Super Science
Ch 46: Attack of the Yakuza. part 2
"Nice place they got here. Too bad we have to wreck it.", one of the Yakuza's Eight Bullets comments as they walk through the now-destroyed front entryway of the research building.
Broken and fragmented pipes of everything under the sun litter the floor as they walk in, their leader taking the front and looking impatient and irritated. Getting inside was a snap after destroying the front way thanks to their boss's quirk. All the defense measures had been busted beyond use and anything left was double-destroyed thanks to Rappa and Hekiji. Nothing was left to surprise them as they casually strolled inside. A small cadre of around two dozen Yakuza grunts was left after the initial attack, alongside the Eight Bullets, the boss, and his right and left-hand men.
But before the Bullet could start destroying anything that was still standing or left untouched, Overhaul firmly and strictly stopped him as he said, "We're not here for vandalism, just the girl and the heads of all who work here. Especially that of Professor Egon and Doctor Izuku."
"Yes sir.", all the Yakuza said together.
One of the more peppery members of the Eight Bullets got fired up and exclaimed, "No one mouths off to the Yakuza! Let's get 'em!"
"Wait.", Overhaul stopped him before he rushed in. Looking around a bit he pointed to the first dozen underlings and told them, "You all go ahead first."
The underlings gulped nervously and nodded as they all took up arms and began to carefully walk through the main foyer. Things seemed to be going well so far, nothing suspicious until they came upon the main fish tank at the center of the room that somehow managed to get broken open by the attack. Inside the tank were many different fish that had been experimented on at the facility, mostly for profit. Fish are deemed safe for the public to have on account of them being nearly harmless and pretty to look at. Inside with all the strange fish in the surprisingly large tank were dozens of rather large blue starfish with a single yellow eye staring off into nothing.
One of the underlings looked into the tank, saw the starfish, and commented, "Yeesh! Those are some ugly-looking starfish! What the hell are they doing here!?"
Another grunt joined him to stare at the strange creatures, only for one of them to move its single eye in their direction.
The first grunt asked, "Wait, is it…looking at us?"
Before they could think about it, the second grunt felt something wet hit his head, and looking up he saw that one of the starfish had climbed its way up the side of the tank and was looking down at him! He gasped and before he could do anything else, it jumped down and latched onto his face!
"Ah! Get it off! Get it off! Ah!", he screamed as he tried to rip the creature off of him.
As this was happening, one of the other grunts looked to the top of the tank and saw a huge number of them crawling out and yelled, "Look out! Here comes more!"
As he said this, all the ones left in the tank quickly swam to the top and jumped from the water and other the side where they began to fly all over the place and latched onto each and every one of the nearby grunts! After they were all caught, they flew toward the other Yakuza members where Hekiji put up a forcefield around them. All except Rappa who moved away from the protection and ran toward the horde of flying invertebrates!
"I'm gonna fight the starfishes!", he yelled while preparing his punches.
"Rappa no!", one of the Bullets called out.
Overhaul stopped him and said, "Let him go. It seems they do not affect him."
"Or they need a sizable and uncovered face to latch onto.", Hekiji observed as he watched how no matter what they did, the starfish couldn't latch onto his face, and the huge man was punching away swarm after swarm of them till there were none left, apart from his body, where he pulled them off and threw them to the ground.
"That's the last of them.", he called back as the ground was littered with the dead creatures and the seemingly dead bodies of the grunts that had gotten a starfish latched onto their face.
One of the Bullets walked to one of the downed men and asked while poking him with his foot, "Are they…dead?"
The question was answered as the single eye looked at the man and grabbed his ankle while screaming, "You will die! Filthy low lives!", The Bullet screams and kicks him off as he backs away, watching as all the other people rise back up with their emotionless starfish covered faces as they all zombie walk to the gangsters and say in unison, "Staro will protect his home. Staro will protect his family. You will die!"
"Mind control starfish. Interesting.", Overhaul said in amusement.
The dozen mind-controlled people began to match towards the villains, trying to swarm them. That's when Rappa jumped in again and exclaimed, "Don't worry, I'll just rip 'em off and they'll be back to normal.", With that he grabbed the closest one, took hold of the starfish and in one swift motion ripped it off alongside the person's face! Both falling lip and dead in the huge man's hands as he muttered, "That didn't work."
"Then I guess they're lost to us."Overhaul sighed, irritated at losing more people.
The ensuing battle didn't take long due to their slow speed, unused of their hosts' quirks, and tactics that involved surrounding them. The only thing working in the favor of the mind-controlled grunts was the fact that they didn't experience pain and can still move even after many broken bones or missing limbs. Within minutes a dozen grunts were dead on the floor with all the other mind control starfish.
Chronostasis looked down at their fallen people, then at the remains of them, looked to his boss, and offered, "Sir I don't think we should go onwards with the invasion and extraction. We're the only ones left and we still don't know what traps and other things are like in here."
Overhaul snapped his head to him, causing the man to Juno, as Overhaul affirmed, "We get the girl. That is the top priority. We need her!"
Chronostasis bit his tongue and replied, "Yes sir."
"Fan out and find her! Kill anyone or anything that gets in your way.", Overhaul ordered.
But before they could do that, one of the Bullets pointed down the hallway and asked, "Like the horde of robots coming this way."
As stated, a massive hoard of more advanced robots with top-of-the-line weapons came down from the dark hallway in several lines of dozens of single units!
The one in front, the leader, commands, "Surrender and you will not be harmed."
Overhaul groans and says while taking off his glove as the robots surround them with weapons drawn, "How annoying."
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