A Spectacular Entrance: Black sperm, ? VS Council Of Sword, Puri-Puri Prisoner, Zombieman, Tank Top Master, Pig God, Metal Bat, Darkshine, Saren, Non-killing Army S-Class, Lord great white, ?, ?, ?
It took but a moment for the large Golden sperm to stand up from the large crater he created from being dropped from high above he ignored all the bickering black sperms around him and surveyed the area for all of other him's and was shocked when each and everyone one of them had already been defeated and seeing that the heroes have only suffered two of their casualties but still maintaining most of their power was concerning especially while he was the only Golden one that remained standing on his side that was an actual threat to them, well not exactly as he could hear the rumbling of the fight still happening above them all he even saw some of it while he was perched in the air, the so-called monster king had been still busy with the robots and Tatsumaki much to his annoyance and Psykos seemed to be completely out of the picture as well. He needed to do things himself, and he didn't need anyone to do it but himself.
"Alright, we're ending this farce of a battle here and now! You all heard me fusing the bunch of you either that or I'm absorbing your sorry asses, so get moving!" Golden sperm yelled out for a moment. There was some brief discontent with the black sperm, but they all started to follow along with the golden creatures' orders, starting to conform together.
"You think we're just going to stand here and let you?" Metal Bat remarked as he closed the distance, swinging his bat at the smaller black creatures, hoping to close the gap.
"Of course not!? Idiot! But you guys already showed your hand in trying to protect one kid; now you're going to have to choose whether to attack me or save everyone else from my rampage. What will it be, heroes? World Rumbling: 1 Billion, 50 Million, 300 Thousand, 50 Assault!" The golden being yelled at me just like that. At the drop of a dime, a number of the black creatures suddenly stopped and started to run off and split apart, continuously growing more and more numerous until they completely blacked out the entire surrounding area, absorbing the heroes in their path. Metal Bat used his savage hurricane to wade through the tide of small black creatures, and the council started to cut through them as much as possible. Atomic Samurai launched another focused atomic slash that cleared a lot of them, allowing them to see the field, but the tide quickly reabsorbed them all the same.
Midoriya launched off several punches releasing large shockwaves that trampled them under foot but no matter how many he trampled more and more took their place almost like a hydra he could only see the sky for the briefest time but like Metal Bat he kept moving forwards but in his subconscious he was cautious, not only was the monster threatening to over run the world with this horde but the direction the horde was going in was directly where the rear guard was, so instead of pushing through the horde and instead focusing his entire effort in just destroying as many of the small creatures possible to shave off as many as he could so that the rear guard wouldn't be overwhelmed in the absence of zombieman he opted to take the lead and remarked that everyone should also focus on the army of smaller monsters, while likely dangerous the singular entity would be astronomically easier to deal with then attempting to route out the many smaller black monsters and not only that but the smaller monsters could go on to not only cause havoc but also become even bigger problems later on building its strength once more, The group all seemed to agree with him and shifted focus from trying to move forward through the fighting to just attempting to clear out the numerous amounts of black sperm that attempted to get past them.
A number of the small creatures didn't even bother trying to fight during their charge, only hopping to run past them while dodging their attacks, while others did a hybrid of attacking and running away, all to take their attention off the large fusion in the center. The group noticed how the group of smaller black sperm had tears streaming down their faces. The meaning to the heroes was lost, and they were too busy to care, but for the small individual creatures, it was everything. Like an emerging chrysalis right now, 64 trillion black sperm are contending to be the sole consciousness. Once cells merge, they can no longer separate. For the birth of one new life, countless others have to be sacrificed. That's why it's precious. That's why it's beautiful. Their hearts all combined as one in deep sadness.
64 trillion, 998 billion, 999 million, 699 thousand, and 949 of them were disappearing into nothingness. On the other hand, I'm happy from the depths of my heart as a 64 trillion merger... The true him makes his debut.
As the horde of black creatures had started to wash over them, it was Atomic Samurai who sent a message through the communications that his disciples better not have been sleeping in the back, that they would have company soon, and that he was leaving the rest to them in the rear team, and that they expected them not to let a single one of them escape the conflict. During the mist of confusion, the homeless emperor was just gaining control of his body once more before suddenly, from below him, rose none other than the zombieman, gripping his legs and shattering them, causing him to scream out in pain before the man grabbed at his throat and held him down.
"Yo…you we-re stil…ali-ve." The homeless emperor spoke in a broken voice as he looked toward Zomebieman.
"Yeah, you almost had me; unfortunately, one of us is heroic to a fault and managed to get half of me out of dodge. I might have started to see the Suzu River if that attack landed, although I've never been a good swimmer, so you'll have to endure my presence a little while longer. It looks like King did a number on you but left you alive, probably because he knew something was up with you."
"Heh… it… It's too late for any of that. You see that glowing light in the distance that's black sperm doing a 64 trillion merger. Keep in mind that a single black sperm is strong enough to take down an A-class hero; a merger of that level is unimaginable but still weaker than me. You better take your hands off me while you still can, Zombieman. If I'm feeling generous, I may grant you the mercy of a painless death through instant vaporization," the Homeless Emperor remarked.
"Shut up. You want me to kill you now? I've still got plenty of questions to ask you; we made it this far, so we can pull through once more." zomebieman replied
"Question to ask?" The homeless emperor asked
"About your "power." If your story is true, then we need to be prepared for whoever is pulling the strings." zombieman stated.
"You want to know... about God?" The homeless emperor replied
Silence
I am taking them back.
[huh? Who the hell are you? Zombieman? What the hell is this?] The homeless emperor suddenly found himself in a large meadow. The previous battle was completely gone. The only thing that was there along with him was a towering figure likely 15 meters tall, a large humanoid being, but it was distinctly not human in appearance but something that attempted to imitate a human, but just without the skin and strewn muscle tissue all around its face and body. The creature was strange yet familiar to him, but its voice gave it away.
Your power. Your life. It's both forfeit.
"Hey, what's the matter? You look like shit, man." Zombieman commented as he saw the man start to be concise; once more, part of him believed that this may have been the king's work as well, maybe a delayed effect of his ability.
"God," the homeless emperor remarked when suddenly flames started to lick at the man's face from inside of it before they started to consume him and his entire body. He quickly got off the man and stood up, and the man just stared at the flames consuming the man's body.
"They say you could believe strongly enough that you can be burned when there is no fire around... But this is ridiculous. Something was responsible for this. Is there someone? Someone who granted him power? There's got to be something, right?" zombieman remarked to himself out loud, and his thoughts drifted completely as the burnt body had completely disappeared like it was absorbed into the ground, but before he could even process what the hell that was about, the merger was finally complete.
Platinum Sperm Burst forth
Rear Guard
The King's secret squad had just gotten back from the main battlefield, under the cover of Toru's invisibility. Once finally back and out of the fire, the girl had nearly collapsed from using her light manipulation to such an extent as she just had. The light mirage dome, as she called it, gave her the ability to direct all of the light within a specific area. It requires an enormous amount of concentration on her part to perform, and unlike her ghost bubble, it could not be moved—she couldn't even be moved while she was working on maintaining it. All the light entering the dome she could manipulate, which meant that she could technically control the vision of everyone inside of it.
She had everyone see King in multiple different places while the others played their own roles. Both Koda and Chemonille used their abilities to psychically bombard all of the monsters with telepathic messages so that the illusion could work even better. Jiro was used to exemplify and increase the sound of the King's heartbeat so that the monsters were even more intimidated, given that Tsu and Uraraka were used to take out some of the enemies.
While Mineta and Aoyama were there to provide support in dealing with the heavy number of enemies, Mineta created loads of large acid piles that he would splash down over the group of monsters, and Aoyama would use his navel laser to carve them down to pieces. They had no hope of damaging the golden beings, but with Uraraka's ability, she would be able to get rid of them, as making them float upward was the most dangerous part of the assignment, given she would have to get close to something so powerful to even fight Midoriya on even ground.
Iida and Sero were for speed in case they had been had and needed to make a speedy getaway using his thrusters and Sero's tape.
The class was completely shaken by the news that King was just a regular person, and despite the circumstances, they didn't know how they felt about sending him in that case, but it was the best chance to help out the situation before things started to get worse, so as they formulated their plan, it was Momo and the rest of the rear guard job to distract the sword disciples. They would likely be suspicious if multiple of their numbers suddenly disappeared all of a sudden, and it already took their persuasion skills to convince them to not follow King into combat, believing him to be of comfort and that the situation would be well under control, which was far from the case in actuality.
Instead, they argued that it would be better for them to stay on guard for any potential stragglers from King's rampage and how important a mission that would be given the monster freighting ability of replication. To that end, they had the group split up along the edges of the fighting space to better have the advantage of spotting any missing targets, and ironically, they had found a detachment of clones that had been separated from the pack before their plan was put into action. This gave the teens the perfect time to move in and help King out.
Kirishima's surprise help was a shock to everyone. When he said he was bringing in the calvary, no one expected it to be from a cadre of all things, and they didn't expect whatever had come outside of the creature's mouth. Mina mildly panicked when she did not see him anywhere in sight, but Momo calmed the girl's worries and explained how she believed that Kirishima may have Been a part of the being that exited out of the dog's mouth, and closer inspection, it resembled darkshine, and she speculated that his current form is related to Kirishima.
In some way or another given his ability which received confirmation later on from darkshine himself as the group continued to fight, they didn't quite completely trust the dog monster but it seemed to allow the three of them to ride it as they made their getaway and listen to their instruction as they made their way towards the rearguard but the disciples who were already on edge didn't take to kindly to the dog monsters presence especially as it had refused to stay in the last cage that was present which speaking of which given everything that has happened so far the teens have finally elected to send away, it had been very clear that no other monsters were coming to join them, energizer had also elected to stay wanting to see or in his case hear what happened in the final battle.
With the arrival of rover the class was mostly together again and watched on at the fierce fighting although the tide had definitely turned in the heroes favor with them getting rid of the other golden beings once they had gotten rid of the three other being they had all assumed that it would be ok to drop the last one down into their midst not wanting to leave it to chance of it coming down and causing havoc at another time, they had thought the worst was over but that was when the large horde of black creatures had started to approach them, there was a burst of shock upon all of their faces as the massive amount of creatures had started to approach them in a vast amount, Momo's visors immediately had started to calculate the number of creatures approaching them and the result was a very surprising 500 hundred of them and going by the monster ability it could potentially be more, over the comms the frontline had remarked to be leaving the rest to them for them to deal with which was a lot easier said than done.
