Hello everybody, it has been a while. Before I delve into this week's chapter, I have some news to share. I managed to land a seasonal job at a package plant in my hometown, so that means I can earn to money this christmas season. The only problem is the fact I will not have as much time to update my fics as often as before. I will try to work on them as much as possible, but updating will be sporatic until January. Anyways, with that out of the way, her comes the much waited part II of the USJ arc. Let me know what you think of the chapter in the comments, and have a happy thanksgiving my readers. Enjoy!
The word ecstatic would be too weak to describe what Shigaraki Tomura was feeling right now. Sure had been a little angry at the fact that his raid had been slightly ruined by the fact All Might was too busy signing autographs to follow the damned schedule. But, that doesn't mean the quest was completely ruined, after all, it is usually the side quests that are the most fun. It was just so cool to Erasure Head go in a fight all of his fodder, you don't see many hero npcs do that, especially story ones. It just makes the smile under Father grow larger when said NPC is taken down by his party with ease.
"Good Job Nomu.", Shigaraki said with glee in his voice, " Now let's get the xp from this encounter before moving on to the next one."
Nomu remained silent, but seemingly understood the video game lingo that his master was saying, and raised his fist to punch a hole inside the underground hero's head.
But then a strange slime-like liquid shot at blinding speed at the underground hero and enveloped him like a proactive shell. Nomu continued with his master's orders and punched the blob of liquid, but this action resulted in an explosive splash of water on the immediate area and no dead Eraserhead. The creature remained expressionless even as his master's hidden face was contorted into rage at the fact that the hero in Nomu's hands literally vanished. Things like this really made Shigaraki break out into that irritating itching. The villain began to scratch his neck until it was red, and mumbled curses under his breath as he looked around for the missing hero.
A quick scan revealed a person in an oversized white robe fighting among the remaining cannon fodder with a familiar slime-like liquid being used as a weapon against the grunts. Shigarchi narrowed his eyes at the figure as he took down the last of the fodder. It was at this moment when an injured and ragged Kurogiri warped back to his side. Shigaraki felt the itch get worse as the bartender told him of his failure to scatter the hero brats.
Izuku cursed himself at the disaster that he now found himself dealing with as he took down on goon at a time. He had spent over a month of searching the streets once rumors of a plot to kill All Might surfaced in the criminal underworld. Yet, every lead and every rumor always resulted in a dead end, even with Marris' ghostly presence getting intel in the darkest reaches of villainy. The League of Villains were a ghost in every sense of the word with no information on who they were and why they wanted to kill All Might. It was like the League appeared out of thin air and had a massive backing as well, and that made Izuku terrified of them. He needed to squash them while they were still small, but because of his own sloppiness, Hagakure was caught up in danger. Stupid, stupid, stupid Deku!
"Stay focused on the hunt, Izuku!", Marris's voice warned behind him, "Those hatchlings are relying on us to keep them safe."
"Right, sorry Marris", Izuku replied as he finished off the last of the goons.
With the creeps out of commission, Izuku turned his attention to the three remaining of them didn't appear out of the ordinary when it came to villains but the third one gave Izuku a bad feeling. The villain called Nomu was tall and muscular with skin as black as coal. Its eyes were blank while its opened beaked mouth gave it an intimidating look. The most striking feature was its large exposed brain that pulsed disgustingly in its skull.
Marris hissed from behind Izuku, "That beast is not natural, it was made. Be careful Izuku, it is an abomination in every sense."
The mist villain from earlier returned to the villain dressed with hands and the large beaked villain, and it appeared the one with hands was not happy.
"Kurogiri, if you weren't on our ride I would kill you right now.", the hands villain angrily said, "How can you be so useless to lose a fight with a hero wannabe that hitched a ride with us?"
"Shigaraki Tomura, he is the rumored Ghost of Musutafu.", Kurogiri warned, "He is a formidable opponent with multiple quirks, so do not underestimate him."
