ILL (Guest): Ill:So... Anime-like..!
Well, Gokiburi's family screams 'Terraformars!', at least to me.
So if Aizawa said that Gokiburi's Quirk is a perfect blend of his parents, what sub-Quirk did hhis mother's Quirk conceived him?
Will he be able to regenerate from crippling wounds? And survive from disasters that most living creature usually perish? Like a Cockroach...
Imagine a gaping wound in his torso that looks absolutely disastrous, but he is still alive!
Thanks for the chapter
NeoNazo356: Oki said that Genki takes after his father "under the hood", so his Base Stats will at least be comparable to his father's when he's fully grown, but he "takes after his mother" on the outside so it'll be easier for him to be a Popular Hero. From his mother he received the sub-Quirks [Oilpiration] and [Air Pressure Sensing], while from his father, he has the potential to grow-into the power of a Terraformar. However, because he's led an ordinary civilian lifestyle up until now, his upper limits haven't been "stress tested" like you'd see in Terra Formars, or even in My Hero Academia where more-rigorous forms of Quirk Reinforcement occur.
Also, most of Genki's character inspiration comes from Arachnid and Caterpillar, but his influences from Terra Formars are largely secondary. I do intend to read through Terra Formars because the anime is so badly-censored its borderline unwatchable.
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The semifinal round drawing to a close, the excitement in the air was almost palpable.
On one side you had the son of the No.2 Hero, a boy whose [Subzero] Quirk could be considered "real-life OP", his OP status even further cemented by the fact that he possessed his father's [Hellflame] Quirk too. On the other, a General Course student whose anonymity swiftly turned to explosive fame as he clawed his way to the top of the Sports Festival, one event after the other, mowing down all obstacles in his path.
His recent victory over the student who'd earned the highest score at the Yuuei Entrance Exam propelled him even further, quite a few Pro Heroes contemplating taking him on as an apprentice if Yuuei was foolish enough not to let him into the Hero Course even after all he'd done.
Of course, since a fight between two elite students who'd exhausted themselves in their previous bouts wouldn't be any fun to watch, the two students were given a half-hour reprieve to fully rest themselves; pending more rest being required so a satisfying match could be held.
The Yuuei Sports Festival nearing its conclusion, at least for the first-years, those in the second year wondered how they'd be able to top this, since being upstaged by their juniors could seriously damage their brand.
*MHA*
"So… When you guys woke up this morning, did any of you think you'd get your butts kicked this badly?" Kirishima asked.
"No. I think I can safely say none of us saw this coming," Shoji said looking up at the tournament bracket, tracing the highlighted lines all the way from the preliminary to the final round.
"Still, though, I've been doing some research during the intermission, and I think I can understand why Gokiburi was able to elude defeat so many times," Momo said looking at her phone. "Cockroaches can squeeze through a crevice as small as quarter of their body height in less than a second. Cockroaches can run at top speeds of up to fifty body lengths per second, equivalent to a human running two-hundred miles an hour, and only the tightest spaces can slow them down. Cockroaches can withstand forces more than nine-hundred times their body weight without sustaining injury," she read aloud as the video played. "To think a Mutant-Type Quirk could allow for so many adaptations and defense mechanisms built into a single body."
"I could take him," Tsuyu hummed.
"Yeah, you'd say that," Mineta huffed flatly.
"That's racist."
"How is that racist?!"
"Still… Fifty body lengths per second… No wonder he's so fast!" Ochako said with wide eyes.
"Indeed. It is no wonder his kin could evade the Red Blade of Judgement," Tokoyami hummed, thinking about how-difficult it was to actually hit a cockroach… with a rolled-up newspaper.
"Okay, now that was racist," Mineta interjected.
"I'm speaking metaphorically."
"Yeah, but you just don't say that sort of thing to another Mutant," Tsuyu huffed. "That's like me asking if you're going to go to the park and give bird seed to your cousins."
