Preparing for this attack is gonna be tricky. The best option is to have multiple people work and use a cube to possibly trap all of them at once.
A sneak attack is also our best option but will be hard to pull off.
"Alright, so!" I said while slamming my hand onto a wall covered in pinned pieces of paper and post it notes with so much string it looked less like a coherent plan and more like a cracked up spider did something with it's web. "I've been trying to figure out literally every single little thing that can work for this situation that I've been told, shown in records, and what I can think of."
"Have you gotten sleep?" Someone asked me.
"Three days without sleep overanalyzing a specific event is childsplay." I said proudly.
"No it's obsessive…" Delilah said, sitting on the couch I set there in front of my wall of plans nursing our daughter.
"Not the first time I've been told that, but this time this is for something stupidly important that needs to be taken seriously, not the time I literally did a fifteen page report on how All Might and Gang Orca were able to take down Hydranox." I said, remembering how enthralled literally everyone at school was that day how I explained way too much about how the two pro heroes beat a Hydra villain.
"Right… Midoriya, I know this is important to you, finally having a shot at helping people and making a difference, but you should also first, shower, you kinda smell, second, eat. And lastly, maybe nap before you tackle the one thing your plan is kinda lacking."
"I overlooked something?" I inquired, looking over everything to double check if I did. "I'm pretty sure I didn't, and I still have plenty of time to rest…"
"This is all based on a plan of you taking out them all…alone." Delilah said. "You need help fighting these people Midoriya. Taking them alone is, well, not smart and I know you know this." She added, taking Daisy off her nipple and quickly burping our daughter.
"No, see I thought of that," I put a hand to a specific thread and went straight to that part. "I maybe 'alone', but that's when the surprise attack happens where the other's imprison the group, I have planned for everything." I said happily. "I know what I'm doing Delilah, the coffee ghosts are good friends of mine." I said with a warm smile.
"The Bed better be your next best friend." I yelped as suddenly I was being yanked by the ear by one of my girls. She was a Lamia with her snake half being blue and purple scales and her human half was tan skinned with sharp pointed ears and more snake like eyes. This was Trish and she was dragging me by my ear towards the bedroom.
"Nuu~!" I whined. "Also ow! Trish please!"
"It's either come sleep in bed willingly or I swallow you whole and you can sleep in my stomach. Your choice."
… She can do that?
"Excuse you, you can do that?" I asked in confusion.
"I am a naga. Might not be all fancy with a stomach to heal and nurse my young like Floof noodles but I do have a stomach for storage of prey and one for the digestion of prey." She explained.
"Uh huh…" I said in surprise. "That's…different."
"It's just how my biology works. I can say the same for your human biology." She replied. "Now which is it gonna be, bed or stomach?"
In other words easy way or hard way…
"Eh~..." I whined. "Bed…" I grumbled.
"Good choice." She said, letting go of my ear only to wrap me up in her snake half and carry me to bed.
I did end up sleeping a full day, Trish keeping me there just in case I was faking being asleep… wish I could say I've never done that…
After my twenty four hours sleep I woke up, where Trish then took me to the bathroom and bathed me/with me, and now she had me, arms free, eating food with her in the dinning room.
"You can let go of me now…" I said, considering she still had half her snake body wrapped around me.
"Nope." She said, swallowing a whole breakfast burrito in one gulp. "I am spending time with you. Sonya, Delilah, Rin and now that Breeder Poppy are taking up all your time. If I have to keep your legs wrapped in my tail to get attention then so be it."
"You could have just asked me on a date." I said.
"I tried when you were making that wall of… whatever that was. You just kept muttering about… summoned ninja demons or something…"
"Those were plans to help the town nearby fight against the Chaos Guilds." I said. "And it's not my fault that I thought that the magician of their group could summon ninja demons…they probably could summon worse."
"Right. Well for now you're mine."
"That's fair." I nodded, finishing up my breakfast. "So…what do you want to do first?"
"Fishing." She said.
"Are there fishing spots around here?" I asked, knowing we had a world engine going but never really looked around.
"In the planet room yes."
Oh yeah… I forget it has animals and gardening stuff there…
"Yeah that's fair." I nodded. "I've never fished before."
Once I finished my breakfast, still keeping me wrapped in her tail, Trish took me to the Planet room where she walked through a recent clearing in some trees and we came across a large river. Here, she pulled out a fishing tackle box, two fishing rods, and a small bar of something with tape over it. The word 'Bait' was written on the tape.
"Alright…so how do we do this?"
