A Hunters return: Darkshine, Puri-Puri Prisoner, Garou
Darkshine brazenly walked the halls of the monster association base. So far, he's been pretty disappointed with all of the hype that they set for themselves with the invasion, and with that huge creature, Elder Centipede, being a part of them, he expected to find some strong monsters here. He could understand that, on the surface, they would be mostly testing the heroes a bit and reserving their stronger members for the inner sanctum, but so far, he has still been waiting for them. Most of the monsters didn't even seem much stronger than before; all of their attacks just bounced off of him, just as most attacks, or they would break themselves on attacking him, which he didn't mind much at all.
It seemed to him that the only serious monsters that may get his blood pumping were the cadre of the monster association after all, part of his mind simply froze at that, while he hadn't encountered a cadre before he had fought and sparred with someone who had which was Green Savior but more than that he had fought two of their cadre before and by his admission remarked that he wouldn't be able to beat them in the end if the fight protracted for some time, which came to a shock to himself as Midoriya and he was more or less equal to each other when it came to strength at least partially the boy could become even stronger than him in short burst where he couldn't match he never knew how to feel about that still.
It seemed like such a smack in the face to him that someone could just magic themselves into having power comparable to him just by being born. He understood that the boy went through his fair share of hardship handling that power, as Kirishima described his early days as breaking his arms every time he tried to use it, and god forbid if that was himself during his younger years, he definitely wouldn't be able to take doing that, but still, after every spar and loss, that bitterness continued to grow and grow against the boy, but he was a professional, and he kept it to himself well enough.
The problem truly came in the fact there were monsters that even he couldn't beat which said a lot for himself as the doubt of encountering another creature on that level started to shed some doubt in his mind as the fear of dying took hold during the conflict and this only largened when he wanted to take a look at the monsters themselves using the VGS machine he had faced off against both Elder Centipede and Goketsu and no matter how hard he tried he was beaten every time it made him severely doubt joining the raid at all if monsters like this were present but after being told that these two were two of the strongest monsters around by a large amount he had gathered the will power to go, although he would avoid fighting orochi if that being were stronger than the others he would allow Flash or Tatsumaki to take it on by themselves to their heart's content.
Despite his bitterness, he trained with midoriya for the lead-up to the raid whenever he could get the opportunity to test himself and how far his training was going. However, he still never caught up with them, and if anything the boy seemed to be improving at a much faster rate than himself which still only increased his bitterness towards him but he still had his muscles to rely upon without any of his other tricks and purely just fighting he could win against the teen in a protracted battle it took over 30 minutes. Both of them were fairly exhausted but he managed to win and he would have thought that he would be on cloud nine from that. However, the victory was offset by the knowledge that the boy still had more strength to spare but it boosted his confidence enough to come to the raid completely prepared for battle with his mind on straight.
This was the biggest operation in the Hero Association's history, and he didn't want to miss it for a single moment. He was as fully prepared and ready as he ever would be, and he knew that there could potentially be an opponent that could push him to 100% and win without said opponent having to hold back, but a bit of worry still plagued his mind. How much stronger were the top two in comparison to the rest of them? If he couldn't beat them, he didn't have to worry about just being beaten up but killed.
Just thinking of that made a micro shutter emerge through his body but he tried to think on the bright side of things he doubted all the monsters would be that strong but he would still keep on his toes just in case this wasn't just a sparring match this was the real deal and he was ready to face most of the foes head on and his thoughts were confirmed when over the comms he heard Child Emperor remarked that he along with Flash have already defeated three of the cadre of the 10, Flash having taken two and Child Emperor having beaten another which definitely boosted his confidence but he partly felt bad for the reason he knew Child Emperor was strong in his own right with his machines and toys but they weren't much in comparison to his muscles so it appeared that the monster cadre could fluctuate pretty heavily so his confidence continued to rise with every step he took in the monster association base with every monster he killed.
The only sour spot was that the child had managed to get away, meaning that he still needed to keep on the lookout for the child on his travels. Given that his floor seemed clear for the most part, he started to make his way down deeper into the base. He reasoned that the child would likely be taken further down into the base for better security, so he traveled downward, heading further and further down until he ran into one monster. This one seemed different than the rest of them. He slowed his jog down to a brisk walk before standing still.
"Are you a cadre?" Darkshine asked
"Hmm? Cadre? Not quite, but I'm the closest thing there is to that level; I am Bug God, an invincible monster whose powers symbolize the strength of insects." bug god stated, and his primary goal was to succeed by a monster before himself. He must be strong then, and he wanted to sample that strength and see if it was the real deal. He crossed his hands over his chest as the monster dashed forward.
He immediately curled up on himself as the monster laid into him with a barrage of attacks. He didn't know how long the barrage lasted, but when he was finally able to get his head on straight and realized something very important, he took no damage from any of it. He didn't even feel the monster's blows against his muscles. Was it just lying to him? Was it just trying to play a game against him? Darkshine thought a bit bitterly. The barrage of blows stopped a moment later, and Darkshine glared at the monster.
"I thought you said you were close to being a cadre, and if that was all the strength of insects, then you fall incredibly below my expectations... You had to have been making fun of me, huh? Even more, despite being an insect monster, you don't even give off a dark shine; that's the worst." Darkshine spoke up as he glared at the monster through his block with such intensity that the monster took a step back in his tracks.
"Say what you can now, what you've thought you figured out how strong I am? Well, I got news for you."
"The worst! Now you made me mad, and let me tell you something: three heroes can't afford to anger Tatsumaki the esper with overwhelming killing ability. If you anger her, she will kill you so badly that not even a body remains. Mr. King, the strongest being on earth, if angered, will roar and stamp out all evil in an instant. Then there is me, the forever dark and shining super alloy Darkshine; if you dare anger me, then these muscles will not hold back." Darkshine remarked
"Oh, then let me teach you what will happen if you anger me. My carapace is like an iron fortress; even the hero hunter's punches are ineffective against it. The explosive power that I can unleash with my insect body is in a whole other dimension compared to you mere mammals. So you can say that my body is like a weapon; your muscles are only for show. I'll tear it to shreds and turn you into bug food." Bug God replied as his body started to morph and get bigger, growing thicker plating, and he also had an extra set of arms.
"How reckless." Darkshine simply replied as he waited as the monster attacked him again. It was like flies landing on his skin, and he launched out with a light jab in return, which completely eviscerated the creature, leaving only its feet behind. Darkshine merely huffed as he looked at the remains of the bug monster. Yeah, it seems only a cadre would be able to give him much fight at all. If the others were something to go by as he continued to move forward, he encountered a few other monsters on his way down, but none of them were particularly strong or memorable.
He felt somewhat jealous every time the base seemed to shake and shutter as it hinted at other fierce battles. In fact, now that he thinks about it, there actually weren't that many cadres in comparison to S-class so there was a good chance he really wouldn't see much action in the first place and that could be a blessing or curse that he was undecided about but his muscles seemed to want a challenge as he flattened another monster that had moved passed, his confidence fully peaked when over the radio king's disciple said that he had already defeated monster king orochi with that monster down along with Tatsumaki confirming that she took care of the advisor things seemed to be going well, until Sweet Mask seemed to break the mood up with him calling for help, he guessed that the A-class had definitely overestimated himself but he wouldn't let that stop him from leaning out a helping hand but by the time that he pulled out his map to locate where the star was and turned out he didn't need help anymore as green savior was there to help in the first place andsome time later itturned out it was actually a trap set by some monsters, he needed to ensure that his earpiece didn't fall out to avoid such things.
The non-killing army was already there for support; Kirishima did tell him that they would be around, so that's even more support, and while they were about equal in strength, the boy was definitely faster than him and could get there much faster, as it showed as he watched the mark zip down, leaving him to just continue forward by himself. he was partially surprised when over the radio the head advisor sekingar remarked that a cadre had managed to break up towards the surface but Genos was upstairs so he assumed that he would be able to take care of it and course, they did although it was taken care of by drive knight instead with him now present that meant that all of the S-class was present besides watchdog man, yeah the monsters had practically no chance at this point he thought and to hammer in that point there was a group of eight or so monsters that didn't even attack him at all and held their hand or appendages up in surrender as they passed by him, the leader of this group remarked about leaving to some sort of surrender and escape route which when he asked for details on such a place it became clear when they remarked that it was a route made by the non-killing army.
He allowed them to pass through. He didn't know about what that group was doing, but he wasn't one for killing defenseless beings, not even monsters themselves. He didn't know what the non-killing army was planning, but he could assume that they had some plan for what to do with the monsters. The only thing left for him to do was look for the child, he guessed, as he stretched as a rather loud bang caught his attention and he moved forward.
Puri-Puri Prisoner was currently traveling along the monster association, taking out monsters. As he went, he didn't have a direction for where he was going and was just tunneling anywhere he could. He had hoped to eventually find the cat monster he was looking for. He felt his backside rumble a bunch, indicating that someone was talking on the phone again, so he removed it and listened in. He was shocked to find that the monster had appeared on the surface, but everything seemed to be fine for the most part.
So he continued his search for the child. In the meantime, everyone seemed to be taking care of themselves fairly well besides Sweet Mask, but before he could make his way over to the heartthrob idol, the non-killing army had taken the job for him. Well, that may have been for the best, as he continued swimming through the concrete. Now he was free to do whatever he wanted, whether that be killing monsters or doing other things, so he decided to link up and see if anyone else may have needed help if the situation called for it or just to check if the marks were still there in the first place. He could never be too careful as he put the locator back in his bum and continued forward to Darkie Chan.
He wanted to ensure that the man was alright as he dug straight towards that position, he dug for about a minute before he exited out in some sort of sellar, he took a look around the room and was shocked to find someone chained up on the wall he quickly made his way over and looked the man over or what seemed to be a man, his skin was charred black and he seemed unresponsive for the most part as he checked him over but as he looked at his face a bit more, he did remind him of someone that was on a wanted posture, looking at his distinct hair he could definitely tell who it was but just as that epiphany fell upon him, he heard the shattering of chains and he subconsciously activated his bristle armor immediately but despite that the singular blow the man hit him was so powerful that it launched him completely out of the room destroying multiple walls as he felt several bones shatter and break before he came sliding to a stop crumpled up against a wall, he was completely delirious from the assault and his head was screaming in pain but he collected himself to notice a large figure approach his slumped position.