"Actually, with the propagation of Mutant-Type Quirks into the general populous, the line between human and animal has grown blurry in recent years…" Izuku said, going off into his own little world about how the definition of "human" fundamentally changed as more and more Quirks showed Mutant-Type tendencies, particularly those of the animal archetype.
"But still, he's going up against Todoroki next, and his ice Quirk is as OP as it gets," Mineta grumbled. "I don't think anything Genki has can top that."
"Yeah, if Gokiburi wants to pull one last win out of his ass, he'd better stand up," Kaminari hummed.
"So vulgar," Momo cringed while Ochako chuckled.
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"At last we've arrived! The best of the best among Yuuei's first-years will be decided!" Present Mic announced, getting everyone pumped up for the final fight. "Representing the Hero Course we have Todoroki Shoto! Representing the General Course we have Gokiburi Genki!"
"Yuuei Sports Festival Battle Tournament final round! START!" Midnight proclaimed, the enthusiastic *CRACK* of her whip resounding through the tournament air even louder than before.
Unlike all the previous fights that came before it however, there was no explosive burst of action or a titanic showing of the elements; only a tense stillness as the two fighters regarded one another. One, the son of the No.2 Hero, the other, a complete unknown that'd trampled all his way. Both had clawed up the hill vying to be king, and now they were meeting for the final showdown.
'Alright... How do I approach this?' Todoroki thought to himself, keeping his cool and observing the fact that his opponent hadn't yet made a move either.
While he could've used his ice, the issue lied in the fact that Genki's Goki Oil Flow, due to the impurities in his secretions, possessed "anti-freezing" properties. Also, after what happened in Mina's match, the idea wormed its way into his head that even if he wanted to use his [Hellflame] Quirk, if Genki's oil acted as an insulator for his body, but not for his clothes, he might be written off as some kind of pervert for stripping an opponent of their clothes.
Hypothetically, of course.
Genki on the other hand had similar thoughts ruminating inside his head. While his [Oilpiration] would definitely protect him from the cold, if he lost his leverage and was immobilized, his "anti-icing" countermeasures would be meaningless. And even if [Subzero] weren't a factor, Endeavor's [Hellflame] most-certainly was, and if it wasn't bad-enough that bugs in general weren't good with heat, smoke was even worse; especially for him.
As such, the two were left at an impasse, neither willing to make the first move until an opening presented itself.
"Todoroki… In your previous round… you didn't use your left side…" Genki muttered aloud, causing the two-toned teen's shoulders to hitch. "But… in your fight before then, Midoriya coaxed it out of you, despite whatever issues you had with your father's [Hellflame] Quirk…"
"What's your point?" Shoto bit out. Honestly, between the revelation he was still grappling with, and the words Izuku had spoken to him that shook him to his very core, all he was doing now was going through the motions.
"My point is… Midoriya helped me realize something too…" he said as he began stepping back slowly, the exact opposite of what was expected of him. "If I want to become a great Hero… heck, if I even want to make it into the Hero Course… I can't afford to hold anything back, I have to give this tournament everything I have!"
'I'm being polite. I am being very polite right now,' Todoroki mused as his opponent stopped a meter from the out-of-bounds line.
"And if I can't even do that much… I don't deserve to be a Hero!" Genki yelled passionately. "I don't care if you're the son of the number-two Hero! To me, you're just another obstacle, so you only get one warning…!" he said as he slowly raised his right hand to his face. "TRY NOT TO DIE!"
Those cryptic words spoken, to everyone's shock, Genki then bit down into the meat of his thumb, drawing blood before biting deeper and spattering his face bright red.
What came next would shock them to their very cores.
Cue My Hero Academia OST – A Huge One Appears
Angry crimson veins spreading across his body, an angry hissing noise sounded as steam began to rise out of his spiracles. The teen drawing in on himself with a pained expression on his face, jaw clenched with teeth-cracking force, his torso suddenly tripled in size ripping his shirt to shreds. The staccato sound of bones breaking, realigning, and breaking again spreading into the air as spectator's hands went to their mouths, Genki's limbs bent and contorted at unnatural angles as they too experienced a similar surge of monstrous growth.
