't be taken advantage of."
The construct sighed deeply before looking into her eyes and nodding.
"Okay…"
#Uravity to Nezu, do you read me?#
"Loud and clear, Uravity. Report," Nezu replied, the sudden communication catching everyone's attention, all the students and teachers tensing to get into the fight.
#We're still looking for Izuku, but we've found a representation of his subconscious.#
'Fascinating.' Nezu thought to himself amongst the whisperings of the others.
#He says he can open the portal, but we need to relay some information first.#
Nezu acknowledged and motioned for the students and teachers to get ready.
#We've discovered what exactly All For One did to Izuku, it was a two pronged attack, he's somehow inserted droids and what appears to be copies of the villains Himiko Toga and General Grievous into the Mindscape to attack the clones, and to attack Izuku himself, he inserted a bunch of quirks to mess with his genetics.#
Many of the students and teachers grimaced, everybody knew that it was impossible to have two quirks. A quirk with multiple aspects? Yes. But multiple quirks?
They'd gone through the basic training on nomu, they knew what that meant.
#Fortunately, those quirks have in a sense, become sentient thanks to the properties of Izuku's quirk, and they're fighting back!#
'A perfect cover for the vestiges! Marvelous!'
Nezu would have to make sure to reward Uraraka for her quick thinking.
#Second, there's a lot of places that need to be avoided due to their sensitive nature, any stray quirk fire, and you risk seriously damaging Izuku. Which is why the clones have set up stations around those locations.#
#Third, Just to let any of you who've had anything against Izuku or talked behind his back know… His brothers aren't exactly keen on letting you inside. Sooo, if you see some of the clones glaring at you, just ignore them, but do be warned that if you wander off on your own and into more sensitive areas, you will get stunned.#
"Duly noted… Now, the students and teachers are ready to move in, we're just awaiting the portal to open inside." Nezu replied as he saw the green sparks beginning to form and a small portal opened up.
"Oi, Roundface, if we're going to get inside, then this thing needs to be bigger!" Bakugou shouted, annoyed with how slowly the portal was expanding.
#If we open this thing too quickly, it could cause damage to Izuku! Especially in this state!#
"Bakugou's right! Hurry up with this stupid thing, before we change our minds!" a student from 2-B said in annoyance.
"You call yourself a hero with that mindset!? You're just in this so you can beat people up, aren't you, you bully?" Another one from 3-B sneered at his underclassman.
A few students began to argue which led to chaos in the room before an unbelievable pressure washed over them.
All Might's glaring figure, even as small as he was, was still a sight to behold.
"Enough! We can't fight amongst ourselves at a time like this! We should stand united against the threat currently looming within one of our fellow heroes and students!"
"For all of you to act in this manner is disgraceful and unbecoming as heroes!"
Upon hearing the reprimand from the former number one, everyone quieted down and only grumbled and sent glares each other's way, before the portal opened fully, with the first one inside being Nezu.
"Fascinating… So this is the inside of Midoriya's mind… Where Jango was created." he said as he looked around, before waltzing over to a window and looked outside, seeing the dome shaped buildings all over, a few of them being on fire while the squid looking droids jumped up on them.
Midnight was next to enter, followed by Vlad King and Present Mic who looked around equally fascinated while even more students began to come inside and also looked around.
"Principal Nezu, Midnight-sensei! Thank the Lost Legion you're here!" a clone called out as he along with one of his brothers ran up to them and gave them a crisp salute.
"At ease, my students. What's the situation?"
"Sector four has been secured again, sector seven through ten are still compromised, sector five has collapsed while sector one through three are still holding strong."
BOOOM!
The shaking made a few stumble, although none cried out at the flickering lights more than a few made some exclamations as a large machine fell directly in front of the window, passing them before landing in the sea.
"Another squid's been knocked off!" they heard from the side.
"Where do you need us?" Nezu asked.