"Your muscles have been destroyed. Who did this to you?" Darkshine asked
"It was likely Silver Fangy's former disciple... Garou. He had more power than I'd imagined. Be careful, Darky. I ended up like this after one hit. His power and technique were first-class, but he still looked like he was growing. He seems to be becoming a troublesome monster. He's already reached the point where an S-class hero would have trouble fighting him one-on-one. I'll be honest, Darky, I think even with your unmatched strength, facing him head-on would be dangerous. That's how threatening he felt. It might not sound convincing coming from me, the weakest S-class hero. I had become stronger from my battles here, but I was still reduced to this state. Just be sure to keep in mind that within our enemies this time, there was a monster that took me, Puri-Puri Prisoner, out in a single hit." prisoner spoke.
"Got it; I'll be sure to give Garou a good smackdown in your place." Darkshine replied happily before turning his attention to the man as he came towards him. He looked at the hunter approaching and couldn't help but get a little excited, while the prisoner was nothing to him. Taking him out in one hit was impressive, and the man should prove to be a bit more entertaining to him than the monsters that he has encountered so far. Could he be the worthy challenger he wanted—someone like Midoriya and Kabuto who could push him to 100%?
The teen's progress and movements steadily improved as he continued forward towards him before finally getting into striking range, and the teen dashed at him, launching off with multiple strikes along his body despite his confidence. Darkshine was a bit curious to find out what the hero hunter was about, so he allowed the rain of blows to rake along his body, and he simply smiled as he didn't feel a single one. His confidence in his plan grew, and he flexed as the man came at him again, and his attack completely bounced off him.
He used that opportunity to dash forward and shoulder-shoot him, sending him flying through several walls just like he did Puri-Puri Prisoner while he was going easy on him, partly in respect to the fact that he was going to get some revenge for the prisoner. He continued forward toward the down man who got up. Despite his skill and technique, his abilities were nothing compared to his muscles. The man got up and continued his attack, running around him so fast that it kicked up dust before he struck out with a kick straight to his face, but he was slow as he delivered a counter punch to the man instead, sending him flying backward once more.
"Give up, Garou; your monster play ends here." Darkshine remarked and noticed an interesting sight as the man looked at him, his one red eye appearing to focus in comparison to before as he managed to catch his balance and slide to stop still standing.
"You are... super alloy Darkshine? Where is this place? I was fighting Orochi. Where did that monster go? .." Garou remarked, focusing on the hero in front of him.
"BUAHA It looks like I was fighting in my sleep." Garou remarked comically as he started to stretch his achy and sore muscles.
"In your sleep? If you're going to come up with excuses, try to think of something more creative to explain why you can't rise to the occasion." Darkshine remarked simply
"Well, I'm not a pretty sight in my sleep; I'm sorry if I made you think you were going to win." Garou replied, simply finishing his stretch and getting into his position, his hands mirroring the same pose that the old man did before during their clash. Darkshie was noticeably more on guard than before, but he still believed that he could win as he threw a punch in his direction.
Garou reacted almost instantly, deflecting the large punch away from him, raising his leg, and hitting directly in the man's face, carrying through with his strike as he forced his leg to slam the man directly on the ground.
"If I defeat you, Darkshine, it will prove that my attack power can succeed against anyone." Garou remarked as he watched the man spin up back into the air and land back in a battle stance.
"Indeed, your muscle coordination has dramatically improved, but you're still no match for me. How about we just stop this fighting now? If you come with me, you can atone for your sins and use the Hero Association's state-of-the-art gyms to reforge both your muscles and mind to maybe become a true hero." Darkshine tried in an attempt to desolate the situation, but it only seemed to do the opposite as the man used his took on a seemingly sadistic grin on his face as he pulled both of his arms back.
"You people... monster association, hero association, you will both be annihilated tonight; now die in peace." Garou replied simply.
"Then I'll end it here." Darkshine remarked as he flexed, bulked up to his strongest point, and charged forward.
Garou's instincts flared at the attack that was coming his way. Everything told him to doge, but he was too slow, which only left deflection. Could he do so? was the question, and to that, the answer was a resounding no as he felt the man thunder down into his chest. His ribs cracked from the effort of staying together. There was so much power in such a simple move like a tackle. He didn't think something like this could be possible. Was the old geezer technique not capable of reflecting this? Several walls and now entire rooms seemed to have collapsed as he started to be moved past them so many that he lost track of it all.
"To experience his divine technique, I had offered to spar with bangs in the past. I was mostly the aggressor who forced the action, but he beat me up. Even though I didn't sustain any severe damage, my attacks were all deflected, and I got thrown to the ground again and again. I know because I experienced it. Garou, you're still too green. You have only been winning so far due to luck; if you had encountered Atomic Samurai, Tatsumaki, Flashy Flash, or King, you would be dead before you even got to show off any of your techniques. I don't know what pissed you off so much to start hunting heroes, but you should know your place."
Darkshine remarked, and for a reply, the man threw rocks at him. He let the attacks wash over him as they were of no threat, but he was more surprised that the man could continue to stand from that attack just now; he was hoping to just knock him out right then and there.
"Yeah, of course, they're strong; you're able to unleash violence on others without questioning whether it's right; like they are, you can win any fight. It means you've thrown away your kindness; it all stinks~ the stench of hypocrisy is making me sick. Is this situation supposed to be a part of your little morality play, too? The protagonist is filled with strength because of the good cause he's fighting for. You were saying some bullshit about me "playing monster." Do you people think you aren't "playing hero"? All you heroes are shit, and what grinds my gears is that the shitter you are, the more the public loves you. That's why I fight; I will put my life on the line to crush justice. You'll never be able to stop this monster play!" Garou shouted as he charged forward again.
Quickly covered himself and patiently waited as the man continued to hammer away at him. He would eventually tire himself out, leaving him open for his next attack, which would ensure he finished it next time. However, as he waited a few moments, he realized something: he wasn't stopping. No, not just that he was getting faster. The man came at him like a tidal wave of a dozen martial artists, each attacking him at once. It didn't make sense; truly, someone that hurt shouldn't be able to move like that in the first place, and now here he was going even beyond that. The thought of losing crossed his mind, and his body instantly began to shrivel up again as he just weathered the storm.
Garou's body continues to improve without his knowledge, channeling the whirlwind-cutting fist in one hand and the water stream rock-smashing fist in the other. He knew that with these two techniques, even the large mass of muscle that was Darkshine could be broken and torn apart without mercy.
The secret joint technique that even a world-class genius cannot normally perform alone, the cross-fang dragon slayer fist, was acquired by him subconsciously. By forcing himself through suicidal training, dojo challenges, and hero hunts, this man can copy and acquire things that go beyond the water stream and the whirlwind. Together with Silver Fang, they are known as the twin pillars of the hero world. Before the overwhelming defense of super alloy Darkshine, the one who is considered to be at the pinnacle of physical combat, Garou did not falter. In a battle against the strong, the harder he is pushed, the more he can unleash his true ability and experience growth.
Garou's limiter was starting to break.
Darkshine mind was faltering as the barrage continued but before it could fall into complete despair there was one thing that brought it back from the depths and held it there, he had not been too badly hurt yet, in actual fighting terms Garou wasn't doing much of anything that the monster dog has done so far so if he unleashed his full power with then maybe things would change, so Darkshine did just that as he launched a heavy superalloy bazooka but he was stunned when he was countered full force as the man launched a punch of his own, he watched as his clothes or whatever it was seemingly coming apart but reassembles itself and condensing down into a section of his abdomen creating a spiral portion to revolve around his body even levitating off him, was this the body of a monster he thought as he again was backed up by a barrage of strikes.
This time the strikes were different; he could feel every one of them as he was forcibly pushed back. One of his jabs slipped through his guard and punched him in the face, causing him to stagger backward. He replied in kind, launching off with a punch forgoing capture and attempting to kill the man to end the fight now before it got too far, but he deflected the strike with a single thumb, got within his reach, and struck him in the gut. Pain erupted from his stomach as a splatter of blood came from his mouth.
The world around them seemed to become dust from the shockwave of the impact that hit him. Darkshine coughed for a moment, clearing the blood that was still in his throat. His body froze up at the sight of it; he didn't think that was before looking around at the sand around them. He used himself as a stepping stone to increase his technique even further. Could he ever hope to beat this guy? Or was he even a human anymore?
The thought of losing brought a sting to his heart once more. Another person had arrived who managed to surpass him completely, and this guy wasn't even a cadre. Dakrshine thought as he looked upon Garou standing above him proudly proclaiming that he was ready to continue fighting, his fears started to get the best of him again, and he felt the shivers form as he thought back to his past, before he was nothing but looser he lost at every video game he played, he couldn't play sports because of his frail body.
He lacked confidence because of those factors so he wanted to change that he begged his parent for a dumbbell the smallest he could find was a 3kg version and it would have to be enough so he practiced and practiced and slowly and steadily he was able to increase the weight to 5kg, 10kg, 50kg, 200kg, 500kg, 1 ton, 2 tons to the point where people ran out of numbers to even calculate his strength. Through his flawless battles and constant victories, he finally grew in confidence. Even when he joined the hero association, he never stopped his training. He continued to win even against monsters until he was finally promoted to S-class, where he thought he was looking for a great opponent that could push him to 100%. Still, after his fight with Midoriya and his losses against the monster in the VGS, he realized that wasn't quite it.
He wasn't looking forward to a fight, but he was looking forward to a gratifying victory. He never wanted to be in a fight where the outcome he could not control, as with that came the fear of death. Just like before, Garou didn't kill his opponent, but that was before. Now he was more like a monster than ever, and now he just doesn't know anymore, and with that revelation came back again that growing fear.
It continued to rise as the teen attacked him metamorphosing the smaller teen into a giant ferocious beast that he simply could not compete with his body wanted to run away just like before not wanting to fight anymore this was it and the best way to do that was to make space so he threw both of his hands out in superalloy double bazooka it landed cleanly against the teens head but he only managed to skid back a few feet before he came charging back at him, he dashed back at him with incredible speed to fast for him to track he felt another large pain in his stomach sending him off his feet he saw the hunter spin while in mid-air as he crashed him back down into the ground with a kick directly to his neck.
