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V-city rescue: Zombieman, silver chain, Jackie, Sigismund, Toru, Tokoyami

The day started out fairly simple for tokoyami and toru while no longer necessary to do their traditional meeting point was still near bombs dojo but instead of going inside the dense forest that surrounded his dojo zombieman would simply wait at the edge of it for them to arrive. while he took care of matters of his own, tokoyami would drop toru off at the hospital to say hi to her boyfriend while he would either simply go straight to zombieman's location or if he was training sigismund at the time he would take the time to patrol by themselves while it had its own set of danger they didn't really approach monsters of the higher threat level of tiger which coincidentally started to happen much more lately or in its stead, no monster at all would appear. Sigismund would definitely need a partner in the advent that he decided to become a hero, the first main point was that in actual combat his ability or rather monsterfication left his normal body vulnerable to attack making it a big weakness for him another weakness was that his monsters were only allowed a set distance from the body until they simply could not move forwards anymore the distance grew from previously to about 100 meters but that just bring him into his next problem the actual monsters he doesn't control while most of them were in different to many of the situations that he went through some were a bit more tricky then others shadowman wasn't much for proactive fighting it was more of a reactive fighter it didn't want to fight unless his host was endanger or could be in danger which drew the two at odd when it was his day and he wanted to go on patrol but tokoyami continued to emphasize how the two of them should compromise and that besides it would allow him days off as his parents still wanted him to pursue his education after all although he needed to receive private instruction from hero associontion verified instructors just for safety sakes.

On the opposite end of the spectrum, there was Amaterasu or if he remembers right sol the lion wanted to change her name when she figured out what the sun was and went with one of the "dead" languages version of it since it sounded the coolest, the lion was already ready for a fight anytime it truthfully got the chance and it cared very little for its host life whether that be because of its lack of care or just battle craze they didn't know very much but at least it could be reasoned with like dark shadow and Shadowman, shining light and sol got along rather well together even if the lion monster mostly just wanted to fight all the time to pass the time. Taking her out on patrol was rather simple enough just needed to keep Sigismund extra safe. The other monster was more hit or miss when operating out in the field the strongest one was a demon even higher than the likes of himself and shining light in her base state it was a dragon type but it seemed indifferent to about anything happening around it and would mostly just lounge around even when manifested he didn't care what they named him so they just decided on dragon lord until something better appeared or the creature actually wanted to be called something, the weakest monster was a large naga type creature that they called apopthis this creature while the weakest was the most violent and would kill anything it deemed their enemy while it was protective of its host it was purely out of the idea of its own survival and while it did somewhat enjoy combat like the sol it was crueler and mercy or capture was rarely an option this even included criminals to as which left things very complicated on patrols.

The other two monsters on the list were a large wolf monster that he would have liked to call fenrir but the two of them opted for the name rengar, rengar was essentially a mix of sol and Shadowman while the monster also liked to fight it cared for its host out of all the monsters it was undoubtedly the most "normal" being calm and reasonable along with being understanding getting a baring of the situations before doing anything and following instructions.

The last monster was the second strongest but it was completely the most chaotic she was in the simplest terms a tanuki thankfully it wasn't exactly one-to-one with its myth counterparts having large testicles but given that it was female it did have a fairly large bust in its stead although it didn't flaunt this off very often after it manifested unless it was trying to get a rise out of him in particular, it had a unique ability to transform into basically anything it's seen before even people but when doing so the transformation was always noticeably off from the original in some ways or another, but the tricky thing about her was that she was a fairly big prankster and that was putting it lightly as sometimes her pranks involve directly endangering her host or just adding more chaos to a situation that was currently at hand and to that end they names her eris after the greek god of discord and strife.

The strength of the monster progressed naturally through the week getting stronger and stronger until Saturday on Sunday things took a wild turn for sigismund because all of his monsters would be able to manifest and therefore speak to him which meant that he would have six different voices in his head at all times which was draining on the small teen, he never felt like doing much on those days besides sleep which before he couldn't but now that they had a place for his monster to go free he could at least be somewhat relieved of their constant bickering and comments. The monsters were tolerant of each other enough, eris mostly kept trying to tempt dragon lord to do anything but that was a failing battle, rengar and sol would fight amongst each other mostly, and despite him being formed on Thursday and her Wednesday the fights usually just amounted to draws which suggested to tokoyami that rengar was likely holding back on the tiger to spare its feelings.

Given the day of the week sigismund was with his parents for the day so that left tokoyami to just go and visit and pick up zombieman instead, as he landed down they both exchanged a greeting before getting down to business and this was mostly directed towards this mysterious monster group that they have been getting clues of recently the fact that the dragon level monster elder centipede was apart of the mix was somewhat troubling two dragon level monster maybe even more given that the monster(s) up on the mountain was also a dragon they couldn't rule out the possibility of other dragon monsters whether that be they were outright created or joined of their of their own free will and that fact truly frightened tokoyami whom briefly mentioned the fact that even one dragon level monster took multiple S-class to defeat but zombie man simply shook his head stating that he shouldn't believe about all that junk the association says about disaster level and the corresponding hero response he doubted tatsumkai would have struggled with the monster they faced on the mountain and the fight was only a drag on the mountains side mainly due to the fact that metal bat wanted to fight the monster one on one after the genos was tooken out based on a dare by darkshine. Tokoyami was fairly surprised by that fact but he wondered if the hero was just attempting to ease his worries he didn't seem like the type to do so from how long he knew the man so maybe he was telling the truth. The greater concern about that was troubling him however was if the facts did line up and this secret monster base was located in Z-city inhabited zone then that hero saitama or caped baldy as he was called in the hero registry based his home he found it completely unlikely that a movement of so many creatures would go unnoticed this should go doubly for his so-called apprentice genos or demon cyborg that was in the S-class that joined the association exactly when he did and tokoyami already could predict where this line of dialogue was heading towards as he questioned if he believed that the two of them were traitors and zombie merely smirked and nodded his head on top of himself he's been sharing his information with child emperor and that was the conclusion that he was led to zombieman himself believed that he was jumping the gun a bit but he was a scientist so it was reasonable that he would want to air on the side of caution which he couldn't blame the kid for.

Tokoyami asked for the hero's thoughts about the matter and zombieman shrugged while blowing out a puff of smoke before scratching the back of his head, he didn't know where his opinion lay if the evidence they gather indeed proved correct then why wouldn't such movements have been reported, the subterranean king was just as strong as deep sea king on that device but according to the device also showed up earlier than either. Genos was present and fought the deep sea king and lost. If he defeated a creature of similar power previously, why would he struggle to fight another monster of similar power, also if he did beat that monster then why did he not recall it? He was at least part machine correct and the data had to come from somewhere right? zombieman offered but tokoyami knew the hero was leaving out another possibility to the question so he voiced it for him that the data for the monster could have come from caped baldy alternatively and the hero nodded that would solve a few of the issues but in that case this supposed B-class well actual C-class at the time would have been able to take out a demon level monster and firstly not brag about it or report it and secondly must have been so casually that he didn't even remember the conflict as it was so beneath him as he knew the S-class felt that way facing most demon level threats well besides him and puri-puri prisoner, they were the physically weakest of the S-class so even some demons could give them trouble from time to time.

Tokoyami countered by saying that he heard from a friend of his, forest lord that several of the S-class was originally down in the lower ranks as well and this may very well be a similar case. Zombieman considered that for a moment but that was what the hero association examinations were for they completely re-evaluated and adjusted the parameters of the test to account for such people he countered that his two friends and the man's very apprentice himself also joined directly into the S-class so why wouldn't he have? Zombeman questioned and for that tokoyami simply had no answer if the man was as remarkable as bakugo claimed he was then he should have been allowed into the S-class or at least upper A-class something was indeed amiss with him. Zombieman let out a sigh before concluding that they simply need more data on the person in question which was the prime reason he was going to spend the day patrolling around Z-city to see him in action and see what he was like and tokoyami nodded. After that conversation, it was about time for them to go and pick up toru from B-city hero hospital, but instead of flying over to B-city the three of them opted to instead take the train so zombieman could collect his thoughts toru didn't have much to add to the conversation they were having not knowing the bald man or the cyborg at all so things were in relative silence as they traveled.

toru would take the down time to try and talk to tokoyami about his crush on asui but he would deny it and given his anatomy and lack of body language she couldn't tell if anything she said was getting to the dark teen or not but shinning light had discretely whispered to her some advice on reading his head feathers and watch how they swish and change to tell his mood and she realized that she was indeed getting to the teen at least partially but before she could imply even more teasing remarks suddenly the train that they were on shifted and shook and slowly came to a complete stop the light went completely out and soon after several rumblings started to occur making toru freak out and while the other two simply looked at her skeptically and after recovering enough she also tried to deflect that shinning light was also scared so they shouldn't only look at her funny either, the spirit made itself visible and while she didn't comment tokoyami did see a noticeable shiver run through her frame similar to dark shadow with his fear of lights she was scared of a lot of darkess in fact their new normal mode of travel was flying to avoid such issues and to get him more used to it so he didn't doubt that shinning light was a bit apprehensive about the current situation but only expressed it verbally in saying that, she would have preferred to fly instead.

Luckily for them, toru was there so she could partially light up the space with light allowing everyone to see within the darkness of the small train cart at first toru and tokoyami were simply content with their being a simple error or hold-up on the station but zombieman wasn't so sure, in all his time as a hero he's never seen any time something metal knight created malfunction or mess up before and while he wasn't saying the man was infallible or something that rumbling from before seemed to indicate that there was more to it and almost as if to answer his query. The cart that they were in started to violently rumble again shaking as if the very earth started to shake and it very well likely was soon enough a dent was seen and a hard bang was heard at the bottom of their cart, making all of them look down to where the source was this bang started to increase not only in speed but also strength as the floor started to dent upwards toru was fairly creeped out but still maintained her light to see but focused it largely on the noticeable bump that drew up from the floor as the bang continued zombieman gestured for them to stand back away before the floor.

Whatever came up out of the floor before its head was unceremoniously popped open by the round of zombieman desert eagle the muzzle flash briefly lit up the hole the monster was attempting to come through revealing even more monsters coming up from behind it and zombieman responded just as simply letting bullets rain downwards into hole shredding through the monsters coming up but that wasn't all. The very walls of the cart started to bang before suddenly the wall behind toru was pierced by several tendrils wrapping around the girl, shining light reacted dashing forwards and bisecting said tendrils before they could do anything toru quickly left the walls as more breaches started to happen around the cart as claws, tentacles, and whatever bloated appendage started to seep through the right side it looked like it was about to burst but there was a large holting scream and suddenly the bloated appendage started to simply leave out from the hole it made and a number of the things on the side of the cart simply started to retreat as well even the monster in the hole zombieman were shooting inside of suddenly start to retreat but in that case, they could understand not wanting to die from being shot given that zombieman had a surprising number of magazines within his trench coat.

As the attack seemingly ceased their was more rumbling, zombieman made the inquizitive decision that they needed to exit the cart immediately but given that they were underground would suggest being buried by gravel and dirt if they made a hole but he believed that they should take that chance and on the fact that the monster themselves were tunneling which suggest that the way out was probably already dug for them and after switching magazine types and gathering everyone to a certain wall and than firing the bullet left the chamber in an explosive degree of power and hit the side of the wall before exploding it into dust and fragments allowing them to see the railway and true to his word along the railway was a number of holes that lead up towards the surface as they could see sunlight suddenly peer through the dark area the only lights were the red flashes of emergency equipment as multiple small robotic drones attempted to fix the damage done or were completely smashed beyond repair from the monsters that passed through. Given that the railway was blocked by debris the group's only way out was to use the holes dug out by the monsters but most of them were only small enough to fit one of them at a time and not wanting to leave anyone behind they all decided to take a separate hole, tokoyami dawned his golden fleece and flew up and into the hole meanwhile, toru used her light manipulation to create a circle under her that would thrust her upwards and outside, zombieman alternatively used his grappling hook and climbed through.

