Welcome back everyone! The wait was much shorter on this one, like I promised (finally).
March 24 was the 1 Year Anniversary of this story and I made a special art for it, it's on my Deviantart page so go check it out. This chapter was supposed to come out that day, but I spent the whole day drawing instead of writing the rest of it, really sorry.
But do not worry, I managed to include the entire rest of the USJ fight in this chapter, so this is the end of the USJ Arc.
There are only two more chapters after this one to finish off Season 1 and they are mostly just prologue, so they won't take long to come out.
CHAPTER 10: Attack Mode
- Two Weeks Ago -
- Streets of Musutafu -
Arata Chikara could be described as an average simple man. By most standards at least. Around 25 years old, a height of 5'8" tall, went to the gym twice a week, etc.
He had worked a nine-to-five job at a grocery store for several years before he was wrongfully fired by his asshole manager who hated him and looked for any excuse to get rid of him. Luckily for the manager, he accidentally broke some glass jars and was let off. So, admittedly, he did something stupid and used his Quirk to short-circuit the security system and steal a few hundred thousand yen from the safe in the back, his old boss reported him but Chikara managed to convince the police he didn't do it.
After that debacle he hopped between jobs for two years unable to keep one down for more than a couple of months. He easily could afford to live a year or two on rent with the stolen money he had hidden away, alongside the few checks he got between the various jobs, but the man still wanted a stable income that didn't require him to steal or deal with a shitty boss.
He was coming home from his latest job, a nice convenience store downtown, when he heard a sound coming from the alley right on the side of his building.
SSSFFFRRRR…
It sounded like a sort of buzzing. Similar to one of those malfunctioning animatronics. Following the strange noise in the alley, Chikara looked behind a set of cardboard boxes and stumbled upon what he originally assumed to be a smashed appliance thrown out of an upper story, but when getting a closer look, it appeared to have been round like a cylinder. He got a bit closer to it, noticing that it had a dull orange color with metallic gray, and also what best could be described as a spider or crab leg sticking out on its underside. There was also some exposed circuitry in some parts.
-"What is this thing?" He muttered to himself. He had always been interested in technology, but Chikara had never seen anything like it. Its eyes looked almost organic in a way.
Looking around to make sure nobody was looking for it, the man decided to put the machine inside one of the larger boxes lying around, alongside some of the metal parts around it, cover it with a sheet nearby and take it all to his apartment to fix it.
Quickly entering the building without arousing much suspicion, Arata passed by his neighbor Mrs. Kazumi, without even saying a hello to her like he usually does. His mind was interested in this machine and he needed no distractions from it.
After he made sure his apartment door was locked, he scattered the bits of metal that he thought made up the whole machine on his dinner table. He originally thought he could sell it for scrap but after looking at the whole thing from another angle, it felt like this could give him big money.
The closest thing out there that resembled this machine was the service robots some companies built, but they were only accessible to major organizations, tech companies or people with ties to the government.
His apartment was nothing much, decent enough size having two bedrooms, a living room, and a kitchen. He decided to lock the Drone away into the secondary bedroom as it had no windows and only one vent that he could easily cover with a heavy textbook he still had from high school.
So over the next few days, the man worked hard to repair the machine. It was mostly done through trial and error, finding the scattered pieces and parts, putting them where he thought they belonged, learning the complex mechanisms from the internet, etc. It felt kind of like a very advanced jigsaw puzzle. An annoying one at that. As it was put together it began to take shape resembling a drone of some kind. Almost like a military drone but still a strange one at that.
Of course, he had to come in late for work a few times and even call-in sick due to just how much time he was spending on this project, staying up for hours on end, keeping himself awake through it all with energetics and coffee. A LOT of coffee. Scattered through his house were a bunch of boxes and empty cups from delivery food he constantly ordered. One could say Arata was becoming a bit too obsessed with his project, but it wasn't 100% his fault, the more he learned, the more he couldn't just let go.
It was tough. Still, he managed to get the drone in what appeared to be completely repaired at least on the outside but he wasn't a true professional engineer or mechanic. But, he assumed that it should be working as all the wires and circuits were connected in what appeared to be the right places, the only trouble he was having was turning the damn thing on.
-"Come on, you worthless thing, work!" He slammed his foot into the machine and quickly withdrew it as a sharp and intense pain shot through his toes.
He groaned and rubbed his sore limb cursing at the source of the pain. Chikara's biggest problem throughout the whole thing was figuring out what exactly it was made of.
He searched everywhere, even asking people online about the materials, but none of them knew whatever this drone was made off, and most people he talked to about it couldn't even tell what kind of metal it had. The power source was especially difficult.
It was unlike anything Chikara had heard off. It radiated between bright orange and red, pulsing a faint light.
Forgetting what he learned about electronics his whole life, he got an idea and decided to take a shot at the dark, -"Fuck it!"
He didn't have a particularly notable quirk but it could be strong with the right application. It was called "Electric Fingers", with it he could deliver electrical shocks through the tips of his fingers similar to a defibrillator you can find in any hospital. The shock he can deliver depends on how long he has to charge it up. He once almost caused his sister to have a heart attack when he was like 9 or 10 but she was fine in the end.
To give it a bit more juice, he took out his car's battery and grabbed a few jumper cables to make the connections. Setting everything in his table, he carefully opened the panels from the drone that lead to the power source. Making sure everything was okay, he slowly connected the cable to the core while simultaneously using his Quirk at max potency right at it as well.
Obviously, that didn't end well.
VZZZRROOOM!...
There was an EMP-like pulse that burst from the drone as soon as the cable and his fingers touched the power source that turned off all electronics in his house, maybe even the building, while also giving a short electric spark.
Fortunately the lights quickly turned back on. Chikara looked at the drone and waited patiently, praying that this had worked.
-'Come on… come on!'
…
…
A light.
His eyes widened, -'Did… did it work?'
He got closer and saw a light emerging from one of the red eyes from the drone's head. The light then buzzed a little, almost like it was rebooting itself.
The man could not keep the smile off his face -"YES! I DID IT! HAHA!" he threw his hands up, celebrating his victory and cheering for himself. -"Take THAT world!" he shouted at his own ceiling.
Looking up close, he could see that the drone was buzzing some kind of noise he couldn't understand, or at least trying to. He figured that its voice box was heavily damaged.
But while Chikara was happy about his achievement and what it was going to get him in the future, the recently reactivated drone viewed the situation it was in very differently.
…
[[...]]
[[ENERGY RESTORED…]]
[[INITIATING REBOOT…]]
5% … 10% … 25% … 50% … 90% … 100%
[[SYSTEM REBOOT COMPLETE…]]
[[WARNING! LEFT VIEWING OPTIC DAMAGED…]]
[[WARNING! MULTIPLE SYSTEMS DAMAGED…]]
[[STARTING COMPLETE SYSTEM DIAGNOSTIC…]]
It ran through its memories, code and systems to see everything that was out of place with itself. It made a buzzing noise while doing that task. Another thing to put on the list to fix.
After a minute or so, it finally realized what he needed to do to reassemble itself and become complete. No, better than that.
[[BEGINNING SCAN…]]
The man still could not believe what he just did! Fixing and jump-starting a military drone, or at least something close to it, in just two weeks of learning? It was an amazing feat! -"If that's not worth at least a whole year of rent and an invitation to a good school, I don't know what is!"
Paying attention back into the matter at hand, he realized that the drone was rotating its head slowly, looking around the entire apartment.
Arata found it a little amusing -"Heh, you feel lost little guy? What should I call you anyway?" he asked himself while thinking of a name.
The drone then stopped moving and settled its eye on Chikara's toaster in the kitchen. A red and black tentacle-like cable emerged from the underside of its main body and tried to reach the toaster.
Chikara was definitely surprised by this, -"Where were you hiding that? Want to walk? It's okay buddy, I'll fix you up in no time." It was then that he noticed it was aiming for his toaster, but couldn't reach it, -"Oh, you… want the toaster?" he asked with confusion.
Walking to the kitchen counter, he grabbed the device and quickly set it down at the table next to the drone. The tentacles immediately grabbed it and, with an agonizing sound, disassembled it and merged its part with its own body, fixing up some of the exposed areas and giving itself the 'start' of an arm.
-"My God…" this was even more incredible than he ever thought -"A self repairing robot…" The opportunities were endless now! -"You're my ticket to a better life little guy!" He almost wanted to pick the drone up, but he knew that right now wasn't the time for that.
Chikara quickly picked up his phone and started searching for the right person.
-"You stay right there!" He told the drone, as if he could walk away. The man then went to his room to make a very important call and closed the door.
His only mistake was leaving the robot by itself.
Looking around again, it saw more and more electronics. And now that it had a better understanding of its surroundings, capabilities and materials available, it analyzed all the possible choices and got to work.
Meanwhile in the room, Arata simply could not hear what the drone was doing, not just because of the door, but also because he was on the phone with someone.
-"Come on man, I swear you're not gonna be disappointed with what I have!"
He was extremely excited about the prospect he could have up ahead, and showed that in his voice.
-"I know I said that before, but nothing comes close to this, okay?"
He started to become a bit angry at how the guy was talking shit about him or his previous deals.
-"What? No, it's not on the market! What do you think I'm trying to do, re-sell you some old robot?"
Holding his phone with his ear, he started searching for a piece of paper and pen somewhere inside his bedroom.
-"Look, if you could just give me some tools and a space to reverse engineer it, I promise you that-"
CLANK!
He turned around as he heard the sound of metal falling on something coming from the living room. -"Look, I'll call you back in a minute, alright?", he didn't wait for an answer and just hung up.
Opening the door, it was like his worst fears had been realized. The drone was missing from the table, alongside multiple electronic devices of his like his TV, microwave and even spare remotes.
-"No… no, no, NO!" Arata thought that maybe someone had robbed him, but the windows and door were still intact. Looking out of both of them, there was no one on site that looked like it could carry all these things. -"What the hell…"
CLANK!
There was that sound again, but turning around he could see what truly made it.
It was the drone. Upgraded to the point of being as tall as a human, standing on metal legs of its own creation. It was looking right at him with its only working eye. One step at a time, it started clawing its way closer to Chikara.
Said man, more afraid of what he had done now, started backing up away from it -"Hey buddy, I see you f-fixed yourself there, right?" Obviously making conversation wouldn't work, but it didn't hurt to try.