He was about to hit him with a double earstrike Darkshine despite his fear rising to the occasion of this one final moment, wouldn't let another teen surpass him he would have no excuse like his time with Green Savior so again he muscles up the strength against the giant monster and quickly rose his head up to strike the man in the head snapping the teens head back and allowing him to flip him off of himself, the teen charged right back at him with a barrage of blows each stronger than before he couldn't just sit there and whether this assault anymore, the punches were getting to be too strong, so he would counter with a push kick to get the teen away but that proved fruitless as he diverted the attack and managed to hit him with an even stronger blow that made him reel back in pain.
He was still going to try as he launched a punch but again it was diverted and the teen came back stronger than ever with a blow that snapped his head back causing him to step back again, this back and forth of him attempting to retaliate against the unrelenting barrage only to leave himself open made him realize, there was just no chance for him to land an attack anymore, what point was all his strength if he couldn't hit his opponent, it was pointless all of it .. Just pointless… He thought that as he did so, his body just gave up and dropped to the ground. He couldn't win, so he guessed he should just play possum to save himself a beating and hopefully get out of the place on his power.
It took a couple of moments as Garou checked him over, but eventually, the teen took the bait and seemed like he was going to leave him alone as the place started to shake and vibrate once more.
"Geesh, what's next? What's this shaking all about? Do you have any ideas for a muscle figurine? What has been done already? Your power and toughness were one hell of a hurdle. But I overcame that. I surpassed you." Garou remarked as he took one last glance at the down hero before he started to walk away, Darkshine waited a total of five minutes before he finally decided to stick his head up and looked around the coast seemed to be clear and before long he got up and stretched his muscles were a bit sore but he wasn't too much worse for wear.
He heard over his mic that the child had been rescued and that they would be heading back well that meant he could just leave, he was just completely demoralized from that battle, he may not even be cut out to be a hero, after all, he was just a loser he thought, he couldn't believe that he just faked being unconscious he was a complete joke, he thought as he walked absentmindedly and had inadvertently ran straight into something and he immediately froze up as the thing he had run into was none other than the dog monster from before during the invasion.
His body, reeling from his encounter with Garou, completely froze up, and he didn't know what to do. His muscles shook from fear; he didn't know what would happen in a fight between him and this creature the first time, and now he was even less prepared, rather physically and mentally. Could he die here? The thought made him want to run away screaming, but he didn't want to set the thing off. It stared at him at first. It growled at him, but it quieted down as he didn't make any moves and started to just stand there, shaking.
The dog went to sniff him, and Darkshine noticeably stiffened at the contact and simply braced himself for the worst. But...nothing came. He looked at the dog, who seemed to not want to fight itself and was shivering, mirroring that of his own. He guessed they were alike in that regard, and with that shared fear, he felt compelled to reach out a hand and tentatively touch the dog. It reacted instantly, but it seemed to calm down when he assured him that he was a friend and he wasn't going to fight it, and there he lay down against the overly large dog as the world started to fall around them.
A Powerful Enemy: Tatsumaki
"Fame and fortune" is the ambition of many who choose the path of a professional hero; however, their goal is always top of the A-class and never S-class. The common knowledge accepted by all, even the fiercest of warriors: THE S-CLASS IS INSANE! This is an expression of awe from those who once had the goal of becoming the strongest and an acknowledgment of the existence of beings who will never waver no matter what stands in their way.
However,
The S-class heroes are constantly called monsters in stories told by society. On this day, they made their first contact with a real monster group. Being prepared to face death for those who have attained power beyond humans is not supposed to be their destiny. Today, they are not prepared to die. In their minds, a long-forgotten feeling has begun to emerge.
FEAR
From humanity's perspective, they had already made contact with threats of the same scale. But as long as he remained indifferent about speaking about what he had done, nobody would have any way of knowing. It's not as if Sitch had not hypothesized about such unprecedented danger. Still, the reason he has the utmost faith that the infiltration members will have success is because of her. S-class rank 2 Tornado of Terror was participating. She is a being that nothing in the world could hope to defeat in a frontal attack. Rather than S-class rank 1 blast, who does not carelessly stand on center stage, she is treated as the association's final weapon. However, her opponent on this day took a different approach.
Gyoro-Gyoro sat in his room sending out his feelers attempting to keep tabs on the situation dealing with the heroes most of them continued on their pathways not being slowed down in the slightest by the plethora of monsters that came their way, their aura would completely wink out of resistance each time they closed in on the human signature he was feeling, he was partially surprised in the fact they even among what he would consider the weaker of the S-class were also not slowed down, which was a shame but of no-consequence even if they didn't manage to damage the S-class in any significant margin they still served to at least wear them down until the cadre would be able to make their move,
however there was some cause for concern due to being unable to locate two individuals one of which was king, he was like a shadow never to be seen or even felt, the monsters in that pathway themselves had relayed to him that he was never seen and they suffered no casualties it was very peculiar and made him nervous someone so powerful being able to be so stealthy to sneak past dozens of monsters without even being detected was impressive which also meant he could pop up anywhere and cause complete devastation almost unimpeded.
The second person he couldn't track was not due to some uniqueness of stealth but the mere overbearing feeling of energy coming from said individual; dozens of monsters were vanishing at a staggering pace, even faster than any other he knew whom that individual could only be. Manually attempting to figure out the scene would only serve to draw that person to him, and before he did that, he would like to first verify the whereabouts of the king before dealing with that one. He did, however, manage to see that in the place of the route that he assumed King was supposed to be traversing was another; this one was special; it seemed as if the monsters sent against it were being completely obliterated.
It was odd that he had never heard or seen anything about this man before, but his strength seemed decent, at least against the rift raft that came his way. Was this supposed to be some sort of secret weapon? Or was it just an above-average hero hoping to gain a name for himself by coming down here along with the other S-class heroes? He would have to keep an eye on this one, just in case. He continued to monitor the situation that was happening as best he could using his senses. He could feel that a hero had been making steady progress towards the child hostage, almost too precisely, but it seemed that he was intercepted and was taking his time.
Checking up on the other cadre he noticed most were in their proper position all except two of them, they seemed to be taking initiative which depending on the outcome could be helpful or harmful to the plan but it was too late to reprimand them for it, the plan was for the cadre to attack the heroes each of them at the same time kills them and then either provide support for the others or move on to the next hero ideally he would have liked for more of the monsters to be like them and gang up on the heroes but a last this wasn't meant to be it would cause too much needless conversation about how they wouldn't need such things but as the battle fought between them was fast, he couldn't keep up with their speed it became clear that the humans had won as he the humans move forwards but more than that there had been two humans in that area which could explain why they lost the battle, these two humans split off from each other after which was interesting.
Something more interesting, however, was brought to his attention by a messenger. Was there some rock monster that brought news that the non-killing army had been evacuating monsters from the association? Given that he made himself abundantly clear, he would have suspected them to give up and join the others in killing monsters, but they are now still attempting to help them. He didn't know what to take for it, but he would keep a close eye on it for now and send the messenger away with a message telling them to kill any monster that even considered leaving for such a path, and they would be labeled as traitors. Gyoro-Gyoro never expected that another hindrance to his forces would be desertion, but he guessed these things would always be; everything would be going according to plan until the operations started. He sighed as he continued his monitoring.
The strange man seemed to be making pace even faster than the others, so he decided to truly test the man and sent a telekinetic message to rover and sent him in the man's direction. He would likely end the man's rampage quickly and be free to do whatever he liked from there. However, in taking that action, it seemed his time was up as someone appeared before him in his room. "I finally found you, "the great psychic Gyoro-Gyoro." Tatsumaki taunted.
"My, my, I didn't expect you to get here so soon, tornado of terror, the esper prodigy!"
"You are indeed someone that I must deal with personally; indeed, I am Gyoro-Gyoro, the military advisor of the Monster Association and the one who will create a new world centered around monsters!" Gyoro-Gyoro remarked
"Military advisor? Oh, so you're not the boss." Tatsumaki commented simply.
"Drop dead." Gyoro-Gyoro simply replied as he took the very walls of his room and more slamming it down on the girl in all directions encapsulating her in a large orb of gravel and rock and continued to pressure it on, but something was wrong as he felt a force push back but not power struggle of any kind no the counter force completely blew his away the orb of rock and gravel that he attempted to use to crush the girl completely blew his out of the water and with an explosion of rock and light, in the center was a girl there completely unscathed by the attack, he was surprised but that turned to utter shock when the girl telekinetically commanded fragments of the once large orb of rock with just her finger and sent four rocks at him faster than he could even see but he did feel it as his whole right arm was completely obliterated by the assault straight through his barrier.
Given that she could do that with just a finger, it was slightly cause for concern, but it also told him something he likely already knew: he couldn't afford to hold back against this opponent as he let his ESP power fully flow through himself, making him larger and larger while regrowing his arm. With this, he believed himself to be the superior esper between the smaller girls as he threw up and brought them down, slamming the girl with a force of 300 times the supergravity wave, but he was in awe as the girl simply shifted her shoulders. In a mockery to stretch them, calling his waves just a nice massage for her since she had been sleeping with a new pillow lately, he couldn't even fathom the utter bewilderment of her words or actions before.
With just a glare, his legs were completely twisted along with some of his lower body, and his two arms went next, twisting to the point of breaking off and disappearing into nothingness before his entire world went dark as every eye along his body was popped like a kid playing with bubbles. This was insane; he never expected the gap between her sister and him to be this big; it far exceeded her expectations. This was a huge miscalculation on his part.
"I now see how strong you are. It's over for me. But did you have to finish me off in such a cruel way? How nasty of you, tornado of terror." Gyoro-Gyoro spoke as he started.
"What are you on about? Meat puppets can't feel pain. I'm going to pull your real body out!" Tatsumaki remarked, and Gyoro-Gyoro cursed that the girl had managed to see through his ruse, and now he realized challenging her was premature, but this left only one option.
"Lord orochi! Please help me! Finish her off, ahh! Lord Orochi! Ahhh!" Gyoro-Gyoro yelled for help.
There was a bit of waiting around for a moment just to find out that Orochi wasn't coming. A large wave vibration rocked the landscape and blew multiple waves of air through their climactic battlefield; however, it seemed that Tatsumaki had covered them for them, keeping them in their position. What concerned him, however, was where Orochi was. The monster couldn't disobey his commands, and the only thing he could think of that could explain the situation was that some enemy took priority over his current climate, but why was Tatsumaki here?