Shigarki shot a glare at the vigilante, "It doesn't matter if he's got one quirk or a thousand, there's no way he could stand up to our party comp. Besides, there's still a chance we can do this if the brats hadn't actually escaped."
"That's where you are wrong!", the two villains looked at Izuku, "I sent one of the students back to UA! The heroes and the police are already on their way. You and your little assasination are done, villain!"
The one called Shigaraki raised a shaking hand and pointed towards Izuku, "You're bluffing! There's no way any of the brats escaped! It's impossible!"
"He's telling the truth, Shigaraki. He possesses a warping quirk, and I am inclined to believe he did as he said.", Kurogiri reasoned.
With the words of the mature villain, Shigaraki degraded into a temper tantrum with him scratching his neck red while babbling 'not fair' over and over at Izuku. But as quickly as it came, the tantrum left and Shigaraki was once again as calm as he was a few minutes before.
"Meh, whatever. Alright Kurogiri, I guess we are done with game now let's go home.", Shigaraki said with a resigned voice, "But first, let's bruise up the ego of those hero bastards by killing a couple of their brats and that damned vigilante ganker."
As if it were a command, the large beaked villain shot out at blinding speed at Izuku with its fists raised to attack. Even with Izuku's enhanced senses, the creature moved as if Izuku was seeing him in real time. Izuku, completely caught off guard, barely had time to raise Crab's quirk, Holy Water, in time to block the charge of the villain. It took all of Izuku's strength just to be able to hold against the attack of the thing that the villain called Nomu. He knew instantly from the power behind the attack that Nomu could easily shatter his bones into dust if it were to make direct contact. His eyes did not detect any sort of weak point or anything that he could use to exploit in his advantage. He was on his own in figuring out how to defeat this monster. Marris hissed in anger as Izuku could feel her strain to help bolster his physical strength and his quirk's strength against Nomu. But the endeavor still felt like he was trying to stop a charging rhino with a piece of glass. He wasn't sure how long he could hold out against the monster and it showed no sign of tiring or stopping.
"Wow, you are cooler than I thought.", Shigarchi said with child-like awe, "To think that this npc could be able to hold out against an attack by Nomu and not die. But I wanna hurry and go pown the brats. Nomu hurry up and kill him!"
Without making a sound Nomu began to relentlessly punch the liquid barrier that separated it and Izuku, and with each strike Izuku could feel it getting weaker and weaker. He could feel Marris pour more of her strength into him to hold up the defense, but she was limited by the fact she was restricted by her ghostly state. The blue haired vigilante estimated they could only hold out for a few minutes at best before they break.
Izuku stole a glance back at the group of students still at the entrance of the domed building. Most of them appeared to be close to having their moral breaking as the situation seemed to be turning in favor of the villains. Some were pushing their quirks to the absolute limit to break open the door, while others tried to maintain order to prevent them breaking. But there was one student that locked eyes with Izuku. Hagakure stared at him with her brown eyes wide and teary, but also with an expression of acceptance? She was watching the moment in which her best friend was going to die, and after that she would experience her own death at the hands of these villains. When Izuku finally realized this fact, something steeled within him and a surge of power invaded his body. He was going to save them, he was going to save Hagakure. Even if he were to die on this day.
With a loud warcry, Izuku and Marris used all of their strength to push back against the beaked villain. The effect was immediate as Nomu was suddenly pushed nearly all the way back to his master, leaving Izuku as the only obstacle between Shigarachi and the students. All eyes on the fight widened in shock and surprise. Izuku could see flashes of Octopus as he and his country men shouted a phrase as they heroically held the line against an enemy that wished to destroy the homes they were defending.
"Y-You shall not pass!", Izuku chanted in between heavy breaths, "You shall not pass! You shall not PASS!"
