Super Science
Ch 24: When Villains Attack part. 2
The sensation of falling overtook Egon's body, but the sensation quickly stopped as he landed on his butt a moment later. After shaking his head and rubbing it, he said to himself, "Well, that was…unusual."
"Kinda felt like swimming in the air.", the voice of Izuku chimed in.
Egon whipped his head and exclaimed, "Izuku!"
Izuku smiled wide at seeing him, exclaiming, "Egon!"
The two embraced, and Egon said in a relieved voice, "Oh, I'm so glad you're alright!"
"Ahem! We're here too.", A voice said to the two of them.
Jumping to their feet and whirling toward the perceived danger, they relaxed when there was no danger at all.
"Oh, Nezu and….you.", Egon said, pointing to the principal and Bakugou. Egon then quickly looked around and asked, "Wait, where are the other three?"
Everyone looked around as well, but there was no sign of Eraserhead, Vlade King, or Present Mic anywhere! Nerves settled in again as some of them assumed the worst, which Nezu also confirmed.
"They must still be back at the auditorium.", he thought aloud.
"Where are we?", Bakugou asked, looking around the room.
"Back in….my office.", Egon trailed off while finally realizing where they were. Then, a thought shot through his head, and he exclaimed, "Hold on! Where'd everyone else go?"
Egon immediately ripped out his phone and dialed a group call. Putting it in the speaker, he called, "Attention tension! Role call!", Very quickly, everyone picked up and answered back with a 'here,' to which Egon and Izuku sighed in relief. "Oh, thank the gods! Where is everyone?" Egon asked, trying to hide his fearful desperation.
"I'm back in my wing with Professor Cephalopod.", Genus replied.
"I'm back in mine, too.", Hollyhock confirmed.
"Mine too.", Said Hankyō.
"Me too.", Hatsume called.
"Me three.", Honey Lemon said in a shaken tone.
"I'm here in my wing with Orpington", Cho told him.
The Morgana triplets told him in unison, "We're safe as well. We were transported to the storage house with several students."
"That nitwit villain sent us to our respective areas.", Cluck laughed.
"Which means we have an advantage.", Otto exclaimed while slapping his tentacles.
"At least we know that the students are all safe.", Nezu sighs in relief.
Egon nods, grateful that the kids are safe and accounted for. He then takes a more serious approach and says, "Okay, listen up, everyone! We're in a dire time with the security against us and the doors locked down! I'm officially initiating all kill protocols! Defend yourself by whatever means necessary!"
"Yes sir!", Everyone rd back.
"Um, sir?", Cho inquired.
"Yes, Cho?", Egon replied.
"As it turns out, the security system isn't down.", she told him, raising everyone's eyebrows in shock. Those clowns tried to hack us, but it was around the time I was doing a diagnostic. We're still in control. Just have to wait.", she explained, the smile on her face reflected in her words.
Egon fistpumped and exclaimed, "Sweet!"
"But we're still locked in.", She followed up.
He deflated and asked, "Not sweet! How long before the diagnosis finishes?"After a few seconds of silence and typing from Cho, she answered affirmatively, "Five minutes."
"Everyone hold out for five minutes!", Egon commands.
"Yes sir!", They all answer back as he disconnects the line.
Egon and Izuku then opened a hidden panel in the room. From there, they both entered individual codes to scan their eyes and fingerprints. Nezu and Bakugou looked on, considering what they were doing and wondering what else was hidden in the walls.
"So what are we gonna do?", Bakugou asked calmly, more confused by the two scientists.
"Try and get out or help the heroes.", Izuku answered as he spoke through the voice recognition system.
"How are we gonna do that?", Nezu prompted them.
The two of them then took out keys from their sleeves; they lugged them legit, looked at one another, and nodded. They both turned the keys simultaneously, causing green lights to flash and something else to open up in the wall. Egon reached in and took out two objects that looked like collars, and Izuku took out a small rack holding several Splinter's. Egon put on his before putting Izuku's on as the teen hooked on several Splinters all around the collars, making the mouse and blond teen look at one another in confusion. Even Nezu shrugged when Bakugou asked with his expression.
Once secured, Egon answered, "Something that was also included in your waiver."
Creature Division
A black portal opened just before the teens could buckle down for help to arrive. Several dozen villains emerged from the science wing and began to surround the young heroes and the two scientists, all smiling sinisterly like hungry lions cornering an injured gazelle.
"Nowhere to run now, little heroes.", one of the villains vexed.
"Otto, what do we do? We're trapped and have no way of defending ourselves.", Genus panicked.
"I have an idea. Just let me cook." Otto whispered to him with a wink before putting on the theatrics, exclaiming like an old movie star, "Oh, you're right, mister villain. We're so trapped and weak and at your mercy. But can you at least let an old octopus have one last request?"
The villain chuffed and asked back, "What is it?"
