=VI=
[Unforeseen Simulation Joint, April 13th, 2243]
Haylee raised her sword, taking up a defensive stance in front of her classmates. Sato had already dragged Thirteen out of the way. Although the Space Hero's back was covered in torn flesh, she could still see the faint movement of breathing.
She was still alive.
"Everyone stay behind me!" Haylee commanded, voice modulated from her transformation. The Corpus were visibly shaking at the sight of her but the misty villain, Kurogiri, remained undeterred.
"Interesting. That's quite the impressive quirk." Kurogiri complimented. "I suppose we will have to stall you then."
The Corpus woman built up enough resolve to take a potshot at Haylee, who deflected it, sticking close to her classmates.
"You see that?" Bunker muttered to Fania.
"Yes." She nodded. 'That Tenno isn't attacking us. She's focused on protecting the others. As long as they are under threat she won't come after us. If she does, we can go after them.'
"Kurogiri, don't do anything to the students. We need to keep her pinned." Bunker advised. To test his theory, he loaded a round of buckshot and fired at the ponytailed girl bandaging the armored boy. The Warframe immediately moved to block with Exalted Blade, tanking the rest of the pellets with her shields.
At the same time, Fania fired off a couple shots toward the downed hero, realizing she had failed to finish her off.
'Slash Dash!' Haylee reoriented herself and used Excalibur's ability to switch targets, deflecting the shots. A portal appeared in front of her and she executed a backwards roll on a dime to avoid flying through it.
"Knew it." Bunker allowed himself a slight smile.
'That was close… the Eximus is slowing me down.' Haylee felt the steady drain of Exalted Blade on her energy reserves. 'His bubble is still up. It's been longer than twenty seconds so he should've had to recast it by now….'
※ Det Lia, AKA Bunker was originally promoted into the Corpus Eximus unit program. Eximus abilities, in the case of the Corpus, are derived from reverse-engineered Orokin technology. The Grineer use their own proprietary version, or purchase them from the Corpus as well. The Arctic Eximus module in particular was created using the technology used in the Frost Warframe, allowing it to generate a freezing bubble that can be shot through from the inside, as well as reducing the movement speed of those within fifteen meters of the bubble.
As Det's ability has evolved from technology to a quirk, that time limit has been removed. The only way to bring it down is to overwhelm its defense and shatter it, forcing him to recast.※
"Yaoyorozu, can you make a barrier to protect everyone?" Haylee asked. "The one with the bubble is slowing me down, and I don't know what the woman can do yet."
"Yes, just cover me so I can set it up." Momo nodded.
"Also, a sword, please. I can't keep this energy blade up forever."
"Got it!" Momo pulled a katana out of her stomach and handed it off to Haylee. She unbuckled the back of her hero suit, thankful that Uraraka was there to keep it from exposing too much, and began to produce several multi-layered polycarbonate plates. 'I wish this was my new suit.' She lamented.
"Hold this here." Rikido jammed one of the plates into the ground. "Sero, tape!"
"Got it!" Hanta fired Tape from his elbows, securing the steadily growing barricade. Koda and Sato continued to construct the barricade until the area facing the villains was blocked.
"What a shame you spent all that time and energy preparing that. Truly a waste." Kurogiri began to summon a portal underneath the barricades.
"I won't let you!" Haylee swore. "Everyone get down!"
"RADIAL BLIND!" Haylee cried out.
"Arrrgh!" Kurogiri staggered back. Blinded, he couldn't maintain his concentration on the portals.
Haylee dashed through Bunker's bubble, ignoring the coat of frost that halved her shields upon entry. With the three villains stunned she focused on the one she viewed to be the biggest threat: Kurogiri. Her blade cleaved through his misty form with no resistance.
'What? Where's his body?!'
Bunker recovered first, decking Haylee in the skull with a gloved fist. She'd miscalculated his resistance to debilitating effects as an Eximus. He followed up with two close-range blasts from his shotgun, which she was only able to deflect one of mid-handspring.
"We have to help her!" Ochaco cried out.
"Sato!" Momo produced a large steel ball. "Throw this!"
Tenya, not wanting to be entirely useless with his injured leg, tossed the heavy sphere to his more muscular classmate.
"Cannonball!" Rikido exclaimed, throwing the ball toward Bunker's snowglobe with all his might. Having just downed a packet of sugar, he was able to leave a large crack in the construct.
Bunker jerked back, dodging a slash from a slowed Haylee. As he moved the students noticed the snowglobe wasn't stationary and moved with him at the epicenter. "Fan- Scrambler, a little help!" He yelped.
Scrambler ducked under a swipe from Haylee's backswing and planted a hand upon the Warframe's spine diving out of the way immediately. Immediately, her vision blurred and distorted like a computer monitor being touched by a powerful magnet. "Get her, honey!"
※ Fania Lia's quirk was currently being used alongside the Villain known as Tesla to block any outgoing signals from the USJ. Her quirk, Scramble, also can heavily disrupt people's senses via touch. As she is not a strong fighter physically, Fania has always been hesitant to get in close during fights. ※
"Hya!" Haylee backhanded Fania, breaking her wrist and sending her tumbling to the edge of Bunker's globe.
Kurogiri recovered during the struggle and deployed a portal underneath Haylee's feet. Before she could fall all the way through she instinctively bullet-jumped upward and out of Bunker's Snowglobe, the portal immediately closing around where her waist would've been.
"Drat." Kurogiri snapped. "While I would hate to have your blood staining my Warp Gate, you have proven to be too big a threat to ignore. I cannot allow you to interfere with Shigaraki Tomura's plans." Within the mist, he clasped his hands together and activated a spell. From within his clouds, several bolts of lightning crackled. "Perish."
"Not so fast!" Momo threw a rod of galvanized steel into the ground in front of Haylee which acted as a lightning rod.
"Insolent pests!" Kurogiri's voice rose.
'Yaoyorozu, thank you.' Haylee thought. 'Your quirk really is the coolest.' With her vision restored, she turned back towards Kurogiri. "Radial Javelin!" She slammed her katana into the ground. Several glowing blades slammed into Bunker's quirk and shattered it entirely.
"Kurogiri, get us out of here!" Fania screamed.
Bunker fired several shots toward the Tenno and grabbed his wife by the waist, diving headfirst into the Warp user's portal. Halfway through he felt a sharp pain as Haylee was able to leave a light cut on his thigh before the gate closed.
Haylee glanced around to make sure that they had truly fled. Though satisfied, she remained on guard. Her body shuddered and began to shrink back down as she ran back to her classmates.
