Inside the castle of Silent city, in the main room, is a seated old woman with long white hair, her face covered with wrinkles, with thick red colored lipstick and purple eyeshadow.
Her head is lowered down with her eyes closed as a servant comes in with flowers, "Lady Sakuya!" She wakes the old lady up, "Pretty flowers were in the bloom, so I picked and arranged them for you." She adds, "I'm sure gazing at them will help you feel better."
"Hmph!" Sakuya opens her eyes, unpleased and exclaims, "I hope there aren't any bugs on them!"
"The flower has a wonderful fresh scent." The servant assures.
This causes Sakuya to scream hysterically, "How dare you... HOW DARE YOU!" She pushes the vase of flowers right out the servant's hand, causing them to topples down the stairs, with the flowers out.
"P-Please forgive me, Lady Sakuya!" Her servant begs, startled.
"Ugh... I hate my wrinkled face!" The old lady exclaims, "Where's the doctor! Isn't the doctor here yet?!" She starts to lose her mind, before getting up and slowly walking toward the jarred cells, "The Hashirama cell is my only hope to keep on living, please!" She kneels down to it, cradling it with her hands, "Bring back my beauty!" She screams and begs, kneeling further.
Now arriving at the castle, "Whoa..." Izuku uttered in amazement as he, Boruto, and Sarada, all left surprised to see to humongous designed palace.
"So this is the castle where the Hashirama cells are..." Boruto trails.
"Whoever brought it here doesn't understand what's truly capable of." Mugino notes.
"I concur with that one." Jeanist agrees as he, Chojuro, Tsuyu, Shinki, and Bakugo arrive.
"Which is why we need to sneak in and retrieve it. All while being undetected." Chojuro said.
"Easier said than done..." Konohamaru voices.
"?" Tsuyu takes notice of the crowd ahead and alerts, "Guys, look over there." She points.
With everyone seeing what she pointed, "A crowd in the middle of this place?" Sarada narrows a brow.
"We'll check it out." Jeanist answers before they do just that.
By the time they do get over there, they pass into the crowd to the full view, and see two guards, dead on the ground.
"Two guards of the castle..." Someone mutters.
"Are they dead...?" Another voices in shock.
"Who would do this?" One more mutters.
As for the heroes and interns, "If two guards were killed on the spot..." Jeanist thinks with a finger under his chin, "Then that could mean one thing."
"Someone else must have broken in." Chojuro theorizes, "Meaning we might not be the only ones after the cells."
"If that's the case, then we need to find another entrance to getting the cells before they do." Boruto suggests.
"Yes, but how do we pull that off..." Tsuyu voices, finger to her cheek.
"..." Konohamaru does some thinking, and after a while, "Okay, so here's the plan. One group will go in the castle and retrieve the sell, while the other remains in standby outside the castle."
"So in short, those who're out here will spot the criminals who are also after the cell? Done." Jeanist gets it.
With that, the groups to infiltrate the castle: Konohamaru, Jeanist, Boruto, Katsuki and Shinki. The others on standby: Chojuro, Izuku, Mugino, Sarada, and Tsuyu. With that, the castle sneak-in begins.
Opening 6 "Golden Time" by Fujifabric
Opens up at the city of Silence before we cut to a few U.A. students in hero costumes: Sarada(one knee on tree with a knife), Katsuki(on a building with a grimace), Mitsuki(on a hill with a book in his hand), Shinki(on a branch with his arms crossed), Izuku(in front of a white flag with a closed fist) and Boruto(on a moving train with a reached fist out), before the title appears full-on.
We go into Izuku training with Gran Torino while training to get better control of One-for-All. When he uses a smash that causes wind to blow around, Torino grins at his progress. Next shows Boruto sparing with Sasuke with aid from Sarada, the two working with attack coordinations that Phantom sees through and bests them, causing them to sigh/grin.
Next shows Boruto reaching a hand out to the back-turned Naruto while Izuku does the same to All Might, only for both boys to grab blue crystal fragments before they blow out.
As the song continues, panels of more U.A. interns are shown: Shinki(with iron sand spread around him and arms crossed over chest), Tsubaki(in a wide-spread battle position and a hand on her sheathed sword), Sumire(riding on the jungle cat form of Nue), Pony(on all-fours with her horns ready), Tsuyu(doing a frog hope with her frog tongue out), and Momo(forming a staff from her left hand via creation quirk).
Next shows ours MC's standing back-to-back, turning to the other with a firm smile as they prepare to fight. They're joined by Sarada(who smirks), Mitsuki(who smiles with eyes closed), Katsuki(who scoffs irritably), and the other 6 interns(Shinki, Sumire, Momo, Pony, Tsuyu, and Tsubaki) and Pro heroes(Konohamaru, Jeanist, Miriko, and Mugino) in addition.
The next scene shows them in battle positions and glaring straight-up at the appearance of Victor, who chuckles evilly as 2 arms sprout from his body. Deepa, who grins psychopathically with hands raised, and Zorvus, who smirks deeply with arms crossed.
