''The last time we saw our applicants, they had entered their internship period with multiple professional heroes, experiencing a hectic first day as they encountered some of the most dangerous cases. However, they still had to finish that period.
>>3999what a shame, I just realized I edited my turn badly, I'm reposting it and I'm very sorry. >When you were 4 years old, you stole your classmate's crayons. Nagiri raises an eyebrow, "I found them on the street, but okay." Almost! But it doesn't matter, you already had Nagiri saving your ass.
You use a previous case as proof of your abilities, you just needed a little rope to be able to demonstrate it.
"..." Nagiri continues to look at you with her arms crossed, "How many fingers do I have behind my back?" 4 and a half! "4 and two-thirds, I can bend my phalanx. What shampoo scent do I use?" Orange! "Tangerine. What state is my hero license in?" Folded right corner! "Left corner." Damn! "...It's close." Her phone rings again, and she frowns, "This day will never end..." She looks at you again, "I'll give you the benefit of the doubt, come with me."
You follow her through the UA hallways back to her office, there's another room before this one where a woman with blue hair was typing on two computers at once.
"This is my secretary, Oda," Nagiri says. "Oda, help this woman, she has my permission to investigate here." With that said, Nagiri retreats back into her office.
Oda stops typing to observe you, "A pleasure... how can I help you exactly?"
... You lunge towards Shiori's body, it convulses for a second, resisting for an instant until you finally take control. This body was even stronger than the Oni's! You felt incredible, invulnerable... invincible!
"Oh my god... I can't believe we did it," Dorian says, surprised, wiping blood with his sleeve. He looks at the Oni, "The girl?... ugh, didn't you exaggerate a bit?" Although he doesn't complain when he goes to pick her up, "Are you ready?"
Plop
Shiori's body fell face-first to the ground, leaving Dorian confused.
Empty... wherever you looked, there was only an empty wasteland, a small patch of half-dried grass, but no trees or anything. A chilling wind blew as far as the eye could see, then after about 100 meters, the place seemed to end, followed by a void.
This sensation was familiar, it was what happened when you possessed someone. If you could describe it, it was usually like pulling a rope with someone until you won. Then, with the Nomus, it was more like entering an empty room, although you couldn't shake the feeling of being watched.
But now... it was different. For starters, your appearance was different, the long black hair, the gray skin, it was the complete opposite of what you wanted to show.
"Hey."
You turn around, Shiori is there, and just like you now that you notice, she has a strange colorful aura around her.
"You look different." A small smile formed on her lips before she threw her first punch.
The punch grazes you as you sidestep, she pursues you and pulls your hair, bringing you closer to her and now punching you in the cheek. It hurts, you weren't in your spectral form.
"Now we're on equal footing," Shiori says. "I didn't understand much of what the bucket-head was talking about, something about quirks clashing or something." She pulls your hair again, going for another punch. During the struggle, you manage to land an elbow to her face.
She lets go of your hair and pushes you, some blood comes out of her nose. "What I did manage to grasp is that in a situation like this, I can hit you all I want." She wiped the blood with her finger and cracked her knuckles.
She could hurt you, yes, but you just confirmed that you could hurt her too. As she herself had said, you were on equal footing.
>>4001 https://youtu.be/0V8RtKHAvXg▶Between the Nomu and the muscular subject, you decide to help the rest of the team against the Nomu, Yukako was stronger, she could hold out longer while you guys defeated the monster.
You grab Kin's arm, it was still warm, it had a slimy texture, so you pass it to him with a throw as you run ahead. You do a flip in the air, landing on your hands and powerfully propelling yourself against the Nomu.
You're like a jet, you shoot off at full speed and connect this powerful dropkick to the Nomu's face, the metallic soles of your shoes crunch against its bones, some teeth come loose. This time, you had enough strength to push the creature away.
The Nomu lets out a shriek as it's pushed away, you're a victim of gravity, and you start to fall, but the Nomu wasn't done, it regains its balance slightly and its chest expands, swelling as it spits out another torrent of acid.
This was going to hurt...(https://youtu.be/LKdVN7oaBKE)▶But you're saved from pain by Karui's intervention, who at the last second, managed to counter most of the acid with his own fire attack, a huge ball of flames and heat. The acid evaporates almost entirely, forming a large green cloud, although several drops still splash you before hitting the ground and burn your skin as they eat through your suit, it was better than being turned into jelly.
As soon as you land, Kin grabs your arm, his other arm was readjusting and reattaching itself to his shoulder.
"Don't breathe the gas!" He tells you, then pulls you by the arm, and you start to spin "He's stunned, go for the head!" He explains no further and after finishing the spins, he throws you upwards, you pass through the cloud of toxic gas that serves to camouflage you from the Nomu.
You ascend at high speed to the ceiling, passing through a hole that was there to the next floor and out of the factory. Now gravity starts to affect you, and you begin to descend like a meteor towards the Nomu, which amidst the acid cloud, was now distracted by Kin's shots, while recovering from the daze of your blow.
You spin yourself, giving more force to your blow once it connects, you descend at full speed, luckily you couldn't have a bigger target than the Nomu.
Boom
Finishing the spin, your fist connects with the dome of its hard chitin and bone skull, where all the sutures meet. The blow resonates like an explosion, you hear the crunch of its bone sinking into its brain as splinters pierce the rotten skin along with blackish blood.
Your entire arm trembles, it had really hurt, but like when you hit a nerve in your elbow, if not for all the reinforcement of your suit, you might have broken something with this blow, but luckily, now you just had to deal with the pain if you didn't try something similar again.
The blow re-secures the Nomu's daze, its guttural sounds coming out in gasps, accompanying its now cross-eyed gaze. "Lucas, get out of there!" shouts Kin, who, with his arm reattached, was charging another, even bigger blast, which was reflected by his arm having grown larger for the attack.
With his fist still lodged in the Nomu's head, you push yourself out of the way with your other hand. From the air, you see Kin's blast hit the Nomu with the force of a missile, but its survival instincts were very adept even in that state. At the last second, it curled up on itself, sacrificing part of its centipede tail to survive the blow.
Pieces of the Nomu scatter as the rest of its body flies off and bounces on the ground a couple of times before crashing through a wall and falling into the void.
You land. Kin is sweating, breathing heavily. Karui too.
"I hate these things..." the hero complains.
Karui follows up, "How can foreigners keep making them? All For One's research was supposed to be lostlie, ask miracle island, that's what they told us in class."
"People are ruthless and very insistent if they see they can replicate something, even if it's something horrible."
The sound of debris moving is heard along with the crawling of hundreds of limbs. First, its long arms peek out from the hole in the wall, then its pincers, and finally the rest of its bruised and mangled body. The Nomu is still standing.
"There's no punishment severe enough for someone capable of turning a human being into something like this," Kin says, looking at the Nomu with a frown, an expression that mixed anger with some sadness.
"GHAAAA"
These screams were different. They were screams of pain. Looking back at Yukako, she was in a worse situation. Her small body trapped in Hasai's hands, who was squeezing her to crush her.
"Come on, little one, fight."
Two portals appear behind the blond goliath. Two huge hands close around his neck and try to pull one of his arms away, but both his thick neck and arm are reinforced by a thick layer of muscle fibers that reduce the effectiveness of such a tactic.
"Ughh!" He has a crossroads of priorities. "Guys, go give Yukako a hand. Now that we've weakened him, I think I can finish him myself, or at least keep him busy. Don't take too much risk."
Karui looks at you and flexes his arms. "Let's give it our best shot!"
Seeing that the strangulation wasn't working, Yukako's hands try to press Hasai's face, but he stops her by biting the tip of her huge finger, causing her to let out another scream of pain.
The overwhelming situation was not much for the succubus's head, as she really just doesn't know very well how to react to everything she's given, when all her companions were tired and others very injured she really didn't have much capacity to help other than throwing herself forward and trying to grab the one who couldn't kill her with a blow and start devouring their vital energy.
Something she is going to do right now because otherwise she would be a general nuisance, but who? is what she asks herself.
Because she was the closest and most possibly dangerous and the simplest to attack, she goes for the snake's exposed face and with her hands tries to grab the snake by the face and start putting weight on it to try to suppress it enough to take it out of combat
>>4003 >>4002 >Akira BerserkerI've seen it all, all that's left is for OP A to get reincarnated and not bait with their participation ... The power reaches its peak and then drops to 0 again, having fulfilled the objective of finishing off the minion, Eri recovers and with her, you do too.
>(...)I would accept helping me with the rumor." (...) "In that case, I'd prefer a worse influence"
"Well, maybe if I'm a bad influence willing to help you, shishishi" She pats you on the shoulder
Hypothetical questions about Simon's quirk aside, the fight still had to be focused on.
>"Say something, Meowth!"
"Time's up, mate" Simon responds Britishly
Julia creates another minion, and again, you decide to take care of it.
"Are you sure?" Eri asks, but you were sure, with a confirmation, the fights separate "Don't take too long"
https://youtu.be/COYc29Gbngo▶A plan based on fraud and deception, you had already made a similar move before, you had conditioned a response in Julia for this that and the fact that she doesn't have fighting IQ, she doesn't waste time and jumps to evade, using her extra tentacles for better mobility, while the illusion mobilizes to avoid the attack.
Sinon and Eri are faster than you and go for Julia, the creature tries to reach them, but you were already in its range after having surrounded it, it focuses its attention on you.
Your right hand had the gravity sword, from previous experience, the creature crawls on the ground and surrounds you to flank you on your left side, you couldn't ask for a better situation, with your left hand extended, 1 meter and 20 centimeters, 1 meter and 5... you had no idea if you could do this, but after the last 5 minutes of fighting, you had done so much that you seemed unstoppable.
1 meter away, with your arm extended, you apply your quirk again to the illusion and turn it into a center of gravity, or the opposite of it.
Gravity is born from mass, every object on planet earth is affected by the gravity it generates due to its mass, with your quirk you were able to bypass these simple laws of physics by increasing the gravitational attraction of something without necessarily increasing its mass although all the times I've used it I was also increasing the weight of something, but they are two different abilities so that's why I make the distinction, but if you were to do the opposite... would it work? The planet earth was enormous, even visualizing it was difficult to see its dimensions, millions of cities, mountains, deserts, forests, hundreds of oceans, 7 continents, more than 190 countries... but you shouldn't affect the earth, just a minuscule point, a drop in the ocean, it should be possible. 30 centimeters. The illusion was already upon you, about to rip your arm off with its claws, until you visualize your idea as you apply your quirk, just like Nadia did.
(https://youtu.be/DlpMshP3SB4▶ ) Your ears whistle and your hair stands on end, from one moment to the next, the illusion flies off in the opposite direction, breaking the sound barrier, it goes through boxes, and the basement wall, it goes through the subsoil and continues its path through the rock.
You don't know if that was enough to kill it, or if it would keep going until it reached any distance limit your quirk or Julia's might have, what you did know was that you had already lost count of all the headaches you had suffered these past two weeks, this one was no different, the nosebleed was also becoming usual. that 100 physique saved you
https://youtu.be/CzE7qEPWuG4▶You had other objectives, you still had a large amount of gravity applied to your blade, there was fighting to be done. Eri and Simon were fighting, and you could see how Julia was doing everything she could to keep her distance from Eri, you knew well that one touch from Eri's quirk and this whole fight would be over, throwing debris, raising dust, almost all her efforts were focused on preventing Eri from getting close, which left Simon more room to approach like a wrecking ball... a wrecking ball that kept taking all the hits, he was relatively slow compared to those two at the moment, and you were no different, maintaining your pace, you can get behind Simon in time to witness it. (https://youtu.be/BB9Oqf2sBZ4▶ )
Like a spring, Julia's tentacle contracted and shot out with more force than a bullet, and pierced Simon's skull, you could see how the entire left side of his face was destroyed, and he stopped his advance.
"SIMON!" Eri shouts in surprise
"Hehe, how about now, I doubt you can move that too--EH?!"
Julia's tentacle slowly retracted, but Simon caught it just as it separated about 10 centimeters from his face, being behind him, besides seeing the gore his face was made of, you see the madness, he had moved his brain around the blow to survive... although it seems his eye hadn't been saved.
"Don't underestimate... 'an Englishman, mate'" Perhaps more than his eye had been damaged.
After that scare, your plan was still in motion, Simon tries to pull Julia now that he had her grabbed, the tentacle sprouts thorns that pierce Simon's hand, his grip trembles, but he doesn't let go. "LET ME GO!"
The black mass on Julia's body trembles, eyes manifest and sprout spikes, more tentacles move and stab him in various parts, the sharp tips of the tentacles scratch your suit, and being behind, you see in gruesome and unpleasant detail various bulges moving on Simon's back and stretching backward... you assume they are his organs moving to avoid damage.
Simon doesn't let go, and now you don't either, having several tentacles to pull from. One alone was enough, and the task was made considerably easier by reducing Julia's weight implying.
Julia was focusing on casting some half-baked illusion to distract Eri, but gets more distracted when she's suddenly pulled towards where you were with Simon.
Julia has no idea what's happening, but you had your attack ready, another experiment on the list, Simon half-realizes you're behind him, so he holds firm, continuing on his path, Julia crashes face-first into his chest.
As far as possible from his organs, you deliver a gentle blow to Simon's back, all that accumulated gravity moving as a single point in space that affected anything it encountered.
Barely a moment passes, a millisecond, when Julia is sent flying and crashes into a beam, leaving a hole in the chunk of concrete before landing on the ground I guess she should have flown out from the blow too according to the pic
"you got a loicense for that, mate?" Simon asks you, turning around, for your part, you felt an even stronger migraine after that, and strong pressure in your eyes.
Julia was on the ground in a fetal yamcha pose, and slowly tries to get up, that black thing covering her falls off her body like tar, her legs tremble as she tries to stand, only to lose her balance and hit the ground with her face. Her nails dig into the ground to lift herself, and she just spits blood, a victim of pain, tears escape her eyes as she clutches her chest tightly and whimpers... she didn't seem accustomed to taking so much damage.
A small golden spark hits Simon, the rewind effect began to regenerate his head and put all his organs in order.
"Who... WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?!"
Julia screams, kneeling on the ground, the blood she spits is a mixture of black and red, her veins become more prominent with the dark tone, that same dark blood moves over her clothes, covering her and reforming that strange armor she wore. "Heroes... don't make me laugh! You have no damn idea what you're fighting for, or what you want to defend." The armor reforms, and the tentacles dig into the ground to help her stand.
There's more noise in the background, even turning my head for a second, it looked like Nadia and Black had finished AFO.
"They say they do it for justice, for peace, and to defend others... WHERE WERE THE HEROES WHEN MY SISTER AND I NEEDED THEM? HUH? Don't come here breaking my world with the excuse of wanting to do... good or any other stupid excuse you're going to give." Julia keeps screaming, not realizing who had been sneaking up behind her this whole time. "Do you think I wanted to live like this? No, I never wanted to..."
Her voice cracks for a second... but immediately hardens again, more aggressive.
"BUT THEY LEFT ME NO CHOICE, WE HAD TO SAVE OURSELVES, ALL BECAUSE OF THEM!" She grinds her teeth, her body trembling from the transformation that was consuming more and more of her body. "So don't come here, playing the symbol... as if you hadn't left someone behind while playing hero, you're not All Might, you're not Deku, you're a damn plague..."
"If you suffered like that, I'm truly sorry. I'm sorry no one could help you." Eri was behind her, Julia freezes. "I'm sorry you had to walk this path." Eri wraps her bandages around her fists, as they glow gold. "But that's no excuse for everything you've done, alone, and in this organization."
Julia turns around. Eri continues.
"I became a hero, so no girl has to go through what I went through." Eri clenches her fist, which shines brighter. "So they never have to suffer, because of evil people, of people like you."
Julia tries to attack, but before she can act, Eri's fist is already sinking into her face.
"POWER!"
With enormous increased strength, Eri finishes defeating the Yakuza, breaking her face, and slamming her into the concrete, also destroying an area equivalent to a tennis court of solid concrete beneath you with just the force of her blow.
...
Dust rises, Eri breathes heavily, still with her fist in Julia's face, and applying her rewind, the drug's enhancing effects wear off, along with most of the wounds on the girl's body, but there was no more fight in Julia, she had been defeated.
Based on the dice roll, Julia should have survived this round, but doing an extra turn where she gets gangbanged for an obvious victory isn't necessary, kek
>>4008 Moving across the shattered floor was difficult, nothing another rewind from Eri couldn't fix. The unicorn approaches again and properly heals Simon, the small spark from earlier merely having stabilized him.
"You two did great," says Eri.
"I should be the one saying that," replies Nadia. "Your performance was incredible—yours as well, Eri. Despite the difficulties, I'm proud of you."
"Not bad, squishy," Black says, arms crossed.
Nadia allows herself a brief smile before turning serious again. "What about her?" She glances toward Julia.
Julia remained on the ground, staring blankly into space—seemingly catatonic.
"She's not dangerous anymore, but we can tie her up," says Eri.
Simon finishes healing—organs back in place, head restored. "..." He blinks. "Where am I? Who are you people?"
"Oh no... maybe her brain actually got damaged..." Eri says, worried.
"I'm fucking with you," Simon says, and Eri lets out a sigh of relief, then smacks him.
"You okay, Eri?" Black asks. "Your horn... uh... it's shorter. You should save your energy until a medic arrives."
It was true—looking at Eri's horn, it had shortened by about 1-2 centimeters. And she'd spent the last two weeks specifically stockpiling energy for this raid.
"I'll be fine. I can worry later," Eri replies.
...
They tie Julia up and leave her there. Eri also temporarily suppresses her Quirk before they depart.
They move through the rest of the basement without issue, eventually reaching a wide set of stairs leading up to the first floor. The sounds of battle still echo everywhere—and now Akira would be on the same floor as Amane.
Directly ahead where the stairs begin, another long corridor stretches forward. Sitting on a crate, a rather pretty girl swings her legs in the air while poking at a Nomu's brain with her finger, annoying it.
"Bo-bo-bo~~... Oh! People. About time, I was getting bored." The girl jumps off the crate. By now, the others recognize her from pre-raid intel—another of the leaders, Yamada.
Beside her stands the Nomu she'd been bothering—a quadrupedal creature with glowing eyes. Next to it, a floating skull-like or ghostly Nomu... and a miniature Nomu—just a head with legs and shoes.
"Whatcha say... oh right, right, I can't let you go bother the bossie. Brucie hasn't finished preparing things yet."
"So he's at the end of the hall," Nadia says.
"Yeah," Yamada replies. "I mean, no no, he's not! If anyone asks, you didn't hear it from me!" She quickly tries to wave it off, but it's too late—she's already spilled the beans. Eri brings her finger to her ear to use her communicator "Eri here, we have the leader's location, a room at the end of a hallway in the south wing on the first floor"
"Too late to back out now, so are we gonna fight or are you gonna be the villain miracle who surrenders and makes things easy for us?" Simon says
Yamada's entire body bulged, as if filling with tumors, before bursting in an explosion, there isn't much time to think when from the smoke she flies out transformed, her head shaped like a bomb and the rest of her body covered in dark fibers...and she was mostly naked.
Eri intercepts her, but is sent flying with an explosion before she can attack, the Nomus move, the quadruped shows even greater speed and takes Black with it, dodging debris it shoots before ramming him into a wall.
"Help Eri!" Nadia shouts to Simon and you
Confidently, Nadia wants to go help Black, but the ghost Nomu intercepts her, it wants to become intangible, but that doesn't save her from the touch of this monster, which grabs her arm with its claws.
"You must be kidding..." They were giving her a very hard counter and she didn't like it, she starts to struggle with the ghost
Boom
Another explosion, before you know it, you had Yamada in front of you
"Hello handsome" she says, as her hand undergoes a metamorphosis, growing and excising itself until it forms a small explosive "Do you accept my gift?"
Simon, who was still there, slaps her hand and saves you from receiving a grenade to the face like Mr.Satan does in BT3, the explosive detonates far away and ruffles their hair with the shockwave
"No thanks, we're in a hurry"
In response to her lack of manners, Yamada snaps her fingers and the small, deformed Nomu jumps to bite Simon's neck, who struggles to get it off him insert fight with Ted
"What were we talking about?"
(https://youtu.be/htXvuvJlawQ)▶A high-pressure jet of blood cuts through the air and prevents Yamada from getting any closer.
"Hey!" It's Eri, returning from an explosion to the face, healing herself with her quirk, at the same time her blood glows gold and turns from blood to her bandages again, she tries to entangle Yamada, who jumps into the air with explosions "Come on Akira, immobilize her!"
>>4005 >Victoria He barely knows Oda, Seraz slaps his desk firmly, wanting to convey the seriousness of the moment.
"I need the photos of all the new students. One of them is a fake, and as soon as my eyes see him I'll know exactly who it is."
Also...
"Want me to read your fortune? I'm very good, and I don't charge much. Cards, palm, candle, you choose."
If you feel like it, we can pause this until Gwen returns to school
...
>Gwendoline She stands in a field of gray, sterile grass. Ectoplasm slides and drips all over her body, and a curtain of ink-black hair covers half her face. She grinds her teeth in frustration and impatience, wanting to finish possessing the body soon, and thus no longer have to look inward at a body, a place where illusions cannot reach. In the psyche everything becomes palpable, even herself...
"...!"
She opens her eyes wide when Shiori appears. She can notice that Gwen's current attitude is very different; instead of an upright posture, she is hunched over, with her hands loose near her abdomen. She wears a simple torn dress that exposes her gray, soaked skin. Her hair is so long that it is easy for Shiori to grab and pull.
"Ieek!" She lets out a shriek when she feels pain.
In the struggle, Gwen's wet foot hits Shiori's face and pushes her away. As she creates distance, Gwen ends up on all fours on the ground, in such a position she moves sideways with the naturalness of a crab. Enraged by the situation, the specter bares her teeth.
"You want to... You want to vomit, you want to look away in disgust, you want to defeat me to run and tell everyone how horrible I am! I... I won't let you destroy my new life... You will disappear, devoured by me, like others before!"