But the robot just kept getting closer and closer.
-'Okay, time for another stupid idea.' He hid his hand on his back, charging up his Quirk in secret, -"Buddy, why don't you just turn yourself off, huh? Uh, turn off right now!" he tried to demand, but clearly it also didn't have voice commands.
Taking another shot at the dark, he charged the drone and hugged it, making sure his palms were touching right at the center. He let it have it all of the charge he had at the moment. It left him a bit exhausted.
But unfortunately, it didn't make a difference. And worst… that sold his fate.
The drone looked at him, raised one of his claws and brought it down with such strength that it tore his chest open.
-"GRHR!" he wasn't even able to scream, his lungs and a bit of his neck were exposed as well. Falling to the ground, all Arata could do was groan in pain. -"Grrhrhrmm…"
Yet a small sliver of hope remained. His phone had fallen out of his pocket and was just a few inches out of reach from his hand. He struggled to move and reach it, trying to stay alive.
But it was in vain, as the drone saw what the man was trying to do and clamped down on him, impaling him with its claw, making Chikara release a last scream of defiance and pain, before slumping down to the ground… lifeless.
The dreams and ambitions which had once carried a man through his life… had been the thing to kill him in the end.
…
Now alone, the drone could finally fulfill its true purpose and potential without interference. It started to assimilate the rest of the devices in the apartment.
It took a while, but it wasn't a problem. After everything was gone, the drone finally noticed it had forgotten one small thing, the phone from the man it had just killed.
Assimilating it, it was granted access to the internet in full, an advantage that would prove itself useful as learning about so many powered people was important to keep its survival until the objective was complete.
The objective…
Sticking itself to a wall outlet to make sure it had enough power, the drone powered down for a bit to fix itself and use its new found internet access and radar to search for the watch its masters wanted.
Due to only running a few systems on short power, the robot was not able to hear a very annoyed detective knocking on the door of the apartment for a minute. A good thing for it of course.
Inside its coded 'brain' a message flared, [[REPAIR INCOMPLETE! EXTRA PARTS AND MATERIALS NEEDED!]]. Clearly, the next step was going out.
Jumping through the glass door that led to the balcony, the drone jumped building through building to find interesting machines to absorb, while also following the last known location the Omnitrix's signal gave off.
Along the way, it spotted a bike and a car that seemed compatible enough with its own body and assimilated them both as well.
But it never forgot or strayed from the path of its primary objective.
Finally, after much jumping around and making sure not many people saw it, the drone reached the location where the Omnitrix was last activated.
Even in a place blocking signals to the outside, the Omnitrix still possessed a very specific and powerful energy source, one that released an even bigger power signature after it was used.
And the drone's masters knew that very well, that's why they made modifications to its predecessor to make sure it always knew where the watch was.
Before going inside the extremely large structure right in front of it, the robot saw a large bus stationed in front of the door. As it was compatible with the drone's body, it decided to dismantle it completely and assimilate it, leaving absolutely nothing behind.
With its body now complete and better than ever, the mecha saw that there were about 100 heat signatures inside the facility, a lot of them being between itself and the Omnitrix. It then decided to hover and climb the structure so that it could drop in right in front of the bearer of the watch and take it for itself more easily.
- Present Day -
- U.S.J. Central Plaza -
If bad luck could be attributed to a person, that person is Ben Tennyson.
The boy thought that his major problems were left in his universe, but it seems that they followed him here.
In front of him and his friends stood the 16 feet tall menacing machine. It had six gray spider-like legs, four gray limbs raised high with large blades at the end, bearing on which the connections to them were large wheels. Its main body was like a bulky light and dark orange disk. It had four spikes out of its back that appeared to be formed from a different material than the main body. the refrigerator taken from Arata's apartment on the front where his chest would sit what appeared to be a microwave door
Its large two organic-like eyes looked straight at the heroes, -"OMNITRIX BEARER FOUND! ENGAGING TARGET!"
Ben gulped, and said the only thing he could muster, -"Oh crap! Run!"
Aizawa, Midoriya and Ben all ran away from the drone, evading its claws and legs, and making sure they didn't get separated much.
But obviously, the mechadroid only went after the teen alien hero.
-"Why only me?!" Ben shouted, sarcastically.
Somehow fortunately, the Nomu came rushing back fast and tried to hit Ben, but with years of experience, the boy saw this and jumped out of the way just fast enough for the Nomu to hit the Mechadroid.
The monster was able to dent the robot heavily, but both were still targeting the teenager, who was now getting very worried. -"AH! A little help here!"
The other two noticed that and Midoriya snapped out of his initial surprise and shouted -"What does that thing want with you?"
-"It's probably after my watch. It's one of my old nemesis' robot buddies!" Ben answered.
-"You have a nemesis?!" Izuku asked, confused about it all.
-"I have many…" He dodged the drone again. Ben was lucky that both behemoths were clumsily hitting each other while trying to get to him. -"Hold on, I have an idea!"
Searching the Omnitrix's playlists while running, the teen was able to find the alien that could be useful here. He slapped the dial, lighting up everything around him green.
Instead of a human, Ben now appeared to be a small, white humanoid creature made of silicon that strongly resembled a robot. He had a square appendage resembling an MP3 player behind his back with a port on it, decorated with a 10 symbol and what looked like cassette tapes on his lower legs. He also wore what looked like headphones that were attached to the appendage on his back. The Omnitrix symbol rested on his chest.
This new form screamed its name and everyone close could hear its high-pitched and robotic voice echo, as if he was speaking through a portable microphone, -"ECHO ECHO!"
The new alien then did something that made even Aizawa and Izuku perplexed. He cloned himself into about 15 other individual Echo Echo's, all of which started running around the open area, luring the Nomu and the Mechadroid into different directions, while also unintentionally confusing Shigaraki.
Speaking of said villain, he was already confused when the giant robot dropped from the ceiling trying to steal his kills, but seeing that and thinking about how this teenager transformed into two completely different creatures, and now a third one, made him take a second to try to understand what was happening here.
He started to scratch his neck again, -'How did things spiral this out of control? I had everything planned, but now these little brats are ruining everything! Especially that one being chased.' He locked his eyes on one of Ben's clones, -'Master would love to know more about him.'
-"Hey!" One of the Echo Echo's called out to Shigaraki.
He turned to look at three clones coming straight at him while opening their mouths. The villain tried jumping away from whatever attack they were doing, but couldn't escape all of them fast enough.
-"AAAAAAAHHHHHHH!" Ben attacked using powerful sonic waves. He was using the same trick against the droid and Nomu as well.
-"You!" Shigaraki was pissed. With his hands ready, he ran towards the clones, trying to disintegrate them one by one.
Using this distraction, one of the Echo Echo's began sneaking away from the fight towards his friends, but not before he grabbed Aizawa's disattached hand from the ground. -"Gross." He commented.
Hiding behind a few trees that were used between each section of the USJ, all three of them started to strategise on what their plan was, but not before Izuku went on a rambling to question Ben's abilities and the situation they found themselves in.
-"Why is that robot after you? How are you transformed into that?! What even is that?! Were you lying about your Quirk before? How are we going to beat all these villains AND get help from the outside? Mr. Aizawa just lost his hand, we need to-"
-"Focus!" Aizawa snapped Izuku out of his rumbling and both of his students' attention, -"Can you beat this thing?" He asked Ben.
-"I've beaten hundreds of these things before, I can do it again."
-"Good, then do it, I can take care of their leader." said Aizawa.
-"He just ripped your hand off!" Speaking of said hand, Ben had it hidden close to a tree covered in a piece of cloth and a few leafs to make sure it stays good for a few minutes.
-"He's right. With all due respect sir, you're in no condition to fight." Midoriya argued with his teacher.
-"I'm fine." He tried to reassure them while ripping off part of his costume and stopping the bleeding stump.
Izuku realized that his teacher would not back down from trying to protect them. -"Then I won't leave your side."
-"No! Midoriya, you have to run away back to the others."
-"Sir, I'm not going to leave you here to fight against those two villains by yourself, especially when we don't know how long it would take for me to bring help here." Deku explained to him.
-"Also, you're one arm short of a full hero." Echo Echo tried to make a joke to lighten the mood.
Clearly it didn't work as both Izuku and Aizawa just gave him deadpan angry faces.
-"Sorry."
-"We're in this together until the end, sir." Izuku reassured him.
-"Ugh!" Shota clenched his stump a little after feeling a sting in it. Thinking about his options, it really didn't seem like sending Midoriya away was going to guarantee anything other than not having as much help. Even after much disagreement inside his mind, he caved in, -"Fine, but let's be careful here."
Deku pushed back the fear he was feeling, -"Alright! I think I already have a plan. Or the beginnings of one at least."
-"What is it?"
-"Ben, you distract that giant robot. Make sure neither it or Nomu doesn't catch you. Me and Mr. Aizawa will go after their leader, since he's clearly the one controlling him. If we catch him and force him to let Nomu off of you, then we'll have won." The boy concluded.
-"That's a good plan." Shota wouldn't admit it, but he was proud of Midoriya's quick thinking and attention. The boy might not have the most controllable power, but his mind was dangerous by itself. -"Just make sure that villain doesn't touch you." He pointed to his hand.
Izuku gulped, but remained steady -"I will."
Ben looked ready and even a bit excited to be fighting like this again, but he would never admit it of course, -"Let's go then. I'll cover for you as long as I can."
With that, all three of them went on to fight.
- Mountain Zone -
While the fight in the center of the facility was going on, the scattered students fighting across the facility were having some trouble fighting against the villains.
Except these two were having it easy.
None of the villains there stood a chance against the overwhelming ice powers of Shoto Todoroki, who froze all of the initial attackers faster than they could ever predict, while also making sure Iida wasn't caught up too.
-"This… This ain't no kid. H-He's a monster." said an extremely tall, well-built villain with large arms wearing a helmet, a black tank top and greenish-brown trousers while his entire body was encased in ice.
-"And you're just a bunch of thugs who underestimated your opponent." said Todoroki in a cold voice.
Unfortunately, the boy couldn't see everywhere. One of the villains, a skinny man with spiky brown hair, wearing a yellow shirt and pants, tried to attack and trap the UA student from behind without making a sound. He stayed far away while his arms stretched out to reach Shoto without him noticing.
