Okay, Muscle man had a lot more fight in him than Metal Mask did. Then again Metal Mask only got super strong after that helmet, so it made sense. "Kota, stand back." He didn't want him getting hurt by the blowback.
"Your arms are all purple and squishy!" Yeah, that's true. "You can't fight him! Just get out of here!"
"Trust me, I would, but he doesn't look like he'll leave us alone if we do." Iruma explained. The man looked too blood hungry to stop for anything.
"And if not me one of my allies in the woods will." Muscle man grinned. "But feel lucky I won't kill you specifically." He laughed, pulling out a really big fist.
Remember everything Iruma, don't be stupid. He's big, and bulky, he's slow. He doesn't have muscles on certain parts, hit those. And above all, don't hold back! "LEFT HOOK STRAIGHT!" He used his other and pushed forward, overcooking the chicken in his arm as he kept stirring the pot through the rest of his body.
"Wow…impressive, but the punch is weaker than the last one!" Their fists connected, but Muscle Man pushed him back. "You know, my quirk constantly explands my muscle mass so much it can't be contained by my skin!" He laughed as he pushed him down. " Which means I can get stronger pretty much any time I want!" The man stomped on his stomach, making Iruma cough blood.
He couldn't dodge these hits, he had to just take the damage and push back the pain. "I…won't…let you…hurt anyone….."
"Don't you get it, you little bastard…you can't compete with my power!" Another stomp came down on him, and Iruma could definitely feel some ribs cracking. "At this rate, you'll only ever be an inferior version of me!"
"I'm…going…to…help Kota…no…matter what…" He couldn't complete his sentence as Muscle Man punched him again as he got up.
"Don't make promises you can't keep, kid! Live up to your words or they won't mean shit!" Muscle Man turned his attention back on Kota. "That's why you're dear old Mom and Dad are dead!"
"You won't … make them … cry anymore!" He charged his fist up, swinging back. "Fully Filled Uppercut Straight!" He punched the muscles upward, forcing the hands up and making sure this next attack would go straight into the stomach. "OVEREATING DOUBLE HIT!" He took both of his hands and punched both straight into Muscle man's stomach … this was gonna hurt when the adrenaline wore off.
"HAHAHHHHAHAH, NOW THAT'S THE STUFF KID!" WHAT?! "I've never fought anyone I had to go all out on before! Thanks for that!" Muscle Man kept pressing him down. "Fight's are going to be boring after I'm done with you! It's a shame I decided not to kill you..for now that is!"
'All my power and he's still barely hurt!' Was Bunny-sensei right? Was he a mistake? 'I'm sorry All Might, Miriko, Toru, Ochacko, Iida, everyone! I'm sorry I'm not strong enough to come back!' They'd be fine..everyone would be fine…
"Leave him alone!" Kota shot some water at the villain. "Just leave him alone you jerk!" EXCEPT KOTA!
"Oh yeah, I almost forgot I needed to do something." Muscle man was distracted for a second. Perfect! "Wait your turn, I'm almost done with this…"
"Fully Filled Push!" He shouted, shoving energy into his arms as he shoved the man off, sending him into the wall. He couldn't back up, force him deeper. "Punch, uppercut, straight, left, hook, chop!" He couldn't let up! His movements were just blue blurs for a good minute, barely able to tell what he was doing half the time, other than keeping this guy down!
"Keep it up … gonna … win …" He didn't even hear the conversation, throwing a few more punches, as much as possible, as much as-his next punch didn't land. He looked at his arms, swinging around. He put energy and moved it but … no response. His arms were too broken to move.
"I overcooked it too much." He realized. Now that he wasn't frantically fighting for his life, he saw that the man was unconscious, buried deep within the mountain side. "Kota.." He remembered, turning to the kid. "Are you okay?"
"Am I okay, you just turned your arms into paste! Why didn't you just run for help!?" He shouted.
"Because…you needed help now….it was the only thing I could've done.." He responded, not sure if he could've done anything else. "The Cat-samas were fighting other villains, and I was the only one who knew where you might've been." He sighed. "Come on, hop on my back, I'll get you somewhere safe."