"Well, you'd be great with coordination at the Command Center, but honestly, we need help around the Main Complex," the clone replied. "We've managed to hold them off here, but the other complexes are getting overrun due to the bridges getting knocked out."
"Very well, we'll send a class per complex with accompanying teachers."
"Roger that, I'll relay!"
The clone then activated his comm and relayed the situation.
"Commander, the reinforcements have arrived! Got all 6 classes of students and teachers here and ready to help!"
#Copy that! Take Nezu to the Command Center, I've got a squad on an intercept course. They'll guide a teacher and class to our heavier areas!#
"We'll send our best to the most needed sections," Nezu said before facing the teachers. "Snipe! Take 3-A! Ectoplasm! 3-B!" he commanded, the two teachers nodded as they led the forty students to their destinations, while Nezu looked over at the rest of the students, before noticing one was missing. "It looks like we're one short. Ah yes. It would seem like Bakugou-san isn't present."
"Gee, I wonder why…" Ochako snarked in the background, before turning to face the construct.
"Izu-IZUKU!" She cried out in fear as she approached the terminal to see the AI flickering on his knees.
"What's wrong!?"
"It's nothing…his conscious mind is waking up, probably from the influx of people but more than that…I think he sensed Bakugo approaching the portal and is shutting it down."
"What?"
"Funny, isn't it?" The construct said with a mirthless chuckle as his form began to wildly flicker and distort. "A life or death situation, and subconsciously or consciously, I still cannot let him into my soul…"
He then shivered as his form flickered again, simultaneously, the energy of Legion fluctuated as the portal began to shrink.
"Get them moving! We need space for the rest of the students before the portal closes!" The construct ordered. "Izuku is currently transitioning between the subconscious and conscious mind so he's not fully aware of his actions!"
The students and teachers were quick to move, the squad of clones meeting those that were reaching the outside and already directing them toward where the heaviest fighting was, the sound of blasters growing closer and closer with each step they took.
When they arrived, the sight before them made several of them gasp in horror.
It was like a scene straight out of a movie taking place during the First World War more than three hundred years ago, with clones fighting with just about anything they could get their hands on and engaging the droids in melee combat while brutally beating them down and vice versa.
"COME ON! WHO'S NE-AGH!"
"KEEP FIRING!"
"THAT'S THE STUFF!"
"DIE, CLANKERS!"
Looking around again, they also saw things they had never seen before either; clones zipping around in hover tanks, power armor boasting flamethrowers and blastercannons along with weapons that unleashed barrages of lightning, shutting down droids in an instant.
If only there weren't so many droids. They seemed to be almost spawning in like a videogame.
"Anybody who can't shoot something out of their bodies, grab a blaster and open fire! Anyone else, just use your quirks or equip yourself with close quarters combat weapons and shields!" a clone ordered as he and another had a bunch of rifles on hand and passed them.
Snipe was quick to act, grabbing a rifle and immediately opening fire, making sure to keep his pistols in reserve, hitting every shot he let loose with perfect precision.
The rest of the students began to help, either using their quirks, grabbing blasters, or even helping to get injured clones out of harm's way.
One student was dragging an injured clone, just as the wall was breached by another drill followed by a metallic tentacle, with several clones and students unleashing blaster fire and quirks on it, before they were swatted away by the arm.
A large spiral of energy then began to charge up from behind them as biological tentacles grabbed the fallen, a blur went through the floor and room, crippling the machinery with well placed blows before the energy peaked and shot forward in a spiral that impacted directly against the body of the squid droid, sending it falling into the water.
"Good job, you three!" another clone yelled as he and a few others helped the injured retrieved by the tentacles.
A group of droids deployed from another squid robot, before someone appeared in the middle of them, knocking them all over and ripping through their metal shells with a yell of 'POWER!'.
Another clone ran over to shoot the downed droids to make sure they didn't get back up, before looking at the tall and muscular student.