"First we prep the poles." She said, helping me set up my fishing pole, the weight, bobber and hook on the line. "Then we bait it." She then opened the bait jar. A horrid smell came from it as she reached in, pulling out what I saw was one of those demon fly larva from some of the corpses outside. She stabbed the hook Into it, making the larva screech. "And to cast just lean back holding this button here and when you throw let the button go."
"Well…alright." I said, lightly leaning back with the button held as I threw it forward while letting go of the button.
With a whizzing noise the line flew through the air, landing a good ten or so feet into the water. The bobber floating lazily as the weight settled under the water.
Trish did the same and now… we were waiting.
"And…I believe it's just waiting after this?"
"Yup." Trish nodded. "Just wait and talk."
"Alright." I nodded. "Is there anything you want to talk about?"
"I suppose my biggest question is… why do you still want to become a hero?"
I sighed, looking out into the large lake. "Since I was a kid, even after I was told I was quirkless, I always wanted to be a hero…I believed my brain's could compensate for no quirk, like Nedzu or Sir Nighteye, cause even if those two have quirks that makes them either smarter or see the future, they still only had themselves and their minds to work out everything…" I explained. "Even after I got here…I learned that you don't need a Quirk to be a hero, that I could be just as strong as everyone back home without having to worry about anyone thinking I couldn't…I want to help people, I want to be a good person…even if he crushed my dreams…I still want to be like All Might." I sighed. "And sure, some people might think I'm selfish for wanting to be a hero, or a hypocrite cause I still see All Might as a pinnacle of heroism…but it's the truth, I want to help people and that's a fact."
"I suppose that makes sense."
"Yeah…even after all this time." I sighed.
"What kind of hero do you think you'll be?"
"I want to be the light in the darkness, the one that people can look towards for a renewed sense of hope….I want to be the hero that shouts 'I am here!' as the innocent's feel like thing's will get better as the villain's quake in fear." I said, feeling like I've said this a million times but it never gets old. "Cause what's a hero if they don't help people?"
"A mercenary?" Trish guessed.
"Well…yes, that's technically true, but even mercenaries need people for pay."
"True." She shrugged. "So, you have all the memories of Izukie Midoriya?"
"Yes." I nodded. "I have all her memories, all her skills, all her powers…technically? I am Izukie Midoriya, but I'm still Izuku Midoriya…it's weird."
"What was it like? The reality before this one?"
"It was nice." I said honestly. "Like back in Candlelight but with a lot more 'villains' around, a lot of quirkism…but it was home."
"Was it similar to Izuku's home reality?"
"Pretty much, just that everyone was more or less genderbent." I shrugged. "Also Izukie having a quirk and Bakugo not being a massive cunt waffle with an ego the size of Homeworld, and…I really should have asked her sooner to get with me and Three…to stop having this wall between us and just…be happy together."
"Hmm… what do you think we can do about Poppy?"
"I…I don't know…" I sighed bitterly. "I want to help them not…be a Breeder anymore…but as far as I know is that it's impossible…"
"Maybe you can teach her things? I doubt she ever will not wish to be… well, what she is because of what happened to her. But maybe she can learn skills? Cook or clean or… something?"
"I mean…maybe?" I said nervously. "I hope that's the case…better than her just…waiting for me all the time…"
"You know she will still be waiting for you. This at least gives her something to do so she's productive waiting."
"True." I nodded. "And it's better for her to be doing something than not."
"Though I'm sure no matter what she'd prefer you to be doing her."
"I know…" I sighed. "Really hate this…but sadly just gonna have to bare with it for now."
"Wonder who she used to be?" Trish asked, looking up now. "Was she married? Did she have kids? What was her original name?"
"I don't know and that hurts me a lot…"
"Do you think if we ever meet someone who knew her from before… what should we do?
"I…I don't know…" I sighed. "Cause the person they used to know…is most likely gone forever…hate this all so much…"
"Why did you save her?"
"I saved her because I saw a bound and helpless person stuck in a carriage being carted around most likely waiting for the right 'buyer' for that merchant, and even if they're a Breeder, it's still horribly wrong to literally buy and sell people for whatever nonsense they have in mind…"
"Did you ask Patches about who that guy was?"
"Not yet…" I sighed. "I really should have…but a lot of things have been going on as of late…"
"Well, you probably should ask them about some things about the world so you aren't so in the dark when things happen."
I nodded, feeling something tug in the line. Quickly I reeled the line in and I was met with a catfish on the hook.
"Neat." I said with a smile at the catfish I caught. "Surprised it's a catfish."
