Disclaimer: I don't own mha
Warning: Rated M for Mature themes
Overhaul stared at the permeation hero with boredom and indifference.
"You don't even know this girl, yet you came down here. Interfered with my plans and took out my most valuable subordinates. Why?"
Eri looked at the hero with dread and terror along with a great fear for his well being.
"This girl was fractured a long time ago. Even now it's clear she has no faith in you people. Your no hero to her."
It seemed apparent that Mirio wasn't the least bit demoralized by Overhaul's cold and bitter words.
"All the more reason that I have to save her."
The crime boss sighed in disappointment before turning around to leave.
"I'm not getting through to you, so let me make this clear."
Mirio started to give chase as the two villains continued walking only to stumble to the ground.
"Your going to die down here."
Before he could even get a few feet ahead he looked at the ground in shock and exhaustion as he felt his senses dulled in an unnatural way.
"What's happening to my body?"
The blonde soon heard a voice laughing from above and looked up to see a strange villain hanging from the ceiling with a bottle of beer in his hand.
"You feelin sloshed? Your legs look shaky and your swaying, I feel the same. That's why I'm walking up here."
Mirio grimaced in confusion and frustration as he looked at the drunken fool that Overhaul seemed to have employed as a distraction.
'Ok it's this guy's quirk. Eri is still right in front of me, I just gotta get past him an-'
Just as he was thinking, Mirio noticed another yakuza member about to shoot him and instinctively jumped out of the way.
"What is your quirk?"
"Permeation. When activated I can pass through anything."
Mirio covered his mouth in shock while looking at the strange villain dressed in black.
'Why did I tell him that?'
The drunk villain backed up as his companion kept his gun trained on the hero.
"I see. So that's how you were able get this far so quickly. You used your power to slip past mimic and the others."
"You missed him? Stupid, what are you? Drunk?"
Sakaki threw his bottle at the truth seeker only to have him knock it away without even looking at him.
"That would be you."
"You think?"
"I suggest you stay silent and support your superior teammate."
Mirio stood up while leaning against the wall to keep his balance.
"I get it. Your power must have forced me to tell the truth somehow... and they put someone like you on the frontlines? Weird."
Nemoto shrugged at the suggestion while flaunting around with pride.
"That's true. I am in a different class compared to the dispensable pawns in this organization. I'm the only one who understands the young boss's ambition."
Mirio used his quirk to faze through the bullets as Nemoto shot him a couple more times.
"He's torturing his own daughter and you call that ambition?"
Once again the villain shrugged while disregarding Mirio's sentiments as mere drabble.
"It would be wise to leave your feelings out of this. Don't you know they'll only get you in trouble?"
Nemoto looked back towards Overhaul and Kurono who kept walking away from the fight.
"I live for the young boss's ambition. He needs me, I'm his right hand. His most valued assistant. We will share such joy when his plans come to fruition. Now!"
After talking of his loyalty to Overhaul, Nemoto turned back and shot at Mirio as Sakaki threw some knives along with him.
"Die you nuisance!"
Right as the fatal projectiles were about to hit Mirio fazed through the wall and evaded the attack in the nick of time.
"Ultimate move. Phantom Threat!"
Quick as a cheetah he blitzed the two villains from the wall beside them.
"No way, how's he still upright?" Sakaki asked himself in confusion.
"I get a taste of something much worse than your intoxicating quirk on the regular." He said while giving the two villains a debilitating barrage of punches.
Overhaul turned around and noticed the two villains sprawled out on the ground, devoid of consciousness.
"CHISAKI!"
The crime boss barely managed to turn around and dodge a backhanded fist from Mirio as he fazed his foot through Eri and slammed it right into Kurono's head.
His attack knocked the villain to the ground allowing him to catch Eri as Overhaul was stricken with disbelief that a hero could even touch him.
"Please don't! Go back! Leave me! Otherwise he'll kill you." Eri begged.
"I'm never going to let you down Eri. I swear it. I am going to be your hero."
