CW: Blood and gore
Resources used this chapter:
- Grineer (2023) translator on lingojam
- English to Corpus (Improved) on lingojam
Translations will not be perfect as these are fan-generated resources but its easier than trying to parse the IPA conlang for two fictional languages myself.
=VI=
"Fortune despises the idle man. Stasis is death. Always move forward."
- Second Tenet of Parvos Granum
=VI=
[League of Villains Bar, Kamino Ward, April 10th, 2243]
"Sensei…" Tomura bowed before the blank TV monitor. "I'm ready. Giran has arranged for a few trash mobs to hear me out on my proposal." The young man licked his chapped lips.
"Excellent Tomura." All For One clapped. "And are you remaining in budget?"
"I'm saving the cash to pull some 5 Star characters. Giran said that he's pulling a few heavy hitters that may be interested." Tomura said. "But I'm betting on a bunch of trash-tier fodder. Maybe I'll hit pity and get some good ones though."
"... I am unfamiliar with the terminology you are using, but it seems you have thought this through." All For One replied. "I look forward to your results."
[Undisclosed Warehouse, Kamino Ward, April 11th, 2243]
Tomura looked over the gathered scum and criminals gathered in the warehouse, which had been retrofitted into a makeshift pub. He wasn't dumb enough to invite randos back to the home base, they might report him to the admins or grief him.
Most of the people here were F to B-ranked villains- petty criminals and the like. Offer them a few thousand yen and free refreshments to show up with the promise of more upon completion and they crawled out of the woodwork. Unfortunately, he didn't have enough rep points to pull any famous villains like Muscular, he was starting at level seemed to be enjoying the food and drinks that Kurogiri was providing, having split off into small groups. Looking around, he spotted an odd one; a group of armored men crowded in one group. Huh, must be a premade party.
=VI=
Fania eyed the Grineer around her as they gorged themselves on the free food, her lip curling with disgust. This "merry" bunch of clones had been stuck with her when the Sentient struck and Narmer's subsequent takeover.
Sitting across from her was a tall Corpus man, her husband Det. "Is this really the best we could do, Fania?"
"Unfortunately, we don't exactly have any sort of rapport. Getting that damn broker to even hear us out ate through most of our funds." Fania sighed. "Plus these guys paid upfront for us to show up, so I smell profit. We just need to prove our worth to them over these…" She eyed the people around them. "Villains."
Most of their Yen, obtained from a few electronic heists had been used to purchase supplies to repair their suits and acquire new weaponry, as well as keeping almost two dozen Grineer fed. If they weren't so useful she probably would've disposed of them long ago. Dumb muscle was good for something.
Unfortunately, they couldn't keep hacking into banks forever. She'd already seen another group of Corpus get hauled off in purple military vans after they got busted. They didn't exactly have untraceable hardware to pull off the heists. They needed steady employment.
"I suppose so. You've never led us astray before." Det nodded. His wife had always had a nose for profit.
"Boss lady needs to relax." One of the Grineer, clad in Lancer armor said. "You are smart, so we follow. No bugs, no Tenno here."
As much as she hated to agree with a Grineer, he was right. Life here was significantly better than back in the Origin System. Sure, they were in need of money, but there was no war here, no debts to repay, and best of all, no Tenno.
Only heroes.
Det heard the sound of someone big approaching, looking over to see a massive scorpion heteromorph looming over the table, towering over his 213 cm frame. The man's barbed tail swished behind him as his mandibles formed what he assumed was a grin.
"Well hello there little lady. What's a little thing like you doing in a place like this?" He placed an oversized hand on Fania's shoulder.
Det reached down and placed his shotgun, a Remington 870 Sawed Off, onto the table. "I'd appreciate it if you took your hand off my wife, bug." He threatened.
The scorpion-man chortled, mandibles chittering. "What are you gonna do with that, little man?"
The Grineer eyed the situation carefully but otherwise remained uninterested in their leader's predicament.
"Your funeral." Det snorted, leaning back with his hands behind his head in a relaxed position.
"That's what I thought." He sneered, crouching down to eye level with Fania. "How 'bout you and I get to know each other a little better after this?"
Fania rolled her eyes, and in a flash planted her pistol underneath his jaw. "I'll give you one more chance to remove your hand."
"You stupid bitch, my chitin is bulletproof. What do you think your little peashooter is going to-"
Pew!The sound of a single Plinx shot rang out, grinding all conversation in the warehouse to a halt. His hand released Fania's shoulder, falling limply to the side as the man staggered backward before crashing to the ground, a neatly cauterized hole bored from under his jaw all the way through the top of his skull.
"Anyone else thinking of trying anything?" Fania twirled the barely restored pistol in her hand before holstering it. "I didn't think so."
Kurogiri sighed, opening a portal beneath the man's corpse and sending it off where it could be of better use.
"Damn it," Tomura hissed. "That woman, she just wasted Kumohari! Do you know how much I had to pay him to show up? He was my best pull!" The pale-blue-haired man raged. "I'm going to go and dust her…"
Kurogiri held up a hand. "Calm yourself Tomura. They are clearly not of the same quality of this… rabble. Perhaps you should approach this with a cooler head and see if they could be of use to you." He recognized the bulky armor of the Grineer that All For One had been so interested in. Otherworlders, and they appeared to be somewhat organized.
"Ugh… fine." They better be worth losing an S-ranked villain party member." Tomura grumbled, before stalking over to the table.
Fania looked up to see a young man clad in hands looming over the table. "Can I help you?" She placed her hand on her gun's holster.
"You just fragged my main tank, and he was an expensive summon." Tomura rasped. "What's your deal?"
"So you're the client?" Fania gave him a quick once-over. He was just a boy, barely even an adult.
