Izu-10

by Searchsnake00103

When a powerful device called the Omnitrix clamps itself onto Izuku midoryia, he must learn to use his powers to help him on his journey of becoming a hero. Will he be able to make it to U.A, or will he fall to an evil warlord bent on universal conquest?

6. The hunted (2 of 2)

Here's part 2. Hope you enjoy!

Saltwater. That was the first thing he noticed immediately upon regaining consciousness. The faint, distant smell of saltwater that had slowly filled his nostrils as he began to stir awake.

A pair of tired emerald eyes slowly opened themselves up, before slightly closing back to shield themselves from the bright and harsh light of the sun above. When he felt that his eyes had somewhat adjusted to the light, his eyes once again slowly began to open themselves, allowing him to have a look at the surroundings in front of him.

Upon waking up however, there were two….oh let's just say "little" details he noticed almost instantly. The first thing his tired emerald eyes noticed was instead of having the crustacean body of one Water Hazard, his body was instead of one Izuku Midoryia. Yes, it seems that our green haired friend here had seemingly transformed back into his human form during the nice little nap he had. Now this wouldn't be too much of a problem if he hadn't noticed the other detail of the situation. That detail being that he had just remembered that he had been kidnapped by one of the bounty hunters after his head, and now said bounty hunter was holding Izuku over his shoulder, giving the greenette a nice terrifying upside-down view of the ground below them, which consisted of not only several buildings but also gave Izuku a nice glimpse of the sea and docks as well. Izuku had no doubt that if the bounty hunter dropped him, he'd be sure that a fall from the height he was at, (which was around a few couple stories), would completely shatter most, if not all his bones.

"Ah…..ah…...ah!" Midoryia stuttered as his eyes widened to comical sizes, fearful that the….thing holding him would either decide to drop him, or would accidentally slip out of the bounty hunters hands.

"So, you're already awake huh?" The bounty hunter said as he noticed the panicked stutters of the greenette hanging over his shoulder. "You must be a really light sleeper considering that you've been out for less than fifteen minutes. That, or you've got some kinda weird ability like everyone else here that lets you get hours worth of sleep in minutes. Either way, I didn't think you'd be up so soon."

"Ah! A-ah!" Izuku didn't seem to hear what his captor had said as he still continued to stutter like a scared child, only this time his eyes were fixed the bounty hunters body. Izukus constant stutter also seemed to slightly bother the bounty hunter as he couldn't help but become confused by the teens failing attempt to speak clearly.

"Hey kid? What the hell are you doing back there? Are you trying to say something, because if so just spit it out alred-." Before Hoverboard could finish his sentence however, Izuku let out a ear piercing scream that caught the bounty hunter off guard, making him flinch slightly.

"AAAHHHH! WHAT THE HELL'S GOING ON?! WHO ARE YOU?! WHAT DO YOU WANT WITH ME?! WHERE ARE YOU TAKING ME?!" As Izuku continued to scream his head off, Hoverboard couldn't help but use his free hand to cover up his left….well, the spot on the left side of his head where the ear would be in an attempt to shield it from the noise.

"For the love of-!" Hoverboard wasn't sure how the kid could scream up such a storm. During his entire career as a bounty hunter he had put up with his fair share of people who would kick and scream as he dragged their sorry so to be caresses to his clients, but this kid takes the cake for being the loudest one so far. He wasn't sure how much he could take of this runt, he needed to shut him quickly. Looking down at the city scape below him, Hoverboard looked for a nice and isolated area that was away from any unwanted eyes and ears before his gaze landed on the rooftop of some kind of desolated building. Deciding on that, Hoverboard leaned his whole upper body downward causing the….,well hoverboard to abruptly change its course and started descending out of the sky, much to Izuku's surprise.

"What the?! What are you doing?! Why are we-?!" Before the greenette could ask if they were falling from the sky however, his panicked question was interrupted by an annoyed Hoverboard.

"Shut up kid. I'll explain once we're one solid ground. So until then, I suggest you keep your mouth sealed, otherwise I'll just drop you now and pick up the Omnitrix from the bloodied puddle that was once your body." The bounty hunter said in a low, threatening voice that told Izuku he was deadly serious. Letting out a small 'eep', the greenette quickly clenched his mouth as tightly as possible, fearing that if he so much let out even a hint of a peep, his captor would not hesitate to make good on his little threat. A smirk formed underneath Hoverboards mask as he lowered his left hand away from his head, enjoying the nice silence as he made his way down towards the roof top below. Taking only a matter of seconds, once the two of them reached the built-up roof of the devastated building Hoverboard tossed Izuku off his shoulder, causing the boy to hit the gravelly ground on his back with a thud while Hoverboard simply stepped off his... hoverboard, leaving the device to float in place as its master walked towards the greenette who, understandably, began to back away in fear.

"H-hey! St-stay back, d-don't come any cl-closer! O-or el-else I'll- um, o-o-or else I'll use m-my, my-." Izuku lifted his arm up to see the status of his watch only to see it was in the red. Seeing that transforming into one of his forms was not an option, he tried to think of something else to say that he thought might help him out of this situation. "O-or el-else I'll use m-my….. m-my quirk! Y-yeah, m-my super awesome ability t-that e-every o-one else h-has on th-this world. If y-you don't b-back o-off now I'll, um, I-I'll m-melt your b-brain with my psychic, telekinetic, brain melting power. Y-yeah that's it, I'll do that if you don't k-know what's g-good for you." To make his life seem more believable, Midoryia put his middle and pointer finger on his forehead to make it seem like he actually had some kind of psychic quirk, hoping that his massive lie would do….well something useful.

And to his surprise, it seemed like it did as Hoverboard stopped walking towards and simply stood a few feet away from Izuku who could only look in awe. Did that really work? Did his empty lie actually work out like he wanted to? I-If so, then that means he might actually make it out of this whole mess in one piece. H-He might actually live to see another day! Hahahaha, he couldn't believe how simple that was, and all he had to do was-!

"Really kid? Do you think I was born yesterday, what made you think that I would even fall for a cheap trick like that?" Hoverboard said, not quite believing how idiotic this kid must've been to think he could fool him over with such a useless bluff.

Meanwhile, any hope Izuku might've had left (which was already microscopic in size) was instantly dashed away. Of course he should've realized that his little bluff wouldn't work, the bounty hunter didn't stop because he bought it he stopped because of how idiotic it was. For Christ's sake did he even know what a quirk was?!

"Wh-what g-gave m-m-me aw-away-y?" Izuku asked as his body shook violently while trying to back away slowly from his kidnapper.

"Well, other thanthe fact that you're stammering like crazy and sweating up something fierce," Izuku looked down at his hands to see that he was indeed sweating violently. "I don't think you would've waited this long to use something like that on me or those other two back at where I found you. Not to mention the ability you claim to "have" sounds like something a little kid would come up with just to make themself sound cooler in front of the playground bully."

Izuku gulped nervously as the obvious flaws in his little lie were being pointed out by the larger man. Thinking about it more, he guessed he should've thought that out much more clearly. Looking up into the triangular mask of the bounty hunter Izuku said fearfully. "O-okay, I s-see what y-you mean. B-but y-you don't have to do t-this, I m-mean after all this w-watch or Omnitrix, o-or whatever the Hell you c-call it isn't exactly s-something I c-can slip o-off."

"Of course it doesn't slip off. It's bounded to your body in order for you to have access to the various amounts of DNA stored inside the device, so removing it isn't as simple as removing a hat or ring. It needs to be surgically removed, which is why I'm gonna take you to my employer, the creator of the Omnitrix, and have him snip it off of you. Once that's done with, I'll be sure to bring you back here, so why don't you just come with me peacefully and quietly so that way we can get this over with." Hoverboard explained as he began to slowly walk up to Midoryia to grab him once more.

However, Izuku wasn't exactly fond of that idea, as having the watch removed meant he would go back to being weak, quirkless Deku, and as selfish as it might sound, there was no way in Hell he was going back to that. Sure he had the promise of One For All, but that still didn't mean he was just gonna hand over this power. Besides, if this guy's employer sent three assassins after his head, something told Izuku that this guy didn't have any good intentions with the device, even if he was the creator of it.

"N-No way." Izuku said as he tried to steel his nerves, digging up as much courage as he could get and trying to sound brave. "With this device, I've been able to fulfill my dream as a hero, and I'll continue to use it to be a hero. So I don't care what your employer wants, I'm keeping it and that's that."

Hoverboard groaned in anger. "Idiot. The Omnitrix isn't some type of plaything you can use to pretend to be a hero. It's a powerful and destructive device that needs to be returned to its original owner, so that way it can be kept out of the hands of some of the galaxy's worst individuals. Trust me when I say this, he only wants what's best for the galaxy."

"I-I don't believe that! If he wants to keep this thing out of the hands of the galaxy's worst individuals', then why did he send three murderous aliens to come retrieve this thing?! I don't know about you, but sending three space killers after someone doesn't seem like the kind person who would have a noble cause." Izuku yelled out, wondering what kind person would sick three psychopaths and say he's doing it for the good of the galaxy?

"Kid, if I really was like those two back there, if I really was a killer, don't you think I would've just killed you immediately and ripped the damn thing off your corpse?" Hoverboard questioned the greenette, who then suddenly froze and thought about what he had said. He had a point there, after all while he was unconscious for a short time his captor could've easily just ripped off his arm while he was in that vulnerable state or even worse, just killed him like he said. Still though, even if he didn't kill him, it didn't fully convince Izuku that this man was a good guy. As Izuku continued to think, Hoverboard began to speak once more. "The person who sent me to retrieve the Omnitrix isn't the same person who hired those two thugs after you. That person is a power hungry warlord who thinks I'm working for him when in reality I'm not. Believe me when I say that the person who sent me won't inflict any type of harm upon you, he just wants to make sure that the Omnitrix doesn't fall into the wrong hands. So why don't you make this easier for the both of us and come along peacefully?"

"L-Like I said, no way. Even if what you say is true, I still can't hand this over to you. So I'm afraid you're just gonna have to go back to your boss empty handed." Izuku said, slightly less afraid now than before.

Hoverboards patience was beginning to weaken greatly. "Foolish runt, you don't have a clue about what it is you're messing with! If that device falls into the hands of those two, they'll return it to the madman who sent them in the first place, and if that happens then the safety of all things in the universe could be put into peril! And I'm not gonna let that happen because some scrawny brat wants to play pretend, it needs to be kept safe with someone who has the means to protect it!"

"T-Then let me be the one! I know early at the park I wasn't doing so hot against those two guys, b-but that was just a spur of the moment thing, I-I didn't have time to choose the right form for the situation. But, besides that little hiccup though, I'm sure I can defend myself with the right form." Midoryia explained to the bounty hunter.

"You?! You barely even held your own against the first one! That little display I saw there that you called a 'fight', was just you running around taking random shots with the Orishans water projectiles while trying to keep yourself away from his blades! You made it blatantly clear back there that you have very little fighting experience, because if you did have any then fighting the likes of those two should've been easy for you! But instead no, you're just some measly child who cannot properly wield the powers of others! So what could you do to protect the Omnitrix?"

Midoryia felt taken aback by this, feeling the small amount of pride that he had gained over his time as a non-official hero being insulted. Forgetting his fear momentarily, Izuku slowly felt himself experiencing a feeling he rarely felt for anyone, anger for being insulted by someone who knew nothing about him. "H-Hey, now just hang on one second. I might not be the best fighter ever, but that doesn't mean I don't know how to fight. Ever since I got this thing I've been taking down villains left in right almost everyday. So I think I'm inclined to say that I have my fair share of combat experience."

"Oh really? Well I hate to break it to you kid, but your so called 'combat experience', is absolutely worthless compared to these two. If I had to take a guess, judging by your planets technological level, I'm just gonna assume that these 'villains' you faced are simply just common gutter thugs who have no idea how to properly fight, meaning that they probably didn't have any proper ways of defending themselves against any of your transformations. And if that is the case, then it just means that you're clearly incompetent as a true fighter and that going against the likes of those two is a death wish. It would be better for everyone if you stopped acting like a spoiled little brat and just come with me already." Hoverboard explained as he crossed his arms.

Izuku scowled as he felt his rage slowly boiling up. "I don't care, I'm not handing this over to you, the supposed creator, or anyone else. I'll defend this thing with my life, and if that means going up against two intergalactic space hunters to do so, then I'll do it if I must. Nothings ever going to remove this thing off me as long as I draw breath."

Hoverboard couldn't help but growl frustratedly at Izukus stubbornness as he uncrossed his arms. He clenched his fingers as he felt the urge to strangle this kid was getting stronger. "Grrrh! Moronic child! Why are you so insistent on keeping the damn thing! A child of your age shouldn't have to be dealing with something like this! You shouldn't be acting like this is your responsibility, but yet you are! Why!? You have a the chance of having a long and wonderful life ahead of you but yet you're throwing that away, and for what?! This isn't your responsibility but yet you're treating it like it is! Why?! Does the rush of mindlessly going into a fight transformed bring you some kind of ecstasy?! Does the attention it brings you Inflate your ego or something!? Tell me why you need the thing so damn badly if you're so willing to risk your life! Give me your damn excuse!"

As Hoverboard shouted at Izuku, the green haired teen couldn't help but let the anger he had been feeling quickly build and build. The more he listened, the more he felt his emotions getting stronger. When he had felt like he had reached its height, he gave the extraterrestrial an enraged glare before shouting at the top of his lungs. "BECAUSE I NEED IT TO PROTECT EVERYONE!" The volume of his voice was so loud that it echoed through the sky, and the suddenness of it caught Hoverboard off guard slightly. "Because I need it to be strong enough to be a hero! Ever since I was a little kid all I've ever wanted to do was to protect those who couldn't even protect themselves! But I couldn't do that as I didn't have the strength to even protect myself! All my life everyone I've ever known has either ridiculed or didn't believe in my dream of being a hero! Every day my peers would taunt and shun me because of the fact that I didn't have any kind of power whatsoever! Even my own mother didn't believe for the longest time that I was capable of saving others from harm and misfortune! But despite all that, despite being treated like trash from everyone I've ever met or talked too, I never gave up on wanting to be a hero, despite the fact that I had every good reason to hate the society that's treated me like trash! As I went through everyday of my life being insulted and humiliated by those around me, I still hung on to my dream of being a hero, even when I was going through uncertain times in my life! But even though I hung on to my dream I still knew that I couldn't do that without power to do so! That's why I can't just hand this over to you, ever since this thing has latched itself onto me it's been helping me protect those from the dangers of this world! You say that I have no idea what I'm messing with, and in all honesty, you're probably right! But you also said that this wasn't my responsibility, and I'm afraid that I have to disagree with you on that one! Ever since this thing decided to latch itself onto me, I made a promise to the ones I care about that I would only use this device for the pursuit of justice, that I would become a beacon of peace, a symbol of hope! And I'm not going to let that promise go, not for you, those two hunting me down, the creator, and especially not to some warlord! If I have to, I'll fight you and the two aliens after me even if it costs me my life! So if you want me to come along-!" With all his might and conviction, Izuku yelled out to the top of his lungs. "THEN YOU'LL JUST HAVE TO COME AT ME THEN!"

After screaming his lungs out for such a long period of time, Izuku simply panted to regain his breath while Hoverboard just stood silently in place. The only sounds that could be heard in the roof was the teens gasps for air and the slow, almost silently breeze of wind that blew by. While unbeknownst to the greenette however, behind the triangular face plate of Hoverboard, the bounty hunter looked down at his target in surprised shock at what he had just heard. To hear such raw emotion and conviction come from someone who seemed so weak and inexperienced surprised him greatly. It seemed almost familiar to him somehow.

'This kid…. he's- he's really serious about this, is he?' While Hoverboard couldn't help but somewhat be impressed by the kids willingness to help others, he knew that he still had a job to do though. 'Besides, even though he's got the conviction, that means nothing if he doesn't have the strength to back it up.'

Hoverboard cautiously took a step towards the teen so as to not set him off and decided to speak up as he did so. "Listen kid, I can see that you really mean what you just said, but like I already told before, I was sent here to retrieve the Omnitrix and return it to its original owner. This isn't something I can just ignore. Besides, even if you're hearts in the right place, what you said about not having any strength of your own just proves you aren't worthy of wielding that device. If you're completely dependent on the strength of others, then how do you expect to protect yourself when that strength isn't available?"

Izuku gritted his teeth as he breathed sharply. "How many times do I have to tell you this already? When I said no, I meant it! I'm not going anywhere with you and that's finale!"

"Sorry kid, but I'm afraid that isn't a choice you can make. We're already behind schedule as it is, so I think it's time we head out already." Shortly after Hoverboard finished his sentence, he closed the distance between him and Izuku before quickly grabbing the greenette once again and hoisting him back onto his shoulder, much to Izuku's surprise.

"What the-?! H-Hey, let me go!" Izuku demanded as he tried to free himself out of Hoverboards ironclad grip. Seeing as how he wasn't even making a budge though, he tried to transform into one of his aliens only to see that the watch was still in the red.

"I'm sorry kid, but I can't do that. I've got my orders and that's that. Please, understand that I'm not happy about this either, but this needs to be done." Hoverboard said in a solemn tone as he walked back over to his still floating…. hoverboard.

"N-No! I won't let this happen! Let go of me!" Izuku yelled continued trying to wriggle his way out of his captors grasp, both anger and fear being to well up within him. Seeing how what he was doing wasn't working in the slightest, in an act of desperation Izuku curled his hands into fists before slamming them down into the back of Hoverboard. However he couldn't help but wince in pain as once his fists struck into the aliens back, it felt like he was hitting stone or something. But he didn't care at the moment, he just kept hitting the bounty hunters back over and over in a desperate attempt to break free of his grasp, even though Izuku knew in the back of his head that it was a fruitless effort. "Grrrh! D-Damnit! I won't go! What part of that don't you understand already!?"

"Sorry, but I can't." Hoverboard stepped onto the floating. "Orders are orders. You'll understand in time." And with that, he leaned his body forward causing the two of them to go flying towards the shore ahead of them. As the two of them flew past the buildings, Izuku still wouldn't stop thrashing in Hoverboards grasp as he kept on yelling his head off, saying things such as 'I won't go!' or 'put me down'. Fortunately, or unfortunately, depending on your point of view, the shouts coming out of Izuku couldn't be heard that well as the two of them flew so high that the shouts were almost impossible to hear at ground level, so Hoverboard didn't have to worry about anyone looking up at them due to the boys screaming.

Speaking of Hoverboard however, the larger being couldn't help but feel slightly guilty for what he's doing. He knew the kid meant well, hell he even found his willingness to help others to be admirable even. But he also knew that even if Izuku had the drive and courage, it would mean absolutely nothing if he couldn't properly defend himself against two trained assassins or an intergalactic warlord. Besides, this was better for everyone. Once the device was in safe hands, the galaxy could avoid the threat of universal conquest from that psycho. Still though, he couldn't help but feel slightly bad for the kid, maybe he could make it up to him somehow? Maybe he could give him a gadget or something that could probably compensate for the Omnitrix?

