CYA: What Defines A Hero: Bad Path

by lumpeistbark3

this story revolves around the Entirety of Class 1A being isekai'd into the one-punch man world. The story contains light spoilers post-season 6. The story goes up until right after the psycho sister's arc so I guess spoilers for one punch season 3 as well. the alternative path on A03 is to be uploaded later here.

28. Month 3: Week 1: The Storm Part II

hope everyone has a good valentines days! getting a chapter a day early is my present to everyone.

The stadium: Saitama, suiryu

Suiryu was still recovering from his injuries the air was still completely thin and every breath felt as cold his body shivered as it was on the icy ground but felt even colder inside his eyes were starting to begin to focus and focus more importantly on the new arrival the person wore a yellow and red get up but what drew his attention was none other than his bald head wait could this be him? He thought.

"A hero? A hero you say!? HAHAHA! Oh right! I'm a monster now and you're a wimpy hero here trying to stop me right? HAHAHA! You're probably here trying to make a name for yourself, unable to imagine my great power…well look behind you hero…that kid behind you was a class S hero and he's nothing to me now!..you-you?... YOU!" bakuzan started to rant before he started to recognize who he had been speaking to.

"Huh? Who are you? Have we met?" Saitama remarked

"I don't remember how I even lost my match against you but I'm sure that you knocked me unconscious by playing dirty, fortune is truly favoring me today! This time I'll show you! I'll have you feast on all of my Killer techniques! I, The great bakuzan! have been turned into a monster and obtained transcendent power! Have a taste of it!'' Bakuzan yelled as he drove a hard low kick toward the hero. Saitama for a moment thought about the name nope he doesn't remember a Bakugan, he thought as the kick connected against him but the move didn't phase him at all as he continued to think of where he could have possibly met the guy from but bakuzan continued with his dark hell assassination: devil cry low kick but even this second kick barely budged the man only making him slide to the side a couple of feet but due to the environment he nearly tripped and fell over the ice again as he went to stabilize himself and he looked around the arena seeing how everything was surrounded in ice, the two holes blown into the sides along with the withering flames of a certain portion in the upper hand corner and he whistled.

"It seems like I missed quite the showdown. He let loose, didn't he? only sucks that it has to be cold.`` Saitama remarked simply as a brief shiver ran through his body but something was wrong here he started to realize.

"I'm surprised you survived that, mwah ha what have you realized how strong I am? Are you paralyzed with fear and wishing that you could simply back out and leave? Well too bad because there's more where that came from!" bakuzan yelled before going in for another attack bear killing mid-kick.

Why doesn't he dodge? Does he think he can just tank his attacks? Like he did before he should know that bakuzan is on a completely different level than he was previously.

"He isn't like he was before! Dodge!" suiryu yelled at the man but it was already too late as bakuzan unleashed another devastating attack carnage punch straight to Saitama's face but all that did was tilt his head slightly in reaction.

"Come on, I wanna hear you cry in pain! Or apologize for the way you beat me in our match, like hell I'll forgive you though! hahaha! ( but Saitama was completely just lost in thought thinking about if he even knew the person and if he wasn't forgetting someone, his body in a questioning pose with his hand under his chin.) no response huh? Did the fear and terror get to your mind? Or are you the type to just freeze up in the face of fear? Either way, talk about boring, I'll be ending this now I'll kill you and then kill suiryu!" bakuzan remarked before slamming down hell bringing hand chop

"Nope I can't remember you but I did remember something else," Saitama remarked mostly to himself as the blow landed, suiryu just saw a giant blast of dirt, ice, and debris launch upwards from the conflict but when the smoke finally cleared he was stupefied but what he saw a large portion of bakuzan upper body was gone entirely his head, stomach, and chest were just evaporated like they were never there, to begin with. The only thing remaining was his left shoulder and arm.

"What was this guy's deal anyways?" Saitama remarked as he looked at the husk of the body that simply fell over the icy ground and turned back to look at suiryu

"Too bad huh? Even though you won the title you still got so beaten up. Anyways I beat that guy so better luck next time." Saitama remarked simply

"Tha-thank you for sav- saving me-me." suiryu said now that the threat was gone, his body was starting to feel the effects of the cold even more.

"Wh-who, ar-are you? Are you rea-really a hero? " suiryu questioned the mysterious bald figure.

"My name is Saitama, I'm a pro hero," Saitama said

"Saitama? So you entered the tournament under an alias? But why? was it a secret mission from the association?" suiryu asked, oh dang, I let it slip Saitama thought to himself.

"Like I said before I wanted to experience martial arts, I took interest because the hero hunter was supposedly a martial arts master and bang was busy and there happened to be a ticket lying around so I just decided to come." and mainly for the prize money he added in thought and suiryu let out a pained chuckle at that frost covering his breath.

"The hero hunter huh? I…I don't think you ever needed to worry about that, judging your display just now your way stronger than him.`` Suiryu remarked.

"What? Really? Heh, and I was getting all excited about meeting him too." Saitama remarked by kicking some ice below his feet.

"Yeah but I think it's good that you came when you did." suiryu remarked

"Why? Wouldn't it have been better if I came back sooner?" Saitama questioned as he approached the downed man but suiryu shook his head.

"No, there was another monster here even worse than bakuzan, his name was goketsu I tried to fight him but he toyed with me like I was nothing more than just a toddler. So that's why you should hide out until everything calms down, he also said that many other monsters are raging around right now." suiryu remarked

"What? happening now? Man, I always miss the start of things." Saitama remarked

"That's not even the worst part they have a way to turn people into monsters so their not telling what other monster may be out there right now just like the monster bakuzan you just killed. He was originally human and you beat him in the second round."

"Oh so that's what that guy was talking about, did he seriously expect me to remember every guy I punched or something?" Saitama asked which was more of a rhetorical question but suiryu still smiled at it.

"The situation is dangerous so even someone like you shouldn't fight alone, ambulances are probably overburdened as is handling casualties." suiryu said.

"This is no time for playing around, where did that Goku monster goes again?" Saitama asked simply

"Huh? Ugh, you mean gokustu? He went through that hole right there as a hero, I know that you will likely have to fight him at some time but you should gather your forces before you do. He was completely in another league than bakuzan and an accomplished martial artist himself. Bakuzan said he could have killed him with one punch if he didn't purposely miss to create that hole.`` Suiryu remarked and that got a twinkle in the hero's eyes as he turned back to look at him.

"I think I'll go now, '' Saitama remarked with a smile on his face, turning and beginning to move forwards but was halted as he felt something take hold of his leg after dragging the weight forward a bit originally thinking it was some spare ice suiryu spoke again.

"I won't let you go! You saved my life and I can't just sit and watch while you throw your life away! Don't fight him! Don't go!" suiryu pleaded and when he didn't feel any more pulling he thought he had gotten through to his hero but then he spoke.

"Suiryu ….did you find out what those heroes had that you didn't?" Saitama suddenly asked. making the martial artist take a moment to think about it, thinking about what he experienced in these past few minutes, he took a moment to look over to sneak and was surprised when he was freed from the wall and ice and lying on the ground Saitama must have freed him on his way to save him.

"Yes, yes I understand that heroes….heroes are fearless …but that doesn't matter in the face of overwhelming strength!" suiryu yelled out, taking a tighter hold of the hero's foot.

"It's in the face of that overwhelming power and their heart to move forwards against it is what makes them heroes," Saitama said as he turned back to look at suiryu who stared open-mouthed at the hero.

"I also have to go now because of that." Saitama pointed towards the downed teen. His phone had spilled out of his pocket and something was on it.

"That gorgon guy took someone I know and I need to go save him, just like I saved you if someone needs my help then I must go," Saitama said and suiryu was stunned into silence as he tentatively let go of the hero's boot and smiled back up at him.

"Just promise me you'll come back, I have something that I need to ask you when you get back." suiryu stated simply.

"Sure thing, take care of Todoroki while I'm gone," Saitama said as he walked away as soon as he stepped foot the two were surprised when multiple large vibrations and impacts were felt in the distance and Saitama hurried off in the direction with a slight jog.

Suiryu gathers his strength and tugged his body over to the down teen and checked for a heartbeat and breathed a sigh of relief as he still felt a slight beating signifying that he was alive and stable, he took the teen's phone and looked at it for a moment, the last things open was a message to someone named midoriya a call for help more specifically for his friend that was captured. He decided to put the phone back in the teen's pocket before dragging his body to hover over the teen, while his heart was beating his body was dangerously cold he never knew the kid but he didn't believe that that was just normal for him so he huddles over him to warm him up the best he could until help arrived and not five minutes later none other than max had come back with some other heroes and at first just gawked at the environment before proceeding to help sneak and frozen-phoenix he had asked the martial artist what had happened and who did this to bakuzan and all he could respond with at that moment was a true hero and when the blonde attempted to take him away as well he refused and he shooed him away but not before apologizing to the hero for what he said before and that he should share the sentiment with sneak whenever he wakes up, max was fairly astonished by the comment but nodded anyways and remarked that he didn't take it personally. The hero made one last attempt to persuade him to come with given that he likely needed medical treatment as soon as possible but suiryu once again declined to say that he will wait until his hero comes back and he would wait there for as long as he needs to.

The rescue: Saitama, Miodirya

S-City

When midoriya was told that he would be in charge of protecting Natalie from outgoing threats he never expected the potential threat being Garou of all people from his brief talk with the teen combined with what he could gather from bang himself that seemed completely out of the hunters M.O maybe it was an imposture or some sort of mistake in identity? Midoirya still found it fairly surprising the varying degree of tech levels that the populous had in comparison to the association or if he was being more specific mental night had in comparison the assault happened on a popular street corner even if at night there must have been some camera that could have picked up the incident if one was even their in the first place and this just brought up a bigger question of Garou being fully able to move around in the street without drawing attention to himself back in their world someone that had seriously wounded multiple pro heroes let alone someone that was in the top 10 well in this worlds top 17 would likely make headline news almost instantaneously and likely be a manhunt out for his arrest but here they were treating Garou strangely but he again corrected himself. The world treated all of their criminals fairly strangely repeat offenders that can make names for themselves are seldom actually put on the news or television at least from what he has seen at the very best they are put on the hero associations' bounty boards which while open to the public he doubted many people if any at all would take the time to look it up.