-"Hehehe." The villain let out a low laugh, but his confidence didn't last long.
-"HIYA!" Iida shouted.
He came running from behind and hit a precise kick on the back of the villain's head.
-"AH! The back of my head!..." he passed out.
After seeing that nobody else seemed to be close to attacking them, Iida walked up calmly to Shoto's side. -"You think you went too hard on them, Todoroki?" he said, referring to the frozen bad guys.
-"They willingly planned an attack against a class of kids with intent to kill." the boy stared at the villain in front of him with even more disdain, -"I think I went too easy."
Todoroki then remembered the words of the villain's leader at the start: "Where is he? I went to the trouble of bringing so many friends who were eager to meet him."
Looking around and thinking about his options here, he came to the conclusion that it was best to share what he had in his mind with Iida. -'It can't be like the Battle Trials. I need to learn how to communicate better.'
Tapping Iida's shoulder and signaling him to follow him, Shoto walked a bit away from the frozen villains to talk to his classmate.
-"How do you think they plan to kill All Might?" Todoroki asked.
Iida thought for a little bit, -"I don't know, but they obviously have a formulated plan. From trapping our class here, spreading us out and bringing this many villains to fight, then they must either be incredibly smart and confident in their plan…"
-"...Or really dumb and cocky." Shoto concluded, -"At first I thought that they gathered a force of elite criminals who could simply overpower All Might, but that can't possibly be their master plan."
-"You're right. We're missing something. Most of these villains wouldn't be able to stand up against All Might, especially with us and the teachers here to help."
-"They're just thugs. Pawns. From what I can tell, there's only four or five truly dangerous people here."
-"That's good." Iida pointed out -"We can try to reunite with our class and either escape or take out their leader so the rest will fall apart, like some are right now." He said while looking at the scared and even crying frozen villains.
-"Before we try anything, I think we need more information from them." Todoroki said, bringing up his hand and using his ice to imply to Iida HOW they were going to get said information.
Tenya looked uneasy about it -"Are you sure? They're already out of commission. We can just leave."
-"They clearly came here with a good enough plan to be this confident. We need to know what it is to make sure they don't get the privilege of completing it." The student looked at his class president -"I won't be too hard."
Iida thought for a little bit, but eventually nodded and agreed with his friend.
Shoto acknowledged it and went to the nearest villains that were completely encased in case, except for their faces, -"Listen well. If you stay frozen, your cells will slowly die as your body succumbs to frostbite and hypothermia."
They all looked extremely afraid after hearing Shoto's facts. None of them thought they would be getting upstaged and beaten this badly when arriving here.
-"Lucky for you, me and my friend here want to be heroes, so I'd like to avoid any unnecessary cruelty." He then put his hand close to a villain's face, threatening to freeze him completely right then and there, -"But I can only do that if you tell me how you plan to kill All Might. That's the only way you'll survive."
While the threat did work as intended, with the villain ready to talk, they never got the answer they wanted, as a bolt of yellow lightning hit the villain right in the face, making him unconscious. Shoto's hand got caught on it as well.
-"AHGR!" The boy cried out while holding his hand in slight pain.
Iida came up to him, -"Todoroki! Are you alright?"
-"You really think I'm going to let any of these idiots spill the beans?" an unknown voice proclaimed.
They both looked behind and saw a villain descending the mountain. He was a tall, lean man with slanted gray eyes and beige, somewhat pimply skin. He wore a dark green sleeveless bodysuit with a white belt and black boots. Covering his face was a skull-shaped mask.
-"Now why don't you two surrender, huh? Maybe I won't kill you right away then." The man said.
-"Is your hand okay?" Iida asked Todoroki while still not taking his eyes off the villain.
-"It was nothing." He responded, shaking his hand a bit just to make sure it wasn't dormant.
-"Then be ready." Tenya said.
-"Guess it'll be the hard way then." the villain said. He leaped and attacked both of them.
- Shipwreck Zone -
If people were close, they would be able to hear the fear-caused scream of a certain student falling after being warped right on top of a giant body of water.
-"AAAHHHHHH!"
SPLASH!
Hitting the water, Kaminari descended in the deep waters until he got his bearings. He quickly shut his mouth and held his breath while trying to swim up.
Hearing a faint noise, he looked at the side and screamed again when a shark-like villain was coming right for him.
-"BLAHLAHLAH!" Of course, his scream was muffled by the water.
Fortunately for him, someone from his class was there to save his skin. Tsuyu swam fast and pushed the shark villain away from Kaminari. Without wasting time, she also grabbed him with her tongue and started to pull him up.
They both resurfaced as Tsuyu carried the boy up to the side of the ship, safely putting him down on the deck.
Kaminari coughed up some water he had accidentally swallowed -"Ughh… thanks Tsu. I think I would have died down there if it wasn't for you."
-"No need to thank me." she answered honestly.
A new voice made itself known. It was Shoji. -"Are you okay, Kaminari?"
-"Yeah man… just need a second to… have some air." Denki said while trying to catch his breath from the rush of adrenaline he just received.
-"It looks like it's just the three of us here. I rescued Shoji as soon as I saw him falling." Asui said.
Kaminari looked at the boy, who had a bunch of his tentacles out and formed into ears and eyes, -"What are you doing, Shoji?
The boy responded in a calculated voice, as if he was thinking of the next step, -"I'm trying to see where everyone else is. It's not very hard to see the fight happening at the center, but I'm focusing on the rest of the class."
-"I hope they're okay." Asui worried.
-"Well, at least we aren't getting attacked." Kaminari tried to see the bright side of things.
-"But don't you think that's a little weird?" she questioned while putting a finger to her chin, -"You'd think these villains came prepared to hurt us, yet they're just sitting there, waiting."
-"What are you complaining about?! Do you WANT them to attack us?!"
-"I think Tsu has a point." Shoji looked at the villains in the water, -"They knew where we would be today and planned for it. Water zones look like the specialty of all of those guys down there. Then what are they waiting for?"
-"Hey, at least that gives us time to think of something. We can plan how to get out of here and back to the group using our Quirks. Though I think Tsu's would be better suited for this. I can only attack in an area, not individually and there's too many villains here." Kaminari dropped his head thinking about the situation they found themselves in.
Something clicked inside Shoji's head -"That's it! You're a genius, Kaminari!"
Said boy was just confused -"Uh, what? I am?"
Tsuyu also realized what that meant, -"I think I know what you're talking about, Shoji."
-"Hello?!" Denki tried calling their attention -"Can someone explain it to me then?"
-"They must not know what our Quirks are, otherwise that warp villain would have sent me to the fire area, not this one, ribbit."
-"And he also made a big mistake by sending an electric Quirk user to an area full of water." Mezo concludes, while looking Kaminari straight in the eye so that he can get the message.
Denki smiled, now knowing -"I think I get what you two mean…" He excitedly put his thumb up, -"You can count on me!"
-"Great, then explain to us exactly how your Quirk works." said a thinking Shoji.
The leader of this group of villains, Hanzo Suiden, was waiting on the water and was getting a bit impatient with all of this. One of his comrades, the one that Tsuyu had previously pushed away, came up to his side.
-"Hey! Can't we just go in already? That frog brat let my food escape." he said while thinking of how tasty the students must be.
-"No need to rush in right now, we don't know what Quirks they have. Remember what Shigaraki said."
He didn't know what was more annoying, having to wait until these students realized they had no choice except to go in the water or having to deal with his violence-hungry partners.
-"What can they do against us? They're freaking kids." another villain said.
Hanzo thought a bit about the situation and decided to hurry things up so they could concentrate on the real objective here, killing All Might.
-"All right, I'll force their hand." He raised his arm from the water, but instead of his actual arm coming out, one formed purely out of water that surrounded it appeared. Raising it high, it grew in size until it was big enough to make a hole in the ship.
But before he could strike the cruise, they all saw one of the students jump from it into the water, screaming in fear -"AAAAHHHHH!"
-"Finally!" the shark-like villain said smiling with glee, before going underwater to try to get a bite out of him.
Strangely, not even a few seconds later everyone could see the frog girl jumping really high and away while carrying the big guy with her tongue.
Hanzo thought that was extremely weird, and he was right, as that was just a distraction from the three students. Before Suiden could put things together though, the entire group felt a single sensation that instantly made them realize their mistake.
ZZZAAAAPPPP!
Kaminari had activated his quirk, a powerful electric shock of about 1 Million volts of power that spread onto the entire group of villains there, rendering them all fried and unconscious, just floating in the water.
Unfortunately, Kaminari had used too much of his power at once and was left looking and thinking like someone with a negative IQ due to frying his own brain. That was one of his Quirk weaknesses.
Without being able to think clearly, he obviously wasn't able to swim as well. He just kept descending more and more.
His saving grace came in the form of Tsuyu rescuing him again, having enough time to drop Shoji off at a safe distance before going back and grabbing Denki fast enough to escape in case any villains were left standing.
-"You know Kaminari, you might not be very smart or courageous, but I'm sure you'll be a good hero someday, ribbit." Tsuyu complimented him in the air, knowing that he couldn't think very much in this state.
-"Heheheheuhuhu." was all the boy could muster right now.
- Ruins Zone -
In the part of the USJ that looked like a collapsed city, two students could be seen fighting for their survival. One certain blonde maniac using his Explosion Quirk, and the other, a red-haired spiky boy using his Hardening Quirk.
-"SAY GOODBYE!" screamed Bakugou while charging at a villain.
Kirishima grunted as he fought two others at the same time.
-"I think that's the last of these guys. A bunch of weaklings." Bakugou concluded.
-"All right, let's hurry and find the rest of our class. If we're both still in the USJ, then everyone else probably is too, and not all of them have the offensive skills we do. We gotta make sure they're safe, especially since we screwed things up on the way earlier." -"If Thirteen had been able to suck up that villain, then we'd never have been separated like that. We have to make it up to the others!"
-"You wanna track everyone down, have fun, but I'm gonna go DESTROY that warpy bastard." The explosion boy dismissed him while going for the door.
-"Huh?" Kirishima was definitely more than surprised by Bakugou's decision, -"Our physical attacks didn't hurt that guy. Come on, don't be an idiot, man."
-"SHUT UP! I'm gonna take him down because he's their way in and out. If I cut off their escape-route, they'll be stuck here and have to pay for what they've done! We'll just have to figure it out!"