"Tenno! You did it!" Hanta cheered.
Haylee knelt down next to Thirteen, giving only a nod to Sero in acknowledgment. "Yaoyorozu, how is she?"
The taller girl looked slightly skinnier than before from overusing her quirk. "She's stable, but there's so much blood! I'm trying my best to stop the bleeding, but…"
Haylee nodded. "Take care of IIda, I'm experienced in first-aid." She pointed to Sero. "Give me some tape, I need to compress her wounds." Looking closer, she contemplated using her Void energy to cauterize the wounds, but she wasn't sure that Thirteen would survive that, and it would impede healing from Recovery Girl's quirk. "They are gone now, so someone should try and get outside and call for hel-"
A large shadow loomed over their heads. In a final act of petty spite, Kurogiri warped in a massive boulder from a pre-marked location across the country which slammed through the doorway like a meteor, blocking the exit entirely.
"Oh, you misty fucking whore!" Haylee swore.
=VI=
[Landslide Zone]
Izuku dodged another slash from Laserfist's cleaver. The Grineer's light powers were proving to be dangerous, burning through stone like it was butter. The tip of his sword had been reduced to molten slag when he tried to block it, though thankfully the weapon was still usable.
"Ah!" Toru shrieked, dodging another glowing beam of light.
One for All would offer Izuku some degree of protection from the Grineer's quirk, but he wasn't exactly eager to find out to what degree it extended. Besides, Toru had no such defense.
"Hero skoom! Het kakk here!" Laserfist growled unintelligibly, neither of the teens understanding his garbled Japanese/Grineer speech.
'This guy is tenacious!' Izuku ducked another laser blast. 'What would Haylee do in this situation? No, bad Izuku. She would do something reckless because she could heal. You don't regenerate you idiot!'
He had to think of something quickly. Toru wasn't as fit as he was, and she was getting tired of running and dodging. Sooner or later she would run out of stamina, and he couldn't fight while carrying her.
"Hagakure, we need to get to Tenno or Eraserhead-sensei!" Izuku shouted. "They can handle this guy!"
"Okay!" She shouted back.
"Come to me, I can get us there faster!" Izuku jumped toward her, only to be cut off by a blast from the Grineer. He had to tuck and roll to dodge, sliding further away. "HAGAKURE! LOOK OUT!" He screamed.
Toru had tripped on a rock, turning around just in time to see the villain standing over her. Time seemed to slow to a crawl as his fist glowed with bright white light aimed at her head.
Oh.
She's going to die.
She's going to die on her fourth day of class.
Toru's life began to flash before her eyes.
"Hi! I'm Hagakure Toru!" A six-year-old Toru greeted her class.
"Woah! Toru's invisible, that's awesome!"
"Hagakure, turn off your invisibility."
"I can't…"
"Oh, crud, we forgot to invite Toru to my party… uhhh… here's the invitation. Sorry…"
"Who would you ask out? Saki is pretty cute. Pretty too. Toru? She's invisible. Plus she's kinda too high energy for me…"
Toru gasped, watching as the hero took down the robbers. He didn't have a flashy quirk, being a chameleon heteromorph, underground by the looks of the costume.
Could she do that?
"I'm so proud of you Toru." Mom hugged her tightly as she showed her the U.A. acceptance letter."
"He probably just saw your blur." Tenno shrugged.
"Oh my god…" Ashido gasped. "Hagakure, you're so pretty!"
"Miss Hagakure, your quirk appears to be stockpiling light. Specifically, when you are invisible any light that hits you is absorbed and turned into power." The government doctor explained. "We aren't sure how exactly you can use it, but we suspect that it has something to do with light refraction, or possibly an emitter quirk."
"So does that mean…"
"You've unintentionally been stockpiling energy all those years you were invisible, yes." He nodded. "For that reason, you have been reclassified as an S-ranked threat pending further evaluation."
Toru's eyes shot open. Her life hadn't been that impressive, but she… she wanted to live. As adrenaline surged through her veins she began to see things differently. Laserfist's hand, enveloped in bright white light, shimmered with all the colors of the light spectrum. Her eyes shimmered, able to see something new for the first time. The sheer desperation of her situation gave way to… clarity.
"Rhue!" Laserfist growled.
In a split second before impact, Toru vanished. It wasn't just her skin that vanished; her clothes vanished as well, shrouded in a shimmering aura far different from the previous times she had been invisible. As the Grineer's quirk hit her, Toru felt the light as it was moved to her stockpile. For the first time, she understood the true essence of her quirk.
"I get it now." Toru reappeared with a slightly crazed smile. The highlights of her hair were now shimmering with the colors of the rainbow. She held a faint glow that left slight afterimages as she raised her hand. She wasn't afraid anymore.
As Toru rose into the air, Laserfist took a wary step back, confused as to why his quirk didn't kill the girl. A dazzlingly bright flash of light enveloped him, illuminating the whole landslide zone and forcing anyone looking at the area to avert their eyes. Toru unleashed her quirk's potential for the first time.
Hagakure Toru's true quirk, Prismatic Battery, had been awoken.
=VI=
"Holy shit…" Yoichi's jaw dropped.
"I haven't seen strength like that since the Dawn of Quirks," Bruce noted. "I'm glad she's on Ninth's side."
=VI=
Izuku uncovered his eyes and gaped. The Grineer lay unconscious several meters away from Hagakure, his armor steaming from the burst.
"Midoriya… I'm okay!" Toru stared at her hands in disbelief, adrenaline beginning to fade. She was levitating in midair, surrounded by a glowing field of chromatic energy. Her eyelids began to flutter and she collapsed, Izuku reacting just in time to catch her. "So tired…" She yawned. "I need to… sleep now…" With that, she passed out. Having never used Prismatic Battery in its active state before, her untrained body could not bear the strain of continuous use.
"Hagakure…you're incredible!" He whispered. He needed to get her out of here before more villains showed up. The straightest path would most likely be skirting around the main plaza rather than cutting through the Ruin Zone. There were enough trees that he could stay mostly hidden from the villains, and it looked like Aizawa-sensei was holding the villains back for now. The Flood Zone was completely frozen over, and he could see Mr. Karris fighting a Grineer at the water's edge. Over at the entrance a large boulder had blocked the path. 'I'll head to the entrance and clear the boulder. I'm fast enough to outrun any villains on flat ground even while carrying her.'
With a burst of green lightning, Izuku sprinted toward the entrance.
=VI=
[Ruin Zone]
Katsuki knew three things.
1: The sniper somehow was tracking their movements without moving.
