Third Person POV
Back at the USJ, things weren't exactly looking so good for 1A. They're all separated from each other still, fighting off villains in different zones. A few dealt with them but there was still the portal villain, the hands one, and the weird bird looking thing to handle.
But that's not the main focus now. Right now, let's see how the students at the mountain zone are handling things.
Things were looking up for them as they were about to find their class, but that was interrupted when the villain took them by surprise and was being held captive at the moment.
"Hands up. And no quirks allowed. Try anything and I'll kill him." The villain said as he was holding Kaminari, who was currently in a dumb mode when he short-circuited himself.
"Kaminari!" Momo was worried for him.
"Where'd this guy come from? I thought we got all of them." Asked Josuke.
"Damn villain. He totally caught us with our pants down." Said Jiro. "I thought that electric blast would've fried them all. We're so stupid. How did we not see this coming?"
"I feel a little brotherhood with other electric types, so I don't want to kill him. But I will if you make me."
They couldn't do anything to save him. They put their hands in the air to surrender.
"An electric type. He's probably the one Todoroki and Selvaria said was jamming our communications." Momo guessed.
"So, if we take him out, we get the signal back?" Josuke whispered.
"We should, but we gotta get past this guy first. But how?"
To Momo's answer, Jiro already came up with something. " Y'know, you two dudes are so lucky. People with electric type quirks are destined for mainstream success."
Josuke caught on to what she was doing and joined in. "She has a point, y'know."
The villain looked curious at the two's intentions.
"What are you two doing?" Momo whispered.
"I mean, even if you didn't wanna be a hero, there are tons of jobs you could do in the city, right?"
"Yeah, your kinda quirk is in high demand really. Heck, I know a guy that has a quirk like yours. So we're wondering, why would you become a villain in the first place?" Josuke said, trying to not raise suspicion.
"You don't have to answer, I just thought it might be interesting to know." Jiro was saying as she secretly moved her earjack.
Momo finally caught on to what Jiro was planning as she was trying to get her earphone jack plugged into her boot to have the villain let go of Kaminari.
Just as things were looking good for them, the villain caught onto them and threatened Kaminari once more. "Ha! Nice try."
They became shocked as the villain easily knew what her plan was.
"Think you can distract me that easily? Big mistake, sweetheart. I'm not some dumb thug who can be outsmarted by a couple'a kids. You need to learn to take hostage situations seriously."
"This isn't good! Come on Momo, think! What to do in this situation?! What would…" Momo was thinking before she remembered something. "What would… he do…"
"So here's the new deal. Either your friend here's going to die, or you are. How about that? You can either save his life or-"
"Wait!" Momo suddenly shouted, getting the villain's attention now. "We… we surrender!"
Her sudden proposal made her classmates look shocked at her.
"Momo, what are you doing?!" Jiro whispered to her.
"Just trust me." Momo whispered back. "I know this doesn't seem right, but just trust me for a moment, okay?"
Jiro and Josuke looked confused and worried at each other before they silently agreed with her.
"Good, now get over here. No tricks this time with your quirks." The villain ordered them.
"Only if you give our friend back."
"Fine whatever, now move it."
They did so as they slowly walked towards him. As they were moving, Jiro suddenly was picking up something from her earjacks, and tried to listen more carefully for it.
"Jiro, not yet." Momo whispered. "Wait a little longer."
Jiro was confused on what her plan was, but still went along with it. They got closer and were up close to the villain.
"Good. You kids are already starting to learn." The villain gave a small chuckle.
"Okay… now your end of the bargain." Momo said, referring to Kaminari.
Just as he was about to hand over Kaminari, the villain chuckled before yanking him back. "You thought it would be that easy? You have so much to learn with hostage situations." They then laughed before holding Kaminari close. "You said to give him back, but nothing about his condition. Next time, learn how to make a-" Just as the villain was about to hurt Kaminari, something was shot onto his face, blinding them.
Josuke and Jiro looked over at Momo and saw she had one of Ryoichi's web shooters on her wrist.
"That actually worked!" Momo thought as she was shocked before regaining focus. "Harukita, Jiro!"
They understood right away as Josuke used his psychokinesis to hold the villain still while Jiro got Kaminari away from them and then he pushed the villain into a wall.
"Holy crap, we pulled it off!" Josuke said while being relieved.
"Don't let your guard down yet! We still have some trouble to deal with." Momo told them.