"These are tasty." Trish said, unhooking the fish from my hook… and then swallowing it whole…
"Right…sometimes forget that you are a snake." I said carefully.
"Even with my tail wrapped around your legs?"
"A lot of being's have tails, especially prehensile one's that could be big enough…just remember that you can unhinge your jaw and…don't have a gag reflex…"
"Nope. My jaw can open as wide as my tail's width if need be."
"That's…" I looked at her tail's width…"Never mind…"
"When I say I would have swallowed you whole and had you sleep in my stomach, I meant it." She said, giving me a smirk as she rebaited my hook.
"Oh boy…" I said sheepishly. "Well…glad that didn't happen."
"Too bad. Lamia stomach linings are as soft as silk and as comfortable as a water bed~"
"Really?" I asked in surprise. "I didn't think it would be like that considering it's a separate stomach to hold prey for later…"
"Don't think that just because that's how they feel it means that they are weak. Our stomach lining can resist stabs and slices from steel blades. In some lamia cultures it was a practice to harvest the dead stomachs to turn to leather for armor on our unscaled half's."
"That…while practical I guess that sounds gross…" I said nervously. "I mean, I know Leather is just sun tanned skin but still…"
"It is taboo in other cultures but with feral lamia there's less of an issue with it. Only beat by dragons hide in durability really."
"That's rather interesting." I said honestly.
"Yeah, so don't expect to get out unless I let you~" She laughed.
"Yes yes I know." I chuckled, gently throwing out my line again. "This is nice."
"This is what we all want. Nice moments like this with you and some pleasurable physical ones later on. Though some would like both at once." Trish chuckled, pulling her line and catching another catfish she also ate whole.
"Yeah…a lot of you really want the more…physical kind of attention a lot." I blushed at how horny some of my lovers are.
"Some more than others." She nodded. "I won't force you to bed unless it's to actually sleep." She said, rebaiting and tossing her line. "But I do want that someday. Maybe have a litter of eggs."
"I'm sure it'll happen sooner or later." I said honestly. "Cause I want to see all of you happy…even if we're stuck in this place…"
"I think we can probably make a decent life here." She said. "The major problem is the Chaos guilds. They keep things as they are. Stuck in this… state of hopelessness. Maybe once you're able to lock them all up people can finally build homes here. Live without fear or worry."
"Yep." I said with a smile. "That's the plan, to be a hero and help make this world a better place."
"Just remember, a healthy hero is a good hero. You need to take care of yourself to help others." She said. There was some heavy footsteps nearby. Turning we saw a bear walking nearby. It roared at us, clearly mad. Must be in its territory. "One moment, love." Trish finally let go of my legs, handed me her fishing pole…
The speed she moved her tail was like a blur, and the sickening crack of the bear's spine and head echoed around. It collapsed dead and she picked it up with said tail then… like the fish, at it whole, giving her snake half a very noticeable bulge in it…
She then managed to wrap her tail around my legs again, pulled me close and took her pole back. "So take care of your health, okay?" She added…
Holy…
"Uh…wow…" I blinked at how easily she just killed that bear and…then ate it whole…
"If you want to ask me questions about all that you can."
"How are you that strong? I mean, I know it's a wild bear but…Bear's tend to be rather sturdy…"
"Tell me this. Snakes in the wild often catch their prey by strangling them. Suffocating them, breaking bones and rendering them immobile or dead. Some have Venom but not my species." She said, showing me that while her jaw had some fangs they were for show it seemed. "So, my species have all the strengths of a snake that crushes their prey but at proportional size added to our intelligence. Another useful feature of my biology is my skeleton."
"That is rather interesting, what's special about your skeleton if I may ask?" I inquired.
"Here." She took my hand, bringing it to her jaw. "Now press." Confused, I did and… it bent?! "My skeleton is like a sharks, not actually bones but rather durable, flexible collagen. Only our teeth and nails are real bone, our whole body from head to the tips of our tail are supported by this sturdy, flexible and dense collagen skeleton. This is how we can easily swallow large prey without risking breaking bones such as ribs in our human half, because they bend and flex. This also allows us far greater flexibility with our snake tails/bodies when moving and allows us more force when swinging out weight for slamming attacks."
"That is rather interesting." I said honestly. "Pure collagen instead of a combination of it and calcium…neat."
"Another useful trait is that we are warm blooded, but can drop our body temperature lower if need be, we also have three hearts, and two sets of lungs."
"Well, you would need the extra hearts to pump a lot more blood through your entire body and the extra set of lungs to keep it all oxygenated…do you have another brain in your snake half to keep up proper motor functions or do you have the one?"
