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Reality Viewing: Naruto the Quirky Villain
-Chapter 10-
"Come on baby, I'm so close, just give me a seven or higher~!" Mina said in a sing-song excited tone as she hit a button… before almost immediately sinking into her seat with a groan. "Oh come ON! A one!? Seriously!?"
"That is quite unfortunate Mina," Momo said sympathetically, although if you listed real closely one could just hear a very subtle amount of smugness bleeding in her voice as she fiddled with her own controller. "Looks like that sun is all mine now."
"Yeah, yeah, don't get cocky yet Yaomomo, I've still got two more than you."
"I have a feeling it won't be for much longer though."
"Oh-ho, is that a challenge I hear~?"
"Perhaps it is."
As the pair continued to banter back and forth in an increasingly heated manner, neither of them noticed Tsuyu lifting up her headset to reveal the mild surprise in her eyes. "Ribbit, who would have thought Momo could be such a competitive gamer."
"Indeed," Shoto stated with a nod while taking a peek of his own, before taking his own headset off entirely after glancing over at The Viewer. "By the way you two might want to put your argument on hold, it looks like the machine is almost done loading."
"Wait really? Alri-ow! *Thwack* OUCH!" Mina yelped in pain when she tried to pull her headset off to quickly in her excitement and ended up getting the straps snagged on one of her horns, before crying out even louder from it smacking into her eyes. Literally grasping around blindly, the pink pinkette ended up getting herself even more tangled up as she fought against the console, eventually falling to the floor with another yelp.
"You know I've heard of being hooked on videogames, but I don't think they meant it to be so literal kid." Mirko snorted out while she juggled a dumbbell with her feet, easily bouncing the large weight around like it was a hacky-sack that Mei watched intently for some reason as she doodled up some kind of contraption in a notebook.
"Looks like someone was just a little to horny for their own good," Midnight muttered between her own snickers, causing Mirko's giggles to erupt into full blown laughter and accidentally embedding her training weight in the ceiling, making Momo and Tsuyu blush a bit, and getting Shoto to roll his eyes, before setting down the magazine she'd been reading to pass the time in order to help the struggling teen. "Hold still for a second, I'll get you unrestrained in no time."
"Please stop, ribbit…" Tsuyu mumbled out with a blank look that put her natural emotionless expression to shame, only for the adult rated heroine to laugh off her plea with a wave of her hand.
"Never~!"
Luckily for Mina, all Midnight had to do was free up the snag on her horn and the entire thing popped free with ease, making her sigh in relief. That sigh soon turned to a groan however as she tenderly rubbed the area around her horn while getting back into her seat.
"That's gonna be tender for a while. Hey YaoMomo, could you-" A pair of aspirin tablets flew over and landed perfectly on the pink pinkette's lap curtesy of Momo whilst a familiar prehensile tongue set down a bottle of water. "Wow, talk about quick service, thanks guys."
"It's no problem." "You're welcome."
Back at the Viewer itself Mirko finally managed to get herself to get her laughing back under control, wiping a tear from her eye as she idly kicked up another weight to dislodge the one in the ceiling, both landing on a foot each before she stacked them with the rest on the floor. "Alright, if you brats are done with the pillow talk I'm starting this thing up."
That got everyone's attention as they quickly settled down in their seats, just in time for the rabbit heroine to smack the Play button.
However, the scene they were greeted with…
"Damn him, he had All Might on a silver platter, and didn't finish him off... damn him, characters like him make the game that much harder."
Was not what they were expecting.
A young adult spoke as tapped his finger against the bar he was sitting at, and he was the only person in the entire bar other than a man with a shadow-like face wearing a business suit, with his own clothes being simple but with hands covering them. He looked upwards at the TV that was in the room, gritting his teeth as he watched the news rave and rant about the friendly villain who was able to take out the Top 10 without hurting them.
Several gasps rang out as everyone's aside from Mei and Mirko eyes widening in shock and recognition upon the reveal of the pair on screen. And naturally this got the entrapped rabbit heroine's attention as she raised a brow at the others' reactions. "Am I missing something here?"
"Those are the guys who attacked our class at the USJ!" Mina shouted while she literally jumped out of her chair to point at the projected individuals, particularly the hand covered one. "And that jerk almost killed Tsu-chan and Aizawa-sensei!"
"Really? Those two punks were behind that whole debacle?" Mirko asked in disbelief as she looked the pair over, an unimpressed expression on her face. "They don't look that tough to me, hell the smokey guy looks like he'd be beaten by a stray breeze."