With a final shout, electricity surged across the white form of Izuku as he began his own counter attack and charged like a bullet at Nomu. Flashes of Eel came into his vision as the viking fought a giant scaled beast,slashing relentlessly with his axes until it succumbed from the assault. Holy Water, which was imbued with lightning, attacked at blindingly fast speeds at the large form of the beaked villain. Water sliced through flesh like a hot knife through butter as Izuku focused his attacks on the limbs of the villain. Nomu screamed in a beastial cry as its limbs were decorated in deep gashes and spasms from the electricity. Izuku's rapid onslaught seemed to have paid off as the final blow of the attack managed to completely sever one of the arms of the Nomu after over hundreds of slices. Izuku stopped his attack with that blow as he desperately huffed air back into his lungs, but he still kept his eyes locked on his opponent. Silence had filled the plaza...until a series of giggling shattered it like glass.
Izuku quickly looked at its source, and saw that Shigarchi was the one laugh was maniacal that almost sounded like the villain was choking on his own breath. It made that unnerved feeling in his stomach grow larger.
Eventually the villain stopped laughing and directly addressed Izuku with a smug smile beneath his mask, "This save keeps getting better and better, and to think I was worried my party would get wiped. Nomu, show them what you really can do."
Right on que, the body of Nomu began to heal itself of all the damage that Izuku inflicted upon it, even its missing limb grew back in a matter of seconds. Izuku's eyes grew wide in surprise as he could hear Marris growl threateningly at the sight. Then without warning, Nomu shot at blinding speed at Izuku with its arms wound up to deliver a punch. Izuku quickly pulled back Holy Water to block the attack. A huge shockwave burst out from the impact of the blow as dust scattered into the air. Izuku found himself nearly pushed to the ground as Nomu continued to apply his full strength onto him. Once again, Izuku and Marris were desperately trying to hold off an unstoppable force.
"Surprised to see that you aren't the only with multiple quirks? Nomu, here was made to have many different quirks to be the ultimate anti-symbol of peace! But you have impressed me Ghost, you nearly had me fooled there for a while. But I now know that you weren't multiclassing and were just a simple mage with high enough charisma to fool people.", Shigarchi said in video game lingo, " But everyone knows that a mage needs a fighter to hold off another fighter. And yet for a mage...you remind me too much of All Might and I destroy things that I hate."
The venom in the villain's voice caused a chill to run down Izuku's spine as he strained to prevent himself from being crushed by the villain.
"That being said, if the little vigilante wants to play hero then I say we let him have a taste. Kurogiri, scatter the brats.", commanded Shigarchi.
The haggard mist villain nodded at the command of Shigarchi and used his quirk on the group of students watching the fight. In an act of cruelty, the villains forced Izuku to make the impossible choice, his life or their lives.
"Little Minnow. Please, there has to be another way", Marris said in a strained but pleading voice.
But Izuku saw no other way, and steeled himself for a choice he always knew he would have to make.
Black mist began to once again try to swallow up the students and scatter them to their doom, but to the surprise of the students, a familiar liquid shot rapidly into the darkness and dissipated the mists. Hagakure quickly averted her gaze back to Midoriya, and saw a face that would never leave her. The hood of the costume still obscured many of the facial features of Midoriya, save for the mouth and eyes. His toothy mouth was in a large smile and his deep blue eyes were wet from tears. This minal expression was telling them all one thing: Everything was going to be okay.
Hagakure could no longer hold her voice back when she heard the villain order his henchman to kill Midoriya. She felt tears sprint down her face as the muscular arm of the monster shattered the liquid barrier and collided with the small body of Midoriya. She lost her voice and the ability to hear when she witnessed his body fly through the air and crash into the base of the stairs with a sickening crunch. The world was gone in the vision of the invisible girl as she suddenly found her legs moving on their own to the heart of the fight.