The villain regained their focus when they emerged from the wall and took the web off their face. "You brats are dead!" They said with anger and rushed at the group.
Jiro picked up the same noise she heard again from earlier. She then noticed it was getting closer at a fast rate. "Guys, get back!" Jiro shouted and pushed her friends back.
Just as the electric villain was about to strike them, they were easily taken down by a roundhouse kick by somebody. The group looked to see who their savior was and felt more relieved.
"Phew… I made it in time. And I can finally take a break from all that running." Ryoichi breathed out and took some stretches. He was then caught off guard when he was tackled down by someone.
"Ryoichi! I'm so happy you're okay!" Momo said with relief as she hugged him.
"Momo! Not exactly the right time for this!"
"Oh, sorry!" Momo got off of him as she was a bit flustered.
"You jerk… took you long enough to come and find us." Jiro said while she was worried too, but hid it.
Ryoichi was surprised by them for a bit before he hugged her back. "I'm glad you guys are safe too, sorry I took so long to get here." He apologized. "And you're really starting to warm up to me, are you Jiro?"
Jiro heard him and backed away from him while looking a bit flustered. "You're joking right now at a time like this, you idiot!?"
"Sorry, force of habit." Ryoichi said before getting focused. "Look, I'm you're all okay… well, almost all of you." He said, gesturing to Kaminari, who's still in yay mode.
"Yay…"
"He'll be fine. I'm sure he'll be back to his old self in no time… probably." Josuke said with some optimism.
"Right… Anyways, we gotta get moving, now. The sooner we find the rest of the class, the better."
They nodded in agreement and went to find whoever they could. But before they could, Ryoichi stopped the group as he was looking out for something.
"Ryoichi, is something wrong?" Asked Momo.
"Is it that tingle thing again? It's going off for you right?"
"Has to be. He could sense any type of danger with it right?"
Ryoichi shushed them as he tried to pinpoint the danger. Just then, he was on high alert and warned the others. "Get down, now!"
They ducked in time when something swooped in from above and nearly got them. The group looked up at their attacker as they saw it was a bird villain. They looked human but had large wings on their back and a mask that was a beak, along with talons on their boots.
"You're a fast one. I'll give you that, kid." The bird villain said.
"I would say the same to you, but you were a bit slow with trying to catch us." Ryoichi quipped at them.
The villain growled at his comment, before he brushed it off with a smirk. "And you're full of jokes too. That won't matter once I silence that mouth of yours forever."
Ryoichi only rolled his eyes while raising an eyebrow, looking unphased by his threat. "As if that would change anything from me beating you." He retorted back. "And for a bird person, I would rather not use silencer as your name. It'd be really off putting since, y'know, you're a bird."
"Oh, where are my manners? My name is Buzzard, and this place will be your downfall!" He proclaimed as his wings sprouted and took off to the air.
Ryoichi shrugged with a smirk as he got battle ready. "Okay, you guys go help the others, I'll handle Big Bird." He told his friends.
"Are you sure? We can take this guy down together." Momo said, offering for their help.
"Don't worry about me right now, Kaminari's the one that needs some help right now." Ryoichi said. "Besides, I'll make this quick, so I'll catch up with you guys later, okay?"
Momo showed she was worried for him, but let him handle the fight. She then handed him his web shooter while holding his hand for a bit."Promise you come back safe, okay?"
Ryoichi gave her a thumbs up in return. "Don't worry I will."
"Of course you will. This is you we're talking about here!" Josuke said, still being optimistic.
"He better, or I'll come back and take care of you myself." Jiro slightly threatened, getting a small chuckle from him.
"Sure, you will. Now get going!"
His friends ran for help while Ryoichi stayed to fight the human bird.
"A lone wolf I see. Maybe you should consider it while you can!"
"Maybe, but there's more to me than just speed. And this a one on one fight, with me being the winner from this!"
Buzzard dived in, seemingly going for an attack, and Ryoichi responded with jumping and going in with his own attack. Just as they closed in, Buzzard had a smirk under his mask.
"I'm not alone in this fight." Buzzard said under his breath.
Ryoichi senses were going off again, but he couldn't react in time when he was knocked away by a beam. He groaned in slight pain before he got up as he brushed it off. He looked back up and saw birdie was no longer alone. Another villain showed up to the fight.