"Technically I have two but both are in my head." She nodded. "In my head are two brains. A larger, full sized brain that my personality, memories and all that comes from. A second, smaller one hides within it, this brain in my species is supposed to primarily manage balance and the senses. And then the third organ there is actually one of my heart's. It's small, roughly the size of walnut but it pumps blood through both brains and back to my arteries. My second heart is in my chest, about the size of a normal heart and in the same place as yours would be. But it also shares my whole torso with both my sets of lungs. Then about between the main chamber of my digestion stomach and where my womb sits is my third heart. It's about the size of my head but pumps as fast as my chest heart and keeps all the blood in my lower body and stomachs going through."
"That is an interesting biology you have there." I said honestly. "Though makes sense you would need all of those extra organs to keep your big body going."
"That being said I also lack organs too. For example, I don't have a large or small intestine."
"So how does it all…go through?" I asked carefully.
"Simply put, it doesn't. My digestion stomach acts as a stomach but also kinda like the small intestine on steroids. The stomach acids I have digest and melt my meals into basically a soup, leaving nothing solid, not even bone, and the stomach walls absorb this soup that then is fed into my through my blood and stored as fat. This process can take anywhere from days to weeks depending on how packed the stomach is, how large the prey is, if it is alive or dead, and if the meal has natural armor. But eventually even metals can be digested."
"Huh…never thought it would work like that."
"Yup. Any toxins in my meals are filtered through my four kidneys and three livers and all waste produced is expelled as urine."
"Uh…do you have a…cloaca?" I asked nervously.
"Sorta. While I do lay eggs I also grow the young in a womb until they are near ready to birth. They are then moved to the cloaca and covered in a soft shell that after anywhere from two to four days they will tear open and hatch from."
"Alright, good to know." I nodded.
"Happy to tell you about my body~" She said in a teasing voice. "And yes the tits are functional."
"Cause everything in this reality needs fully functional breasts…" I said, blushing a bit at seeing her rather sizable breasts that I was trying not to look at for a while.
"Well, for some lamia races they don't lactate but they do have a function. For some they keep their eggs and hatchlings warm, for others they're more just fat storage form meals to help during hibernation and in some it's where their venom is produced and stored. And in some races they can eat through them…"
"Neat." I nodded. "So many uses for breasts."
"Heh, I suppose." Trish said with a chuckle. "Maybe someday you can find all the ways you can use mine~"
I blushed brightly at that. "Uh…" I stuttered before pulling up my fish quickly to try and not think of lewd acts with her breasts.
Trish laughed, lifting me up a bit and giving me a surprise kiss. "You're adorkable." She smiled.
"Stahp~." I whined, even after so much lewd nonsense I couldn't help myself against being embarrassed by such words.
"You know… you also have a very nice pair of knockers yourself~" she said, suddenly pressing my chest against hers. "Maybe someday I can find out all the uses for them I can enjoy~"
I gulped. Given my memories of Izukie and Three… I have a good idea… Plus Delilah also has… done lots with them…
I forget sometimes I have both genders…
"Uh…." I blushed even brighter. "I will…never get used to this…"
Trish laughed again, giving me another kiss before we got back to fishing for a few hours.
Eventually our date came to an end and I kissed her goodbye this time.
I was in a good mood as I rushed through the streets of the Nightmare in the daylight to patches store. Thankfully I found the large spider with a human head in his store as usual.
"Hello Midoriya. What brings you around today?"
"So Patches…I forgot to ask, but who was that guy that…killed himself…" I said carefully.
"Oh him? That was Cliff. He's a traveling trader that comes by through my area every ten years or so." Patches said. "Usually sells weapons and such but sometimes sells luxury supplies, water and food, whatever he scavenges or trades for really."
"Right…do you know why he had a breeder on him?" I inquired.
"Probably knew her from before she became a Breeder. Permit merchants and traveling merchants have very different codes they follow but one unwritten rule I hear is that if you come across a breeder for sale and it's someone you knew before, typically they buy them to help keep them safe. Returning them to their families is an option but let's be honest, that's crueler than never seeing them again. So he probably was looking for someone that would have looked after her better than the usual low life's that shop in those breeder markets."
"Oh…" I said weakly. "That's…good to know…but I'm treating her well than whatever the Chaos Guilds would have done to her…"
"Did I ask? Anyhow, are you here to shop or ask questions cause I'm gonna charge you for both."
"Rude." I huffed. "But do you have anything new or the usual?"