This is when we see the fight in the setting of Valley city: Konohamaru, Mirko, and Mugino fighting Victor, who easily repels them with his sprouted arms. Zorvus slicing through multiple horns and fibers launched by Pony and Jeanist before repelling a canon ball by Momo and duals Tsubaki with his quirk, finding their interlock entertaining before backing away from her and dodging multiple purple blasts from the jungle cat form of Nue as Sumire rides on the beast. Then switches over to Deepa dodging a fireball from Sarada and multiple shadow snakes from Mitsuki before using his quirk on Shinki, who blocks it with Iron sand as Tsuyu tries to grab the villain via her tongue, only for Deepa to avoid it as Bakugo blasts him from behind, only for the villain to come out unfazed, all while grinning.
Last shows the MC's using their signature attacks to finish things off(Izuku using full cowling to zig-zag and deliver a Detroit smash while Boruto comes from above with a Rasengan in hand). Both do a battle cry as their attacks crash down on the battlefield, sending off dust and shockwaves into that of a whirlwind.
Next shows shots of various individuals: The rest of Class 1-A(with Shoto and Iida in front), Class 1-B, The U.A. teachers/staff, Orochimaru(along with Suigetsu, Karin, and Jugo), the League of Villains(Tomura, the Shin's, Kurogiri, and 4 new recruits), Urashiki(who smirks), Kara the Husk(shadowed appearance), the Kage Heroes(with Naruto leading), and the Top Pros(with All Might in front).
Last panel shows the MC Duo standing tall, along with everyone else who was present during the battle as the breeze blows through them before the song ends.
Chapter 60: Castle Infiltration
As the infiltration team gets in, the five sneak through the halls ways in stealth fashion without being seen or heard. All it takes is to get to the main room, grab the cells, and leave, easy money.
Bakugo, on the other hand, is irritated at this sneaking around and exclaims, "I'm sick of snooping around like this, let's just beat those guard's ass and get the cell already!"
"That's not the objective we're going for." Jeanist tells him, "We're trying to get the cell without causing a disturbance."
"Right, so will you keep your damn voice down before you get us spotted." Boruto whispers back at him bluntly.
"Shut up, no one asked you whiskers!" Katsuki retorts, almost loudly.
"Guys, not now!" Konohamaru whispers, back at the two, while Shinki shakes his head, unimpressed or surprised.
Before they could move, a ceiling wall comes from above them, "!" The five gaze up and see this before jumping back to opposite ends as the ceiling closes down between them, the two heroes on one side and the three interns on the other.
"A wall?!" Boruto widens in surprise.
"Did they know we were here?!" Konohamaru wonders as well before four guards appear on each end.
"We caught you intruders red handed!" A guard exclaims to the heroes.
"Don't think about resisting, we're taking you to lady Sakuya!" Another side to the interns on the other end.
"Who even is this Sakuya? The boss the around here?" Katsuki asks, but doesn't care to find out at the same time as he gets into a battle stance.
"We have no choice but to fight them it seems..." Konohamaru says to Jeanist, "I already allowed for Boruto to fight. You might want to do the same with Bakugo and Shinki."
"..." Jeanist thinks about it, but sees that he has a point, "Fine then. At this point, It's the inevitable."
Opposite wall-side, "Got no choice but to handle this myself." Boruto said as they're surrounded by more incoming guards.
"HUH?!" Bakugo's annoyed at that sound of that.
"What do you mean 'by yourself'?" Shinki asks, knowing that neither of them haven't been given permission to fight.
"Komago's already given me permission to battle, so there's nothing stopping me!" Boruto gets right to attacking the guards, taking them out one at a time as some of them try to counter, but fail.
"Hmph..." Shinki grimaces at this.
"I won't let that bastard hog this for himself...!" Katsuki shakes and grits his teeth at having to stand back as the blonde fights off the guards. At that time, a text is sent in his phone as he hears a buzz, "What now?" He takes it out and sees a text from Jeanist, telling him that he and Shinki are allowed to fight as well. Seeing this puts a mad grin on Bakugo as he excitedly sneers, "Hell yeah!"
"What's with you?" Shinki asks, confused.
"Allowed to fight that's what!" Katsuki blasts forward, but not before telling, "Same applies to you, make-up!"
Still confused by what he means, but figured out, "He must have got a message from Best jeanist to allow us to fight. If that's true, then perfect." He begins to sprout iron sand from his hero costume and go to attack the guards too.
After taking out five of them, Boruto's turns around and sees Shinki and Akatsuki making quick work out of the rest of the guards, "Huh? What are you guys doing?!" He asks in exclaim, knowing that they haven't got permission to do battle.
"We've been allowed to fight by Jeanist, that's what." Shinki replies, before trapping a guard to the wall via sand.
"HA, so eat on that, whiskers!" Katsuki blasts the last guard in the face, knocking him out.
Once things are wrapped up, "It's a good thing that best Jeanist let you two fight, otherwise, it would have been boring if I had to handle everything myself with you two on the sidelines." He says, almost proudly.
This is much to the irritation of Bakugo, who storms up to him, sneering, "Say that again? You're not gonna treat me like a sideliner!"
"I'm not, you idiot. Still surprises me you're even on this mission." Boruto remarks in grimace.
"Care to find out...!" The hothead sneers again.
The two were close to butting heads until Shinki speaks up, "You guys of Class 1-A really are clueless. You clearly forgot that we need to get the Hashirama cell out of this place." He said, making the two turn to the iron sand user, who adds, "So quit being immature and try to keep up." He states before running off.
"Hey, who put you in charge?!" Boruto runs after the 1-B student.
"Get back here, you bastards!" Katsuki joins in last.