"If you think things would be fair for you, boy, then you don't know how we do things." Said Buzzard.
"Why don't you just give up while you can now. You're outnumbered, and not to mention, unskilled in this area." The new villain taunted him.
"Unskilled, huh?" Ryoichi started talking. "Well, you're not wrong about me having no type of skill here. But that doesn't matter, you wanna know why?" He said as flame markings were seen on his arms. "I may be untrained for this situation, but I'm also my mom's son, and with this power I got from her, compared to you two, I'm unstoppable." Ryoichi had a serious look on his face.
"Getting over confident, are we?"
"No, not over confidence." Ryoichi then got into a fighting pose while pulling his mask up. "I know for a fact that I will win this, and my class will get out of here."
The two villains chuckled before they readied themselves and charged right at him. Ryoichi did the same and they collided together into a massive fight.
Back with Momo's group, they found they're way to the entrance as some of their classmates were still there, and All Might arrived just in time.
"Thank goodness, he's here now." Momo said with relief.
"So, the tables have turned for the villains, right?" Asked Josuke.
"Let's hope that, come on." Jiro said as they caught up with the others.
Uraraka noticed them first and was relieved to see her friends. "JoJo! You guys are okay!" She said as she and Josuke ran up to each other with comical tears.
"I'm happy you're safe too! It was so crazy! I was in that mountain zone with Yaomomo, Jiro, and Kaminari, and we were fighting villains until one got the jump on us, and we thought it was over for us-" Josuke was rambling on while Uraraka was dumbstruck by his reaction.
"I figured he was scared like us…" Uraraka thought with a sweat drop. "How'd you guys get out of there anyway?" She asked.
"Akatani saved us." Said Jiro. "He came to us in time and took the villain out quickly."
"That's no surprise there. Akatani is really strong." Said Sero.
"I know. You think he's close to All Might's strength?" Sato wondered.
"I'm curious too, but we're still in trouble here. We'll have to find out later once this is over." Shoji reminded them.
They all nodded in agreement. However, with Momo, she looked unease and anxious. She was looking back and forth at something as she was sweating a little, like something was on her mind and she was getting nervous. She was brought out of her thoughts when Jiro got her attention.
"Hey, you okay?" Jiro asked her. "It's about him, isn't it?"
Momo looked at her with slight shock before she whispered to her. "Listen, I know Ryoichi's really strong to handle that bird villain, but if I'm honest… I'm worried for him."
"Hey, I'm sure he'll take that old bird down. He's pretty tough isn't he?"
"Ryoichi is tough, I'll admit…" Momo trailed off with an uneasy look. "I trust him, but he always puts everything on his shoulders. As if he doesn't want anyone to help him."
"If that's the case, why aren't we going back for him? Obviously we've got to help him."
"I know but… I feel like we'd just get in the way and make things worse." Momo showed she was troubled in thinking about what to do right now.
"It still wouldn't hurt to try." Jiro suggested, gaining Momo's attention. "I'm not sure how this might go out for us, if we're going to be heroes, we still have to try and save him, right?"
Momo pondered for a moment on what to do. Her mind was having an argument with itself. Rather they should go help her best friend, or don't get in his way and make things worse. She was having doubts on what choice to make, but if there was one thing she wanted from this, it's that she wanted Ryoichi to be safe.
Back with Ryoichi, the two villains that catch him off guard for a moment, but it seems like he was having his own fun. Throwing quips at them, and easily avoiding their attacks was all he was doing for the meantime.
"Come on guys, is this really all you got?" Ryoichi taunted them.
"You think this is a game boy?!" Buzzard said with anger
"If I'm having fun with this then yes, I think it is."
Buzzard got more furious while fighting him. "Shock-Wave, hit him already!"
"What do you think I've been doin' bird for brains?!" This new villain, known as Shock-Wave, aimed his gauntlets at Ryoichi and fired shockwave beams at him. Ryoichi only dodged them while Shock-Wave continued firing. "Hold still! Stinkin' brat!"
"Hm, let me think about that." Ryoichi actually put some thought into it and got his answer. "Yeah, I'll pass!"
The two villains got more angry and attacked more. Shock-Wave continued blasting as the waves were getting more intense, and Ryoichi dodged each one.
That was until when Ryoichi jumped in the air, Buzzard swooped in from behind and caught him with his talons.
"Gotcha! Let's see how you like heights!" Buzzard said as he flew higher, going far away from the ground.
