Pokémon Trainer Hero
Chapter 86: Hero Killer Arc, part. 8; The Killer Arrives. Act 2
Normally the nightlife of the city is ablaze with neon signs, the voices of many people, and booming signs of sales. This time it was a blaze with fire, screams of people, and explosions. All was done by three Nomu who have already managed to cause mass chaos by only three of them in the few minutes that they had been released! Heroes were already on the scene and trying their best to secure areas, evacuate and rescue civilians, and try to stop the monsters!
On the last front, the heroes were doing quite poorly. None of them were even slightly prepared to fight these things! Their speed, their strength, their defense; nothing could break them! Heroes were getting bodied left and right, leaving them to continue on their rampage!
Finally, after a far-set losing battle, Endeavor showed up to aid and he showed why he held his title as number 2! He first grabbed the head of the constantly regenerating Numo and appeared to burn its head to a smoldering stump! From there he melted himself a foothold on a building in pursuit of a winged Numo, and once he was airborne, threw a flaming spear at the flying Numo, hitting it directly through the eye! Even though he hit his target without worry, it still got away.
Clicking his tongue in annoyance he said, "Damn, these things are tougher than I thought."
"Endeavor-san!", Manual yelled while running up to him. "Thank you for coming, we don't know what we would've done without your aid! Especially for the first one."
Endeavor gave a sideways smirk as he boasted, "No cell can regenerate if it's cauterized and burnt to ash."
Before they could continue with their conversation, the tongued Nomu blindsided them and wrapped the two heroes in tongues! Endeavor tried to just burn the tongue, but found that his fire was getting extinguished on contact with its saliva.
From there they watched as the headless healing Nomu got up and sprouted three more heads, one on each shoulder and one on the back in between the shoulderblades! The three heads Numo walked to the two captured heroes and leered over them. From there it opened its two mouths like a crocodile and umbrellaed them over the hero's heads as they tried to escape! It was only inches before they met teeth when a miracle happened!
A giant panda dropped out of nowhere and began to straddle the monster's heads, pulling them away from the heroes! Then a large monster made of barnacles began to use sharpened claws to cut through the tongues. Once free the heroes watched as a large bear, which looked like a plushie, tackled the tongue Numo in an embrace that made it seem like it was being hugged. But that thought was quickly put to rest as the swinging motions it did were not only fast, but the grip was getting tighter and tighter until the sound and sight of its neck, alongside its white upper body was crushed!
"KYYUUUUUUUUUU!", cried the plushie bear, before turning its gaze to the heroes, who readied themselves for a fight.
It trudged up to them, then used its huge paw to move them to the side before running up to the three-headed Nomu with blinding speed! They watched as the giant panda was thrown off before getting tackled by the giant plushie bear! The two creatures then began to engage in a wrestling match where the three-headed Nomu began to grow more arms and overwhelmed the plushie bear! But the barnacle monster came in and cut the extra limbs off, leaving it and the plushie bear to easily overwhelm it!
The two heroes watched in gasped shock at this scene for a few minutes before Manual managed to say in confusion, "Uhhhhhhh, thanks again?"
"They're not mine.", Endeavor told him, equally confused.
"Nice hustle Beware, you two Barbarical!", Called out a voice, turning their heads to see very familiar faces floating in. "Pangoro, walk it off buddy, and help Machamp and Hamartia."
The giant panda cracked its neck after getting up and moved towards a four-armed creature that looked like a bodybuilder and a sumo wrestler.
Endeavor immediately recognized the voice and the person connected to it. He sneered in his direction and grunted, "You."
"Endeavor.", Gar replied casually, floating to the ground in Mega Alakzam's physic energy.
"Alien.", He insulted.
"Fire crotch.", He insulted back.
"Confused?", Manual butted in.
Gar noticed the other man and quickly taking a kinder outward appearance, he introduced him, "Oh, uh, hi, the name's Gar. And those creatures you see fighting that Nomu is my Pokemon.", Telling the man while pointing to the two Pokemon.
The three of them watched as Barbarical restrained Nomu's arms, practically ripping them off, while Beware slapped off the ever-regrowing heads while slapping off chunks of its body. Nearly leaving it a half-formed skeleton.
Manual winced at the sight and commented, "They are beating the hell out of that….. whatcha call it again?"
"Nomu, and they should, those things are tough! I have personal experience. I went easy the first time I met one, but now.", Gar shook his head while giving a deep laugh and explaining in a dark tone, "Now things are different. In fact.", He said while turning to his Mega Pokemon, and telling it while pointing to the still twitching body of the tongue Nomu, "Alakazam, double tap this one before helping the rescue team, we can't be too safe."