With the heroes, Konohamaru and Jeanist finish off the guards on their end, and the ceiling wall deactivates, "We're done here, now all that's left is-" Before Jeanist could finish, they see that the interns have already left and took out all the guards on their side, "They seriously went ahead by themselves..." He sighs, "Despite the fact we're in a lion's den."
"Of course they did." Jeanist said, not surprised at all that the kids would do that, "Let's catch up to them before they end up getting themselves into more trouble." He adds, which Komago agrees before they continue themselves.
Outside the castle:
While on standby atop a building, "I hope Boruto and the others are doing well..." Izuku mutters in worry.
"At least the infiltration went successfully." Sarada said, having faith they'll get the cell.
"I just hope they don't mess this up." Mugino said, arms crossed over chest.
"I'm sure they won't, they'll simply retrieve the cell and get out okay." Izuku remains positive.
"It's as Midoriya said Mugino, have a little faith and they just might pull through you know." Chojuro said on the other line.
"Ribbit." Tsuyu agrees.
"..." Mugino remains quiet with a grimace, said inwardly, "We'll see."
Yubina Infirmary:
While in bet, the little girl starts to slowly wake up, "Ah...?" She mutters as her eyes open wide.
"Are you up?" Yubina walks in, with a cup of warm tea.
"Where... am I?" The girl asks.
"At a hospital." The doctor replies, sipping her tea before adding, "You were dying, and someone brought you here. So you're safe now."
The girl turns to her right and finds Mitsuki sleeping on a bed, surprising her.
"When he wakes up, you should thank him." Yubina advises, "He saved your life, which will make him a great hero someday."
The girl smiles, grateful for the snake teen's saving her.
"As for me, I would have liked to see a bit more pain from him... but oh well." Yubina shrugs and gets back to sipping tea.
Inside the castle:
After taking down a couple more guards, "Man. Things sure soured quickly in this place." Boruto said, in a sigh.
"It did as soon as we enter, now we need to find Sakuya." Shinki said as they keep running.
"Yeah, I know that!" Katsuki exclaims, "But we don't even know where her damn room is."
"Hold on." Boruto halts them, before sniffing something, "There's strong perfume here."
The other two sniff as well, with Shinki adding, "Question is, where's it coming from?"
Unbeknownst to the interns, the Quadruplets observe them from the corner, "They're on the move." Hiruga said.
"The rest is going as plan. So let's not mess this up." Asaka reminds.
"We know." Yuga assures, with Yoruga agreeing.
Taking another run down the hall, three U.A. students see two guards by a huge door, talking about how bored/tiring the job is. As they do discuss that, Bakguo comes from above one of them and shouts, "Then why don't you take a nap! Die!" He bombs the 1st guard in the face, making him shout in pain and slump to the ground, hardly.
"What the-" Before the 2nd guard could do anything, Boruto delivers a right-hook to his gut, knocking him out instantly.
"Easy. Now where were we." Boruto said as Shinki opens the door, letting the three dash in and hide behind something separately.
From their positions, they see that Sakuya is seated in her palace chair, with her head down.
"That must be Sakuya." Shinki figures.
"Looks like she's asleep, perfect!" Boruto notices.
To the two, this is the right opportunity to take the cell, but quietly, however, "Hey, old hag!" Katsuki wastes no time in coming out to the open, in a bold move, "Do yourself a favor and hand over that cell before I blast you to bits!"
"Bakugo, come on!" Boruto exclaims, in annoyance as he and Shinki come out to the open too.
"We were suppose to do this in a stealthy manner, are you stupid?!" Shinki berates the hothead too.
Before Katsuki argues back, they see that Sakuya suddenly drops out of her chair and down to the ground, "?" The three are confused by this, "What's up with her?" Shinki wonders.
"Huh?" Katsuki's narrows a brow.
Boruto decides to run over and checks on her, "!" To his shock, she has a knife embedded into her back, meaning that she's now a lifeless corpse.
"Well?" Shinki gets the blonde's attention, "How is she?"
"Dead." Boruto reveals, "She's been stabbed."
"Stabbed, you say..." The iron sand teen trails.
"That obviously means one thing..." Bakugo trails, in knowing.
This is when the quadruplets reveal themselves and come out of hiding, smirking as they do.
"So it was you guys." Katsuki glares.
"The ones that took down the guards at the entrance, I presume?" Shinki question.
"Who are you guys?" Boruto questions the four.
"That doesn't' matter... at the moment, anyway." Asaka replies, refusing to answer that question.
"We've been watching you heroes for a while now, ever since you got here." Yuga reveals.
"Since you guys had the same goal, it's a good thing we kept an eye on you." Hiruga adds.
"You bastards used us? You're in for it now!" Katsuki sneers, crackling mini-explosives in his palms.
"Heh. We'd like to play around, but security is on its way." Yoruga said, smirking.
"Are you after the Hashirama cells too?" Boruto asks immediately.
Asaka confirms this as he takes out the cells in a round jar, "Of course!"
"Don't think you can get away." Shinki readies his iron sand quirk.
"We never once thought that we could get away easily." Asaka rebukes, lifting up the jar, "That's why you're going to come in very handy."
"What the hell do you mean, you bastards?" Katsuki was close to starting out with a blast, until the quadruplets leap upward onto the lights of the large room, confusing the teens.
