At the city docks, despite the late hour, there were many people busy loading a large shipping boat, with shipping containers.
Men overlooked the containers, making sure everything was in order. Others operated large cranes putting the containers on the boats. Tanks, jeeps, and other Midoriya Foundation vehicles rode onto the boat via ramps. And Midoriya Foundation troops kept a keen eye over everything.
Meanwhile, underwater, there were two submarines, also doing their best to keep an eye on everything.
BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!
"Huh?" One of the men overlooking the radars looked at his instruments in befuddlement, before his eyes widened. "Sir!"
"What is it?" His superior asked, running over to check what this was all about.
"Sir the scanners are detecting several hundred presences approaching, very quickly!" The man alerted.
"We're under attack!" The man in charge shouted. "Red alert! I repeat! Red Alert-"
SLAM!
Suddenly something slammed into the submarine, causing it to shake.
Immediately after that, everyone could hear something scratching on the outside of the sub.
"Sir there's too many of them! The ship's haul won't hold and our weapons can't take out enough of them!" One of the other workers said.
"Tsk! Damn it!" The man pulled out a button and pressed it. "Full-scale emergency retreat!"
A minute later a portal opened, and everyone rushed through it, abandoning the submarine.
Back on land, the troops were forced to lay down arms, as all the unarmed workers had been taken hostage by Foot Ninjas, while giant, mutated bats lifted up the shipping containers, and flew them away.
This continued for a few minutes, until suddenly, something came from above.
PEWM! PEWM! PEWM! PEWM! PEWM!
Dozens of energy shots rained from above, slamming into the hostage takers, and rendering them unconscious.
"Secure the hostages! Go! Go! GO!" Shouted the troops as they recognized the tides changing, as the Gammas flew above them.
The sounds of blaster fire continued for several more minutes, as the Gammas and the troops shot down the fleeing Foot forces. As well as shooting all the mutated fish monsters that had been in the water. Until all the enemies had been dispatched.
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Meanwhile, inside a nondescript building, was a secret Midoriya Foundation facility. Containing one of the negativity-gathering fractals.
The fractal was being held in the center of the room. Inside a glass casing, connected to a machine.
Around it were six guards. Four regular troops, and two in heavy armor.
"So what the hell does this thing even do?" Asked one of the guards to another guard.
"Don't know. Don't care. We're not paid to ask questions." Said another guard.
"I mean it's kinda creepy looking ain't it?" Said the guard. "And just being too close to it gives me the creeps."
"I understand what you mean." Said another guard.
"Hey, aren't you an android?" Asked another guard. "You guys feel that shit?"
"Country to what you'd think, yes." Said one of the heavy armored guards.
BRRRRRRRRRRRR! BRRRRRRRRRR! BRRRRRRRRRRR!
Suddenly the lights in the facility started flashing red, as alarms went on in the facility. The glass casing containing the fractal was covered by steel.
Before any of them could ask what the heck was going on suddenly a tear appeared in the air in front of them.
And out from it, came the Shredder. With two massive claws coming out of his knuckles.
"Shit! Everyone fir-agh!" Immediately Shredder rushed forward and shoved his blades right through the man's chest. Cutting through him and the armor like butter, killing him instantly, before cutting off the head of the man next to him.
The remaining two troopers fired at Shredder in a panic, while the heavy armored troops did the same with their spears.
Shredder dodged the energy shots with ease, rushing towards the two regular troopers, and killing them both with a single swipe of his claws.
"Damn it!" Cried one of the heavy armored, as he motioned to throw his spear at Shredder.
Only for Shredder to dash over to him at near-inhuman speeds, and decapitate him.
"I-Impossible!" Cried the last man standing. "He cut through the heavy armor! Y-You monster!"
SHING!
And those were his last words before Shredder's claws took his life as well.
With that done, Shredder immediately turned his attention to the now-covered fractal.
SLASH!
Shredder easily cut through the metal and glass and grabbed the fractal.
A moment later, he could hear more troops rushing towards him. And he knew that more serious threats would appear through portals soon after.
Shredder cut through the air with his claws, creating a portal that he swiftly jumped through, before it closed.
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"Sir, I apologize deeply for my failures tonight," Keda said, as she took part in a video call with Izuku and Mai.
"No. The failure is mine." Izuku said, sounding very calm. Dangerously so. "I had grown too relaxed after All for One's death. I knew that transporting things via portals would have been better, but I feared causing a ruckus with the government and the transport businesses. No more. High Security. Transports will be done via portals. Now. What are our losses?"
"One dark fractal was stolen, and several fractal weapons and other advanced Midoriya Foundation weapons and equipment. Gone." Mai explained grimly. "Fortunately, without any pure chaos energy, they shouldn't be able to figure out how to recreate or further exploit them beyond their original designs. Basically, they got a bunch of powerful, but very limited resources."
"We managed to recover most of what was stolen after tracking it down to a warehouse, but a good chunk was taken, and we didn't manage to capture any more of the Foot," Keda reported. "As for the dark fractal, unfortunately, we were unable to retrieve it. The intruder teleported from an abandoned building and then teleported into another one after escaping. By the time we got our operatives there, he was long gone."
"What I want to know is how the hell he managed to create a portal, despite our anti-warp tech. And how did he manage to so easily cut through the heavy armor?" Izuku asked.
"From our analysis, it seems like our intruder's quirk allows him to cut through anything with those claws," Mai explained. "Including space. The anti-warp tech only reinforces space and reality, but reinforcements can be broken through with enough power. And since he can cut through anything, he just cut through the reinforcement as well. At least that's our best guess."
"So a quirk that can cut through anything, including non-tangible things." Izuku mused. "How troublesome. Tell our men to increase their alertness to illegal warping. I need this guy handled as soon as possible. He spilled my men's blood, and he will do it again, so long as he stays active."
"Understood sir," Keda said. "I swear to you, I will avenge those soldiers. No one. Spills the blood of Midoriya Foundation troops and gets away with it. That I swear."
"Good," Izuku said. "Now, what were those creatures that attacked the ship? The bats and the fish? Mutagen creatures? Have they perfected the formula already?"
"Not quite, but they've obviously improved the formula," Mai explained. "They're able to reliably mutate animals into more dangerous creatures now, and they've put chips in their brains to control them. However, the mutation process drastically cuts down the creature's lifespan. They only have hours to live. So they can't quite stock up on them. Still, they can likely create hundreds of monsters at once, and unleash them during an attack. It's a very dangerous development."
"Hmmmm. I really have been getting too lax." Izuku sighed. "...I'm going to make some calls, get some licenses, maybe change a few laws. Keda, prepare to get some very powerful new troops."
So yeah Shredder is a force to be reckoned with.
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