'This pressure… I've felt it before…' Todoroki shuddered, skin crawling as his opponent's lean runners build metamorphosed into a bulky brawler's V-shape, oily chitinous armor beginning to spread across his form.
Nearly the entirety of Genki's body now clad in shiny armored plates, Todoroki couldn't help but think back to the monstrous, borderline inhuman vibe given off by the Noumu during the USJ Incident.
"Midnight… Cementoss…" Genki called out, his voice deepening mid-sentence as armored plates formed over his head, closed eyes snapping open revealing angular compound eyes as mandibles formed around his lips. "I can only keep this up for thirty seconds… After that… the two of you need to hit me with everything you've got."
Before the teachers could inquire further, Genki turned his attention toward his opponent.
"Todoroki… Before I lose myself to this power… I will defeat you!" Genki roared passionately as his head snapped toward him.
Cue My Hero Academia OST – Offense and Defense of a Threat
Genki's black compound eyes suddenly flashing to green like the awakening of a mecha in its titular genre, the concrete at his feet suddenly exploded as he erupted into movement, the noise of his monstrous footfalls snapping Todoroki out of his shock. The two-toned teen putting his best foot forward, the startings of his signature Giant Ice Wall spilled out of the ground in front of him, the age-old duel between the unstoppable force and the immovable object playing out once more.
"To quote something a great man once said; Carolinaaaaa SMAAAAASH!" Genki roared as he performed a cross chop in front of him, splitting the infant glacier in two before it could fully mature.
'This isn't just muscular cross-section at work. His exoskeleton must be augmenting his strength even further, like a rhinoceros beetle!' Todoroki realized as Genki rushed forward unabated.
His skin erupting into gooseflesh as the oily, armored hide of his opponent bore down on him with the force of a runaway freight train, thundering footsteps rolling over him like an avalanche, instead of the passionate soul-saving words of an aspirant hero, what drew out his flames instead was a primal fear as his opponent's muscles shifted like tectonic plates, monstrous power lying just beneath the surface.
The air dyed bright orange as a mantle of flame once again bloomed across the left side of his body, the nearby torches guttering out as he sucked away the nearby oxygen, Todoroki raised an adrenaline fueled hand, willing the massive plume of fire to roll across the stage like a tidal wave.
"Detroiiiiit SMAAAAASH!" Genki roared as he threw a downward punch.
While nowhere near the power of the real McCoy, as concrete exploded beneath an armored fist, the updraft that was summoned was still enough to rip Todoroki's flame from the stage and into the heavens.
Heterochromatic eyes going wide at the monstrous display of power, Genki's bullet-shaped head snapping up at him, Todoroki was close-enough to him to realize that his opponent's green ommatidia were slowly bleeding to a baleful red from the edge in, the hairs on his neck standing up as the green optical panes disappeared one by one.
Genki rushing at him once again, Todoroki threw up an ice wall between them only for Genki to punch a hole through it like Bakugou to Tsuburaba Kosei's [Solid Air].
A massive hand clamping around his leg with the force of an industrial vise, Todoroki was hauled off his remaining foot and into the air, his opponent's cry of- "Oklahomaaaaa SMAAAAASH!" –sounding through the air as he was suddenly spun about, the teen on the verge of blacking out before the hold on his ankle was suddenly released, the teen screaming towards the concrete wall out-of-bounds at literal breakneck speed.
Before Todoroki could hit said wall and paint it a very disgusting color, a blur of yellow suddenly swooped in.
"Don't worry, my lad. I've got you," All Might said with a winning smile as he set Todoroki onto his feet, the crowd erupting into cheers at the number-one Hero's impeccable rescue.
