"And now it's time for the grand finale!" Midnight announced. "Its been a great and tense Festival, but all things come to an end."
"Doesn't mean it can't be a badass finale!" Mirko cut in as the wheel spun. "And it looks like it's….!"
The wheel finally landed on
"BATTLE ROYALE!" Mount Lady declared.
"No, tournament." Midnight sighed. "Try-hard."
"Hag." The younger pro retorted.
"Ladies, kids are watching." The rabbit hero reminded her colleages, taking over as the match ups were decided. "Now, we all love a good scrap, but there's more to this than just throwing the strongest blow or knocking some fools out. This is all about showing you can think while you deal with a threat. You've all proven you can race to a location and work together to overcome multiple enemies. Now prove you can stand on your own."
Two faces filled the slots.
"And the first match will be Shoto Todoroki of Class 1-A vs Izuku Midoriya of Class-C!" Midnight announced, the crowd bursting into an excited cheer.
The two fire wielders caught each other's eyes, very different expressions on their faces: Shoto's indifferent and determined, Izuku's worried.
*KABOOM!*
A sound so loud that it drowned out even the screams of thousands of people. The sounds of multiple explosions going off across the entire city. The ground shook as if a small earthquake was going off, and everyone went silent.
Smoke could be seen rising in the distance, and those higher above could even see buildings collapsing in the distance. Shock washed over the now silent masses, as everyone stared up at the rising smoke with their mouths hanging open.
"Please remain calm!" Present Mic said after half a minute. "Something has happened outside of the arena! Do not panic and remain in your seats."
"What the hell was that?!" Hawks whispered as he tried to process what was going on.
Meanwhile, down below, the crowd started to look worried, while many of the heroes among them sprung into action, running, jumping, or even flying out of the arena, toward the various sites of the explosions. This included All-Might and Endeavor, who immediately headed out of the arena to help….
"What the hell?!" Endeavour gasped at the sight of a dozen humanoid monsters, all with their brains exposed, attacking anything and everything in sight.
"Nomu!" All Might hurriedly explained as he raced forwards. "Artificial beings with multiple Quirks! I fought one at the USJ!"
Disgusted and worried at such a descriptoion, Endeavour pushed forward himself, quickly shooting the arena a look.
'Shoto. Arisu. Hisashi. Stay safe.'
Back inside,Twice's phone buzzed loudly and quickly held up a finger to a worried Mic and Hawks as he answered the phone.
"Y'ello?"
"Tell the heroes to stay put!" Nedzu ordered urgently on the other end. "And evacuate the civilians to levels under the arena!"
"What!?" Present Mic was stupefied, why did they need to tell heroes not to do their job?
"Mr. Nedzu, with all due respect-" Hawks began, only to be cut off by what Nedzu said next.
"IT'S A TRAP!"
Suddenly, everything went out. Phones, lights, everything powered by electricity simply, shut down.
"Ah, shit." Twice said as he looked down at his now useless phone. "THE APOCALYPSE IS NIGH!"
PYRO
"What's going on?" Meggy asked as the students of Classes 1-A, 1-B, 1-C, and 1-D ran into the stadium.
"I don't know, maybe it's another Villain Attack?" Hinata nervously guessed.
"SERIOUSLY?!" Minoru complained. "WASN'T THE USJ ENOUGH?!"
"I knew I had a bad feeling about this..." Oujiro groaned.
Ochako suddenly felt something sharp pounding in her head, just like back at the USJ when the League of Villains first attacked. She swore that out of the corner of her eye, she saw a white-haired man with a lightning bolt-shaped scar staring at her.
"Ninth, you and your friends must be ready..."
Whatever else he was going to say was cut off when suddenly, the Jumbotron sparked to life and everyone's phones began playing a video as a certain shut-in villainess appeared, grinning impishly.
"Hello, fans and followers~!" XV-Ral chirped, flashing two peace signs. "The League of Villains has entered the building! That's right! Me and Igechi are making history and you're all along for the ride. But today's not about me or my sexy scaled super revolutionary…!"
"DIMI! FOCUS!" A gravely, embarrassed voice hissed.
"Sorry sweetie. Like I said, its not about me today, so here's a word from our genius leader!"
"Greetings and bon swa, ladies, gentlemen and all non-binaries!" The familiar cloaked and clown masked face of the League's co-commander took over the screen. "I am the League of Villain's co-commander, Jester. You may recognize me from such front-page news like the USJ attack, Mufasta Preschool child burning, the murder of Aldera Junior High's principal and the kidnapping of Katsuki Bakugo."