Overhaul remained still for the longest while before leaning back and looking up at the ceiling with disgust in his cold glare.
"Filthy."
He started to rub at himself compulsively while taking off his glove.
"Come back Eri. How many times do I have to tell you. It's your fault, you break people. That's just how you were born."
"Go. Hurry." Eri insisted.
"Don't listen to him."
"You know how this goes. I always have to get my hands dirty because of your selfishness. Every action you take results in people dying. Your a cursed human."
"How could you say that about your own daughter?!" Mirio asked in rage as he was appalled by the villain's words.
Overhaul groaned in brief confusion while kneeling down as he became somewhat amused upon thinking of that word.
"Oh right. That's the story I fed you heroes... I don't have any children."
In almost an instant, the entire room broke apart at the touch of his fingertips. Walls eroded and spikes formed in stunningly massive quantities.
'He's not just reassembling. He's shaping new spikes.'
Mirio held Eri above his head in shock as a spike fazed through his stomach in what for anyone else likely would have been a fatal injury.
"You could have been hurt... but he didn't care."
"Yeah it wouldn't have been a big deal if she'd gotten hurt. If I put her back together immediately I can revive her, even if she's not quite the way she was before. Eri already knows what I can do."
The blonde growled in rage while desperately trying to anticipate Overhaul's next attack.
"What'll you do if Eri gets injured? Under these conditions I'm the only one who can heal her."
With Eri still in his arms Mirio landed backwards while looking around at all the spikes that surrounded them.
"I've sealed off your escape and you won't be able to run away using Permeation while your holding her. So, you gonna fight me schoolboy?"
Kurono sat up while pointing his gun at Mirio as it seemed that the heroes attack from earlier failed to knock him out.
"Careful. Aim for the arm wrapped around Eri." Overhaul warned.
"I didn't expect he'd be able to use his quirk so precisely, it's obvious he's been well trained."
"Can't let anything get in the way of your shot."
Overhaul started to clear some of the spikes between him and Mirio to open up Kurono's range.
"Sorry about this."
Mirio turned around while kneeling as he apologized to Eri with a smile across his face as the villain fired his gun.
"He hid his body to obscure my aim, and here I thought heroes only wore capes to make them look cool."
Overhaul's eyes narrowed in alertness as he made note of Mirio's sudden disappearance after wrapping his cape around Eri.
"Kurono!"
Just as Mirio was about to provide a finishing blow to the white cloaked villain, Overhaul pushed his subordinate aside by using his quirk to reform the ground.
"Sorry Overhaul."
"He's strong, but he put Eri down. If I break her then he'll be forced to back off."
Just before the villain could act Mirio appeared from behind and fazed his arm right through his hand before punching him in the face.
"Of course you would do that! MONSTER!"
The villain was sent back flying by the sheer force of Mirio's punch.
"You wanna know why a hero wears a cape? So he can use it to comfort someone who's suffering. That's why!"
Kurono dived for his gun only to have Mirio kick him away and disable the weapon quickly and violently slam his fist into the villain's skull effectively taking him off the board for a good while.
'Watch my opponent. Predict his next move. Act fast, but Chisaki's so good. It's hard to believe he's just some yakuza thug. He's strong but...'
As Overhaul was about to kneel and touch the ground to manifest another field of spikes Mirio fazed through and closed the distance once more.
"Make no mistake! I'm stronger!"
Yet again he delayed a devastating attack from the crime boss with another swift punch to the face.
"You won't lay another finger on her! I'll take on anyone I have to, you've lost this fight Chisaki!"
"Don't use that name so casually fool. I've abandoned it."
At this point it seemed apparent that Overhaul was being worn down by the constant attacks from the permeation hero, as his body was covered in a multitude of noteworthy bruises. Due to his opponents quirk it was all the more difficult to find opportunities to recover.
"Master!"
'I thought he was down for the count.' Mirio said to himself in his head as he saw Nemoto the truth seeking villain crushed beneath a bunch of rubble but still conscious.