Alakazam complies and takes a piece of large rubble from nearby before slamming it down on the creature several times until it is nothing but minced meat!
Manual shivered and stated, "Brutal."
Gar looked at him strangely and asked him, "What are you saying? Didn't you watch the human torch over here burn that one's head clean off and still get up? These things shouldn't be taken lightly."
Manual opened his mouth to argue with him, thought it over for a second, then deflated seeing his point.
Gar nods at seeing the man's gears turn in his head and looks over to the young hero still with him and tells him, "Deku, take the east side with Hamiria. Machamp, Alakazam and I are in the west. I'll send Barbarical over after this Nomu is dealt with.", Izuku nods and runs off with the sumo Pokemon running alongside him.
Once they were out of sight, the three men had to dodge the flung forms of Beware and Barbarical. They look back to the battleground and see a furious-looking Noum raging about as it destroyed everything it could get its four hands on!
"Which may take longer than expected.", Gar said to himself in a sweat drop before turning back to the rescue Pokemon and yelling, "Machamp! We need your muscles, girl!"
Machamp, who was holding a support pillar to free some people, threw it off to the side while running as fast as she could toward the raging mindless beast. Once she was close enough, approaching from the back, the back head saw her and made the body turn around in time to take a full frontal blow from the four-limbed Pokemon right in the chest! Not only causing it to cave in but get flung back so far it crashed through three destroyed buildings!
"Nice punch Machamp, but aim skyward so you can use more power!", Gar praised her as she turned back and nodded.
The Pokémon ran after the monster with the other two Pokemon tailing her.
Both Manual and Endeavor were shocked by the power behind that punch, and even more so hearing there could have been an even stronger one! The manual stated in shock and amazement as the last bits of wind pressure flew by him, "Woah. That was like watching All Might throw a punch."
"Machamp is way stronger than All Might, a byproduct of their environment and evolution. But that's neither here nor there. Right now we have people to help.", Gar informed him.
"You're right! We have to go…right after finding my intern kid.", Manual exclaimed before falling off and looking around for someone.
Just then a thought shot through his mind and Gar asked, "Wait! Who is your intern?"
"A kid called Tenya Iida, he's Engium's little brother. I lost track of him in the chaos.", Manual told him.
"Oh no.", Gar said to himself, his eyes wide with concern.
This didn't go unnoticed and Manual asked, "What?"
"Nothing good! Go find him and help any along the way!", he told him with feverish intensity.
"Why!?", Manual asked back with confusion.
"He's gonna do something really stupid! Now go!" gar barked before turning around and seeing the Endeavor still standing there. He then narrows his eyes and barks, "What are you waiting for? Get that meaty ass of yours in gear and go!"
"I don't take orders from anyone. Especially the likes of you!", the tall flame man growls back at him.
Gar slaps his face before pulling it down and telling him, "Okay, look Enji, I don't care about your pride or self-image or whatever I've managed to spite you in, purposefully or unpurposefully. But look around you and smell the destruction! You're a hero, the number 2 hero, so act like it!"
He looked off to the side, clicked his tongue, and grumbled before going off, "Don't tell me what to do."
Once he was gone, Gar sighed exasperated, and said to Alakazam, "I swear, he and Bakugou must be related somehow.", the Pokemon nodded in agreement. Just then the now dead body of the healing Nomu fell at his feet with a battered up Beware and Barbarical trudged up to him looking proud.
He blinked for a minute, unable to process this before complimenting them, "Nice job you guys! Two down and only one to go!", at that very moment three more new Numo came out of nowhere and began to rampage once again, drawing the attention of both heroes and Pokemon alike. "Uh…..I meant…..four to go…..I hope.", Gar said in a dressed tone.
Meanwhile, Izuku was running down the now-emptied streets with Hariyama as the two of them helped lead civilians to a safe destination. The two of them were on the lookout for any stragglers, but so far everything looked clear so they ran through the streets to find anyone else still left behind. Suddenly the sound of a fight rang into his ears, catching his attention. The boy stopped with the sumo Pokemon and they both listened to all the noise going down in one of the alleyways. They both made their way to the back street and carefully moved in as close as they could to get a closer peak as to what was going on. Due to his size, Hariyama stayed behind while Izuku got closer. Once he was close enough he saw something that made his blood run cold.
