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Alright! Hello y'all, Pixel here, back again with Alien Hero, and we are nearing endgame here
Man…this chapter was long to write since it covers a lot of the events in the Summer Camp attack, nearly 3 episodes worth of writing (2 and a half). But I did it! I haven't slept much but I did it! So please enjoy!
Oh, and there's a surprise at the end! You'll see what it is and you'll be shocked!
This chapter is in memory of David Keith McCallum Jr., the voice of one of the most iconic Ben 10 characters. Professor. Paradox. Rest easy Professor, know that your legacy lives on forever, in the show, and in the fans' hearts.
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[Location: In a bar, Location-Unknown. Japan.]
[Date: 16th July 2264. Friday.]
[Time: 19:42. Evening]
[Roughly the beginning of the Vanguard Action Squad attack]
Back once again in the dark, gloomy bar in its unknown city, sat Shigaraki on a bar stool by the bar with his very lively friend, Kurogiri who was behind the bar, once again cleaning a glass.
As the Warp Gate Quirk user was busy cleaning his glass, he looked at Shigaraki who was looking down at the bar, at a bunch of playing cards in deep thought
"Are you sure they will be alright and complete their mission?" Kurogiri asks, referring to the Vanguard Action Squad who was busy in their mission. Shigaraki just shrugs his shoulders at the question
"I don't know. Since I'm not there to oversee how are things going." Shigaraki says and Kurogiri looks at him with a confused demeanour
"And why is that?" Kurogiri asks. Shigaraki just starts playing with cards
"I'm just an NPC at this level. I can't do much besides looking at things. The best I can do is let them work things out without me." Shigaraki says. "Besides, the game has changed a lot now." He says with Kurogiri looking intrigued by his statement
"What makes you think like that Shigaraki?" Kurogiri asks, since he knew how Shigaraki liked to be the center of all the League's actions onto the world, hence why he led the U.S.J. attack, the Hosu incident but not this attack. Why?
"I've been thinking all this as an RPG since the very beginning. We had some pretty decent equips but we went on to challenge the last boss, but couldn't even get past the first one. All while we were at Lv. 1." Shigaraki says "The way I see things, it's more like a simulation game really. I'm the player and I'll use all the pawns I've gathered to smash right through the Hero ranks. But first, I need to make a crack into the superhuman world we live in. That's where the Vanguard Action Squad of the League of Villains comes in. Who cares if those guys win or lose during the attack? That wasn't the main objective here, all they have to do is scare the Heroes there once they show up."
"They're sacrificial pawns in your plans?" Kurogiri asks, intrigued by Shgaraki's rather evil strategy but the young villain just waves his hands at him
"C'mon. Do you think I'm that heartless?" Shigaraki asks in a joking tone before he goes back to a serious tone and posture as he reaches to the deck of cards next to him and picks up the top card of the deck. "I'd never underestimate their strength. Not what happened at the USJ with that…hacker." He says, he looks at the card he picked up and sees it was an image of Izuku during the Sports Festival, slamming his hand onto the Omnitrix, and glares at the image. "They may have different goals than me, but they're comrades nevertheless. In a society bounded by ridiculous rules like this one, villains aren't the only ones who are being oppressed. Let's just hope they pull this off." He says as he activates his Quirk, destroying the card and letting the crumbling remains slip from his hand and down to the bar
The Alien Hero: Deku 10
Chapter 58: Attack On Camp-Part 2: Fight Back!
[Location: At Kota's hideout, Pussycat Resort. Japan.]
[Date: 16th July 2264. Friday.]
[Time: 19:54. Evening]
[Moments after PU Four's Orbital Drop and Izuku's victory]
With tear-filled eyes, Kota stares at the large crater where the unconscious body of Muscular, the man who murdered his parents in cold blood, lies utterly defeated by the one person he wasn't expecting. Izuku Midoriya. Izuku himself was panting heavily and was sweating from the battle he just endured, his legs were waddly as he stared into the night sky. He starts swaying back and forth while feeling lightheaded before suddenly leaning forward, looking like he is about to drop to the floor. Kota sees this and panics
"Hey!" Kota yells before he rushes over to Izuku who continues to fall forward but stomps his feet onto the ground and catches himself from falling as he continues to pan. "Are you alright?!" The young boy asks, worried about Izuku's condition, the teen just pants a bit more before nodding
"I-I'm fine…I just…need a second to catch my breath…than…I've got something to do." Izuku says and Kota looks at him in disbelief
"What? You can't be serious! You're all beat up! Just what do you have to do now?!" Kota yells, not believing Izuku would continue going after what he just endured
"…I knew he was strong…which is why I had to go all out just to put him out of commission." Izuku says as he looks at Muscular and frowns. "I seriously underestimated him when he pulled out that drug, but even before that he could keep up with Four Arms…if all the other villains here are on the same level as this guy, then all our lives are at stake. Plus…there's the fact that they're after some of us students, both on hit lists and on a capture list…I have to let Mr. Aizawa and The Pussycats know that's one of the reasons they're here…" He says, now realizing how serious this was if the villains were on the same level as Muscular. If they were, then his friends and the other Heroes were in serious danger. "I might be a bit beat up but I'm not out yet. I've got a lot of people to save." He says, standing upright and gaining a serious, determined expression.
"…" Kota doesn't say anything and just looks at Izuku with a nervous expression since he wasn't sure about this. Izuku once again looks at Muscular
"We'll leave this guy here for the time being. With that blow I landed on him, I doubt he'd be up anytime soon since I put a lot into it, so we won't have to deal with him. But, if he somehow does wake up, he'd be too weak to even move, since I mostly aimed for his chest when I punched him." Izuku says, looking at the six massive fist indents there were located on Muscular's chest where large bruises were beginning to form. "We don't have to worry about him for some time." He says, looking down at Kota
"A-And what about her?" Kota asks, pointing up as Izuku looks up and sees Charmcaster, sitting on a pink magic construct and looking down at Muscular lying in the crater.
"I honestly forgot about her…" Izuku whispers down to Kota before turning to Charmcaster. "Hey, you!" He calls out to her and it seems that it worked as she snaps out of her thoughts
"H-Huh?" Charmcaster blinks before looking down "What was that?" She asks
"Sorry for that but I have to ask you something. What are you going to do now?" Izuku asks, and Charmcaster gains a thoughtful expression
"…Honestly…I don't know…I could fight you…but…" Charmcaster says and Izuku frowns
"But?" Izuku asks, stepping in front of Kota and discreetly reaching for the Omnitrix, should she attempt to do anything. He feels another pulse come from the Omnitirx and looks down to see nothing out of the ordinary
"But I'd rather not…I've seen what you're capable of and while I'm fairly confident of my skills, you could and can beat me in the fight if we were to go at it." Charmcaster says, after seeing what Izuku had in his arsenal, she knew that it was a lost cause in fighting him, even if he was a little beaten up
"I see…" Izuku says, seeing that Charmcaster wasn't a threat to him or Kota, but he still kept his guard up just in case. "So, what are you going to do now?" He asks
"I'm just going to go to the rendezvous point and say that the mission was a failure." Charmcaster says, nonchalantly shrugging her shoulders
"Okay…" Izuku says. He looks down at Kota and decides to say what he had in mind, he looks back up to Charmcaster. "Thank you…" He says and Charmcaster looks at him with a confused expression
"Hmm?" Charmcaster hums. "Why are you thanking me?" She asks
"You protected Kota during the fight, even when you had orders not to." Izuku says. Charmcaster was surprised by this and lets out a sigh
"As I said, I'm not a monster and I don't like harming children. Maybe people my age and older, depending on what they've done. But those younger than me are a no-go." Charmcaster says. Izuku nods at her words
"Okay…" Izuku says. "Guess you're a good person, despite being a part of the villains." He says, smiling a little bit. Charmcaster looks down as her bangs shadow her eyes
"Yeah…" Charmcaster says, while it felt good for someone to say that to her, the fact that she was called a villain still sucked. But she eventually
"Okay. Guess I should get going then." Charmcaster says as she starts floating off from the ground and in the air, while Izuku and Kota were looking at her, still cautious
"Yeah…thanks again." Izuku says
"No problem." Charmcaster says and just when she is about to leave, she stops and turns back to Izuku. "And one more thing." She says, gaining Izuku's attention
"What?" Izuku says as Charmcaster gives him a serious expression
"Hide…" Charmcaster only says before she takes off into the sky, leaving the two there, with Izuku frowning in concern while Kota was confused
"What did she mean by that?" Kota asks and Izuku looks down at him
"I don't think we should worry about that right now. What we should worry about is getting you to safety. But we also have a problem." Izuku says before looking at the forest and seeing the blue flames roaring through the tree line. "The forest was set on fire, and that means my friends could be trapped in there with the villains thanks to the flames. But we have a way to put those flames out. You Kota, you and your water Quirk." He says, looking at Kota who looks up at him in shock
"W-What?" Kota mutters, stunned by Izuku's words. Izuku takes the moment to crouch down to one knee and looks at Kota
"Listen Kota, you're the only one here who can put those flames out. We need you." Izuku says, giving the young boy a sincere smile, and telling him that he could do this. Kota sees the smile and nervously swallows the lump in his throat, feeling his fear creeping up but he pushes it down as he gives Izuku a nod with newly found determination
"O-Okay. I'll do it!" Kota says and Izuku nods, his smile not leaving his face
"That's good to hear. Now, how do you feel about heights?" Izuku asks and Kota only raises an eyebrow in confusion at his question
[Location: Main Lodge, Pussycat Resort, Japan]
[Moments after the villains began their attack]
'Attention everyone! Villains are here and are attacking! Please hide or get back to the camp immediately!'
This alert from Mandalay was heard by everyone in camp, including those who were in the main lodge for remedial class, who were confused by the alert while Aizawa and Vlad gain serious expressions
"Huh?"
"What? What's going on?"
"An attack? Here?"
"The hell is she sprouting it?"
Those were the students' comments regarding the alert while Aizawa and Vlad were busy looking around the room for anything before a large tremor was felt, shaking the room and building momentarily before settling down
"Vlad, stay here with the students! Protect them! And make sure no one comes into the class" Aizawa yells as he starts rushing out of the room
"Got it!" Vlad yells before he walks over to the door and stands guard
Aizawa runs down the hallway toward the exit of the building, thinking about the alert and hearing Mandalay's distress in it
'If this is a full-scale attack...' Aizawa says, making it out of the building and to the outside as he sees the forest line engulfed in blue flames with the embers and smoking soaring up into the air. 'Then we're in big trouble…' He thought, feeling
"Looks like your concern has you distracted Eraser." Aizawa hears someone speak beside him and turns to see Dabi standing there, with his right hand pointing out at him as blue flames begin to sprout from his appendage
"Shit!" Aizawa cruses before Dabi fires out a large burst of flames at him, scorching the earth below. Once Dabi stops shooting out of his flames, he looks at the smoking spot where Aizawa stood, with his hand and a bit of his lower forearm smoking. He looks at the smoke as it dissipates and realizes something. He smirks
"Nice move…" Dabi says as he looks up and lo and behold, he sees Aizawa hanging off the sign of the building with the use of his capture tool, staring down at him with his eyes glowing red and hair up. "Guess you really are a Pro. For a second there, I thought you were a pretender." He says while raising his hand at Aizawa to blast him with his Quirk but nothing shoots out, much to his confusion. "What the?"