"Yes I have a lot thanks to Cliff leaving behind all his inventory. His loss, my gain. Plus a few other useful items. I think you'll want this one actually." He said, jumping from his place on the table and walking over to a floor hatch. He opened it and motioned for me to come in.
I did, walking down some stairs and found… is that a…
"Seems to be a Lover Class but it's a Child, so it's basically a kid for you to adopt and raise. Found this little one when going through some old schoolhouse. Figured you'd want them."
"How much?" I asked quickly, not believing I have to even ask this rat bastard how much but I'd rather not fight him over this.
"Rule of thumb when it comes to merchants Midoriya. If someone is selling Prize Pods they aren't someone you'll want to do business with." Patches said. "Just take the brat before some Chaos Guild member comes in and takes them. I'm rude and nasty but I ain't heartless."
"Alright…I didn't want to immediately try and grab it and get into a fight since you've helped me out since I first got here…" I admitted, walking over to the Prize Pod and wondering if I should open it now or wait till I get back home cause I think I can put it in my Assistant.
I was able to store them in my Assistant and once I did I followed Patches back up. "So, now that that is out of the way we can have you spend money on all my other wears."
"Alright, what neat things do you have to offer?"
"Guns, bullets, some swords and best of all, Shipment packs."
"Shipment packs?" I inquired.
"Basically bulk supplies of stuff ranging from food, construction and craftable materials, weapons, basically it's a bulk buy of more common things that selling individually would just take up space and take forever." Patches explained. "Traveling Merchants make them all the time to sell all the cheap items they find while selling in bulk and make them seem more appealing."
"Well, that sounds good." I nodded, thinking if I should buy some of the shipment packs. "What kind of shipment packs do you have on you right now? Or is it just a grab bag box?"
"Most are junk stuff, lots of various decorative items, toys, furniture, one full of books. The rest are mostly handguns, ammo, and a few bulks of food stuff."
Hmm… the weapons would be useful, even if they are basic handguns… food is always on the shopping lists. Even with the Planet Room, better safe than sorry. I can probably recycle the other stuff. Keep the books and… the toys. Got kids now and on the way and eventually it will grow as we merge with Logansville. I have fifty three thousand. Hopefully I can get them.
"Alright, so how much for each pack?" I asked. "Cause I'll probably just buy one of everything."
"I can sell them all for thirty thousand." Patches said. "Like I said, they're all bulk of low value items but if you can make use of them then go for it."
Hmm. That takes a large chunk of my money but definitely worth it to make use of the materials.
"I'll take it." I said, knowing I'll only have twenty three thousand after this but it still should be good enough savings.
I transferred the money and Patches transferred the Shipment packs to me.
With that done I went back home to look them over. The 'Storage Room' we've had here tripled as a pantry and armory. I decided to open the first pack of handguns. Manifesting from my assistant was a large boxes all taped together in a makeshift pallet. Opening one was just as expected… handguns. Lots of them. Some semi auto, some revolvers. They had magazines too. Other boxes had the ammo. It was all low caliber handguns.
"Why aren't you picking them up?" Matilda asked.
"Because I…" I sighed. "I hate Guns, they feel…wrong, partly due to my nationality as Japan has strict gun laws…but also, a lot of my favorite heroes never used guns, only two had a gun and that was Snipe and Lady Nagant…but Lady Nagant turned into a Villian and…guns tend to always lead to death…" I shook my head.
"So do blades, rocks, large sticks, your hands alone can kill easily. How death is brought is irrelevant, in the end, nearly any tool can be lethal in the right or wrong hands."
"There is a difference." I said. "With weapons like that, there are higher chances of survival, you can heal from the injuries as long as their not aimed at specific spots…but with a Gun…most of the time it doesn't matter where you hit, people would die rather quickly from it all, or instantly…" I sighed.
"I still think it's a pointless fear. Far worse can cell you in your environment."
"I know…" I sighed. "But there's something's that I'm not going to do…I've made my peace with Gun's before, and Jaku helped me figure that out…"
"And this Jaku is?"
"Can't you see my memories since we're the same being?" I asked. "But Jaku is an…alternate version of me, based on All for One, a quirk that let's me take and redistribute Quirks around to people…it's also that in conjunction with One for All that I might be able to just…mildly bend reality to my will?" I said sheepishly, still really needing to figure that part out cause if what One for All and Jaku said were true, then I need to actually study hard on that."
"I see, and this All for One ability let's you steal another's power? Does this work for all Abilities?"
"I…don't know." I said honestly. "I haven't really tested it, and I…haven't really put skill points into it…actually, I only put a few skill points into upgrading Scan and that's about it…" I said, deciding to look at my skill tree and skill points to see what I have unlocked and what amount of points I have due to all my training and me fusing with Izukie.