The Midoriyas young and old, Quirks Anoymous kids, Axol, Melony, Kirishima and Mina all glared at the image of the monologuing villain.
"And you believe you know our story: Boo hoo, hoo, hoo! Not loved enough, hard quirk, blah, blah, blah…and you'd be correct for most of us. And whose fault is that? Ours? Maybe. But then again, we all tried to do well by society…and there in lies the paradox of our entire existence: We live in society determined to remain in an age of heroes and villains…because it's so easy to live in. Someone doesn't fit in? Make them supress themselves or become a villain. They try and help regardless? Coin toss if they're accepted or not. Doesn't seem like a very progressive world, this 23rd century of ours. And that's because its not, you've all just never realized. Until today."
He then snapped his fingers and pointed skywards, motioning everyone to look up. Their already slacked jaws sank even lower as a Warp Gate appeared.
"Hero society is crumbling down and that all of you lovely Festival goers and townsfolk in the immediate will suffer the way so many have suffered before."Jester smirked under his mask as he flipped open his cape and roared:"LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! BOYS AND GIRLS OF ALL AGES! I GIVE YOU...STARRO THE CONQUEROR!"
Upon Jester's words, a giant shadow appeared over the stadium. Everyone looked up and saw a massive Warp Gate open over the arena.
"Kids, time to move." Hisashi said urgently as he, Inko, Loid, and Yor led the daycare students to safety.
"This is it, dummy!" Miss Ponyville whispered to Hanoma, who looked nervous as she secretly pressed a hidden button in her doll.
"This is goanna be interesting..." Garie said as she and the rest of the Autoscorers stood up, Kuro joining them as he created a reddish-black portal and stuck his arm into it before pulling out a skull-studded rifle with extra ammo cartridges.
"This ought to take at least a year off my sentencing." The vigilante mused, his eyes scanning the area for a familiar head of green, thorny vines he sadly didn't find.
"Focus, kid."
After a tense moment, a building-sized purple starfish descended from the portal, with a massive red eye in its center, staring down at all the people in the arena.
"That is one big starfish..." Ben gulped.
And while everyone looked up in shock, holes opened in the starfish, and hundreds of smaller starfish shot out of them, down onto the people below.
"AHHHHHHHHHH!"
Screams rang out among the crowd, as the starfish rained down from the sky, landed on people's faces, as others tried to run.
"I think I'm goanna need a bigger gun." Saiko muttered.
"A gun?!" Bernadetta gasped. "All due respect?"
"WE'RE GOANNA NEED A FREAKING NUKE!" Kyoko screamed. "OR A KAIJU!"
"Ask and ye shall receive!" Axol called out, racing forward with Melony and Tari right behind him
"Oh, how I WISH I could pull off mom and dad's moves right now!" Ryoku grimaced.
The Hero Students noticed whenever a starfish would land on someone's face, that person would seemingly go berserk, and start attacking everyone around them who didn't have a starfish on their face.
This included even some of the Pro Heroes that happened to still be here. Such as Death Arms, who was currently smashing everything in sight, as people ran from him as fast as they could.
Kamui Woods was both trying to restrain Death Arms with his branches and keep the starfish from falling on the people around him, by skewering them with his Quirk, but it was clear he was being overwhelmed. Thankfully it seemed like his helmet blocked the starfish from touching his face.
Mount Lady quickly grew to giant size, big enough so that none of the starfish could latch onto her face as she began wrestling with the big starfish, apparently known as Starro, the behemoth surprisingly pushing back with heavy force.
"You wanna Sumo Wrestle, big boy? Let's Sumo!" Yuu snapped as she struggled against her foe.
"Careful, Yuu!" Ben called out.
"Don't worry about me! Focus on your pals and the civilians!" The Pro ordered her little brother.
MHPH
"What the hell is going on?!" Natsuki shouted in confusion and rage at the chaos in front of her.
"Not sure, but we need to take action! And don't let any of those things get on your face!" Seryu cried as Koro bit her left arm, turning it into a massive drill-like spear. "JUSTICE LANCE!"
Sasuke's eyes became light purple with rings around them before summoning several different animal monsters with the same eyes which began charging around, shredding up the mini-starfishes and saving any non-controlled civilians from being possessed.