"Not so fast!" Aizawa says, his eyes glowing profoundly as he erases Dabi's Quirk, throwing his capture tool at Dabi and wrapping the villain in it before reeling him while he lets go of the sign and falls toward Dabi. Once the two met in the air, Aizawa grabs Dabi's head and drove it to his knee before unwrapping him and tossing him to the scorched earth and pinning him to it, holding his head in place and clenching onto his left and pinning his other arm down with his leg while staring at him with his Quirk deactivated. "What are you doing here? What is it that you want and where are your friends hiding?" He asks. Dabui manages to move his head a bit to look at Aizawa
"My what?" Dabi asks, as if he was confused
"Okay, you want to play that game. Fine, but you asked for it." Aizawa says, adding pressure onto Dabi's arm with his leg, he snaps the arm and this causes the villain to grunt from the pain. "Now, are you going to tell me what I want to hear?"
"Nah…I'd prefer to fuck your mother." Dabi says, with a smirk and Aziawa isn't amused by this
"Your arm is next." Aizawa says before he twists Dabi's wrist and snaps it, again causing the villain to grunt. "And, if you want your legs to be broken next, I suggest you be logical here and tell me what I asked. It'd be a pain to drag your broken body to jail."
"You can take all the time you want, Eraserhead." Dabi says, still with his smirk on his face as a spark of blue flames begins to sprout from his head. Acting quickly, Aziawa activates his Quirk, once again erasing Dabi's, and breaks his already broken left arm again. Right as he was about to do more damage to the villain, another large tremor was felt along with a massive gush of wind that blew through the air, alerting Aizawa as he looked up and saw a large cloud of dust coming from the nearby mountains. "What was that?" He asks
"Mr. Aziawa!" Aizawa hears a familiar voice yell, he turns and sees Tenya and the boys who were there with Izuku and Momo, panting slightly
"Stay back!" Aziawa yells at them but Dabi springs and moves a bit away from Aizawa as the hero continues to stare at him with his Quirk active. Dabi could barely stand thanks to the pain he was feeling after having his arms snap, especially the left one
'He's good. He broke my arms to mobilize them. Smart. I doubt I can last much longer like.' Dabi thought as he turned around, facing Aizawa who stood ready for anything Dabi would throw at him "That was the performance I was expecting from U.A. teacher. Tell me something Hero…" He says Aizawa just throws his capture tool at him and gets wrapped in it. "Aren't you worried about your students?" He asks. Aizawa narrows his eyes and pulls the tool back and instead of Dabi getting reeled in as he intended, the tool cuts right through Dabi's body as if he was made out of mud as Aizawa stares at him in shock
'The fire he shot out before isn't his Quirk!' Aizawa thought. Dabi looks at him and gives him a creepy smile
"I wonder if you can save them in the end. Oh well, guess we'll wait and see. See you real soon." That was all Dabi said before he fully turned into mud and crumbs down to the ground, as a pile of mud. Leaving Aizawa there in shock before his face turns into a mix of seriousness, confusion, and dread.
"What was that? Did that guy just melt or something?" Mineta yells, he and the others run toward but Aizawa just runs past them as they stop and see him run into the forest
"Get inside and stay there! I'll be back!" Aizawa yells, leaving the boys there as he thinks about what has happened
'He melted into a pile of mud. Does he have the same Quirk as Mann? No, he shot off that fire at me earlier, that shows he had another Quirk, one I erased. Something's going on here. And I don't like what it could be…' Aizawa thought, as he ran deeper into the forest as a theory was coming into mind.
[Somewhere in the forest]
"Aw c'mon, Dabi! Are you serious!? You got your ass handed to you, by a freaking Hobo with a magic scarf of all things! You seriously need to hit the gym!" A person yells, frustration in his tone. He was a rather well-built man who wore an outfit that was a black and gray bodysuit that covered his body completely along with gray boots and a mask covering his face. The upper half of his mask was gray with completely white eye sockets while the lower part of the mask covering his mouth was black. He also had red and green wristbands. Most of his suit was black except for a section over his lower legs and the gray designs to form a "T" and "W" over his chest. The "T" was formed by a horizontal line crossing his upper torso and a vertical line ascending from the abdomen. Another line snakes down to his thighs, then climbs to his hips, forming the "W"
He stood in a part of the forest with…Dabi who was by a tree, setting it on fire with his Quirk
"How weak. That happened fast." Dabi comments, clearly surprised by how quick
"Don't say that. We can frame this by saying the Pro was simply stronger and more suited to close hand-to-hand combat. It's meaningful to know your limits and strengths as well as be mindful of your self-esteem, even on a critical mission such as this one." The man says, this time in a more wise-like tone as Dabi just rolls his eyes
"Whatever Twice, just make another one of me. We need to keep those Pros occupied." Dabi says before he sets another tree on fire. The man, now known as Twice gives him the bird (a/n: The middle finger. If you don't believe me, go look at the anime and you'll see that scene.)
"Another crispy small fry coming right up! Leave it to me!" Dabi eagerly says. Just as he was about to do it, he felt something hit his head. Looking up to see what was it, Twice sees water dropping down onto them "What the? Is it raining?" He asks and Dabi stops his task upon hearing that
"What?" Dabi says as the water falls onto them, soaking them and they were thinking about what was going on.
Above the trees, a dark green blur was soaring over the burning landscape while water was being shot behind and soaking the trees, putting the flames out. Kota was busy firing out water from his hands down to the trees and fires while he was being held by something by his shoulders.
It was an insectoid figure that had four crab-like legs and two arms with three-clawed hands. It had four small eyes on long prehensile stalks connected to its large head, which could all be moved around independently from each other. On its back are two very fragile light greenish-yellow dragon-like wings with veins running through them and a red vein running vertically along the edge of the wings, and its limbs were brown-greenish colored.
It wore a white and green sleeveless jumpsuit with black lining that covered most of its body including its head (which is not a mask but part of its biology) and tail where a large stinger was located at the end. Its hands had a black coloration similar to fingerless gloves, and its eyes were green in color with slits for pupils. It wore the Omnitrix symbol on the top of its forehead. This was Izuku in a new unknown Alien form
"You're doing great Kota! Just a little bit more and we'll be done!" Izuku says
"T-Thanks!" Kota says, shooting out more water before he gags at something he was smelling "Man, you stink!" He yells, and Izuku lets out a sigh
"I know and I'm sorry about that…" Izuku says. They fly a bit more, putting out as much fire as they could before Kota sees someone running below in the forest
"Hey! Look down!" Kota yells, catching Izuku's attention
"Huh?" Izuku looked down to see what was going on and saw Aizawa running "Mr. Aizawa!" He yells, and his yelling was loud enough for the Pro to stop and look up and see the two flying down toward him. Once they were low enough, Izuku placed Kota down as he landed, standing next to the boy. "I'm glad to see you!" He yells, relive in his tone. Aizawa stood guarded, thinking that this was a Nomu that took Kota before spotting the Omnitrix on its forehead and realizing who this was.
"Huh? Midoriya? Is that you?" Aizawa asks and Izuku nods
"Yes, it's me!" Izuku says
"New form?" Aizawa asks and Izuku nods. Something hits his nose and causes Aizawa to gag. "What is that smell?" He asks
"It's me, okay. I don't know why I smell bad but please bear with me on it. I've learned a lot about the villains and why they're attacking." Izuku says and Aizawa's attention was taken by this
"Okay, catch me on what you've gathered." Aizawa says
"The villains are attacking us for the sole purpose of capturing targets they have." Izuku says and Aizawa frowns at that
"What? Targets?" Aizawa asks, Izuku nods
"Yes, targets." Izuku says
"And who are these targets?" Aizawa asks
"Yaoyorozu, Todoroki, Bakugou, Tokoyami, Shiozaki, Tsunotori, Kodai and me." Izuku says
"I see. This is troubling." Aizawa says, disgusting this information and finds it disturbing. He could only imagine and shiver at the thought of what the villains wanted from the eight targets. "We need to get you back to the lodge, and then, me and Vlad will go and gather the rest." He says as Izuku frowns at that
"No, I can't go back. Not when I need to go to Mandalay and tell her to warn everyone and the other targets. Please protect Kota! I'll be back!" Izuku yells before his wings flap and he starts hovering off from the ground to fly.
"Wait, kid! Stop!" Aizawa says and Izuku stops in the air and, hovering as he turns back to face him. "You're a target too, and you're charging in danger. Have you forgotten about Hosu?" He asks.
This causes Izuku to think back to the hospital where the Chief of Police reprimanded where they could have been arrested for their illegal use of Quirks during their fight with Stain.
"No…I haven't sir." Izuku says as Aizawa nods
"Good. Because I'm not letting you leave…not without delivering a message to Mandalay from me." Aizawa says with Izuku looking at him with a surprised look
[Back with the Pussycats]
Mandalay and Tiger were still in combat with Spinner and Magne. Mandalay was busy evading and ducking from Spinner's attacks with his sword while Tiger and Magne were engaged in hand-to-hand combat with Tiger trying to strike the villain with open palm strikes while Magna just blocked the palm strikes with her forearms. Seeing as his strikes were not dealing any damage to Magne, Tiger switched to another tactic, activating the claws from his paws, and started throwing slashes at Magna who continued to take the defensive and duck/evade the slashes
"Hey, no fair. Back off. At least let me get my item to make this an even fight." Magne says, looking at the strange-wrapped item that laid next to the unconscious form of Pixie-Bob who was still bleeding on the ground. Tiger doesn't let up on his attacks and starts adding in kicks, in hopes of hitting the villain but Magne just continues to evade his attacks, much to his frustration.
'Damnit! Just how is he predicting my Cat-Combat?' Tiger thought, gritting his teeth while the two continued their mortal combat
Over at Mandalay, she was busy dodging the fast and deadly stashes for Spinner's attack as he was trying to cut her into pieces
"You're not…a real…Hero!" Spinner says, trying to slash the Pussycat member who continued to evade all his attempts with one of them nearly taking her head off if she didn't duck in time and only lost some strands of her hair from it. "So stop pretending to be one!" He yells as he lifts his large blade in the air and brings it down to the Hero as she jumps back, and the blade only hits the spot she was previously, creating a small dent in the ground.
"Geez, you sure are persistent!" Mandalay says while in the air, slightly relieved after seeing the attack had missed
"As are you!" Spinner says before he jumps after her and raises his blade once they were in close range. "But there's nowhere you can go now!" He yells, about to bring
'Shit!' Mandalay curses, seeing that she was in the open. But before the blade could reach her, four balls of a slimy goo substance flew through the air toward Spinner, two of the goo balls hit his blade, throwing it off balance and aim as it soared past Mandalay while the other two hit Spinner himself who also is thrown off balance.