When Hagakure reached the crumpled and bloody form of the white robed Vigilante, she kneeled and quickly inspected him. From the rudimentary first aid lessons she had been given at UA, she could tell immediately that he had most if not all of his ribs broken. His skin was covered in all manner of lacerations and bruises, while the worst damage appeared to be chunks of missing flesh on his arms. However, the worst injury appeared to be coming from somewhere at the back of his head, with the sign of it being a few lines of blood streaming down from his hood. If he didn't get medical attention soon, then he could very much succumb to his injuries. She needed to get him out of the fight and with the others. The invisible girl put every ounce of her strength in her arms and back and attempted to sling her wounded friend over her shoulder and carry him to safety. But she was just not strong enough to accomplish the task, but she refused to give up.
"Come one get up, get up!", Hagakure frantically said as she tried to help Midoriya on his feet.
The vigilante seemed dazed momentarily before suddenly realizing who was trying to rouse him up. "H-Hagakure? W-What are you-u doing here? Y-y-you'll die if-f-you-u don't l-leave.", Midoriya said in a pained and weak voice.
"Not without you Midori! You'll die as well!", Hagakure said with tears in her eyes as she vainly tried to lift the heavy form of Midoriya, "I won't abandon you!"
Yet, the emergence of the invisible girl did not alleviate the danger that was present in the plaza. And Hagakure's rescue abruptly became aware of a looming shadow over her, and turned to see the one called Nomu obscuring her view. Its soulless eyes stared at her blankly as its master began to monologue.
"One of you brats actually grew a spine and left your spawn. You must be really brave or eager to die an agonizing death.", said the hand villain.
Every instinct told Hagakure to run and get away from the beaked monster, but she never felt a drop of fear. She would rather die alongside her friend than leave him behind. Her white gloves took a battle stance and so did her combat boots. "I won't let you hurt him or any of my friends, villain!", the invisible girl retorted defiantly.
The hand villain let out a small snicker, "You should've taken off those clothes and hid, and maybe then you could've lived to tell the world about the League of Villains. But I always do love it when a low level thinks they could pvp with a max level. Alright, Nomu let's kill this filthy casual and move on to the rest of her noob party? Oh and hurry up and do it right because I am getting real tired of these gankers coming in and ruining our KD."
The Nomu obediently followed the orders of its master, and slowly raised his muscular arms high in the air with his fists clenched. As much as she didn't want to admit, she stood no chance against a creature that was made to kill All Might, and the villain knew that. All Hagakure could do was stand there, unable to do anything as tears slid down her cheeks. She silently uttered an apology to her friends and family, and closed her eyes waiting for the moment she would become a smear on the floor.
"KEEP YOUR HANDS OFF HER!", Midoriya shouted from behind her.
Hagakure could feel something burning hot being emitted from the person she was trying to protect, and was surprised to see a bright green light dash into her vision. The light grew as bright as the sun and completely overtook all her senses.
The world was shrouded in grey and was devoid of all sense of time. The air simmered and distorted everything into fuzzy outlines, but this was not the case for a boy with blue hair dressed in white robes. He was uncharacteristically clear in this strange and distorted world as he ran back into a fight to protect the one friend he had of his own kind. Even with his body covered in blood and with the horrendous injuries he sustained in the battle. But it was not as odd as the fish woman who swam in the air like it was a pool of water. Marris's bulbous black eyes focused intensely on Izuku while she reached out and gently cusped the face of Izuku with her slender hands. She leaned towards Izuku until her forehead touched his forehead.
"Well, it finally happened didn't it? I knew you were destined for great things the moment I laid my eyes on you Izuku. I just wanted you to stay small for just a little longer, but you can't be a child forever and one day you had to grow up.", Marris paused while sporting a blank look of nostalgia.
"You wanted to know why my blood made you have strange dreams or changed your body to resemble me? It's because...It's because you have a quirk, my little minnow.", Marris cooed in a sad yet joyous tone, " One that would be worthless to any human without my blood, and I did not want to give it to you because….my blood would've killed you at such an age. But then that monster h-hurt you and left me no choice. I did everything I could to protect you Izuku, but I failed. You cannot imagine my joy when you woke up from your sleep. I hope you can forgive me for not doing enough, but now that my blood is in your veins...you will become a hero like no other. But for now, I will show you its full potential and help you save these hatchings….Thank you Izuku, for allowing me a freedom that I thought I lost so long ago. I love you, my little minnow. I love you like the child I could never have..."