"Thank goodness for the Animal Path technique..." Arisu said as she formed a sword of solid water and a shield of solid light before jumping into the fray.
Back with Mount Lady, she managed to throw Starro over her shoulder and into the ground before sitting on it with her massive butt. The beast squirmed in fury under the tons of blubber.
"Guess your fat ass was good for something after all!" Midnight said as she fended off the mini-Starros with her whip.
"Hey, I resent-AGH!" Yuu cried as was grabbed from behind by swarms of cotton controlled by a possessed Toy-Toy, pulling her to the ground and allowing Starro to rise back up.
Before Mount Lady could get up, several controlled civilians and even a few Pro Heroes pounced her, preparing to rip her apart before Ibara stretched out her vines and pulled them away along with Sero using his tape.
Another presence made itself known: Suddenly appearing out of a cloud of smoke appeared what looked like Godzilla himself, wielding a helix sword he used to slash at the alien. Starro jumped backwards and moved to unleash a swarm of its smaller clones. A giant version of Inkweaver suddenly manifested in the Kaiju king's arms, which he used to block away the attack.
From within the monster, Axol and Melony focused as Tari fed them Invincibilty mushrooms.
"Room for one more?"
Ashley suddenly appeared and unleashed a torrent of paint into Starro's eye. While the creature was blinded, she released another torrent, coating Axol's creation in samurai like armor.
"HEY! PATRICK!"
A giant fist, courtesy of Yumi and Mickey, temporarily blinded the alien even more.
"YOU SUCK WITHOUT SPONGEBOB!"
"Thanks kids!" Mount Lady smiled, truly grateful as she got back to her feet. "Now let me take it from here."
Meanwhile, Momo and Kyouka, both wearing helmets that Momo had made to keep from getting controlled by the mini-Starros, were trying to guide the non-controlled civilians to the exits, shooting net guns at the mind-controlled civilians to restain them along the way. However, the moment they started to get close to an exit, said exits were suddenly sealed shut by walls of cement, the work of a mind-controlled Cementoss.
"I knew this wasn't gonna be easy!" Sato cursed as he sprouted extra red arms from his back and began wailing on the walls with everything he had, Rikidou mixed some cane sugar and brown sugar to buff up his strength and durability to aid him.
"Come on, we need to find other places to escape!" Izuku said as he ran off, Mina, Kaizo, Niles, Ben, and Penny rushing off to join him.
"Wait for us, Izu!" Mina called, sliding on her acid with Kirishima and Himiko right behind her.
A Starro-controlled civilian suddenly tried to pounce Dorothea from behind but it was hit by an electric arrow that shocked it into unconsciousness. The Songstress turned to see Bernadetta, having whipped out her bow and fired just in time.
"A-Are you okay?!"
Dorothea beamed and gave her girlfriend a kiss on the nose, making the shy purple-haired girl squeal in embarrassment.
"Never better, Bernie~!"
PYRO
"Greetings and nihao, students."
The familiar greeting caused the group to freeze.
There he stood: Jester himself, waving faux shyly.
"Been a while, huh? Oh, where are my manners? Allow me to introduce my colleague: Gambler."
Standing beside the clown based supervillain was a tall young man in a dapper purple suit, but what stood out most was the mask he wore: A giant dice with a holographic voice that matched his own.
"Well, well, well! If it isn't the traitorous runaways." Gambler smirked at the sight of Niles and Ben. "Sensei'll be delighted to have you two back. Especially you, Niles. He's still ticked at how you helped All Might cave his face in."
"Happiest moment of my life." Niles smirked, a similarly smirking Ben giving him a high five.
Just then, several Pros appeared on the scene and jumped at Jester. The Clown villain looked at them with a bored look. He then opened his cloak and three Pros vanished within it, finding themselves floating in a cold void.
Another Pro swung a fist at Jester, who simply boobed his nose and sent him flying upwards. Two more ducked under to strike, only for Jester to leap upwards and kick them, literally disarming them. When the last Pro stood in shock and contemplation, Jester unleashed a torrent of electricity from his hand, killing the Pro.
"I didn't get my commander position just because of my backstory." Jester growled, slamming his hand on the ground, from which emerged several leech like creatures that latched onto the students, minus Izuku and Penny, who'd taken to the skies and readied her blades.
A smirking Gambler stood between the bio-droid and her friends, taking out a coin.
"Heads you win. Tails I win."
He flipped the coin and caught it in his hand. Heads...but then it flipped to tails. None of Penny's blades hit.