[Insert OST: Go Seize It from Boku No Hero Academia OST]
"Not on my watch!" A voice yells as a green blur hits Spinner, sending him flying across the air and area before crashing onto the ground and rolling a bit until he comes to a stop. Mandalay lands and looks toward whatever hit Spinner and sees a large insect destroying his large sword with its stringer. It turns to her
"Mandalay! Kota, he's safe!" The insect says as Mandalay looks at it and spots the Omnitrix on its forehead and realizes who it was
"Midoriya!?" Mandalay yells, surprised at his appearance. It was then she realized what he said. "Wait, you found him?" She asks and he nods
"Yes!" Izuku yells, "And I have a message from Mr. Aizawa! I need you to use Telepath on me so I can deliver the message!"
Back over to Aizawa, he was running back to the lodge, carrying Kota in his arms, and was hoping Izuku got to Mandalay in time to deliver his message. While he ran, he remembered what Dabi had said before he dissolved
"Tell me Hero…aren't you worried about your students?"
'With his words and the information Midoriya gave me, I now know that they're after the students. It's unavoidable now…go ahead and use your training kids. Protect yourselves and each other. I'll take the heat.' Aizawa thought, rushing back to the lodge to see what was happening
'What message do you have?' Mandalay though, linked to Izuku
'Tell everyone in Class A and Class B that Eraserhead has granted permission to use their Quirks and engage in combat with the villains. If they already are in it, they can go all out, don't hold back! And there's something else. Tell Todoroki, Yaoyorozu, Tokoyami, Shiozaki, Tsunotori, and Kodai to return to the camp! The villains are after them! If there's anyone with them, tell those with them to protect them while traveling to camp!' Izuku yells. Mandalay looks surprised by this before nodding at the message, understanding that it needs to be done
'…Got it!' Mandalay thought before downing the link from Izuku and establishing a connection with all the students in the forest. 'Everyone in Class A and Class B! In the name of the Pro Hero: Eraserhead. You are granted permission to engage in combat and full use of your Quirks! If you're already in combat...go all out! And Yaoyorozu, Todoroki, Tokoyami, Shiozaki, Tsunotori, and Kodai, the villains are targeting you all! Hurry back to camp immediately and be cautious on your way back. Those with them, protect them and come back as well!' She thought, sending out the message to everyone, letting them know they were now allowed to fight back while those on the target list were now on alert. Dropping the link, Mandalay could only hope that Aizawa knew what he was doing from this decision
Back over with Aizawa, as he ran, he realizes a mistake he made
'Shit, I forgot to order Midoriya to come back immediately since he's a target as well. Knowing him, he'll most likely go and help as many as he can while not thinking about his well-being. He's thinking irrationally and that could cause issues for us. That kid, I swear he going to put me in an early grave.' Aizawa thought, dreading what could Izuku do next
"Hey…mister…" Aizawa hears Kota speak and looks down at him. "Is he going to be okay? I…tried to punch him earlier. But, even after I did that…he still came and saved me and got hurt because of me! Please…please tell me that he'll be okay!" The young boy cries out as he clenches onto Aizawa's capture tool while tears fall from his eyes. Aizawa says this and realizes Kota was traumatized by this and was feeling regret for his actions toward Izuku. He knew
"He'll be fine. The reason why he got hurt was that he refuses to die. Although, as his teacher, I'll scold him accordingly once this is all over." Aizawa says and this causes Kota to look up at him
"H-Huh? Really?" Kota asks with Aizawa nodding at him
"Yeah, he's a tough kid. I'm positive you'll see him again soon." Aizawa says, "And make sure you mean it when you thank him."
"Okay." Kota says
[End OST]
Back over at forest entry, once the alert was made, Mandalay turned to Izuku
"Get back to camp! Now!" Mandalay yells at Izuku before jumping in the air and performs a spin kick to Spinner who rolls out of the way and makes distance between them. Izuku, unfortunately, shakes his head
"Sorry, I can't! I need to go look for my friends! Who knows what's in there with them!" Izuku yells before he turns and hovers off the ground and flies toward the forest
"Wait! Don't!" Mandalay yells and was about to go after Izuku but she had to duck from the flying daggers Spinner threw at her. Mange blocks a strike from Tiger and hears what Izuku said
'That thing, that Hero called it Midoriya. That's one of the targets on our list, if it is him, he knows too much of our plan. And those tremors from earlier, only two people in our group have the power to pull something like that off and this boy knows, he must have fought one of them. Don't tell me it was Muscular. This child has the power to defeat such a foe!' Magne thought, realizing that this was serious, she broke from Tiger and rushed to Izuku with her hand raised 'In that case, he needs to be taken out now, right here!' She thought, just as she was about to strike Izuku...
"Wait, don't Big Sis Magne!" A blade was soaring toward her, and Magne saw this and caused her to stop from not letting the blade stab her as Izuku flew up and above the trees of the forest and escaped. Surprised by the blade, she turns and sees Spinner standing with his hand stretched out, showing it was he who threw that blade
"What the hell was that for Spinner?! That was Midoriya! He was on the priority hit list and needed to be captured!" Magne yells, wondering what was going on in her partner's head
"Shigaraki wants him captured…" Spinner says in a serious tone
"Ah, yeah. He's one of the main reasons why we're here." Magne says, knowing he was stating the obvious
"But Stain saved him back in Hosu, meaning that child is someone Stain deemed worthy as a true Hero. If Stain spared him, that could only mean-" Spinner was saying but before he could continue with what he was saying, he got hit by a kick to the head, knocked down to the ground, and was KO'ed. Magne saw this and was about to go to her partner when an open palm crashed onto the top of her head, knocking her out as she fell to the ground
"About time I got a hit in!" Mandalay yells, happy that she got a decent hit onto Spinner. Panting, she looked at the spot where Izuku had flown into and knew it was too late to get him back, not after learning what he hadn't said to her. 'I can't stop him, but I can warn the others about his status' She thought before activating her Quirk and re-establishing the Telepathic link to everyone 'Listen up! We've discovered one more thing from the villains! It's another target and it's Midoriya! He's currently in the forest!' She sends out the alert, causing those in the forest to be shocked by this
"What?! Izzy's a target!" Lucy yells, shocked at what was said by Mandalay. She didn't notice something soaring toward her until Mina did, who was busy carrying Tsuburaba on her back
"Lucy, watch out!" Mina yells. Lucy turns around and sees several blades soaring toward her. She quickly reacts and turns herself into mud and flops down to the floor as the blades soar past her. Lucy moves away from them and reforms back into her humanoid form while her clothes are on the floor where she was previously. Mina joins her. "You need to focus here girl. We're in a life-and-death fight!"
"R-Right, sorry!" Lucy says as she turns to where the blades came from and sees more of the blades stabbing into the ground while someone is suspended in the air, using the blades as stilts. "It's just..." She says while clenching her fists
"Look, I understand how you're feeling about this new news, but you need to understand that we have to get back to camp!" Mina says. Lucy continued to clench her fists, knowing that Mina was right, she had something else to worry about
"R-Righ-" Lucy was saying but gets cut off when several blades stab into her chest and send her flying back and hitting a tree
"Lucy!" Mina yells, in horror at seeing Lucy getting stabbed. She turns back and glares at the man responsible for the blades. She starts making acid from her right hand. "Damn, you!" She yells, throwing a barrage of acid at the assailant but the assailant shiftily maneuvers over Mina's acid and hides in the trees. "Shit! He's good moving on the terrain with his Quirk." She says, glaring at where the assailant hid. She heard groaning coming from behind and turned to where the source was and saw Lucy dragging herself off from the tree she was sent flying into and phasing out from the blades. "Lucy! Are you okay?!" Mina yells while Lucy completely gets out from the blades and looks fine
"Yeah, I'm fine. That wouldn't have hurt me, let alone kill me. I just got surprised by that." Lucy says, rubbing her head. She looks up and sees their assailant moving out from the treelines with his blades doing the movement for him. She sees the physic the figure had. "This guy looks too scrawny to me." She says and Mina agrees with her, after noticing the figure's physic
"Yeah, looks like he is, but it looks like this isn't his first fight. Not with how he was dodging my acid." Mina says, looking down to the burning patches of earth where her attack landed after she missed
"Have to keep going…have to work…do my job!" The figure hisses out, and as he moves closer towards the two, the moonlight shined down onto him and revealed to be the villain who had on the full body suit, and he had his mouth open where his teeth were forming the blades he was using/walking with "Show me…show me your lovely flesh!" This villain yells as if he's craving their skin and this creeps the girls out
This villain was known as Moonfish: An escaped Death-Row Convict, his kill count is unknown…
"The best choice we can do right now is knocking this guy out. Without getting stabbed by his blades and protecting Tsuburaba too." Lucy says while she cracks her neck and morphs her fists into large spiked maces. She turns to Mina. "You ready?" She asks. Mina placed Tsuburaba down and started hopping on her feet before stopping and coating her arms and legs in her acid, melting her shoes off as she shifted into her Capoeira stance
"Yeah. Let's knock this guy's teeth out!" Mina yells
Somewhere in the forest, Izuku was flying above the trees, his four eyes scanning different sections of the area in search of any of his friends.
'Tokoyami & Shoji were the first to go into the test of courage, while Shoto & Ojiro were second. Momo was on the list but she went to the lodge so she's safe from the villain. If Tokoyami and Shoto didn't return to the camp yet, they could still be around here somewhere.' Izuku thought, he flew a bit more before he thought about something else that was serious. 'Then there's the time I have left I can go, Alien. If my calculations are right, I roughly have 10 minutes left before I time out. So, two transformations left. After that, I'll be me again until the Omnitrix recharges…' He thought, frowning as he realized time was not on his side, so he had to pick up the pace and find everyone. He started thinking about going Wildmutt and track everyone via scent when he spotted something in front of him, coming at a fast speed
"RAAAAAHH!" Izuku heard a loud beast-like roar and before he could question what was it, he saw the thing that was coming toward him was a large-clawed hand made from dark energy.
[Insert OST: Forest Battle from Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen]
"What the?!" Izuku yells, seeing the large claw coming at him. He was about to attempt to dodge the claw when he was tackled out of the air and to the ground by the side as the claw soared past him. Izuku looked down at who was it that tackled him and saw… "S-Shoji!" The alien yells, relieved and surprised to see Shoji holding him down. The tall boy was panting heavily as he looked at Izuku and instantly saw the Omnitrix
"I'm guessing that's you Midoriya…you really shouldn't be here you know…they're after you too…" Shoji says, remembering the last alert Mandalay gave out but he had a feeling about Izuku's intentions. "But…you want to save your friends…Am I right?" He asks, panting still
"Y-Yeah." Izuku says, Shoji lets go of him and lets the insect alien stand up and see the condition he is in. He was roughed up, covered in dirt, scraps, and bruises and finally, Izuku saw his worst injury. One of the ends of his Dupli-Arms on his left side "You're bleeding. What happened?"
"We were ambushed by the villains. I covered us but…the attack triggered Tokoyami's Quirk, even though he was desperately trying to hold it back." Shoji explains. Izuku was understanding of the situation here before he realized something. Something he learned about Tokoyami's Quirk back at the Sports Festival
[Flashback]
"My Quirk's offensive grows stronger when I'm in darkness, but that also makes Dark Shadow more aggressive and harder to control."