Overhaul opened his eyes in adrenaline filled frustration as he grabbed his box of quirk deleters and tossed them to him.
"Nemoto! Shoot!"
The black cloaked villain grabbed a bullet and loaded it into a revolver he seemed to have as a secondary firearm.
'Join the organization. It'll be reassuring to have you with me.'
The words of his precious boss rang through Nemoto's mind as a tear leaked from the hole of his cracked mask.
"Those were his true feelings. The boss needs me, I can't let him down even if it costs me my life. I'll assist him however I can."
Nemoto aimed his gun at Mirio as he continued to engage Overhaul in a fast paced exchange where caution and sharp awareness remained vital.
A little farther away in the hideout Pony was gliding through the corridors on her horns while making use of the heat seeking goggles she picked up from the support course before the raid started.
'Picking up five signatures ahead, one of them belonging to a child. It's gotta be them.'
Pony hopped off of her horns as she came face to face with a wall that hardly looked like it was meant to be there.
'They blocked it off, Overhaul mustn't want any interference... but this won't stop me.'
The horn user reached into her bag and grabbed a small compact explosive before setting it on the wall and rigging it to go off.
After the wall blew apart she stepped through the light and took stock of the situation unfolding before her eyes, the first thing the girl noticed was a villain holding a gun.
"Oh no you don't!"
Pony aimed her head down and shot a horn right at the cloaked villain as fast as she could.
Nemoto gasped in shock as the gun was forced from his hand and looked over to see the culprit.
"More interference? Do these heroes know no bounds in their meddling?"
The horn user ran forward as she garnered the attention of Mirio and Overhaul while shooting a pair of horns at the crime boss.
In response he managed to catch them both and disintegrate them with his quirk while weaving out of the way of a second incoming pair.
"Lemillion! I'll take the girl! You keep him busy until reinforcements arrive!"
"Right!"
Pony ran over to the girl and picked her up as Mirio shot forward in an effort to keep Overhaul locked in battle so he couldn't reattain his target.
"I don't think so heroes!"
The two blonde's eyes widened in shock as Pony instinctively jumped up and landed on her horns as spikes formed from the ground, the attack didnt land a painful blow but it severed the bag of equipment she brought along for the ride as the young heroine was forced into a corner.
Meanwhile Mirio just barely managed to rid himself of his tangibility in order to avoid a fatal blow to the chest and punched Overhaul across the face effectively sending him flying.
"Shit that was close!"
Pony looked towards the hole she blew open and then back at Eri who had a fearful expression on her face.
"Ok sweetie, we don't have anytime to waste."
"Wait! Your leaving him?! He'll die though!"
Not listening to the girl, Pony glided forward as fast as she could with her horns as she prepared to escape.
While they moved onward, Overhaul shook his head and noticed the two girls about to get away which caused a sense of desperation to flare up within him in an instant.
"NO!"
Pony stopped on a dime as he reached his hand out towards the ground and sealed the makeshift exit with little effort.
"Hang on Rocketti! I've got this! You just focus on getting her out of here!" Mirio said while throwing Kurono at the man to keep him from using his quirk.
Pony took a deep breath and reached into her bag before grabbing another compact explosive and placing it on the wall.
"Kurono! Stop them! Eri mustn't be permitted to escape!" Overhaul yelled out.
Mirio and Pony looked over and saw the white cloaked villain rising from the ground seemingly healed of the blow he had taken to the head earlier.
The villain wasted no time pulling down his hood and shooting out a strand of his hair at the horn user.
Pony dodged it and pulled away from the wall with Eri in hand while Kurono engaged her in a desperate attempt to reclaim yakuza property.
'If I remember correctly... this guy could effectively paralyze me. I cannot fall victim to his quirk.'
"Give her back! You fools don't possess the vision to properly utilize Eri's quirk!" Kurono shouted while pulling out a gun.
Pony was quick to respond as she shot out a single horn and knocked the weapon out of his hand.
"Your vision will never be realized."