"How is that octopus talking?", Another villain pointed out.
"Can I dry my eyes and blow my nose one last time?", Otto asked, putting waterworks and blinking his big eyes.
"If that's all, then sure, go right ahead." The villain agreed as Otto reached out for a box of tissues. Then the villain put on a thinking face and realized aloud, "Wait a second. Octopuses don't have noses!"
Suddenly, the villain was struck in the face by a tentacle! The blow was so decisive that the villain was the one who walked back to the wall, where they passed out!
"And neither do you, sucker!", Otto exclaimed as he reeled his extended limb.
"How'd he do that!?", One of the other villains asked in awe.
"Like this!" Otto exclaimed while punching him in the face. He found the same thing as the first one.
But then, more tentacles began to grow from his body, and he started to sock the villains with a flurry of blows! The villains began to panic, and some tried to run away in the chaos!
However, one villain stood firm and reignited their dispositions as they exclaimed, "Calm down, you guys! It's just one fish with a bunch of legs! It's not like he's gigantic or…something…", the villain trailed off as he watched the small octopus transform into a literal behemoth.
"You were saying.", Otto asked him before he let out a roar and started to grab up villains and crush them in his powerful grip.
Unbeknownst to any of them, the professor had four splinters wrapped around one tentacle behind himself: a splinter that allowed for the stretching of limbs, a splinter that allowed for the growth of additional limbs, a splinter that gave gigantification, and a splinter that gave a form of hyper regeneration. As the colossal octopus monster took on the villains with seeming ease, the young heroes looked on in a mix of shock, awe, and horror.
"Could he always do that?!", One of them asked the other professor.
To which he casually shook his head and answered, "No."
Plant Division
"End of the line, green thumbs!", a villain exclaimed in a devilish tone as they cornered the kids. Female scientists glared at them and stated, "That's what I should be saying to you all."
She then thrust her hands, and every plant in the greenhouses started to move before quickly attacking all of them! Vines grabbed and strangled, buds and pods spat spores, poison needles, and goop, plants that had teeth and began to snap them up, plants that hypnotized, and plants that shot elements and explosions! The villains screamed in shock and fright as Hollyhock concentrated on keeping them back.
"What the hell! The plants are alive!", one villain screamed before getting caught in vines and shoved into the toothy maw of a carnivorous plant.
Sound Division
"Ungoliant?! Ungoliant! Where are you!?", Hankyō exclaimed as he practically turned his office inside out with a place precession only for him to instantly relax as he stated while hunched over in a corner, "Oh, there you are! I was so worried."
"Who's Ungoliant? You sure, girlfriend, daughter?", A student asked as the man turned around with cupped hands to happily and proudly reveal a spider no bigger than the head of a pin. To which the students freaked out and tried to swat at it while yelling, "Ah! Spider!"
Before the students could swat, one of Hankoyō's headtubs whipped out and bit him on the nose!
Hankyō turned away, protecting the spider, and exclaimed, "Don't hurt her! She's just a jumping spider. She's harmless to humans and helps keep me sane.", He said the last bit with a slight unhinged expression.
"Um…", another student, who saw this, trailed off uncomfortably.
"You stay in your terrarium where it's safe. I love you.", he told the little spider while placing it in an environment far too big for it and giving her a little kiss before closing the lid. He tethered back to the kids and thoughtfully stated, "Okay, kids, now stay behind me! No matter what happens, you need to stay safe and-."
Before he could finish, one of the doors was busted, and dozens of villains poured in while one of them said, "Trapped like rats."
Hankyō stood in front of the teens, arms spread to protect them. He then stood before them with his chest out and declared, "Okay, listen up, you villains! You can turn tail and leave or stay and suffer!"
All the villains began to laugh at his declaration, and one of them asked, "Ha! And what are you going to do? Hmmm."
Hankyō sighs as he closes his eyes and reaches into his pocket, taking out a splinter. He says, "I don't like using my quirk since it reminds me of my past. But you freaks have left me with no choice."
One of his head tubes, which looked like a tail, curled over to his head, where it split open at the tip onto something that looked like a microphone from the early 1920s. He breathed deep as his other head tubes moved to the top of his head and opened their mouths. Hankyō then produced a high A note with such hypersonic power behind it that not only did it send the villains away in a shock wave, but it also caused their ears and organs to burst while their skin was pulled right off their bodies, leaving them bloody messes along the wall! Hankyō gasped and coughed hard, falling to his knees as the teens, now releasing their ears, surrounded him in worry.
"I didn't know your quirk could do that.", One of them said.
"It can't.", Hankyō told them while wiping his mouth.
Robotics and Machine Division
"Any last words, string bean?", a female villain asked rhetorically as she and several other villains cornered Hatsume and several students.
The think pink-haired man fixed his goggles and smiled, "Ah yes, actually. Could you hold off your attack for another 30 seconds.?