"Yeah, I'm the one hiring you all." Tomura glanced at the armored men. "These your people?"
"Yep, we're sort of a mercenary company." Fania took a sip of her drink.
"I've never seen you around here before." Tomura narrowed his eyes. Mercenaries wanted money, but these seemed to be better equipped than the other villains.
"We're new, trying to build up some rep," Fania explained. "We aren't exactly locals, so we need the work."
Tomura nodded. "How many are you?" He eyed the eight or so men.
"Almost two dozen," Fania said. "Couldn't bring 'em all." Honestly, managing most of the Grineer was like wrangling a bunch of children. Only a few of them were on a level she would consider intelligent, the rest being essentially overgrown children trained in the art of genocide. One of them cuddled a floof when he slept for Granum's sake! The only good they were was in a fight. "Trained soldiers, we've got a few guns but the quality could be better." She shrugged.
Tomura raised an eyebrow. Guns were hard to come across in Japan, most of the time not being worth the trouble to get through the black market. "I see…" He tapped the hand on his chin thoughtfully. These seemed like good elite mooks, and they looked pretty cool as well. "I assume you have a price?"
"What's the job?" Det inquired.
"We're going to kill the Symbol of Peace." Tomura grinned.
"All Might? You're out of your mind." Fania snorted. She'd seen that monster of a man. She reckoned he was stronger than even a Tenno, not that she'd ever seen one in action. This kid was obviously a newbie by the way he acted. No way he had the force to pull something like that off with villains he hired off the street.
"I have a plan, just you wait and see. If we pull this off everyone who helped will get lots of loot and XP." Tomura replied, turning toward the stage.
Fania turned to Det. "The hell does that mean?" He shrugged in response.
Tomura made his way up to the stage and cleared his throat. "I see that you've all enjoyed the complimentary service, but let's get down to business."
The idle chatter and banter petered off as the gathered villains turned their focus toward the stage.
"I bet you're wondering why you were all called here?" Tomura asked rhetorically.
"Yeah!" One man in the back shouted. "Get on with it!"
Tomura scowled at the interruption. "I've got an itch that won't go away, a hero itch." He scratched at his neck. "One that's been bugging me a loooong time. I think it's time we applied some ointment, and get rid of it for good." He pressed a button and a large projector booted up, displaying an image of the World's Number One hero. "I want to kill All Might."
The gathered villains stared incredulously for a few seconds before laughter erupted throughout the room.
"You can't be serious!" A four-armed rocky man hooted, pounding his lower hand against the table. "You're pretty funny, thinking you can take All Might?"
"You got a death wish or something kid?" Another cackled.
One lone villain crossed his arms and spoke out over the others. "And what makes you think you could take All Might, asshole." The skull masked villain in a tank top shouted. "Hundreds have tried, probably stronger than us. We ain't throwing our lives away on your little suicide mission."
Tomura resisted the urge to charge the idiot and dust him. "Because we have a secret weapon. Kurogiri, bring it in." He motioned to the warper.
The crowd silenced as a large portal appeared on stage. Slowly, a hulking black-skinned man covered in scars with an exposed brain and birdlike beak emerged from the mist, standing obediently at Tomura's side. "This is Nomu, he was specifically designed to take down the symbol of peace. This thing was bioengineered to be the perfect weapon."
"What a bunch of baloney." The man from earlier interrupted again. "There's no way that thing is as strong as All Might."
That guy had gotten on Tomura's last nerve. "Looks like we have a volunteer to prove you wrong. Nomu, kill him."
Before the man could even register what was said, Nomu had appeared behind him.
"Huh?" The man managed to say before his skull was violently crushed like a grape.
"Holy fuck!" Someone screamed.
"Nomu was made to counter All Might. You all won't even need to fight him." Tomura smiled sadistically. "In a few day's time, we are going to attack U.A. Those heroes have had it too good for too long, oppressing us, dogs of the state!" He ranted aimlessly, trying to pull at their heartstrings. "Don't you want to teach them a lesson? Show the world that they aren't invincible paragons of justice that they say they are?"
"Yeah!" A woman piped up.
"He's right!" Another man raised his fist.
God bless these gullible morons.
"You do your part, and you'll be legends. The group that took down the invincible All Might!" Tomura continued. "Of course, once you agree to this, there's no going back. You'll have to stay here until the main event." He didn't want anyone to spoil his Main Story Quest after all. Leakers were the worst. "So who's with me!?"
Across the building, cheers began to erupt in solidarity.
Det looked over at Fania. "So, what do you think hun?"
"This brat is a moron," Fania noted. "But he's obviously got a wealthy backer. There's no way he could pull something like this otherwise. We do our job, and we'll be set. I can just feel the credits- I mean Yen, awaiting us. We'll fulfil our desires, for Profit."
"For Profit."
"Get that teleporter to bring the rest of the troops." Fania slipped on her helmet. "We'll need all the meat shields we can get."
=VI=
[Unforeseen Simulation Joint, April 13th, 2243]
[MHA OST: Villains Attack]
"Odd…" The black misty man shrunk down as the last Grineer excited the portal. " Shigaraki Tomura, the schedule we stole said that All Might was supposed to be here. I only see Thirteen and Eraserhead… and whoever that one is."
"Grrrrr… Tomura scratched at his neck. "Where is he?!"
"Damn it, of course, they used the press's break-in as a distraction," Ordan muttered with bated breath. 'Nezu didn't see anything on the cameras. How did they get the schedule?' His eyes widened. 'The warper! Of course…'
"Kaminari, Jiro, contact the school!" Shota ordered.
"I can't, something's jamming my communicator!" Denki yelped.
"Eraser, Bone Beast! The alarms aren't going off either!" Anan informed him. "Nobody will know what's happening here!"
"Go! Get the kids out of here!" Shota gripped his capture scarf.