Hmm… looks like my abilities aren't that many. Unfortunately it seems I only have thirty skill points… huh. One for All and All for One can't be improved further? I guess in the end they are rather overpowered. Hmm…
[All for One: Take any ability (Excluding Legendary) from another person who either willingly offers it or by force. If taken by force, users will must overpower that if their target to steal the ability]
Wow. Surprised it's classified as a Rare ability and not a Legendary one.
"Oh…okay, so apparently I can just take any ability I want that's not Legendary…awesome." I said readily. "Hmm…I need to test this at night…" I said, knowing there are many monster's that have interesting abilities that I could most likely overpower in the terms of Will. "Now…what about One for All?"
[One for All: This ability transfers itself and various other copied abilities from prior owners to the new inheritor. Over time this will boost and generate a form of energy all abilities naturally produce and will hone the energy of even Legendary Abilities, making them all more powerful over time without risk to the user.]
"Alright, that explains why One for All has been building so many 'furnaces'." I muttered. "Right…so let's actually see what skills I should grab or upgrade…got a whole lot to think about…" I sighed, thinking of all the choices I can do and what I would need now or later.
I Browsed through what was there. So far that's mostly some moves from Class 1A and even prior users? How…
Izukie. She had the original One for All passed to her All Might before. I made a copy but remnants in her DNA from her Quirk Ability must have lingered and One For All must have rebuilt them.
That explains how I got those Quirk Abilities without ever seeing anyone who had them use them.
"Well…I suppose that makes sense…" I hummed.
"Mrrrf." I felt something bump into me and saw Red pushing her head into my leg.
"What's up Red?" I inquired, gently petting Red's head lightly thinking they wanted attention.
"Grruf!" She yipped, biting onto my pants and pulling me. Okay this feels and probably looks weird.
"Want to show me something?" I asked, lightly getting her to stop biting and pulling my pants. "Where to?"
She lead to me the Planet room where I found Galla, my short goblin lover who trained Red using her Beast Tamer abilities on the recently caught wild boars and chickens.
"Okay that's six pigs, nine chickens… need to find Bison, or any bovine, goats, maybe ducks and turkeys if I can and… and if I'm lucky some bee's." She muttered to herself.
"Hey Galla." I said to the goblin. "How you doing?"
"Oh, Midoriya!" She said, turning to me with a smile. "I'm good. Just taming the animals you caught and was gonna look for some more for us. Need a lot to support our population… especially if this merge with Logansville happens."
"True, but did you need anything? Red here brought me to you."
"Not really? Don't know why she dragged you here." Galla said, giving Red some pets. "But if you aren't busy I could use a little help."
"Sure, what do you need?" I asked politely.
"I'm hoping to find large herds and flocks of goats, chickens, pigs, ducks, any bovine species and as many hives of bees as I can."
"Sure, that should be simple enough." I said readily, given that I have Anivoice as an ability it'll make this easier.
"First we have to find nests and such." Galla said. "Wild chickens and turkeys will nest in the forests while ducks near lakes and rivers and ponds."
"Fair enough, know any nests nearby?"
"These chickens should have some nests nearby. Now that I've tamed them I can give them orders and they will obey." She said, looking over at the chickens in question and snapping her fingers. "Bring us to your nests." With some clucks the chickens all began walking into the woods as Galla and I followed her.
"So…how are you doing now that we have our own world?"
"I'm doing good. Lot of us are talking about having everyone move into the planet room as well. More space, safer, and we can renovate the house into a fortress to better keep everyone safe. Would also let the kids coming in from Logansville and any we have enjoy a normal environment."
"Yeah, which is a good thing, and hopefully the transfer of their entire town goes smoothly into here." I said honestly.
"Yeah. Most everyone is helping clear out some land, gather lumber, plan out houses. Lot of space here All things considered."
"Oh yeah, an entire planets worth of space to do whatever we want."
"So, feel nervous?"
"Like you wouldn't believe."
"Do you think you'll be able to handle these people?"
"No idea…hopefully I can but…not sure…"
"Any idea who's helping you fight them?"
"Not sure, but most likely the leader of Logansville, and whatever powerful officials that can fight back." I shrugged. "Still a lot to think about…"
"Yeah… best case scenario, everything works out… worst…" Galla sighed. "We're trying not to think about that."
"Best not to think about the worst case scenario, cause I've planned for that to immediately swing into the best possible scenario." I said with a smile.