As the two neared the ocean, they were getting closer to the Musutafu city docks, which rested on a slope that curved downwards directly into the ocean and had several shipping containers neatly stacked upon one another, with no signs of life due to the entirety of the place being shut down for maintenance. As the two flew towards it, neither Izuku nor Hoverboard noticed the shape of something moving past the roofs of the buildings behind them, nor did any of them notice the faint sound of the earth rumbling and concrete cracking coming from below.

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'This kid doesn't know when to quit it, does he?' Hoverboard said mentally as he continued to hear and feel Izuku yelling while trying to squirm his way out of his grasp. He had to give it to the kid though, he had a lot of energy to burn. Thankfully though he wasn't being so much of a nuisance that it affected his flying skills in any way, it was just getting really annoying. Well, more annoying that is.

ZKRT!

'What in the-?!' The alien bounty hunter was broken out of his thoughts when he felt the hoverboard he was flying on suddenly jerked unexpectedly as the sound of sparking caught his attention and seemingly Midoryias as well seeing as the boy quit squirming around in his grasp. Looking down at his device, the mask man could see several small sparks and a faint trail of smoke emanating from beneath the board as it made several sudden jerks left and right, trying to keep itself airborne and causing its owner to curse under his breath. He had already wasted enough time as he did, but now he had to find someplace to land this wretched board before whatever was happening to it made it drop them out of the sky. Looking past the board and down at the ground beneath him, he scanned the area as quickly as he could before his eyes settled on the empty shipping yard down below and, after using his helmet to scan for any life and finding none, had decided to land it there as it was the nearest area to the small little island that had that ship he arrived on, even though it was still a couple hundred miles away. Beginning his descent down to the shipyard, neither him nor Izuku realized what series of events were about to unfold the moment they landed down.

Patrolia .Inc Shipping Docks

Patrolia .Inc, Musutafus number one source of imported goods from countries seperated by the sea. Founded 43 years before the luminescent baby was convinced, this entire shipping yard was built upon a slightly steep slope that lead directly into the ocean. Because of this all vehicles, such as semi trucks that moved goods into the city, had to have their parking brakes on at all times in order to make sure they didn't go rolling off into the ocean. Currently, it was undergoing some maintenance and because of this the workers were given a paid two week leave so that the maintenance crew can do their work in peace. As for the maintenance crew though, they had finished up the work they had for today and had left the shipping yard mere minutes ago, meaning that the entire shipping yard was now as empty as a ghost town. Which was fortunate, as it meant that nobody could see both Hoverboard and Izuku slowly descend towards the pavement below them.

Landing his smoking and sparking hoverboard right next to a stack of shipping containers in the middle of a wide sloped road, the bounty hunter stepped off the device and onto the pavement as he removed Izuku from his shoulder and placed the boys feet onto the ground, firmly holding onto the teens shoulders.

"Alright, pay attention because I'm gonna be real quick about this. As you can see my personal transportation isn't supposed to be smoking or acting all wonky, so because of that we've gotta make this little pit stop. So while I fix this thing I want you," Hoverboard pointed his finger behind Midoryia towards another stack of shipping containers not too far from where they were. "To stand over there in case something goes wrong. If this thing explodes for example, I'd be able to handle the blast. You on the other hand, I doubt would."

Izuku turns his head over to where Hoverboard pointed at for a second before turning back to face the bounty hunter. "And what makes you think I'll just stand by and wait for you to continue to abduct me? What's stopping me from just running off while you aren't looking?"

"This," Hoverboard used his thumb to point at the large gun that was strapped to his back. "Is what's keeping you from running away. This baby can not only fire out beams of scorching hot plasma that can eat away at steel with ease, but it also has a non-lethal function that allows it to fire out condensed spheres of electricity, great for short circuiting robots and knocking out dumb brats who think they can run off. So while I'm busy trying to fix my hoverboard, I expect you keep quiet and still. Because if I hear you try to run away, sneak off, or transform, I'll happily give you the jolt of a lifetime. Do I make myself clear?"

With a gulp, Izuku replied. "Crystal."

"Good. Now go stand right over there and just wait. This shouldn't take too long." Turning Izuku around and giving him a light push towards the containers, the greenette took that as his cue to leave the bounty hunter be as he worked on the hoverboard behind.

"Didn't need to shove me. I already knew what to do." Izuku mumbled under his breath as he walked over to the containers before reaching them and then leaned his body against the metallic box, allowing his backside to rest against it. Crossing his arms, he looked around the area with a disgruntled look on his face as he waited for his kidnapper to finish the repairs on his hoverboard. Uphill, he didn't see much, just some more shipping containers stacked on top of one another, a steel fence that separated the city from the docks, an administration building that sat a couple feet away from the fence, and a large semi truck parked next to the building facing down the slope. Izuku had no doubt in his mind that if the massive vehicle it didn't have its brake on, it would easily go speeding down into the concrete docks further down the slope and crash right into the ocean. Speaking of down the slope, when he turned his head downward all he saw was just more shipping containers, the docks which were completely devoid of any sea vessels, and the vast ocean beyond the said docks. In the distance he could see a few seagulls flying around the air and could distinctly make out their high pitched calls, and despite having only been to the beach only a handful of times in his life, Izuku wasn't particularly a big fan of their shrill cawing. Turning away, Izuku moved his gaze back towards Hoverboard who had his back turned towards the teen as he knelt down to inspect his hoverboard.

"Alright, now let's see what the problem is." Turning his board around, the bounty hunter was expecting that he would probably have to open a small hatch to get a look at the internal circuitry and see if there was any wrong with the wiring. However that wasn't the case, because as soon as he flipped the board around, he saw a small circular device sticking out like a sore thumb. It was no bigger than a quarter, and it had several wires sticking out of the bottom of it, and some of those said wires had burrowed their way through the hoverboards casing, causing sparks of electricity and wisps of faint smoke to pour their way out of the device.

"What the?" Hoverboard asked himself confused, wondering when such a small device had latched itself to his board as he used one hand to grab the small probe and tried to pull it off his transportation. At first, he had a little difficulty as the wires that were rooted inside the hoverboard kept the device firmly in place, but after a few strong tugs, he was able to get the damn thing out with a metallic snap. Holding it in between his thumb and pointer finger, he brought it up towards the triangular visor on his helmet for a closer look and saw that the ends of the wires had stinger-like drills. Not only that, but the main body of the device had a design that seemed very familiar to the large alien. As Hoverboard simply stood there and examined the small piece of tech, the man didn't seem to notice that up the slope, the metal fence of the docks began to vibrate slightly as the sounds of cracking concrete could be faintly heard coming from the distance.

While Hoverboard was looking at the small device ,Izuku, who had his gaze turned towards the ground and was silently hoping that the hoverboards repair process would take as long as possible, began to notice that several pebbles on the asphalt ground began to shake around slightly. Before he could question what he was seeing though his ears had began to pick up the faint, but clearly audible sound of…. rumbling, u-up the slope.

'W-wait, is that-?!' Looking up the slope with the feeling of dread, Izuku saw that the metal fence up above was vibrating violently as the sounds of the rumbling grew closer and closer with each second. As the vibration of the metal had reached its crescendo, Izuku could hear the sound of asphalt snapping as thick spiderweb cracks appeared beneath the fence and quickly started moving down the slope towards them, or more specifically, towards Hoverboard.

"Hey, look out!" Izuku shouted at the bounty hunter, causing the alien to break from his thoughts and finally notice the cracking coming from his right. As he turned to face the sounds though it was already too late, because as soon as his head faced the direction of the sounds, the cracks were already directly five meters away, and before he could do anything else, the ground in front of him bursted open, causing chunks of asphalt and dust to fly in the air as a familiar bronze armored fist slammed into the triangular visor of Hoverboards helmet, sending the bounty hunter flying a few feet down the slope.

"W-W-Wah!" Izuku cried out as he lost his footing from the shockwave of the ground exploding and landed on his posterior while the back of his head slammed into the shipping container behind him with a loud bang. Hissing in pain while having his eyes shut tightly, he rubbed the back of his head to ease the throbbing sensation, no doubting that he'd probably have a nasty bruise later. As he feebly tried to ease the pain however, not ten seconds after he had fallen the sound of loud mechanical whirring had filled his ears, causing his eyes to snap wide open before looking forward at the source of the ground exploding and, suprise suprise, standing above a pit with his four metallic legs was none other then the bronze hunter Kraabs, who was currently looking down at the fallen figure of Hoverboard.

"Hahahaha, hey there pissant! You surprised to see me again?!" The bronze bounty hunter boasted loudly. The way he spoke sounded like he was fringing between both gleeful joy and murderous intent.

Hoverboard, who felt as if his face was stomped on repeatedly by a To'kustar, slowly tried to lift himself off the ground as a few small shards of glass from the triangular visor on his helmet fell onto the pavement. Letting out a dry cough, he weakly tried to say something, but all that came out was a feeble groan.

"Haha, you know what, don't even bother trying to answer or something. I can tell that little love tap I gave you clearly took way too much from ya. Ha! And to think that tentacled freak thought he could compare you to the likes of me, what a joke! If he wanted that damn Omnitrix so much, he should've just hired me only. But I guess that doesn't matter now, huh?" Taking a few steps from the hole he had made towards Hoverboard, he continued to speak. "But besides our employers poor judgement, I gotta say, what you did to me back there was really, really stupid. The kind of stupid that makes me so pissed in fact, that it makes me want to tear the source of my rage into tiny unrecognizable chunks!" To emphasize his point, Kraabs snapped his metallic claw a few times as he walked toward the downed Hoverboard. "But the fact that I can have the chance to rip you into tiny little pieces is also making me excited too! Not only do I get to take out some competition, but I also get the chance to wipe you out! Something I've been waiting for since the moment I first saw ya!" Lifting his claw up and pointing it directly at the grey and black clad fighter, Kraabs continued. "Now stay still you little pest, just a few more feet and I'll be down with you in a minute. I promise that for the first five minutes though it'll be absolutely painful before the real torture begins. Be sure to give me your most painful howl while you're at it."

As Kraabs slowly made his way towards Hoverboard with his claw pointed out Midoryia, who was huddled against the hot steel of the shipping container as tightly as possible, could only sit and watch the display with pure terror in his eyes as fear kept him locked firmly in place. And as Midoryia helplessly watched the whole thing play out before him, several thoughts coursed through his mind screaming at him to do something, anything, to help him out of this situation. The rational part of his mind told him to sneak away while the bronze crustacean wasn't looking, to just slowly and quietly slip off and find help, while the much more desperate part of his mind simply just screamed at him to run. To just jump to his feet, and hightail it as fast as his legs could let him out of there. It told him to just run, and run until he found All Might or some other Pro Hero to keep him safe from this metallic monster before it was too late.

However, despite the fact that he wanted to run away though, there was one thing other than his fear keeping him frozen in place, and that was the helpless form of his captor who was having a difficult time trying to get back to his feet. Yes, he knows that the man wanted to drag him off his home world and take him to some alien planet that was God knows light-years away, but he felt like he couldn't just leave him there to be brutally tortured and killed by the crazed cybernetic hunter. But then again, what could he do? Even if he had a quirk, or if the watch was recharged, he wouldn't be able to win a fight with this guy, his earlier brawl as Ghostfreak was enough prove of that. He was helpless in this situation, he couldn't help out his captor, he couldn't fight back, he could only sit there in paralysed fear. It was like the Sludge Villain incident, only except this time his fear and logical side had completely override his heroic spirit. He. Was. Helpless.

And as Midoryia continued to helplessly stare at the whole scene before him, as he still pressed his back against the aged, almost burning to the touch steel one of his legs had unintentionally slid across the ground, causing a few small pebbles of asphalt to scratch against the pavement somewhat loudly. This had, unfortunately, caused the bronze behemoth to stop dead in his tracks, making Midoryia's already wide eyes and dread grow more.

"Hmm?" Kraabs said before spinning his head spin backwards at a full 120 degrees right where Midoryia was at. "Oh, it's you. Hehe, I almost forgot about you for a moment there. Weird how things like that slip your mind." Turning his head back at Hoverboard, he continued. "Hmm, I know I should probably deal with you right away, seeing as how you could be a possible threat. Buuuuuttttt….." Turning his attention away from the downed fighter in favor of the large paycheck that had escaped from his grip twice now, Kraabs spun his body towards Midoryia and began to make his way over as he finished his sentence. "Torturing you would take too long. I'll just deal with the kid first before he runs off again."

Izuku, who after seeing that the bronze bounty hunter now approaching him, seemed to break out of his fear induced trance as he hastily scrambled to his legs and began to run up the slope in the hopes of escape. However Kraabs had other ideas.

"Where do you think you're going?" He said with a threatening chuckle in his tone as he lifted up his giant clawed cannon before using all his might to slam it down onto the asphalt road ahead of him, creating a powerful shockwave to travel up pavement and causing Izuku to lose his footing before falling chest first onto the cracked ground below him with so much force that it forcible expelled all the air from his lungs.

"Hssssss." Midoryia painfully hissed as he picked his head and upper body up from the ground. His chest felt incredibly sore while the skin underneath his school uniform stung like Hell, no doubt he'd have to put on some soothing cream later to help ease the pain. (That is if he doesn't, you know, get forcibly ripped in half.) He also felt a particularly burning stinging pain on the upper right part of his forehead as well as something wet coming from around it as well. When he was about to lift his hand up and feel around for his injury on his head however, he stopped himself when he heard the tall tale sign of mechanical whirring coming from closely behind. So, in a state of a panicked and pained fueled frenzy, Izuku decided to just take a deep breath, (which made his chest throb in even more pain), and quickly got to his feet to make another mad dash for the gate once more. However before he could even make it three steps though, he felt a strong metallic hand tightly grip itself on the back of Izuku's school gakuran collar and forcibly hoisted himself up high into the air, almost causing the fabric to rip a bit. Knowing who it was behind him Izuku, with eyes the size of saucers, skin paler than the Antarctic snow, and pupils filled with inhuman amounts of fear, quickly turned his head back to see the emotionless gaze of Kraabs who held him tightly in his grasp. However, Izuku had no doubt that the cybernetic crustacean was most likely smiling sadistically beneath his protective headwear.

"Hey there kid!" Kraabs slams Izuku into a nearby shipment container with a loud klang, making the pain in his chest double. "Where you running off to?! The partys just only starting up!"

Izuku squirmed in between the cold metal hand and the hot metal of the container in a desperate attempt to break free from Kraabs ironclad grasp. Trying to sound as brave and intimidating as he could, he let out."Grrh, L-Let me go!"

Unfortunately for him though his little threat had, unsurprisingly, had no affect. Actually, it had the opposite effect as Kraabs pressed his hand harder into Izuku's upper back, causing him to be pressed further into the steel of the container and making his ribs feel like they might crack at any second.

"Haha, oh yeah? Or else what you spindly little brat?! In case you haven't noticed I completely have the upper hand here?! I've got you in a position where if you try to transform all I need to do is add a little pressure and that scrawny little twig you call a neck gets snapped into two! Plus not to mention, other than the geezer I decked in the face earlier and is now about ready to pass out from that little punch, you and I are completely alone, meaning that nobody's gonna interfere with taking my bounty like last time! In fact…." Kraabs looked down at Izuku's left arm, directly where the Omnitrix was being blocked by Izukus gakuran. "Let's get to that right now actually. I've wasted enough time on this dung heap you call a home, and I've still got grandpa down there to deal with. So I might as well just get this over with, deal with him, and I can finally get off this rock and finally collect my bounty."

"N-No! I won't-!" Izuku tried to protest, but as soon as the words left his mouth Kraabs viscously slammed his head into the container.

"Shut up!" Kraabs yelled sadistically as he lifted up his claw cannon and opened it up as the barrel began to glow with a purple energy. "I've had it up to here with you kid! The hunts been 'fun' and all, but I think it's time we end it now!" As soon as he finished his sentence a long purple blade that was 36 inches in length slide out of the cannons barrel, giving off a deep humming noise as it did so. Once the blade stopped, Kraabs raised the weapon over his head and said. "Now, stay still you little shit, I don't wanna hit the device by accident."

As Kraabs held the blade high above his head with every intention to mutilate the thing that has been a massive thorn in his side all day, Izuku could only look at the long purple blade with primal terror in his eyes as he tried to squirm his way out of the bounty hunters grasp. Using his analytic mind he tried to think of a plan, or any other way to get himself out of this situation, and at first he thought that perhaps his ticket out of Kraabs grasp was to transform into one of his aliens, however when he glanced down and saw that the Omnitrix was still in the red, that plan was quickly thrown out the window. Damn, what else could he do?! Maybe he could call for help, that could work right?! Surely some Pro Hero, even a lower tier one, had to hear his cries for help and come to the rescue! Y-Yeah, that could- that cloud- oh who was he kidding?! If a hero was nearby they would've already heard the commotion from earlier and been here by now, and screaming for help might just piss this guy off more! Oh come on, there's gotta be something he can do to stop this?!

"Say goodnight kid." Kraabs declared as he was about to bring his blade down upon the greenettes arm. Sensing the impending blow coming, Izuku closed his eyes as tightly as he could, and in an act of desperation he mentally called out to any greater power out there to help him get out of this situation.

Fortunately for him though, as if by divine fate, as Kraabs swung the blade down and was about to come into with Midoryia's flesh-!

ZZZKKRRTT!

-a beam of blue energy struck Kraabs on the side of his head, causing sparks to dance off his helmet as he dropped Midoryia from his grasp and stumbled back distortedly before loosing his footing and went crashing to the ground.

After landing on his posterior with a heavy thud, Midoryia could only stare at the downed bounty hunter who held him moments earlier with wide eyes as he sat on the ground before turning his head at the direction of where the beam had came from. And to some slight surprise, he saw that the thing responsible for saving him was none other than his kidnapper Hoverboard, who was kneeling as he held his blaster out in front of him and, judging by how his shoulders were moving, was breathing heavily behind his mask.

"How's that for a love tap asshole?" He said to himself before slowly getting up to his feet while keeping his weapon trained on the bronze jackass. He knew there was absolutely no way that attack was gonna keep him down for too long, so he had to act quick before he recovered. Turning his gaze towards Midoryia, who was still staring at him with wide eyes filled with shock, he yelled out. "What the hell are you waiting for?! Run!"

"Huh?! Wait wh-" Izuku was about to ask what his captor turned savior was doing, but before his question could leave him, his body froze up as the sounds of machinery slowly coming to life filled his ears. Turning his head back, he saw that Kraabs mechanical arms and legs were beginning to move about, trying to get their owner back to his feet.

As Izuku could only stare at the rising crustacean like a deer in the headlights, Hoverboard gritted his teeth in pure frustration behind his mask at the sight. "You moronic child! Don't just sit there, run!"

That seemed to break Izuku out of his fear driven daze, because he shortly found himself quickly scramble to his feet and made a break for it down the road towards Hoverboard as fast as he could in order to escape the much greater threat behind him. As he raced his way down the slope though, he stopped in his tracks once he rushed past Hoverboard and turned his head back to look at the person responsible for saving his life, and Hoverboard looked back at him as well once he had heard the sounds of Midoryia's footsteps stopping.

