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Month 5: Week 1: The Final Battle IV
God's True Champion: Garou, Saitama, S-class heroes, Neo Leaders, Mutants
Garou finally managed to slow down from his knock across the town. He didn't know how far he'd been hit, and he would have liked to investigate, but damn did his jaw hurt from that punch. It didn't make sense that his monsterfication seemed to be speeding up, and he was way stronger than he was before, but damn, it didn't seem like he was catching up at all. Once he finally got his head straight, the bald man finally decided to show himself by hopping down from the sky without a care in the world.
"So what exactly are you trying to accomplish, Garou?" Since you were hunting heroes, I assume you have a grudge against them for some reason. Is that why you're pretending to be a monster?" saitama asked
"Fuck you. Someone like you wouldn't understand my goals." Garou countered simply.
"Your goal? Oh, that absolute evil? And world peace or something?" saitama remarked
"Wha? The hell did you get that from?" Garou asked, completely stumped.
"I… I don't know if it was just something about you, I guess. Bang seems to think that you're just misguided, so I'm just going to knock you around a little until you apologize to him. He really cares about you, you know? You should consider his feelings," Saitama remarked.
"... Shut up!" Garou remarked simply as he dashed forward to engage the heroes once more.
This time thanks to his monsterization he was fast enough to actually perceive the man's strike and since he could see it he instantly knew how to counter it, the blow came as an right haymaker sloppy in execution and highly telegraphed he was easily able to raise his own left arm on the inside of the strike and slide across it using the momentum to do a cross chop right along the side of the man's head however it only nudge the man's head to the side however it would have to be enough as he continued with his followed up attack a right cross it was a joint attack that was to discombobulate the target slamming the targets head one way and combine that force with the punch from the other direction but again as the punch connected it barely moved he felt like a kid at adult punching machine how his head barely budged so he opted for a different strategy turing his right cross into a stepped in elbow strike that took the man off his feet, a regular person would have been sent flying but he just stood their attached to his arm.
The bald man went for a grab along his arm using both of his hands but there was too much space in between his attachments he used his other arms to squeeze in between the gap before he could pull the grapple tight he twisted his arm up using his superior leverage to flip the bald man while he wa sin mid-air allowing him to remove his arms while keeping his at bay and slam a fist heavily down upon the heroes back, he had hopped to crush the heroes spine but he felt nothing break so he continued on with his assault removing his arm from the man and attacking with his god slayer instant attack a rapid range of barrages rained down on top of the man, so fast that even he couldn't completely see what was happening so much so that he didn't even realize that the bald man had moved or was it that he was so fast that he didn't realize garou did not know nor did he want to care as the bald man had apparently tunneled underground a couple of meters before coming up and throwing a rock at him and exclaiming.
"That weird way you're moving and making my punches miss. Is that martial arts or something?"Saitama asked.
"It's the ultimate martial arts technique! Be grateful and relish the experience" garou replied as he dashed towards the bald man's new position lashing out with dozens of punches but to his surprise, all of them had completely missed their target, the idiot had been completely dodging all of his attacks with just his miraculous speed and reflexes however there was a great flaw in his style the man had no technique he could start to read him his next move, his move even beyond that they all had started to present themselves to his mind's eye and with that his next combo attack finally landed the god slayer instant attack a dual punch to the gut followed by a knee strike and ending with a snap kick that launched the hero away straight through multiple buildings Garou sped around towards the exit before striking the hero with another, even more, dangerous ability. The great Fa Jin, pressing both of his palms together, struck the man's back before, just as he exited the third building, the explosive power that was unleashed completely vaporized the buildings that had just been standing there.
"No matter how strong your bones and flesh are, there is no way to train your internal organs. With your insides torn to shreds, even the beast you are, you won't be able to work as a hero ever ag-" garou was about to taunt as the dust from the buildings wafted around him but was shocked to see that the bald man had been absolutely fine from the strike but before his brain could process that a sudden shout from behind the man caught both of their attention both glanced back and were surprised when suddenly from inside seemed to be a trapped door, revealing civillains of some kind they had told them that they had been the in charge of the underground shelter and were checking for any other civilians in the area before they had been trapped when the quaking occurred, saitama assumed that when the buildings were blown away that they must have been freed and the people thanked him immensely for the rescue but saitama couldn't take the credit as he chucked a thumb over to garou and despite the trembling all had shown the very same enthusiasm when thanking the man for saving them before saitama had told them to get away from the area.
"Look at that "absolute evil" is saving people; you can change your ways just yet. I think your hero name could be" the ultimate monster artist," Saitama remarked with a teasing tone.
"Are you fucking with me!?" garou yelled as he lashed out again with numerous punches from a single arm just to again not be able to hit the man even as he thought that he adapted and was able to read him he seemed to be even faster than before forcing him to start to adjust once more but he was surprised when the man had backhanded him once more this time into the air, he only remarked that it would be bad if they get the people fleeing down there caught in their squabble, garou was so insulted that he would consider this just squabbling that he continued at the bald man his monsterization feeding off his anger as he clashed against the man in mid-air only to have the man block the attack simple as ever but he could only defy physics so much as he continued to punch against the man's stellar defense while in the air. His body began to morph and bend again; both his arms and legs grew even more powerful and bulked up significantly, but he also grew large wings along his back, allowing him to fly without having to launch off into the air. The bald man's only response to this new transformation was that he had only gotten a "little" better, which was unbelievable compared to before and was like going from a knife to a firearm in terms of damage potential.
He clashed in the air multiple times creating large shockwaves that parted many of the clouds they had long since abandoned the Z-city Ghost town as their fight took them else were before they could get to far finally garou had enough and slammed the man down through the clouds to the regular onlookers it would almost be like hearing lighting was striking 20 times over, the bald man slammed into a volcano and their he stopped but garou could still see with his enhanced vision on how the guy was completely fine with that dopey grin on his face and he wanted nothing more than to wipe it off as he charged down with both of his hands glowing with energy and slammed it directly into the man's chest, blowing the back off the volcano to utter pieces but as he panted from the effort of the attack he was suddenly punched straight in the face sending him flying high up into the air before where he stopped kilometers away in the sky, he stopped before looking at the destruction below strange the man was completely fine but more than that the island was still standing from that attack, the bald man most have took the the full force of his strike and just the offshoot of what he didn't absorb destroyed the mountain itself, the man was a hero after all at least, as even at this distance he could see and hear with perfect clarity.
"Haha, this whole schtick where you're not even trying and things turn out perfectly... You kind of remind me of King, in a way. You definitely have great hero instincts, don't you?" Saitama remarked, and Garou turned in the direction he was looking, and his eyes adjusted completely, allowing him to see the small villa below. All of them seemed to have been celebrating had the volcano been erupting beforehand? Did he save even more people by accident?
"Goddammit!" he yelled once more at everything, not only at the man but at himself. His body morphed again into his anger, growing two more arms. The bald man saved him the trouble of heading towards him as he met him in the air. He immediately dashed towards the bald individual, lashing out with all of his punches, but each move still missed, only triggering him even more. Wasn't he supposed to be absolute evil? He was utterly shocked when the bald man casually deflected his attack with just one hand before attempting to say that the fight was over, but he was unsatisfied and wouldn't let things end like this.
He couldn't let himself forget this anger, not until the entirety of humanity had been made to suffer the same pain and despair that they did. Just the mere act of those random people thanking him was all it took to make all his preparations and resolve waver. That's how pathetic he was, and it pissed him the fuck off! Garou charged power into two of his hands and blasted that energy outwards behind him in combination with his wings flapping. He increased his speed and dove straight at his adversary, striking him directly in the gut and rocketing downwards directly over a mountain range, slamming straight through one of the mountains entirely. But Garou continued with his Extreme Fa Jin attack, which continuously buried the man in the ground. The vibrations of the attack sun deepened into the earth's core and even started to bulge the earth a small bit on the other side of the planet.
Another dimension
"The earth's magnetic and gravitational fields are going crazy!" A man remarked
"A spatial distortion is creating a hole in the dimensional seal!" Another person yelled out.
"That bastard is going to break through," another yelled.
"We've got to hurry up and repair it!" Another time, a woman yelled out.
Garou kept pushing, and he wouldn't stop. He didn't care how far he would travel, even if he needed to go all the way down to the earth's core. Not until he saw this man's face change, at least a little bit, and he got his wish, but it was not one of pain; it seemed to be one of seeming annoyance, and the next thing he felt was pain erupt all over his body as an astronomical number of blows—too many to even track—completely consumed him.
Consecutive Normal Punches
He was pummeled completely out of the hole he made with the man's body as he got beat backward. He tried to defend himself, but there were just too many punches to stop it: techniques, power, speed, creativity, attacks—all of them were worthless against him. Just how the hell was he supposed to beat this guy? He remembered something the centipede had said about destroying the fist that turned against God. At first, he thought he was referring to him, but now he could see he was talking about this man. A punch slipped through and completely rocked him in the face, sending him skyrocketing backward, where he destroyed three mountain tops entirely as he passed, crashing down into the dirt and skirting along the ground, where he eventually came to a stop. He lay there on the ground, where he finally looked down at the man. Just what the hell was he? He seemed like the embodiment of unfairness, and it was for that reason that he got to a shaky foot and ran towards the bald man to throw a punch. It was for that reason alone that he wouldn't let himself lose to him!
BAMF
His punch never connected with his target; he didn't know what happened or when the fist struck him in the face, but he was again soaring away; his body was cracking and fracturing around him. It was the sign telling him that everything was over; he lost. Just as he came so far, it made sense that he got beat by the unbeatable unfairness, and now it's all over.
{I can hear you.}
The rest of the heroes
The S-class never left the battle; their pride prevented them from doing so. The sound of combat signified that the fight was still going on, and for that reason, they all had elected to stay. The same was true for the mutants; they followed the sound of the fighting as it went before everyone paused at the signs of the clouds. They were shocked when they saw the strange shape of them, but that was nothing to the utter fear Midoriya felt from them. His danger sense told him that something was coming, but it was impossible to get away. It was world-ending. incarnate flashes occurred from each of the clouds and the things that had appeared from them. Large, massive feet were completely invisible to the audience besides those who had been inflicted by God. The teens all saw what had come from them, and panic spread through all of them, completely shocked at the mere size of the being before them; the thing was truly the size of a planet. Kaminari and Mineta murmured about whether this was truly god, and at that zombie shot a round from his revolver, cutting them all from viewing the spectacle and turning everyone's attention to him.