Marris let go of her affectionate embrace and floated higher into the grey air. She hummed in a low voice as she did a short series of hand gestures. A bright blue light surfaced from the chest of the fish woman, and slowly began to consume Marris. Once the mermaid was eaten up by the light, it compacted in on itself into a sphere that was roughly the size of a baseball. The star-esque orb then descended slowly until it reached the chest of the teenage vigilante. When the light contacted the wounded flesh of Izuku, a shock wave of light and air exploded like a nuclear bomb.
Yagi Toshinori stood there in his hero form on the transport vehicle with his fellow teachers and young Kaminari as it drove as fast as it could towards the USJ. In the distance he could hear the wails of sirens as paramedics and police raced towards their shared location. His colleges were all sporting that fierce and determined look as they patiently awaited the domed building, clearly eager to jump in and save Class 1-A and their wounded teachers. Yet, it was young Kaminari that worried Yagi the most. The boy was sporting a look that Yagi has seen on people awaiting the fate of their loved ones after a disaster or villain attack. A blank and neutral expression, but one littered with worry and guilt beneath the surface.
"Young Kaminari.", Yagi said in his gentle but bombastic voice, " Chin up, my boy. We will be there soon and save your friends."
Kaminari perked up at the words of the number one, and soon shared the same expression as his teachers.
Hopefully, things will turn out okay. But that was until the group had seen what appeared to be a small star explode out from the domed structure in the distance. Confusion set in among the heroes as an unknown factor had been thrown into the situation, leaving them all staring dumbfoundedly at it. But Principal Nezu's feral and scared voiced is what took Yagi out of his stupor and into action.
"I'LL GO IN AS A VANGUARD!", Yagi stated, "KEEP YOUR PACE, I WILL GET THERE FIRST AND GET THE STUDENTS!"
Without any arguing from his fellow teachers, Yagai opened the door to the transport truck and hopped out onto the flatland. He let it get some distance before channeling One for All and leaping into the air towards the battle.
Bakugou was absolutely going bananas, and he was really loving it. There were very few times in which he could let loose on some chumps unfortunate enough to meet him. That all changed when a green light that was as bright as the sun overwhelmed all his senses. He didn't know why, but the light put the fear of god into the explosive teen. He vainly shot explosions in the direction of where he thought it came from, believing it to be a quirk of attacking villains. Little did he realize that it was a warning from someone who hated everything about the hero student.
Silence descended upon both the USJ and the neighboring city as the residents and invaders of both places stared into the small star. While humans had a mixed reaction to the anomaly. Civilians and heroes alike felt comforting rosy sensation in their rib cages, while villains both big and small, felt an overwhelming dread in their hearts. The very earth itself also seemed to react to anomaly, with the wind suddenly dying and the ocean becoming as still as a lake. While animals, both predator and prey, whimpered and hid or snarled and ran away as their acknowledgement. But for the children trapped in the machinations of a murderous villain, completely cut off from help with no no success in escaping, and their last shield battered and destroyed by a monster. The green star gave them only one feeling in that moment of peril, and that was hope.
The intense light finally seemed to fade away, and Hagakure was once again aware of her surroundings, sort of. Perhaps she will in a minute or two when the world finally decides to stop spinning. While her vision was currently unreliable, she still was able to make use of other senses. And to the surprise of the invisible girl, she was being held in bridal style in the strong arms of...Midoriya?