[End Flashback]
"No…don't tell me…" Izuku utters, realizing the severity of the situation. Shoji nods, confirming the thought he was having
"Yeah…if we want to go and save our friends…we'll have to face Dark Shadow first…" Shoji says. The ground started to shake and the two turned as they heard movement coming from in front of them. Rushing and hiding behind some trees, they
"RAHHHHHHHHHH!" Dark Shadow roars, eyes red in anger and lack of awareness. Tokoyami was inside Dark Shadow's mouth, trying to fight back and regain control of his Quirk to no avail as he looked over to the two
"Go away! Stay away from me! You'll die!" Tokoyami yells, eyes filled with pain, fear, and terror
"Tokoyami!" Izuku yells, right before his mouth gets covered by Shoji and they see Dark Shadow turn to where they were hiding before turning back in front of it and resumes its charge, smashing and knocking over trees in its wake
"Quiet it. You mustn't alert Dark Shadow, it's not in full control of itself and will attack anything that it sees. I learned that the hard way…" Shoji says, rubbing one of the larger bruises he had on his ribs
"Okay, Shoji. Tell me, what happened that caused Dark Shadow to get triggered?" Izuku asks
"After Mandalay told us what was happening and said we could engage, but Tokoyami and I just remained on high alert. A villain caught us off guard. I protected and moved Tokoyami out of the way and my arm got cut off in the process. I hid in the bushes and tried to cover Tokoyami, even after my arm was cut off." Shoji explains
"Really?" Izuku asks and Shoji nods. Izuku was also surprised by something from Shoji. "I'm surprised by your lack of shock over this."
"It might look bad, but it's not like I've lost the ability to use it forever. If I heal properly, I can use the arm again. My Quirk allows me to create duplicates from other duplicates. One of those was cut off. As all as it isn't the original arm, I still have my Quirk." Shoji says and Izuku sighs in relief
"That's a relief." Izuku says
"Yeah…but the thing is…" Shoji says but turns back to Dark Shadow and sees the path of destruction it was creating. "Tokoyami couldn't stand seeing me injured like that. The Quirk he'd be suppressing began to rage and take over, and before I knew it…he became…this…" Shoji says.
"He did say the darker it was around him, the wilder and stronger Dark Shadow would become. I just never imagined Dark Shadow to be this powerful…" Izuku says
"It might be fuelled by his righteousness, pride, and most likely his regret in not being able to suppress Dark Shadow…" Shoji says. He took a step back and unknowingly stepped on a stick, snapping it when his foot hit it. The snap alerts Dark Shadow, making it turn to them and try to smash them, but the two jump/fly out in the nick of time. The two land near another bunch of trees and peek from them, seeing Dark Shadow continue smashing the spot they were previously
"So it moves at the moment of sound. Like a wild predator on the hunt for its prey." Izuku says while Shoji nods. Tokoyami was able to move his head toward the two and stare at them
"Forget about me! Go! Find our classmates and the others! Help them instead!" Tokoyami yells, his tone betraying the struggle he's enduring during. He looks up at his Quirk and through grit teeth, speaks "Stop this! Calm down Dark Shadow!"
"RAAAAAAHHHHHH!" Dark Shadow roars, not listening to its wielder, and continues its rampage
"What can we do to help Tokoyami out?" Izuku asks
"Dark Shadow has a weakness to light. We need light. We could head lead Dark Shadow back to camp…or-" Shoji says and Izuku gets the idea he's suggesting
"Or I turn into Heatblast and light up like a bright candle. Okay. Good idea." Izuku says, he taps the Omnitrix and reverts to his human state before he steps out of his hiding spot and walks right behind Dark Shadow. Now in position, Izuku steers his nerves down and takes a deep breath and… "Hey big ugly!" He yells, drawing Dark Shadow's attention as it stops its rampage and turns to him. "How about we turn up the lights here!?" He yells, lifting the Omnitrix and started scrolling through the alien playlists. Dark Shadow roars and charges at Izuku while Tokoyami starts trying to regain control and prevent it from harming Izuku, and much to his dismay, he is unable to. Izuku finds the alien he was looking for, lifts his hand in the air over the Omnitrix, and sees the faceplate slide back, letting the button pop out just as Dark Shadow reaches him and is about to chum onto him, Izuku slams his hand down onto the Omnitrix and disappears in the bright green flash.
The flash was bright enough to cause Dark Shadow to halt and screech out in pain as it moved back to not be further harmed by the light. The flash dissipated and in the spot where Izuku was standing wasn't Heatblast…no…Izuku looked down at who he was and…it caused him to freak out
"H-Huh? Who the hell?" Izuku says, looking at himself. He was in an alien form that was made of silicon and had crystals all over his body. His body was overall indigo, with several dark lines and spots. His hands and face were magenta, and he also sported six magenta shards on his back, two on his chest, two on his shoulders, two coming from his forearms, two from his knees, and one on the top of his head that resembled a horn. His face had no mouth but had one large green eye at the center. He wore a green collar with white stripes, green-and-white striped gauntlets on his wrists, black fingerless gloves, and a green and black belt. The Omnitrix was located on his chest
"Who is this?" Izuku asks, looking down at himself since he has never seen this alien before. "Never seen this guy before." He says. Dark Shadow roars and Izuku looks up at it only to get punched by Dark Shadow and get sent flying back, crashing through a bunch of trees before crashing into the ground, resulting in a loud crash being heard.
"RAAAHHH!" Dark Shadow roars
"Midioriya!" Shoji yells, concerned about Izuku's well-being. But this only draws Dark Shadow's attention to him. Shoji sees this and got nervous. Dark Shadow roars again and throws a claw at the Dupli-Arm wielder in an attempt to slash him. Shoji reacts and rolls out of the way of the attack, as it cuts through the trees he was hiding behind. He rolls out in the open and stops right in front of the out-of-control Quirk with it turning back to him. It roars and sends both of its claws at Shoji at a high speed, a speed that was impossible to dodge, and Shoji sees this. He creates multiple duplicates of arms and braces himself for the impact when he hears something collide and doesn't feel Dark Shadow's claws strike him. He looks at it and sees Izuku had his fist on Dark Shadow's head before it gets sent flying to the side, crashing through the trees while
"That tickled." Izuku says, cracking his neck. Shoji reverts his arms to normal and rushes to Izuku
"Midoriya! Are you alright?" Shoji asks, Izuku turns to him and nods
"Yes, I am Shoji. Guess I'm durable enough to hardly feel that attack. And I'm strong enough to send something like Dark Shadow flying." Izuku says, he started receiving information and instructions about the form he was in and what abilities it had.
"You look like that other Diamond form of yours." Shoji says, making Izuku think about the similarities
"Diamondhead. Yes, I do but I have a feeling that this one is a lot different than him." Izuku says. Before either one of them could say anything else, they heard commotion coming from where Izuku sent Dark Shadow flying and saw it was back up and rushed toward them. Izuku thinks of a plan and one in mind. "Shoji, I need you to look for anyone else that's near us. I have a plan." He says, causing Shoji to turn to him
"Huh?" Shoji utters.
"I need you to find whoever's near us and start running toward them. I'll stay and distract Dark Shadow long enough for you to run long enough before I come along and lead it to where you're heading and take care of him there. Think you can do that?" Izuku asks
"O-Okay." Shoji says, he makes an eye and ear from his tentacles and uses them to scan the area they were for anyone and not too far from where they were. He sees something. "I've found Ashido and Mann! They're engaged with the same villain that jumped us earlier. And it looks like they're at a standstill with the villain but he's breaking through their defence!" He yells.
"Okay! Go!" Izuku yells, and Shoji didn't need to be told twice. He reverts his arm and takes off running to where Mina and Lucy were. Dark Shadow saw him running and tried to slash him but Izuku intercepted by grabbing the claw while getting pushed back a bit before digging his feet into the ground and stopping. "Oh no you don't!" He yells while lifting Dark Shadow off the ground and performing a judo-flip, smacking the unstable Quirk onto the ground which resulted in a small tremor to go off while a large crater had formed where Dark Shadow was. Izuku backed away as Dark Shadow started getting back up and glared at him
"RAAAAHHH!" Dark Shadow roars and starts sending claw after claw at Izuku, to cut him into pieces. The alien just raised his arms and blocked all of Dark Shadow's attacks, all while barely feeling all of them, and his silicon skin had no damage to it. Dark Shadow stopped its barrage of claws to see what state Izuku was in and saw he was fine. The alien lowers his arms down and looks at the Quirk
"My turn." Izuku says. He raises his hands and aims at Dark Shadow as rainbow-colored energy starts forming from his body before traveling down to his hands and fires two beams of rainbow-colored energy at Dark Shadow. The beams hit Dark Shadow, pushing it back while it screeches from the pain of the beams hitting it and the light the beams were producing.
"AHHHH!" Tokoyami yells out from the pain he was feeling through Dark Shadow
"Just hang in there Tokoyami! This will end soon!" Izuku yells, feeling bad about causing Tokoyami pain but he has to do it to save him. While continuing to blast Dark Shadow, he started thinking about Shoji. 'Okay, that's enough time for Shoji to be safe! Now I need to hurry after him' He thought. He stopped firing the beams at Dark Shadow and started levitating off the ground. "Tokoyami! Let go! Stop trying to gain control for now! Let Dark Shadow over! Trust me, it'll work!" He yells. Tokoyami gradually turned his head toward the alien and gave him a shaky nod as tears began to fall from his now-white eyes.
"A-Alright!" Tokoyami yells. Seeing and hearing his classmate was still conscious, Izuku moved on to the second phase of the plan. He turns to Dark Shadow who was busy trying to shake the cobwebs.
"Hey, birdy!" Izuku yells, drawing Dark Shadow's attention. He turns around and smacks his butt at the Quirk. "Can't catch me!" He yells as he takes off flying in the direction Shoji went with a trail of rainbow colors.
"RAAAAAAHHHH!" Dark Shadow roars before it chases away Izuku.
[Back with Lucy and Mina]
The girls were having a hard time against Moonfish. The villain had them in defense as Lucy had a wall of mud in front of them while he was raining down onto them with his blades, trying to cut through the mud wall while Lucy was putting her all into keeping the blades from coming through
"Flesh…pieces of meat…" Moonfish says, 'looking' down at the girls. "I need…your flesh…give it to me!" He yells before sending out more blades at them
"Geez, this guy's persistent." Lucy says, as a blade went through the wall and put her cheek but no blood came and she simply heals while breaking the blade with a kick
"Yeah, I know." Mina says, crouching on the ground. She had some cuts on her arms, and thighs while her clothes had cuts on them as well. "We can't get close to land a hit on him since he's been spam-attacking us with his teeth blades. Plus, he's already got me in some spots." She says, using her acid to stop the bleeding from her wounds, much to her pain since it strung to do it.
"Just what are we going to do? Sooner or later, this guy's gonna cut through my wall." Lucy says, struggling to keep her wall up.