"A luck based Quirk?" Penny guessed, suddenly finding her jets ceasing function and herself joining the others on the floor.
"Yes indeed, lil lady." Gambler smirked with a bow, before dodging several strikes from Kirishima. "Well, I'm impressed. You got guts to get free kiddo."
Kirishima, having hardened to his limit, said nothing, too angry…but not mindlessly in rage: The manly hero in training suddenly stopped in his place and held his hands in the air when he saw a bladed card floating dangerously close to Izuku's neck.
"You're a good friend." Gambler honestly said before he smacked Kirishima onto the floor, dehardening him and allowing the leeches to latch onto him before spying an interesting sight. "Well, at least the leeches will be full."
Mina's plump was returning to her athletic as she struggled to get free along with the others.
"Izuku! Ru..MPMH!" The pink skinned girl started, only for Gambler to cover her mouth with his glove.
"Now, now little lady. It's rude to interrupt." He smirked sadistically, then willing more bladed cards at the throats of the others. "Sides, Jester and Burn boy have had this conversation coming for a while."
"Look. We're not here to fight." Jester explained, a hint of desperation clear in his voice. "All I want is your Quirk, Izuku."
That got everyone's attention.
"We've both heard and seen the same thing in our nightmares for years: You, screaming in pain in flames, me trying to enhance you to compensate…and then all the laughs, the jeers, the screams. How many birthday parties did you miss ou? How many people shooed you away just because of your scars? And the less we say about Bakugo and teachers, the better. All Pyromaster has ever done is hurt you, enrage you! You, the genius analyst who was kind enough to save Bakugo, despite you having EVERY GOD DAMN RIGHT UNDER THE SUN TO LEAVE HIM TO DIE!"
The clown then recomposed himself.
"Sorry. Sorry. Lost myself for a second….The point I'm trying to make is this? You don't need that Quirk; you're strong and smart enough without it. And if I take it with the power I have? I'll finally be able to sleep soundly knowing I did EVERYTHING to make it up to you. No more nightmares. No more gulit. No more pain. What do you say?"
The burnt boy gave it a second of thought.
"You know? If you made me that offer two years ago? I'd take it." Izuku admitted with a smile. "And if it was just regular flames I still might. But you saw it yourself: I can heal people with this Quirk. I can fly! I can probably feed people through cooking or empower other fire users! And what kind of hero, no, what kind of person would give up the chance to do good with such?"
Silence overtook the two.
"WOOHOO! THAT'S MY BOYFRIEND!" Mina cheered.
Jester smiled sweetly under his mask.
"Now THAT is what a hero should say. I always knew you were the real thing…." His face then turned cold. "But, that wasn't really a request. That Quirk of yours is going to make you a real pain in the League's ass….and I can't allow that."
He'd then closed the distance between himself and Izuku, who swung a punch at his mask. This time, it didn't shatter. A second punch was thrown, but caught and then used to slam Izuku into a wall, followed by a chokehold.
"I didn't want to do this..." Jester sighed as he lunged forward with his hand outstretched.
"Not on our watch!" Mina said as she prepared to throw globs of acid to stop Jester, only for giant playing cards to form a cage around her, Niles, Ben, and Penny.
"NO!" Ben cried as he, Penny, Kirishima and Niles tried breaking through the card prison.
"Ha! Sorry, Benny-boy!" Gambler smirked. "As long as I'm around, my cards only let things in, not out."
The bespecled boy paid this no mind, shifting his fists from magma, fire, ice, lightning and wind, smriking when he saw a rip appear in the card.
but it would be too late, Jester was right upon Izuku, his hand inches from his face.
"I DON'T THINK SO!" Kaizo shouted. "LASER!"
Glowing cyan, Kaizo zoomed in front of Jester's hand, taking it in Izuku's place. The devil-horned boy screamed in agony as Jester ripped his Quirk straight out of him, everyone else watching in horror as Kaizo collapsed.
"KOORUMANIRU!" Izuku screamed, quickly breaking Jester's hold and getting down to make sure he was okay.
Jester jumped back, looking on in awe as various colored energies sparkled across his arms.
"…Not exactly Pyromaster, but I think this'll still be useful." He smiled, happy Izuku was safe and he'd still taken the Quirk of a UA student.
Saiko, hearing the scream, froze and raced to her best friend, ignoring everything else.
"KAIZO! You big dummy!" She sobbed, yes sobbed, as she cupped his face.