In the alleyway was his friend Iida face down in the street filth with a very imposing man standing above him with a huge jagged and bloody sword in his hands. The man looked like a slasher villain with his ragged attire and was armed to the teeth in sharp pointy things. In the same alley was the seeming, and hopefully, unconscious form of the pro-hero Native. Back with Iida, the boy was still trying to get up and fight, but looked like he couldn't move a single muscle!
"Still trying to fight?", the crazy man asked Iida as he struggled. "Gotta admit, you've got spunk kid.", he complimented him, only to get a glare in response which earned him a kick in the side from the crazy man, who yelled, "But that's all you have!"
Iida breathed heavily after the blow and after a cough, he looked up at him and hissed in a croaked tone, "I'm gonna kill you."
The crazy man glares down at him with something crossed between anger and disappointment, as he tells him off, "Heroes ain't supposed to kill, kid. That's what I hate about you fake heroes!", he then flicks his sword and spins it around before placing it over his head ready to bring it down, as he preaches, "So many fakes who pollute this world and bring a bad name to justice! So that's why I'm here! To rid the world of that cancer and kill them one after the other till only the true ones are left!", he licks his lips and stares intensely with his wild red eyes as he jeers, "Just like your brother."
Just before he could bring the blade down, he heard someone yell, "Arm Thrust!", and suddenly his whole body was hit by something that felt like a truck! Knocking his blade out of his hands, but not himself. Though before he could recover at the same moment, he heard someone yell, "Smash!", and someone punched him in the head.
He managed to jump away and clear his senses before taking any other actions. Once he felt like he wasn't about to vomit from all the sudden force on his body, he looked up to see a young kid dressed in green with a determined expression.
He clicked his tongue in frustration while spitting onto the ground and told him, "You surprised me. But that's the only time you'll get to do that.", he cracked his neck and looked at the huge person beside him. The strange man looks like a sumo. He tilted his head and started to Iida, "I see you brought some of your fake hero friends to help you out, eh?"
"Iida-kun, are you okay?", Izuku asked his friend while looking over his shoulder.
"Midoryia….get out of here….this is….my fight.", Iida tried to squeak out.
"No way! I'm not leaving you!", Izuku protested.
"I don't have time for you, kid. I have a point to prove.", he told him while racing toward the downed teen, taking a blade from his body belt.
"Block!", Izuku yelled a command.
Hariyama did as was instructed and quickly stood in the way of the crazy knife man and blocked his path. The man tried to simply jump over him, but Hariyama grabbed his leg and threw him away, blocking him from getting any closer.
The man stopped his assault and started at Hariyama, unsure of what to make of him, then asked, "I don't think I've seen you around before. Who are you? A new one to the scene?"
"Hari!", Hariyama asserted while striking a menacing pose.
"He's not a.", Izuku tried to interject, only to get cut off.
"Doesn't matter.", he spat forcefully while picking up his lost jagged sword and pointing it at him he proclaimed, "You'll fall like the rest."
He then tried to blitz the Pokemon and Hariyama went in for an attack. His blocks were powerful and his blows even more so, but the man was far faster and more nimble than the Pokemon could be and before he realized it, the Pokemon had been nicked just enough to bleed. The man landed behind the unfazed Pokemon who turned around to attack from behind, but the crazed man licked the blood and the Pokemon seized up before falling over.
"Hariyama!", Izuku cried out in shock before returning to the man and demanding, "What did you do?"
"Same thing that'll happen to you.", he replied sinisterly.
"Midorya, he's the Hero Killer Stain!", Iida managed to get out before explaining, "If he licks your blood he can paralyze you."
Izuku nods at this and trunks back to the man already trying to form a pan in his head to take him down without getting cut.
Stain flicks his sword at Izuku and demands, "So, are you here to help your little friend to get revenge for his brother?"
"No!", he feverishly denies.
"No?", Stain asked back, confused by his response.
"I'm here to protect my friend from you and then, bring you to justice! I don't care what motive you're trying to prove or the message you're trying to send. In the end, you're a murderer, and I'll take you down as any good hero should! I'll take you down and save my friend with a smile on my face!", Izuku proclaims while trying to put on his best smile possible.
Stain tilted his head, unsure or maybe even impressed by what he saw. After licking his dry lips he said softly, "You're…..different.", after grumbling on the topic for a moment, crossing his arms as he did so and asked, "What's your name, kid?"
"Deku.", Izuku replied, trying to keep his smile up.
"Well, Deku, you just might be different after all.", he says with a target smile before lunging at him while exclaiming, "Show me your true hero heart!"