The arms were warm and gentle against her skin, and were somehow firm and cool at the same time. It was like she was being held by both her mother and father at the same time. Suddenly in the peripheral of her blurry vision, a blotchy white oval shape dominated her eyesight. Hagakure felt a warm and rosy feeling emerged in her chest the more she stared into the blurry face. Without even thinking, Hagakure reached out and gently caressed the face of whom she thought was Midoriya. It felt very similar to the arms that were carrying her, but with enough warmth to completely erase the coolness.
"Midori?", Hagakure asked in a soft voice.
"Not quite,", replied a feminine voice, "But do not worry, he is safe right now."
A bucket of ice water splashed across the naked frame of Hagakure, and she pulled her hand away from the face of the stranger,"I am sorry. I thought you were someone else?"
The stranger gave her a light chuckle, "Do not worry about where you place your fins. But I had no idea that you were so fond of my Little Minnow.", the stranger paused, " Well, I do not have to worry about when he finally decides to court another human."
Hakagure felt like she was talking to Midori's mother, and unwittingly embarrassed herself as well. It was at that moment as well in which Hagakure's vision decided to return. The person holding her was not Midori, but the stranger was somehow dressed in the white robes that Midori had been wearing only moments before. If that wasn't strange enough, then it became clear by the fact that the stranger did not look like a stranger was very clearly female, based on her voice, and the fact that Hagakure was held close enough to her to feel every feature of her chest. Her skin was a dark blue while her hands had only four fingers. Her arms were lengthy and lean, but the invisible girl could feel power and unseen muscles in them. The stranger's face was devoid of a nose, mouth or ears; with only two large and black almond shaped eyes and two slits on the cheeks. Instead of hair, there were thick tendril-like appendages leaking from under the hood. It was the face in Tokoyami's drawing!
"As much as I would like to talk to you, I do not have much time and there are still vermin to be dealt with,", the creature said in a stoic voice, "But in case we meet again, call me Ris. Now go back to nest with the other hatchlings, and let Mother Ris deal with these invaders."
A familiar tentacle of liquid rose from somewhere behind Ris, and it coiled around Hagakure like a snake before completely enveloping her. The sensation was akin to being sealed inside a tube of water before being shot out at a blinding speed. All Hakagure could feel was the rushing of water on her skin before finding herself gasping for breath at the entrance of the USJ.
The dust began to settle as Marris raised herself from her lowered position to her full height. The mermaid stretched out her long arms and neck as she took in the air of the earth for the first time in centuries. When her body relaxed from the stretching, she focused her bulbous eyes on the remnants of the ones calling themselves the League of Villains. The abomination was standing on the spot where he landed after being flung from the explosion, staring blankly at her. While the one made of black clouds had his yellow eyes wide in fear while in a position that looked like he was about to run. The vermin with claws on his body did not show fear or anger behind his coverings, instead he expunged rage like a bad odor.
"What the fuck is this?! You're telling me that this npc was a secret boss fight the whole time! And he had a fucking second phase as well! What a bunch of cheating bullshit!", whined the pale vermin.
Marris tilted her head in confusion at the strange use of words that the vermin was using. Why do humans not vocalize things clearly, why do they always spout unnecessary gibberish?
"I AM SO SICK OF THIS SHIT! NOMU JUST KILL THE DAMNED CHEATER!" the vermin ordered with a red face.
"Shigaraki, I don't think that is the best of…", interjected the fearful cloud.
"SHUT UP KUROGIRI! I DIDN'T ASK FOR YOUR OPINION!", quickly retorted the parasite, "NOMU KILL THE CHEATER!"