"What? Why are you still here?" Hoverboard asked infuriated as Midoryia simply just stared at him with a look of fear endured uncertainty on his face, making him look like he wanted to ask the bounty hunter something before he left. However, Hoverboard didn't take too much interest on the look that was on Midoryia's face as he was far too angered at the boy simply standing there when he needed him to be gone. "Damnit kid, I can't fight this guy if I've gotta worry about you getting caught in the crossfire! If you're wondering if I'm letting you, fat chance, I'll find you later once I deal with him first! But I need you to go now!" Midoryia's mouth grimaced slightly before he opened it to ask something, but before the question could leave him Hoverboard cut him off. "Don't argue with me damnit! Just go!"

"B-But, what about-?"

"I'm trying to protect you, you idiot, so just go!" Midoryia flinched at the tone of Hoverboards outburst. While he did want to voice out his question, he knew that he probably wouldn't be able to get a word in. So, giving a weak nod, Midoryia turned around and continued to run down the slope before turning left and running in between two stacks of shipping containers, disappearing further into the shipping yard, and as he ran, the question that he wanted to ask rang through his mind. Could his kidnapper face off against the mechanical menace that was Kraabs, or not?

As he disappeared from sight, Hoverboard let out a sigh of relief as he felt himself slightly ease up. Now that the kid was gone, he didn't have to worry about holding back against the arrogant prick. Speaking of, as Hoverboard turned his head back at said prick, he saw that the bronze cyborg had finally picked himself off up the ground and was rubbing the right side of his helmet, which was significantly damaged, as the metal plating was now warped and the right eye lense was cracked greatly. And, judging by the growl that was emanating from him, he was clearly pissed off.

"You worthless…. sack of Vulpimancer shit! How dare you do this to me?!" Kraabs yelled out as he clenched his metallic hand so tightly that Hoverboard could actually hear the mechanical joints within straining a bit.

"What's wrong asshole? Never heard the phrase what goes around comes around?" Hoverboard asked as he held his grip on his weapon tightly and kept his finger close to the trigger, waiting for the bronze hunter to make his inevitable move.

Kraabs removed his balled up fist away from the damaged side of his face as he said. "Why you miserable little-! Grrh!" He's had enough of this! He was one of the galaxies best, no, he WAS the galaxies best hunter out there, yet he was being treated like this?! He had hunted and slayed literally thousands of the galaxies most dangerous creatures imaginable, some of them being the Kaosseffexx Ultimasauria from Terradino and the Psycholeopterran from Kylmyys. He's earned his title and he deserves to be treated with the respect that comes with it. Yet this pathetic no named bounty hunter before him not only had the gall to humiliate him twice now, but he also thought he could take on the best hunter in the galaxy?! No, no he will not stand for this!

Deciding to end his miserable little existence, Kraabs lifted up his opened claw and fired out a hot red beam of plasma at Hoverboard with the sole intention of vaporizing the pest, however, seeing the attack coming from a mile away Hoverboard was able to easily dodge the beam by jumping to the left. After he had avoided the beam he fired out several much weaker rounds from his blaster which pelted against Kraabs bronze armor, causing sparks to fly off him as small metallic pings echoed off. However Kraabs wasn't even phased by this pathetic display of an attack, he just pointed his clawed cannon at Hoverboard once more and repeated the same attack he had just did. And just like before, Hoverboard was able to avoid the attack by jumping away from the beam, causing it to explode at the spot where he once was.

"Hold still you miserable little cretin!" Kraabs yelled before he lowered his cannon and rushed at his foe at a speed one wouldn't think was possible with his kind of legs. As he got close to Hoverboard, Kraabs lifted up his giant claw and with a powerful horizontal swipe, tried to away away the thing he considered nothing more than a bug beneath his (metaphorical) off guard by Kraabs speed, Hoverboard was able to narrowly avoid the attack as he quickly jumped back to avoid the attack, however this also led to him slamming against a shipping container that was directly behind him. And this in turn led to another problem for him, because just as soon as Kraabs had finished his swipe he immediately raised his claw above his head and this time attempted to crush Hoverboard into the ground, rather than swat him away.

"Shit!" Hoverboard exclaimed as he quickly jumped to the right just before the claw struck him, causing Kraabs to instead hit the ground where he once stood. Falling to the ground and hitting his chest with a heavy thud, Hoverboard wasted no time in quickly rolling himself into his back and raising his weapon to take aim at his opponent. However before he could even get a shot in though, Kraabs had swiftly turned his body towards Hoverboard and in the blink of an eye he used his hand to grab him by the left ankle and quickly hoist him up into the air. And no sooner than he did so, Kraabs wasted no time in slamming Hoverboards body against the shipping container near them, both causing the metal to bend inward and for him to lose his grip on his blaster, making it clatter to the ground.

"You worthless pest!" Kraabs screamed as he pulled Hoverboard away from the dented container and proceeded to slam him to the ground, causing it to crack apart great. "I should've just killed you then and there when I had the chance!" Lifting him up off the ground he threw Hoverboard up in the air slightly before quickly grabbing him by the head. Using his bronze fingers to apply pressure on the damaged mask, Kraabs couldn't deny that he felt some satisfaction as he watched the cracks on his victims headwear grow bigger and bigger while he grunted in pain underneath, causing the crustacean to laugh slightly.

"Bug off!" Kraabs yelled as he swung his upper body to the left and threw Hoverboard into a shipping container across the one he was slammed into. The force of the collision not only dented the container greatly, but it also caused the metal to tear with a sickening screech. Falling to the ground and landing heavily on his chest, Hoverboard lifted his head up with some difficulty to face his foe, causing small fragments of his helmet to slowly chip off and land on the pavement below him. When he was able to lift his head up, he was greeted with the sight of Kraabs picking up the blaster he had dropped with his mechanical claw as he stared down at him.

"Looks like you dropped something." Kraabs said as he pointed at the blaster in his clutches before using his claw to crush the weapon, causing sparks to fly from it as Kraabs tossed it down to the ground in a very lazy manner. "Too bad for you though. Looks like it's broken." He said in a very smug way as he slowly began making his way towards his struggling prey.

Gritting his teeth in frustration after witnessing his sole weapon getting destroyed, Hoverboard decided to lift himself to his feet and continue on the fight as he refused to lose to the likes of Kraabs. As he slowly raised himself to his hands and knees, Kraabs couldn't help but mockingly laugh at the display in front of him.

"Seriously?! Even after that, you still refuse to lie down like a filthy beast and await your death?! How can you even expect to think that you could be me in your current state?! You're badly wounded, and if that wasn't enough, you no longer have any means to defend yourself while I on the other hand not only have the superior strength and defense, but I also have far more weaponry than you do! Why continue the struggle when you know it's gonna end badly either way?!." As Kraabs finished speaking, Hoverboard had already gotten to feet as he began to take on a small fighting pose as he glared at the crustacean with hate through what remained of the visor on his mask.

"Shut up, you think I should care about what you say? You, a sad pathetic excuse of a hunter who was so weak and pathetic that he has to hide behind a cybernetically augmented body just to compensate for his lack of strength and skill as a fighter."

Kraabs stopped dead in his tracks after he had heard Hoverboards insult. Even though his face was obscured by his helmet, it was clearly obvious that Hoverboard had struck a nerve as Kraabs asked in a low dangerous tone. "What did you just say?!"

"You heard me, hunter! You're nothing more than a pathetic whelp who could never make it as an actual hunter, so you mutilated your own body and replaced whatever you sliced off with technology just so you could make up for your lack of talent. But sadly for you though, no matter how much of your body you replace, no technology in the galaxy will ever make up for your lack of skill. You're just an oversized insect who thinks that sheer brute strength and overpowered weaponry can make up for a lack of self worth. Unfortunately though, it doesn't. Face it, without your tech, you're nothing more than a weak bug with an ego the size of this planet. That's why I'm confident that I can take you on, because unlike you I don't need some high tech toy or sheer brute strength to pummel you into the earth, I just need my skill and experience as a fighter to outmaneuver you."

If Kraabs was angry before, his blood was practically boiling like magma at this point. How dare this worthless ,two-bit, no named bounty hunter insult him, Kraabs, of all people?! He said he didn't have any skill, he said that he doesn't have any TALENT?! That's it, it's time he finally just finished this pathetic excuse off right here and now! He's going to be leaving this planet with the brats watch and this shit stain's spine as a trophy! With a feral scream of rage, Kraabs used all four of his legs to launch himself at Hoverboard in the blink of an eye while the heroic bounty hunter braced himself for the upcoming attack as he didn't have the time to dodge the charge.

As the two of them began their first and final fight however, neither of them noticed that perched high atop one of the stacked towers of shipping containers was the purple clad assassin SixSix, who was simply looking down at the conflict between the two with some mild interest. He'll admit, originally when he stuck that device onto Hoverboards flying board, he was just going to swoop in quickly and kill both him and the human child before taking the Omnitrix for himself and leave this planet to collect the bounty he was promised. However, before he could enact his swift execution of the two, that bronze lummox showed up and threw his plan straight out the window, and while he was confident in his abilities, he knew that if he were to waste his time dispatching the two of them it would cause him some problems, so he decided to stand by and wait until a moment of oppritunity presented itself, and fortunately for him it did. Now that the greenette was nowhere near the battle between his competition, he could now easily retrieve the Omnitrix without having to worry about these two interfering with his work, he can simply strike the child down when he least expects it and leave this world while these two continue to squabble with one another. Yes, things were now easy for the assassin. Activating his jetpack and flying away without being seen by the two warriors duking it out below him, SixSix set out to finish off the only thing standing between him and the Omnitrix.

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Deeper into the shipyard, not to far from where the clash between the two bounty hunters were, the sounds of heavy footfall and the occasional puddle splashing echoed through the crevices between stacks of shipping containers as Izuku ran through them trying to find his way out of the desolate yard. As he continued his non-stop sprint through the maze of containers though, Midoryia felt like his heart was about to explode as his lungs burnt from exhaustion, causing him to wheeze and breath hardly, and his legs felt like they would give away at any moment now. Usually, he wouldn't have that much difficulty when it came to running as even before he began his training with All Might, Midoryia tended to have a lot of stamina stored in his legs. Years of rushing to watch Pro Heros subdue villains and running away from Kacchan and his goons will do that to you after all. However, due to the fact that earlier he was in a fight with an extraterrestrial assassin not even half an hour ago, Midoryia was all but physically drained at his point. The fact that he's navigating his way through a man-made maze of shipping container stacks at the speed of a marathon runner made him want to just head home and collapse on his bed.

As he began to feel his breathing become harder and harder, Izuku decided that he needed to take a quick break before he passed out from exhaustion. He knew that not too far from him, his captor was facing off against the metallic crustacean, and resting near the fight was probably a bad idea, but he was just so tired and wanted to at least get some strength back in his legs and a little air into his lungs before continuing, otherwise he wasn't sure if he'd make it out of here to find help. Slowly down his pace before coming to a complete stop, Izuku rested his hands on his knees as he panted deeply to catch his breath. Beads of sweat were beginning to trickle down his skin as his legs buckled slightly, signalling to him they were ready to fall off from him at any moment.

Crash!

Izuku nearly jumped from his skin as the faint sound of something slamming into metal came from the distance. Snapping his head towards the source, he saw that in the distance one of the stacks of shipping containers shook slightly like it was ready to collapse at any moment. It didn't take a genius to know the two who were responsible for that. Turning away from the stacked towers direction, Izuku began to slowly resume his way down the path as he continued to gather his strength, deciding to only run if he sensed any danger or until he was ready. Again, probably a bad idea, but considering the state he was in, he'd rather not burn what little energy he had left in him now when he would probably need it later.

As he walked between the stacks, Izuku craned his head up to crack his neck and noticed that the stacks of containers on his left were slightly higher than the ones on his right due to the fact that the entire place rested on an uneven surface. Seriously, who was the genius who thought that building a dock on a slope leading into the ocean was a good idea? If it weren't for flat concrete platforms that the containers rested on everything would go falling into the sea. Talk about a massive design flaw if you ask him.

bang! crash! thud!

Midoryia turned his head back as he continued walking. Those two were really going at it huh? He couldn't really tell who was winning, but he hoped that the person who had, well, kidnapped then saved him was the one coming out on top.

Turning back forward and running a hand through his unkempt hair, Midoryia's mind began to wander on the subject of his captor, or savior he guessed, he wasn't really sure at this point. On one hand, he supposed he shouldn't really be concerned for the extraterrestrial. After all not only was he trying to take him to some alien planet that was who knows where away from Earth, but he was taking him to that planet so that the creator of the Omnitrix could remove it, thus turning Izuku back into the weak, powerless Deku, and that was something he was not going back too. It might sound selfish, sure, but could you really blame him? He had spent the entirety of his life being mocked and belittled for something he couldn't control, his dream of wanting to be a hero was constantly ridiculed on a daily basis by those he knew and now, just when he had received the power to finally fulfill him, three bounty hunters from outer space had come to take that power away from him. Sure there was the promise of One For All, but Izuku wasn't sure if that would be a hundred percent guarantee.

However, on the other hand though, while Izuku knew that he had every reason not to care for his captor and his well-being and should just take this chance to run and find help the caring, forgiving, heroic part of him couldn't help but feel slightly worried for his captor. Sure he was trying to kidnap him, but from what Izuku understood he was just doing this so that the watch would be returned to its original owner and wouldn't fall into the wrong hands. And he could tell that he didn't want to hurt him, because if he wanted to he could've killed him, or at the very least sliced his arm off. But he didn't, instead he had not only saved Izuku twice, but he had given him the chance to escape when that crab guy popped up, thus saving Izuku from the possibility of being harmed in the crossfire. It made Midoryia believe that maybe, just maybe, he wasn't doing all this because he was being paid, but maybe because he had the best intentions, even if his actions were wrong.

And it's because of that, that Midoryia couldn't help but feel incredibly guilty for just running away, leaving him behind. While he had no doubt that his savior was strong, seeing as he was able to easily pick up a fourteen years old middle schooler with one hand with ease, something told him that his saviors strength was nothing compared to the metal crab guy. Heck, that bronze behemoth could burrow through the ground and jump out of it with ease, both of which couldn't be possibly done without some type of super strength. It made Izuku worry about the grey clad fighter as he didn't know if he could handle the crustaceans raw strength. Maybe, and this might be the most dumbest thing he ever considered, but maybe he should turn back and see how the fight is going. It's basically a death wish, yeah, but maybe there was something he could do to help, even if the Omnitrix wasn't recharged yet. He wasn't sure what he could in his current state though, so he was torn between going to help and running off to find help. Cursing under his breath, Midoryia gripped his hair with both hands as he grit his teeth. Why did the universe have to be such a cruel piece of-?!

Clang!

Behind Izuku not too far away, the sound of something metallic and hollow hitting the ground echoed slightly through the passage, causing him to be pulled from his thoughts and let out a high pitch yelp before quickly spinning around to see what it was that had caused the noise. However as his eyes scanned the path he had walked down he saw nothing that could've been responsible for the noise. All that was on the ground were puddles of scum, a few cigarette buds, and wads of chewed up gum scattered about here and there. Besides that though there was nothing, and seeing that there wasn't a threat, Midoryia slowly turned away and simply chalked it up that the sound was probably a can someone left behind falling over before he continued to to walk.

However, that didn't stop him from being slightly paranoid. Looking down as he continued forward and pinching the bridge of his nose, Izuku closed his eyes as he let out an exasperated sigh of frustration. This day has been, by far, the worst experience in Izuku's life, even worse than when he was first told he was quirkless and the day of the Sludge Villain incident. Sure, his dreams were destroyed in the former, while the latter consisted of him being attacked by a villain right after being given "advice" by Kacchan, but at least those two didn't involve him being hunted down to be killed or captured by space bounty hunters of all things! Seriously, he was really looking forward to just heading home, going to bed, and forgot that this day ever happened at all. Pulling his hand away and opening his eyes, Izuku lifted up his left arm and slid his gakuruns sleeve off the Omnitrix, and to Midoryia's utter disappointment it was still in the red.

"Oh for crying out loud. First you didn't give me Upgrade when I needed him and now you work when I need you the most?!" Midoryia asked in a hushed yell as he began to press the buttons on the dial in a desperate attempt to activate it, however try as he might, no matter how many of the buttons he pressed or trying to turn the dial, the Omnitrix wouldn't budge or power on by the slightest. And once he realized this, he let out a frustrated huff as he gave up on the futile attempt before letting his arms to drop to his sides. Opting to just continue on his way, Izuku slowly slid his hands into gakuruns pockets as he glared down at the ground, bitter at the watch refusing to be active in his time of need.

"Stupid hunk of junk." Izuku mumbled angrily under his breath as he kicked away a stray pebble. As Izuku walked down the path though, he stopped in his tracks when his eyes noticed something rather odd on the ground.

"What the-?" He asked as excatly two feet ahead of where he stood, Izuku saw a small, purplish-pink colored dot lying on the concrete floor. At first, Izuku thought that it was simply a chewed up wad of gum, however that was only because it was in his peripheral vision. However when his eyes focused on the thing, he could immediately tell that it wasn't gum as it was too flat, too round, lacked any teeth marks whatsoever, and even though it was still in the same general place, it was…. moving slightly. N-Not only that, but as he looked at it longer, he could see that it was- it was transparent as well.

'W-Wait a minute! Don't tell me-!'

Whoosh!

Midoryia was broken away from his thoughts as the sound of something equivalent to a jet engine blared directly above behind where he stood. Turning back and looking up at the sky, Midoryia's stomach dropped and his eyes widened as flying right towards him was the third bounty hunter he had completely forgotten about up until now. SixSix, who was welding one of his beam sabers in his right hand and some type of cannon device complete with laser guided targeting as well with the other.

With panicked adrenaline beginning to course through his veins, Midoryia instantly turned away from the bounty hunter and immediately bolted down the narrow passage in an attempt to escape the assassin.

Seeing his prey try to scamper away once again, SixSix wasted no time on pulling the trigger of the cannon he welded with his shoulder hand, causing a small baseball sized orb of cackling purple energy to spring forth and go soaring towards the general direction of the greenette. Unfortunately however, instead of striking it's intended target the energy orb struck the ground behind him, causing an explosion of concussive force and purple electricity to erupt before quickly disappointing, leaving behind no damage other than a few soot marks on the ground and the metal of the bottom shipping containers caught in the not so lethal blast.

SixSix grumbled under his mask as he flew after Izuku, completely agitated that his shot didn't hit. While that cannon he held was good for capturing targets without killing them, the speed of its projectiles were less than desirable. He'd honestly rather use his grenades to get the job done, but considering that his target was surrounded by these containers, SixSix feared that explosions might cause them to tip over and collapse on the Omnitrix, crushing it, and while he wasn't sure if it was indestructible or not there was also the fact that it'd be buried by heavy steel as well, something he wouldn't be able to lift. Not to mention that they were far too loud as well. While he was certain he was far enough away, he didn't want to risk catching the attention of that imbecile of a hunter and that grey clad warrior, he just wanted to complete his bounty as quickly as possible with no further obstacles in his way. Now you might be asking, why doesn't he just swoop down and use his blades to cut the boy into shreds, surely that would be a much more efficient way to do this right? He could still catch up with the boy, oh absolutely, but he didn't want to risk the boy transforming into something and attack him when he got close. So to avoid that, he'll use this worthless gadget to either immobilise or knock him down, and before he can recover he'll swoop in and take him out. It might be tedious, but if it means getting paid sooner, he's all for it.