She pushes with her feet to jump like a frog. She falls on Shiori and knocks her to the ground, straddling her. Gwen's arms and legs bend in unnatural directions to attack. Gwen sinks her teeth into Shiori's shoulder, scratches with her right hand fingers near the abdomen and her left on the shoulder blades, her legs also coil, pressing with her right foot the lower back and tearing with her left near a thigh.
Shiori can instantly notice that Gwen's proximity is dangerous. The ghost begins to absorb her life energy.
>>4007 https://youtu.be/knJ6L7y7_iI▶It was too much to process, but one thing was certain: act now or you'd die. The snake already had Amelia and you marked, so when it became momentarily immobilized—even for a few seconds—you lunged at it, attempting a grapple and draining all its energy.
Amelia joined you, leaping onto its back and trying to choke it with a garrote. The serpent was slippery, though, and soon wriggled free from the束缚 of her clothes, turning the tables by using its long, flexible body to coil around both of you, now trapping you two instead.
"How does it sssstart to feeel now—AHHH!" Amelia bit it, earning an even tighter squeeze in response.
Your hands still held firm, siphoning its energy and weakening it, but you weren't sure who'd give up first—her, or your lungs from lack of air... or your ribs, crushed by the Nure’s relentless pressure as it coiled tightly around you.
Your strength waned, but so did hers. The Nure had no intention of letting go. Could you outlast a heteromorphic mutant in a battle of endurance? You didn't need to find out—you had allies.
"Hey!"
Foolishly, the Nure turned its head—only to take a green stone, harder than diamond and moving at supersonic speed, directly to the temple. That finally knocked it out.
Its body collapsed, loosened, and you and Amelia managed to break free. Amelia coughed, gasping to refill her lungs, and so did you. You could feel your energy returning.
From behind, Noah was ambushed by that black creature, struck in the back of the head and knocked to the ground. Distracted, he was quickly defeated by Kouta, who blasted him with high-pressure water and sent him flying through a wall.
"Ugh... thanks, old man," Noah muttered. Kouta nodded.
Ganosuke was still locked in combat with the swordsman, though now clearly gaining the upper hand after shattering most of his armor.
The floor remained flooded, and the black tar at the end of the hallway vanished again, Tsubasa clutching his hat in fury. More tar surrounded him, now forming a crude defensive barrier as he considered his next move.
With a swift maneuver, Ganosuke slammed the swordsman to the ground and pinned him.
"Surrender now, and we can end this without more bruises," Ganosuke said.
"If you truly care for your comrades like you claim, you'll do it," Kouta added.
"..." Tsubasa frowned, his expression slowly softening. He sighed in resignation. "Fine..."
(https://youtu.be/YT-0Da3MI4g)▶The Trigger syringe—the drug that amplifies Quirks—fell beside his foot, along with several other syringes.
"Sorry, but the boss wouldn't like us surrendering like weaklings." As he spoke, the tar around him began manifesting in greater volume—not summoned, but physically oozing from his skin. In an instant, his entire body was enveloped in black.
... (https://youtu.be/muF5_-8Gtig)▶He began making strange sounds, barely resembling words, transforming into a viscous black mass with long, tendril-like appendages.
Kouta struck first, having the range advantage. A powerful jet of high-pressure water shot toward Tsubasa—but upon impact with the black mass, the water had no effect. It was absorbed into the darkness without a trace. Tsubasa grew a few centimeters taller as a result.
"He's covered in that stuff now... practically immune to damage. It'll absorb anything and teleport it," Ganosuke said.
"What do we do, then?" Noah asked.
"Run!" Ganosuke shouted.
https://youtu.be/R-ktUWyTTQY▶You didn't need further instruction. You turned around and followed Amelia's pace, but before you could get far, Ganosuke scooped both of you up to keep you from falling behind. Noah and Kouta followed close behind. Behind, Tsubasa remained still, still emitting those strange sounds, until with a sound similar to a cough, a phlegmy cough. He spat some viscous black liquid onto the ground... and began his attack.
Black.
A wall of black appeared around you, around everyone, they hadn't managed to leave the hallway before they were trapped. The little light there was extinguished when the darkness finished closing around you, you were blind, you couldn't scream, the walls absorbed the sound, the only thing you could feel was the tar surrounding you and expanding through every inch of your body until it covered you entirely.
Black.
... (https://youtu.be/vJG1pGo21mY?t=2s)▶Light returns to your eyes like a blinding glare, your ears whistle from the noise, it's cold, very cold.
You don't feel the floor, you look around... there was no floor at all, above, below, left, right... nothing, there was nothing, just rubble upon floating rubble, not a cloud to accompany them.
They were in the air.
"AHHHH!" Amelia screamed in terror, before covering her mouth to conserve air.
They were in the sky, in freefall, where exactly? at what height? it was impossible for you to know, you couldn't see the ground, everything was a shapeless blur.
Several meters away in different directions, your team was in a similar situation, falling at high speed along with the debris.
Floating several meters above a piece of debris was Tsubasa... and the guy with the katana was with him.
"Shit!" Kouta shouted, you could barely understand the others over the wind noise "I can maneuver in the air with my quirk! I can lift the girls!"
"I can change our direction and speed if you let me throw you!" Noah shouted.
"No, none of that works, there's no way to escape this guy, if we move, he'll send us higher or somewhere worse," Ganosuke shouted.
"AND WHAT DO WE DO?!" Amelia shouted "If that thing absorbs anything, fire, electricity, kinetic energy from punches... HOW DO WE WIN?"
"Yeah, we can't 'not' give it energy by attacking it!" Noah continued.
"..." Ganosuke had no answer, the hero fell silent "I'm sorry."
"No 'sorry' old man!" Noah complained "We can't die here! What happened to heroism and plus ultra?" said the European, trying to swim through the air to get closer to Amelia "There must be a way! Anything!"
Kouta looked resigned too "It's not like... '!' " But suddenly he had an idea, their eyes met and you could sense that it had something to do with that idea.
Maneuvering in the air by thrusting with pressure jets, Kouta hurried to propel himself towards you.
"Hold on tight!" He caught you, and you clung to his back to avoid being blown away by the momentum.
"What are you planning?!" Ganosuke asked.
"To get Hanan closer!" Kouta shouted, then turned his head to look at you "If that thing gets bigger the more 'energy' it receives, then... in theory it should be possible to prevent its teleportation if all its energy is absorbed before the trip takes place, again, in theory." He explained his plan "And now it's either try that or get pancaked, or be sent to the bottom of the ocean."
It sounded too ridiculous and risky, especially since you were once again the crucial part... but everyone was also somewhat forced to act if they didn't want to die.
"Are you ready?!" Kouta asked you, before charging his shot to fly off at higher speed.
>>4010well, we'll leave it for lateralso, rereading the manga to do the odyssey, I realize that UA has a system that slams the door in your face if you don't have an ID. I guess Victoria snuck in while the janitor wasn't looking, kek https://youtu.be/sGkh1W5cbH4▶"What?" Shiori says, confused by your reaction. "I couldn't care less if you dye your hair or not. I'm just defending my group." She didn't seem to pay much attention to your appearance, which was different from the gallant phantom outside.
You lunge at her like a wild animal, your figure unnaturally distorting as you trap Shiori in your grasp, doing your best to subdue her and gain control. You wrap around her, restraining her on the ground as you bite and scratch, she cries out in pain, struggling to break free. Your presence was like a poison, slowly draining her strength no matter how much power she had. Even if she were strong, you had more experience and familiarity with this whole body-borrowing thing.
Shiori struggles, spitting blood as you pin her to the ground, she forces herself to continue fighting.
crack
Her arm also bends at an unnatural angle as she slips from your grip, redoubling her efforts and power as her hand closes around your neck, squeezing with immense force. You can't say the air is escaping your lungs from the pressure, but the sensation was similar, her fingers tightening on the spot where the veins carry blood to the brain. Shiori grits her teeth as her eyes sharpen, she wasn't going to be intimidated.
"What happened to this strength when you were out there?"
She keeps pressing, while her hips make the effort to lift off the ground, her legs follow as her body begins to rise from the ground using only the strength of her back, even as you remained stuck to her trying to subdue her.
"You're a nuisance, not even one that's fun to fight." It seemed her figure was increasing in strength and size the more pressure she applied to your neck. "You come to my house, hurt my subordinates, and leave one half-dead. I think I'll do the same to you." She smiles. "I don't know how, but I'll start by beating you here."
1d130 = 97when I reposted the previous turn, the clarification that you had to roll d100 was deleted, but I counted those dice for you for this post anyway, my bad
>>4006 >Lucas Doesn't waste a second. He gives Kin's arm back and also gives him some time. With a jump, he targets the nomu with legs, and goes all out.
He's fast, and brutal. The soles of his feet pound against the monster, sending the nomu and its teeth (kek) flying.
(I hit it!)
He smiles. They separate, the nomu regaining control a few meters above, Lucas starting to fall and instantly losing his smile as he sees acid flying towards him.
"AAH!"
There was little time to think. He crossed his forearms and raised a leg, covering himself with three of his limbs like in that Muay Thai thing Glimmer mentioned. His idea was simple, and sounded like a futile effort. He would cover as much area as possible, and then, as soon as he felt the acid, he would abruptly separate his arms and leg as if pushing, to avoid as much damage as possible. Luckily, he didn't have to test his idea, as a huge incandescent sphere came to his aid. The flames collide and turn into ephemeral fireworks.
(Great...)
Lucas touches the ground. Some acid falls on him, making him stand up and stomp like a little monkey that stepped on embers.
"Ouch!, It hurts, it hurts!" -they grab his arm- "Huh?" -it was Kin-
<Don't breathe the gas!
"Huh?, it's fi-"
It's good advice. But he doesn't finish confirming he'd take it into account before the professional, with his help, turned into a small red-tinted tornado.
<He's stunned, to the head!
"To the- WAAAAHHH!"
He's thrown forcefully straight upwards. Mid-flight, he sees the toxic cloud and holds his breath. He passes through it, and also the next floor where he screams again.
"WOOOAAHH!"
He goes up until the eternal blue surrounds him. But the momentum stops.
"AYAYAYAY!"
He flails his arms, but it's no use, he's going headfirst downwards, in a freefall of tens of meters.
(I have to do something, I have to do something!)
Like a flash of memory, he remembers his first day at U.A., when during a fall, his only defense was his explosive arm. His eyes widen, and his arm extends like a wing as he finishes understanding Kin's order.
(GENIUS... YOU REALLY ARE A GENIUS!)
"SMAAAAAAASH..." It spins, charging its explosive arm with all the strength it could give to the fall, and once the collision was inevitable, it launches it forward with all its might for its strongest blow yet... in this form or in general?, is this attack stronger than an average 100%? I don't think so kek
"...ELEPHANT GUUUUN!"
The wind bursts, the nomu's head shatters, and barely, its arm too. Its attack cry warps into one of pain as it feels every inch of it tremble, threatening to break. It closes one eye from the pain, sharp as a butcher's knife to the elbow.
< Lucas, get out of there!
"?" -it half-sees Kin and startles, it hurries to move away, separating itself with the help of its free hand and feet-
Falling, it sees the incredible attack with the only eye it has open. A powerful shot, a condensed bomb, which the beast defends against by sacrificing its tail, which shatters and is thrown away. Lucas falls, and clutches the arm of the attack in pain.
(Damn... I mustn't break my arm... I mustn't...)
At least this time it wouldn't break its arms. It would show Mirumo that things had changed!
It looks at its companions. They look tired.
"Hey... are you guys okay?" I don't know if Lucas should be tired already, but I guess not because you didn't describe it and well, one of his main training sessions with Glimmer was stamina kek
The other two, who are the smart ones, say very smart things. Lucas is unable to join such a conversation, it takes the opportunity to spin its arm a bit with its hand on its shoulder to try to make it feel comfortable again. It can't do it for long, the beast returns.
< There is no punishment sufficient for someone who is capable of transforming a human being into something like this
"..." -before in this beast there was a human... that thought leaves it with a sad expression...-
< GHAAAA
But there was no time for sadness, only for horror. Kin lied, and Portuga couldn't do it alone. It was now about to vomit its guts. The aspirant's pupils contract in horror.
< Guys, go give Yukako a hand
Lucas runs as soon as it's able. It takes advantage of the distraction, passes under Yukako's skirt, and for the first time, without saying anything, throws a kick with all its might straight to Hasai's balls.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGkh1W5cbH4▶ ...Opening her eyes wide as she could feel the wind crashing against her suit, her mouth completely shut because she didn't know what to say, she didn't even feel like screaming in terror as she felt herself falling into a void she couldn't understand
-Hanan-
"A-ah...aahhh...!"
Her attempts to scream were futile, her whole body was tense and she couldn't do anything...
When she looked up, even if Kouta himself couldn't see her eyes, she knew they had made eye contact, so she used all her willpower to fight against her own body and try to refuse.
But it was like rolling dice and getting a negative, she failed horribly so it looked like she was nodding.
-Kouta-
"If that thing gets bigger the more 'energy' it receives, then...in theory it should be possible to prevent its teleportation if all the energy it has is absorbed before the trip takes place, again, in theory"
-Hanan-
"I don't want to"
-Kouta-
"It's not a question"
-Hanan-
"I know...I would have...to hold on with my teeth and toenails...that way I could absorb using more parts of my body...ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh"
She didn't like the idea...but as was said, there is no option...
>Sighing heavily, as she gathered the parts she uses from Game to have them on her arm, ready to try to generate a block in case of another attack. >All to relax a little seeing Svet get up, despite the damage she had, she still got up to keep fighting and help ensure no one left here in a coffin of splinters. >Covering her eyes from all the light that the sparks from papu's arm made, but contemplating in her magnus the spectacle of Svet's spears. >... >.. >. >.. >... >When everything changed again, they were in a slightly safe position that-
-"You're going to throw another mecha, right?"
>She's going to throw another mecha against the Kaiju.
-"Not always do movies have to work but...ugh..."
>After mentioning that.
-"What if we damage it from the inside?...I mean, those of us who can make cutting weapons jump in and...I don't know...explode its heart or something...it's...it's stressing me out that thing"
>As she commented on her plan, Game was doing a dramatic reenactment of the related pic for everyone to see. >Behind her, more and more temporary Game was being generated, which was causing her back to be damaged by all the generation of material coming out of there.
-"But your plan is safer... I don't know which is less stupid to do"
>>4013since you said it like that, I interpreted it as it hit a bit harder than normal but not enough to do a Smash that would shatter his armand yeah, he's not tired yet, that stamina training was for something, kek https://youtu.be/0V8RtKHAvXg▶"If we're good..." Kin turns his gaze to Karui, the Shiketsu student gives a thumbs up "Yeah, good, tired, occupational hazard"
The Nomu had returned, but again, we had to divide and conquer, maybe Kin could handle it alone now while you guys went to lend Yukako a hand.
What a hand she was starting to lack, her attempts to strangle the muscleman only ended with her losing a piece of her fingertip, making her cry out in pain.
"You're boring me, little one, Pthuu" Without any qualms about what he's doing, he spits the piece of the heroine's skin and flesh onto the ground.
Yukako grits her teeth as another of her fingers tries to poke the giant's eyes.
"Quick Lucas! I need a moment to charge my attack," Kauri tells you, and you step forward.
You circle the pair locked in combat, sliding under Yukako, right in front of the blonde mountain of muscle. He barely manages to get a glimpse of you with his vision obscured by giant hands.
Smash! (https://youtu.be/qveh6e00MTk)▶ That had to hurt, it was the ultimate attack on any man who could feel pain, you lift your leg with all your might as if to send his balls to his throat. But when you hit, you don't feel any soft tissue... it felt like hitting a wall, though you notice the subject grit his teeth at the sensation.
"Is that all?"
With his other hand, Hasai removes Yukako's hand, and you hear a loud Crack followed by another groan of pain from the heroine, he had broken a finger.
"Not a bad idea, kid, but still, I have 30,000 muscle fibers you need to consider before you think about hurting me."
Running with the force of a train, Karui charges forward, shouting, faster, stronger, more muscular, and with more fire.
With a strong blow to Hasai's side, he manages to make the villain release the heroine, the muscular man tries to position himself to counterattack, but is overcome and subdued by the brutal onslaught of pure violence from the solar boy.
The blows resonate and shake the ground, Hasai can barely defend himself as Karui's blows continue with immense force.
"AHHHHHH SUPERNOVA-SMASH!" The blows seem to not stop, their force and heat bursting those powerful muscle fibers like rubber bands, until a final blow, delivered Superman-style, connects right on the villain's chin and sends him flying. The blow resonates, if there were still windows they would have shattered again, and the shockwave is so strong it sends Karui himself flying backward.
"Lucas... catch him!" Yukako tells you
You jump and intercept your... dwarf? companion. Karui had shrunk, from being a huge, muscular guy he was now a scrawny dwarf 10 cm shorter than you, his suit hanging loosely on him, his eyes spiraled and he looked disoriented.
"He spent all his energy, he'll need to absorb more solar energy to recover, too bad the weather is partly cloudy" You already had context
"Haha... AHAHAAHA" Returning through the hole he was blasted out of, he approaches, laughing as his partially burned jaw hangs loose, and he resets it with a single movement "I like it better this way..."
The thousands of muscle fibers around his body writhe as they extend to meet and merge, some broken and unable to recover so easily due to the fire damage.
"Huh?... don't tell me that's all the orange one can do..."
"Ugh... the sun's core is 15 million degrees" Karui looked... unwell at the moment
The villain's face contorts in anger "What a loser, and you're supposed to be strong heroes?" He looks at Yukako, the heroine glares at him while holding her injured hand
Now looking down on the heroine, and with Karui out of the equation, the muscular man only had one other target, you.
"Hat guy, now it's your turn, give me a good attack, and not a sissy punch like the one you did before" He flexes his arms forward, and his huge muscles grew even larger, generating a small sonic boom from the force
"..." Yukako gets to her feet "Be careful... he's faster than he looks. His head is exposed unlike the rest of his body, aim there" She shakes her hand, the movement doing little to distract from the pain "I think I can still incapacitate him for a few seconds if I manage to grab him, I trust you to do the rest" They seemed to have something similar to a plan
Karui was still dazed, but he moved aside so as not to get in the way while he recovered... and Kin seemed to be keeping the Nomu in check, there were no choked screams of pain, that had to be a good sign, it was just you and Yukako against Hasai.
>>4012 Gwendoline I couldn't care less... I'm just defending my group from your monstrosity!
That's what Gwendoline hears Shiori say, though a good part of it is her imagination. She could almost swear she sees the flicker of a mocking smile on the villain's face, an expression that fills Gwen with a fury that makes her clench her teeth.
They continue to struggle on the gray grass floor. Gwen keeps contorting herself, and squeezing Shiori, biting, and also clawing her skin with her fingers... Until suffocation sets in, and as Shiori gains confidence, Gwen's nails lose their fierceness.
"Uh! Glug! Aacck!"
Finally...
Crack!
Gwen's neck bends like a twig, and any energy her body possessed disappears like a mirage. Slowly her limbs slide out of Shiori's body, leaving a sticky trail on the villain's body, almost like a snail.
Perhaps Shiori thinks she's won, or perhaps she suspects, but since they are still in the dream space, it's clear the battle isn't over. As soon as Shiori lets her guard down for a second, Gwen convulses and jumps, shoving four fingers into her mouth.
"We're not on your turf!"
Ectoplasm acts as a lubricant, the specter slides its entire arm past the villain's esophagus, feeling around her stomach, and only hitting a barrier when Gwen's shoulder bumps against Shiori's lips. From that disturbing closeness, Shiori can see how Gwen's eyes are bloodshot. The specter's breath clashes, it's cold and smells bad, it stinks of her ill intentions.
"Psychic strength means nothing here, only how twisted you are inside matters!"
She plants a foot on Shiori's abdomen and kicks, freeing her arm in a single motion, scratching Shiori all the way out. Gwen retreats, tumbling and bending her limbs until she's ten steps away, in a cat-like pose that makes her look like a twisted spider.
"You talk a lot but your mouth can't take anything. There's no other way... I'll go in through the other side! Only then will you shut up forever, only then won't you tell anyone who I really am. Everyone loves and respects me, and no one will change that! I will be a hero, even if I have to kill them all!"
"It's not a question, do you want to be turned into pulp by hitting the ground?" Nor "Sometimes you have to choose the least bad option among a lot of unpleasant things. And you're the only one who has a chance to turn the tables." Kouta stabilizes better before increasing speed. "Whatever you try, good luck. I'll pass by him, jump when you see the chance."
Kouta fires his water jets at higher pressure and flies off like a missile, narrowly dodging sudden tar spots appearing in his direction, Noah helping from the sides and launching projectiles that intercept the tar to give Kouta more maneuverability. You have to hold on tightly to his shoulders to avoid flying off due to the strong and enormous G-forces. At the last moment, Kouta presses himself further and increases his speed, passing by Tsubasa, at which point you let go.
Your hands cling to his outstretched tendrils, spinning around him from the accumulated momentum until you crash against his body again, there, you cling with all you have, your life and the lives of others literally depending on it.
You cling with claws and teeth, the little combat and practical training you had these two weeks being of great use as you clung to Tsubasa, attempting multiple holds to get the best possible grip on that enormous amorphous mass that was his body.
The strange sounds and gurgles he emitted continue as he shakes to get you off him. Around him, Kouta flew to get his attention, firing jets of water to make him focus on him. Noah helped him by shooting things, while Ganosuke and Amelia, moving with the help of their quirks and gadgets, were able to take care of the Katana guy, leaving him to Noah.
Your original teammates station themselves on nearby debris.
"Go Hanan, you can do it!" Amelia shouts. "Finish that freak!"
You continued to cling with all your might, barely, but you held firm, steadily depleting Tsubasa's energies, your own energy reserves filling with even more power that seemed to have no end. It was working, all that tar covering Tsubasa was starting to decrease in size, making his body visible again.