The first to make it up top was tokoyami, they were in the middle of Z-city and could already tell that something was amiss, as numerous black smoke rose into the air. The two of them, then received a message from the association talking about the state of emergency, the two of them looked at each other for a moment before waiting patiently for zombieman to arrive above ground it took the hero much longer than they did and they soon found out why when he came out of the hole in the ground with blood drenched all over his trench coat and his swords covered in the stuff as well they couldn't tell which amount was his or someone else's but given his healing factor they ignored it for now, he apparently already knew about the situation as he closed to the surface and had gotten contacted by the hero association, he was more surprised by the fact that both of them were unharmed and had made it out without facing any monsters in their path but he let it slide for now as he was tasked with assisting V-city and with that out of the way the three of them were off having tokoyami fly them all the way their as fast he could go, zombieman would normally run but given all the monster around he would inevitably be caught up in the some scuffle delaying him.

Toru only typed to their friends as they traveled the distance was just over 16,000km so tokoyami would get their normally in about 30 minutes more precisely being 26 minutes but shining light was faster than dark shadow was when in the air combined with the height they were flying at which increased her speed the higher she was meant they they would get their within 20 minutes which still left her with things to do while in transit other than create a dome of light around herself so she wasn't just completely jostled or messed with by the air pressure of flying that fast even though zombieman seemed unaffected although he was still mildly annoyed that he couldn't pop a smoke with how fast they were going toru looked over the city they were passing and was worried about her friends and boyfriend he said that he was doing fine but she really didn't know anymore and than she thought about Jackie and what she was doing while the girl was probably slightly better than her in martial arts and she had her light bending abilities to also fall back on and tokoyami and zombieman..she was just a civilian she really hopes that she would be ok.

The three of them finally arrived to V-city but before the three of them entered into the city, they had a talk, zombieman wanted to confirm with them the message the association had sent out about how they weren't exactly taking prisoners and what they would do with that information now both teens didn't really have an answer for the man in this regard zombieman just let out a simple sigh he wasn't going to force them to kill anyone nor was he dumb enough to tell them to just sit down in a time of crisis not that they likely would follow that command in the first place which they both agreed with so instead he told them that they needed to find a place to store the monsters they captured while he wasn't one to disobey an order he also wasn't one dumb enough to ignore potentially dozens of potential intelligence opportunities the monster will likely have, tokoyami correctly guessed that the hero assumed that this attack has to be from those of that group of monsters they were deliberating about and zombieman nodded at that he didn't expect to learn to much from the monsters they captured if the leader of this group of creatures were smart that is as they would likely send out the grunts first but their could be a few diamonds in the rough or organizers if you will to direct the madness going on around.

The two understood and with that they were on their way, the first thing they did other than rescuing people and escorting them to shelters was try to come up with an idea of where they could contain the monsters that piqued their interest for now most of the monsters they encountered were wild and feral none of them could even speak and attacked things indiscriminately and were put down just as indiscriminately by zombieman who had an idea of where they could potentially store monsters, he leads the teens through the ravaged part of a city and where they came upon a bank not just any bank mind you one that was funded by the association itself this was where most of their money would be located or transferred through there was one located in every city and due to its importance, it was one of the most heavily built which could be seen by the destroyed or damaged structures around it.

They entered the building and upon seeing the S-class hero the citizens inside were immediately relieved believing that the worst of the storm was over but he couldn't quite relieve them just yet as things were still going on outside he only told them that he needed to rent out their vault real quick for some prisoners and despite the reluctance of all the staff there, they eventually gave in and gave them access they needed to clear things out a bit so that the monsters didn't trash or damage the money inside but after testing things out himself he was sure that the vault could probably hold a couple of tiger level monsters or so and with their prison secured he split off from them and relied on tokoyami's judgment in the monsters he would capture and so that the two groups could do what they did best.

Toru was initially confused by the remark as they parted ways but tokoyami explained that he enjoys events like this combat that causes rivers of blood to spill and this was such an occasion and toru shivered at that was that someone they were training under he seemed so chill tokoyami merely nodded in reply he understood that everyone had their inner darkness. He and toru quickly got to work helping other people throughout the city while simultaneously keeping an eye out on some key important monster figures that they could verify in the crowd unfortunately that was very much easier said than done a lot of the monsters were mostly feral type seemingly lacking any type of thought process but they started to find a pattern while their existed monsters that would just boldly attack anything their were certain monsters that had objectives of their own as they would ignore fleeing civilians or people that is unless they literally bumped into them.

These monsters were seemingly targeting the heroes themselves and it was undoubtedly a planned assault as the monster would usually counter the heroes' abilities leading them to be on the ropes a lot of the time before tokoyami and toru went to help out while they couldn't save many of the creatures that attacked the heroes as many of the heroes affected were extremely vengeful and was more than willing to kill the assaulting monsters but they did manage to capture at least one of them and take them back to the bank after having the knocked the creature out. With this information secured they were able to easily able to coordinate with other heroes around them an locate some of the more higher ranking monsters of the invasion, toru was partially surprised when she found that clown girl from before in the city, she was under assault by a number of monsters ranging from a number of things these creatures but they all had a similar theme in that they could produce sonic screams from their mouths that completely defaned the area around them the monsters must have assumed that she fights with hearing and that fighting like that would confuse her and while it did initially when she pulled up her blinder and revealed her eyes the monster were shocked and than dead soon after as the hero started to attack in full force juggling her tools between all five monsters the only thing that spared the sixth monster from another painful death was shining light protecting it and the creature was almost relieved to see them and gave up without much more of a tussle as the two of them now with twin tails in toe took the monster to the impromptu jail that they set up, they could attempt to take another monste prisoner but zomebiman being their and having captured another monster himself suggested that they shouldn't three tigers level threats are likely the only thing the vault could really hold.

The four of them got together outside of the bank and were soon joined by shadow ring, the women who had come on behest of the association brought with her were a couple of the rated heroes as well. Most of them were B-rated and with the extra manpower they were able to more properly spread out through the city when it came down to liberating the last town and where the outbreak initially started things was stranger in the fact that the entire town was clouded in a completely dark bubble of darknesses they couldn't see into it and once inside they couldn't see outside of it, it was curious because toru likened it to her light manipulation but just on a massive scale to cover a whole town zombieman questioned would the girl be able to counter it and after a moment of trying she said that she couldn't as she was receiving push back from places inside zombieman asked for details on that matter in particular and after attempting again she felt push back from four different places one was obviously in the center of the circle, one in the center of the circle, one in the southern region, one in the northern region, and one in the western region. Tokoyami pondered why he would want to know that and zombieman explained given that this shadow barrier was only erected for this certain spot that whatever was inside of it must not like the sun very much and whatever it was must have been strong to demand such effort to be carried out for it so to be cautious they might as well bring the lights back which would also add to the benefit of people inside being able to find their way out if they were survivors to speak off that was he added in grimace thought.()

So after a moment of waiting for some reinforcements that this time came in the form of silver chain after waiting around some more momo finally arrived to join them with a loud sonic boom as the bike slowed down to land and after a moment of giving momo a time to adjust herself and catching her up with current events the groups were somewhat prepared to go, twin tails and all of the B-class rated heroes were missing however shadow ring informed them of an alarming discovery that all of them were defeated in battle by some force she could not identify what had done so but it seemed to have vanished without a trace, zombieman was unease by some mysterious threat but opted to take that on a later date leaving only the six of them to handle the darkened town alone. Zombieman would take the furthest points and the two ninjas would work together to fight together while the three teens would go alone and handle their position, the heroes remarked that once their tasks were completed they would cut back and support if they needed it and the teens accepted the task.

After taking a step inside and realizing how dark it was inside the bubble momo suggested that she give everyone knight vision goggles but the two other groups declined such an offer as the night was an environment they were accustomed to, but her friends gladly accepted her offer, putting them on before proceeding inside, momo was surprised to see that dark shadow was present as they stepped foot inside the dark place given the time of day and tokoyami explained that after further experimentation he can switch between the two them at least once a day but the resulting switch would be somewhat weaker than they would be if it was their actual time to be out. The groups headed inside and continued forward tokoyami and dark shadow had taken point being given guidance by toru as she continually felt that resisting presence come but things were weird he noted aloud despite several destroyed buildings and ravaged streets with dried blood scattered from place to place, they found no bodies as they moved through the streets. They kept moving for a moment before turning streets and halting they came upon a strange sight there was a mob of people just standing around shambling to get into a restaurant which they had successfully done so they were like a crowd of ultra-hungry turtles that completely shattered the glass and doorway of the restaurant and had made their way inside, momo startling gasp garnered the other two attention she explained that her goggles also had thermal imaging and that all those people were showing up blank which meant their bodies were extremely cold and likely…..dead.

So they were zombies toru asked with a shaky voice and tokoyami nodded had sent dark shadow ahead to examine them the shadow creature shrunk down to as small a frame as possible and entered the store and examine what happened the results weren't good he remarked simply as he returned as the teens planned their next steps and eventually deciding to just put the people out of their misery. Dark shadow snuck into the restaurant once again this time carrying multiple explosives along with him and planted them down on the place before causing a raucous which drew the zombies closer inside, they waited until all of the zombies were inside which took a couple of minutes before detonating it as tokoyami recalled dark shadow, the group only spared a passing glance as they passed the destroyed restaurant and the burning bodies but proceeded forwards nonetheless. The group was suddenly ambushed by a larger green fat being to tokoyami it reminded him of a great unclean one but half the size and along its body was nothing but shivering hungry maws of gnashing teeth, it held in one of its hands what seemed to be a large purple scale of some kind he didn't know of what but it was surely powerful as they evaded a swipe from the thing it had cleaved through completely the building behind them, dark shadow would engage the monster directly while the other two played support toru would completely blacken the creature vision with her light redaction allowing dark shadow to tear into it, momo would also contribute using her cannon to completely neutralizing one of the creature arms as she blew it off with her cannon allowing tokoyami to fully put the creature down for good with two massive claw strikes.

The monster couldn't be left alive given what they know it was capable of but there was still a shadow of doubt in their mind of what could have been or the possibility of maybe the people that were turned would have gone back to normal if the monster was just dealt with first but they pushed that aside as they continued forwards. Toru noted that the resistance was weaker and momo noted that the edge of the circle seemed to have closed in on them which suggests that the bubble of darkness was closing in which confirmed zombieman theory about the bubble. So they continued forwards this time they did find bodies scattered along their path but what truly surprised them was that they found their friends there more specifically ojiro, tsu, and todoroki or what appeared to be them. the group of three attempted to talk to their friends but they seemed to not respond only slowly approaching them instead, it wasn't until dark shadow lashed out at and decapitated each of them that things were put into perspective despite being forcefully pulled back in by tokoyami as the other only reaction was shocked at the sight in front of them..they didn't even know that to think or feel any more but the sight was completely replaced with confusion as even more of their friends revealed itself to them the same trio ..dark shadow had told tokoyami that whatever their seeing it wasn't the truth and that what was actually in front of them were a group of skeleton warriors and that he should trust in him and after a moment he did so, informing the other two of what was happening and that he enemy is controlling their perception somehow and to simply fight through it…but that was a lot easier said than done for him than the other two.