At the door, an old butler comes in and widens in shock at the three being their, "W-Who are you people?!" He huffs as he slowly walks in, and gazed ahead to find Sakuya's corpse on the ground, causing him to exclaim in tears, "Lady Sakuya!" He runs slowly to her side, kneeling beside her and sees that she's dead, causing him to mourn in grief.
"Wait! This isn't-" Before Boruto could explain.
"You three did this!" The butler accuses in anger, before slamming his first down against the chair's button, triggering the security alarm all over the castle, "Lady Sakuya has been murdered!" He announces on the speaker, "The Heroes are the perpetrators! Everyone, come to the great hall!" He finishes.
"Damn it..." Shinki scoffs, knowing this is gonna get rough.
"That's not what happened, you old geezer !" Katsuki exclaims bluntly.
Suddenly, from up the lights, Hiruga throws a knife down as it strikes into the butlers neck, "Guh...!" The old man widens in agony, stumbling and rolling down the stairs before landing on the ground, dead.
"What are you doing?!" Boruto exclaims at the quadruplet.
"This one's a freebie!" Hiruga throws a bottle of spray at them.
"Tch!" Shinki's quick to act and uses sand iron shield to block it, causing the bottle to spread in mid-air.
"Perfume?!" Boruto tells by the scent.
"Using this as a way to escape." Shinki said, retracting his quirk.
"Where did those bastards go?!" Katsuki looks around, but seems them already gone.
"What happened here?!" Jeanist and Konohamaru rush in.
"Every lackey in the castle is headed this way!" Konohamaru adds.
"They killed the butler, as well as Sakuya." Shinki informs, shocking them.
"And they plan us based off of that? Not good..." Jeanist sighs.
This is when the hall doors shut in front of them, "!" Leaving them trapped in the room.
Now outside the castle, the quadruplets begins spreading word to other criminals in the city as they run by.
"There's Heroes in the palace that killed Lady Sakuya and stole her treasure!" Yuga exclaims.
"They're still in the castle!" Yoruga adds.
"If you capture them dead or alive, you'll get a reward!" Hiruga reveals in lie.
Hearing this from atop the building, "What did he just say?!" Sarada widens, stunned.
"Did something happen to Boruto and the others?!" Izuku widens, startled at the thought.
"They messed up." Mugino said, not pleased.
"Question is, did they get the cell or not?" Chojuro wonders through the earphone connection.
"We just got here and they've already been busted?" They turn behind to see Mirko and the girls, "Sheesh, now what?"
Mugino sighs and replies, "We'll just have to go in there and provide back up."
Inside the palace, after taking a peak through the window to find many criminal around the place, "We're totally surrounded!" Boruto warns to the others.
"To top it all off, we've fallen into their trap." Jeanist adds.
"They're in there!"
"Hurry and break down the door!"
Some of the criminals try to get in, but to no avail as Shinki holds the large door back with a fist of iron sand.
"What's the plan?!" Shinki asks immediately, "I highly doubt they'd listen to us, even if we explained it."
"No shit, obviously!" Katsuki exclaims, due to him pointing out the obvious while cackling his mini-explosives, "We blast our way through these extras and get to the cell by force!"
"For once, Bakugo might be right with this one." Jeanist concurs.
"Right, we can't waste anymore time here, since we need to get that Hashirama cell." Konohamaru agrees.
"Heh heh." The hothead chuckling widely, ready to start bombing.
With this, they counterattack, with Shinki letting go of the door for the enemies to swoop in and Konohamaru kicking the window glass open, for all of them to jump out of.
"There they are!" A fugitive exclaims.
"Get them!" They start throwing knives and even some using their quirk, which doesn't pose any problems as the group repels their efforts, using some of their quirks or simply using close-range to take the criminals out, like Boruto, Katsuki, and Konohamaru for example, while Shinki and Jeanist keep some restrained via sand and fiber. When they do take out the first half of fugitives, more keep coming and wouldn't stop till the false bounties on their heads are collected.
"These guys are getting annoying..." Shinki scoffs.
"We can't keep wasting time like this, damn it..." Boruto adds.
Katsuki bombs two of them in the faces and exclaims, "Well I'm not done yet!" He's ready for more, no matter ow many they are, making Uzumaki and Shinki think that the explosion quirk user is forgetting the main objective.
"Charge!" More of them were about to attack, until the last second,
"SMAASSHH!" Izuku comes in and axe-kicks two of them away, along with Sarada, who uses brute force to strike some back.
Mirko and Chojuro also land their attacks in as the former grins, "Heh, back-up has arrived, now let's start kicking ass!"
"Perfect timing, guys!" Boruto smiles slightly as he knocks a thug out.
"What happened in there for this many to surround us?" Sarada asks.
"I'm curious too, because this has to be some sort of misunderstanding." Izuku said.
"You guys really screwed this one up, didn't you?" Mugino shakes his ahead after takes a fugitive out.
"We'll explain later, just aid us in getting through these guys first." Konohamaru replied in battle position with everyone else.
"No problem!" Sumire nods, in stance.
"Yes sir!" Tsu adds.
"We can't waste time any longer." Shinki said, with his quick ready.
"Right!" Pony agrees.
"Indeed!" Momo too, while Tsubaki got her sword ready.
With that, they start fighting the criminals around them, taking a majority out, one at a time.
Meanwhile:
A purple portal from Kurogiri appears near the entrance of silent city before he, the Shin's and Tomura, lastly, come out.