Who else would need that level of concentration unless it was the king? The man could reasonably take that title, which left him with very few options as now he needed to stall Tatsumaki until the fight was done. It worked for a while, at least, but the girl was getting impatient very quickly. He would like to monitor the battle, so as they waited a moment, he managed to sneak off a smaller eye avatar, but by the time it arrived, it seemed to be over as he observed the mask that Orochi usually wore on his head, and the only person there that could be attributed to the feat was none other than that mysterious bald guy, which crushed his eye with both of its hands with a speed that he couldn't avoid.
"Ohh? It seems like this orochi was already defeated. Well, that sucks for you." Tatsumaki commented, and for a moment, Gyoro-Gyoro panicked, thinking that Tatsumaki somehow found a way to see through his very own avatar, but no, the man seemed to be fiddling with something that may have been a communicator.
"Who was that man? Some sort of secret weapon of the hero association?" Gyoro-Gyoro remarked.
"Oh, if you want to know, that was just the king's disciple... Heh, your big bad monster King couldn't even manage to beat King's lackey; the man himself must have known that this would have been a waste of time, although I expect nothing less from King's disciple after all." Tatsumaki remarked
"Damn, just how strong would the king be if his disciple could take out Orochi? Ugh, my orochi, how dare he?" Gyoro-Gyoror murmured out loud.
"Don't you have time to worry about others right now?" Tatsumaki remarked as she lifted the puppet into the air.
"Hold on! Hold on, wait! I surrender; I surrender; spare me!" Gyoro-Gyoro begged.
"If you want to apologize, do it in person; come on out and say it!" Tatsumaki remarked as she lifted a finger and started to pull the person on the inside out. Gyoro-Gyoro seemed to take exception to that, but the attack, while being an elegant and nuanced use of psychic ability, was still weak and didn't even break her shield, so she simply continued what she was doing and ripped out the person underneath the puppet to find something unexpected.
Her opponent on this day took the opposite approach to frontal attacks. From start to finish, from the instant they met, she had splendidly avoided Tatsumaki's attacks.
"What the hell is this? This is just a lump of meat! She only pretended to be cornered. Is she moving me? Just because your fubuki's friend doesn't think I'm just going to let this go!" Tatsumaki yelled out, knowing that the girl could likely still hear her. Psychos couldn't believe what she was seeing. This girl not only defeated Orochi with the greatest ease, but she was also able to tear apart her durable meat puppet. At this point, her greatest decision was not piloting the meat puppet herself, but that was only the briefest bit of happiness she could afford herself. Now she was just racing her brain on what she could do to salvage the situation for that bald guy, and now, Tatsumaki, how could they have any chance of killing these two individuals?
Maybe if she gathered up all of the cadres around right now, there was a slight chance of them being able to would the girl enough to the point she overtaxed herself and left her vulnerable. The best cadre for prolonged conflict was the homeless emperor and black sperm. There was a chance that she could also throw evil natural water into the ocean and see what became of it, but she would be hopeless to control it at that point if even now she struggled to do so, which means it could very well turn against her.
The best thing she can think of doing now is to simply wait for the girl out and wait for the other cadre to finish off the other heroes. Then she could send them a telekinetic message to come and surround the women, and then together they could beat her while she observed from underground; not even the monsters know where her real body is located, and she could use the distraction to leave and take Garou with her. He has the potential to become even more powerful than Orochi, and with that, he may be able to grow into a strong enough threat to take both Tatsumaki and that bald man out.
The only snag to this plan was King. Was the king stronger than both of them? What could she even do with three monsters on the field? It didn't matter; she would need to recalculate her strategy. She quickly went to gather her things as she made to move and simply restarted elsewhere. The non-killing army had practically offered asylum to some monsters, so she could start by finding that, and if her new monster King Garou could defeat him, then he would be able to defeat anyone else. Yes, that is what she will do. The monster's association may have suffered a massive defeat in this battle, but that does not mean that it was broken because the ruler still lived. After all, real rulers would never show themselves in the open.
Everyone will come to fear this unknown ruler, and she will enjoy watching humanity perish, but after that bald man is out of the picture, Tatsumaki, you'll be the first to die. Psychos thought with bitter anger, which turned into fear when it almost felt like the girl was looking right at her. Her thoughts were seemingly confirmed when the girl remarked that she "found '' someone, but she couldn't possibly be talking about her, right? She was 15 kilometers below the ground; it would be impossible even for a monster like her.
She had to set up relays just so her telekinetic waves could cover that distance, or was she retracing those same relays to get to me from the tiny amount of it that still lay inside of the Gyoro-Gyoro body? She soon felt her body become stiff and twisted, and at the same pace, the girl was making her move. Some of the cadres should surely be done with their fights against the heroes at this point, so they should be able to assist her. Wait, that's it. The rover should be completely free and would be able to get there almost immediately with maximum telepathic output. Overgrown rove! Hurry up and mobilize! Go get Tatsumaki immediately! The girl begged, and she got zero response.
She had sent it against the bald man, but she could feel that it was still alive fighting someone else. She rolled her eyes at that and looked down at her hands. She quickly drank the mind-enhancing elixir. This elixir offered a great boost to her power but at the expense of her mental faculties. The more she used her power, they would start to degrade. But it became clear from the fight with Gyoro-Gyoro that she didn't need nuance; what she needed was power, so she drank the serum, and her power exploded outward.
She quickly reestablished her hold on the woman which was easier than before since the girl was giving away her position like a moth to a flame, he heard the girl challenge that she couldn't possibly pull her up from where she was and she took that as a challenge and responded, of course, she could she was only fishing up a regular human who had nowhere to run as she demonstrated as she yanked the girl skywards, she felt the girl climb up a couple of seconds before she was shocked when the women was able to break free of her hold but not only that reverse the lock and began to drag her down towards her that was fine with her so she went with being "pulled" down to greet the girl in mid-air their two barriers clashed against each other creating a sizeable overload and explosion that created a vast cavern that inside of the base.
"Tatsumaki, today is the day you lose; it's your fault for pushing me this far." Pyskos stated
"Is that so? Speaking of? Where is the kid? Your little goons nabbed him and left. "Tatsumaki remarked as she snapped her fingers, turning a couple of monsters behind her into red mist. The girl didn't reply other than shooting at her with lasers from her eyes of course this didn't phase Tatsumaki as she held a single hand up and blocked the strike the beams separated into four beams around her that struck the structure behind her vaporizing a couple more monsters that seemed to be hiding.
Tatsumaki was done playing around with the girl as she immediately put an end to the girl's attack she put a cage around the woman's throat and hands before pulling the girl to her, she began to twist the girl's body around several times popping limbs in and out of the place as she did so while she again asked the girl to answer her question from before and after another crack this time from her neck she started to do so.
"I don't know; I don't know if the kid was in the hostage cells, but he was being transferred... The rest of the outsiders are Narinki's mercenary squad and Garou, the hero hunter. Ah, that's everyone's honesty," Pyskos remarked.
Tatsumaki relayed said information to the other heroes, ever since the transmission from the mutants there had mostly been radiator silence other than Child Emperor claiming to have defeated one of the cadre along with Flash having defeated two of them, so when Sweet Mask came over the mic to hijack her conversation requesting for help she was completely unenthused especially after the A-class demanded to go down into the base in the first place despite her telling him that he wasn't cut out for it so now here he was begging for assistance like a baby,
served him right in her eyes but the mutants were a lot kinder than her as Green Savior came over the coms instead and remarked that he was going to help, he was somewhat ok so he guessed the popstar would be fine but remembering the none killing-army brought up a different matter entirely that she wanted to discuss with them which was involving her sister so she quickly cut the general comms unit and did a direct line to Green Savior and asked about her, the girl was foolish enough to show up here on her own but now that she was finished with whatever she was doing she would need to leave and if not she would force her to, the other heroes could handle wha-
BOOM
Tatsuamki felt energy building up suddenly building up from behind her multiple in fact, she at first she thought the dog had come back with friends but this signature was actually familiar the beams of energy down and struck against her barrier, focusing all of her attention to her back the women was able to slip out of her hold again unfortunately but judging by the attack just now it still wouldn't be a problem for her as she turned to look at what just attacked it seemed to be some sort of sticky substance protruding with multiple heads, they extended out of multiple areas within the open space seven clusters of them in fact each shot a beam at her again, but she easily put a stop to that as she coalesced the beams along with the structures they were on crushing them on the spot before turning her attention back to the women who was diving down into the whole screaming like a banshee the entire way, apparently her pet orochi was the clinging type and had managed to survive its battle against king's disciple.
She mentally sighed. She guessed that this was why they shouldn't let matures in on such big events; now it was her problem to deal with. Sadly, she wouldn't make the same mistake as him, whoever he was, and she would be sure to let that person and King himself have it for not finishing the job correctly. But first, she was going to remove the girl from the scenario, as she pointed out, and she was about to stop the girl from fusing with the monster as she intended. Unfortunately, even more of her slimy pets got in the way and fired more blasts of energy at her.
She didn't know how far this monster's body went; it seemed it turned its body into sludge so that it could pester her from many directions and not just be one big target for her to smash. It was unfortunate as the tactic was, for the moment, at least working; if she had it her way, she would just turn the entire base upside down, but without knowing where the kid's location was, she couldn't as it might involve him. Someone needed to save that dam brat already. She didn't care if it was the non-killing army or the other S-class heroes; they were all so useless, she thought.
Pyskos dropped down into the goopy soup of blood and skin that was now Orochi. She could tell from his aura that it was him. Tatsumaki must have missed his heart element, she thought with glee as she joined up with the bundle of meat, and it accepted her coloring around her body and fit snugly tight. However, as her body made contact, something was entirely wrong as she found her place. Her mind instantly began to get bombarded by something dark and vile. When did Orochi gain such abilities?
She never told him that her safety locks should force him to obey her, but now he was doing the opposite; he was trying to absorb her like he did the rest of the monsters. He thanked her for making so many sacrifices to promote his growth but remarked that she would be next. At that point, her mind got straight: she would not be the one to be controlled; she was the one that created it; she was the one that allowed it to grow strong; and she was the one that would be giving the orders. He was nothing now but a vessel to amplify her power; she was the master!
