Well, Hello there again.
This time we have the nineth chapter of the story.
Nothing more to say let's dive right in.
Disclaimer: I don't own any character everything belongs to Kohei Horikoshi.
"Hello" – People Talking
"Cool" – People Thinking
- *Hello* - Talking through the radio
"I am here" - All Might/Machine Speaking.
"He is the one" – All Might Thinking.
Chapter 9.
Victory, no matter what.
Flashback 10 years ago.
Margaret Riverdale POV
A few days had passed since the Riverdale Incident and now everything is ruined, all the business was destroyed, all the money is lost thanks to the banks closing all our accounts and everything is thanks to that little bastard Yamikumo and his stupid brother. We barely managed to escape the fire. We will be in search and capture; we must do something.
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A few months later.
We've been searching for that damn kid, we discovered that he survived and that he escaped the orphanage, our search was fruitless it looks like he just disappeared.
- "I can't believe we aren't able to find him! He's just a 4-year-old bastard!"- I yelled in anger.
- "He must had found somewhere to hide"- Replied Joshua.
- "Well, in that case I suggest we do the same, I'm done living in the streets."-
Before Joshua could answer, a voice could be heard.
- "In that case let me help you."-
Joshua and I turned only to see a suited man looking at us.
- "Who are you?!" – I asked.
- "Who am I is not important Mrs. Riverdale; the important thing is mi proposition for you."-
- "Then spit it out or I'll kill you." – I said while activating my quirk.
- "I'm a representative from the QHC center or Quirk helping and consulting center, you might recognize us from all the help we bring to the people with troubles controlling their quirk. But that's just a cover for our real work. Tell me, have you ever heard about the Trigger drug?"-
- "I've heard something, yes."-
- "In that case you must know that this substance is illegal in Japan. We run in secret the production of this drug and then we sell it at the best buyer. We have won a lot of money, but we need some security, and you are perfect for that job. Even though we have inverted in some security robots we could use some real security."-
- "So, I'm supposed to believe in you?"-
- "I understand that you suspect me, but I assure you that this is completely true, and this might be your only opportunity."
- "Margaret, listen to him. He isn't lying I can tell. This is our only chance to exit the streets and be safe from the police and heroes."- Joshua commented.
- "I hate when you are right. Fine! We'll work for you. But I must warn you, if you try something funny, I won't hesitate on killing you and everyone that is there."- I said threateningly.
- "Good. I assure you that you won't regret your choice. Now please come with me."-
After this chat we both followed this man.
Flashback end.
Front Yard.
Margaret Riverdale POV.
The boss just called us, we were having a nice sleep, but someone was stupid enough to try and attack this building, we went at the place that was told, the front yard, and for our surprise there were only two persons in there, one was the Hero Killer and the other one, even though he hid his face with a face mask, there was something familiar about him.
Neutral POV.
Yamikumo was in shock, he couldn't believe his eyes, somehow the Riverdale managed to survive the mansion fire, but they were here.
- "The Riverdale? Like the ones from the Riverdale Incident" – Asked Stain taking him out of his thoughts.
- "Exactly those Riverdale"- Replied Headhunter.
- "I see. You don't have to face them if you don't feel able. I can entertain them." – Said Stain. He didn't want any weaklings to protect.
- "That won't be necessary, I'm not scared of them anymore. I can fight."-
- "Good. Let's go. You take care of the guy; I'll take care of the woman"-
- "Yes"-
Both, Yamikumo and Stain, drew their own weapons and charged at their own target.
- "Are you ready Joshua?" – Asked Margaret.
- "Let's go"-
Both activated their quirks and charged at their own targets.
Joshua vs Headhunter.
Joshua charged at Headhunter and prepared a headbutt, Headhunter saw that coming and shot some fire with his hands below him, with this he propelled himself above Joshua avoiding the headbutt which cracked the floor. Headhunter blasted some fire at Joshua's back.
Joshua didn't flinch, he turned at Headhunter and charged again, this time he was faster and tried to hit Headhunter with multiple punches, Headhunter started dodging the punches, after dodging some punches the last one managed to hit him.
Headhunter recoiled slightly after receiving the blow but remained standing and started shooting more fireballs at Joshua, which were destroyed by Joshua's punches.
Margaret vs Stain.