"I, Bone Beast, grant all students present permission to use their quirks to defend themselves!" Ordan shouted. "Haylee, ' (don't let any harm come to your classmates)." He commanded. With that said, began to advance toward the approaching villains.
"Understood!" Haylee shouted back.
"Why are you giving them permission to fight?" Shota growled, chasing after him.
"Those armored ones are trained soldiers." Ordan grimaced. "And I get the feeling these villains aren't here to take prisoners."
Shota gritted his teeth. "Dammit!"
Anan watched her fellow teachers charge toward the villains. "Alright everyone, time to go! We need to evacuate!"
"But sensei!" Izuku said. "Eraserhead's quirk isn't suited for group fights!"
"Quit stalling and move!" Ordan grabbed Izuku by the arm. "Ordan is with him, they'll be fine. We need to go."
Izuku realized that Haylee's hand was shaking, and she had a dead serious look on her face.
"Izuku, you realize what's at stake, right?" Haylee demanded.
His eyes widened, remembering the carvings in Haylee's room. Those men, they were Grineer!
"R-right!"
1-A changed up the stairs as the villains began to engage Ordan and Shota.
"Shooting squad, mow 'em down!" A woman with long gray prehensile dreadlocks shouted.
Shota activated his quirk, erasing the quirks of the villains. Predictably, they panicked once their primary means of attack were suddenly restricted. Before they could react his capture scarf entangled them and slammed their skulls together knocking them out.
"Eraser!" Ordan shouted.
Behind the first group of villains, three Grineer lancers leveled their machine guns at Shota.
'Shit!" Shota panicked. He was nimble enough to dodge gunfire, but not in a wide open space like this plaza!
'Bone Arsenal: Kronen!'
Gunfire erupted before Shota could move, but suddenly Ordan was in front of him, blades of bone extending from his arms. With practiced ease, he deflected the bullets until their mags ran dry.
"Grat kle...?!" The lancer at the front shouted, reaching for a second magazine.
'Holy…' Shota paled. 'Did he just deflect bullets? I would've been dead if he… no time to think about that now!' His capture weapon whipped out and snatched the rifles out of the armored men's hands. One of them grabbed at the flexible scarf and pulled, sending Shota sliding toward the group. 'His quirk is erased! And what's more, he's even stronger than Karris!'
"Get klem!" The other two Lancers leaped at Shota.
'Bone Arsenal: Obex.' Ordan intercepted the first man with a devastating punch right to the faceplate, shattering it. The Lancer staggered back. The second one tried to punch down at Ordan, missing but cratering the ground where he hit. Then, his fist pulsed and released a powerful shockwave that knocked both men back.
'These Grineer, they're nearly as physically strong as the old Grineer back before the Old War.' Ordan realized. 'And, I can't forget the unknown variable of quirks.' Grineer had been genetically engineered to be the perfect work slaves, strong enough to lift a car unaided. The fact they were still in their heavy body armor proved they were no slouches. He knew from the Detective that all the captured Grineer had no cybernetic augmentations, meaning they were even more dangerous than the decaying Grineer that Haylee fought.
This was going to be tough, and he still had the other Villains to worry about. He hoped the kids were getting out safe.
=VI=
[U.A. Staff Lounge]
"Yagi." Natah loomed over the sweating man, eyes glowing with Tau energy. "What exactly did you think you were doing this morning?"
"Well uh, you see…" He stammered.
"I'm waiting." Natah crossed her arms.
"There were people in need of help! I couldn't just stand by and do nothing!" Toshinori protested.
"You do realize there are other heroes, hundreds, in fact." Nezu hopped off Natah's shoulder onto the table. "In this city alone. Perhaps we need to have a discussion about your duties as a teacher moving forward."
Toshinori gulped, Natah and Nezu of all people (animals?) giving him the stare of a disappointed parent.
=VI=
[Unforeseen Simulation Joint]
Tomura watched as the two heroes began to fight through his fodder minions. The students had begun to run back up the stairs toward the entrance. "Kurogiri, there are no escape ropes for this dungeon. Make sure they don't get out." He pointed to Fania and Det. "You two, make yourselves useful and go with him."
"Got it." Det nodded.
Kurogiri wrapped his misty form around the two Corpus and they reappeared right in front of the exit door just as the students reached the apex. "Not so fast, you aren't getting out of here." Kurogiri threatened. "It's a pleasure to meet you all. We are the League of Villains." He greeted them politely, trying not to cringe at their organization's name. "All Might was supposed to be here, but I suppose some things never go to play." The misty man sighed.
On his side, Fania stepped out on the left, Det on the right.
'The Corpus!' Haylee took up a defensive position behind Thirteen.
"You kids stay back!" The Space hero shouted.
"You best stay nice and still, hero!" The Corpus woman pulled out her pistol just as Thirteen pulled the cap off her finger, activating her quirk.
Pew!
The laser was absorbed into a ball of swirling darkness at the tip of her finger, turning to dust as if it were a solid object.
"Tch!" She holstered her Plinx. 'That woman's quirk can absorb energy attacks too!'
※ Fania Lia, Former Sister of Parvos Candidate, Former Captain of Profit Eternal Stanchion-class frigate Villain Name: Scrambler ※
"You villains better stay back!" Anan yelled. "My quirk can shred you down until there is nothing left!"
"You are a rescue hero, Thirteen." Kurogiri mocked. "I know that you would not risk harming us. Your threats are empty."
"Good thing our's aren't, fucker!" Katsuki shouted, leaping forward with Eijiro.
"You idiot! Don't!" Haylee shouted.
"Bakugo, Kirishima, stop!" Anan commanded.
"Sensei said we could use our quirks to stop the villains!" Katsuki smiled with glee, aiming his gauntlet right at the group. "DIE!"