Upon seeing their surroundings being in an overcasted one, "So this is Silent city... where fugitives from various parts reside." Kurogiri speaks.
"We already heard that from the boss, you know." Teen shin said in remind.
"Now that we're here at this unpleasant place, who should we start recruiting..." Tomura voices as the wind blows by them.
"It can't just be anyone." Adult Shin chimes in, "They have to be strong... and they actually have to join the league willingly."
"..." Tomura stays quiet under his hand-mask for a few seconds before somewhat agreeing, "Fair enough, I suppose." They begin walking into the city, "Better hope it doesn't turn out disastrous... just like with Shojoji and Stain."
"Hmph, that all depends on how you act." Adult Shin rebukes with a grimace.
Back to the castle scuffle, the group manages to take out every last random fugitive in the area, with the adult heroes bringing down the last ones, "Is everyone good?" Konohamaru asks.
"Yeah, for now." Sarada replies.
"We're still in one piece somehow, ya know?" Boruto adds.
"It would have been great if we didn't have this slowing us down." Izuku said.
Looking around their surroundings, Shinki states otherwise, "Doesn't seem like we're off the hook yet."
They see more random criminals surrounding them again, with different weapons to their disposal, as they all chuckle and laugh evilly.
"These guys don't give up, do they?" Pony mutters.
"Is fighting their only option?" Sumire steps back one time.
"But this many people..." Tsuyu trails.
"I'm all for it!" Mirko gets in ready position again, "The more enemies around, the better I get to smash their skulls in!"
"Hell yeah!" Bakugo completely agrees as he crackles mini-explosives.
"Chill out, you two!" Chojuro warns, "We still have an objective here!"
"Hey, guys!" They hear a whisper from the corner of an alley, which is the little boy that stole from before, "Over here!" He whispers again.
"Who're you?" Boruto asks.
Sumire recognizes him and says in surprise, "You're the kid from the black market!"
"The little brat from before, huh?" Mirko gets it.
"Who cares about that, just hurry!" The boy warns.
Seeing that there's not much of a choice and fight the random criminals around them isn't getting them anywhere, "Bakugo, use your stun grenade as a distraction so we can go!" Jeanist advises.
"Seriously? I'm not running from these extras-!" Katsuki argues, but.
"Just do it!" Jeanist exclaims seriously to the hothead, "Everyone be ready!" He warns to the rest.
Seeing that he's forced to do it and without an argument, Katsuki arms his arms forward at the villains and exclaims, "STUN GRENADE!" A flash of bright light covers the area and blinds the random criminals around them.
"AGH!"
"My eyes!"
"I can't see!"
"What the hell is this?!"
The randoms exclaim out as some drop their weapons and cover their eyes.
"This is our chance!" Mugino exclaims, before the hero and intern group retreat amongst the distracted villain crowd and successfully get away.
Now in an underground pathway, "I didn't know there was a passageway like this under the city." Momo voices as they walk with the little boy guiding them with a flashlight.
"It's probably an abandoned sewer system." Konohamaru figures.
"Heh, very useful." Mirko admits.
"You can rest easy now." The boy assures, "The grown-ups don't know nothin' about this place."
"Why are you helping us?" Mugino asks.
"It's cause I owe you guys... big time." He reveals.
"You owe us?" Pony asks.
"Ask your friend for the details." The boy replies, confusing the group.
Just a little further, "We're here." He said, "This is the place." They see a small cavern house that looked like it was hand-made.
At the door, they are surprised to see the snake teen walk out, "Hey there." Mitsuki smiles and greets.
"Mitsuki!" His 1-A classmates(Except Katsuki) exclaim in surprise and glad to see him.
"What are you doing here?" Konohamaru asks.
"Yeah, and how come you stayed behind back there with Miss Yubina?" Tsuyu asks.
"It's a lot to explains, so I rushed over as soon as I was able to." Mitsuki replies before he eyes the little girl behind him, who stands out, "With her."
Surprised, "You were the girl at the hospital!" Boruto recognizes.
"Thank goodness you got better!" Sarada adds.
"I told my big brother, that he risked his life to save mine!" The girl told, gratefully.
"Kona is my kid sister." The boy reveals and gratefully adds, "Thank you for protecting her." he gazes to Mitsuki. who keeps his usual smile.
"So, the person who left her at Miss Yubina's hospital was..." Sumire puts the pieces together.
"Yeah, it was me." Katara admits, "I ad no choice... I couldn't pay for her treatment." He adds to the group, "You all saved her life."
"So that's the connection." Mugino understands.
"What goes around comes around." Konohamaru said.
"Hey, the good you do for others is good you do yourself, I'll say." Mirko grins.
"..." Jeanist gazes silently, on the other hand.
Moving on, heroes/interns gather around and discuss their objective.
"Let's take stock of our situation." Chojuro advises.
"The ones who tricked us and escaped with the Hashirama cell, were those lookalike individuals, right?" Jeanist asks, specifically to Katsuki, Boruto, and Shinki since they were in the main castle room first.
"Yeah." The blonde nods, "It appears that they were watching us ever since we got here."
"They even killed the mistress of the castle and stole the Hashirama cell." Shinki adds, arms crossed over chest.
"Hold on, seriously?!" Izuku widen in surprise.
"Wish we knew what the bastards are so I can blast their heads off!" Katsuki said.
"The only lead we have, is this." Konohamaru takes out a covered knife that's coated in poison, courtesy of the quadruplets.