Was this because monsters took priority over regular convicts and criminals? Of course, they didn't want them to go around carefree as they pleased so they offered the heroes or any incentives for their capture but it still felt fair backward for him to imagine, it would be like if someone like stain was just fully able to walk around carefree in the night fully geared up as he doubts that someone like Garou would wear a disguise or hide his identity his whole goal predicate on the fact that the heroes he beat up recognize that it was him and to spread his name but that made up an even greater question of why he doesn't kill heroes? If he truly was doing what he was out of some type of respect for monsters who the heroes kill indiscriminately he didn't do the same to heroes, he quickly shook his head not that he wanted that but for someone admiring and wanting monsters to be respected it seemed like the most logical step to take, every time he thought about Garou he never could get them to the root cause of his motivation or what he wanted to accomplish, how would hunting heroes help him achieve his goal whatever it was and how did beating up heroes help him achieve it?

Midoriya was pulled from his thoughts and muttering as Natalie put a hand on his shoulder.

"You're doing it again." the woman remarked simply with a smile, and Midoriya took a cursory glance around the room to see the people staring at him with weird expressions.

"Sorry, sorry, sorry," Midoriya replied immediately, rapidly bowing his head to the people in the room and the women.

"It's fine, it's fine you are my "bodyguard" after all and your dedication to the task is admirable….but it is surprising normally a boy of your age would be completely distracted by what's going in the room right now." women said, whispering the last bit as everyone started to get back to what they were doing. Midoirya noticeably blushed at the remark as he gazed at the scene in front of him for a moment. Usually getting lost in his thoughts was seen as a hindrance or annoying tick but for right now he welcomed it with open arms. Given Natalie's company primarily dealt in makeup and lotion products her primary audience was females and to that end, there were numerous adult women in the room right now that we were scantily clad, to say the least, thankfully none of them were straight up naked because he didn't know if he could take being around that at the moment, he didn't want to initially be in the room at the moment is more than content with just staying outside in the hallway or some other room entirely but Natalie managed to convince him because even though he doubted Garou or any other person would be after her he didn't want to completely ignore his duties or be too lax with them just in case something did happen.

"Well, I…I have a…a girlfriend now so..umm just me being here, feels somewhat wrong." Midoriya managed to mumble out. And the women chuckled at that.

"Awww, that's so precious. you know there had been a couple of rumors saying that they saw the two of you together at a restaurant a week or two ago on the web, I think it even made its way into the new hero guide that has you all in it. I think the times are still out on a couple of names for the two of you "deravity, "uravity's green savior", "marakiya" I'm partial to "gravity smash" myself I don't think any combination of your names whether real or hero names actually mesh well together and people should just stop trying it." Natalie remarked but midoriya was just concerned about that time in the restaurant they were trying to keep their relationship mostly to themselves and their close friends but what was there in that restaurant was their first public display.

"Word…sure does travel fast when it's about gossip," Midoriya murmured a bit flustered as he rubbed the back of his head.

"Well I told you, you're an S-class hero, one of the youngest in recent times as well, along with that interview with you guys' backstory almost any move you make is going to be seen or someone would be interested in it," Natalie replied simply and that led me to start thinking about back home and how things would happen with more publicly accessible technology and paparazzi and things of that nature who he is doomed to have to hide out or have whatever date with uraraka become public news? He could ask todoroki about such things he was curious if his father had anything like that happen to him in the past endeavor did climb the ranks rather quickly and reached the 2nd although he guess he wouldn't be a good choice of an example for several reasons, people likely would be too scared to approach him not to mention what people in their world knew now. He wondered if all might had anything like that happen in his time but given his fight with all for one combined with his injury and sense of justice he guessed that he may just not have made the time for a relationship he did mostly work himself to exhaustion he realized and the fifth user made no time to point out that it was something he was about to do as well before his friends forcefully dragged him back which he guessed looking back on it he should thank them all for when he got the chance but suddenly his thoughts were interrupted when the fourth user spoke up next.

"Heads up," he remarked seriously

After that midoriya suddenly felt his dangerous sense fly off the handle as a large pang of pain hit his head, midoriya reacted almost instantly recognizing where the threat was going to be coming from and immediately powering up and racing towards the wall while telling everyone else to back away from it, there was a moment of confusion but as the wall completely burst open and a large blue bird head stuck it's head inside which was followed quickly by two other heads that completely opened up and out of the large of its beaks monster started pouring out into the studio making a lot of he models panic and scream midoriya was holding the center bird head closed, originally mostly to stop the creature from forcing more it's body completely inside the building but now he was keeping it shut so their wouldn't be potentially even more monsters coming out to attack the citizens to that end he extended out his black whip on either side of him and completely shut the mouths of both of it's others head before drawing back with a fist and striking the monster with a detroit smash in 60% full cowling. The monster's center head snapped back and out of the wall along with its two other heads it took the entire wall it was encrusted in with it, revealing a gaping hole into the city midoriya watched a few of the monsters that were supposed to come exit fall out of the creature's mouth most out of the center head and continued with the creature on its descent below part of him wanted to do something to help them because the fall likely would be hazardous to them but he had more important matters to deal with at the moment as the screams from behind him drew his attention.

The monsters that did manage to get into the building were currently chasing people out of the room, he noticed that a lot of them completely ignored the people cowering in the corner of the room that they were currently in but some of them still did stop and were threatening to hurt them midoriya was quick using his black whip pinpoint focus to completely wrap around a list that was aimed at one of the male models and swing the monster away and towards another monster knocking them both off their feet and towards the wall making a large impact against equipment and they went, glass was scattered everywhere as a result and midoriya made it a point to use his blackwhip to escort the mostly nude models above it so that they wouldn't injure their feet, after they got into the hallway and left to go change back into their clothes midoriya was now left with a choice of where he should go, he needed to go and see where natilie had run off to, he doubted that something like this was about random villains especially if the monster were ignoring people and not just spewing out violence like they normally would. He put his hands down towards the floor and focused completely on using his danger sense it only took a moment but he started to feel it all, the monsters that invaded by the bird monster weren't the only ones in the building unless they moved extremely quickly than he guessed that several monsters also attacked from the bottom floor but the three people fighting them down their which he assumed were other heroes in the area, there was also a second set of monsters which he assumed were the ones that arrived view being dropped in higher up in the building and as he continued to stretch his influence up and higher up and past them he finally found his charge, Natalie made the smart decision to simply move higher into the building away from where a majority of the people and staff were located but that did make her an easy target for her presumed captors.

Miodirya now had the information he needed to be launched off and up the stairwell bouncing between the walls and skipping most of the steps along the way so that he could catch up which he did relatively easily taking out multiple of the monsters as he passed before finally getting to the main office where some monsters had cornered the women. The monsters were shocked by the speed midoriya moved as he entered the large office using his Delaware smash air force to push down 4 of the 8 monsters before he used his shoot style saint louis smash to knock out three more as his kick sent them through the wall of the office into the next room over, the last monster he hosted up with his blacks whip, it was a green slimy monster with one eye.

"Why are you targeting her?" Midoriya asked with a serious tone, making a front of tightening his hold with his black whip. The monster shivered in his grasp but opened its eye to look at him, the monster seemingly relaxed as it almost laughed at him.

"Wha-what are you going to do…kill…me?." the monster spoke with a chuckle as it chuckled through the constricting bind, so these monsters know who he and his friends were? He thought but before he could say anything else several shots rang out behind the monster, midoriya immediately looked to see what had happened only to see that Natalie had procured a large hand cannon from her desk and used it to execute the four monsters he knocked out with his air force bullets, before pointing the weapon directly behind the monster he held in his clutches head.

"He might not kill you but I will. Tell me, why are you little monsters after me?" Natalie asked making a similar threatening gesture by cocking the gun behind the creature's head and putting it directly next to its head, this threat had noticeably more effective against the creature, it even seemed to look to midoriya for assistance in this regard but the teen just turned the monster around so he was face to face first with the barrel of the gun increasing its fright even more as it struggled in his grasp before finally relenting and speaking.

"Alright! Alright! Look, we weren't told of the reason by the monster association but we were just tasked with taking her hostage." the monster said in a panicked tone

"Monster association?" Midoriya questioned turning the monster back around to face him, the monster chuckled for a moment.

" yes! The end of humanity! We monsters kill every last one of you! Just as you all" the monster's impassioned speech ended with a bullet to the top of the head, shocking Midoriya completely as he let the lifeless body fall from his grasp and stared at the woman.

"Look I get your whole non-killing gimmick and can respect that but…when my life is on the line I like not leaving things much to chance." the woman said simply as she made her way past him and was about to execute the monster in the next room over he was about to go over and attempt to stop her but that's when he got a sudden text from the association as it addressed him and the rest of the non-killing army telling them that the world is in a state of emergency and that capturing monsters were no longer an option on the table which made him halting Natalie in her tracks all the more pointless as he suddenly let her go and instead deciding on texting his friends and seeing how they were doing, he didn't have to worry about a lot of them seeing how most of them were with the S-class but he still couldn't help but worry, he knew Koda was in the same city that he was in but he couldn't just abandon his assignment to go check up on him. So after two more gunshots were heard in the adjacent room he approached Natalie about their next move, the women said that since they were looking for her that it would be beneficial for her to notify any other monsters that she was leaving so that way her staff and building could have at least some relative peace and to do so she announced over the intercom that midoriya was going to be taking her away from the place.

With that said and done she nodded to the glass window in her office and midoriya understood shattering it completely before preparing to take her away, unfortunately his danger sense rang out again, that large flying bird monster had recovered from it's fall and was flying back up towards him the creature had massive wings to propel it's large body upwards and completely towards the window he just shattered, as he looked down at the climbing monster he pushed natalie back a little bit before he used his black whip to sling shot himself down towards the creature monster the monster responded by firing off a blue flame from each of its mouths midoriya continued through it using his black whip as a makeshift shield to completely nullify the attack and counter with one of his own a manchester smash directly to the center head that snapped it downwards he used his float + air force to maneuver around two of the beaks attack from the other heads that attempted to attack him before using his black whip to wrap around the creatures wings and dive towards it delivering a wyoming smash to the back of the monster spine sending both of them careening down into the ground below. Midoirya noticed that there were still people below in the streets so he used float with his black whips to rise, slowing them down before they hit the street entirely.

the creature used the opportunity to lash out with one of it's his arms sending midoriya flying backward as it unleashed a large screech and flapped its massive wings to come after him, midoriya recovered using air force to stop himself and refocused on the monster going up 5 more % before continuing forwards sidestepping the beast entirely a before hitting the side of the creature left wing with a roundhouse kick as it passed by making the monster screech out in pain but he wasn't done their he attached his black whip to the creature's wings and pulled hard sending himself at the creature like a missile as he did Carolina Smash directly to the creatures spine sending it flying towards the vacant parts of the city into a heavily forested area and immediately returned to the corporate window where Natalie remains with her hand on her hip.

"You know you shouldn't keep a girl waiting." the woman remarked in a teasing tone which surprised midoriya given the situation she was currently in.