2. Whenever they fired they had to use their weird laser sight.
3. The bullets were ricocheting off every surface to get to them.
'It's not homing or else the asshole would've hit us by now. If we stop moving then it will hit. Once the bullet is fired it can't change direction, but how are they finding us?' Katsuki's irritation grew. "Hey, Facemask, are you sure it's only one shooter?"
"That's not my name," Mezo replied.
"Ugh…" Katsuki furrowed his eyebrows, trying to remember the other boy's name "Shoji, are you sure there's only one shooter?"
"Yes, all the other villains in the zone are down. The sniper is the only one remaining." Mezo confirmed. "And they still haven't moved."
The laser appeared again, this time bouncing between Katsuki and Eijiro. Katsuki blasted out of the way and the bullet slammed into the redhead's hardened arm with a loud crack before bouncing off the wall into a nearby alleyway. The bullet bounced off the walls rapidly before embedding itself into a wall finally.
"Agh!" Eijiro rubbed his arm.
"You okay Kirishima?" Mezo asked.
"Fine, guess I know that I can block bullets now." He groaned. "It still hit really damn hard though."
"The damn thing didn't lose any power after it hit you or those walls," Katsuki noted. "It's keeping its speed and inertia even after impact."
"They are trying to kill us with the kinetic damage then." Mezo realized. "And that way, if they angle it right they could get all of us at once in the right scenario. We can't let ourselves get backed into a corner."
=VI=
Ricochet steadied her breathing as she loaded another round. The children were circling around, likely trying to get an angle on her. No matter. Wherever they went she would find them thanks to her quirk.
※ Ricochet's quirk: Projective Reflection! Everything that is perceived as coming from her or a held item can be perfectly deflected off whatever surface it comes into contact with, like a bouncy ball thrown at a wall. Until the quirk is deactivated, the reflected item will retain any speed, inertia, and energy stored within and is unaffected by air resistance. ※
The Grineer sniper looked through her scope.
※ Her senses are also considered as objects she can bounce, though she can only use one at a time. Held items have no such restrictions. ※
She aimed down a street and the world around her vanished as her vision rapidly bounced around the city.
"Target akkruhurer!" She licked her lips and flicked on the laser sight. The beam bounced around the city until she had lined up a perfect shot that would bounce around the narrow alley they were running through.
Ping!
One of Mezo's arm-eyes spotted the laser as it hit the wall next to him, instantly filling the alleyway with bouncing beams like a hallway in one of those old spy movies. The bullet would keep rapidly bouncing once it arrived. "Look out!"
Thinking quickly, he produced several arms with his quirk and stuck one of the generated hands in front of the bullet's path right as he heard the crack of the rifle. Not two seconds later he felt a sharp pain in his hand as the round shattered the bone in his palm and bounced off into the sky.
"Shoji!" Eijiro cried out.
"I'm fine!" Mezo said through gritted teeth. "As long as it isn't my original arm I can heal it." The hand shrunk back into his shoulder as they continued running. "We need to split up. Sticking together is only making us a bigger target. Bakugo, you can reach the sniper the fastest. You take point and we'll cover you."
Katsuki glared at the masked boy for telling him what to do, but at least he knew that Katsuki was the best in this situation. "Alright, you two extras draw their fire and I'll blast that bastard to hell!"
"Got it!" Eijiro nodded, hardening his body to the max.
The three split off in different directions toward the target skyscraper. It was the worst nightmare of any sniper, multiple high-speed targets closing in on their position in a cluttered urban environment.
Unfortunately, Richocet was not a normal sniper. She was Grineer, ready to fight and kill from the moment she was finished growing in her tube. Instead of panicking she locked on to one boy, slam firing her rifle multiple to send a flurry of bullets toward the redhead, then the masked one. That just left the blonde one with the grenade gauntlets…
'Where did he go?' Her eyes darted around the zone.
A large explosion went off behind her, near the top of the stairwell of the building. Katuski set off another explosion and was sent flying toward her.
"Rahm!" She rolled out of the way, dodging his punch.
"There you are you cowardly bitch." Katsuki snarled.
While Richocet's quirk was powerful, it had one glaring weakness when she used it on one of her senses. More specifically with her eyes, she would become tunnel-visioned and lose track of everything else. Normally, a lack of distractions would be good for a sniper, but in the heat of battle with rapidly approaching enemies knowing when someone was sneaking up on you was key.
But she screwed up, having underestimated just how fast a pissed-off Katsuki was. However, unlike the other villains in the zone, she was still a trained soldier with life-or-death combat experience. In the face of a close-range opponent, she pulled out a sidearm instead and opened fire.
"Nice try fucker!" Katsuki blasted into the air, dodging the first few shots. All the fighting and running had allowed him to build up a stock of sweat to use. "FUCK OFF!" He pulled the pin on his gauntlet mid-air, sending off a massive explosion toward the armored woman.
His excitement was short-lived, as Ricochet leaped out of the smoke missing various chunks of her armor. The top half of her helmet was blown off to reveal a shaved head with glowing orange eyes. "Gutora!" She spat, shooting Katsuki in the knee.
"CUNT!" Katsuki howled in pain as the bullet ricocheted off his leg, leaving a small fracture in its his kneecap. As he turned to blast the villain again, a blinding light from the landslide zone forced him to look away. "What the"
Ricochet aimed her pistol at the hero student's head, knowing that at this range the impact from the reflected round would knock him out or kill him, and fired.
At the same moment, Eijiro, who had scaled the side of the building by turning his fingers into hardened claws, leaped in front of him.
The bullet bounced right off his chest and directly back into Ricochet's forehead, killing her instantly. While her quirk reflected off all surfaces, the only exceptions being fluids… and her own body.
Eijiro stood horrified as the villain toppled to the ground with a thud. "I… I didn't mean to… oh god…"
Katsuki limped over to Eijiro. "Oi, you didn't kill her. Calm the fuck down. The dipshit shot herself." He grunted. "Fucking… I think she broke my leg."
Eijiro continued to stare off into space, shell-shocked.
"Hey," He grabbed the spikey-haired teen by the shoulders and shook him. "Snap out of it, we need to get the hell out of this shithole."
"Y-yeah…" Eijiro blinked, staring down at his hands.
=VI=
[Flood Zone]
Inosuke slid behind the wrecked ship, Mineta in his arms. "Woah!"
Multiple mortar shells slammed into the frozen lake behind him, kicking up fragmented chunks of ice.
"Oh god! We're gonna die!" Minoru shrieked.
"Shut up Mineta!" Inosuke slapped him repeatedly. "Quit panicking!"