Right before the blast hit, the tall Corpus man dove in front of the blast.
KABOOM!
Izuku coughed, fanning the smoke away. The man was now surrounded by a glowing sphere of what seemed to be ice.
※ Det Lia, Fania's husband- also present. Villain Name: Bunker ※
Haylee's eyes widened. 'You've got to be shitting me! That's an Arctic Eximus bubble! Don't tell me that's his quirk?'
"Damn brat, that was close." Bunker trained his shotgun on the group.
"What a powerful attack." Kurogiri chuckled. "I see you live up to U.A.'s prestigious reputation. No matter," He said, pleased with the support the two Otherworlders offered. "I'll scatter you all for my comrades to dispose of." A dark cloud bloomed, swarming over the class instantly.
Tenya immediately grabbed Uraraka and Sato, leaping out of the way.
Haylee felt herself begin to fall forward, instinctively Void dashing in reverse back up the portal. She blinked back up, witnessing Izuku flailing as he fell into the mist. "IZUKU!" She screamed. Haylee landed back on the ground just as the portal dissipated, looking around frantically. Among the students, only Iida, Uraraka, Sato, Yaoyorozu, Sero, and Koda. Izuku was nowhere to be seen.
Anan glanced around frantically. "Iida, I'll distract them! Run back to-"
A gunshot rang out and Tenya fell to the floor, clutching his leg.
"I don't think so. You shouldn't be revealing your plans in front of the enemy." Bunker warned. "You won't be running anytime soon, speedster." He'd spotted the engines protruding from the boy's legs, figuring him to be the first he should take down. What did Thirteen think she was doing, strategizing within earshot of an enemy with a gun? The firearm wasn't for show.
"It appears I missed some," Kurogiri noted, preparing a second warp cloud.
"Iida!" Thirteen snarled in outrage. "...I see, you leave me no choice!" She pointed her finger at Kurogiri at the same time he launched his attack. "BLACK HOLE!"
The villains, even hidden behind Bunker's quirk could feel themselves begin to edge forward toward her quirk. Fania fired off a few shots, which were easily sucked inside before holstering her Plinx to cool down. "Shit!"
Det gritted his teeth as his bubble began to flake. "Kurogiri, do something!" He hissed.
"What an impressive quirk… incredibly powerful" He complimented. "Unfortunately for you, I'm the perfect counter." With a wave of his hand, a portal appeared in front of her, a second forming right behind her.
"Sensei!" Mina shouted as the Space hero's suit was shredded by her own quirk.
Thirteen hit the ground with a crash, her breathing labored. "Y-you need to r-run!" She wheezed. "Save-"
A laser bolt from Scrambler's pistol seared through her oversized helmet, with two more shots slamming into the puffy astronaut-themed suit, silencing her.
"Thirteen!" Momo cried out in horror.
Fania lowered her pistol, letting the crappy battery cycle. "Stand down brats, I don't want to have to kill any kids. We won't hurt you if you surrender." She couldn't speak for the Grineer and other Villains present, but she had some lines that she would rather not cross unless given no other choice. These were just children, the most she would do was make it so they couldn't run away.
"You…" Haylee snarled, storming toward the trio. "How dare you!"
"Tenno, don't!" Tenya shouted.
'Tenno? There's no way… that's just a child.' Bunker tensed.
Across the USJ, a loud crash was heard from the Flood Zone, briefly distracting the villains. Haylee took that opportunity to transform.
Fania and Det took a horrified step back as the girl's form enlarged and warped into an unforgettable shape. Fania's shock caused her to briefly lapse back into her native Corpus tongue. "Pskoyyitpe, a jatttase! (Impossible, a Warframe!)"
Haylee cracked her neck and brandished her Exalted Blade. "I won't let you hurt them!"
=VI=
[Flood Zone]
"Woaaaaaaaaaah!" Inosuke landed in the water. It was still a shorter fall than that time with the Infinity Castle. He could feel several somethings moving in the water around him, closing in on him quickly. "Uh oh." He dove underwater, heading for the nearby boat.
A shark-faced villain sped by like a torpedo, only narrowly missing Inosuke. He sprung out of the water like a dolphin and dug his swords into the boat, using them like pitons to scale the vessel's hull. With a grunt, he flipped over the side and onto the deck, narrowly dodging a squishy projectile.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAH!" Minoru screamed. "Don'tkillmedon'tkillme!" He flailed wildly, missing every throw as he had his eyes closed.
"Mineta," Todoroki said calmly, almost sounding bored. "It's Hashibira, calm down."
"Why are you so calm?! Those are real villains!" The smaller teen cried.
"My father is Endeavor. I was trained not to be afraid of trash like this." Steam began to billow off his clothes as he dried them. "Hashibira, why aren't you wet?"
"My clothes are homophobic!" Inosuke said, confident in his clearly incorrect answer.
"Huh?" Minoru questioned loudly.
"He means hydrophobic. And quit shouting, you're being annoying." Shoto scowled, ignoring the boy's bawling. He had more important concerns, but one thing was evident. The villains didn't know their quirks, otherwise they wouldn't have sent him to a zone filled with water. Were they stupid? "Idiots."
The villains had all grouped up on the surface to coordinate an attack, so Shoto took that opportunity to strike by freezing the entire lake. A loud crashing sound echoed through the whole USK as the artificial body of water was frozen solid, the air growing cold from the sudden temperature change. Using his other side, he heated up his body slowly to avoid thermal shock.
Insouke stared at the dual-haired boy with bulging eyes. "What the hell, since when could you do that!" He shouted. Todoroki's attack was far larger than anything the Upper Two: Doma had thrown at him. Despite the cold, he was barely shivering. This was nothing compared to the mountainside in the winter, especially with his costume's coat.