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'Crap! Crap! Crap!' Midoryia's heart felt like it was ready to explode at this point as he traversed through the cramp spaces between the container stacks, taking all sorts of random turns through the random maze as he tried to outrun both SixSix and his laser balls or whatever the hell they were! If he weren't running for his life right now, he'd be hitting himself in the face for forgetting about the third alien that was after him! Seriously, how could something like that slipped his mind, he was better than that for crying out loud! Didn't matter now though he supposed, what's happening now is happening now and mulling over a mistake isn't gonna help him in the slightest. For now he just needs to keep running and pray to whatever deity was listening to finish the watch's recharge cycle quickly.

As he ran he noticed up ahead his path splitted into two parts, one going forward and one to the right. Deciding to take the right path Midoryia made a quick, sharp turn that instead of leading to yet another long corridor of shipping containers, leading to a wide open area that was close to the ocean and had several forklifts and semi trucks parked around. Seeing that he was no longer confined to a narrow place and forced to go in a single predictable direction anymore, Midoryia's analytic mind began to race as he looked around the area. If he could just find a place to hide long enough for the recharge maybe he could-!

ZZZZZAAAPPP!

"Gah"! Midoryia's thought was ended as one of SixSixs projectiles had finally managed to land near the greenette and caused him to be flung forward into the air. Izuku flew for a total of six seconds before his body finally crashed back down to the ground, landing directly on the left side of his body as he skid to a halt a few inches away from the edge of the dock. The sound of wave's striking against concrete filled his ears and if it weren't for the copper smell flooding his nostrils, Izuku had no doubt that the oceans salty fragrance would've been overwhelming at this distance.

Midoryia grunted in pain as he rolled himself onto his back and clutched his left arm tightly due to the pain that was a result of hitting a concrete surface roughly before being skidded across said surface with a quick amount of momentum. Izuku's left arm, shoulder and ribs pulsed intensely with pain, making them feel like they were struck by one of Kacchan's explosion enhanced punches while the outer side of his left leg and the back of his hand stung with such intensity that the air alone was agonizing for him. Looking down, he saw the entire left side of his school gakurun was a complete mess as small tears were present all over while the back of his hand had a nasty gash sprawled across, and while it was shallow, it was bleeding profusely. All in All, Izuku couldn't deny that this was one of the most painful experiences in his life. Midoryia would've continued to writh on the ground, however the sound of jet propulsion dying down a few feet in front of him quickly broke him away from the pain, if only slightly. Looking up, Midoryia's skin paled as standing three yards SixSix stood silently, his unseen eyes glaring deeply into the greenettes core.

(Such a disappointment.) SixSix said as he slowly began making his way towards Izuku who fearfully began to slowly crawl back in a disparate attempt to flee. (I was led to believe that the welder of this, Omnitrix, was a dangerous being who could present me a challenge of sorts.) As he spoke in his native tongue he tossed the cannon that's served its purpose behind him, causing one of the metallic claws in his jetpack to launch out and grab it before clattering to the ground. With it in the claws grasp, the metal appendage slithered back into the confines of the pack, dragging the cannon along with it. Now the only weapon he welded was the lone blade in his right hand. (However to see that it's in the possession of a mere child, one who looks as though he has never experienced a day of combat no less, makes me feel as though I am being insulted by my benefactor.)

As the assassin continued to speak Izuku, who couldn't make heads or tails of what he was saying, just continued to slowly try and crawl away to safety as best as he could. However due to the left side of Midoryia's body every time he shifted himself raw pain would explode all over, plus there's the fact that whenever he applied pressure to his left hand in order to crawl the gash on his hand would sting like hell. Because of the pain he was crawling away at a snail's pace, while SixSix just continued forward at a speed where he'll catch up with the greenette in no time. Though it wasn't like Midoryia seemed to care in the slightest, as his fight or flight instincts are working on overdrive, and right now his mind was telling him to fly like a bat out of hell.

Sadly for him though SixSix was, unsurprisingly, able to quickly catch up with the teen very quickly. And once he had, he wasted no time in bending down to grab Izuku by the neck before swiftly lifting him up into the air, squeezing him tightly and making him gasp out in pain.

(Though, I suppose I really shouldn't be complaining. After all in the end it doesn't really matter if you were a threat to me or not. I'd still come out victorious either way.) As SixSix continued to speak, Midoryia simply struggled in the assassin's grasp as he tried to pry the hand that was crushing his neck off, however it was a fruitless effort as the alien had a tight iron grip around the teens throat. (Still continuing to struggle even though it's hopeless? How foolish.) Lifting up the arm that held his saber above his head, Midoryia's eyes widened as he saw the bounty hunter raise his weapon high, slowly beginning to get a perfect understanding about what he was going to do. (Now then, I think this charade has gone on long enough. Time to put an end to this.)

"Gah!" Midoryia gasp as he felt the pressure around his windpipe increase, feeling as though his throat was about to cave in from the pressure at any minute. His lungs began to slightly burn as he was barely able to breath in any oxygen, and thanks to the clawed fingers that were slightly digging into his skin he was coughing out more air then he could breathe in, honestly it felt like he was being strangled by All Might who was using the bare minimum of his power. Though being choked was the least of his concerns at the moment. Staring up at the glowing blade with panicked trepidation, he desperately tried to claw the hand that held him off while simultaneously flailing his his legs in an attempt to kick him off, but no matter how hard he kicked against the assassins stomach or tried to pull the four fingers off of him, nothing he did seemed to get the alien to budge in the slightest. Looking at Omnitrix, which was partially visible thanks to the fact that his gakuruns sleeve slid down slightly, Izuku's panic only intensified further as the device was still stuck in the red, meaning he couldn't transform and find a way out of this dilemma easily.

With the watch not being an option and him about to become headless corpse, time seemed to slow down for Izuku as his mind went into overdrive mode. This wasn't how he wanted things to end, not like this! He wants to fulfill his dream of being a hero that saves everyone with a smile, someone that could make those around them feel safe and secure with his presence, someone who could take the mantle of the next Symbol of Peace and make both his mother and mentor proud of! But, how could he do that now? The watch was inoperable, and he didn't even have the strength to make the extraterrestrial budge on the slightest. H-He was basically fucked at this point, and even though he believed that something could happen to get him out of this, like some kind of miraculous last minute rescue or some other impossible piece of divine fate to save him a part of Izuku, the realistic logical part of him, told them that there was no way out of this. No last minute save from his earlier captor or anyone else, no watch turning green just as the alien assassin would swing the blade down, and no chance of him building up the strength to pry himself free of the clawed fingers. No, Izuku could see no way out of this, and for the first time since he began his training with All Might all those months ago, Izuku truly felt hopeless. But, even though he knew there was barely any chance of making it out of this alive, and even though it felt hopeless, his will to live burned brighter than any amount of fear and hopelessness he could muster. He wanted to live, not only for his dream, but for his mother and All Might as well!

Gazing his frantic, now bloodshot, eyes around, Izuku looked for something that could help him out in this situation. The Omnitrix and his natural strength were out the window, but maybe, just maybe, there was something around that could at least weaken the grip around his throat. Something that could….that could-.

'W-Wait, what's-?' Midoryia's eyes widened as his eyes gazed downwards, looking at the very thing that could be his ticket out of this situation. It might be a stretch, but he had to at least try. 'Oh damnit, please let this work!'

Time began to resuming normally for the greenette, and just as SixSix was about to swing his blade down and cleve his prey in two, Izuku without thinking removed his left hand off the one that was choking him out and within the blink of an eye, he quickly snatched the item he had seen before quickly gripping it with both his hands and holding it up high over his head.

(What?!) SixSix exclaimed, wondering what the target before him had just done, causing him to pause his attack. Looking at the boys clasped hands, even though the object Izuku held was mostly obscured by his fingers and hands, there was enough of the thing visible enough the assassin could make out what it exactly was the boy was holding. Even though they were obscured by his mask, SixSixs eyes widened as he quickly looked down at his waist to see that the object the greenette was indeed what he thought it was. Spinning his head back up, the bounty hunter let out a horrific shriek as he brought his beam saber up in an attempt to quickly slash the teen.

However, unfortunately for him though it was too late.

'Here goes nothing!' Squeezing his hands as tightly as he could, a purple blade erupted from the saber he held, facing in the direction of where SixSix was. While his fingers weren't sliced off by accident, Izuku couldn't help but hiss in pain as the energy of the weapon emitted a heat so intense if felt as though he was placing his hands directly above a burning fire. The pain was so sudden and intense that it almost caused him to drop the weapon, but knowing what would happen if he did, Izuku decided to muster up all the willpower he had to instead grip the device even harder, causing the skin around his knuckles to pale slightly.

With a roar Izuku brought the weapon down with all his strength, aiming directly for the bounty hunters left shoulder. However, due to the pain and panic he was in Midoryia's aim was anything but perfect, so instead of piercing the armored shoulder, the blade instead embedded itself deep into the jetpack on the extraterrestrials back, so deep that the tip off it could be seen directly from the other side. Even though he had missed his intended target however, what happened next still worked in Izuku's favor.

SixSix let out a loud, inhumane pained screech as he flung both Izuku and his weapon away from his grasp, instead opting to use his hands to try and pull the weapon out jetpack, which was now beginning to spark greatly from the damaged areas as it's metallic appendages emerged and began to wildly swing around against SixSixs will. As the bounty hunter tried to pull his other beam saber out of his jetpack Izuku, who was once again laying on the pavement on his backside, coughed furiously as he rubbed his throat gently with his right hand in order to soothe the pain, all while he watched SixSix desperately fail about. As Midoryia watched in silence, both he and SixSix didn't notice that the thrusters of the jetpack slowly flickered until without warning they flared to life, causing the assassin to lift off the ground and hover a few inches in the air. With his situation having gone from bad to worse, the Sotoraggian tried to reign back control and land back on the ground, but due to the heavy amounts of damage of his jetpack and his panicked state he was stuck spinning around in the air as he glided across the ground in all sorts of directions, occasionally slamming into some of the parked vehicles nearby by accident. Seeing as how he couldn't get the thrusters of his device to cease their functions, SixSix decided to just give up on the useless endeavor and instead opted to stop his out of control spinning, and once that was done he would then immediately rush that little brat and snap his neck in two before his jetpack did anything else against his will.

But unfortunately though, the universe had other plans for the bounty hunter. Because as soon as he tried to stabilize himself he didn't seem to be paying attention to his surroundings anymore. Because of this, he didn't notice he was heading straight for a nearby forklift until-.

CRASH!

-He slammed directly into it, jetpack first, further damaging the device as the exposed internal circuit that was crushed by the force of the collision. And thanks to this, the sparks coming from the jetpacks damages only intensified further as the thrusters immediately began to pick up more power. Before the assassin could even realize it, he was sent flying high into the air, speeding high above Midoryia and heading right towards the direction of where the ocean was at. As SixSix uncomfortably flew higher and higher into the air as his jetpacks exposed internal circuitry continued to spark and began to slowly smoke, Izuku could only watch in bewilderment as he saw the alien quickly move further and further towards the distant ocean in an erratic way. He continued to watch as SixSix continued moving around in a uncoordinated way until, just when the assassin was far enough away that he was just barely seen as speck in the distance, the faint sound of an explosion and a small spark of purple coming off the disant figure of SixSix immediately caused him to go flying at full speed s down into the ocean waves below, a thick trail of smoke following him down into the watery depths, and a quickly as he had fallen right into the sea an explosion erupted from beneath the waves, causing a geyser of salt water that was tinged with purple electricity to soar high into the air before eventually falling back down into the sea.

And as the geyser of water sank back beneath the waves Izuku could only lie on the ground and simply stare at the patch of ocean SixSix had crashed into, completely shocked at what he had just done. Not because he regretted it though, but because he wasn't expecting the…. outcome. Initially, he had expected two scenarios when he decided to use his would-be killers weapon. The first one was that by stabbing the extraterrestrial, the pain would cause him to let go of (or at very least loosen) his grip on Izuku's throat, thus allowing him to free himself. The second one, and the one he was extremely glad didn't happen, was that the pain would've instead caused him to tighten his grip, crushing the boys throat. However causing the aliens jetpack to go haywire was something he wasn't exactly, nor was causing the creature to crash and explode into the sea. Though, he suppose he shouldn't be dwelling over this, after all why mull over the results? Sure he might've missed his intended target, but he still got what he wanted. Not only did he come out of that alive, but he also took out a major threat as well, even if it was accidental, though either way it didn't really matter. He was alive, and that's all that mattered now.

Falling down his back and releasing a breath he didn't realize he had been holding, Midoryia stared up at the brilliant blue sky as he listened to the sounds of crashing waves and wind fly by, panting deeply in exhaust. As he laid on the ground trying to replenish his strength, a familiar beeping sound broke through the noises made by the sea and made the greenette glare in annoyance. Bringing his left arm to his face and brushing his sleeve aside, Midoryia saw that the watch had finally finished recharging and was now green once more. Bringing the arm back down, Izuku silently cursed the device as it choose NOW of all times to finish recharging. If Izuku didn't know any better, he'd think this was the universes way of pulling a sick joke on him.

As time slowly passed, once he had gotten over the shock of what had just happened and regained some of his strength, Midoryia raised himself off the ground and was able to stand on two wobbly feet. However as he tried to stand up straight, a jolt of pain had surged from his left side, causing him to take a hunched position as he clutched his left arm as tightly as he could to his side.

Turning around, Midoryia gave the once one last glance towards the ocean to see if the purple clad warrior would burst out from beneath the waves. After a few seconds, Midoryia could tell that his would be killer wasn't coming out of the water anytime soon, so he decided to turn back around and began to search for the exit from this accursed shipment yard once and for all. Fortunately for him, even though he had been injured he was able to walk without any sign of limping. He had to thank the cosmos for that he supposed, at least he didn't need to be here any longer than he'd like.

BA-BOOM!

Before he could make it ten feet however, Midoryia stopped dead in his tracks as he heard the sounds quickly snapped his head in the direction of the sound of a faint explosion coming from the distance. With widened eyes, he saw a thick cloud of smoke rising as several stacks of tall shipment containers collapse in the direction away from the smoke, causing the sounds of metal crashing against both concrete and one another to echo across the sky for almost an entire half minute before they eventually settled down until they could be heard no more, leaving the natural sounds of the sea to be the only thing that the greenette could hear. And as he stood there staring at the rising black cloud, Midoryia mentally questioned what it was that caused that explosion and made the container towers fall over before the gears in his head began turning. It didn't take long for him to realize that he had momentarily forgotten all about the bounty who had saved him was still fighting against the bronze crustacean in order to buy him time to escape.

'They must really be going at it.' Izuku thought to himself as we watched the smoke rise into the air before deciding to look away and continue on his journey to find the exit to this place. He had no reason to be here for any longer, so why stick around for something that doesn't concern him for any longer? Besides, he was just doing what the person who saved him twice now had told him to do, run to safety. Can't do that if he's just standing around, now can he?

KA-BOOM!

As another explosion rocketed in the distance, thoughts of the hoverboard alien began to enter the mind of the greenette. Was he doing okay against that mechanical crab guy? He knew he was probably really strong considering he had a very large build, but considering that the mechanical crab was able to burrow through solid earth with seemingly ease and was larger than All Might, he wasn't too sure. Sure he had a gun, and just before he left he saw the type of damage it did to the right side of the bronze crustaceans helmet, but would a laser gun be enough to deal with the bronze armor? And what were those explosions, especially the one that caused those towers to collapse, and who caused them, his grey savior or that bronze monstrosity? If it was the latter, then what did that mean for the grey clad extraterrestrial? Did he get caught in the blast or was he able to avoid in time? If he did get hit, was he injured? And if so how badly? Should he go back to see considering that the watch was now re-.

Midoryia shook his head vigorously before he could even finish that thought. No, he shouldn't be getting himself into an even bigger mess than he already has, he should just focus on finding someone who can help him and get to safety. He was already almost killed several times today, so why should he put himself in even more danger for someone who was also trying to kidnap him? He might've saved Midoryia sure, but he was still dead set on taking the greenette to some alien world so that the one thing that's made him feel like a hero can be ripped away from him. Besides, it could possibly be nothing to worry about. The guy was from space after all, so surely he must've had some type of gadget or special ability up his sleeve, heck those explosions might just be him using some kind of ace, who knows? Izuku was sure that the grey wearing alien was probably doing well for himself, so there was no need for him to get in the way. No, he decides to just keep moving forward and not dwell on the subject any more. That shouldn't be a problem. Right?

KRA-KOOM

Just like the previous two blasts, the air around Midoryia boomed faintly all around him as he slowly trudged his way towards the uphill road in search of the exit. Instead of looking towards the direction of the sound though Izuku instead focused on the path in front of him as stuffed any concerned thoughts he had into the back of his mind. He doesn't need to get involved for his kidnapper, besides what could he possibly do? He didn't stand a chance the first time he encountered that crab guy, (though it was mostly because he was given the wrong alien), and the only reason he survived against that purple alien was because of sheer dumb luck. He'd only be getting in the way.

BA-BANG

'You don't need to get involved. He's fine.' Izuku mentally told himself as he kept moving, however as he did so he slowly felt guilt course through him as the heroic, selfless part of him entered his head. What if he wasn't though? What if he got caught in the first explosion and was heavily damaged, and if so how much? Was he holding his own just fine, or was he holding on by just a thread?

Midoryia knew that he should just push these thoughts away and focus on the task at hand, but no matter how hard he tried to, he couldn't shake off the feelings of concern and guilt. Half of him told him to just forget about it, after all why should he care about the well being of someone who was trying to kidnap him? He should just focus on finding the exit out of this place and head for safety. However the other half, his caring heroic half, was making that difficult for him as the guilt of leaving the grey clad alien behind slowly ate away. Yes the extraterrestrial was still trying to kidnap him as well, but from what Izuku understood he was just trying to do the right thing, and unlike those other two he wasn't trying to kill the greenette and was even trying to protect him. And the fact that he was just running away didn't particularly settle well with him. Even if the guy was doing alright, something about what Izuku was doing just felt…. wrong. He was starting to wonder if what he was doing was just him listening to his savior had told him to do or if it was from him being cowardly. He hoped it was the former.

BOOM!

The fifth and final blast was the one to stop Midoryia in his tracks as he turned his head towards the direction of the blast. In the distance he could see the large smoke cloud from before was now far darker and thicker than it had originally been while a few new smaller smoke clouds bellowed in the wind next to it. As he stared at the rising cloud, the mental turmoil within the greenette churned greatly as one part of him screamed at him to turn and run away from the danger while the other part told him the opposite. As the two opposing sides clashed with one another, causing Izuku to grab his hair in frustration.

As he watched the toxic clouds rise into the sky while rubbing his hair vigorously, Midoryia groaned in frustration as he felt a headache slowly start to come on as his mind had several different thoughts race through his head. Dropping his hands to his sides, Izuku gave the smoke a quick glance before turning his head back to look at the road behind him that led to safety until he raised his arm up and stared down at the Omnitrix, contemplating on what he should do. After a few brief seconds, Midoryia brought his arm back to his side and let out an exasperated sigh before deciding on what he wanted to do. Instead of turning away from the smoke and slowly walk up the road, Izuku started to make a light jog towards the direction of where the battle between two aliens was. He might be injured, he might not know who was winning, and he might try to be kidnapped or killed once everything was said or done. But Izuku had to at least know if the guy who saved him twice was alright. He just hoped he was doing the right thing.

