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Chapter 42 : I-Island Beginning.
Atsuhiro was drinking a glass of wine, while his dear wife was by his side. On a giant screen, All-Might was giving his speech with his friend David.
That was the moment Atsuhiro regretted that he didn't have his Compress suit, because of what happened next. Namely, all of the robots suddenly had red lights and the screen went dark.
Inko sighed at the same time as him, and she couldn't help but joke a bit.
"You know, the worst thing is that it's still not as bad as Hoshu as a date."
This made Compress chuckle a bit before getting up. He gave his hand to his dear wife and smiled as the robots came towards them. Inko took it and they did a small valse.
"Love of my life, shall we?"
"You are way too cheesy, my dear. But yes. Also, I know you are dying to say it. Just do it."
Compress gave her the biggest smile ever, as the robots finished encircling them. Atsuhiro smiled, before throwing a lot of things.
"RANDOM BULLSHIT, GO!"
Inko sighed, while a robot got hit by the trash from last week (she knew he didn't throw it out properly!), and the other clients looked at her.
"Please, everyone. Calm down. I will need help to establish a hospital, while my husband is memeing the hell out of the situation."
Even if Compress couldn't use his real quirk, he was still armed to the teeth, and under Gentle's insistence, he had begun to learn how to use a sword to defend himself. Besides… Both of them knew it wasn't going a 1 vs 1 all.
And specially when a giant knight made in glace appeared out of thin air.
"Ne vous inquiétez pas…. CAR LA CAVALERIE EST LA!"
The Ch'ti Knight, France's #3. His ice is considered among the hardest in the world, made of pure water and capable of enduring tank shells. His only weakness was it was extremely limited in range. As in "only on his body". He was also an All-Might fan, hence why he had his french catchphrase.
"Also, I appreciate to see a man of culture, my friend!" The knight said, towering above the robots, and beginning to help Compress to thin the herds.
"Thank you! Any idea of what is happening? Also, shouldn't you be in the hall with the other heroes?"
"They had better beers outside. Also, don't worry about the air support, we have a friend there."
Compress smiled, before a few more civilians emulated him. For now, everything was fine… But seriously, what was going on? Also, he hoped that Izuku was safe.
—--
Izuku sighed, as he and Tooru were the opposite of safe. Knowing All-Might owed his grandma, Izuku used that to get special entry tickets for the gala. Then… Both of them eclipsed themselves, as they saw something strange in a corridor… being a giant green individual, which Izuku believed was a villain.
However, he didn't want to alarm All-Might for nothing and as a result, him and Tooru went to follow him.
Sadly for them, that's how they got surrounded by actual supervillains, because… Well… Turns out that Izuku was right.
"Kids. Don't run alone in the corridor. You might encounter bad guys." The Architect said, now his hologram was gone, as he prepared himself for his heist.
"Sorry, mister Architect. But isn't that too bold for you to attack during All-Might's speech?"
"Oh, don't worry. I have everything planned. So… Well… Sorry, I have to let you here, tied up, so you won't call the heroes on us."
Then, an explosion occurred, and the Architect glared at one of his henchmen.
"That… Wasn't us, sir. In fact, there is a big problem." One of them explained, staring at his tablet, and showing it to his boss.
The AI quickly saw the issue, as he was one of the most experimented technopath in the world: The system was hacked… But it wasn't by him. Also, they had the codes. Actual codes. Shit, it was bad, because the one doing that actually had the bot on kill mode.
"Well, crap basket. How to salvage…" The robot stared at Izuku and Tooru who were trying to understand what happened… And was actually surprised to see Izuku, already freed. It was part of Compress training after all.
"OH SHIT! I wonder if we can call Mei, to see if she can fix that!"
"As far as I remember, my Mei is with Melissa Shield actually. That might be our best bet."
Everyone stared at the robot, who let his thought escape his mouth before the two heroes students reacted.
"MY MEI?!"
"Granddaughter. Your school knows. She also told me you were a huge fan, Midoriya, and I have already signed your notebook. But the most important thing right now, is to effectively find them," He looked at the two and sighed, "We need to team-up. My objective is in the depth of I-Island, with their servers. I can, potentially, hack them there. That will be my squad and me's goal. As for you two… I want you to find Mei and Melissa. Protect them and see with them if they have an idea on how to deal with the shit show."