"Alright, it's time you all come clean... What do you know about this God? What are you all seeing because all we see is a punch of weird clouds and lighting?" Zombies remarked, looking over the teens, and this in turn made all the other S-class students look at the teens as well.
"We can't… We swore not to tell anyone." Neith replied. which earned a gasp of shock from some of the S-class
"Are you kidding? Look at what's happening, Yamomo? I mean, yeah, we made a promise, but this thing seemed to be here at this point." Mina argued as she cast a glance back at the weird-looking shapes. Neith took a glance back as well, looking at the massive footsteps out of the clouds before looking towards Iida. They both shared a glance before Iida turned to face the rest of the heroes present.
"God…is the being that brought us here... When he comes, it's a sign that someone is about to be offered a deal," Iida remarked.
The Skies Above
{Garou}
Who are you?
{your deepest wish is now on the verge of falling apart into futility at the hands of a singular hero.
Huh? Shut your mouth. Do you want to get killed?
{There is only one fist that can counter "the fist that turned against god." What do you think that is?}
What the hell are you trying to say? Who the hell are you, asshole? Show your face.
Heh, and here I am trying to help you out.
…old man?
{no master would just sit back and watch as their student gets beaten. Come take my hand.}
As if my old man would act like such a softie, Garou responded as he slapped the offered hand away, but he felt a strange power well up inside of himself.
{even if you didn't fully take my hand, you did just barely touch it}
Heh, I knew you were a monster. You thought you could disguise as the old man and play me like a fiddle? What the hell did you do to me?
{I shall make you my avatar. As for what you do with that power, you already know that fully well.}
As that being said, it suddenly disappeared in the blink of an eye. I nearly lost consciousness from the intense flow of power throughout his entire body.
On the ground
Saitama could tell by the widely shaped clouds and the sudden blackening of the sky that something was coming. He was proven correct when suddenly something landed behind him, hitting the hard concrete surprisingly softly given his speed.
"Garou? What's with the quick costume change again? … Wait, what's up with your face?" Saitama questioned him as he wiped his face to look at the man again.
"Something that can counter the fist that turned against God... I'd guess that be the Fist Of God," Garou remarked mainly to himself, and Sasama was a bit surprised the man sounded like he was in a bathroom or something. Garou swished his hands forward just like his master before him, and as they moved, it seemed that the very stars appeared at his fingertips, ready for round two.
A herald from the abyss comes, together with despair.
Awakened Garou Cosmic Fear mode
Bang's water stream rock-smashing fist takes knowledge of the flow of energy behind roaring currents and tidal surges and recreates these within one's body. Putting this in your fists is the secret. Garou's ability to instantly absorb and copy any technique is also an extension of that flow. Now, Garou has gained knowledge of all the energy of the universe and the behavior of all forces in it.
All-Life Eradication First
Nuclear fission
Garous made the first move in this second round, surprising Sastama with his increased speed and striking the bald man dead center. The attack caused a nuclear-level explosion that devastated the landscape. Garou continued, however, striking out again and again, causing multiple other explosions to completely dot the landscape before four more explosions before taking the battle to the air, where Garou was fully let loose with dozens of more punches. All of the heroes below were baffled by the rapid explosion that dotted the landscape, and Bomb remarked how Saitama could be even alive after such rabid attacks, but Genos rebuffed the man, remarking that through the dust and clouds, he could still see his master's silhouette. Seeing the massive amount of explosion, Midoriya told the class, all of them to get away and leave. The class argued that he should as well, and all of them were useless in this battle, and judging on the scale, it mattered not where they went. Midoriya thought about that, but he still wanted them away from the danger, even if he would have to force them to leave. As he looks at the spectacle again, maybe it wouldn't be necessary. As Sastama was still fighting, things could still turn out ok, hopefully.
"Ahh, you completely messed up my outfit." Saitama remarked as many cuts and holes presented themselves along his hero costume
"[You're seriously worried about your outfit? I've seen through all your moves completely.]"
"Huh? There you go again, spouting out lines like a bad guy before you get stomped." Saitama remarked simply.
"[Keep talking all cocky. I feel like I can do anything now. You seemed interested in martial arts, so let me tell you something: in martial arts, there are secret techniques called "shakkei" that borrow the power of nature by imitating the movements of living things, though I call them "modes," which sounds cooler, for example, how this one works."
Mode: Saitama
Saitama was a bit surprised to see his face inside the face of Garou. He had been partly paying attention to what the man had been saying, and essentially it boiled down to him being a copycat of others, he proved himself right when the man had hit him with his move of consecutive normal punches, so what better way to see if the teen was telling the truth by doing the same consecutive normal punches? The two attacks clash before thousands of blows happen at the epicenter of the very first explosions, pushing the fiery brace completely outwards and away. The attacks peter out as both of them land an attack against the other, sending both of them crashing back into the ocean floor. Each person has swum upwards and came back up into the air.
"[Is this the first time you fought someone who matched you in an exchange of blows? You seem at a loss for words. We may be evenly matched, but my copy techniques get honed to perfection at blazing speeds. Soon, you won't even be able to catch up to the copy.]" Garou stated
"You seem very proud of yourself just from ripping up a few holes in my suit; everything you said I heard before getting they were killed... Oh, but the old man didn't want that, so I guess I can't do that." Saitama remarked simply with a shrug of his shoulder, and Garou paused for a moment.
"[So you're saying you're still holding back, huh? Well, allow me to show you how strong I am now. Take me seriously then!]" Garou remarked before curling in himself and letting the energy surround him.
"I don't know what you're about to do, but that seems like it would be bad if it even grazes the ground," Saitama replied as he jumped into the air.
"[fool! You can't dodge this by jumping; you're just making this easy!]" Garou yelled
Gamma Ray Burst
A gamma-ray burst is an explosion that occurs at the end of the life of a massive star, and it is the largest and most powerful explosive phenomenon that has ever been confirmed in the universe.
The attack continued forward, striking Saitama and completely sending him far away. The light from the attack was utterly blinding, even shining brighter than the day itself while this was going on. Sweet Mask took notice of the monsters nearby and took a step towards them, despite his danger sense being completely overwhelmed. Midoriya quickly spun on a heel and stared daggers at the man, who was joined by the rest of the class.
At that moment Garou had suddenly appeared in front of the heroes, all the heroes present knew beyond a doubt that the source of that massive explosion of energy was this monster. The pressure that Garou's very presence brought upon the heroes was nothing but fear. The teen could feel that his dream had finally become reality. The symbol of fear that brings all heroes to despair...
Absolute evil
"Thank you," Garou remarked as he started to look at the skies above before he suddenly looked downwards, and it was Bang! He slowly approached him.
"Garou!? Is that you, Garou?" bang remarked
"[Old man…so you're still breathing?]" garou remarked
"That form, what happened to you? Even though I felt a response that you had come back to your senses, back then... I heard you say, "Thank you." Did you accept this "god's" deal?"
"[You knew about that?... No, the teens did!]" Garou remarked before pausing, lifting a finger, and shooting a beam past Midoriya's head. The teen had just used his black whip to wrap completely around all of his classmates and was about to attempt to run them and himself away, but the blast completely halted him. It skimmed across his face, leaving a burning sensation across him, but the explosion it kicked up in the distance completely halted him. His danger sense merely screamed death in his head. As he turned back towards Garou, the heroes noticeably gulped at the intense attack, worry completely etched on their faces.
"Garou, this isn't you. That thing must be controlling your mind! Wake up!" Bang yelled out, and there was another pause.
"[...not really; I've always had my senses. Old man, you once taught me something. To feel the flow of energy and become one with that flow. That is the power of the water stream you mentioned. I've become one with the flow and succeeded in controlling it. I'm truly grateful. I managed not to turn into that thing's weird puppet. Unlike their encounter, I was able to take that thing's power and make it my own. So everything that I do from here on out, I do of my own free will.]"
"You're lying; I can sense two different auras inside of you right now!" midoriya yelled
"You're just saying that; Blast told us that anyone who interacts with God is never the same. Just look at yourself; you look like a wannabe space god!" bakugo taunted.
"[I don't care if you don't believe me. It's time to conduct evil, so either bow down or prepare to fight.]" garou remarked as he took a step forwards the aura radiating off of him had come in waves and all of the heroes had started to bleed out of their eyes and ears, midoriya staggered first as he was closer coughing up with blood in his mouth, he didn't know what was happening but it was definitely bad so he continued on what he was doing before and used his black whip to launch all of his classmates backwards and away from the area, not wanting them to be exposed to whatever was happening to him but it may have been to late because none of them reacted to counter it, even Bakugo had been strangely accepting of the action given that he should have been able to counter it with his explosions along with Todoroki who had his flames to work off of he hoped he didn't inadvertently hurt them by doing that, he turned to the left and saw child emperor had utterly collapsed on the ground, his visions started to darken and fade as well, which only worsened as the man got closer to them before he finally collapsed. Bang watched with horror as the other heroes started to collapse down. He mustered his strength to rise once more to call out to his apprentice inside their
"God, or whatever you call yourself, give Garou back!" Bang yelled, but not to the man but to the weirdly shaped clouds in the distance.
["This is what I was meant to become."] Garou replied simply before a large gate warped itself in front of Bang, stopping Garou's approach.
"It's just as Silver Fang and Bakugo said; we can save the details for later, but you're being controlled by God." blast remarked
"So… I was right; the teens did know, Does that thing really consider itself god?" garou remarked
"Can you not tell by the nature of the divine power you were given? Any attack you unleash while on this planet could endanger the existence of all living things. Does that line up with what your actual goals are?" blast replied.
"Look at this late riser showing up out of nowhere; if that's true, what are you saying I should do about it?" Garou asked.
"If you've accepted the reality of the situation, for the time being, let me lead you to another dimension. Take a look; humans can't tolerate the cosmic radiation you emit. If they have no resistance to it as I do, they will all die from you just being here." blast commented as he thought about the situation. The teen seemed to have retained some of his humanity, which could be seen as a plus, but his transformation seemed to be some mere impartment of God's power. However, that could have been due to how strong the boy was before meeting the creature and getting granted his deal. If this was him in an incomplete state, then he wondered what a complete state would have been. He hopes the teen can see reason, because if not, then it will be a battle between beings who manipulate the reality of the cosmos to decide who is right and who is wrong!