He simply allowed dark shadow to fight for him but even than he was tempted to just close his eyes to the chaos happening around him, dark shadow had killed "asui" so many times as they progressed through the conflict and after talking to the other they explained that they were seeing someone completely different from him so it didn't even matter if dark shadow did most of the fighting toru was seeing "ojiro" die while momo was seeing "todoroki" die over and over again and try as he might dark shadow couldn't be in all the places at one time forcing the girls into conflict killing that person occasionally from time to time toru on her part merely knocked the fighters out but she couldn't finish them let alone use the whirlwind momo crafted pair of pistols and simply shot at the warriors to end the fight as quickly as possible before finally moving on, dark shadow described the next creature as something different from the skeleton a plant like monster with suave pedals and for hands and curvy hips but tokoyami didn't care about that he all he wanted to do was erase it so the he used his Dark ahnk: juggernaut completely going all out right from the start completely blitzing the monster and ripping it to shreds but rather slowly tokoyami instructed and after that was done, he received some strange looks from both momo and toru it was a lot he was familair with but wrote it off for the moment the group continued forwards as toru merely noted that the bubble had once again reduced in size and the resistant she was feeling was completely gone from this side so they should proceed towards the center.

The ninja duo

Both silver chain and shadow ring continued forwards undeterred by the darkness the two navigated and killed scattered monsters they found quickly and efficiently as possible before meeting up with a large almost flamingo-like creature this creature rose its wings which flashes a variety of colors at the two but other than being slightly blinding it didn't do much of anything but that was spoken too soon as shadow ring suddenly started to attack her, her sister was exclaiming how envious of her she was for her skill and status within the clan she didn't attack back and simply blew past her to attack the flamingo monster directly killing it nearly instantly as she and her clones dashed through the creature from six different directions. The monster fell and soon as it did so shadow ring stopped attacking her. She didn't reprimand her sister for her outburst or bring up what happened merely telling her that she needs to train harder to resist such attacks next time.

The two continued further this time encountering red monsters these creatures were seeming angry and were actually fighting each other but whether this was due to boredom or just the effect the larger monster had they did not know, this larger beast was stronger than the four or so they had killed prior but it was still no match for the duo as they cut off the monster arm and attempted to run away but it's flight was cut short as it was suddenly cut in half by a mysterious stranger as the stranger landed it revealed another behind it. They announced themselves as hellfire flame and gale wind, they remarked that they had been bored in the area and wanted to "recruit" silver chain given they share a similar goal but after seeing how weak an A-class hero is they may reconsider which told the two sisters that they were the ones that had defeated twin tail and the B-rated heroes. The ninja fought for a brief stint in time, cashing sporadically through the street, hopping from rooftop to rooftop. Silver chain wasn't paying much attention to her battle worrying more about her sister and covering for her with her clones and feeling disrespected by that gale had transformed taking the girl off guard and sending her crashing back down to the floor through a building gale was shocked that the girl recovered quickly and dashed right back at him putting him on the back foot for a moment but the girl surprised that she was still strong enough to keep up with him in that moment but the fight was called off as hellfire called out to her holding up shadow ring by the throat causing her to pause. The ninja whistled and complimented her strength and was curious where she was grown from but the remark seemed almost sarcastic in nature.

The two remarked that they didn't come there to fight as they said only to recruit her because they share a similar goal, revenge so with that hellfire flame pulled out a bag and threw it at her which she caught, he explained that thing inside were monster cells and with that she could turn into a monster gaining even more power than she does now and together they could have their revenge, he even added a bonus one just so she could take her sister with her, he remarked holding the unconscious shadow ring up and lowering her to the ground before the ninja duo left without a trace and silver chain looked inside the bag but simply stowed it away before going to check up on her sister.

Back to the group

The group proceeded to the center and were fighting a shadowy demon monster covered in dark mist it's previous victim's head floated proudly along its frame their shocked faces still present, the three have gone through their recent experience and seeing that refused to hold back much of anything anymore but that didn't mean much for them at the moment tokoyami even in his enhanced form could barely hold the creature off and all of momo's conventional attacks seemed rather fruitless as it's body would seemingly regenerate endlessly. This was until they realized that light was a devastating weakness for it, toru was instrumental in keeping the creature on the back foot and when zombieman had joined them in their battle it allowed them a lot more wiggle room to manifest their plan having the man fight the creature solo while momo crafted numerous flashbangs and spotlights got ready to put their plan into action zombieman was able to lure the creature into the trap flawlessly and the lights came on flashing and burning the creature outright, tokoyami had swapped back to shining light and clad it upon toru with his bestow technique cladding the girl in shining light toru using her light manipulation along with her light refraction to amplify it to the maximum shining like a massive light that completely started to incarnate the creature as she flew closer to it combo attack: Heavens wrath the creature had been completely incinerated as toru passed through it and the darkness dome quickly faded after that.

The group was slowly joined by the ninja sometime later with a wounded shadow ring in tow but the girl assured that she would recover from her injuries and praised them for their success in defeating the final monster and lambasting their inactivity during the final battle but none of them took it personally and they still recognized their contributions, although it seemed they couldn't have saved the Populus unfortunately. As things died down toru requested momo to go back over to B-city to visit Jackie and see if she was ok and the girl agreed, tokoyami, on the other hand, wanted to go check up on tsu in Q-city mostly just out of guilt for what had happened previously which two understood.

B-city

Momo and Toru and momo arrived at the location to horrific sight …the orphanage that toru said was once there was in complete rubble there were a number of police officer scatter about trying to salvage the situation but it was clear just from the body bags scattered around that…this was a complete tragedy and almost to put the cherry on top of this scenario the two had actually found sero their as well his eye were completely red almost to glowing an extent, he was down next to two of the body bags which suggested…toru ran up and looked over the two which confirmed it..both Jackie and fred were gone… but what caught momo's attention was something in sero hand which he was holding with a near death grip like fashion it was seemingly a piece of a hand but it looked oddly familiar to her and just to cross reference she went into the group chat and search by images and the similarity was instantly notified momo immediately hugged the crouching sero from behind and attempted to tell him that it wasn't his fault but as he raised up and threw the pieces of hand up before shredding it to pieces with his tape, he simply responded that it didn't matter and walked off.

Q-city to Z-city

Tokoyami wrestled with the idea of personally messaging asui of his arrival originally he simply argued against it but during the halfway mark through his transit and the girl remarked that she had seen garou he opted to do so, messaging the girl, and seeing if she was alright, she responded to him almost immediately saying that she was ok and that everything was alright because watchdog man handled the situation. Tokoyami didn't realize what that text meant until he arrived in the city and noticed the large mountain of monster corpses near watchdog man's perch. It was almost staggering with everything just seems relatively fine when he looked around at the buildings or streets, all unsaved just a little dirty. He went over and quickly found tsu who was surprised to see him there despite telling him that she was fine tokoyami simply remarked that he was actually already on the way to her and that he was just…worried his feather brushing out in embarrassment, tsu shocked him when she hugged him and thanked him for coming making him flush even more before his face paled for a moment as his visioned fluctuated between tsu and another "tsu" that had blood leaking from her eyes making him break off the hug rather harshly making the girl confused and asked if he was ok, tokoyami didn't say anything for several moments as he shook his head and shining light spoke for him simply remarking that he still a bit shook up from their encounter previously.

Tokoyami snapped back into and noticed that asui wasn't in her traditional training outfit but her standard hero outfit which suggested to him that she had to deal with something as well and she nodded remarking that she had to change out of her training outfit due to the damage it had taken during the monster invasion. She went over some of the events that transpired until tokoyami cut her off when she off handily mentioned the day…it was friday which meant…sigismund's monster was … he hurriedly excused himself from the conversation telling asui that he needed to go check on sigismund and hearing that asui offered to go with him not really being in the mood to argue he obliged as he quickly donned shining light and wrapped his arm around asui and flew off as quickly as possible not even giving the girl time to tell watchdog man, tokoyami was pushing shining light to her limit it was still in the hour between noon and 1 so it allowed him to move even faster than normally and to increase the speed even further he used his wings as a air shield to depart some of the air in a slipstream function increasing their speed even more they were able to make the journey in a little over 15 minutes…..but it didn't matter…as tokoyami stopped he witnessed the destruction brought the entire city block was ravaged and many of the people were slaughter, sigismund's house was completely shattered but strangely enough sigismund himself was outside more correctly was that his body was outside of the house and his body didn't seem ravaged or inflicted with any wounds other than the large head injury but it almost appeared like he…. His thoughts were interrupted by the sound of laughter but he recognized the voice it was from none other than eris the small tiny creature about the size of mineta laughed at the misfortune, it remarked that she honestly didn't believe he would take its advice and do it, well she guessed given all the chaos his pain as at an all-time high so he was pretty suggestible she remarked, before taunting that she was just glad that she was free now but saddened that she couldn't convince him on a Sunday so that all the other could be free to but oh well nice knowing them she remarked punctuated again by another laugh.

Tokoyami said nothing but his thoughts were confirmed by the creature and he was furious, lashing out with shining light but the creature was able to dodge out of the way. Chuckling again before taunting him, she remarked it almost seemed like he was trying to kill her with that attack. Tokoyami wasn't one for banter so he didn't respond but asui did ask the monster why did it decide to stick around and if was it siding with the monster association? The monster confirmed so but she decided to stick around due to tokoyami likely to come to check up on the small boy she didn't expect him to take as long as he did remark that if he came early he might have been able to save him and as for the reason she was still there was to deliver a message from said association it was an invitation to join them and to meet them at near the border of Y and Z city. Tokoyami finally spoke and asked the monster "is that all?" the creature cheekily nodded its head and simply returned thought for a moment but tokoyami knew that it wasn't going anywhere so he simply ordered one word bestow .. the creature's voice died in its throat as shining light had suddenly appeared behind it stabbing it in the back with her serrated sunlight blade completely catching the creature off guard. Bestow was an ability he developed first and foremost to protect others, it allowed him to offer shining light to them for a limited amount of time but she was still subservient to him the entire time so alternatively, it could be for a purpose such as this when she moves to the selected target she completely turns her body into light and moves at light speed to behind the target a speed that no one should be able to react to.

Eris was taken completely off guard by the surprised appearance and tokoyami slowly made his way over as shining light kept the creature pinned stabbing into it again just to stop it from trying anything funny, as he arrived next to it and lifted the creature by the throat up, it tried to attack him but dark shadow was their completely ensnaring it's leg that it transformed into a blade before breaking said leg causing the creature to cry out in pain and receiving another stab in the other leg by shining light for its attack. Tokoyami tightened his hand on the creature's throat which was more for effect than anything the real pressure was coming from shining light behind it. The monster feeling its end tried one more transformation turning into none other than asui herself its transformation was still off however as always this asui was more comparable to a reptile than a frog with its eyes and tongue being similar ..nothing compared to what he already had to go through but even with that he still hesitated for a moment but one thought of sigismund again pushed him through as there was a large flash of light completely blocking asui vision as he stabbed into the imposter with his fenrir fang claw dropping the monster towards the ground and shining light soon returned to him and dark shadow presence soon faded from him as well. Tokoyami took one last look at the body which turned back to normal before turning back to asui when their eyes met there was a slight hesitancy and the girl took a step back as he stepped forwards, which hurt him a lot more than he thought it would as it wasn't the first time people looked at him like that even if he was only counting for today but he stowed that pain away but he didn't touch her instead just moved passed the girl while not saying anything, she can follow from whatever distance she finds "safe" to be from him he thought simply.