Tooru stayed silent for a second before nodding invisibly. The Architect saw it, since he had different kinds of visions and he turned towards his men.
"Guys, guns on setting 3. Stasis. I want you to switch on quantum communication. We proceed as planned, but if necessary, we pull out. I want the Thunderbird ready for the evac."
"Yes, Sir!"
That was interesting to see, to say the least for the young heroes. Sure, they were villains, but they had clearly the teamwork done.
"Last time I saw Mei, she was with Melissa and they were planning to get to the restaurant, grab some food. Go!"
Izuku and Tooru began to sprint, while they took out some of their tools of work. Meaning that Tooru took out her knuckle brass and Izuku was already pulling a deck from his vest.
—--
"Se você encostar no meu sobrinho mais uma vez eu vou garantir que você vai se fuder bem no olho do cu seu cretino filho de uma puta!"
Serafina Varela wasn't a kind woman. Well, she was a kind aunt. However, after leading for two decades a revolutionary movement, she became quite the no-nonsense person. As a result, she was always on her guard and when the robots attacked her and Koda, she thought at first the UNO went back on their position and tried to trap her and hurt her nephew.
Thankfully, her nephew came with his rabbit, who was clearly… Something else. When Serafina tapped into the rabbit's quirk, she obtained enough strength to destroy with ease her enemies.
Then, she saw the civilians actually getting attacked by the robots too, and understood the attack wasn't on her. I-Island was under attack, and they needed to help.
"Derrière vous, madame!" Yuga shot a beam to cover his friend's aunt, dashingly and sparklingly.
Koda thanked his friend with a nod, as his laser destroyed a robot behind Serafina. Two horns pierced a few more, and quickly, Serafina authorized herself to smile, as the kids met up. Pony, Yuga and her Koda. They seemed like good kids, staying nearby her and covering her sides.
"Good, children. Authorize… Quirk." She wasn't good at English, but she could manage to say a few words. To be on the safe side of the law, she just authorized them to use their quirk to defend themselves. Besides, by her side, they were at the safest state possible.
Until Yuga reacted pretty quickly, and stopped a laser bullet with his own laser, barely.
"Hello, kids. Would you please move aside?" Nine kindly said, as some smoke emerged from his finger, and he saw the three of them getting ready for a fight. Well, there went the diplomatic option.
"When the boss speaks, you better obey."
From where the new voice spoke, emerged various bandages that grabbed the robots and reassembled them to attack the quator of heroes…Staying in the shadows. It was safer there.
"To be fair, I have nothing against you. However, I can't live if you don't die," Nine explained, before materializing an air shield, to stop Pony trying to attack him, while another hand began to accumulate clouds above them. "However, I have no problems with collateral damages. THAT ONE IS ON YOU!"
And the thunder began, hitting all around them. He would need a bit more time to increase his accuracy, but he was very sure none of them had the strength to destroy his air barrier. His only issue was his endurance after all.
Serafina gritted her teeth, before letting her quirk expand. She came with a retinue after all. A gorilla with strength quirk. A cougar with a jump quirk. A turtle with a barrier quirk, not unlike Nine.
All of them were under the robots attack, and not near her, severely impairing her quirk but…
Nine actually looked up when Serafina ripped up an electrical pole to smash him with it. Uh. Quite strong indeed.
"Mummy! Take down the kids!"
He trusted the man, and quickly the kids were under the fire of a lot of debris and lasers from the dismantled robots.
Yuga was doing his best to shoot the attacks, and Pony too. However, even if they could see their opponent behind Serafina now that he revealed himself as if he was using his bandages as tentacles, it didn't mean the fight was going to be easy.
—--
Monoma was sighing as he had the very bad suspicion he was the third wheel for Katsuki and Yui. However, he was alone, and the activities at night were… Well, less fun than what he expected. Sure, it had a lot of exposition, but it was mostly nerd things. Proof being, Katsuki and Yui smiling (well, Katsuki was. Yui was just humming) at each other. Then, Yui took pity on him being alone and invited him to dine with them.
Of course, that earned him Katsuki's glare, which was a good reason to run.
Then, quickly, Monoma had another reason to be worried, namely the robots activating and suddenly attacking.