"um ..sorry?" midoriya said more in the form of a question than an actual statement which made the woman laugh as she stepped out of the window and was about to fall until Midoriya caught her with his black whip as he continued to float in the air.

"It's no problem but don't you think that thing will still be after us?" she questioned but Midoriya shook his head.

"I snapped one of its wings, it shouldn't be able to chase after us anymore," Midoirya said simply as he started to float, push away, and fly somewhere.

"I'm sure it's not gonna like that, it's probably going to take it out on something else, I hope the other heroes can handle it." the woman remarked and midoriya knew what she was implying and what he should have done but he wasn't comfortable with it for the moment and besides.

"Monsters still have a sense of self-preservation, I hurt it pretty bad and their main target is getting away with me, it'll likely just limp off back to wherever it came from," Midoriya remarked simply in response. The woman cocked her eyebrow at that but dropped the topic and switched it to something else.

"And where exactly am I "getting away" to? You aren't taking me away to one of the shelters are you?" the woman asked but Midoriya shook his head again.

"I thought about it but since you're a target, that would only lead more people into danger," Midoirya said mostly in thought to himself as he continued to think about where he could go, his thoughts were immediately cut off when he suddenly heard gunshots ring out from behind him, he quickly turned around to see that Natalie was firing off at some flying monsters flying towards them at least the large bird creature wasn't pursuing them he thought.

"Well I think you should figure it out, it's not that I don't trust you not to drop me but flying around getting chased by monsters isn't something I would like to do all day," she remarked as she let off a couple of more shots surprisingly one of the monsters did fall from the air. They were slightly gaining on them but midoriya didn't pay them much mind as more gunshots rang out behind him, he got his phone out and called the association after a bit of discussion and explaining the situation the main headquarters transferred him over to the S-city center headquarters and from there, they advised him on a secret executive bunker where he would be able to take her and he understood and allowed the operator to guide him to the location but first he needed to take care of the monsters following after them and not too soon as well.

"I'm kinda out of ammo here and I was only able to drop one more of them, You have to handle the other 3 on your own," Natalie remarked as she got more comfortable on his black whip hammock but he immediately disturbed her as he stopped moving and looked down at her, and proceeded to use his airforce gauntlets to rocket down towards the nearest building and drop her off before rocketing back off to the group of monster pursuing them before activating his proximity smoke a combination of his smoke screen full blast technique and his danger sense allowing him to completely identify the location of anyone that his smoke touches as if it's his skin and with it, he quickly dispatched each monster with a single punch or kick that completely knocked each one of them out carrying them all with his black whip before dropping them down on the rooftop next to Natalie, she took a glance at them before looking over to midoriya.

"Oh come on you could have let gravity kill them at least, it technically wouldn't have been you," Natalie remarked but Midoriya simply rolled his eyes and grabbed at her with his black whip, and flew off again.

"The association says they have a safe place for you to go," Midoriya remarked simply as he flew off kicking off a bit with fujin to get away from the area quickly and not be followed by any other monsters. After a short journey, he finally arrived at his destination and helped the women inside the bunker before waving farewell. Since she was secure he was advised around the city fighting monsters that had popped up here and there until he got a text message from todoroki.

"C they have bakugo." was all that the message read and midoriya's temper immediately flared, he didn't take off immediately instead opting to attempt and text Koda again to see if he was doing alright the normally quiet teen lived up to his name and didn't respond making him worry but after asking the association if any heroes have seen him and no one did but they were dispatching heroes to metal bats last known location for the time being to find out if anything happened, that was the best he could hope for at the moment while slightly worrying he believed that metal bat was pretty strong along with aki and torax should be able to take care of him so he flew up into the air and thrust both of his black whips outwards.

" Second quirk, now. " midoriya demanded leaving no room for debate

"Gearshift, allows you to quicken or slow the speed of anything you touch. Careful with it you'll only have five minutes before you're knocked out, likely for a couple of hours. " the second remarked. Midoirya would comment on why he would hide such a simple concept from him for so long but he didn't care about that right now as he continued preparing to launch himself forward and off in the direction of C-city.

"I wouldn't use 100% just yet, if I were you, you may overshoot your target.'' The second offered advice. Midoirya sucked his teeth but agreed he didn't want to spare even a second as he powered down to 50% and launched off using fajin as he went but just as he did so he felt a massive wave with his danger sense but it was too late he was already flying off and away from the city, by the time he used his airforce to stop himself in mid-air from the launch he was a considerable distance away but even from the distance he could see the giant purple carapace of what could none other be an elder centipede, he was stuck in a rock and hard place worried about koda or going to save bakugo instead. He was surprised and thankful when he heard the roar of an engine right next to him turning to see the hulking form of metal knight's robot floating there next to him.

"I'll handle elder centipede, I would like to test some of my weapons on it." the robot voice remarked simply and midoriya took that as his choice made for him he would go and save bakugo.

"Ok.. if you could…can you keep an eye out for koda...I mean forest lord." Midoriya asked.

"I'll be sure to do so." the robot remarked and midoriya thanked him before using the machine as another springboard to continue his flight to his objective, this time he combined his initial take-off with airforce increasing his speed even more until he finally arrived over C-city, it wasn't as large of as S-city but it still didn't mean anything as he still had a large area to cover so instead he opted to call the local association branch headquarters to see if he could narrow down the where he could look the women operator only told him that the last she heard from dynamite and frozen-phoenix were their position right outside of the C-city super stadium.

they had rescued some martial artists from a large monster that had invaded the place but reports have come in that the large monster has been seen walking away from the location headed west and midoriya understood before he went to intercept the large monster at the given location but he was warned that demon cyborg had designated the monster as a dragon level threat and stronger than something that he referred to as carnage kabuto. She also told him that lighting max was going back to the stadium to report on what happened there and recover some of the wounded so they will have more information soon. Midoirya understood and partially expected the danger this supposed large monster could possess if it managed to capture bakugo and left todoroki unable to pursue it so he understood the risk right away, he saw the stadium out in the distance and was fairly surprised when it suddenly completely froze over along with some of the parking lot surrounding it was todoroki still fighting over there he thought for a moment but he paid it no mind as his danger sense finally picked up on something large moving away and judging by the whole in the stadium which matched the direction the large being he sensed was moving away from he found it his best bet as he used gear shift to fly down towards that direction and landed in front of the large humanoid creature with multiple eyes, the monster was partially surprised and midoriya was temper flared as he saw bakugo lifelessly in its grip unconscious.

"Oh did he or that other one call for help? If I were to guess it would be the other one..this one didn't seem like the type to." Gokestu remarked simply as he held bakugo up for midoriya to see. Midoriya didn't spare any time for small talk as he dashed forwards to snatch bakugo from the large monster's grip but he was surprised when he was greeted by a fist instead launching him back to the ground where he crashed and covered his head as it exploded in pain but not losing sight of bakugo all the while anger clear on his face.

"What are you planning to do with him?"Midoirya demanded as he got up this time going to 100% full cowling as the energy coalesced around him making the large monster cock an eyebrow.

"You will find out soon enough, gyoro-gyoro you take him, It seems I found a new playmate for the time being. I will return soon enough." gokestu remarked simply as he threw bakugo unconscious form into the air behind him and he was suddenly stopped in mid-air by a similar green glow that signify an esper and started to be carried off somewhere by a green eyeball creature, midoriya didn't have time to question it or think about the implication of the creature but he lept forwards full speed this time using gearshift to quicken his speed even more but again he was shocked to see a large blur completely block his view he was fast enough this time around to put up some sort of defense but the force of the blow stills sent him careening back to the ground below. Goketsu wasn't focused on him however looking at his hand instead before testing himself launched multiple chops downwards each creating a large gust of wind that blew everything that wasn't nailed down on the street away, midoriya put both of his hands down on the street not to anchor himself but to send out his danger sense as far as he was able to go to see if he could sense anyone nearby..he felt a lot of objects moving but none of which seemed to be human given their intense degree of hate and anger or just weirdly shaped bodies. Goketsu seemed to be satisfied with what he was testing and spoke again.

"I heard that you were capable of many things but I haven't heard of this? You slowed me down, huh?" gokestu remarked

" The guy's smarter than he looks," the seconds remarked internally.

Midoirya just looked at the monster with anger as he saw bakugo get further and further away from him he needed to get to him before he lost track of him again. He activated gear shift on himself again as he went into second gear before attempting to go past the monster again but he halted again in his tracks, just how fast was this monster midoriya thought as he got up again and dodged out of the way of a stomp from the monster massive foot and this time instead of trying to go around him he attempted to attack the creature head on dashing up and aiming at the monster face with a Detroit smash but the creature's hand as they're blocking it completely and returning with one of its own but midoriya had slowed him down again allowing him to evade the blow using the black whip on its massive arm and swing around to kick the monster in the gut before backing off and seeing if the attack had any effect. The monster was slightly moved; he could see it in the way he tensed up but he was still surprised by how much the monster wasn't too affected.

"That was a nice attack, if it were some other lesser cadre, you may have had a chance." goketsu remarked before speeding towards him midoriya had just enough time to cross both of his arms as the kick knocked him away and into the air, he was able to use his airforce to cancel out the blow but the shadow of the monster was their hovering above him as he felt the monster slam down on his back forcing him to the ground and that wasn't all as he tried to stand up again a large pressure was put on his back forcing him to stay down.

"Is that all you have..stand up you have three seconds…1…2.." as gokestu spoke three he raised his foot off midoirya determined to slam it back down but was shocked when he connected with something and the force of which nearly threw him off his feet. Midoriya had combined gearshift, Fajin, and 100% full cowling to deliver a devastating punch to the stomping foot, he didn't stop there as he quickly got back up and dashed at the unbalanced creature striking him in the face with a one million percent Detroit smash the blow completely shook the surrounding area sending out a devastating shockwave as goketsu ground against the ground as he was sliding backward and crashed into multiple buildings before stopping being buried underneath it. Midoirya was about to leave when his danger sense flared again as the monster quickly got up from being underneath the rubble and wiped a single drop of blood that was going down his face and smiled.

"That's more like it and here I was beginning to think the S-class was nothing but a bunch of insignificant ants." goketsu remarked before balling his fist and racing forwards, the two met and clashed fist against fist midoriya using his other hand that was still stalked full of fajin before dodging out of the way of another attack and striking out against the joint of the monsters another arm with a one million percent st. louis smashed into its arm which noticeably flinched the monster but not without being smacked with a backfist that sent him flying away into another building.