"You …" Kota looked up at him, eyes sparkling. "Okay." As the boy went on his back, he ran, ignoring the tingle in his arms from the pain. He just hoped everyone else was having it as easy as him.
"Laaaame." Mustard whined. "'Don't kill kids' he says, 'lower the dosage' he says. My one good thing is mass murder, it's like, me!" He even named himself after the most dangerous gas in the world wars! Even the third one with that Meta Liberation Army.
It was such a shame too. He knew Tomura probably had a point, seeing as how they were aiming to be more than just a band of villains that killed willy-nilly, but these were UA kids! The 'special', the 'privileged', the ones that were 'born' to be heroes. Couldn't he get away with killing one of them at least?
Just look at the four that were nearby … moving in his direction … as if they were-"Shit, they spotted me." Review arsenal time. A pistol, overkill but necessary. A taser, probably the best for close range. Wasn't much, but doable in a pinch. "Now, to analyze their personalities." And determine how to best goad them into an opening.
"HEY GAS FREAK, I'M GONNA KICK YOUR ASS!" Well that was one guy he wouldn't have to worry about. Brash and easily noticeable. He watched as a man made of steel ran at him. He raised his pistol and took a shot at the gas mask-where did they even get that? "Grr…" The silver bot growled, his quirk apparently active.
"Bullet proof huh? Guess that saved me a lecture from the boss man." On the plus side, the gas will knock him out soon, so he could just blame it on 'they got too close to the source'. "So are you meant to be a distraction for your friends?" He aimed a bullet and fired off at a woman coming from behind him.
"Like we tell you!" The girl had something in her hands, some piece of metal? Some sort of weapon? "Why are you attacking us?! You don't look like you're much older than us!"
"Because you're a bunch of privileged assholes that were born lucky." He explained, using their caution to load in some bullets. "You get cool popular quirks, fancy schools, and an entire festival dedicated to world wide entertainment. It makes me sick that you find yourselves better off."
"So you're just petty and lazy, that's what I'm getting here." A guy asked. He fired off another bullet in the direction of the voice, keeping his gaze on the girl with the weapon.
"Sneak attacks don't work you uncultured swine. The mist tells me everything. Where you are, what you have on you, what you plan on doing … your sizes."
"REALLY?!" The three of them shouted in disbelief and disgust. What? He had to use any and all information to his advantage.
"The point is that little weapon you have won't get close to me, no matter how weird it's shaped." He smirked under his mask.
"Did you ever consider I'm not the only one here with one?" What was she on about? The eclectic user was on the ground, the metal one was kept away with that last shot, big hands were in his sight. That was all three accounted for. For. Shit, there were four of them.
"So that's my cue!" Another guy, covered in black, came and Mustard attempted to shoot him, but the man vanished into thin air, the device sailing straight at him. Oh, so someone had a teleporting quirk, lucky bastard. "Kaminari, now!" He felt the object attack his helmet. A magnet? What did that accomplish?
"Indiscriminate shock! 1.3 Million Volts!" The electric user shouted, and the electricity traveled right towards him….oh SHIT!
Kalego fell to the ground, having been stamping papers just a second ago. He gave a low growl. "Whatever this is better have been an emergency-" He moved fast to avoid a ball of fire land where he sat. He stood fast, looking at his bleeding partner and Nomu. Of course this was happening, the sheer luck of humans. "Status report."
"The League of Villains have created another Nomu, and it appears to be capable of magic." Aizawa explained quickly, barely able to stand. "One circle in each hand, four types of magic. I'm assuming anything else is a quirk."
"That confirms a few things. A few months ago, a Nomu appeared in Walter Park, one that appeared to be part demon and human." He recalled the monster that took almost an hour to take down. "Combined with the missing Demon reports, it be wise to presume there's someone on both sides working together to make them."
He was cut off by the Nomu getting impatient, throwing another fireball and an ice projectile. "These are low level magics. Nothing too complex about them."
"Can't be complex, this thing doesn't have the intelligence to act on that." Aizawa spoke as the beast growled. "Still has a lot of stomping power."