"Yui, how about we do the usual… Wait, are these your ultraman band Mei built for you?!" Katsuki was surprised as his girlfriend casually did the Ultraman pose to destroy a few robots and turned toward him.
"One."
Katsuki was as happy as a tiger who had a bleeding steak for lunch. The game was on, and he joined Yui in a good old wanton carnage!
As a result, Monoma decided to do the wisest thing in his situation: Taking care of the civilians. Besides, that was where all the quirks were: that would allow him to defend them by copying their quirk.
All three students missed on a building, a trio of mutants, led by a cockroach mutant using goggles to observe the situation.
Terraformars smiled, as he did this mission for Sensei… But not for free. If he succeeded, he would be given Noumus and an access to Giran with a cheaper price.
Honestly, it was a small price to pay, to bring one kid alive to Sensei.
"Remember, no mutants. Aruman, you have the signal ready?"
An armadillo mutant nodded his head, before pulling from his pants a small beacon, with three switches. Off, M and E.
"Yes, chief. I activate it?"
"Of course, otherwise the poor robots won't stand a chance." The cockroach smiled in a hideous way, as his minion obeyed, pressing the N switch.
Katsuki was enjoying breaking stuff legally to protect people when suddenly, some portals appeared in front of him… A reminder of a not so long event. From it emerged only one thing. A terrifying sight for both Yui and Katsuki.
"AN ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT BUFFET! MY FAVORITE!"
Moonfish, more monstrous than before, as he had mouths on his arms, was here.
Katsuki still remembered the sensation on his arm, pierced by the monster. The teen looked at his girlfriend who actually pulled from a keychain…
Ok, he really needed to know what Mei's smuggling ring was, as Yui apparently had an actual rocket launcher as her keychain.
Moonfish didn't like being hit in the side of the face by the rocket… Even less when he got punched by some familiar explosions, targetting his eyes…
Well, he still had his smell and even without his eyes, he knew who was daring to attacking them.
"Well, well. If it isn't the meal that escaped last time. DIE!"
Moonfish opened his three mouths, and all of their teeths, as they shot toward the teens. At least it would give a reprieve to the civilians Monoma was helping.
—--
On the side, the mutants went to have fun with the civilians… A cockroach, an armadillo and spider mutants smiled hideously, as Monoma was helping everyone evacuate.
"EVERYONE! Follow the lead!" He yelled, trying to herd them toward somewhere safe. From what a sensory quirk user told him, apparently, a French hero wasn't far from where they were, and they had actually established a safe zone.
"Yes, how about we escort you there, little one?"
Monoma barely had the time to register the situation, before three men stood in front of him… And none of them, considering their smiles, were civilians. Or on his side.
Thankfully, Monoma was a good prankster, and he liked to use his quirk. As a result, he copied a few of them during the day and they were nearby a french restaurant.
As said before, Breadmancy might seem like an idiot quirk.
Even a small bread, at 300 km/h actually had the strength of a bullet. The young blonde made bread rains on his enemies, whom he guessed had their guard down.
"I won't let you touch them!"
Terraformars smiled, as the bread hit him in his chest… Not causing any damage. Same for the armadillo and the scorpion.
They had natural armor after all. They were superior mutants.
"Sorry kid, but you are going to need to do better than…"
"Captain France actually had a second quirk!" Monoma interrupted him. After all, he was as much a nerd quirk as Izuku.
The winomancy activated, and from a bottle, the young student with the energy of despair, created a wine-cutter.
Fun fact: Diamond was cut for jewelry thanks to some high-pressured water.
This cut an arm off from Aruman as he yelled. Terraformars readied his stance. Maybe he would get in a fun fight after all?
Thought…
Terraformars wondered, why was that kid important for Sensei's plan?
—--
Chimera and Slice expected many things for this mission. All-Might was one thing. If Nine didn't delay by a lot, S S' plane, herself. They even expected the possibility of some big hitters being there.
Currently, they were under the cover of a wall, as some electrical arcs went above them, making explode various things around them.
"INFINITE POWEEEEEEEEER!" Mei said, as she activated something she made with Melissa and her grandpa during the afternoon: two gauntlets, who connected thanks to a cable to generate a lot of electrical power. However, despite her manic smile, she knew her invention was barely a prototype made in just one afternoon. Yes, they were fucking genius. However, it was something made on the fly, and they clearly didn't have the best tools to make it.