"cough cough...Shit." He stumbles at the edge of the debris, and they fall into the void. It wasn't as if they hadn't already been falling into the void for 2 minutes, but now there was no point of support.
"Hanan!" Kouta tries to propel himself to reach you, but suddenly the sky darkened again, and more debris appeared out of nowhere to block his path.
Tsubasa coughs, soiling your helmet with blood and black bile; you see that on one of his legs he had given himself another injection to boost his quirk.
"Ugh... damn heroes can't help but stick their noses where they don't belong, can they?" You continue to fall, you start to see the ground more clearly, the mansion, the forest, the enormous police perimeter to prevent the escape of any stragglers. "Always bothering us, saying they do things for justice and to protect others..." Then, you could see how all the ground was covered in black, kilometers and kilometers around. "People like us also have things to protect."
The tar reappeared, this time with so much volume that you can't absorb it, you are once again enveloped in darkness.
...
You reappear in mid-air, falling, still clinging to Tsubasa, but it didn't seem as high anymore. His body cushions your fall when you crash onto the dry earth. You separate from him; he was unconscious, and from injecting so much drug, he looked like shit.
Look around... and the panorama stands out for its lack of things; kilometers of forest, the police... everything had vanished, only remnants of Tenyo's mansion remained, the giant 50-meter lizard and... a giant 50-meter lizard? It was far away, you could barely distinguish details except that Alpyr's team was there.
For your part, you didn't feel any pain or fatigue... on the contrary, you felt 100% of your capacity, so much energy... you had absorbed so much energy that it was overflowing from your body!, or so you assume, you didn't remember passively glowing.
You hear the sound of a high-pressure jet, a somewhat rough landing that ends with half the team on the ground. Kouta lands, Ganosuke manages to roll and stand up, but Amelia falls on her ass.
"Ow..." she complains. "Uh, Hanan, are you okay?!" She stumbles over. "Are you okay, did he catch you again and... are you glowing?"
Ganosuke removes his mask to breathe better, taking a breath. "Is anyone injured?"
"No..." Kouta says, lifting his face from the ground.
"Nop," Noah says, rotating his arm.
Ganosuke looks at the two of you. Amelia crosses her arms. "We're not damsels in distress, we can handle this."
Ganosuke smiles. "I'm very glad Ena was wrong. Let's go."
Hanan now has a UTI to give her shot an x2, but only once, use wisely continue below, respond with Alpyr <Alpyr 1d4 = 1 1d4 = 1
You, for your part, suggest attacking from the inside.
"That sounds dumb" Alex says
"That sounds awesome!" Jacky says
You were generating more Game mass while explaining your idea with a graphic representation.
"While Alex hits it from the outside, you cut it into pieces from the inside" Ima says
"No, that's stupid!" Svetlana complains "If you don't get caught by its teeth, the pressure generated by its muscles should tear you to pieces if you don't suffocate in there from lack of air and the different gases inside the body"
"No?" Ima asks
"No!" Svet repeats
Ima extends her hand and throws you a cloud of nanobots that reassemble into another external armor and a sort of gas mask/respirator, it was made of a dull black metal.
"And like this?"
"It looks solid" Jacky says
"Argh, damn it!" Svetlana was already losing patience
"We don't have all day..." Ayumi says, as Mizuki approached
"Open that doggy's mouth" Jacky says "Then you fall inside and start cutting as you go down, avoid the heart, we don't want a dead one, but a couple of hemorrhages never killed anyone. Ayumi will get you out later"
The redhead sticks a purple particle to your body "I'll get you out in two minutes"
"My turn then..." Alex shakes his arm and with a leap he launches himself onto the Game mass and nanobots, glowing blue as his hands sink into the mass, his control over technology manipulating the circuits and metal, the solid structure forming and growing in size, shining with more and more intensity, you must move aside so it doesn't crush you.
https://youtu.be/1vU7XqToZso?t=44s▶With a strong stomp, the new and improved Mecha-Alex makes its presence known, measuring around 15 meters and ready to brawl.
"It's still too small" Motomu says
"It's the best we can do, ok?!" Ima complains
The ground trembles again, having found them due to the light show, Mizuki charges at you again, at the same time as Alex.
It was something completely unequal and unfair, like sending a small child to fight a Doberman, Alex types against Mizuki, not moving her an inch when the Kaiju grabs him by the shoulders with its claws and begins to crush him.
Poof
Again, Ayumi sent Motomu to the head, giving a very small lapse, less than a second, in which the Kaiju is disoriented, and Alex takes advantage to pull it by the neck, bringing it down to his height and to be able to deliver his best right hook. The blow explodes like a missile and its shockwave carries a lot of dust, above Mizuki, Takeshi was about to intercept Motomu, but Jacky intercepts him and they return to their fight.
Alex lands another right hook, and another, while Motomu held on as best he could to keep Mizuki distracted.
"Our turn!" Ima says, loading her rifles and turning on her Jetpack.
"Try to aim for the eyes," Svet says, looking at you. "Be careful."
They start running, the blonde rises, circling Mizuki and firing all the shrapnel she can while the piranha reinforces with her spears to bother her as much as possible so she can't respond adequately to Alex's attacks.
The battlefield was chaos, a parade of shots and explosions, but you keep running in a straight line, propelling yourself with Game for a strong jump.
Alex takes her smallest chance and grabs Mizuko by her jaws to open her mouth as wide as possible, Ayumi fires one of her particles towards the Kaiju's throat, the one you had with you glows for a second before--
Poof https://youtu.be/woaSgxJTYkM▶You push off and start to slip, instantly feeling the thin air compared to the surface.
You had never been in another living being's throat, there was always a first time, if you could describe it, it was like being in a huge fleshy corridor, there should have been space for two or three more people and for each to stretch their arms to reach the sides. It was humid, the smell was nauseating, and the constant contraction of the muscles made maintaining balance a terrible task, not to mention almost impossible, as you were pushed towards the stomach every second.
But there was no problem, being inside, there was nothing to defend her, the mission was simple, cut and cut!
A pair of blades on your sides adorn your arms as you descend, cutting through walls as hard as steel, a river of blood running behind you as you descend further.
The throat, the esophagus! You cut everything in your path, even if you saw signs that it was starting to heal, having to expend energy to heal these wounds from the inside would only weaken her and leave her vulnerable to external wounds.
You cut, you cut, and you cut, two paths appear on the sides, you don't know if lungs or heart, you jump into one anyway, continuing to cut and cut.
You cut and cut, until you got tired, and you kept cutting even more.
The particle stuck to you glowed, wasn't it too early yet?
poof
You land on the dirt ground, covered in slime and smelling bad... something happened. You look around... there was nothing, miles of forest, a good part of the mansion and in the distance the police perimeter, everything had vanished... and your companions?
Until the ground shakes again, and emerging from a cloud of dust, Mizuki shakes herself like a dog tearing apart a toy, getting Motomu and Ima off her, the latter stuck to one of her eyes and shooting her with a machine gun.
Poof
Alpyr's team reappears next to her, but something was strange... Alex no longer had his Mecha, and Jacky was nowhere to be seen.
"Boss?, Boss?!" Ayumi shouts while talking to her communicator, with no response "Hello?, Central or whatever, locate Red String for me, pronto!"
"Alpyr, are you okay?" Svetlana asks "Did you get hurt or burned in there?" She asks again, worried, then relieved that the only consequence of having gone inside a giant lizard was the bad smell and being covered in blood and slime.
"I don't understand, what was that black thing?" Motomu asks.
Asking for context, Alpyr receives a summarized answer.
"Everything was fine until a black slime came out of nowhere and tried to eat us," Ima replies. "Ayumi was able to get us out, but Alex had to get out of the Mecha, and then poof, everything vanished, the long-tongue too."
"WHERE ARE THOSE FUCKING REINFORCEMENTS?!" Ayumi shouts into the communicator again.
The ground continues to shake from Mizuki's steps, who locates them and starts walking, spitting an Olympic-sized pool of blood to the side before continuing, Takeshi was still with her.
Fortunately, Alpyr's team was not alone, Hanan's team joins them.
"Yo'!" Noah greets.
"Kouta, you're okay!" Svet says.
"You too," Kouta replies to his companion from the big three. "I see you're having trouble."
"Yeah, just a fucking Kaiju, like every day..." Alex says, getting up from the ground in pain.
"A black thing ate our pro and took our giant robot!" Motomu says, throwing her arms up.
"Yeah, it was Tsubasa, another of the ringleaders, Hanan already took care of him," Ganosuke says. "But still..." He observes Mizuki from afar. "I think we're still short on people." Kouta and Svetlana sigh, speaking in unison "If only Eri were here" The two stop, and look at each other
"WHO NEEDS THE WHORE?!" Ima exclaims, waving her rifle "We are more than enough to win"
"AHHHHHHHHH" A guy with black hair and horns flies out of some rubble, his eyes were rolled back and he looked very angry
"And who the fuck is that?" Ima asks
"No idea, but he looks dangerous" Amelia says
The mysterious guy joins the Yakuza once he recognizes them as his allies and can direct his fury towards you.
"WE'RE FUCKED" Ayumi shouts holding her head
Ganosuke walks to the redhead, and calmly, slaps her, that's enough to reboot her brain, there's an almost unanimous gasp.
"..."
"Don't lose your mind, you're not just a hero, today you have a bunch of aspirants in your charge. Try to set an example for fuck's sake"
"S-Sorry"
"We're still 11 to 3" Ganosuke says "We still have the numbers and variety to fight that, no matter how hard it is, losing hope now is the same as cutting your own stomach"
"Yeah, you're right lockpick" Ayumi says
"That's not my name"
"And the plan?" Amelia asks
"If there are no better suggestions. Let the heavyweights entertain the lizard, my team focus on holding back the new guy, and someone needs to finish off the hammer, he looks like he's on his last legs"
"[Attention, to the groups in Tenyo's mansion, it seems Red String along with police forces were transported 300km from their location, near Mount Fuji. Reinforcements are already on their way, hold on for a couple of minutes]"
Holding on with all her might, as her whole body started to tingle strangely while she absorbed more and more energy from that thing, or tried to, until she started to see how it was working, only to be met with a harsh reality when that villain shot up again, which made her make a "holy shit" face
...When she came back to reality, they were on the ground, after they had fallen again, but she landed on top of the villain, from whom she separated herself as if he were a leper in Jesus' timeJesus + Tomoko
-Hanan-
"Why does it still itch..."
She looked at her arms, noticing a glow around her, a purple glow she didn't understand. At first, she thought it was an enemy attack, but if that was all it did, she would just put sparkles on it and make her body itch.
-Amelia-
"Are you okay? Did he catch you again and... are you glowing?"
-Hanan-
"It looks pretty but it itches even in the nooks and crannies of my toenails..."
When asked if they had any damage, she just gives a thumbs up. She was fine, it itched all the way to the inside of her belly button, but she was fine.
Something something, things happen, something something, she just follows the others, something something, she wants to scratch her ear canal
-Hanan-
"When will this go away..."
It's the same feeling as when her arm charges up to shoot, but it's a step beyond that, and now it's her whole body. She vaguely understands that if she fired it, it would have a supreme effect or something like that.
She's going to fire it at the first one who deserves it, for example, maybe the lizard. She doesn't care much, she just wants her spine to stop itching.
She stays behind Amelia, giving a quick tap followed by a thumbs up
Your neck snaps and your body falls inert, Shiori raises an eyebrow in surprise and leaps away as your form melts into the ground. She keeps her guard up, nothing to the left, nothing to the right... down!
She barely has time to react when you jump on her and cover her mouth with your fingers, ectoplasm making way as your arm descends into her throat and then you pull it out to scratch everything inside.
Before escaping, Shiori catches your arm with her left hand, her mouth opened wider, opened to a range impossible for a normal person.
Chomp
Clean cut, the stump where your hand was is still tightly gripped by Shiori, forcing you to push off her with your feet again before she can let go.
With a spit, Shiori spits your hand onto the ground in a strange mix of blood, bile, and ectoplasm.
"Twisted, you say? You don't know much about the Yakuza, do you?"
She twists her arm, before lunging again, the ground cracks beneath her, and you feel the entire dreamscape tremble as she collides with you, grabbing your other arm, her grip threatening to snap it in two before you can separate her with another blow. If you were slippery, she was resilient.
You couldn't get a good angle, her reflexes were already at their peak, you could only defend yourself from her onslaught, but for every three blows you landed, Shiori could land one that was worth ten.
"Being a hero even if you have to kill everyone? Are you sure? Because that sounds more like something one of my guys would say, or a ridiculous villain from the past."
You silence her with another blow, scratching her face, she grabs your neck again, though her grip had weakened considerably compared to before. Her state was reflected in the world, with every second it shattered, reaching its end, you could see flashes and fragments of Shiori's entire life, places, people, a cacophony of different sounds, memories, speeches, screams, all swirling, forming, and breaking around like a fireworks display.
"If you ask me, I can't think of anything more pathetic than living behind a mask to be liked by people." She tightens her grip on your neck. "Believe it or not, trust is a universal constant, heroes, villains, everyone values that. And if you betray it with lies, you're nothing but scum."
The world shakes harder, about to collapse at any moment, Shiori lifts you off the ground, intending to slam you into it until her grip falters and you manage to escape, landing a few steps away.
"You're clearly a brat, heh."
Shiori raises her guard again, no longer intending to attack, but to hold out until this small space collapses.
>>4017 Alright, OP. That was my intention. When I want to do a 100% you'll know kekBecause I'll surely say it directly. >Lucas With no time to lose, the aspirant leaps into action to aid the heroine who is now acting as a parasol for him with her skirt. He prepares his leg, tensing every muscle to launch his instep directly against the enemy's family jewels. The metal of his boots impacts with a burst, but... it felt like kicking a wall. As if...
<Is that all?
Lucas was greatly surprised.
"HUH?!, UGLY, YOU GOT NOTHING!"
And then a crunch. The aspirant looks up under her skirt, though without interest or ulterior motives kek in horror and exclaims.
"PORTUGAL!"
Lucas kicks the subject's balls again. He lifts and returns his foot again and again rapidly.
"LET HER GO, SHORTY!" -that's what they called a neutered kitten...-
The air currents continued with each violent kick. But the result didn't change, the subject didn't yield. He didn't give up. Was there no pain? Was this perhaps the first case where blows wouldn't solve anything?
"WHY ISN'T IT WORKING?!"
<Not a bad idea kid, but still, I have 30 thousand muscle fibers you need to consider before you think about hurting me
"SHUT UP!"
He was getting frustrated. Did he have so many defenses?! What the hell are muscle fibers?! Why doesn't he have balls?! The situation seemed terrible, but then, a cry interrupts the combat violently.
"Huh?!"
It's fast, and powerful. Karui charges at the castrated Hasai, now one with the flames, which seem to empower him beyond imagination. His blow, thunderous, is just the prelude to the next, and that to the other. The combination is fast and powerful. Overwhelming for the victim, astonishing for the witness.
<SUPERNOVA-SMASH
"Great..." -But his attack names are cooler!-
A jump, and carrying his whole body, along with the blow, he creates a huge shockwave 💀 that sends both of them flying.
<Lucas... catch him!
"Ah, yeah!"
With a jump, he intercepts him rapidly.
"Hey, you did great-" -he notices Karui's state as he lands- "EEHHH?!" -his eyes almost pop out seeing this- "YOU LOST YOUR MUSTACHE!"
<He spent all his energy, he'll need to absorb more energy from the sun to recover, too bad the weather is partly cloudy
"Ah... Damn... can't you magnify the sunlight?" -????- "Or a magnifying glass! Use a magnifying glass." -like burning ants. He looks at Karui- "Hey!, Do you have a magnifying glass?!"
There was no time for magnifying glasses. The mammoth steps once again become the center of attention. The aspirant turns his gaze with the speed of a weather vane in a hurricane, finding the subject again, who returns amidst laughter and demonstrations of skill. "Sin cocos..." -stands up, knowing this battle would not be postponed even for a second-
<What a loser, and they're supposed to be strong heroes?
"SHUT UP!"
He wasn't going to let them badmouth the team any further! The guy with the hat steps in front of Yukako, facing the giant. Both sides knew it was inevitable, the fight was theirs now.
<Hat guy, it's your turn, give me a good attack, and not some faggot blow like you did before
Lucas hits his palm with his knuckles, cracking his fingers. Then he switches the hand he's doing it with.
"I'll beat you up."
Movement behind him, Lucas looks at the heroine getting up.
"Hey... Are you okay?"
<Be careful... he's faster than he looks. His head is exposed unlike the rest of his body, aim there
With seriousness clearly marked on his face, he nods once while adopting a fighting stance.
<I think I can still incapacitate him for a few seconds if I manage to grab him, I trust you to do the rest
"Be careful." -he mutters, he's already taken enough damage, the aspirant was ready to bite off more than he could chew by taking his place, but he wouldn't refuse help... unless something went wrong- "ALRIIIIIGHT!"
He spreads his legs, one fist forward, the other back, body slightly crouched. His classic fighting stance.
"HERE I GOOO!" I'm a level 5 roleplayer, I'm not scared of the enemy's high dice!
He lunges into the attack. The subject is huge up close. The aspirant still wasn't clear on anything, but if the heroine was going to open an opportunity for him, he just had to hit with everything. The aspirant jumps, accepting the aerial game, and throws two swift punches to the chest, which surprise with their weakness.
"Ha!, ha!" -he exclaims with each blow
He's testing, distances, resistance. He wants to understand the enemy, he throws more swift blows, and then a kick that sends him -Lucas- flying away to avoid any grab. He spins, lands, but doesn't stop.
(He's strong.)
Now he understands. He urgently needs to think of a way to hurt him, he was already running towards him again, now with more speed. He'd figure something out, for now, he'll use his only chance.
"NOW, PORTUGUESE!"
He tenses all the muscles in his legs to run as fast as this form allows him. An attempt to surprise after his recent pathetic performance. His objective is clear, a straight advance to re-engage in close combat. But the obviousness falls away once, halfway, he propels himself with everything to jump at maximum speed, becoming a missile that would impact directly on Hasai's head... with a headbutt.
>>4024 >>130077 https://youtu.be/0V8RtKHAvXg▶One hit didn't work, you look up in horror, Yukako is back to normal size, Hasai was holding her like King Kong, kek... you had to land another one!
But no matter how many more you landed, she had a very solid defense to protect her noble parts. The struggle is interrupted by Karui's special attack, which leaves him with nothing but bones, even the strange aura of fire that gave him a mustache vanished. He needed more sun energy, too bad Yukako couldn't help, or could she?
"That's not how it works"
>"Or a magnifying glass!"
"Magnifying glasses are a specific type of crystal that... wait... maybe it could work!" spoiler, not much
The tower of muscles returns, and you had to be prepared, especially you, you were frustrated by the villain's rude attitude.
You lunge at Hasai, and start with a flurry of weak blows, you had to test the enemy, and indeed, it was like hitting a wall, he was solid, muscle man muscle and more muscle, he was even denser than the egghead from that gang in Shanghai.
You separate with a kick, the muscular man made no effort to respond to your aggression, he puts his hands on his waist and stretches his neck, making it crack, first left, then right, "Are you done with your warm-up?" He lowers his center of gravity, his muscle fibers lash out, breaking the sound as they reform his muscle layer and he advances.
You signal Yukako, behind the giant, a portal opens, with a huge hand catching him from behind, greatly slowing his advance while you advance with greater speed like a missile, covering the distance in less than a thousandth of a second, 10 meters became 5, 5 became 1, being in the correct position, you flex your legs at the last moment to shoot towards his face with a strong headbutt.
Your speed collides with his, both cancel each other out while with your strength you still maintain your momentum, causing the giant to step back, the sound was like hitting a huge gong, your head shakes and his nose bleeds, progress!
But before you can celebrate, he stomps the ground, making the floor tremble, both arms move, one catches your face, the other catches another of Yukako's fingers to slow her intervention.
Crack! With his enormous gripping strength, Hasai breaks another of Yukako's fingers, she grits her teeth, holding back a sob, you can barely see with one eye, the rest of your face is covered by the giant's palm, this position was not good, any ordinary blow you were going to give him not only lacked reach, but also did little damage. "That's better"
He says, watching you, I exhale air through my nose, shooting blood out, he then applies pressure to your skull, stopping your attacks with the sudden pain. You feel like you're going to split, like your head is going to explode
"But it's not enough"
He lifts you into the air, trapping your legs with his other hand, "Did you ever want to stop being short?"
(https://youtu.be/82L8dcJ-JbA)▶He had you like a toy, he started pulling on your extremities, he doesn't bother to explain, you feel it and you understand, the stretching, your tendons and muscles stretching to the point of pain, to the point of threatening to break, your bones separating and trembling from the pressure, your vertebrae stretching and along with the skin that was starting to tear.
You feel heat, the medieval torture stops before your legs or spine are ripped off, a fireball hits him in the face, specifically in the eye, a weak and trembling Karui conjures all the strength he has left, and that was enough to distract the villain.
"Tch!" A vein of anger appears on his forehead, but he wasn't going to ignore you because of it, he lifts you into the air, slamming you against his body before descending with all his weight and force, even with Yukako pulling on his back, the speed reduction wasn't enough to avoid the pain of this. (https://youtu.be/FAYVMXYYAp4)▶ The ground turns to dust from the impact in an instant, an impact at a speed similar to yours, with a combined weight of 700 kilos between him and you, you feel your entire skeleton rumble, some of your ribs break and your back is nothing but pure bruises.
The air shakes your hair as your ears stop ringing... you weren't falling, on the contrary, you were on something solid... soft, the dust dissipates and you see that Yukako had caught you with another giant hand to reduce the impact... although using your body as a weapon, Hasai had also injured her hand.
Her hand lifts you into the air, back to the floor you belong on, "Quick Lucas!" she orders you
Her hand remained firmly gripping the muscular man's body, slowing his speed as he went for the weakened Karui. As soon as you land, the hand that was holding you goes through another portal... and suddenly through a window a huge beam of light starts heading towards Karui.
