A/N: Thanks to my good friend Breakawayfan for partnering with me in the future endeavors of this story and helping me with ideas and plot points.
Midoriya, Tsuyu and Tana now got back to the shore close to the central plaza. "Man, you two were pretty good out there. Not bad at all for your first real scrap." Tana praised.
"I can't believe we managed to get all of them at once. It took everything I had to keep my composure. It was such a gamble, what if they had reserves underwater that we didn't know about? They could've-" Midoriya went into another one of his mutter storms, much to the discomfort of the girl's.
"He REALLY needs to work on that." Tana said.
"You're creeping me out. Stop it. Please." She told the green-haired boy. This snapped him out of it and he turned to face her. "Instead of second-guessing what we did, shouldn't we think about our next move?" She asked him.
"Yeah, you're totally right." He agreed with her.
"So, what now, plan man?" Tana asked him.
"We should make getting help our top priority." He told them. "If we follow the shore to the exit, then we can avoid the central plaza entirely." He informed them, pointing out the path he wished to take.
"Good idea. That way we don't run into the villains Mr. Aizawa's facing off with there." She said, looking to the brawl in question.
Midoriya looked uncertain at this. (Yeah, but... can he handle them all on his own? How long can he hold out against a big group like that?) He questioned. "If he doesn't get any backup, then he's going to overexert himself. He'll end up defeated by those villains because he was trying to keep us safe." He voiced his concerns.
"Sounds like you want to get right back into the danger zone. Call me crazy, but isn't that, like, the ONE thing we're NOT supposed to do?" Tana asked.
"I'm not saying we should jump into the middle of a battle, but... Maybe we can find a way to take a few of those guys out and lighten his load." Midoriya told them.
The two girls looked to each other and sighed. "Alright, if you insist. Shouldn't be too hard, anyway. I can always snipe a few of them." Tana agreed.
Meanwhile, Todoroki was in the landslide zone "So, the plan was to scatter us and then kill us?" He questioned, before sighing. "You were woefully unprepared." He told the group of villains he now had frozen solid. "In fact, it looks to me like you've had no training. You haven't the slightest idea how to use your Quirks." He told them as he advanced towards them.
A grey-skinned villain with sharp teeth and a scar over his right eye stared at the dual-hair colored boy in shock. "This power... He froze us the instant we warped here!" He said in disbelief.
"He's not a kid, he's a monster!" Another sharp-toothed villain said as Todoroki walked past him.
"So cold!" A lion-like villain whimpered.
Ivy whistled at this. "Not bad, Todoroki. You could give Velkhana a run for her money." She praised s he moved through the group of frozen villains.
"Velkhana?" He asked, looking back to her.
Ivy flinched at this, realizing she messed up. "Uh... Oh! She's a hero from my nation. Ice powers just like you." She explained, before quickly deciding to change the subject. "Still, lucky none of these guys were much of a threat. As far as I can tell, we only have to deal with the handsy guy, the bird brain, the portal guy and..." She began, before shuddering at the last one. "The Gore Magala." She said.
"You sound like you know him." Todoroki noted.
Once again, Ivy flinched as she shot herself in the foot again, but luckily, she was saved again. When SHE had to save Todoroki. "Look out!" She said, grabbing him and pulling him out of the way of a blue stream of fire.
"Well, well. What DO we have here?" A female voice rang out, the two turning towards the source, which shocked and horrified Ivy.
It was a woman with blue scaly skin and flowing mane of hair, standing on digitigrade feet, talons coming from each toe and a small hook on the upturned heels,with three similar hooks on the front of both shins and outsides of each thigh. This led up to a waist covered by a simple white loin cloth that almost reached the ground. And just above that loin cloth in the back was a long, thick and muscular tail, the end of which held a large tuft of bluish-white fur. The skin on her bare stomach and chest seemed to be human-like skin, with scaly lion-like paws and claws covering up her chest, a golden necklace around her neck. On the back of her forearms were small hook-like protrusions much like her shins, thighs and heel and her fingers ended in talons much like her toes. And on her back were large and powerful wings with a large talon on each of them at the bend of the wing, along with several smaller talons reaching out towards the end of the wings. And, most distinctly of all, was the giant crest attached to her forehead, almost looking like a crown. There was no mistaking it. This was the Empress of the Flame, Lunastra. One of the Chameleos greatest and most deadly rivals.
"The weakest of the trinity." The Lunastra said, referring to the trinity of Chameleos, Kushala Daora and Teostra- and, by extension, Lunastra. "I never would have thought one as pathetic as you made your way here. Although, I suppose even Non-Elders made it here, so why couldn't you? But siding with these foolish heroes was a mistake. One you'll pay dearly for." She declared. [1]
"Trinity? What is she talking about? You know her? Are you part of some kind of group with them?" Todoroki questioned, looking at Ivy.
"Dammit! It doesn't matter anymore. You have to run. Get to the entrance as fast as you can. I'll try to buy you some time." The humanized Chameleos told him.