"Heh. Don't jinx it. They say no plan survives the battlefield." The chickens led us to some trees where the base was somewhat hollow, revealing a nest with eggs. Galla pulled a basket from her Assistant and she picked them up gently. "With luck these eggs are fertile so more chickens with time."
"I'm sure they are…hopefully…" I said carefully.
We found more nests, more chickens and some wild berries. Once all the new chickens were tamed we brought them all to the new coops some more of my lovers were building.
I sighed… This was gonna change so much so fast.
"Kinda wish things would slow down on the changes…" I sighed.
"I guess that's a luxury for after this planet finally gets a hero." Galla said, giving me a smirk as she looked up at me. "Hopefully this starts a chain reaction for good things to happen."
"Hopefully it does." I said with a nod. "It'll be a small spark that turns into a roaring inferno of positive change."
"Heh, that's a little cheesy." Galla laughed. "But, at least you haven't lost that hopeful nature."
"This place breaks people who are hopeful, and I'm not going to lose hope." I said readily.
"That's them." One of the guard's said. I was here in Logansville guard armor to hide me some. There was five, myself included, going to attack these people. I spotted the Synthetic Gallan, and Rio the summoner. Gallen looked like an upgraded version of Three, less clockwerk and more modern. Rio wore some basic clothing items but that jewelry she wore was enchanted heavily. Many rings, earrings, bracelets and necklaces. "Ready?"
"As ready as I'll ever be." I said, as everyone here has been going over the many, many plans I've made up over these ten months and ready for this meeting.
The main guard walked up to the group of Lust and Violence members. The Lust members weren't anything special. If anything they seemed like normal people compared to the other two. "Where's the shipment?" The Lust member, a humanoid female doe person asked.
"I think the town of Logansville has paid more than enough…" The guard said as the four others raised their guns.
Rio laughed. A sadistic yet…. Happy laugh. "Oh finally some fun!" She cheered.
Immediately the anti-magic field went up, gunshots downed the Lust members then I rushed in and clashed my Starlight against Gallan. He looked at me unimpressed. "Was this your plan?" He asked, his grip on my keyblade refusing to budge.
"Only part of it." I said as I grabbed onto Gallan's arm and tried using Overhaul against him to weaken him.
This metal was…. Difficult.
He pushed me off, as I landed to my feet he gripped my keyblade in both hands-
Shrrr-crack!
He… broke my Starlight Keyblade… The weapon turning into shards of light and floating away with the wind.
"You have the Overhaul Quirk Ability." He said flatly. "This is a high value target for Violence."
"Uh…huh…" I muttered in mild horror as I saw Starlight was just…shattered like that. "Right…so…" I said before summoning a glacier to ram into the Synthetic. "Shit…"
He punched, the glacier shattering into shards. "You have Half Hot Half Cold, this is also a High Value Target for Violence." He said in that flat voice hefore rushing me, body clamming into me-
CRACK!
I tasted blood as my ribs cracked on the impact and he slammed me through the Logansville doors. I fell to the ground writhing in pain as he looked around. "Local Population is Zero. Logansville has fled to unknown location."
I used Overhaul on myself as I healed my injuries and coughed up some blood. "So far…this is going about as expected…" I thought to myself, knowing they were going to be extremely powerful as I tried to think of one of the many plans I had to try and weaken him.
Before I was even able to stand he threw a kick. I felt my jaw shatter and went flying into a building, breaking more bones. I used Overhau-
Shhtck!
Gallan suddenly has his hands transformed into blades, and he swiftly sliced my hands off. Crap! Overhaul needs my hands to work…
"You will tell me where the residents of this town have fled to, and they will be reprimanded for their retaliation." Gallan said, keeping a blade to my neck.
"Really hate how a lot of my abilities need hands…" I thought to myself bitterly. "I won't tell you anything you bastard." I said, smiling like I've won this fight even though I'm bleeding a lot.
He kneeled, stabbing both his blade hands into my legs through my bones, making me scream. "You will talk. Willingly, or," His right eye then shifted, opening and revealing a metallic tendril with a sharp needle point. "Unwillingly."
"Go to hell." I growled as I used Izukie's quirk and tried to get it as hot and as powerful as I could get it and hopefully it'll melt this bastard.
Despite the heat, Gallan remained still, his metallic body growing white hot as his eye tendril inched closer to me. "This will hurt."
"No, no! Damn it no! Melt, back away do something! Damn it I just want to help!"
"I just want to save people!" I screamed, feeling that tendril burn and boil my eye as it pierced inside.
[Pendent of the Saint Activated.]