Again, Hasai takes one of Yukako's fingers to break it so she wouldn't bother him anymore, while he raises his other arm like a hammer to attack Karui.
>>4024 >>130077 >Lucas One, two, five and a kick. He quickly regains distance and although he understands better what he's facing, not how to face it. But it didn't matter, he'd figure something out on the way.
<Are you done with your warm-up?
"YES! I'M READY."
And so was he. Lucas runs, stepping with a force that would make the ground think it had something against him to go as fast as he can. He needs to apply all the force he can... So like the great heroes, he uses his head! Although literally.
With speed turned into his strength, he soars through the sky like a jet, and puts the hard head he's proud of into practice with a violent headbutt.
It's like a cannonball straight to the face. His forehead is the hammer that rumbles on the enemy's brow, making the impact fly like an implacable wind in all directions, and sharing the blow that breaks that nose like a recoil that makes his whole skull vibrate a little.
However, that is minimized, as in this exchange, he comes out on top. And then it's minimized further... as it would be eclipsed by a sudden grab.
"AH!"
It's not gentle. There's no reason for it to be, any Brock Lee normal person would have been decapitated by sheer pressure from the sudden squeeze.
"LET GO! LET ME GOOO! AAAH!"
Lucas throws punches. One after another, blows that barely grazed him, or that turned out, in this position, even weaker than those he wasn't even serious about at first. He hits, hits, and hits, in futile attempts to change anything in this impossible situation.
(I CAN'T... IT DOESN'T HURT HIM! IT DOESN'T HURT HIM!)
(I CAN'T... BREAK THROUGH HIS DEFENSE!)
(HIS... DEFENSE...!)
His defense...
"AAAAHHHH!"
And then, the pressure gets worse. In his head, there's only pain, one of the greatest he had endured so far, which would only serve to be eclipsed by the natural continuation of it.
Without easing the pressure. His legs follow his skull, cracking and not breaking solely due to the plush hero suit. At least until the real torture begins. Spreading his arms apart, he felt a liquid heat rise along his body, as everything that held him together inside began to be cut.
"AAAAHHH! AAAHHH! B-BLUUAGH!"
His scream is heart-wrenching, nothing dignified, it's a child expressing torture with a throat on the verge of rupture, until the pressure starts to win even against his hard head. His head, compressing, ends up pushing everything inside out, and blood seeks escape routes in all possible, gruesome, directions. In an instant, blood pours from his ears, nose, and even eyes, his mouth following suit at the end and drowning the screams with a worrying red torrent.
Then, he feels heat. Another one that doesn't come from within. It's fire, Karui reacts and pokes the giant's eye with an elastic fire band. It burns, and finally stops the slow execution. He lifts the aspirant, who gives him a pained look for an instant.
(His... defense...) He doesn't even change his face to anger, and with blood as makeup, it was hard for him to intimidate in the same way. The giant presses him tightly against his body.
(How... how to win...)
He can't even think about separating himself, his arms are a prison, and a hug away from breaking all his ribs.
(He's too strong...)
The monster jumped. It's surprisingly fast. Traces of blood on Lucas's face linger in the air for a moment before the giant falls with all his might.
(Can't I win?)
And he impacted.
"GAH!"
...the blow can't be described. I'd almost say it was so big, and so fast, that he didn't feel it. Because he went out for a moment.
His eyes turned white, and his ears stopped responding. For a moment, it's safe to say, he faded away.
(...Did I lose?)
He had never lost so quickly. He had never thought much, either. Did having nothing else to do lead him to think with the little his head could manage?
(NO! I DON'T WANT TO LOSE! NO, I HAVE TO HELP PORTUGAL!)
(BUT HOW?!, HOW?!)
<That was a Fa... Something blow
...? A voice, brought to the surface from his subconscious by all the blood, resonates in his mind... soft, and weak, like the memory of a drop of water in the darkness... and with little certainty that it didn't exist in reality,
<it could pierce an opponent's defense or something.
It was the voice of... his second mom
(...Suzushina....)
<I want you to keep in mind the basics of that weird blow
(...fa... something...)
<Are you ready to continue?
He heard that more clearly. His fist clenched.
(OF COURSE I AMMM!)
The darkness and tinnitus faded and were replaced by a blurry vision, which the aspirant defied by sitting up abruptly, soon understanding, between gasps, what was happening.
"Portugalis!"
His hand begins to rise rapidly, the aspirant stands up, hearing her command, and as it clears the ground, like Kratos, Lucas doesn't hesitate to use the small momentum of his Atlas for a jump.
"I... HAVE...!"
And then he sees what the heroine is urgently asking him to attend to. The giant, trapped again, was going for his weakened companion.
"AN...!"
The aspirant runs off as soon as he touches the ground, interposes himself between Hasai and Karui with a curve, and after braking with a skid in which he faces the blonde, charges at him.
"IDEA!"
Very happy to finally have an idea, he clenches his fist with all his might.
<You attack
"AAAHHH!"
He jumped as fast as he could in a direct dash towards the enemy's torso. Ignoring that this was its most protected part, and threw a punch with everything.
"SMAAAAASH....!"
And clearly, the impact was disappointing.
<And at the moment you hit...
Until...
<you release a little more energy
Using the principles of Tai chi, with which he transferred his energy from one side of his arm to the other, he tried to release more of it from his fist towards Hasai.
>>4026 >>130105 https://youtu.be/K7JZSfk347Y▶Despite your arduous training, all your progress... you were still an aspirant, a rookie, you had a long way to go if you wanted to face a villain like that, someone like Cornelia who could kill you at any moment if she wanted... you were only alive by her whim and with the help of your companions, this guy was too strong for you alone.
The pain of torture eclipses your mind, as your thoughts drift down another path... was there any way to beat her? Did you have any way to break through her powerful muscle defense?
...
You had received ugly wounds, from others or self-inflicted, your arms were covered in scars from the damage you did to yourself with your quirk, burns from the electricity of the masked subject, a huge scar from his knife that went from the end of your forearm to your wrist, if they did an X-ray, your bones would be full of scars and calluses from recovering from so many breaks and cracks.
But this attack was perhaps the strongest you had ever received, even with Yukako's save, you couldn't avoid falling unconscious, and rambling even more, thinking... thinking of a way to win.
Faced with adversity, your mind conjures help, a small hallucination, Gilmmer's lessons become clearer... you had an idea!
...
You were awake again, and you were going to help, you ran as fast as you could, stumbling as you recovered from the confusion.
Tired of dealing with Yukako's intervention, Hasai turned around, now taking his middle and ring fingers from the giant hand that was holding him, not breaking them as he did with others... but grabbing them from the base, and pulling hard.
(https://youtu.be/AyDn4egdmZw▶ ) Using the heroine's fingers as if they were the handles of pliers, he opened it, tearing and ripping her hand in half, a scream of agonizing pain escaped Yukako from afar as tens of liters of blood spilled onto the ground, Karui's weak fire attacks bouncing off Hasai's back. She turns to confront him, the orange-haired boy trembling in the pair of boots far too big for him, on the verge of tears before such a powerful enemy, then you appear, interposing yourself.
The wind was particularly strong today, blowing the red-skinned woman's hair, her antennae twitching, the tip of her left antenna glowing faintly as she detected the emotions of the lilac-haired woman, confirming her suspicions.
"Glimmer," she called, no response, the magnetic heroine's gaze was lost looking at the horizon. "Suzushina!" Calling her by name, the heroine turned around.
"Is something wrong?"
"Yes, you've been distracted all day, what's wrong?"
"Oh, that," she says, still looking into the distance. "Haven't you seen the news in Japan? They've been having trouble with the Yakuza... and I got info that they'll be doing a huge crackdown now."
The red woman's antennae vibrated again. "Is it because of that kid you took care of? Is he involved in this?"
"He's from UA, what do you think?"
"So you're worried about him? It's not like it's very wise to send brats to do that."
"Yes, I'm worried, isn't it natural for a teacher to look out for their student's well-being?" Glimmer paused for a second. "But I'm not THAT worried either, I mean, he's one of Silver Sable's kids, Cornelia knows how to strengthen people well." She turned around, facing the red girl. "Besides... I gave him the best training I could, I trust he'll be fine," she says with a smile.
... https://youtu.be/_1ly-LiD2T0▶"Fa Jin," an exceptional attack method where the force of the blow is precisely shaped, so that it pierces the enemy's defenses and damages their interior... you barely had time to practice it, let alone master it. You only had a demonstration from Glimmer, and you had no idea of the timing you should use, the amount of energy, nothing! And yet, at this critical moment, with your reflexes and instincts at their peak, your quirk at full power, you understood it enough, on an instinctive level.
Hasai watches you, not paying you much attention. "You survived," he comments.
But you had no time for verbal sparring, you were focused on one thing, your attack. Your glowing fist cuts through the air at high speeds, colliding with Hasai's abdomen, the impact resonates with a loud burst of air, but that clearly was nothing against his enormous muscle defense.
He does nothing, just watches, now with a disappointed look at that weak blow.
But it wasn't over, an almost imperceptible instant, barely a hundredth of a thousandth of a second had passed since your fist connected with his body, that you released your energy towards him. Your arm connecting the two of you, your energy, raw, and unrefined, still unstable, explosive, travels through your arm, the force it carries exploding the fiber and reinforcement of your suit, leaving your arm bare. You feel your limb tremble, your bones rattling on the verge of breaking, your muscles tired and numb.
"Is that all---ACK!"
The muscle Goliath recoiled, arching his body as he spat blood, surprised by the sudden and extreme pain he was experiencing... no matter how strong one was, how much they trained... nothing could prepare you for a blow that came from within.
"Ah...ah...haha" His hand smears with the blood he spits "That's much, much better brat" But still, it wasn't enough to defeat him, not yet "Now--"
His words are cut short, from behind, a portal appears and Yukako's large boot kicks him, his body propels forward, towards you!, he stops by scraping his feet on the ground, but before stopping, Kin passes both of you running, and intercepts Hasai, giving him a point-blank shot with his arm, which more than a pistol or rifle, now looked like a cannon.
The impact illuminates everything like a flare, and Hasai is sent flying again, but planting his feet on the ground and lowering his center of gravity, he uses his arms, his fingers digging into the concrete to stop himself.
"Sorry for the delay" Kin says "That thing was a real pain" If you look back, the Nomu was defeated, its head blown off
https://youtu.be/NBteurgkdiQ▶The smoke dissipates, Hasai was injured, burned, beaten, on his abdomen was the mark of your blow, but he remained, he didn't stop. You get ready. "Heh... Thanks"
The villain's words are like a splash of cold water, a stone disturbing the calm of the water, Kin signals you to stay still.
"Monologue, take the opportunity to breathe" Words from someone experienced, especially with Karui behind wanting to regain her energy in the sunlight.
"Really, thank you very much" Hasai emphasizes "I'm having, a great time, the boss is very meticulous, very specific, when he gives you an order, you follow it to the letter, 'go to this place', 'sell this', 'kill this guy', 'don't draw attention'...but now? After those scumbags were killing our people? And they're forcing us to ally with Tennyo, just so you guys could come and screw everything up even more?...it doesn't matter anymore, the only orders are to do whatever it takes to ensure the group's survival" He looks at his blood-stained hands, smiling as he clenches them "And that's why I want to thank you, it's not normal for me to have this opportunity, to enjoy a fight like this, to fight without holding back, I haven't had this much fun in decades" His gaze focuses on you all, on you "You came to screw things up, at our doorstep, so I thank you for it, with all my heart. Because I don't think I'll ever enjoy killing someone as much as I'm going to enjoy it now"
Behind, Karui trembles with fear "He's a sicko, he's crazy!"
"Shall I go to the front this time?" Kin says "You've done enough, let the adults handle it.
Hasai raised his arms, his muscle fibers moving to reinforce his limbs further as he slams them against the ground, the entire factory trembles, and the floor gives way, shattering into thousands of pieces as your entire team, everything on this floor, began to fall to the one below.
"HAHAHAHA!" Hasai propels himself from debris as he falls, which turns to dust from his strength, as he propels himself towards you all
>With a lot of text in between that Alpyr didn't really know how to handle, she sighed as she opened her eyes, she was sighing harder trying to endure the bad smell of that place. >When she opened her eyes again, she was already outside, sighing for the third time, thanking that she had a space controller and could get her out of there easily. >After getting out, she started gathering all the game she could to keep it close and ready for the change.
"Alpyr, are you okay?"
-"I SMELL HORRIBLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE"
>She said, hugging Svet to scream internally since she couldn't scream it loudly for everyone to hear.
-"You won't like me anymore waaaaaaaaaa!!!!"
>She separated to look around and try to clean herself as much as she could, but it was difficult, and even more so when things started to get even more messed up, seeing more people arriving to mess things up, plus the lizard. >She started to cover her arms with Game, imitating a spring that would end in two compressed fists ready to release explosive energy when they were released.
-"Hey Svety, will you accompany me against that man with the weird hammer?"
>She said while smiling, nervous, but smiling with her two arms ready to go, one being used to propel herself quickly and the other to try to land a blow.
>>4021 "Oh... hehe, don't say that, you can't smell worse than me" For at least a second, Svet is distracted from the chaos and smiles, hugging Alpyr, which doesn't go unnoticed by Ima
The entire floor continues to shake as Mizuki's every step sinks the ground as if it were mud.
And Hanan was at the front, still with that annoying itch all over her body from all the accumulated absorbed energy. The tingling isn't superficial... it's under the skin, in the muscles, in the bones. It's as if something inside you is pushing, wanting to get out. Accumulating more and more as the seconds passed.
After all... all that energy wasn't meant to be stored, it was meant to be released.
The succubus aims and fires. The beam explodes from your arm like a blast.
A massive column of pink energy tears through the battlefield, illuminating everything with a blinding flash. The air warps in its path, as if the world itself were parting from its trajectory.
This impact hits Mizuki squarely.
The subsequent detonation shakes the ground as if a missile had fallen, raising a cloud of dust and debris, along with a roar that makes the ground vibrate.
The smoke slowly dissipates... and Mizuki was still there, several of her scales fractured or burned, but she continues like a freight train, unstoppable no matter the obstacle.
"It can never be easy, can it?" says Amelia "Don't stop, I need debris!" she shouts, raising both hands.
Kouta fires jets of pressurized water at the ground, kicking up debris that shoots upwards. Amelia presses her watch, using her quirk and expanding a wave that stops them in place.
Even if it's for a second, the wall of debris slows Mizuki down when she can't reduce her speed to avoid it.
"Redhead!" shouts Ganosuke.
Poof
Ayumi gasps in the distance, but she made it. In the blink of an eye, she teleported them all around Mizuki in a semicircle.
Ganosuke lunged at the Kaiju, climbing its legs as his quirk began to suspend its scales. With every minimal movement the Kaiju made, they were painfully ripped off, exposing raw flesh. This is the chance Noah uses, going behind him to launch more projectiles. Kouta fires again, streams of compressed water impacting like bullets against the damaged areas, peeling off all the scales he can to expose the Kaiju.
Hanan stays behind Amelia, who keeps launching all her gadgets and things she had stored to obscure Mizuki's vision or hinder her movement as much as possible, smoke bombs, foam, tear gas, she threw everything she had and it still wasn't enough.
Mizuki turns around, sweeping the ground with her building-sized tail, at the speed they were going, and with her few physical capabilities, Hanan and Amelia were going to be crushed!
At the last second, Kouta intercepts them and sends them flying out of the way. He barely holds them for a second before letting them go, and still carrying the momentum, they have to make an effort to land properly.
"Sorry!" Kouta says. "This is gonna take all day..." He looks at Hanan again, in what was already becoming a non-verbal habit of him asking for something implausible. "Think you can shoot point-blank if you absorb its energy? I can get you to its head."
... https://youtu.be/Ght6RjXNLOI▶Alpyr's feet hit the ground an instant before propelling you forward again, the gamesphere reacting to his will and compressing in his arms like springs wound to the limit. Beside you, Svetlana propels herself by charging her energy, charging with an irregular breath, from all the fatigue and accumulated wounds.
"I'm going around the back!" Motomu shouts.
Takeshi doesn't wait for them.
The ground beneath his feet deforms as he shifts his weight, becoming light as a feather for an instant before launching himself towards you with enormous speed. His hammer describes an arc, charged with enough force to pulverize your heads.
Svetlana reacts in time and a blue spear appears, intercepting the blow.
The spear explodes upon impact with the edge of the hammer. The shockwave kicks up dust and debris, forcing you to partially cover yourself as the impact shakes your body.
"Don't just stand there!" Svet warns you, already generating another spear.
You move, Takeshi follows you with his gaze, adjusting his body weight to pivot on himself and avoid your first attempt to get in. His hammer moves again, this time towards you.
Poof
You disappear, and reappear to his left, thanks to Ayumi's help. Takeshi's blow passes by.
Takeshi growls, turning again, always one step ahead, always covering complicated angles thanks to his quirk that gave him enormous explosive power and mobility, making his movements difficult to predict. Svetlana launches another barrage of spears. Not to hit, but to force a reaction.
Takeshi shifts his weight, leaping and moving just enough to avoid being impaled, but that brief instant is all they need.
Motomu appears behind him, latching onto him with arms and legs in a hold worthy of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, the effect of his quirk immediate.
The Yakuza's body tenses, his breath hitches, his eyes snap open as his mind is flooded with incessant memories of pain.
"GHK!"
The hammer slips from his hands at that moment, and Svetlana shouts a signal to you
"Now!"
Poof
You appear in front of him, and in turn, smiling from a distance, Ayumi teleports the Yakuza's weapon away.
At point-blank range and with no room for error, your arms are already compressed to their maximum, and you release it.
The blow impacts his chest with a dry crack, a powerful explosion accompanied by the image of his chest caving in and his ribs shattering
Takeshi's body arches before being sent flying backward as if struck by heavy artillery.
Motomu remains latched onto him like a barnacle to a ship's hull. The drag leaves a trail in the air before both are teleported away again by Ayumi.
"LET GO!" Takeshi yells, struggling
"You...won't...escape!" Motomu growls through gritted teeth, his voice broken as he reactivates his quirk.
The effect is immediate. Takeshi's body, already broken from the blow, tenses unnaturally again. Motomu gives him no room to think or react, continuing to stun him with everything he has.
Ayumi enters the fray.
Her particles appear around him like purple fireflies... and in the next instant, they become heavier and denser.
From all angles, they rain down on Takeshi (avoiding Motomu)
Constant blows that warp Takeshi's body with each impact. He is completely trapped between Motomu's mental agony and the physical pressure Ayumi applies, Svetlana and you can land easy hits during this as well.
But it wasn't over yet.
"You sons of a..." Takeshi spits through gritted teeth
Then they feel it, Takeshi becomes much heavier, denser even, to the point where he generates a slight pressure in the air.
Motomu notices it, Ayumi does too.
"What...?" she manages to say.
Takeshi forces his body to move against all the restraints he had His muscles tense to the limit along with his quirk and he kicks the air.
It collapses under his altered weight and shoots off like a meteor in another direction, at such speed that Svet can't keep up with her spears, nor Ayumi with her particles. He has an irregular pattern between 'jumps' and jumps, making it difficult for Ayumi to follow him with her teleportations.
And Motomu was still stuck to his back, still messing with his mind.
"IF YOU'RE NOT GOING TO LET ME GO, THEN FALL WITH ME!" Takeshi shouts, completely out of his mind.
And then they hit the ground with a huge explosion, a small mushroom-shaped cloud of dust rises along with a dull, heavy sound.
Ayumi moves her particles, which expand in a fan, pushing the dust cloud to the sides, clearing the field of vision little by little.
In the center of a crater was Takeshi, motionless, and unconscious, his face in the dirt.
And on top of him was Motomu.
His body is bruised, crushed by the impact, his grip finally loose.
His eyes are half-open and he barely breathes.
"..Ugh..." He tries to speak, but can't form coherent words "Did we win?..."
"Yes masochist, we beat that guy"
"Cool... I can't feel anything below my neck"
Ayumi sighs "Give me a minute, I'm taking him out of here. Stay alive until I get back"
Ayumi picks up Motomu and carries him in her arms, before disappearing with a Poof.
...
https://youtu.be/x8L8vBHfo7w▶Bullets fly, punches are thrown, but all the attacks Ima and Alex land are ineffective against that violent monster. It was fast, and it was strong.
Sora bounced from side to side like an animal, dodging Ima's shots and charging at Alex, destroying his metal fists as if they were papier-mâché, in the process giving Ima a lariat and burying her in the ground.
The blonde digs herself out of the ground like a carrot, furious.
>>4023 >Gwen She picks up her hand from the ground, passes her long tongue over it leaving a thick trail of saliva, and then joins it to her stump as if it were glue. She closes and opens her fingers before leaning back, planting her palms, arching her back upwards forming a bridge, and turning her neck 180 degrees to look at Shiroi from her curtain of black hair.
"Y-a-ku-zaaaaaa? I'm not interested in games, I'm not a damn weeb!"
Gwendoline without her mask seems to be aware of modernity: Phones, televisions, tablets... At least enough to know that Yakuza is a famous Sega franchise. Shiroi lunges like a bullet and grabs her to twist her arms, bringing them both close again. Gwen in response scratches and kicks, her tongue extends like a snake and wraps around the villain's neck, squeezing with anomalous strength.
"Ma-ny he-roes heve se-cret iden-tities! (Many heroes have secret identities!)" She says with her mouth open, then retracts her tongue so she can speak clearly. "But you don't understand that, you surely always accepted the worst version of yourself... I fight to hide all the horrible in a dark pit!"
At saying that, a hole opens and swallows them. They descend through what appears to be an infinite brick well. Gwen's body keeps changing, taking on different forms and faces referencing Shiori's memories that she receives, she doesn't control it, nor is she aware of it, her body/quirk simply manifests it, while her gaze -indifferent to the face she wears- is always bloodshot.
"You want to tell everyone I'm scum, that I'm a brat, that I can't be trusted and deserve no good in the world...?! NEVER!"