"Todoroki!" Minoru sobbed, clinging to the taller boy's leg much to his irritation. "Thanks for saving us!"
"Get off me." Shoto glared at the grape-haired boy. "Come on, those villains said they were here to kill All Might. We need to question them." With a wave of his hand, he made a small slide of ice down the side of the ship. Without any further words he hopped over the edge and slid down.
Inosuke shrugged, grabbing Mineta by the waist and carrying him like a small dog and ignoring the boy's protests.
Shoto approached the shivering group of villains. Luckily none of them had been fully submerged when he froze the lake or they would be suffocating by now. Clearly they weren't enjoying their predicament.
"You little shit! Let us out of here!" A villain wearing a metal scuba mask chattered.
"That depends on what you have to say to me." Shoto crouched down in front of the man. "Your boss, I'm guessing, said that you were here to kill All Might. Tell me how they planned to do something like that." These people managed to sneak into U.A. They had to have some plan if they were capable of that much.
"Don't tell 'em shit, Iron Lung!" A shark-faced villain growled.
"Some of you might be resistant to the cold thanks to your quirks, but if I leave you in here long enough the low temperatures will begin to kill your cells," Shoto said matter-of-factly. "I'm a hero student, so I'd rather not kill you if necessary. If you tell me your boss's plan I'll thaw you out." And then have Mineta trap them so they couldn't harm them, but that was beside the point.
"Y-you wouldn't do that, you don't have the guts." One of the villains shivered.
"Are you willing to take that bet?" Shoto leaned in until he was only a few centimeters from the villain's face, unblinking.
Despite the cold, Iron Lung began to sweat. He couldn't see any sort of hesitation on the ice-user's face. "Alright, alright! They have some creepy looking guy that they said could take on All Might! That big one with the brain showing. He gives me the creeps. They said he was designed to fight All Might specifically, like some sort of weapon." The man shuddered, both from the cold and thinking about whatever the hell Nomu was. "I'm just here for the money kid, nothing personal."
"Trying to kill us makes it pretty personal," Shoto responded dryly, hand heating up to melt the ice. "But you kept up your end of the bargain."
Amidst the sounds of battle in other parts of the facility, he heard three loud explosions in the distance. Shoto could hear a faint whistling sound growing ever closer.
Inosuke looked up, able to sense the incoming objects. "Get down!" He tackled Shoto and Minoru out of the way just as three glowing orbs impacted next to the frozen villains, enveloping them in a large series of explosions.
Inosuke rose to his feet, ears ringing from the concussive force. "Ugh…" She shook his head, looking back at the villains. Nothing discernable remained of their trapped enemies, the exploding having obliterated everything above the ice. Only the bottom gorey halves of their bodies remained, oozing guts and steaming blood onto the ice.
Minoru gagged at the sight of the shark heteromorph's exposed ribcage and spine jutting from the cracked ice. "Oh god, we're going to die!"
Shoto tried to maintain his composure in spite of the bodies behind them, packing that away for later. Following the slight trail the projectiles left behind, he spotted the faint spec of two armored men on the shoreline.
=VI=
"Rahm… those children were able to dodge." The heavily armored Grineer snarled. "Manic, I will provide kovegring figre." He spoke in a mixture of broken Japanese and Grineer. Reaching into his utility belt, he pulled out a bottle of isopropyl alcohol and downed it in a single swig, grimacing at the bitter taste in spite of his quirk making it more palatable. The fleshy bulging organ on his back began to gurgle as more explosives were generated.
Onle Zhul, Tusk Bombard, Regiment 4-4-2 Villain Name: Barrage.
Zhul's quirk, Mortar, allows him to convert flammable chemicals into explosive shells that he can fire out of the specialized organ attached to his back, which resembles the backpack used by Tusk Bombards from the plains of Cetus.
"Yes yes yes, hahahaha!" A hunched-over Grineer chortled. "Boss said to kill or take alive? Too hard, just kill, yes?" He cackled with dubious sanity. Clearly he was one of the exceptions of having mental instability cured by universal travel.
"Go, Tre na get closer to them." Barrage belched, wiping his jaw. "I will not explode you if you are quick. Use quirk to dodge."
"Yes, dying bad!" Manic cackled.
Manic, unknown division, Villain Name: Manic
"Kill!" The crazed Grineer slid down the artificial beach and began to charge the students.
=VI=
[Staff Lounge]
Toshinori was in hell. It felt like he'd been in here for hours but his watch only said a little under an hour had passed. Natah and Nezu had continued their lecture, somehow segueing their point about the importance of teaching into a conversation about supply lines of all things.
He hoped that Izuku was having a better time with rescue training than he was…
=VI=
[Landslide Zone]
"Aaaaaaaaah!" Izuku let One For All crackle through his limbs as he tucked and rolled from the fall. Luckily it wasn't too far up, though he wasn't sure why the villain didn't drop them from a more lethal height…
Didn't he say something about allies?
"MIDORIYAAAA!" He heard a female voice shriek above him, looking up just in time for Hagakure to land on top of him.
"Ow…" Toru groaned, pushing herself off the boy, all the while unintentionally feeling how chiseled his upper body was. Damn, he was buff as hell. Nice. Not that she was uh, trying to feel him up or anything.
"Are you okay?" Izuku asked, of course worrying about the girl who had landed on him rather than himself who had been knocked over.
"Yeah, I'm fine." He'd been knocked over harder by Haylee. "I think we're in the landslide zone?" He stood up, looking around. Down in the plaza, he could see Mr. Karris and Mr. Aizawa fighting off dozens of villains by themselves, and the rest of their classmates, mere specs at this distance, still at the front gate.
"Midoriya!" Toru yelped. "Look!"