"You need some help?" I heard a voice ask, suddenly getting yanked off me and thrown back over the walls of Logansville. With my one good eye I saw the Saint of Armageddon there. When did he?
"Wh-what? H-how?" I asked weakly.
"I gave you my pendant remember? When someone I give it to is in need, needs help, I am summoned. It's my oath as a divine being." He said, waving a hand over me as I felt no more pain, my hands were back on my wrists and my eye and all injuries were healed.
"W-wow.." I said in surprise at how easily he healed me. "B-but what about Gallan? He's still around and…oh shit my plans!"
"He has most likely fled. Most lower level Chaos Guild members tend to once I arrive."
LOWER LEVEL?!
"B-but…lower level!?" I asked weakly. "How…I…I can't be that weak…can I?"
"Violence isn't just a name for that Guild. They are the group of some of the most powerful members amongst Armageddon's Chaos Guilds. Do not feel bad, many can't face off against them in a fight."
"But…I trained with the Mothers Daughters for a long time…" I muttered bitterly. "Well…this all went more so down hill…"
"The Mothers Daughters were training you to be a Hero outside of Armageddon. This planet is far harsher than they were able to prepare you for. Rarely is the environment the real threat. More often than not it is people."
"I know…" I sighed. "I hope everyone else is alright…I…I wanted to help Logansville get away from the Chaos Guilds with this…" I said while bringing up the Prison Cube.
The saint seemed to look at it. Though that mask covered their eyes so… "It was a good plan. And you did put in much hard work but sadly what you needed to make the difference you seek was more power. This can be obtained should you acquire the right teacher."
"And…do you know where I can find the right teacher?" I asked, thinking he wouldn't teach me since he's so busy around this damned planet.
"I might. The power you seek is the same as mine. The power of a God. This path however runs both opposite and with the path to being a Hero you wish to be. Becoming a God requires great impossible feats and pain, agony and suffering that will break and redefine you as a person." They then held out their hand to me. "Do you wish for me to teach you to become the God of Heroes, Midoriya?"
"I want to be a hero…I want to help those in need and to right the horrible wrongs that are being done." I said, gently taking their hand with the smile I want to show the world and to those I'll save. "Please, will you teach me?"
"I will, but I will promise you, you will regret this for the rest of your life." He said, making me flinch. "To become a God is to become more but also lose so much and there will be a target on your back calling every Chaos Guild member who sees you. Can you handle this?"
"What will I lose?" I asked carefully, cause I wanted to fight to save this world and it's people from the Chaos Guilds, and I knew that being a hero would paint a target on my back but…what could I lose from this?
"Your innocence. Your happiness. Your will to see the goodness in others, and your hopes and dreams. You will become the hero you want to be at a price. Are you willing to pay it?"
I blinked. "That…what?" I asked. "How does any of that sound like a hero?" I asked.
"You'll be a hero in everyone's eyes. Everyone, but your own."
"Then that's not heroism, cause if I do a good deed to help people and go 'why did I do that?', that's not 'heroism', that's just falling prey to the same shit that everyone else is falling for!" I snapped. "If I lose Hope and just become another part of all of this…than what is the point of becoming a hero to stop it? I want to be a hero to break this worlds 'machinery', I don't want to be another cog helping it turn…that's not how heroism works." I said, as my mind went to All Might, the shining beacon of heroics and hope, even when he told me those words that still hurt…he still stood for something, he still believed in himself…
"Men don't kill men." The Saint started. "Monsters kill Men, and Men kill Monsters. But, sometimes, it takes a monster to kill a monster." He finished. "I'm not saying you won't know right from wrong or won't know why you're doing it. I'm saying that to fight them on equal footing, you have to know just how far your enemies depravity will go, and meet them there to fight them on equal footing."
I thought about this…I want to be a hero, the light in the dark, a beacon of hope where it wouldn't normally be…"How…can I be a hero if I'm just like them?" I asked weakly, tearing up as the only thing that keeps forcing it's way into my head is that I'll just be no better than the Chaos Guild's just so I could fight them…if I'm no better than them then what's the point?
"At the end of the day, what makes you better, or just as bad as them isn't how you fight them or how you deal with them, what matters are the results of your actions. When you attack a town, it saves people trapped there, when they do it, they enslave whoever wasn't killed. You can be better than them, and still fight just as cruel as they do. That is what they know can beat them. Something and someone who fights them just how they do. Like a monster."
I sighed, knowing he has a point and that he's been through this shit for far longer. "I…alright…" I sighed bitterly. "Just…I hope my family won't hate me for this decision…"