"Your body won't be able to keep up with that level of power even with the enhancements." the fourth user remarked and midoriya could feel that same familiar pain he had at the beginning of his time with one for all his arm wasn't completely purple yet however but just moving them he could feel several bones already broken but he had to keep going bakugo was out of his sight at the moment but the monster made it a point to stand in the way of where he was carried off to. Besides as he looked at the building he crashed in seeing some of the dead civilians that lay scattered about the place from the monster invasion he didn't want to let this monster go free, especially since it seemed like the boss or at least one of the bosses… he launched off with one of his legs back at the monsters and was going to do another one million percent saint louis smash with the other leg that still had fajin on it and the monster seemed to oblige eagerly launching off with his kick but the clashes never connected as suddenly in between both of their attacks was a man a bald man in a yellow costume that stopped them both.

Both adversaries were completely shocked by the new arrival before pulling back for a moment to look at the new arrival as both he and midoriya fell to the ground, midoriya was shocked by the man's appearance but equally shocked about how he just took both of their attacks right now with no strain on his part at all.

"Seeing as how he's not here I guess this guy was keeping you from getting your friend right?" Saitama remarked.

"Ugh…yea," Midoirya commented hesitantly.

"Well go ahead..I'll handle this guy…oh and don't worry about your other friend I took care of the monster in the stadium," Saitama remarked simply.

"Are you sur-." midoriya cut himself off and thought about that VGS simulator thing if this man was the source of that data.. then he should have nothing to fear about him against this monster. "Alright, thank you for looking out for todoroki," Midoriya remarked simply as he used his float and began to up and fly away. Originally he thought that the large monster was going to make a move to stop him but for some reason, it didn't. Its entire focus was purely on the new arrival as he crossed his arms and waited for him to leave.

Midoriya didn't have much time left either having three more minutes according to the second which caused him to rush in his pursuit not to mention he didn't know how far the flying eye had taken his friend more if they would just magically disappear as how all these monster appeared seemingly from out of nowhere. If only they had more time he thought as he continued to fly over scanning the sky in front of him for any signs of the captors. His thoughts were interrupted when he suddenly heard a beastly yell emerge completely drawing his attention to one of the rooftops he suddenly stopped when he spotted on said rooftop none other than bakugo laying down on the ground unconscious but there was a monster that was next to him which made him caution extremely cautious, especially seeing as how it had a large blade to his friend's neck but why did it call out to him he thought as he continued down towards, it could have just let him pass overhead. two minutes left the second warned him in his head as he landed on the building away from the monster just so the monster didn't take him as a threat. The monster in question was a minotaur which means there was a chance that this was the.

"Asterius?" midoriya asked hesitantly but the monster said nothing as it started to move its sword midoriya simply moved in reflex but stopped digging into the building with his black whip as the monster used his large sword to pick up his unconscious friend and toss him right at him, midoriya completely dissipated his whips and immediately went to catch his friend seeing if he was still breathing before looking back at the monster.

"Tell the warrior that we are even," Asterius remarked simply before jumping off the building and leaving from out of his sight, midoriya didn't know what to think not that he really could at the moment anyways all he knew right now was that he needed to get his friend to a hospital as quick as possible he heard and felt a large shockwave for one moment and turned his head back into the direction he came from but he chose to believe in Saitama, well he had to he didn't have much time left as he raced away to find a hospital hearing the vibrations of the battle even from the distance he traveled he couldn't even imagine being in the center of that conflict. He finally managed to get to a hospital and place bakugo down in a designated cottage, he looked around the hospital with sadness as he looked at all the injuries and casualties the monsters had inflicted in the invasion, he only had 30 seconds left now and he could already feel his vision darkening as he took out his phone typed out a quick message to everyone that he was ok and bakugo was safe..but someone should check in on koda before he finally just blacked out and fell to the floor.

(elements of this fight inspired by these two sources )

Goketsu had watched as the other teen left and floated away, he didn't care much they had plans for them later on but more than that something almost instinctual told him not to turn his attention away from the new arrival he had not only stopped the boys kick but his as well and he had made mention of finishing up at the stadium did that mean he had killed the new guy? Gokestu thought.

"You killed bakuzan? And you don't have a scratch on you." goketsu remarked.

"Yeah, I guess I did. Your bokuestu? Right, some sort of top-rank martial artist " Saitama said with a shrug of his shoulders, before dodging out of the way of a sweeping kick that was headed his way.

"Hey, you seem a little eager now aren't you?" Saitama teased while in mid-air, as he dodged out of the way of that same kick as turned his kick into a snap kick, goketsu stepped in with a heavy stomp kicking up dust and debris making Saitama shield his face and out of that debris emerged goketsu large fist in an uppercut that Saitama deflected with a slap of his hand the force of which completely made the monster spin around just from he force alone but he recovered quickly using the spin to power his axe kick that planted the man into the ground causing a massive fracture to spread out from the street below, goketsu removed his foot and looked down at the man that was implanted into the ground up to his head.

"you are still alive after that? I can see how you were able to kill that new guy. but I'm not him, I'm on a whole different level ." goketsu complimented before kicking the ground where the hero was firmly planted freeing him and kicking up a mass of gravel rock, and dirt that sent it and the hero completely spiraling down the street with that same empty expression on his face before goketsu got into a stance and stomped hard multiple times as he builds up speed completely overtaking saitama and redirecting him with a huge back fist that sent him spiraling again down the seconds street the speed at which he went shattering every window he moved past but that wasn't all to finish off his combo goketsu charge forth again overtaking him before curling both his fist back and launching both of them forwards and striking saitama dead center the blow kicking a making shockwave that curved forwards and through the city destroying multiple buildings, saitama began to stand up threw all the wreckage as he saw goketsu make a slow approach.

"Even after all that you're still standing? In that case, it would be a shame to just kill you here, I'm curious how strong you would be with monsterization. How about it?" goketsu asked but the bald man didn't say or do anything.

"Did I take away your ability to speak?" goketsu remarked again but Saitama merely shook his head.

"No, I was just thinking how much time I wasted trying to learn martial arts. It was just attacking while trying to look cool. On top of that the hero hunter isn't all that, and the worst of it all I was disqualified from the tournament which means I don't get any of the prize money!" saitama yelled out in exhaustion at the end making goketsu look at the man in confusion with his ramblings.

"Did I knock your brain loose with those attacks just now? Or did you not have any, to begin with, that bald head of yours." goketsu insulted taking saitama from exasperated to just plain angry.

"It doesn't matter, let's just say I'm fairly annoyed right now." saitama remarked pulling back a punch, goketsu instincts no his very being told him to move away and it automatically did it for him as he jumped backwards before the man lept at him and punch the ground he was standing on…. normal series table flip goketsu was suddenly blinded sided by dust and debris filled his vision he felt his small hop turn into a what seemed to be a leap as his body was carried into the air, he quickly cleared the dust out of his face as he tried to use his eyes to track where the man went if that being was even a man to begin with he hasn't seen power like this since orochi himself as his eyes tracked around the debris around him they were too late to see the bald man jump from piece of piece of concrete that landed to a kick to a very painful kick to his chest that sent him flying towards the ground skirting across it as he used both of his hands to slow himself down to a stop as he did so and made to get up he had just managed to stand again when the bald hero moved towards him with speed unheard of as the next thing he saw was the sky and than his conscious faded completely.

Suiryu waited and waited there were a total of four more loud collisions as saitama went to join the battle and for a moment he was extremely worried for the hero especially as the collisions just seemingly stopped altogether, but the next thing he knew goketsu head was their in the middle of the arena seemingly just out of nowhere and just a minute later his hero had returned victoriously just as he said he would although his clothes were noticeably a bit dirtier than before.

"Hey if they ask you don't tell them my real name alright? I had to lie to get into the tournament after all.'' Saitama remarked as he closed back in with suiryu who simply laughed at the remark.

"Haha, don't worry man I got you covered no problem it's the least I can do….hey…was goketsu strong?" suiryu asked

"Well I don't know, I'm not good with comparing monsters since they all go down with one punch they all feel the same to me." saitama replied simply.

"Oh there was something I was meaning to ask you when you got back… my body is pretty busted up right now so I'll have to retire from doing tournaments for the time being but I think I found a new passion in life…I don't how I will overcome the terror of it but …saitama, do you think a guy like me can become a hero?" suiryu asked earnestly.

"I dunno, before I became excessively strong like this I used to get beat down just like you did and of course, at first I was scared of monsters I'm sure everyone is but I got used to it …so I guess anyone can right?" saitama said

"A hero that's excessively strong must be nice."

"No….it isn't… I wasn't kidding about having fun…you shouldn't get too much stronger if you wish to enjoy fighting." Saitama remarked and this was the first hint of seriousness he got from the man.

"Well be that as it may…I do have another question to ask…can I be your disciple?" suiryu asked, completely serious.

"Not! Dealing with one is already enough," Saitama remarked almost immediately.

The Concert: Sweet mask, Aoyama, Jiro

"Why are you here? Aren't you supposed to be in D-city?" Jiro commented with some bite to it but the growing red on her face was what kaminari focused on which told him that he made the right call and he steadily wrapped his arm around her to confirm it.

"Well it wasn't that far away so I decided to come to check up on you, heroes get breaks you know and I wanted to spend mine with you, wanted to see how you were holding up this is a big concert that's about to go down," kaminari remarked slyly and the girl reddened face turned to full on blush but she was still slightly defiant.

"I can handle it." the girl immediately shot out and kaminari slightly chuckled as he could feel even as soon as he got close to her that she had put her earphone jack on his chest again which signaled how nervous she was despite what she might say but kaminari knew enough to just roll with it tightening his hold around the girl's shoulders and drawing his head on top of her own.

"And I believe that, as I said, I think you can do anything you set your mind to." kaminari replied, kissing the girl on the forehead but other than a mild grumble she allowed the romantic gesture.

"Are you going to be watching online or in the stands?" Jiro asked

"Oh how I wish I could be here in person but unfortunately I won't, hopefully, today's one of the more boring days that way I can watch it live but worst case scenario I'll just catch your portion or some part of your portion." kaminari said simply

"I see," Jiro replied and the two of them just basked in the comfort of one another, kaminari didn't have much time to spare as he wanted to get back into D-city before his lighting god mode went out, he always appreciated that fact that he could still interact with people in this form even thought he was covered in electricity and he knew that Jiro liked this form given the fact that his heartbeat would increase rapidly he could already see her slightly bobbing her head to the rhythm as if she was getting lost in it but time was closing in for the both of them. He could feel with his lighting sense that something or should he say that someone was approaching the door and given that it was such a clear picture he could already guess who it was but thankfully the man simply banged on the door despite what the other person which he assumed was Aoyama misgiving gestures.

"Hurry up, your warm-up and rehearsals are about to begin." the not-so-sweet voice of sweet mask came through before kaminari felt the man walk off in some other direction.