Izuku jumped back as Stain made a wide slashing arc with his jagged blade. He charged up his attack and let loose a huge blast of air pressure at the killer! But Stain was far faster and easily dodged the attack before flanking the teen! Thanks to his training with Gran Torino Izuku also dodged his second blade attack and moved away far enough to send out two more air blasts, but Stain was still five steps ahead in technique and experience, dodging the attacks like they were nothing.
Izuku then went for a fake he pretended to trip while trying to send off another blast, and when Stain tried to take advantage of it, he lunged forward and knocked Stain right in the gut with 5%! The killer went flying and dashed right into a garbage can before crumbling down. Izuku smiled at his seeming victory but his joy was cut short as he saw Stain lift a smaller blade with blood on it. Izuku's mind went blank for a moment before he felt the sting in his shoulder and knew what had happened! He tried to whack him again before he could use his quirk, but it was far too late! Stain licked the blood and Izuku felt his body seize up before falling to the ground!
Stain got up and dusted himself off before saying, "I gotta say kid. You do have heart. The heart of a hero I've been trying to find through all this filth!", he then picked up the giant blade he dropped again and walked past him while saying in a calm tone, "So that's why I'll let you live."
"NO! STOP! IIDA-KUN!", Izuku cried out desperately.
Stain sauntered over to the downed teen and once again raised his sword above him, but just like before something tried to attack him while his guard was down, but his guard was fully up this time around. He dodged three different attacks from three opponents he didn't have a chance to get a look at before perching himself on a fire escape. Down below were three very unusual-looking people. Two of them looked like bears while the other was some kind of multi-armed man in armor and smelled like seafood. Stain threw knives at the three people to test the waters. The two bears blocked and knocked away the blades while the huge guy just let it bounce right off him.
'I'll have to deal with him last. Get the other two first.', he contemplated in his mind.
With that, he threw three smoke bombs and jumped into the smoke. But it didn't last long as the armored guy blew the smoke away with his four arms. Luckily this gave Stain a chance to knick the giant Panda hero. But before he could lick the blood he was slammed by the side, tripped, slammed head first into the street, and held in a bear hug while being crushed by the giant panda! He coughed and struggled to break free but the Panda was far stronger! His face was smashed into the floor again and again while still being squeezed! He tried to kick the Panda's face, but it did little else than annoy him. Then he saw his blade on the ground, still covered in the Panda's blood. He calmed down, waited to be smashed into the ground, and shot his tongue out. It just hit the blade and the panda went limp.
"Pangoro!", Izuku cried out.
He kicked himself out of the hold and was immediately beset by the armored guy. Who used sharpened claws to assault him alongside his strength! Stain used his jagged blade to slash widely at him, but it kept getting deflated off like nothing! It was a game of cat and mouse as Stain jumped about like a frog while the four-armed guy kept trying to swing at him! Crashing into and destroying sections of buildings and garbage cans like they were nothing! Stain could tell if he received so much as one cut, he could lose a whole limb from how sharp and precise his claws were.
But no matter what blade he used, nothing could work against his defenses. He jumped onto the fire escape to gain his bearings but did not have a chance as the guy super jumped right up to him and with one slash that he managed to dodge, the whole thing came down! Stain tried to escape, but slipped and fell as the fire escape dared to flatten him. Luckily for him, the four-armed guy was so lucky in escaping and was falling into the fire escape. So instead of letting it flatten him, he jumped down and used two of his arms to catch it. From there he raced off towards Stain, still holding the metal structure, and clashed with his giant blade!
Stain stood in defiance of the attack, trying to hold it back with all he had, blade to claw! His only saving grace was the fire escape crashed into the opposing building, keeping the four-armed guys from getting any closer! If he could, he would've been overpowered, flattened, or fileted. He took the chance to observe his opponent and he was WAY uglier up close. A head like a hand, his hands had faces, and his body was covered in a hard stone-like structure, but despite this, his arms looked wimpy. Then he noticed how the arms looked softer than the rest. So he used one of his spikes and gashed the man while quickly licking up a sample! The four-armed man froze and then fell with the fire escape onto him that Stain avoided!
"Barbaracle!", Izuku cried again.
Before he could catch his breath the other bear guy, the one who looked like a plush doll, blitzed him with surprising speed and hit him with equally surprising force! He smelled against the brick wall so hard the wind knocked out of him! Before he could slump down, the bear guy was in front of him before he could blink and began to mercifully pummel him! Stain couldn't even think of the pain he was feeling, and the confusion he felt from seeing such a cute face wreaking havoc on him! But by sheer instinct alone, he held up a knife and plunged it into the bear's paw, causing it to go straight through the back!