Behind the two boys, a remaining chameleon-like villain was preparing to attack the unsuspecting students with a knife while being invisible, -'Hope you had fun chit-chatting. Too bad you let your guard down-'
But he didn't get very far, as Bakugou quickly turned around, grabbed his head from the back, pinned him to the ground and blasted him to unconsciousness.
-"Anyway… If all these villains are small fries like these guys were, then our classmates can handle 'em." he said while pointing out the defeated villain.
Kirishima was impressed, -"That reaction time was insane! Also, since when do you act so calm and rational? Usually you're all like: -'DIE! DIE! DIE!'" He imitated how Katsuki acted in his mind.
-"I'M ALWAYS CALM AND RATIONAL, YOU RED-HAIRED LOSER!"
-"Yeah! There you are."
Bakugou scoffed, -"Go find the others if you want to." he went to leave the room again.
-"Wait, hold up." Kirishima came to his side, -"I think what you're really saying is that you believe in our classmates." He readied his arms by activating his Quirk and making them harder, -"And that's thinking like a man, Bakugo."
With that said, they both went out looking for the next fight.
- Mountain Zone -
Todoroki and Iida were still fighting the electric villain, neither truly gaining an upperhand. Everytime Iida tried getting close to hit him, the villain kept electrifying his hands and aiming at the boy, so he had to dodge the incoming attacks.
Shoto wasn't having much luck either seeing as every time he tried to freeze the villain, he would just get a heavy electrical charge aimed and thrown at his arm or leg and the student would have to avoid it. This man was also very fast, as he instantly dodged and ran from Todoroki's ice as soon as he saw it.
-"Is that all you got?! You kids really are out of your league here."
Todoroki got close to his friend, -"We have to think of another way."
-"Maybe we can run and grab one of these guys here." Tenya mentioned the frozen villains.
-"No, he clearly knows more about their plan here than the others. We need him." Shoto was ready to attack again.
-"Wait, there's something strange about the way he's attacking us."
-"What do you mean?" Shoto questioned.
-"I mean, look at him right now." Iida gestured to the stand still villain. -"He never tried to come after us after descending on that mountain. He's only kept us from getting too close to him, even going as far as to ask for us to surrender."
Todoroki thought more about it. It was true that the villain was basically just standing still, having made no advancement towards the two. But he didn't know what that meant exactly. Unless… -"He's not using his full power."
-"Huh?" Iida looked at him.
Shoto was looking at the hand the villain had blasted earlier and tha he kept shooting at during the fight. -"I can feel my hand almost as if nothing happened. If he truly does mean to kill us or even just knock us out, then why would he be holding back? He's clearly smarter than all the others here, maybe even the leader of this zone. It couldn't possibly be a simple mistake."
Iida quickly catched on to his friend's thought process, -"You're right. So he's not as powerful as he seems. Or maybe…" he thought -"Distract him!"
Without giving his partner much of an explanation, Tenya simply ran and circled the villain as fast as he could.
Todoroki could only do so much with that instruction, but he did think that he caught on to what Iida was thinking, so he kept trying to blast the bad guy with his ice in an attempt to trap him.
Obviously the villain was going to notice Iida trying to go behind him, but with Shoto distracting him just a little, the speed boy was safe to go faster. That's when Iida saw it. A box strapped to the back of the villain's belt that emitted some electricity that was shot out through the man's hand.
Confirming his theory, Iida tried to go for the box. Unfortunately the man noticed this and quickly evaded him while charging up a big voltage to release it on the boy. But with Iida attacking from a certain angle, that left little window noticeable enough for Todoroki to not miss his next ice attack and trap the villain's feet.
-"What the-?!" The man exclaimed in surprise. How could he let his guard down for even a second? He was detrimental here!
As his feet and legs got encased by ice, Iida came running back and quickly snatched the box from his belt, -"Now Todoroki!"
The villain tried to shoot a blast of lighting at Iida but his arms, hands and entire body got trapped in ice, leaving only his face, meeting the same fate as his comrades there.
-"H-How…?" Was the only response that came through his mouth.
Iida came close and was the one to respond, -"You clearly weren't using your full power against us here, no matter how much you kept yelling about it."
-"You were smarter than the others." Shoto commented, but without a single hint of good will in his voice, -"You didn't underestimate us and kept your distance while remaining calm. You showed too much."
-"That's how I figured you were probably sparing your energy or even using an outside source for it. So, as soon as I saw that box, I knew what I had to do." Iida concluded while adjusting his glasses.
The villain was perplexed! Being bested by a couple of students was taking its toll on his mind. Lucky for him, he didn't have the time to dwell on it as Todoroki put his hand up again.
-"Now… unless you want your fate to be worse than those around you, I suggest you talk."
The villain could only do one thing… gulp.
- Central Plaza -
Back at the fight happening against the giant killer robot, one could say it was going… as well as it could.
Aizawa and Izuku were engaged in a close-quarters fight against the leader of the villains. Midoriya knew he couldn't fight as well as his teacher, but due to Shota's Quirk, as long as he kept his eyes on Shigaraki he was confident they could take him out.
The bearer of One For All was using his limited knowledge of martial arts and incredible attention to figure out the best way to defeat Shigaraki without any more damage caused. He preferred to use his Quirk only if he truly needed it, and even then, just the fingers for now.
Tomura meanwhile was getting extremely annoyed at the pair and could only dodge them for a while before they got the upper hand. And to make matters worse for him, Nomu was nowhere to be seen, probably lured far enough away from him to command by Echo Echo's clones.
-'I can't do much against these two without my Quirk. Eraser Head is way more experienced than me and with this powerful brat by his side, I don't have much leeway to attack.'
Shigaraki then chose to start backing away and avoiding the two heroes' attacks as best he could. He knew that it was only a matter of time before Nomu or Kurogiri came rushing back to assist him, as soon as they dealt with the rest of the students.
Speaking of one of said students, Echo Echo just kept running away and blasting the chasing mechadroid with powerful sound waves every opportunity he got, but its body was too strong, and unless he was able to do a concentrated blast, it would be difficult to win like this.
-'It's in times like these that I wish I could still go Ultimate.' he angrily thought.
He kept running, luring the giant thing away from the main fight happening, until eventually his spare clones came back and were able to surround the robot. Positioning themselves, they all opened their mouths to scream at it.
But unfortunately for Ben, the Omnitrix had other plans as it ran out of power and instantly transformed him back into a human, with all of his clones being forced to merge back into him right before it.
-"Oh crap!" Ben ran away as fast as he could.
The mechadroid kept pursuing him, now even using his long mechanical tentacles to try to grab the boy. He tried to transform again, but the Omnitrix clearly needed a little time to recharge.
-"Are you really going to fail me NOW?!" He rhetorically asked the watch.
Before he saw it, the drone was right on top of him, with its tentacles latching on and lifting Ben's body from the ground, making sure his hands were far apart from each other.
-"Hey!" The teen looked right at the robot's eye -"...Maybe I can give you a different watch? I heard there's good deals here in Japan." He tried to joke to gain time.
It didn't work, -"OMNITRIX BEARER FOUND AND CAPTURED! CONTACTING CURRENT UNIVERSE'S ALLIES!"
-"Allies?" Ben asked, confused. That made his brain question things he didn't think of before. If this mechadroid had allies on this Earth, then was his coming here planned? Did Vilgax still have anything to do with it? Too many questions to answer.
He didn't have time to dwell on it though, as the robot was starting to absorb him into its body, also making sure his mouth was covered, no matter how much the teen struggled to get free. Ben even tried to get the Omnitrix to send the distress signal again, but he couldn't see if it worked or not.
Ben's luck quickly turned when an explosion suddenly hit the robot from behind, being accompanied by a very loud…
-"DIE!"
BOOOOOM!
The robot stumbled back and his grip on Ben loosened just enough for someone to help him, which was Kirishima's job.
The red-haired boy made sure the robot couldn't stand on its legs by punching some of them to the ground and making it lose its balance. Meanwhile, Tsuyu came in to help as well by grabbing Ben with her tongue and pulling him out of its grasp.
Bakugou then kept blasting the robot to distract it and not focus on Ben.
-"Are you alright, Ben? Ribbit." she asked, coming to a stop on the ground.
-"Tsu! Kirishima!" Ben happily greeted them both, -"Where did you come from?"
-"That big smoky villain separated our class. Scattered most of us all over the facility. After me and Bakugou dealt with some villains, we just happened to see you being captured while passing by and acted on it." The boy answered.
-"I was with Shoji and Kaminari in the Shipwreck Zone, but since Kaminari used a lot of his Quirk to defeat out group of bad guys, he got kinda dumb." said Tsu, -"Once we saw that you couldn't get out on your own from that robot, Shoji said he would take Kaminari back to the top of the stairs by himself and ask for help while I got you out."
-"Oh man, thank you guys, you're both awesome!" Ben complimented them.
-"Don't thank us yet, let's bring this thing down first." Kirishima used Hardening on his arms to finish the fight.
-"Why is that after you in the first place?" Asui asked Ben.
-"HEY, YOU IDIOTS! STOP TALKING AND FIGHT!" Bakugou screamed at them while throwing another explosion at the robot. It just tanked it and hit the boy with one of its legs, sending him close to the others.
All of them instantly got ready to attack. But before any of them could do so, fast moving ice started to appear on the ground, reaching the robot and encasing it like a popsicle.
The students looked to the left and saw that that was the work of Todoroki, who had just arrived. And if anyone was closer, they would see him with a bit of a cold breath coming from his mouth.
Behind him, they could see that Shigaraki was frozen as well, everything including his wrists, except for his hands. Aizawa was being helped by Iida and Midoriya, all of them coming in to meet up together, thinking that the battle was over.
-"Todoroki!" Kirishima called out -"You guys were able to help Mr, Aizawa?"
-"We came running as fast as possible. We got some intel on what the villain's plan was."
That caught Aizawa's attention, -"You did?"
Todoroki nodded, -"Some electric villain we trapped told us everything."
-"Most of the guys here are just low-level villains, called in by that one with the hand on his face." Iida pointed at Shigaraki, -"They planned to kill All Might with that big villain with the exposed brain."
-"Yeah, Nomu. They said that he was genetically engineered to be the… Anti-Symbol of Peace… to kill All Might." Midoriya pointed out while connecting the dots in his head.