"I'm not going anywhere without answers. And besides, even if you are a villain, I'm not going to run and let her kill you. You'll both face justice." Todoroki refused.
"Yes, you ARE!" Ivy said, shooting her tongue out, wrapping it around him, spinning and throwing him as far towards the entrance as she could, breathing a cloud of mist to cover his tracks.
"Oh? You're actually willing to put your own life on the line to save that human?" The Lunastra girl asked.
"I've lived a full life as a monster, that kid's just beginning his life. He should have a chance to live it. I'm not letting you take that from him." Ivy said in a deadly serious manner, surprising to anyone who knew her, even herself.
"I see. How gutless." The Empress of Flame spat.
"Wait, how is that gutless?" The chameleon creature asked.
"Because suicide is the coward's way out." The villainous Elder Dragon declared.
"Mountain Zone"
Laughter and screams could be heard ringing throughout the mountain zone. The screams were coming from the villains while the laughter came from Aster as he flew about the battlefield, slamming his wings into some villain's throats, kicking away some others, landing on other and dragging them across the stone floor, landing the occasional good punch and, on a few rare instance, bringing his tail down on someone or the ground and unleashing a huge surge of electricity from his tail, or swinging his head as his crest made a blade of electricity, taking down several villains.
"Could you maybe take it down a few notches?" Jiro asked in annoyance.
"Agreed. We should be focused on getting away from the enemies and only fighting who we have to, not going after every villain here." Yaoyorozu agreed.
"Hey, we're working to be heroes, right? And heroes take down the bad guys!" Aster as he slammed down on three villains, one with his tail and two more with his wings.
Jiro blocked the attack of another villain, irritated they were getting so close. "Then can you at least take them down faster so yo can deal with more of them so they can't jump me and Momo?! Use your lightning powers or something!" Jiro suggested.
"I already told you this when we were partnered up together! Did you forget? Some partner." Aster scoffed as he reminded her of their partnership in the battle trials. "Sure, I can do some trails of lightning or a blade from my crest, but my best attacks are either big AOE's or a crazy-ass bolt that travels across the ground and splits off in almost every direction. You two would wind up getting fried along with these villains!" He told her, decking one villain in the face with a right haymaker, backhanding another one right behind that one with his wing, then clamping his tail down on the leg of one coming up behind him and flinging him into a group of five more villains.
"You are exhausting." Jiro groaned.
However, she was then alerted to the advance of another villain, who had a large boulder in his hand. "Try electrocuting solid rock, kid!" The villain declared. Aster actually WOULD'VE electrocuted him with a lightning blade from his crest, but Jiro acted quickly, extending her ear jacks to reach her boots, which appeared to have speakers installed in them. She plugged the jacks into her boots and blasted out intense sound waves from the speakers that almost instantly obliterated the rock. However, his normal fist was still coming at Aster...
... But the former Flying Wyvern just lowered his head so the man's fist connected with his hardened AND SPIKY crest, causing him to pull back and hold his hand in pain, allowing Aster to slam his wing down on him. "Hey, good lookin' out, Jiro! Maybe you're not a bad partner after all!" He called.
Another villain leapt at Aster, but Momo quickly threw out a net that trapped the villain, causing him to fall towards Aster, but he again backhanded the villain with his wing, sending him flying into another bigger villain. "You're lucky that worked out so well!" Momo told the other girl.
"I'm sorry. Next time I'll ask before saving our butts." Jiro countered, before plugging her jacks back into her boots and blasting out a wave of intense sound at the the villains in front of her. "Dammit, Aster! You couldn't have asked for some kind of aiming gear when you turned in your costume request form, I mean, come on!" She said in annoyance, unaware of a villain leaping off the cliff above her in an attempt to drop down and attack her.
But thankfully, Aster flew in and caught the villain by his neck with his tail, flying them back into a cliff wall behind the girls and slamming the villain into it with enough force to indent him into the rock. "Eh. Didn't think it through that much. I just wanted more ways to hurt people." He explained.
Another villain rushed in and tried to attack the girls, before being knocked back by a spinning rear kick from Momo. "Get ready..." The taller girl advised the punk girl, before her back suddenly began to bulge. "It takes me a little longer... To create an object this big!" She declared, before the back of her costume burst open to unleash a large grey blanket that covered the two girls.
"A blanket?" One villain asked.
"Is that supposed to be a shield?" Another villain taunted.
However, Momo looked out from under the blanket with a smirk. "You're looking at sheet of insulation 100 millimeters thick! Go, Aster!" She called out to her electric classmate.
"Oh. This. Will. Be. Fun~" Aster said darkly as he unleashed countless sparks of electricity, all of them splitting in two and going every which way to shock villains and send them flying. And the ones that were lucky enough to avoid these weren't lucky enough to avoid Aster as he either crashed down on them with bursts of electricity from his wings as he slammed them into the ground while moving forward, or staying in the air and stabbing his tail into the ground, creating huge spheres of electricity from the appendage. All while the two girls stayed safe under the blanket.