"[HAHAHA! Divine power ain't that bad at all... Just me being around means death. I'm finally getting to be a symbol of fear. I'm looking forward to seeing how exactly the human race will change under the constant fear of absolute evil, which is me. I am that ominous future disaster-level god.
"I won't allow it," Bang remarked.
"Stand down bang, the closer you get, the sooner you'll die." blast replied.
"If you're going, then you'll have to kill me first." Bang responded with determination as blood poured from his eyes. Garou stared down at his old master in thought; absolute evil did not need others to understand it. Others will be miserable by just being around, finishing the old man right here, cementing his position here and now. He won't be able to see Tareo ever again, but that's how it is supposed to be for his sake as well. Just as Garou confirmed his resolve and continued by taking a step forward, the three of them were surprised when suddenly something dashed past them and slammed into gripping both of his shoulders and attempting to push him away.
"Move! You're not the only hero resistant to radiation; I'll push him to a safe distance away, then self-destruct." Genos yelled as he passed, but his plan was pointless as he connected it, barely rocking the divinely enhanced teen who raised his arm, sliced the cyborg's arms to bits, and grabbed the cyborg by the hair hoisting him up.
"[Demon cyborg huh? How heroic, oh? I remember now that Baldy was able to have an S-class hero like you as an apprentice. That makes sense, Garou remarked.
Blast used the chance and charged up his dimension cannon slamming his fists together before shooting out the attack at the distracted teen however the teen's reflexes were sharp and he was able to jump over the blast however he was too focused on the attack and didn't notice the portal he opened up over the top of him allowing him to appear right next to him where he was able to score a direct hit against the man with his gravity knuckle sending him flying away and rescuing the cyborg from his clutches but he knew he would need more than that as he continued to use his portal to draw the man in towards him using the man as pinball between each portal delivering a hit before shutting two portals over the man and shutting it. He would have hoped to lock the individual inside the portal; however, to his shock, the man had come back out of his very own portal, but not only in one of the man's hands was his gravity knuckle technique. The cursed teen came at him with both his hands lit with glowing energy.
Gravity knuckle
Nuclear fission
A rapid barrage of blows came at Blast, and knowing the danger, he countered by absorbing all of them and sending them skywards into the air where they could not harm. The thousands of blows and the rapid punches of the gravity knuckle collided and started to destabilize the portals, causing them to overlord and wink out, forcing both of them away from each other for a brief respite, but he was more cornered about the environment; he could feel the life on earth slowly whittling away, not to mention those that are right next to him. He should focus on getting them away first.
"I see now that you're not S-class rank 1 for nothing, it seems. But for me right now, you're not even worth my attention." Garou remarked as he sent another blast out, but not at Blast, but the cyborg that lay a couple of feet away, and the cyborg appeared in his grapes once more.
"[that baldy wasn't giving it his all. Right now if I copy his full power, I can win. And to make him bring out his full power I'll kill you…you wanted to commit suicide anyway right? I'm just helping …you along!] "Garou remarked as he thrust his hand forward to the bang that fell on deaf ears. Garou's hand slid through the cyborg's chest like a hot knife through butter. The last thing he could see before his world went dark was his master, who had just come behind. His last thoughts were goodbye as everything went cold.
Black rain started to fall, but this was no ordinary rain; this was black rain caused by the nuclear fallout of the numerous nuclear impacts that Garou had thrown out, which he found made a great backdrop for his final battle. Before he became the true absolute evil, he turned around and tossed the scrap heap off of his arm. Bang had collapsed as well, his old body finally giving out, but Garou's prize target was there. His casual expression was gone, which he could help but grin at, not that any of them could see it with how his face looked.
"You're a bit late, aren't you? Here you go," Garou remarked before tossing the cyborg's core directly at the man and watching as he caught it.
"You're the guy from before; don't come close!" Blast called out.
"Genos... do I really have a hero's intuition? Sure, it doesn't seem like it." Saitama remarked to himself as he thought back to how Genos told him about how he always seemed to be on time for a disaster, but he always felt that he came here too late, and the same thing happened now. He looked at all the dead heroes on the ground and the core in his hands, and for that one moment, he didn't care anymore; he was going to hit this man as hard as he could. Whatever happened next didn't matter as he charged forth, seeping the rage seeping from his fist.
Killer Move: A Serious Series serious punch
Saitama Mode: Serious Punch
"This energy!? This is bad; the earth will be shattered! blast thought as he saw the two punches nearing each other as quickly as possible. He slammed his fists together, and due to the rampant flux of energy, the two attacks colliding didn't merely double the force but actually squared it. As the fist collided, the impact wasn't anywhere along the earth's surface, but the Blast could only get it into a geosynchronous orbit before the energy completely blew him backward and the gate threatened to break apart, but he knew from the force of the blow that he hadn't given enough distance yet. But no matter what, he had to somehow manage to alter the trajectory of the destructive wave away from Earth! The power was just too much for him; however, a sudden voice to his left called to him.
"It seems we underestimated the earth," one remarked.
"To think another hero besides you could hold his own against one imbued with so much divine energy... Just who is he?" another commented
"We'll lend you a hand," the three remarked in unison before thrusting their hands out along with the blast. The gate had finally collapsed, and the explosions had started to erupt. With their combined powers, they condensed it once more and shot the explosion in a line away from the system, shattering hundreds of stars in its path to the next galaxy over.
"Were they knocked away?" A voice asked
"With that kind of energy, who knows how far they could've flown from the recoil? Blast replied
Jupiter's Moon Io
Garou recovered from his rough landing; he didn't know where he was as he looked to his left and then his right, only to realize they were in space somewhere before casting his eyes forward, and there he found his opponent standing high above a large hill. But what surprised him was what was behind his fated enemy—it was Jupiter.
"Where are we? What the hell happened? I'm getting a weird feeling of deja vu. Here, oh well, at least I can let loose at full power against a guy who can stay up." Saitama remarked as he stared down at Garou. He may have gotten what he wished for, but for some reason, he wasn't excited about it in the slightest. He cast a glance down at Geno's core in his hands before making an effort to put it in his shirt. However, if his uniform got destroyed, it would just fall out. He better keep a tight hold of it instead. Garou was dumbfounded that the man was utterly unphased by the environment. Is this guy even human? He thought to himself.
"[Hey baldy, I'm pretty sure we're somewhere on Jupiter's moons; I don't know how we got here, but we've got to think of a way back.]" Garou remarked
"Shut up. That can come after I beat the shit out of you. Bring it on one hand is all I need for you." Saitama remarked with a fist raised in the air.
"[...is that so..later then lol.]" garou remarked as he stuck a finger up and shot out a portal directly under the bald man's feet, only to be absolutely shocked as the man sidestepped and simply kicked the portal away but he couldn't even fully understand what had just happened when he was suddenly punched in the face sending him flying backward however he recovered in time and used a portal teleport directly towards the bald man and lash out with a punch this punch was completely diverted not by the bald man dodging but proving that his eyes didn't deceive him from before the man grabbed the rim of the portal and moved it upwards causing him to swing high into the air and leaving him completely exposed allowing them bald man to deliver a punch straight to his chin throwing him backward dragging through the earth of the moon.
"Forget your little tricks and come at me with your fist; is that what you call "ultimate martial arts"?" Saitama remarked, and Garou was just surprised that the man could grab hyperspace gates.
"Tricks? I have absorbed the techniques and styles of countless schools, fighting using every single one of these in synergy. That is my fist."garou yelled as he got up and charged forwards not attacking directly using dozens of portals to mask his approach before striking out with roaring aura sky-ripping fist the man had battled through his barrage before and struck out with a punch which he counters with the water stream rock smashing fist using the perfect counter along with the exploding heart release to increase the power, even more, allowing him to finally take the man off his feet and fly away where he used the whirlwind iron cutting fist to tear him to shreds however the only thing he managed to do was shred the bald man's uniform but he closed in with two other attacks to continue the combo, gravity knuckle and nuclear fission striking with both causing a massive explosion to take place which he began to absorb it back into himself.
"[I can let loose a barrage of fists of ever-changing attacks from all directions. With my fist, timing is irrelevant. They are completely unavoidable]" Garou remarked as he waited for the dust to clear.
"Even I could do something like that," Saitama remarked simply as he dug his hand into the ground.
Serious series: Serious table flip
Garou was shocked as a wave of rubble and debris suddenly flew his way. Before he could dodge, it seemed like the very moon under him had given way to the attack, completely overwhelming him as he started to fall. He couldn't even tell which way was up anymore, but in that next moment, he could see the bald man multiple of him in fact, but he knew that they were just afterimages completely surrounding him between the launched rocks and scattering debris.
Serious series: Serious Omnidirectional Serious Punch
Garou attempted to avoid the attack by opening a portal under him; however, the man was there almost like a horror movie, as he could only yip in surprise before he was punched and started to bounce between the rocks, but the bald man's assault didn't end there with just one punch but continued to be punched around the entirety of the broken apart moon of Io. He recovered himself enough to use the water stream to deflect four of the man's charges and finally get a foothold on a floating rock. He needed to get a hold of himself. The man was only trying to show off his insane physical strength and speed by darting back and forth between the rocks. If he could get above rocks, he wouldn't be able to move around as he pleases. He jumped upwards from rock to rock, only to slam his head first into the surface! He completely lost his sense of direction. Like a caged insect being played with by a child, Dammit he thought as he broke through the rock, but was only punched in the face for his efforts as the bald man passed through.
Serious Punch
So strong, the man seemed limitlessly strong; if that were the case, then I'd just have to copy him limitlessly. UNTIL I WIN!
Saitama Mode: Serious Punch
The two punch each other and knock each other back once more before garou uses his portals in combination with the attack to deliver another punch but the attack was dodged and even before the portal closed saitama punch came screaming though knocking him backwards using his portal again he continued his assault using the force of the punch that sent him flipping through the air to deliver an ax kick downwards on top of the bald man's head at the same time the bald man had struck him dead center with a punch to the gut while he was buried into the rock, garou was sent backwards but he opened up another portal to catch himself striking out directly for the neck against the man as his foot were tied down in the rock but the attack completely missed it's target as the man moved with even higher speed that he couldn't even track where he went he heard the loud bang above him just as the something pressed down directly over his head slamming him down into the ground, the attack style was all too familiar however as he realized that the bald man had actually been copying his very same moves on purpose.