"...Huh… Are you perhaps related to a certain Belgian reporter who owns a white Terrier and is friends with a ship's captain who enjoys drinking and a professor who's deaf along with twin police officers?"
"Man, does everyone know that prequirk reference?" the blonde teen in question grinned as he looked at the clone. He did indeed look like a very young and ripped Tintin.
"I mean…if you look the part… Toogata-senpai, correct? Or would you rather be called Lemillion?"
"Both are fine, as long as we're within friendly territory!" he laughed.
The sudden flux of students and reinforcements had provided the push needed. Thanks to their quirks, they could provide unconventional tactics against the droids and were able to at least push them out of the hangar.
"Keep moving!
"Go! Go! Go!"
As they began to move forward towards the outer sections of the building, Lemillion's smile actually fell as he took the time to look.
Bodies.
Bodies everywhere from both clone and droid.
He kneeled next to a clone that he'd almost tripped over. A smoking hole in his chest plate, and no movement at all coming from him. He gently touched the armor, almost afraid that it would turn to dust.
He noticed the clone's hand twitching and gasped as he tried to help him up.
The clone merely grabbed onto his hand, holding it tightly.
Lemillion didn't miss the meaning.
"H-hey, come on, we'll get you through this, just stay with me…MEDIC!" he cried out. "MEDIC!"
Another clone came by, but without medical supplies.
"All our supplies are in another complex…and we're cut off…" the clone said as he kneeled and took his brother's hand.
"T-there's gotta be something we can do!"
"...we're doing it," was his reply as he gently held onto his brother and took off his helmet.
The clone's quickly fading green eyes looked at his brother in sorrow…as if he was pleading for forgiveness, blood was pouring down his mouth and nose, a subtle wheezing coming out with every breath.
"There's nothing to be sorry about brother…you did good…" the clone said with a whisper. "You can rest now…[You won't be forgotten.]
The clone took a few more wheezy breaths before shuddering as hands relaxed and eyes became blank.
He didn't expect this…
"Come on," He heard, and turned to see another clone motioning for him to follow. "There's nothing we can do for them."
"But…"
"That's just how it is," The clone continued. "...that's just how it is."" he sighed, as the dead clones slowly started to disintegrate into dust, soon only leaving their armor behind.
Lemillion could only shakily nod.
"All we can do now, is try and save as many as we can." the clone said, before he got onto his knees in front of the now empty armor and gently touched the helmet. "May our brothers rest." he began, before more and more voices of his brothers joined him. " May The Lost Legion receive them with open arms. And may they ride with them and the First eternally." they muttered out, something that seemed like a prayer, however different to the one that had been held for Jango.
"Not gone. Merely marching far away."
Meanwhile, other classes and students were doing all they could against the droid forces, slowly but surely eliminating them all.
However, that still left two large threats.
The copies of Toga and Grievous who were still running rampant.
Several students had tried to stop them, but had instead gotten injured along the way in their attempts of doing so.
As it was however, the teachers were actually more than capable of handling Grievous together.
Once they were able to track him, Eraserhead, Vlad King, Midnight, and Present Mic went forward against the villain and worked extremely well together, Vlad King using his blood blades to confront the cyborg while Eraserhead and Midnight provided support, just in time for Present Mic to charge up an attack that sent Grievous flying down the hallway before crashing brutally against the wall.
The General merely laughed however, as his body turned to sludge.
"Damn it, no wonder it was too easy…" Eraserhead muttered.
"Command Center. Eraserhead. We've taken out General Grievous but it was just another one of those mud clones."
#Understood Eraserhead. Reports are coming in, it seems that we're almost done. Most of the squid droids have been eliminated and the third years have managed to reduce the heaviest concentrations of droids.#
#Battle Thorn here, I've dealt with the remaining Toga clones. I'm gonna regroup with the others at the complex#
Eraserhead and Vlad King tried not to grimace at the sheer lack of satisfaction in her tone.