Once the electricity gave out, most the villains stood smoking and convulsing from the shock. "Now, then. I'm worried about the rest of our classmates. We should find them right away." Momo suggested as she peered out from under the blanket, revealing that the blanket had shredded her costume and left HER quite revealed.
"You're looking a little overexposed right now!" Jiro said nervously.
However, Momo hardly seemed bothered by this as she turned back to face Jiro. "Oh? I can make some new clothes." She assured the smaller girl.
(Yaoyorozu is so punk rock.) Jiro thought to herself, but still glared out at the Thunderous Rage. "Aster! Don't you dare look!" She warned the boy, throwing herself into Momo to block his view, before realizing the boy was still too busy making sure all the villains were down and picked off any stragglers or those who pretended to be hit to try and gain an advantage, now DEEPLY regretting that decision as they ran from the bloodlusted boy. "I... don't think that's gonna be a problem..." She said awkwardly as a villain let out a wilhelm scream.
Meanwhile...
Ivy had let out a burst of steam in order to hide herself from the humanized Lunastra, but Empress of Flame burst through the mist, lunging at her with claws at the ready.
Background Music: "Hell" by Disturbed
Luna lunged forward and slashed at Ivy with her left claw, but she managed to jump back to avoid it. The Empress of Flame leapt forward again with a right claw slash, but Ivy did a 180 to swing her tail forward, smacking into the evil former Elder Dragon. She then raised her tail and slammed it down to knock Luna back, but the humanoid Lunastra jumped up into the air to avoid the attack. She then breathed a stream of blue fire down at Ivy, but she leapt to the side to avoid it, turning back to face Luna and shooting her chameleon-like tongue at her. However, the villainous monster girl turned to the side to avoid it and grabbed the elongated tongue as it passed her, spinning in the air and pulling Ivy into the air by her tongue, before twisting even more and throwing her back into the tree at the top of the hill.
The chameleos girl groaned at the impact and looked up as Luna laughed at her. "Looks like nothing has changed in this new world. You're STILL the weakest of the trinity. You're light work for me." She taunted.
"Well, at least people actually INCLUDE me in the trinity, not just my male counterpart." Ivy snapped back.
This actually seemed to strike a nerve with Luna as she dove down at the Chameleos girl. However, Ivy quickly managed to dive forward out of the way as the Lunastra girl dove down at her, causing her head to slam into the tree after she continued to move forward with no enemy body to provide resistance to slow her movement. This left her briefly stunned, allowing Ivy to recover and grab her by the wing and tail, lifting her into the air and throwing her to the ground, sending her tumbling down the hill. Ivy attempted to breathe a cloud of poison down on her opponent, but the evil Elder Dragon girl breathed a stream of fire at the cloud, the two streams colliding and canceling each other out. Luna then flew back up into the air and flew towards Ivy, a few feet above her, breathing down more fire on the Chameleos girl, who narrowly dodged out of the way of the flames.
However, the Empress of Flame used her opponent dodging to her advantage, using the opening to dive down on Ivy, immediately following up with two powerful claws swipes, then sending her back into the tree once again with a spinning strike from her tail. She then turned to face the disappearing Elder Dragon to blast her with yet another stream of flame, but she doused the flames with a stream of poisonous liquid, managing to push all the way through the flames in order to reach the evil Elder Dragon girl, coating her in the poisonous liquid, causing her to gag and retch. She looked back up at her opponent with a furious glare, only to see that she'd created a cloud of mist to disappear into. "Oh, your usual mist tricks. Cute." Luna said, unimpressed, before gagging a bit more.
"Uh-oh. Let's hope that new human immune system can handle the poison." Ivy taunted.
The evil Elder Dragon girl scoffed at this, however. "I still have the same resistance I did in my old body. Your poison is insignificant. And so are your attempts to hide from me. Just because I can't see you doesn't mean I can't hit you. Not when I attack... EVERYWHERE AT ONCE!" Luna declared, activating her supernova.
With that, she released a massive wave of heat and burning liquid, making the immediate area completely unbearable for any nearby living thing, even burning away at the villains frozen in Todoroki's ice before the ice could even fully melt. This also served to burn away at the moisture within the mist, causing it to fade away. Not that it was helping much in the first place, as even hidden within the relatively cool mist, Ivy still felt the extreme heat biting into her and sapping her strength, causing her to fall to her double over in pain and exhaustion. Luna ended the onslaught of heat, panting from the exertion for a few moments, before smirking and recovering, rushing over to Ivy and hitting her with one last strike from her claws in the form of an uppercut, causing her to stagger back.
End Music
Ivy was brought to one knee, barely able to hold herself up from exhaustion. (Dammit. Even in this world, a Lunastra is a counter for everything I bring to the table...) She thought as the Empress of Flames emerged from a wall of fire.