"How can I not panic! The villains just killed each other and we're next!" The shorter boy wailed.
Inosuke groaned. This kid reminded him of Zenitsu but in the worst way possible. "You're supposed to be a hero student aren't you, you pissant?"
"I don't want to die before I touch boobs!" He wailed. "I was supposed to get a harem!"
Definitely worse than Zenitsu.
"Listen up Agmariu!" Inosuke declared.
"What?"
"I knew a guy just like you, who looked like he would piss himself at the slightest hint of danger. At the end of the day though, he would get his shit together and step up." Inosuke growled. "So quit being a dumbass and calm down dammit!" He bonked Minoru over the head.
"Ow!"
Inosuke peeked around the hull, wincing as more shells hit nearby. Todoroki was out there, repeatedly creating barriers of ice around the boat, visibly exhausting himself with the repeated attempts. The villain was too far away to strike with his ice.
"Todoroki is out there fighting! We gotta back him up!" Inosuke stood up. "So you can either stay here and hide like a baby or help me out!"
Minoru watched him leave, hesitating briefly but deciding to sprint after him rather than be left by himself.
=VI=
Shoto's summoned forth another wave of ice, intercepting the latest barrage. He was visibly shivering by the time Inosuke and Minoru reached him. "Took you… long enough." The dual-haired teen began to emit steam as he heated himself up.
"You don't look so good," Inosuke noted.
"I can keep going so long as I use my fire side to heat up." Shoto caught his breath. "But my ice can't reach him."
"Then why not use your fire side!" Minoru yelled.
"I can't!" Shoto snapped, left hand visibly trembling.
"Whatever! We need to get to the guy on the beach and take him out, so lets fucking go!" Inosuke pointed his sword toward the other side of the artificial lake. "Todoroki, follow my lead, I'll clear a path for you to freeze this bastard solid!" Inosuke took off across the lake, using his boots to skate."We're so going to die…" Minoru whined in resignation, throwing a ball at the ice and bouncing off it in a burst of speed. "Dangit! Why am I following you!" He cried, tears welling in his eyes as he threw more balls to bounce off.
Inosuke made it only a few dozen meters before a sudden attack forced him to dodge. He enhanced sense of touch warned him of the incoming blow with only about a second to spare. A sharpened claw grazed his overcoat, cutting right through the thick fabric.
"Woah!"
"HEHEHEHEHEHE!" Maniac cackled, unleashing a flurry of swipes at Inosuke. "Die die die die die!" The insane Grineer sang merrily.
Inosuke swung his sword at the man, only for him to vanish and reappear next to Shoto. "New guy, kill!"
Shoto was tackled to the ground but managed to kick Maniac in the chest thanks to his quick reflexes and self-defense training. He slammed his right hand into the ground and created several pillars of ice to launch at the Villain, only for him to disappear midair and reappear on one of the pillars, crawling down like a demented human spider.
"He's a teleporter!" Shoto shouted a warning.
※ Maniac's quirk is a short-range teleport called Blink. ※
The Grineer Manic giggled, immediately blinking from pillar to pillar as he approached the trio. Suddenly, he came grinding to a halt. "Barrage, why no boom!" He screeched.
The bombardment had fallen silent.
"No! Where explosions!" He hollered, craning his head toward the beach. The sound of several explosions rang out, but not aimed at the students.
=VI=
[Plaza, Near Shoreline]
{Minutes Ago}"Get out of my way!" Ordan barked at Buzzsaw.
"No can do, hero!" The Grineer smirked. "Killing you, easy."
"Why do you damn Grineer keep making these dumbass choices?" Ordan growled. "You aren't under the Queen's control anymore!"
The clone halted, somewhat surprised. "You… you're from the Origin System, aren't you?"
"Yeah," Ordan created a small sword in his right hand. "Which means I know just how dangerous you Grineer are." He leveled the blade at the Evicerator. "Now get the hell out of my way before I -cut a bloody path- have to kill you."
"Heh!" Two miter blades emerged from Buzzsaw's hands, rotating at incredible speeds. "You can try. As for your… question. Me, I…" He smacked his lips, clearly trying to find the right word in Japanese. "Grineer are strong, together. Brothers and sisters. No need for Queens."
"And yet you still follow someone who decided to attack children. You could've done something else with your life besides killing." Ordan's said, voice rife with disappointment.
"We are Grineer. We fight good, we kill good." He grinned, showing off his crooked teeth. "Just like… I kill you." With that, he launched both saw blades at Ordan. The first was easily dodged, but the second embedded itself into his right bicep. The only reason it didn't slice through his arm was Ordan's incredibly dense musculature and the bone formation that he created at the moment of impact, creating a seal that kept the blade in while also reducing blood loss.
"Grh!" Ordan winced, fighting through the pain. His arm was still movable with minimal damage. He crossed the distance between them in seconds, trying to slice the Grineer's arm off. Buzzsaw countered with a massive one-meter-wide sawblade.
"Two can play at that game!" Ordan held out his uninjured arm. 'Bone Arsenal: Miter sawblade!'
Mimicking Buzzsaw, he shot the blade into the Villain's throat. The villain avoided a lethal blow by sacrificing his left hand to the brunt of the attack, cleaving the limb in half. He then surprised Ordan by using the split halves of his forearm like a flail while simultaneously making new sawblades with both halves of what remained, landing a whip-like gash upon Ordan's chest. The injury was only skin deep but still hurt like hell. He used his quirk to fill the cuts with bone to stem the bleeding again.
'I can block his blades but they are metal. I can't break them.' Ordan acknowledged. He glanced at Buzzsaw, who was clutching the split ends of his bisected arm. "Leave now, run back to where you came from and I'll let you live. I'll forget you were here if you do that."
"Not…" Buzzsaw grimaced a feral look on his face. "A chance! I'll crush you! I know that you've killed some of my brothers here today, MAGGOT!" There it was, a striking resemblance to Vay Hek.
"So be it." Ordan sighed. 'Bone Arsenal: Nikana!' A stark white Tenno-styled katana emerged from his palm. He couldn't afford mercy as a hero against a Grineer with the kids' lives on the line. He'd already slew several Grineer today, what was one more?
Buzzsaw didn't get the chance to react, by the time he realized what had happened Ordan was behind him with a bloodstained blade. Ordan stumbled briefly, having fractured his legs in several spots by ignoring the human body's limits to push his speed to the maximum. It was something he could only afford to do by repairing his bones with Calcification. The same couldn't be said for his muscles, which were slightly torn and incredibly sore.