"It could come in handy in pursing the culprits." Mugino said.
"But guys, while we're doing this, couldn't they be leaving Silent city by now?" Momo asks, concerned about that.
"It would be bad if they got any further..." Sumire trails.
"About that, Miss Yubina told me that the Hashirama cell is unstable." Mitsuki explains, "And when it's wobbled around, there's a high risk of it going out of control."
"In short, you can't rush around while handling it." Tsubaki gets it.
"It's become more complicated now..." Sarada trails.
"Agreed. So that's why they went through all the trouble to make us into decoys." Jeanist catches on.
"It was just to buy time as a result." Konohamaru finishes.
"But aren't there several routes to the border?" Tsuyu asks.
"That's what I'd like to know too." Izuku chimes in, "Unless we know which they're escaping... finding them is gonna be difficult."
"I think we can be of help there." The boy said, getting their attentions.
"How?" Boruto asks, raised brow.
"Just watch." The boy goes over to a pipe and speaks loud through it, "This is Katara. Can you hear me? Over!"
"Loud and Clear, over!" Another kid speaks through in reply, along with more.
"Same here, loud and clear!"
"Captain Katara! We're good to go anytime! Over!"
"You're linked up far with just a pipe? Amazing!" Izuku beams.
"There's a lot of you too!" Pony beams as well.
"There's another city that spreads out underground that belongs only to us." Katara reveals confidently before speaking to his other friends through the pipe, "Listen up, this is a mission." He adds, "Get me intel on some suspicious four lookalikes. They should be headed out of the city!"
"Roger!" The kids comply through the pipes.
"Huh..." Boruto finds wonder in how this'll go.
"Wait and see, they'll be super easy to find." Katara confidently said, and he proves correct when one through the pipeline replies,
"Sighting report! There are witnesses who saw four lookalikes, and they're on a domestic path, mostly headed toward the border."
"All right!" Izuku glad this worked.
"Very impressive." Mirko grins, hands on hips.
"Furthermore, if we use an underground passageway, we can purse them using the shortest route." Mitsuki said, "That's how we got here."
"That works better in our favor and we won't have to fight any fugitives up there." Tsuyu adds.
"Yeah, we have scattered exits all over." Katara confirms.
"We can't thank you enough." Mugino said, in gratitude.
"Yeah, thanks!" Momo nods.
Blushing a little at the compliments, "This is the least I do can, to pay back the debt my sister and I owe to you heroes." He adds, "Let's hurry! I'll guide you right up to the edge of the border!" He smiles before taking the lead from there.
By the time they make it to an exit that leads to the cities back exit, the others start climbing up the latter, except Jeanist, who decides to use this time to speak with the two kids, "Katara, Kona..." He adds, getting their gazes, "You both have strong wills and have done well to survive in this city up to now." He states, surprisingly the kids, "If heroes like us knew that there were kids living in these parts, then we would have noticed right away and did something, and for that." He bows his head, "I'm sorry."
"..." The kids in surprised again to hear this before the hero proposes,
"I'm sending some members of my agency to come and pick you and the other kids up at the locations connected to here." Jeanist adds, "Living here any further would be dangerous, which is why I know some shelters in Musutafu that'll take you guys in. And from there, you're lives will be easier and one that isn't poor." He assures.
"A-Are you sure?!" Kona asks, eagerly, which Jeanist nods in again in confirmation.
Katara forms a smile, pleased with this, "You know... i always stayed true to the fact that if we helped a hero out..." he adds, positively, "Then we would get something greater in return!" He grins happily.
"And that, you did." Jeanist nods, "What do you say?"
"Of course, we accept!" The little siblings said happily in unison.
Meanwhile:
In a diner that appears to be dark, a man cuts through a piece of meat on his plate and eats it via fork. After swallowing it, he grimaces, "It tastes like sand." He isn't pleased with this dish and looks out the window toward the castle and sees a bunch of random fugitives running by, in search for the heroes/interns.
Without looking, he throws his knife toward the dart-target, scoring right in the middle with ease as the board lights up at his aim.
"I came all this way to the sticks... so I deserve to have a little more fun." He then gets up and walks toward the counter, laying down a dollar-bill, "Thanks for the meal." He says sadistically to the revealed corpse of the diner's employee, as well as the whole place that's scattered with dead bodies... revealed to be his doing. He licks his lips as he walks out the diner.
By the time he's outside the place, he turns to see Zorvus, in a cloak, learning against the wall with arms crossed over chest under it, "Showing no restraint as usual, I see... Deepa." Zorvus said, getting a gaze from the latter, "You left the place in there a bloody mess, I presume?"
"Restaurants with bad cooked meals deserve that fitting result." Deepa gazes, "You should know how I operate by now, Zorvus."
"Ah, whatever." He shrugs, not caring all that much, "More importantly... we need to get 'that' object." Hope you haven't forgotten."
"Of course not." Deepa replies, "Don't need that old timer throwing a tantrum, do we?" He smirks before they march on, "It still wouldn't hurt to mess around while we're here."
"I guess you could say that." Zorvus said, admitting, "I do feel like gutting someone right now." He smirks himself, as they head toward the castle.
Back to the group:
As they're now out in the open, "This is where we say goodbye, Katara, Kona." Boruto smiles.
"We're indebted to you." Izuku adds.