Momo's first thing she did was to ask Metal Knight for two more of his level seven machines, and after giving him a video of the current situation, he agreed. She immediately made the two large bipedal machines and spread them out among the barren fields. Given the level of destruction that was already present in the city in the fact that it was completely gone, there was no point in being worried about any spare buildings, and everyone in the surroundings was gone, so it would allow them to bring their full power to bear on the rather large horde approaching them. The robots would be the first line of defense against the rather large horde of monsters, which would then be followed up by traps made by Mineta using the rest of his pop-off orbs to lay down a sticky foundation.
This would be laid in conjunction with their other range personnel support from the others, like Aoyama and Jiro, along with Sero, Mina, and Momo herself using her traditional and "famous" cannon loaded with highly explosive munitions. The last line of defense was everyone else, which revolved around the close quarters led by the samurai disciples. The fact that they did not want to be the last line of defense and wanted to go out and meet the enemy head-on showcased how on edge they had been, ready and almost itching for battle, but they deferred to their judgment as long as when the enemy passed their defenses, it would be them calling the shots from then on.
As the monsters made their approach, the two-level-seven machines finally managed to get set up. Momo moved backward and waited for a moment to activate them as the large group of monsters started to draw closer and closer before turning them online and watching the fireworks on display. Dozens of miniature missiles had scattered into the air and had started to rain down on the mob of creatures, along with the machine's upper large autocannon firing off in a large, dazzling display of sheer power. Multiple of the smaller little monsters had done the only thing they could do in that large, dazzling display of sheer power. Multiple of the smaller little monsters had done the only thing they could do in that large, dazzling display of sheer power. Multiple of the smaller little monsters had done the only thing they could do at that large, dazzling display of sheer power.
Multiple of the smaller little monsters had done the only thing they could do at that moment and were to continue to keep on dividing. Momo watched the readout on her visior even climbs so high as up to nearly 10,000 before the numbers had started to rapidly fluctuate downwards and upwards at a inconsistent place but Momo would take whatever she could get for now going off the disciples the black sperm were somewhat formidable but "somewhat formidable" to them meant they they were a rather serious threat to her classmates at least most of the ones that relied on close quarters combat so she wanted to keep the enemy as far away from them as possible if she could help especially in such ridiculous numbers but even with that the numbers stayed fairly high for the most part it continued to hover around the high hundreds low thousands no matter the timing which got her to continue to worry as the large wave got closer and closer to the two large machines, they had leapt backwards at this point a total number of two times, the third will be the last time they would be able to without going into the second line of defense and at that point they would be forced to engae with the enemy as they to would be stuck in the popoff field.
As the third jump occurred, however, the rear guard had come upon some unlikely new allies. This was in the form of the secret monsters of the rated heroes, Lady Death, Superd, and a large number of heroes, even some that weren't even on the mission, including Stinger and Death Gatling, but along with them came: Spring Mustachio, One Shotter, Forte, Shooter, Tank Top Philosopher, Tank Top Girl, Food Battler Futoshi, Demon Roper Shell, Bone, Mizuki, Needle Star, Golden Ball, and Shadow Ring. Death Gatling looked at the display and smiled at Neith and complimented how she finally got the message going off the machines, but she immediately clarified how this was a special case and not the norm and how the machines weren't even hers but metal knights.
There was a very small amount of talking and catching up on what was happening and what they were up against before the group was ready for battle; however, just on the edge of when they were going to join the battle, the teens let slip that the five-rated heroes were secretly monsters, and each of them had started to take on their more monstrous forms to show this. Of course, this was a surprise to almost everyone present, but no one talked about it or commented on it besides Death Gatling, who was already concerned with a criminal watching his back, but with a monster, it was almost inconceivable, but one shotter managed to get him to come around to the idea, and it wasn't like he would have to watch his back; more like that, the monsters would have to watch their own from him.
With the additional reinforcements from the group of monsters and heroes, it brought their group total up to 50. However, Sigismund was still unconscious, and Toru was still recovering from expending so much energy beforehand. This was also subtracting 25 of the 35 members of the Fubuki group that had left towards the outer areas with the other heroes. Since Bakugo wasn't there, no one held it against them. Besides the 10 individuals who decided to stay by the fighting until Miss Fubuki had returned, the teens defended them from being put too much on blast.
Some people had a limit to what they could bear, and the fighting going on could extend to that. Once the large level seven machines finally fell, they let off one last explosion, which signified the second line of defense for the more people in the group. Momo read out, surprisingly, still read about at least 2000 more of the small black creatures remaining, just showing off how staggering the actual number of individuals that those original numbers contained inside of themselves and who knew how many these individuals still had.
Regardless, they still needed to combat them all, and they shall, as Momo started the opening salvo with her cannons, create massive craters, and kick up dozens of the small black creatures in their wake. As they proceeded forward, all of the other ranged heroes joined along with her, and surprisingly enough, Spring Mustachio as well. Unlike his more normal compatriot disciples, his sword could stretch out incredibly long, and his thrusting speed was incredibly fast. The tomboy barrage was completely devastating to the ranks of monsters approaching, but this only caused them to explode even more into several more of the smaller creatures. But the heroes aren't intimidated as they continue to lay it on the encroaching horde. As the hoard kept expanding, it was only inevitable that they would start to get trapped.
The traps left them to be easy picking for the ranged team to pick off but it was only inevitable they would eventually reach them especially as they had to start to reload their weapons and that was when the last line of defense would join the fray and Atomic disciples were eager to join the battle which was matched by the eagerness of the monsters that had joined along with them in terms of power each of the monsters was fairly powerful around high tigers after their upgrades some may even be above tiger or low demon but they didn't have much time to get a good feel for before throwing themselves into combat but they guessed what better way to learn how strong they had gotten other than with combat training.
The heroes all dashed out to meet the enemy and engage them, the teens also did but most of them were more laid back into engaging the horde properly mostly being continent to help the other heroes in the case that they get surrounded by the numerous monster or to assist with whoever needed it most at the time, Ojiro didn't charge into the fighting as he wanted to protect over Toru and Sigismund, the range units for the moment had to back up given that environment no longer suited them instead waiting for their moment on the occasionally chance that a couple of the monsters attempting to run off from the battlefield and gunning them down accordingly, oneshotter was the only one that actively shot near the others given his weapon of choice along with golden ball.
The fighting, while intense, was on the upswing for most of the fighting until some of the clones did a merger that was worth 100,000 of itself, leading to some of the crew being staggered backward or knocked away, creating a gap for some of the smaller monsters to skitter off. However, this only opened up the opportunity for death gatling to get a good death shower, eviscerating the merged form and all the monsters fleeing from the hole in the defense it had managed.
The fighting continued but the outcome seemed fairly clear cut even to the monsters themselves which began to attempt to convince the other monster of the group to help them out however they didn't listen to the small monster and only thought that it was chickening out and that had blown the last straw of the splitting monster patience as instead of continuously splitting the monster had started to merge more and more and more while the rest of them feigned off their attacks this new monster was a merged being of 1 million cells and by that point, none of them were able to touch the monster even their monsters had struggled to put up a fight against it and things looked to be going bad as machine gun brawler had two of his arms ripped off by the monster but before the monster could crush it's head like a grape as it commented,
something struck it on the side and completely took the large creature off its' feet and it was none other than Sigismund in his fused monster form the teen had risen from all the fighting and had been the possession of a special weapon that had been in the possession of one of the escapees, this escape was none other than the part dragon boy that tsu and Aoyama had arrested during their beginning days, the weapon had always been attempting to leave the man's hand he would say and to him, at least this signified its chosen wielder was nearby so he left it to the teens which kept it sort of lockdown given that they didn't know who this suppose chosen one would be and didn't want it to fall into enemy hands if it turned out to be one of them.
Sigisumand, in his monster form, had come down and dragged the merged monster across the ground before lifting it and shooting his hands outwards, and the scythe simply manifested in his hands before he slashed the merged monster in half. Both halves of the monster had turned incinerating completely. Siggusmand was already strong in his fusion state, but with the weapon he held now, he was even more powerful.
His dark body was flowing with a dark flame that burst out of him and washed over the entire field, which included everyone inside of it. Thankfully, the flame was completely harmless to them but incinerated all of the remaining black sperm to ash and dust, completely clearing them out like they weren't even there in the first place. Once the attack was over, Sigusmand immediately defused and dropped to the ground, unconscious. His monsters were still out and about, but they all just sat and huddled protectively along his body. The group took the moment of peace to help out some of the wounded and injured, but everyone had completely lost focus when the sky seemed to light up even more as two blazing lights lit up the pathways in the air as a golden flame and a silver flame seemed to do battle.
Flash Rescue
Flash sat there in his small shallow hole full of repressed anger at his current situation he was unable to call for assistance or press his emergency SOS, his vision was clouded with rock and rubble forcing him to rely on his training and deep breathing exercises to see him through the trying time to conserve oxygen, normally escaping from such a predicament for him would be child's play, he could likely due it blind even however the problem lied in what he had buried next to him, his weapon the sword that saw him through his training and his hero life instakill, it wasn't as hardy as he was despite his time and care for its creation one wrong move could cause literal tons of rocks to bury it and snap it in half which would be the greatest insult for him especially if it was by his own hand so he remained still attempting to figure out the specifics of the rocks structure that had him buried so he could calmly shimmy his body in a way that his sword wouldn't break their was also something else, something not made of rock that was weighing on his arm but maybe it was just some other type of crystal or gold of some kind.
Just thinking of the mineral also gave him a deadly reminded him of that person from before Saitama, king's supposed apprentice he wasn't the person he expected from the man although in one respect he did live up to the power part, it would make sense for someone of King's status being able to read his movements even if he was subconsciously holding back due to the man being a human it was impressive nonetheless but that was where his compliments really ended as everything else about the man screamed amueture to the highest order and he would honestly remarked that he was wasting his talents fighting the way he did especially if he was being taught by someone like King he would have to question the man after he was done about it, since it was him he must have had some purpose in doing his training this way, he heard over the comms that King had actually came to fight and he was unfortunate enough to be caught in this predicament to see the man in combat, however he would have assumed that this would mean the fighting was going to be over and his rescue would arrive soon and just as he thought that. it did so as someone began removing the rock from in front of his face he was surprised to see that it was that ninja girl from before even with the mask he could tell that she was smiling from his predicament.
"Are you just here to make fun of me, or are you going to free me?" Flash remarked in a rather annoyed tone.
"No, I'm simply considering If I could get away with killing you right now...but this is rather cathartic for me." The girl remarked in her usual flat tone.
"Spare me your idle threats; your eyes lack that burning hatred from before." flash replied simply.