"Sorry for that I wanted to inform you but he insisted, sorry if we interrupted anything," Aoyama remarked in a much softer voice.

"Nah, it's cool. Can't stay here forever, even though I want to." kaminari called out back before turning and speaking in a much lower tone directly into Jiro's ear, the girl shuttered for a moment before but used the moment to break away from him and the rhythmic sound of his heartbeat.

"You know, you can tone down the sappiness just a bit," she said with her hands around her hips.

"Sure, whenever you tone down your tsundere nature just a bit." kaminari quipped with a laugh and his lighting sense combined with his reflexes made his body move on its own as he dodged out of the way from a poke from the girl's earphone jack and after trying multiple more times all the while kaminari had his eyes closed with a huge grin on his face before she finally relented and stopped attacking.

"You know I'm starting to hate that sense of yours," Jiro remarked with a pout, Kaminari snickered but finally opened his eyes.

"I think it's electrifyingly awesome," kaminari remarked with a grin and Jiro just sighed at the pun.

"Yeah, your time here has officially come to a close, please leave," Jiro replied playfully and Kaminari played along, exaggerating offense to the gesture before laughing fully.

"Well I guess, I shall just take my leave then, although taking my eyes off you will likely be the most difficult thing I do today." kaminari said as he made his way to the doorway walking backward just to keep his eyes on the girl a bit longer which Jiro rolled her eyes at but smiled nonetheless but stopped him once he finally turned around by stupidly hitting the back of his head into the door which made her chuckle at.

"Wait, I think you forgot something." Jiro reminded him as he finally turned around to leave, she quickly covered the distance between them.

"What did I-" kaminari was about to ask as he turns around but was surprised when he found the girl had just kissed him on the lips, taking him entirely off guard he thought the girl was going to hand him whatever it was but he didn't expect that even with his lighting sense, he wanted to wrap his arms around her and deepen the kiss but almost just as quickly she pulled back making him slightly pout that it ended so soon which made the girl chuckle even more.

"Well we can save the rest for later, alright…so…be careful out there alright," Jiro remarked mostly in a serious manner and Kaminari nodded, giving the girl a reassuring smile.

"I'll hold you to that alright and don't worry I'll be back to collect, Just make sure you knock it out of the park just like you did back in the fair,'' Kaminari said putting two fingers to his head in a goodbye which Jiro mirrored and with that Kaminari disappeared in a billow of wind and lighting.

Jiro was always still surprised by his speed and how much faster he could go in that form, he was supposed to be in D-city but here he was in the heart of E-city just hanging out and by his judgment supposedly "not that far'' it was somewhat comforting to know that he was close by and him dropping by did noticeably calm her down from how anxious she was feeling for the event. Over the past week, she's been in and out of this venue numerous times getting to know the band, stage crew, and staff that will all be responsible for the big show luckily part of her contract was that she didn't have to be apart of all of the show, hell she wasn't even going to being apart of most of it. She was only going to be a part of the closing song whether that be because of sweet mask cutting her some slack or just the man not wanting to share the singing stage with others she didn't know well no she knew it was the latter he was definitely fully obsessed with himself and he could have done this concert by himself she was sure he would have done so but he was also a people pleaser so he wanted to get them duetting "out of the way" that way people could stop asking him about it. Jiro didn't mind too much, mostly settling on doing the show to better herself and her stage fright.

She had just entered the staging room and watched as multiple instruments, lights, and other essentials go by before heading over to the food table she would likely be able to sing better when she wasn't on an empty stomach but she also worried about if her nerves would get the best of her and she would end up regretting it later if she had to throw up. Ultimately she decided that some food was better than none, especially as she felt her stomach rumbling a bit and her mouth start to water at the sight of some particularly well-made mini-sandwiches that she would like to try out. After having made her way over to the designated area she immediately reached for one of them and ate the thing in two bites and she was unsurprised by the fact that it tasted almost just as good if not better than it looked while she could get on the idol for several things she did appreciate that his narcissism and perfectionist nature extended to everything he was apart which included the catering for the staff, she thought.

"Ah, ah. Ah, madmazel… you shouldn't eat so much you never know if you'll get an upset tummy." Jiro heard the ever-increasing voice of Aoyama's approach as he twirled into her view out of the corner of her left eye with that almost ever-present smile of his.

"What are you talking about I only had like two-" Jiro was about to reply before looking down at her hand and seeing that she had four of the wooden toothpicks in her hand, she must have been either more hungry or more nervous than she thought she which was likely a little bit of both she realized as she quickly discarded the toothpicks into the trash.

"Well point taken, where is sweet mask?" Jiro questioned

"Ah a Las, there seems to have been a few light fixtures not to his liking so he wanted to personally see to it that they got it right," Aoyama remarked, and Jiro chuckled at that.

"I feel bad for them." Jiro commented thinking back to even her week under hero and his "pristine" singing lessons that he had her undergo while things vocal warm-up, vocal range lessons, and most importantly harmonization between their voices he made sure to emphasize that in their rehearsal not wanting to have even one single note or even Syllable out of tune or sync their were a great deal many times where the artist believed that she wasn't "trying hard" enough or not raising/lowering her voice enough for his liking although people that watch them practice thought it was fine admittedly the people that spoke out where kaminari and Aoyama so not the most unbiased of judges but the stage crew believed that she was good enough although they would never openly go against sweet mask when he deems something wrong even she stopped trying fight the man so much as It would mostly Spiral into endless bickering that would waste time.

Since sweet mask was preoccupied Aoyama took Jiro away from the snack table not without of course taking a couple of chips and cheese mix some fondues he favored which he was eager to get the girl to try and after a moment's hesitation she did so and while not bad it wasn't something she would normally seek out. The tour around the arena and stadium was pretty nice; the venue could fit at least a couple thousand people inside of it, not to mention the live broadcasts of the event, and needles to mention it was going to be on several radio stations as well. It did make it seem fairly daunting the more and more she thought about it but given that technically the only thing she would be seeing is the audience on a TV screen if that since she could just turn it off and act like she was just singing to herself but that wouldn't help her she realized so she was at least going to keep the video of the concert on so she could see all the people at least in some form. It was weird to see her holographic self on the stage though thankfully she didn't have to do any complex dancing as that could muddy her already rather clumsy movements.

The tour ended exactly where she needed to be and no time too soon as the sweet mask was just about to check if she was there, they were going to run a couple more checks to ensure that all of the techs were in working order and couldn't have her glitching on stage in front of the audience. After running the test and confirming that everything was in order, Sweet mask ordered her to begin her vocal warm-ups in private while he started the show. She could hear the large almost stampede of footsteps filling up the stadium and took a couple of deep breaths before she began her warm-ups in preparation for her main event. Hopefully, everything goes according to plan. the sweet mask was currently loving his current environment, today was the final day of his concert tour for his new album. The rehearsals that he so painstakingly had to go over due to the somewhat rapid inclusion of the girl into his song as he cast a glance over at the nearly realistic hologram of the girl singing behind him she was performing decently if he were, to be honest, she was performing admittedly above his expectations for her, he had to admit that he did have an actual kill switch for her just in case he felt she was performing below his expectations but he was glad that he didn't need to use it. The crowd seemed to be enjoying the closing act even more. He's been blessed with these fans and the amazing staff! Thanks to everyone, I am shining brighter than everyone even if he has to share that brightness with someone else, he wasn't even feeling down with being close to the final song.

Ah everyone that he made eye contact with seemed like such lovely people, he wished that he could kindly hug every one of them but, unfortunately, he was just one person. So the very least he could do was sing to them about peace and love. I am grateful for everything I wish happiness upon every living thing in this universe! He thought wonderfully but the world always had a sense of bringing him back down from the high that was his concert life as an explosion suddenly cut out all of the applause, yelling, and music which was immediately replaced by the shocks and shouts of the crowd notifying everyone that monsters had arrived and that some of the security detail along with some of the pro heroes were already down and to make matters even worse the monster continued to make their way inside as the crowd easily cleared a path for them to enter not wanting to get in their way or incur their wrath and it became apparent on who their prime target was as they completely bypassed the bystanders and headed directly for the stage for sweet mask.

"So that's handsomely masked sweet mask huh? An Idol hero that's all about looks even amongst heroes he is at the top of my hit list." a small squat monster remarked with its hideous face and large squid nose.

"That bastard's on all of the hero associations advertisements as well. His influence is second to none. if sweet mask dies then the hero association image will be severely tarnished " another monster spoke as they continued this one was some sort of weird angular fish humanoid hybrid the tentacle on top of its head sprouting a weird ant that constantly cycled around looking at people.

"More importantly I don't like how popular he was with girls! Let's do it! In front of all of his fans let's tear him to shreds and make a blood bath!" The third monster remarked this one was an eel type with a big underbite to it. The monster started to pick up steam as they made their way towards the stage sweet mask stayed completely still his eyes going almost bloodshot as just stared at the creature, he was finally brought out of his stupor when a solar flare appeared in front of him ready to fight the monsters for him but oh that simply set him off even more as he caste a glance behind him to the hologram that wasn't there anymore getting him even angrier he clasped a hand over the boy's shoulder and whispered something into his ear before throwing him out of the way Aoyama disappeared in a flash almost comical way like he was pulled by a large cane to disappear just as quickly as he came. Aoyama recovered well enough even with his enhanced suit on it was a painful grab and landing at least his shoulder plate wasn't dented like last time he thought as he dug himself out of what he crashed into before going to follow sweet mask orders just as the monsters finally got to the stage and the man dodged out of the way and started singing acapella.

"What is mister sweet mask thinking? Should we do something, mister chairman?" a man remarked but before he could respond Aoyama hurriedly came into the room.

"Sweet mask said that the show must go on, do not deviate at all," he said simply before rushing off again even further down to the next room.

"What?" the brunette man asked in confusion.

"He is singing to them, not just the people but the monsters too, he may be trying to solve this problem with the song. He may believe that he can connect their hearts with this." the chairman replied as he looked at the man seemingly dancing along with the monsters as if this was rehearsed the entire time.

"Amazing…this is what it means to be a super Idol." the man remarked with a tear in his eye before radioing into the other band members to keep playing the music which they gladly did empower by sweet mask devotion and trust in the power of music.

Aoyama quickly ran towards Jiro's door and nearly slammed into her when she just finished opening the door.

"What's the situation?" The girl immediately questioned, almost walking past him but Aoyama quickly grabbed her by the wrist and shook his head and he took a breath.

"Sweet mask has the situation well under control, all you have to worry about is singing alright," Aoyama said and the girl was surprisingly shocked.