Just then, a series of explosions went off in the distance, causing the two to turn in the direction of where the explosions went off and they saw someone running toward them
"Huh?" Mina utters, she looks at the person running toward them and recognizes them. "Shoji?"
"Ashido! Mann! I suggest you take cover and don't freak out!" Shoji yells as he turns back to see what was behind him
"Shoji! What are you talking about?!" Lucy yells, but before they can question him further, he grabs them and Tsuburaba and rushes to the bushes for cover
"That!" Shoji yells, pointing back. Moonfish saw them rush into the bush and was about to send his blades down to them when Izuku emerged from the trees, flying while looking back at something
[OST Time: 01:28]
"C'mon, big guy! Aren't you gonna catch me!?" Izuku yells. Several blades flew at him and hit him, but instead of cutting/stabbing into him, they break/shatter on impact, all while Izuku didn't feel a thing but heard the blades getting destroyed. "What the?" He says, he looks around and sees Moonfish.
"Meat…fresh me-" Moonfish was saying but got cut off when Dark Shadow's claw slammed him down to the ground, breaking all the blades around him
"Is that...Dark Shadow?" Mina asks, in their hiding spot and see the state Dark Shadow was in while also seeing Tokoyami inside of Dark Shadow's mouth, tears falling down his white eyes
"Yeah…he's gone out of control due to a villain." Shoji says, panting
"And, that's Izzy. Isn't it?" Lucy asks, but she already knows it was. Shoji nods
"Yeah. He has a plan though." Shoji says. Izuku flew up in and floated while watching down. Dark Shadow lets go of Moonfish and the villain starts getting up, using his teeth to move up from the ground.
"Flesh…slabs of meat…no good…can't allow this…promised me…I'd be the one who gets to slice them open!" Moonfish says. He looks up at Dark Shadow and sees the Quirk with his mask torn, revealing his eyes as it is filled with insanity. "DON'T STEAL FOR ME!" He roars out, shooting out all of his blades at Dark Shadow, hoping to kill it but that's where he makes a critical mistake. The blades did hit Dark Shadow but simply phased through it, not hurting the Quirk all the while Dark Shadow grabbed him
"You don't matter, insignificant pest!" Dark Shadow hisses out, it starts clenching its claw while holding Moonfish and causes the villain to groan in pain before screaming from the strain as his blades begin to break apart. The teens hear him scream
"We have to stop him. He's going to kill the guy!" Mina says but Lucy holds her hand out, stopping her
"Wait. Let's wait." Lucy says, she turns back to the two and sees Dark Shadow has broken all the blades. "Now, finish this guy…" She says. As if listening to her, Dark Shadow swings its arm around, with Moonfish in its hand, and crashes him through a bunch of trees, destroying the back of his suit, mask, and teeth before finally releasing him, sending him flying to another tree where he hits, coming to a halt and slides off said tree and hitting the ground, unconscious where he laid, with broken bones and missing teeth and a severer concussion
Dark Shadow roars as it grows in size
"Not enough…it's not enough!" Dark Shadow roars before it spots the four hiding teens in the bushes. This scares them and were about to run when Izuku lowers down to Dark Shadow
"Yeah, but this has gone on for long enough. Time to shine the light!" Izuku yells before releasing a bright flash of rainbow lights. Dark Shadow roars from the light as it shrinks in size
"OWWWWwwwww!" Dark Shadow yelped as it retreated into Tokoyami. Tooyami himself lands on the ground on his knees and pants, trying to catch his breath. Seeing the plan had worked, Izuku stopped his flash of light and landed on the ground
[End OST]
"Tokoyami!" Mina yells as she, Lucy, and Shoji rush out of the bushes and to Tokoyami and check on him. "Are you alright?" The pink-skinned hybrid asks. Tokoyami pants a bit more before giving her an affirmative nod
"Yes…I'm alright…" Tokoyami says before he looks at Izuku. "Thanks. You saved me…" He says while Izuku just nods. Lucy looked over to where Moonfish was and saw the state he was in
"We could barely defend against that guy, but you took him out in seconds. That was amazing." Lucy says. Tokoyami didn't think the same as her, he just looked at his hand
"Shoji, I…apologize. You too Midoriya. I'm still far too immature…" Tokoyami says while clenching the hand he was looking at. "I let my anger consume me and I let my Quirk take over. The influence of the darkness combined with my fury, spurred Dark Shadow into a frenzy, until…it got so strong I couldn't contain it and I ended up hurting Shoji!" He yells, looking at the ground in shame for his actions. Shoji looked at him for a bit before crouching down to his friend and places his hand on his shoulder, causing Tokoyami to look up at him
"We'll deal with that later. That's what you would say if the roles were switched. Right, my friend?" Shoji asks, looking at the boy with no hard feelings. He understood the circumstances of things and wasn't mad at him nor held it against him. Izuku looks at him and nods, showing him that he didn't hold it against him as well.
"Yes." Tokoyami says, relieved the two forgave him. Izuku looks at Mina, Lucy, and Tokoyami
"Okay. I'm guessing you guys hear what Mandalay sent out." Izuku says while Mina nods
"Yeah. They're after Todoroki, Yao-Momo, Tokoyami, and you. Plus, those in Class B too." Mina says. Lucy walks over to Izuku and looks at him before enlarging her fist and punches Izuku, pushing him to the ground
"What are you doing here!?" Lucy yells, glaring at her cousin. "You should be at camp, hiding from the villains. Not be in the forest with them!" She yells. Izuku gets up from the floor and looks at her
"I'm sorry, okay. But I couldn't go and hide while all my friends were in danger! I had to go and do something to protect everyone! I can't let something happen to anyone when I can do something to prevent it!" Izuku yells. Lucy looks at him and sees he's serious about this and knew that he won't listen to her to run
"There's nothing you won't do for your friends…" Lucy says, reverting her arm to normal, and looks at him with a serious expression. "Fine, but at any sign of danger. You run, got it!" She yells and Izuku nods, understanding her. She nods and starts walking over to where her clothes were. She picks them up and looks over at Izuku. "Good. Now, you better have a plan to get us out of here and find the others. You do have one right?" She asks while starting to put the clothes on while Izuku taps the Omnitrix and reverts to his human self
[Insert OST: Tomodachigokko ja Irarenai from Boku No Hero Academia OST]
"Yeah, I do…sort of." Izuku says. He turns to the others. "I think the best plan is to go back to camp. But there's a problem. If we were to go back to the clearing, the Pussycats could still be in battle with the villains there. The best option we have left is just cut right through the forest and back to camp." He says
"Seems like a good idea." Tokoyami says as he gets up to his feet
"But we don't know how many more villains could be in the forest." Mina says while picking up Tsuburaba and placing him on her back
"Which is why we can use my searching abilities and scan any sign of danger in our path." Shoji says, creating ears and eyes from his tentacles
"My abilities, your acid, Tokoyami if he's up to it, and you Izzy, and your transformations." Lucy says, re-joining the group with her clothes back on. He looks at Izuku. "How much time do you have left on it?" She asks, pointing to the Omnitrix, referring to its time limit. Izuku just looked at the device
"I've got about 5 minutes left. Give or take. But I'm letting it recharge to get some time back." Izuku says. He looks from the device and to the group around him. "Honestly, with a group like this, I think we could take on all the villains that we could come across." He says, feeling confident in this group and their abilities.
"Alright then, let's get going." Lucy says. She turns to everyone else. "Everyone, surround Tokoyami and Izzy as we walk. Make sure they're protected." She says as they nod
"Right!" The others say. And the group starts making their way through the forest. While they walked, Izuku could only think about the others.
'Hang on everyone. Once we've saved you all, the villains can be taken care of. That's all that matters!' Izuku thought
Unaware to any of them, someone was right behind them and looking at them, before this figure started discreetly following them…
[End OST]
[Location: Somewhere else in the forest…
[Time: 20:12 (5 minutes earlier…)]
[With Ochako and Tsuyu.]
Things with Ochako and Tsu were tense, to say the least. They were with someone they had never seen before as they wielded a knife, looking at it
"Ochako, is your arm okay?" Tsu asks, concerned with the massive cut on Ochako's left upper arm, the cut went through her shirt and blood was seeping from the wound. The gravity girl was holding the injured arm
"Y-Yeah, I'm fine. It's just a scratch." Ochako says, one eye closed while the arm was shaking a bit. They looked at this person with them, as they looked at the knife intrigued. They were Toga.
"Hmm…hmmm…" Toga hums, she looks at the knife and, more importantly at the blood on the blade. "Shallow, not much blood. But nice redness to it." She says, even wiping her finger on the blade a little and looking at the blood on her fingertip
"What kind of person slashes people out of nowhere and looks at the blood on their knife? Just who are you and what do you think you're doing?" Tsu asks, cautious about Toga should she do anything suddenly. Toga stops her interest in the blood and looks at the two as she points her knife at them
"I'm Himiko Toga!" Toga introduces herself in a surprisingly friendly tone. "Wow, you two are super cute. I'm sure the boys just drop whenever they see you~." She says. Ochako and Tsu would have blushed at the comment any other time but that wasn't the time to do it. Toga looks at them some more. "Let's see, you're Ochako Uraraka and you're Tsuyu Asui. Am I right?" She asks. This shocks Ochako and Tsu on her knowing their names
"Just how does she know our names?" Ochako asks, whispering to Tsu
"Maybe from the Sports Fes? If she does, that means she knows about our Quirks too. While we know nothing about her so we're at a huge disadvantage. We have to get out of here." Tsu whispers, Ochako nods
"Yeah…" Ochako whispers, but before either of them could do anything, Toga interrupts them
"Hey! Whatcha whispering about? Boys or something?" Toga says, giggling a little. She stops and looks at the knife one more time. "Hmm…there's not enough blood. This won't do." She says. Toga then reaches for the machine attached to her and pulls out one of the cylinders. "Normally, I'd just suck the blood from the source but there really isn't much time. Don't worry girls, this machine will start pumping your blood as soon as I stick in you, you won't feel much apart from the stabbing part. I'll just get my fill and move on." She says, activating the cylinder as a needle shoots out from it.
With cat-like speed, Toga pounces on the two. Tsu reacts fast and turns to Ochako, and shoots her tongue at her, wrapping around her waist, and before Ochako could think, Tsu throws her in the air
"Ochako!" Tsu yells, making Ochako look down at her. "You have to get back to camp! We got permission to use our Quirks to protect ourselves and fight back!" She yells
"Wait, Tsu!" Ochako yells, not wanting to leave her friend with that girl
"I'll be right behind you!" Tsuyu yells, she turns around and sees Toga right in front of her with her knife ready to stab her. Tsu dodges the attempt but is not quick enough to move her tongue as Toga manages to cut it at the tip, causing Tsu to grunt from it. "Gah!"
"Tsu!" Ochako yells, she starts to land back on the ground. Tsu hops away from Toga as Toga stops upon hearing what Ochako calls her
"Tsu? Hehe…Tsu~." Toga giggles, delighted as she turns back to Tsu who was looking at her with her bleeding tongue hanging out. "Cute nickname. I think I'll call you that too." She yells, as she lowers her mask down. Tsu frowns at her
"No, you won't. So don't even think about it. Only my friends can call me that." Tsu says, retracting her tongue back into her mouth. Toga then throws one of her knives at Tsu, Tsu hops and dodges the knife but Toga then throws one of her cylinders at her, and Tsu's hair gets caught by it and hits a tree with Tsu coming along and getting stuck.