"Hmph, maybe so, but there are other ways to make you suffer; maybe if I just take a little off the top and not just the top entirely?" The girl replied, taking off her sword and pointing it near his face.
"I swear to you, if that blade so much a grace's in my locks, I will kill you, the person that gave it to you, and its creator." flash remarked in an ultimate serious tone with a death glare. The girl simply shook her head at the threat, but she did sheath her sword once more and started freeing the ninja from his bonds.
"I would have thought that your village would have taught you modesty; I can't imagine you on an undercover mission where you may need to change your outlook." The girl remarked
"Hah! What would be the point of that when you can just kill everyone in the room who can attempt to get between me and my target?" flash remarked with that utmost confidence of his.
"Well, I cannot say that should be unexpected coming from you; you are never really hard to find; however, it seems all that confidence has finally caught up with you, which brings me to how you ended up in this location in the first place, so far off your intended path." Silver Chain spoke.
"Yes, I was observing the king's apprentice to see how he operated in the field, so I took a detour since he had already killed the Monster King." flash replied.
"Well, where is saitama?" Silver Chain asked
"I do not know when the world started shaking the man; he had gotten somewhat delirious from the fighting. Despite his power, it seems battle stress may have gotten to him. He started to scream about how his home was on the verge of being destroyed from all the rumbling, and within the blink of an eye, the man had tunneled off somewhere with incredible speed. By the time that I had come to terms with that and attempted to escape myself, it was already too late." Flash replied.
"I see. Well, that will make things more complicated than necessary, it seems." Silver Chain remarked
"Complicated? I heard the king had joined the battle. Is the fighting not over?" flashed asked, the man was not free, and now he just needed to get his sword free from the rocks' evil clutches.
"He gave the heroes precious time to reorganize them and form a counterattack against the enemy; however, the fighting continues, which brings me to my next point: the enemy. Only two enemies remain: that of the monster king and that of the cadre called black sperm. There are other monsters present at the moment on the battlefield, but they are on our side, so do not attack them." Silver Chain commented
"Working alongside monsters? Against monsters? That seems highly suspect," Flash remarked.
"They haven't betrayed us so far, and in fact, two of their cadres have abandoned the cause, likely feeling that they are outmatched by the fighting thus far," Silver Chain remarked.
"Ah, so it was out of their survival instincts that makes more sense, although that makes them not very trustworthy allies in battle." flash remarked.
"I'll worry about them; you just need to worry about the last two enemies. I'm sure you want to test your skill against the monster king, and you may get your chance after all; he lived somehow and has gained even more power; we'll need everyone to stand against him." Silver Chain remarked as she finally managed to free his sword arm, or at least mostly around it. It took a little wiggling from Flash to finally get his sword free; whatever was holding it there was extremely heavy. He peered into the small hole to see what it was and only found a black box of some kind. While interesting, it wasn't very concerning for him at the time, as the girl requested he hurry up as the battle was still occurring ahead.
Front line
Everyone's attention was fully focused on the new arrival the council of swords all could feel the immense aura coming off of the monster and midoriya could feel the intense power and threat the monster was giving off purely with his danger sense alone and everyone else had seen the power that the merge beings could output and were being cautious about it, shimming their formation just a bit, even darkshine/Kirishima had been taking the threat a bit more seriously and his body almost shifted to match that tensions instead of being the almost liquid gray material imitation of the man, he had gone back to being his usual darken brown color with hints of red shining through his skin but more than just that his muscles seemed to be surrounding in additional thick rocky layers and his face took on an almost monstrous sharpnesses to it. The only hero who wasn't taking the threat seriously was Metal Bat; he was completely unbothered by the monster, or he could not read the danger signals as the rest of them could.
"You know, for a "final form", that looks pretty pathetic; it's smaller than the previous one even." Metal Bat mocked as he took more steps forward towards the fusion, holding his bat outwards.
"Hmm…about that… Let me pass through for a sec." platinum sperm remarked simply, and in that next moment, the being was gone, disappearing from many of their sights.
1.2 Microseconds
The first target on the platinum sperm list was none other than the loudmouth in the front. Not only was he the closest but sending his head flying would be of great satisfaction, the man had attempted to pull his bat backwards attempting to block his attack but he was moving in slow motion in comparison to him now, he rocked the man under his chin with a hard uppercut he had thought he would have sent the man's head flying but he was a bit more robust than he thought although he felt the bones in the his chin shatter his head still remained on his shoulder and instead it flying up the entire person did he never minded that as he continued on to his next target the next closest individual was none other than the non-killing army brat he was also moving to defend himself managing to get into a cross block and also wrap himself in that strange black stuff he could summon but he didn't care lashing out with a single kick and he relished in the fact when he felt the boys arms essentially break from the blow, his next target was the next closes which had been the large goliath that was now clear darkshine he was a somewhat less weird then previously but he was confident that whatever was happening to the man wouldn't be enough to compete with what he was now wether it was some weird awakened ability or monsterization itself.
Like the others he was simply too slow to keep up with him as he lashed out with a kicks directly to the large man's chest, he for a moment actually faltered in his movement not expecting the man to be that hard of a target he knew that at least he was not going to be felled by that single blow like the rest are but he could deal with him later as he continued on to his next target which was going to be the samurai however as he drew closer the large shark monster had actually been shielding them it was happening in slow motion to his eyes but by the time it got there it would already be complete well it was no matter to him as he launched off his feet and delivered a large drop kick straight at the appendage creating a sizeable blow back that would absorb all of the samurai either way, using he limb as a spring he continued on with his assault charging now towards the weaker heroes like tank top master and puri-puri prisoner he didn't even waste his time on his zombieman using his head tentacle to strike out and completely blow the man's body away completely eviscerating him, while it likely did't kill him it would take his body some time for him to recover at that point well he would just enjoy as he would be helpless and forced to watch while he slaughtered the rest of them.
Surprisingly as he turned back to look at Tank Top master and Puri-Puri prisoner the two of them were directly in the middle of being eaten by pig god which admittedly took him off guard but he recovered in the next moment and struck the fat hero directly in its gut he felt his fist sink in and actually reach the man's rib cage for a moment and feeling it give way if just briefly he was pretty amazed by the man's body even more so than darkshines not expecting fat to be abel to give that much protection but it would only prolong his pain either way as she switched targets again towards his next set of enemies, which were the other three teens of the non killing army, all three of which where in the air which would be somewhat tricky but they were all still slow and he would be able to easily use each of them as a trampoline to attack the other as he jumped up directly at them, he couldn't keep his acceleration while he was in the air however it didn't matter that they slowly realized death was coming for each and everyone of them, something had shot out at a somewhat quick pace from one of the teens however the one with a bird head and while surprise that he was able to react at all to attack him, it was still slow as he launched a punch at the light like attack but his punch had actually seemed to be consumed by it not just his punch but his whole body was consumed by the light and it actually forced him to lose altitude missing his targets completely and landing down on the ground, some golden metal had surrounded him but with just a flex he was able to break it off and it seemed to go right back to it's owner.
Of which he was still blown away along with everyone else. As everything started to catch up to how he moved, the ground exploded along with several of the heroes that he impacted. Lord Great White's entire large arm was torn from his torso as he was blown backward. The two smaller monsters, Flame Dragon and Frost Raven, were flung clear of the battle, along with the samurai who had been huddling under there, who were blown away directly as well. As Metal Bat rocketed upwards out of sight of everyone, Pig God continued to skid across the ground in pain as he was punted away by what seemed like an invisible force. The only person who had not been blown away was Darkshine; the man was clearly phased by the blow; however, unlike everyone else who had gone skyrocketing backward, Darkshine had only been pushed backward a couple of feet, but he remained standing.
However, he was shocked about what had transpired around him and how injured everyone was from just the creature's initial barrage until his eyes set on the silver-colored being who had been staring hard at him all the same. The three teens in the air had quickly dispersed to check up on the wounded heroes to check on their condition and to ensure that they were okay. Just with that small display, they each knew that they were outmatched by the creature, and the only person left standing enough to combat the thing was Darkshine.
"Darkshine, it seems your reputation is true; after all, your muscles are pretty hard, but that just means you'll make a great punching bag for me. Get ready. I'll shatter those muscles you're so proud of right here and now." Platinum Sperm remarked again before he again blitzed forward. Everyone lost track of the monster once more. He was just too fast, and Darkshine was punched again, this time directly in the face, making him take a step backward. In the next instant, he had come around and struck the man directly in the back of the head, making the man completely stumble forward. This continued to happen as Darkshine could only stand there and take the punishment, but he believed that this continued to barrage him with attacks. His body was attempting to adjust at least partially to the monster's speed, and he was bit by bit, but Kirishima's quirk had been straining to its very limit in trying to keep it up.
The acclimation had finally started and he could finally see the monster moving but he was still too slow to catch him the best thing he could hope for at that moment every time he attempted to strike out with a punch it would only leave him open to another heavy charge attack that staggered him backward forcing him to turtle once more and even when he could get a punch off when the platinum monster instead of doing charging attacks attempted with a barrage of punches instead this would only result in him getting his punched blocked or deflected away from him, he couldn't touch the monster at all and he didn't even know if it would be a deciding factor if he could in the first place.
That didn't mean he would just give up as he tried one last thing as Kirishima's quirk was being taxed to its very limit and shifted his hardening around to focus on the man's fist and darkshine slammed the ground with a double super alloy bazooka there was a massive spike of rocks and gravel launched high into the air and the ground shook around him allowing him the first clear shot at the platinum being as the two traded one punch each given that the hardening was shifted more to the hands the punch did major damage as darkshine was blown away and indent in his cheek from the blow and Kirishima was completely separated from him as well in that same instance sliding across the ground some distance away from him.
In comparison, the punch that Darkshine delivered wasn't too much damage; he had caused the monster to flinch backward from the hit, but other than that, it seemed fine. The council had recovered enough to witness the last exchange, and Darkshine slid down right beside them. The monster laughed and remarked that he now saw how it was as he looked towards the downed redhead teen that had separated from the hero. Bakugo was immediately there to cover over his downed friend and platinum sperm simply remarked how that it would just make killing the both of them much easier as he was about to dash forward however something caught his vision to the left he immediately turned his attention to the target as he sidestepped the attack from a sword thrust that was coming his way, flash was surprised that the monster was able to dodge his strike while platinum sperm was annoyed that the heroes still had people lying in reserve but it was no matter to him, the flash would die like the rest and flash accepted the monsters challenge believing that his superior techniques would allow him to easily fall the monster and that he was was different from the rest of the flock.