"What's wrong? You said that you were going to copy me when I'm serious and surpass me, didn't you? Go ahead and try. Isn't that the whole point of this?" Sitama remarked seriously.
Earth Ground Zero
Bakugo felt pain course through his body it felt like it was breaking down piece by piece blood rushed out of his eyes and ears he could barely tell what was happening anymore by the time he felt himself flung far away, he knew the only person that could have done the only person that would do it, midoriya he could barely get his rival's name to escape his lips before he continued forwards and sailed away crashing down into the concrete the pain faded if not just barely he still couldn't move at least not yet his body still refused to move from the pain, he wanted nothing more to move, the idiot probably went to save everyone else besides himself the idiot and he would need to pull him out of there… He wanted to; it was the least he could do to repay him from so long ago, back in the river. His body still failed him, though, and his thoughts were interrupted when suddenly he heard someone's voice. not one of his classmates or teachers, but the last person he would expect it to be was... best jeanist.
The voice wasn't talking to him but someone else but it was about him and then visions started to appear in his mind's eye, and there the man was it was best jeanist he was fighting someone a big hulking black creature similar to that of a Nomu but more than that, there was a rampaging battle all around him blue flames covered the ground and licked up into the air but something about them wasn't right they were attacking something behind the man but he couldn't make out who was it fighting just a blur in the background but who knew for certain one thing it wasn't dabi the person in the background was too bulky for it to be him and it almost seemed that going by best jeanist tone it was a friendly person but he forgot about that for the moment as he focused more on the fighting Beast Jeanest wasn't aware of the large being making his way towards him; he was more concerned with fighting... Gigantomachia? Especially the large, high-tension wires using it to subdue the man-made monster, he also realized that something sat upon the hero's head—some device of some kind—but what it did he did not know; what he did know was what was about to happen as the large black behemoth continued forwards towards his target.
Stress output burden
A mass of black energy rushed towards him and struck him cold in the back, completely taking him off guard, blowing up the back of his hero costume, and causing him to lose an arm. Things seemed to spiral, and he couldn't make out what was happening next. Before the final reveal happened, it showed a beast jeanist holding the line against a group of enemies. The kicker was that in front of them, he saw both Endeavor and Hawks defeated on the ground. It was telling someone to flee, and his last words were about him.
"Tell Bakugo once he comes back that once this is all over, he knows that he'll be an explosive hero. While my denim may fall here, his will rise to take its place."
Before everything went dark and another voice came to him, this was another voice he felt for a long time, but this was unwarranted and unliked as God made an appearance before him, and to make matters worse, it was in the body of the best jeanist himself.
{Bakugo}
If you want me to listen to anything you have to say, bastard, you will change your form now.
Bakugo, with sincere anger, said that if he could burn the creature with his very mind and the creature did so slowly turning itself back into a form that he's seen before, almost like an undone sketch of a human being on the wind,
{It is good you understand the situation you're in; as I've shown you, your world is lost, and the heroes are scattered after the mightiest among you have fallen.}
You're just showing me fake stuff to get me to agree with you. I still won't agree to your deal.
{I wouldn't be so sure about it being a falsehood, what you saw was the truth; you have seen how your friend Midoriya was acting, something was bothering him he was more irritated and his rage built why else would that be? but that is not all I have to show. How do you think the public reacted to your hero's desperate last stand? with praise? Perhaps welcoming or understanding? No, it was vitriol}
The being remarked as it began to show Bakugo what was happening next, the heroes had returned to what he could see was the UA fortress, to the sounds of roars of anger and actual outrage. Some even suggested handing over Midoriya to the enemy just to end the fighting. Things seemed to heat up to the point that even Nezu had to compromise and send them away. He saw them all being moved away to a separate place. He heard the sea and saw the metal confines of another city. He knew where they had gone.
{the government has given up bakugo without Midoriya there, there is no hope and speaking of the boy or more specifically his ability, one for all he is dying and his ability along with it... So there is no hope for your world. Similar to this one, there are two large holes in the ozone layer, and the oceans have been poisoned with radiation. You are dying along with all of your friends. What more do you have to lose?}
If what you say is true, then what the hell do I have to gain?
You want to win, don't you? With my power, you can not only seek vengeance on the one who wronged you, but you can also go back to your world and save them, save all of them, and be the strongest you always wanted to be what you always dreamed. You can even take your friends with you; you will not be alone.}
Why do you need me? Isn't that fucking idiot already your perfect pawn?
{No, he is not; his actions are his own, as he stated, so he decided to kill all of you with his presence based on his own free will, "absolute evil." Could you imagine this all stemming from him simply being bullied when he was younger? A very lackluster rea- }
Shut up. If I do this, what do you gain? What do you want from me now? Bakugo hurriedly interrupted as his memories spiked from reasoning.
{All I want from you is to kill Garou. Sounds simple enough, no? He did kill your friends. Are you not angry because of that? Should you not have your vengeance}
I guess you don't like your power being stolen, huh? fine, but I want full control of this body until the deal is done.
{that can be arranged.}
1A
The first to recover from midoriya's throw was none other than kirishima, using his Red Riot: Adaptable his body was able to resist the effects of whatever was ailing them allowing him the free chance to move and get around see what had happened to the clothes, he was closest to Mina before being thrown back so she was the first one that he found writhing on the ground, he quickly ran over to her and extended his power to the girl and the first thing they did was share a very quick kiss as he helped her up before they continued to move on, the next person they came upon was kaminari and jiro, Jiro only way to mitigate what was happening was using her syncopation their constantly vibrating bodies continued to allow them mitigate the damage, they continued there search for their classmates separately each of them coming close to find someone else before coming together once more, the greatest change in hopes of mitigating what was ailing them which momo told them was radiation had been from Tsu summoned the power of the tree frog her body adapted turing her entire skin black to ward of some of it, Toru used her light manipulation to created a barrier around herself and after all of them were together she allowed the others to rest for the moment while she took the burden of warning off the radiations harmful effects.
The only person they couldn't find was Bakugo. Not knowing where the teen was, they all traveled forward, hoping that unlike themselves, Bakugo had the strength to return to Midoriya, and once they arrived, it seemed that they were correct, but something was wrong. Bakugo was standing there near ground zero without an issue; whatever his wounds, they had completely been healed, but the most damning thing was that glowing ball that hovered above his head.
"Bakugo, you didn't!" Kirishima yelled out from inside the large yellow dome. Toru couldn't get closer due to the sheer amount of radiation in the area acting almost like a hard wall against her construct. Bakugo turned around towards them; he looked the same, but his eyes were lit with an orange glow. He turned and picked up Midoriya and tossed his body towards them. The body slammed into the barrier and slid down to a stop. The class was utterly shocked, not only as their friend's bodies were so carelessly thrown but also as they looked down to see that Midoriya was no longer with them; he had passed on.
"[There was no other choice; everything is pointless now, but I'm a pretty big sore loser, so I won't just let this stand]" Bakugo remarked simply, raising all of the class heads to look at him once more.
"This…bakugo… You shouldn't..."
"[We wouldn't have done anything… It was over; we never should have help this place and let them deal with their own problems.]" Bakugo cut off Iida as he tried to formulate some response. The class was stunned; they could do nothing but stare at what was before them. One of their friends was dead, along with all of the other heroes, even Zombie Man. Tokoyami realized this, but everyone reacted as Bakugo approached the barrier.
"Bakugo, what do you plan to do with that power?" Kaminari asked
"[I'm going to make everything right. Trust me.]" Bakugo remarked as he sped forward shattered the light barrier and held his hand out for all of them. No one dared move except for Uraraka, but it wasn't towards him but the dead midoriya on the ground. Tears had been constantly streaming down her face, but no sound left her lips. She stared up at Bakugo before she wiped the tears away and touched his hand. As she did so, she was seemingly absorbed into the man, shocking everyone. His features began to change as he gained the two large cuffs along his wrist that decorated uraraka's costume, and along the outside of his shielded hands was the girl's quirk.
"Come on, the rest of you. I need your strength." Bakugo told them that it took a moment, but eventually, they all started to come towards him, touching him, and with each addition attributed to his form, his color began to change; his skin took on a dark pink tone, and his hair was multicolor of green, yellow, brown, white, and gray. He grew two more large wings shaped like webbed arms along his back, along with a large spiky tail formed just along his waist; several large boosters sprouted along his forearms and hindlegs; along his waist sprouted rampant orb-like growths; and on the two of his thighs sprouted two tape-like shooters that completely sprouted outwards.
Once he was done with that he turned to the others dead heroes and started to absorb them all of the council of sword giving him all of the knowledge about swords that he could ever want, Pig God he gained the ability to swallow and digest almost anything, Bang and Bomb mastered the fist almost immediately, puri-puri prisoner , zombieman, and even child emperor he took them all and started to gain from them but it wasn't enough he wanted more he started to search around he could feel the monsters presence and he would absorb them as well but the one he really wanted was none other than black sperm their was another around their he could feel it and using saren's knowledge of the mystical arts he went to find it and track it down reaching into the hole it dug itself and absorbing it into him and that's where he could use his next move he started to split but not just into himself but into his classmates or at least variations of them they were all jumped up but their personality mostly shun through and with that he banished them away from the area as he went back to the two people he didn't absorb which was Midoriya and Flash.
Tatsumaki
Tastumaki had finished taking her sister back to her home and finally subdue her enough to head back to the battle she had half a mind to leave the rest to do some work since she took care of most of the heavy lifting and she had a massive headache still, the only reasons he was returning was due to her sisters request which she found hypocritical of the girl since she was the main one talking about how she shouldn't return to the battlefield before and that she could "die" like that could even happen she thought although he confidence did fade for a moment when she thought about the damn buzzer was able to knock her out, the hell type of pathetic state did she has to be into one not only see that coming but less than that be knocked out by it. It only made her even more frustrated and a bit eager to get back into the battle; however, on her journey back, she found that something had happened. She came forward and found multiple overturned and what seemed to be burning vehicles in a wreck near the outskirts of Z-city. She landed down to investigate and found no one there. However, she did find footprints, and given that, going off the branding, this was the hero association convoy, she decided to go and investigate.