That cheer however was suddenly cut off as Genki threw his head back, a mix between a roar and a hiss spilling out from between plate and mandible as his body trembled, the last of his green ommatidia giving way to baleful red, glowing ominously like blood in the moonlight.
End OST
"I think it's time we stopped this before someone gets seriously hurt," Aizawa said as he rose from his seat.
Eyes of black snapping to baleful red, the man's hair standing on end, Aizawa's Erasure Wave sliced through the air, washing over the transformed teen all the way down on the tournament stage. The transformed teen's crimson ommatidia flickering to an inert black, Genki's guttural roar/hiss died on his lips, silence reigning as he became as still as a statue.
"Is… Is it over?" Midnight asked off-mic, only for inert black to once again snap to baleful red with an ominous humm, the monstrous Mutant suddenly thundering towards her. "Oh crap!"
"WHOA THERE!" All Might said as he swooped in between the two, the number-one Hero's hand catching Genki's thrown punch before intercepting a second. "The match is over young man. You can clam down now."
*HIIIISSSSSSSSS*
"Nnngh! When Genki said he was going to 'lose himself' to this power, I thought that was just him being a Chuuni…" All Might said through grit teeth as the red-eyed bug-tank pushed against him. While nowhere near his full power by any stretch of the imagination, the transformed Mutant's strength was still nothing to snuff at. "While I can do this all day, I don't really want to, sooo…?"
Cementoss and Midnight catching on, the two immediately swung into action.
Cementoss launching himself onto the stage, the blocky man palmed the ground causing it to undulate, the transformed teen sinking swiftly into the liquefied composite material under his own weight like quicksand. The feral teen flailing as he sunk up to his elbows, as All Might swung around and held his arms at his sides from behind, Genki was left completely exposed to Midnight's finishing move… A flying body splash where she nestled his head betwixt her bosom, the emissions from her [Somnambulist] smothering him while All Might leapt away. Genki's wild flailing weakening, after a few seconds his baleful red compound eyes flickered from red to green, before shifting to a completely inert black.
The entire takedown took only a few moments. The fact that no-one was significantly harmed was credit to their swift response and combined experience as Pro Heroes, and the ample warning that Genki gave beforehand.
"Well… That was unexpected," Present Mic announced dumbly.
"No. Really?" Aizawa asked sarcastically. "I was expecting exactly this to happen."
But of course, no-one did. Many expected Genki to either blitz Todoroki at full speed, or for Todoroki to freeze his opponent solid. No-one ever could've expected him going full-on Rage Mode, putting on a few feet and several hundred pounds, and punching through solid ice or blowing away fire while screaming out some of All Might's signature attacks.
Least of all, no-one expected three Pro Heroes to get involved, where previously only one had to intervene in a match.
"But still, who knew Gokiburi had a full-on berserker mode?" Present Mic asked aloud, doing what he could to run damage control since loaded words like "berserker" would make his loss of control seem like less his fault, thus preserving his marketability for the Hero Agencies.
"It's to be expected that something like this would happen when he went all-out. Being stuck in the General Course didn't leave him much avenue to learn how to control this part of himself, and there aren't many places in a civilian setting this ability could be safely trained either," Aizawa hummed, catching on to what Present Mic was doing and running damage control as well. "That he had the presence of mind to throw Todoroki out of the ring before he lost complete control of himself and that he had the foresight to warn us about it beforehand, short-notice that it was, speaks a great deal about his character. He obviously expected that, anything less than his very best, wouldn't be enough to let him fight the son of the number-two Hero on equal footing, so this may have been the only option he felt was left open to him. Especially since he isn't part of the Hero Course yet. Even making it to the semifinal round isn't any sort of guarantee for promotion."
"But if he had this kind of stopping power under his belt the entire time, why couldn't he pass the entrance exam and get into the Hero Course from the start?"
"Like he said before, he could only keep control of himself for thirty seconds. It isn't uncommon for people with Transformation abilities stacked on top of pre-existing Mutant-Type Quirks to lose control of themselves. At least one other student in the Hero Course has a similar, if not the exact same, problem."