Mid-air battle
They dashed towards each other at blinding speed before launching off into the sky, using the rocks that Darkshine and Kirishima had thrown into the air. The sound was almost deafening as the air seemed to be filled with constant explosions as twin fireballs raced across the air. The flash had a golden glow, while the monsters had a silver glow. Bakugo, Kirishima, and Darkshine had all been moved right next to Midoriya and the rest of them while everyone stared up at the massive fight above them.
"It took you long enough; you aren't going to join them?" Bakugo remarked towards the girl; she looked down at him and shook her head.
"No, they're moving too fast even for me; if I attempted to join, I would just be getting in his way... but from the looks of things, this is not good either." Silver Chthey remarked as she quickly turned back skyward and balled her fist.
"What do you mean by that? Flash is losing; I can't see much of anything." bakugo remarked
"He's losing, but worse than he should be; his movement seems off." Silver Chain remarked a bit bitterly as she watched the fighting; it almost seemed like he was desperate.
"Tokoyami, can you lend him a shining light for an added boost that should be able to turn the tide in his favor?" Midoriya tried to say it through clenched teeth as he sat up. As he expected, both of his arms were completely broken; he could barely move them at all, but the fact that he could still feel the pain from them was good enough, he supposed. Tokoyami shook his head in reply a moment later.
"I…it… It almost seems impossible, but... But I can't say that shining light can't reach him in time, which means they're moving faster than the speed of light itself." Tokoyami spoke in utter bewilderment.
"Well, that explains why we couldn't even see the thing move, but now what? If he loses, then who else could fight it?" Todoroki remarked
"There may still be a way, silver chain; maybe you could help out him in the battle; you're the only one that's capable of doing so right now. If I make you faster with Gearshift and Tokoyami bestow shining light on you, that may give you the boost you need to keep up with them." Midoriya remarked, and the girl hesitated for just a moment before nodding her head and agreeing with Midoriya's suggestion. Given that his arms didn't work, Bakugo had to forcibly move him to touch the girl four times, and Tokoyami cladded her with shining light. Unlike before, where it would present itself as knight armor, this time it simply decorated her in an advanced golden ninja garb full of larger bracers on her forearms, additional shin protection, two large shoulder plate armors, and a golden head gear that surrounded her face.
The girl bowed in thanks before she completely vanished from sight, and the sky seemed to erupt and explode even more frequently than before a new dazzling golden fireball joined the fight above. Unlike Flash's, this one had a wider width, which represented the girl's wings on her back, but more than that, her line trails curved and moved more sharply than the other two, but no one could tell what was happening between the three of them and they had to just hope for the best.
As Flash and platinum sperm took to the air their battle had been one of legend, the two super-powered beings clashed hundreds of times within mere moments of the other however flash was the clear inferior in this battle, try as he might with all of his skill and technique the monsters was still faster than him, for every block or dodge the monster would somehow manage to land an unexpected attack against him knocking him clear into other rocks and debris that littered the air, his wind blade kicks were dodged his flowing shadow feet was met with superior speed making him miss his attack entirely only to get slammed in the back,
the only advantage he had was that he was able to ward off the monster with his sword he was extremely cautious of his blade and made sure not to get hit by it but it wouldn't matter if he couldn't land a proper strike against the being, flash's frustration with how the fight was going had continued to spiral out of control as the battle was not in his favor and when he used his flashy slash he was finally able to make contact with the monster but his sword was caught by the monster's hand and all it served for that fact was some minor blood in the palm of it's hand, the mere act was completely baffling to him, dodging was one thing but catching his attack should have been impossible. He was so shocked by the move that, for a moment, he allowed the monster to punch him directly in the face and snatch the sword from him.
The monster laughed out how he was acting, questioning why he was so full of opening and perhaps that it was due to his lacking spirits, which in no small part meant that he was faster than him, even mocking him if he was even considering himself a hero before doing the second most unforgivable thing, which was to bend and then break his sword and laugh about it before chucking the pieces down below. His anger completely peaked at that point, and he was just seeing red at that point as he charged at the person with both of his fists with his ultimate technique, a flashy punch.
This rage only served to make him an easier target for him on a purely physical level he was superior but had to give the hero some credit as his skill was the only reason he survived this long but when he was so chock full of anger his opening was clear as day he would puncture straight though his heart the monster thought forming his hand flat and hopping to skewers him however he was so focused on Flash that he was unable to realize the person coming below him by only the graces of having a spare rock fly in the girl's direction stopped him from getting his head sliced off as she had to slash through a rather large rock before coming back at him, the monster was able to dodge out of the way of the attack just in time leaning backward and delivering a hard gut punch straight to the new commers guts that slammed the newcomer straight into the path of the incoming flash.
The two seemed to argue a bit with the girl remarking that he needed to calm down and think more rationally about things and the man argued that he didn't need her help with the fight, platinum sperm wasn't one to simply let the two bicker as he charged forth and struck flash in the face sending him crashing downwards before switching targets to the next person he didn't know who this person was but it matter little to him launching off with a punch which was blocked but it was enough to still send the person flying backwards but unlike flash no rocks were in that direction so he assumed the person would have just fell to his death however that didn't seem to be the case as the person started to float in mid-air on what seemed to be metallic wings, his surprised quickly turn to anger when flash had came back at him delivering a barrage of heavy punches blue tempest fist but he was easily able to counter the barrage with his head tentacle unscrupulous rotating defense platinum disrupting the attack and allowing him to catch the man's fist before delverng out with a hard kick that punted the S-class away.
Which gave him enough time to block the strike from the girl coming at him, she was surprisingly fast but faster than flash himself but still slower than him as he raised his arm to block the sword strike but this sword unlike flashes was dangerous apparently as it bit heavily into his arm causing blood to seep out of the wound for that aftont he whacked the person with his head tentacle with quick pace before wrapping the appendage around the person and began to squeeze around the person's neck which judging by her gasp was a women throat he was only able to punch a couple times before being forced to separate from the women as flash came back, with a downwards thrust kick straight to his jaw dragon thrust kick the attack sent him flying but he recovered quickly catching onto a rock and dashed back at the two of them they returned the favor and three of them clashed once more while in the air however the monster still maintained the advantage especially with the lack of teamwork they were showing amongst each other making them easier to pick off.
The fighting ultimately came to a head when he was able to disarm the girl of her weapon forcing her to go and retrieve it allowing him to fight flash alone for just a couple of seconds but that was all he needed without his sword he was easy pickings as he pummeled the man through his meager defenses and with a double fist slam down into the ground leaving only the girl left as she came back at him, she let off a slash which he was going to counter with his unscrupulous rotating defense platinum again however the attack seemed have bent around his defense silvery slipper strike however thanks to his reflexes he was able to dodge it only scoring a slash across his cheek but the strike left her over extended and allowed him a hard knee to the girls gut which seemingly broke the golden armor clouding her before he slammed a double fist into her back sending her careening into the ground which he was about to follow up on until he was suddenly struck from above by something hard making him spiral down into the ground uncontrollably.
On the ground
Just as the girl had left to join the battle and it got even more intense things suddenly began to turn quiet it was Atomic who remarked that flash had been falling out of the sky and it was Saren who came forwards to rescue him and almost the next instant later he remarked that the girl was falling from the sky and this time it was bakugo using his fused state in combination with midoriya's gearshift to hurry up and catch her from hitting the ground almost the entirety of shining light had been broken off the girl and bakugo could feel that the girl was incredibly weakened which was the first time he's ever even seen her like this other than fighting flash himself and the same was said for flash the man had been knocked unconscious and blood was spilling from his mouth,
the next vibrating crash to earth was the monster himself who seemed to be angered by something as it flared its aura clearing away the dirt that came from his fall almost instantly the council of swords immediately took their positions in front of the wounded including saren as well although he flinched for a moment as he moved to get into position, leaving atomic to remark that he should sit this one out or play from the back but saren rebuffed him and remarked that he was just fine.
The monster, however, was strangely not looking down in front of it at the wounded heroes he sent crashing to the earth but instead was looking upwards, and everyone else followed suit as another hard landing happened, and in this dust cloud, it was none other than a metal bat. The pompadour-having teen had come back down, bleeding from his lip and head and missing his signature jacket, but he was still alive and breathing and still eager for a fight, it seems.
"You! You're still alive? And ugh! Why? Why did that hurt so much? You weren't this strong before! You weirdo." Platinum sperm screamed in anger as a bit of blood seeped out of his mouth.
"It's just a fighting spirit, and I'm pumped full of it! Come on! I dare you to try and hit me again. I'm ready this time around." The Metal Bat yelled out a challenge.
"We'll see about that," platinum sperms remarked simply as he charged forth, and Metal Bat, showing a surprising amount of speed, did the same, causing a large explosive wave of pressure to wash over the area, blowing everyone back.
"The hell!? Is that really metal bat in there?" atomic remarked in disbelief.
"Hehe, I guess you weren't kidding when you said you knew some strong individuals were you, Kamikaze." Nichirin remarked simply.
"He is strong; however, his skill seems to leave some to be imagined." Zambia replied
"I concur that the result seems like it will remain the same at this rate." Amahare remarked
"Indeed, he needs a buffer of some kind while his strength builds up." Saren remarked
"I'll go out and lend him."
"No, not you... Our swords weren't effective against the golden being. I doubt it would have any use against that one, and your body is frail; a single blow, maybe even a glancing blow, would kill you." Saren replied.
"So what? Do you suggest we just wait here and hope that he wins? You've seen how that worked out so far." Atomic remarked, pointing to the two-downed ninja duo.
"No, but we don't need it. We have another secret weapon to use, right, the non-killing army? It's Forest Lord's time to earn his title." Saren remarked as he looked at the four of them. They looked towards the man for a moment before looking back at each other and nodding their heads, and Tokoyami went to the communications and started to contact the rear guard.
Near-troposphere battle
The monster king was proving to be even more difficult to handle than they initially thought. The child emperor thought that with the addition of Tatsumaki, this would have been a significantly easier adversary, but this seemed to only complicate matters even more. The monster, as he expected, had been constantly improving himself during their fighting, but it wasn't just copying their moves; it seemed to be improving upon them. The blast of energy that the fused drive knight had blasted out had not only been absorbed by the creature but blasted back out of the creature's tailback at them.
The monster also seemed to take cues from briefly watching the Drive Knight battle and transform itself into different forms for different primary attributes like strength, speed, and utility. Child Emperor's brave giant was fairing the worst against the large monster in any form it took; his weapons would merely bounce off the creature's extra-hard outer skin, or his missile would explode harmlessly along its flank. The only meager damage that he could have provided was with his blade in combination with his increased speed when using his technique against him, matching his signature immediately, making him repulse away when he went to attack.