"That makes things easier. The one at Walter Park was capable of speech." Hopefully this meant he could handle this without Shichiru and that androgynous bastard Opera. "Cerberus, bite." The feral animal was unleashed from his hold, and the two beasts began clawing at each other piece by piece. "And I thought things were finally getting easier for me." The Misfits were busy getting ready for the Music Festival, so that left no time for them to get into trouble.
The beast extended its maw, expelling out it's teeth in the form of blades that hit Cerberus's fangs head on. "Shouldn't you be negating this?" He asked his partner.
"Cooldown, my body's been taking a beating this past year." Oh yeah, fragile human, he almost forgot.
"Any other powers you can confirm so I can't be caught off guard then?"
"A hardening quirk and enhanced strength, so it's durable as hell." The man groaned, dropping a few eyedrops. "Also appears to have Fractal and some kind of camouflage spell, so keep your guard up."
Said spell was demonstrated as it vanished in thin air. "Damn it." He growled. "Sniff him out." He commanded his hound. Cerberus smelled the air, growling as it charged at an empty spot and bit the Nomu in it's jaws, shooting more fire and ice straight at it.
"Negating now, you've got a minute before I need to blink again."
"Cerberus, kill." That's all it needed to go all out, the animal showed absolutely no remorse or restraint as it went wild. This was a much needed stress reliever, especially from dealing with the Missing Purson case. "Trouble never seems to stop following you, does it?"
Almost on cue, a human boy with blue hair, presumably one of Aizawa's students, rushed in, shirtless and with two broken arms and a kid on his back. "Aizawa-sensei! Watch Kota! I have to tell Bakugo the villains are after him!" He dropped the kid off in the man's arms and left.
"... No, it never does." He might need to bring the drinks next time he comes over.
As much as he hated it, the bastard had a point. Vine bitch was useless against toothy, and half and half was stuck with ice, as they didn't need TWO forest fires going off. "You better enjoy being alive for now, because you're dead when I see you again." Forget about the creep, forget about De-Izuku, just beat up the bigger and scarier asshole before killing the weaker one.
"Don't worry Kachan, we'll be seeing each other soon." The boy laughed and walked away. The creep set him off, but he used the anger to blow up some of the teeth. Durable stuff, only a bit of it cracked. He was lucky it was summer, he could get started fast.
"Vine Bitch, try and use the trees, anything durable to hit this guy hard." Even then it might not work, but it was better than nothing.
"I shall use all that the lord provides to allow us to prevail." Would it actually kill her to drop the religious crap for one day? Like seriously, would she fall over dead if she didn't say something crazy every two minutes? "You satanist heathens shall not succeed in your devilish crusade!"
"Who cares about bad tasting demons, humans taste much better!" Bondage shouted, letting out some more teeth.
"Bakugo, I know you're not going to like this, but we need to retreat." Fuck that. "I have ice, you blow stuff up. We need something with a lot of stomping power." They were the strongest ones in the class! Who the fuck had more stomping power?
"Ronove asks for help!" The four stopped, turning to see some sparkly asshole and lizard girl run in their direction. "Ronove needs lots of help!"
"Okay!" Another voice came in, and in a blue streak of light, Dodger charged in to with broken arms. A lot more broken than usual. "Hey Bakugo! The Villains apparently want you and me to join them." WHAT?
"Food." The villain groaned again, growing more teeth.
"WILL EVERYONE SHUT UP!?" He shouted, hitting his boiling point.
"With pleasure." The giant shadow man coming in and stomping the toothy bastard was the most catharsis he's had all day.
"Bakugo, Dark Shadow's going crazy!" Lizard girl shouted. "Blast him with everything you got!"
"Give it a second." Half and half pipped up. "He's actually doing our work for us." He gestured to the villain trying to recuperate, only to be hit again.
"While that's going on …" He gestured to the whole group. "Give me context, for the love of fuck give me context."
"Okay, so I ran into the muscley guy, apparently these villains are here to kidnap us because they want us to join them." Dodger explained. Made sense, even if it was laughable. He would never join a villain, he was going to be a hero damn it. He ignored the horrified gasp of Vine bitch.
"Alright, that covers that, so now.." He pointed to the lizard girl and the sparkly bastard. "What the hell is this about?"