Across the rugged terrain, several villains were approaching the duo. At least twelve by a quick headcount, with one lightly armored Grineer in the back. Izuku gulped and unsheathed his katana. "Hagakure, can you fight?"
Toru stepped behind him fearfully. "A little, I know some self-defense moves and what we learned on Tuesday." Her sparring session with Hashibira was still fresh on her mind.
"What about your quirk?" He asked quickly as the villains got closer.
"I don't know what I can do with it, all I have to fall back on is going invisible… and I uh…" She blushed, tugging at the sleeve of her U.A. gym uniform. "Have to… strip, since I don't have my costume and can't control it beyond my body." She squeaked quietly, dying from embarrassment.
Izuku, with a light blush dusting his cheeks, had bigger things to worry about than a girl talking about taking off her clothes. "Okay, I'll guard you, watch my back." He steadied his breathing as the first villain lunged, a bird-faced mutant with a small spear-shaped support item who looked somewhat similar to his classmate Tokoyami.
The man was much slower than Haylee or Lumine, so he easily batted the weapon aside and put his sword into a reverse grip, punching him under the jaw and into a nearby boulder with a quirk-infused fist.
Toru gaped. 'Damn, Midoriya is kind of a badass!' She picked up a rock and threw it over Izuku's shoulder with all her might, beaning another villain in the head with the unexpected attack. She couldn't do much but she would assist him however she could.
Izuku gave her a quick thankful nod, blocking a machete from a shirtless tattooed villain and disarming him. Using his terrain advantage he kicked the man down the side of the hill, sending him sprawling into several more villains. 'They said they were here to kill All Might, but these guys… aren't that good. Maybe it's just because Haylee is much scarier, but they don't seem to be high-ranked villains or anything.' Thoughts raced through his head as he sliced through a projectile sent his way, One For All allowing him to see the attack coming in slow motion. 'But they have people from Haylee's universe with them.'
Out of the corner of his eye, he saw a flash of light- reacting just in time to dodge a searing blast that punched a burning hole through the rock behind him.
"Tch, hero skoom!" The Grineer growled, lowering his glowing fist..
Vell-382, Elite Shield Lancer Villain Name: Laserfist Quirk: Charged With Light. He can imbue his body or weapons with light to unleash devastating attacks!
Laserfist took advantage of the lapse in Izuku's concentration to lunge at him, a glowing cleaver that Izuku noticed at the last second swinging in his other hand. Before the blow could land Toru tackled him from behind. The villain's cleaver released a glowing slash of light that sliced through the terrain behind them.
Toru scrambled back to her feet, flinching at the Grineer's hateful aura. "Gutora, Tranr still!"
She wasn't sure what he said, but it sounded like an insult. She took a step back as the bulky man, his facemask resembling a skull, took a swing directly at her.
=VI=
[Plaza]
Ordan dodged another villain's support item, breaking the man's arm like a twig. Shota punched a four-armed villain in the face before any of his stoney appendages could land a blow, knocking him unconscious.
"Bone Beast, you good?" Shota panted.
Ordan cracked his knuckles. "I can do this all day."
The ground rumbled and a blast of cold air hit them from the right as the entire flood zone froze over. "Todoroki," Shota noted, entangling another villain who was trying to leap for one of the Grineer's fallen guns.
"Dammit, why won't our quirks work!" One shouted.
"That's Eraserhead! He can cancel your quirks!" Another hissed, nursing a broken nose.
FUMP FUMP FUMP!
Three explosions sounded off near the shoreline, Ordan quickly glancing over to see what looked like mortal shells approaching the boat. "Shit, they're shelling the students!"
"Go! I can handle them on my own." Shota dodged a flytrap-headed villain, knocking him out with a single powerful kick.
Ordan hesitated. There were still a few Grineer left, though none of them seemed to have guns. "Alright, I'll be right back once I take care of them. Eraser…" He paused. "Don't hold back on the armored ones. They won't go down easily." He gestured to the three dead Lancers who lay in a pool of blood and severed limbs. They hadn't gone down no matter how many times Ordan hit them.
Shota pulled a knife from his belt. "Understood." He replied grimly.
Ordan took off with a burst of speed toward the shore, diving to the ground as he heard the telltale sound of blades approaching. Three razor-sharp discs flew over his head. One of the Grineer, and Eviscerator by the looks of it, had split off from the other villains to intercept him.
Vay Sull, Cloned from the same gene mold as Vay Hek. Villain Name: Buzzsaw Quirk: Miter Saw Blades. He can create and launch serrated miter blades from his hands.
"Dammit, I don't have time for this!" Ordan growled.
=VI=
Back in the center of the plaza, Shota finished off the last Grineer, panting as he withdrew his blade from the man's throat. He'd tried multiple times to subdue the soldier nonlethally, but he just kept getting back up like he was on some sort of drug. The other villains took a wary step back, afraid to approach a man who had taken down nearly half of them by himself and had just killed several of the stronger members.
One of them felt particularly brave and tried to rush him, only to be thrown into a second villain attempting to flank from behind as his quirk was canceled.
Tomura eyed the way Eraserhead moved. 'His hair rises when he uses his quirk! And the amount of time he can use it is getting shorter.' Letting his summons chip away at the miniboss's stamina was turning out to be a good move. The two heroes had been good at add clearing, but they had made the fatal mistake of splitting the party. Time for him to strike.
Like a cat, Tomura dashed forward, dodging a thrown strand of the Erasure Hero's capture scarf and grabbing it before it could wrap around him. Decay failed to activate, and he saw the telltale sign of the hero's quirk activating. He began a mental countdown, dodging a punch from Eraserhead, and got in close.
Shota elbowed the hand-covered man in the gut, earning a stiff grunt. He had some muscle despite how lanky he appeared to be.