Margaret drew her razor claws and attacked Stain trying to cut him, Stain himself started counterattacking with his own, both clashing their weapons. Margaret hits were fast, even for Stain, he was having troubles blocking Margaret's attacks.
Margaret prepared another attack but with a simple rollout Stain avoided it and he was now staring at her back, seizing the opportunity Stain tried to attack Margaret's back only to meet her claws clashing his Katana.
- "We are not the same old geezers we were once; we have been training." – Said Margaret with a grin in her face.
Margaret swinged her claws which made Stain back down.
Stain and Headhunter were back-to-back, prepared for another attack from their targets.
- "Joshua! Change!"- Screamed Margaret while charging. In an unexpected move both enemies changed targets.
Stain was catched by surprise and Joshua managed to land a Headbutt right in Stain's stomach throwing him into the air and with another headbutt launching him into a wall.
For his part, Headhunter managed to barely dodge Margaret's slash, but his facemask was ripped from him, exposing his identity to his aggressors.
Margaret was staring at the facemask, then se turned at Headhunter only for sadistically smile.
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(Not so) Safe Zone.
Geras and D'vorah vs Prototype No.2
Fist collied, more specifically Geras and the Prototype were colliding fists, the prototype had the advantage, it grabbed both of Geras fists and was making him back down. Before it could do more, the prototype was hit by D'vorah multiple times while D'vorah was flying, Geras took advantage from that and started punching the prototype, with his hands turned in maces, in the face, after the third punch the robot back down with his right eye completely smashed.
Geras was about to hit again but the Prototype grabbed him and smashed him into the ground. After this it pointed with his fist at D'vorah, then its hand turned into a weapon and started shooting at D'vorah, tanks to her being in the air she managed to dodge all the blasts until one of them exploded close to her back burning her wings and making her fall to the floor.
The Prototype got close to D'vorah and turned its other hand into a blade, but before he could kill her something hit the robot. It was a fan, the object quickly went back to its owner, Kitana was there, she arrived just in time. She throws her two fans again at the robot and started controlling them to hit it multiple times. At the same time Geras and D'vorah regrouped at her side.
The fans returned at Kitana, the prototype was staring at them but in a second it turned at the caravan where La Brava was and quickly blasted at it destroying the caravan completely.
- "NOOO!"- The first to act was Geras, he started punching multiple times the Prototype's arm (the one with the gun) followed by a lot of wasps attacking the robot's left eye, then Kitana slashed the robot's arm, the same that Geras punched, and managed to cut it out and finally Geras punched it again making the robot fall into the floor.
- "La Brava!"- Screamed Geras.
- "I'm okay"- Said La Brava, she was close to the destroyed caravan with some scratches and her clothes were slightly burned. – "I jumped through the window before the caravan destruction. I managed to save my laptop. Keep that thing oof me while I try to restore the communications."-
- "Okay. Glad that you are okay." –
- "Kitana! You managed to cut its arm off. How did you do it?"- Asked D'vorah.
- "I don't know. Maybe Geras' punches weakened its arm enough to cut it. I have a plan. The robot is blind, Geras punch it in the stomach. D'vorah it's time for you Fatality."-
- "Finally." -
- "Now!" –
Geras started attacking the prototype in the stomach. When the robot was weakened enough Kitana proceeded to cut open the stomach.
- "D'vorah now!" –
- "Finish him!" –
D'vorah send her wasps into the robot's insides, the robot started to convulse, a few seconds later the wasps spurted out from the robot's eyes and mouth and the robot finally fall to the ground completely defeated.
- "We did it!" – Cheered D'vorah.
Geras fell to the ground tired. – "What now?" –
- "Let me examinate the robot"- La Brava said. – "Good job by the way"-
La Brava started examined the robot and pulled out a thing.
- "What is that" – Asked Kitana.
- "It's an energy cell. If you calibrate it specifically you can turn it into a very powerful explosive."-
- "Are you…?" –
La Brava smiled – "Yes."-
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Left Yard.
Scorpion, Sub-Zero and Gentle Criminal vs Prototype No.3
The trio was attacking the robot with multiple attacks, Sub-Zero was slashing the robot with his ice blades, until one of them nailed in the robot's right arm which started freezing, using this Scorpion roll up his chain in the arm and managed to rip it from the robot. Then Gentle tackled the robot into the ground.