The bear stopped his assault, looked down at the man, looked at the knife, then threw him to the other side of the alleyway without a second warning! Stain flew to the other wall and hit his head hard. He berated heavily, but he was lucky to have still held onto the knife even after being thrown. His vision was blurry, but he could make out the bear walking toward him with the fire escape in hand, er, paw. Its beady black eyes staring into his soul with no expression whatsoever! Stain managed to bring the knife to his lips and licked it, waiting for the obvious result. The plush bear man stopped and went to one knee, but did not fall! He saw as it brought up its head, its body emanating a horrid aura of death, and sliding on one leg towards him while holding the metal structure.
Stain decided that now was as good a time as any for that emergency plan. So he reached into one of his pockets and took out a syringe before sticking it into his leg and pumping the fluid. He gasped and sputtered a bit before arching forward and felt a burning sensation, followed by relief! With his strength regained, he hopped to his feet and there were several knives at the bear who could reflect them. He ran to it and dodged its pathetic swipe before pulling all the knives and licking each one. It took several seconds, but the bear finally fell to the ground.
"Beware!", Izuku cried out once more.
Stain wiped his brow and looked down at the syringe in his hand, feeling glad to have taken it a while back. He sure was more than hesitant to take random drudge from just anyone, especially some kid in a creepy hoodie, but he was glad he did take it on the pretense of thinking over his offer. Turning it over he read the word "Recover" on its label. It was surely one weirdly made and named drug. He dropped the needle and cracked his neck while taking a deep breath.
But before he could think of his next move against the fakes, something tried to flake him! And try as they might, Stain heard their metal-plated armor clanging against one another far before they got close enough. The person in question was a man covered in red and black armor like a samurai. He quickly retrieved his jagged sword and stood at the ready as the armored man turned his arms into sharp blades. He licked his lips in anticipation of his sloppy maneuver. But then it hit him, it was sloppy on purpose!
Just then, from the shadows, a figure jumped out with a tanto and tried to slash at him! He quickly turned and blocked the attack but due to this the armored person managed to gash him in the back! He managed to backflip away and swing his jagged blade but was quickly left dumbfounded when he watched as it was quickly cut to bits and pieces by the armored man and the shadow man! He threw the hilt away and dropped several smoke bombs. Taking a minute to bandage his wounds he took out his tanto blades and readied himself. When the smoke dropped he saw that his shadowy assailant was some kind of ninja frog, but that didn't matter at the moment.
The three of them then engaged in a striking battle of blades and sparks! The three clashed against one another in a dangerous dance that went on for a short while, giving Stain enough time to assess what was happening. The Armored guy was slow and clunky but sharp! The Ninja Frog was far faster and just as sharp in his attacks! They both perfectly compensated for one another's comments! While the ninja forge hit when it was available and dodged the rest, the armored guy went in full throttle without a single care for what hit him. His armor is so tough that not even a scratch was being made on him.
Suddenly the ninja frog broke away, did a stance and several more of him appeared from thin air! They all bounced around in different directions and using the shuriken pattern on their thighs they began to throw the same weapons made of water! He managed to block most while still fighting the armored guy, but one managed to get him in the face and was shocked when it vanished into nothing. He knew what was going on and locked the armored guy in a clash.
'Shadow clones eh? Not bad, but not good enough.', he said in his mind.
He spat out a smoke ball in his mouth blinding the armored guy and using the cover he threw knives at all the copies, making them poof.
However, the original was nowhere to be seen. Just then he saw yellow eyes peering out and before he could move he felt something strike his stomach! The ninja frog hit him with a blade that seemed to be made of the shadows themselves. And before he could try and escape, something long and pink wrapped around his body and restrained him! He tried to break free but noted how it felt slimy. Before he could think of this, the smoke fell and he saw how he was captured in the long tongue of the ninja frog. He saw the armored man look around before finding him and before he did anything he saw how he pulled a blade from in between his armor and tossed it aside, taking note of it as well. He then strikes his arm, making sparks and noise before dashing towards him with blade arms at the ready!
Stain decided on a last-chance maneuver and managed to truck the frog into thinking he had gone limp, but just as the tongue loosened, he jerked his body at the same time the armored guy tried to slice his head, and instead sliced the frog's tongue. From there he licked the blood and the frog fell, leaving him to jump onto the armored man, find an opening, and stab into it! Once the blood was drawn he licked up and the armored man fell!
"Bisharp, Gerninja!', Izuku cried out to both of them as they fell in tandem.
Stain smirked at seeing his handy work and asked in boast, "Is this the best you've got? Throwing all these lesser fodder heroes at me one after the other. This is your idea of a strategy?!"