"Yeah! Do your best and don't die!" Katara encourages.
"Be careful, big sisters and big brothers!" Kona smiles.
"We will, thank you." Momo nods.
With that said, the little siblings head back to their underground spot as they part ways with the group.
"They're such strong will kids." Sarada said, impressive.
"Still... it would have been great to help them get out of this position, even a little." Sumire mutters.
"Yeah, I know..." Pony agrees, worried too, "Living in a place meant for criminals would be dangerous for those kids..."
"Which is why I sent some members from my agency to come here and retrieve all kids that are from or connected here to Silent City." Jeanist reveals to them, surprising the teens, "There's nothing to worry about now." He assures.
"That's a relief..." Izuku replies as they're glad to hear.
"Good call, Jeanist." Konohamaru too.
"That's the essence of being a hero." Mirko grins.
"Yes, it is." Chojuro agrees.
"Now that that's handled, it's time we purse those purple-haired bastards." Katsuki speaks up, changing back to the main topic.
"We don't have a moment to waste." Mugino agrees as they all turn to him, "We'll split up to track the guys who stole the Hashirama cell." He adds, "It'll be the same groups as before so call for back-up as soon as you find a lead."
"Understood." Shinki nods.
"We'll catch them for sure this time!" Boruto pounds his fists together before they split in groups.
With the Rabbit hero's group:
"Tracking, huh..." Momo looks around as they match in the forest.
"Well, after making it this far, we don't have to worry about that guys coming after us." Pony said, relieved about that.
"That doesn't mean we let our guards down." Tsubaki warns, "There are still those from the underworld that might also be after the cells too."
"She's right about that, now keep your eyes peeled." Mirko adds as they keep searching.
While they do, Sumire spots what looks to be three people up on the branch and quickly warns, "Guys!"
"!" Once the four are warned, a stream of yellow lightning is launched from above, making them all jump back.
"Who goes there? Show yourselves!" Mirko exclaims to the attackers.
Jumping and landing to the ground is a young man that's dark-skinned, a Kumo-nin with short, spiky, white hair and dark eyes accentuated with eyelashes curving upwards from the corners. He wears a dark outfit consisting of an overlong shirt with a hood, and with red bandage hand guards. Alongside two subordinates that are with him, "Hey, you!" He speaks.
"What? Are you guys after the Hashirama cells too?" Mirko asks, ready for them if they attack.
"You're Mirko, the Rabbit Hero, correct?" Omoi recognizes and ignores the question as he questions them, "Are you the ones who murdered Sakuya, the Lady of Fushuu Castle and escaped with the cells?"
"No way, even those little girls?" First subordinate(Marui), questions in surprise at the 4 teen interns.
"What a surprise." Second subordinate (Kakui), agrees.
"Looking down on us is something you'll regret." Tsubaki goes for her sword, but Mirko puts an arm in front of her to stand down.
"Hand over the Hashirama cell." Omoi demands, with his hand out.
"Unfortunately for you, we don't have it on us right now." Mirko reveals.
"We'll just have to verify that." Omoi reaches for the sheathed blade behind his back.
"It's true!" Momo exclaims.
"We really don't have it!" Sumire too.
"So, are you gonna keep this up, or are you gonna come clean?" Omoi asks, "If you don't hand it over, the you're gonna get hurt." He declares, as his subordinates are ready too.
"So you wanna rubble?" Mirko's intrigued, "Aight, bring it. I can take you three out again once."
"Wanna bet?" Omoi challenges.
"Hold on, Mirko." Edgeshot appears, along with the rest of the group.
"Mr. Edgeshot? Since when did you get here?" Pony asks.
"Komago told me about the border, so he gave the coordinates to here." He replies.
"And why are you stopping me from beating their asses?" Mirko asks, not all that pleased.
"We know him." Chojuro walks up.
"You're Omoi, right?" Konohamaru asks, knowing him too.
"Hold on... Aquanari and Komago?" Omoi's surprised to see them here, taking his hand off his blade.
"That's right." The latter nods.
"You know him?" Tsuyu asks.
"Yeah, he's from Static' agency." Chojuro reveals.
"Seriously?!" Izuku's surprised.
"That's a small twist." Mitsuki said.
"Hmph." Tsubaki only grimaces.
"First, answer my question from before." Omoi isn't through yet, "Did you kill Sakuya and steal the Hashirama cell?"
"Are you deaf or something? We don't have it!" Mirko exclaims, annoyed.
"To be precise, we were framed." Chojuro said, in a calm way.
"..." Omoi gazed before explaining, "There were rumors going around that the Hashirama cell was in Silent City." He adds, "Static felt it could turn into a dangerous situation... so he ordered Marui, Kakui and me to sneak into Silent City and investigate."
"Then all of a sudden, there was a big commotion." Marui said.
"That's when we heard that some heroes murdered Sakuya and stole the cell." Kakui added, "Which I didn't buy too much..."
"The guys who framed us spread lies!" Boruto states out.
"As a result, we're being pursued by a bunch of different groups of criminals." Sarada added.
"Since we made it this far, we assume that they won't be coming after us at this point." Izuku said.
"And? Do you know who the real perpetrators are?" Omoi asks.
"No, other than the fact that they are lookalikes and are most likely criminals themselves." Mugino said.
"This is the weapon they used to kill Sakuya." Konohamaru shows off the clothed poison knife.