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Destruction. That was the perfect word to describe the scenery around them, pure utter destruction. The sloped pavement road that had once, for the most part, been intacted was now sporting several huge spiderweb cracks as its surface was riddled with several shallow craters that were emanating trails of thick smoke while several nearby shipping containers that hadn't been flung away by the first explosion sported different damages of their own. Some had huge dents strewn about, while some others either had massive parts of their metal plating torn and ripped, had large gaping holes from either the explosions or when something was thrown into them, or had smaller more circular holes that had molten, liquified metal dripping off them, though despite the different damages all the containers shared the same two things. The first being that they all had a small sheet of soot covering them while the second was that whatever was inside the containers before was now mostly damaged beyond recovery. The entire place was a complete wreck which would no doubt cost thousands of yen to repair, though that mattered very little to the two who were responsible for all this wanton destruction. Speaking of which-.

"Urgh!" Falling directly next to the edge of the docks, almost close enough to fall into the crashing sea water below, with a loud bang was none other than Hoverboard who was looking worse for wear. His outfit was littered with cuts and tears of various sizes, revealing teal green "skin" underneath while his boots, arms and gloves had several thick cracks lying around and were even chipping apart in some areas, showing more of what was underneath his uniform. However, by far the most damaged thing on his person was none other than his helmet which was cracked to the point that it looked like it would break apart into a pile of dust at the slightest touch. The triangular visor no longer had any of the plexiglass left in its frame, and because of that a pair of vibrant, green, pupil-less eyes could be seen as clear as crystal along with some of the same teal green "skin" as well. And just like his outfit would suggest, his body wasn't doing so well. Everytime he tried to move his body would instantly flare up with white hot pain so agonizing that he'd have to grit his teeth as he let out a pained, strained grunt. He felt as though that if he even made the slightest wrong move, his body would apart into a million pieces. His leftover gadgets weren't fairing any better than his apparel too. After he had his blaster destroyed by that overside trash can, he tried his best to fend off against that behemoth by using everything he had left, but nothing worked out so well for him in the end, not even those stupid explosive charges he kept on him to use for an emergency situation. More bang for a buck my ass. All he had left now was his hoverboard, which he was tempting to use as a club at this point, and the tracking device for the Omnitrix, so his opinions were very limited.

"Oh don't tell me you're just about to give out just yet! I was just getting fired up!" Hoverboard narrowed his eyes in pure hatred as he heard the mocking voice of Kraabs and the sounds of his mechanical legs moving across the pavement at a snail's pace. With as much strength as he could muster, Hoverboard lifted his head off the ground and glared daggers at the approaching form of the cybernetically enhanced Piscciss Premann, and while his vision may have been slightly blurry, he could still make out the smug bastards form with ease. Other than a few minor dents and scratches, Kraabs armor was still perfectly intact. He threw everything he could at him, yet the smug prick was still standing, damnit! This was an uphill battle for him, but he refused to go down without a fight. He won't give that bronze punk that satisfaction. Trying to lift himself from the ground, Hoverboards used his arms to prop his upper body off ground, but due to the lack of strength and weight, his arms buckled under the strain before quickly giving out, sending him flopping to the pavement. No, he's not going down out lying on the damn dirt! Come on, get up damn it!

"By the God's, this is so pathetic!" Kraabs yelled out in a maniacally and mocking tone, enjoying the sight that laid before him. "Come on get up! Didn't you say earlier that you were confident that you could take me on, that your skill and experience as a fighter could outmaneuver me?! Where's that skill and experience you boasted so proudly about?!"

Hoverboard ignored the overgrown bucket head as he desperately tried to lift himself off the ground once more, yet no matter how hard he tried to lift his arms and legs were far too weak to lift his body. That, coupled with the pain he felt all over everytime he moved, caused him to once more go falling back onto the ground. By the time he tried to lift himself up a third time, Kraabs was already next to Hoverboard and watched with wicked glee as his foe was struggling on the ground. It was almost similar to how predators would savior the fear of their wounded prey before going in for the kill.

"Hehehehe, what was it that you said earlier about me?" Kraabs brought his hand to his chin in a mocking, thinking gesture. "Hmmm, oh yes I remember! You said that I was, quote, 'an oversized insect who thinks that sheer brute strength and overpowered weaponry can make up for a lack of self worth.'. That without my tech I was nothing more than a weak bug with an ego the size of this planet." Raising up one of his bladed legs, Kraabs smashed the dull side into Hoverboards ribs, essentially "kicking" him in a sense. Hoverboard gripping his side has he moaned in pain while Kraabs continued. "Well guess what tough guy, this so-called 'weak bug' just kicked your ass to the curb while you couldn't even mess up my armors paint job. If I'm considered weak then what does that say about you then?!" Taking his hand off his chin and grabbing Hoverboard by the neck, causing him to gag loudly, Krabbs lifted the beaten bounty hunter into the air as he glared with pure hatred into his foes equally hate filled green eyes. "I'll tell you what I think it makes. I think it makes you a pathetic whelp who's far beneath even the 'weak insects' and yet pretends that he can take on the best of the best! You seriously thought you could take on me and win?! Don't make me laugh! Someone of your caliber could never hope to defeat me in a head to head fight! I have the far superior strength, durability, speed, and most importantly of all, weaponry while all you had was that little toy of a blaster and a few trinkets to fight me off! Seriously, what went through that thick head of yours that made you think you could take me on using only nothing more than a few cheap gadgets?! What deluded you into thinking that you could hold out against me, the apex predator?!"

Tightening his iron grip on Hoverboards throat, the alien let out a choked grunt as he reflexively grabbed the bronze hand in a vain attempt to alleviate some of the pressure around his neck. Now for most people in this type of situation, they would usually either plead for mercy or close their eyes tightly to await the seemingly inevitable end. However Hoverboard wasn't like most people. Instead of crying to save his own life or giving up like a coward, he narrowed his emerald gaze as he spoke in an unwavering, but still strained, tone. "You say I'm deluded, yet you have the damn gall to call yourself an apex predator? Please, don't flatter yourself. Even in such a compromising position I still see you as the same pathetic bug that you are."

If Hoverboard could see the look on Kraabs face, he would've seen the crustaceans hidden, wicked smile turn into that of a snarl as he tightened his grip on Hoverboards throat. "What did you just say?!"

"Gah! You... heard… me… bug! You're nothing without your cybernetic enhancements! If you were a real hunter then you wouldn't need to use them! A real hunter only needs his own strength and merit. Something that you'll never get in your sad pathetic exsistance you call your life. Even if you kill me right here it'll never change that fact that you'll be nothing more than a weak, pathetic coward who had to get his strength from an artificial implant. That's not real strength, that's not merit, that's nothing more than a pale imitation of true power. And that's the difference between you and me, because unlike you I can get by on my own strength, I don't need to mutilate my own body and replace them with cheap prosthetics!"

By this point Kraabs was practically seething with fury as his clawed arm shook violently while he growled in rage. Despite that he was beaten and on death's door he still had the audacity to still say that he was weak?! No, no, no he will stand for this! He was the best hunter in most of the known galaxy, he has hunted, captured and slaughtered some of the most dangerous creatures imaginable, and he had a helping claw in making a few alien species go extinct! He was the best at what he did, and therefore he will not allow some two-bit thug talk down to him like this! No, instead of being merciful by giving him a quick death, he'll make this slime ball's death as slow and painful as he can. He wants to hear this welp beg him for forgiveness before killing him. It might've been the worst thing to do considering that it would mean the brat would get away, but with his mind clouded with rage, he honestly couldn't care about the kid or the Omnitrix at the moment. With his mind made up, Kraabs tossed Hoverboard to the side as hard as he could and spun his body around to face him.

"You know what, screw giving you a quick death, I'd be letting you off way to easily if I did so!" Kraabs yelled out as he began pressing buttons on his claw. "And screw looking for the brat and his Omnitrix right away! I'll find him later, right now though I just wanna hear you scream for mercy!"

As Kraabs continued to fiddle around with his clawed cannon, Hoverboard lifted up his head off the ground and craned his neck up to glare directly at the crustacean being. "Mercy? Me? Sorry to disappoint, but I don't beg for the mercy of egotistical cowards who need the aid of special toys to get what they want."

"Oh, you'll beg." After finishing imputing his command into his weapon, the barrel of Kraabs clawed weapon began to glow a light blue as electricity to cackle out. Snapping his claw twice as he watched the artificial lighting dance between the claws metal, he let out a dark chuckle as he pointed the weapon directly at Hoverboard. "Believe me, you'll beg." And with that, Kraabs released a torrent of blue electricity at his downed foe, causing him to writhe and scream in pain as the bolts of energy rained down upon him. "Hahahaha, yes, keep doing that!" Kraabs fired off another bolt of electricity, reveling in the screams of agony coming from his fallen prey who could only do nothing but holler and squirm in torment.

"GRRRAAAHHHHH!" Hoverboard screamed as he felt the bolts of lighting pelt against his frame, each bolt sending a newer jolt of hot pain across his being. Despite the pain he was in however, that didn't stop him from feeling pure rage, not just for his torturer but for himself as well. If he weren't writhing on the ground right now, he would be kicking him right now for being in this situation. Here he was, a well trained warrior who had fought in several battles across the galaxy with honor and pride, was now squirming helplessly on the ground like some dying insect while being tortured to death by an overgrown coward who used cheap toys for a lack of strength, and what's worst he was far too exhausted to defend himself, such a humiliating way to go out. At least he'd be going out with some of his dignity though. No matter what, he wasn't going to give this metalhead the satisfaction of making him plead for mercy, even if the pain is unbearable. Not only that, but he can die proudly knowing he was able to give that green haired kid the opportunity to flee to safety too, even if it led him to this situation. Sure, he might've failed in his mission, but at least he gave the kid a chance to escape and bought him a little time to get to safety, so he can live with that, he supposed. He just hoped that wherever the brat was at, he had managed to make it to somewhere where he would be safe or to someone who could protect him from this accursed bug.

Another torrent of electrical bolts rained down upon Hoverboard, causing him to let out yet another ear piercing scream while Kraabs continued to maniacally laugh. Unbeknownst to the two aliens however, they were not alone as they thought. For you see, directly up the slope road, watching the whole scene play out before him as he peaked his head from behind a shipment container was none other than our favorite emerald green haired hero, who could only watch in horror at the sight of Hoverboard being electrocuted to death, and his pained screams were doing nothing to help ease the boy in the slightest. Feeling like he's seen enough of the horrible scene, Izuku pulled his head away from the corner before furiously gripping his hair and tried to block out Hoverboards occasional pained screams as he somewhat began to panic as small flashes of the Slime Villain incident began to flash throughout his mind.

'I knew that my gut told me something bad was going on here, but I didn't think it would be this awful!' Midoryia thought as panic and guilt slowly ate away at him. He wondered if this was all his fault? Maybe if he didn't waste their time back on that roof or warned Hoverboard about the shaking from Kraabs drilling sooner then maybe none of this would be happening to him. Sure, Izuku wasn't very fond of the aliens attempt at kidnapping him, but he didn't want this! He was just making sure the watch got back to its owner, he wasn't trying to harm or kill the greenette, he just wanted to make sure the device didn't fall into the wrong hands. Heck, he not only saved him twice, but he also gave Izuku the chance to escape to safety and avoid being harmed in the crossfire of his and Kraabs fight. Granted, Izuku was still ambushed and almost killed by the other assassin, but Hoverboard wasn't aware of the third bounty hunter. He might've been kidnaping the teen, but as far as Izuku could tell he wasn't doing it for any malicious intentions, in fact, Izuku might go as far as to say that Hoverboard was noble in a sense. But how was he being repaid for that nobility? By being beaten to near death and was now being slowly tortured, and all Izuku could do was just stand by ideally as the person who had became his savior was suffering a fate he didn't deserve. This truly did feel like the sludge villain incident all over again.

'N-No. No! This isn't like last time though!' Izuku thought as he brought the Omnitrix up to his face and began to fiddle with the dial. 'I have the power to protect others now! And I refuse to stand by and do nothing with that power! All I need to do is just find the right transformation! But which one will work for this situation though?!' As Izuku scrolled through the various alien forms he frantically wondered which form would be best. Ghostfreak was clearly out of the question given what had happened earlier, and so was Big Chill given they both had similar abilities. He was tempted to go Upgrade like he had originally intended but decided to go against it for two reasons. One was that the distance between him and Kraabs was quite far, and Upgrade wasn't exactly fast or stealthy, so if he were to go run down there as the technological being chances were that Kraabs could just kill Hoverboard before he could even reach them. Then there was the fact that Izuku wasn't sure if he could even merge with Krabb's armor. He didn't know if there was some type of security mechanism in place that prevented him from merging with the crustaceans armor, but he didn't want to risk finding out, so that's another alien down.

Izuku contemplated using his ranged forms, which were Heatblast, NRG, or Water Hazard to cause some serious damage and maybe try knocking Kraabs into the ocean, but after giving it some thought however, Izuku was quick to turn them down and each form had reasons why. For Heatblast, while he knew the fireballs he shot from his hands were powerful, we wasn't so sure if they were strong enough to knock Kraabs off his feet, or blades he guessed? Not only that, but Izuku wasn't sure if Heatblasts flames could even harm the bronze crustaceans armor in the slightest. The armor was after all most likely made from an alien material, so Izuku had no idea if the armors plating could conduct heat or not. Though, even if it could, Izuku wasn't exactly keen on cooking someone to death inside their own suit. He wanted to save Hoverboard sure, but he wasn't exactly willing on taking a life for a second time today. Another problem about Heatblast though is the fact that he was basically just a bunch of rocks held together by magma, and if Kraabs was strong enough to burrow beneath the ground then Izuku had no doubt that he could easily tear the fire alien in half. NRG shared the same issues as Heatblast as well, except for the fact that while he might've had a much higher defense, he was by far Izukus slowest alien and had a very limited skillset. And as for Water Hazard, well, Izuku felt like blasting Kraabs with jets of water would have the same effect as spraying your car with a garden hose, so he wasn't a viable option.

When he thought about Snare-oh and Goop, he immediately shot those two down. Snare-oh would easily be shredded and if Kraabs grabbed Goops anti-gravity device it was basically game over for him. That just left Diamondhead and Four Arms, and while the two of them seemed like good choices, Izuku wasn't exactly sure about either of them. Diamondhead had strength, durability, and range on his side, but he didn't exactly have speed on his side, and while his crystal body may have been able to take a lot of punishment, something told Izuku that Kraabs claw could probably turn him into a pile of shards. Plus he wasn't even sure if his crystal projectiles and diamond blades would even scratch that surface of Kraabs armor, after all if those explosions from earlier are anything to go by, then piercing attacks weren't really gonna cut it. As for Four Arms on the other hand, while he did possess much greater strength and decent durability as well as much superior speed and had the extra arm count, he was a close range fighter and was still made of flesh and blood. Not to mention that, while even though his skin was incredibly dense, it was nowhere near the same durability as Diamondhead. That meant if he were to get close enough, changes were that Kraabs could easily grab onto him with his claw and potentially break a few limbs or, even worse, use the claws pincers to pop his head like a grape, and Midoryia wasn't particularly fond of his head being turned into a fine wine.

"GGGAAAAAHHHH!" Midoryia nearly flinched as he heard Hoverboard let out another scream of tormented agony. Realizing he has to act soon, Midoryia weighed his options quickly before eventually deciding on Diamondhead to get the job done. With his long range capabilities and incredible endurance he was the most suitable alien for the task. Hopefully he'll be enough to defeat Krabbs or at the very least, hold out long enough to think of a plan to get him and Hoverboard out of this mess.

"Here goes nothing." Midoryia silently whispered before slamming down on the Omnitrix and being enveloped by a familiar emerald light that began to slowly die down just as quickly as it had appeared. "Alright you mechanized seafood platter, let's see how you like a face full of Diamondheads shimmering crysta-!" While Midoryia was busy speaking, he raised his left arm up and tried to turn his hand into a blade, however upon looking down at the appendage, his words died quickly in his throat. Instead of having a large, bulky dark green crystallin hand, Midoryia had a sleek slender three fingered claw that had blue markings on the side of his arm. "N-No." Sudden fear and realization washed over Izuku as he glanced down at his body, and to his terror he saw that instead of wearing a school gakurun that hung tightly to Diamondheads large frame, his entire body was wrapped up in a familiar blue "cloak".

"No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! NO! This isn't what I wanted! I needed Diamondhead, not Big Chill!" The newly transformed teen said in his trademarked whispered tone as he began to panic and hyperventilate. "Oh crap this is bad! If I go out there now I'm done for just like that. He'll do the same stuff that he did with Ghostfreak and practically squish me like a bug! Oh man, what did I do to deserve this?!" After having a mini freakout for about thirty seconds, Big Chill slowly tried to calm down as best he could. Now wasn't the time to be panicking he thought, he needed to get his head back in the game. "Okay, think Izuku, just think! There's gotta be a way to do this. Don't let something like this deter you now. Someone's in need of rescuing so you can't just chicken out now, that's not something a real hero would do. You just gotta deal with the cards handed to you."

Peering his head around the corner, Big Chill watched as Kraabs laughed wickedly as he shocked Hoverboard once more, causing the humanoid moth to winch silently as he heard Hoverboard scream out in agony once more. "Okay Izuku, think. Your intangibility and invisibility isn't going to work out, and you're not exactly in your most physically strongest form, so sneaking up to hit the guy isn't the plan. You've got your ice breath, but I doubt I will keep him frozen for long. So let's see if there's something around here that could help out in this situation."

And with that, Big Chill began to scan the area looking for something to help out in his endeavor only to be disappointed to see that there was nothing he could see that could be of use. The only things in sight were chunk of the torn up pavement scattered around the road that would just bounce of Kraabs if he threw them at him and bunch of steel containers all over the place. Damnit, out of all places to be it just had to be a shipyard by the ocean of all places, why did he he always get stuck with the most miserable of lu-?!

Wait, the ocean? Big Chill looked at the brilliant blue sea ahead of him before looking down back at Kraabs and noticed how close he was to the edge of the docks he was. And then it hit him. The ocean, of course! Instead of fighting Kraabs he just needed to knock the behemoth into the water below. After all, Big Chill had no doubt that the cybernetic crustacean was heavy, so he would most likely sink like a stone. It might not be able to stop him, sure, but it could give him some time to grab Hoverboard and fly off with him. Yeah, that could work. He didn't need to fight Kraabs, he just needs to knock him down into the water.

"Question is though, how exactly am I gonna pull that off?" Big Chill wondered aloud. He couldn't exactly push the bronze monstrosity into the water, no, he needed to find something strong enough to do the job for him, but what? Looking away from the sight happening from below him, Big Chill decided to look up the sloped road to see if he could find anything of use to help him carry out his idea. Unfortunately for him though, there was nothing of use other than more chunks of black pavement scattered across the road. Thoughts of desperation began to fester within his mind as he couldn't find even a hint of anything useful to help him and as he heard another tortured scream, Big Chill was tempted to just fly down there and try to trick the bronze brute into the water.