Buzzsaw tried to turn, only for the upper half of his body to slide off. He'd been cut in half by a horizontal slash from hip to shoulder. He landed on his back, facing Ordan's rear while his legs took two steps ahead before realizing there was no longer a brain controlling them and flopping down crotch first onto the pavement.
Ordan staggered forward, trying to regain his stamina to push forward.
Shicnk!Shicnk! Shicnk!Buzzsaw used his last few moments of life, only kept alive by the incredible durability of Grineer genetics buying him enough time to fire off three more saws into Ordan's back and his uninjured arm. He promptly vomited a solid cup of blood before expiring, having made Ordan's life just a smidge harder in a final act of spite.
"Dammit!" Ordan wheezed. Nothing lethal, thanks to how strong his body was, but the wounds just kept piling up. He needed to finish off the Mortar quirk user before he could kill Todoroki and whoever else ended up in the Flood Zone. Plus, Aizawa was still alone in the central plaza. He trusted the other pro could hold his own for the time being, but there was still the villain boss and that big guy.
He didn't have time to waste in a drawn-out battle. Fuck mercy, that bombard Grineer was dead. The death of another Grineer over the survival of his charges won over the moral scales in his head.
But of course, Barrage took that moment to check his six, spotting the blood-splattered form of Ordan mere meters away. "Sneaky hero!" He took a shot of some sort of fluid, then dropped to his hands and knees, pointing his pulsating back organ at Ordan.
"Fuck." Ordan swore.
THWOOM TWHOOM TWHOOM TWHOOM!Four mortar shots were fired off at closer range. Three of them went wide, but one hit right were Ordan was standing.
"Trugir hero." Barrage scoffed. At that range, there was no way the hero escaped unscathed. But to his surprise, a wall of cracked bone was all he saw when the dust cleared. A second later, a bone Sheev embedded itself in his throat, sending him staggering back, gargling on his blood.
Whether intentional or not, Ordan had just disabled Barrage from creating more shells by blocking his throat. Still, the villain refused to let that stop him in a classic display of Grineer tenacity, pulled out a combat knife, and charged Ordan with a strangled howl.
'Fuck!' Ordan barely dodged the first swipe. This Grineer was a Bombard unit, far bulkier and more muscular than the others. Even with a combat knife, he could probably lop off one of Ordan's limbs with sheer force alone. Out of the corner of his eye he spotted Hashibira and Todoroki engaged in combat with another Grineer, a Manic by the looks of him. He guessed that Mineta was also there judging by the purple balls strewn out amongst the ice.
He hardened some bones around his fists, turning them into spiked gauntlets and exploited Barrage's bulky armor which gave him less range of motion. While Barrage had more power, Ordan had speed, injured as he was.
This wasn't Natah. His opponent wouldn't hold back for the sake of training.
This wasn't like the HPSC heroes or Aizawa, testing his skills.
Life or death, only the most ruthless and vicious fighter would survive. The battlefield was the place where Ordan Karris thrived… one that he never wanted to return to.
But it was either this Grineer, who would never back down, or the kids.
The choice was obvious.
=VI=
Minoru scurried around on the ice, desperately trying to stay as far away from Todoroki, Hashibira, and the villain as possible. With tears gushing from his eyes, he hid behind an ice wall.
'This is only the fourth day of classes and we're already fighting villains!' He hyperventilated, glancing around to make sure he wasn't followed by that psychotic armored villain. It wasn't supposed to be like this, he was supposed to be a cool hero and get all the chicks! Instead, he was running for his damn life trying not to get killed by villains!
He continued to cower behind the corner, watching as Inosuke and Shoto fought Maniac. The armored villain kept blinking past the heterochromatic teen's ice whenever he launched it. Inosuke stuck close to him, intercepting Maniac's claw swipes with his blades
Minoru gulped and was suddenly forced to avert his gaze from zone all the way across the USJ due to a burst of blinding light. He had no idea what it was, but he sure hoped it wasn't a super-strong villain.
He peeked out again, watching as Inosuke shrugged off a scratch across his hip from Maniac, the Grineer teleporting just close enough to land a blow faster than the boar-masked teen could react.
Inosuke was tall, muscular, and a skilled fighter. Everything that Minoru wasn't. He probably got lots of attention from the ladies. But even so, the older boy had saved Minoru without a second thought and tried (in his roundabout way which involved slapping Minoru a bunch) to calm him down.
What kind of hero would he be, hiding away while his classmates were in danger? Women didn't like cowardly guys, especially not cowardly heroes. He had to do something to help out and not hide, crying like a baby. As scared as he was, Minoru knew he had to live up to his quirk's name and Pop Off.
"Dammit!" Inosuke blocked another flurry of slashes from the villain. "You're stupid teleporting is starting to really piss me off!" Out of the corner of his eye, he could see that Todoroki's breathing was getting slower and his attacks less accurate. Inosuke could keep fighting for a while, but the other boy was going to pass out from quirk exhaustion or hypothermia soon. 'This guy is friggin annoying! He moves out of range before I can strike, and if he gets a good angle I won't have time to react.' His hip still stung from the wound Maniac had given him, but Total Concentration Breathing was helping to clot the wound.
"Cut little piggy!" The Grineer cackled, blinking behind Inosuke yet again. He tried to lunge at the boy's vulnerable back but found that his foot was stuck to something. "Heh?"
"Hashibira!" Minoru called out, balls in hand. "He's stuck!" With renewed confidence, he nailed the Grineer with several more Pop Off balls.
'He really did come through. Honestly, I thought he ran off for good.' Inosuke grinned under his mask. "Alright you bastard, time to get some!"
"NO!" Maniac screeched. His back arched to dodge Inosuke's swords and snapped back toward Minoru like a man possessed. "Sticky boy die now!"
Even behind the Grineer's mask, Minoru could sense the sheer hatred the man felt. He blinked toward Minoru to try and grab him. When he teleported, the Pop Off balls went with him. Maniac tried to lunge at Minoru but fell flat on his face, now stuck to the ground thanks to another ball on his chest.
"Eat my sticky balls!" Minoru began to pelt him with his quirk until his scalp started to bleed. Soon, Maniac resembled a large cluster of grapes stuck to the ice. As much as he squirmed he couldn't escape.
"No! No! Not possible!" Maniac raged. "Small sticky boy, bad!" He continued to wriggle in place, screeching incomprehensibly.
"Good work Mineta." Shoto panted.
"You stepped up when it mattered." Inosuke nodded. At least the shorter boy shared some of Zenitsu's better traits (and didn't fall asleep half the time).