"I would've thought this new world would've given you more to work with than just your species' usual parlor tricks. Honestly, this was more boring than anything. But at least you let that ice boy escape." Luna said as she approached the Chameleos girl. "Now I get the thrill of the hunt when I track him down and finish what I started before you got in the way." She taunted, readying her clawed hand, engulfed in blue flame, preparing to finish her rival.
However, she suddenly became aware of a noise and leapt back as a trail of ice spike made their way towards where she'd been standing, which no doubt would've pierced her if she hadn't been fast enough. Both humanized Elder Dragons looked towards the source to see the aforementioned boy at the start of the ice spike trail. "Todoroki?! What are you doing here, I told you to run!" Ivy snapped at him.
"And let you get yourself killed against someone who clearly has your number? That's not going to happen," Todoroki said, his gaze fixing on the blue-scaled woman, "And as it stands, if I fight, we have a chance to even the playing field." He told his classmate.
Luna sized up Shoto for a brief moment before she started laughing, her mouth venting small puffs of blue flame. "You catch me by surprise, and you think you can take me head-on, little cub? Don't insult me. I know when someone's holding back. I can almost hear the heat radiating off of you." She scoffed.
"You have a Fire Quirk like my old man. So do I, but I refuse to use it. I don't need him cursed fire. I'll become the best with only my ice. And I'll prove I'm better than him. And you." Todoroki said.
Ivy smirked at someone talking down to the ever-prideful Lunastra in such a way, finally finding her second wind and getting back up to her feet. "Tough talk, Chilly. Well, I hope you can back it up. Because I'm pretty sure you made her mad." She said.
Background Music: "Trapped Under Ice" by Metallica
Luna rushed in with her claws once again, this time aiming for Todoroki first, but the burnt-faced boy quickly stomped the ground with his left foot, sending up three small rows of ice spikes that forced the Lunastra girl to stop before she impaled herself on the ice spikes. This then allowed Ivy to move in and rake the claws on her right hand across Ivy's mid back, turning with the momentum of the strike to smack her tail into her fellow humanoid Elder Dragon, making her slam into the ice spikes, her hide protecting her from taking serious damage. Todoroki then caused the ice to expand and burst outwards to blast the Lunastra girl back. "That was just a warning. Stay down." Todoroki warned her.
"No one makes demands of me! Not to the Empress... of the Flame!" She declared, breathing a stream of fire towards the two, forcing them to dodge, then chasing after Todoroki with her flame breath as he skated on the ice trail he was making to stay ahead of the flame. That was until she felt Ivy's tongue lash into her multiple times. Of course, while being naturally resistant to the tongue's paralytic properties, she was not IMMUNE to it, a few more strikes causing her to finally start convulsing as if she was being electrocuted. Todoroki then rushed in and slammed his left fist into her gut, coating the immediate area with ice. He then pulled back and switched to his other hand, slamming his fist into her gut with enough force to shatter the ice he had placed there, causing extra damage from the hard chunks of ice being forced up against her stomach.
Ivy then flew forward and smacked her tail into her rival to knock her down. Luna soon growled at this. "No! I am not losing to a child and a pathetic wretch!" She snapped, turning and breathing a trail of fire in a crescent-like path as the two heroes-in-training came at her, forcing them to stop in their tracks. But this quick stop was all it took for the Empress of Flame to get back on her feet and lunge at the two, slashing Todoroki's arm with her claws, turning and blasting Ivy back with her flames and slamming her tail into Todoroki's gut to send him tumbling back.
She then turned to pounce onto the downed boy, but Ivy shot her tongue out and wrapped it around Luna's neck, pulling back as much as she could to yank back the evil Elder Dragon away from Todoroki, as well as strangle her a bit and prevent her from unleashing any more fire. Todoroki also recovered at this point and unleashed another wave of ice that slammed into the fiery fiend before them, knocking her back. This provided an opening for Ivy, who still had her tongue around her rival's neck, to take to the skies, dragging Luna with her, before diving back down and flinging the Empress of Flame into the ground with as much force as she could muster, before landing back beside Todoroki.
However, the evil Elder Dragon was now becoming furious at the fact the battle wasn't going her way, getting to her feet and roaring in rage. "I will not stand for this! I will not be humiliated by a mere child and a disgrace of an Elder Dragon that can only rely on cheap tricks to win the battle!" She said, preparing to perform her Supernova once again.
"Shit! We have to go, now! I could barely handle that heat wave! You'll get roasted!" Ivy told Todoroki.
"There's no time to run! Get close to me!" He ordered, pulling her closer to him and creating an ice dome around the two of them.
