Super Science
Ch 48: Attack of the Yakuza. part 4
Animal Division
Hekiji was having the worst kind of luck against the Night Feeder. Since his quirk couldn't be used for offense, he had to rely solely on defense. The few offensive options he had couldn't work unless the person stood still, but that wasn't the case here. The Night Feeder was so fast that he couldn't even tell which direction it was coming from in the dark. Its footsteps were so quiet and quick the moment he heard them and turned, it was gone!
However, it was a very good thing that he had the quirk he did have. If not, he definitely would've been dead a long time ago! The claws on this thing were so sharp it was creating gash marks in the metal floors around when it went in for a strike! He heard and felt the attack, turned, and saw nothing.
Fear gripped at his heart more tightly than it did before! In his time with the Yakuza, he had done many things that would make a normal person's heart beat uncontrollably, but he always remained still. He was the best in the business, but not this time. Now he was truly scared for his life with a fear that was so old in his body it had been buried by years of evolution. Now he was scared like a rat being toured with by a cat.
The Night Feeder kept striking at the forcefield time and time again, but nothing made a single scratch. So long as Hekiji kept his concentration his only source of protection would stay up. The Night Feeder changed tactics and stopped its quick attacks. It stood motionless in the dark and waited to put a sense of false security on him. When it saw that it worked, it immediately began to shriek out a horrible and high-pitched scream! The scream was constant and the ear was bleeding! It was so bad that Hekiji couldn't hold his protection up and once it fell, the last thing he saw was the Night Feeder's eyes and claws.
Meanwhile, Rappa was not having an easier time with the Glavenus, but having fun with the fight no less. This was the most excitement he had in a long time! At first, the huge T-Rex-looking creature used its teeth to bite him or its feet to kick or stomp on him. Rappa was surprised to see such a huge animal manage to jump any distance at all! But after taking a few blows from Rappa, blows that did nothing against its natural armor, the monster changed tactics.
After circling Rappa and snorting out ash and embers, it begins to run its tail against the ground several times! It flips the tail into its mouth and uses its specialized teeth and flame breath to superheat it! Once out of its mouth, it holds up its red hot tail and roars into the air! Rappa was enamored by this display, but only for a moment, when the monster began to fling its ret hot tail around like a weapon! For something so big, it was so agile!
Rappa had to dance around its attacks and could barely land any of his own! The ones he did were used to block the red hot tail blade! He groaned in pain and loved every second of it! He hadn't had a fight like this in ages! For once his life was indeed on the line! If only he could have more flights like this.
But he knew he had to beat this thing somehow. He wanted to give the blows back as hard as they were received. Anytime he could, he wasn't able to break past its armor. As he tried to think of something he saw something interesting happen in the darkness that was only lit by the tail. Its glow died down and before he knew it, the tail cooled and hardened into a useless rock.
"Ha! Looks like your weapon is useless now!", He glared while pointing at the creature.
To which it growled, turned around, and slammed him with its blunt tail! Rappa hit the wall hard and nearly went down and out until he saw something through glazed eyes. The Glavenus threw the tail into its mouth and broke up the hardened recess. When it pulled out, its tail was as sharp as it was once more!
Rappa knew his current plan wasn't working. He has to try a new approach. So in his mind, he formulates a new plan and concludes by saying aloud, "I just have to hit you harder!"
The Glavenus roars back in return. The two of them charge at one another and as the Glavenus swings around its tail, Rappa ducks and hits the flare side where the metal meets the flesh! He punched with all his might and broke the monster's tail clean off! Glavenus fell to the ground, kicking and screaming in pain! Rappa takes the opportunity to send a barrage of punches in his body and legs! This seems to do the trick as it fails to get up!
As a last-ditch effort, it fires a ball of flames at the man but he takes the hit and after charging out of the flames he knocks it in the chin and then grabs it, spun it around, and with all his strength threw it at the divider wall! This causes the Glavenus to fall unconscious and leave Rappa as the victor covered in sut, burns, and cuts.
He then turns to the divider wall and begins to pound on it, trying to break it down. The annoyed voice of Cho comes over the speakers in the now-dark room and she yells, "Cut that out you gorilla! I'll just drop the damn walls! Sheesh!"
Meanwhile, behind the observation room, Hatsume was in shambles as he complained, "Ah man! I can't believe he managed to beat the Glavenus! I like it."
Ignoring his complaint, Cho asked him, "How do you think he'll fare against the Night Feeder?"
"Hopefully they both kill one another. But I'm his smart friend who took it on and couldn't beat it. So his chances are looking pretty slim.", Hatsume theorized as Cho dropped the divider wall.
Back in the testing chamber, the wall fell and in the dim darkness, he could just barely make out the shape of his partner. He started to run up to him, excited, and exclaimed, "Hey Hekiji! I just had an epic fight with a T-Rex that breathed fire and had a swordtail! It was…", he then stopped when he noticed something strange about him.
He seemed to be walking funnily, almost like a baby with a full diaper. Stepping back a bit he asked, "Hekiji?", Suddenly something rolled off him and onto Rappa's feet.