The monster could also turn into its speed form, this transformation morphed the body of the creature creating even larger wings and making its form more aerodynamic and its arms along its body turned into six small blasters that could fire in three hundred sixty degrees of motion around its body being able to even morph its body to shoot through itself attack them even when the managed to get above them, they were little more than sitting ducks when it was in this form the only saving grace was tatsumaki creating a barrier to completely block out the attacks which also took on a slight homming effect but even that was not complete safety as it seemed the monster was continuously growing it's esper powers being able to pierce through the barrier with his its energy blast forcing them to still dodge out of the way.
Still, even while shielded, the monster quickly bolted and appeared above them, slamming down with its fist. The strength form completely changed its appearance to be more like that of a giant humanoid-type being with elongated and stretchy arms that allowed it to move. The creature could stay aloft as out of its back emerged several large protrusions that acted like thrusters, directly like the brave giant mech.
The large thing managed to grab a hold of the barrier and attempted to invert it but tatsumaki mocked it remarking that she figured out how to counteract such a move with her duel-level barrier she invented but the monster wasn't doing that it seemed in fact what was happening at that given instant was what tatsumaki had done before when she crashed into the tower it directly sent his esper waves against her barrier using its hands as an extra barrier to prevent her waves from reaching across and the monster did something ingenious with it now inverting the barrier forcing the barrier to be going directly against them if they hope to break free as the monster chest cavity morphed and opened wide as it threatened to blast them once more, genos and drive knight had immediately separated from their fused stated and everyone blasted back against the stream of energy coming at them,
the excess energy of the clash had shattered the barrier around but it was genos that told everyone to stand aside as he power up into his full powered state for a brief moment using the power of his Super Spiral Incineration Cannon to completely overwhelme the monsters attack and sending a hole straight through the center of the creature forcing it back and for a moment Child Emperor had thought that it was over but the whole started to immeidalt close up and repair itself but he did noticing something unique about the monsters in the fact that something inside of it was movig around but it didn't really look like heart of any kind that hewas aware of just seemed like a large fleshy orb that had seemed to move out of the way of genos attack but more than that the veins seemed to flash and started to glow and move before the healing process started idicating to him that they needed to take that out first before they could do any meangily full damage or they could attempt to vaperoize the entire body instead as he looked towards the demon cyborg.
Given the display of power the cyborg had just produced tatsumaki was nagging at the hero for holding back but genos had rebuffed her remarking that his body was unbalanced he couldn't maintain his full power for more than 30 seconds or his core will start to overheat and malfunction, he has already expended half of that time when fighting the water monster and with that last attack he now only has 10 seconds left before he will become impossible for him to access and if going even a bit above the limit there was a chance for him to explode tatsumaki seemed to accept the cyborgs reasoning which allowed child emperor the opportunity to chime in with his a plan of action but before he could completely say it he had gotten a message from Neith asking that if she could tap into his outwards speakers on his machine which was a very strange request however after filling on the purpose of the matter he allowed and asked for a sitrep on the situation, he was surprised that flash had been managed to be taken down and guessed that they had been fighting a rather strong creature down there as well, but they were down to their last enemy which was good news at least which meant they needed to wrap this up as well. And when he felt a psychic shove from Tatsumaki, he needed to hurry up, and there was no telling when his regulators were going to give out as well.
Rear guard
Since the fighting was over, everyone was once again waiting around with bated breaths to see what was going to transpire next during all of the fighting, but judging from the looks of it, things were still not going well. The explosion had stopped in the sky, and two booms reverberated on the ground, which revealed both Flash and Silver Chain had been defeated and that someone else had been taking the stage, which appeared to be a metal bat but even seemed to be having a tough time with things.
The others had returned to the back with the heroes in the surrounding area, not wanting to anger Sekingar anymore for having abandoned their post as they had done so. Leaving just the teens and Fubuki group, stinger and death gatling, but everyone knew when they were outmatched in that type of fighting and could only watch on and hope that the S-class heroes turned out victorious. That was until Neith singled for Koda to go into the field, which got everyone's attention.
"It seems to have gotten that far, doesn't it?" Shoji remarked
"Yeah, but do you think it will be enough? "It seems pretty dangerous." Jiro remarked skeptically.
"When we ran the test the first time, he blew Midoriya out of the water, so maybe," Sero replied.
"And this is going to be going far beyond even that; I contacted both Metal Knight and Child Emperor so that you can expand your range even further, maybe to everything within the entire continent, maybe even further." momo replied
"Dang, that's going to have some serious power there." Sato remarked
"Combine that with the reserve full of hopefully grateful monsters, and I'm sure you can get up there and help them out if you do not win entirely on your own," Uraraka remarked with a pumped fist.
"Let's not get too carried away here, but she is right; you're going to be a pretty big deal. I wish I could be in your shoes, but we won't force you to go out there if you don't want to." Ojiro remarked before placing an arm on the man's shoulder, and Koda placed a hand on top of his before looking back out at the spectacle and quickly shaking his head and activating both of the devices along his arms and legs, almost instantly reinforcing Amor, which started to manifest along them. The material resembled that of Midoriya's mid-force gauntlets; these were even bigger than them, not only due to his size but also due to the countless enhancements they had given to make this plan work without having his bones broken from the force he would be wielding.
Everyone gathered around the boy for a moment, wishing him luck, patting him on the shoulders, or giving him a hug for the best. Before Momo gave him a microphone and told him to use his power on it, Koda gulped in hesitation before hardening his gaze and inhaling the largest breath he had ever done before using his anivoice. The loud yell, which was normally quiet to most people unless they had sensitive hearing, was nearly deafening, which was great since Momo had handed everyone ear protection and noise-canceling headphones, and Jiro had two sets of them just in case.
Koda's voice had gone through the microphone, and out of not just the child emperor's two brave giant mechs in the area, having Momo get into contact with Dr. Bofoi, he was able to patch Momo through to access the emergency sirens located throughout every city on the continent as well as their nature preserve itself. The idea of this move originated from the man when it became apparent that Koda's quick could function at least somewhat well in a digitized format through a machine. Koda's feedback ability allowed him to take power from every animal and, optionally, every monster that had heard it, so the logical next step was to increase the range of his voice as much as possible to the far reaches of the continent. His voice soared, affecting every animal that heard it, and to them and the monster, the message was clear.
{I'm taking half of your energy to protect all of you. Thank you for everything you do for us and this planet.}
The name of this move was a simple but effective one that told everyone where he was channeling his power. The name was:
Animal Kingdom
Monster Preserve
The last and final cage had just started to land when the voice of Koda seemed to run through everything, taking all the monsters by surprise, with both eyelashes and Game-Berus looking towards one another.
"Even now he's asking for help, huh? So what are you going to do?" eyelashes asked the large turtle monster. It looked down towards the smaller monsters making their way out of the cage before looking back and replying.
"Tch, I did say that only I would be neutral; what he decides to do with my power doesn't matter to me." The game-berus remarked simply.
"Heh, that was well said. I'm feeling the same way, in fact, but he better only take half or I'll feast on him the next time I see him," eyelashes remarked simply.
Similar conversations were held between everyone in the reserve of the five cages. A whopping 300 monsters had been introduced to the 60 that had remained inside the place already, and a little over two-thirds of them answered his call and offered up their energy.
Rear Guard and Front Line
Koda's feedback ability was usually an invisible force that buffed him, but the sheer amount of energy that had been coming towards him was almost impossible to hide as it slammed down towards him and consumed him. It was still invisible, but it was like an invisible pressure had consumed the teen, even cratering along the ground before the seemingly invisible barrier and atmosphere returned to normal. Everyone stared at the teen in mock disbelief while there was no physical change. There was something that appeared around Koda, which was a large smoke coming off his body continuously into the wind that nearly obscured everything behind him. Shoji asked if Koda felt okay, and the boy responded with a nod before gesturing for everyone to stand back, which they did before the boy took off in a resounding burst of speed that completely took them off guard and nearly blew them away, which they would have been if they weren't prepared for the moment.
Bakugo had held Sylvia in his clutches, slightly shaking, not due to worry about the girl specifically; she was going to be fine. He could still hear her breathing, which went from ragged to somewhat smooth as he held her, which he guessed was due to her augmentations. No, for the moment, he was a bit more worried about Koda. He heard Animal Kingdom was a strong, if not bullshit, ability, but it was the best they could do in this circumstance. He expected to hear the teen's voice, but he did not expect to understand it. He didn't know what that meant for him, but he guessed he could give the guy some of his power as well, and speaking of which, it seemed that the girl heard his call as well, and her eye began to flutter open.
"Katsuki, that voice... does that mean... we?" Sylvia replied that the implication was clear.
"Yeah, it seems like it; guess those monster cells weren't as "purified" as we thought, but you need your strength." bakugo remarked
"No, I do not; he can take as much as he needs; your classmates mean a lot to you, and so do they to me as well." Sylvia remarked.
"Shut up." Bakugo remarked with a roll of his eyes as he attempted to pay close attention to the fighting between Metal Bat and the monster he was holding out for now, but how long would that last? Who knew? Suddenly, his eardrums were nearly broken, and he was sent skidding backward as something passed by at breakneck speed, slamming into the silver streak and sending the monster flying backward with blood spilling from its lips.
Metal Bat who was in the midst of being pummeled unable to land a clear blow against the monsters superior speed and defensive tentacle was absolutely shocked when the monster was thrown to the side but he was even more surprised by the person that did it, smoke started to culminate among his fist as bad looked at the metallic gauntlet and none other than his very own protegee he had made the teen change from his originally color scheme of red and yellow orionally he wanted to change it to a theme that mirrored his own hero costume wardrobe which was mainly red and black however the teen didn't want to completely ditch his colorful scheme as he believed that the loud colors would be good in disasters and would allow for fellow heroes and civilians to see him easier he also believed that it would allow the kids to more easily find him friendly or comforting so to that end while he had traded in his yellow color he opted for a semi dark lime green instead with shades of orange and the red reamined mostly the same, he guessed he was going for a color scheme similar in approach to the leaves through the seasons which would give off a welcoming feeling which in normal conditions probably would have been true however now nearly covered and surrounded by steam that darkened each one it looked pretty bad ass in his eyes.
"You know you have to start sticking up for yourself; someone won't always be there to protect you. Maybe you should invest in an attack animal or something." Bad heard the teen's comment as he cast a glance his way. It only took a moment to remember him saying those exact words during their early days. He let out boisterous laughter at the comment before slapping the larger teen on the back with a hand.