"There are monsters literally on stage right now, what do you mean he has it under control?" Jiro asked completely baffled

"Just please understand …sweet mask doesn't want his concert to be ruined by anything and he will continue with the show despite the circumstances. It's likely due to the circumstances that he wants to continue them." Aoyama advocated for the star and Jiro still hasn't completely settled but after Aoyama begged for a second time she reluctantly relented she had cast off her equipment and it would take a few minutes for her to get the stuff back and that is if it would even work and sweet mask had told Aoyama about this problem and said that she should just come out on to the stage instead and with even more hesitant she did so following Aoyama back to the main stage where sweet mask was still dancing around the monsters as the crowd watched in fascination.

when she started singing again as she actually stepped out on the stadium the crowd cheers came back in full force, sweet mask was partially surprised by the girls arrival and that slip up made his body forget to limit himself as he felt something touch his side and he slid his hand across completely bisecting two of the monsters in the process the blood spraying towards the stands but luckily not on the audience, jiro was completely taken back by the spectacle of it and the fact that the man continued on with the last squat monster hitting in the chin so hard that it's head combusted into like confetti as the blood rushed up and outwards from it's body, under the spotlight that was on the man but what truly scared the girl was that he beckoned her forwards, Jiro body had a noticeable shiver run through her very being but it moved forward anyways she was to scared to think of what would happen to her if she didn't, she slowly moved forwards all the singing completely died in her throat and showed no signs of coming back as she stepped past one of the bodies and into the blood on the ground around the idol. As she approached the star he scooped her up into his arms and said one thing to her as the two sat under the spotlight sing and she did so with all of her heart hell her very being as if her life depended on it and it very well might have so with the last of the song has done sweet mask finally let the girl go and signaled for her to bow as he thanked the audience for coming and thanked her for being there along with him for the final act as well as the "special effects teams" for the real monsters.

As they left the stage sweet mask's smile completely vanished only remarking that she and Aoyama should follow after him, the man immediately left towards his room and gestured for the two of them to wait outside. Jiro was kinda shaking from the experience she had seen some of the things heroes would do to monsters and how brutal they could be but this was something else and he did it with such ease with the same smile on his face like he was reveling in it and enjoying the bloodshed but she couldn't tell for sure she was even tempted to spy on the man in his room to see what he might be doing in there but she didn't want to anger him any more than he already was.

"Yes … a .sweet mask in combat can oftentimes be frightening to witness," Aoyama remarked next to her, seeing the look in the girl's eye.

"No ..kidding and you spend all of your time with a guy like that? I hope he's not being too rough with you." Jiro said with concern

"He…knows not to push things too far," Aoyama said knowing he couldn't downplay things given what the girl just witnessed and Jiro nodded her head. They waited about five minutes before being approached by one of the staff.

"Sweet mask still hasn't come out from his room?" he asked and both teens shook their heads.

"I told you not to worry about it, it's not an area that they were suited to interfere with his hero side…I guess the best way to describe it is as unapproachable. Good work with the singing out there by the way stereo queen, we wouldn't mind working with you again if you ever think about singing full-time." the chairman remarked.

"Thank you and thank you for the offer but I don't think I'll be singing anytime soon, I've always wanted to be a hero first and foremost," Jiro replied with a smile as the two people left, leaving just her and Aoyama for another moment as they continued to wait. It took another 15 minutes before sweet mask told them to enter the room. His hair was noticeably disheveled but Aoyama knew that it was more due to his public image than the monster that attacked the show right now. He leaned himself back against the wall again as he stared down at the floor.

"You performed decently although you hesitated at the end for the moment, I can forgive you for your actions this time." sweet mask started and Jiro simply nodded her head in thanks before switching his gaze towards Aoyama his eyes noticeably hardening for a moment on the teen making him sweat some more.

"I would normally lambast you for running on stage like you did but we have more important matters to discuss and you did get the show running back up again properly. We will settle for 5x times the training amount from what you're doing currently as punishment." sweet mask remarked simply Jiro looked at Aoyama and they shared a glance Jiro wanted to say something about that if he wasn't but Aoyama simply shook his head before changing the topic.

"What is the more important matter you're referring to? Was the performance hampered by the monster's appearance?" Aoyama asked

"Thankfully not, due to my quick thinking obviously…but something one of the monsters said did catch my attention. They remarked that if they managed to kill me that something called the monster association would make them a cadre. Given that you all had mentioned running into and interacting with a monster group I can only assume this new "monster association." is the same one you lot were brainstorming about with this group of monsters. And these cadres are something like the S-class or at least big-shots within the organization if the fodder wishes to become one. What I want from you two is all of the information you and your friends have of your strange encounters with monsters in the past." sweet mask demanded and the two teens quickly nodded their heads before going on to explain everything to the man that they knew.

They began their tale with the tiger he met torax they told him how he and a couple of other animals were turned into monsters up on the mountains of Z-city he didn't talk to the creator much but recognized a glowing green eyeball monster, the next thing was a large animal was brought in by that creature that acted as a king that suppressed the conflict and force them to submit to it, there next strange encounter was with a group of mysterious beings that were running from an organized group of monsters that went exterminated their species and keep information hidden from them, the next was the sign was of a dragon level monster known as energizer being picked up by what they assume was this same organized group, and the last was the sign of strange activity was when a monster called elder centipede came into K-city park and recruited many monsters. The two explained and just as they finished all of their phones went off at the same time, aoyama and Jiro got the warning of capturing monsters not being an option due to a state of emergency, and sweet mask received a similar state of emergency.

"I see it seems that this group of monsters in this association have begun to make their move do you have any ideas on where they're coming from?" sweet mask remarked as he put his phone down.

"Our current speculation is that their base is somewhere in Z-city," Aoyama replied almost instantly Jiro was distracted on her phone, likely talking to their friends about how things are progressing for them.

"Yes that would make the most sense, the inhabited zone in Z-city would provide a likely headquarters while it awaits reconstruction and with a large monster like an elder centipede, it would need to be underground to evade suspicion…. You two as you have just received the entire continent is in a state of emergency Monsters are attacking each city in some rapid blitz, you have been given orders that capture is no longer a valid solution but that is what I'm going to override you two are going to capture a monster or preferably multiple to bring back to me, we need to gain more information about this group so that we can exterminate them quickly before they become even more of a headache." sweet mask remarked looking at the both of them.

"We will get right on it." Aoyama and Jiro said immediately as they got up and left the room

"What will you do?" Jiro asked, finding her courage to address the man directly since the first time she stepped into the room.

"I will remain here and defend the venue, due to the state of events the audience and staff must remain here for the time being until everything calms down." sweet mask remarked simply as he made his way outside of the wardrobe room as the two teens followed him out.

Jiro had only managed to get on her hero equipment as she got in so she had to go and change into her hero outfit, aoyama used the time to continually charge up his suit before both of them were ready to take off and away from the event.

The two found a suitable spot and flew off Jiro using her boots combined with her arms to fly off, given that most of her time was spent practicing for the concert she didn't have too much control over her flight that Aoyama did as he flew with his shoulder pauldrons, she did, however, get some training and tips from bakugo during his late-night training who flew in a somewhat similar way the main difference being was that she needed to constantly shoot out her sound waves from her boots and arms to keep up her flight going, part of her was somewhat worried for the people below her but her soundwaves dissipated fairly quickly enough to not affect the ground. As the two of them flew over the city they could already see some of the flames and smoke of destruction that the monsters had wrought on the city, the two quickly got to work trying to help people and find where problems are with Jiro the tas was rather simply especially when she used her spy-ears function on her earphone jacks thankfully child emperor thought ahead and preconceived of the scenario where she was using her jacks for something else instead of having them readily available so each of her standard forms had an effect on her gauntlets as well that made them similar than before this gauntlet variation had an even larger antenna that extended her hearing range to about 10 kilometers she could hear almost everything and everyone which would have been too much for her but now she could focus on what she wanted to look for and that was the cries and screams of people looking for help.

With the help of that the two heroes continued to work on mostly civilian rescue and help, it was just like their practice when they were going for their hero learners but this time it was the real deal, not just judges pretending to be hurt but actual living breathing people just living their lives that were attacked for doing nothing, she wondered what was all this violence really about she was curious to know, with Aoyama help the two of them helped dig out and help people from broken down homes, Jiro enhanced hearing also allowed her to better direct people and keep them together while Aoyama sparkly form and charisma was mostly able to keep the kids calm enough during the proceedings, they were assigned to take most of the stragglers away and to the nearest hero shelters which the two of them successfully did so. They had run into a couple of monsters on their travels through out the city but none of them actually possessed the ability to speak so capturing them seemed rather pointless as sweet mask would need them to be able to question them but that left the two heroes on what they should do with the monsters that they did manage to incapacitate…they didn't want to just leave the monster their and after leaving a few monster in the hands of the police or their fellow heroes only resulted in them sentencing the creatures to death just not by their hands..leaving them in a perplexing situation so instead the two settled essentially to separate the monsters from the civilians as best as possible Jiro would set up sound walls which blocked the monster path from their targets and fight them off enough for the creatures to retreat in the case that a monster was fully able to talk they would make their way to capture them which where they mostly excelled at given that the monsters that were attacking the city wasn't that tough of an opponents.

The worst damage the monsters would get was a few cuts from Aoyama's navel nails the cuts weren't that deep to cause the monster to fear bleeding out not that it really could come to that given that the wound would cauterize upon landing the blow, the monsters for their part wasn't worried when fighting them if there declining heart rate was anything to go by especially after their defeat. The problem came with transporting the creatures now luckily they weren't that far away from the venue simply a couple of blocks away it should take them about 20 minutes of walking to get there but the two of them couldn't carry the large monsters each of which was partially larger than them in some way or another so they couldn't just pick them up and carry them but apparently when they heard where they were taking them they were at least somewhat more cooperative of going even when both teens knew that that excitement was likely to be quickly misplaced when they met the man. On their travels, they couldn't just trust the monsters to not just run off so Jiro kept a constant sound wall on either side of them as they continued to move forwards which left sandwich the monsters in a type of invisible alleyway where they could only move forwards and move backward the exit to this alley was constantly blocked by Aoyama's naval nails just to dispel any unruly behavior.

The two were met by a couple of heroes on their travels questioning what they were doing but after explaining that they were on a mission from sweet mask they noticeably backed off some even offered to help them with escorting the monsters and Jiro gladly accepted which was able to give her quirk a break and the monster, for the most part, stayed patient at least until sweet mask came into view, they had captured four monsters and one of them seemed to be twitchy compared to the others and even despite Jiro warning telling the monster not to make any sudden moves around the man but the creature didn't heed her warning as soon as they were alone the monster tried and dashed at him and the likely result happened it was completely dissected vertically the other monster watched as their fellow member body fell in two pieces on the floor, they all immediately backed up and away from the man shaking heavily.