And with that, Luna once again unleashed a mighty blast of highly flammable liquid and immensely hot waves of heat and flame, easily starting to melt the ice dome created by Todoroki. And so, the half-and-half-User had to work fast, expanding the ice outwards as much as he could in order to keep the ice dome thick enough that the heat and flames wouldn't reach them. But even so, it seemed like his best efforts were only barely keeping the ice dome sustained enough that the heat wouldn't reach them. And to make matters worse, the excessive use of his right side caused ice to start forming on him as he started to develop hypothermia. (Damn... He's giving it his all, but it's not enough!) Ivy thought, before steeling her determination. "Then I guess I'll have to share the burden!" She declared, unleashing as much mist from her body as she could, the cooler air helping to keep the dome just cool enough in combination with Todoroki's ice so that the flame couldn't get through the dome until the moment Luna could no longer keep the onslaught up and had to cease her supernova, allowing the two to stop reinforcing the dome and break out of it.
But now, with her trump card used, Luna was exhausted, beginning to overheat herself from the attack herself and panting heavily to cool down. And thus, she was completely vulnerable to her two opponents. And, as a pleasant side effect for them, even though the supernova was over, the area around them was still incredibly hot, easily bringing Todoroki's temperature back up, allowing him to resume the fight. Which he did by sending a trail of ice towards Luna and freezing her in place. This allowed Ivy to rush in and slash her twice with her claws, tag her several times with her tongue and finish with a spinning smack from her tail to knock her down. She started to get back up, only looking up in time to see Todoroki sliding towards her on a trail of ice, before jumping and planting both feet into her face to send her tumbling back.
End Music
Luna growled as she got back to her feet and leapt up into the air before Todoroki could impale her with another line of ice spikes. "How dare you?! No one does this to me and gets away with it!" She snapped.
"Well, it appears like we just did." Todoroki countered.
"Ooh! He got you there, princess! Better just pack it up now!" Ivy laughed.
Luna growled at this once again. "Todoroki... Ivy... You should be honored. The Empress of Flame has chosen to keep you in your memory. But just know that those I remember are marked for death!" She declared, before flying back to the main plaza.
Ivy sighed in relief at this, falling back onto her butt. "Thanks. I wasn't gonna last much longer if you didn't help out." She said.
"Don't thank me just yet. You still have a lot you need to answer." Todoroki said.
"It'll have to wait until after all this craziness has died down. But don't worry, after all this, I don't think we'll be able NOT to tell you." She said.
"We?" Todoroki questioned.
Meanwhile...
"So, you finished with your psycho rampage?" Jiro asked as she emerged from the insulated blanket with Yaoyorozu, now fully clothed again in a new hero suit.
"Hey, they're still alive. So, I didn't go nearly as far as I could have." Aster said in mock offense, starting to walk over, before another villain in a skull mask popped out of the ground and grabbing him for use as a hostage. "Ugh. And apparently, I didn't go far enough." He added in annoyance, clamping his tail on the villain's ankle and electrocuting him into unconsciousness. "Too bad. You ALMOST gave me hope for a challenge when you ambushed me like that. This was WAY too easy." He sighed.
"Regardless, we should begin making our way back to the main area to regroup with our class and take stock of the situation." Yaoyorozu said.
"Sure, fine. Whatever. Let's go." Aster said, starting to head down a mountain path with the girls following behind him.
"An Astalos? Leaving survivors. Man, this place must have made you soft." A voice said as the owner landed in the middle of the clearing they'd been in.
Aster's eyes widened as he saw the figure now challenging them. "No way." He said in shock.
It was a woman who matched their teacher Midnight in height with scaly skin that was an icy bluish-white, before transitioning to black on her clawed hands and digitigrade feat with three main toes and one higher up thumb toe on the inside of each foot. She was completely naked, but extra scaling on the front of her upper and mid-body covered any indecent areas. On the back of her hips was a decently long and powerful tail with sail-like fins at the base of it a less white icy blue mixing with a much darker blue in a beautifully intricate pattern, matching the equally sail like wings protruding from her back and antennae-like fins with sails that reach from the top of these sails past her ears and to the base of her neck. She had waist-length snow white hair and her eyes were pure white as well. But it was clear she could still see as she glared daggers at the three students.
"You were just wanting a real fight, right? Well, I'd be MORE than happy to give you one!" She declared. [2]
"What the heck?! Where are your clothes, lady!?" Jiro asked, completely flabbergasted, even moreso than when Momo was naked mere moments ago.
"Name's Neve, not Lady. As for clothes, I go by your human saying 'if you got it, flaunt it'." The Legiana woman declared, running her hands down her body.
"Ignoring that, she seems to know you, Aster. And what was that she called you? Astalos? Is that some kind of play on your name?" Yaoyorozu asked the Thunder Wyvern behind her, who was shocked at this.
"Well, this girl looks like she means business! Too much business for you two, time to get you back to the main entrance! Better start getting a parachute or a mattress ready, Momo!" Aster said, jumping up and grabbing Jiro's belt in his talons and clamping his tail around Yaoyorozu's waist, taking to the sky and spinning once, attempting to launch the the girls all the way back to the entrance. However, Momo managed to wrap her legs around Jiro and created a rope she managed to wrap around Aster's tail, hanging onto it and bringing them to a stop almost immediately after Aster let go of them, jerking the former Flying Wyvern slightly. "What the-! What are you doing!?" He demanded.