He was about to turn his head back towards the two aliens below him, but before he could however he noticed something further up the sloped road in his peripheral. Looking up the road, the aliens already large emerald eyes widened as the thing he saw within the corner of his eyes was none other than the large semi truck he had noticed moments prior before Kraabs showed up to attack earlier. Big Chill was amazed that the large vehicle was still intact considering the place was practically a war zone, however after noticing that the administration building next to it and the steel containers surrounding it were still in one piece, he realized he shouldn't have been too surprised as most of the destruction was closer towards the ocean below rather than the iron fence about him. However, that wasn't the only thing he noticed.

Glancing back and forth between Kraabs and the truck before finally resting his gaze on the parked vehicle, the gears inside the transformed teens began to turn as a plan was beginning to formulate. And once he had finally finished his scheming, Big Chill gave one last glance down towards the two aliens below, and once he was sure neither of them were looking, Big Chill turned away before unfolding his wings and faded into the transparent blue of his intangibility. It was time to take action.

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If one were to ask Hoverboard how he would rate his current situation in his 'Worst Life Moments' list, he would most definitely say that this was in his top five.

Here he was, lying on the filthy ground on a less than advance planet, beaten and humiliated and was on the near brink of death as he was being viciously tortured to death by someone he still considered to be beneath him and was too weak to even raise his arm in a defensive manner. His body was wracked with pain as a faint trail of smoke wafted off him, and as he laid there helplessly on the pavement he couldn't help but feel self loathing towards his weakness. The damage to his body and pride as a warrior were both excruciating. Oh yes, this moment was indeed in the top five.

"GAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!" Another torrent of blue sparks engulfed his body once more. After ten full seconds the electrical bolts died off, and fresh new trail of faint smoke emitted from his body.

"Gotta admit half-pint, while you might not be as strong as I am, I can't deny that your persistence is quite admirable. I've blasted you with the equivalent power of five Amperis and yet you're still moving, even if it is just by a little bit." Kraabs said in a slightly somewhat impressed as he kept his claw trained on Hoverboard. "But while that persistence is impressive, it's also starting to bore and even infuriate me even further. Zapping you the first couple of times was fun and all, but now your screams are starting to just annoy me. I feel as though I should just kill you now and continue my hunt, however I still want to hear you beg me for mercy so very badly, but I can see that I won't be able to get you to sing no matter how badly I hurt you." Lowering his cannon to his side, he gestured his hand towards Hoverboard in an offering manner. "So I'll tell you what, If you just beg a little, I promise to spare you from a slow painful death. All you have to do is just say "please, stop it", and I'll be sure to make it as quick as possible. How bout it?"

Hoverboard glared daggers at the mechanized being. Was he being serious? Did this lowlife really think that such a worthless promise would be enough to get him to beg? Hoverboard couldn't believe it, just when he thought this pathetic coward couldn't get more idiotic, he was proven wrong. "Fu…. Fuck you. I'd…. rather be…. pulled apart…. limb from limb…. then…. have my pride tainted…. by beginning for mercy…. from scum…. like you! If having…. an honorable death…. means that I must die…. a slow, agonizing end…. then I'd gladly suffer a thousand deaths then beg to you. So go ahead…. show me your worst!"

Kraabs tightly clenched his hand before quickly bringing it back to his side, clearly not pleased with the reply. "Fine." Bringing both arms up, Kraabs began to type something into his claw. "If that's what you want, then who am I to refuse a dying man's last wish?" After he finished imputing his command into the claw, he pointed the weapon back towards Hoverboard as the barrel of the cannon began to glow a yellowish green as a slime of the same color began to slightly ooze out. "Hope you like it you little prick, it's a special acidic plasma I barely use and it's just for you." As he thrusted his claw closer to Hoverboards face. "Don't worry, it'll only hurt for a little bit. After that is when the real pain starts to kick in." And with those final words said, as Kraabs was just about to fire out the corrosive slime from his claw, all Hoverboard could do was simply brace himself for the inevitable end as he glared directly into the yellow tinted eyes of Kraabs helmet, refusing to show even the slightest hint of fear in his final moments as time seemed to slow to a crawl for him.

Wanting to blast out the ooze and be done with this annoyance once and for all, Kraabs was just milliseconds away from pulling the metaphorical trigger, however before he could mentally will even a tiny squirt of the plasma out of the claws barrel however, he halted himself as he suddenly began to hear something from up the sloped road slowly roll across the broken up road and down…. towards him?

"Huh? What in the-?" Spinning his head to the right to see what the noise was, he was greeted with the sight of a large semi's chrome grill slamming directly into him before getting himself lodged into the front of the truck. Caught off guard by the suddenness of it all, Kraabs wasn't able to stop the momentum of the semi, therefore causing the both of them to go flying off the nearby edge off the docks and down into the ocean below, creating a monstrous splash in the process. The water bubbled violently as all the trapped air within the vehicle escaped while the sounds of bending metal could be heard as the truck sank deeper into the sea. Within a matter of a few seconds the entirety of the vehicle was completely submerged beneath the waves, and shortly thereafter the bubbles ceased as well.

As all this went down, Hoverboard could only stare in pure bewilderment at every that has happened before him. While he was spared from such a grisly end, the sudden appearance of the truck and the seemingly demise of Kraabs went by too fast. As he stared at the spot where both Kraabs and the truck sank, he could only ask. "What the fuck just happened?"

"I think I can answer that for you." Hoverboard whipped his head over to the source of the sudden ghastly voice and was met with a black, claw-like like three fingered hand offering to help him up before looking up to see that the offering hand belonged to a familiar alien species.

'A Necrofriggian? Here?' Hoverboard thought in confusion as his eyes wandered over the creatures body and unfurled wings before he spotted the familiar hourglass symbol on its chest. Realizing who this was, Hoverboards eyes widened with shock before quickly being erased by anger as he glared up at the "alien" and knocked it's hand away. "You?! What the hell are you doing here you idiot?!"

"Saving your life." Big Chill said as he rubbed the hand that was knocked away before bending down to attempt to lift Hoverboard up, much to the aliens protest.

"You blithering idiot! Do you realize what you've just done now?! Because of that little stunt you've just pulled you've not only doomed both yourself and the Omnitrix, but potentially the entire galaxy now! It'll only be a matter of time before that bronze monstrosity comes back up more pissed than anything!"

"Then I guess it's a good thing we're leaving right now then." Big Chill replied as he placed his hands on Hoverboards back and legs before lifting him up bridal style, albeit with some difficulty due to both Hoverboards weight and his refusal. "Will you cut that out? If you keep moving around like that then it'll make flying much more difficult for me."

"Then drop me then! Leave me here and fly off somewhere that, that metallic abomination can't reach you!" Hoverboard yelled as he tried to break free from the alien teens grasp. But due to how weak he was, he couldn't even perform a normally simple task. "Your species has abilities right? Something called a quirk if I remember correctly? Well then if that's true, then go fly off and find someone with one of these quirk things and get them to deal with this freak then!"

"You just want me to leave you here?!" Big Chill asked in a whispered yell. "Sorry, but I'm afraid that's not an option. I didn't go through the hassle of freezing and breaking off that truck's emergency brakes for nothing. You're coming with me whether you like it or not."

Hoverboard gritted his teeth as his eyes narrowed. Was this brat really risking the safety of the Omnitrix for some no good bounty hunter like himself?! By Sugilite, this brat truly was dense in the head. "Why are you doing this?! I gave you the chance to run away, to flee from all this! I gave you the chance to keep the Omnitrix safe and yet you've completely squandered my selfless efforts by coming back here, to save me of all things?! Why?! Why risk your life to save someone who not an hour ago tried to abduct you from your home world?! You don't even know my name and yet you put the safety of the galaxy and Omnitrix on the line, and for what?! The entirety of the universe may now be at stake all because of you and your reckless actio-!" Before Hoverboard could finish berating the teen however, something quite unexpected happened.

"SHUT UP!" Big Chill yelled as loud as he could as a thick cloud of frost exited his mouth. "You think I don't know what I'm risking here by doing this?! Do you think I forgot about what you told me back on that roof?! I knew of the dangers when I decided to come back here and I still helped you out anyway, you know why?! Because I want to be a hero that can save everyone, including those who would try to wrong me! You might call me a reckless idiot for jumping in to save you, or for some other reason, but you know what?! I don't care! No, the thrill of battle doesn't bring me some kind of ecstacy and it doesn't inflate my 'ego' in any way! The reason I'm doing this is because it's the right thing to do! When I heard those explosions earlier and saw the crate towers fall down, something told me you might be in danger, and I knew that if I just ran off without at least making sure you were okay, then how would I be able to call myself a hero?!" After finishing up his sentence, Big Chill breathed deeply as clouds of mist poured from his mouth. After just a few brief seconds of catching his breath he continued in his normal tone. "You might've been trying to kidnap me, and yeah, I don't know a thing about you, not even your name. But that doesn't mean I should just leave you to die. You've saved my life twice today and risked your own to ensure I was safe. It's just like you said earlier, if you really were like those two guys, if you really were a killer, you would've just killed me immediately and ripped the watch off my corpse. But you didn't, and it's because of both that and everything you've done for me that makes me want to save you. So you can complain, berate me, call me an idiot as much as you'd like, nothing is gonna make me leave you here, so I suggest you get used to that fact. Are we clear?"

Hoverboard simply stared at the teen with widened eyes, shocked that this kid was actually taking this whole hero thing seriously. 'This kid…' Hoverboard thought to himself before he gave the teen a glare and answered. "Fine. But you and I are gonna have a talk about this later."

"Fine with me." Big Chill said as he turned away from the ocean and towards the city, ready to take off.

Unbeknownst to him however, when the Necrofriggian was talking just a second ago neither he nor Hoverboard noticed that the surface of the ocean not too far from them slowly began to bubble up slightly, and as time went by the speed and quantity of the bubbles continued to keep on rising. By the time Big Chill was ready to fly off towards the city, the ocean surface looked as though it was boiling as the water bubbled with such ferociousness.

"Huh? What's-?" Both Big Chill and Hoverboard both heard the bubbling coming from behind and turned to look at the source, confusion was plastered onto the moth aliens face before quickly turning into horrific realization as he turned away and attempted to fly off. Unfortunately however, before his feet could even lift off the ground-.

SPLOOSH!

-a massive geyser erupted from the sea as a familiar bronze figure flew high into the sky, his shadow looming over both Big Chill and Hoverboard. Just as quickly as he had appeared, Kraabs came barreling into the ground with so much force that the force of his impact not only cracked the ground greatly, but also knocked both Big Chill and Hoverboard back, making them go hurling towards the ground.

"Oph!" Big Chill yelped out as his chest and head slammed against the pavement with a heavy thud while Hoverboard landed a few feet away in front of him. With a few dry coughs, the blue moth quickly raised his head from the ground as he rubbed the side of his head in an attempt to ease the slight pain and disorientation. As he did this it didn't take long for his large green eyes to notice the alien he had come to rescue lying a few feet away from him, and with how fire the situation was, he quickly propped himself to his knees and was about to rush in to scoop Hoverboard up and fly off into the city. Unfortunately for him though, before he could make his getaway, he froze up when a large looming shadow enveloped him as he heard mechanical whirring coming from behind him. Knowing full well what was behind, in a desperate attempt to by himself so some time to escape with Hoverboard, Big Chill spun his head around to try and freeze the crustacean hunter in place, however as soon as he turned around, a bronze hand quickly grabbed the teen by the throat, making him choke slightly, before lifting him up high into the air.

"Well, well, well, look what we've got here. I didn't think I'd be seeing you again this soon, boy!" The hand around the Necrofriggians throat tightened when he spoke the word boy. "And not only that. But you've also chosen such a physically weak and frail form too. Lady luck must be giving me her favor after the day I've had to endure for so long. Tch, about time already." As Kraabs spoke, Big Chill noticed that aside from his body glistening due to him being completely covered in salt water as various chinks of his armor had small, but noticeable streams of water pouring out of him.

"Kid!" Hoverboard yelled as he saw Big Chill being held by the throat and tried to rush in to help him. However as he tried to get to his feet, a sharp pain would course through his body that would cause him to fall back down to the ground, and no matter how much he tried, there was nothing he could do to fight against the damages done to his body. Therefore, he was completely useless to help save the teen and was forced to watch helplessly, much to his disdain. He couldn't let this get any worse, he refused to! Bringing his arms up to his face, Hoverboard tried to slip his gauntlets off his hands in order to use his own natural abilities to stop the situation from getting in further danger. His body might be too damaged right now to even stand, but if he could get these damn gloves off maybe he can-!

"Ah, ah, ah! Watch, but don't interfere. I'll get to you as soon as I'm finished ripping with this brat!" Kraabs said in a mocking tone as he pointed his claw cannon towards the downed alien and fired off a dark red beam of energy, striking him in the chest. While Hoverboards uniform may have absorbed most of the beams force, there was still enough power to make it feel like his chest was being crushed, causing him to gasp in pain.

"No!" Big Chill yelled out as he heard Hoverboard get struck with the beam. Trying to see if he was alright, the teen tried to twist his head around only to be stopping as he felt a tight squeeze around his throat for a brief second.

"I'd be more concerned about your own life rather than his!" Kraabs said as he brought his claw close to the teens face. "After all, you and I most definitely have some catching up to do." Snapping his pincers, he couldn't contain the laugh he barked out as he saw the aliens emerald eyes flinch. "I can't believe how lucky I just got. Honestly, I thought this day was just gonna end up as a complete shit show, yet to my surprise my ticket to a quick paycheck practically walks into my claw, how lucky could I get? I gotta thank you kid, if you hadn't shown up I would've been wandering through this dirt ball of a planet looking for your scrawny ass. Because you were so generous to return here, I'm gonna repay you by trying to make your death as painless as possible." Moving his claw away from Big Chills face, Kraabs moved it closer to the Omnitrix on the teens chest. "Though, I can't really promise you anything on that. Just try to hold still while I work on this."

As he felt the pincers clamp down on the Omnitrix, Big Chills mind began to run rampant as panic filled his eyes. Not wanting to to have the device, and possibly organs inside his chest cavity ripped out of his body, he attempted to go intangible to slip out of Kraabs grasp, however as his body slowly turned into a transparent blue, Kraabs couldn't help but let out a scoff. "Seriously, is that the best you can do?" And if as on cue, the barrel of his claw suddenly glew bright yellow as a short ranged electric spark tore through Big Chills ethereal form, causing him to scream in agony as he become tangible against his will. Once he was solid once more, the sparks ceased and the claws barrel lost it's yellow glow. "Hate to break it to you, but you're not getting away from me this time. No one's here to see you, and your current form isn't gonna be enough to slip out of my fingers. This is the end for you brat." And with that, Kraabs placed his pincers back onto the Omnitrix to continue his task.

However, even though he was injured from his shock, Big Chill still refused to let this happen one way or another. If he couldn't phase his way out of this, then he could at the very minimum stall long enough to think up a decent plan out of this mess. "W-Wait." He pleaded out weakly, causing the crustacean to halt. "B-Before you kill me, could you at least answer a final question right before I, well, you know?"

Slightly pulling his claw away from the device on his captives chest, Kraabs tilted his head as he spoke in a confused tone. "What? Why would I waste my time doing something as ridiculous as that when you just tried to escape from me less than ten seconds ago?"

Swallowing the nervous lump in his throat, Big Chill answered. "Because it's the least you can owe me. You've got me in an inescapable situation with no means of escape and you're about to end my life in the most painful way possible. The least you can do is just answer a quick question before you do the deed."

For a moment, nothing happened. Kraabs simply stood perfect in place as he contemplated Big Chills words. Though, because his face was obscured the teen couldn't really tell what he was doing. After a brief couple of seconds passed however, the bounty hunter spoke. "I guess you have a point. After all, considering you were so generous enough to come back here, I suppose I could spend a few more seconds on this backwater dirt ball humoring whatever question you've got. Ask away kid."

Internally sighing that he wasn't killed on the spot, Big Chill racked his brain trying to come up with a question with an answer long enough for him to think of a way out of this. Figuring he should ask something about the alien that was holding him by the throat, Big Chill gazed upon Kraabs armored body, taking in every detail including how the chinks of his armor were still pouring out sea water despite how long he's been on land now. Because of this little detail his mind replayed the events of how the cybernetic being was able to leap high from the water, and it perplexed him how he was able to do so with such heavy looking armor. Knowing he had to ask his question soon, the Necrofriggian mind raced with several different things to ask before eventually deciding on one to say. He just prayed that it'll buy him enough time.

"How were you able to leap out of the water and high into the air like that? I knew that slamming you into the sea with a truck wouldn't keep you down for long but I thought you'd burrow through the ground. How was someone with your weight able to jump with such spindly legs? It just doesn't make sense to be honest." Big Chill asked, hoping it would buy him enough time but was also curious as well. Even though Kraabs bladed feet were large and had enough strength to burrow through the ground, he doubted they had enough strength to allow him to jump high into the air given how massive he was.

And as the Necrofriggian was wondering, Hoverboard, who could only watch the scene before him play out as he tried to soothe the pain in his chest, stared at the moth alien with a questioning glare. Just what the hell did this kid think he was doing?

"That's your question? You wanna know how I was able to jump that high? Not gonna lie to ya kid, that's a pretty dumb last thing to ask."

Kraabs said in confusion. Out of all the things this brat could ask him, he chose to ask how he was able to jump of all things? Not a question about who he was or what he did, not one about his armor or claw, this runt just wanted to know how he was able to jump so high. Man, the inhabitants of this world must be dumber than the dirt they live on if they're anything like this kid. Oh well though, he said he was gonna answer this kid's question, so he might as well. Besides, it wasn't like it was the dumbest thing he ever heard, and he supposed he could understand why this kid might ask something like that. "But I guess I can see how you could be a little confused given my body size and armor, so I suppose it's not that idiotic. Though I figured you would ask about something a bit more…. interesting. Oh well." Moving his claw away from the Omnitrix and closer to his chest, Kraabs continued. "You see brat, there's a reason why my employer sought me out to hunt you down. I'm not just some two-bit bounty Hunter like your friend I wiped the floor with, I am one of the best hunters in the galaxy, if not the best. I've hunted down some of the most dangerous alien life forms you can imagine. I've slain all sorts of dangerous creatures from equally dangerous planets, no matter the atmosphere, climate, or environment. Whether the creature I hunt is based on land, sea, or air. Whether they have claws, stingers, blunt weapons, it doesn't matter. I have yet to come across something that has yet to defeat me. Now you might be thinking, "why is he telling me all this? I asked how he was able to leap into the air so high despite his mass and size, not about this."" Kraabs let out a chuckle before continuing. "Well you see kid, in order for me to be the most efficient hunter out there means I have to have the right tools," Kraabs snapped his claw a few times before using it to gesture towards his body. "and armor. And my armor is the best of the best. It's made from an extremely durable metal that's highly resistant to heat, electricity, magnetism, aging, rusting, kinetic force, high powered weaponry, and especially the friction it has to endure whenever I burrow beneath the surface of the ground, plus anything else you can think of. My armor is perfect for both ground and air based creatures as it can take any damage it gets thrown it's way. Sadly however, it wasn't so great when I was first hunting down aquatic aliens. My armors metal was durable, but as a downside it was extremely heavy as well, especially when in a submerged state. My mobility was slowed drastically, making my fights with any aquatic aliens more of a challenge then it should be, and once I would finish off my target it would often be a hassle to get myself and it's corpse back onto the surface. Fortunately for me however, I was able to remedy that problem. Back then my body was made solid of the stuff, however after a few adjustments I was able to bring down my weight problem by removing most of my armors interior plating, essentially hollowing myself out." To demonstrate this, he light tapped on his chest, resulting in a hollow metallic thud. "Ever since then, my movement on both sea and land have increased greatly, and I didn't even have to worry about sacrificing my defense in the slightest. It was truly one of the best things I ever could've done for myself."