Poison at the heart of Y-city: Child emperor, Pig god, mina, sato

Sato after spending some time in the gym with his usual crew was pleasantly surprised to go and explore Y-city it was one of the first times he stepped foot in the large city and he wanted to see what it was like going off of mina's and Jiro's description of it, the largest place she been to was child emperors lab but she was surprised by just how large the place was when he arrived as he entered into the place he was greeted by none other than mina well to be more precisely he was greeted by mina who was currently being carried away like luggage away from a certain area and he could imagine just what type of area it was as child emperor made a remark to staying away from that place and that she was bothering him in the midsts of his work. Over there course of their time mina had been showing the guys mostly kaminari,sero, and Kirishima photos of child emperor's biggest project brave giant the small genius never really left the place because he was constantly working on it and she would give updates on what the suit would look like, seeing it in the picture just wasn't doing it justice to see how cool it looked in person. He could sort of see why Mina was so enamored with the project but he was just a bit more tolerant of the scientist's wishes letting the spectacle wash over him for a moment before going over and seeing what his pink friend was doing other than annoying the child hero.

The girl informed him that her and her mentor forte was on break for a moment leaving her with nothing to do for the next five or so minutes but now that he was here she suggested some ideas the one that caught his attention most however was some potential upgrades to his gear although he didn't want to pester the scientist given he seemed to be busy although now that he thought about it some upgrades couldn't be so bad, he never really thought of upgrading his suit before but with his new version of how he activates his power he always had the nagging feeling of worry about when he would run out of pills at the wrong time unfortunately for him he seemed to have been speaking his thoughts out loud and mina overheard him before rushing off back towards the small scientist to tell him of his problem although he was sure she was just using him as an excuse to allow her to get a closer look and despite his hesitance he allowed as he made his way over as well the thing was massive and looked straight out of an anime he couldn't belive it and he could only imagine the thing in motion. Despite being hard at work on the robot behemoth he decided to go along with their request even though insisted that it doesn't have to be worked on now or currently as to not distract the hero from his work the child hero was happy to oblige he stated that he could use the break from the complex mechanisms of brave giant and could work on something different for a change, especially something so "simple" he remarked casually as he brought sato along with him for a moment but just as mina was about to sneak back she was caught by one of the dogman bots which carried her along with them.

The task was simple child emperor remarked because he simply needed to know the volume of the container and the weight of the sugars balls within it, similar to the age-old question of how many marbles are within a given jar so with that explanation he whipped up a quick watch like device that went along his right wrist along with a belt that held containers for his capsules and once he placed the full container within them the numbers of sugar balls was revealed to him on said watch it was only an estimate based upon the weight so there was a possibility that it could be confused if something fell inside of the container which should be next to impossible so he liked it and thanked the kid and asked if he could bake him something for a reward of sorts and child emperor agree since he heard from mina that he was good at baking so he would like some sweets of some kind he gave sato the choice of whichever he wasn't very picky. The child prodigy remarked before stretching and getting back to the work on his large machine just in time as well, as forte had returned from wherever he went and mina wanted to show sato some of her moves although he remarked that there was practically no need since kirishima talks about it a lot, making the girl flush for a moment.

As her and forte got back to it and sato not having much else to do for a the moment as pig god was out doing his food challenge in the city, as he entered into the large essentially dance room and sat down and watched the two practice he was somewhat surprised by the actual motions of the two martial arts, the fluidity of motion was in complete contrast to the mix martial arts that bone and darkshine was teaching them mostly about fierce strikes to either an opponent's weak point or to open up them up, here however every actions seemed to be mainly focused on the rhythm itself even if the movement in his opinion was sometimes a bit exaggerated or completely unnecessary in terms of the flips and spins but maybe that was the point while bone or darkshine would call it wasted movement and a waste of energy he did it admit it was fairly unpredictable he had a hard time discerning what was an actual attack versus what was just a visual spectacle/ flare making it more difficult for an opponent to dodge or block effectively. It was a really interesting way to do things nonetheless and if it worked out for Mina then all the power to her.

The two took another short break but opted instead of just progressing like usual in their practice just the two of them to get sato involved forte explained the gist of the practice, it was a style of the rhythm rhythm fist that was supposed to mirror amply named mirror flow their opponents and if trained effectively or the bond deep enough even able to feel their opponents emotions during the fight. Sato had heard something similar from bone that occasionally when exchanging fists you could somewhat get a tell on what your opponent is feeling like each strike carried behind it their emotions even koda said that his coach said something similar in his practice. The tricky part was that this type of empathy was different for each martial art and the rhythm fist was no exception it was even more difficult in that like everything with the fist it revolved around music, the key to unlocking and using the skill to the fullest meant finding the correct flow to allow the mirror to commence using it among friends was easier due to your closeness to the individual and presumably having more knowledge to judge what style of music would not only represent them but your relationship with them as well so the technique was mostly relegated to tricks with friends and family for novices but true master could even use it in combat to better know their enemy of course a mirror was only good for delaying things out but was still susceptible to falter under the prefect that you are actually able to copy the move exactly as your opponent did but it wouldn't magically buff you to the level of the opponent so in the advent of using it against a stronger opponent the mirror attack was likely to be blown back or shattered completely. This also went for if you could even mirror the attack at all, which also limited its use against monsters even with masters of the form.

Having the explanations out of the way sato and mina got set to go against each other, sato opted to not go on and use his quirk for this sparring session after asking what score she got on that test that bakugo did on them last week he was surprised that she in fact got a higher score than he did well at least without his quirk that was she scored a .40 while he scored a .38, mina asked if he was able to beat stain then with his quirk that was but he shook his head he tried again and again but that man was just something else and mina was confused shouldn't his number have also quintupled making him higher than stain and sato nodded his head that's what he originally thought as well and after his third loss bakugo sure did give him an earful about not overestimating and getting cocky, pot calling the kettle black mina mentioned casually causing both of them to laugh for a moment but sato somewhat defended the angry teen saying that he was right in a way he didn't have much experience with blade wielding opponents and while on paper he was physically superior his expertise and quirk was just to much for him to handle but he hopes to improve upon that eventually. He did beat gentle criminal though he was, while even trickier to fight than stain initially his second stage was more up his alley being able to match the strength and speed while maintaining a good enough posture to fight the rubber banding effect he had on everything and mina could get behind that.

The two started their sparring and during the first three minutes, things were not going well their styles as he saw were still completely different although mina got in more hits than he did, although it was mostly due to not being used to such weird angles of the attack that would go through his blocks a lot of the time and his counters were always off target, messing up her rhythm was more difficult than he thought it would be. After the three minutes mark however things seemed to change with the bubbly pink girl as her entire demeanor and body movement shifted as the first of their fist collided against each other before it happened again and again almost as if she knew what he was about to do and match it; knee strike, knee strike, right jab, left elbow strike, right punch and soon after that she started to speed up this time doing the moves before he could even get them out forcing him to block a lot of them but or risk just being caught mind wind up of his attack until eventually, she ended the sparring match with her signature uppercut that completely took him out before seemingly returning to her usual self and pumping a fist in the air at her success, sato was happy and clap for her but he was curious on what song she played to match him so well and she just snickered and remarked that she played candyman and the second song was sugar crash. interesting choices he said but he guessed it worked out and now that she knew of the song's forte wanted them to spar again this time with sato using one of his pills.

the two started and this time sato was much more on the offensive mina couldn't really do much but avoid the incoming attacks the best she could even just blocking would still knock her off her game although sato was similar to kirishima in the fact that he didn't really press his advantage and let her get back in the mood, when it came time for the second song sato would block most of the strikes before returning with one of his own this one hitting her directly in the gut making her scrunch up in retreat for a moment as she retreated, sato was shocked when he narrowly dodged out of the way from acid shot his way this slight imbalance mina hoped to open up the man enough for her to get a shot in but he was still faster catching her punch and was about to push her again but he held back as he dodged out of the way of more acid spread by her other hand followed quickly After a kick from the girl whose range was extended by acid pouring out of the bottom, he quickly dodged left and right while closing the gap to strike her this time pushing inside of her next kick and wrapping her up in an arm bar making the girl submit. Mina questioned the unique technique coming from him as she never expected it with her mirror flow and sato explained that it was a spare-of-the-moment thing that he learned from watching Mizuki sometimes when she shows up during their practice.

Hearing the name again made mina pause in hesitation for a moment and that moment wasn't lost on sato as he recognized the girl's silent blunder he asked a question about if she used this mirror flow thing with Kirishima yet and mina nodded but she remarked that she couldn't really find the right music to go with him, she was still trying to figure him out which surprised sato given in terms of the class they had known each other the longest only surpassed by bakugo and midoriya. Yeah the girl remarked simply with a hint of skepticism and it seemed like she was going to ask him something before whatever it died as alarms started to blaze through the room no not just the room but it seemed like the entire building was raising an alarm, child emperor called them all towards the main area immediately their they saw that the boy was Fastway typing on his computer while suddenly bringing up video feeds of the city as there seemed to be countless monster attacks spread throughout the city itself, mina and sato just got a message to their phones as a large message from the association displayed itself on the large screen child emperor was located at stating the given emergency. The two of them had just finished looking at the message to see both of the other pro heroes' eyes on them.

Child emperor asked the obvious question about what are they going to do now, given that monster capture was no longer an option both mina and sato didn't give much of a proper response well not one to the kids liking at least, neither really wanted to kill monster but they understood the situation enough to realize that prioritizing their safety wasn't exactly an option at the moment so they would do the best to just help people out of the chaos and if that involved killing monsters said monsters….than they would deal with the situation once it was upon them. Child emperor wasn't completely satisfied with that answer but relented he wasn't going to ask them to sit this one out given the circumstances of the invasion although he did make some insurances to the problem in the form of forte, he told the man to exterminate any of the monsters they encountered if possible and for the second insurance was that he would separate himself from the group he wouldn't want to get into argument about sparing creatures again another time as he grabbed his backpack and started to go the opposite way their group was headed.

Forte was in charge of the trio on this mission as they rushed through the city as quickly as possible, sato having had earlier popped a pill needed to pop another one so that he could maintain his monster form each pill now lasted him 15 minutes which his new watch had a counter towards as well while redundant as he could feel the numbness approach his mind before his quirk wore off but he didn't mind the added clock it would inform others about his power that knew about it. Forte was the first to make contact with a monster which didn't last very long it was over in the blink of an eye and a shuffle of the man's feet the monster was a somewhat large dog with a mouth scattered all over its body even one scattered sling its tail but blood spluttered from all of them as it suddenly makes contact with the wall its spine was inevitably shatter and died on impact, both mina and sato looked at the creature with some remorse as they carried on behind forte due to how fast the hero was in comparisons to them most monsters were already killed by the time initial contact was met with it and forte. Mina knew yelling out to the hero was practically folly given their headsets and it was doubtful that he would even listen to her, the man was completely serious about his job normally so in this situation he was likely not playing for keeps as more and more monster bodies scattered the walkway they were jogging down.

It wasn't until 10 minutes later that they came across actually people that were under attack by some goblin monsters these monsters held tough bone like weapons wielding them like clubs screeching in unintelligible shrieks and hisses their weapons seemed to have been coated with blood and from who was no surprise as around them as fire and shatter glass spilled into the streets some bodies of people was scattered about no doubt from the 9 or so monster before them that quickly hastened after a group of civilians scared for their lives as some brave men wielding fire arms fired at their approaching number the barrage of bullets was only a hindrance to the group however as some swatted the bullets from the very air using their weapons others that had concentrated their fire on one of the goblins proved a somewhat different circumstance as one round luckily got into the creatures eye but this only made it angrier as it jumped at the group of men holding their ground their fear finally eclipsed and destroyed their courage as they all tried to scream and run away and the goblin creature was already upon them thoug as its jump brought it into swatting distance this one wielding a bone club that shattered one of the men's legs but the others didn't stop to help their compatriot as they continued to run.