The female villain raised an eyebrow and asked, "30 seconds? What's happening in 30 seconds?"
"Oh, just the update I've done on the robots.", Hatsume told her with a knowing wiggle of her finger.
"Robots?", She questioned, wondering what he was talking about.
Then a loud "DING" noise, like that of a toaster, sounded in the room, and Hatsume excitedly shook his hands while exclaiming, "Oh, they're done! Wait right there."
He then ran off and pressed a button on a wall near a strange door. It opened up to reveal the darkness, and within red eyes glowed one but one. Within a few seconds, a hoard of robots appeared in two single-file lines raised.
"What the hell!", the female villain shouted as they all came flooding out like a tidal wave.
"Robots! Commence operation Swarm! Go go go!", Hatsume commanded.
The robots turned their unmoving, cold faces with murderous intent. Very quickly, the villains found themselves with the shoe on the other end of the foot!
"Crap, there's so many!", One villain shouted before getting swarmed and torn limb from limb!
The female villain was doing better as she managed them by the handful. Realizing something, she exclaimed, "But they're so weak! We can take 'em!"
Hatsume sighed at her comment and, while rocking on his heels, said, "You know I wasn't going to bring it out yet since it's only 50% completed. But since you think you can take out my army, I guess I'll just do it anyway. It needs a field run."
He then ran through the same doorway the robots came flooding out of, and a large garage door next to it quickly opened up to reveal Hatsume standing much taller and making a lot of unnatural sounds. When he came out, he was sitting inside of a giant clunky suit that looked like something from Mad Max! The villains lost their edge as the hulking behemoth of iron stepped out.
"He has a MEK!", One of them yelled as a giant fist of iron came down on them.
Chemical Division
"GO AWAY! GO AWAY! GO AWAY! GO AWAY! GO AWAY! GO AWAY! GO AWAY! GO AWAY! GO AWAY!", Honey Lemon screamed as she blasted the onslaught of villains with a giant ray gun machine that shot out a stream of green acidic liquid.
Leaving a trail of death and screaming as villains began to melt to nothing!
Defense and Armaments Division
"We need backup, repeat, we need backup, A villain screamed as they ducked for cover with another villain who was trying to fiddle with a radio.
"I'm trying, I'm trying!", The other villain yelled back in a panic, just before his head was blown off his shoulders.
The first villain screamed but stated himself and grabbed the radio as more gunshots were heard overhead and the sounds of people falling dead! After fiddling with it for a bit, he finally got a connection as he watched a brave soul attempt to run headlong into the fray, only to be gunned down a few seconds later.
"Boss! Are you there? Say something!", The villain yelled through the speaker.
"What is it?", Tomura's craigleyWrigleynswered on the other end.
"We need help!", He begged.
Sounding annoyed, he shot back, "It's just some brats and a one-eyed woman. They can't be that hard."
Shaking his head, he explained, "It's not the kids, it's her! She's dropping us left and right! You said this would be easy!"
"She's quirkless. How are you having trouble!", Tomura yelled loud enough for all to hear.
But the villain was blown off right at the moment Cho yelled the answer, "I have a shotgun!"
"And I have an Egg Cannon! Say goodbye to your necks!", Cluck laughed as she used her machine to hold and fire her invention.
The two of them work in tandem to quickly shift the tide of battle in their favor, with all the villains cowering at a single woman and chicken armed with nothing but firearms!
Storehouse
"What the hell is this shit made of!? Open up this forcefield right now!" A villain demanded as they pounded on a forcefield made by the Morgana triplets.
"And let you in?", Morgan asked rhetorically.
"Fat chance.", Millicent scoffed.
"How about this instead?" Megan offered as a piece of the force field and slammed into the villain in the form of a tendril of darkness.
Another villain growled and proclaimed, "You can't hold this wall forever. You'll drop it, or we'll break it!"
"We don't have to hold it forever.", Mogan started.
"Just have to buy time.", Megan continues.
"Then you see the surprise we have.", Millicent finishes with a wry smile.
Auditorium
Tomura nearly broke the radio he held in his hands, resisting the urge to use all five fingers. He was trying to contact his last few groups after the last one went dead, but his irrigation grew as he got almost nothing back.
Throwing the device on the ground as a battle raged on behind him, he yelled, "What the fuck is going on!?"
"Is everything alright, young master?", Kourgrir asked him.
"I have no fucking idea! I can't get in contact with any of our teams, and the ones I can are either static or just screaming. How in the hell are we getting creamed!?", Tomura asked after realizing what happened to the others.
Kourgrir pats his shoulder comfortingly and tells him, "Not to worry. Even if we lose all of our help, we only need Nomu. And the heroes won't last much longer."
As he says this, they both look out into the large room where the three heroes are fighting against the hulking Nomu and not doing so well against it. Things looked good to the scientist, but only for a little while longer.