"Don't let appearances fool you Mirko, those two are far more dangerous than they appear," Midnight said with frown marring her lips once she calmed down, her gaze flickering over every single detail of the projection. "The 'smokey guy' as you call him has an incredibly versatile teleportation quirk and knows how to use it while the other one has some kind of disintegration quirk, one touch almost took Aizawa's arm off."
"And then there are those Nomu things they keep bringing out." Shoto threw in his own two cents, referring to both the USJ incident and the more recent Hosu City attack.
"Alright, alright, so they're a bit tougher than they look, I got it already." The whitette muttered with an eyeroll…
"Kurama will just never be caught, will he? After all, I can't see a villain able to take out All Might as somebody who can be caught."
Before smirking when she heard those words said. "Not if I have anything to say about it, I'd say it's only a matter of time until his ass is mine."
"…She does remember that this is just a videa right, and that he's kicked her other self's butt like fifty times already without even trying to actually fight back yet?" Mina asked Momo in a whisper, getting the ravenette to shrug unsurely.
"Perhaps the constant shocks are getting to her finally or she's just kinda…"
"Really stupid?"
"I wouldn't say stupid, but perhaps a little forgetful at times."
"Ahem," The sound of someone clearing their throat followed by a familiar hand resting on each of the girls' shoulders caused both to freeze, before slowly turning to see Mirko looking right at them with an unamused glare as one of her ears twitched slightly. "Unless you want to find out exactly what happened to the last person who called me stupid, I suggest you make like a bear trap and snap those jaws shut tight."
To emphasize her point, Mirko plucked one of the buttons off Mina's shoulder and crushed it with ease between her pinky and ring finger, causing the duo to squeak out "Yes ma'am." in perfect sync and shrink into their seats.
The young man tapped against the table even faster.
The bartender didn't tense up, he just looked at the young man with his glowing eyes, and turned his head towards a black radio, turning it up when he heard a voice coming out of it.
"Now Tomura, that isn't a way to speak of your natural ally."
"Okay, now this is just getting ridiculously over cliché, did these guys read "How to Villian for Dummies" or something?" Midnight couldn't help but ask with a deadpan. "I mean seriously, cheesy grungy hideout, overemotional head honcho with calm obedient lacky, and now a mysterious disembodied voice over the radio. What's next, some big dramatic and intertangling backstory?"
"Probably," Mei stated while setting down her notebook onto a desk to reveal a hand sketched blueprint, before reaching behind her seat and pulling out a large box filled with an assortment of parts and tools that she started rifling through. "That is the same voice as the person who paid for that awesome suit Naruto got after all."
"…How the heck can you recognize a voice you've only heard for two seconds before from a show your barely even paying attention to, but you still can't remember most of our names half the time?" Mina asked with a raised brow, getting her fellow pinkette to shrug noncommittedly as she started soldering circuits together.
"Master, I want to kill All Might... and this guy could have done it, but he didn't... he left All Might alive, I want to kill him. He needs to die for not taking the chance I would have died for." Tomura spoke as he tapped his finger furiously against the table. He looked like he was going to snap any moment, his throat sounding sandy, and his other hand was scratching at his throat a little.
"Sheesh, talk about being obsessed," Mirko muttered, rolling her eyes at how over-dramatic the dehydrated looking villain was being. "How much you wanna bet he'd be even madder if Naruto actually did kill All Might? Throwing a big tantrum about someone stealing 'his' kill?"
"That's a sucker's bet." Shoto stated with a nod that Momo and Mei shared.
Meanwhile, Midnight made a 'so-so' motion with her hand. "Depends on if his obsession is with All Might being dead in general or if he truly has a personal vendetta of some kind against him."
"Can we please stop talking about someone killing All Might?" Mina asked uneasily, her face turning a bit green as her brain started conjuring up some less than pleasant images from the conversation.
A small chuckle came through the radio.
"He'll join the League of Villains soon enough, this is where he belongs. Kurogiri, your opinion?"
"Is that why you had Giran supply him with those outfits? To bribe him?" Kurogiri asked as he glanced at the radio, never stopping what he was doing. He maintained a professional air about him.
"No, he doesn't need to be bribed... he will come naturally to us. If he were to take up a villain mantle, then it is simply fitting that he wears fitting clothes. Tomura, he's a valuable ally, and the more famous he becomes, the more heroes will pursue him for fame... we have no need to do anything to convince him. We've already showed our generosity, he will remember that we never asked for anything in return, and join us once the hero world becomes too much for him."