The trio quickly regrouped and started planning. The first to speak was Gentle.
- "I have a plan; the robot seems to be vulnerable from the inside. Scorpion I want you to start producing fire, don't stop until I say, I will compress it with my quirk. This way when I deactivate my quirk it will explode in a giant burst of fire. But I will need you to stop him while I put this in the mouth and the rest you can guess."
- "Sound like a plan"- Said Scorpion. Then he proceeded to create fire and Gentle started compressing it.
By the time the robot stands up they were ready.
Sub-Zero started to freeze the robot's lower body, then scorpion grabbed it left arm with his chain and pulled, the robot was separated from his lower part, then Gentle landed on top of it and inserted the ball of fire in the robot's mouth then jumped away from it and deactivated his quirk, then the robot exploded in fire, Sub-Zero created an ice wall to protect the trio from the explosion.
- "That wasn't so hard as I expected" – Said Scorpion.
- "What now?" – Asked Gentle.
- "Let's regroup with the Team G2, let's go to the front yard."- Suggested Sub-Zero.
- "Okay. Let's go."- Said Scorpion.
The trio headed to the front yard to regroup with the team D2.
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System center.
Knuckleduster, Pop Step and The Crawler vs Prototype No.1
Knuckleduster was getting beated up by the Prototype but he was giving time to Crawler and Pop Stop so they can find the production center.
- "Did you find it?"- Asked Pop Step.
- "No. But I managed to do something else. I can get control of some of the other robots, this way we can distract the Prototype and save Knuckleduster"- Answered The Crawler while watching at the main generator.
- "Nice. Come on do it already." –
- "Not yet. I have a plan to defeat that thing. Let me explain." -
Knuckleduster was in the ground, he couldn't continue fighting, he had a broken arm and was bleeding from the mouth and nose.
The prototype was about to kill him, but some robots started falling above him.
- "Hey ugly! Over here" – Screamed The Crawler from the System Center.
The prototype destroyed all the robots and followed The Crawler. It entered in the room and saw The Crawler smirking at him.
- "Pop Step now!" – After screaming that Pop Step kicked the prototype to the generator. When the Prototype hit the generator, it started to electrocute, after a few seconds the electricity went off and The Crawler blasted some energy at the prototype and thanks to the electrocution the prototype was destroyed.
- "It's over."- Said The Crawler tired.
- "What do we do now?" – Asked Pop Step.
- "Let's get Knuckleduster somewhere safe. Then we can search for the Production center." –
Then both grabbed Knuckleduster and started heading outside.
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Front Yard.
Headhunter and Stain vs Margaret and Joshua.
Margaret was staring at the facemask, then se turned at Headhunter only for sadistically smile.
- "Well, look who it is. If isn't little Yamikumo. Time to take revenge!"-
- "Revenge? What did I do to you?"-
- "Thanks to you and your bastard brother, our business was destroyed. If only that stupid of Zackary didn't put his nose, where he wasn't supposed to!"-
Headhunter was furious, that monster dared to insult his brother. - "Don't you dare to say his name. You don't have the right to say that name."- Screamed furious.
- "Or what? What are you going to do?"- Taunted Margaret.
Headhunter released a battle cry and charged at Margaret with his Katana; he was trying to kill her. Little did he know that was Margaret's intention, Joshua appeared and blocked the slash with his horn and the Katana broke into pieces. Headhunter was shocked by this the Katana he had grown affection of was destroyed. Margaret seized the opportunity and quickly slashed Headhunter in the back with her claws. Finally, Joshua headbutted Headhunter throwing him several meters.
Margaret and Joshua got close to him, he was bleeding from his back, and before they could strike the final blow, Stain appeared from behind with a metal rod and slammed Joshua with that managing to apart him from Headhunter, then he kicked Margaret in the face, the kick was strong enough to send her flying away from Headhunter.
Headhunter manages to stand up but was hit in the face by Stain.
- "What did I told you about letting your feelings control you in the battle."- Scolded Stain.
- "Sorry. They used my brother's death and I got reckless. It won't happen again."- Said Headhunter standing up again.
- "We can't continue like this. We have to be creative otherwise they will kill us."-
- "I have something that I have been practicing. I guess is the best time to try it in a real battle. I'll take care of Joshua and this time they won't catch us off-guard". Said Headhunter with a confident smile in his face.
