"ERI-CHAN!" The villains all called out, tears in their eyes.
"Mr. Gentle! Manami! Kenji-nee!" Eri beamed as she raced to embrace them.
"Urghm, you're back…I MISSED YOU AHOLES SO MUCH!" Jin said and then sobbed as he joined in the hug before realizing there were some new faces. " BEGONE, OUTSIDERS! New friends, awesome!"
Dimitria chuckled at that despite knowing the story behind Twice's behavior, but in a sweet and kind manner. Her boyfriend took off his mask and bowed to Nezu in respect.
"It is an honor to reach a paragon of mutation types, sir." He managed, making the mammal smile warmly.
"As it is mine." Nezu smiled, already formulating how to speed up the young reptile's story in his own way.
Midnight eyed up Spinner and XV-Ral, smiling warmly and offering them a hand of friendship as Eri and Jin cried at the sight of their friends…before he realized something else.
"Wait. Where's Toga?" Jin asked. "MY BABY GIRL IS MISSING!"
Eri realized Himiko was missing as well and grew worried.
"…She's making a scene." Manami explained. "If all goes according to plan, she'll be here tomorrow."
"And Izuku?" Midnight inquired. "I mean no offense, but without the naughty boy himself, we can't get the full story."
Gentle laughed at that.
"I appreciate your concern for my protégé, Midnight. Still, I must assure you, the taking of Mina aside, the worse Izuku has done…"
She pressed a finger to the man's lips, smiling as she delighted at Manami's jealousy.
"Save that for explanations, later." She cooed, then looked to Magne, who had coughed to get ther attention.
"…We're not sure about him." Kenji admitted, moving tp wipe away Eri's tears. "Don't worry, Eri. He'll be here in time for your birthday. I promise."
"And so did he." Compress added, taking off his hat and mask to speak directly to Nezu. "If and you'd allow sir, I'd like to add my family's accounts of what happened to my grandfather into your lesson plans."
The UA principal smiled at that; he was a sucker for adding more details into lessons and history!
"That's assuming we win our trial." Gentle cut in.
And instantly, the mood in the room became somber. To match the feeling, a sighing Nedzu's smile softened into a frown.
"Yes that…that is accurate. Nemuri?"
With a sigh, the R rated Heroine produced several handcuffs and escorted the villains to a detention room, leaving Eri with the Prinicpal, who made a call to the Midoriya parents.
TSR
"What? No demanding of how I got in?" Izuku asked, his one working eye glaring through Katsuki's very soul. "No screaming that nickname at the top of your lungs?"
For once in his life (but not the first in recent memory) Katsuki Bakugo was at a loss for words. Once upon a time, he'd have blasted Deku, tied him up and called the cops. If he did that now, there was a chance his story could get back on track and his journey to becoming #1 would be right on schedule!
All of his problems could be over in a matter of moments….So why didn't he?
Why did he cower?
"…The hell are you?" He finally managed to ask.
Izuku smirked at that, walking backwards to retrieve his wristblades,
"I think you already know." The green haired boy smirked. "You just don't want to admit it. And I'm not going to tell you. I want to see if you can actually use that brain AND your heart for once, you know?"
Katsuki leapt at his former friend, moving to knock him out and then calling the cops. But Izuku ducked under him and the blonde felt a prick in his side. And then he notyiced something:
No explosion. Try as he might, his Quirk wouldn't activate.
And that shock was all the villain in the room needed to pin him to the wall.
"That was meant for someone else." Izuku admitted as he reached downwards to a long wrapping that had been by his side the whole time. "Thank goodness we have two more. And no worries, it's the short lasting version."
Unzipping the package, Katsuki's eyes widened as Izuku picked up a beautiful katana; polished, treasured...and being pulled out, revealing the flawless blade inside.
"A gift from the Hero-Killer." Izuku smirked as he aimed the handle to run it through his former friend's spine…
And that was when Katsuki realized:
Holy shit. This was it. No hag or old man to call. The whole city already hating him. No pro in his area.
He was boned.
Deku was going to kill him, and what was worse? He couldn't find himself blaming him. Hell, he couldn't even find humor in the fact Deku had to break into his house and use a sword to kill him. His ego was sileneced by his impending death, unable to at least take solace in the fact that by doing this, Izuku would truly be a villain…..
….
….
"…No."
…Wait, what the fuck?
Izuku sheathed the blade back its scabbard and let Katsuki go to catch his breath.
"Don't get it twisted; I am very, very, VERY tempted. You are exactly the kind of person Stain would've cut down; a glory hound obessed with victory who calls himself a hero. But I promised I'd become someone he'd be proud to will that sword to."
What the boy said next shocked Katsuki to the core:
"Besides….you're not mine to take down. You're Izuku's."
Izuku's face then took on a dopey smile as he…started to melt?
"W-who the fuck?"
In Deku's place was a girl with golden eyes, cute fangs, blonde hair in pgtails..and she was as naked as the day she was born.
"Toga. Himiko Toga." The girl grinned. "Izuku's REAL best friend. His actual partner in crime, both literally and figuratively. Your replacement."
She then licked the tip of the katana, cringing and then coughing on the bit of blood it had drawn from Katsuki.
"So spicy! Yucky!" She gasped, but steeled herself. "So…how does it feel? To be as he felt? "
Katsuki said nothing, but glared at her, even as she brandished one of her butterfly knives.
"You remember what Izuku did at the USJ?" She asked, not waiting for a response. "I trained him. And he's never beaten me. Don't worry, I'm on my way out. Just wanted to…spice up the tension, you know?"