He then went back to the sight of the still struggling Iida and taking his Tanto he raced towards him! However, like the last few times, he saw something in his peripheral vision and stopped just in time to not get struck by a long thin whip-like weapon from above. He looked up and watched as the wrapping retraced back to the body of a small but stout figure with their back turned to him.
"Accelgor!", Izuku cried in relief upon realizing what it was.
Accelgor turned his head at the same time the moon showed over him, revealing a strange person who looked like a typical shonen hero covered in wrappings that blew through the air and wearing an over-the-top headgear that looked like a shell. His eyes glitter under the cool facade he is playing off.
"Accelgor? Who are all these heroes and you!", Stain demanded angrily at having to fight all these other heroes.
Speaking of which, it finally crossed Stain's mind that all the other heroes he took down, including the two he just fought, were now totally gone without a trace. Though he didn't have time to think on this as Accelgor jumped from his preach upon the building's roof and engaged Stain in battle! Stain tried to blitz him, but Accelgor was far quicker in reaction and shot out of his wrappings to strike at the man! Stain dodged and but Accelgor kept putting pressure as he took out several more wrappings and began to try and strike him with it! Stain managed to dodge every single one but was shocked as they started to change. Some would perceive right through stone and metal, others would leave deep gashes all over, and some were strong enough to not get cut by his blades.
'What the heck?! Are they hard, light, flexible or sharp?!', he yelled in his head.
However, he noticed that every time he sent one wrapping out, he would have to retract it, and all of them, despite their seemingly wide attack patterns, were working in a finite system. A system he managed to deduct. Once he saw an opening and he went for it and despite getting small cuts even after blocking most of them, he still made it within walking distance of Accelgor!
Just before he could varnish his blade with more blood, Izuku called out, "Accelgor, use Extreme Speed!"
At that moment, Stain watched as Accelgor vanished from sight before appearing behind him! Just when Stain turned around to meet him, Izuku shouted again, "Accelgor, use Close Combat!"
And with that, Accelgor assaulted the killer with a flurry of strong and quick blows to several vital parts of his body! Making the man not only get knocked back but also had the wind knocked out of him! He tried to make an effort to slash at him but that didn't work.
"Now use Water Pulse!", Izuku called out as Accelgor stretched out his stumpy limb and shot out a ring of water that pulsated with energy, knocking the killer back into the alleyway! "Now finish it up with Signal beam!", Izuku commanded as Accelgore jumps into the air and shoots a beam of strange light right at him, causing a large explosion.
When Accelgore lands, he and Izuku wait with bated breath for the outcome. Then from the smoke, a blade flies out, straight for the short hero. Accelgor swats it away with ease but didn't notice the other blade hiding in its shadow! The blade nicks Accelgor and from behind the Hero Killer appears and grabs the knife! From there he licks the blood before any of Accelgor's wrappings can attack him, leading him to fall over unmoving.
"No!", Izuku cries out to him.
Stain then thinks to himself for a bit before saying aloud, "Accelgor, Hariyama, Beware, Barbaracle, Pangoro, Greninja, and Bisharp.", repeats the heroes' names before finally realizing, and saying, "These aren't names, their denotations.", he trunks to Izuku and says, "None of these people were even people at all. They were those Pokemon things.", as he walks over to Izuku he continues and asks, "But they aren't yours, are they, Deku?", he asks but gets no response in any form, making him grunt. He looks around in caution and asks, "So where are they coming from?"
"From me.", said a voice.
Stain looks toward the voice seeing the same spot that Accelgore arrived in on the same rooftop. Basked before the now-covered moon in a sheen of darkness that illuminated their silhouette, stood a figure holding something in each hand. Stain tilted his head at the person before he jumped from the rooftop and squared off with him. Stain wasted time in attacking him, only to suddenly realize what the mysterious person was wielding. The two of them clashed in a duel of blades, the mystery person wasn't fast with his attack but precise and strong while keeping the pressure! Even though he was a skilled fighter, Stain's mussels screamed for rest upon every strike he blocked and parried!
The mystery assailant then performs a maneuver where he hooked and threw his sword away from his hands, leaving him vulnerable but didn't allow him enough time to pull his blade back for a second strike. Instead, he used the other weapon, a shield, and struck him in the stomach! The hit was hard, but nothing like the hits he got from those other Pokemon with ludicrous strength! He was sent flying, but not knocked off his feet. Instead, he was left skidding across the ground, his hard boots digging in to prevent him from falling over. Once he stopped he coughed out a breath and after whipping the spit away he finally got a better look at his opponent, and it was someone he had come to learn about very recently. But his eyes were….different.