Instantly, she felt her mind completely flex and banish the dark, corrupting feeling from her mind. The body of the monster soon followed, following her will, as it bent its shape into a form most suitable for her, taking on a form similar to that of a neuron, with four stark arms and two long DNA figures like black blades in both of their hands. She charged up at Tatsumaki using her new form, using her tendrils to attack Tatsumaki again in a piercer attack of course this didn't work as she saw that the girl twirl her fingers and destroyed all of them before meeting hr with an equal charge their barriers once again clashed but this time she saw a surprise on the small woman's face that she couldn't help but laugh at the girl moments of surprise which allowed her to get the first move using her two blades to shoot out an ever stronger gravitational wave at the girl and as she expected the girl counter it by creating another barrier right into her plan as she used that moment to reverse the barrier swapping the inside for the outside, she would be crushed by her power along with the power she was injecting into it. She grew her avatar large and wide as she held the small, spherical shape of a girl in her makeshift hands. Blood erupted from the girl's mouth and upper head. What a delightful face she was making. She would be sure to make proper use of the girl's body; she would show it to her sister or perhaps even make it into a puppet.
Tastumaki was in some slight trouble, the pressure inside of the orb was getting fairly thicker and thicker and the only way to do that was by canceling out the barrier, the comms unit sparked again this time with a message it was from sekingar it told everyone that the child was in custody and that they were falling back, which she felt massively relieved by now she was going to turn this place upside down as soon as she was out of this bubble and she had just the idea of what to do but suddenly it just popped open and she was so surprised by that fact that she had fallen a couple of dozen meters before catching herself, the monster had seemed to look away from her extremely agitated about something.
Intermission
Flash was keeping a close eye on this Saitama character as they made moves through the Monster Association base. He had to constantly assure the man that they were on the right track by quickly flicking on and off the hologram from his device that showed the map, which was enough to sate his curiosity for the most part. The monsters they had encountered so far weren't much of anything special, but they had traveled further down and down into the association barracks, finding a large group of seemingly insectoid minors, and he allowed the bald man to go and engage all of them on his own. It took barely a moment, but they were all eviscerated by the man's strength, and while even he must admit that his strength was extraordinary, his lack of technique and skill was a bit concerning.
Given the enemy, it wouldn't matter since the enemy was so weak, but against a more equal adversary, it would spell his doom. Does that mean he was still early in his training with King? Or does King simply use his ability to outmuscle his foes? Given the destruction he's seen on the moon, he has no doubt that could be an option, but the man's stealth capabilities in the meeting seemed much more than those of someone who relies on strength. The most logical conclusion was that the king wasn't to focus on strengthening the man first before revealing to him his techniques so that he could potentially survive them in the first place.
Seeing all he needed to see, he elected to end their little adventure, and just in time as well, since the child was seemingly rescued from the place, allowing them to leave, and this Saitama character seemed to have something else entirely on his mind as he said that they were leaving. He had made it his mission to collect some of the funds that the minors were getting up, having several bags of money and carrying them along with him. Flash merely rolls his eyes at the fact that it was free to gain, so he was allowed to take it, and it is legally his.
He told the man that he had "accidentally" had the map upside down so they were headed in the wrong direction they had to double back the way they came but given that the bald man had his money bags he was not complaining in the least he wanted him to mark where this place was so that he could come back when everything was over and all his money problems would be solved if he had a literal mine of gold to farm even offering him a "generous" 10% of the profits for him to keep his silence in the fact even though they discovered it together which should allow him 50% but he let the man have it for his deception.
As the two made their way up the massive hole, something large was approaching them: some strange goop of some kind that seemed to be absorbing everything in its path. He wanted to avoid the blob and go a different path, but sensing that his "bank" was in danger, the man shocked him again with his strength as he launched a punch at the blob, and it just vanished out of sight like it was never there. Flash was again surprised by that fact and, for a moment, wondered if he was just hallucinating something instead. but they continued to move forward before a sudden rumbling started to occur, this one greater than all that came before it, as the very base seemed to shift and shake.
Bang, Bomb, Asterius, Torax
The unlikely quadrupel group of human and monster was an uneasy alliance of individuals to find, bomb was hesistant on if the monster would be leading them on the correct path, once midoriya had left to go and help with the other members of the raid did this actually manifest however given their lack of progress in actually finding the lost teen, their travels had taken them down into where the former monster royal ripper was held and it was their that they were able to pick up somewhat of a scent of where the boy could be, given the number of monster about it would be hard but Garous scent was unique in the fact that he was still part human but this didn't make navigating through the base that much easier especially with all of the chaos going off around them not that it truthfully mattered that served to stall them, they had to ask around to certain monster if they were going in the right direction they didn't want to be following after a false scent, Garou was part human was also a problem given that killing was fround upon here monster were more antsy than normal so smelling a human's scent could occasionally send them into a frenzy in search of said target, so they assumed that pyskos would want to keep the man mostly separated from the others not only out of sight but out of smell as well.
She may have set up false smells to lure off more of the ravenous monsters so they were just trying to be sure that they were on the right track and from the monsters' reports they were, the only other time that they were slowed down was due to monster fighting, the two humans gave away their position like a beacon which Gyoro-Gyoro likely sensed and sent monsters in their direction, it was also probably due to the twos proximity that the monsters even attempted to attack both torax and asterius without even any words to the two of them, of course, these monster didn't amount to much both monsters after their increased abilities were much stronger than before maybe even close to a dragon in ability all though torax didn't want to test that theory while asterius was curios himself,
they continued down their travels killing the monster and moving from floor to floor, further down it seemed the man had been located further down inside than they thought, eventually, they all had to run when suddenly some strange organic fleshy being started to chase after them, the rumbling all around them proceeded to get worst and worst as they moved, they didn't mind that for the moment but they kept running there was a moment of panic as bomb had suddenly started to float in the air just as the slime had started to approach him, the two monster reacted almost instantly torax tail shifted into a sort of phoenix fly trap that grabbed the martial artist and kept them moving now, asterius channel his power and shot forth a large swatch of flames at the slimy goop chasing them burning many of it but more continued to follow them causing them to continue to keep running.
Intermission End
Tastumaki wasted no time as she flared her power close to its max, raising a hand and pushing it forward, pushing the monster woman flying backward into a wall, before encasing her using the rocks from the base. It wouldn't hold very long, but it would be enough time that she needed. She searched the base using her esper waves to ride the singles that the communications units were giving off, finding everyone who was still inside. Most of them were, but it didn't matter; they knew what they were signing up for, she thought as she raised both of her arms into the air.
The base was fully revealed for all to see if they looked out a window as Tatsumaki went to rise she noticed multiple energy blasts follow after her she dodged them all as she continued to fly up and out of the top of a building that disguised the base as she turned to look at her pursuer she saw that the monster had followed her up as well but something else was intriguing, the avatar of the women seemed to be even larger than before she took a glance towards where she saw the others ad the comms again this time coming from both Green Savior, he told her that bang and his brothers were also down there and that she needed to be careful, she mentally groaned at that before the idiots brainstormed a way to flix their blunder until then she guessed that she could play around with this monster for now, who seemed to be getting a big head from her power up.
She looked down at the base of the large snake like creature and noticed the slimy veins trailing down it, of course she was still drawing energy into herself with that knowledge that made things pretty easy for her, now all she needed to do was attack the base of it and separate her from her source of power with that she either couldn't get any stronger or it would have the bonus effect of dramatically weakening her but she made a tiny miscalculation, she was to focused on ehr plan of action and forgot to restrain the monster first btu she didn't expect such a level of error as she felt a massive surge of energy suddenly appear and nearly took her by surprise as she increase the force of her barrier and swerve out of the way of the massive blast that came her way, the blast continued forwards hitting the earth and slicing through so much of the earth that a large chunk of the earth bigger than the very super continent itself rose up into the air as it crashed down and created a massive tsunami to encroach upon the area, Tatsumaki was purely stunned; something was up; there was no way that She could get so powerful by just absorbing monsters.
"Haha, was that guy who appeared during the fusion real!?" Pyskos spoke.
"That guy?" Tatsumaki quotes
"Fufu, so you're interested in the source? Just as I thought, even you looked worried. You lost your chance at winning. I was chosen by a superior entity. And I was bestowed with more power than you possess. When I was superseding Orochi, something shined upon me; it took the shape of a brain cell, the structure of the universe, or maybe even the surface of Jupiter. It was something like a god; time stopped as it looked upon me. I felt fear, but at the same moment, a mysterious power was flowing into me. In that instant, I was enlightened about my destiny."
Tatsumaki questioned what this woman's supposed destiny was and it couldn't have been more ridiculous she wanted to absorb everything on the very plan all coming together into a single hive-mind entity, which only sounded stupid to her as she would just be alone in the universe, she attempted a rebuttal that sounded more like someone trying to convert people to a faith of how it was the destiny to become that way, how she was the chosen one of god to deliver this message, and how fubuki ad her were ignorant and ignoring the future potential of espers by focusing on hero activities and how fubuki specifically ignored her warnings, which was the only thing she had said which was of some interest to her at least.
He finished her speech with a declaration of punishment for those who didn't believe, just like some wacky zealot, and at that point, Tatsumaki had enough and told the girl how ridiculous she sounded. Not only did she forget the number one rule of being an esper, which was that people only hung around them so that they could use them, which led her to the predicament that she was in being used as a pawn by some strange being claiming to be god, she shouldn't expect people to come and save her when the time comes,
but given that she had to beg her pet for help, she doubted the lesson would get through to her, more than that, it was likely to happen, and for that reason, this god took advantage of her. The monster women took exception to her telling off and came at her this time however several dragons had sprouted from within the base, each of their mouths glowing ready to attack her, Tatsumaki quickly made herself scarce and started to fly in a zigzag pattern making her a harder target as beams of energy raced by her,
Tatsuamki made sure to keep her altitude above that of the monster so that he would have to aim upwards to fire at her, to avoid it hitting the ground, the surface teams seemed to have been still evacuating with the child, the large cracks and gaps in the area seemed to make things even more difficult for others but it seemed that the others down there were taking care of it well enough.