She would loathe the idea of the child being held hostage once more. They wasted so much effort just so the child could get captured again. She quickly followed the tracks into the closest town, where she found everyone. However, something was horribly wrong... everyone was dead, she immediately cased the area for any sign of monster attacks but nothing seemed to scream that there was a fight at all stranger yet as she stretched her power outwards it seemed like more and more people were simply winking out and dying she quickly closed the distance to the closest person in casing them inside of a barrier and dragging them through a building and trying to see what was a happening and there she could see that the person she grabbed was an average man but he was bleeding she checked inside to see if it was some sort of enemy attacking him internally but quickly realized nothing was present or at least nothing she could latch on to, could have been a disease of some kind? With that thought, she increased the strength of her barrier even more, and she attempted to question the man about what had happened and if there was a monster attack, but he was too weak to reply. He coughed up blood, and Tatsumaki could feel that he was dying, so she attempted to rush him to the hospital, but upon opening the door, the same thing was happening here; everyone was dying, and she could do nothing to stop it.
Worry instantly pricked her mind if her sister was safe. She had her barrier around her, so she was doing fine, but she had knocked her sister out so she couldn't do the same. She rushed back out of the city and saw something moving out of the corner of her eye. It seemed to hover over Tank Top Master, but she ignored it for now. It likely could have been some other civilian who was suffering at the moment, and she didn't want that for her sister, so she sped up even more, crashing into her sister's room, pausing, and flaring up her power as she noticed someone else was already there hovering over her sister. As the being spoke, she immediately recognized her voice.
"At least she died in her sleep." The being remarked for a moment held the voice of uravity, but her body was anything but; her hair color was red instead of the usual brown, and her body was much more muscular than before, along with being bigger and bulkier, with sharp spikes like protrusions along the shoulders.
"Step. away. From her." Tatsumaki threatened seriously, and the being did just that, stepping away and off to the side before disappearing almost like it was never there. Tatsumaki left the room for a moment, checking around before immediately checking up on her sister. She gently tapped her at first before roughly shaking her, thinking she was just asleep and not wanting to believe that the girl was dead. Why?
"[Do you want revenge on who did this? Come with me, and we shall have your revenge. Tatsumaki.]" Uravity came back, and Tatsumaki immediately turned around to see the being come up from the shadows, almost like a demon. Tatsumaki's power flared wild as she pulled the being close to her. The tears that threatened her eyes were full of utter rage, and her power completely blew the rooftop off the house.
"Who…did…this?" she remarked through seething breaths. She started to condense her power on the being to get the answer out faster, desperate to kill. No, she won't kill him yet. She will torture this person, monster, thing, whatever for eternity. Until she was on her very deathbed, she would continue to inflict any kind of pain on the perpetrator.
"Oh, I'll tell you better yet; I'll take you to him. He killed someone close to me as well, but first."Uravity spoke before suddenly Tatsumaki was shocked when something struck her from behind it. The thing had pierced right through her barrier like it was nothing. She stared down at herself. Something had stabbed straight through her. It was a hand that shaped itself into a blade.
"[I'm so happy they gave me the chance to do this; you earned it for running my plan, brat.]" A shocking voice came from behind her; it was none other than Psykos. Was she just tricked? ...Who were they? Tatusmaki thought before she blanked out.
Uraraka quickly absorbed Tatsumaki. She felt the girl's esper power course through her before her. She continued moving past her copy of psykos towards the bed, reaching out a hand, and absorbing fubuki as well. While the power increase was small, they did get an even greater understanding of Esper's power before she left the empty room.
Drive Knight
Drive Knight had left back towards his lab he had not anticipated that the monster with resurrecting capabilities would be able to resurrect itself, he should have locked down the feather with extra precaution because now he had to go around and wrangle all of the monsters that it freed however upon viewing the recordings of the breakout something more interesting occurs the cadre had didn't just free the monster he would kill them and then resurrect them putting them in a trance like state, the cadre was clever however he used the extra dozen or so monster as a distraction to attack the neighboring towns these were not, traditionally this would not have been much of a problem but with nearly the entire A-class and S-class mobilized even a dozen demon level threats could prove itself to be rather alarming state for the populus. He was forced to divert his course in the direction of those others despite his fascination with the cadre he needed to stem his other test subjects first, and it wouldn't be a total loss either, as reportedly one of the other cadre would accept being given to him. He couldn't speak much to this energizer in person, but it was a creature he would need even more preparation for than the one that escaped given its element.
Drive Knight had flown around recapturing all of his escape monsters, and sometime later, he would have thought they had spread themselves out in almost completely opposite directions from each other, which he assumed was because the cadre ordered them to. Upon each of their captures, he attempted to integrate several of the monsters, but none of them would say anything. Only four of them had the capability of speech, and usually, interrogation would be a quick and efficient manner of getting them to talk, but this time was different; they remained silent and almost unwilling to speak of the cadre, so the being could express control over its subject even at longer distances, he realized. He stopped his interrogation as he pondered that thought before several eruptions and warning signs popped up in his head-up display. Several nuclear ordnance seemed to have gone off at once, going in the direction he could gather it from the battlefield. He wondered if he was correct and if the Metal Knight had finally made his move to attack and kill the other S-class heroes while on the field.
However, that theory remains to be seen. So he went over to investigate. After restoring his prison to its normal state, he took flight and immediately realized something was wrong. The radiation that was coming off the affected area was too strong to just be nukes of the standard variety; it was bleeding into the air itself, and as he was coasting along, the neighborhood cities likely were all dead already going off the amount. He spotted numerous robots below approaching the disaster area; these were none other than metal knights machines signaling that this was not his doing; he wouldn't have gone overboard like this just to kill the S-class heroes. There were too many casualties.
Another peculiar detail was that the machines were all stopped but none of them seemed to have any damage almost as if they were disabled by something instead as soon as he thought that his immediate thoughts were an emp wave of some kind occurred after the nuclear attack stopping the machines from reaching their target to what he can only assume to push back and contain the radiation however his thoughts were suddenly stopped when he was taken down a course of shock ran through his systems and his systems immediately attempted to filter the unwanted current out but it had been too much but more than that he had started to be pulled down by something, he attempted to fly away but he was caught in paralysis and he was dragged down to the earth with a hard slam. Once he fought with his own body to look up at the perpetrators of the assault, all he saw was an electrical being covered in a thick black vale, and next to it was seemingly Kaminari, or at least something that had his facial features, the man had cold black hair instead of yellow and his body was a deep black color, and he held multiple eyes on the side of his head with dog-like ears that were pitched black.
"[Yo, robot bro... You'll be coming with us for the time being. You didn't seem to be doing anything important anyway]." The kaminari liked being remarked before reaching a hand out towards him, and he fell into blackness.
Neo-leader headquarters
Fuzzy couldn't feel the vibrations that had occurred, but he had a couple of his machines near the area confirm them, so he was always updated. Things had transpired just as his visions said they would, and now all he would need to do is sit and wait for the champion to come. He was curious if this was the dark future that his grandmother saw that threatened the earth; this surely was a grave enough possibility given the extent of the damage that his machines were recording. These would be the final days before the new area, and he surely didn't want to be left behind by it. He even went through the effort of gathering powerful fighters for them and even poisoning them so they wouldn't have to get their hands dirty. He would have thought that this would give him some leeway and allow him to live, but this would remain to be seen. The draft of radiation swept across the land, but he was protected, of course. Ever since he envisioned this day, he prepared for it hard and secured this facility in particular. However, this would not stop them from breaking through it all, nor did he want them to; none of his machines could do so either way.
He doesn't know how they came into contact with this power or its nature but he knew the end result of things and what would happen after it was over and he assumed this was the easiest way for things to go so as the people around him started to cough and wheeze from the poison he slipped into their drinks he waited patiently until his doors burst open and from their came none other than Neith or at least he assumed it was Neith, it was one of the girls she was decorated in large tufts of fur around her shoulder, ankles, and arms, she also had horns sticking out of her forehead although what told him it was likely neith was her costume suit while everything else seemed different those remained the same.
"Neith I would hope this gift finds you well on your adventures.'' Fuzzy remarked that there was a hint of surprise on the girl's face before she continued on.
"[great seer… Did you see this all happening? And you didn't warn us?] " Neith accused and fuzzy coughed before putting his hands up. The radiation was getting in from her entrance.
"Bits here and there; the visions are a bit vague. It is not just a reel that I can view at my leisure; it requires some guesswork to decipher properly. I could have told you all, but in my experience, these things would only lead to the situation happening in a worse state than before." fuzzy replied Neith, slowly making her way around the room, absorbing all of the neo-leaders present as he expected of her.
"May I ask that you spare me the death? For reparations for serving you these strong fighters on a platter?" Fuzzy remarked.
"[You saw the future; what do you think?]" Neith remarked simply as he made it around to him.
"Well, it was worth a shot; see you in the new world," Fuzzy remarked simply before he bit down on a suicide capsule he had in the back of his teeth. Neith hesitated for a moment but absorbed him nonetheless.
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location 50 km below the earth's surface
How long has he been here? He has killed so many and raided so many places; however, he never made people suffer like this. Was this the human version of justice? Was it not enough for him to die and lay there in defeat? He did not know what had transpired after his defeat. He would have liked to believe that his crew had scattered to the winds and were desperately planning a way to rescue him, but he knew this to be true; all of them were either likely slaughtered or trapped like him, not like him; they would be trapped and perhaps tortured, not used as a living batter. He could feel it with every shallow breath he took. He felt like he was always teetering on the edge of death, the latent power that was continuously drained from him at a rate that was not exactly life-threatening but was just enough to keep him chained. If he had even a quarter of his strength, he would have been easily able to break free, but that's what he gets for foolishly charging into a battle that he knew since the beginning he couldn't win. That bald man and his limitless energy, he should have asked him to finish the job if this was his fate, but maybe this was his penance for all the destruction he wrought.
If he knew this would happen, he would have asked himself, if would he have done things differently, and the question almost always had a similar answer, which was no. He never regretted what he did; he lived life to the fullest as he always wanted to, while he never found an actual challenger until recently. Well, calling him a challenger was a stretch of the word he gave his all, but the man had barely shown his fangs until the last portion of their battle, and even then he was still holding back.