'So he's hollowed out from the inside then despite being built like a tank huh? Guess that explains why he's still leaking like faulty pipe.' Big Chill thought as he stared at the still leaking chinks of Kraabs armor. 'But how am I gonna be able to use that to my advantage?! All I can do right now is breathe out a cloud of ice, and I doubt that'll do anything to stop the alien being wearing a high tech suit that's…. currently…. covered both inside and out in water.' His eyes widened in revelation as a plan began to form within the Necrofriggians head.

"Anyway kid, I think that wraps up your question. Now if you don't mind, I'm gonna carry on where we last left off." Placing his claw back on Big Chills chest, Kraabs was about ready to tear off the Omnitrix from the teens chest. But before he could he was halted once more by the teen.

"Wait! Before you do so I have one last thing to say!"

"Seriously runt? I already answered your piss poor question and yet you still want you yap off? You're going to die regardless no matter what."

"I-I know that, j-just let me say something real quick, please."

With an annoyed groan and a none visible eye roll the bounty hunter decided to let this little shit have his final words. "Fine, but make it quick. Otherwise I'll make your death more unbearable than it has to be."

"Don't worry, I promise that this'll be short. I just wanted to say-." Even though his mouth couldn't do it, the next few words Big Chill spoke carried a hint of a smile. "-you should chill out."

Kraabs cocked his head in confusion and was about to ask the teen what that meant before he was blasted in the face by Big Chills frost breath, causing a thin sheet of frost to blanket his face. Caught off guard by the suddenness of the attack, Kraabs yelled in surprise as his grip around the moth loosened, allowing the teen to break free and fly a short distance away from the bounty hunters reach. As the Necrofriggian rubbed his neck to soothe the slight pain he felt from being choked by a metal hand, he watched as Kraabs stumbled back slightly before stopping to claw away at the ice on his helmets "eyes", freeing his vision. Once that was done with, he growled at the teen for his cheap trick.

"You miserable little shit! I've had it up to here with you and this entire godforsaken planet!" Pointing his claw towards the teen, he snapped it a few times for intimidation. "I'm gonna tear those damn wings off your body before pinching your head clean off your writhing body!" Lowering his claw, Kraabs began to charge towards Big Chill with bloodlust in mind.

However, Big Chill anticipated this. "Sorry crabby, but as if I'm gonna let that happen. I think it's time to put you on ice." And with that, the teen took a quick deep breath before expelling a large stream of cold air which in turn caused Kraabs to halt from his charge as he raised his claw to shield himself from the freezing wind. As the stream of light blue gas came into contact with the bounty hunter, it expanded into a massive cloud that soon quickly enveloped his bronze body.

"You moron! Do you really think this is gonna stop me?!" He asked in a mocking manner as the water on his body began to harden while frost began to coat his frame. "In case you've forgotten you little idiot, I can easily burrow through solid stone and earth! What makes you think I can't do the same with ice?! I can just-!" As Kraabs was talking he lowered his massive claw and used it to swipe away at the blue cloud quickly growing around him in an attempt to dispel it however as he began to move he noticed that something was…. off.

"I can just-." Kraabs attempted to move his body once more, he noticed that something about his body was wrong. His movements were getting slower and slower while his metallic joints throughout his body were becoming more and more stuff with each second. Plus there was the fact that he felt something hard and cold begin to form within the books and crannies of his body.

"G….G….Gah! W….. What's… H…. Happening?!" Kraabs asked in a shivering tone as he looked over at his entire body which was slowly grinding to a halt against his will. Turning his head over at Big Chill, (who had just finished breathing out his ice cloud), before the joints in his neck froze over, he yelled with as much fury as he could muster. "Y….You…. mi…. mi…. miserable…. little…. shit! W…. What…. did…. y…. you…. do…. t…. t…. to…. m…. me?!"

"Isn't it obvious bucket head, you're hollow, remember? You might've made lighter in the water, but when I saw parts of you leaking so much water it made me realize that anytime you left a submerged environment your entire body would be filled to the brim with water, like a bloated up fish. And since I just so happen to have an alien who can instantly flash freeze anything I breathe on, what was stopping me from freezing over all that water trapped inside your body?" If he could, Big Chill would be smiling right now at the sight of Kraabs halting form. "You're strong, but only because you get that strength from technology. Thanks to the expanding ice in your body though, you won't be able to even move even an inch with your joints frozen over. You're nothing but a frozen seafood platter now."

"G…. Ga…. ck!" Kraabs tried to say something threatening to the green eyed creature while he desperately tried to move his frozen body anyway he could, but once his vocal muscles froze over with the rest of his head, all he could do was just stand there and silently stew in his own rage for the teen. If he could talk, he'd be screaming and swearing his head off like a familiar blonde Big Chill knew.

Breathing in one last breath of air, Big Chill fired off another gust of cold, causing the entire exterior of Kraabs to be frozen solid in a large chunk of ice. The Necrofriggian knew that it was probably unnecessary, but he didn't want to risk the possibility of this tin canned freak making a comeback later. Once as the danger was neutralized, Big Chill turned away from the frozen Kraab-icle without giving it a second glance and walked over to help up a downed Hoverboard, who was actually shocked by how someone he deemed weak earlier was actually able to stop the ridiculously powerful bronze bounty hunter.

'Looks like there's more to this kid then I once thought.' Hoverboard thought as Big Chill knelt down beside him and looked over his injuries.

"Are you alright? That blast you took earlier looked like it hurt alot."

"It's fine." Hoverboard said. "My suit took most of the blast, so the pain in my chest isn't that bad."

"What about the rest of your body?" Big Chill asked in a slightly somewhat worried tone as he looked over Hoverboards damaged uniform. "While I don't see any signs of bleeding, I don't want to start flying off with you if you've a serious wound. After all, when I dropped you earlier, that could've made some of your wounds even worse, same for that beam too."

Hoverboard couldn't help but let out a snort. He appreciated that the kid was worried for him, but he couldn't help but find this ridiculous. "Trust me kid I'm more durable than I look, both on the inside and out. So don't worry about something like bleeding wounds or internal injuries, I'll be fine towards the end of the day. So stop fretting about me and just fly us out of here."

"Well…. alright I guess?" Big Chill said as he scooped Hoverboard up into his arms before standing back up. "Anywhere you want me to take you exactly? A hospital or something?"

"Just take me somewhere nice and secluded not too far from here where nobody can poke their nose in our business. After all," Hoverboard glared directly in the Necrofriggians eyes. "you and I have a lot to talk about, especially about your reckless little stunt."

'Oh no.' Big Chill thought as he silently gulped downa nervous lump in his throat. Knowing full well what'll happen when they reach a secluded spot, and knowing that there was no way out of this, Big Chill gave the bounty hunter a feeble 'Okay' before flying off with him out of the shipping yard, leaving behind the frozen figure of Kraabs and damaged area behind them.

As the two flew off, little did they know that about 15 minutes later after they would leave the shipping yard, several police and heros would arrive on the scene due to civilians calling in about hearing the sounds of fighting and several explosions coming from the docks. Upon arriving and looking at the damage caused to the docks, it wouldn't take them to find the frozen Kraabs and once they realized that this person matched the same description of the villain that attacked the ghost vigilante by the bridge earlier, it didn't take them long to put two and two together. After calling in for proper transport, the heros and authorities would place Kraabs still frozen body in the back of a prison truck designed for hulking mutant quirk users and haul him away to a proper holding facility. By the time he defrosted, Kraabs would be sitting comfortably in one of the most inescapable cells Japan has to offer.

(Several blocks away, four minutes after leaving the shipping yard.)

"You reckless, blithering, moron!" Within a dark secluded alley way, a black gloves hand smacked itself against Big Chills cranium as a very irritated Hoverboard, who was currently sitting against the wall of some building, berated the transformed teen. "What in the world were you thinking back there when you decided to do something so idiotic?! You almost risked both the safety of the Omnitrix and yourself because of that little stunt! Honestly, what went through your head when you thought risking your life was worth it to save me?!"

"Ow! I said I was sorry, already! Yes I know what I did was dumb, but we were at least able to come out of that mess okay! Can't you cut me some slack?" Asked a Big Chill crouching as he rubbed his head, only for his reply to be yet another smack to the head. Ever since both he and Hoverboard landed in the alleyway moments prior, the black and grey wearing alien had done nothing but smack the transformed teen against the head while berating him for his actions back at the docks.

"You almost endangered not only our lives but the security of the galaxy itself over your little stunt and you want me to cut you some slack?! That has to be by far one of the most idiotic things you've said all day!" Hoverboard shook his head in a disappointed fashion. "Honestly, what you did had to be one of the most brainless, moronic things I have ever seen in my life. And that's coming from someone who once saw a group of cocky bandits try and take on a whole squadren of Tetramands."

While the Necrofriggian wasn't sure what a 'Tetramand' was he knew that whatever it is, was most likely dangerous judging by the context. And to hear that what he did was more idiotic than a group of egotistical criminals taking on these Tetramand things didn't excatly do so well for the moths self esteem. Lowering his head down slightly, the memories of Death Arms, Kamui Woods, and Mt. Lady berating him for helping during the Sludge Villain incident flashed through his mind. Sure, unlike the incident before he had power now, but just like last time he almost risked his life trying to save someone who was much more stronger than him and was now getting berated for his actions by the very person he saved. Talk about deju vu, am I right?

Hoverboard was about to open his mouth once more to further scold the Necrofriggian teen, but stopped himself when he noticed his slightly downtrodden expression in the boys large emerald eyes. 'Damnit.' Hoverboard thought as he knew he was probably being too rough with the boy. Yes, what he did was by far on of the most incredibly stupid things out there, but he couldn't deny that the boy did save his life, not to mention that the way he took out Kraabs was pretty clever for someone of his age. Hoverboard would've never thought of using the water in and on the Piscciss Premanns body against him, so to see that some kid was able to do so kinda impressed him.

"Look kid, maybe I'm being a little hard on you. While I'm not saying that what you did wasn't incredibly reckless and the most thought out thing you could've done, I do have to at least commend you for your heroism, bravery, and intellect for saving me and putting a stop to that bronze monstrosity." At this , Big Chill perked his head up and stared at the alien in front of him in confusion, prompting Hoverboard to continue. "In all my travels, I've never encountered someone with such a strong heroic spirit at such a young age like you before. You're not some brash, egotistical brat who would help people for his own gain nor are you some moron who thinks might is always right, you're a good kid with a brave spirit and just heart. Back on that roof, showed me that when you told me how you weren't gonna give the Omnitrix willingly and how you wanted to be a hero despite people putting you down most of your life, and I could tell you weren't lying because the conviction you spoke with was one I was too familiar with. It was the kind of conviction I knew couldn't be faked by anyone. You proved to me that you truly do want to help others, and you only proved it more by jumping in to save me. You risked your life to save me, someone you barely even knew and was trying to take you from your home, from someone who was far stronger than yourself. And once you took care of the freak you asked if I was okay, checking for any wounds I might have. If none of that doesn't scream heroic or brave, then I don't know what does. And yes I know I just said that what you did was idiotic, and it still is, however the way you were able to keep that punk talking long enough to come up with a way to deal with him just shows me that you're not an idiot, just reckless. But, I'm sure that with time and some basic training, you'll be able to overcome that weakness."

"R-Really?" Big Chill asked in disbelief from what he just heard as he slowly processed the sentence. "W-Well, um, I don't know what to say? T-Thanks for that, I guess? Ehehehe." Usually not being used to hearing praise from someone other than All Might or his mother, the Necrofriggian teen became quickly flustered at the comment as his mind tried to deal with that comment. Rubbing his head in a slightly embarrassed manner then from pain, he quietly muttered under his breath. "If you thought that was impressive, then you should've seen how I was able to take down that purple ninja freak then."

"I'm sorry, what?" The teen flinched at the questioning voice of Hoverboard, clearly not expecting him to hear what he had said.

"Oh crap, I said that too loud didn't I?" Big Chill asked himself as he watched the bounty hunters eyes shift from a cocked confused look into a hardened glare.

"Kid, what did you mean by purple fre-?" Realization dawned on the bounty hunter as images of a certain assassin popped into mind. "Kid If you're talking about who I'm thinking about, then I suggest you start talking, now." Hoverboard said in a low, demanding tone before turning threatening when uttered out the 'now' part. This caused Big Chill to break out in a non exsitent sweat and mentally kick himself as he now had to explain to the man the events prior to him deciding to come and rescue him. Steadying his nerves, the teen explained in a slightly shaky voice how he had ran into the menacing SixSix, (which he called him the purple guy from the park), moments after he had been told to run off, how he was almost killed by the alien before telling Hoverboard how he was able to defeat the assassin with his own weaponry before hearing the explosions from the fight with Kraabs. As the blue teen explained the events that happened, Hoverboard simply sat in silence as he heard everything that was being explained to him, and once the explanation was finished with, he continued to simply sit there as he processed everything that was being told to him. After a few seconds had passed, Hoverboard placed a hand on his face as he shook his head disappointedly.

"Of course, why didn't I think of that earlier? If that idiot was able to get up from that pulse, then who's to say the other one wasn't able to as well? I can't believe I made such an idiotic mistake!" Hoverboard said as he felt like hitting himself for forgetting all about SixSix in that whole ordeal. "Well kid, looks like we're both reckless idiots then. I thought I was keeping you safe from getting caught in the crossfire of my fight, but instead of protecting you I just made it easier for you to be hunted down by that freak. And unlike that mindless bucket of bolts, the purple one was far more competent and less egotistical. You should consider yourself the luckiest person on your planet to survive such an encounter, and that's not mentioning how you were able to defeat him. You're really something else, you know that kid?"

"S-So you're not upset at me?" Big Chill asked as he pointed a clawed finger at himself.

"For what? Getting ambushed by someone you had no idea was there, doing the reasonable thing and ran when you knew you wouldn't be able to stand a chance against him, or thinking up of a way to defend yourself when that purple freak caught up with you? The way I see it, the only person I should be upset at is myself for making the idiotic decision for sending you away while completely forgetting about that guy. It's a miracle you made it out of that in one piece, and I'm thankful for that. Had you been mowed down by that monster, I don't think I would've been able to forgive myself for sending someone so young to their deaths." Hoverboard said, with the last sentence carrying a solemn tone.

"Um, thanks. That…. means a lot?" Big Chill said as he tried to sound as sincere as possible, but failed as he wasn't expecting that type of response to come from the bounty hunter. Though, don't get him wrong, he actually did appreciate the man's words.

"Don't mention it kid." Hoverboard said as he waved a dismissive hand at the teen, apparently ignoring his awkward tone of voice, before shortly raising himself to his feet, albeit with some difficulty. Once he was on his two legs, Hoverboard slowly started walking towards the alleys exit, only to be stopped as Big Chill stood up and got in his path.

"What are you doing?" Big Chill asked as he was confused and concerned by Hoverboards sudden movements, worrying that he might make his wounds much worse by walking around.

"What does it look like kid? I'm leaving." Hoverboard replied as he simply moved past the Necrofriggian and continued on his merry way.

"Huh?!" The teen exclaimed, now more confused than worried by the bounty hunters response. "Leaving, what do you mean by that?!"

The grey and black figure turned his head back as he continued walking, replying to the green eyed moth. "Simply that. After all what reason do I have to stay on this planet? You already took care of the two bounty hunters that were after your head so I don't need to protect you anymore, and since you sent the purple one flying and exploding in the sea all I need to do is grab the tin can on my way back to my ship and well, that's that. My mission here is done."

"B-But wait, what about me?! I thought you needed to get this watch back to its creator?!" Big Chill couldn't wrap his head around it for the life of him. This guy had travelled all the way to Earth to abduct the greenette for having the Omnitrix, had to go through all that hassle finding him, and was beaten to near death trying to protect the teen. And now he's just, giving up?! Why?! After all that has happened today, why would he just let him go?!

Hoverboard stopped in place and turned his upper body towards the teen. "Keep it, after all you said you needed it to protect everyone you cared about and become a hero right? You wouldn't be able to do that properly if I just yanked you off world now did I?" Turning away from the teen, Hoverboard reached for his belt and grabbed his undamaged hoverboard before tossing it to the ground, causing it to promptly activate right in front of him. After placing a foot on the floating board, Hoverboard turned back to Big Chill and continued. "I'll be back at a later time, but until then, the Omnitrix is in good hands for now."

Big Chill was absolutely floored by this point. After everything this guy went through today, he was just letting the teen go? Not only that but he was also entrusting this Omnitrix thing, something he claimed to be a major threat to the universe if fallen into the wrong hands, to him, some quirkless middle schooler who was nowhere near becoming a fully licensed hero. The Necrofriggian teen doesn't know if he should be glad for being able to keep the Omnitrix, worried that Hoverboard would return later like he said, honored that someone like him was being entrusted with the alien techs safety, or just more confused by the bounty hunters choice of protector. Honestly, after the day he's been having he wasn't sure his mind couldn't take much more of it.

"Take care kid. And good luck on your task of becoming a hero, you'll need it." Hoverboard said as he placed his other foot on the board and was ready to fly off towards the horizon. But before he could leave however, he was stopped by one last question.

"Wait! Before you leave I gotta know, just who exactly are you?" Big Chill asked. There was a lot of things he wanted to know about this guy, but he knew he probably wouldn't stick around to answer all of them, so he figured he'd go with the most important question he could think of. He needed to at least know the name of this man before he flew back into space.

Hoverboard stood there on his board silently for a few seconds before turning back towards the teen one final time. "Hoverboard. Most people usually call me Hoverboard." As he kept on talking, his hands slowly placed themselves on the sides of his helmet and began to slowly remove the damaged headwear away from his face. "But that's just the alias I use for my clients or business partners. Only a few people know who I really am." Popping the helmet away from his head, Big Chills eyes widened as he was met with a familiar face. "You can call me Shard, Tetrax Shard." Hoverboard, or now known as Tetrax said as he gave the teen a small smile.

"Y-You're from the same species as my Diamondhead transformation." Big Chill stuttered out as he was indeed looking at an alien who had a perfectly identical face that matched his crystalline transformation, with the differences being that Tetraxs crystal body was teal green in color instead of dark green and his face had several hairline cracks scattered around his face. Regardless, he was still a Diamondhead look alike, much to the boys shock.

"A Petrosapien." Tetrax pointed out. "That's what my species is called. And I'm guessing that since you have access to the Omnitrix's Petrosapien sample, you must already know some of my species more basic powers. Hmph, shame I didn't get it while I was here, maybe next time I'll get to see how you utilized my people's powers." Tetrax turned away to leave, but was stopped once more by Big Chill.