Stain smiled back. – "This is more like it."-
Margaret and Joshua charged again but this time Stain decided to go full strength and Headhunter was more carefully.
Stain was easily surpassing Margaret's attempts to hurt him while she was getting madder and madder.
Joshua was trying to hit Headhunter, but he was managing to dodge all the attacks, he was getting mad, so he decided to back down and throw a big boulder at Headhunter, he barely dodges it, then Joshua did it again, he threw a big boulder at Headhunter again, this time he wasn't gonna avoid it.
- "Hey kid. Catch this!"- Said Stain and throw something to Headhunter.
Headhunter catched the object that Stain throwed at him, it was a Katana, he drew it and quickly slashed the boulder. Surprisingly the boulder was divided in half. Joshua quickly charged at Headhunter and tried to headbutt him, but Headhunter shot some fire with his hands below him, with this he propelled himself above Joshua avoiding the headbutt. Joshua turned at his back thinking that Headhunter was going to land at his back but there was no one.
- "Up here you idiot!" –
Joshua looked above him and saw Headhunter in the air, he was staying in the air with his telekinesis, in addition to having fire in various parts of his body to propel himself into the air and fly.
Joshua was shocked and Headhunter used this to punch him in the face, thanks to propel himself the punch was strong enough to send Joshua flying.
Stain also managed to send Margaret flying.
- "So, you can fly now?"-
- "Yes. Initially I tried to fly using only my telekinesis, but it was too much for my body to handle, so I use my telekinesis only to suspend myself in the air then use my fire to propel myself and move in the air. Like a Jetpack."-
- "Nice."-
- "By the way. What is this Katana made of?"-
- "It's made of a rare metal. If you swing this Katana with the enough strength, you will be able to cut through anything but at the same time if you control your strength, you will be able to only hurt others."-
- "Cool."-
At this moment the Riverdale were back, both with pissed expressions.
- "Enough! Joshua It's time to use it."- After saying this both pulled out a syringe each.
- "I've been wanting to try this!"- After this both injected the substance in their bodies and unleashed a painful scream.
- "Is that… the Trigger?" -Asked Stain.
- "It looks like. Look, their bodies are changing."-
Joshua's body started to grow bigger, his minotaur form was getting more muscular, and his horns grew as well.
Margaret was growing as well but only taller, her body was getting thinner to the point where her bones could be seen through her skin, her claws got larger and sharper.
Both unleashed a brutal scream and charged at Headhunter and Stain.
Margaret slashed Stain, but he barely avoided the slash. Joshua tried headbutting Headhunter, but he dodges it by flying with his quirk and Joshua managed to only hit the floor. But this time the impact was so strong that the floor broke and Joshua and Margaret fell inside the hole and fell on a catwalk.
Headhunter and Stain were surprised with what they say below ground. - "Is that…?" - Asked Stain.
- "The Production Center. This is why La Brava couldn't find it, it was underground! And probably wasn't in any map."- Said Headhunter
- "Anyway, we have to defeat them. Then we can destroy it."- Said Stain.
Both decided to land on the same catwalk where the Riverdale were. Margaret charged at them but before she could slash them a chain engulfed in flames trapped her arm.
- "It looks like you need help."- It was team D1. Scorpion trapped Margaret.
- "You handle the big guy while we take care of her."- Said Scorpion
- "Look like a plan. Thanks, and it's better to kill them, they are suffering from the Trigger effects."-
- "No problem. Now, for you lady. GET OVER HERE!" – Screamed while pulling Margaret up.
Team D1 vs Triggered Margaret.
Margaret was still trapped in, but she charged at Scorpion anyways, luckily a barrier stopped her and made her back away, it was Gentle, he then trapped her inside more Barriers surrounding her.
Scorpion retrieved his chain, then Sub-Zero started freezing inside the barriers managing to freeze Margaret, finally Gentle deactivated his quirk and Scorpion attacked with his chain breaking the ice, and Margaret, into pieces.
- "Scorpion, Sub-Zero and Gentle win. Fatality!" – Said Scorpion.
Stain and Headhunter vs Triggered Joshua.