"Ooh, this ain't so bad. Mind if I take a spin?"
"What-" Buzzard was cut off when some webbing got on his face, blinding him.
Ryoichi took this opportunity and got out of his grip and flipped on top of him. "Woah, this thing is mechanical? I thought it was like actual wings."
"Get off of me you fool!"
"Hm, alright I will. But first…" Ryoichi trailed off before he shot a string of webs out to each wing. "I wanna test drive this thing!"
Ryoichi took control over the bird villain's suit and was flying around with it. Buzzard tried to shake him off, but it was no use. Ryoichi was doing different kinds of stunts, like spiral spins and loop de loops.
"Woo, man, flying is fun! Woah-!" Ryoichi exclaimed when a beam nearly hit the two.
"Dammit…" Shock-Wave muttered and continued firing beams at him.
"Missed me!" Ryoichi taunted. "Man, even if I'm in the air, you're such a bad aim."
Shock-Wave growled in annoyance at the boy and continued firing at him. He only missed his shots as Ryoichi used Buzzard to fly out of the way. "Son of a- Hold still!"
"Get this fool off of me already!"
"I'm trying not to hit you too, old bastard! We wouldn't be here if you weren't so slow!"
"Oh and this coming from 'The Heist Master' and his low lack of aim on a mere child!"
The two villains were bickering at each other while Ryoichi was just enjoying the moment as he was laughing on the inside. "You know for a group that calls themselves 'The League of Villains,' you guys don't know a thing about teamwork."
"Can it brat!" Both the villains shouted at him.
He shook his head before he decided to end things here now. "Okay, it's been fun, but I got school to finish, so let's end this." He said as he took control over Buzzard's wings.
Ryoichi flew around before he flew right into Shock-Wave's direction while the villain fired wave beams at him.
"Hey, don't shoot me, you oath!" Buzzard exclaimed with slight fear.
"Make up your mind will you?!"
"Man, you two need couples counseling, and I know how to start that." Ryoichi said and flew even faster, dodging the wave beams that were aimed at him. Just as he was getting close, he let go of the wings and jumped off Buzzard's back. Before any of the villains could even react in time, they crashed into each other as they were knocked out.
"And game over! Told you guys I would win this fight. Sad there's no prize…" Ryoichi said, sounding a bit upset, before shrugging it off. "Oh well. Now, I gotta get back to-" Before Ryoichi could catch up with his class, his senses were going off again. "Ugh, now what- Woah!" He barely reacted in time when Shock-Wave was back up and nearly landed a hit on him with his gauntlets.
"Why. Won't. You. Stand still. Insect?!" Shock-Wave yelled with anger as he threw a barrage of punches while Ryoichi dodge them.
"You guys really don't know when to give up huh? Not really 'shocking' if you ask me." Ryoichi chuckled a little, infuriating the villain more.
Things looked high for Ryoichi, that was until he started to feel weary when the punches started to get faster. His weird sense thing was helping him dodge still, but he was losing composure when the speed increased. It was getting too much as Shock-Wave finally landed a punch and it sent Ryoichi flying into a wall.
"Damn, I guess that tingle thing doesn't exactly work out all the time…" Ryoichi muttered to himself.
Just as he was about to get back up, Ryoichi was pushed back into the wall, and was being held there. He tried to break free, but the shockwave beam was not only preventing him from moving, but it was messing with his hearing too.
"That's it. I finally gotcha." The villain chuckled. "Not so funny now that you're trapped, huh?"
Ryoichi even tried to cover his ears, but that didn't do a thing either.
"Nice try, kid. Not even covering your ears would do a thing against these babies. They amp up my shockwaves to the max. You can try all you want, but you already lost this fight."
Ryoichi was trying his best to break out of the beam, but it was too much for even him. His head was feeling buzzy, and things were looking blurry for him. "I can't… focus… I feel like I'll black out at any moment… I gotta stay strong and..!" He was thinking to himself, but being blasted with shockwaves was doing no help.
To make matters worse, the other villains Kaminari took out earlier were getting back up.
"About time, now make sure he stays like that." Buzzard said as he got back and flew high in the air. "Now watch, as I will deliver the final blow!"
Buzzard swooped down at high speed and readied his talons out as he was about to finish off Ryoichi. Before he even could, he was knocked down to the ground.