Kurono was forced back onto the defensive as he had to run and strafe to the side to get to cover from Pony's horns.
'Shes got good area control, but even worse is that she seems to be rather cautious. Probably has prior knowledge of my quirk and doesnt want to be struck.'
The white cloaked villain peaked his head around the corner and fired a couple of bullets in her general direction.
Noticing that Eri was in the line of fire Pony was quick to cover the girl and in the process took a stray bullet to the shoulder causing her to grit her teeth in pain while struggling to keep up the pressure with her horn attacks.
Meanwhile Overhaul and Mirio were locked in a fast paced and intense bout of defense oriented combat.
Neither hero nor villain could afford to be reckless at this point. As it has always been, Overhaul could kill Mirio if even a fingertip touched him but on the other hand the blonde had dealt some serious blows and would not relent, if not given an opportunity to repair his body it would only be a matter of time before the crime boss met his defeat.
"So long as I have something to say about it..."
Mirio phased through another one of Overhaul's grab attacks and punched him in the ribs effectively causing the man to grunt in pain.
"You'll never lay your dirty hands on her again!"
He followed up with a brutal chop to the shoulder effectively breaking the man's collar bone as Overhaul jumped away in pain as well as a most desperate need for even the most miniscule reprieve.
The villain's eyes shifted towards Nemoto who was trying desperately to escape from the rubble while reaching for his gun and the case of quirk deleters.
He backed up against the wall and moved his head slightly to the right in order to evade a devastating punch from Mirio that packed enough power to put a crack in the wall.
"Fucking Hypocrite!"
Mirio reached out for the man as he touched the wall and created some more spikes forcing Mirio to activate his quirk.
After avoiding the would be damage Mirio pulled the man away and threw him back into the center of the large and hollowed out room.
Overhaul's eyes lit up in fear for the briefest moment as it wasn't long before Mirio was on him again. He was simply too fast.
"Master!"
The heroes eyes diverted to the left where he saw the truth seeking villain had gotten free and behind he could see a crack in the wall that cascaded into a hole, all of which originated from where Overhaul had just touched.
Nemoto loaded the quirk deleter into his gun and fired it off at the permeation hero.
Mirio merely activated his quirk and let the bullet pass through him, but it was enough time for Overhaul to jump back while Nemoto pulled out his other gun and started firing normal bullets to keep his attention long enough.
Overhaul fell to his knee in exhaustion while clenching his broken rib activating his quirk causing even more pain to course through him as he forcibly repaired his bones and restored his dead cells.
He looked over and scowled at the sight of Mirio holding a now unconscious Nemoto by the collar.
The villain took a deep breath as he eyed Mirio cautiously and started to think for a moment.
'Everyone has a weakness, with heroes in particular it is in fact pretty cut and dry.'
The man reached for the ground and manifested more spikes.
"Time to perform your heroic duties Lemillion!"
The blondes eyes widened in horror as he saw that the attack wasnt aimed for him, but Eri and moved as fast as he could while diving in front of the spikes.
As if to make matters worse for the villain, a wall was busted open and he saw more heroes bursting in.
Midoriya looked over at the villain and then at Mirio, he couldn't help but feel worried as he saw Pony exchanging projectiles with another masked villain in the distance while holding her blood soaked shoulder.
"Careful guys! His quirk is extremely dangerous!" Mirio warned.
The green haired boy looked back at Overhaul and scowled as he charged forth and punched the man in the shoulder with enough force to send him back several feet where he fell to the ground.
Aizawa looked upon Overhaul and activated his quirk to ensure he would be less of a threat.
"Nighteye quick! Secure those whove been injured!" He ordered of his fellow pro.
'One of Chisakis inner circle, we passed another on the way here. Chisaki has the room completely sealed up.'
The former sidekick then looked at his protege and gasped in horror while rushing forward, completely foregoing caution.
Seeing his chance Kurono aimed his gun at the heroes only to have Pony shoot out another horn to disarm him while heaving in pained exhaustion. In spite of the pain she seemed as though she was prepared to contend with any underhanded tactic he might try.