"Is that poison?" Omoi takes a closer look, "I've seen the same thing before."
"Oh yeah? Where's that?" Jeanist asks.
"It was when a VIP from Cloud City was assassinated." He replied, "I'm gonna guess that these guys are from Haze city and use the same kind of poison."
"Haze city, huh." Shinki said.
"Now we know where they're from." Tsuyu adds.
"Let's just go and blow these bastards up already!" Katsuki's gets annoyance ready to find the quadruplets and blast them.
"Cool it, Bakugo." Jeanist tells him.
"If that group is from haze city and stole the Hashirama cell... and it gets into the hands of evildoers..." Omoi begins to sweat, in a dramatic way, "Or some kinda mad scientist... This could turn into something really bad!" He assumes, shouting sarcastically too, "No, not that! What do we do if the cell dramatically starts multiplying? Even if we retrieve it, it could continue to multiply until finally, it explodes!" He speaks fast and starts dramatically freaking out, dropping the ground too, "If that happens, there's no controlling it!"
"Uh... is he alright?" Sumire blinks in confusion.
"Beats me... this has now turned weird." Tsuyu said, feeling the same way.
"Nothing like he was a few seconds ago..." Tsubaki said.
"Oh man..." Kakui sighs.
"Here we go again..." Marui crosses his arms, sighing too, "Mr Omoi's going into a frantic thought spiral..."
"Huh?" Izuku confused, so are the rest.
"A thought spiral?" Mitsuki narrows.
"That's not what it is!" Omoi stands up and exclaims, "It's fact that rumors about the Hashirama cell are spreading like wildfire! Hordes of individuals might be on their way, and if that happens, this could turn into something really bad!"
"No, what's "really bad" is your negative thinking, Mr. Omoi." Kakui sweat-drops.
"Such a worrywart." Marui sweat-drops too.
"Worse than a worrywart, I'd say." Boruto chimes in.
"I think an explosion is a bit far-fetched." Sarada said, hands on hips.
"You can say that again." Pony nods comfortably.
"Normally in situations like this, you have to think about worst-case scenarios!" Omoi exclaims dramatically, "So if things escalate, you can keep calm and deal with them!"
"Yeah, yeah." His subordinates put hands on his shoulder to calm h down.
"Back on topic, the Hashirama cell has been under our supervision." Konohamaru explains, "It hasn't been determined how other people get a hold of it.
"Either way, we have to recover it, no matter what." Jeanist said.
"If that's how it is, will help you." Omoi offers, "It's safe to assume that Haze guys are planning to take the Hashirama cells back to their land." He adds, "Which means the shortest route back home for them is over the mountains."
"About that... If the cell is stimulated in any way, it runs the risk of blowing out of control." Chojuro said.
"Meaning in their case, the mountainous route is out of the question." Mirko said.
"I see..." Omoi thinks about this, "It's highly probable they took that road." He notes, having an idea about what path they took.
Meanwhile:
Elsewhere in the forest, away from Silent City, the quadruplets Haze brothers take a break as they've been moving and Asaka stands watch atop a tree branch in alert for any pursuers.
"No signs of the Hashirama cell going out of control." Hiruga observes.
"Yeah." Yoruga agrees.
Asaka jumps down and informs, "No signs of any pursuers either."
"The Heroes probably got trapped, just like we plant." Yuga assumes, "Let's hurry while we still have the chance." He adds, receiving nods from his brothers before they march off in heading back to Haze city, but unaware that the Heroes/Interns are also out of Silent City and are in pursuit of them.
Ending 6, "Central" by Ami Sakaguchi
Opens up with a couple flashbacks from the Sports festival: Momo losing to Mitsuki that caused her to lose confidence in herself. Sumire losing her fight to Bakugo, but in a close match. Pony losing to Boruto without landing even a punch, caused her to tear up. Tsubaki losing to Izuku, but smiled a tad bit in admitting defeat.
With the song playing, it switches to the girls in their civilian clothes: Sumire gazing at her phone while crouched down, Momo looking depressed as her gaze is lowered, Pony gazing at the sky as her eyes shine, and Tsubaki standing in the breeze as it blows trough her hair.
Next shows Sarada and Tsuyu (the two who saw their results at the Sports festival as ways to improve) encouraging the four to join them in an art setting, which they do before all 6 U.A. girls indulge in the activity of painting. Having paint cans and paint brushes to draw designs on the walls and having a great time. After their time of entertainment, Momo, Tsubaki, Sumire, and Pony appreciated that fun as a way of keeping themselves positives and using their fights at the sports festival to become better heroes.
As the song is halfway, the six of them are in their hero costumes, jumping high in the air in slow motion and having grins, while Tsubaki smiles slightly. When they reach the ground, they dash forward in a long run before they use their quirks: Sarada punching the air via chakra fist, Tsubaki doing a chakra-coated slash, Pony firing two horns from her head, Momo forming a staff and shield, Tsuyu jumping and latching out her tongue, and Sumire launching off a massive shot of water with Nue on her shoulder.
The last panel shows the girls all standing together on a building, standing firmly and happily as they gaze into the sunset before smiling to each other while the breeze blows through their hairs. As students in-training, they vow to improve themselves in many areas without giving up, as the song closes.
That's wraps up our heroes being in silent city and with extra help, they're in hot pursuit of the Haze brothers. However, they won't be the only ones after that cell.
Until next chapter, back to some action!