A huff escaped Mirko's lips as she crossed her arms and legs, with one foot lazily kicking in the air. "Pfft, like hell he'll join a bunch of creeps like them."
"It is incredibly unlikely," Midnight agreed with a nod, before suddenly grinning mischievously. "The only way he could is if he somehow managed to get out of the bedroom once you get ahold of him."
"Well obviously, that's a given and-Gah! STOP DOING THAT!" The whitette started to say until her brain caught up with what had been said, her face turning a bright red as realized what she'd just agreed to. Glaring at the laughing purplette, she kicked one of her weights at her only for the adult rated heroine to easily duck out of its path. "I swear when I get out of this damn thing you are gonna find out exactly how lucky a rabbit's foot is after I shove mine all the way up your ass!"
"Ooh~ how kinky~!"
"Didn't she use that threat al-Mph!?" Mina started to ask, only for Momo to quickly clap a hand over her mouth and making a shushing sound.
"You sound sure of this. Who is this boy to you?" Kurogiri asked through the radio as Tomura listened to the conversation, his eyes softening now that he was listening to his master's voice more clearly.
"He comes from a line of people immune to having their Quirk stolen... his mother had a rare Quirk, Sealing Chain, which could create chains that would wrap around others, and seal both their abilities to move and use their Quirks. Suffice to say, I tried and failed to steal her Quirk, so I went to her parents, and failed to steal their Quirks, and when her son was born, I failed to steal his Toad Quirk."
"OW!" Mei dropped her soldering iron and the circuitry she'd been working on, the delicate machinery shattering upon hitting the ground, while she shook off the hot molten metal burning her fingers. Once the pain subsided a bit, the pinkette blew on the scalded digits before gently sucking on the largest burn on her pointer finger. "Okay, was it just me or did I hear something about someone stealing quirks?"
All she got in response was a serious of slacked jawed nods as everyone else stared at the screen in shock.
...
"They are immune to All for One... your power?" Tomura asked with narrowing eyes.
All for One, the power to steal, use, and give away the Quirks of others with nothing but a touch to somebody's forehead. Nobody but the person with One for All could ever hope to avoid having their Quirk stolen from them, but to hear a genetic line of people were able to resist his Quirk's stealing power was... frightening to be honest, to see his perfect Master had people he wasn't able to steal from was scary.
"Hold up! Hold the hell up!" Snapping out of her shock, Mirko slammed her hand down on the pause button, either not noticing or not caring that the impact caused the entire contraption to shake and sputter as she rounded her gaze towards Mei. "What kind of hog wash is this?"
"Uh, I'm sorry?" The inventive teen muttered in confusion, raising a brow when everyone else joined the whitette in staring at her. "Also could you please be more gentle with my baby, it was not built to take such abuse."
"Everyone knows you can't 'steal' a quirk, the damn things are part of our genetics for crying out loud. So why the hell would you build this thing with something as stupid as that programmed into it?" The rabbit heroine demanded, completely ignoring Mei's warning, whilst everyone else nodded in agreement.
"Oh that, well as I've tried to explain several times, The Viewer's projections are extrapolated purely by the user's nonlinear to linear meta-biologic brainwaves and interdimensional time positioning along with a built-in historical database run through a progressive series of iterations to determine the most likely outcome of the prompts requested."
"…Try that again without the nerd-speak, nerdette."
Rather than answer right away, a sigh filled to the brim with exasperation and annoyance escaped Mei's lips as she pinched the bridge of her nose with her uninjured hand. "It scans your brain, compares what it finds to history books and the choices you picked, and runs that through a bunch of different possibilities to find out what would probably happen."
"Okay, and how the hell does that-"
"Statistically speaking, it is not impossible for a quirk to exist that could steal other quirks, merely astronomically improbable," The pinkette cut Mirko off, wrapping her burned fingers in band-aids given to her by Momo as she spoke. "And that's only if you consider naturally evolved quirks, people all around the world have been trying for years to engineer specific quirk traits, whether by selective breeding or straight up genetic engineering."
"She's not wrong." Shoto muttered in agreement with his lips curling slightly into a scowl, instinctually reached up to the scarred side of his face as memories of his own childhood flickered through his mind. This was not missed by a certain adult rated heroine though, who's gaze narrowed slightly as she silently filed that little detail away for later.