"H-hey Sai…" Kaizo managed with a weak smile, trying to look over her shoulder. "Izu okay?"
"Well, Mr. Midoriya, it's your lucky day~!" Gambler cackled. "Someone figured they were better off Quirkless instead of you! Hahahahaha..!"
CLANG!
"…Eh?" Gambler managed to spy the remnants of the Cooling Mummy Suit at his feet just before he felt the most intense burst of heat he'd ever experienced in his life.
An inhuman, enraged roar shook the arena, making everything pause for a moment. Many eyes turned to see a now floating Izuku coated in rainbow flames, yellow at his feet, red in his hands, purple around his arms and black forming a mask.
"YOU'LL PAY FOR THAT!" Izuku roared, yellow flames surrounding him as he lunged at Jester.
"Kyofu!" Gambler pushed his friend out of the way and formed more cards to greet Izuku's flames.
PYRO
The minute the attack begun, the Autoscorers had leapt into action, easily knocking out/restraining the Starro-possessed. It was their duty and function to defend after all, and with their big sister and her children being in the arena, they were especially vigilant.
And then the surge of heat and power had erupted.
"….Ho…" Garie coverer her mouth in shock.
"…ly…" Leiur followed.
"….Shit." Phara concluded, her need to be a proper lady be damned she was in so much shock.
Kuro offhandedly tossed a possessed Pro into the growing pile, half amazed and half shocked to feel so much power from a student, the irony being lost on him.
"THAT'S our little Izuku?!" Micha gasped before a proud smile overtook her face. "WOOHOO!"
They were not the only ones; a certain two toned 1-A student was also in shock at what he saw and felt.
'…Well, I just became redundant.' Shoto thought to himself. 'Then again with the Auto…Wait…if there's a stronger fire Quirk that mine…the Old man will want it…and not care about me….but Izuku's my cousin…and he's been nice to me in spite of…'
"TODOROKI! CIVILIANS AND ALIEN NOW! EXSTIANTIAL CRISIS LATER!" roared Mineta.
yes, Mineta.
Deciding it would look bad if the class pervert was in the right, Shoto headed to back up his sister.
PYRO
Outside the arena, the slowly dwindling Nomu all froze at the sudden burst of flames, heat and power, giving the top two Pros the chance to send a platoon of them flying.
"So…You sensed that?" All Might asked.
"I FEEL it." Endeavour admitted, sweat dripping from his brow, for once not from overheating. 'What the hell, Hisashi? How did you and your wife's quirks make THAT?!"
"Oh, you know the Firespitter?" All Might smiled despite the situation.
"He's my little broth...Wait a minute, how do YOU know him?!"
"AHAHAHAHA! I'm All Might! I know everyone!"
PYRO
Meanwhile, at the League of Villain's HQ!
"Holy shit, I can TASTE that from here!" Dabi and Gyres gasped in fear. "The hell do they feed that kid?!"
"Fascinating!" The doctors and Chemist smiled, their eyes glued to the screen as they racked their brains dreaming up the approoriate reactions and combinations to create something SOMEWHAT as strong as what they saw on screen.
"And Daiki beats me again!" Garaki growled. "His grandson has a singularity level Quirk and Tsubasa? Brat got wings."
"That's hardly his fault." Compress smirked, Maid Gloom focusing on the screen as she sipped her tea.
"A shame. This many being under the thrall of another sparks many thieving opportunities."
Tomura tensed in his seat, worry for Jester clear. Mime took his hand into her own, pushing up his pinky and worrying along with him.
"Girls, please don't take this the wrong way.." Atomo started. "But I'm not sure I want to fight that kid just yet."
"Then we're going to need to do some serious level grinding." Spinner mused, all nodding in agreement. Well, almost all:
"Where is Hanoma?! Why is she not out yet?!" Kuki hollered, feverishly checking her phone for anything that would assure her that her baby girl was safe and sound.
"Calm down, Kuki. Calm down!" Zeri tried weakly, although she was just as worried.
PYRO
The cards, dosed in red flames, burnt away in an instant. So did the coins Gambler tried to throw.
The smirking villain was getting antsy; dealing with a pissed off teenager should've been easy, but Izuku was fighting with an unseen rage; the USJ was almost NOTHINg compared to the rage he felt now:
Someone had lost their Quirk because of him. And Gambler dared to laugh at that.
A punch finally landed on Gambler's mask, sending him flying into the ground..anmd unlike with Jester? His mask was broken; exposing his eye and skin tone.