"I figured out your moveset, Eraserhead." Tomura leaned in, grasping Shota's elbow. "You're about to go on cooldown."
Shota realized what he meant a second too late, and blinked. Immediately he felt fresh air on his elbow as his outfit began to disintegrate, followed by a sharp pain as his flesh began to turn to dust. Before he could suffer any more damage he kicked the villain in the chest and jumped back, the cold air stinging at the open wound. 'Dammit! He damaged my arm. I can barely move it now!" More villains, seeing a wounded hero, decided to pounce, causing him to go on the defensive once again.
"You're debuffed and still fighting!" Tomura laughed with a manic glint in his eye. "You really are awesome, Eraserhead."
=VI=
[Ruins Zone]
Katsuki softened his landing with a blast from his gauntlets. "Cheap bastard!" He growled. Portal fucker was probably too weak to fight him and sent him somewhere else in the facility. Whatever, he'd blast whoever came after him and then go back and pummel the big bad himself.
"Bakugo!" Eijiro called out.
Katsuki glanced across the street to see Shitty Hair and Facemask crouched behind a rusted car. "What?"
"Shhh! There are villains about." Mezo said quietly. "We're going to ambush them when they come around."
Katsuki scoffed. Spoken like a true loser. "Fuck that, we can take 'em all on." Immediately after saying those words, a squad of villains sprinted around the corner with weapons drawn- likely drawn by his earlier explosion. "That's what I'm talking about. Back me up or stay hiding you extras!" He shouted to his classmates, sprinting to meet the group head-on with a bloodthirsty grin.
"There's some of 'em! Shigaraki said whoever kills a hero student gets a big payday!" One of them jeered. He didn't get to enjoy his smug look of satisfaction for long as Katsuki blasted the group, knocking most of them out with sheer concussive force alone.
"What the hell! Why is this kid so strong!" One of the villains cried out.
"Because I'm the future Number One motherfuckers!" Katsuki cackled. "Trash like you is nothing!"
Eijiro punched the man in the face with a hardened fist while he was distracted, Mezo grabbing two more and slamming them into the ground with his Dulpi-arms.
"Nice one Bakugo!" Eijiro gave him a thumbs up.
"Naturally." Katsuki scoffed.
Mezo manifested several eyes and ears on his extra arms, scanning the ruined cityscape for more villains. "We should go help our classmates after we finish with the villains here." He advised.
"Pfft, if they are all small fry like this then they can handle 'em." Katsuki said. "We're U.A. students." Even Deku could, as much as he hated to admit how strong the nerd was now.
"You seem pretty calm, Bakugo, considering the circumstances." Eijiro complimented. "Usually you're screaming at everyone."
"The hell's that supposed to mean!"
Mezo continued to look around. Suddenly, he detected slight movement on one of the rooftops. Squinting with his arm eye, he saw a faint glint, and what looked to be-
"Get down!" Mezu extended his arm just in time to see the beam of a laser sight extend all the way from the rooftop of the skyscraper. It was a solid beam rather than just the point. The crack of a rifle rang out, narrowly missing Katsuki as he was dragged out of the way and into a nearby building out of the line of sight.
"Holy crap!" Eijiro panted. "Was that a gun!?"
"I didn't need your help, Facemask!" Katsuki scowled.
Mezo sighed, ignoring the fact that the bullet would've hit something important on Katsuki if he didn't intervene. "We should be safe in here. That shot came from the roof up the street." He explained. "As long as we-" He whipped around, grabbing an invisible villain who had just lunged at him with a dagger and slammed him into the wall. "- as long as we stay in here, they can't get a line of sight on us. Stay away from the windows."
"We need to take that villain down! We can't just hide out here forever!" Katsuki said.
"Yeah!" Eijiro nodded his head in agreement.
"They have a long-range weapon, if we want to take them down we need to get in closer." Mezu warned. "I can still hear them on top of that skyscraper. They haven't moved. We can circle around them out of sight and-"
The laser sight beam appeared on Eijiro's chest from the right.
'Impossible!' Mezo's eyes widened. 'That's coming from the opposite direction, but they didn't move, I'm sure of it!"
"Incoming!" Eijiro jerked at the sound of the next gunshot. A few metallic banging noises echoed off the walls and the bullet impacted the wall in the path of where the laser sight had just been.
"I thought you said we were safe in here!" Katsuki dove under a nearby desk.
"We should be!" Mezu created a spare arm with an eye on it, peeking around the corner. "I don't sense any other shooters, but that person hasn't moved!"
Atop the skyscraper, a Grineer sniper reloaded her bolt-action rifle. This universe's guns weren't as accurate as the ones she was used to, but her new ability made up for it.
Pekk Harkonor, Harkonor Production Zone Guard Villain Name: Ricochet
=VI=
[Mountain Zone]
Kyoka drove her earphone jacks into the last villain, panting and bleeding from several scratches and light cuts. Ashido and Kaminari had taken care of the others, with Ashido flooding the plateau with a pool of conductive acid while Kaminiari electrified it to knock out the remaining villains. It had been a tough battle, but they had survived with minimal injuries on their end.
"You alright Kaminari?" Mina asked, collapsing on a nearby rock, slightly dehydrated from the acid she had produced.
"Just… a little… lightheaded…" He leaned up against a nearby wall. "Thank the gods it's over. I don't think I can do much more of this."
"You're a hero student man, you need to get in better shape." Kyoka warned. "Remember what Aizawa-sensei said about slackers."
"Yeah I know." Denki groaned. "But we were like, total badasses kicking all those villains' butts, right?"
"Hell yeah!" Mina cheered.
Kyoka sighed.
Crunch!"Kaminari, look out!" She heard the sound of something emerging from the ground just too late, the fatigue dulling her hearing.