"Hmph, don't you go getting all cocky if anything. All of this, however, you're doing it, was part of my planning in the first place; don't forget that. I was just starting to turn things around as well, but I don't mind the assist; just don't get in the way with that non-killing crap," the metal bat remarked, and Koda shook his head.
"Not this time," Koda replied simply. Metal Bat did a small glance over at the teen at the reply, but there was no look of hesitation on his face from what he could see. That was when he remembered that they had already snatched one of the monster's smaller selves previously. Well, that could prove to be problematic given the danger the monster gave them now, but he would deal with it when the time came. Being able to get a rematch where he clocked this thing by himself would feel satisfying, he thought.
"Good. Now try not to slow me down. Metal Batt remarked simply.
Platinum sperm had just recovered from that powerful punch that had sent him skittering into the dirt. He was utterly furious about where these powerful heroes kept coming from; he was a 64 trillion merger, for god sake, and to think that the heroes had this many people able to keep up with him was insane. As he looked up, he was even more surprised by who it was that hit him; if it was some unknown hero, he could at least forgive it. They couldn't have known, but it wasn't some unknown hero or even some random civilian; it was someone from the non-killing army of all people, and not even one of the strong ones. This one was reportedly a C-Class Hero, and he would like to have serious words for whoever dumbly made that decision, given how much that punch hurt; it was even heavier than Flash's attacks or the metal bats one hit from before.
Was this person just hiding their strength, or was it something else? Unlike the bat psycho, he could see something was off with this one; the smoke had constantly wafted off his frame in a continuous smoke, but as he looked at the large billowing smoke that wafted off him, he suddenly found eyes staring back at him—not just one pair but multiple—nearly a countless amount of them, some were different than others, and he could tell from the look of some of the eyes that the people that housed them, rover and energizer were the two that stuck out the most among them but even current eyes that were on the battlefield like Harigiri and the shark monster, the explosive kid, the girl, and one of the fallen heroes. It was completely strange, to say the least.
He turned his head to the individual and noticed how he was still there, so it wasn't absorption he was seeing but something else. The countless number of eyes had to indicate something, and it was likely that something was empowering him. His body screamed at him that this advisory was not something to toy with, but it also screamed something else, like it was directly being challenged, not just he, himself as an individual, but the 64 trillions of himself that had lied dormant within him, and when compared to the number of eyes he saw within the smoke, it came up small, so incredibly small, like the number of beings in the smoke was larger than himself, and he hated it. It was almost like the teen was taunting him, thinking he was better than him—more than him—and he couldn't stand it.
Platinum Sperm let out an angry war cry before charging forth as fast as he could, ignoring the metal bat for the moment as all his focus lay on the new individual that joined the fray. He launched off with his head tentacle hoping to smack the bat-wielding teen away, and while his attack was blocked, the force behind it still completed his objective of pushing the metal bat away. Bat having Teen away allowing him to fully allow him to throw his forward punch at the other hero without fear of retaliation from Metal Bat, the punch he threw was completely subverted by the teen's arms however his hand coming up and inward of his strike-throwing it off and making it glide past his head instead in a clear miss,
his other hand launched off with a counter punch he was about to perform the same blocking maneuver however just as his hand got in on the inside of the teen to deflect it away from his face, he saw a flash of gold come out over the boy's hand and suddenly the speed of the punch increased even further completely bypassing his block and landing directly across his face causing him to fly backward once more, platinum sperm caught himself once more digging his hands and head tentacle into the ground to stop him from flying to far as he dug into the ground.
His anger had again turned into shock as he hurriedly looked up to see what had happened. The gold that he saw seemed to be once again someone else had that golden-like quality to it. For the teen, the gold was centered around his hands, now sporting two large golden boxing gloves, which combined with the large golden jacket that flowed down from his head to his ankles and even included a customarily decorated belt with his engravings on it. There was something to this golden power that people were attaining; even the teen looked surprised to be clad in it before the teen seemed to turn and follow his eyes to where he was looking, which was the raven-headed boy. Now that he thought about it, he was the first one to show the golden-like armor, so he could give it away at any moment to the others, then?
He quired to himself before he had to defend himself as Metal Bat came rushing back at him, but something was off. He was even faster than before; the best he could do was hold out his arm to block the downward swing of the bat that was coming at him, creating a massive shockwave that forced his feet into the ground. The scar from that woman's blade ached from blocking the hit, but he powered through that pain, using it to fuel him to push that bat upwards. In the same instance, he launched off with a kick directly to the man's ribs that made him double over, but before he could retract his arms to deliver another strike, he had to back up as the other teen came at him.
He used his head tentacle to lash out at him but the attack was quickly sidestepped and the boy continued at him without losing stride as he continued forwards the he matched the teen with a punch of his own causing another clash to happen with an even greater shockwave than before, platinum sperm reared back his hand first before ducking out of the way of one punch but getting hit directly in the face by another, the two clashed against each other over and over again but he was never able to land any attack of his own very often if at all the teen punched with such speed that forced him on the defensive however the teen was still rather inexperienced as his head tentacle came back and the boy was too focused on his hands to notice allowing him to wrap the appendage around the bows neck and squeeze down hard the boy's hands immediately went to his neck and attempted to pry the thing off him and he may have well succeeded as he felt the boy's strength stop him from restricting his airway however all he needed was his hands occupied as he launched forwards with a barrage of punches that stopped his struggle cold however he only managed to get in a few good blows before he had to doge away again relinquishing his hold on the teen to dodge out of the way of metal bat slamming his bat downwards directly on the ground crating a miniature earthqauke that stretched for miles.
The shifting rocks had momentarily tripped him up as he dodged away from the blow, making him unable to dodge out of the way of the still charging forward meta bat, who showed surprising speed as he was already upon him, slamming his bat hard into his gut, forcing him to use his unscrupulous rotating defense platinum, using his head tentacle to rotate the blow away from his stomach into the ground below, causing it to miss. But platinum sperm had no time to think of counter-attacking when he was suddenly taken off guard by a heavy haymaker, punching him directly in the face and sending him flying backward once more.
He just had the chance to recover as he took in the two combatants charging directly at him, being able to block both of their strikes with each of his hands's tons of dirt and rock cooked up behind him from the force of each strike. He was being pushed back by both of them grinding across the ground as he was forced back despite his best efforts, launched off with a kick from the metal bat, and the other teen, who was going despite his best efforts, launched off with a kick from the metal bat, and the other teen,
who was going despite his best efforts, launched off with a kick from the metal bat, and the other teen, who was going by the belt, whose hero name was Forest Lord, though the name reminded him somewhat of what the boy's power was. wasn't the ability to control monsters? Was that why Rover was really with them? It didn't matter at this point, but it did tell him that if he managed to beat him, then Rover could help him clean up the rest of them.
As platinum sperm turned the his attention to his main target he was forced to doge away from a swing from Metal Bat returning the blow in kind with a knee to the stomach which was followed with a push kick to create distance he quickly turn his attention back towards forest lord ducking his head out of the way of a jab but being not expecting an uppercut that hit him directly in the jaw making him stagger backwards for a couple of steps but he used his head tentacle to wrap around the man's leg and trip the boy up dragging him forwards as he was about to slam down with a flat palm hoping to sqewer him through the chest however the boy hands were faster being able to grab and hold onto his hand before it came through and most importantly locking him there and with himself trapped Metal Bat was able to score a clean blow against his unguarded ribs scoring at strong attack against him spiral of overwhelming victory the spinning blow hit hard and sent the monster flying backwards Half of his rib cage was completely shattered, and blood erupted from his mouth as he crashed into one of the many large glaciers that dotted the landscape from that other non-killign army member.
He struggled to rise to his feet clutching at his ribs, alright that settled it he was getting stronger what type of stupid shit is that he remarked as he spits out some blood from his mouth once before glaring at the duo coming straight for him but he did a double take at the ice chunks on the ground more specifically what was contained inside of said ice, it was black sperms several of them in fact and he found at least a solution to his current position as he quickly sped around and him and melted the ice around their body and absorbed them into himself the cells and everything about them was mostly dead so he would not gain any power from them but he could use them to recuperate himself back into his full healthy self but this didn't mean much of anything,
as the duo charged at him once more he was able to react in time to avoid both of them quickly jumping up and above them and bouncing off a rock that his head tentacle through into the air he landed however and turned back around to face them he was again taken by surprise by something white hitting him four cuts raked along his right side four claw marks marked his body and blood spilled from the wounds he had jumped backward from the new threat to a position where he can spot all three of his targets at the same time and this new person he knew who it was his signature dog costume giving it away clearly.
Q-City
The blasting of noise was fairly hard on watchdog man his special ears being able to pick up on the high-intensity sound making him want to huddle up and shield his ears to at least reduce his pain, the voice stopped and he immediately sniffed the air assuming that maybe some monster had done that attack but it had come from the announcement system instead he was told by the people in one of the shelters that it must have just been a malfunction and that they were working on it, well it didn't matter to him, he could take care of monsters motley by himself however there had been some concern about the battle happening on the other side of the continent, he knew for a fact that emission in total would take more than his allotted walk time so he refused to go but he kept up with it on the news from TVs displays around the town. It seemed to be a slow day in the city.
There had been no monster sightings, but that didn't mean that there wouldn't be any, so he remained vigilant. Even when Dahlia came over and remarked that Tsu was requesting he go for a walk, he was going to refuse; he knew where she was. However, something came up: a rather familiar and comforting smell entered the city, and he followed it toward its source. A person was buried underground for some reason, and he went to cut him off before he traveled far into the very ocean itself. He stopped the mad burying man and offered a wave while underground.
"Oh…hello? What city am I in?" saitama asked
"Q," the watchdog man replied simply.
"Damn, I overshot by a lot." saitama remarked
"Yes, can you stay for five minutes?" A watchdog man asked
"Hmm? I'm kind of in a hurry; is there a problem?"
"We need you to protect the city." A watchdog man remarked
"I mean, I guess I'm a hero, so... I guess I can help out, but just for five minutes. I gotta get back and protect my house from some monsters, Saitama answered with a sigh, and the watchdog man answered with a nod before proceeding out of the hole, which was quickly followed by Sitama himself, who looked around. He assumed the monster alarm would have been blaring danger, but no, it was nothing, just a peaceful day. He was about to ask the strange man where the danger was, but he was already gone, springing away on all fours. His speed was pretty surprising; the guy was kind of fast; he wondered what would take him five minutes to do at that speed. Well, in either case, he needed to go and find out where the danger was. It probably wouldn't take too long; maybe the alarms would sound, and he could finish the monster and hurry back on his way.