"Okay, but… Man, I did not see that coming," Present Mic admitted as the match drew to a close
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"Well now… That was certainly unexpected," All Might admitted once everything calmed down, wafts of steam rising from between seams in chitinous armor. "Who knew this kid from the General Course would rampage in a place like this."
"Oh, Gen-kun isn't a bad boy, he just needs a little TLC," Midnight cooed softly as she stroked the top of his armored head. "The next time you feel like acting out, come see me, I'll be sure to give you a good spanking~" she said giving him a kiss on his armored cheek.
Of course, the tender, motherly moment would be swiftly interrupted as the whole of his head snapped off at the neck, dropping Midnight onto her back leaving her starting into empty, lifeless eyes.
" . . . EYAAAAAAAGH!" the R-Rated Hero screamed as she flung the severed head into the air, juggling it frantically as she was unable hold onto it but just-as-incapable of letting it hit the ground.
"OOOH! MYYY! GOOOOOD!" All Might wailed in English as he stared at the empty space where Genki's head once was, naught but steam spilling out.
It took a few seconds for the audience to realize what happened, but soon they too began to panic, openly screaming things like- "His head fell off!" –or- "Call an ambulance!" –or any other number of completely unhelpful comments such as- "We're all gonna die!"
As mothers covered children's eyes and the squeamish emptied the contents of their stomach, Midnight frantically juggling the empty head through the air, the massive armored torso began to dry up at a rapid pace, crumbling to pieces like rice crackers revealing naught but an empty shell.
While Midnight struggled to regain her composure, All Might and Cementoss peered into the leg-shaped hole the liquefied concrete had been molded into. Groaning tiredly and leaned to one side was a de-transformed Genki, the whole of his attire utterly destroyed sans a small amount of his pants, barely enough to preserve his modesty. Steam rising off his reddened skin, after a few moments his complexion returned to its original color, the last puffs of steam wafting away as strips of auxiliary muscle fiber shriveled away before flaking off.
"Midnight, you can stop freaking out. The kid's just sleeping," All Might called out.
"Albeit, a little malnourished," Cementoss hummed, seeing that Genki looked a bit thinner than before.
"Well, putting on that much muscle had to take a lot of calories," All Might admitted with a chuckle. Even though his "Small Might" form looked like an emaciated skeleton, to even have the energy to use [One for All], he had to eat a great deal of food daily like the body builders of the past, making him a bit of an expert on calorie-intensive transformations.
"So then I didn't take his head off just-now?" Midnight asked.
"No, Midnight. You did not," All Might returned.
"Oh… That's good to know," Midnight sighed as she held the empty shell, only for it to crumble apart in her hands. "Pfah! I think some of it got in my mouth!"
"Phrasing!" All Might chuckled.
*MHA*
As a pair of medic robots carried Genki away, a blanket thrown over him to preserve his modesty, while Cementoss cleared away the battle tournament stage for the award ceremony, Midnight, her composure regained, addressed the audience.
"Since Gokiburi threw Todoroki out-of-bounds before the faculty had to interfere due to issues with his Quirk, it's been decided that Gokiburi's victory is still valid. As such, we have our Sports Festival Winner!"
At this, the crowd erupted into cheers, doubly-so for those that loved a good underdog story.
"After a brief intermission will be the awards ceremony, so don't go anywhere!" Present Mic whooped.
*MHA*
AN:
There is a perfectly valid explanation for why Genki has a "Rage Mode", but that'll come up later. Unlike most OC-centric stories on this site, I'm not going to spill all the beans in one go "for no reason", I'm leaving a bit of mystery to be contemplated over.
Like Aizawa said in-story, those with Mutant-Type Quirks in addition to a Transformation-like ability have a hard time controlling that part of their Quirk. Jurota Shishida is a very good example of this from the 1-A/1-B 4v4 battles, since he gets really big but also very "wild".
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