"I know you. You're that new big shot that has been making waves in the media. The Pokemon Hero trainer, Garfield.", he spotted the young man, who said nothing in response apart from a cold serious glare. "What's wrong? Cat got your tongue? You're quite well known for that sharp tongue and big mouth of yours. Where was all that spunk I've heard and seen before?", Stain asked only to watch him take a more relaxed stance and say with a grin.
"Gar is not here anymore.", he answered back in a voice that was not his own, laced over with the voices of many others.
"Oh really? Then who are you?", Stain inquired curiously.
"I am.", he said with dramatic effect before coming closer, stepping into proper light and showing black veins around a set of purple eyes with black sclera, "Aegislash.", Stain looked confused by this so Gar explained a bit more, "My master was so kind as to allow me to possess him." Gar then closed his eyes, tilted his head to the sky, and took a deep breath while running a hand across his body, saying, "Ah. It has been too long since I've had a body, and even longer since I've fought with a blade."
Stain looked down at the odd sword he was carrying and noted how it had an eye at the hilt that was looking directly at him. It also poses dark violet ribbons that were wrapped around his arm, the same black veins that were on his eyes, and finally deduced, "A living sword."
Gar turned his gaze back to the man and chuckled darkly while telling him, "I am far more than that, as you will soon find out."
Before anything else, Gar prompted a question to the man, "I see you like to kill, killer. So a word of inquiry, before we begin."
"Go on.", Stain said carefully, holding the tanto tighter.
"Why do you do what you do? What purpose does it hold in whatever dark fantasy runs through your mind?", Gar asks while pointing the finger from his head to his heart. "No one kills for no reason unless they truly are mad."
Stains smiled at this question and gladly enlightened him on his ideology, telling the possessed man, "This world is flawed, no, more than flawed. It's being poisoned to the point beyond repair. Ever-growing cancer that is only ever kept growing by the very system supposedly designed to destroy it."
"And that would be?", Gar asked further, but feeling like he knew the answer.
"Heroes.", Stain hissed out like it stung his tongue. "Heroes. The icons of justice and fairness are more corrupt than the villains themselves. They hurt the innocent, destroy the good, and ignore the weak. And for what? Themselves?! Pride, Greed, Lust, Envy! These are no qualities any hero should have! Money, fame, and power! BAH! What nonsense to be doing something with this much responsibility only for something so toxic and short-lived! That's why I hunt and kill all of these fakes! So that I can root out the true ones! The true heroes who ask for nothing in return and give 200% to make the world and the life of man a better place to live. And yet, after so long of cutting down so much filth I have only ever found 1 like that…or maybe….2.", he explained while looking down at the still paralyzed body of Izuku, before continuing, "But the point is, these fakes are allowed to roam free without consequences. So I became the karma they needed. I . became. The HERO KILLER!"
Gar said nothing in response and stood there. Stain did the same thing, holding his previous pose, and waiting for a reaction. Once it was apparent that he wasn't gonna do anything, Stain went back to a regular stance. Then a small crack appeared on Gar's face. It grew wider and wider until a full smile formed on his face, closely followed by giggles. The giggles quickly turned into full fits of laughter, the many voices overlapping and distorting one another in a horrible sound that sent cold shivers up the Hero Killers' spine!
While he was laughing, Stain tried to demand, "What so funny!?", though it came out weak.
Gar calmed down enough to speak and said in his many voices, "You! You are funny! AH HA HA HA! Your whole ideology! What a joke! You're so pathetic that it's hilarious! And to think that I almost started to agree with you! BHA HA HA HA!"
Now he is angry and tightens the grip on his tanto! Brandishing it menacingly he exclaimed, "Stop laughing at the truth, you blind fool!"
Gar and his overlapped voice eventually stop their fits of belly laughs to barely squeak out, "You-You are the fool! When I hear you speak, I don't hear a hardened and scorned man in a backward world, fighting for the right in the wrong! I hear a child who watched his sibling get the toy he wanted in the color he asked for!", Stain looks shocked by this response, but does not get a chance to defend himself as Gar continues saying, "Do you think that heroes, all heroes, have to follow this insane codex that you made in your mind?", Stain opens his dry mouth but no words come out. Gar sees this, smiles cruelly, and says, "Even my master can answer and break down this little delusion you have crafted, so allow me to repeat what he is saying.", Gar's eyes seem to change ever so slightly to their normal golden hue and in his voice, which sounds dominate over the others, he says, "If that's truly the case, then why stop at heroes? Why not start killing the police force, firefighters, doctors, civil servants, and even military soldiers? They're all heroes, aren't they?"