Which only left one thing as she turned and looked at the encroaching tsunamis. She hurriedly picked up massive amounts of rock near the beach to stop the water from freezing, creating a barrier for the water to fall into and level back out. This also gave her ammunition that she could use for her own ranged attacks as she began to hurl the large rocks directly at the women.
Pyskos responded quickly enough, using her large beam like a rod and batting the rocks out of the air. Tatsumaki dodged the attack and continued to lay into her, with the rocks focusing on one in particular, to speed up and hit the woman before she could bring her beam back around. The avatar was able to stop the rock in its tracks from slicing through it but gave her enough time to bombard the girl with massive rocks from all angels hoping to crush her in a similar fashion that she did her with the meat puppet, but also in a similar fashion, the woman was able to create a shockwave that completely blew apart the rocks that were flying in the air.
The girl was still cocky with that borrowed power of hers, believing that was the best she could do, so she would show her a little bit more. A colossal storm started to form along with their battle as light beams shot out of it. Tatsumaki used the rocks as cover, as she occasionally sent rocks hurdling her way, but that was mostly to no avail. Tatsumaki took her opportunity as she saw the monster flinch for some reason to make her move, creating a decoy with the rocks cloaked in her power to duck down and inside of the large temple that was the girl's body.
As she was flying down, she realized the cause of the monster's mild annoyance as she saw several beams of light, explosions, and flashes of heat in the distance. She radioed in and told them to stop helping and that she could handle this on her own, but Green Savior only told her that they would still help out as much as they could regardless and that heroes shouldn't fight alone. They also confirmed that Bang was now in the range of the signal marked by two machines.
Tatsumaki faked gagging into the comms but said nothing as she continued with what she had in store. The monster was protected by a large barrier that covered her during the battle, but there was one part that the barrier couldn't block off, so she camouflaged herself and flew through the roots of Psycho's body, coming up inside of her, inside of the woman's breast. She poked out of it before remarking on how hallow the surprising statement, along with the shock of her being there, weakened Pyskos's concentration enough to be unable to stop her from twisting her along with the entire upper portion of the base nearly completely.
Blood sprayed rapidly from the base, and for a moment Tatsumaki thought that it was done, but this Pyskos was a bit more tenacious than she gave the girl credit for as the monster suddenly materialized from the blood in that strange slimy substance, forming into the shape of the creature and lashing out at her with one of the large black blades that it formed. She dodged it, of course, along with the second one, which angered the monster women even more, but Tatsumaki Mary smirked at the monsters struggling.
"You clever midget! What's with that look? Don't get so cocky just because you've seen some flamboyant blood spray. I'll finish you off, and then your sister will follow soon after." Pyskos yelled as the monster's body started to change and shift; its center had opened up, and a larger mouth was revealed. This centerpiece held out a ball of energy that began to charge up and power up more and more. Tatsumaki sat there and let the monster do so, seemingly gloating at its borrowed power.
"Have a taste of all my bursting anger!" The monster screamed as the large beam of energy launched from the center mouth, but for all that buster and confidence the girl had in her power, it completely stopped when Tatsumaki merely set out a single hand, stopped the attack cold, and casually threw the attack high into the sky before raising both of her hands into the air and stopping the monster completely.
"Pyskos, was it? I don't care if you were her friend or whatever; no one threatens my sister." Tatsumaki spoke simply.
"You still weren't serious. You damn monster!" Pyskos remarked as she again felt a large, twisting sensation.
Tatsumaki was completely able to concentrate now. She placed her hands together and started to wring the monster—not just the monster but the entire area itself, like a rag. From the perspective of the satellite, the entire Z-city ghost town and beyond were being twisted into a spiral pattern with the monster association at the center. Nothing could be done as the monster cried out in injury and blood started to spray from the streets below. Someone annoying was badgering into her ear as she continued to squeeze, hoping to crush the woman inside of all that junk.
"Tatsumaki, please stop! The heroes and kids are still evacuating, not to mention the other heroes that are still inside the base." The voice of the Green Savior rang through the earpiece.
"The other heroes knew what they signed up for when coming here today, and as for the child, you lot should stop wasting around and protect him yourselves if you're so concerned. Those inside carry the hero association's S-class nameplate. If this is enough to kill them, then we don't need rankings to begin with; I'll take care of all the monsters on my own from now on. I don't know who rescued the kid, but they were the only ones doing a proper job. This is all King's disciple's fault; in the first place, he didn't do a proper job finishing off the monster king, and I won't be making the same mistake. So you all just sit back while I finish this." Tatsumaki remarked
Tatsuamki continued to wring the monster dry; she had connected with a surprising amount of the landscape, she figured, but that was fine; she could twist a little. BOOM! Tatsumaki was shocked when she suddenly saw multiple large orbs of light approaching her position. Her psychic shield was able to shield her from the brunt of the force, but she still felt it as another part of her dress was burned from the impact.
"Whoops, I was testing my full power; did that kill her already?" A voice remarked Tatsumaki blew away the dust that was surrounding her and took a look at the monster again, and she was surprised to find multiple monsters seemingly floating on fleshy protrusions that extended from the base itself: a large black dog, some black thing with a human face, a man in ragged clothes and a cloak, some weird large green blob that looked similar to the meat puppet without any eyes but instead had a pretty large mouth, and what looked to be a water monster of some kind.
"My, my, that chick does look like a handful; she even managed to drive you to this extent. Huh, Pyskos, I thought you said you could handle these pesky esper types." black sperm remarked
"Shut it, black sperm; you see what she's capable of; be thankful I rescued you all from the collapse." Pyskos snapped back.
"Oh well, she does seem like serious business. I guess we can deal with this one together," black sperm replied simply.
"The fact that so many Vermin survived is unthinkable, and hoping that this lot will be enough to save you just shows how pathetic you are." Tatsumaki stated.
"Do you keep telling yourself that, just to reconcile with the fact that you're alone, Tatsumaki, even your sister hates you, and you just buried your very own comrades without a second thought? Even if they were alive, if you fell here, would they even come to help you? I doubt it; now, my cadre, let's take this little girl down." the women spoke simply as again as all of the raging cadres began to open fire against her, Tatsumaki quickly dodged out of the way of most of them, and redirected one of them, which seemed to be a super high-pressure water cannon, in other words, a small fry, in comparison to the large monster the rest were nothing to be concerned about individually she could probably take them all out in 10 seconds however the problem lied with them together,
they didn't have much at all when it came to teamwork other than polluting the zone with even more things she had to dodge around but that seemed to be enough as she was struck multiple times whether that be directly or indirectly from the explosion it didn't help that the man with rags could guide his attacks which meant he could set up traps against in mid-air she would have liked to just pop every one of them like a grape but each of them was being clouded in a protective barrier by the women herself.
She could focus her attention on the large threat, but she hated to admit it. That would require her to concentrate all of her attention on her, leaving her defenses weakened for the others to take advantage. She tried to go a more physical route, in that case, throwing more and more rocks at the creatures, but each of them could handle those attacks in different ways. The eyeless monster ate them, while the small black creature would morph its body to actually catch them and then send them back towards her, powered no doubt by the larger monster. This was going to be a tricky obstacle to overcome, but she was confident that she could win on her own; she had to; it was only her after all.
On the surface
The teens were completely shocked by the events that started to transpire thankfully they had fubuki there with them who had managed to give them some opportunity to prepare for what was about to transpire as the monster base rose high into the air, cracking the ground and fracturing it immensely along, this was just after the call to retreat was given so that meant that many of the heroes were still around and could get caught in the crossfire of the girl's power, the class and monster immediately got to work trying to mitigate as much damage as they could to themselves before looking around for the others, midoriya danger sense fired off multiple times but it was completely overshadowed by the massive feeling from the climactic battle happening way up in the air leaving that power completely gone for the time being unless he was super close to someone.
When the massive blast of energy was first thrown, all of the teens completely froze in their spots along with all the others some of them even expected to be hit by a gigantic shockwave but none came, toru with the help of tokoyami used her light enhancement: telescope to see what had transpired with said attack because they were concerned about wherever it had landed but what she saw left her in completely silence as she saw what looked like a part of the earth curve raise to an impossible angle before moving back down to be out of sight,
it was completely unthinkable to the point that she thought she may have been hallucinating but she simply told everyone that it was ok and the attack didn't seem to hit anything but the massive wave it produced was concerning but before they could discuss what they should do it seemed that Tatsumaki was miraculously still alive from that attack and continued to fight as massive boulders flew up from the air and hammered away at the large being at the top of the tower, the ground shook with almost every impact and for once in both of their lives both Bakugo and midoirya admitted that they could not help in this scenarios instead they would resort help the others with evacuation missions.
Luckily, the groups all had someone with a locator beacon, which allowed them to find and locate them. However, the group had a lot of dead weight on their side. This was mostly the monster cadre that they had captured, the now singular cage left, and the still hibernating genos. The additional support pillions that were needed had already arrived, and now he was still in his incubation period, so they needed to keep an eye on him. One wrong movement or stray blast of energy could spell his destruction before he could show off his new upgrades. Drive Knight despite wanting to collect his samples also admitted to not being foolish enough to interfere with the battle commencing however he was in luck when he didn't have to, as the teens and fubuki worked on rescuing the other groups that may have been trapped in the assault fleshy protrusions started to cover over the city seemingly absorbing anything it touched into itself.
Drive Knight assumed that this was the monster itself and had collected a few samples while burning the rapidly expanding growth the teen quickly followed suit hoping to help the girl in any way they could and it seemed to have worked given that the girl had scolded them helping the girl out but this only further enthused them to not listen and focus only so they could continue to help her and destroy the growths but also due to the girl's liveliness of voice which seemed to be full of life and not too much haggard which the teens took to mean that the girl was remarkably still in good health even Bakugo had to admit that the girl was nuts to survive that and been in such high spirits
This took a crazy turn or twist as Kaminari put it, but this had indirectly put the other heroes on the ground in danger as some were trapped in the cracks that had formed from the base's sudden rise up and completely if she twisted now multiple of them could be killed not to mention the S-class heroes in the base itself that could be under fire now however the girl seemed to just not care about it at all and the girl again showed that she was in good health as she started to go on a mini-rant, although it did confirm that energizer was correct orochi apparently wasn't dead but just incredibly weakened and that being on top of the lift was orochi itself, which reminded the teens of where Saitama even was at the moment but more severely the other S-class heroes that could be in trouble, so after finding and relocating all of the heroes squads away they all needed to come up with a plan to rescue the S-class heroes from the massive tower without getting drawn into the climactic battle.