The frog girl tries to get the cylinder holding her off her hair but was unable as her arms are not reaching it
"Yay! That means I'm your friend too!" Toga yells, she was happy as she jumps around in joy while Ochako rushes to them
'What's with this girl!?' Tsu thought, looking at Tsu. Toga stopped jumping and started walking toward her, staring at Tsu with this bright yet crazed smile. The blonde looks at Tsu and sees the blood trailing down from the corner of her mouth
"Aw, your bleeding Tsu. And just when I thought you couldn't get any more adorable. I just love blood." Toga says as she nears her face to Tsu's mouth and sniffs the blood. She shivers a bit before sticking her tongue out and licks the blood off Tsu's mouth before moving the tongue up Tsu's face., to her cheek before moving away, with a line of salvia forming in between them as it breaks apart. Toga looks at Tsu as she licks her lips, admiring the taste of her blood. "Mmm, tasty. We're gonna be such good friends~." She says in a delighted tone and Tsu was extremely creeped out
"Hey! Get away from her!" Ochako yells, rushing over. Toga sees her and runs toward her, knife in hand to stab. Just as they meet in the middle of the path, Toga trusts her knife at Ochako but Ochako moves to the side, dodging the blade as it only cuts some strands of her hair. Toga looked surprised by this move but Ochako wasn't finished, she grabbed Toga's stretched-out arm by the wrist and then grabbed the back of her neck before pulling Toga to the side and slamming her down to the ground and putting her body onto Toga's back, pinning her to the ground '[Gunhead martial arts!]'
"Wow Ochako, that was amazing." Tsu says, amazed by Ochako's new skills. Ochako turns to her
"Tsu, can you use your tongue to restrain her or does it hurt?" Ochako asks while Toga was struggling on the ground. Tsu just shakes her head
"It'll be fine in a second." Tsu says as she resumes trying to get the cylinder out of her hair. Toga stops struggling and looks over her shoulder at Ochako
"Ochako…you're delightful too." Toga says, causing Ochako and Tsu to look at her. "You've got the same smell as me. And the same can be said for you too Tsu~." She says and the two U.A. students frown, wondering what was she on about. "You two got a crush on someone." Toga says and the two eyes widen. How did she know that? "So do I…or rather, I did but that's beside the point. I'm guessing you two want to be like that special person huh? To stand next to them, to be their rock whenever they're struggling, to be in their life and future. I can tell…one lovesick girl to fellow lovesick girls." She says, her blush growing larger across her face and increasing in color while Ochako and Tsu were getting tense and nervous from her
'Just what with her!? First, she calls us cute, then she wants to stab us and take our blood and now this!' Ochako thought, wondering what was going on inside of Toga's head
"At first you want to model yourself after the person you want. You start dressing like them, start talking like them, think like them…but that's not enough, not for you. You have to go further, you realize to get them to like you…you have to become them! and once you get to that point…there's no going back! That's how love works." Toga says, in this eerily calm tone, all while having this smile on her face. This further creeps the other two girls out. "I wonder who charmed you two. I'm fond of people who've been slashed up and smelled of blood. That's why I end up cutting them, to see them drenched in their blood, to see them in a paint of crimson! Hey, Ochako, this is such fun, just us girls talking about our crushes! I've never had a girl to talk to in a long time, yeah, there's Charmcaster but she's no fun since she's older than me, plus there's her creep of an uncle." She says. Before Ochako could say anything, Toga suddenly stabbed her in her thigh with one of her other cylinders she discreetly took out.
"Ochako!" Tsu yells. Blood from Ochako started getting pumped into the cylinder, causing Ochako to grunt in pain from the force ejection of her blood as she tried to hold Toga in place on the floor. While Toga…
"Suck suck…suck suck…suck suck…suck suck…suck suck!" Was busy doing a chant with this transcended look on her face
"Ochako!" Izuku and Co. arrive at the scene and see what is happening
"Guys! Quickly!" Tsu yells. Mina and Lucy rush to Ochako, while Ochako turns back and sees them. Taking this moment of distraction. Toga moves and was able to get Ochako off her and hops away while retracting the cylinder pinning Tsu to the tree as the two girls move to check on their friends while the boys follow behind.
Toga stops and looks back at them
"Aw…just when it was getting fun. Oh well, there are too many people now and I don't feel like getting killed tonight. Guess we'll have to continue this another time Ochako, Tsu. Bye." Toga says and she was about to leave when she stops and sees Izuku and her eyes widen in shock. 'S-Saito-kun?! …No…that's not him…but…he does look familiar…where have I seen him before?' She thought, wondering just where had she seen him before. There was this…familiar feeling she was getting from him but she discarded that feeling and started running into the forest
"Are you guys alright?!" Izuku asks, Ochako just looks at where Toga was running to
"Quick! Stop her!" Ochako yells, she stands up and was about to go after Toga when Tsu hops to her and stops her
"No, it's too dangerous.! We have no idea just what kind of Quirk she has!" Tsu yells as
"Who was that girl just now?" Shoji asks
"One of the villains, she's crazy." Tsu says. Mina looks at Ochako and sees her injured arm and her now bleeding thigh
"Ochako, your arm and leg! Are you alright?" Mina asks, Ochako looks at her injuries and nod
"I'm fine. It's not that bad, plus I can walk fine. But I should be asking if you're okay, you're covered in cuts. What happened?!" Ochako asks, seeing the state Mina was in.
"A villain happened. But he's down and out" Lucy says
"I'm just glad you two didn't get injured too badly. But we get moving. We can't stay here for too long." Izuku says as Lucy nods
"Yeah, we have to get back to camp. We're protecting Tokoyami and Izzy. We could use more firepower in our group." Lucy says. This makes Tsu and Ochako gain confused expressions as they look at one another before turning back to the others
"Wait, if you're protecting them. Than where's Tokoyami? Shouldn't he be with you?" Tsu asks. The group looks at her, confused by the question
"Huh? What are you talking about? He's standing right her -" Mina was saying as they turned back, only to see Tokoyami wasn't with them and this shocks them to their cores
'What?! But…he was just with us! What happened!?' Izuku thought, eyes widen as dread and fear started running through his body
"Nice trick ay?" The teens hear a voice speak above them and start looking for who was it that spoke before spotting someone in a tree looking down at them, leaning against it. "Talent like his would be wasted upon as a Hero. He and the others I've collected will shine brighter in the stage we'll provide." The figure says, revealing themselves to be a tall, slim man, wearing an orange shirt with the collar upturned, a green striped bolo necktie with an oval-shaped azure brooch hanging around his neck, with a double-breasted overcoat with buttoned shoulder tabs and a high collar, and black dress pants. He also wore knee-high white boots with wedged heels and black toe-caps, plain dark red gloves, and a tall brown top hat with a red ribbon tied around it along with a pale feather sticking out from the left side of the top hat. He had a cane with him. He also wore a white full-face mask.
He was playing around with 4 marbles in his hand as Izuku grits his teeth as he glares at the masked man
"Give them back!" Izuku shouts before feeling another pulse coming from the Omnitrix, this time stronger than before as he looks down and sees it spark with green lighting. The man stops playing with the marbles and looks at him
""Give them back"? What an odd thing to say. Tokoyami, Tsunotori, Kodai, and Shiozaki don't belong to anyone. They're their own people. Don't be so arrogant." The man says as the teens are shocked by what he said
'He got Pony, Yui, and Shiozaki too!' Izuku thought, how did this guy manage to capture three of their friends? "We'll stop you!" He yells
"Right now!" Mina and Lucy yell before they fired their mud and acid at the man. The man jumps from the tree dodging the attack as they hit the tree, breaking it in half while also burning it, he lands on another tree and looks down at them
"Why the aggression, that's not good for such fine young ladies as yourselves. Besides, we merely want to show them that there are options besides the fanatic world of Heroism they're drowning themselves in. It's important to choose a path that aligns with your true core values." The man says as Lucy glares at him
"If you're monologuing since you think you've beaten us. You're dead wrong pal." Lucy says
"Apologizes, it's a bad habit for mine. I was once an entertainer if you must know. While taking Tokoyami was part of the task, I had to do a little improv." The man says, jigging the 4 marbles with his fingers. "Moonfish, our dear Blade Tooth. He may not look the part but he is a Death Row devil whose last appeal was denied. When I saw how that monster within Tokoyami take him down so effortlessly, I now know why they wanted him." The man says. Izuku had enough and ran toward the tree the man was in
"As if we'll let you get away with them you bastard!" Izuku yells, cocking his fist back as green bio-electricity surges off him. Once he was close to the tree, he threw his fist at the tree. '[15% Detroit Smash!]' The attack caused a massive gush of wind to blow and destroyed all the trees in its path. Izuku lets out a breath, hoping that he got the villain but to his dismay…
"Apologizes!" They hear the villain and look up in the air and saw him, in the air with broken tree branches, bark, and debris all around him. "But slay of hand and escapology are my specialties. Not combat. I'm not a fool like Muscular to fight Hero candidates, especially those from U.A., that would be suicidal." The man says as he places the marbles in his coat pocket. He then goes to his ear where a radio was and contacts all the members of the squad, regardless if they were out of commission. "Vanguard Action Squad, I've captured 3 of the 8 targets. While we could do more, this show unfortunately has to end. Meet me at the rendezvous point in the next 5 minutes for the final bow." The man says as he descends to the trees and lands on one before hopping off one to another in a direction
"T-They're going to take them…our friends…" Ochako utters, shocked and fearful about what happened
"We can't let him take them!" Izuku yells, fury in his eyes
"You're right! We'll stop them!" Lucy shouts before all of the teens run after the man. To stop him once and for all.
[Location: At the base of the forest fire]
[Time: 20:24]
"Hey Dabi, did you hear the radio? I'm so pumped up! our boy, Compass, totally got the job done!/The man definitely took his time. I was starting to get bored." Twice says. He and Dabi were walking away from the flames as they were making their way toward the rendezvous point
"Don't be a pain. He did a good job, now we have to wait for everyone to regroup here." Dabi says, hands in his pockets
"You're the pain here!/Forgive me." Twice says
"This place is supposed to be hard to find because of the walls of flames and the poisonous gas but looks like the gas is gone. Things never go according to plan do they?" Dabi says as he and Twice walk by a bunch of bushes
"For really!/This is the plan." Twice says.
Behind the bushes they walked past, Aoyama was hiding behind. Holding his hands to his mouth to remain completely silent. Next to him, were the unconscious bodies of Kyoka and Toru as both girls had on gas masks, courtesy of Momo but they were still unconscious from the gas. Aoyama heard what the two villains said
'The gas is gone! Someone defeated the villain responsible for it. But…everyone else is fighting, fighting for their lives…maybe…' Aoyama thought. Sweating nervously as he steers his nerves. 'Maybe I should too.' He thought, peeping over the bush to see where the villains were and to see if he could take them out with his Quirk, he was greeted by the horrifying sight of Dabi staring right at the bush he was hiding behind with those cold blue eyes. 'HE SAW ME!' Aoyama thought as he covered his mouth once again, and shivered in terror.