He offered himself a weak chuckle that was barely audible in the quietness of the room. That man, how could he be satisfied with living on this single planet? Undoubtedly, he must be bored, or was there more to his life than protecting these fledgling civilizations? Did he want to be worshiped as a god to them? Or was he simply a shepherd to their pasture? He wondered what that man was doing now. He felt the several vibrations rock the landscape, and his bonds tightened in response. Something was occurring, and something big he could sense, a power approaching upon his own. Once he felt it, that was the one time his answer to his question changed. The one thing he regretted was coming to this planet too early. That great seer may have been right, but the timing was off. His greatest challenge was out there, but then the power darkened and increased further to the almost limitless heights of that same bald man, but the energy was strangely weirder, and soon later the power exploded, and even he could feel that this planet seemed to be at its end, including himself, but it strangely never came.
Nothing happened, and sooner or later another power source emerged, smaller than the other two, but it continued to get stronger as it proceeded mostly everywhere. But interestingly enough, the dark power had started to get closer and closer, almost like it was coming for itself. Did it sense him even in this dilapidated state? Well, it seemed that whatever was happening was going to be coming to him and he would relish the opportunity he was bored being trapped down here he would take whatever this anomaly would give him whether that is death or freedom he would let it decide as he heard the rapid banging of metal being destroyed or crushed as that something made its way down, several machines sprung up from the walls and started to guard the doorway however none of it matter as the power had suddenly gone out dropping all of the on the spot, good reason to because he was quite certain through his singular eye that something the machines were planning to execute him right then and their well that either way it matter not to him.
The crunching got louder and Lourdes before finally the door seemed to collapse in on itself and something had come into the room, it was humanoid albeit barely, walking on four legs animalistic in nature reminding him of the Shirai back on his world, the upper body and torso were human although its stomach held a large gaping maw of sharp teeth and inside of that maw was just a dark void of darkness with four glowing red eyes on the sides of it, the most distinct part of it was that the creature had a large horn that adorned the top of its head so large in fact that it extended so far that it scraped across the ceiling which he didn't know if it was due to the size of the horn or if it was just because it was a fairly large being.
"Wh…who…a…ar…u," the being remarked in a small deleted voice, but the being said nothing and ripped him out of the system. He was so weak that he couldn't even get his balance to stand; he would have just fallen straight down on his face, but the being caught him, and it comforted him with a hand for a moment before his world went dark. The being in the room paused for a moment and fiddled with its hands before stopping and looking upwards. With a snap of its fingers, it returned power to the environment, and things sprung to life once more quiver than a flash. The machines in the room were completely invigorated before they could even raise their weapons. The being stared at the destroyed robots before looking up at the camera and pointed menacingly toward them before marching out of the system and climbing back out of the system.
Dr. Bofoi
had been mostly minding his business throughout the day of the invasion he had obviously kept an eye on the situation while he would not participate in this foolhardy of an operation he would monitor the hero's progress he was more interested in the non-killing army or the mutants as they called themselves now, he was very interested in where they would show up he had been tracking them ever since they left their home however some interference completely destroyed his drone and any hidden devices that he had managed to put onto their person, whoever they were meeting was being extremely thorough in keeping their where about hidden so he could only monitor them when they had entered into the ghost town proper. Neith had again started using more intricate machines to support the heroes as they inevitably walked into the monster ambush with full bravado. However, he would have expected worse from the monsters; he knew firsthand how strong tatsumaki could be, so he had no doubt that they would have survived nonetheless. He had heard that the elder centipede had been alive. Still, if it were his operation, he would have used the creature's large size to completely entrap the invading in a massive pitfall with acid, but that was neither here nor there.
Watching the battle on the surface was fairly boring, when the cadre rose to the top things seemed to change and with the death of one of the S-class he was fully prepared to rub that fact into the hero associations face as he warned them of the potential casualties of their actions, even when they managed to subdue the threat the damage was already done now it was up to them to pick up the pieces, the next thing that transpired that peaked his interest was the titanic battle between tatsumaki and what he could only assume was the monster king orochi it was a marvelous spectacle of utter power and it was at that point he needed to figure out a way to deal with espers, he had assumed he saw how strong tatsumaki was before with the battle over the ruins of A-city but this blew that one completely out of proportions she was a serious threat if left unchecked so he forgot monitoring the mutants who had been doing nothing for some time now however a stray blast had destroyed his drone and completely cut off his vision. He was very tempted to nuke the sight completely given the damage the creature was doing; however, he would not be too hasty; he would give the heroes some time to manage the situation while he went to go get something to eat.
A couple hours later he had been hard at work on his project listening to the news as the ghost town fight had carrier on dead into the night, there had been reports of a massive centipede rising up into the air initially he believed that the this creature was none other than elder centipede which was nothing to be concerned over however upon looking at the very brief video of the suspect he was wrong the creature was far larger he was completely baffled by its size and the thing hadn't even fully emerged yet the video did not pick up completely on what it said other than the fact that it was going to destroy humanity but in that very next moment something happened and the monster simply disappeared and the helicopter was completely blown away from the fighting by the time it return to the scene the centipede was gone and no one knew what happened to it, there was evidence it existed at least somewhat where the scales dotted the landscape but what could have destroyed was his question? He watched the tape back downloaded it enhanced it, he inwardly cursed at the poor camera used to take this video before as he used his enhancements to slow the video by 5 millions percent and then proceeded frame by frame he cased the image for any indication of an attack of some kind and the only thing he could make out was a spec of some kind, this spec entered into the frame and continued forwards to the top of the monsters head, it couldn't have been rocks as the creature reached its top height and everything seemed to be falling down but this spec was climbing higher signaling it was something and when that something reached the head was when the centipede simply ceased to exist something or someone had killed that thing with just a single blow.
Before he could ponder that conundrum, the entire earth seemed to shake, and he quickly moved and went to his satellites to see what had happened. Apparently there had been a slight expansion in the earth itself. Could it have been a natural occurrence, or was it another monster? These seemed to be exploding all over the continent, and he had to move fast and sed his machines out to fix it all. What the hell did they unleash in by assaulting that place? The monster association certainly didn't seem that powerful initially, but what was happening was happening, and just when he was finished, readouts were read to him of nuclear activity that had been hinted to occur in the Z-city ghost town, completely puzzling him in how that was possible. The first thing he did was check if he had been hacked and his arsenal was used, but no, all his missiles were accounted for, so what the hell was happening? This was going beyond his wildest expectations of catastrophe. He mobilized a small contingent of drones and machines to counteract the radiation that had been leaking so far; however, they had been suddenly halted by something, and all of them went offline. He couldn't even see what had done it. He activated his emergency failsafes and put his base on lockdown until he could make sense of what was happening. He would have mobilized almost his entire army to combat the threat, but he needed to know what he was dealing with first.
There was another alert and at that point he was pondering to just turn all of his alerts off, but this one was of the utmost importance this was one of the aliens that he found in the wreckage of the ship, traditionally he would have just had the being killed but this was alien technology who would have better understanding of it then the being itself it was unfortunate that he could not capture the others however this one proved beneficial in a completely different way despite being torn in half and almost a skeleton it still clung to life, he nursed the being somewhat back to life however the most effective method was feeding the creatures energy, he didn't want to make the mistake of feeding it to much and it regaining its strength however just the jump start had a similar enough affect the creature had an internal energy source that rivaled that of an star if he fully allowed it to recover it would be incredibly disastrous so he started to drain that power and pool it, as long as he continued to drain it he would have a second infinite battery source and unlike the first one he would beeven more careful with this one, as is this one escape it could prove to be the end of the very planet itself.
But something was traveling down and tripped his numerous proximity alarms it could have been coincidence but as it moved and got closer this was clearly not the case he thought he primed the self destruct devices in case his defenses fell but before he could trip the switch everything seemingly powered down he lost complete contact with all his devices that far below earth nothing his worry immediately spiked if the radiation that was currently running rampant above the ground wasn't already enough he now had a freed alien on the loose, well based on his physiology he wondered if he the being would be able to survive it but he was getting ahead of himself he wondered what being had suddenly freed it or was it accidental? He got his answer soon enough. When the man and his connections were reestablished, the alien, which called itself Boros, was nowhere to be seen, replaced by a different being entirely. His machines started to wake up and begin to attack it, but within the blink of an eye, the machines was gone. The creature appeared to lift its arm and stare at the camera. Boros was nowhere in sight. What happened to him? Were there others? He didn't bother asking any more questions as he blew the place up. Whatever that monster was, it would die there along with Boros, he thought as he pressed the button. With that down, he would be set back, but he could now focus on saving the world.
Boom Boom Boom
Massive explosions started to rock the place again but this seemed closer to close, proximity alarms blared a moment later but by the time he brought up the feeds the thing had already broken through he stood up and was about to immediately go to his escape room to quickly leave the facility however he would also need to ensure to pack an radiation suit to protect himself from the elements of the new outside world he speculates that at the current rate humanity may perish in the next coming year maybe months if he doesn't react quick enough however as he went to stand up, there was another loud resounding bang directly at his front door it knocked the meta foundation completely off its hinges and nearly slammed into him instead slamming into his computer completely shattering it and spreading glass everywhere. A couple dozen bronzed men moved in to fill the breach, firing antimatter rays at the behemoth that had dared to barge in at him, but they had all been banished with bone-curdling yells, completely shattering them. He glanced for a moment at the door, and in the next moment something flew through, and his right leg was sent spiraling in the other direction. Pain coursed through him, and he froze. It's been such a long time since he felt pain that he collapsed on the spot, screaming.
The thing that had entered the base wasn't the creature that he saw on the camera but something else entirely; it was a bear monster that glowed in reddish-white and yellow electricity. Its face was that of a hydra one tiger, one of an ox, and the last of a bear in the center he moved backward dragging his bleeding leg as he tapped on his wrist more and more machines began to filter into the room but everything when dark with another shout front the monster that shut down everything the only light source came from the creature's body that had slowly approached him, the creatures seemed to bide its time slowly approaching him he could do nothing but await his death the creature raised it's one of its paws and thrust it forwards stabbing him in the chest slowly pain racked his body than he started to feel his heart begin to start pumping quicker and quicker it was going the speed was staggering before finally pop.
Aki retracted her claw from the man's chest. Part of her was satisfied, but also not so. She absorbed the old scientist before proceeding forward. She didn't understand what the point of absorbing the man would have been, but she would follow directions, and now that she had her revenge, she would continue forward toward her next objective. The old man would be good for something; at least his nuclear arsenal was now theirs to consume.