#This is Buurenaar, I'm also on my way to regroup with the others. Shoto is with me too.#
"We're doing good, but…I still don't like it…I feel that something's missing," Eraserhead muttered before his comm activated again.
#Uravity here! Izuku's conscious mind is waking up but something's still wrong!#
The world was shaking around them in the Initial Complex, and they had to steady themselves by grabbing whatever's available.
"It's like the world's crashing down on us!" Cabur exclaimed as he clung onto a console for dear life while the entire area kept on shaking
"This is worse than any earthquake I've ever experienced!" Uravity cried out, before losing her grip and started stumbling backwards, several of her friends reaching out to grasp her hand.
Alas, it was not to be as it felt like the complex was starting to tilt, causing the brunette to lose her footing completely, before falling straight into the pulsing orb that represented Legion with a scream that was quickly cut off as she disappeared into the light.
"...You think she's dead?"
"Dude! What kind of question is that!?"
"She was literally just swallowed up by a-Whoa! OH NOOOO!" Mina let out a yelp as she lost her grip and just like Ochako prior to her, fell down and got swallowed up by Legion.
'Erm… What do you think happens to them?' Kyouka signed with one hand, using the other to hold onto a railing, before gasping as the entire floor began to collapse under her, and she was soon dragged down, letting out a silent scream in the process.
"Hey guys! I'm he-GWAK!" Denki announced as he came running from the hallway, but was cut off by Kyouka slamming into him, also taking him with her into the quirk.
"Please don't break, please don't break, please don't break!" Tenya shouted at the piece of railing he was holding onto.
But, as people say; When you say something shouldn't happen, it happens.
Clink.
The last part of the security railing broke off, while Tenya felt like he had just experienced the biggest betrayal of his short life.
"Why?" he asked before screaming as he fell into the light.
"Tenya!" Yuuga cried out in despair as he held his hand out towards his friend before he disappeared. He then yelped as the floor pitted even more, the railing tearing itself apart and dragging him in.
"EVACUATE THE INITIAL COMPLEX! I REPEAT! EVACUATE THE INITIAL COMPLEX!" Nana shouted as she jumped around and gathered the parts of the group that hadn't been absorbed by the core, which had surprised her the most out of everyone. She had been there dozens of times, but none of this had ever happened while she was there.
Just as she was about to run out, the doors opened again, to show the three 1-B girls having arrived, Battle Thorn dusting off her hands, just as Nana crashed them, causing Itsuka to spin and fall to the ground.
"Ouch! What's going on he-...What the hell is that?" her complaint quickly turned into a question, as she saw the pulsating orb in the middle of the room, before she, Setsuna and Yui noticed how they were slowly beginning to get sucked in, Nana grabbing them and planting her feet into the doorway as the entire building began to tilt even more.
"H-hey! What's going on!"
"We're getting pulled in!"
"Hold on!"
Grabbing onto the door frame, Itsuka enlarged her hands to get a better grip while the Setsuna and Yui held onto her, while the force of the orb seemed to get stronger and stronger.
"Whatever you do, don't let go!" Nana yelled at them.
"What do you think I'm trying to do!?" Setsuna hissed, just as the head of a destroyed droid came flying out of the hallway and hit her square in the face, making her let go to soothe it.
"Oh sh-" she realized too late that she had let go, the last thing she saw before blacking out was her two friends reaching out to her.
Everything was dark, and Ochako groaned as she woke up from her slumber.
Wincing as she slowly got up, she had to rest on her knees a bit before finding the strength to stand up.
"Guys? Izuku! Can anyone hear me!?" she shouted into the void as she ignited the Darksaber to try and get some light before slowly beginning to walk around.
She could feel wind…passing by her, almost violently but just enough that she could walk through it.
"Izuku!"
…
"IZUKU!"
…
But still no response.
So she kept searching, looking around until she finally heard it.
Crying.
Gasping in shock, she turned in the direction that it was coming from, calling out Izuku's name as she approached the crying.