-"We froze him before helping you guys, he won't be causing more problems I think. We came across Midoriya and Mr. Aizawa fighting the hands guy and froze him too. Then they told us about what was happening." Tenya explained.
-"That's our class rep!" Tsuyu complimented Iida with a smile.
-"Are you really okay Ben?" Izuku asked, worried.
-"Yeah, I'm fine everyone. Just glad it's all over."
-"Good." Aizawa drew attention to him -"Then let's get back to the group and leave before any of these guys free themselves."
-"I froze everything except their heads, I doubt they'll be able to get free." Todoroki pointed out.
As if the universe was listening to him, they all heard the sound of ice being slowly broken and falling. The group turned their heads and watched as the mechadroid actually heat-up its own metal body to become hot enough to escape its icy prison.
-"Tennyson, did you know it could do that?" Shota asked, already preparing for a fight, the others following his lead.
-"I never heard of one doing it before." The boy wasn't really worried, considering the amount of fighters by his side, -"But it's just one robot, we can take it out no problem." He told them.
CRUSH!
Another sound was heard by the group, they turned their heads and saw Nomu coming out from behind some trees, with one of his arms and one of his legs regenerating. He looked right at Ben's eyes, with intent to kill.
-"I guess I should have mentioned he can regenerate."
-"YOU THINK?!" Kirishima screamed at him.
-"NOMU!" Shigaraki screamed, -"Get me out of here!" He ordered.
Nomu walked up to his master and started to slowly break apart the ice imprisoning him. The group saw this and the robot slowly getting out of the ice and prepared to retaliate or evade their enemies. But right at that moment, Ben heard the Omnitrix giving a pin noise, indicating it was recharged for use again.
He stepped in front of everyone, -"I got this, guys!" He brought up the display and after fiddling with it for a little bit, he slapped it and turned into another, making the bright green light flash everyone's eyes.
- Entrance -
At the top of the stairs, where the rest of the class was present, Shoji arrived carrying Denki on his back. Yaoyorozu saw them and went to help alongside Uraraka.
-"Shoji!"
The boy slowly dropped Kaminari to make sure he could still stand right, -"Hehehehuhuhe." He said while giving them thumbs ups.
Momo saw his 'dumber' state and was confused, -"What happened to him? To both of you?"
-"We all got transported to different areas on the USJ. He used his Quirk too much and fried his own brain. He says it's normal and that he should be back to normal in a while."
-"That's good." Uraraka released a sigh.
Mezo saw what the rest of the class was up to and asked, -"What happened after we got teleported?"
-"We pinned down this villain to make sure he couldn't teleport us or his companions out of here." She pointed at Kurogiri, still being held down by Mina, Tokoyami and Sato. -"Also, thirteen was injured, but Koda's making sure she's okay for now, at least until backup arrives."
-"It was all Yaoyorozu's plan." Uraraka added with a smile.
She blushed at the complement, but quickly concentrated back. -"Did you see our other classmates?" She asked Shoji.
-"I was also with Tsu, but she stayed down there to help free Ben from a giant robot that was attacking him. Bakugo and Kirishima were there as well."
-"Giant robot?!" Uraraka was definitely surprised. Both her and Momo went and leaned on the edge to see what was happening. And indeed, they could see the group of students alongside Aizawa in front of a frozen marron robot while two villains were away from them. But they could also see another creature with the students.
- Central Plaza -
When the light died down, everyone could see what Ben transformed into.
Unlike Echo Echo's small stature, Ben now looked more like a tall living planet. He was a large, bulky, reddish-brown alien with rocky skin, a giant mouth with teeth that were also made of rocks, and a molten lava planet core at the center of his body. His feet were tan with three toes, and he had three fingers and one thumb on each hand. He wore black shorts with green stripes, a green belt with white stripes and the Omnitrix symbol on his forehead.
He looked at himself in surprise and asked curiously, -"Who's this?"
-"What do you mean?" Eijiro questioned him. They all looked at him with deadpan faces, -"Don't you have control over your Quirk?"
-"I was aiming for another guy." Ben said.
-"Didn't you only turn into animals? Ribbit."
-"You never turned into this guy before?" Aizawa asked Ben, taking his eyes off from the villains for a second.
-"No, but I can feel he's powerful already!" He proclaimed as he raised his fist in the air.
As soon as Aizawa looked back at the villains, his eyes widened and he quickly activated his Quirk as he saw a now free Shigaraki and Nomu coming straight for the group -"EVERYONE SCATTER!" He yelled at them.
Nomu quickly punched Ben straight in the face, sending him flying back towards the bottom of the stairs. He groaned in pain, -"Ughr… dejavu…"
Before he could react, Ben got punched again and again by Nomu, each punch stronger than the next, making him sink within the stairs more and more.
Meanwhile, the rest of the group had to dodge Shigaraki coming right for them, almost touching Iida's face, but since the boy was fast, he was able to evade it.
-"YOU ANNOYING KIDS!" Tomura shouted at them, -"Why couldn't you just stay still and die like you're supposed to?!"
-"Not on my watch!" Aizawa proclaimed. He used his scarf to wrap Shigaraki and throw him away from the students.
His intent was to knock him out with the ground, but without one hand he lost a bit of grip, which allowed Shigaraki to adjust himself midair and land safely.
The group noticed that Aizawa was not going to be able to beat him by himself, but even if they could help, they would not be able to as the Mechadroid had finally broken free from the ice and started to attack them as well, as it now considered them a threat to its mission too.
Todoroki tried to freeze it again, but the drone's extremely hot metal shell was proving to be quite difficult to cool down and make it stay in place.
-"DIE YOU STUPID ROBOT!" KABOOOM!
Even with Bakugou throwing large explosions at it, it was just too durable. But the robot was also capable of evading attacks, which it just did and then kicked Bakugou back again.
-"Ugh… you're pissing ME OFF!" The explosion boy refused to stay down and kept trying to attack the drone again and again.
-"Bakugo, wait!" Iida tried calling out, back to no veil. Katsuki simply refused to listen.
- Entrance -
At the top of the stairs, Momo and Uraraka could see the events happening down below with worry.
-"We have to help them!" Uraraka said.
-"We can't just leave this villain here." Momo argued.
-"I can use my Quirk to make sure they stay in the air until we can get help like I did with this one!" Ochaco tried to argue back.
-"If we leave here, they might need our help. I don't think it's worth the risk."
Mezo jumped in at the argument, -"It's okay, you two can go help them, I'll make sure he won't escape."
Both girls looked at him, -"Are you sure?" Yaoyorozu asked, hoping that everything would be alright.
-"It's okay Yaomomo!" Mina shouted at her from a distance.
-"We'll make sure this scum won't leave our hands." Tokoyami proclaimed.
Koda simply gave her a thumbs up, even if he was a bit scared from the whole experience.
-"Thank you, Shoji. I'll leave you in charge while we're down there." Both her and Uraraka nodded to him and he nodded back. With that, they ran down the stairs to meet their classmates.
- Central Plaza -
The students all tried to fend for themselves, Ben was having a hard time gaining leeway just to throw the first punch. He was lucky his current body was resistant enough to take such hits, but that didn't mean he wasn't feeling pain.
-"Why-" SMACK -"-won't-" SMACK -"-you-" SMACK -"-just-" SMACK -"-STOP?!"
Getting really tired of this, he finally was able to lift his hand and use his powers, which to his surprise pushed Nomu and him levitate away from him, defying gravity itself. His hand now had green energy surrounding it in the form of a ball.
-"Gravity powers? Cool!" He smiled. Making some movements with his hand he could see Nomu moving as well, as if he was controlling Nomu's personal gravity field. Ben looked to his side and saw his class having a bit of a hard time with the robot and Shigaraki, then he had an idea.
He looked back right at Nomu's eyes and smiled. -"Hey guys!" He called out to his friends -"Heads up!" Doing a throwing motion with his arm, he literally threw Nomu right at the Mechadroid, who was distracted by the students and didn't notice the giant coming right at him before they actually hit each other with force.
The students were impressed by Ben's power. -"You have telekinesis as well?" Todoroki asked with a straight face, though one could see that he was a little curious.
-"I think I can control gravity." He said, smiling at them.
Nomu and the drone quickly recovered from the fall and went on the attack again, but this time the drone had a trick up his sleeve.
Due to absorbing multiple electronics with cooling attributes, it made one of its guns into a freezing ray. Selecting that one, it sprouted a hidden arm and shot the ray towards Ben.
He was able to notice this and simply acted on instinct, making the cold beam change directions and orbit around him, appearing as though he had 'bended' the shot, until he released it, hitting Nomu's legs and freezing him in place.
-"Wow…" Midoriya was impressed to say the least.
-"I can do that?! I have my own orbit! Nice!" Ben thought a little more, -"I have an idea, guys."
They looked at him and were ready to listen.
While that was happening, Aizawa was still making sure Shigaraki couldn't come closer to the students. He was getting a bit tired however and his eyes were starting to get dry.
-'At least he's feeling worn out as well.' Shota thought.
As Aizawa guessed, Shigaraki was not having a good time trying to disintegrate his opponent. No matter how fast he was, Aizawa kept dodging his enemy's hands and making sure he couldn't activate his Quirk.
But that wouldn't last long as Tomura was finally able to grab a hold of one of Shota's arms. More specifically, he was grabbing right at the stump he had. Aizawa screamed in pain but bit back most of it to not give too much away to his opponent. Luckly, Shigaraki's Quirk was still out.
-"You know Eraser Head, I have to HAND it to you. You really live up to your reputation." He said that as he squished Shota's stump and smiled under the hand on his face, -"But this is your end."
-"YOU PALE BASTARD!" Bakugou shouted as he threw a small explosion right at Shigaraki's face.
The villain backed up to regain his footing, -"AHH! YOU BRAT!"
Aizawa looked at his student with alarm, -"Bakugou, what are you doing?! I can handle this!"
-"Hey you big dumb villain!" Kirishima called up in the front, -"Why don't you go up against us for a change?"
-"I was the one who took out your portal idiot, afterall!" Katsuki added with a smile.
Shigaraki looked at the hand that fell from his face. -'Father…' He thought as he looked at it. Picking it up and putting it on his face again, he turned to the heroes and spoke with more anger and venom in his voice than before, -"I'm going to turn you all into dust!"