Dabi looks at the bush for a little bit before starts walking toward it, Aoyama hears each footstep coming closer and closer toward him, like a predator stalking its prey and ready to pounce on it. Dabi takes one of his hands out of his pocket and points it toward the bush as smoke begins to emit from the appendage
"Hey, Dabi!" Twice calls out to Dabi, stopping the fire Quirk user from firing out at the bush as he turns to his partner. "Speaking for which, totally not important but shouldn't you call back the three Nomus? You said they'll only react to your voice and your voice only correct? That sounds vital." Twice says. Dabi blinks a bit before realizing what Twice was talking about
"That's right. You're the one who reminded me to let them loose onto the student earlier." Dabi says, as he resumes walking, away from the bush much to Aoyama's relief but he was thinking about the Nomus they were talking about. They were here!?
"No problem!/Bow before me, you old man!" Twice says, giving Dabi a thumbs-up
"Shigaraki did design those monsters, especially for me." Dabi says, while pulling out a radio from his pocket. "They've probably killed a couple of people by now."
[Somewhere else in the forest]
[Time: 20:27]
Somewhere else in the forest, sounds of chainsaws revving as we see two people running through the forest, well, more like one person was running while carrying someone else as they were being chased by a monster
"This is bad! This is really bad!" Awase yells, running from a Nomu that was chasing him. He was injured with blood dripping down from his nose and from his forehead, staining his headband with his blood. "What the fuck is that thing doing here!?" He yells, running away from the Nomu that was gaining onto him. He looks down and sees the person he was carrying, Momo, who was knocked out with blood seeping from a cut on her head while her hair was down to its long style. He had used his Quirk to weld their arms together to make it easier for him to carry her. "Yaoyorozu, are you alive?! If you are, wake up now, that thing is gonna catch us!" He yells, hoping for Momo to be awake. And fortunately for him, she was
"I'm…sorry…Awase…I'm alive…but…" Momo mutters but, is still in pain and delirious from whatever happened to her. 'What happened to me? When I came too, I was on the ground with my head bleeding…it's…all…fizzy…' She thought. Awase saw she was still out of it and looked back to the Nomu and saw it was right behind them. Due to him not paying attention to what was in front of him, he trips on a branch, sending him and Momo falling to the floor. Awase pants and looks back up to see the Nomu stand right over them, with all of its arms and extra appendages up, chainsaws and drills up, ready to cut the two students into pieces
"Oh no…it's caught up to us! Oh God…" Awase yells, he looks to see if there is anything to use against this Nomu but sees nothing, and knew it was useless to run away since it'll eventually catch up with them. Biting his lip, Awase moves his body over Momo, acting as a shield for her. "Yaoyorozu! I'm sorry!" He yells as he closes his eyes and waits for the pain and death that was coming to him, but nothing comes. Confused by this, Awase opens his eyes and looks at the Nomu to see it stand still near the before its extra appendages revert into its body and turn around to walk away from the two, "Huh?" "It's...leaving…what the?" He asks, confused by this. Momo heard him and thought of only one thing
'Does that mean…the villains were successful in their mission…no…don't tell me…they have all those in their target list…Izuku…' Momo thought, lifting her head and saw the Nomu walk away. She knew if the villains were successful, they would recall the Nomu to wherever they were meeting and were about to get away. 'No…I can't let them get away…not with my friends!' She thought, pushing back the headache and deliriousness, she lifted her fist and started creating something in her hand, this captured Awase's attention. Within her palm, a glow emitted from it before it ended as she looked over at Awase, her eyes beginning to grow heavy and her vision getting foggy and double
"Awase…use your Quirk to attach this to that Monster…" Momo says, handing Awase the thing she had made as he unfuses their arms and takes what Momo had made. He looked at it and saw it was a weird button.
"What is this? A button?" Awase asks
"There's…no time to explain…just…attach it to the monster…before it gets away…" Momo says, fighting back her mind as it was getting harder to stay awake. Awase looks at her and at the button once again before deciding to bite the bullet
"I don't know what's going on but okay!" Awase yells, he rushes over to the Nomu and places the button on its back. Using his Quirk, he fuses the button deep into the Nomu's body without it feeling it. He rushes back to Momo and takes her with him and they hide behind a tree. Awase looks back and saw the Nomu continue walking away from them and didn't react to what he did. "No way he's getting that thing off." He says
"Thank you…so much…" Momo says before she finally passes out from the concussion she sustained
"Man, that was scary…" Awase says, letting out a sigh of relief from how stressful that was. He looks down at Momo and saw she was unconscious. "Okay, let's get you back to camp." He says as he picks her up, places her onto his back, and starts running back to camp to get her and him the help they need.
[Location: Over with the Pussycats]
[Time: 20:29]
"Damnit Spinner! This is all your fault!" Magne yells, angry at her partner. The reason why you might ask? She was held in binds thanks to Tiger using his Quirk on her to keep her in place.
"Shut up! You only have yourself to blame. This is the consequence of your villainess" Tiger yells, tightening his hold on Magne as his eyes glowed from unadulterated fury.
"Understand this villain, this is how it ends for you!" Mandalay yells, pinning Spinner on the floor. Spinner was moving around, trying to get the hero off from his back. He looks over his shoulder at her and gives her a mean glare
"Don't think you've won! This isn't defeat! Stain endures! You hear me! His will is alive and well right here! I embody it! I will purge all you Heroes and that Kid with glasses to avenge his name!" Spinner shouts but Mandalay is in no mood for nonsense as she grabs his head and slams it to the ground
"Will you be quiet already!?" Mandalay yells. "Just what is your Quirk anyway? All we saw from you was use that giant sword." She says as Spinne once again, looks at her with a glare
"As if I'll ever tell a degenerate Hero like you!" Spinner shouts. Just
"Reh dnibnu." A voice says and Tiger gets covered in a dark red and black aura as his arms get forced into releasing Magne from his hold, much to his confusion
"What the!?" Tiger yells, alerting Mandalay who turns to her partner and sees Magne being released from Tiger's hold. Once Magne was freed, she moves away from Tiger as the Hero was about to go away from her when…
"Mih niartser." The voice says and Tiger's limbs wrap around him, tying him in place as he falls to the ground
"Tiger!" Mandalay yells, from seeing what happened to her friend. But before she can do anything about it, she gets blasted by a ball of energy, sending her flying back from Spinner and hitting a tree where she slides off and lands on the ground.
The two villains get up from the ground and see what happened to the Heroes and are wondering what happened when their answer talked
"I thought you two would handle this. But it seems you were bested. Be grateful that I came to your aid." The two looked up and saw Hex floating in the air, levitating in a cross-leg position.
"It's about time you got here!" Magne yells at the magician. She walks over to her item next to Pixie-Bob and picks it up before looking back at Hex and glares at him. "Where were you!?" She yells while Hex looks unfazed by her yelling
"Collecting ingredients for my spells. This forest is rich with herbs for my spells. Now come, our leave has come." Hex says. The two other villains wonder what he is talking about when a familiar purple warp gate appear
'N-No…' Mandalay thought, she tried to push her body into moving from the ground and rushed toward the villains to stop her but the blast that hit her was too much as she saw the trio walk/float into the warp gate and it vanishes, with them in it
[Location: At the villains' rendezvous point]
[Time: 20:30]
"Huh?" Toga arrives at a clearing not too far from the wall of blue flames surrounding the camp's area. She looked around the clearing and saw she was the first one to arrive at the location. "I'm the only one here? Lame…" She says
"Hey crazy…" Toga turns to her left and sees Dabi and Twice walking into the clearing
"Oh, hey burnt nugget! Twice!" Toga greets the pair. Twice waves back at her while Dabi's eye twitches slightly at what she called him.
"Did you get the blood? How many different kinds did you get?" Dabi asks and Toga looks at him with a bright smile
"Yeah, one person's blood!" Toga happily proclaims as Twice looks at her in utter shock while Dabi frowns at her
"Just one! What gives, weren't you supposed to get at least 3?!" Twice asks, while dramatically stomping up to Toga with 3 fingers stuck out
"That's just why it went down. I thought those brats were going to kill me." Toga says. Unsatisfied by the answer, Twice clicks his tongue
"-Tch- Whatever…" Twice says, while crossing his arms. He looks at Toga and sees she still has her bright happy smile. "You're looking a little too happy right now. Strange…shouldn't you be filled with shame?/Who's got you smilin' like that?" He asks. Toga's smile widens as she twirls around a bit before stopping, facing away from the two, and placing her hands on her blushing cheeks
"Yeah, but I made some great new friends. Plus, there's this boy I saw, he's really cute~." Toga says, rubbing her cheeks as she was feeling butterflies in her stomach
"Is it me?/No thanks babe, I only see you as a friend/I love you too!" Twice yells, his mood changing rapidly. Eventually, Dabi had enough of this nonsense
"Shut it, both of you. You're too loud…" Dabi says, causing the two to shut up while he was soothing the headache he started to get. He looks up to the sky and notices something strange. Something was plummeting down to the ground fast. "What the…" He utters
"AAAAAAAHHHHH!" Whatever was it that was plummeting down was screaming as it crashed down to the earth, causing dust to kick up in the air in front of the villains.
"Whoa whoa whoa! What's going on here?!" Twice yells, wondering what was going on. The trio looks into the dust cloud and sees it clear away to reveal Izuku, Lucy, and Shoji on top of the villain, who is lying in a mini-carter. This surprises the villain, Twice looking at them with wide eyes, Toga's smile widens while her eyes brighten while Dabi just narrows his eyes. "Hey, I know these kids!/Who are they?!" The insane villain yells, pointing at the crater.
Now, you might be wondering, what happened to make Izuku, Lucy and Shoji catch Mr. Compass in the air and crash down to earth with him? Well, here's the brief run-down over what happened: Izuku and Co. were chasing after Compass but he was pulling away from them, Lucy suggested to Izuku to go alien and catch up and Izuku followed but the Omnitrix, for some reason, refused to activate, only release another strong pulse through Izuku's arm as lighting sparked from it. Seeing Compass getting away, Izuku thought of another idea, He asked Ochako to make Lucy and Shoji weightless while he used Float so they could fly after Compass and catch him in the air. Ochako followed the instructions and the three flew away Compass, catching him and throwing him to the earth while pinning him down
"Give our friends back to us!" Izuku yells, green bio-electricity violently surging off and around his body
[Insert OST: Kyuoi to no Koubou from My Hero Academia OST]
"Out of the way Compass." Dabi says, lifting his hand and aims at them as blue flames spark from it. Compass saw this and reacted fast.
"Got it!" Compass yells as he glows briefly before turning into a marble. The trio saw this and were confused before seeing a large blue ball of fire. Izuku acted fast and jumped in the arm while Shoji jumped to the side, Lucy quickly morphed her arms into a large barrier to tank the flames and the flames collided with her barrier while sending her back. Shoji was mostly out of the flames' way but his left arm was still in the flames' path and was caught in the attack
"AHHHH!" Lucy screams from the burning agony as she feels her arms begin to dry up fast.