Gambler then remembered Izuku's report: Superhuman strength PLUS flames? There was no way his mask would survive. And even with the chaos Starro was causing, he couldn't risk the public or students seeing his face.
'Off all the days to leave my dice at home! Well, no choice!'
"MINORITY WORLD!" Gambler roared, suddenly appearing behind Izuku and sending him flying with a punch. He smirked when he saw Izuku collapse, his flames depleted. "Not bad kid. Made me break out my special move: Whatever is least likely to happen? Happens."
And that right there? Was Gambler's second biggest mistake.
"best to make sure you never become a problem!" Gambler smirked as he swung his bladed cards into the burnt boy, smoirking at the sound of flesh being cut and blood flying.
"IZ…! ..uku?" The boy's friends started screaming, only to pause when they saw him smiling.
They understood when ANOTHER burst of heat and flames erupted, this time bring Izuku floating into the sky.
"…Oh shit." Gambler managed before another punch sent him skywards, before Izuku took a page out of Natsuki's book and unleashed a torrent or superfast punches.
"CRAZY SON OF A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN!" Ben gasped and beamed in realization.
"He let himself nearly die so he'd come back at full strength!" Penny clarified.
"Rakki. Leave." Jester hurriedly ordered, pushing his half unmasked friend through a warp gate. "KINETIC POWER TIMES 2! LAND! PLACE!
The boy found himself stuck in place as Jester tried to steal his Quirk again, only for the purple flames to form a shield that suddenly appeared on Izuku. Jester willed the blades under his cloak to strike back, finding himself being pushed back.
Seemingly unknown to them both, red flames would bounce off Izuku onto the mini-Starros, freeing several Pros and civilains who watched the fight for a second.
"Burning through my regeneration and healing Quirk stocks…" Jester mused as he took another punch that twisted his arm unnaturally before forming it back in place.
Jester then saw the card cage was finally failing. Soon, he'd be surrounded. And goinghow strong Izuku became for harming someone he probably just barely considered a friend? He'd not risk what the green haired pyromancer would do if he struck his closest fellow students.
"I'm sorry..." Jester said, remorse clear in his eyes but Izuku refused to acknowledge it.
"OH NO YOU DON'T!" Izuku roared, willing all of his flames into a growing orb above his head, the colors vanishing into a cold, hauntingly terrifying black. "DIE, JES…!"
"IZUKU!"
Himiko had leapt onto her ablaze brother, hugging him tightly. Gradually, his flames subsided, as did his rage and bloodlust. Tears suddenly broke free as he realized what was going on.
The two siblings embraced, tears in both their eyes; pain in Himiko, and regret in Izuku's…at least until Himiko placed her forehead on his own.
"I think we're even now."
Despite it all, Izuku laughed. Really? Burnt and all his sister did was crack a joke about how they'd first met?
"Your pink flames would help now, though. No lie." Himiko managed. Izuku cleared his eyes and began healing his sister.
With the villains gone, the card prison disappeared, allowing Ben, Penny, Niles, Kirishima and Mina to run over and check on their friends.
"Izuku! Are you okay?" Mina hurriedly
"Feeling better, thanks." Himiko snarked halfheartedly as Kirishima helped her to her feet. "thanks Eiji."
"…That was probably the manliest thing I've ever seen, Himiko." The redhead smiled.
"Hey, we both know Izuku's not meant to be like that. A few burns are a small price to pay." The blonde girl mused, returning to her brother and his girlfriend.
"I'm okay, Mina." Izuku finally managed to say, after Mina had worried like a mother hen. "What about you? Those leeches…and your…?"
"I'm fine." Mina assured him, nuzzling what little he had of his nose. "A little hungry and bummed I can't cuddle like we did…"
Izuku cupped Mina's face in his hands.
"Well, I think you're beautiful no matter what, does that mean we can still cuddle later regardless?"
Ben felt pride in Izuku's 'cute smoothness.'
"Dang greenie." A weakened voice grinned. "Rampage AND getting a cutie worrying over ya? Hella jelly."
There was Saiko, holding Kaizo on her shoulder
"Kaizo.,…why?" Izuku teared up.
"…Can ya blame a guy for wanting to look cool for his friends?" The Oni delinquent smirked before he saw Niles lay down beside him,
"We need you, buddy. And something tells me this old Quirk I've been meaning to find a user for'll be right up your speed."