Watchdog man
Watchdog Man was concerned about what was happening on the other side of the continent, but he didn't want to leave Q-city undefended. But as the vibrations of the battle started to spread even down to his city, he was conflicted. There had been several volcano eruptions that caught his attention once, and he had to hurriedly speed over and create a ditch that would drive the flow outwards and towards the sea. He didn't know what was happening. The scent of the air and his very being seemed to scream danger, but he didn't know what it was. He scratched at his color for a moment to see if he could get an update on what was occurring, but the news didn't have any updates about the battlefield. Then he felt a dark chill rush down his spine, and before long, his instincts kicked into higher gear, and he ran.
He ran as fast as he could around Q-city continuously it took a couple of minutes but the wave hit, the dangerous wave of radiation slammed into the air current that decorated the city, threatening to harm his family but he refused to let it, he wouldn't lose them again, so he continued to run and run around he didn't care how long he would have to take it or how long it occurs, his exposed faces started to prick at his skin before suddenly the radiation increased but a familiar smell caught his attention, it was familiar but mixed as he continued to run something else came in from the side a slammed into him, he looked upon the being it was Froppy, he could tell by the backward frog-like legs and the long younger hanging out of its mouth along with her face but her body was different more developed and outside the back of it was long spiky thorns and shards with arms that weren't human but instead just two large centipedes like protrusions.
There was no talking, as the two immediately began to fight, watchdog man dashed around quick as feather coming up behind the being and swiping out with a paw straight for the creatures neck hopping to behead it, but he had to swipe lower as he the thorns out of her back launched off at him swiping them away, the four large bone like protrusion grew shaper as froppy jumped with great speed backwards directly at him hoping to skewer him on it but watchdog man was dexterous using his paws to plant around the spikes and jump away, he flipped in the air and just landed with the frog jumped at him with great speed he avoided the attack just barely as the two centipede like arms cut across his body, he slashed at the appendage but the scales were hard harder then anything he's ever hit before, it left a small gash in the plate but other than that it seemed to do nothing to slow the women down, she continued at him and he did the same to her, the fight started to spread through out the city dashing forwards again and again, the frogs legs keeping pace with his long strides however this was his city he knew the place better than anyone.
He had managed to land a glancing blow against the women's body scratching along it with his claws creating a large gash along her chest but in retaliation, it almost seemed like the very floor beneath his paws had come up and consumed his leg trapping him for the briefest moment but even just that allowed the women's centipede-like hands to come out and strike him along the hind legs, he withdrew for a moment before dodging around the buildings attempting to use the night to shield himself from view before pouncing out again this allowed his attack to land fully striking straight at the heart of the monster women, however, this proved to only be a trap as he felt his hand entered into the creatures chest he started to feel a burning sensation, the hand that it used to puncture the monster completely fell of his body. He ignored the pain and attempted to run away, but the ground around him almost completely turned to quicksand as it was mulched, and he started to sink down. He fought against the grains of the ground before he started to make progress, but he was stabbed in his two rear legs by the centipede-like appendages. His body started to freeze up and almost stiffen in response, but he fought through it, digging deeper into the ground. But what he found down there was just more acid in the woman's body. He continued upwards, burning his hand in the process, before coming up from out of the ground sometime later.
He started to pant really hard and his heartbeat wouldn't stop beating to the point he could feel it in his head. The radiation had also been pouring into the city, the poison started to filter through his body, and he felt like he was breaking down. He could smell death in the air. He had failed. There was no more use in fighting, even if he could do so. He began to force his body to continue to move forward. There was a place he wanted to be at least before he died. He stood on his two feet and continued forward back to his square, and it was there that he found Froppy once more, leaning against his pedestal.
"[Despite being that strong, you still decided not to help out?]" Tsu remarked.
"My power is connected to this place. It's my home. I can't leave it for too long." A watchdog man remarked
"[Well, that's nice to know; we'll be sure to take it along with us as well. We'll save everyone from your city; we'll bring everyone back once this is over.]" Tsu remarked as she stretched out a hand and, from the centipede-like limbs, shot out a beam of super-hot plasma that struck the watchdog man almost instantly, causing him to drop down on the floor.
Tsu walked over and touched the down man on the head, absorbing him. In the next moment tsu had to ponder what she should do, she could wait for everyone to die normally but that would be incredibly painful especially given the distance weakening the radiation effects so instead she summoned up a large bunker just on the outskirts of the city on the water and then began to split and herself into several clones gathering everyone she could inside of the bunker and sending them on their way it was radiation shielded in part and held food and water it was a pointless endeavor but it would save her the thoughts of what she was about to do as she felt the power of tatsumaki, fubuki, and psykos rush through her, she levitated up into the air and using the combined power raised by that beings gift completely enshrouded the entirety of Q-city ripping it up into the air and crushing compacting it and absorbing it into herself, she could see now the power the correlation it had to dogman she could see and feel it all as she started to fly away.
Silver Chain, Phoenix Man, Miodirya
Phoenix Man was in serious trouble; he had been betrayed by either the heroes or for this woman's own selfish goals, he was honestly going to hold up his part of the deal and not kill anyone else during their conflict and instead focus on his new image maybe get his show back up and running again to spread the bird brain name through the public far and wide to be adored by the public would be just as good as conquering the public at large but that seemed to just be a fairy tale for him now he would end up dying here and now on this day even after his good deed. This bitch silver chain had seemingly been tasked to dispose of him upon his second resurrection he was doing.
She had responded that she simply wanted his power before killing him a third time, he had speculated that the thing that had been beckoning him during his last moment against child emperor was in fact his wing that was cut off by drive knight the day prior so believing that to be the case he scattered to the edges of the continent planting his feather deep into the ground, four of them so if things went wrong he could just come back just like he did before but now he was on his fourth and last life this would prove the girls true colors, he should have asked for some type of communication device so that he could tell the heroes of what was happening, he had finally reconfigured to his full body and this time the women took a bit longer to reach him, he could react to her this time around as he transformed into his phoenix falcon flame mode the two of them clash for a moment, ultimately it was pointless of a task as she was just much stronger then her, according to Gyoro-Gyoro she was just as strong as Goketsu or regular elder centipede themselves he was a strong monster no doubt but he knew his limitations he was weaker than the two ninja but with every death he grew stronger and he would have thought after this fith one he would have been able to close the gap between them and while he made significant progress it just wasn't enough.
That was until the world around them started to seem to come undone around them. He attempted to use the distraction to get away, to get back to the other heroes, and to assume his assumptions were correct and she was going awry in her current course of action. He had gotten far but then faltered for a moment feather from his wings started to fall as he got closer, and he felt blood trickle in his throat as he got closer allowing the girl to close the distance and slam down on top of him, however, this was good, he could use his power to heal himself at least to mitigate whatever was happening in the air and he believes that the women like wouldn't and he was correct as the girl hunched over for a moment likely reeling from strange sensation permeating the air although she stood up again but he could see that her feet weren't stable like before he laughed in the woman's face for her failure and how god chose him to survive and win this conflict, he will kill her again and then resurrect her to make her spill what she was trying to do and let the others handle it as he laughed again.
Phoenix Man's laughs soon turned into screams when suddenly something above him completely took him off guard. It was just utter darkness, a large, expansive darkness with glowing red eyes and sharp teeth. He was completely consumed by the beast, and pain ripped through his body as he was literally torn in half by the creature. Silver Chain watched the spectacle with intrigue. She was surprised at first by the being coming out so rapidly and eating her prize before she could kill it. Something had happened. She could feel that radiation was permeating the air. She felt this familiar feeling before during her training days. The being that consumed the monster was none other than the mutant user Tsukuyomi's ability dark shadow, but it was much larger than she'd ever seen it before. It covered all of the sky above them, and before she even knew it behind them, the thick air had actually started to lessen as if it were being sucked out. The radiation was being sucked out. Giving her a safe space from it all, she stared forward as something emerged from the dark and murky shadow that surrounded her. The being was shocking enough, but it held onto people, dragging two people in his hands.
One of them was the mutant hero Green Savior, and the other was Flash. She was stunned by that fact as the being simply threw the hero's body down by her feet. She looked at it and was a bit disappointed that the man was already dead. She looked back up at the being and took a closer look at its figure. Judging by its face, she could tell who the person was.
"Katsuki? What happened to you? monsterization?" silver chain asked with a bit of hesitance. The creature held his face, but that didn't mean it was him. She could see that its body now had two additional angel-like wings on its back, signaling to her that it didn't just kill the phoenix man but took its powers.
"[Yeah, it's me, Sylvia, and what happened? Well, a lot happened, as you can see by these guys here, and I wish it was something as simple as monsterization, but none of that matters for now; I'm here for you.] "Bakugo remarked. Taking a step closer to her, a finger began to glow with energy. The silver chain prepared herself for combat, but the light didn't go directly for her but actually a flash, and suddenly, just as if it were from the other monster, he had slowly started to heal, and the man's eyes started to flutter open. In that next moment, the creature had sped forward and was somehow behind her, and it offered her something. It was Flash's sword instakill. She cast a glance backward towards it, towards him, and he nodded her forward.
She unsheathed the blade just as Flash was starting to get his bearing. He had turned to look at one way then back at her, and it was at that moment of realization that she held his weapon in her hands that she struck out. Flash was still too weak and unbalanced to react properly. The blade went right through the assassin's heart, forcing him back on the ground. The assassin attempted to push at the hilt of the blade, forcing it back, but it was too late. His body continued to weaken further and further until it left him and his hands fell to the wayside. Sylvia didn't know how to feel about what just happened. Part of her felt disheartened by the fact that she couldn't beat him in combat; however, killing the man with his own weapon made up for it tremendously. She felt clarity for just the briefest moment in killing him before turning around back to Katsuki.
"Thank you," she remarked, taking off her mask and bowing. Before she actually made an attempt to kill herself with the weapon, of course, the attempt failed, and Bakugo sped forward, grabbing the weapon from her hands and tearing it away from her.
"[idiot, I told you. I wanted you to live. We need to fix the mess you and I made.]" Bakugo remarked simply before he grabbed at her, pulling her down and kissing her, absorbing her before splitting her out once more and handing her another weapon, this one the sun blade. She understood the objective and looked down, absorbed a flash, and dashed away, leaving only Midoriya.