The wounded goblin swung at it's the man other leg shattering the second one as its compatriots chased after the people it crawls on top of the man and was about to bash his head in with a wicked grin but mina stopped it cold as she use her acid shot to completely throw the creature off while it was maximized with viscosity she also left a decent bit of acidity with this as well as the goblin creature screeched in pain as it hit the floor and rolled around trying to get the substance off mina used the opportunity to hurry up and rescue the downed man but despite his wounds and likely shock he was going through he yelled at her in an angered voice to finish it off, she ignored him as she carried on and the man soon went silent as he finally fell unconscious from the pain he was going through the other of its kind were all taken care of by the time mina reached them although given sato somewhat disheveled look she guessed that any of the monster he fought and simply knocked out were killed by forte as well but some of them had bullet hole directly at at some of the monsters eye level which may have suggested that some of the men finished the job and as almost to confirm her thoughts many of the people here shamed her for not "doing her job" and gestures to the still wivering monster behind her that was just finishing getting the acid off itself its skin was burned away instead of green showing a slight purple color but after seeing that its colleague were dealt with it turned to run away with fear on it's face some of the people said that she should go after it and finish it off and that is what a hero was supposed to do and for a moment she…she was about to letting the crowds anger feed into her and remembering how happy it was to torment others slowly raising up her gauntlet and about to use her acid shot again this time maxmimum pressure and acidity but ultimately she didn't have to as forte was their he shuffled his way close to the fleeing monster and with a back hand beheaded the creature to roaring applause from the people behind him even some rushing up and purposefully bumping into them in the process to give him applauds for being a "real hero" mina and sato while somewhat hurt by the lousy reception they understood it, they weren't heroes in this world sense of the word but that didn't mean they had to like as mina complained to sato as they continued on the move to the next hot spot.

They weren't the only heroes in the city however as they came across other heroes as well forte called them weirdos but they were more like vigilantes they called themselves the neo hunters this group of regular civilians while opposed to the hero agency still made use of their things such as shelters in this time of crisis but they even held sato and mian in even more contempt for holding back and almost accused them of siding with the monster during this conflict, both mina and sato while can take criticism for their heroic duties but they drew the line of being apart or assisting in anything that was happening the two groups argued for sometime but they were just going in circles at a certain point but it was revealed to them a number of their members were poisoned and drawn off by a snake monster but before loosing them they had revealed that the monster in questioned remarked how the only people they weren't allowed to kill was those of the non-killing army members and they were to be captured if possible making both mina sato speechless and unable to come up with a proper response, the only thing they did know that they had to do was to find out what snake monster they were talking about and try and find some answers.

Elsewhere in Y-City

"Monster, hold it right there! You're the one using position right!" child emperor spoke through one of his machine watchdog men as the large lamia monster turned around to face him and chuckled to herself.

"Oh? Another low-class hero, how bold of you to come face me yourself. I prefer that my prey run away but I do enjoy a wannabe hero." the snake remarked

"What do you plan on doing with those captured heroes!" child emperor remarked as he took a glance at three heroes currently being suspended and trapped on a staff-like object ensnared by snakes the A-class hero sentai and two C-class heroes studless and ecology G were currently in the monster clutches as she waved the staff at the robot face.

"Oh these heroes, well I prefer to eat my meal fresh but having a meal in the middle of battle is so banal so they are simply paralyzed for now until I can return to my lair. Even if you were to miraculously save them they will just die in 2-3 days anyway but don't worry you will soon join them." the snake monster remarked

"Ha! Don't be so sure of yourself, monster…I, the brave hero watchdog man will not falter as easily as my comrades did. I will put my life on the line to stop you, here and now!" boom just as the robot finished speaking his sentence he was stricken fast as lighting by one of the monster's women's snakes on top of her head the blow sent him careening back but he recovered quickly.

"You can rarely recover from the poison of one of my snakes, normal animals would have found it hard to breathe from just a scratch." the monster commented

"This is nothing! As Dogman my courage gives me the strength to keep getting up no matter the odds! No matter how strong your poison is I will continue forwards until I defeat you! Doggy paddle punch!" the robot remarked as it jumped into the air swinging its arms back and forth

But its momentum was immediately halted as several snakes from on top of her head sprang out into protection of their mother catching the being in their grasp and injecting their strongest positions into it.

"Is that all your poison is capable of!? I'm still standing!" dogman remarked as he fell and caught himself on all fours looking up at the monster, eyesight was completely perplexed by the discovery her babies had inflicted their strongest venom on this being that could normally kill even monsters in seconds the only thing stronger than that was her venom but surely if something so resistant existed the gyro-gyro would have informed her of it, but than she remembered what the adviser said to her when she was assaulting the city that the S-class hero child emperor was located hear and he liked to fight with toys and trinkets..this..this must be one of them she realized.

"You…you aren't human no…you're not even an organic being." eyesight said and when no answer was forthcoming to the normally talkative machine she had her answer but…strange she sensed a heat signature nearby but if it wasn't coming from it then, she turned her head as she lifted higher sticking out and retreating her tongue back over and over again just as she more precisely narrowed down the heat signatures exact location the unspeakable happen she felt a commotion on her…chest? She quickly switched her head back around to look down at the machine that so brazenly lodged itself between her bosom and before she could smack the creature of light suddenly filled her vision.

Unfortunately, I had to sacrifice a dogman robot but at least I was able to analyze the poison and come up with a countermeasure, now that she was taking care of he can move on to the next threat…or so he thought as suddenly very husky and deep but feminine voice sounded out behind him as the car that he was sitting behind was hoisted into the air.

"I found you, so it was your heat source I was sensing, you were the one controlling the robot which means that your child emperor." a bead of sweat ran down his face as child emperor started into the angry eyes of the snake, before turning his gaze to his backpack if he could just get to it he thought but he made a crucial error in glancing away as his backpack was unceremoniously grabbed by the snakes tail and the monster laughed as it fully threw the car over its shoulder as it laughed and continued to stare the hero down.

"Ah, it seems you're without your little toys, small hero! You're like a frog caught in the eyes of a snake..kukuku for that explosion just now how about I eat without poison that way you can suffer and feel the full effect as I-" the monster stopped her threat as she suddenly felt something now in her complete monster from her heat-sensing abilities have also increased and something large was headed her way could it be another monster? But this size, she was supposed to be the largest creature sent to this city so what could it be? Then she heard the crashing of walls before suddenly bursting through the walls to her shock was a human, a big and grotesque one at that.

"Child emperor-kun I heard an explosion and I came over right away. " pig god said

"But why through a wall!?" child emperor almost asked immediately

"I chose the shortest route possible, but now I'm tired and hungry." pig god remarked.

"Two S-class huh? Well, no matter since you are organic my venom can affect you just as well! To S-class heroes killed by me, I would instantly be granted cadre status! Now die!" eyesight remarked as she sent all of her snakes forwards towards the larger target but was utterly shocked when not just nothing happening to the large hero but her snakes were suddenly grabbed and she was lifted off her feet and dragged forwards into a widening maw as he vision suddenly went black not even her screams were heard as she was suddenly eaten head first as her tail started to enter pig gods body child emperor bag had slipped off but he was to consumed by what he was witnessing to pick it up.

"The poison! Pig god I don't think it's a good idea to eat the head of a poisonous snake!" the child hero remarked as he gained his voice.

"It's alright, the food was good, it could be a little spicier though." pig god said with a burp.()

"Erm yeah it's fine, I can digest it quicker if I move around more, I still have room in my stomach don't worry." pig god remarked as he walked away.

"What? no I wasn't asking if you were full….well I guess it's ok then." child emperor thought for a moment as he heard the crashing of a car sounded and he noted that the monster staff was still around with the heroes hanging up from it he slowly went towards them as he was approached by pink mist, Sugerman, and forte the group had seemingly run into trouble on their venture given the damage on their costumes, the two teens approached him about having seen the two snakes and while he was tempted to lie but the currently unconscious heroes kind of made that hard so he simply elected to tell them the truth he said that pig god had eaten her but lied about the time he had arrived saying that he was likely long by now. He inquired on why they wanted to see the snake creature as he didn't want to believe that they wanted to spare such a being and they told him that apparently the snake creature and likely the other monsters were told not to kill them and they wanted to figure out why child emperor responded with the likely reason they would be kept alive given their group's theme and it didn't take a rocket scientist to figure it out but they countered explaining that they wanted to figure out, the counter by explaining the monster was likely some type of leader as it could give orders to other monsters and while child emperor agreed it didn't mean that other monster couldn't have information of their own to share as well about this mysterious group attack. Telling them that they would allow them to capture another monster of interrogation for such matters which was all the teens could ask for at that point as three of them carried the unconscious heroes back to the lab so that child emperor can produce a cure for the poison, before setting back out again for another monster if pig god has not eaten them all sato remarked as their initial group left again.

J-city scuffle: Council Of The Sword, Atomic's Disciples, Spring Mustache, Jackie, Sero

Sero had decided to go and visit spring mustachio for the morning before he headed out towards J-city and the council's place and that was the only reason he decided to go to hero hospital located in B-city nothing else entirely he mostly lied to himself as he thought about what he would do after he left the hospital. Given that things were a bit hectic at the moment with this whole mysterious monster group that had been lurking around and making moves in the shadows so he wanted to spend time with his girlfriend not that he believed something was going to happen to her but he never knew when something could happen and he was a bit more worried when the girl no longer had the protection of bomb and her other classmates not that she needed of course in terms of just hand to hand she could beat him to next Tuesday he thought with a snicker. Well he would worry about her when the time came, he continued to the hospital not without getting a smoothy but not for him however but for spring mustachio apparently due to his battle with garou the man not only had a mad concussion but he also had his jaw broken fairly grizzly as well he couldn't really talk or eat solid food well but he was recovering slowly over the past week and despite his lost the man never lost any of his suave and upstanding nature.

out of all the disciples of the sword masters he was undoubtedly the nicest even without that challenge their master hung over them regarding himself. He stopped by to see how ojiro was doing and seeing toru was their as well decided not to overstay his welcome and get in-between the two before heading further down to spring mustache he wasn't surprised to see that the man had company today the older light skin gentleman which was also the A-class hero golden ball here that was also on the scene during when garou fought mustachio he had actually saved the hero in fact but it was for that reason the hero made sure to meet up with is friend everyday he never got it past himself where he just stood their incapable of doing anything while his friend got attack although mustachio never held it against and when he was better he would still want to go out with drinks with his friends although maybe at different bar, the two of them also would pay more attention to what the hero guide had to say about them thinking that those journalist were fairly invasive in their little routine they had going on would have preferred to keep that stricken from the records if possible in the next edition.

Speaking of edition golden ball and Sero discussed about the latest edition which heavily featured those of the none-killing army as the big seller Sero not having any knowledge of this quickly skimmed the book and turned to his page he was on a page along with mineta and kirishima, he didn't have much juicy speculations like some of the others mostly just the generic stuff like all of them had that was instead of when it came to speculation of how he got his powers now their were discussion about what type of things he was next to to be able grow his tape elbows some say it was just tape for an assignment for school, other speculated that it was paper towels of some kind but the by far the most embarrassing was that it was in fact toilet paper which led some beehive that he began his mutation while he was on the toilet this got golden ball start fully laughing right along with saren inside of him, sero was just completely baffled by that guess and hated whoever reported such a thing it was beyond dumb. Golden ball and mustachio were curious about what did happen that day but of course his not knowing and being unable, to tell the truth, lead him to just brush the question off with its classification which he liked being able to use made him feel somewhat more special and in hindsight, he guess he was but he did make sure that to say that bathroom rumor was the furthest thing from the truth if at all possible now and made sure to asked him to spread the word around which the man agreed to.