They crash into the surface of the water.
It's thick, murky, with dark spots of strange matter floating, it's like floating in a heavy, giant void. Gwen clings even tighter to Shiori, acting as the anchor that drags them towards an unknown bottom.
"I don't need to possess your whole body to win you over" She says with her eyes five centimeters from Shiori's gaze, as she speaks, oxygen bubbles emerge, but the specter's voice is heard clearly. "I only need this"
Gwen's hand moves up Shiori's back, reaching her shoulder blades. From behind, Gwen sinks her nails, and they enter as if merging with the skin.
Shiori feels a sharp pain as Gwen's hand squeezes her heart, slowing its pumping and beating for ever longer seconds. Meanwhile, Gwendoline's tears detach from the corners of her eyes and merge with the black water.
"It disgusts me... But it's also liberating... To be myself... And to have someone to share it with... At least until you die. Then I'll be Gwendoline again, and everyone will applaud"
>>4030 https://youtu.be/Mw5OVcC3IoU▶You start falling through the void, your body twisting into various images and shapes, similar to the vortex of memories from Shiori that surrounded you. The Yakuza grimaces at the chimera of sensations this triggers within her.
>"You want to tell everyone I'm scum, that I'm just a brat, that I can't be trusted and—"
Shiori silences you by extending her hand, grabbing you by the neck, and delivering a powerful headbutt that scrambles your thoughts.
"You talk too much. Like I said, I don't care about your life."
You crash into the water like two stones hurled from the top of a waterfall. Shiori rises to the surface.
"Seriously, brat, you're starting to get on my nerves with your rambling. Don't they have a psychiatrist or some other bullshit like that at your school?...??" She looks around, searching for you—until she realizes she was never released. You were still firmly clinging to her. "Let go—AHHH!"
You drag her down to the bottom. In this struggle, her hands clamp onto your wrist, snapping it like a twig—but your grip doesn't loosen. Your willpower keeps you steady, standing firm.
Even underwater, both your voices ring with clarity. "You're a disturbed little girl." Her hand closes around your neck again—but before she can tighten it, she feels a sharp stab in her chest. Your hand has fused with her body, crushing her heart.
You see her vision whiten for a second, her body freezing—before she snaps back with even greater fury. Her other fist clenches and punches straight through your chest. "Two can play that game."
Both of your forms destabilize further as the duel continues. The struggle persists—your hand still clutching her heart, her hand still gripping your neck, now pulling to tear your head off.
The space keeps destabilizing. The pool of water vanishes as both of you fall into an endless, senseless void—more memories and places blending together... until eventually, nothing remains.
The last thing either of you can perceive is the other's furious glare—before this small mental space finally collapses.
...
"BLERGH."
Shiori spits at you. You go flying, crashing into a wall, partially breaking through it and leaving a trail of ectoplasm up to you whether Gwen's appearance changed or something and needs remakeup. Shiori continues spitting more ectoplasm mixed with blood as she stands up.
"Ehhh..." She wobbles at first before regaining her balance, looking paler than before. "The hell?... Where are we? What happened to the mansion?"
There was no ceiling. They could see the gray sky outside. If they were still in the mansion, it had been largely destroyed, and they appeared to be in the last remaining standing section.
"There they are—quick!"
The reinforcements! Rosalia and Clara arrived, looking quite exhausted but not seriously injured, Yukihira looking normal, and Erick, who had clearly seen better days. Dorian was with them. Hinata was nowhere to be seen—she got consumed by the villain Brea's teleportation during Hanan's turns.
"Heh... looks like you two had quite a time with Gwen," Erick says, keeping his guard up.
"Something like that..." Dorian replies, tugging at his collar. "...And who are you guys?" Shiori asks
"Heroes!" Yuki says, planting herself next to Erick and spinning her chains like a meteor hammer
"Yeah yeah, now we tell you to surrender, you refuse, and we fight to drag it out," says Rosalia, already somewhat tired of the mission. "Your horned ally left in a black slime along with the whole building, you have no one to support you or save you."
"Sora? What the hell happened while I was asleep?"
... <Minutes earlier https://youtu.be/JX0x3uqfuv8▶Chaos reigns through the hallways as Gwen's team escapes the enraged monster that was Sora.
"Why can mutants go into a Berserker state?! It makes no sense!" cries Rosalia as she runs in terror
"I'm sure we can beat him if we fight!" says Hinata
"You broke your fingers hitting him, forget it!" Erick tells her. "We need to regroup with the rest and..."
"Look, it's Dorian!" says Clara upon spotting him
"Dorian... That's right! Where was he?" Erick wonders
Dorian was next to Shiori's convulsing body, undecided whether to pick her up or do something. When the groups meet, there's no time for words. Sora bounces off every wall, approaching like a furious animal until a sudden wall stops him.
Black tar materializes in front of him and stops him. The same tar starts appearing everywhere. With his quirk, Erick can dodge it and predict where it will appear, thus being able to save everyone else from being consumed by the tar before it even appears.
"Grab her!" he says, pointing to Shiori's body, before turning and going for...
"Help!" Hinata fell victim to the tar before the protagonist could reach her. It was already too late.
Everything vanished in a second. There's no sound except the air filling the space previously occupied. The structure destabilizes, and Shiori slips from Dorian's grasp.
... Shiori runs a hand over her face. "Those idiots..." She stretches out her arm and turns it. "I'm going to do this quickly because I don't have all day. I need to go find my subordinates."
<Shiori Physical: 1d120+120 = 148 Quirk: 1d120+120 = 229 for reasons that we already did it, kek, Gwen is no longer going to have attempts to possess Shiori, although she could for example, 'possess' her and hinder her movements or something of that natureIn her mental struggle, besides lowering her dice, I neutralized her secret mechanic that I invented, that her dice bonuses decreased at a slower rate than other NPCs That and now you can roll two or three rounds of dice to speed up combat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yox2Yz4Ni2o▶ It felt like you had peed after holding it all day, feeling your bladder expel drops that made you desperate because you felt you couldn't hold it any longer, but then a force gave you enough to continue with the day until you reached the bathroom and as soon as you sat down, you felt the immediate pleasure of expelling urine from your body, a pleasure that ran down your spine, giving a peaceful sensation to all the nerves in your body, relaxing your muscles and releasing, no, urinating all the stress you had accumulated. It felt like being in heaven itself, letting the soft and affectionate hands of angels massage your entire body while you let yourself be carried away by the ecstasy and the pinnacle of human sensation that is... urinating after holding it all day...
BUT THE SUCCUBUS WASN'T URINATING OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT... now, back to the battle...
-Hanan-
"Fuck... finally..."
She didn't care about having wasted a possible instant KO either, maybe if it happens again she'll use it against the first villain who can be truly affected.
After being dragged away like a baby cat by her mother, in this case Kouta, she feels like she's being forced to do something that could screw her up, this time, that could kill her.
-Kouta-
"Do you think you can shoot him point-blank if you absorb his energy? I can take you to his head."
-Hanan-
"No-"
-Kouta-
"It's not a question."
-Hanan-
"I was going to say I don't think it's a good idea, but I could try..."
There are emotions that burn with intensity. Some burn so much they scorch their very purpose and freeze you, plunging you into a sea of memories, making you incapable of thinking of anything but them and turning the present into a canvas to relive the past.
He felt it firsthand when he entered this room, when he was brought to his knees by those very emotions. At some point, after living with them for the few decades he has been alive, he decided that being on his knees was enough for him.
Julia's ability was truly dangerous. It made him feel this way again for seconds.
But right now, the weight of those emotions felt like something they were forcing him to carry. Otherwise, they were just a reminder:
His greatest motivation is not to feel this way again.
Thanks to Julia, he is ready to fight for the rest of the day.
"Do you know something...?"
His hand makes contact...
"...You're ruining the group photo."
Two heroes, including one from the top 10. All for One. The future number 1. It was a picturesque battle...
Separating him from the summit where those figures stood, he could only see countless steps.
Somehow, this nameless bug had snuck into the scene.
"REPULSE."
The contact doesn't last a second. Rejected by the fabric of the universe, the monster is expelled from combat at the speed of sound.
Faster than the sonic boom was his shift in priorities.
He has already overcome this challenge. His gaze is fixed on the next step.
It's not that he cares so much about the mission, simply...
My first villain. I can't miss this...
It would be a waste of an opportunity. He has done it before without thinking, and he has regretted it.
--
He forms an idea in his mind and executes it. When the moment comes, he fires. Once everything makes sense in his head, doing it just feels like instinct.
The puppets were no longer involved. The attack lands on flesh and blood. Now he can say with certainty that he did his part.
>you got a loicense for that, mate?
"Nah. I just made it up..."
He didn't have time to give it a name, he was already focused on the next phase of the fight. "..."
His gaze scans the surroundings in search of his cape. But something gives him pause.
... Huh...
The blow couldn't be felt well. At least, if Julia's current state was any indication. Leaving aside the blood, he had never seen someone in so much pain that they had to shed tears.
... Fighting women... I'm still not quite used to it...
Who would have thought. He hadn't felt so attached to that idea in a long time...
Perhaps it was something simpler. Like the difference between a nomu or an illusion and a person. Logically, hurting them should also feel different...
>Who... WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?!
"....?"
>Do you think I wanted to live like this? No, I never wanted to... >But you didn't leave me any other choice, we had to save ourselves, all because of you!
Now it was Julia's turn to get lost in her emotions.
>So don't come here, playing the symbol...
He couldn't say he knew her well, but this was an unexpected facet.
>as if you didn't leave someone behind while playing hero, you're not All Might, you're not Deku, you're a damn plague...
Even though there were things in her words that he could understand...
Don't blame me...
... His concentration wavered.
I didn't choose to be here either...
Akira turns his back on the fight, he had to look for his cape...
If anyone could give Julia an answer, it wasn't him, it was the real heroes.
Eri is the one who rises to the responsibility, and with a final attack, closes the scene.
He could only hope she had found some value in those words.
"Nahh, I didn't do much..." He plays humble, but it's just a ploy for more praise.
>I should be the one saying that to you. Your performance, all three of you, was incredible, despite the difficulties, I'm proud of you. >Not bad, squirt
He can feel his ego growing with every positive message he receives. He could even receive an insult and it would only contribute to the placebo effect.
>What about her? >She's no longer dangerous, but we can tie her up "You knocked her out even after that speech, senpai. How cruel." He jokes, at least she deigned to give him an answer, even after making him fight what seemed like her personal equivalent of Satan. Eri didn't seem to hold any grudges against him.
He felt a childish pride upon realizing he shared that sentiment.
With all said and done, he had nothing to blame Julia for. She did nothing to him. The most bitter feelings he had in combat were not directed at her. Beyond that, he had already decided what mentality to maintain from the start; test himself with whatever is in front of him. There was simply no room for personal enemies.
"... What's going to happen to her, Ghost Lady?"
She'll go to prison, he supposes.
"I don't feel super bad for Julia-san, but she has a sister at home waiting to eat cheap ramen with her."
This he knows because they are childhood friends. With little seriousness, he continues...
"I helped break up a family, Ghost Lady. I need some comfort."
The battle was over, but it had left side effects...
>Are you okay Eri? >Your horn... uhhh... is smaller. You should save energy until a doctor comes
He raises his eyebrows in surprise. Could that happen?
>I'll be fine, I can worry later
If she could, as it didn't point to anything good.
"...."
--
The uninterrupted walk felt like a peaceful break after so much hustle. But clearly, that break was destined to end.
>Bobobo~~... Oh!, people. It was about time, I was bored
"Ah, it's her..."
His next opponent was right in front of them. First it was Julia, then it was the other cute girl. He could tick off all his objectives.
>How do you say it?, oh yes, I can't let you go bother the little boss, Brucie isn't done preparing his things yet >Then he's at the end of the hall >Yes >I mean, no no, he's not, if they ask, you didn't hear it from me!
"Trapped."
>Eri here, we have the leader's location, a room at the end of a hall on the south wing of the first floor >Too late to back out, so are we going to fight or are you going to be the villain's miracle who surrenders and makes things easy for us? >Miracles? Sorry, but I don't believe in those
That was the answer he expected. More unexpected was her transformation. She doesn't give opportunities to be interrupted, it's an explosion, followed by her appearance from the smoke and flames. The most notable thing, besides the physical changes, is that she was partially naked.
"Shit, she comes with distractions...!" He mutters.
An attack in combination with Nomus separates Black and Nadia from the group. Eri had been sent flying by an explosion.
At the current moment, that only left him on the front line of defense. The villain is fast to continue the attack.
>Hello handsome >Do you accept my gift?
"Uh..."
The answer was no, but Simon appears out of nowhere, saving him from being ignored and receiving an indiscriminate gift to the face.
>No thanks, we're in a hurry
"Gifts like that are better wrapped, don't you think...?"
Anyway, an experience like that reminded him that he needed to focus 100%.
For now, they had a 3v1. This situation doesn't last long, with a snap of his fingers, Yamada summons reinforcements.
"Huh?!"
A dwarf Nomu appears out of nowhere, jumping on Simon.
"They make kids' versions!"
Contrary to its appearance, it seems to be enough of a nuisance to distract Simon. Leaving him alone with the villain.
>What were we talking about?
"Ah... You were going to give me chocolate and a letter, right?"
He said a gift, but not exactly that one. He surely wasn't planning on letting her go without delivering it... Fortunately, Eri had recovered from the previous attack.
>Hey!
She immediately interrupts Yamada's plans, also trying to entangle her.
>Come on Akira, immobilize her!
No words were needed, she was already working on it.
Akira turns her cape into a center of gravity and throws it in the direction of Yamada, who was propelling herself through the air. She places the throw so that the next explosion is between her and the center of gravity. She not only wanted to bring her back to the ground; she wants to drag her through her own explosion to achieve it. It was free damage, and it would be a smoke screen while she was inside the fireball, giving Eri a chance to do something.
>... >A lot of text, but that doesn't take away from the fact that the birdseed only let out a slight squeak of happiness when Svet hugged her. >... >.. >. >Sighing as she approached to see the defeated villain, after everything happened in a few shocking and fast seconds that they barely realized what happened when the villain started to let go of everything with a last desperate attack... >They had won this small battle, but they still had to continue,
-"The lizard is still left... and I'm out of ideas... although I never really had any, I don't want to go inside anymore..."
>She looked to the side to see another battle still going on, against someone smaller but that doesn't mean they are less dangerous.
-"At least I can help these guys from here"
>She said as she accumulated a game in her hand, a large mass that took everything she had accumulated up to this moment as she approached that battle. Against the berserk mode that is actually useful for something and not for getting 01/01 >after accumulating a game, which she was going to turn into Lancea, it transforms further into a mechanical bow whose arrow was Lancea itself with strength provided by hydraulic energy from a game completely liquid enough to resist. >After tensing it enough at a distance where it would be difficult to miss, she makes Game yield everything and transfer all the pushing force to the arrow against that strange berserk.
>>4034 >"You knocked her out even after that speech, senpai. How cruel."
"Oh... well," Eri scratches her arm, uncomfortable. "At this point, she wasn't in a state to negotiate, and there are bigger things to attend to."
"Tie her up, please," Nadia says.
Eri gets to it, cutting long sections of her bandages to tie her hands and feet, recovering the cut pieces with her rewind.
>"What's going to happen to her, Ghost Lady?" >"She helped separate a family, Ghost Lady. I need some comfort."
Nadia wrinkles her nose, her expression slightly jovial from victory now soured. "Well... it's complicated. While she's still a minor, and an interrogation is needed to know the extent of her crimes, at this point she and everyone in her group are easily classifiable as terrorists. In the best-case scenario, she'll end up in some prison with a life sentence. At least, a generous judge might reduce her sentence if she behaves well, she could still have people visit her... In the worst-case scenario, she'll be sent to the super-prison of Tartarus for the rest of her life, or until they decide to execute her if she's sentenced to it. She'll never see the outside or anyone again." She looks over her shoulder where Julia was, Eri already returning. "I hope she has no regrets."
That prospect was... bleak, to say the least. They weren't kidding when they said crime doesn't pay, and ending up in Tartarus was a fate worse than death itself for any villain.
"Once her sister is found, she'll be in the system and would have special monitoring due to her relationship with her," Black adds. "That and a quirk counseling and help program... just in case, it's better to help children as soon as possible so they don't develop dangerous behaviors due to the influence of their quirks. You know, like the help program Uravity created to prevent more people like Himiko Toga." The last part slips out, history classes were fuzzy right now.
The fight had begun. Nadia and the phantom Nomu had flown all over the place, through walls, the floor, and ceiling as they had a high-level fight whose details escaped you.
Black was in a worse situation, having to defend himself against the quadrupedal Nomu's speed by firing waves of debris and other things it had absorbed with its quirk.
Simon, for his part... https://youtu.be/mrJ9teY5knM▶ the micro-nomu could withstand his attacks by generating a kind of rubber around itself, then continue biting him.
>You were going to give me chocolate and a letter, weren't you?
"I prefer it bitter, I don't know if you like it."
Eri returns to interfere, and begin the plan to trap the heavy hitter. Her bandages move as if alive to trap Yamada. The bomb woman moves with strong impulses as Eri runs on the ground to chase her.
Your quirk takes effect, the sudden increase in weight in metric tons spoils Yamada's timing, reducing her speed, even if only for a millisecond, causing her to fall victim to Eri's grasp. Eri's bandages wrap around her like a noose. A golden glow envelops Yamada, and the black covering her body from her quirk solidifies, cracking and falling off her body.
"What?!" Yamada exclaims
Still having her tied up, Eri pulls Yamada to slam her against the ground, the half-naked woman crashes and cracks the floor.
"Let's go Akira, continu--AAAHHH!"
Eri is pulled by her bandages, and when she meets Yamada, the latter responds with a blow to the face that knocks out a tooth.
"I'm stronger than I look," Yamada says, sticking out her tongue.
"Heh, me too," Eri retracts her bandages, they wrap around her knuckles and emit a golden glow before bone protrusions grow. Her horn shines, healing her wound.
You increase the pressure on Yamada, the ground cracks under her weight, she maintains her balance, and clenches her fists tightly, her muscles seem to spasm, as if something inside wants to inflate and expand them.
Eri looks at this surprised, "Use your quirk all you want, as long as my quirk is active, it won't work," she says... although with the sweat on her forehead, you weren't too sure.
"Are you sure?" Yamada asks, "My boss is a bit of a nerd, and he's studied 'veeeery' much about quirks. And sometimes you just need to put in the effort to do something against annoying quirks like yours."
"What?" Eri doesn't understand.
Yamada lunges at her, you increase her weight more, hindering her movements and giving Eri the chance to beat her up, it wasn't pretty, especially since Yamada didn't seem to have any combat sense, it was like watching a child try to fight Mike Tyson.
Amidst all that, a lucky break, her muscles spasm more, a simple blow connects with Eri's stomach, and then. https://youtu.be/5GlMzlx1xyc?t=3s▶An explosion of smoke and fire engulfs the prodigal daughter who flies out, she lands near you, bending a knee while holding her burnt torso, speeding up her regeneration.
"Heh, it worked in the end... although not with the strength I wanted," Yamada says.
She looks at her hand, her fingers and a good part of her palm had burst and were now gushing blood, her muscles continue to convulse, and slowly... the wounds she had gained all over her body, the cuts and bruises, began to close, albeit slowly, the black fibers seemed to weave and suture around the damage, forming new tissue.
"What was it you said?" the bomb woman asks Eri, who looks at this dumbfounded, "I told you, you just have to put in the effort."
"But..." Eri says, confused.
"I said put in the effort!" Yamada repeats at the top of her lungs, before throwing herself at you again.
>>130768 >>4035surprises me, not a single good roll in the whole fight to justify a quirk evolution, I was counting on that kek >>4032 https://youtu.be/FD75vDF2cEc▶Hanan had not at allkek wet herself, that was just a metaphor, it was the liberation from all earthly ties when flying, although flying as Kouta's passenger was far from pleasant.
"At this point there are no good or bad ideas, only opportunities. Can you think of anything better?" Waits for an answer "I thought so"
Around Mizuki, the team continued to make every effort to try to bother her and wear down her defenses as much as possible, the strategy remained the same, although fatigue continued to mark a greater loss of performance.
Kouta makes circles in the air, leaving a trail of water that turns into rain as he looks for the best angle to drop onto the Kaiju's head, it was making you nauseous.
At one point, as he propelled himself forward again at full speed, he passed over her and dropped, you grabbed tightly onto the first scale you could, it was as hard as steel, it looked like the hatch of an underground bunker, you barely had space to get your fingers in, and you had to exert more force to avoid flying off due to Mizuki's jerky movements.
Kouta flies again, now in front of the lizard's face, firing a jet of water at maximum power, and moving his hands with the precision and speed necessary to turn the water into a blade that temporarily blinds the Kaiju, a roar escapes it in pain, while you climb its scales until you find a vulnerable, scale-less spot.
Covered in blood, but there you saw the flesh beneath the natural green armor, you buried your hands as deep as you could and began to absorb its energy, just like before, you try to take everything you can and more.
You felt your body begin to overflow with all that energy again, that euphoria, thinking about it, someone huge surely had much more energy than someone of normal size, just like Tsubasa, it really seemed like a bottomless pit of power, the more you absorbed, the more you discovered, you held on with all your might to avoid flying off, but eventually your grip started to falter and in the shaking, you flew off, like a flea from a dog's back.
You were in the void, without any help or way to propel yourself, you saw Kouta trying to come to your aid, but a swipe from the Kaiju knocked him out of the way. It slams into you, like a basketball to the face, luckily you were wearing a helmet, a strange orange and inflated ball, which from nowhere expands to be as big as a house, a huge air mattress that would cushion your fall.
A shot of such precision, you feel Noah sigh in relief for having hit, which doesn't last long until he is swept away by the Kaiju's tail and disappears in a cloud of dust and debris.