The beaked abomination dashed at great speed towards Marris, but to her, this beast was merely walking instead of sprinting. She stayed still as the beast slowly raced towards her. The fish lady waited until the last moment before lazily raising her slender hand to block the attack. Nomu's clenched fist made contact with the hand of Marris, a shockwave of hurricane proportion was released as a result. Sending the two other vermin further away from the titans. The abomination then relentlessly tried to attack Marris in a blur of fleshy punches. The forehead of Marris glowed a bright purple as purple light coated the beaked monster, and to the surprise of those watching, the monster was lifted helplessly into the air by an unseen force. Before she could even decide on what to do with the beast, she felt a pair of cold hands grab her neck. She lazily looked back to see the cloud using his power to allow the pale vermin to grab her neck. The pale vermin had a look of triumph etched on his face, like he had one by grabbing her neck. Marris, not wanting her skin to be sullied any further by the touch of the fool, grabbed his limb by the wrist and squeezed hard. The sound of bone shattering and his far off cry of pain was music to her nonexistent ears as she pushed the limb back into the portal. The pale one seemed to become a deathly white as he stared at Marris with a look of disbelief and horror at the realization of whatever he was trying to do had failed.
Marris then looked her attention back at the helpless creature in her net. How was she going to get rid of it?
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Ah Ha! The fish lady remembered something Izuku said about the smiler having ended his fights with a 'cool' finisher. If she was going to help Izuku become a hero, then she would need to practice as well on how to behave as a hero as well. But what 'cool' thing should she do to end the fight? Marris recalled back to a time in which Eel was practicing his power on some those green stalks, and how when he hit one, it would turn to ashes. That sounded 'cool'.
Having decided to her method, Marris hummed like a transformer as patches of her skin began to glow blue like the lightning in the sky. Dark clouds built up in the sky around the domed structure as flashes of light flicked inside the sky. The beaked monster was lifted slightly higher in the air as the storm became angrier and angrier. When Marris was satisfied with the amount of power built up in the clouds, she finally let go of the barrier that was holding all the pent up power onto her captive target. Six bolts of lighting struck the beast in the blink of an eye, and without any fanfare, the fish lady let her on it go. A charred husk of a corpse was all that was left on the weapon that was made to kill All Might, destroyed before it could even be put to the test.
An eerie silence dropped on the USJ. The two villains that had witnessed their trump card get destroyed so easily by the vigilante looked like they were about to pass out from the shock. Marris, having remembered when little Izuku told her heroes do 'cool' poses, lifted one of her long arms and pointed a clawed finger at the two vermin.
"You are next!", she said in a voice that attempted to mimic the bombastic voice of the smiler.
It was at this moment, when the two vermin finally lost their nerves and practically tried to run over each other trying to reach the warp gate. The fish lady lazily let the two escape with their tail between their legs after having decided she had more important things to attend to rather than chase the two welpings who picked the wrong fight.
"I am here!", shouted the familiar voice of the smiler.
Well, it seems that help finally arrived to help the hatchlings and the danger was more or less over. Marris now prepared a portal using Crab's power to return to her world and attend to her injured minnow. He still needed to meet his future mate before the day's end, and she was not going to let him break a promise even if he was injured as he was. Luckily, Crab can help him lick his wounds better than that one old female hero with the lab coat and stick once she gives her power back to her old charge.
Oh right!? The fish woman jumped into the air as she had almost forgotten the most important thing about being a hero. She needed to smile at the hatchlings! She turned back to face the group back at the entrance, and saw that indeed the smiler was there among them. She hated having to change back to her mouth, but she would do it anytime for her little minnow. The flesh around her lower face tickled as it contorted back into its original form. With a little bit of effort, she felt the muscles pull upward as she flashed a smile worthy of the big smiler himself. And by the look of his pale and sweating face, it was clear that Marris could challenge him at his own game. With that final peace of business out of the way, the fish woman dove into the water and back into her realm of stars. She had a minnow to nurse back to health.
Izuku Midoriya, Quirk: Gateway=Allows the user to become a medium in which unseen and otherworldy creatures to manifest physically into the world. This quirk can only be activated when he consumes the dna of the mentioned creature. If he does, he can attain multiple powers of the creature(s) while also gaining several physical characteristics of the creature. Aside from physical changes, the quirk is denotated by a marking on the left arm that depicts a lamprey in a tribalistci artsyle in green coloring. It's full potential has yet to be determined.