She gasped as she found a small figure, a child, crying alone in the darkness.
"Hey…are you okay?"
"I…wanna go home…" The child whispered.
"You lost?" Ochako asked as she kneeled. "It's okay…I'm a hero…truth be told, I'm looking for a friend of mine." she said as gently as she could as she kneeled down to his eyelevel.
The boy then looked up and she gasped in surprise.
"Izuku…" she whispered, the boy's innocent green eyes staring at her tearily.
"H-how do you know my name?"
The question broke her out of her shock and she gulped before focusing.
Questions would have to wait. It was time to act.
"My friends and I have been looking for you…we want to bring you home," she gently replied.
"O-oh…thank you, miss hero…I'm sorry…I don't know your hero name," the boy shyly said, ducking his head from her sight.
"That's okay…I'm pretty new honestly," Ochako reassured. "I'm the Jate'kara Hero: Uravity…"
"That's a pretty name," the boy said before ducking his head and blushing.
"Aww, thank you…now, how about we get you home, alright?" Uravity said as she stood up and took the boy's hand, using the Darksaber to light the way ahead.
They walked forward, bracing the winds.
Ochako wouldn't realize until later that some of her friends were also here.
And they were also trying to bring an Izuku home.
Alrighty then! That's another chapter down and the second part of this arc. And yes, this is pretty much the battle of Kamino.
If you're wondering why Grievous went down so easily, again, it was a Twice clone.
Real Grievous would have dominated.
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Now for some omakes.
"Thank you for helping take down… These…. Droids…" his reply trailed off into a whisper as he looked his fellow hero student up and down. It was first then he realized that the blonde boy in front of him was buck naked from head to toe. "BY THE LOST LEGION! PUT SOME PANTS ON, BOY!" he screamed at him in outrage.
"Whoops! My bad! I didn't have time to put on my costume…" the blonde boy laughed while the clone used himself to cover him up so that neither the girls or young ones had to witness what he had seen.
Soundwave - Side piece to Megatron!AU
Lemillion's new body proved to be an…interesting task to handle.
Sometimes he still wondered if he was still human on the inside…or if he was just as much of a machine as Megatron.
Megatron…his thoughts still lingered on what happened after the debacle of All For One…he didn't remember anything during his…temporary unavailability, only waking up to fighting him again, before receiving a blow so brutal that he'd been forced into this new body to survive.
Just like him.
He tried not to think about what that meant for One For All, and if it still existed.
However, now wasn't the time to focus on that.
He and the others approached where the drone had crashed after taking a shot from his minigun.
Only this was no drone at all.
Soundwave weakly struggled against the power cables wrapped around her, before losing consciousness as they finally lost power.
"Suneater…reopen the groundbride, but ensure that the children are kept at a safe distance," Lemillion ordered as his team surrounded the body. "For we will be returning with a Decepticon prisoner."
Soundwave would wake up restrained, and weakly struggled against them before noticing the heroes in the surrounding area.
"Because we had the foresight to shield our new base, our captive will be unable to transmit her coordinates to the Decepticon warship," Suneater stated from his terminal.
"Nor will they in turn be able to pinpoint her location."
"Guess we have all the time in the world to make Ms. Personality tell us everything she knows," Dynamight said with a pound of his fists.
Nearby, the children observed.
"The Con's Surveillance Chief must know a lot, right?" Katsuma asked.
"But…Soundwave doesn't speak…does she?" Mahoro thought aloud.
"I'm not even sure she even has a face," Kota whispered, his gaze meeting Soundwave's visor plate.
Meanwhile on the Decepticon Warship
"With Laserbeak unable to triangulate Soundwave's current location are you not concerned about what our comrade might spill?" Starscream asked.
Megatron bared his teeth in actual offense on behalf of his friend.
"Of one thing I'm certain," Megatron declared. "Soundwave knows when to impart information, and when to withhold it," he said with a slight tilt of his head as he glared back at Starscream.