"The hell?" Shock-Wave was confused before he was hit by a sound blast, freeing Ryoichi from his beams.
Buzzard got up as he dusted himself off while rubbing his injury. "Whoever just did that is going to-" He paused when suddenly he became annoyed. "Oh, you brats again."
What hit him was a metal staff as it suddenly got covered in purple aura before it flew back to its owner.
"Oh yeah. It's us again." Josuke said as he handed the staff back to Momo, along with Jiro who just saved Ryoichi. "And we got some back up now."
"You guys might as well give up now while you can." Said Jiro.
The group of villains laughed at them as they weren't int
"You really think a bunch of kids like you can beat us?"
"Well, our friend earlier did that, so yeah, we pretty much can." Jiro taunted them.
"Yet he barely did squat. Why don't you get some real muscle next time, that is if you can after this." Shock-Wave told them.
"You know, I figured villains like you would do anything to get rid of All Might himself, as if any of you would come close…" A familiar voice piped up behind the students. "But to try and hurt my son and his friends is the biggest mistake you and your pals just made."
The voice belonged to none other than Yui as she was with them as well, and she is PISSED. Some of the villains there were quivering in fear while some were still willing to fight her.
"Dammit, that old hag? I thought she retired years ago! Doesn't matter…" Shock-Wave was thinking in his head and called out to his comrades. "Listen up! It's only her, so don't go shaking in your boots! If we take her out now, we'll be able to show the world who's top now! So stand up and fight!"
His words reached out to the other villains as they felt more motivated to continue their mission. However for the old bird villain himself, Buzzard was still showing fear as he was shaking and could barely even move.
"There's… there's no way we could beat her! She looks like she'd be quirkless, but… No, that can't be it. If that boy is her kid, and he showed speed as if-" Buzzard put the pieces together and realized the deep trouble they were in. "It's over… We have lost ever since this whole thing started!"
Shock-Wave noticed the old man was breaking down and tried to stop him. "Hey, listen old geezer. There's no reason to get all scared."
"No reason? No reason?! She may not be All Might, but she is still one of the top heroes! Forget this, I'm saving myself!" Buzzard said as he was about to fly off.
Before he could even take off, his wingsuit randomly short circuited and he fell to the ground. It turned out that Yui made the wings fail as she shot a small bolt of electricity right at the wings.
"Anybody else wanna attempt to escape?" Yui said in an angry tone. "You wanted your real muscle, now you got it."
"Tch. Take her out boys!" Shock-Wave shouted as the villains charged at Yui. One by one they came at her, and she effortlessly took them out.
While the villains were too distracted on Yui, the others went to Ryoichi's aid.
"What are you guys doing here?"
"Here to save your butt, why else would we come back?" Said Jiro.
"You shouldn't be here. Let me handle this." Ryoichi told them to leave.
"We're not doing that. We're staying with you to finish this." Momo objected.
"Listen, I'm not asking you to stay to fight with me. Now go!"
"I'm not gonna sit back and watch you get yourself while nobody does anything about it!" Momo slightly raised her voice, catching everyone by surprise, even herself.
Before they could acknowledge what happened between the two, a wave blast was shot at them as they jumped out of the way.
"Don't think we're done here yet." Shock-Wave said as his gauntlets powered up. "Those guys can handle that hag, you're facing me alone. So tell your friends to beat it."
Ryoichi put his fists up ready to engage in his fight. As he was ready, Momo put her hand on his shoulder, grabbing his attention.
"Ryoichi, we'll talk about this later, but for now, let us help you win this." Momo as she got into a fighting position.
"She's right." Jiro chimed and joined them. "It's better if we fight together out of this, right?"
"I'm not really a fighter, but…" Josuke said as he was going all out with his telekinesis and was floating from the ground. "I'm staying to fight along with you guys."
Ryoichi was in awe to see his friends stay with him, but was more worried about them getting harmed if they stay. He didn't have a choice in the matter, so he let them join his fight.
"Fine, you can fight with me. But if things go south-"
"Ryoichi, trust us." Momo told him. "We have each other, we can do this."
He was unsure about this, but he trusted her as he gave her a nod. They all focused on the enemy in front of them as Shock-Wave's gauntlets were active. With Yui too busy focusing on the other thugs, it was up to them to defeat Shock-Wave.
"Alright… let's finish this!" Ryoichi declared as he powered up.