Bang and Bomb Rescue Squad
Garou's body felt cold and painful; it wasn't obeying him anymore. Did he overdo it? He had thought that he had overcome his human limits because he wasn't dead yet, but as he lay down along the crumbling rocks and earth, he could barely see or feel anything. In the end, he was just a human in every definition of the word, but so were heroes, and even some monsters just looked like ugly humans to him. He knew the difference between heroes and monsters; just what was he trying to do? He hated unfairness; he hated people who created unfairness. He heard a voice in his ear, and something was asking something of him. He refused it, of course, but the words wrung in his head, and his sight became clear. He wasn't doing this just for himself but for the planet to make it a better world for everyone. So he couldn't let it end here; he would keep going and use this as a step to become a disaster-level "god."
Fubuki attempted to keep her head on straight through all the massive vibrations throughout the area, she didn't know what had been transpiring a couple of kilometers away but she new that it had to be something fierce the powerful individuals she was feeling had only increased as the time went on and her digging up all this earth was not only tiring but tedious she had been left along with one of the bigger monsters that specialty was digging which helped sped up situation massively however something else had been underground it was seemingly some flesh substance that had came out of nowhere and attempted to attack them she didn't know what it was but it had went after psykos unconscious form forcing her and the monster scaledon to beat the fleshy protrusion back before they could get back to work and reportedly from bang themselves they had been fighting against the same flesh from below the red hot rocks as they continued down was proof of that and how close they were in rescuing the group.
"The monster associations, friendly monsters, and now what appears to be living flesh coming from the ground—what is the source of all this madness?" Fubuki remarked as she lifted a particularly heavy rock upwards before shattering it when she heard a voice from behind her.
"The source of madness? That'll be humans. They'll eventually lead this planet to ruin, but I will stop it all. I will rise to the first disaster level, "God," to prevent such an ominous future and create one of my own, making a strange voice reply.
Fubuki didn't hesitate; she shattered the rocks in her hands and hurled them at the individual. Fubuki had never encountered him before, but just from a glance, she knew who it was—the source of all that had happened with the hero hunter—this was Garou. The rock barrage flew towards their target, but she could tell that none of them connected with the man himself; he knocked every one of them down.
"...? My body feels light—too light. I feel disenthrallment. Hey, the little one over there! I mean you in the rag of dishcloth. What do I look like? like? What do you see?" Garou remarked simply, and he took notice of something behind the girl. It was a rather large monster digging up something. He heard her say something like friendly monsters. She guessed this was one of them. The girl seemed to be stunned with fear, a sight that he enjoyed very much, so he turned his sights towards the creature instead.
"Hey! Digging monster, what are you doing!?" Garou remarked that the monster immediately stopped what it was doing and shook for a moment before raising its head out of the ground, not reaching its full height so as not to disrespect him. It felt good again, and he felt even more excited by the minute from just this display that his plan may work.
"I…I… I'm digging some people up. They were looking for someone named Garou." The monster remarked, and Garou was intrigued by that statement, but before he could respond,
"Bang! It's garou! Garou out here!" Fubuki yelled, but not just to the open air, but to what seemed like a device, and not a moment later, dust, rocks, and debris exploded from the ground, and out in front of the girl in a rag appeared his master Bang.
"See, and you doubted us the entire time." Another voice spoke as it too got out of the ground. This one was a large tiger monster, which was followed by another monster, this time a minotaur.
"It seems I was mistaken. I apologize for it. although you cannot blame my preconceived notions of your kind." Bomb remarked as he stepped out of the large hole into the open air and looked towards his brother and then to Garou before proceeding forward.
"Why didn't you guys just do that before?" Scaldon remarked angrily.
"Well, we were running away from the flesh in the ground for a moment before circling back to our position. However, it seems we have other pressing matters to attend to." Asterius replied simply before turning his glance back towards the main threat at hand.
"That's garou? Not what I would have expected for a human." torax commented.
"Yes, he feels more like a monster now—more than ever, an extremely deadly one at that," Asterius remarked as well.
Bang stepped forward towards his way-word disciple; he took a moment attempting to find the exact words he wanted to say at the moment.
"Garou, in this sorry state, you find yourself; is this what you wanted to be?' Bang asked sincerely. For a moment, Garou paused and took a moment to look at himself once more. His body was weirder and twisted than before; he couldn't tell where his flesh and clothes began, seemingly like a mesh of skin, blood, and cloth. He didn't look like a human, but he didn't feel like a complete monster. At least he was still missing something. He turned his eyes from bang to bang toward his brother and then toward the three monsters behind them. The girl in the dishcloth had taken shelter behind them.
"Curious, you would band together with monsters to come after me? You must have been really desperate," Garou remarked, ignoring his question. Bang made a glance backward toward the monsters.
"Of course, I believed that you were traveling down a dangerous path and wanted to stop you before it was too late or you were killed by another," Bang replied.
"Believed?" Garou remarked in mock curiosity.
"Garou…. I do not know why you want to be a monster. It had been brought to my attention that I never even asked for your reasons for what you were doing; I had only focused on stopping you and your rampage. No matter how much trouble you caused, I don't think you would be doing this without some sort of purpose." Bangs stated. simply.
"Purpose? Hmmm..yeah, I do have one of those; it's to become absolute evil!" Garou remarked in a resounding silence for several seconds.
"What does that even mean?" Bomb replied simply.
"It means I'm going to rise to the level of a disaster-level god and straighten this world out," Garou remarked simply.
"Straighten out the world? So you hope to wreak havoc among the populace still?" Bang asked.
"Heroes and monsters too; I slaughtered every single one of them and rose up to become the ultimate symbol of fear—a disaster-level god. Unlike heroes, absolute evil will be unbiased in its judgment." Garou spoke before jumping down from the cliff he was on and taking a stance. Bang simply sighed.
"I would have hoped that it would not have to come to force; I don't want the other heroes getting involved... Garou, with my own hands, I'll make you come to your senses! For one last time, I'll go all out! Come!" Bang remarked as he took his stance with a massive stomp on the ground, but Garou did something unexpected; he got out of his stance and shook a finger into the air.
"Nah, nah, nah, not just you; this is a rematch from last time. Bomb your joining in as well," Garou remarked, simply pointing a finger directly at his master brother, which gained a raised eyebrow from the brother.
"I would have thought since last time you wouldn't judge my brother by his looks underneath that kind face; he really stinks at holding back. He normally tries not to kill his opponents. The only reason I'm here in the first place is due to the fact that he feared that he might kill you alone. When he gets serious, it's quite the spectacle," the bomb remarked.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know that, but he's nothing to what I am now; you're a hero, right bang? Shouldn't your primary focus be on stopping me from "wrecking more havoc"? Or will your pride stop you from doing what's right? Hero or master, how will you face me?" Garou taunted before looking back and forth between the brothers. Bang cast a glance back towards his brother, seemingly weighing his options. He wanted to handle this by himself, but he found that there was something more to this question than just a simple bravado; something with the way he phrased it had rung true to his true emotions. He would like to handle this himself, but if he truly could not, it would lead to further problems down the line.
"Brother, what are your thoughts on the matter?" bang asked
"I am fine with any choice you make; he hurt one of my own pupils as well, and I still haven't forgiven him for that." Bomb remarked earnestly, and Bang took a moment longer. He could hear over the comms that the fighting had still been going on in the far distance; he couldn't allow Garou to also interfere in the battle. He was confident before in being able to beat him alone, but now that he was like this, he was uncertain, and with a heavy sigh, he turned to his brother once more.
"Brother, it would seem that it would be in everyone's best interest to take on this threat together," Bang remarked.
"So be it... But I don't want to hear you crying foul when you start to lose," Bomb remarked simply as he stepped forward, casting a glance towards Bang before he too got into his own stance and Bang followed suit.
"Soo…hero it is…hehe… Good, I've already surpassed half of the martial arts world when I surpassed Darkshine. Now it is time for me to surpass both you and your brother," Garou remarked before taking his own breathing inwards first in the signature awakening breath.
"Bang, that was," Bomb remarked.
"Indeed, he is not playing around; he truly may intend to kill us," Bang remarked as he himself breathed inwardly in the awakening breath before stepping a bit forward.
Three of them stood off against each other. The other five members of the group had stood back and let the martial artist have the field. The monster could clearly tell how powerful Garou was from his mere aura alone, and Fubuki's esper powers told her how dangerous of an adversary this person truly was. She hoped that Bang and Bomb could handle him. She knew the two of them were strong; they had helped in stopping the elder centipede, of course, but this was something else. She didn't know if anyone could take this monster besides her sister, but in her current state, even she was doubtful of that.
The atmosphere was tense. neither side had moved a muscle and had only watched and observed the other for several moments, goddess glasses had remarked that each opponent was likely sizing each other up, the stance, formation, way of breathing, and even some cases the aura could tell martial artists all that they needed to know about an opponent, fubuki was a bit surprised by the girl's insight not believing she was the type to practice or follow in the philosophy of such things but the monster remarked that she would be correct in that regard she originally wasn't, however, the knowledge probably stems from the fact that she had eaten the famous martial artist gokestu a few days prior and inherited some of his skills and beliefs from it, which fubuki just nodded at.
The three had an intense staredown for about a minute before the fighting began. Suddenly, each fighter charged forward simultaneously, like an imaginary bell had gone off, signaling the fight to begin. Bang was the faster of the two brothers charging in head first against his pupil the two of them clashed in the center of the creating a small shockwave from the impact, garou launched a punch out first which was deflected by Bang and returned the punch in kind which was narrowly deflected by garou,
Bang had fainted a snap kick to his jaw but in actuality was a backflip allowing his brother to rush forward with the whirlwind however garou was already in motion seemingly predicting the faint and jumping up and away clear into the air avoiding the deadly blast of wind that had ripped into the ground below but he did not bother to look down at the brother instead keeping his eyes completely focused on Bang as his master continued at him from the air, a kick, a punch, counter, block, deflections, counter attack a deadly dance of the water stream fought against each other like two currents clashing together.
However, Garou had been just a bit faster than Bang, diverting an overhead smash from Bang and lashing out with a sharp knee in return, hitting dead center in the man's gut before Bang could recuperate. Garou had trapped the man in a headlock before driving straight into the ground. They crashed with a resounding smash, but Garou had no time to continue with his assault as he raised his hands to block a shoulder tackle from Bomb. The blow had made him slide back as Bomb went to check in on his brother. Bang had immediately flipped up and out of the ground to a stand. A bit of blood had run down his head from the attack as he cracked his neck.