(https://youtu.be/oN9G9eOnvRY)▶ You were sure that falling with the bag wasn't the idea, but it was better than nothing and it had reduced the force of the fall, trying to get out of that thing was the complicated part, you had practically ended up buried among the folds of the fiber.
"Hanan!" It's Amelia's voice, she approaches helping to move all the folds of the fiber until she finds you "Give me your hand, we can't win this without you"
... https://youtu.be/Ght6RjXNLOI▶"Peeling those scales to damage it effectively sounds good," says Svet after seeing Hanan's team's strategy. "But we should help Ima and her brother."
You were already on it, while Ima kept swinging at the Oni who dodged all her shots or could withstand them, you were forming Game into a new form.
"Let me help," says Svet.
While you form your new weapon, Svet takes care of giving them support by firing his spears to break its movement, also giving Ima and Alex a chance to make another combined attack.
The nanobots formed a huge black cloud, materializing and forming a huge cannon that glows with a blue light as Alex uses his quirk to further enhance the force of said artifact, a huge cannon of electromagnetic bullets that fires with the force and speed of a missile.
The entire ground trembles and they must make an effort to maintain their balance and not be blown away by the shockwave.
The smoke dissipates, and reveals Sora again, wounded yes, but still very much alive and angry.
"ARGHH, JUST DIE ALREADY!" Ima shouts exasperated.
"I can't feel my hands..." Alex says.
Sora growled again, but that was better for you, it was just a matter of closing the distance a bit to secure the shot and fire the arrow with all the accumulated force.
The dim light reflects on the arrow as Gamesphere cuts through the air, it takes less than a few milliseconds to travel a scant 10 meters until it hits him right in the face, throwing his head back, the impact resonates in his head like a church bell for an entire neighborhood. But this one plants his feet firmly on the ground, bringing his head back forward, his nose bleeding, now slightly twisted to the left and with a cut from the tip of the arrow, but he was still standing, and to make matters worse, he now had his fury focused on you.
He lowers his center of gravity and lunges at you with a jump that then becomes faster due to his quirk, the details of which you were unaware of. Luckily, you still had Svetlana by your side to intercept him.
The energy lance of the member of the Big Three shines with its characteristic glow, an enormous amount of concentrated energy capable of destroying entire buildings with its immense power... it had been countered.
Halfway through launching the lance, Sora had already reached her, grabbed the tip with her hand, and prevented her from letting go of Svetlana's hand.
"!" Svetlana was speechless, even if she herself was weak and injured, doing something like this was a display of ridiculous strength, greater than anything she had imagined.
Even with her hand burning, Sora began to push forward.
"Cover yourself!" Svetlana shouts at you.
She is forced to detonate her lance, the explosion separating them from him.
...
The explosion throws them through the air without any grace in their fall.
Your back hits the ground first, the air escaping your chest, and just a second later Svetlana falls on top of you, eliciting another groan from you.
"Ugh..."
The piranha takes a moment to react. She carefully moves off of you and tries to get up, staggering as one hand presses her wounded side again.
You get up behind her, shaking off dirt and ash, managing to support her by the arm before she loses her balance again.
"Are you okay?" she asks you, as if she weren't the one with an untreated hole in her side.
A silhouette emerges from the gray cloud of dust, like a beast emerging from the smoke of hell, blood still dripping from his broken nose, and his eyes filled with such pure, blind fury that it seemed to distort his face, Sora was coming for more.
Too fast and too close to react in time.
Sora's fist descends with enough force to rip their heads from their shoulders.
But it is stopped dead in its tracks at the last second by a sudden titanic force of similar magnitude. The impact bursts the air around, raising a shockwave that ruffles their hair and forces them to cover their eyes, a groove barely a few centimeters deep formed under their feet as they were pushed by the Oni's force, before helping me with its spines for greater support.
Four tensed arms, muscles defined under the fabric as each of them held and blocked Sora's blow as if they had stopped a hydraulic press with their hands.
"Wow..." He says in a dry voice, looking at the fist stopped in front of him, frowning and complaining like a child who sees vegetables on his plate "It hurts..."
With a sharp movement, his four hands squeeze at once. The subsequent CRACK is proof of how Sora's knuckles crunch, causing the Oni to growl in pain for the first time.
"Hi Alpyr!" Says Asuna, holding onto Veronica's back, looking at you
"We came as soon as we could" Says Veronica, without looking back.
The black-haired girl raises a hand and gives you a small smile "We came to save your day~"
Before Sora could make another crazy move and finish breaking free from Veronica's grip, whose veins were already throbbing from the effort, Asuna extends two fingers.
Small ripples run through the air, enveloping the Oni, the change is immediate, his eyes dart everywhere, but his body is paralyzed, suspended in time.
"Done" Says Asuna calmly. "Let's go!"
Veronica doesn't waste the opening. With her four arms she hits Sora on the shoulders, not moving him an inch, but you knew well that he would be sunk into the ground once the effect of Asuna's quirk wore off.
"Alright, make way, make way!" Veronica grabs you by the arm. With another she holds Svetlana.
And with a great leap, the three of them leave the impact zone, covering more than 200 meters in 1 second, they land next to a large pile of rubble, where someone else was already waiting for them.
It was Mao, the U.A. nurse.
"Alright" he says, pulling several nutrition cubes from his bag. "Who's the most serious"
Svetlana raises a hand. "...I'd vote for me."
Mao was already kneeling beside her, applying a medical patch and precisely checking the wounds on her side.
"Three compromised ribs, moderate blood loss, severe exhaustion" he mutters.
Then he looks at you, sniffs, and pinches his nose with his fingers "Horrible smell, I guess a lot of trauma too, you'll both live"
>>4037 >>4032 >>130772 "Walking," Amelia tells Hanan as she finishes digging her out of the pile of air mattress fibers.
"Watch out!" Ganosuke yells at them from afar.
Mizuki's huge figure looms over you, about to stomp you flat until Poof
Now they were in the air, along with Ayumi.
"Hey lizard!" the redhead shouts, before her particles smash into the Kaiju's eyes, causing it to scream in pain in a white cloud. "I threw salt at you, hehe."
Poof
...
Hanan's team is reunited with the others. Ima and Alex are also there, followed by Kouta and Ganosuke, along with Noah's body in critical condition.
"Mao-sensei... I'm glad you're here," Kouta says.
"What's wrong with you?" Mao asks without any pleasantries.
"Maybe one or two holes in my stomach."
"Ugh..." Mao closes his eyes and shakes his head. "I don't think I have enough cubes left to treat you all, I'll have to ration. Come here."
Mao performs a quick display of medical prowess, disinfecting, suturing, and bandaging all the wounds of those present that he can before the ground begins to tremble again from Sora and Mizuki's movement.
"Where are they?!"
"That's enough," Mao says, sweating from his forehead. From his bag, he pulls out a small brown cube. "Do you have any news of the other team that was with you?"
Ganosuke shakes his head.
Mao swallows. "I hope Nakaguchi made good use of his. Gather 'round."
Mao brings the cube to his mouth, taking a few bites before swallowing and washing it down with a gulp of water from his bottle.
His body then begins to glow. For some, it was already familiar, an aura of greenish color that slowly healed their wounds and restored their energy. But this time it was different. The aura emanating from Mao was gargantuan, emitting a light that made them have to cover their eyes so as not to be blinded.
Their wounds begin to close at a rapid pace, but with so many people, the effect doesn't seem to be as effective as if it were just one at a time.
"I suspect this will also attract a lot of attention, so--"
His words are cut off again by the ground trembling.
"There they are!" Mizuki shouts, they had found them.
"Are you done?!" Ayumi urges.
"No, there isn't enough time or energy to heal everyone, but the most serious wounds should be better, and your stamina," Mao says. "And take the unconscious boy, I'll take care of healing them better during the fight."
The healing aura fades, and they must prepare.
Veronica cracks her knuckles, and Alex follows suit.
"I'm with you, Alpyr!" Asuna says.
"Can't you heal Kouta a bit more? He's kind of very important to our plan," Amelia says.
The ground trembles again, and with a jump that would put Veronica's to shame, Mizuki leaps in their direction to crush them, accompanied by Sora.
This time Hanan's shot deals 50% more damage! That and the special mechanic, Mao can heal everyone little by little, or pocket heal one and fully heal them in a single turn, choose what he does, kek <Amelia Physical: 1d100 = 7 Quirk: 1d100 = 21
>>4031 >Gwendoline Shiori's fist practically disappears between the specter's bulging breasts.
"Hey! What are you doing?!"
Both end up struggling to squeeze the other's heart, until the dream space is consumed from the outside in, and both are vomited back to reality...
Gwen feels the impulse of being thrown, she also perceives crossing a wall. She waves her arms a couple of times as if swimming, stops in mid-air, and recomposes herself. Her image flickers, pale skin and gray skin, until she once again settles into her sturdy aristocratic figure. With one hand she adjusts her crown, with both she adjusts her neckline, ready she floats back to the warehouse... Or at least to what's left of the structure.
Rosalía, Clara, Erick, even those whose names they don't remember are there too. Hinata is missing! The ghost fears the worst.
(She perished. And it's for the best! I would hate for her to be even a hair's breadth away from seeing my horrible truth)
The ghost coughs to clear her throat and answer Erick. It's easy for her to get into character.
"Indeed! It was a piece of cake. I just had to dive into that pit of malice that hussy calls a body. She's a loose woman... And beware! Her tongue is long and vile, she only spews lies"
While everyone is focused on Shiori, Gwendoline decides to go look for Hinata to recover her remains.
(By the way, where did I leave my sword...?)
She stole it from a pawn shop. She didn't feel bad about it, the shop was run by a bald usurer who used a thousand tricks to get treasures at the price of starving chickens.
By damage do you mean it has more effect? kek >>4037 >>4038
Gritting her teeth as she tried to hold on as much as she could, that itch was no match for all the nerves she had at that moment.
The succubus held on as best she could, trying not to fall and die like an idiot, she gave everything she could but even so the monster's great movement made her lose her grip and fall.
As she fell, she tried to move in every way while looking for the exit of that mattress
She looked up to notice Amelia offering her a hand to help her. Hanan for a moment raises hers to accept the help, but hesitating for a moment she retracts her hand, but putting her thoughts aside, she takes Amelia's hand and makes sure to let go as quickly as possible, but without being rude, but carefully.
When she heard Ganosuke and turned to see the Kaiju wanting to crush them, she tried to push Amelia but at the moment she was about to do it, they were immediately teleported.
-Hanan-
"Ah..."
She moves away from Amelia to prevent her from realizing what she was going to do, she was ashamed that she realized she was going to push her and try to get her out
"I'd rather you help Kouta for now, I don't have any major injuries, if he could help me get closer to his chest..."
She looked at her hand radiating energy, she felt the same itch, a little stronger, but she had already gotten used to it a bit.
Every hair on her eyebrow still itches
"Maybe I can help"
-A random person who asked, I don't control your NPCs-
"And why his chest?"
-Hanan-
"Maybe if I shoot the heart, he'll fall in love with me and give up"
>>4040kek, what bad mememagic >>4039 https://youtu.be/sTdn8-G8ftg▶ Dorian frowns at your words, he doesn't contradict you. But his discomfort is evident in how he looks away before stepping forward with the rest.
It wasn't time for questions.
Not when even Yukihira, with her keen sense of smell and bristling hair, had lowered her stance like a predator about to pounce on its prey.
Shiori looks at her, also agitated like she was with you.
"What a group of weirdos..." mutters the yakuza, spitting a thread of blood onto the ground.
Then you step away to look for your sword.
It shouldn't be too far, right? Even if the place was already too destroyed to recognize the architecture, a sword like that should stand out.
After a minute or two at maximum speed, you spot it with a slight glint of light reflecting off its blade.
It had gotten stuck between a pile of concrete and metal, barely visible underneath. You pull once, you pull twice, the blade comes out of the stone like in King Arthur.
The blade still retained that shine they tried to sell you as a relic, it had characters, and with your grip, it could acquire elegance. You hurry back.
...
The panorama had worsened.
"CLARA!"
Rosalia shouts from the ground.
The pink-haired guy lies slumped against a broken pillar, motionless, one leg bent at an incorrect angle and surely with more broken things inside, but he was still breathing.
Erick wasn't doing any better. Half of his uniform hung in tatters and one of his arms trembled from sheer exhaustion as he tried to maintain his stance.
Yukihira and Dorian had Shiori restrained.
Yukihira's chain had wrapped twice around her torso and one of her arms, tightening forcefully while the girl dug her heels into the ground to avoid being dragged away.
Dorian, on the other hand, had her other arm immobilized in a lock so tight that you could even hear the crunch of joints under pressure, but they were Dorian's joints, not Shiori's.
"Rosalia!" Yukihira shouts.
"QUICKLY!" Dorian follows.
The dragon girl springs up and runs towards her, clumsily but swiftly, her boots hitting the cracked concrete as she stops a step away and leans her face forward, against Shiori's.
Shiori saw her coming, but this last action leaves her confused.
"What the fu--?"
Rosalia opens her mouth and exhales. Firing a dense green cloud that explodes against the yakuza's face. The gas envelops her fully.
Shiori tries to close her mouth, turning her head and holding her breath, but it was too late.
Some of the gas had already entered her system and began to take effect.
Her eyes fill with tears almost instantly as a violent cough shakes her chest.
"Cough cough"
Rosalia steps back with a gasp "It worked!" and takes a breath, ready to repeat the process.
Shiori looks up, furious, her eyes red and watery. Her fist shoots out towards Rosalia with enough force to rip her face off.
But Erick appears, and intercepts the blow, deflecting it just enough to graze his shoulder as he pushes the dragon girl back. The impact also making him stumble back.
"Careful!"
Rosalia stumbles out of the yakuza's range, and she explodes.
Dorian tightens his grip, but Shiori spins like a top and sends him flying, also dislocating his right shoulder in the process, Dorian crashes through a wall like a wrecking ball.
With one free arm, the yakuza shakes herself and pulls on Yuki's chains, bringing her towards her and smashing her face with a headbutt, the chains loosen and she can break free.
The biting girl bounces off the ground and rolls several meters.
Shiori breathes heavily and looks towards you.
Her eyes are still watery, and she coughs a lot, her fists starting to tremble.
"That hurt."
"SHIT" Dorian yells, as with a loud popkek he readjusts his arm, and feels his face.
Yuki feels her destroyed face, and rips off her collar, sucking her chains like noodles and swallowing them in one gulp.
"What?..."
Again, that surprises Shiori, long enough for all that consumed matter to heal and regenerate the biter's face.
"You'll pay for what you did to the delegate, you vile villain!" She lunges at Shiori, and Shiori swats her away.
"Dorian... take Clara" Erick orders "We don't need her in the crossfire"
Rosalia looks at you "The sword isn't a good idea, if you attack Shiori with it, she'll return the damage to any of us"
>>4027 >Lucas He stumbles but his decision doesn't, seeing the mutilation scene makes him almost feel it on his own skin even as he clenches his teeth and fists. He was running late, but he could let this affect him now or he'd arrive later.
He blocked the monster's path and threw his hand, infected with Yukako's phantom pain, in a new attack. His knuckles impacted with no effect, the fireworks didn't shine until his concentration pumped the energy imbued in his arm outward.
Like an invisible cannon, his hand delivered a blast that nearly swept everything in its path. Tissue, bones, and finally his enemy felt the internal force of his gift. The impact is re-evaluated as the intestines weep. There's a sporting separation in what both control damage, Lucas reattaches his limb to himself and grabs his forearm without hiding the effects of that attack, while the enemy released proof of his internal pain.
"It hurts." -he mutters-
<That's much, much better, brat.
"My favorite teacher taught me." -he gives credit, without her now he would be nothing more than a hindrance-
<Now-
The fight, verbal or physical, will have to wait. The madman earns a kick, and is sent flying right towards them, Lucas startles and prepares to dodge, but it's not necessary. Surprisingly, he stops... only to return to where he was with a second explosive attack from...
"Oh, Kin!" -he returned, Lucas looks at the defeated nomu- "uh-" -he wanted to see a cool scene, but finds a disgusting image, he looks away again-
'Where there's smoke there's fire' when it dissipates, somehow something more destructive remains. Hasai. Lucas hurries to get into a combat stance like the heroes, preparing for battle.
<Hehe...Thanks
"Huh?" -he can't help but let confusion overcome his angry face- "Are you an idiot?" -he asks, returning to seriousness-
<Monologue, take the opportunity and breathe.
"..." -he looks at Kin, lowers his guard for a moment and proceeds to bring his hand to his arm to rub it. He's worried, he doesn't know how many times he can repeat that movement- (I can't break my arm...)
He thinks, ignoring that he's barely standing in general, his legs trembling, his whole body aching, and every opening on his face adorned with threads of blood.
But his vision was tunneling. He had to win and not lose his arms in the process. Nothing else. He would use this moment when Hasai was making a reference to give himself a break,
<Because I don't think I'll ever enjoy killing someone as much as I'm going to now
But he couldn't let those horrifying declarations go unanswered.
"SHUT UP! I WON'T LET YOU KILL ANYONE! Damn you..."
This guy seemed to be the most detestable individual the aspirant had ever encountered. His complete disregard for life, and total lack of scruples made him see him as someone of true pure evil, and gave him an almost unbearable urge to hit him.
<Shall I go to the front this time?
"HUH?!"
<They've done enough, let the adults handle it.
"But I can help-! WAH!"
The ground is eliminated from the equation. The team falls, the enemy too. Hasai laughs and fires at them, everyone must act.
Being in the air, he could do little. His options were reduced to dodging or attacking...
Or were they?
If the target was him, he would wait. He would concentrate to the fullest, like those times when he had to dodge cannonballs or die, for what was coming. He would wait for the attack, and then kick the air to avoid the blow, propelling himself with the wind generated by his punches... By then, this time with the arm he hadn't used yet, he would launch another Fa Jin punch directly at any part of Hasai he could reach. Let's remember that he no longer had a glove on the other arm because he tried to give it to Kin kek. So only the arm is protected, not the hand.
"SMASH SOMETHING!" -he's still thinking of a name-
It wasn't just dodging. It wasn't just attacking. He was going to counterattack!
"And her name? I'd like to know who I can visit if I get bored someday."
...
https://youtu.be/mtPr_dGaLeU▶The plan goes awry when the ground is removed from the equation. From here to the first floor was a fall of about 10 meters. A fall like that could take about a second and a half, a lapse of time in which many things could happen...
"Get over here! COME HERE!"
Hasai plummets into the void, and extending his arm, a strip of muscle fibers cuts through the wind like a whip, towards your direction. You try to propel yourself into the air to dodge it, but you are too slow. The sticky muscle closes around you like a noose and squeezes you with a force that would shame any industrial press used for forging metal. You feel your ribs vibrate, about to break.
Hasai smiles, ready to pull you towards him. However, from above, Yukako's immense hand comes down on him, with a karate chop right on his head.
The blow disorients him, it almost seems like Hasai's eyes are popping out from the impact, but that doesn't stop him. Yukako's other hand closes around him to restrain him, while near you, Kin prepares his shot.
Yukako squeezed with all her might, but by bringing her arms and legs together, tensing her muscles like a spring, Hasai breaks free from the heroine's grip.
Kin's shots hit him, exploding and accelerating his fall.
...
The muscle Goliath lands on his feet. He still hadn't let you go. Kin approached him, shooting like a machine gun, trading cadence for brute damage. Yukako circled him, hitting him with everything she had, a kick from one side, another chop from a different angle, a hammer with her hands, pushing him to the ground to.
"GHHH"
His hand was caught again, like someone grabbing someone's arm for a lock. Hasai took another finger of the heroine and broke it like a branch for the delight of the listeners.
"Damn you!" Kin shouts, increasing his firing cadence.
All while you... were still trapped in the muscle, and you were straining to get it off you. Karui was helping, although it wasn't much use.
"HAA!"
Hasai pulled again, this time bringing you towards him, trapping you in the air with his hand, and putting himself between you and Kin as a human shield, slowing the pro's attacks.
"Ah... Lucas!"
"Now, without anyone bothering us... Let's try again, show me what you've got, brat!" Hasai shouts.
His muscles wrap around you again, and he throws you in Kin's direction. You barely touch the pro by a few centimeters when you are pulled back.
"Come on!"
The yakuza shouts at you, urging you to give it your all again, and if he was giving you the chance... you couldn't waste it!
Again, still with adrenaline coursing through you, your arm hurt, but it was still functional, while the other was at full capacity. You had to time it well for maximum effectiveness.
You extended your fist, less than a meter away, right at his face. What surprises you is that Hasai doesn't employ any blocking or counter-attack tactics. He takes it head-on, and with his own face.
Smiling, he stretched his head, taking the blow on his forehead... It was just an instant, an infinitesimal instant, but you not only felt it, you could see it on the Yakuza's face... all that bloodlust, all that contained violence releasing at once, enough to make your blood run cold and confirm your previous feelings. This man was not only despicable, he was a monster, one that couldn't be on the streets. You couldn't allow him to be free, you had to stop him. Your gauntleted fist smashes into his forehead, two opposing forces colliding, your knuckles crack and splinter against his hard bone dome, his skin splits and bleeds, a second passes after the impact, where you hit a horrible reality.
You had missed the timing.
https://youtu.be/KyzkwCnt8dg▶All the tissue in your arm explodes, and you feel your arm suffer a similar effect, from the inside out, muscle tearing, bone breaking, and skin bruising, you weren't in a position to give reviews, but it didn't look that bad compared to other times I mean, he got hurt badly, but not at the level of red arm and then -->purple arm like when he does 100%, it's still usable even if not recommended, hope you understand, kek
Even as you took a nasty recoil, Hasai was still on the receiving end, all that energy exploded in his face.
Like your arm, all that energy exploded from the inside out.
His eyes were red, bleeding, and about to pop out of their sockets, blood gushed from every pore of his face, from his ears and from his mouth along with teeth from his steaming palate, you didn't want to imagine his brain.
He was disoriented, muscle loses strength, and you are free, Karui catches you to pull you away.
Hasai remains standing, staring into the void for a second.