"W-W-Wait! Don't go just yet, I've got so many questions now! Tell me, how are your species able to fire such a large amount of crystals from your bodies without it taking away from your mass?! Can you fire out limitless amount or is there a limit to how much you can expel at a time? Also, what about your crystal generation too?! I mean, I know Diamondhead can shoot out spikes and make bladed weapons like swords or hatchets, but I was wondering if it was entirely possible to make things like extra appendages by reshaping my crystal body, or firing large clusters of crystal shards from all over my body?! Another thing I noticed is that you guys also seem to have some type of regeneration ability too, and if so how effective is it?! Can it regenerate missing limbs and even your head if it was destroyed, or is it limited to minor things like crack?! Hey I also gotta ask-!" As Big Chill rapidly kept mumbling out all sorts of questions about the powers and physiology of Diamondhead, Tetrax could only stare at the teen with a blank expression as he tried to keep up with the teens mumble storm.

"Uhhh, kid?" Tetrax tried getting the teens attention, but didn't work as he was too submerged in his mumble fit. "Kid?" This time he spoke up a little louder, but like before it didn't work out before. "Kid!" Tetrax barked out, smiling as the Necrofriggian snapped out of his incomprehensible muttering. "Look kid, I'm glad you got questions about how to use the Petrosapien DNA to its fullest, but I really don't have the time to stick around and answer every single question you got. You're just gonna have to learn how to use it yourself."

"B-But-!"

"No buts! I've been on this planet for long enough and I think it's time for me to be heading out. I've still got plenty of work to do, so I'm sure you understand that I can't stick around for too long here?"

"W-Well yeah, but I'm sure that sticking around for a minute longer wouldn't hurt any-." Big Chill stopped his sentence as Tetrax looked him dead in the eyes and dared him to finish that sentence, causing the moth to flinch back before gulping. "I-I understand."

"Good." Tetrax said right as his hoverboard began to levitate a few feet high into the air. As he slowly raised into the air he asked Big Chill. "By the way, I never really got your name. Mind sharing it before I fly off?"

"Oh, uh, sure. It's Midoryia, Midoryia Izuku." The teen replied.

"Midoryia, huh?" Tetrax wondered aloud, mentally asking himself why that name seemed familiar, but decided he would dwell on that little thought back on his newly acquired ship off the coast. "Well Midoryia, even though it wasn't under the best of circumstances, I'm glad we still meet. I'm entrusting you with the safety and security of the Omnitrix, so be sure to keep it safe."

Big Chill gave Tetrax an affirmative nod as he raised a thumb. "You can count on me."

"I will. And here, take this." Tetrax said as he gave his own thumbs up before chucking his helmet down towards the teen, who upon seeing the falling headwear, hastily went to catch it before it went crashing into the ground. "Think of it as a little memento to remember me by. Take care."

And with a slight wave to say goodbye, Tetrax turned away from the Necrofriggian and began to slowly fly off in the direction of the ship that brought him to this world. And as Big Chill watched him fly off while holding the broken up helmet in his arms, the teen didn't realize that minutes later when Tetrax would fly above the the ship yard to retrieve the frozen Kraab-icle, the Petrosapien would spot dozens of heros and police hauling Kraabs away into the back of armored transport truck as he flew high above. And not wanting to have to fight the local authorities of this world, Tetrax had begrudgingly decided to let them haul away Kraabs as he continued to fly towards the pod that brought him to this world. As he flew above the sea, Tetrax silently gazed upon the blue sky and pondered the name Midoryia. He knew he heard that name from somewhere, but from where? Perhaps when the time came, he'd get his answers, but for now he'll just have to keep pondering.

Back in the alley way, after Big Chill watched Tetrax disappear over the horizon, the teen simply stood in place as he he examined the damaged helmet he had received from the bounty hunter. While the headwear was extremely damaged and looked ready to fall apart, the Necrofriggian couldn't deny that what he was holding was, well, pretty damn cool. After all, how many people can say they received some alien gear, even if it was damaged? He'd make sure to make some room on his shelf for this thing once he got back home. "That is, if I can find some room for my All Might figurines. Can't put those away in some box now can I?"

Beep…. Beep…. Beep…. Bwoosh!

After a brilliant red flash, Big Chill was once again reverted back into our favorite human, Midoryia. "Aww man, my ten minutes are up. Now I gotta take the train. Dang, I should've just started flying when I had the chance." Izuku let out a dejected sigh as he started walking towards the exit of the alley to roam the streets for the nearest train station. "Hopefully I have enough yen on me to make it to the station near my home." Izuku mumbled out as he walked into the main street and began make his way down the road as he held the damaged helmet underneath his arms. Upon walking down the road Izuku noticed that not that many people were out, which was understandable as he was much closer to the ocean rather than the hustle and bustle of the inner city, so hopefully that meant the wouldn't have to worry about being crowded as he waited for the train to come by. The last thing he wanted from this was to be crowded. He just wants to get him, have a nice meal, and pass out. That's not too much to ask for right?

Ping!

"Huh?" Midoryia looked down at his left pants pocket as a high pitched ping and a small vibration caught his attention. Reaching down into his pocket and pulling something out, Midoryia was surprised to see that the source of the sound was his phone that he thought had broken during his fall earlier with his finale encounter with SixSix. To see that the device was perfectly intact with the only damage being a small crack across the brought a smile to the teens face. He could probably call All Might and ask him to pick him up, or at the very least let both him and his mom know he was alright. Heck, now that he thought about it, they were both probably worried sick about where he was right now because he didn't get home after school, and he hated it when he made his mother worry.

Pressing the power button on, Midoryia decided to give his mother a call first to let her know that he was okay before talking to All Might, however when the screen flashed to life, Midoryia stopped dead in his tracks ege saw three things on his home screens notification. The first two things he noticed was that one, he had received over eighty three text messages from his mother and thirty two from All Mights while two, he had twelve voicemails from his mom and three from All Might. Now, usually while receiving that many texts and voicemails from someone would cause concern for the greenette, Izuku knew his mother would often blow things out of proportion when she was too worked up. And knowing All Might, he probably sent that many texts to just try and get into contact with him.

However, when spotting the third thing in his notifications, Izuku was quickly able to piece together why his mom and mentor were trying to desperately contact him, and it said it all in the headline.

Breaking News! One of the Musutafu vigilantes spotted battling an unknown villain at an overpass near Aldrea Junior High! Press to see what eye witness accounts have to say!

Realizing that this nightmare of a day wasn't over yet, Midoryia wanted to scream as he wasn't looking forward to the conversation he was gonna have when he got home.

"Can't I get a break?" Izuku asked dejectedly as he looked up at the sky.

Meanwhile, high above the Earth's surface

On the bridge of his warship, Vilgax simply floated idly in his healing tank as the crab drones inside his body tinkered away, replacing any damaged tissue they came across with newer ones while his robotic henchmen typed away at their monitors, making sure everything from the ships software to hardware worked as efficiently as it could. If one were to stare into his tank, they would notice that Vilgax appeared to be sleeping on the count that his eyes were closed shut. That was not the case however, as the warlord was just simply awaiting to hear that one of those accursed bounty hunters had retrieved the Omnitrix. It had been hours now, and if he had to wait for another then he would make sure that whoever brings him the device would suffer greatly for their delay.

"Lord Vilgax." One of the drones said as it turned to its master. "I have news regarding the current situation of the bounty hunters."

Slowly opening his burning red eyes but not turning to face him, Vilgax spoke in a low menacing voice. "It better be one of them finally bringing me my Omnitrix."

"I-I'm afraid that it is not, m-my liege." The drone said, now with a noticeable tone of fear as it's master slowly turned towards him with his bright red eyes glowing in a satanic way.

"What…. did you just say?" Vilgax asked in a voice so dangerous that it sent a chill down the robotic spines of every drone in the room, causing them all to stop what they were doing to watch the display between their master and the one unfortunate drone who had the poor luck of being the one to give Vilgax the bad luck.

"O-Our s-sensors ha-have de-detected that-t o-one of th-the trans-p-port pods w-we gave the b-b-bounty h-hunters ha-has left t-the planets a-a-a-atmosp-sphere. However w-we can-n-not get it to r-r-respond to an-ny of our-r inp-p-put co-commands. On o-of the bount-t-ty h-h-hunters had ov-verride the po-pods cont-t-t-trols, and is-s now u-using it t-to fly a-a-away fro-om o-o-our cur-r-rent po-s-sition." At this point, the drone was practically shaking all over out of fear. It knew it had to be professional when addressing this kind of stuff, but it couldn't help it. The way Vilgax was glaring into its artificial soul made it difficult for the machine to keep itself from shaking in its place. It was glad it didn't have a urinary track, otherwise it'd be pissing itself right now.

"And the Omnitrix?" Vilgax said, his threatening growl sending the drone a clear message. 'Choose your next words carefully, otherwise I'll make sure you wish you were never brought online.'

"W-Well, that's ac-ctually the g-g-good news m-my lord. We've d-d-detec-cted that t-the pod co-contains n-n-no tr-trace of the Omnitrix, s-o the de-device is s-s-still o-on the p-p-planets s-surface-ce." The drone nearly flinched as it watched Vilgax's eyes narrow while the other drones sitting by him began to slowly back away from the cowering machine, not wanting to get caught in their masters wrath.

"So, one of the bounty hunters hijacked one of our transport pods and fled the planet out of cowardice then. How utterly pathetic for being one of the best in the galaxy. I suppose it's up to the other two to finish the job now." Vilgax said as he briefly looked away from the drone and towards the front screen that showed an image of the Earth, thinking that two bounty hunters would be enough to retrieve the Omnitrix. However….

"Um, a-actually my lord, th-that might not be p-p-possible." And just like before, Vilgax turned his head back towards the drone with his frightening glare.

"And what do you mean by that?"

"W-Well, you s-see lord Vilgax, a-a-at the s-same time-e we d-detected th-he hig-hjacked p-pod le-leaving t-t-the Earths atm-osphere, o-o-our se-sensors also det-tected that t-the other t-two pods on p-p-planet had been…. well, b-blown up, presumably b-by the fleeing b-b-bounty hunter-r. Meaning th-that the other two hu-hunters have n-n-no way of r-re-eturning to the s-ship. They are essentially s-stranded on the planet, a-and if I may say, might've be-been defeated by either the Omnitrix w-welder, the bounty hunter, or p-p-possibly both. And un-unfortunately w-ee have no way to g-go down to t-the pl-anets surface and re-retrieve them or the Omnitrix without possibly d-drawing attention. A-And given your current s-state, I do not think we would sur-survive a trip t-to the surface." Practically every drone in the room was shaking for dear life as each and every one of them could feel the tension in the air. Some were expecting Vilgax to lash out, some were expecting that the drone would have it's head explode, and some fearing that in his rage, Vilgax would tear the ship apart in a wrathful rampage. However, after a few quite seconds passed by, the drones were shocked to see that instead of doing any of those things, their master simply looked away from the drone and lamented bitterly about his defeat.

"To be betrayed, by a no good bounty hunter no less." The liquid inside his healing body began to bubble as he clenched his fist. "The one time I trust organic pawns to carry out my mission, and this is what I get?!" Raising his arm, Vilgax slammed the glass tube, causing it to crack greatly as the yellow liquid of his healing tank began to pour from the cracks and onto the floor. Seeing how upset his master was getting, the drone tried to appease Vilgax the only way it knew how. By sucking up to him.

"L-Lord Vilgax. I wish to apologise g-greatly for t-t-th-this mistake o-on my p-part. Had I k-known that one of t-these hunters had been traitorous I would've personally-." The machine didn't get to finish it's sentence as two red beams shot through the drones chest, completely obliterating it's entire upper body and destroying the monitor it was working on. It didn't take a genius to figure out where those beams came from.

"I've had enough of your stuttering you failed piece of space junk." Vilgax's bright red eyes glowed intensely at the remains of the drone as two small holes on the side of his tank leaked out a great amount of the pods liquid, but he didn't care. He was so enraged that he needed to obliterate the one thing that brought on his his rage.

"You." Vilgax said as he pointed at the drone that was sitting next to the destroyed one, causing the machine to flinch. "Dispose of this worthless garbage heap and then find someone else to take his place."

"Y-Yes my lord." The drone said as he rose from its seat and grabbed the pair of robotic legs. As it began dragging it to the nearest airlock, Vilgax pointed to two other nearby drones and barked his commands at them.

"You, bring someone up here to repair my tank! And you, send down recon probes to the planets surface! I want to know everything I can about this miserable world! It's species, they technology, any abilities they might possess, any obstacles that might get in my way, their culture, anything of importance, I want everything there is to this wretched world!"

"Yes sir/Right away my lord." The two drones said as they began to type away at their monitors to carry out their masters wishes. As the machines began to carry out their tasks once more, Vilgax turned towards the screen showing the Earth and glared hatefully at the blue and green ball.

"Once I am restored to full health, I shall slaughter everyone on this world until I get what I desire. Nobody will stop me from achieving my goal. I shall flatten this whole world if I must. I am Vilgax, and I shall not be denied!"

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Meanwhile

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Hours after the events of the bounty hunter ordeal, in a home not too far from where our green haired protagonist lives, a girl with messy, dirty blonde hair sat comfortably on her bed as she stared intently at the laptop she held on her lap. She smiled fondly as she scrolled through one of her most favorite sites web, the Musutafu Vigilante fan site, an entire webpage dedicated to news featuring ten of the most mysterious, yet intriguing individuals she has ever laid eyes on. Ever since they rose in popularity, the girl quickly feel in love with the exploits of the vigilantes, and ever since she found out about this site, she's spent nearly all her time on it everyday. She was never a hero worshipper before, heck, not even a fan of them. But something about these vigilantes, they have something that just, caught her eye. She really wished their was a way she could just meet one of them, especially that black and white robot guy maybe she should start heading to hero fights or something like that so she can see if she can see one of those guys close up. Maybe she could get an autograph from them, or maybe answer her a few questions, or maybe, if she was really lucky, she could ask them for their-.

"Sweetie." The girl was broken from her thoughts as she spotted her mother sticking her head through her bedrooms door. "Sorry to bother you, but it's time to put the laptop away. You've got school in the morning after all."

The girl frowned upon hearing this, but knew arguing with her mother wouldn't do anything in her favor, so with some reluctantly, she turned of her laptop before putting putting it underneath her bed. Once this was done, the mother wished her daughter a good night before closing the door. Now alone once more, the girl lied back on her bed as she stared up at the ceiling. Before she fell into slumber, she silently hoped that she could met one of the vigilantes that have managed to catch her eye.

Little does she know, she'll get her wish sooner than she expects.

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Oh boy, this took forever to write. I wanna give a big shout out to Peng nin, Ninjamon1228, TheSaintsFollower, Light He'arth, and CreateGunner1209 for helping me out with this. These guys were a huge help and if it wasn't for them, I don't think I would've been able to finish it. So please go check those guys out.

So what did you all think? Was it worth the wait? Yes, no? Leave your answer in the reviews.

Also, before you say anything, yes the fight between SixSix and Water Hazard isn't the best thing ever. I know that Izuku just running around shooting water and dodging attacks is boring but I didn't know how to write a fight between him and SixSix who uses Laser swords.

And yes, I know that in the original show that the watch gave Ben the prime version of his aliens, meaning that Izuku shouldn't have gotten tired or overworked as Water Hazard. But think of it like this, just because it's the prime version, doesn't mean it's immune to wear in tear. Considering Izuku was fighting SixSix, a trained assassin, he fought recklessly due to panic and fear and quickly burned up most of his energy by running around and blasting the water in his arms at full power. Now, I'm not sure how long Water Hazard could fire off water blasts before his arms got sore, but for the sake of the story I guessed somewhere between nine or ten minutes. I don't know, what do you think? Should Water Hazard have gotten tired or not?

Anyway I hope you all enjoyed the chapter and I appreciate your patience.

Now I wanna ask you all something, and be honest here. The characters, have I been doing a good job on them? I'm trying to develop some characters to give them some depth. That's why I did the scene with Inko. Not only was it for hinting at her past, (although all of you probably know this by now), but I also wanted to show what her thoughts are on Izukus activities and what her reaction would be to the people Izuku has helped. Cause one of the many things I'm trying to go for is good development like in a lot of good fanfics. And character development is on of them. So I need to know if I'm doing that well.

And what about story development and dialogue, am I doing a good job on those too? And not just in this story but my others as well? I want to become a good writer, and I want make sure my stories have at least a good story development and dialogue. Tell me what you think.

Also, someone in the comments said that the fight scenes are 'repetitive', and I can see why he would think that. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if nobody liked the fight scenes in this chapter. I haven't done any fighting writing before so I'm gonna suck badly when it comes to these types of scenes. But what do you think a about them?

As for the scene with Katsuki, well that was to just show how much of an ass he's gonna be in the story. (Seriously, F that guy.)

I know part where Izuku runs away from Kraabs and risk those people's lives isn't something he would do. But since this chapter doesn't take place in an abandoned town like the Ben 10 episode did, so Izuku didn't excatly have a car lift to ram Kraabs into a ceiling. If I had to give a reason why he decided to take a chance with Kraabs going after him and not the people would probably be because he was Ghostfreak at the time. When he does change into the ghost alien, he's not gonna be 100 percent pure, he's gonna eventually have a moment of selfishness or self perseveration which is the opposite of what Izuku is.

And as for why I killed Air Jet? Well let's be honest, he doesn't have any major importance in the anime or manga. So that's why I had SixSix kill him off. It was not only a way to show you how ruthless I'm going to make the Ben 10 characters, but it's also a way for me to kill off one of, if not, the least important character. (Well, maybe besides Mineta)

Now, if you remember from the authors notes at the beginning, you know I would like to go back and fix the grammar errors from past chapters. However I don't have the time to do that and keep both this and my other stories going. So to help out with that, I ask that anyone who would wish to help become a beta reader for my story so that they might help fix any of the grammar issues from previous chapters and any that might pop up.

Not only that, but I'm also looking for beta readers to help me with not only Izu-10, but my other stories as well. I just want to find people who have experience with writing so that they could help me come up with things like scripts, character development, dialogue, or etc. Because I would like to get help from other fanfic writers who much more experience than me, cause I feel like I could make this better if I had some guidance, like I do with Mr ChubbySnorlax619, Light He'arth, Peng nin or Ninjamon1228. I also get help from WriteAnon, though he's helping me with something else.

If you wish to help me then you must have four of these requirements.

1: you must have written at least one fanfic, and I will have to take a look at it. If you've never written a fanfic, then you can give me an idea, and if that idea is good or could work in the story then I would let you help.

2: proper grammar. If you send me a message of something like an idea and I can't properly understand it, then I can't use said idea, so be sure to use proper grammar.

3: questions. Normally I'll be coming to you to ask for help on to make this story better, so I hope you're fine with that.

4: you must be alright with having a DocX connection. If you go into your account you'll see the DocX tab. If you're fine with that, then I'll tell you it's okay and we can get a connection. That way you can read the chapters I make before I upload them and tell me if I should change anything.

Those are the requirements I ask of you. If you wish to help simply PM me and I will try to respond as quickly as possible.

I hope you liked this chapter, and if you did leave a review.

Anyway with that done, all I have left to say is thank you for the wait, thank you too all the people who fav and follow this story, you guys rock, and I hope you all stay safe out there! Until next time, here's a preview of my next chapter 'The Fan.'

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