"Hmph, you are much more worth teaching now than when you were my disciple. you twisted punk," Bang remarked.
"Bang, it's become clear just from that clash that he's much stronger than he was before. I don't know what types of battles he must have gone through in such a short order of time to reach this strength, but he's also refined every technique he's encountered so far and made them into his style. Do you think this is a result of monsterfication?" bomb remarked.
"I do not know how much of this is garou and how much of this is the monster. or are they one in the same? I hope to find that out with this fight. I hope you will join me until the end, brother." bang remarked
"Of course, however, we can't afford to hold back here; one slip up and it could prove disastrous." bomb remarked
"Agreed," Bang replied simply.
"Are you two done yapping yet? Hurry up and come at me!" garou yelled
The two brothers did not let the challenge go unnoticed as they raced forward. This time Bomb took the lead, throwing out another whirlwind that he assumed would have been dodged, but instead, the man did something unexpected; he canceled it out. He didn't just cancel it out; he overpowered his techniques as his GI at the edge of his arms started to get cut by the spare wind pressure of the attack. Bomb was so taken back from the display that he was not prepared for the elbow that was coming directly at his face, but Bang was there to cover him, redirecting the blow from his brother while delivering a roundhouse kick directly toward his disciple's face, sending him skidding backward once more.
Bang charge forth to follow up on his attack but it was his turn to dodge when garou had attempted to use the whirlwind on him, the attack had clearly missed as bang used his instant movement the ability allowed him to dance around the edge of the wind waves towards garou in his blind spot as the dust cleared garou wasn't shocked to see that his master was nowhere to be seen and he instinctively raised his hand to his blind slid blocking the punch that his master aimed it's way, he didn't have too much time to focus on him as Bomb also came rushing in with a kick and Garou had to raise his knee to block the blow before lashing out with his other leg at bang which deflected the blow but he rode the wave of the deflection using it to drive the strike straight towards Bomb who had to block the heavy strike and sent him skittering back across the ground, Garous bent his body backwards to avoid another strike from Bang and unleashed another four in return from both of his arms each of which had been either deflected or blocked but the speed at which he struck out with kept his master from launching off with an counter attack of his own.
Bomb quickly came back into the fight and the three of them began to move and dance around the battlefield at an incredible pace, a majority of the spectators could not keep up with the action at all, and Torax and Asterius could somewhat see when the fighting had slowed down which only occurred when one of the fighters had taken a direct hit but this was only a fleeting glimpse of the battle that had been occurring however it did give them some indication of how the battle was transpiring and the brother duo were loosing not by much they told the others however in terms of what they could see from the damage upon each person the humans were visibly bleeding more profusely with each attack or trade with garou and in return, garou had not bled once even from direct attacks that managed to land which had started to become fewer and far between things at the current rate the winner would be inevitable the two monsters suggested and they didn't know what that would mean for the rest of them.
The fighting had started to heat up even more than before. It was just a warm-up to get things started blow after hard blow was exchanged between the three individuals, the two brothers using all of their experience and strength just to keep up with the new monsterfied garou working together in tandem offense and defense the perfect blend together with their bond as brothers eventually allow them to score a good blow against the rampaging disciple making him hunch over and push him back a bit the two of them had been shocked by how much the boy had been able to keep up with him but there was a signature ability that had lingered in the back of bang's mind that his wayward disciple had still not used yet and it was here where he finally did use such an ability, from his hunched position he took in another deep breath and then switched his positions one arm stretched out behind the other.
"So you finally brought it out, that cursed technique." Bang remarked
"Cursed? You're the one who created it. the exploding heart release. " Garou bulked
"And I regretted it ever since... It was locked away for a reason. But this works for me. I will settle things with you, Garou, as well as with my past self. Now, even more so, I must not lose!" Bang remarked.
"This is giving me deja vu all over again," Bomb remarked simply as he got back into his own stance, ready for the second round to commence.
The three clashed again, but this time the fighting was even more one-sided. Previously, the two brothers had to throw away the idea of offense and entirely rely on simply defending against this new powered-up garou, but even then, it would occasionally not be enough to stop his attack from seeping through their guard's blocks, their counter attacks being too slow to land against the half monster being able to stave off devastation at a knife edge as they clashed over and over again. Kicks and punches traded back and forth blocks, deflects, and counters displayed over dozens of times in mere moments of each other. The two brothers were trying their hardest, but Garou remained unsatisfied, and that feeling grew with each blow he managed to land against Bang.
Out of everything, the exploding heart release was the newest martial art he implemented into his arsenal, and he had the least experience with it that his master no doubt could see and exploit with his own exploding heart release, but he continued to fail to show it to him even when it became pretty evident that the two of them could not take him on, and this only curried his curiosity about why he would not use the ability and why he thought it was a cursed technique. And it seemed like as they were exchanging fists, he received his unsaid answer as thoughts or memories started to play into his mind like they were answering his question.
Long ago, back in his past, Bang was a ruffian who fought anyone who even appeared strong, sending piles of people to the hospital. He was filled with martial arts talent, drowning in it. He fought his brother to drag him to his senses and...bang lost; it took all of his strength to spit out an insecure jab or two at the end. Bang was the real deal; therefore, he understood. His fist was filled with killing intent from start to finish, while his elder brother's fist held none. the entire time. He lost nonetheless. He had a sense that he had lost because he wasn't broad-minded enough. After that bang, seal the explosive release fist. Then, after many years of training, he developed the ultimate defensive art, the rock-smashing fist. Then, taking after his older brother, he opened a dojo.
The fact that you started to work as a hero despite showing no interest in it... I wonder if it was a response to how you felt about me. trying to say, "I reformed myself." When you came to tell me you were going to settle things with a student who went down the wrong path, I figured that you were trying to do exactly what I did for you before. Seeing if your resolve might have been misplaced, I offered to help out, but... But you refused, saying it was between a monster and a student. That's why I made up the excuse that he might go after my dojo next, so I could go with you. I thought it was my duty to see this out. As your elder brother,
The clash ended with both of the brothers being thrown backward, and blood pouring from their bodies. Both of their shirts had been ripped to shreds, exposing their bare muscular chests to the world to see, and this showed the difference between them and Garou, who had but a mere scratch upon his body, although it was hard to tell given how misshapen his body was for the monsterization. Any new wounds he may have supported, if any at all, simply melded in with the old ones he already possessed.
"I think we're starting to get through, brother," Bang said with a huff.
"Maybe, but this seems like even more of a twisted punk than the other one; he won't grow up as splendidly as he did." Bomb commented as he looked towards his brother, and Bang looked back at him with a coy smile.
"I'm not giving up on him yet." bang replied
"So that's why you're not using it? Again, put your pride above everything else, and you will call yourself a hero. It makes me sick." Garou replied simply, earning the other two's attention, and Bang took a moment to contemplate that, but he didn't have any time to do much thinking as the man charged forth at them.
This was the first time he was the actual aggressor in the conflict, and his attacks also showed it to be more ferocious and even more bloodthirsty. He didn't like what they had to say, and his new technique made this even more threatening. Bang, Bomb, and Garou clashed once more, and water stream rock smashing fist, Whirlwind Iron cutting fist, and exploding heart release fist passed by one another.
The exploding heart releases its fist. As the name implies, it causes one's heart to pulse explosively in time with the impact of your punches, and in those moments, it allows one to surpass their body's limits—a wicked style that brings total destruction.
The anger within the boy's heart, while dangerous, was also a fatal flaw, making his attacks more streamlined and easier to read after being able to move behind him. Bang lambasted the boy's posture in using the water stream, which received a direct retort. Bang was easily able to counter and deliver one of the first clean attacks he landed against Garou while he was in this state, which bomb followed up with a dual punch towards his chest, sending him careening back into the dirt, but they had very little time for rest as the dust from the attack was blown away as another shocker was directly in front of them as Garous arms moved separately in a spiral formation. Both brothers immediately knew what was coming, and they instantly got into formation to perform the same technique to counter it.
Double Whirlwind Water Stream: Roaring Aura Sky Ripping Fist
The two attacks clashed with each other. Both brothers were shocked at how a single person was able to perform the technique that the two of them could just barely do. Was this also part of his monsterization as well? It seemed impossible, but the two brothers wouldn't back down. They couldn't back down; if either of them relented for even a moment, the shockwaves would consume them and break every bone within their body. They had to face the threat head-on. It was why they came there in the first place, as they pushed forward with all they had. The spectators had completely ducked and ran for cover.
At this rate, the ground around them had started to crumble away into dust. The battle was so extreme that Fubuki had to raise everyone up from the ground and watch the clash from above. The clash ended in a flat-out draw as all three of them had been thrown back from the implosion, and all the dust completely littered the landscape from the ensuing battle. Both Bang and Bomb were down, breathing heavily, while Garou cut straight through the smoke.
"Is that really it? Are you going to keep up with your foolish pride and not face me with all you have? Are you going to be a hypocritical hero?" Garou yelled out as he cut through the smoke, clearing everything out of the way to see the two-down, older gentleman. Bang slowly got to his feet again, but Garou only gritted his teeth as the man still showed no signs of using the exploding heart-release bomb raised alongside him.
"You sure are getting him riled up." bomb remarked
"Yes, however, I'm starting to understand him a bit more now; we just need to go for a little more now." Bang remarked that although he doubted that they could go much further, that was until he felt something on his back, and he suddenly started to feel even better. Both brothers turned around to look at Fubuki behind her, where the monsters were all gathering around and touching her back.
"Bang.. I do not know your situation or if you are holding back as he says, but for now, you two are the newest members of the Fubuki group, and as the leader, I'm going to help you two out, so you both owe me one. Remember that. I'm healing your wounds and projecting a barrier around you while reinforcing your bodies. You should be able to move a little faster now, although the effect is only temporary." fubuki remarked
"Ooh? It seems like you're right that the pain in my knee is completely gone," Bomb remarked, working over his knee once more.
"Indeed, the pain in my back is gone. Thank you, young lady," Bang remarked.
"And you monsters as well; it seems you all are working hard as well," the bomb remarked, taking a glance behind the girl.
"If you want to thank us, you could win this fight... Hey, old man, if you're holding back, please stop. If you guys lose, then we're all going to die." Goddess Glasses remarked, and Bang took a moment to consider that, looking at Garou, then back at them.
"We won't let your trust in us be misplaced; the sharpness has returned to my fists." Bang remarked before moving forward that he felt better than ever as he stood up and walked forward along with his brother to fight his disciple once more.
"Let's go, Big bro!" bang stated
"Yeah!" Bomb replied as the two of them dashed forward.