"Mirio!"
"Get Eri out of here, shes... behind me..."
Nighteye was quick to clutch the two in his arms with a remorseful look while Pony stood in front of them with an untrusting and paranoid scowl.
"Rest. Ive got you now, you were amazing. You found her, Mirio."
Overhaul furiously tapped his hand against the ground but was aggravated by the sight of his quirk not working.
'He took away my power.'
Midoriya and Aizawa charged in and prepared to bring the yakuza leader down.
"Lemillion already has him backed into a corner. Its up to us to finish this."
"Yes sir!"
"Kurono! Stop screwing around!"
The white cloaked villain grunted in frustration as he heard his boss calling and dived to the side while grabbing his secondary weapon and narrowly avoiding Ponys horns as she tried her best to keep him from interfering but given her gradually building up blood loss it was proving to be difficult.
'Have to save the boss! I cant let things end like this!'
Kurono shot forth his hair and tried to pierce the two heroes while their backs were turned and their focus shifted.
"Watch out!"
Aizawa was quick to push Midoriya out of the way as he himself was pierced by the attack.
"Those pierced by the long hand will find their movements slowed, I meant to skewer both of you at once, but then thats heroes for you."
The erasure hero tried to desperately to keep his eye trained on Overhaul, knowing he would only need a little more time to allow Midoriya to finish it, alas it was too late for that now.
"Everything. All youve done... has been for nothing."
With this final declaration Overhaul touched the ground and activated his quirk.
As he did so the floor started to crumble while Midoriya lost his balance. In little time the ground broke apart causing everyone in the room to fall through.
"Dammit!"
Midoriya watched in frustration while Overhaul had an annoyed glint in his eye as he kept his hand near the wall and activated his quirk to deconstruct a hole in the wall as he prepared to let them fall to their deaths.
'As long as Im quick and a tangible piece of Eris body is in tact, I can revive her. Who really cares if she dies anyways?'
The villain watched in satisfaction as his opposition fell into pitch blackness while he used his quirk to descend the giant crevice by packing in the dirt and cement down almost as if creating a naturally formed elevator that only a quirk such as his could.
"Sir! Hold on!"
Nighteye looked down to see Pony yelling out towards him as she fell too but shot out her horns to use as a means of suspending herself in midair while catching him with her one good arm.
Not wasting anytime she shot another horn into the wall and placed against Nighteye while he grabbed hold of the horn to use in order to hang from.
While Pony lowered herself further into the hole while looking at the others who were still falling, Nighteye looked up and was surprised to see Mirios tattered cape floating down, he reached out to catch it and looked down at the others with a worried expression.
Eri was screaming at the top of her lungs while Mirio had passed out from the pain of his injuries and Nemoto remained unconscious while his body fell at incredible speeds.
"Hold on! Im coming guys!"
Midoriya activated One for All while pushing his feet off the wall to propel himself forward while grabbing Mirio and Eri.
"Izuku! I can take them! Grab the villain before he dies!"
He looked up to see Pony ready to receive them.
"Alright! Here!"
With a swift toss he threw Eri into the air while Pony caught her with both hands but winced as she pulled on her bleeding shoulder, afterwards he threw Mirio and she caught him with one of her horns as his unconscious and near lifeless body drooped down in midair.
With only one person left to save, Midoriya was free to dive deeper into the seemingly bottomless hole and grab Nemoto.
He kicked off the wall again and quickly started to close the distance.
"Almost! Got! You!"
Midoriyas eyes widened in shock as he saw a faint light while coming within inches of grabbing Nemoto.
"Come on Deku! You can do this!" He yelled to himself in a panic as he almost had the man.
Just in the nick of time the boy managed to grab Nemoto and pull him in, but as he did... everything went blurry and pain coursed through the entirety of his body.
From far above Ponys eyes widened in horror as she saw the two figures hit the ground with a violent and disturbingly wet sounding splat.
"IZUKU!"