Minoru glanced at Todoroki. "You don't look so good, we should probably find some of the others."
Shoto shivered. As much as he hated to admit it, Mineta was right. "I agree." He was probably going to pass out if he used his quirk anymore.
The three began to sprint toward the shore. Behind them, Maniac stared at them, orange eyes filled with raw hatred. In a moment of desperation, he focused on Teleporting out of his armor, leaving only his bodysuit and claws. With several quick blinks, he was right behind the purple boy.
"Mineta, look out!"
SHINK!Maniac looked down and realized that there was a serrated katana protruding from his heart. "Owie." He coughed up blood, falling to his knees.
"Y-you killed him…." Minoru gasped.
Inosuke stared at the villain's body, slowly pulling his blade out of his chest. The Grineer slowly toppled onto his side as blood began to stain the ice. He'd killed more demons than he could count, but those were twisted monsters that ate people.
He'd never killed another human before.
Now wasn't the time to unpack all of that though. They needed to get to safety.
=VI=
Despite Barrage being down an arm and having a dagger speared through his gullet, the Grineer continued to relentlessly slash away at Ordan with reckless abandon. He showed no sign of slowing down anytime soon and his bulky armor made it difficult to land any meaningful hits. Even with Ordan's enhanced strength, all he managed to do was dent the plates with his fists.
Barrage swiped at Ordan again, this time with his bifurcated arm, using the useless appendage like a whip and splattering Ordan with blood. Ordan used this opportunity to tank the blow and slit the tendons in the Villain's wrist, causing him to drop his knife.
"Rhue son kf a-" Barrage coughed.
Ordan couldn't hear the sounds of fighting from the frozen lake any longer. This meant either the students had won, or he was about to have more company. Seeing no other choice, Ordan grabbed Barrage's skull in one hand, extruding bone talons from his fingers and yanking the dagger embedded in the Villain's neck clean through. With all his might, he yanked Barrage's whole head out of his body along with a segment of the Grineer's spinal cord.
"Fuck me…" Ordan let the severed head dangle from his hand.
Barrage's body took a a single step forward, then apparently realized 'hey, I'm missing my head and a portion of my spine" and then promptly toppled over.
"Students… Aizawa…. Students… then Aizawa…" Ordan mumbled, as if in a trance. Was it the blood loss or the pain? He wasn't sure, he only knew that he couldn't stop moving.
"S-s-sensei?"
Ordan turned to see Hashibira, Mineta, and Todoroki standing at the edge of the shore, the latter two sporting horrified looks.
Karris-sensei looked awful to them. He was covered in slashes and blood with several bone shards from his quirk sealing the cuts and four saw blades embedded in both his arms and back.
And he was holding someone's decapitated head.
Minoru, unsurprisingly, puked at the sight
"You're all alive." Ordan took a shaky step toward them. "Regroup at the front entrance."
"Sensei are you…" Shoto started to ask.
"Todoroki, -get back to your fucking classmates- go now!" Ordan snapped.
"Y-yes sir!" Shoto replied with wide eyes.
Ordan turned around and sprinted back toward the fountain as soon as he saw the teens begin to move toward the entrance. Hopefully, Eraser would still be alive by the time he got there.
=VI=
[Entrance]
"She should be stable for now." Haylee pulled her bloodstained hands out from Thirteen's suit, quickly burning off the blood with Void energy. "How's Iida?"
"I'm fine, just in pain." The taller boy groaned. "I'm sorry that I wasn't able to assist you all."
"You got fucking shot, so not blaming you there buddy," Haylee replied snarkily, glaring at the rock Kurogiri had dropped in front of the door. "Dammit, that's going to be a pain to get rid of." She could use Radiant Spear to punch a hole through it, but if the villains tried to attack while she was vulnerable. It was too large to slice through unless she channeled a similar amount of power into Exalted Blade, which led down the same path of leaving her defenseless if they chose to come back.
"Can anyone else move a boulder that large, or damage it?" Haylee asked.
"I don't think so." Momo analyzed it. She didn't have enough lipids to make enough explosives.
"It's too heavy to move with my quirk," Ochaco replied somberly.
"We need some way to get out and alert the campus…" Tenya winced, trying to stand on his injured leg.
"Iida, stop. The shrapnel from your armor will dig into your skin if you do that." Haylee demanded.
Tenya hesitated, but sat back down.
"What about the roof?" Hanta proposed.
Haylee glanced up. "That could work. I can climb it and slash open a panel. I just don't want to leave you all undefended…"
"I have an idea…" Momo raised her hand. "Sato, grab one of those cannonballs I made earlier. Tenno, can you damage the roof from afar?"
"Not with my blade, the damage falls off at range," Haylee responded. "But I can throw a ball really damn hard."
Sato returned and Haylee transformed, realizing what Momo was planning. They each took a ball in one hand.
"Here!" Ochaco touched both the balls, removing their weight. "This should help too!"
"Which panel are we aiming for?" Rikido asked, muscles bulging as he downed a packet of sugar.
Haylee became aware of the sound of an intense down in the center plaza, but elected to ignore it for now. "From the boulder, fourteen squares up. I'll hit it first!" With a modulated grunt, she threw the weightless steel sphere into the panel. The cannonball left a large crack in the roof with daylight slightly visible.
"My turn!" Rikido pitched the ball as hard as he could, completely pulverizing the weakened panel.
"Great work everyone!" Momo nodded, pulling a flare gun from her chest.
'So that was her plan.' Haylee acknowledged as she transformed back into her human form. Momo was a good choice for class rep after all.
With a crack, a blazing red flare shot out through the ruined hole and into the sky above the USJ.
=VI=
[Plaza]
Tomura chuckled as Eraserhead kept on taking down villain after villain. From behind, he felt the familiar tingling of Kurogiri's portal manifesting behind him. Scrambler, Kurogiri, and Bunker stumbled out, the latter bleeding from a slash to the leg.
"Holy Profit, we're alive!" Bunker gasped.
"Kurogiri, you're back," Tomura remarked. "Did you manage to kill Thirteen and scatter the students?"
"Thirteen is critically wounded, but there were… complications. I was only able to scatter a majority of them. The rest are still at the entrance." Kurogiri spared a glance away.
"Dammit…" Tomura scratched at his neck. "I even sent you with backup and you still failed? If you weren't our way out I'd teamkill you right here." He glanced at Scrambler and Bunker. "And you two haven't even done anything!" He hissed, itching to dust them.
"Shigaraki Tomura, it is entirely possible that I would have perished without their aid." Kurogiri defended the two Corpus.