"I could ask you the same thing!" Yaoyorozu snapped.
"Yeah! What's with trying to yeet us across the facility? That is NOT cool!" Jiro agreed.
"I was trying to save your lives and get you away from that bitch! All you had to do was get thrown, then run and you'd be safe!" He told them.
"You think I'd run? I am training to be a hero, Aster! And heroes do whatever they can to save lives, even if that means risking their own! I'd have no right to call myself a hero if I left you alone with a villain! And I'm also the Class representative! That means it's my duty to ensure the safety of the entire class, INCLUDING you! I wouldn't be able to face the rest of our class, or even bring myself to re-enter UA, if I abandoned you here!" Yaoyorozu said insistently with deep determination in her voice.
"Exactly, we're all in this together, Aster. You're a pain in the ass, but you're a good guy. I'd hate to see you die here. And if I ran and left you here to your fate, that just wouldn't be rockin'." Jiro added.
Aster was surprised at this, but nodded. "Fine. But don't say I didn't warn you. So, good news: she's weak to electricity, so I can hurt her. Bad news, she has ice powers, which are my biggest weakness. Fire and poison are also effective against her." Aster explained, before pointing to Jiro. "And she's gonna need THE BEST earplugs known to man." He informed.
"Why?" Yaoyorozu asked.
But almost immediately after, Neve let out a roar that forced all of them to cover their ears. But while Aster and Yaoyorozu only flinched, Jiro was brought to her hands and knees, before falling to her side. "That's why." Aster said before he rushed in as Neve rushed at him.
Background Music: "Hero" by Skillet
Aster launched an electric ball from his mouth to shut the Legiana woman up as Yaoyorozu knelt down to tend to Jiro. He then flew forward at high speeds and thrust his scissortail forward at Neve, but she quickly took to the sky to avoid it. He then flew after and attempted a few more times to slash her with either his electrified head crest, his tail or even the talons of his wings, but she easily dodged out of the way, maneuvering around behind him and catching his wings with her feet. "You may be fast and powerful, but even Rathalos can outmaneuver you in the air. And I can fly circles around the so-called 'King of the Skies'." She said, giving a flick of her tail to fling a good amount of its freezing liquid onto Aster, causing him to cry in pain and thrash about, making it harder to try and fly away from her and giving her enough control to fly down and throw him down to the ground in front of the two girls.
"Aster!" They cried out, looking to how a light layer of frost was covering him, Yaoyorozu quickly making him a thick wool blanket to warm him back up.
At this point, Yaoyorozu had managed to rouse Jiro and supplied her with a pair of noise dampening earbuds. So she'd still be able to hear them, but the deafening roars of their opponent wouldn't deafen her. So she looked up at Neve with a glare as she dove down at them. "Dammit! Take this! Let's see how you like the volume cranked to the max!" Jiro snapped, plugging her earphone jacks into her boots and blasting a sonic wave at Neve, who narrowly avoided the soundwaves, but by a narrow enough margin that they still decently rattled her and made her struggle in the air, which allowed Yaoyorozu to throw a Russian nesting doll at the Legiana woman and hit her in the head, popping open to reveal a flashbang, which went off in her face, causing her to cry out in pain and panic, holding her eyes, making it next to impossible to fly at this rate and causing her to land rather roughly.
Aster had warmed back up at this point, silently admitting the girls were more capable than he'd given them credit for. "Not bad, girls. I'm back in the game, now. Let's do this." He said, flying in and slashing Neve several times with his wing talons, then blasting her with a sphere of electricity from his mouth, before swinging his head upwards while making a blade of electricity to knock her back, jumping and letting the momentum of the head swing flip him back through the air, allowing him to get out of the way as Jiro blasted her full on with a soundwave from her boots.
"You damn brat! I'm the one that pierces everyone's ears! You think you outdo me at my own game?!" She demanded, preparing to roar once again, but Momo had created a net gun and fired it at the villain, the net being smaller than normal, but enough to cover her head and prevent her from roaring. She then readied her staff once again and rushed in, her and Aster working together and beating the former Flying Wyvern in sync with one another, staying out of each other's way and hitting her in such a manner to set the other one up for their next hit. She eventually managed to unleashing a burst of freezing liquid that forced them to jump back, allowing her to freeze and destroy the net over her head, but Jiro had then rushed in and hit her with a point blank blast from her speaker boots, sending her back into a boulder.
"Give up. You can't beat the three of us like this." Yaoyorozu told her.
Neve growled at this, before smirking. "You know what? You're absolutely right. I can't beat you like this... So, I better try fighting you in my REAL form!" She declared, pulling out a vial of Frenzy Virus, crushing it in her hand and allowing the vapors to rise up to her face for her to inhale, becoming afflicted with the virus and, in a matter of moments, once again becoming the apex of the Coral Highlands, a true Legiana.