"You two either stay or leave, the choice is yours."() sweet mask remarked as he held that silent deadly glare at the monsters.

"Ah, I think we will just wait outside," Aoyama remarked as he took Jiro's hand and proceeded outside the event but Jiro could still hear the cries of pain and ripping and tearing already start just as they breached the door and she immediately used her spy-ears to counteract her quirk and just hear the people around her. she looked towards her phone and instead opted to distract herself and see if all their friends were ok if the monster were attacking all over the place than everyone had to be in some sort of trouble or panic so she was slightly worried and specifically started to worry about kaminari she knew he was strong but he was also a little too playful at times for his good even in stressful situations which served as a good relaxer or relief but in a place like this where the level of violence seemed to be cranked up the extreme a moment's distraction could be very painful for anyone involved.

Group chat

GSD: I'm ok and bakugo is ok…but can someone check up on koda he was in S-city as well and the last thing I saw before I left there was that elder centipede came out…I'm going to rest quirk drawback don't worry.

UR: Koda are you alright?

TTT: Koda?

SWK: koda?!

LR: I'm available to make it there just give me about 30 minutes.

Personal chat

Jiro: Come pick me up first. I'm going with you

Kaminari: Alright, be there in a minute.

Jiro was now nervous, koda wasn't answering the group and people tried calling him as well to no avail but she was still holding out hope that he was ok, he was with metal bat wasn't he? According to Kirishima he was supposed to be very tough so surely he would be ok, they only have one month left in all of this mess behind…..and join another mess, she thought for a moment as her mind went back home again was this how it was back there? Is her family alright? She thought again for maybe the 20th time since being there but kamianri's quick arrival completely derailed her thoughts as kaminari made his entrance seeing that the boy was ok the two shared a hug for a moment that quickly transitioned into Jiro getting on the boy's back and the two sped off towards S-city it took them twenty minutes to arrive and utilizing Jiro quirk they were able to find the boy he was huddle over something they believe it was him for a moment even though he wore the same hero costume as the teen had sprouted a new horn on its head but what shocked the two was what he was hovering over as something was lying on the ground in front of him.

Group chat:

LR: Koda is alive but not well, tell you guys later.

D-city assault: lighting Genji, Garou, Kaminari

Kaminari after just saying good bye to his girlfriend and wishing her luck raced through back to his city over the past week he's been practicing fairly heavily with his agility and reflexes with Genji it was one of his specialties after all, especially with the way he moved around in cities he had to pay extra mind to his surroundings as he main mode of transportation was skating around and that same situational awareness he needed to learn to be capable of moving through the city without indecent and to be more creative of how to use the environment to his advantage as well, he understood Iida a bit more and why he preferred straight ways and things of that nature as he didn't have to deal with all the hassle of moving and dodging out of the ways of people or everyday objects but for him it was a simple endeavor especially with his lighting sense with it he could somewhat tell what was coming up and could preemptively doge around it making him able to really cut loose and speed up to his max while still maintaining a good degree of safety for the people around him and this doubled for the greater something that contained a lot of electricity like a car or motorcycle they would light up and his sense would give him a pathway on where the car was going to be allowing him to easily avoid in traffic stops, his sense also worked on people but to a much lesser extent and because of that he mostly stuck to the roads when traveling from place to place unless the streets were baron or they had construction on the roads nothings worst then getting wet cement off of his clothes he thought with a snicker.

As he crested the boundary into D-city nothing seemed to be out of the ordinary for the moment it seemed to be one of the chill days they been having recently which meant that him and Genji were likely going to be practicing some more in martial arts while his main form of attack differed from his masters quite a bit they still started from the same base and kaminari in his lighting god mode could manipulate his own lighting that he produces and use them for close range attacks he finally achieved his dream of creating a lighting sword but in practice it was something more like a lighting injector anytime he actually made contact with an object the lighting would just diffuse itself inside of it giving that object a mighty zap depending on the amount of voltage in how he stored into it, he could slightly elevate the issue by crushing the lighting into each other which made the sword more dense but that just essentially put the thing on a sort of charges the most he got it was 10 swipes before the things disappeared he could go farther but anymore was fairly pointless to commit to while in the middle of a battle and releasing power while in his lighting god form was a double edged sword as it would drain the form even more and he didn't have that many lighting charges to spare on something like that.

Genji remarked that he should forgo such training in the first place quoting something volten told him already about adapting the thunder thunder fist into a style of his own , kaminari was still fairly confused on how he was going to do such a thing he didn't really have any specialties besides his quirk so developing something for martial arts he was mostly completely blank about even when he took a moment to discuss with ojiro what he thinks he should do his friend couldn't really offer much advice on that front either but genji was there for him when he couldn't figure it out making note of his spectrum launcher and that he didn't have to completely rely on hand to hand combat to adapt the style into and that he should also consider continuing on with what he was thinking of before with ranged attacks combining them with his more enhanced close combat attacks could do him some good, Kaminari didn't even think of doing such a thing the launchers and pointers he always found was just to be a stop gap for him since he couldn't do range attacks of his own but ever since he could do some range attacks by himself in his lighting god form with his lighting throw he had forgotten about it most of the time instead of another battery pack that he could use to suck down in case of emergencies or in a real threat his drive shots. Taking it that way he definitely could do something with that and combine it with his martial arts and he had the perfect girl that he could practice with given that she also worked with ranged attacks most of the time although sadly Jiro was practical too busy most of the time with her own thing so they held it off until after her concert, ah couple training sessions every couple been doing it a lot recently other than uraraka and midoriya.

Kaminari searched around the city for his teacher and mentor and finally was able to find him. He was right next to another man who was lean and muscular with a black t-shirt and grey sweatpants but the odd thing was that he had a wolf mask on his head.

"Oh Raijin you're here just in time, this man was just here asking for an autograph, well more precisely he wanted autographs from all the lighting crew he even already got them from max and even volten himself," Genji remarked as he beckon him over and kaminari wasn't one to turn such a request down he had a couple of people approach him during his time in D-city and even a couple of love letters it was a shame he had to be a heartbreaker but his heart sung for someone else. What surprised him was what the man had him sign, apparently, there was a new hero guide that came out the previous day and it contained them as the prime seller it listed the traditional factoid about them such as height, blood type, and abilities but it even included some other information about them or rumored information about them such as him and Jiro being together with a leaked picture of them kissing at that event well at least he didn't have to deal with rejecting any more girls he thought, the two other couples in their class was mostly rumor related which made sense since they didn't show to much PDA that they did, it did offer up a note under uraraka and midoriya page that Natalie refused to comment on if the two were together and that she was asked to be silent which was a shadow confirmed for whoever wrote it. He shared a page with Jiro and had another entry with the lighting all four of them, one of the pictures showing what he could assume was a younger volten back during his hero days, his suit was more colorful than he originally thought it'd be given the more muted and militaristic theme he has going for now but he guessed that was what martial arts could do to a person he thought as he signed under his pictures like the others did before handing the book back to the person.

"Gosh finally, you know I hate running around wearing a mask." the man said finally removing his mask as the top of the mask crusted away from his hair gray V-shaped hair kaminari started to get a bad feeling and his feelings confirmed once when his lighting sense sparked out but he was to slow as a hand was suddenly gripped around his throat and hoisted him off his feet into the air, kaminari was mostly shocked as took both of his hands and grabbed the muscular mans arm.

"G-Garou.." kaminari managed to squeak out.

"Garou!? ….the hero hunter!?" Genji reacted in shock before pulling out one of his batons and pointing it at Garou threateningly but the man was seemingly unfazed as he just held up a finger to placate the pro hero.

"Ah, ah, ah…not so fast, I'm not interested in A-class today so I'm letting you off the hook but I got some business with this non-killing army member here. And I better not feel a shock unless you want that to change." Garou remarked addressing first Genji then turning his glance to kaminari that for his part was building up his electricity garou could already feel the prickles in his hands as the boy did so but after his statement, the electricity soon died down and he dropped both of his hands and garou lighten the hold on the blonde's neck.

"Good, he'll see you around, I won't hurt him too much unless he fights that is." garou remarked with a snarl glaring at kaminari and kaminari put his hands up in surrender immediately and garou nodded before holstering him up and carrying him away like a sack of potatoes garou was fast midoriya wasn't fooling around when he said the guy was even faster them him he didn't know where he was as he briefly felt himself sail through the air and he didn't know if garou had jumped or that he was thrown but he did feel when his back suddenly felt the hard impact of a railing behind him making him scrunch up in pain.

He briefly looked over the rail and saw that the two of them were on top of a large skyrise and briefly let out a sigh of relief as he didn't tumble off the side from the harsh throw. He recovered enough before taking a moment to finally look back at his kidnapper before he thought of something that their class talked about if they ever encountered the man and he quickly began to reach into his pockets and an instant later he regretted it and would likely think it was a fairly dumb move to move so quickly in the face of someone as aggressive as the hunter was, his stomach exploded in pain as the man's knee was found there instead.

"No sudden movements." garou remarked before reaching into his pockets and taking out his phone and stripping him of his spectrum launches before placing each on a table nearby, now that he got a bit of good luck around the place seemed to be some type of restaurant or hotel given the place to sit and tables scattered around it even had a mini-golf course pretty fancy he thought before being dragged back to the man present.

"Come here and sit down" garou demanded and kaminari completely obeyed sitting down in the designated spot that sat right next to the table where his things were but he held no chance of him being able to get to the stuff first so he just watched as garou paced around until he sat into the chair in front of him.

"What's the deal man? I thought you said you wouldn't hurt us if we didn't bother you." kaminari complained as he rubbed his stomach, still in pain.

"I didn't hunt you did I? You're a lot better off than your other friend that got in my way." Garou countered and in response to that kaminari got angry as a flash of electricity danced across his face just remembering how badly ojiro was beaten up a week prior but that anger quickly faded when garou glared back at him.

"Tch, what do you want then? I already gave you my autograph. Wait, that wasn't like a hit list was it?" kaminari asked, a little anxious.

"What? No! Idiot, that wasn't for me but for someone else.`` Garou remarked simply, kaminari was surprised that the hero hunter was going to give someone a gift, maybe a little brother perhaps? He would pry but he doubted he would get an answer.

"So …what do you want?" kaminari questioned after the man just sat there growly to himself for a moment.

"Why….why does your group not kill monsters?" the teen asked sincerely, kaminari was a bit taken back by the question but giving who he was talking to means that he needs to give a thoughtful reply while taking into account that they were in a new world with a whole different backstory.

"That's…a pretty loaded question, especially for someone like me ..I'll need a few minutes to think about it alright, you would have been better off talking to midoriya about something like this." kaminari mentioned as he pondered for a moment.