"Ah-" He started to scream, only for a large hand to cover his mouth. With a muffled yell, he released a massive surge of electricity that was immediately absorbed. The blonde's eyes grew dull from quirk overuse.
"Ahhh… I knew that hiding underground was the right move." The skull-masked villain chuckled while flexing his arms. "And now I'm all juiced up! Thanks kid!"
※ Villain Name: Tesla Quirk: Living Battery A D-ranked villain wanted for multiple counts of attempted murder with a quirk, murder with a quirk, assault and battery, and grand theft auto. ※
"Kaminari!"
"Stay back! One bad move and I'll snap the little twerp's neck!" Tesla held the boy up by the throat as a show of force.
"Whey!" Denki drooled, giving a double thumbs up.
"Dumbass can't control his quirk." Tesla laughed. "What a joke. Alright ladies, here's what's going to happen. You're going to march down to the center of this here facility an nice and quiet. You try to run? The boy dies. You try to pull any stunts? The. Boy. Dies. Capiche?"
Mina and Kyoka shared a fearful look. They didn't want another classmate's death on their hands, despite how scared they were. "A-alright, just don't hurt him!" They agreed and began to descend the mountain.
As they made their way down, Mina tried to gesture with her eyes and make a plan. They both knew that once the villain got them down, they would likely be killed or taken hostage, maybe even tortured to get All Might to come.
"Keep movin'!" Tesla shoved Kyoka forward, sending her sprawling to the ground. "Damn skinny brat, get back up! The boss is gonna pay a lot for three hero students! Bonus pay on top of jamming your signals." He grinned under his mask, imagining the fat stacks of yen awaiting him.
While he was distracted, a beam of light stuck him in the back. Denki was sent flying a few meters away, landing on his ass with a stupid smile. "Wheyyyy!"
"Shit!" Tesla pushed himself off the ground, whirling furiously around to see a boy in sparkly armor and a cape cowering behind a rock. "You little fuck!" The electric villain roared.
The two girls didn't waste a second. Kyoka unleashed a sonic blast to disorient Tesla, while Mina coated her hands in a thick viscous acid. As he staggered back, Mina punched him in the liver, repeating the instructions that Haylee gave to her.
They didn't give him a moment to recover, landing blow after blow in a flurry of jabs, kicks, and punches. By the time they were finished, Tesla lay bruised and battered with several small holes in his arms from Kyoka's jacks. He tried to stand, only for Kyoka and Mina to kick him in the ribs repeatedly until he passed out from the pain.
"Holy shit, nice save Aoyama!" Mina called out.
The French boy gave them a terrified thumbs up as he clutched his stomach. "Oui, you're welcome mademoiselles!" He replied shakily.
"Jiro, that guy said he was responsible for jamming our communications! You should be able to call the teachers now!" Mina exclaimed, remembering the little detail Tesla had mentioned.
Kyoka reached for the dial on her headset. "No good, let me try Kaminari's." She rushed over and fiddled with his headset. "Dammit, his uses his quirk to communicate. Mine is working fine, what the hell?"
Unbeknownst to her, Tesla was not the only villain in the USJ capable of blocking outgoing signals.
=VI=
[Entrance]
Fania took a few terrified steps back. 'No no no no no! A Tenno, here? Why! She's just a little kid, why does she have a Warframe!' She tried to reach for her gun, hand trembling as she grasped it. "Kurogiri, we need to go, now!"
The misty villain remained steadfast. "Calm yourself Scrambler. I'm quite capable of handling her." Kurogiri's eyes narrowed. So this was one of those fabled "Tenno" that his master had been so interested in. To think that one of them was hidden among the hero students…
Det gulped back the bile in his throat. 'We're dead… we should be dead. Why hasn't she attacked us yet? More than that, how did she turn into a Warframe? Is she a Tenno, or the child of one? It could just be someone from back home that got a Warframe as a quirk too…" Though Det had not faced a Warframe before, he'd seen footage and heard horror stories from the rare survivors or those unfortunate enough to clean up after a Tenno assault. If there was any truth to that outside of what was covered up by Corpus propaganda, they should be dead a thousand times over. That begged the question, why in Granum's gilded hand were they still alive?
=VI=
Jatttasey means "Warframes" in Corpus, so without the "y" it's Warframe. The Corpus language is pretty weird, as you can see here.
Fania is a name that Sisters of Parvos can generate with, which I picked because it sounded similar to "Finance" in my mind. Traditionally Corpus names are Latin-based, which Det is not, because I wanted a name that sounded like "Debt"
To get a good idea of their voices, think Izumi and Sig Curtis from FMA. that's how they sound in my head.
Gutora is the Grineer equivalent of "bitch", how dare Vell insult Toru D:
Onle Zhul is named after the Jumping Puzzle "Only Zhul" from Guild Wars 2. His quirk is basically a Tusk Mortar Bombard backpack turned into a mutation.
Vay Sull is like Executioner Vay Molta, Sprag, and Ven'kra Tel in that he's one of Hek's clones that are more prone to violence and are more vicious than normal.
Pekk Harkonor is like Executioner Olka Harkonar, hailing from the Harkonor Production zone and being a sniper. Her quirk basically acts like the Buzlok but with reflection rather than homing, allowing her to track her targets.
Kyoka and Mina straight up jumped Tesla lmao
For the others that won't be shown because they are same as canon:
- Tsu and Mashirao basically did what he did in canon, even taking out one/two Grineer on the weaker side that wasn't worth mentioning.
- Fumikage and Dark Shadow swept the Downpour zone, Koda was absent and honestly, he didn't really do anything in canon anyway. The edgelord just keeps winning.
Today's fic recs: Time Travel fics!
Constants and Variables and Back to the Beginning by Aliandris (I've been reading this as Constraints and Variables for months and didn't realize until just now)