"What the hell!?" Jiro cried out, backing up and behind Momo.
"N-no... It can't be." Aster said in shock.
"Aster? You know what that creature is?" Yaoyorozu asked in shock.
"L-Look, we'll talk about it later. We fight now. It's weak to electricity and poison. Fire's not a bad option, either. Do what you can with that." He said, taking to the skies again. From there, he was quick to get the beast's attention by blasting her with a few balls of electricity, gaining her ire.
With it distracted, Momo used the opportunity to create a smoke bomb. "I never thought I'd ever make something like this. But, I suppose in a situation as dire as this, extremes must be taken." She said, tossing the smoke grenades at the Legiana's feet, at which point they deployed their toxin, noticeably affecting the creature as it slowed down, becoming slightly delirious and gagging as if it were going to be sick.
However, while it was sickened, it was also enraged at this biological assault and rushed at Yaoyorozu, jumping and spiraling through the air to slam into Momo like a drill, knocking her to the ground. It then loomed over her in preparation to maul her. Aster flew in and tried to save her by attacking with his scissortail, but the beast actually managed to catch his tail in her teeth, swing him around and to the ground right next to the Creation Quirk-User. Jiro was next to rush in, trying to save her friends with the sword Yaoyorozu had supplied her earlier, but the Legiana easily lashed her with its tail, knocking her back, before turning back to its prey.
But as she recovered, Jiro noticed that one of the defeated villains she landed next to had a fire Quirk, with his body lit aflame. So she quickly moved behind the villain and plugged her earphone jacks into her boots, projecting a soundwave towards the Legiana, the air pressure of the soundwaves carrying the flames with them, turning the soundwave into a vortex of fire that engulfed the Legiana, causing it to shriek and reel back in pain.
Seeing this opening, Aster wasted no time getting back to his feet and raking the talons of his wings across the Flying Wyvern's face, before backflipping and slamming his electrified tail into her chin. Yaoyorozu and Jiro then rushed in together, maneuvering around the beast and striking in several different parts of the body, flinching the beast and hitting some important joints to hamper its mobility, as well as keeping her guessing where the next hit would come from. She tried to take a bite out of Jiro, but she managed to block it with her sword, entering into a tug-of-war with the Wyvern over the weapon, allowing Momo to hit the evil monster in the head with her staff, then bringing the bottom up and bashing it into her chin, forcing her to let go of the sword, before Aster dove down with a strike on the top of her head with his scissortail, then continuing to impale his tail into the ground, before unleashing a large dome of electricity to knock the beast back until she could no longer keep her balance, falling to the ground and rolling several times before coming to a stop.
End Music
The Legiana growled at this as she got back to her feet, before letting out one more roar and rushing in to attack again. But suddenly, she lost her footing and crashed to the ground. She then let out squawks and shrieks of exertion and pain as she got back to her feet, but also needed to support her body with its wings [3], exhausted as the vapors of the Frenzy Virus slowly began to fade and she began to shrink back down, reverting to her hybrid form. "What?! No! That's not supposed to happen!" Neve exclaimed.
"What just happened?" Yaoyorozu asked.
"Looks like she overcame the Frenzy Virus. It's not consuming her anymore and evened out in her bloodstream. So, I guess that means it wasn't supercharging her and turning her back into a Legiana." Aster guessed, before smirking. "Which means, she's all ours." He declared.
"Dammit! You only won because of those brats, Astalos freak! But next time, you won't be so lucky!" The humanoid Legiana snapped, retreating from the battle.
"Aster... How do you know so much about that strange virus and how it affects those with Quirks like yours?" Momo asked.
"And why does she keep calling you Astalos. What does that mean?" Jiro added to the questioning.
Aster sighed at this. "I'll tell you later. We've got bigger problems to worry about for now." He told them. This was true of course, but he was really buying time to figure out how he would explain this to the girls and reveal the monster students' secret to the whole class.
Meanwhile...
Back towards the center of the base, Midoriya and his group were slowly and sneakily approaching the edge of the water zone, but instead of going as close as they could to the entrance, they had swam towards where Aizawa was fighting to check on their teacher. "Don't get any big ideas this time, Midoriya. No rushing in to be a big hero. We're all pretty wiped after dealing with that Lagiacrus." Tana reminded him.
"Ribbit." Tsuyu croaked in agreement.
"I know. We'll get out of here the second it seems dangerous." Midoriya agreed.
Meanwhile, Aizawa was still masterfully cleaning house with all the lesser villains coming to attack him, although it was clear he was wearing down. Of course, he had help from Daruka, Maxima and Zafira, who were doing quite well themselves at holding back the lesser villains, but they also had to be highly evasive to avoid contracting the Frenzy Virus from one of the thugs empowered by it. "Jeez! With the Frenzy Virus backing them, these guys might actually give some top hunters a run for their money!" Zafira snapped, spitting a wad of Dragon-infused gum at one to stagger him. She would've hit him with her tail with a backflip, but she had to leap back to avoid a strike from another Frenzied villain.