Stain looks shocked by this, his head suddenly abuzz with so much as he stammers out, "That's-That's not-."
Gar cuts him off and explains, "The same? Oh I can assure you that they all are very much the same. The term "hero" is so vast and multifaceted that there is no way to distinguish one from the other, now is there?", Gar asks him but gets no response on his flabbergasted face. So he continues his rant. "You say you're only killing the fake and bad ones, yes? Well, what about all the corrupt, fake, abusive, and lazy ones in those ranks of heroism? What's stopping you from butchering them?", he emphasizes, still getting nothing but the sight of cold sweat. "If you want to make a change like you so desperately desire, then go and kill the ones who can't guide them correctly. Go and slaughter the people sitting at the highest points of power and see if that makes a difference. But to be frank, it won't, now will it? And you know why? Because the reason isn't the person itself, it's the nature of the person. Human nature is what causes all this pain in the world, and last I checked, no amount of bloodshed or mountains of bodies will make that happen.", he then fishes up with one last statement that rings in the killer's soul like a cold scream, watching his eyes turn back to deep violet, "Humans will always be human."
Stain said nothing for a long while, just slumped his head and shoulders down in some kind of shameful pose before muttering out in a shaky voice, "Your…..wrong."
Gar cocked an eyebrow and inquired vexingly, "Oh, am I though? Do you know what your so-called ideology and message are like? A spark in the wind. Once a minute there, and the next gone for good. Sure you may create a fire, but even that will go out eventually given enough time. The only way for your message to live is for you to keep pushing it, but you'll have to push it, forever! Cause the moment it's not being perched by you, it will be forgotten."
This time he got his nerve back and brandished his blade he yelled while getting into an attack stance, "Even if that's true! My message will sting throughout those who also agree with it and carry it for me!"
Gar once again broke out into fits of laughter at his response, leaving the killer dumbfounded and pissed! Once he calmed down again, he asked honestly, "You honestly think that line of thinking will work?", Stain was more confused by his question than insulted. "The only one able to truly hold up a message is the creator. If the followers have it, it will become corrupted, divided, and lost. Made to suit the individual, not the masses. That usually happens with most well-intentioned religions.", he explained before letting Gar take over control once more, letting the young man tell the killer, "And I have, personality, only ever met one person with such backward logic that I agree with. And that's only because I saw the whole thing unfold, and watched it work."
Stain was more stunned by this than by anything he said before! All this time he was picking away at his belief and breaking it down to the point that even he was beginning to have second thoughts. But he was telling him there was someone out there like him and their ideology not only made more sense than his but saw it in action and bear fruit! He wanted to meet this person and see what they were all about, see if they were everything Gar was hyping them up to be.
Gar's eyes returned to the deep violet color as he asked, "So? What say you now? Hero Killer?", Stain said nothing in return except to strengthen his stance and grip. Gar shook his head with a smile, telling him, "And so you still proved my point. Humans are stubborn creatures by nature: Just. Like. you. So you can't change that., He sighs while rubbing his hand through his hair and saying, I assumed as much, but a pearl of wisdom from one who has lived for so long and through so many battles of bloodshed. Murder is only in the name of the murderer themselves and nothing else. And those who kill by the blade will die by it all the same."
"How very poetic.", Stain complimented.
"Are you ready to die, STAIN!", Gar growled excitedly at him, brandishing the sword and shield.
Stain smiled sadistically at him while replying, "Now that's something I understand!"
"Then come and see who is your true maker!", Gar roared as he ran after Stain, a living sword ready to strike him down.
Hey everyone, sorry I've been away from this story for so long, but if you look at the AN in the latest chapter of my other story, Elysium Asylum, you'll get the full picture. Anyhow, I'm sure you're wondering how I got this chapter out so fast, especially after the last chapter I posted only came out two days ago. Well, I already had this chapter started on, and then….life. So I finished it up, spruced it up, and now it's ready. Honestly, it was meant to be much longer, but I decided to cut it short to not take too much time and get it out as is and to pace myself. I may just make the next part or I'll make another chapter for my Drageria story, I don't know.
And for the one person that was looking for the Snapecube reference Sonic Adventures two shit posts. Yes, it did exist, I just deleted it because it was getting kinda hard for me to keep up with all the chapters. Trying to tell which was which. Sorry if you like it so much. Anyhow, thanks for waiting and reading. Hope to see you in the next one. Be sure to leave a review and have a Pulse Ultra day!