With that out of the way Sero used that as his opportunity to take his leave, he made his way to the next stop fairly quickly going towards Jacki's place or residents which was an orphanage, he was pretty stunned when she told him of that fact but he didn't look down on her for it, only thinking the girl was so much stronger than she initially appeared instead. But he would keep it a secret she didn't want people to start looking down on her for it which he could understand it was like their world and quirkless people essentially there was a sort of pity there that was almost touchable. He had just finished swinging over towards her residence and he took notice of a certain someone waiting outside it was Fred if he was recalling right, he knew that on the days when toru was out doing hero work, Jackie was continuing with her whirlwind practice and Fred was one of the best in their class so it made sense that she would go to him in bombs absence. Toru tried and successfully stirred some controversy by revealing that Jackie actually had a big crush on the young adult but speaking to the guy about it he didn't return her feelings given their age gap which made Sero somewhat more relieved about their practice time which was mostly just the two of them by themselves but not completely.

Although he often battled with the thoughts of actually getting too attached to the girl in general he knew that he would be leaving eventually and not to discount her preferably sooner rather than later which meant they mostly only had one more month to be together if the current predictions were correct but Sero was not unaccustomed to short relationships some times in his middle school days people would go out and break up within weeks of each other and he was no exception to that, his thoughts were sidelined as Jackie came out and upon noticing him ran up to hug him and kissed him on the lips, she was oftly affectionate in terms of the other relationships currently going on they were the ones that show the most public displays of their love for the other, part of him was curious if this was mostly due to the girl just trying to make the most of their fling until he had to leave away. The two of them agreed mostly to not mention his departure from their world unless some new information had presented itself that she would need to know and partly to not constantly remind themselves of a ticking time clock which may encourage them to rush things, they wanted to keep things as casual and "natural" as possible for the time being. Sero, Jackie, and Fred talked for a brief moment before Sero needed to go; he only had a limited amount of time to hang around in the morning, even less so now that he traveled further from J-city than his initial home was.

After swimming through the city and getting to the train station he was on his way to J-city, on his way however he had inadvertently ran into one of council of swordsman unfortunately it was one of the ones that was the most hostile towards him Haragiri, he thought that he was a complete front for what the council of swordsmans stood for which was practicing the sword the to of the maximum level possible but interestingly enough he made no comment as sero made his way behind him towards the location although that didn't stop him from glaring at him from time to time when he wasn't looking well according to saren if it was to be believed he even remarked that the man was seemingly pondering something and it definitely involved himself as he apparently made several motions his way but did not call out to him before stopping saren also said that the man had a strange aura about him today which at that point sero was convinced the ghost was just playing tricks with him but even with saren was more or less behaving from now on even helping with his his awakening powers, he still was a ghost in the end searching for another body that he could fully inhabit so he didn't want to feed into him to much.

Sero made it to the dojo a little behind Haragiri the atmosphere was fairly tense going by how none of the council swordsmen even said a word his way which indicated something was up, for atomic that was normal and the others were somewhat a hit or miss if they would say something but even when the old man didn't say anything but made his way inside he knew something was amiss and it was likely due to garou attacking spring mustachio he wondered if similar to the tank tops there was some type of clause or deal of defense/retribution did. For now, he couldn't pay attention to that as he started his practice with the disciples while they waited outside.

As sero mentioned saren has been more forthcoming with his knowledge and training, over the past week he has been steadily been able to more and more be able to control the hardening of his tape, now he could make it as hard and as sharp as a sword and of course, when that was done the disciples had gotten a little bit more interested in actually training him instead of doing their own thing his tape swords were just strings of tap pressed into the shape of a sword, he needed to focus on shaping first before he could wield the thing unless he risks cutting his own hands off the edges of his tape. It also offered the greatest similarities to the disciples they mostly fought with only one sword so he did as well and come to think of it most of the swordsmen he's seen only did so as well okamitachi said it was due to the stupidity of dual wielding swords as its impact relies on a steady hand and strong motion and that real life wasn't like the fiction he sees in his cartoons and the sentiment was echoed by practically all of them however Iaian had a different take on the matter given that his swords were made of tape they lacked weight but that was made up for by the sharpness he could form it in which would alleviate some of the issues revolving around duel wielding swords but he took things one step further in saying that when they first encountered his "inner self" his use of his paper was more in the fact of ranged projectiles like throwing stars and knives and that he should look to mirror that style of combat.

Saren also sided with Iaian on this matter technically speaking he could have a near-infinite amount of blades and didn't have to limit himself to just a single one like the others did but he would need to practice to make it work. Sero mind had to work overtime to make it work however the dual process of keeping constant control of all the tape he shoots out along with their hardness and position relative not only to him but his opponents was something that took getting used to. Shaping it all out and actually using them in combat were two different things, however if he focused too much on one certain thing his other creations would falter and in battle with sharp objects it became fairly easy to become tunnel visioned on just about anything, so he simply first decided to separate the two his combat training would revolve around more traditional one swords styles training with the disciples and then another secondary more ranged style of combat he was much more comfortable with this secondary training obviously seeing as he was more about range even before his awakening and given that all he really needed to focus on was his own position and the position of his tape things were much easier for him, he could even commentate over the disciples attempting to fend off his tape, while he obviously couldn't match their speed his best bet was to overwhelm them with pure numbers and they took that as a challenge but a risky one at that, they still had the disgrace thing if even a single one of his tape managed to touch them and in that vein sero made it harder by not even forming his tape into shapes which would shrink the number of objects only shrinking them as small as index cards to attack he called it gatling index. The disciples were good however he has still yet to tag a single one of them and he would get tired before any of the three did, ensuring their victory but shaping up their observational skills as he tried different techniques and angles to attack from to surprise them.

Sero and the group decided to take a break before discussing current events.

"Today's meeting is taking an oddly long time, it's been almost three hours since master atomic went inside." okamaitachi remarked

"Likely due to the recent developments everyone on the sword council is taking this threat seriously." bushidrill replied

"Master said he wanted to bring the entirety of the council of the sword down on garou…but is our query worth the extra attention?" Iaian remarked

"The hero hunter, his real name is garou, I heard that he was originally bangs' top disciple. Master atomic always held bang in high regard so he's likely taking no chances with his top student. " bushidrill said

"Then what if I were the one that brought him to justice? Given that master and bang compete amongst each other so much I'm sure that would make him happy." Iaian remarked with a smile.

"According to reports garou has defeated numerous heroes including tank top master and Nichirin's top disciple spring mustachio. Do you think you would be capable of doing the same? Especially with just one arm Iaian?" okamaitachi queried.

"I won't know until I face him, But it would be a disgrace to garner this force for someone unworthy of it." Iain remarked looking down at his sword.

"Hmph.. no, there is no need to pursue personal vendettas in this case, especially against someone who strayed from the path, master's right to form a competent elite team to deal with the problem once and for all." bushidrill remarked

"I heard some of the tape boy's friends had some encounters with the guy himself. He likely can give off some more information about this garou." okamaitachi remarked before scanning the area not finding said tape boy questioned where he went? () sero popped out just as the girl pondered that thought explaining that he had to excuse himself to go to the bathroom. Ignoring his ghost's pleas to investigate the council member especially when it told him what his plan was the ghost simply called him a coward and he would accept that he wasn't about to risk possibly his life for something that could just be a fluke or the ghost just playing tricks

"We were discussing the hero hunter your friends have fought him before so we assume you must have some insight on him from their experience," Iain asked

"That is if you remember anything." okamaitachi added on.

"Hey man, not cool he hurt one of my friends, hell the guy even hurt me."(well me in the proxy of saren he thought but he realized his slip up too soon to be able to rectify it, as all three disciples looked at him curiously.

"You had an encounter with the hero hunter, yet you remained unharmed….that is rather curious?" bushidrill insinuated

"Yeah… Now that you mention it I do remember some rumors of the non-killing army and the hero hunter being in cahoots." okamaitachi remarked, gaining even more suspicious glances.

"Whoa , whoa , whoa …hold , hold , let's take it back like a million steps and I remind you that I and my friend were attacked and while I got off easy my friend was hospitalized for more than a week. We are not affiliated at all."sero completely cut straight to the point.

"So why did you get off relatively unscathed in comparison?" bushidrill questioned

"Because I wasn't much of a threat to him." sero remarked

"And this silver wukong was?" Iain asked

"Well…no…he wasn't…he believed he wanted to send a message to us directly," Sero remarked simply.

"And why would he want to do that for you lot?" okamaitachi asked

"Well like I said he had attacked me before but after I woke up monster ropper told me he had a message for me he told me that he was still undecided on "hunting" us yet." sero remarked, making the others ponder what that meant.

"Could it potentially be that since your group does not kill monsters? I also heard that this garou preferred to be referred to as a monster instead of a human." okamaitchi said and sero nodded.

"That's what we assume is the case, midoriya had talked to him briefly in their battle and confirmed it." sero remarked

"Green savior fought him as well, what percentage did he use?" iaian asked immediately, remembering his spar with green savior.

"Well he took him seriously so he went to 100% right off the bat but from what I've heard he wasn't able to do much of anything to him in that state. In comparison midoriya only landed one attack which is likely why he had to take a break for a moment there before coming back and attacking again." sero remarked saying his thoughts out loud which the group was starting to come to terms with.

"Well why did he injure your other friend with the tail so severely then?" bushidrill remarked

"Well he gave them all the chance to walk away multiple times but after seeing what the man did to tank tops and the others and that bang and bomb were on the way they refused. They wanted to stall him out but…things got bad." sero remarked glumly

"I see, but I'll give the boy credit he has the heart of a true warrior to face him and understand that defeat is inevitable but continue forwards." bushidrill said in slight praise.

"Thanks, I'm sure he would take the loss as a learning experience."sero said with a snicker.

" As any good martial artist should, you could learn a lot from him," iaian remarked seriously. Sero nodded in agreement as the four of them continued to talk and discuss what sero knew of the hero hunter until finally, their master opened the door to the dojo, there was an odd odor that wafted towards them coming directly from the dojo. Sero had been around them enough times to know what that smell was, was it of blood? Sero minor freakout allowed saren to control his body for a moment and actually questioned the samurai about it and perhaps if it was of haragiri's and sero wish he hadn't as the next thing he knew there was a blade to his throat as atomic samurai said he was correct but questioned how he knew which council member was apart of the monster association, saren admitted he had no knowledge of anything like that but notified that the individual in question was acting suspicious towards sero on their journey and he guessed something was amiss but sero doubted him so he did not speak of it.

Now atomic was someone that partially believed that saren was a ghost well at least a split personality that sero possessed so he offered the spirit a chance of proving he wasn't just bullshitting about all of this because he wasn't in the mood for games anymore and sero mildly panicked for a moment thinking that the first thing he would offer was to possess the Samurai but instead he offered a different approach only telling sero internally to prepare for pain. As he forced sero body to retreat and back off into an open area before using his tape to spread out before him and saying the words talisman flame. And after a throbbing headache all of the tape he just unleashed caught on fire and danced around him. Not only that, they combined together to create what would only be described as a sentient flame creature that was constantly laughing with yellow bright eyes, and after finding it annoying enough atomic sliced it in half and the flame monster went back to just being pieces of paper just separated in multiple pieces but the S-class found the demonstration efficient in proving his case and sheathed his sword away for the moment before telling saron to let him have control back which after doing so promptly smacked sero upside the head for not mentioning what his apparition was telling him, sero apologize though attempted to explain what the ghost would have had him done just now but atomic didn't care for that as he continued to press on there were more important matters to tend to then him or garou and that was crushing the monster association.