He rolled it over with his foot and saw it to be the decapitated head of Hekiji! Getting into a defensive stance he demanded, "You not Hekiji! Who are you!?"
The body parts of his friend fell and a set of sharp claws clicked and dragged against the metal floor until a set of blank eyes stared at him from the darkness and he asked in a more cautious tone, "What are you?"
The Night Feeder showed its glittering white teeth in the darkness and then opened its mouth while charging at him with a roar! Rappa, for the first time in his life, felt genuine unnatural fear and he ran! Thinking quickly he grabbed the downed body of the Glavenus and threw it at the creature! From the sound it made, it worked. But it wouldn't for long so he looked around the dark room for something else to defend himself and remember the broken tail!
Frantically searching around for it in the dark, the Night Feeder broke free from the giant animal's body and sniffed out Rappa. When it spotted him, it ran towards him with killer intent! Just when it was about to pounce, Rappa found the tail and began to wildly whip it around until it got to the floor and caused sparks! The sparks flashed before the monster's eyes and it retreated in fear while making a scary sound!
Rappa noticed this and an idea came to mind. So he kept using the tail to strike up sparks and light up his area, giving him time to see where the Night Feeder was and try to corner it! After this game of cat and mouse had the monster cornered, he stuck to the ground several times, causing a display of sparks in the air that kept the Night Feeder still! From there it placed the tail into the unconscious Glavenus's mouth, kicked its throat which set off a fire, and pulled it out as a red hot blade!
Using the blade like a spear he threw it at the monster he had just barely been able to see and threw! The blade hit and pinned the beast against the wall and it screamed in pain as its whole body went up in flames and burned away like a candle! Seeing the Night Feeder burn out, Rappa shot his fist into the air and cried out in victory!
Back in the observation room, Cho was white-knuckling her chair as she watched the huge man win while Hatsume slammed his fist on the control table as he yelled, "Holy crap he killed it! How are we gonna take him down now!?"
Cho then shot up from her chair, pressed several buttons on the controller, and grabbed a shotgun off the wall while stating, "I'll do it."
"What!?", Hatsume exclaimed back.
She cocked the gun and firmly stated, "I'm gonna go in there and blast his head off."
Hastume got between her and the exit door and told her, "Are you crazy!? He's a gangster!"
Cho pushed him aside, knowing the door was an automatic timer and she hurriedly said, "I'm a soldier! No punk-ass petty criminal is gonna beat me! I've taken on guys like him before!"
"Wait! I have a better plan!", Hatsume offered, trying to think fast, only for the woman to ignore him as she made her way to the testing chamber door. "Ah, nuts! I better go get it before she gets herself killed!", he said to himself while also running out of the room.
After Rappa announced his victory he used the glowing tail once more to light his way through the dark room until he found the smaller camber exit door. He prepared himself to punch the sturdy-looking metal door down and called out, "Knock knock!"
But just before he could hit the door with all his might, the lights went on, nearly blinding him, and the door opened by itself with Cho standing there with the barrel of a shotgun pointed to his face as she yelled, "It's death!"
But Rappa wasn't going to be done in by something like this and quickly jumped out of the way of the gun as it was fired! Still blinded by the light he had to cover his eyes and try to make as many evasive maneuvers as he could to not get shot! He heard the gun go off time and time again as he jumped, dodged, and rolled around until his eyes adjusted again!
During his frantic escape, he heard the scientists yell at him, "Stop squirming so I can blast your head off!"
After a while of wild dodging, Rappa's eyes finally adjusted to the light and he used the opportunity to jump behind the unconscious body of the Glavenus. Once there he peaked around and saw Cho reloading the gun. Taking the chance he once again threw the animal's body in hopes of crushing her. But when he went to see the result, he only saw nothing under the huge creature. He wondered for a moment what had happened to her until he heard the sound of a gun cocking behind him. He slowly turned around and saw the one-eyed woman with the barrel right to the back of his head and looking smug. Unfortunately, when she pulled the trigger, nothing happened. It was jammed.
Losing his momentary fear of life, Rappa pointed at her while laughing, "Ha!"
But the moment didn't last long as the woman held the shotgun by the barrel and used it like a bat as she whacked it across the man's face! She knocked his knees down and knocked him across the face again! This time he arched back and she jumped onto his shoulders, using the leverage to change her grip closer to the gun and smacked him across the face several times until Rappa grabbed and threw her off! After shaking the pain from his legs and face, Rappa reached into his opened mask and felt his face, noting how blood was leaking down from it. He smiled widely and cracked his neck in excitement.
Cho tried to come in with another blunt attack, but Rappa sidestepped and punched her in the side while grabbing the gun from her hands! Cho went flying and when she was on the ground, Rappa crushed the weapon in his hands. Cho got back up to her feet, rolled her shoulders, and took a fighting stance in front of the huge man. Rappa smiled excitedly at this and the two of them engaged!