"Of course I'm not, I gotta know my quirks if I'm gonna build the best babies to work with them," Mei said, puffing her chest out proudly before quickly sinking back into her seat as she got to work piecing the circuits she'd dropped back together. "Although now that I think about it, it's also possible that the emergency discharge caused the remote to transmit a bunch of random commands to my baby before it completely short-circuited."
"…You should have just said that from the start, ribbit." Tsuyu stated blandly, her naturally blank expression once more turning to a full deadpan when Mei simply 'meh'-ed with a shrug.
"Yeah, I could have gone without all the extra nightmare fuel thank you very much," Mina added while hugging herself as a shiver ran down her spine. "Can we just get back to watching before someone else starts ruining my chance for a decent night of sleep for the next week?"
"Sounds good to me." Mirko said before slapping the play button.
"Not immune completely... when this young man was born, when I tried to steal his Quirk, I also tested this... I tried giving him a Quirk, and that worked. Not only is their lineage able to not have their Quirk stolen, but they can also hold multiple Quirks with no negative side effects." All for One spoke through the radio with some excitement audible in his voice.
"...Fuck." The swear slipped past Mina's lips before she even realized she'd even opened her mouth as her face and the palm of her hand met with a loud smack.
"So... he's using multiple Quirks to evade the heroes… cheater."
"He is so far unaware he even holds more than a single Quirk... but soon, once he tastes true anger, his other Quirks will activate... until then, just allow him to make jokes of the heroes." All for One stated with a slightly more forceful tone, just to show that he was serious about leaving Naruto alone for the moment.
"So that's why he's so confident Naruto will turn bad… because he's made him a bomb that's just waiting for someone to hit the detonator," Tsuyu muttered as the pieces fell together. "Looks like you called it sensei, ribbit."
Nodding in agreement, Midnight sighed softly as she sank further into her seat. "Indeed, although part of me really wishes I didn't."
Once his heart is flooded with hate.
Then the world would come face to face with a monster.
Everyone in the room jumped as the projection abruptly froze, the image spritzing out a few times before turning to static as a high-pitched whine screeched out from the helmet. At the same time, various areas of the chair suddenly popped open to release plumes of smoke and stray wires that crackled with electricity.
"Oi! The fuck is going on?!" Mirko yelled while clamping her hands over her ears, her eyes squeezed shut as the sound bore into her skull like rusty nails. "Someone make it stop!"
"Hold on, I got it!" Luckily for the rabbit woman, her torment was short lived as Mei hopped over and hit the stop button, causing both the static and sound to stop just as quickly as it started. However, smog still continued to billow forth and the acrid smell of burnt metal and melted plastic started wafting through the air, though that didn't stop Mei from diving right in and tinkering around with the smoldering mess. "Oh man, I told you to stop being so rough with my baby. Now look what you've done to the poor thing."
"What!?" Mirko shouted while digging a finger into one ear as a small trickle of blood dribbled out the other.
"Uh, are you okay Mirko-san?" Momo asked in concern, only to get no response as the rabbit heroine kept fiddling with her ears in annoyance. "Oh brother, I think the feedback blew out her eardrums. I'll go get Recovery Girl."
"Nah I'll do it, I know where the old gal should be and I've needed to stretch my legs a bit anyway," Midnight said, her point being emphasized the soft clicking of her joints as she stood up and rolled her shoulders. On the way to the door though, she stopped to jab her thumb towards Mei as the pinkette dug her arms around inside her invention. "Besides, pinky over there will probably need you to make spare parts to fix up that whole mess."
"Oh, that's a great idea! Get over here rich girl!" Before the Momo even had a chance to say anything, Mei had grabbed her by the shoulder and dragged her over to the smoking device. "Okay, I need a blank motherboard, and five feet of high grade insulated silver wire, and half a foot of Fiberoptic cable, oh and-"
"Whoa, slow down, I can't keep up."
"No time to slow, this baby needs upgrading pronto!"
"Upgrading? I thought you were repairing it."
"Repair, upgrade, same thing."
"There is a very distinct difference."
"Only for the uncreative minded!"
As the pair quickly started bickering back and forth, and Mirko continued to deafly mess with her ears with the occasion shout of 'WHAT!?', Mina, Shoto, and Tsuyu watched on from the sidelines with a mixture of amusement and concern on their faces.
"So… anyone up for a few rounds?" Mina asked while holding up a Herotendo, only to be met with dry looks from both her classmates. "Got it, not a good time."