Joshua charged at Headhunter, he used his Telekinesis to stop him and with the Katana cut Joshua's horns. With this Stain took advantage of the situation and stabbed Joshua in the shoulder with another sword, Joshua backed away and screamed in pain.
With this Headhunter unleashed a continuous fire blast, like a flamethrower, directly to Joshua making him back away more until finding the edge of the catwalk, Joshua lost his equilibrium and fell down from the catwalk several meters to his death.
- "I'll see you in hell." – Said Stain.
- "And I hope not seeing you ever again" – Said Headhunter jokingly.
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Headhunter and Stain exited the hole only to find Team D1.
- "So, I guess we are done fighting. Just destroy this and we are done."- Said Scorpion.
- "Yes, we are." – The five turned to see Crawler and Pop Step carrying an unconscious Knuckleduster and putting hm in the ground, then The Crawler got closer to the rest. – "So, this is where the Production center was. Underground."-
- "Yes. Now, how do we destroy it?" – Asked Sub-Zero.
Everyone turned at The Crawler only to see him with a poker face.
- "You didn't think about it. Right?"- Asked Headhunter with a blank face.
- "He didn't but I have the solution."- Everyone turned to see Team Rearguard plus Kitana arriving to the place. – "Here, take this." – Said La Brava while throwing at Headhunter one of the energy cells from the Prototype they fought.
- "What is this?" –
- "It's an energy cell but I calibrated it to become a powerful explosive."-
- "How much power are we talking?" – Asked Gentle.
- "Enough to blow everything in there, and maybe tear down the building."-
- "I see… So, how do we light it"- Asked Scorpion.
- "Just blast it with some fire and it will explode, but I recommend staying away from here."-
- "So, Scorpion. Are you up for some target shooting?"- Asked Headhunter.
- "Let's do it"-
After everyone got far enough the building Headhunter threw the energy cell at the production center, then he and Scorpion blasted some fire at it, with this, a giant explosion occurred, and the building started to fall and after a few minutes everything was destroyed.
A few hours later the police and paramedics arrived, they stared to take care of the wounds of the team, after a few more minutes the team was cured and Knuckleduster was awake, then a police officer with a dog head approached them.
- "Hello. My name is Kenji Tsurugame, I'm the police chief and I'm here not to only congratulate but also thank you for the service you lend us. Woof"-
- "Woof?"-Everyone thought.
- "And we will respect our deal. All of you been granted with a temporal license to operate as heroes but only for tonight. Also, Gentle and La Brava, your criminal record is clan."-
- "Thank you, officer."- Said La Brava.
- "And for you Stain. We obviously can clean all your record so we will only clean the low crimes you committed, and we will give you a week of grace so you can rest."-
- "Whatever."- Said Stain.
- "Once again thank you, you can leave now"- Said Kenji and then he leaves.
- "Well, I'm out. Don't you ever try to recruit me again or I'll kill you." - Said Stain while leaving.
- "Wait!"- Said Headhunter.
Stain turned to see him.
- "Here you go. Thanks for lending it."- Said Headhunter while handing Stain his Katana back.
Stain stared at the Katana for a second only to turn away and start walking - "Keep it. I have more of those, and you will need a new one."- After this he disappeared.
- "I guess this is the goodbye. Come on La Brava. Let's get out of here." – Said Gentle, he and La Brava waved for goodbyes and leave.
- "I guess we have to go too"- Said Scorpion. All the MK characters group waved and started leaving except for Kitana. She approached Headhunter and kissed him in the cheek.
- "It was fun to fight at your side. See you."- After this she left leaving a blushing Headhunter.
- "Yeah…"- He got himself together and waved at them.
- "What can I say"- Said The Crawler, he then grabbed some dirt that was on his clothes and then said - "What a night"-
After this the rest of the team headed their own way.
To be continued.
Author Notes:
So yeah. Here we are.
So, do you like it? Hate it?
Next chapter will be the last one before I start with the Manga/Anime.
Lastly, I still need suggestions for Izumi's (Yami's unknown sister) pairing so leave yours but only if they met these requirements: No villains and no Todoroki nor Bakugo, I don't want any typical pairings. Other than that, it can be anyone Male or Female.
Nothing more to say I hope you like it.
As always feel free to leave any comment, review, suggestion, or question about the story, of course always with respect.
So yeah. That's all for now.
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