Inside the tower
Puri-Puri Prisoner had just finished healing up from the blow that Garou gave to him he looked around the environment for a moment full of debris and rubble which conveniently left him a shallow tunnel where he could move in but he wondered if the others would have been so lucky as he was during all the chaos not to mention if they were fighting against other monsters at the time, so he removed the locate from his butt and checked on it since he could still move he would be the one to go and help the others and being capable of finding their exact location with the device, he activated his angel armor along with his vibrations and initiated his angel crawl swimming through the concrete as fast as he could to find them all and the closest one to him was Child Emperor.
Child Emperor was currently in a predicament of his design, he would have loved to summon his brave giant mech to come and save him however blocking his path due to the rampant shaking and vibrations of the base was none other than Atomic Samurai's apprentices, the machines were buried along with them and he was buried along with them and he was getting interference with his communicators to reach the outside he could visually see everyone else on his tracker but getting a message out seemed to no be working no one was responding to him, he speculated that it was likely Tatsumaki that overturned the base he didn't know if he was to hate her or thank her for her actions, that slimy stuff had unlike the water monster was able to chew through his umbrella barrier and nearly got him but once the base had started to twist and turn the slime seemingly went inert from the scans he could make out so far that there had been extensive damage down to the cellular level which was impressive and something that likely only Tatsumaki could pull off with her esper abilities.
Not having much else to do other than send out his SOS beacon, he sat and waited for both Puri-Puri Prisoner and Darkshine should be able to come and get him, he retraced the operation one more time to see if things he could have done better now, he knows the first thing he could have done was to include the non-killing army in his preparations along with both bang and genos despite his misgivings of them genos had proved himself when he saved the surface teams from the reborn monsters attack, bang hold power that even Darkshines holds in high regard so going in without him was a fool's gamble,
the non-killing army while their ideology doesn't match still offered their assistance and allowed them to get help to both Sweet Mask and Atomic Samurai before it was too late who knows what could have happened if he hadn't been there to help them? He chastised himself for again withholding his trump card against the water creature, not thinking it was "worth" using against such a low-level monster; maybe the overconfidence of him having it available got to him, it seemed and made him cocky when he should have been more tactical and eliminated the threat with his full ability.
During his brainstorming, he was suddenly caught off guard by none other than Puri-Puri Prisoner, so much so that he accidentally punched him in the face. Unfortunately, the man thought that he was so scared to start hallucinating and wanted to hug him to cheer him up, but the child managed to ward the naked man off enough to finally get to the real heart of the situation. He asked for the man to forgo saving him and that he should focus on the ninja disciples nearby; once he takes them, he should head out towards the non-killing army, which he marked on the translocator,
and that he would find his way out on his own once they were safe. Puri-Puri didn't hesitate and was on his way, leaving out and heading off in that direction. This time he watched the beacon to monitor the man's progress; he hoped that they were okay, unlike him and his barrier; they were mostly defenseless except with the machines to defend them. However, something odd appeared on the screen as two people were making their way over to the three disciple signals. He expected the other one to be Darkshine, but surprising him, it turned out to be the Pig God of all people.
Upon closer inspection however it seemed to be pig god, Zombieman, and Darkshine beacons all layered on top of each other, now that would make sense at least for a moment but the way that they are situated almost seemed like they are on top of one another and moving like that in this such cramped environment seemed hard to do let alone travel at the speed that they were doing but he never minded that as all the dots connected, there was a moment of pause between the two of them likely a discussion being had before again the dots seemed to conjoin on top of each other and start moving as one singular unit whatever it was or how they were doing it didn't matter now the only thing that was important was when they would get clear of the area and he could summon brave giant the vibrations didn't end as he could still feel the rocking and shacking of the base and he hoped that they would get clear before it was to late in the mean time he could work on improving the battle data of brave giant 2 with the combat data from the original, the battle wasn't over yet and he felt that brave giant will be brought the the wringer once more he would want to have the best possible chance of it winning.
Surface
The teens were just readying to prepare themselves to head towards the center of the monster association base to help the likely trapped S-class heroes given the fact that none of them were able to be reached by the comms unit however they could still spot them on the maps so they knew that they were alive as multiple of them had continued been moving around, Tatsumaki was begrudgingly correct in her assignment of their capabilities but that didn't make it any more right for her to commit to the teens believed, as the group noticed the movement of the blips on the map and the likely area that they would be popping out from in the tower they were all surprised when suddenly sound and blue shift had appeared next to them,
at first, the teens were put on guard except one of them that was as Sero had seen and experienced that it was just saren teleporting in but he was surprised at whom the monster was teleporting with the monster was all of the other sword saints; Amahare, Zanbai, and Nichirin but more than that along with them was no other than the return of both Tank Top Master and Erlen shen, the samurai masters took a moment to look around at all of the destruction that has bee caused during the fighting along with the massive battle that was happening in the air and believed that they had made the correct choice to join in the battle.
Sero questioned where had run off to and the aberration remarked that he had simply gone back to where he was freed initially to regain a portion of his magic ability from before he would have liked to stay at least a couple minutes longer however that didn't seem possible when he unceremoniously found himself along with what seemed like a large chunk of the earth completely rise from the earth from some blast that came from this direction, his library was completely buried into the sea, he could have retrieved it of course but it would take him days to do so,
let alone the battle has taken on a scale that he could not have possibly theorized possible with that attack so he rushed over here as quickly as possible in the process he came across the other swordsmen who also had a similar thought as that attack had vibrated throughout the earth, they encountered the other two next to the disaster zone and decided to just warp the rest of the way here to save on staMina however the fighting above seemed above there pay grade as multiple of those planet slicing attacks to know that.
The sword saints asked about what had happened to Kamikaze, and the teens told him that he was still alive at least his beacon had continued to move around if anything it seemed as if the thought Pig God was headed in his and conventionally Sweet Mask's direction along with both Darkshine and Zombieman, however, the disciples and Puri-Puri Prisoner was headed towards the outside of the base both midoriya and tokoyami would go and proceed forwards given their elevation they were concerned about if the trio would fall,
Saren remarked that he could teleport both Atomic Samurai and whoever was in a closed space around him out of the space but they needed to be closer than they were as seen on the map, atomic was one of the few he could use this ability on given that his body knew him the best the spell worked on familiarity to the target so he couldn't just teleport any of the other heroes out at all.
With this information in hand, they opted to wait for the others to close in on atomic position but as pig god drew closer it seemed that something was wrong as none of them had approached closer at all judging by the dots they seemed to be talking to each other at least in some part before pig god and co seemed to be moving away from the targets and they would trail behind, everyone noted how interesting it was how the beacons were right on top of each other when regarding pig god, Zombieman, and metal bat but atomic and Sweet Mask were noticeably trailing behind by a pretty decent margin,
well, they were at least moving at least but at too far paces from each other that the teleportation wouldn't be effective they needed to be within five meters of each other but the distance between pig god and the company was about twice that, the man was surprisingly fast in the likely rubble fueled structure but they needed to work fast as they didn't know when Tatsumaki would topple the entire thing together as multiple stray blasts combined with a dozen rock impacts the towards the tower causing large chunks to start to fall off.
Given that they couldn't communicate with them with technology the only other best course of action was to use them to use Koda's telepathy, to tell them all to get closer together, after using his feedback ability to feed off the monster presents he sent out the message to all three of them, it took about a minute about a indeed but eventually pig god had slowed down and allowed the other two dots to catch up and when they were ready Saren activated his spell rapid transportation and similarly to the teleportation spell.
Three people emerged which some found peculiar since there should have been five people brought about but they had no time to consider that as along with their teleportation many small black figures had also come with them, which attacked practically everything although there were plentiful they weren't too strong for the group to completely stamp out and allowed them to now take stock of those that had been teleported to them, it became clear to Sato why the beacons had appeared that way as pig god stomach was fairly enlarged and the moment of truth came when the man had regurgitated the missing individuals Zombieman, metal bat, and even the colossal Darkshine.
The teens went to go check everyone over and Tokoyami had placed Zombieman's extra pair of clothes down next to his discarded torso as he healed he would be able to get situated himself, Atomic Samurai was quite injured and so using Fubuki they had elected to use the capture monster cadre again to heal him using fubuki, wanting to spare saren stamina for the battle ahead, this was the same to be said for atomic's disciples once they arrived now they to were healed up from their severe wounds.
Fubuki was honestly shocked by how much energy the cadre had to spare but after healing the wounds of all three disciplines it had just started to wain down at least partially after healing pig god back to full strength it wain down considerably, in truth, she didn't know if she would be able to get too much more from the monster without killing it, although others wouldn't mind that she was sure the teens would. The last arrival to the scene was silvy, she had miraculously appeared from the rooftops and climbed down, Bakugo had hugged the girl upon meeting her it was a quick one but it was there, the two converse away from the others as they discussed how her mission went she remarked that her mission was a success and that she had been able to get the samples to the checkpoint before she returned here.
Bakugo questioned what is her clan going to do about the monster fighting or will they help at all, she partially shook her head, they wouldn't directly help them but they would be offering humanitarian aid to any affected by the large twist of the city, it had extended a few kilometers away from the ghost town and some other civilians could be affected Bakugo merely nodded at that before the two of them moved back to the group at large.
As the groups were going to talk about their next steps, the ground started to shake once more, this time however momo calmed them and explained that this time it was none other than Child Emperor and soon enough as the rumbling reached its peak five drills like object launched up and into the air and started to puncture their way into the monster association that towered above, momo was partially worried that the large machine may draw too much attention to the child prodigy and he may be dragged into the raging battle the only saving grace could be the storm that completely covered the battle preventing most of them from visualizing what was happening other than the blast of energy that would explode out of it.
A burst of debris rained from a lower portion of the massive tower as the Child Emperor's brave giant came through it. It looked up at the large fight above but did not join, instead coming down and heading directly towards them. The group had to make some room for the large mech to land, being nearly the same size as Scaldon himself, if not just a bit larger. Child Emperor demounted from his mech and looked at all of the heroes gathered and even a few of the monsters that sat off to the side. Everyone seemed to be present and okay, except for Flash. The teens also remarked that both Bang and Bomb were not present; they seemed to have been buried some distance away and were not in the large tower that rose to the air.