"Yeah, so apparently demons are real and Tokoyami has a summon for one of them. This is him." The Lizard girl pointed to the other horned bastard he met today.
"Begone foul beast from hell!" Vine bitch held up her cross once more.
"Interesting. It is rare for Ronove to meet a lady that has not fallen for Ronove's charms." He leaned in closer to the girl. "Ronove must dazzle you, no?"
"I don't know about religion stuff but he's not as supernatural as it seems, you can still punch him if you want." Vine bitch took the girl's suggestion instantly, beginning to choke the bastard with vines. Lizard lips looked over. "I think we used up our time, Shadow's looking at us."
"I will devour your souls! … Except for Iruma, you get to live."
"Thank you!" Of course the shadow monster would like Dodger even if he was feral, because that's how fucking dumb the universe was.
"Huh, you look familiar." Sparkle Bastard looked at Dodger curiously in-between choking. "Like little Ronove, the danger-junkie."
Groaning, Bakugo cracked his knuckles, going to get this over with. Then he could chase that creep.
Ochako and the girls pantsed, covered in blood. "Don't you think we all look super cute?" Asked the villain. "All bruised and bloody, we're totally besties, soulmates even!"
"Could you, for the love of god, stop hitting on me." She replied. "I'm not even into women."
"For now." She shivered at the licking of lips.
"And you do NOT get to use the term soulmates around me!" Toru yelled. "There's one person in this whole world that gets to share that title with me, and lady, you're far from the angel he is!"
"I'd love to meet an angel, but right now I'm stuck with a demon." She groaned. "But come on, there's so much fun to be had between gal pals. Maybe you could recommend a boy? Right now I'm trying to find a new love-" She paused. "That bruised one might do."
What bruised one? "Ochako, Toru!" They saw a whole group of kids, at the forefront being her soulmate himself!
"IRUMA-KUN!" She and Ochako ran to him, and his arms were all busted and bruised. "What happened, who hurt you? Tell me names so I know who to kill!"
"Punched a muscle guy, saved Kota." He explained.
"Wow, you beat Muscular! Super cool! Hey, can I have your blood, pretty please?" She asked, using the forbidden trigger.
"Sure." The boy spoke, the rest of the group face palming despite injuries. Even Tokokage seemed more annoyed.
"Wait, really?" Toga tilted her head in a bit of disbelief.
"Of course, if you want it you need it right?" The boy asked with his oblivious smile.
"I … um …" Was that a fucking blush!?
"Dodger, how the fuck?" Bakugo felt the need to ask the obvious questions.
"What? She said please, so she probably needs help! Wait, so do I need a syringe or something? Maybe Momo could make me one if I find her.."
"Uh…" The villainess was blushing even more. Oh don't let this actually be happening!
"Forget that." Todoroki formed some ice. "We'll take you down before you can get close to him."
"Come on now, I can't let you hurt my friend." A blue haired kid with one horn and glasses came out of the trees, and the girl's mood immediately plummeted. "Then again, if she found someone she loves, that makes us all friends by association, right?"
"Right!" Iruma, please, you're cute, but please shut the hell up!
"Fuck you, bastard." Bakugo raised his hands more violently than they've ever seen before. "I'll murder you."
"Then come on~" The glasses guy raised his hands. "There's nothing stopping you from coming after me, right?"
"DIE!" The boy yelled. "Tell me where Deku is, and DIE!"
"Bakugo wait, it's a trap!" Iruma ran after him, the rest went to give chase … only to hit the air?
The two also hit air just seconds before they would have hit him. "This is my bloodline magic. Barrier, and with how much mana I've accumulated, you'd need to hit like All Might to break it." What the fuck!? They tried to hit the barrier, not moving or budging in the slightest.
Iruma looked down at his arms. "I've still got legs." He said, raising it up …
"Ladies and Gentlemen, it is I, Mr Compress." A mask wearing villain came out of one of the portals Kurogiri from the USJ made. "And for my first trick …" He touched the two while they were caught off guard, vanishing in thin air, replaced with marbles. "Two students have disappeared. Tada."