Eijiro smiled and took his teacher to run while Bakugou continued to taunt their opponent, -"Just come do it then!"
The bait worked as intended since Shigaraki started running up to try to attack the boys, pursuing them as fast as he could. Little did he know that the students were leading him right into a trap.
The pale man-child was so angry and focused on Bakugou that he didn't realize that he was getting close to Ben.
While this was happening, Tsuyu, Iida, Todoroki and Midoriya were making sure that the other two large villains were getting distracted and going for Ben without realizing it as well.
When all three of their enemies were close enough, the enlarged alien hero then used his gravity powers to pick them all up from the ground and rotate them around himself. Shigaraki was obviously confused and getting sick from it, but it didn't end there.
Almost as an instinct, Ben himself levitated and his body crawled up to have the shape of a small planetoid, only showing the rocky and black parts of himself. -"Cool." He complimented.
Making sure his allies were at a safe distance and holding themself well, Ben increased the speed of his gravitational orbit, making all three of them go faster and faster.
-"Huh, it looks like a carnival ride." Tsu pointed out.
-"But not a fun one." said a smiling Kirishima.
-"Especially not for them." Ben smiled. Looking in the direction of the Shipwreck Zone, he locked in on his target, the cruise ship. -"You guys are so toast!" He quipped.
Making sure his velocity and aim was precise, Ben threw all of them right at the ship. First Nomu, then the Mechadroid and finally Shigaraki.
CRAAASHH!
When they all hit the target, a relatively big explosion happened right away and instantly started sinking the ship into the water, the villains going with it.
-"Nice." Bakugou said with crazy happy eyes.
-"Woohoo!" Kirishima celebrated their apparent victory.
-"IS EVERYONE ALRIGHT?" Iida went to make sure his friends were okay.
-"GUYS!" They all heard a voice coming from what used to be the bottom of the stairs. It was Yaoyorozu calling for them, alongside Uraraka.
-"We saw the whole thing, it was so cool!" The bubbly girl commented with excitement.
-"Yes, but who's this?" She pointed at Ben's current alien form.
-"And where's Ben?" Ochaco asked, worried.
-"That's Ben!" Izuku told them, also extremely excited. -"He transformed into that and somehow gained the abilities of a planet!"
-"Is that really you Ben?" Momo asked the giant beside her.
-"Yup! This is a new guy, never turned into him before." He said, smiling at them. For a reason Ben could not place, it felt like he could never really get angry in this form, he always felt so… passive.
-"COOL!" Uraraka was even more amazed now -"What's his name?!"
-"I… haven't thought about it yet actually." He scratched the back of his head.
-"Hmm…" Uraraka thought for a bit, -"How about… Gravattack!"
-"That's a nice one, ribbit."
-"Sounds manly!"
-"I like it! Gravattack it is!" Ben, now Gravattack, said. Uraraka was very much happy about it.
-"I still can't believe we actually beat up a bunch of villains in our first week of class!" Tsu could not believe the whole thing.
-"It was… a very different and dangerous experience." Todoroki commented.
-"Yeah…" Izuku commented. Not even a full month at U.A. and his class was already getting attacked by more than 50 villains at once. He knew this school wasn't going to be easy, but this was different. -"Ouch!" With the adrenaline finally wearing off, he noticed the 3 fingers that he had broken during the fight with Shigaraki. He would need a check up with Recovery Girl as soon as he got back.
Noticing his groan, Aizawa came close to him and asked, -"Are you okay, Midoriya?"
-"I'm fine sir, just going to the infirmary when we go back to U.A. What about you?"
Before his teacher could answer, Iida heard that and immediately went to make sure Aizawa was okay, -"SIR! How's your hand? Where is it?! If we put it in Todoroki's ice, maybe you can get it reattached!"
Eraser Head gave him a stern look -"I'm ALRIGHT. Just need to make sure I don't lose any more blood."
-"Actually, maybe I can help with that!" Gravattack said. Running up to some trees, he looked at the ground and gently picked up Aizawa's severed hand. When he came back, the group were all disgusted at the sight.
-"That's gross!" Kirishima, Uraraka and Momo said in union.
-"Come down." Gravattack told them. -"Let's hope this works again." He slapped the dial of the Omnitrix in his forehead and turned into another alien.
Now, Ben was a humanoid, plant-like alien that had an overall green and black colored body encrusted with muck, mostly with a red flame-patterned head and root-like feet, seemingly holding black rocks. His eyes were oval-shaped with points at each end with pupils copying the shape but were smaller. Also, his shoulder and head had red petals and his elbows and legs had green frills sticking out. He only had four fingers on each hand.
He was taller than the average human and wore the Omnitrix's symbol on his chest.
This form was Ben's Methanosian form… -"SWAMPFIRE!"
-"..."
-"Did you really need to shout your name like that?" Todoroki asked.
-"UGH!" Uraraka pinched her nose -"And what's with that smell?"
Indeed, everyone could smell Swampfire's distinct rotten stench and pinched their noses as well. Thankfully nobody knew yet that it worsens with heat.
-"Just get over it for a minute guys." He said in a voice that looked as if he was pinching his non-existing nose as well.
Getting closer to Aizawa, the teacher instinctively took a step back, but stopped himself.
Ben asked with a sincere look on his face, -"Sir, do you trust me?"
Shota thought for a bit. Sure, he attracted a giant robot that endangered his students and he was from a different universe using a powerful device that rivaled every Quirk he knew of. But in this fight, he saw that Ben displayed true heroism and acted the way he would, even if that meant disobeying order from him.
Aizawa looked at Ben -"I do."
Swampfire nodded. -"I hope this works. Your hand got cut off for a while." He gently grabbed Shota's stump arm, lined it up and attached his fallen hand in it.
The group of students, even Bakugou, all were interested and gathered around their teacher to see what Ben was doing.
Then, from Swampfire's arm came vine-like "veins" and tentacles which he manipulated to reach out and meld the insides of the detached hand, returning it to its original body. Aizawa did feel some pain because of it, but it quickly passed.
After Ben was done, his teacher could see that his hand was indeed back! It felt different, yet the same. Now it looked green and with some vines wrapped around the part where it got cut.
-"Wow…" Was the common response among the students.
-"H-How did you do that?" Iida asked.
-"You said you could only turn into animals…" Yaoyorozu said, perplexed.
-"I promise I'll explain later." He transformed back into a human and turned to Aizawa -"Are you feeling better?"
The Pro Hero looked grateful and nodded at this student, -"Yes. Thank you, Ben."
The boy smiled as well.
Unfortunately, the nice moment would be interrupted by flashes of light coming from the water where they had just dumped their enemies.
The group all looked at it in surprise.
-"I thought those guys had passed out!" Eijiro exclaimed, a bit scared.
-"They're tougher than they look." Aizawa prepared himself again, now at full capacity like before.
-"Wait, shouldn't part of the ship be floating since we sink it?" Asui questioned.
-"You're right! Could they have taken them?" Izuku asked himself and started theorizing.
Ben meanwhile, felt like he just had an epiphany! He had found this drone's design quite familiar and did find it weird that some of its parts had varying colors, but he was so into the fight he didn't pay attention hard enough.
-"Uhhh… guys?" The teen called out to the rest of the group. They all looked at him, -"I think we committed a big mistake. Actually, I think I committed a big mistake." He looked sheepishly as he said that.
-"What are you talking about?" Izuku asked him.
-"That wasn't any normal robot. That drone was especially designed to repair, absorb and upgrade itself with any kind of metal or technology it came in contact with!"
They all looked at him with wide eyes, but Bakugo was the first one to say what was on everyone's mind, -"AND YOU TELL US THAT NOW, YOU BIG IDIOT?!"
Thump!
They turned to look at the water again and saw the mechadroid coming out of it, but this time it was WAY bigger than before, with an extra pair of legs supporting its body alongside another set of weapon-arms. Its body had more white metal in it and its underside had more spikes, probably to keep anyone from attacking its belly.
It had become more dangerous than before.
It had become more dangerous than ever.
The group all readied themselves again, but Aizawa was still the one to order them, -"Ben! How exactly did you beat this type of robot before?" He asked the boy while his eyes were still looking right at the robot, and also the water in case Shigaraki and his giant came back.
-"I turned into one of my guys and ate its head." He answered with honesty.
All of his friends looked at him with weird and questioning looks.
Ben saw this and got slightly offended, -"What?! You guys have strange powers too! But I can't do it right now, the Omnitrix timed-out and I've hit my limits for some minutes."
-'We don't have a few minutes.' Shota thought for a minute and came up with a plan -"Todoroki!" he called out, -"Freeze it as fast as you can. Don't stop until its entire lower body is in ice."
The boy nodded and was already preparing to attack.
-"Kirishima! You'll get on top of it and hold its head tight while trying to rip it off as much as you can!"
-"Yes sir!" The boy responded, activating his Quirk.
-"Bakugo, while Kirishima is holding its head in place, you'll throw the biggest explosion you can right at the opening to its circuits he'll make. Got it?"
The blonde boy made a small explosion in his hand as a response and had a crazy look slapped on his face, -"Got it!" He slowly said with glee.
-"Me and Asui will hold its tentacles and weapons together for as long as we can."
The girl nodded, -"Ribbit."
-"Iida will serve as a distraction, running laps around it while holding Ben to make sure its not seeing what we're doing."
The two looked at each other and determination came to their faces.
-"What about us, sir?" Momo asked.
-"You three will stay here. Keep your eyes open and make sure to warn us if any of the villains knocked out wake up again or if two two come out of the water."
Midoriya didn't like it, but he understood, -"Alright!" All three responded.
With the plan laid out, Aizawa put his goggles back on and gave the order, -"Let's go."
Tenya picked up Ben and started running circles around the robot. Like expected, it followed them and tried to attack with no success due to Iida's speed.
Todoroki took the opportunity to use his Quirk to freeze its legs and some of its underside metal tentacles in place. He was doing it so much his coldness was starting to have side-effects on his body, but he decided to ignore it for now.
Getting close to it, Eraser Head used its scarf while Asui used her long tongue to wrap around the metal tentacles and weapons, whatever they were, and make sure it couldn't target them or anyone there.
Without anything to stop them now, Kirishima then quickly jumped right on top of the Mechadroid and started to try to rip its head off -"COME ON!" While he was able to break something, it was more durable than it seemed.