Sero checked his phone and noted that there was actually a state of emergency going on right now and that everywhere was likely being attacked, so the group of four kicked into high gear first clearing J-city all they could while making their way towards G-city where things were really popping off the time it took them to traverse was painful long due to mostly due to sero who lacked the speed to keep up with them they ultimately decided to simply leave the hero in training behind before continuing on their own, sero used his recent availability to check on his friends and there was another person he wanted to check up on given Jackie wasn't answering any of her text or her phone which he hoped was only due to the situation and her leaving it somewhere but he still wanted to go check for himself. He was currently in H-city and under his speed it would take him a couple of hours to get there on foot but several of the main hero train lines were down due to the monster emerging from the ground. He attempted to get as close as he could before deciding to huff it on foot but it still was going to take him 30 minutes to get there he could feel his elbows start to chafe with the overuse of his quirk but he persisted.

His efforts however didn't matter as he approached the smoked wreckage of the orphanage that was Jackie's home the fire and smoke still blasting from the building bodies were skewn about the lawn and street, he walked through the street almost completely mortified by what he saw, he knew some places were hit bad but he guessed in his hurry he simply never noticed what was happening around him but now that he sat to take it all in now things were setting in it reminded him off the previous war they went through but unlike then most of the bodies were decayed during shigaraki's attack but now he was just seeing it unfiltered and as he knelt down and approached a body originally he thought it was one of the monster and that somehow made hims feel slightly better but that turned into absolute horror when he realized who it actually was it was Jackie he noticed by the tattoo around her neck..her body was somewhat morphed into something sharp alogn her arms and her legs were completely changed into a more monstrous form these were bigger than her thighs almost rapter like if he had to call it with more boney spikes sticking out but the most damning and gut wrenching thing she held in her hands was a hand it was familiar to him and once he picked it up he knew why and she also had a mysteriously fish shaped of her bitten off …that reminded him of another monster and when kirishima texted that a number of monsters escaped captivity from A-city combined with the knowledge they have a likely location in Z-city he simply accepted what happened here. As he cut a piece of the hand he held in his hands ripping it over and over again even as the rescue worker came, unfortunately, or fortunately depending on how his mind viewed it fred was also killed in the fighting as he remained there steadily dissecting the hand he held in his grasps even as momo and toru arrived and all that was left was fingers, she was smart to figure out what he was thinking but her comfort didn't help much as he simply continued to tear the hand to shreds before finishing the last digit off and simply walked away from the scene.

Human and monsters: Metal bat, Koda

Koda and bad had the unfortunate opportunity to be doing body guard service for some association backer and his son, koda even while traditionally nice and kind to all also felt fairly odd about the whole arrangement the first thing they actually ended up doing was coming and "suggesting" for him to skip class for the day solely for the fact that the son wanted to "play" with the monsters under his control but it became immediately clear that the boy was not one of the gentle types he was almost immediately antagonistic against both aki and torax leaving to both not really liking the boy much if at all, torax actually snapped at the boy which immediately changed the kid's mood at least to not entirely focus on them while they traveled although it did get the kid and his father to start bad mouthing koda instead which he was willing to take as it was the better alternative than pissing torax off but bad stuck up for him at least somewhat in that regard as well when the two started to take things to far and suggest that he has a different set of monsters assigned to him if he could't control them properly at all times.

The group of five finally arrived at their destination which was called mouse sushi, as the name implied it was a small sushi shop, given the size of the place and the establishment not allowing animals the monsters had to wait outside, and after talking to them both agreed and were more than fine with not spending more time with that kid so they were going to relax outside waiting in that instance koda just opted to wait outside with them and just get his food to go with them. Metal bat was jealous that he found a reason to separate himself from the father, son duo as bad was forced to sit inside and watch as both the rich father and son not only seemed impressed by the "poverty" of the food along with completely breaking the rules of the establishment by putting the plates back on the rotating belt which without the people wouldn't be able, to sum up, their prices at the end, not that price mattered to the two in particular bad noted but it as just being polite and courtesy to the employee which the father seemed to have gotten as he kept his plates but the kid kept putting his place back angering metal bat greatly but thankfully before he could act on his anger and things of that nature he started to get a phone call and decided to go back into the bathroom to take it.

It was his sister she was curious if he was going to come and pick her up to go shopping unfortunately he couldn't come along due to the mission she offered that instead to send koda over in his stead but he also denied it saying that he had to stay their on the mission with him as well it was something important going on for the association so they forbade him from telling anyone else about it but he wouldn't lie to his little sister if she wanted to know he would tell her but that was if she really wanted to know so for now he just said that he would explain later and despite the girl saying that she was going to cry it took a lot of his willpower not to break and just rush to her side and she hung up soon after tears already evident in her tone, he was saddened he hated to make his sister cry he would never just blindly be told he's doing something ever again even if it came from someone from the top he thought before suddenly the entire building started to shake and he heard a loud crash from the other side of the builing laog with screams of the s. He hurried back inside the main place and saw what was happening a large centipede was holding the boy hostage meanwhile behind it was a large planet-type monster this one had carnivorous plants for arms and legs but it was facing away from him using its arms to strike out at the tiger in hopes of biting it but the tiger was swiping at the creature with its claws completely tearing off one it's limbs making it scream in pain, for koda and Aki's part they were busy getting hurt and damaged people out of the way and out of the shop those that weren't crushed or swallowed up by the large hole the monsters made that is. Koda was just returning and bad called out to him to let out a screech and koda nodded letting out a vice shout the screeching sound made the large centipede monster completely drop the kid allowing bad to rush in and bisect it with just a swing from his bat, torax knowing what was coming adapted completely shutting his ears to avoid the stunning voice before he lunged forwards embedding his teeth into the second monster and ripping outwards tearing the creatures head from its shoulders.

The father and son quickly reunited as the father surprisingly had started to record the fight and the son was just surprised by how quickly the fight had gone and he was saved, bad caught a plate of sushi that was about to hit the floor and quickly swiped at it and ate it, couldn't have food going to waste well more than it already was from the monster attack but none of this made since they said that garou was supposed to be hunting the association, not monsters so why did they show up? They had a picture of the kid so something was going down but was the hero hunter a part of it? He thought for a moment before the centipede creature that he was laying on started to ramble about his back story that nobody asked for but the punchline about his story was that there was always someone bigger than you in this world and as he finished the grounded once again exploded open this time forcing everyone still inside the building out pushing even torax out that was eating the plant monster both him and metal bat recovered on to their feet while the others face planted and slowly started to rise this new senior centipede wanted revenge for it's junior and while bat wanted an answer on what they wanted that could always wait until before but before he could charge at is new target a mist started to permeate the air and another monster started to crawl out from between the girders. Koda, Aki, and their two charges dropped unconscious and while the tiger was somewhat shaky he remained standing on his legs.

Well at least someone stayed up, metal bat thought as he remarked to the cat being too sleepy to continue to fight but torax rebuffed him and said that he still had the energy to spare. With that taken care of the two charged at their targets torax would take care of the plant monster while metal bat fought the centipede, torax battle was one of annoyance the plant creature's tentacles held little stingers on the needles like jellyfish any time it touched his body it would send a jolt through his systems causing irritation and pain but at least he could still move simple enough to fight back at least somewhat, metal bat, on the other hand, wasn't having too much of a fun time either he started with defending against the creatures grand march which utilized its body and numerous legs to strike him on all sides but he was able to smack it away, but the creature used that moment to strike at the tiger instead proceeding forwards to strike at it's blind spot smacking the large beast into a house nearby which crumpled down upon it. Bad wanted to intercept but his body suddenly felt heavy and couldn't move.

The centipede seeing the tiger down both turned their sight on the S-class hero that was not moving the plant monster had been constantly spraying it's hypno-scent into the air and eventually it started to affect him as well the two demon monster taunted how would handle them now but bad was too tired to reply the centipede charges at him again smacking him but even as he felt the pain his body only felt sluggish and tired hit after hit the centipede continued along with some zaps from the planet monster when it could squeeze it through the unrelenting assault but after crashing through a buss had an idea so he smacked himself upside the head this time first once and then again and again until four times finally getting his fighting spirit to kick in and his head instantly started to clear the monster were stunned but before either side could do anything else the plant monster flower was blindsided by torax's tail transforming it into a massive flower traps and consuming the top portion of it's head as senior centipede turned around surprise it was too lae for him as metal back struck the centipede once so hard that it completely combusted.

After the fight was over metal bat completely forgot to ask why the monsters were attacking in the first place. Bad yelled at the tiger for not sparing the plant monster and the tiger yelled back saying that he never agreed to spare anything and blamed him for not sparing the centipede. The two bickers somewhat until two people rapidly approached it was two heroes apparently the C-class mohican and the B-class pineapple both of the heroes were their to help and they had squared off against torax but metal bat just informed them that the fight was over the monsters were dead pointing to those two corpses on the ground next to them, but they pointed to the large tiger that was their but bad defended for him saying that it's one of forest lords who the tiger was inspecting along with Aki , Metal Bat checked over the association protectees and after seeing that they were just sleeping he ordered the two heroes to take them away and get them to one of those fancy shelters the association has for people like them and for torax to go with them, while the tiger didn't like taking orders he simply compiled especially with the as cracks started to suddenly form into the ground which everyone awake immediately took notice of the cracks stopped talking as suddenly the sun was eclipsed as a massive monster sprung up through the air, it's large purple body immediately clueing the heroes off on what that monster was it was elder centipede informing meta bat that it was a dragon level threat but the man was seemingly calm about the news and told them to go on ahead, torax didn't know if he was crazy or just believed to much in himself but he wasn't going to waste time asking questions. He shot out a webs from over his body and strapped the four unconscious people to himself and started to run away along with the Two arrivals riding his back.

Elder centipede spotted them and yelled that they wouldn't get away and charge forwards towards them the heroes on top of torax yelled a warning as the monster dives down it's body just barely fitting through the gaps of the buildings but the sudden sound of a large metallic clang ringing through the air and the almost endless rumbling finally ceased even torax looked back to see what happen and even he was shocked by what he saw the massive centipede was completely stopped by the small human but that was short lived as the S-class hero was completely brushed aside by it's pincer sending him flying into a building and the monster turned back it's attention to them once more as torax turned back around and continued to run away but the monster was still gaining on them even when torax would twist and turn through the city but that only resulted in more collateral damage as the heroes on top of them would say but they didn't seem to care too much he must have thought as the thing chasing them was still coming and still gaining how fast could something like that move torax thought as he continued but suddenly more resounding smacks rung out and this time it as met with a roar of pain from the beast body did a weird jerky motion as it's body flung buildings and ruble everywhere, torax looked skywards just in time to see something fling off the creature before noticing that a large part of the building was going to collapse on top of them the heroes screamed were muffled as he wrapped them all up with his tail as his body morphed prortuding a bone like defessnive cage all round himself and his passengers.