"My arms! They're burning!" Shoji yells, his injured arm engulfed in the flames
"Lucy! Shoji!" Izuku yells, seeing his friends getting hurt. He cocks his fist back, ready to fire a Smash at Dabi when he sees something shoot toward him just barely outside of his vision. He turns to that and barely moves his head to the side as a cylinder shoots past his head as he sees Toga in the air, soaring right toward him.
"Hi, there cutie! I'm Himiko Toga!" Toga yells, smiling brightly. The cylinder retracts back to her as she collides with Izuku and brings him down to the ground, pinning him while his arms were pinned by her legs. She had a knife in her hand. "You know, ever since I saw you, I was thinking you'd be a lot cuter if you bled a little!" She yells while raising the knife in the air, ready to stab Izuku while the boy looks at her in shock. Toga brings the knife down and is about to stab Izuku when Shoji appears and smacks her right off Izuku, sending her flying back before she flips and skids on the floor, stopping a bit far from them
"Get away from him!" Shoji yells as he turns to Izuku. He sees Izuku just look at Toga, still with a shocked expression. "Midoriya, are you alright?" He asks but Izuku wasn't responsive "Midoriya!" He yells again, and this time, Izuku snaps out of it as Izuku turns to him.
"Y-Yeah…I'm fine." Izuku says, looking at Shoji and seeing the state his arm was in now. "But are you alright!?" He asks, seeing the massive amount of second and third-degree burns on his arms
"Yes, I'm fine. Just need some time to heal…no worries…" Shoji says, giving Izuku a nod although, he did wince at the pain from the burnt arm
"So…that's how it is…" The two turned to Toga and saw she was crouched on the floor while her head was lowered. "You want to become between us…honestly, you're not my type…but I'll cut you anyway…" Toga says, lifting her head and giving Shoji one of the scariest glares the two had ever seen
"She's nut." Shoji says while Izuku got up and nods.
Over at Lucy, she was busy fighting off Twice, she was swinging at him with her hardened, dried arms, and she also had parts of her cheeks with dried-up pieces of mud. Twice just dodges all her strikes with child-like moves
"Whoa! What the head, you could seriously give me a concussion!/Go on, hit me. I wanna be knocked out!" Twice yells, ducking under another one of Lucy's attacks, as she looks at her in confusion and frustration
"This guy's crazy." Lucy says, trying to land a hit but failing to
Over at the crater, a marble glows and Compass appears and gets up while holding his shoulder
"I can't believe you all wrecked my grand exit. Unrehearsed amateurs." Compass says, he walks up to Dabi who looks at him
"You got the brats?' Dabi asks and Compass nods
"Of course." Compass says, he goes and reaches into his pocket where he placed the marbles but felt nothing in them. Confused by this, he looked down at the pocket and saw nothing "What?" He asks
"Midoriya! Mann, we're done here. He gave away his best trick." Shoji says, making the two turn to him while the villains also look at him. Shoji stares at Compass "I'm not sure what your Quirk is, but I know it has something to do with those marbles right? The ones you placed in your pocket. So, I'm guessing this is them, right?" He says as he holds four marbles in his burnt hand, causing his classmates to get surprised
"You saved them!" Izuku yells, happy about them
"Nice way, Shoji! Now c'mon! Let's get out of here!" Lucy yells and the three start running
"Hahaha, well, color me impressed. Just what I expect from someone with so many hands." Compass says, intrigued by what has happened. Dabi, wasn't as he just lifts his hand and aimed at them
"Moron…" Dabi says, he was about to fire at them when Compass just blocks him
"Wait, don't." Compass says. The three were running toward the forest, hoping to meet up with the others and get back to camp. Just as they were about to enter the forest, they spot something coming into the clearing and what they saw was…
"Wait…a Nomu!" Lucy yells, seeing a Nomu appears, not just any Nomu, it was the same Nomu Momo and Awase had faced earlier.
"Quick, this way!" Izuku yells, going in another direction with the others following, but before they can take a few steps, something appears in front of them, stopping them as they see what was appearing and they were shocked
"Not this guy…" Shoji utters, staring at what was appearing in front of them and recognizes what it is and so did Lucy and Izuku
"This guy…he was at the USJ…" Lucy utters
"The warp villain…" Izuku utters as he looks at the glowing yellow eyes of Kurogiri as he appears.
[End OST]
"Five minutes have passed since the single. Let's go Dabi." Kurogiri says, forming 4 more warp
"Sorry cutie, but I have to go. I'll see you later ~." Toga says, waving her hand at Izuku as she walks through her warp gate. Twice jumps into his like a swimmer would in a pool while the Nomu simply walked into its. Only Dabi and Compass were there left. Kurogiri looks around and sees something that wasn't there "Where are the other two Nomu Dabi?" He asks
"Don't know, don't care. Right now, We're staying, we're not leaving here without the kids." Dabi says, knowing that this mission would be a failure if they didn't get the kids from the three.
"Don't worry." Compass says, causing Dabi to look at him. "They were so proud of themselves for rooting through my pockets that I thought I'd let them gloat." He says and this causes the three teens to look at him, wondering what he was on about. He grabs his mask. "But please, allow me to explain the one the fundamental basis of magic. If I'm flaunting something shiny, that's because there's something I don't want you to see." He says as he slightly removes his mask, revealing his brown eyes, and sticks out his tongue at the teens, revealing something that shocked them. He had four marbles in his mouth
"What!? He has them?!" The three yell, in disbelief at this. Compass snaps his fingers and the marbles Shoji had changed back to their original forms, which were…
"Are those tree parts?" Lucy asks
"That's right. During that attack you threw, I took the liberty of preparing dummies and slipped them into my right pocket, in front of you all." Compass says, sticking his arms out in dramatic fashion
"Damnit!" Izuku yells as the three rush to where the villains were. 'His Quirk lets him compass and hold things in the form of marbles!'
"A little bit of misdirection. Forgive me, I do so adore such a twist ending." Compass says as he starts to bow while walking back, into the warp gate
"Don't do this!" Shoji yells
"One last bow, before the curtain fal -"
"AWOOOOOOOO!"
Compass was saying before a purple soundwave struck him by the head, shattering his mask while ripping the collar of his coat and damaging his hat. The teens and Dabi look at where the attack came from and see…
"Acie!" Izuku yells, seeing his alien friend/roommate limp into the clearing, covered in blood and had injuries on some parts of her body
"Next time…bring in stronger monsters to your fights!" Acie yells before she collapses to the floor. Delirious from the attack, Compass spat out all of the marbles from his mouth and the three saw this
"Quick! Grab them!" Izuku yells, he and Shoji dive in for the marbles while Lucy was right behind them. Just as they were about to grab the marbles, Izuku, in slow motion, saw Dabi lift his hand at them and saw the blue flames begin to spark from it, he started to realize that this close, the two of them would be burned, Shoji would get more injured due to his arm already burnt. He had to make a decision and fast!
'C'mon! Think! Think! How can I grab my friends, while pushing Shoji out of the way!?' Izuku thought, closing his eyes while thinking of a solution, what he wasn't seeing was the Omnitrix was once sparking lighting for this issue, but instead of the usual green bio-electricity that it has been surging throughout this event, it was black-colored lighting with glowing light teal outlines.
"Maybe, ask for help on that kid…" A voice spoke in his mind, Izuku looked around, wondering where that voice came from, until suddenly, black-colored with glowing light teal outlines energy tendrils shot out of his arms, shocking Izuku and those around. The tendrils wrapped around Shoji and two of the marbles before throwing them out of the way as Dabi fired the fireball at Izuku, but fortunately, the tendrils wrapped around Izuku and protected him from the flames as he went into the warp with the two villains as it closed.
[Insert OST: Bumblebee Captured From Transformers]
Lucy saw this and was horrified to see the warp gate close and saw Shoji on the ground where the villains were with two of the four marbles with him on the ground. Her horror only grew as
"I-Izzy…" Lucy utters, looking around for her cousin, hoping to see Izuku on the ground but sees he isn't anywhere. Her horror only grew as she realized what had happened. "No…no…no…" She began uttering as tears were forming in her eyes. The marbles next to Shoji start to glow as whoever is inside of them finally gets released.
"W-What?" Tokoyami mutters, looking around in confusion and so does the other person who was the second marble
["H-Huh? What happened?"] Pony asks, in English as she too looks around in confusion about what happened.
The teens all hear crackling behind them and turn to the sound, only to see the blue inferno of the forest near them burn, they all look in horror as realization begins to come to them. Lucy falls to her knees and her hardened dried-up arms shatter on the ground as new arms begin to grow in place of the old ones, she grabs her head as the tears that were in her eyes finally fall and…
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Screams in utter agony over what happened
Her screams echo throughout the forest as Aizawa was busy carrying some of the Class B students while he was talking to Yangi who was carrying Kinoko on her back, passed out from the gas previously. Awase was seen, carrying Momo on his back as he rushes toward the camp to get her help. Itsuka was seen dragging the unconscious bodies of Testutestu and one of the villains they defeated. Shoto was seen, passed out on the ice-covered floor, covered in frost as he was next to the frozen body of a Nomu. Back in the now-destroyed remedial class, the students there, Kota, and Vlad King were nervously waiting for any news about their classmates while some felt like they should be out there, helping out instead of being stuck in that class. Mandalay and Tiger were seen next, having recovered from Hex's spells and had brought Pixie-Bob back to the lodge for first-aid before going out in search of Ragdoll, only to come across something horrifying. They found a piece of her headgear…a destroyed piece of her headgear, covered in blood.
Ochako, Tsu, and Mina all rush toward the clearing, hoping to see if their friends were successful in their mission, only to arrive and see the horrifying sight of Lucy on the ground, bawling out her eyes while the others all looked on, in stunned disbelief while some were trying to console Lucy or help Acie up. All in all, this was a horrifying thing as they realized what had happened
"That night…we were aiming to be heroes…but…we failed…we lost our friends…and Izzy…and the villains…they won..." Someone from the future narrated, but it wasn't Future Izuku. No, it was Future Lucy who narrated. Her voice betraying the emotions she felt that night…as it was one of the worst nights of her life
The night that was the start…of the end of an era…
And the night…that would eventually lead…to a change in the future….
[End OST at 01:59]
つづく...
That night…that attack…has now set course of events, that in the future, would decide the fate of all in the universe
What will happen now, that the Heroes have now lost, and lost 3 students to the villains? What will be the ramifications to the Hero world with this incident now happening? And what will the villains do to their now captives?
Stay tuned to find out what will happen in Alien Hero: Deku 10!
Next Time:
Attack On Camp-Aftermath…
Here's the harem list so far: Ochako Uraraka, Mina Ashido, Momo Yaoyorozu, Lucy Mann, Tsuyu Asui, Kinoko Komori, Kyoka Jirou, Acie Wolfer, Pony Tsunotori, Yui Kodai, Melissa Shield, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?.
Alien Forms revealed:
Chormastone
Stinkfly
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