Hero Base
"Why is Megatron stealing so much technology? What is he planning to build?"
"W-w-Hy iS MeGaTRoN StEaLiNg sO muCh t-t-t-EcHnOloGy? (Bibibibibibibi) w-w-w-w-HaT iS hE aTtEMpTiNg tO bUiLd, to build? (tsh-tsh-tsh-tsh)"
All of them backed up at the inane response, although Mahoro was a little impressed.
"Woah, Lemillion: The Remix."
A purple and red smiley face then appeared on her faceplate, directly mocking Lemillion, the latter stepping back in slight offense at the apparent disregard for the situation.
"Oh yeah?" Real Steel asked as he covered his fist in steel. "Why don't I wipe that smile right off her face?"
"Soundwave, we have treated you fairly," Lemillion said. "For the sake of what's left of Japan, tell us what Megatron is attempting to build! Before we are forced to rely upon less civil methods of interrogation."
Soundwave paused, before unleashing a high pitched sonic blast from her speakers, making everyone clutch their ears in pain as they tried to block the sound out.
After a few seconds, it ended.
"Screw this!" Suneater said in annoyance. "Soundwave is no ordinary Decepticon, inside or out. So I would strongly suggest opening her up! So that we can have a firsthand look at the information recorded on her drives.
The other heroes looked at each other, a bit wary, but willing to go along with it.
Soundwave's screen then lit up, terabytes of information rapidly going down the screen.
"Uh oh."
"Alright, she's downloading data!" Real Steel cheered.
"No!" Suneater interjected. "Soundwave is erasing data."
As the last of the information was destroyed, the screen turned off and Soundwave bent her head to directly look at them.
"Soundwave, superior. Heroes, inferior."
All those present took a step back at hearing her voice, a mix of a natural feminine voice but with a threatening growl put through a vocoder.
Soundwave's visor then flickered before turning black, her head falling against the berth.
…
"Is she…?" Real Steel asked.
"Her vital signs remain functional…" Suneater observed. "It seems that she has severed all communications…by crashing her own drives…"
All the heroes gulped, wondering what exactly inspired that sheer level of pure loyalty to Megatron for Soundwave to basically lobotomize herself.
Lemillion himself knew the answer.
'As does another,' he thought as he turned to see Gravitrona looking sadly at Soundwave's comatose body before shaking her head and walking off.
'Kyoka…' she thought in grief.
And finally, third omake for the day, a little excerpt for the Grimlock pt. 2 which hopefully will come out soon in the Manifold
"AND BAKUGOU AND TODOROKI HAVE MADE IT PAST THE MINEFIELD, WITH MORE COMING UP BEHIND THEM!"
They could see it: The gate back into the stadium. The one right next to the gate they had ran out, with the inside seeming to suck out all the light and leave a large cavernous maw. However, their assumptions that they were in the clear save for the other was proven false, as a large explosion sent them flying back, delivered via what looked like a jury-rigged explosive barrel from a video game, with a large fuse on the top like a stick of dynamite.
"BUT WHAT'S THIS!? WHY, NONE OTHER THAN OUR LAST OBSTACLE!"
Heavy footsteps echoed in the stadium (thanks to Nezu's microphones) as a titanic figure appeared from the doorway.
"THAT'S RIGHT, KIDDOS! YOU'RE NOW FACING THE HUMBLING RIVER! UA'S RESIDENT DINOBOT! GRIMLOOOOOOOOCK!"
"GRIMLOCK CRUSH TINY HEROES!"
Bakugo grinned at the challenge, and immediately went on the attack, unleashing an enormous explosion to, what he perceived as, a big dino extra.
The smoke cleared, and he could see the visor glare into his very being, before a metal fist buried itself into his entire torso, sending him flying backwards.
Grimlock growled, he didn't know why, but something made him nervous around explosions.
And that pissed him off.