After the initial fall torax quickly dug out of the gravel and debris before releasing the bone cage and dropping the two still panicked heroes who were gasping for breath. One of them looked into the sky and saw that elder centipede was currently under attack as multiple large explosions dotted its body but torax noted how the rockets didn't seem to even damage the creature, the heroes pointed out where the missiles were likely coming from it and it landed down in front of him, it was a large machine that took a moment to noticed the heroes as it looked at torax it asked him where does he stand, torax simply replied that he's in charge of protecting these people as he gestured to the people attached to him and metal knight said nothing but told them to leave the battle zone as his weapon testing was not meant for show and with that out of the way three of them were off and metal knight continued onwards. The three of them ran for a couple of blocks but were intercepted by three monsters dropping down in front of them: a sludge monster, a bird monster, and a rhino monster. The first to speak was the sludge monster who wanted torax to surrender the father and son. Torax hesitated for a moment before shaking his head the bird spoke up next noticing another individual strapped to the large tiger it was also someone of interest, it asked if the teen could control monsters but torax played his cool and didn't react leading the monster to stare at him questioningly. The bird then asked another question seeing if this would garner a reaction he asked where was metal bat he was supposed to be fighting the elder centipede but he didn't see him and the torax merely looked off in a given direction before looking back phoenix curious and decided to investigate telling the sludge creature to follow him and the rhino to take care of the rest.

Elsewhere in S-city: metal bat

Garou had arrived at the site of the disaster. Originally he was planning on paying a visit to watchdog man but once he heard that a dragon-level threat was fighting metal bat nearby he just couldn't refuse such a delicious offering. While originally he believed that he would be getting maybe some sloppy seconds of a weakened hero after having fought a dragon-level threat upon actually looking at the giant centipede wreaking havoc through the city he simply didn't know even if the man survived the conflict or not, they just seemed comical, he wondered could he just fight the monster instead killing something that killed an S-class hero would be just as good right? But then people would look at him as a hero, not a monster, he thought with a sigh maybe if the thing was in his neck of the woods but not now, someone else could take care of it, or not didn't matter to him, it just sucks that he made his way down here for nothin- his thoughts were immediately halted as something flew right past him and he turned just as the sound of the railing behind reached his ear as it crumpled with the sudden lump of mass upon, that lump of mass, however, was none other than metal bat himself the man seemed completely defeated which confirmed his fears of his defeat as he looked back to the rampaging centipede in the distance well there was still always watchdog man he thought but he was again surprised this time a welcome one as the hero rose once again still willing to fight the centipede but he had to get through him first. Even if the man was beaten up and bloody he didn't hold back as he launched his first strike utilizing the old man's technique to not take any chances he was still an S-class hero one of the weaker ones but still as his attack was blocked by the pummel of his bat, making garou smile even more.

The idiot finally caught onto who he was and garou always loved that his reputation precedes him but that only meant the hero new what he had to do as the two charged at each other, the fight between them was simple garou could see it all the sluggish and one dimensional movements were easy to avoid and counter with an attack of his own even landing follow up attacks but something was off as he dodged out of the way of a downwards swing at amount the man was bleeding should have been debilitating but he kept powering through if anything he seemed to be just fine and dandy like the blood was just a decoration is this what people called the "heroic spirit" he asked aloud to the hero, but a sudden metal bat clouded his vision causing him to dodged out of the way, something was definitely going on that swing almost seemed faster than before and his counter attack that would usually stagger the hero now was just eaten his kick that had solidly landed directly on the hero bloody forehead barely budged him. He dodged another flurry of swings and another downward swing that this time struck the ground and confirmed that he was getting faster and stronger somehow, he had an idea and raised at him with a barrage of attacks they all landed but again the man was now like an impenetrable fortress his body did not falter from his assault as he muscled through and swung his bat again but despite the explosive power of the attack he still couldn't land a hit as he jumped away and landed on a fence and questioned the hero about this strange ability of his but all he got in response was some cheap talk about "fighting spirit" which just ticked him off which was further by the fact that the hero still wanted to fight against the centipede was he looking he down on him? Garou thought angrily.

He jumped down from the fence kicking up a sewer top simultaneously and kicking it towards the hero as a cover for his movements the hero reacted obviously and hilariously going into a batter pose and smacking the things away like it was a softball but he left his side open by moving and his confusion about where he went relaxed his body allowing garou next flurry of blows to stagger than man backward a bit before he could refocus and push through it. Despite his constant beating he still thought he had a chance against him whatever this fighting spirit was didn't matter as long as the idiot couldn't hit him he would be fine he exclaimed as he struck again and again after every dodge. his next kick was suddenly blocked by the hero as he started to rapidly spin around in circles using "killin' move'' savage tornado but in actuality, the move was nothing but a playground stunt he nearly laughs at the stupidity of it spinning in circles and hoping for the best is that really what an S-class hero is capable of when backed up into a corner? But speaking of which he was backed up into a corner was this the real goal with that kiddy-like move? And to make matters even worse the man rapidly spinning was actually pretty good he couldn't find a pathway through it which meant that there was only one thing he could do was deflect the blows and force and opportunity he felt bad that he had to use the geezer move against such a child-like attack but he wasn't going to take unnecessary damage either due to pride. So he started to slowly but steadily deflect all of the blows but he wasn't just deflecting them he was guiding them away from himself like a wind current and this new current he created will be repeated by the idiot unbeknownst to him leaving him plenty of room to use his next attack faijin blast taking the momentum of the tornado and combining it with his own power and the fajin technique that mossy hair kid did allow him to strike metal bat much harder than he could own his own and the effect was immediate causing the hero to get thrust back and spit up blood as he did so before land on his back and didn't seem like he was going to rise again.

Garou was satisfied with his victory like tank top master metal bat was just a simpleton just throwing around his power it was the exact type of thing bang's anti human martial arts were meant to takedown but…woah those swings they were fairly powerful even though he was reflecting them using the geezer moves, he would give him one thing he was powerful he was simply outmatch who knows what would have happened if he actually managed to land a hit on him but just as he thought that his instincts flaired and he turned around as quickly as possible just as another voice rang out behind exclaiming "brother!" the strike that was about to hit him completely stopped in its tracks allowing garou to get the upper hand again and knock the hero back on his ass again as he was paying attention to his sister, apparently the two of them were had a deal going on where he wouldn't commit violence in front of his sister which was a dumb thing just in general but especially in a fight but just as he was about to beat on the hero again his sister halted him as she sped over to get in between them, hehs she's pretty fast for a kid her age. There was a brief pause as garou planned his next move but another nagging feeling in the back of his head was bothering him like he was being watched from somewhere so he dropped it and let the little girl have it. He already won the fight and had no point in continuing as he started to walk away. He kept an eye on the duo as he rounded a corner metal bat was going to continue to fight but his sister must have knocked the wind out of him as he collapsed on the ground unconscious it was at that very moment that something seemed to seep out of sewer drain and garou was on it in an instant crashing down on the sludge monster with a fist. It survived surprisingly enough but before he could finish it another monster came down. It was a bird monster of some kind and it offered him an invitation to some monster association he wasn't interested in so he ripped it up and threw it in its face but unbelievably despite his spectacular refusal it didn't give up yet and remarked that they would speak again.

Back to koda()

Seeing that the heroes he was with were practically helpless against the large rhino monster, torax decided to intervene, shedding himself of his baggage and telling them to get away. The two heroes obviously prioritized the more important targets to the hero association remarking that the teen and the cub would "come back for later" obviously there likely wouldn't be a later to be had for them if the other monsters came back in that instance torax started to ponder what he would do if such an instance came true..he wasn't completely obedient to humanity and the creatures hear have shown their strength with the giant centipede which even the green boy was seemingly shaken by which in comparison was a fairly strong S-class himself things could get dicey and he could just leave if any opportunity to do so than now was it. Torax engaged the rhino monster head growing to his full size and swatting at the smaller being surprised by its strength and being able to push back against him and even throw him off somewhat to get around him his true goal was the pair that the other two were carrying away.

Torax still managed to stall him wrapping him with his tail which he dug into the ground and transformed into a large vixen fly trap-like mouth the attack took the monster off guard for only a moment but was able to successfully stop it from going being crushed but his hands were slightly bleeding from being pierced by the internal spikes he created. The rhino muscled free and used his strength to grab his tail and pull it from up underground and lift torax slamming him down towards a building. The rhino continued to charge at the fleeing heroes but torax still attempted to fight shrinking down to slip more easily from the rubble and increasing his speed rapidly expanding in front of the rhino forcing it back again, the rockets rained down from above causing the area to slightly wobble and more destruction to rain down from buildings on the sides. The rhino was curious now and deduced that the tiger wasn't being controlled by the kid and he was moving on his own volition given the fact that he had left them unguarded behind him and torax stopped his bluffed and confirmed it which lead the rhino to query why was he trying to fight him and why don't they join forces and torax was still trying to figure that out himself as he took a look back and saw the heroes carrying the unconscious VIPs away, they had slowed down due to their surroundings not that they were that fast, to begin with, he sighed as he turned back to the rhino creature and still bore his fangs ready to fight and the rhino was prepared to take him down to get to his prize but before fighting he asked did he know what his disaster level was which torax responded demon which caused the rhino to shimmy with joy but torax rained on its parade saying that they weren't a very strong one.

Seeing the creatures like to generate numbers for the heroes he was facing he put their number on the only scale he knew which was the VGS one that the explosion boy had. He remarked that on a scale from 1 and 1,000, they would probably rank around 300 give or take. Rhino wrestler joy slightly vanished at that but some remained, expressing that he would still like to get stronger and they would probably do well together but torax wasn't too interested in actually training, remarking that a minotaur that joined them before would probably move up his alley. The two commenced fighting for a brief moment, rhino wrestler holding an advantage mostly until inevitably the bird monster returned phoenix man and in hand, he held the child that the heroes were supposed to be getting away with, so much for that plan he thought. The tiger knew he likely couldn't take the rhino alone so taking on the two of them even if the bird didn't add much would just lead to his failure so instead he relented allowing them to do as they please but tragedy struck when another missile volley struck to close this time around striking the large tigers form directly completely pulverizing two of his shoulders and one rupturing his stomach causing him to fall over, the close range blast shook through the air.

Aki's eyes started to wake up and she groggily started to wake up from her forced nap. She looked to her right to see that koda was ok and smiled but her face completely changed when she noticed the monster in front of her, it was a rhino and bird monster. The rhino had a child in their hands and torax was further from them they talked but the words were hard to make out the two seemed to be leaving but suddenly an explosive hit torax three times making the bear cub shield her eyes from the light and sound that completely woke her up after it had subsided she quickly went over to see if torax was ook which …..he wasn't his shoulder were horrendously damaged and and his inners were exposed and he was leaking to much blood he ..wouldn't make it. The other two monsters called out to her the bird telling her that the attack wasn't them but the hero and reminding her that monsters and humans can't coexist as there would always be conflict and she should come with them and that koda has been invited as well. The bird left to get the giant centipede's attention while the rhino explained what they wanted her to do, before the rhino threw the unconscious koda her way before being swallowed up by the centipede and leaving along with the large creature. Aki just wept next to the dying torax just like she did her dad back in the forest. Koda had woken up sometime later but by then it was already too late. All the large quiet boy could do was wrap around the cub as he ignored his phone and even still ignored his friends who arrived as he heard Jiro and kaminari arrive behind him.

Welp the next chapter will be the last of the invasion we will start fast fowards through the days coming forth and I now have A rough I idea of when this story will end I'm thinking around chapters 42-44, which means we are close to the end(technically) so around 6-8 months left, so as stated previously I will start to upload other paths after the end. there will also be a vote on the next story to be written so keep a look out for that whenever I begin to write for chp 38(currently on bad path 34) so maybe in july or so.