"He hangs around the old geezer so that wasn't an option, and as I said I was on an Aaron for someone and you were a part of it might as well squash two birds with one stone. Go ahead and think about it, but don't take all day. I got places to be heroes to hunt." garou remarked simply leaning back in his chair and simply gazing off into the distance part of him wanted to take all day from that last statement but part of him was afraid of what he would do if he took too long would he gargoyle him? (hang him upside down from the roof of the building) with that thought he started to think quicker and faster but he was running low in his lighting god form which made him woozy so he asked garou to drain some power down from his gauntlet telling him it allows him to clear his head and the hunter reluctantly allowed it as he finished the monster warning started to go off of an outbreak of monsters throughout the city but garou still just sat there looking at him expectantly.

"Better think quicker, hero." garou taunted and made the question on if he could postpone the talk until after die in kaminari's throat but now he just focused on the question at hand at a more rapid pace and believed he came up with a satisfying answer at least he hoped it would be satisfying, he didn't know what the hero hunter wanted from him or his friends but he did know that the man didn't kill heroes if what he was about to say had the possibility of changing that or keeping him on that path he needed to make it good as his nerves started to rise even more and he swallowed a lump in his throat before answering.

"Well….I guess the main reason would be that…even if they're monsters, there are still living beings you know? They still have a conscience and can think, act, and feel like the rest of us do and we don't think they should be executed for just simply looking different, they act out because of their newfound power but does that make them so different from us? Crooks and criminals do the same thing with the power they have. Hell, you're doing it right now " kaminari said, murmuring the last bit mostly to himself but garou seemingly had acute hearing even among the blaring sirens in the streets below.

"I'll let that comment slide for now but what about the more beast type? The one that doesn't have the mind that we do?" garou asked in continuation, snapping to get the blonde's attention as he was looking at the smoking rising from the distance. Kaminari rolled his eyes at this but answered anyway.

"What about them? Their animals in that case right? Sure we can kill them if it comes down to it but there is the possibility of relocating them to somewhere else right maybe a reserve or somewhere they don't have to be killed immediately, we had these rabid monster bunnies that we relocated somewhere else, and turned out monsters were already living out in the wilderness of the mountains. " kaminari mentioned. And garou hummed in thought at that pondering the possibility and it was Kaminari's turn to ask him the same question.

"I don't remember saying that this was a two-way questioning." garou snarky replied before standing up and moving to leave, but before he leaped off the building and away to who knows where however kaminari mentioned one last thing.

"Garou I may not know why you're doing all this but…I met some pretty bad people in my life and you….don't seem like one of them," he mentioned simply but the hunter didn't respond only leaping off the railing and away from the building kaminari was kinda worried for him for a moment but he likely be ok he did take a hit from midoriya after all so something like that wouldn't budge him and he was the one that brought them up there in the first place and he doubted he took the entrance, he silently chuckled to himself thinking about how that would look like to anyone that could see or paying attention he thought before refocusing as another monster alarm went off and more black smoke shot up into the air again.

Now kaminari needed to get down there and start helping out this seemed like a disaster and once he put on his gauntlet and grabbed his phone it suddenly pings with a notification part of him wondered if it was Jiro looking at the time it was just a little after the time the concert was supposed to end so there was a chance but it turned out that, that wasn't the case it was actually from the association themselves telling them about the state of emergency and that capturing monsters was no longer an option for any of them, that would complicate things he thought suddenly. The group chat lit up with things happening and luckily everyone seemed to be ok for the moment he released a breath that he didn't know he was holding as he saw Jiro text something as well so she was alright for now which meant he could continue and focus all the remainder attention on the threat in front of him.

the first problem he encountered was getting down from where he was, he didn't know how high up he was but it seemed pretty far for his liking to just jump down, and attempting the door only proved fruitless as it was an automatic lock he could try like fiddling with the electricity inside and stuff but he didn't want to break the thing and it was likely locked due to the emergency going on. So he didn't want to overload the system and cause even more panic for the people inside so he stared over the edge of the building and took a deep breath.

Now he harkened back to his lessons with both volten and Genji about how to skate along buildings using his electricity it had the same mechanics essentially as standing on the water where he would need to channel the lighting into his feet but this requires a lot more precision and concentration even volten didn't have proper control over it mostly extending to just using his momentum to run up and down the side of buildings but he didn't have the running lane to do that so he just had to go with it. And take figurative leap of faith which was more like a step as he took his first step and felt for firm grip before starting out with his second step and continued from their he felt his stomach flip and his that light feeling down below as he looked down at the city below and he started to progress at first slowly before noticing that he needed to get a move on and additionally he was definitely getting more and more nervous as he began so like a band-aid he ripped it off taking off with a sprint and he got pretty far all things considered didn't stop him from completely falling though but he caught himself in a manner of speaking he managed to stop tumbling and get his feet under him and simply let out a large amount of electricity downwards as much as he could and with that he slowed him down and in fact for a moment their he could have swore that he actually rose up for a moment but he could think about that later as soon as his feet touched the ground he took off as fast as he could luckily he noticed that he was still in D-city going of that he could still see the reconstruction going on and some familiar landmarks so he knew where he was going and he wanted to get back to genji as fast as possible.

Before he could go and meet Genji however he wouldn't just ignore the monsters that were on his way, he dashed through the streets and using his lighting since he was able to locate monsters that were close by monsters usually differed pretty great in terms of how their body electrodes function it was similar in fact to someone like ojiro's tail and shoji's body mutation containing more things such as electrodes to move their additional body pieces or their unique bodies. This allow him to time his attacks pretty easily in time to avoid people and hit his target more easily well it would be hard to hit with a physical attack he thought as he drove a shocking elbow into the head of a lizard-headed monster chasing after a family the speed he was going combined with the shock completely knocked the monster out and he would quickly find somewhere to dump the creature, he had run into a couple of heroes well he ran into some of the rated heroes this one being toxin he was stunned at the bodies of monsters that laid at the man's feet they were twitching like they were shocking but foaming at the mouth for a time before their bodies just gave out and stopped moving guess he didn't need his help he thought as he continued away towards where he last saw Genji.

He finally made it to gGenjihe and was engaged by two monsters one of them seem like a short person with the body of a catfish but with the hands and legs of a person, and the other woman was seemingly just a normal if not old-school Japanese woman with eight tomoe drums attached to her back. Genji was suddenly knocked back towards a telephone pole but he recovered using the telephone pole to swing around and land back on his feet looking at the monsters turned away suddenly in retreat but the female banged on one of her top drums and out of it emerged a lightning bolt that was about to strike gGenjidirectly on his engine but kaminari was there attracted the lighting to him before sending it back towards the women instead the girl was caught off guard by the sudden appearance but she didn't have to dodge the attack as the fish monster took the attack for her absorbing the lighting for a moment. Genji stopped riding away as soon as kaminari touched down.

"Now what's a beautiful lady like you doing attacking along with the monsters?" kaminari said before he could stop himself, he did have a pension to sweet talk he needed to curve.

"Oh, lighting Raijin you're here? Thank you for the compliment but I'm afraid that I'm already spoken for." the lady remarked with a small chuckle but covered her mouth with her scarf this was the complete opposite reaction to the fish monster who was angry.

"Ayy! That's my wife you're talking to! You better back off or else, I don't care if gyoro-gyoro wants you all." the angry fishman yelled out shaking its fist, kaminari mildly flushed in embarrassment and rubbed the back of his head.

"Oh, I-i didn't mean anything like that, I'm kinda spoken for myself really.,' Kaminari remarked before he was snapped out of it by Genji yelling for him to follow him. Kamianri did a double take before following along with the hero as the two of them sped away and the monsters didn't pursue. Two of them once they got far enough away finally took a momentary break as Genji went to one of his recharge stations. He had been running low on energy when he encountered those two monsters so on top of their natural affinity to electricity made the fight much more difficult than he thought.

"I see you unharmed, what did garou do to you?" Genji asked as he charged.

"He just wanted to talk, what's happening around here?" kaminari said changing the subject almost immediately which Genji found somewhat suspicious, especially what the hero hunter wanted to talk about but the teen maybe just more concerned with the current crisis which he couldn't blame him for.

"I don't know, I'm sure you saw the message monsters are attacking all over the continent and those monsters we fled from said that they were chosen specifically to counter me. Thank you for the assistance, by the way, I called for assistance but I guess they got bogged down somewhere else in the city.`` Genji remarked and Kaminari nodded his confirmation telling the hero he saw some of the rated heroes on his way back.

With that out of the way and Genji back to full strength the two went on their way to clear the streets and rescue people from monsters, at first they were going for the monsters themselves but after some disputes on what they should do with the monsters Genji assigned kaminari to civilians rescue since he couldn't "get the job done." kaminari didn't mind and part of him…he didn't know and started to question his ethics, especially seeing some of the destruction and death, they killed so indiscriminately it didn't matter man, women, or child. This was on top of property damage and destruction just for the sake of it, they were also almost always fully capable of speech and thought so it wasn't like they were mindless in their chaos either it was premeditated and personal, he didn't know what to think anymore but he did know he still had other things to do while he waited around and ghosted the edges of Genji's path just in case he ran into those other two monsters again he paged bang and bomb a couple of minutes ago and were surprised by the speed they had arrived many monsters were simply beaten to death as he found the men and they looked at him expectantly.

"Ugh sorry that I was a bit late but garou was here…he wanted to talk to me but he left a little bit after everything kind of popped off." kaminari said

"I see….what did he talk to you about? Did he give any hints about where he may be next?" bang questioned

"Well he wanted to know why I and my friends didn't kill monsters and nah he didn't say anything like that but I guess he did say that he wasn't interested in fighting A-class heroes today so I guess that can narrow down your options." kaminari remarked

"Told you to bang, using A-class as bait wasn't going to work." bomb remarked

"Indeed you did, well this should be fairly easy than most of your friends accompanying an S-class hero so we should be right on his trail soon." bang said in thought with his arms behind his back.

"So we're just going to wait around until we get a sighting?" bomb questioned and bang simply nodded his head. With bang and bomb there the fight for E-city quickly resolved itself allowing some other heroes to more easily flow out and give other neighboring cities some help in repelling the out breakout and kaminari was no different as he knew exactly where he wanted to go first and foremost.

Now eagled eyed viewers may have spotted a strange symbol like this: () and thought it may have just been a typo of some kind or something but no sir/madam that is intentional. think of it like the butterfly effect symbol seen in telltale or supermassive games, this is essentially the signature of changes to the story between the paths chosen.

allows readers to speed through chapters that they have already read in a different path and want only the new content instead, this will only appear for the monster invasion as the path completely separate from each other with no hope of things being the same.