Lucky for him, he didn't need to as Bakugo had already primed the perfect explosion and was aiming right at the thing's open neck -"Take… THIS!" He shouted as he was jumping to finish the robot off.
But fate played with them again, as the droid activated more of its hidden weaponry. The ice encasing it broke and it was revealed that it had turned its underside into a drill! The pistons from the bus and the ship had been refashioned to create a jackhammer-like drill weapon to make sure it could break free of any ice.
With its underside tentacles also free, it quickly snatched and stopped Bakugo before he could throw his explosion. Not letting the others react to it as well, the robot rotated itself at a great speed to throw off Aizawa, Kirishima and Asui, making them release its parts.
They all landed right at Shoto, almost knocking him out and making all of them a bit dizzy. Before any of them could even get up, the drone activated its other gun, a flame-thrower!
Todoroki was just fast enough to create an ice barrier between the oncoming fire and his friends. He took the opportunity to freeze the robot whole again.
Ben and Iida came up to see if they were okay.
-"Sir!" Tenya called out.
Kirishima got up, -"It didn't work!"
-"Thanks for pointing out the obvious, Spiked Hair!" Bakugo shouted.
Shoto looked at the drone and saw that its ice prison was beginning to melt way faster than before, -"That's not going to hold it for long. Anyone have a plan?"
Meanwhile Midoriya was running a bunch of simulations on his head of what was the best outcome possible for them here. -"I think I have one." Everyone looked at Izuku who had just spoken, -"Ben, can you turn into something that can easily melt metal?"
-"I can try, yes." The boy wasn't going to tell them how the Omnitrix worked just yet, and he had confidence it wouldn't give him the wrong alien this time.
Izuku nodded and then turned to Momo -"Yaoyorozu, are you able to make a paint gun?" He asked her.
-"Yes, I can." She answered with confidence.
-"Make sure to aim it at its eyes." Izuku then looked at the others, -"As soon as it's free, Ben will distract it again, but this time using his Quirk." He turned to the teen -"It can't catch you."
Ben nodded along in understanding.
Midoriya continued, -"Tsu and Todoroki will hold its legs in place while Kirishima and Kacchan destroy them. At the same time, Mr. Aizawa will hold its limbs and weapons in place while Ben melts them."
-"What about me and Iida?" Uraraka asked for both of them.
-"Iida will be the lookout for those villains we threw in the water, but if things go wrong, he's the fastest one to be able to take us out of the action. And you Uraraka, when all of its limbs are done, I want you to use your Quirk on the main body, after that I'll destroy it. Got it?"
-"Right on, Deku!" She exclaimed happily.
They all looked at him with pride and surprised. Sure, they may have seen how much of a planner he was in the Battle Trials, but it is still impressive in person. Aizawa especially, almost turned his lip up seeing how confident Midoriya became when the matter was being a hero.
CRACK!
The sound of the ice cracking was enough for them to snap back in place and activate their plan.
Ben switched the playlist on the Omnitrix again and selected his favorite metal-melting alien, having transformed into… -"HEATBLAST!"
The group didn't have time to ponder on Ben's new look as the robot broke the ice barrier again and started to chase them out.
-"HEY! Bucket of bolts!" Heatblast called out, -"Isn't this what you want?" He asked as he pointed at the Omnitrix symbol sitting at his chest, -"Come and get hit!" Ben took flight at low altitude, almost hovering, and made sure the drone was following him.
As the drone followed Ben, Todoroki made sure to freeze one of its legs completely and before it could turn around to try to melt the ice, Bakugo came in and exploded the leg right off!
BOOM!
-"You like that you dumb robot?!" the boy shouted proudly.
The drone just looked at him and aimed its freezing ray and flame-thrower at him, but neither hit the target due to Aizawa grabbing hold of one, throwing it off its aim and Heatblast shielding Bakugo from the blast.
Katsuki was surprised at being saved like that and looked Ben straight in the eyes.
Even though there was still confrontation between the two, Ben was mature enough to not let that get in his way of being a hero. Heatblast nodded to Katsuki, but before he could see what kind of reaction Bakugo would have, Ben got back at distracting the robot.
And Bakugo gritted his teeth. In his mind, he didn't need his help! Nobody's help! He would be able to beat this guy by himself if these extras weren't getting in his way! Katsuki just needed-
-"Bakugo, what are you doing?!" Kirishima called out to him.
Bakugo snapped out of his thoughts and went back into the fight to try to get them out of his head.
Eraser Head was holding down one of its limbs while Todoroki was making sure it couldn't go very far. It tried to spin its central body, but the ice was making it difficult. Its vision was also impaired by a punch of paint on its eyes.
Heatblast jumped on top of the drone and melted off the limb Aizawa was holding. The teacher didn't waste any time and already tried holding off the other one. He wasn't able to as one of the metal tentacles grabbed him and threw him on the ground.
Luckly Iida grabbed him and made sure he wasn't hurt. Kirishima then went on the offensive and was able to break off another leg, with Bakugo coming in fast, destroying another two.
The mechadroid tried to see what its chances of success were and the probabilities, but there were too many variables to take into account. But there was one option it could take…
It saw Midoriya and Uraraka staying far and presumed they must be the weaker ones. Easy prey.
Heating up its body like before, it used the remainers of its limbs and metal tentacles to quickly crawl towards the two.
The two noticed this and tried to get away, but the drone launched its tentacles and was able to grab Uraraka's leg and hold on firmly.
-"AH! It got me Deku!" She screamed.
The others tried to get close, but the robot was smart and quickly took her close and used her and a hostage, getting strapped in its body.
Izuku was furious! -'I can't let it take her! Or any of my friends!' It was his friend there and got caught because of his plan and he couldn't just stay put. Grabbing one of the robot's pointy legs, Deku ran up to it. Ben saw that he was going to try something and went to gain the attention of the drone.
-'He's smart, he must have a plan for this.' He thought, -"Focus on me pal! I'm the one your boss hates, remember?!" Heatblast said.
Izuku then shouted to his friend, -"Kirishima! Throw me!" who gave him leverage to step on and made him jump higher until he reached Uraraka.
He used the metal piece he was holding to destroy one eye of the drone. Then with greater strength, he used it to create a small space between Ochaco and the robot's wrapped prison.
-"Deku!" She called out, worried for him.
-"Uraraka! Touch its body and try to get free!"
She did as told and when she tried to gain her freedom, Izuku latched on to her and used the last finger of that hand to create a force strong enough to separate the two. Consequently, it launched the drone right at the destroyed stairs and the two friends away from it.
-"Are you alright?!" He asked her, extremely worried for her safety.
-"I'm good. Thanks Deku." She said.
They didn't even notice that they were both blushing a little.
Not wasting any time, The drone came back, but their friends kept holding it in place. Having noticed Uraraka's Quirk had nullified its gravity, the robot chose to literally stick itself to the ground and move as if the gravity was denser than before, cutting the ground with each step.
-"This thing is… very strong." Asui said, straining her tongue already. The others agreed
It was Izuku's chance. -'I've got one shot at this. We can't delay this fight any longer or others might get hurt!'
Running right towards it, he slid underneath its body. The drone saw this and attempted to defend itself and attack back, but its fate was sealed.
Midoriya got up and charged up the arm that still had all of his fingers intact. It powered up, with what looked like veins made of rainbow lights, making him stronger than ever before.
The drone tried to look underneath itself but the others were not letting it happen. It tried to turn on the drill but it was too slow and too weak to stop was happened next…
-"SMASH!"
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
A punch.
A single punch.
That was all it took to completely obliterate the drone and transform it into a million different pieces that were now flying everywhere. The sheer force of it was so strong that the hole the drone had made in the ceiling prior had opened up even more, with more pieces of it falling down. The shockwave was greater than anyone could imagine, everyone on the USJ most likely heard it or even felt it.
Everyone could see the blast, but nobody could predict that such strength residate on Midoriya's body.
Sure, the students and Aizawa had seen his powerful throw at the Quirk Apprehension Test, but to see it done to an actual thing while fighting… that was truly impressive.
Aizawa, Uraraka and Iida were the only ones there that saw the true level of Midoriya's strength. And they were impressed again. Though in Aizawa's case, this was his first time seeing it in person and he was not disappointed.
Kirishima, Todoroki, Yaoyorozu and Tsu were perplexed more than anything, having only heard about Izuku's power, never actually seeing it in action. They gained even more respect for him than before.
Ben has transformed back into human and was still admiring what he was seeing. He had never thrown or received a punch THAT strong before. Never even seen one. He was theorizing that the only way he could match said force in a single punch was with Way Big. -'This universe gets more interesting by the second.'
The only one that didn't share positive feelings towards it was Bakugo. Because he was scared. And angry. But mostly scared. Throughout his life, he saw Deku as nothing, a nobody. He didn't even believe the nerd actually had a Quirk because he never saw it before. But Katsuki was wrong. Not only does Deku actually have a Quirk, but it was one that made him powerful. Powerful enough that Bakugo now felt threatened by him, even if he would never admit that out loud or even just realize it to himself.
-"Ughh…" A groan escaped the boy's lips.
Everyone snapped out of their transe and saw Izuku layed down on the ground.
-"DEKU!"
-"MIDORIYA!"
-"IZUKU!"
His three closest friends called out. The whole group then went to see if he was okay, but they were outran by another person, one that had just arrived.
-"Young Midoriya! Young Midoriya, can you hear me!"
They all saw that All Might was standing in front of them, trying to wake up Deku. They rushed to his side.
The boy sat down calmly, -"All Might? Is that really you?"
-"Yes it is. Are you alright?" The large man asked gently.
-"I am. I guess I just threw extra force at that punch really." He winced as he looked at his arm, now completely broken.
-"Don't worry, we can take you to Recovery Girl when we leave."
-"When did you get here?" he asked his idol.
-"And how did you know we were in danger?" Eijiro added
-"My detective friend called me. He received a message from here." The pro hero revealed.
Ben had a thought and brought up his watch -"Omnitrix, is the distress signal working?"
The alien device responded in Ben's automated robot voice, scaring his friends a bit -"DISTRESS SIGNAL SENT AND RECEIVED BY NAOMASA TSUKAUCHI."
Iida realized what had happened, -"It must have been that villain me and Todoroki knocked out earlier. He had a kind of electric Quirk and was the leader of the group."