The whole fight between them was more of a cat-and-mouse style fight. One is bigger, slower, and harder to take damage, but the other is smaller, faster, and able to hit but not hard enough. Rappa, even though he could move much faster, was enjoying his time sparing with the spunky serious one-eyed woman. After a while of this back and forth, Rappa decided to end it, but underestimating Cho was his first mistake. As he tried to hit her with a hard fast punch, she ducked, sidestepped, grabbed his arm, and used the momentum of the attack to fling him over her shoulder! Rappa hit the ground hard and choked back his attack on him one more time, driving her heel into his throat and head several times until she finally decided to shove her heel in his throat!
But before she could pierce him, Rappa grabbed the limb and tossed her away! Rappa got to his knees and breathed heavily, but Cho didn't give him a second as she began to assault his face with a flurry of punches and kicks! This put her right in the range of his attack and proceeded to hit her with a full-power attack! It connected, but instead of flying away and passing out as he expected, she had drug her nail into his arms to keep herself anchored and still conscious. She looked up at him with messy hair and blood trickling down her mouth where she kicked him in the side of the head again! Once he was stunned, she took out a piece of wire and jumped over him while hocking it around his neck, where the man stood up suddenly and began to choke!
Cho pulled against him with all her might and didn't stop even when he tried to pull the wire away from his neck or smash her into a wall!
"Come on, come on! Choke out already!", she groaned in desperation as she fought against his stretch and her fluttering consciousness.
Suddenly the huge man changed tactics as he turned blue and jumped up while landing on his back, flattening the woman and freeing her ability to breathe. Once free he rolled over and took some time to refill his lungs. However, it didn't last very long as he was knocked in the side of the head danced against by the woman's heel, and fell to the floor, seemingly out cold!
Standing over him and breath ragged, Cho wipe the sweat from her face she says, "And…stay down.", Just as she was about to leave the room, the huge man suddenly rose back up from his seemingly unconscious state and she whirled around and took up a fighting stance while exclaiming, "Crap! What's it take to keep you down?!"
Rappa stumbled over to her, fell to his knees and swiftly grabbed her hands he proclaimed, "Marry me!"
Cho froze up and went silent as her brain short-circuited at the question, only managing to babble out, "Wha-?"
Rappa was exhausted and badly injured, but still managed to stay on one knee and talk through his breathless state as he proclaimed with moxy, "I've never been in a fight like that before! No one has ever fought me like that! I'm in love with you! I love you! So marry me!"
Cho's brain finally absorbed everything that was being said to her and came to her senses. She ripped away her hand while exclaiming, "You're crazy!"
"Crazy in love.", Rappa said with a purr.
"And I am coming!", Shouted the voice of Hatsume as he ran in with a large fish tank sitting on a trolley, grabbing the attention of both people.
He then stopped short, allowing the tank to fly off and towards Rappa and he yelled, "Staro, I choose you!"
The Starfish alien burst out from the tank and with a high-pitched screech it latched onto the enormous man's face! He screamed and arrived on the ground as he struggled to pull the alien from his face, but suddenly it stopped just as quickly as it started and he relaxed on the ground. Staro traveled from his face to his body, where he hooked himself around it. From there Rappa opened his eyes and stood up while looking down at the two scientists.
Hatsume came towards him and asked, "Staro? Are you there?", Rappa raised a hand then gave a thumbs up as the single eyes on Staro smiled, causing Hatsume to fall on his butt and sigh, "What a relief."
After calming down from the tension he horsed over to Cho, who was also resting on the ground, and held out his hand while asking, "You okay, slugger?"
"I'll live.", Cho replied with a weak smile, taking his hand and being hoisted to her feet. She kicks off her heels and asks while pointing to Rappa, "So what do we do about him?"
Looking over and seeing Rappa Staro test out his new body, Hatsume thinks for a sec before saying, "I think we should-.", Though he never gets the chance to finish as the entire building is violently shaken hard enough for the two scientists to be knocked down to their knees. After calming themselves down Hatsume asks, "What was that noise?"
Cho shakes out her nerves as Rappa Staro helps them both back to their feet and offers, "Either Hankoyō has been eating beans again or something really big and bad is happening."
Meanwhile back with Izuku and Egon, the two of them were standing in a frozen mixture of both astonishment and terror as they looked up at the new firm that Overhaul created with his quirk and the available material around him.
"Egon.", Izuku stared off.
"Yeah?", Egon answered.
"I think we're in way over our heads.", Izuku told him.
"I think so too.", Egon agreed.
"GIVE ME THE GIRRRRRRRRRRRRRL!", Overhaul roared like an animal in his new unhinged and disgusting form.
In his fit of rage, resentment, fear, and sadness, the villain went all out with what could only be considered a last-ditch effort. Using every ounce of his willpower and power in general, he created a whole new body around his own. A hulking misshapen tower horror crafted from the concrete and metal of the building, he was still inside of, alongside the flesh of all of his fallen men!
The anomaly was well over 150 ft tall and looked like something only a crazed god would create to punish humanity! The two scientists were now exposed to the outside as the monstrous man stood above them ready to crush them and their entire facility in a feeble-minded effort to reclaim what he had lost. And so it was that the true battle began for life or death.
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