"AHHHH!" Kin doesn't miss the opportunity and shoots him again, more force, more cadence, getting closer and closer to damage him at point-blank range, blood flies, layers of muscle are peeled off by the projectiles, they were close!
"OAHHH"
They were close... but Hasai regains consciousness, catching Kin, like a child with a toy, one arm taking his left side, the other his right, and pulling in opposite directions.
(https://youtu.be/5Fujq3vIbm4)▶Being fast didn't negate the brutality, the sound of bone breaking and muscle tearing all at once, Hasai ripped Kin's cannon arm off.
"DAMMIT, NOT AGAIN!" The pro screams
Which is thrown against Yukako to further delay the heroine.
Hasai breathes heavily, his hands rest on his knees for a second, you can see how slowly that muscle armor peeled off on its own, the volume it possessed reducing little by little, although the volume decreased, his height remained terrifying.
He turned around, his face destroyed by all the accumulated damage, looking like some kind of unpleasant zombie, and yet, he was just smiling more and more, the lighting didn't help either, making him look like a horror movie monster.
"I liked that more... I can't remember the last time they left me seeing stars like that" He starts advancing towards you.
Beside you, Karui gathers her flames, concentrating them into a small attack that she fires with all her reduced strength. The ball of flames hits the torso of the muscle Goliath, exploding and burning part of its side, the muscles peeling off and revealing skin... but it doesn't react to that damage, very bad but the fear of Shiketsu's student.
"We're dead..." Karui says, trembling
"Tell me you can continue, please" Hasai says "I don't want it to end so soon"
He extends his arm backward, a very obvious telegraphic blow.
"I'm Hasai, Kobayashi Hasai, I'm from Hokkaido, and I like Cherry Salmon when it's in season" What? "You know, I'd like to know the name of who I'm going to kill, it's called having manners"
< Karui Physique: 1d80 = 32 Quirk: 1d80 = 35
< Kin Physique: 1d100+40 = 101 Quirk: 1d100+40 = 94
>>4044 I read it and it made me want to reply quickly kek >Lucas <And his name? I'd like to know who I can visit if I get bored one of these days
"She would beat you up." -he was tempted to reply, but a certain desire to protect also arose, even though Lucas fully trusted the professor's abilities-
And then everything collapses. Never a truer word. Any idea is blown out the windows by the gale generated by the impact that leaves them fighting in the air.
<COME HERE!
As it could be no other way, he turns out to be the target. The movement is unexpected; by the time he decides to make his escape move, he was already letting out a cry of pain for being crushed. It was as if a train had wrapped around him like a boa constrictor all at once.
"IT HURTS!"
Everyone acts to defend him, while he tries to make their efforts worthwhile by exerting all possible force to escape. He struggles, he shouts.
"LET ME GOOOO! RAGH!"
He bites the fibers. It's no use; this coincides with an explosion from Kin's attack. Which is the finishing touch for the turbulent landing.
But not the end of the scene. The blows and explosions continue while Lucas feels like all his bones are going to break into pieces, his efforts were in vain. His groans were, at this point, from pure pain rather than effort. And Hasai has some to share.
"PORTALIS!"
He becomes more desperate seeing and hearing that scene. He tries to kick and thrash like crazy, with guttural growls full of the most primal urgency, of the violent longing for escape that intensifies through the filter of helplessness.
"I'M GOING TO BEAT YOU UP!, YOU BASTARD, YOU'LL SEE, SINCOCOS!, LET ME GO! AH!"
With a tug, they pull him in like any yo-yo. The whip of being pulled makes him scream in pain again, and to make matters worse, they then put him in the line of fire.
"!"
<Ah... Lucas!
He puts on a serious face.
"DON'T WORRY ABOUT ME!"
He simply shouts at him what should be the most heroic thing in this situation, but Kin has already lowered his weapon. They turn him around, and he is face to face with the villain, whom he cannot see with any face other than the most serious one he has. <Now, without any interruptions... Let's try again, show me what you've got, brat!
"Huh?"
But that proves too surprising at that moment. Confusion wins for a short moment before they use him like a yo-yo again, Lucas screams in fright, and then is silenced by the blow, dry and ephemeral, but hard and charged by the deceleration of the movement. He feels as if a thorn had pierced his nape before being returned to his place, half dazed.
"Ugh..."
<Come on!
"Nggh..."
He frowns and reintegrates, his brow furrowed to the point of anger and his fist matching it, he raises that hand that was still healthy and answers the call with all the energy he had stored.
"SHUT UUUUPPP!"
There is no time to be surprised, nor anything other than the desire for his fingers to silence the enemy's irritating desire.
And even with the anger involved, his brow furrowed further.
But because in the half-second between the impact and the Fa Jin, he was able to understand, and experience firsthand a darkness he had never felt in his world.
And by the time the energy imbued in his arm transferred, more concern seemed to govern his eyes.
But only until the infernal pain dethroned it.
If there's anything good about 100%, it's that, despite the horrible consequences, it was a terrible anesthetic. This, on the other hand, was a growing pain that activated all the nerves in his arm, which let out the most heart-wrenching screams after the movement. His skin darkens and his tear ducts let loose drops of blood—which would be replacing tears for a while—it was almost as if all the bones in his arm were being ripped out at once.
Experiences, however, are shared. And all the damage he felt continued its course like lightning, finding its resounding end within Hasai's skull.
It's like a contained explosion. Both now look like red soap dispensers with faces. He can't help but look at the scene with some horror, did he go too far? They let go, Lucas falls backward as he is released.
"Ua!"
Karui holds him, the boy sighs.
"Thanks..." Who knows how much it would have cost him to get up if he touched the ground.
Then they look at Hasai, discovering that the pros consider Lucas hasn't gone too far. They attack hard and continuously, Lucas's mouth opens in shock. Victory seemed close... Until the hand of fate fell upon Kin...
"KIIIIN!" -he jumped from Karui's arms to stand up-
...and took his arm.
"!"
It was horrifying. In an instant, he saw the scene flash by, his pupils contracted as blood splashed everywhere. Kin is thrown away... Lucas... feels he has already seen too many atrocities today.
"..."
He looks at the fallen heroes, then at the villain. No. At the monster, which faces him like a predator, rising over him imposingly and intimidatingly.
It was horrible. The hero's hands were trembling, and his reckless words had run out.
<I liked that better... I can't remember the last time they left me seeing stars like that
He walks, with no other objective than him. Who seemed to have become the most 'fun' enemy in the twisted vision the blond demon had created. Karui attacks, and it's of little use, Lucas just watches, trying to stay in the here, in the now, firm.
<We're dead... <Tell me you can keep going, please. I don't want it to end so soon
In nature. Perhaps beyond. In any mind, intimidation of this caliber should be enough to end the fight. When you can't win, and the other shows it to you so clearly that your body itself suggests, with tremors and urgency, that it's better to accept it and leave, one should do so.
And Lucas, this time, was tempted to do so. To lower his head, confess that he cannot continue and surrender. His arms were on the verge of collapse, like every inch of his body. His life, not only hung by a thread, but had been preserved solely because the enemy decided so.
You can't achieve anything if you die, and this time, the fear of death was clearer than ever. It wasn't tinged with despair, with the heat of battle like in that building, with anything. It was a cold moment of combat where every opposing move was the lethal injection seeking to stab his throat. Perhaps he would have. Because he was afraid.
But this time there was a factor that changed everything.
There was someone behind him.
"..." -he looked back, grinning from ear to ear, and gave him a thumbs-up with his bruised hand- "don't worry, I have an idea."
And he turned to look at the beast. Which was raising its arm without intending to throw yet, making him understand the kind of game they were going to play, a final exchange. With everything.
Lucas clenched his two fists, which remained at his sides. He only needed one, but he had to stop the trembling.
<I am Hasai, Kobayashi Hasai, I am from Hokkaido, and I like Cherry Salmon when it's in season.
"Uh...?"
<You know, I'd like to know the name of who I'm going to kill, it's called having manners.
"..."
He cracks the knuckles of the hand that isn't completely destroyed.
"...you're not going to kill me..."
He affirms. And he takes his hat, moving it from his back to his head.
"My name is Lucas Cruyff! I'm from Porto Seguro, I love all kinds of meat...!" -he takes a breath- "AND I AM THE MAN WHO WILL BECOME THE NUMBER ONE HERO!" -he exclaims with all his might-
After the introductions, he brings his arm back - the one that isn't messed up - and prepares for the definitive clash.
"I'm going to defeat you with this attack! IT WILL BE MY STRONGEST ATTACK! MY SPECIAL ATTACK!"
He was building hype, for himself, for himself. He was going to go all out, he just hoped it would work. He would use his whole body for the blow, twist his torso, and thrust his hand forward. Shouting as soon as he started the movement.
"PORTALIS, HELP ME WITH YOUR GIFT!"
He throws the punch, if the heroine understood, a small portal would appear before his hand, making his energy-charged hand grow, filling Hasai's vision with his incandescent knuckles.
"TAKE THIS!"
He was no longer afraid.
No. He was terrified. BUT HE WAS GOING TO WIN AT ALL COSTS!
"GIGAAAAANT SMAAAAAAASH!"
The fist impacts. It was time to perfect the technique... LUCAS TRANSFERS HIS ENERGY USING FA JIN IN THIS UNIQUE MOVEMENT WITH YUKAKO'S HELP!
>>4046masterful gambit, you skipped his last planned turn of the fight, kek The clash of attacks has equal and opposite effects according to Newton's third law, your arm and his face, both receive massive damage.
The subsequent separation only saw more wounds being inflicted on the pros trying to contain him... he looked unstoppable... invincible even.
No, he wasn't invincible, he was getting tired, bleeding, could be hurt as badly as he could hurt you... but he didn't stop, he kept going, now you were his prey and he was going to keep testing you until he was satisfied.
Karui was trembling, scared, just like you, seemed tempted to surrender... and against all possibility, against all logic that dictated raising the white flag for your own well-being, there was something stopping you.
You were a hero, and even if you had someone behind you, that was reason enough to lift your chin, and keep moving forward.
>"calm down, I have an idea."
Karui looks at you with eyes lit up, surprised, even a small gesture like that served to rekindle his hopes.
"Okay, I trust you. I'm here if you need me."
... https://youtu.be/HiKnJNusrzc▶>"you're not going to kill me" >"My name is Lucas Cruyff!(...)AND I AM THE MAN WHO WILL BECOME NUMBER ONE HERO!"
Hasai smiles, his grin widening despite the massive damage on his face "That's the spirit, let's go Lucas!"
Both clench their fists, each charging the last embers of power left in their bodies, will being the fuel keeping them alive. With his greatest size and long arms, it would only take Hasai a couple of steps to enter your range for the clash, but that wasn't necessary, unlike him, you still had the support of your allies.
From afar, Yukako got up, shaking Kin off, one eye squinting and jaw rigid from pain, but your call didn't fall on deaf ears, with a gesture of her hand, a small portal appears in front of her fist, you go through it.
And in front of Hasai, another huge portal appears. You feel the pinch again, your body stretching like rubber due to the anomalous effect of the portal that was adjusting your limb to its new size, like sleeping on a bed of nails.
In front of Hasai, your huge fist, now as big as his, moves forward for the clash, many would be intimidated, but his smile and expression exaggerated even more with joy at seeing this unexpected turn.
"YES HAHAHA!" He clenched his fist hard, his knuckles cracked as muscle grew over muscle, inside and out, exponentially increasing the size of his arm and fist until it matched yours.
Their fists collide, the speed and force of each generating a wind equal to a hurricane from the vacuum created by their blows once they clash, the impact so strong that the air explodes in a huge shockwave sending everyone flying.
The walls crack and explode, the ground cracks wanting to give way, your ears start to hear only a annoying buzzing, and of course, the pain. Your timing this time was impeccable, the amount of energy transferred... you weren't sure, however, that problem was easily solved by Yukako's help, which exponentially boosted your power.
Now you no longer had your suit to cushion the blow, you felt it again, the destruction coming from the inside out, bone, muscle, and skin suffering the recoil, even if it was less damage than the last attempt thanks to your better timing, it was still painful.
You held your ground, your energy entering violently into Hasai's arm, tearing and destroying from the inside out, bursting his arm and all its muscle fibers like a balloon.
That, and your own hand breaking from having collided with such a titan. Once the energy transfer ended, you lost your footing and flew away.
You flew like a leaf in the wind due to the force of the explosion.
"Lucas!" Karui caught you, still trembling but determined, using all her strength and pushing with her flames so she wouldn't fly away "He... are we even now, right?"
...
The wind died down, the dust rose, with a good part of this corner of the factory reduced to rubble... https://youtu.be/xbkl17x0heo▶ But the sound of those footsteps only served to freeze the blood. Karui stood in front of you, concentrating her flames again into a single attack.
"Don't worry Lucas, let me handle this... this time..."
Hasai stood before you... destroyed, his arm, if it could still be called that, was destroyed to the point where you couldn't find a way to fix it, skin hanging along with muscle over muscle trying to hold everything together lacking solid bone.
And the rest of his body... you had no words, he seemed to have lost 500 kilos, he was thin, almost famished in most of his body, there were parts where he had no skin and you saw pink exposed muscle, along with other deformed parts, or parts with too much muscle in between thin sections.
"Haha..." He breathed heavily, it was hard for him to speak "If I no longer have the strength to keep up appearances, then I don't have much left..." He looked at them, especially at Karui who looked very shocked by his appearance "I wouldn't recommend taking drugs... the effects aren't very good"
His knees trembled, and he clenched his other fist tightly "Lucas... right? cough cough" He spat blood on the ground "What's your hero name?" He asked, regardless of whether you answered or not, he continued "It's just... if in 5 to 10 years, I'm still alive, and not in prison... I'd like to find you, and fight again, without getting interrupted every time" He said it with a smile, though for you you could feel nothing but disdain "So keep getting stronger, if by the day we meet again, you're not number one as you say... I'll be disappointed"
He staggered, his legs finally giving way, and he started to fall backward "Good luck against the... boss..." ... (https://youtu.be/gZbxVK2GT7U?t=3s▶ ) The Yakuza fell to the ground on his back, finally, defeated.
>Cleaning the dust off the suit making Game go through all over his body and let out all the dust on the floor to return completely clean
>Cracking her back she looked at Svet who could barely stand up, which worried her quite a bit, but she couldn't get into that right now in the middle of battle.
>But she could give him a comment.
-"Don't you dare die, I want to take you to a park"
>She said trying to joke but it was clear she was nervous.
>When she turned to look at the smoke, that shadow that was settling on them, the shadow of Sora's fist, she tried to gather a shield in front but she wasn't going to make it in time with that.
>But when everything looked bad.
Hello Alpyr!
-"A-aH!...HELLO ASUNA"
>Said excitedly that people had arrived to help, and passed her friends who were completely healthy and ready to give a hand.
>Or several in the case of Veronica.
>...
>..
>.
>..
>...
>Changing scenes, now with a war medic, also called Mao by the main narrator.
>Letting Svet go to get healed.
Horrible smell
-"Fucking"
They will both live
-"That's good :D"
>She already wants this to end smiling forcedly since she's really tired the fuck.
>...
I'll follow you Alpyr!
-"I want the fly to stop bothering so I can attack the lizard"
>She was talking about Sora and Mizuki respectively.
>Forming all the game that was close to her in her hands to form the artifact Mrjolnir a big hammer whose weight is now negated by the levitation that Game has now, helped with elastic force ready to explode on the fucking face of Sora when she is close enough.
>Meanwhile preparing more game from her spine to try to protect herself in case she needs to although this temporary game is slightly weaker.
She melds with the sword and pulls it out, one tug at a time, from among the rubble. Then, upon returning to the group, she finds everyone at the threshold of her limits.
Clara collapsed... Erick bruised... And Hinata still hasn't appeared. Gwendoline closes her eyes, sighs, and raises a hand near her face to hide her gaze. Even with all the effort of Yuki and Dorian, Shiori is free once more.
"Although I dislike admitting it, Rosalía is right... Oh, ungrateful solidity, neither your force nor your cuts are enough to reduce this ominous enemy. In moments like these... One can only cry"
She drops the sword and her posture, bending over. The blade embeds itself in the earth. It seems as if the phantom has surrendered, decided to sink into despair. But for any observer, it's obvious she's just being dramatic, and this is proven when she straightens up with a raised finger and an idea.
"But if the solid betrays, then we'll have to make use of the intangible." She slides her hand to her chest. "And I am the banner of what cannot be touched. Allow me to take the spotlight of the vanguard while you deal with things behind the scenes."
Her hair and her skirt are slowly swayed as she floats toward the yakuza.
"You will be possessed again..."
She warns, extends both arms forward and waves her fingers. One can feel the coldness that drags through the air.
"Even if only for a second or two, your indisposition will be a fatal error."
She says, and surely Shiori will move to avoid her, finding Gwen again to the left, and above, and rising from the earth. A dozen little spirits surround her and chase her at a moderate speed, all speaking at once, seeking to find a space where the rest can return to attack and subdue the villainess.
(All except to possess her again. That experience was exhausting... And unpleasant. I don't want to feel like myself again.)
There's no better camouflage barrier than a handful of ethereal ladies.
>>4047 >Lucas It was time to face good and evil in the most direct way left. Hands clenched to write the ending, but without pens, only fists. And in a moment of special understanding that only those who settle everything with knuckles possess, they threw the blows at the same time.
But in the middle where the blows were going to meet, there was more than the wills facing each other at each end. A portal that the aspirant crossed, turning his fist into the gigantic means of transport that carried his dreams, the desire to protect, and the hope of his friends. It was going to be the biggest blow of his life.
And on the other side, they wouldn't give less. The arm he faces matches the magnitude of Lucas's attack without the pain of the portal that almost seemed like it was going to tear his skin off, and responds with the definitive clash.
It was like two planes crashing. The violence of the impact is that of a cruiser exploding. The explosive energy blows his hat off and makes the aspirant and his surroundings vibrate from the foundations. The wave deafens him, and the pain makes him clench his teeth to the point that he would hear them grinding if he didn't hear only a high-pitched whistle.
"AAAAHHHH!"
He screamed, unable to overcome the sound barrier, but it also marked the instant he unleashed the energy of his attack directly toward Hasai, leaving a mark on his arm like an incandescent bullet rising up the barrel.
"PLUUUUS..." -he exclaimed with eyes unable to hold back more tears from the immense pain- "UUUUULTRAAAAA!"
The pain jumped to the opposing fist with double the violence. Lucas's hand gained ground while Hasai's exploded in all directions in a second explosion that sent him flying into the air.
"AH!"
He can't control himself in the air. But the hands of a savior stop him before he even thinks of making any effort. With one eye closed from pain, and still half-dazed by tinnitus, he raises his gaze to see Karui.
<Lucas!
He can read the lips of that. It was his name; the beep finally subsided just in time to hear the other thing.
<He... are we even now, right?
No. Not at all! Lucas smiles.
"I owe you one."
... Karui dropped down before the dust could swallow him. But then, footsteps. Smiles vanished, and a chill was born, feeling more like an ice cube smashing against the bare spine suddenly to put you on maximum alert when something terrifying sounds. Lucas jerked his head open-mouthed with the abruptness of a kicked door. And even though Karui took the lead... both quickly discovered it wasn't necessary.
"..."
Hasai had lost... Seeing him reduced to that state was almost as shocking as finding him again in perfect condition.
But Lucas didn't give him a look of pity. Even if he wanted to, that wasn't what that demon desired. And he received the aspirant's seriousness again, who stood before Karui once more.
<Haha... If I don't have the strength to keep up appearances anymore, then I don't have much left...
"You're going to prison."
He wasn't going to die. He didn't want him to die.
He hated him, with all his heart. The things he made him see and suffer were horrible. But still... it wasn't his intention to kill him.
<I wouldn't recommend taking drugs... the effects aren't very good
His mom had told him that. He didn't need Hasai to repeat it.
<Lucas... right? cough cough
He nodded.
<What's your hero name?
If he just wanted him to grant that...
"I'm Silver Akio."
<It's just... if in 5 to 10 years, I'm still alive, and not in prison... I'd like to find you, and fight again, without us being interrupted all the time.
"...Alright! Live! I'll arrest you again! Go find me! But don't hurt other people!"
<So keep getting stronger, if by the day we meet again, you're not number one like you say... I'll be disappointed.
"...I will."
Hasai stumbles.
"You'll see."
<Good luck against the... boss...
And the yakuza collapsed on his back, losing consciousness. Lucas sighed, finally turning off his Quirk, and collapsed on his back too.
"Ahh..." -he looked at his hands, one was broken- "Sorry, Mirumo... I didn't make it..." -it hurt like hell, he lowered his arm and stayed in a resting position-
He looked around, trying to signal his team. But to them, he could smile.
"Heh... We did it..."
They did it... He raised his gaze, the ceilings were so broken he could see the beautiful blue sky.
"Ahh... I thought I was going to die..."
He had huge stamina. But the things he saw today had left him with huge mental exhaustion. Now to process the trauma kek
>>4048*Hmm, a 98 and 83 in quirk is worthless to me >"Don't you dare die, hear?"
"Deaath isn't in my plans... I haven't seen you grraduate yet"
...
>"Fucker"
Mao puffs his cheeks off in offense, and Svetlana slaps you across all the cracks and breaks in your suit "Don't disrespect the prrofessors, you're shaming your senpai"
"Stay close, Svetlana" Mao says "After Kouta, I'll heal you"
... >>4042 There are doubts at first, when you see Amelia's hand in front of you... but not just because she was wearing gloves like you, but because you had already come too far to reject your partner's support.
"Come on, succubus, we have to get to the press conference alive" Amelia says once she takes your hand and pulls you out of the folds of the enormous mattress
...
In the end, Kouta would receive medical attention; he certainly had more holes in his abdomen than a fish.
"Okay, hold on for a few seconds then" Kouta says, already starting to be healed
"And why his chest?" Amelia asks, the answer was simple: love "Are you sure?..."