"Yeah. And who knows what it will do to us if it gets us?" Maxima said, using her ponytail trunk to wrap around one villain's leg and throw him back into another group. But then, they heard a shrieking roar that none of them could ever mistake coming from the landslide zone, looking up at it in shock. "I think we just found out." She said in horror. The didn't see the full form, but the massive, sail-like wings, whipping dark blue tail and the pair of dark blue antenna-like fins, along with that piercing scream, were the tell-tale signs of a Legiana.
"You've got to be kidding me!" Daruka said, holding back the arms of a female villain who tried to stab her with a knife in each hand. "Isn't a small army bad enough!? That is the absolute LAST thing we need to be dealing with right now!" She snapped, pushing the villain girl back, spinning and sending her flying with a tail strike.
"Girls, focus!" Aizawa snapped as Shigaraki rushed in at him. He reached Aizawa and threw an attack, but the teacher was able to evade it and deliver an elbow to his stomach.
"Heck yeah!" Zafira cheered.
"Alright, teach!" Maxima praised as well, they, along with Midoriya's group, excitedly believing their teacher landed a decisive blow.
However, that shock quickly faded when they saw that the villain had actually caught the elbow. Aizawa's hair fell shortly after the strike. "It was hard to see when you were jumping around, but I found your tell. It's your hair." The villain explained, while behind the mask, Aizawa's bloodshot eyes widened in shock. The reason being the shirt covering his elbow turned grey like ash and crack, causing him pain as the elbow beneath it was likely also being affected.
"Hey! Get away from him!" Daruka snapped, trying to charge forward, before stopping as a pair of Frenzied villains leapt in her way and lunged at her, forcing her to leap back.
Ignoring her outburst, Shigaraki continued to lecture the underground hero. "When it drops, it means you've stopped using your Quirk. You're having to blink more often." The villain explained his findings. "You shouldn't push yourself so hard. You might just fall apart. Wouldn't that be a shame?" The hand-covered man taunted as the shirt broke away, causing Aizawa's skin on the elbow to creak and fall away, revealing the muscle tissue beneath.
Midoriya was horrified by what he saw, but Aizawa remained calm and knocked the villain away while leaping back to safety. (He destroyed my elbow!) The teacher realized, before looking to the side as another villain cried out as he advanced, giving himself away and allowing Aizawa to dodge his attacks and kick him away, before dodging the attacks of several more villains, holding his elbow and panting heavily in exhaustion.
"Dammit! We've gotta do something!" Zafira snapped, but was surrounded by villains and struggling to keep all of them back.
"That annoying Quirk of yours isn't suited for drawn out fights against big groups, is it? Don't you think you're a little out of your element here, Eraserhead?" Shigaraki questioned as he got back up. "You're much better at working stealthily. You're known for surprise attacks, not fighting head to head." The villain continued to taunt as Aizawa tried to recuperate as much as he possibly could in this brief moment of respite. "But despite knowing that, you didn't hesitate to jump into the middle of this fight. To put your students at ease." The villain now praised the hero, before his subordinates attacked again, but Aizawa masterfully dodged, causing one villain to take out another with his spiked metal ball and chain, before Aizawa took him out with a headbutt and kicked down a third villain.
As Aizawa continued to pant and try to recover, he turned and readied his scarf as Shigaraki held his arms out in admiration. "And look at that, you're still standing! You really are so cool!" He said in amazement, before leaning forward. "Oh, by the way, hero, I'm not the final boss." He declared as Aizawa turned to see the bird-faced villain towering over him.
Suddenly, the monster let out a shriek before he shot his hand out towards Aizawa, sending his mask flying with a spray of blood. Midoriya looked on in horror as several thudding noises could be heard. "Mr. Aizawa." The green-haired boy said in terror.
"NOOO!" The three monster girls fighting alongside Aizawa shouted.
"That's it! Get out of my way!" Maxima shouted, charging forward and barreling through several villains, even ramming into and managing to throw back the bird-brained villain.
"No... Get out of here..." Aizawa told her.
Shigaraki simply laughed at this. "Oh, foolish hero. That was never going to happen in the first place. There's no escape for any of you." Shigaraki declared.
A/N: Finally, another chapter out! I'm sorry to all the fans of this story that it took so long, but I hope this was worth it. I wanted to wait until I had all the chapters done to make the full episode, but then the story wouldn't be updated until 2025. So, I hope you are still pleased with what we had here. And I'll try to get more chapters out in a more timely manner.
[1] Luna the Lunastra shall be voiced by Emilia Clarke, better known as Daenerys Targaryen
[2] Neve the Legiana shall be voiced by Maryke Hendrikse, English voice of Revy from Black Lagoon.
[3] think when a Flying or Bird Wyvern is vulnerable for Wyvern Riding in Rise