"How?! They're just fucking teenagers!" Tomura yelled.
"That thing…" Fania muttered, haunted by her brush with the Tenno. "That wasn't a Void-damned teenager…"
Tomura made some incomprehensible gibberish noises, then turned back to look at Eraserhead. "Fine, I guess I won't waste you then."
'I'd like to see you try, whiny brat.' Fania thought, hand already on the holster of her pistol. A cursory glance at Nomu quelled any thought of attacking her employer, as the mindless beast's beady eye stared into her very soul.
Shota punched out the last villain, knocking him unconscious. The only ones left were the large beaked giant, the hand-covered one, and the warper with the two more experienced-looking villains.
"Is that all… you've got?" Shota raised his knife in his uninjured hand.
"You really are the coolest, Eraserhead." The leader, Shigaraki, complimented. "Taking down a whole group of villains all by yourself when your specialty is underground? That isn't your specialty. Your quirk isn't suited for long sessions. I bet your stamina bar is really low right now."
Shota's scowl deepened. "This isn't some game. You tried to kill me and my students."
"And you cut us down and call yourself a hero?" Tomura grinned, glancing to the fallen mercenaries.
"Cut the self-righteous moral high ground bullshit," Shota shouted. "I can tell by the look in your eyes, you don't care about them. You just want to destroy mindlessly."
Tomura scoffed, offended. "That's not very poggers of you, Eraserhead."
Fania quirked her head, wondering what being a small, smelly Venusian rodent had to do with anything.
"Comparing me to one of those cultist Pyschos? You are right about one thing, I do want to destroy you heroes. Specifically, All Might." His voice rose in genuine anger.
=VI=
[All For One's Domain: All-Encompassing Vault of Avarice]
{Minutes before Tomura's attack started.}
"Doctor." All For One called out. "Has Tomura begun his attack?"
"I believe he just left," Kyudai responded, slightly displeased.
"Is there something the matter?" All For One asked.
"Forgive me, All For One, I'm simply worried about how my experiment will fair against All Might." He paced frantically on his stubby aged legs. "I spent so much time on him, a little more and he could become a High-End prototype. He should be able to face All Might… perhaps even kill him with Kurogiri's assistance…"
"All Might is not going to show up to the USJ." All For One announced.
"I beg your pardon?" Kyudai blinked. Surely he must have misheard.
"I said that All Might won't be there. I arranged for several incidents to slow him down on his path to U.A." All For One chuckled. "Of course, the naive idiot wouldn't pass someone needing help by, weak as he is."
"But my lord," Kyudai questioned. "Does it not go against your goals to sabotage Tomura's efforts?"
"If he succeeds right at the get-go, he will not learn anything." All For One explained. "My goals were almost always met with success, through careful planning. That is what allowed me to grow complacent as I rarely knew the feeling of loss. Tomura must be different. I do not want another servant who blindly heeds every word I say. I wish for him to become like Curator or myself; a master planner who can adapt to any unexpected challenges that come his way."
"Ah, I see. As expected, your brilliance and foresight know no bounds!" Kyudai nodded fervently, the underhanded jab at his entire personality going completely over his head.
All For One resisted an urge to sigh. "Yes, and this will allow Tomura to experience a level playing field. Of course, there is the possibility he could succeed, but as my successor, I'm not going to throw him into a critical fight just yet. Kurogiri also informed me that Tomura had acquired some otherworlder mercenaries as part of his little 'Leauge' ."
"But he doesn't know about them yet," Kyudai noted. "Are you going to tell him?"
"I was planning to now that he's been exposed to them. I do wish to acquire… more skilled help, if they are amicable to working for us." He mused. "But that is just a secondary objective. Currently, Tomura's mission is to learn that missions- no matter how carefully you prepare might not go to plan. Secondly, as we discussed with the others, Tomura is immature, prone to ranting and monologuing." As his several banned League of Legends accounts could attest. "But even that can be used to our advantage. When this is over, they will likely know that I in some way, had a hand in Nomu's creation."
"You said that it would be inevitable, I recall." Kyudai nodded. "The Council and WHA will know you are alive."
"Yes, but since they assume I'm dead…" A large grin spread across the Symbol of Evil's face. "So i've instructed Tomura to do something he excels at online... spread misinformation!"
=VI=
[Plaza]
"All Might… I hate him. He represents all that's wrong with this society." Tomura ranted. "But more than that, he killed my sensei." He remembered All For One's script, and even though it was a lie his rage over All For One's crippling was genuine enough to sell it. "So I'm going to destroy him and this rotten society he's created."
"You're a brat throwing a tantrum then." Shota laughed. "If All Might killed your 'sensei' I can't imagine he was a decent person. Your actions don't exactly paint you as a saint either."
"Hrrrg…" Tomura scratched at his neck, breaking the skin. "You're starting to piss me off. I think I'll kill you and your students before they manage to call for help-"
A blur of movement out of the corner of his eye distracted him. Bunker noticed and deployed Snowglobe just before it could hit Tomura. Barrage's severed head smacked against the barrier, leaving a wet trail of blood that quickly froze as it slid down the side.
"What the-" Bunker's eyes widened.
"HEY FUCKFACE!" Ordan hollered, staggering to Aizawa's side. "THERE'S ONLY SO MUCH MASTURBATION ONE CAN DO IN A DAY! HOW 'BOUT YOU TAKE OFF THOSE HANDS AND COME FIGHT ME YA CRUSTY BITCH!"
Tomura's eye twitched, easily baited by the insult. "NOMU!"
In a flash, the villain called Nomu appeared in front of Ordan and Shota. It was only thanks to Ordan's training with Natah that he could see the attack coming and pull them both out of harm's way. 'That thing… it's almost as fast as All Might!' They realized.
"Bone Beast!" Shota grimaced, glancing at his fellow teacher's wounds. "Can you still fight?"
"Yeah, that guy looks like trouble though. You erase his quirk, I'll cut him up." Ordan cracked his knuckles.
Shota's eyes burned like hell as he used Erasure. Karris blitzed over to the heteromorph, unleashing a flurry of slashes on him. Nomu retaliated with several punches that left huge craters in the ground, narrowly missing Ordan.
Shigariaki held up a hand and Nomu stilled.
Ordan slid back to Shota, breathing raggedly. "You see that?"
"Yeah…" Shota blinked, the mutant's wounds closing nearly instantly as soon as he canceled his quirk. "He's strong even with his quirk canceled. Super regeneration quirk with secondary mutations in the body."
"Do you like him? He's the bio-engineered symbol of peace!" Tomura cackled.