Himiko preferred her blood sweet, but in this case, she wanted to RAVAGE the taste of Katsuki's blood as much as she could.
"Izuku will come for you, eventually. He just has more important things to settle first than you.." Himiko said, deligthting at the shock and rage that covered the Bakugou's face at that; realizing that he was NOT important to Izuku.
The blonde girl then smiled dumbly as she moved to the Bakugou parents' room to steal some if Mitsuki's clothes, quickly turning back and smugly adding:
"Enjoy the view! Cause without internet or pity and or pay? Its about the only time you'll ever see a naked girl!"
Katsuki was too shook to move to call the police until he realized Himiko was long gone.
TSR
"You kids and your darn phones." Gran Torino grumbled as Mina scrolled through her messages.
"Hey, we got to stay connected and informed." She smirked back, delighting when the old man grumbled she had a point…although she could also swear she saw a smile on his face and hear him grumble something about 'why that blonde moron had lacked a backbone.'
Most of what Pinky saw was nothing special; Kirshima and Testutestu had helped Fatgum clean up the park, Ida and Momo were reminding everyone to be careful…Oh, a few movie trailers had been dropped! And her favorite dancer was releasing a new DVD!
Then Mina saw she got a text from Eri.
'They're here! But no Izu or Himi…'
Before she could process this or tell her mentor, however…
CRASH!
Pro Hero Inukami had crashed into the train, bloodied and battered as something jumped inside: It looked like that Nomu monster, but it was paler, had two more eyes and a more normal jaw.
"STAY ON THE TRAIN!" Gran Torino ordered as he kicked the monster off and into the streets.
Mina leapt to her feet and checked around her.
"Is everyone okay? Anybody hurt?"
Some hot murmurs in the negative and sighed in relief before something else hit the train, knocking a baby out of its mother's arms and out a destroyed window.
Mina had moved so fast to catch the baby it took her a second to realize something.
'Wait…why am I not falling?'
She then realized something; she was floating in midair!
"W-whaaaaa…?" She and the baby in her arms seemed to ask in shock, before a sharp main filled Mina's head and she moved away from a meaty fist that belonged to ANOTHER monster; this one with four arms and tentacles that burst from its mouth. Instinctively, Mina unleashed acid in abundance but the monster kept advancing….
Suddenly, tendrils of acids burst from Mina, wrapping around the Nomu and bruning it to the extent it feel to the ground below, gasping in pain as the tendrils disappeared as soon as they came.
:"…What the heck?" Mina asked herself before she heard several voices saying four words:
"We're with you, ninth!"
TSR
Not too far away, the city was in flames as more Nomu rampaged, the largest of them leading the charge.
"He's too strong!" The Shurkien brothers shouted at the eyeless Nomu, whose mere swings created shockwaves of air. Manual was hardpressed fighting the fires, leaving him open to an attack…
Only for the Nomu to suddenly drop dead; a blade in its brain. Said blade was a wrist mounted one, on the arm of a green haired boy with one blind eye.
"AIM FOR THE BRAINS!" Izuku called out as he leapt upwards, using Manual to boost his jump and stab another Nomu in the brain. "They're basically reanimated corpses with Quirks! Take out the brain and they go down!"
The heroes looked at the monster and now saw their exposed brains. A few HAD considered doing such, but if this was a sentient…Wait, why was a villain helping them?!
"Why should we believe you?" A Pro with a tall head asked.
Izuku said nothing as he moved towards the leading Nomu.
"I don't know if you can hear me, All for One., Shigaraki." He said, tuning out all else. "But I'm not going to stand by and let your super zombies thereaten innocent people, even if the heroes who're supposed to protect them are too dumb too!"
The largest Nomu raced at the boy, who barely dodged and tossed off of his blads at it. Sadly the creature had Super Regeneration, so this did nothing.
"INCINERATE THE HEAD!" Izuku called out, knowing there had to be at least ONE fire user here!
The heroes now had a choice to make; do as this boy said, or…
"YOU CAN ARREST ME WHEN THEY'RE ALL DEAD!" izuku snapped, unable to believe they were taking this long to do the most basic…Why was he now in the sky?
Izuku had been grabbed by a winged Nomu that was flying away from the city. Luckily, he still had one armblade and with a bit of a swing, he plunged it into the monster's head…sendind them both falling towards. The green haired boy tried to move and use the monster as a cushion, but it now seemed determined to do that to him, trying to blind his one good eye with its claws and slapping him with its wings.
Wings that looked and felt familiar…but the one wing that had ever struck Izuku was…
Wait.
No.
No way.
It couldn't be…
Right?
They suddenly crashed onto the roof of a stopped train, then fell onto the ground. Izuku was quick to recover and tried to confirm his thoughts:
"…Tsubasa?!" He gasped
The stilled Nomu then shot up and, with its mask now broken, began to try and speak
"..Mi…Mi…Deku!" The creature managed, leaping at the boy before dripping tentacles wrapped around its wings, grounding it,
Izuku looked up and gasped at who had saved him, as did his savior:
"Izuku?!" A familiar pinkette, now in a domino mask and pink jaguar bodysuit with a feared boa, asked.
"Mina?!" Izuku screamed back in shock./
To be continued…
Well, I like to say that this story is picking up: Hosu pros in scrutiny, Himiko on the run, Izuku and Mina reunuited, the winged Nomu seemingly regaining sentience and most of the Rejects are going on trial!
Hows that a set up for the next arc?
Open to suggestions on where to go on the Izuku and Mina bit, my mind is going blank. Already have ideas for the 'Trial arc' and Himiko's story, but if you'd like to see a certain Reject take the stand first, lemme know!
See you soon!