Her best hope to get out of this situation was Melissa, behind her, who was hacking a door so they could run… At least for a bit.
"Surrender the girl, and I won't hurt you!" The Chimera yelled, and Mei used his voice to try to attack him. It was a miss, as apparently, Chimera's tail could speak.
Slice, ever the professional, used that window of opportunity to use her own attack. The slash went in the air, and quickly, it hit Mei's gauntlet, as she raised it to protect herself. The electrical arc formed a shield, which absorbed a lot of the impact.
Not all, though, and Mei had to resort to some knife throwing. It's not something she was actually good at, but it was clearly more desperate than anything.
Chimera smiled, as he literally could smell her fear, and the fact the electricity stopped. Perfect.
He rose up, and clenched his fist, smiling like a wolf.
"Too bad, girl, you should have given up on her when you had an opportunity. No one is coming for your help, y'know? All-Might is trapped and there is no one who knows you are here."
"I am not giving up a friend that can actually understand when I tell her I want to make stuff!" Mei yelled, hitting her left gauntlet, discharging a bolt of thunder on Chimera. The wolf got yeeted at the nearest wall, before he coughed a bit. Stronger hero tried to kill him, and they all failed.
Slice sighed, before readying her hair for another long range attack when suddenly she felt a power hit in her jaw, that actually sent her flying on Chimera. She actually felt the hit and the concussion in her brain. What was that?!
"INTRUDERS?" Chimera yelled, as he smelt two new scents… Wait, three?
"Bismarck, shoot!"
Chimera barely had the time to raise his arms up, before he got hit by some sort of cannon shot. Fortunately, he had his armadillo mutation ready to protect him, but it was a close one.
In front of him stood a green haired kid, who was playing with cards in his hands. Next to him, was a girl in a military uniform and what was clearly an engine mutation, quite like the Ingenium family, but more cannon oriented.
"Mei! Melissa! There is a hacker turning the island defense system against the heroes!" Izuku yelled. Tooru had given up her clothes on the way, though thankfully she had her suit with her. After all, she was here to showcase Mei's goods. Yes, the irony of showcasing an invisible armored suit wasn't lost on her, but she was thankful to have it.
Chimera groaned, as he stood as a shield for Slice to get up. Shit. Invisible one and apparently with a decent strength in their body and the Summoner. That one was tricky, because of the no-kill order and the no permanent injury on him.
"Slice. You take care of the target. I will take down the other two."
Slice was slowly getting up and nodded.
When Mei and Melissa began to run through the hacked door, the woman ran after them. Tooru, of course, didn't want to let her do that, so she tried to follow them.
She got brutally punch in her ribs for her attempt. Chimera was still there after all.
"I have to admit fighting an invisible opponent is a new one. But you have a scent, girl."
Chimera stood in the young heroes way, and the only reason Tooru still had intact ribs was because of the suit.
"Tooru!"
"Still okay Izuku…"
"Bismarck!"
Sadly, the ship girl from Azur Lane didn't have the time to throw another attack before the mutant threw a knife in her head.
After all, unlike Mei, he was an expert mercenary.
The wolf howled, as Tooru and Izuku got ready for the fight.
Though he didn't expect the ship(?) girl to take the knife out.
"Fire!"
Chimera had to actually jump out of the way, when the girl did another barrage at him.
Fuck, was it a summon? That was… an issue. Oh well.
It simply means he would have to use Garaki's gift in the worst case scenario.
—--
In a plane, a bit late to the party, Cathleen Bate was growing impatient. She should have been on the island for hours now! But strange and multiple clouds made her fly late by several hours. She was actually this close to jump from the plane and go there herself.
"MISS BATE! We just received a message from I-Island!"
The fact the pilot had a panicked voice was a bad sign in her book.
"It came from the Architect!"
This didn't help, if that prick was there, he was probably taunting them and…
"He asks for you to come the fuck up because there is a terrorist attack!"
Cathleen gasped for air. The Architect was an asshole but he was proud of his title. The Architect was a criminal with a strict no-kill rule. He was also always in control, unless it was truly a mess of biblical proportion.
"THIS PLANE WILL IGNORE THE METEO!"
She never used her quirk for her own satisfaction, but right now, she had a job to do. She just hoped to be there in time, with her guest.