"Bio-engineered, what do you mean, Shigaraiki!" Shota shouted.
"He was created specifically to kill All Might." The villain grinned. "So you don't stand a chance against him, even if you can erase his quirks."
"Quirks?" Shota muttered under his breath. He spared a look at Ordan, who had gone deathly still.
"You…"
Shota took a wary step back. Karris's energy had changed. The man radiated pure, unfiltered murderous intent and his voice sounded completely different, low and grating.
"You said bio-engineered. That thing… it used to be a human?" He asked, his voice trembling with rage at each word.
Shota's eyes widened at the realization. Multiple quirks, the vacant stare on the creature's face. How it didn't seem to do anything without Shigaraki's orders… dear god…
Tomura began to laugh. "Oh, are you upset about my little Nomu?"
'That thing… its like a Warframe then.' All rational thought left Ordan's head. Someone turned a person into… that thing. "I see!" Ordan began to cackle manically, to everyone's confusion. As sudden as he started, he cut it off. "I'm going to have to kill you." He stated matter of factly, voice cracking as he became enraged beyond comprehension. "Overdrive Precept: Beast of Bones." He said lifelessly.
'Beast of Bones?' A faint flicker of recognition shot through Fania's head. Bone Beast's accent… the mention of a precept. The first was telling as he was clearly an Origin System survivor, the second could be a coincidence.
But mentioning the Beast of Bones set off alarm bells in her head. 'It can't be. He has to have taken up the name.' Because he couldn't be Ordan Karris, the living legend who slew the Orokin hundreds of years before the Tenno finished them off. Because Ordan Karris had been dead for over a thousand years.
That would be insane, but if it really was him… well, coming to another world was insane enough as is. She wouldn't put it past the space-time properties of the Void to bring Karris here as well.
But the prospect of facing Ordan Karris in the flesh, quirked, scared her more than encountering that Tenno. He'd torn Barrage's clean head off and killed several Grineer already as well. Even hidden behind her husband's quirk and with Nomu standing between Bone Beast (Karris?) and herself, she couldn't help but still feel the slightest bit of fear. She felt Det's hand gently grasp her shoulder.
"Fania?" He asked, sounding worried.
" ... ' Ordan Karris… (That man... I think he's Ordan Karris…)" Fania breathed.
Det tensed. "I see." He gripped his shotgun nervously.
Ordan's hands sharpened into pointed gloved gauntlets of bone, Kronen blades extending from his elbows. Smaller bits of Orokin-era armor formed around his body and his mask gained several thorned spikes, giving him the appearance of a bone-crested demon.
"Unforgivable! Unforgivable!" Ordan screamed. Needless to say, he'd completely lost all sense of composure. With a roar he charged at the villains in a berserk rage.
Nomu simply punched him back into the stairway ramp as if swatting an annoying bug, crushing his armor and the stone with little effort and knocking him unconscious. Ordan slumped over in a pool of blood, his earlier injuries finally catching up to him.
"No!" Shota managed to yell to the downed man before Nomu appeared before him an instant later and slammed him into the ground.
Fania breathed a sigh of relief, seeing the Calcified hero sprawled out near the stairway.
"Excellent," Tomura smirked. "We still have time, so I wonder how All Might will react when he sees his fellow heroes dead because he wasn't here to save them. Just like heroes are never around when you really need them." The last part sounded personal to the Corpus.
Shota screamed in pain as Nomu slammed his face into the concrete, smashing his glasses. Despite Tomura's admiration of the hero, seeing him being beaten to death was incredibly satisfying.
Nomu grabbed Shota's left arm and twisted it back with a sickening crack, causing him to scream again.
"After this, we're going to have Nomu do the same to your little brats." Tomura sneered. "I wanted All Might, but if I can't have him then I'll crush his spirit instead. Nomu, leave one alive but kill Eraserhead and all the kid-"
"SMAAAAASH!" A green blur impacted Nomu before he could finish the command, sending a blast of wind throughout the plaza.
"Huh!?" Tomura screeched.
In front of Nomu now stood a boy in a green bodysuit. Defiantly, he unsheathed a Katana and pulled back his hood to reveal a mop of green hair.
"Mi… Midoriya?!" Shota wheezed.
=VI=
{Tenryou Commission Quirk Update - Hagakure Toru}
Submitted to WHA for Threat Evaluation
Name: Hagakure Toru
Nationality: Japanese
Quirk: Prismatic Battery (Formerly registered as invisibility)
Hagakure's quirk was once thought to be a simple invisibility quirk like her parents. It appears to have the ability to stockpile light as energy. The stockpile is similar to in that the stockpile does not diminish with use but rather increases the maximum "yield". In other words, it will not be consumed. However, it is unknown how she is able to use this stored energy at this time.
Current theories: Heat-based attacks, perhaps using light refraction to intensify stored energy. Other options are possible and unconfirmed.
Recommendation: Preliminary S ranking until the scale of her power can be determined. Reduce if necessary. U.A. Principal Nezu will be required to submit all updates to her quirk until it can be ranked accordingly.
=VI=
In a rare change of pace, the Codex entry is at the end this time.
It's my fanfic, and I get to stereotype Tomura with more gamer lingo (this does not make him any less dangerous, I just like him nerdier)
Kurogiri isn't afraid because of his programming, which is why he can keep a much cooler head than the Corpus. The spell he used was just a simple lightning spell that he can channel through his body and quirk.
I think its really funny that Maniac had a better understanding of Japanese than Barrage, but still couldn't speak coherently. Also,
Ordan straight-up DOOM glory killed Barrage, channels his inner bdoubleo100 and screaming at Shiggy. Then he kinda lost his shit once he realized what Nomu was (too similar to warframe and ordan has very strong feelings about people's bodies being forcefully experimented on.
Imagine making a bunch of interesting quirks for villains and then killing them off immediatly. Couldn't be me.
If you want to know why Haylee didn't just flat out kill the Corpus and Kurogiri, there are 3 reasons:
1. Snowglobe was protecting them and im saying she can't manifeste Radial Javelin inside it.
2. Kurogiri can counter any projectile she throws like he did with Thirteen and might hit her classmates.
3. She doesn't want to massacre people in front of her classmates because they will think she's a monster (in her head) if she has to.
Hopefully I will finish USJ by the end of the year. Next chapter has a 5 page comic :D
More trauma next time D:
This chapter's fic rec is a crack-one shots/shortfics:
- The Reason Why Nedzu Shouldn't be Allowed to Have Fun by Mirrond
- 1-B and the Splitting of the Uranium-235 Atom by FalseSeraph