The grey skinned boy placed his hand onto Kaizo's forehead and focused. Kaizo suddenly tensed and gently pushed Saiko away as he focused on his hands; which turned into black scythe-esque claws and then back.
"Whoa! Niiiice! Thanks Niles! What kind of Quirk is this?" Kaizo asked
"[Death Hand]." Niles explained. "This Quirk allows you to kill anything for up to nine minutes. You can do normal stuff like put people in a death-like state but you can also kill concepts like friction from the floor or sight from a person's eyes." Niles explained.
Kaizo smirked. "I think I'm gonna like this new Quirk better than the old one."
"Still a shame. That one was pretty."
PYRO
"Damn it, how did this happen!?" Loid cursed, as he ran through the halls of the stadium in order to lead the kids out.
"SCREEEEEEEEEEEE!"
Suddenly, several robots in various shapes and sizes that all had glowing purple-pink optics appeared. One of them stood upright and XV-Ral's voice came out.
"Like my toys? I'm controlling them with my Quirk, [Brainwave]! I can pretty much access the cyber world to hack any technology I want with my brain!"
"Cute, but don't think a bunch of robots are gonna stop us," Hisashi said as he got into a fighting stance.
"Oh please, old man. What can you do?" XV-Ral asked. "Besides hand over Eri? Her mama wants her back."
"…Did she just call me an old man? And demand my little girl?" Hisashi asked.
"I think she did." Inko responded, raising her hand…and suddenly, several antenna and batteries appeared in her hands, sending several of the bots crashing to the floor as Hisashi leapt forward and SHATTERED several of the bots with single punches.
"'Old man' my butt!" Hisashi growled, flames escaping his mouth.
A few probes continued, one eyeing Hanoma…for about two seconds before it was sliced in two.
"Keep your eyes off my students." Yor ordered.
Yor Forger! Her Quirk: POINT! She can stab or hit anything when her fingers are in a point/knife hand! Simple but effective.
Suddenly XV-Ral's voice appeared in the room…and not electronically.
"Cuties! Cease and deactivate!"
Loid Forger!
His Quirk: THOUSAND FACES! He can perfectly transform into anyone whose face and voice he hears!
"Aww poo..." The last remaining droid sparked out. "Should've installed more security on voice and face recong! Oh well. Guess you win this round but we're not done yet~!"
"Don't count on it," Loid said, stomping on the droid and smashing it to bits. "Everyone okay?"
"MAMA AND PAPA ARE SO COOL!" Eri and Anya cheered.
"Best. Teachers. Ever." Joe smiled.
"I don't remember robots hurting so much!" Hisashi managed through his teeth.
"Sweetie, the only robots you ever punched were training bots." Inko cooed.
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"Damn it how did everything go to shit so fast?!" Hawks asked as he, Twice, and Present Mic ran across the corridors of the arena, trying to get outside to help as quickly as possible to help his struggling students.
"Starfish!? Seriously!? Who sends a giant starfish to attack the fucking Sports Festival?! Who does that!?" Mic lamented as they ran. "I swear if that thing lays a tentacle on the kids, I'll…!"
Present Mic couldn't finish as a massive swarm of Starro-controlled civilians and Pro Heroes broke in. Hawks quickly sent out his feathers to take them out while Mic let out a massive yell. Twice did his best to help his co-workers, creating clones of Izuku and Shoto to unleash their powers but not enough to harm them.
"Would be better if these clones were as strong as the real deal…HA! Least Izuku's still best green boy!"
He then glanced around the arena, seeing several freed pros fighting back and the other students trying to get everyone downstairs….
"IPPAN!" The cloning hero screamed in worry, rushing to aid her as she was soon dogpiled by Starro-possessed.
"No, Jin! Stay back! Help the…!"
"TO HELL WITH THAT!" Twice screamed. "YOU got me this far! I can't lose you!"
He was so desperate to reach his girlfriend he didn't see the Starro-possessed who leapt onto him and pulled on his arm until a sickening pop and crack was heard.
"JIN!" Mic and Hawks shouted, but they were too busy holding off their own enemies to help their friend.
But then something amazing happened. Twice realized something:
His arms were broken.
He wasn't disappearing...
"I'm real...I'm not a clone..." Tears welled up in Jin's eyes as he began laughing loudly, years of pent-up stress being relieved in an instant. "HAHAHAHA! I'VE ALWAYS BEEN ME!"