Given the circumstances, Child Emperor believed that this would likely be the best that they could hope for and would begin to tell them all what they should do, but this was suddenly cut off as a large shadow was completely cast out over all of them; it seemed to be something like water. A massive amount of water was proceeding towards the large tower at a staggering rate, everyone stared as the massive amount of water seemingly washed over next to the tower and then began to shift into something, Child Emperor couldn't believe it and it was all his fault as the creature he was just fighting eyes suddenly popped up from the large pool and start to shoot out massive geysers of water from it's being at something in the clouds.
The creature grew to be roughly a third the size of the tower itself and despite his regret, he quickly got the group's attention once more even more serious now since things have turned out this way, and just in time as well, as Neith made and an announcement that genos was finally getting ready to leave his pod he just needed 10 more minutes as well, Child Emperor asked if he could hear them discussing while he was doing so and genos himself replied that his hearing perceptors and head were the first to be modified and repaired, well that was one good point at least.
"By my observation, we can assume that this "evil natural water" or lake in this case must contain some sort of heart that can draw water molecules from the air or other sources, as we've just seen, to replenish itself. Its attacks and shapeshifting will most likely stop if we destroy the heart. The problem for me was that the heart is probably also made of liquids. I used my battle pack to probe for the heart; all my attacks were in vain. This means any kind of physical attack, such as striking or piercing, is useless against it. This is where those with flame abilities come in; Frozen Phoenix, Drive Knight, Demon Cyborg, and Pink Mist will be in charge of burning it.
We also know that the creature only reacts to negative emotion, so it may be wise to only allow the cyborgs to attack it; they would be at the least risk of being hurt by it, but we also need someone with strong enough negative emotion to keep it occupied. Water shot out by the monster has no will and returns to regular water. The main body's water content decreases with every projectile it shoots out, combined with the water you three will evaporate. As long as the amount of water it loses exceeds the amount it absorbs from the air, its body will keep shrinking. In the end, only the heart will be left! And one of the four of you should be able to finish it off completely." The child Emperor remarked
"Hey, don't leave us out!" a voice called suddenly making the others turn in the direction of the sound to find three others running towards them, tokoyami and koda instantly realized who they were as they approached it was their apprentice flame Dragoon, Frost raven, and Forrest General along with Furakuro, only a handful of the S-class knew of these three but Child Emperor was unsure of using untested members on the team as they could be risking their lives in the fight but Mina remarked that flame dragon was stronger than she was although this fire was not as hot as her plasma but more than that, the class told them that each of them was, in fact, monsters which didn't draw as much surprise then they had first thought as each of the apprentices took on their monster forms, but given that Child Emperor didn't react the others were also passive as well.
Child Emperor mostly sided with them and included them in the mission. They would need all the help that they could get to fight that monster of a blob but it did bring to question the other monsters in the situation namely the shark monster and armadillo-type monster, great white turned to the large water behemoth and turned to look back towards Sero and the sword saints and agreed to fight with them, scaledon was going to be the opposite he was only there to guard the cages which there only one left however koda brought up the fact that he didn't have to fight but they could use his help in digging up both torax and asterius which the monster think about for a moment of consideration and reluctantly agreed to help with but after that, he would be done which koda thanked him for regardless.
With that out of the way, there came the arguments on who would be helping them in being the distraction for the creature to allow the four-man team to burn the creature, and to this and knowing that the creature responded to negative emotion midoriya had turned to Sweet Mask while Child Emperor had turned to dynamite, both of them two took major offense to the point that the water geyser had struck massively close by to their position washing out just a couple hundred meters away from them and with that the distractions were picked, for the rest of the cadre there was not much discussion to be had everyone gave their reports on the cadres they faced but nothing was too out of the ordinary, Child Emperor himself would be using brave giant to back up Tatsumaki against orochi so the group was now about to move out until kaminari mentioned the disappearance of a key figure which was none other than energizer.
A few meters away.
In the middle of all the hustle and bustle of fighting, black sperm managed to take a large orb that had fallen from the yellow-haired boy's pocket. He knew who it was and ordered the normally talkative monster to shut up until they got out of there and were in the clear. Once doing so, he pressed the button in the center out and popped the electric being, seemingly stretching its non-existent muscles as it took a look at its surroundings before looking down at him.
"Yo black splooze, what's up?" the energizer remarked to a return of growls of agitation.
"It's black sperm, you dingus. And what's up? Me saving your dumb ass from the heroes. That's why, with your power, we can free the other monsters. I saw Nyan over there, along with something in a cage. What was it?" The smaller monster asked
"Oh, that was fugher ugly; believe it or not, they also have a Pheonix man," Energizer remarked with a shrug.
"Well, how are we going to rescue them? Should we wait until the heroes leave to help Tatsumaki and make our move? The majority of me is up there with the battle with Pyskos and Tatsumaki," black sperm remarked, pointing upwards at the large tower that was hugged by evil natural water. The energizer whistled at the sight before turning back towards the smaller creature and pondering something for a moment.
"Hey, quick question for you: how many S-class, if any, have we killed?" The energizer asked suddenly, and black sperm took a moment to think about that.
"How the hell am I supposed to know? I was wearing down mine, but the whole base got tossed into the air and then started shaking, not to mention that Pyskos yanked a majority up with me, so I couldn't finish the job along with the homeless emperor, rover, water, and gums. Why?" Black Sperm asked a bit suspiciously.
"Well, because I'm just doing the math here from what I know and overhear from being around them, it seems like we haven't killed a single one of them yet while we're down four of our numbers." energizer remarked
"Why does it sound like you are switching sides?" black sperm asked
"I'm not switching sides; I've always been on my side; I just wanted to be free. You guys wanted to fight humanity, and from the looks of it, we are losing pretty badly." The energizer spoke with crossed arms, making black sperm angry.
"Are you honestly going to look at that and tell me that we're losing!?" as he pointed to the tower.
"That is impressive, but from what it seems, it's taking all of that just to handle Tatsumaki. What are you guys going to do about King? Oh, and guess what? It was his apprentice that defeated Orochi, nearly killing him. I felt it myself, so along with that guy, King, and the reinforcement they just received, I don't value our chances." Energizer, Black Sperms was stunned by that piece of information before shaking himself free.
"They were probably just bluffing! You are a monster there humans. Do you honestly think they will let you live after this is all over?" black sperm tries to persuade.
"Well, the non-killing army has sent a couple of monsters to safety already, and I have a deal with Drive Knight, so I'm really all set... Either they live up to their promise or I die anyway, so I'm going to air on the highest chance of my survival in this scenario, but good luck in the fighting—well, at least to the rest of you. I don't know how far you ran away, but... it wasn't far enough to escape the ears and sensors of those guys involved. right guys!" Energizer replied while walking away as he waved back at the small monster, and just as he finished his sentence, a sudden crash!
Was heard the wall that made their corner completely burst open as a large hand completely encapsulated the smaller monster, crushing it in its grasp. It split off in an attempt to somewhat save as much of itself as possible, but others came rushing in. Drive Knight snatched one of the clones while the midoriya had captured all of the rest. They had all been put in separate caging devices, but the energizer knew that one of them was likely better than the other.
Energizer whistled as he strolled out of the relativity small alleyway and came face to face with the full force of the heroes present. He waved a hand at all of them, but before pressing a button in the center, he shot a beam at both Kaminari and Volten, powering them up a bit before pressing the button in the center of his being and going back into his balled state. Child Emperor questioned the monster's loyalty and how flip-floppy it was, but Drive Knight remarked that it was simply taking the correct course of action, and he agreed that if he were in its position, he would also do the same play.
The teens also remarked that some of the monsters they knew also took a route of neutrality similar to the electric monster, so it wasn't too surprising for them either. The others all reluctantly went for it, although this time around they opted to take the monster and put him into the last of the large cages and lock it down along with the other cadre that they had locked up, just to ensure that a breakout wouldn't happen. Genos was just about to make his way out of incubation when suddenly the skies seemed to open up above.
The group all looked into the air, and a disturbing sight was revealed to all of them.
Tatsumaki
Tatsumaki was currently racking her brain trying to figure out what to do in this situation; other than evading a return with half-hearted rock attacks, it didn't seem to be working out for her very well. The monster's teamwork seemed to have been increasing the more they fought, and her powers tried as she might start to reach her limit. Again and again, a big burst of beams of energy and balls of glowing light tracked her as she flew, and now gigantic water geysers had started to attack her.
She knew that she was reaching her limit as she had begun to slow down attacks that were landing against her more and more, and she started to feel them more and more. Blood started to drip down her face almost immediately. She had used the storm and decoys to hide and attempt to attack from different angles. She tried to use her ESP power to create a strong wind, blowing off most of the fodder. However, the black thing seemed to shift its body around to catch everyone about to fall, hopefully to their deaths.
Her transgression allowed the Pyskos to spot her amidst the debris shooting multiple beams from her dragon head in that direction of course none of them managed to hit her however it may have just been a distraction after all, among multiple of the rocks circling around the fight seemed to be that small black creature multiple of them had managed to latch on to some which allowed them to get close to her and actually physically jump on top of her, touching her all over agitated she quickly flared her power and push all of them off of her before destroying each and every rock that she found them on or if she was in control of the rocks letting them drop to the ground immediately but just as she seemingly destroyed the last one when suddenly a sword completely stuck through her hand, she attempted to react by pulling away but before she could do so the monsters had managed to stab her other hand completely through the center once again before she felt a powerful electric shock completely ripped through her body, causing her to scream out in pain.
"Fufu, You know a psychic defense was always lower when they were attacking. Now everyone is together! Down you go!" psychos yelled as again a blast charged from her largemouth combined with multiple light spheres and a large water geyser, Tatsumaki did the only thing she could as she pulled one of her hands down completely ripping it up the middle and index finger ignoring all of the pain for a moment that moment before using her new free hand, held together by her esper ability to free her other hand before thrusting both of them forwards focusing all of her power in the barrier to protect her from the combined assault but even with that pain flooded her system again from the strain of using her power too much but she didn't care about that if she didn't she would be dead, despite her resistance the attack completely blasted her backward straight down into the earth she hit the ground hard and her world for a moment went black.
Tatsumaki has been defeated.