-"You're right." Shoto commented, -"He must have been the one interfering with the signals. As soon as we took him out, we could contact the outside again."
-"Did you warn anyone else?" Aizawa asked his co-worker and friend.
-"Yes, I received the call when I was with the principal. I came in as fast as I could, but the rest of the faculty are not far behind me." he revealed.
Everyone in the group finally released a sigh that they didn't even realize they were holding until now. The knowledge that help was indeed coming put smiles on their faces.
-"Finally…" Kirishima sat down, tired.
But things weren't over yet for the group as suddenly, they heard something coming from the water. Since Iida and Uraraka were occupied, nobody was keeping an eye on the other villains.
They all saw Shigaraki emerge from the lake with Nomu carrying him, -"Would you look at that, the Symbol of Piece finally decided to show up, but only after my army has already fallen." The man-child looked straight at All Might and spoke with venom and irritation in his voice, -"You're a cheater."
-"So you must be the one responsible for this mess, am I right?" All Might asked rhetorically while coming up to the front and protecting everyone.
-"Yes… all of it to get to you, Number 1." He shrugged off the water. Tomura was clearly still hurt and not at all able to fight head-on this many people at once, -"Nomu, go kill All Might!"
The monster-like human didn't waste any time before running straight towards the hero. He would never reach his destination though as another hero had a different plan.
With a fast green light, Ben transformed back into a previous form, Gravattack, a 'turned on' his own gravitational field, making sure only Nomu was getting caught on it.
-"Don't worry All Might, I got this one." He smiled at the hero.
He levitated high on the ground and turned his own body into its planetoid form. Then he increased the velocity of the rotation and made sure Nomu was spinning in every direction so that he couldn't get out of it.
-"Hey, Ochaco!" Ben called out to his friend, -"Can you touch him real quick?"
She was still confused about what he was doing but still nodded and got close. Gravattack slowed down his velocity a bit so that it wouldn't hurt her hand and when she touched Nomu, the villain was now spinning even faster than before!
-"Thanks!" Ben then made sure his calculations were correct and pushed himself a bit further to increase Nomu's speed. Aiming for the hole at the ceiling, Gravattack threw the villain right at the center!
The clouds parted as he went on and on… at some point, he wasn't on anyone's view anymore. Due to Uraraka's Quirk, he wasn't slowing down anytime soon.
-"Ha! Enjoy space buddy!"
-"Ben! He's still a person! You can't throw him into space and hope he'll survive!" Aizawa called him out.
-"Oh!" Gravattack realized his mistake, -"You're right… sorry, my bad. Ochaco, you can release him."
She nodded again and touched her fingertips to nullify the effects of her Quirk. No one was seeing him coming down yet, but they thought it was still going to take a few minutes before that happened.
- Entrance -
The students holding Kurogiri down were simply amazed at the sight before them. The metal parts flying around, the gust of wind that suddenly hit them, the hole at the ceiling that just became bigger, the monster-like villain that just got thrown into it… it was draining their attention.
They barely even registered when All Might came in and rushed down to the battlefield.
-"Wow…" said Mineta.
Unfortunately they had made a mistake as the distraction proved to be just enough for their trapped villain to gain the upper hand.
Making sure to open a portal right underneath the broken pieces of the ground that were stuck to both him and the purple balls, he was able to quickly fall in, not giving either Mina or Tokoyami time to react.
-"Wh-WAIT!" She tried to grab him.
-"GHR!" Tokoyami did as well, but neither could stop him as the portal closed right as he passed through, -"CURSES!" The boy punched the ground, angry for letting herself be distracted like that.
-"What do we do now?!" Mineta panicked.
-"I'll try to find him!" Mezo quickly turned many of his arms into ears and eyes.
Meanwhile, Mina and Tokoyami were still sitting on the ground, blaming themselves for it.
-"No need to beat yourselves up like that, children." A soft voice they recognized spoke next to them. They looked up and their sad faces turned into smiles.
- Central Plaza -
-"No… NO!"
What was supposed to be Tomura Shigaraki's best day since learning about this plan, had just turned out to be the worst day of his life up until that point. His Nomu wasn't coming down, Kurogiri was knowhere close to him and his entire army of thugs was decimated by a bunch of students.
The man couldn't stop stretching his neck and eventually even his face. He felt like a failure, like his whole life had been destroyed by these people. If they could see his face clearly, the only thing splattered on it was HATE. Pure, unadulterated HATRED towards them.
-"You goddamn BRATS!" The villain screamed at them, -"I'LL KILL YOU ALL!"
Without thinking of the consequences or the outcome, the man instantly took off and ran towards the group with his hands ready to disintegrate all of them!
They got ready to repel him, but that outcome never became a reality, especially since he was stopped by the most unpredictable of things. A bullet.
BANG!
-"AGHR!" It hit him right in his left leg, making him fall.
- Entrance -
Hope had arrived right at the top of the stairs as everyone could see that the Pro heroes and teachers of UA had just arrived at the scene.
-"Sorry everyone, I know we're a bit late, but I got the teachers over here as fast as I could." Nezu said while on the shoulder of another teacher.
The entire U.A faculty was here minus Recovery Girl and Lunch Rush. Midnight, Present Mic and Ectoplasm had come to help as well.
-"Nice shot there Snipe." Present Mic complimented his co-worker.
-"Thanks Mic." the one called Snipe answered.
He had the appearance of a stereotypical Western cowboy. His face was covered by an old-school tan gas mask, shaped a little like a horse's muzzle, with triangular holes for his eyes and silver ear-defenders wired to the sides of the mask. On his head, he wore a brown cowboy hat with a thick metallic plate at the front, a large "S" stamped in the center, and his footwear was gray boots with knee-high shafts and vamps with silver trims that dip a little at the front, a heel-band with a spur at the end attached to the back of each boot.
He wore a large red cloak, buttoned up at the top, with frayed ends, under which he wore a plain black tank top with white armor strapped over the right side of his torso, and a brown belt with a gun holster attached at his hip. He had baggy black or dark brown pants with light brown or yellow chaps over them in stereotypical cowboy fashion. On his arms, he wore black skin tight armguards going up to his biceps and on his hands and tan gloves.
Some of Shigaraki's underlings were waking up from their unconscious state and they were going straight at the teachers at the top.
Mic simply took a step forward and used his Quirk on them… by increasing the volume of his voice and giving them a sonic scream that made their ears bleed.
And while they were disoriented by that, Ectoplasm opened his mouth and released a stream of ectoplasm that transformed into clones of himself, all of which started taking down the villains waking up.
The teachers could see Shigaraki still up and running, so full of anger that he didn't even care that the pros were there.
-"Oh, you're not attacking anyone else wise guy." Snipe quipped at his hero companions while pointing his gun.
- Central Plaza -
BANG!
BANG!
BANG!
Another three shots made its way to his right leg and both of his arms.
Fortunately for him, and unfortunately for the heroes, Kurogiri teleported right in front of him to protect his leader from any other shots or attackers. He made a protective smoky wall around Shigaraki that would teleport anyone out.
-"We must leave!" Kurogiri called out. He created a portal and forced Shigaraki in it to make sure his attitude wouldn't get the best of him at such an important moment.
-"I may have failed to kill you this time, but your days are numbered!" He turned towards the kids at All Might's side, especially Izuku and Ben, -"And I won't stop just at him! I AM GOING TO KILL ALL OF YOU!" he threatened, before the portal closing, with both of them having escaped through it.
And with that… They were final-
CRASHHHHHH!
Everybody had forgotten about Nomu until he actually came crashing down right in front of them, still a bit hot due to reentry from the atmosphere.
But as soon as everyone regained their senses, Gravattack made sure to use his powers and put him under the effects of heavier gravity forces, making sure he couldn't move a centimeter towards them.
-"I bet you can't get up when under 40Gs, right pal?" He chuckled, -"Todoroki! Trap him for good!"
The boy was tired, but he had one last move on him. Using all of his remaining energy, he encased Nomu's entire body on ice, including his head. Shoto then dropped to the ground in pain and freezing.
They all waited a couple of seconds and saw that the villain was not breaking out. A relieved sigh escaped them all, Ben even transformed back into a human again.
And with that… They were finally left alone. The fight was truly over.
Some teachers were going down to the other zone to help the students still not reunited with the main group.
-"Well… with all of that done…" They heard Momo start as she looked at Ben, -"Care to explain what just happened?"
-"Yeah, why did you lie about your Quirk?" Tsu asked.
-"And what's that thing on your wrist? It's clearly important." Kirishima pointed out.
The alien boy realized that the time to reveal his secret had come, at least to some of the class, but he didn't know if he still should.
Iida approached him, -"As Class 1-A President, I think I speak for everyone when we say that we were very confused and just wished to understand the situation better."
His voice was kind and genuine. Looking around, Ben saw that all of his friends and Bakugo were in the same position. They were all just scared.
Tennyson gave Aizawa a look, almost mentally saying that he didn't care for whatever plan they had made and he was going to tell them the truth.
Shota looked at his hand, then one Ben had attached back as Swampfire. It wasn't even hurting much anymore. Without him, he might have gotten out of this fight a lot more hurt than he was now, if he even survived at all. Throughout the whole day he had been putting trust on Ben that not even he realized he still had, and it all paid out in the end.
With confidence, Aizawa looked back at the boy and nodded in confirmation.
-"Alright, I'll tell you guys the truth. Mr. Aizawa and All Might already know, but not many people can, so I ask you to keep this between us, not even our classmates up there can know."
-"That's right." Their homeroom teacher butted in. -"Any word of this gets out and it could be disastrous."
-"Is it that bad?" Uraraka asked worried.
-"Very."
Izuku looked at his idol with worry at the way he responded, -'All Might…'
-"I think it's better if we talk when we're away from here. Let's meet up with the others and then we can discuss all of this in private after the police arrive." Aizawa suggested. -'Maybe I can even tell Yamada about it as well.'
-"Good idea."
Ben also nodded and all of the group went to go up the stairs, or what was left of them.
And Ben was in his own little world inside his mind, -'This just became more complicated than I thought.'
AND SCENE!
One chapter per month seems good, but since the last two of this season are smaller prologue ones, I think I can have them both by April. I think. I hope.
But again, the offer to help co-writing it is still open, the more help the better and faster the story can be released. I really need it Hahaha!
Only two more chapters to go! I hope you all liked it :D