Suddenly, goop burst out of Twice's body and formed into clones of him...then those clones created clones of themselves and then those clones created clones of themselves. Hawks and Mic watched in awe as Twice created a veritable army of himself in under a few seconds, the clones all slowly overtaking the Starro-controlled people.
"I'm real, I'm real, I'M REAL!" Jin cheered as he then smiled evilly. "AND NOW YOU BASTARDS ARE GONNA SEE HOW SCARY MY QUIRK REALLY IS!"
Ippan stared at her boyfriend in awe as his clones helped her to her feet and stood protectively around her as more of them came into existence.
"Jin..."
"SAD MAN'S PARADE!"
Soon, the Starros were being pushed back.
"…When Vlad hears about this? He is going to owe me and Sho SOOOO much money." Mic smirked.
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Ochako was working with everyone to fend off all the Mini-Starros and free the controlled people. But even with the ones Izuku had freed and the helmets Momo had made, they were about to get overwhelmed.
"Not quite how I imagined going out, but I'll last as long as I can!" She declared, standing between the advancing horde and the civilians.
"Well you won't do it alone!"
Arisu rushed in to help, her sword sending several Starro possessed flying alongside Ashley and Yuriko as Miyu created large paper airplanes.
"Are you okay, Uraraka?" Yuriko asked, taking the form of a blue-skinned minotaur with blue flames emitting from her.
"Y-Yeah, thanks for tha-LOOK OUT!"
Ochako pushed Yuriko out of the way and thrust her arms out to stop an incoming Starro-controlled Fat Gum from pouncing on her from behind...only for black tendrils to shoot out of her wrists and hogtie the BMI Hero.
"W-What the heck?! How did you do that?!" Miyu asked.
"I...I have no idea..." Ochako whispered.
"Use your heart, girl!"
Ochako looked to see a man with a bald head and stubble putting a hand to his chest before giving a reassuring smile. As Tenya dashed past him, he vanished from sight as if he was never there.
Ochako didn't know why...but she felt a burning passion to protect inside her heart. And she was going to use that passion to defend everyone!
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"Haaaaaa!" Mount Lady cried as gave Starro another punch to the eye.
"REEEEEEEEEE!" Starro cried, before using one of its arms, to grab onto Mt. Lady's arm.
"Fuck! Let go you gross bastard!" Mt. Lady tried to pull her arm away, but Starro's suction cups kept her in its grasp.
The Samurai Godzilla sliced into Starro's back, only for the sword to be knocked away and the kaiju knocked away, shattering. Tari collapsed in exhaustion, trying to make one more mushroom…
"No!" Melony stopped her friend. "Axol, get her out of here!"
"Wait, what?! And leave you?!"
Melony silenced him with a tearful kiss before forcing Tari into his arms.
"Please, Axol. You're faster. And I can buy you time."
Axol wanted to argue, but his ninjitsu training was reminding him; sacrifices were necessary….
Suddenly, an explosion of flames burnt off the arm that was touching Mount Lady, giving the blubbery beauty some breathing room. She looked from the source…and smiled.
It was the third years of UA.
"Did that do anything?!" Ana asked.
"Well, it's not regenerating, so I think so!" A battered Miruko smiled. "Took you long enough!"
"We'll work on that. For now? THIRD YEARS!" Madoka roared. "DEFEND!"
They all leapt into the fray, sending Starros flying and escoruiting civilains to safety.
"Alright babies! Follow me to the shelter!" Midnight called out, directing her students to follow her.
It was a gruesome battle to be sure, one where the outcome could be anybody's guess. But in this moment, the young students of UA knew that they were heroes first and foremost...and heroes needed to save others before themselves.
TO BE CONTINUED….
Knightmare Lord A/N:
Leaving this on a cliffhanger to get you all excited for the next one!
Lots of stuff happens here; Kaizo loses his Quirk and Niles gives him a new one, Twice overcomes his trauma and unlocks Sad Man's Parade, and Ochako awakens Danger Sense and Blackwhip within One For All!
We just need to find a way for Shoto to get his head out of his ass and use his flames, but we'll save that for the next chapter.
Take it away, Mrotrax!
Mrotrax A/N:
This has been a long time coming and I am all for it! Hope it was worth the wait to all you readers!
As you can see, we added a LOT in this chapter!
What did that button Hanoma press summon/inform? How will Starro vbe stopped?
How was the cooldown hug between Himiko and Izuku?
Read and review, would ye kindly?