Bakugo took a breath before shooting out a beam at Midoriya. It took a moment, but the mossy-haired teen was back up on his feet, nearly instantly, already searching around, probably looking for the others. Yeah, that's him, alright, he thought to himself. He finally set his sights on him and almost recoiled in shock from what he saw. He guessed he wasn't the best sight at the moment, but he was confident that he still looked better than the nerd.
"Ba-bakugo? What happened to you? Where are the others?" Midoriya asked.
"[there fine midoriya..]" Bakugo remarked suddenly, with a snap of his fingers, the dark cage that surrounded them got even larger, and with that revealed everyone else. Midoriya could instantly recognize some of them, but others were a little harder to place. With a close inspection, he was drawn back to Bakugo when he spoke once more.
"[As for what happened to me, well, you could say I made a deal with the devil.]" Bakugo remarked simply, and at that, Midoriya's eyes widened in surprise and realization.
"Bakugo you didn't." midoriya remarked
"Afraid so, heroes don't lose, and while that bald idiot may win, I don't call anything that happened winning, and I'm going to change it. And we need you to do that; I'll win. You just focus on saving like you always do and I'll focus on winning.] "Bakugo remarked, simply holding out his hand. Midoriya was hesitant for a moment before taking one last glance around at everyone before accepting it and walking about and taking the hand that his friend offered him.
Blast
Blast didn't know where those two went, and he honestly didn't care too much to think about it. For the moment, he needed to fix the earth's ozone layer which was completely blown to smithereens. He was going to leave after that and let the rest of the people of the planet attempt to make a living. However, he found another spike of divine energy located on the planet. Would it have been possible for Garou to have returned? Did he defeat the earthly? Speaking of which, he definitely needed to catch up on the events transpiring on earth and see if people like that could be found; they could offer a great advantage to his team in their battle against God, but he would save that for another time, and that was if there were any other humans being left alive on the planet, but maybe this extra rugged environment will harden so that level of the one before could be more achievable by others, but he was just being hopeful.
In any case, he followed along the divine energy trail, which was surprisingly on the other side of the planet. They felt the planet's gravitational core somewhat expand, but from an orbital standpoint, nothing was there still. He wondered what Garou had for being in such a place. He continued forward and used his portal to teleport closer to the energy source. There, he found someone unexpected—it wasn't Garou, but somebody else? He arrived inside a cave or some ancient facility. There was ancient writing on the walls and Luna symbols that he couldn't quite understand; however, he forgot about those and looked at the stranger more closely. It was a woman of some kind, or it appeared that way from the back. He had thought that they would close the breaches in space-time by this point, but he guessed someone else was unlucky enough to get tempted by the creature. He couldn't really blame them given that the world was going to complete shit at the moment, but he still had a job to do.
"You there, stranger, I know you're probably a little confused right now."
"[I'm not confused at all; I am right where I need to be as I was instructed]" the woman said.
"Instructed? What does God want with this place?" blast questioned
"[It wasn't God that sent me here... Do you feel any remorse for what you let happen?]" the woman questioned, suddenly raising an eyebrow.
"Remorse? Remorse for what?" the blast questioned, and the women chuckled.
"[Well, I guess that answers that question. Did you not take a moment to take a look at the state of the world?]" the woman remarked. At that point, she started to understand what the girl was talking about.
"God told you that I had something to do with all this. Look, I don't know what it told you, but it's the reason for all this happening, and whatever deal you made in hopes of fixing it won't come to pass; it's just trying to play you for a fool." blast remarked simply that, at least with this one, it didn't seem like it was completely lost.
"[I told you that God has nothing to do with this; however, you are technically correct; you aren't solely responsible for this; some of the blame lies own my-.]"
"[Our feet]" another remarked as outside of the woman's back spat out something else; it was a jumbled mess of darkness before it split once more into two distinct dark shapes, or more precisely, people, two of the teens. He forgot their names in all honesty, but he remembered the two of them, the one with explosive powers and the other with all the spirits inside of his mind.
"[We told you of the danger present in the monster association, yet you ignored it, and now this happened.]" The shadow version of Midoriya spoke.
"[If this god is such a big threat, how did you let one of his disciples exist so long in the battle without taking any action or seemingly knowing about it at all? Some hero you are.]" the shadow of Bakugo accused, and now that the pieces were falling into place, they may have been able to seal the breach, but those teens were already inflicted, at least somewhat, by its influence, no matter how small, and combined that with the large breach, it would be able to talk to them again, and with their already compromised position along with everything else happening, they were easy pickings for the being's manipulative tactics.
"You all can see now why I said that, right? The world is nearly a wasteland, and from just Garou's rampage Do you want that for your world? Is that why you?"
"[Don't talk about our world!]" the two of them shouted in unison, cutting the hero off.
"[So many things are happening or have already happened in our world; without one for all, all for one was free to run rampant, nearly unchallenged... It isn't like this place; if one of the S-class died, then the others could pick up the slack]" the shadow of Bakugo remarked.
"[Did the person you sent even bother helping out the heroes?]" The shadow of Midoriya asked
"No, all of my team members are like me; they can't exist within normal space, or they threaten to kill others with their cosmic energy. Is that what this is about? You're going to ruin this world in compensation for your own? You can't go back to your own world like that.. blast remarked
"[hah! Do you think I would be selfish like you? No, I'm going to fix everything!" the shadow of Bakugo remarked with a large shout that shook the temple they were in.
"You can't always save everyone," Blast remarked glumly.
"[From you that rings hollow, when you didn't even try to save anyone before it was simply too late.]" The shadow of Midoriya remarked
"[Of course you wouldn't care about some nameless heroes or people dying, but what about your own kid?]" The shadow of Bakugo remarked, pointing a finger behind him. Despite himself, the surprise of the accusation actually got him to turn around, and standing there was blue. It wasn't just a shadow imitation of the person either; it seemed like the real thing.
"[I've always asked myself what I would say if I got to see you again, but I guess given the circumstances, it's rather pointless now... It's funny I became a hero because I thought if I was strong enough I would have been able to see you again. I wanted to surpass you completely and be better than you. I even formed my own hero association to surpass the people who shielded you away from me and everyone from your inactivity. I can't tell if I hate or forgive you now that I know what you've been up to.]" Blue remarked to the speechless man.
"Blue… I didn't mean for any of this to happen." Blast remarked sincerely as he moved forward and patted the boy on the head.
"[I know you didn't, Father, and while I wanted to surpass you, I didn't want it to be this way either]" Blue remarked as suddenly the boy had seemingly started to blend inside of him. He attempted to stop the act, but it was already too late. His body failed to listen to him as his son's head popped out between his shoulder blades.
"[This will only hurt for a moment; the fact that you were able to sense us was a good sign that we were indeed getting stronger, almost enough to go into combat with those monsters.]" The shadow of Bakugo remarked
"You mean the earthling and garou are still fighting in combat? Where?" blast remarked as he was lifted off the ground to face them again this time; however, as he was lifted up to do so, he found 18 other shadows, each of which were the other teens.
"[They're fighting on Io at the moment. I'm surprised you can't sense them, given that their power is constantly increasing. I'm surprised that the solar system is still intact for the most part if I'm being honest but I guess since we drew from the same power that could be the reason..but I need your power to catch up along with that.]" the shadow bakugo remarked as he chucked a thumb over behind him to the place behind him there the woman had moved further into the temple-like structure but she held something up in front of her that glowed a mystic yellow that almost seemed to be guiding her as she continued to move forwards in the deep dark abyss before something shone a bright luminous white light in the dark and came out of the wall and she followed after this white light before it both lights intensified to a blinding intensity that leads her to a wall to which she promptly shattered and behind that wall was a sword nearly identical to the one she had in her hand except it glowed a brilliant white. The women unsheathed both blades, and a large burst of energy lit up the entire cavern, allowing all of them to see everything in the place for the first time, but never mind that blast. She was shocked as the girl darted forth in blinding speed and stabbed him straight through the chest with both blades.
"[Don't worry about a thing; that team of yours is next, and you're going to deliver them to us]" the shadow bakugo remarked as they all began to absorb parts of the blast before splitting once more and separating into a perfect copy of the hero that they sent him along to get them. Sending him along to absorb his teammates, they offered him both the sun and moon blades to help him with his task before everyone started to leave and return back to the main staging area.
At the main staging area, there had been hundreds of clones all fighting against each other to the death. Each death would only make the resurrected clone stronger, and then the battle would continue to play out again and again. This doubled for the fact that each clone had a version of the stockpiling quirk working into overdrive, supercharging all of the abilities that they all possessed. He could feel the fighting happening in the orbit of jupiter and he constantly compared his power to it, until he felt that he was ready to join in the conflict, the clones continued to battle and he increased the count, even more, upping it to one thousand clones however that was his limit for the moment, there simply wasn't enough biomass for him to collect to create more but it would be enough once they combine once more and use Sato's ability, he wondered how much would be his limit in this state and he used clones to test it, and after a near supernova inducing explosions that probably would have took out multiple galaxies afterward he acknowledged the limit was around 50 well that was nice to know, but it was finally time to join the fighting as he lifted off and flew up into orbit swallowing half as many pills
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Bakugo looked upon the vast power that god had offered him and he wanted one that would guarantee him victory, normally he would have just taken an increase in his own power being able to throw around nuclear bombs sounded pretty extreme but he knew from the bald idiot that simply wasn't good enough but more than that he didn't want to do this alone, God had told him that he could take his friends along with him and that was what he was going to do, he chose his power it was to CONSUME. ADAPT. REPLICATE. IMPROVE. He knew there were many people stronger than him on this very planet and he would use their strength to help him in his upcoming conflict, consuming everything about them their powers, abilities, thoughts, and even memories into his body, adapting his body to suit them, allowing him to replicate their powers, and finally to improve upon them to maximum efficiency. He wouldn't just take his classmates and friends he would take everyone…this wasn't just his vengeance but all of theirs he would feed off their pain and anger and funnel it all into one target, "the absolute evil" created the "the absolute sin" and he would be its vengeance.
End Note:
The Difference begins to show at last, what will this new being become what is considered a victory for bakugo and how will they save everyone. What will the repercussions of these acts be? Find out next time on the conclusion of Monster Association raid next chapter! Hope everyone has a happy Thanksgiving! See you in December!