"Even if it doesn't work, a direct point-blank shot is better than nothing, we have to soften her up" Ganosuke says
"I'll help you" Ayumi says ... >>4042 >>4048 https://youtu.be/FD75vDF2cEc▶Ganosuke cracks his neck; he looked like he was about to faint, but he positions himself in front as always.
"Don't do anything risky, stay behind me. We move as a unit"
Poof
Ayumi teleports them; they land on one of Mizuko's arms, sliding down like going down a hill. Ganosuke takes the chance to start peeling her scales on the way down before they are forced to jump due to the Kaiju's own movement
Poof
That's how the succession goes; they move in a zigzag, teleporting and peeling Mizuki as they approach her chest, looking for the right moment until... poof
Ganosuke grabs your arm so you don't get lost while he drives his knife between the scale gaps so he doesn't fly off too.
"Charge up, and wait for the signal!" he orders
You extend your hand, finger pointing, and gather all available stored energy again, letting go of all that annoying tingling to transform it into pure power.
"Try to concentrate it as much as possible, the smaller the area, the better!"
He says this, using his quirk to paralyze the scale; it detaches from Mizuki's body due to the movement, leaving a weak point exposed. Still holding onto the scale, Ganosuke lets go, spins in the air as is his custom, one of his signature moves, and throws you like a weapon.
Before the distance gets too great, you fly through the air, almost brushing your nose against the vulnerable spot, extend your hand, and fire. A pink heart-shaped flash occurs, the energy enough to blast you backward since you had no footing; you even hear a pained whimper from the Kaiju as the spot you shot begins gushing like a fountain, as if someone had driven a nail into its chest and then yanked it out.
"YOU LITTLE SHIT, WHERE ARE YOU?!" You don't seem to have won her heart.
Amid its erratic movements, it manages to swipe Ayumi away with a tail whip, sending her flying until she crashes into rubble.
Even its support... and you were right behind it, because extending its jaws, the Kaiju was ready to swallow you whole in its charge before you could even touch the ground.
(https://youtu.be/E1kebrWUcDA)▶ Someone catches you—it's no one other than Kouta, who with exceptional speed changes your trajectory and throws you back to the others.
"Are you okay?" asks the senpai, a somewhat relative question.
"Are you recovered yet?" asks Ganosuke.
Kouta doesn't answer; Mizuki was running back toward you. The member of the Three Greats extends his hands, grits his teeth while the devices on his wrists tremble, trying to filter the force of his Quirk.
«In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, all the fountains of the great deep were broken open...»
An enormous amount of water appears, so vast you can barely comprehend it—enough to flood a street, enough to flood a block, enough to become a tsunami.
The air explodes from the force as the pressurized water flows across the terrain and strikes Mizuki with enough power to counter her charge.
Kouta doesn't stop; even while expelling water, he performs a series of movements, compressing that deluge-sized volume until it takes shape.
"Water Jet: Cut."
The water compresses and presses against itself, enough to slice through anything in its path—be it a building or a lizard-sized monster.
Before Mizuki could get back up, two enormous water blades slice through her, piercing her scale defense and leaving a massive 'X'-shaped gash across her chest, her blood flow increasing further, literal tons of blood pouring onto the ground.
He hadn't defeated her; he'd only made her angrier, but it was a huge improvement in progress. Some rain began to fall from the water droplets flung into the air.
Kouta shakes his hands afterward, numb. "I need to upgrade these gloves."
Amelia stares at him, mouth agape; Ganosuke just wears a face of perpetual exhaustion.
"Let's go!" Asuna is excited, and Veronica follows behind her. Alex's spirits rise again seeing his teammates, while Ima still had anger to vent.
"Die!"
Ima opens fire again, still far from reaching the ideal bullet limit Sora had, while Svetlana provided support from behind by throwing spears.
The Oni moves through the air, dodging with immense speed or simply tanking everything thrown at it. You were forming Game into its Mrjolnir form while generating even more mass; you just needed a little time... time your teammates could give you.
"Alex, fastabll!" Veronica shouts.
The bio-mechanical boy's eyes light up, and he runs toward the four-armed girl, forming his huge mechanical fists as he jumps, lands, and balances on Veronica's upper right hand.
Veronica leans back like a professional pitcher; Alex is the ball, positioning his fists forward and compressed like a massive industrial battering ram.
Like a cannonball, with speed exceeding any Jet, Veronica launches Alex as a projectile toward Sora, who was distracted amidst the bullet hell from the redhead and the piranha.
Alex hits like a 4x4 truck against a child, carrying him along until Sora stops mid-air, and like someone hitting a stone while riding a bike, Alex gets hit and flies off.
Meanwhile, you... felt something strange; Game was vibrating around your arms as you formed it; it had never vibrated like this before.
The metallic mass floating around you shuddered with small, irregular pulses, almost as if it were breathing with you.
The huge hammer continued taking shape, each layer of the Gamesphere compressing upon itself, hardening more and more as you generated even more mass from your back.
The noise of the battlefield became strange; so many shots and explosions were almost like amplified white noise, as if listening to two people merged into one...
You could feel it, the vibrations of the air, the dust and dirt on its surface; you could feel Game.
But it felt distant, as if someone had put your head underwater; it was unrefined, disconnected white noise, but you felt it.
It was uncomfortable... but you could grab its hand; you thought you could, but maybe it wasn't the best time to experiment.
Game became denser in your hands, harder and heavier; instinctively, they say that in danger the brain releases its limits, and the same applies to quirks; before your eyes, your potential unfolded greatly after so much stress and non-stop danger. The monstrous amount of compressed force in the hammer could be felt, like a compressed spring about to fly off. You could feel the new power of your quirk firsthand, and it was huge.
More Game emerges from your back like a stream of silver water, wrapping around the handle of Mrjolnir as the weapon's size continues to grow.
"...Alpyr?" You hear Veronica's voice nearby.
"That's new," Asuna says. "Are you going to hit him?"
"I can help with that... Ima!"
The piranha signals the redhead, and the two join their efforts, shifting from scattered shots to now working together to close in on Sora.
"Hey!" Veronica shouts at you. "Alpyr says you smell like ass, and your mom is fat!" And while saying that, she points at you kek
The childish schoolyard insult catches the Oni's attention, enough for an energy lance to explode at the base of his skull, destabilizing him and sending him crashing to the ground. He rolls before stabilizing and is launched straight toward you.
https://youtu.be/PUMkF3_O0pg▶He was close. Not only that, as he extended his fist, you were also launched, pulled toward him like metal to a magnet.
"WAHHHH!"
But you weren't alone. Loyal to his word, Asuna literally followed you, stuck to you with a rope she had on her suit. Veronica jumps to follow but goes past them.
Before the impact could happen, she fires her waves, freezing Sora in place.
The Oni being stopped didn't change that you still had the momentum that sent you toward him. With Mrjolnir in hand, a spin to harness all the centrifugal force and all that accumulated tension and elastic energy resulted in an unparalleled destructive impact.
The hammer strikes Sora's head. The impact sounds like a church bell for kilometers, the ground breaking beneath him from the force, while he remains immobile due to Asuna's quirk.
Asuna snaps her fingers.
Sora is suddenly launched at extreme speeds, along with some blood, teeth, and one of his horns that broke from the impact.
"I've been practicing and learned to deactivate it at will!" Asuna says excitedly.
Sora had been flying, bouncing off the ground several times until finally intercepted. The brute force duo of Alex and Veronica grabs him and with a double uppercut sends him into the sky.
Just an instant later, they shake their hands from how difficult and hard it was to hit that guy; Alex even breaks his metal fist.
Asuna looks up, covering her forehead to see better. "He's very high, do you think?.."
(https://youtu.be/ON73AYzYels)▶kek That crazed scream from the heights disconfirms the suspicions before they could even form; he was still conscious and fit to fight.
Mao had already left Kouta and was now healing Svet.
Rosalia screams, oh so delicate. You were going to help; if you couldn't physically, as the master of illusions and cinema magic, you were going to make the task easier for all the brutes.
That, plus the threat to Shiori about wanting to possess her again, laid the groundwork for this plan: a piranha attack, distract and give the others a chance to attack better.
Your specters scatter across the place like a pile of marbles hitting the floor.
Shiori turns as soon as she sees a figure approaching from the right, only to spook it with an air blast from her hand and discover too late that it was another illusion.
"Tsk!"
Gwen's move around her with every step she takes, replacing any that get dispatched, covering every angle, and talking, talking, and talking nonstop to keep distracting her.
"SHUT UP!"
Shiori elbows an apparition that explodes into ectoplasm, and right there Yukihira finds her opening.
The Biter jumps onto her back, wrapping arms and torso while hooking a leg behind the yakuza's knee; the two should fall backward, or at least that was the idea.
Shiori manages to jam a hand against the ground before touching it, her muscles tensing as she avoids crashing into the concrete despite the force Yukihira was exerting.
"Get off me, you damn brat!"
Yuki squeezes harder from behind.
"That's because you're feeling the weight of justice; I'm full of it!"
"That makes no sense!"
Rosalia appears in front again; Shiori's eyes widen in shock as she notices the greenish glow coming from her throat.
"No—"
The dragoness spits the gas directly into her face again.
The cloud bursts over her face, and this time the yakuza swallows even more.
"COUGH COUGH COUGH"
Her eyes water worse than before, and the coughing becomes a severe problem for breathing.
But even so, she was still too dangerous.
With a roar, Shiori propels herself upward with a jump; Yukihira loses her grip before the Yakuza grabs her with her legs and throws her forward like a cannonball. Even though she'd already created distance, Yuki was going to crash into Rosalia.
Rosalia barely has time to react before Erick appears again, pushing her out of the way and taking Yuki's impact with his body.
The two roll across the floor; Erick lets out a muffled gasp, then stands up to face Shiori.
The Yakuza pants while wiping her mouth with the back of her hand, advancing on the boxer. Your illusions get in the way, but now Shiori is too focused on Erick.
The punches are no longer easily dodged; Erick takes hits, many of them. He can only serve as a distraction while being used as a punching bag. A punch to the stomach that makes him spit blood knocks him to the ground.
The blow to the stomach had left his body trembling, and now he could barely stay stable.
"Erick..." Rosalia grits her teeth.
But the plan doesn't stop.
Your illusions keep moving around Shiori, multiplying in the environment and appearing wherever she turns her head, vanishing just before being reached. The chatter and shouting increased exponentially, jokes and provocations that only made the veins in his head throb with rage, after so long, causing his calm to start fading.
"SHUT UP!"
Shiori throws one blow after another, ectoplasm exploding in her face while the constant buzzing of voices continued to erode her patience and sanity.
Yukihira re-enters, sliding between the floor and appearing behind, wrapping the yakuza's neck and arm with his arms again, twisting strands of her hair in his hands for extra grip.
"Justice never rests!" Yukihira shouts.
Rosalia followed. The dragoness inhaled so hard that even her flat chest swelled before expelling that cloud directly into Shiori's face.
Shiori couldn't avoid it; she inhaled the gas again.
Her eyes were already swollen and red, tears streaming down her cheeks as she struggled to breathe, her voice rasping like sandpaper and spitting blood with every word.
With pure brute force, she pulled Yukihira, tearing out some of her own hair that reflected to Rosalia. She spun with Yukihira in her arm, nearly hitting Rosalia, who managed to dodge, before slamming Yuki into the floor.
The illusions interposed themselves again. The plan repeated: your distraction gave Yukihira the chance to hold Shiori for an instant, which Rosalia used to gas her.
But this time, Rosalia was too close. Shiori's fist shot out directly toward the dragoness's face, with Yukihira as a passenger before being launched away by the impact.
The Dragoness already had her sword raised to block, but it wouldn't be enough.
(https://youtu.be/9J2rM4aZcGY?t=19s)▶ Dorian appeared out of nowhere and took the hit for her; any damage she could reduce with her quirk wasn't enough.
The blow landed squarely on him, generating an explosion wave.
"Tch..."
The dry sound of the impact echoed through the entire room as Dorian still managed to grab Shiori's arm and twist her body.
The lock dragged her to the floor with a low stance.
"LET'S GO!" Dorian shouted, struggling while trying to keep her immobilized.
Rosalia didn't hesitate and unleashed another concentrated cloud directly onto Shiori.
The yakuza inhaled again, and her symptoms worsened even more. She spat blood onto the floor while trying to breathe. Her eyes could barely open fully now.
"You..." she rasped. "You... are... unbearable..."
Dorian's arm cracked as she spun on the floor, gripping his wrist.
Dorian was dragged like a ragdoll and slammed into the ground, one, two, three times.
The impact caused a small tremor and left Dorian completely motionless amidst the rubble.
"DORIAN!" Yukihira screamed.
Shiori stood up, stumbling; the effects of the fight were impossible to hide now, while Erick also got to his feet.
"Come on, girls... I know you can do it, we can defeat her," Erick tried to say some words of encouragement despite being one step away from collapsing himself.
The UA's motto, to go beyond and break your limits, a phrase that represented more than words, and couldn't put more weight than what it was doing now in this final clash, breaking every physical or mental barrier, to be able to expel all your latent power.
...
>"You'll go to prison."
Hasai doesn't respond, just gives you a glance where his expression changed...or so you assume because the damage to his face didn't help his easy expressions. But he didn't look angry, he accepted it.
>"I am Silver Akio"
"Silver Akio" He repeats, almost like a whisper "I will remember" He promised to fight with you again, and you accepted it, as long as there were no third parties involved! "Of course...if no one gets in my way, I don't like wasting time with weaklings"
>"...I will do it." >"You'll see."
"I await you, keep shining brat, shine until you reach the sky...that's what it means to be strong...je"
And finally, the Yakuza fell. You follow him, watching the blue sky that was starting to clear...the huge and vast sky.
...
We did it!
"I can't believe we did it..." Says Karui "We did it!"
Yukako approaches, Kin also while trying to reattach her arm eating debris.
"That was incredibly risky, trying to pass through one of my portals without having enough conditioning can be quite painful, to say the least, dangerous" Says the pro, scolding you while holding her wounded hands together "But it was very clever, well done"
The rest of the combat sounds off-screen remind them that they were still in almost a war. >>4036 in the other corner of the factory they could see Akira, Eri and the rest of her team with their own combats and by location, Amane must be somewhere, but she's in a quantum uncertain state, so we ignore her, kek
Yukako puts her hand on her communicator "Portalis, we require reinforcements, and medical support, please"
Call made "Eri could stabilize us, but it wouldn't be a good idea to let her spend all her energy healing us, going" Orders Yukako
Karui gives you a hand and helps you up. and from here you can respond the turn of Akira to help him, or something, kek, if it takes too long I'll fix things myself >>4036
>In the best-case scenario, she'll end up in some prison with a life sentence; at least, a generous judge might reduce her sentence if she behaves well, she could still have people visiting her... in the worst case, she'll be sent to the Tartarus super-prison for the rest of her life, or until they decide to execute her if they sentence her to that; she'll never see the outside or anyone again. >I hope she doesn't have regrets.
"Ah."
It sounded worse than I expected. Although I couldn't say she didn't bring it on herself...
>Once she's found, her sister will be placed in the system and will be under special surveillance because of her relation to her. >And a counseling and quirk-help program... just in case, it's better to help kids as soon as possible so they don't develop dangerous behaviors due to the influence of their quirks, you know, like the help program Uravity created to prevent more people like Himiko Toga.
".... Let's just say... If someone helped Julia escape... and that someone got caught too... would they let them go if they ask for forgiveness afterwards...? I'm asking for someone else..."
Intrusive thoughts.
--
>I prefer it bitter; I don't know if you like it.
"Actually, yes, but I don't think you're asking with good intentions..."
Eri comes to the rescue. They work in combination to catch her, although her quirk doesn't have the maximum desired effect. That idea had more of a finisher quality, anyway.
The villain is caught and stripped of her strange armor, leaving her surprised. A couple of blows are exchanged between the girls, and both show off their strength. In the end, the situation seems to benefit the heroes.
>Try using your quirk as much as you want; as long as my quirk is in effect, it won't work.
>Are you sure? My boss is a bit of a nerd, and he has studied quirks muuuuch, muuuuch. And sometimes you just need to put in the effort to do something against annoying quirks like yours. >What?
"He says he's more Goku than Vegeta."
Although in the one-on-one it was more like Kid Buu. In pure combat ability, Eri danced circles around her; the effect of charging two nerf-guns was also noticeable.
However, everything changed with an explosion.
"!kurosaki-kunSenpai!"
Somehow, Yamada managed to counter Eri's quirk. His senpai emerged from the explosion with burns all over his torso.
>Heh, it worked in the end... although not with the strength I wanted.
But weren't Yamada's injuries worse, though?
Maybe, but two hands were something I could heal easily. I'd prove it right then and there.
Eri's damage was something she could also work on. But Akira had a worry that wouldn't leave her mind. How many such wounds could she heal until she couldn't anymore? Especially if she used her quirk for multiple other functions. Her horn had become smaller; in the last battle, it must have been a sign. >What was it you said? I told you, you just gotta put in the effort. >But... >I said put in the effort!
Seeing that, he realized it. His role in this fight had to be to minimize his own effort, or conversely, make that effort pay double.
"Senpai, if there's only 10% of your focus left that isn't dedicated to stopping this girl's quirk, use it. I'll lend you my quirk for the rest."
He had only been fighting behind her, like a shadow projected onto the concrete. But a shadow could replicate her movements. Immobilizing opponents was fine, but Eri had a thousand tricks up her sleeve; he couldn't keep responding with the same old trick.
He had learned a few things lately. Among his more elaborate skills, nothing came to mind that only he could use.
If he used his quirk on Eri, he could increase the weight of her attacks, use centers of gravity to amplify their impact and speed, as well as the speed of her movements by pulling her in the directions he wanted. By decreasing her weight, he could increase her agility in certain actions. Using centers of gravity to pull her away from the worst attacks could also help her avoid situations like the last one, assuming she reacted in time, but that would be easier for him as a spectator. The same could be applied to his bandages; if he played with her attraction and weight, he could make them shoot out toward the target, make them pull her, make them squeeze tighter, etc. All while Yamada's weight was increased. Even if there were numerous applications, they were simple uses of his quirk; it just required coordination and keeping the battle within his range.
The result should be to deal more damage, faster, and more efficiently, possibly avoiding Eri taking damage that he'd then have to heal. And possibly allowing him to focus less of his quirk on offensive functions, but if he does, the combination will be more decisive and force Yamada to seek more desperate answers.
Yamada seemed to be resisting Eri's quirk somehow. Maybe he was continuing to regenerate and fight just the same, even with Eri putting 110% into stopping him. He wasn't entirely sure; he wanted to see it a second time before trying something different.
For now, if everything goes well, he found a pattern to trap her in. If an extremity gets blown off like before, he'll get Eri out of the way. If Eri avoids taking damage, he can exploit the opening to keep attacking Yamada without giving him a chance to regenerate, assuming he needs it. If more extremities get blown off, it's just a matter of continuing until reaching some conclusion.
"Come on, succubus, we need to make it alive to the press conference"
-Hanan-
"I'll give you all the credit"
...and her idea...
Her idea failed, lol
"Ah..."
She said to herself while sighing, like, she wasn't gonna believe that would work, but she had to try after all, not like she had many options now to shoot with.
...
-Kouta-
"Are you okay?"
-Hanan-
"Keep moving... let go of me as soon as you can..."
She didn't say it angrily, but she still didn't want to be touched—yet due to the situation, she couldn't avoid so much... contact.
With the tsunami right in front of her, the succubus just stood there watching, not too surprised—meanwhile, she's already used to people pulling abilities out of their asses.
"Why doesn't anyone start by using their ultimate?..."
She said to herself while briefly planning what she could do.
Nothing comes to mind.
"I can't think of anything"
She said, crossing her arms while trying to think.
"Seriously, nothing's coming to me. I've already tried everything I could. At best, I could just stick to her and try to absorb and shoot out all the energy I can toward the sky, since I don't seem to have enough seduction... ugh, that sounded horrible... just to distract her..."
What a shitty idea, but it's all she's got. For now, she'll try to dodge whatever she can while focusing on protecting and staying close to Amelia.
>Feeling all the changes of Game, she opened her eyes with pleasant surprise, mixed feelings as she saw how Game seemed to be her own being or rather another extension of her. >Although she had always been that way, that sensation that Game is her. >... >She only ran to deliver that hit that made her tremble with that sensation, she could feel firsthand how the hit was returned to her but thanks to Game she could cancel the opposing force that was given to her. >She moved her hands trying to calm down a bit while the others did their own thing. >And by the time they sent the boy back and he was screaming huge while falling, this was the only thing that came to mind. >Before he fell, cover him completely. >But to prevent him from dodging or doing anything. >Making the artifact, Failnaught that bow that was born from a lance branch, to accumulate a great shot and trap Sora in a solid game around him to make it easy for her companions to hit him.
>>4054 >Lucas No doubt about it. They'd done it. Not without pain, not without tears. But in the end, they were the ones still standing. Well, not literally—of course the Aspirant was actually lying on the floor, having earned at least a few seconds of rest...
130657 >>4055The dynamic duo returns The situation escalates with an explosion and a moment of uncertainty. Running, the Aspirant sees his friends being targeted by a half-naked lunatic lunging at them. Lucas doesn't hesitate for a second—he leaps, without thinking, landing in front of them in a perfect pose, one hand on the ground. The Aspirant is enveloped by the red trail of full cowling, lifts his gaze, and shouts:
"WE'RE HERE!!"
He cocks his fist, using the surprise and inevitability of the clash to calculate—using that hand which isn't broken yet—the exact moment of impact. He's been practicing for this. This was the litmus test for the timing he thought he'd perfected. He thrusts his hand forward, intercepting the villainess with a fa jin strike aimed straight at her face—or her torso, whatever's in better range.
>>4053 >Gwendoline The yakuza is on the verge of collapse, but her comrades are also in bad shape. The few who are standing look like a disgrace, though less so compared to those lying motionless among the rubble. The ghost tries to encourage them with words of motivation, all while swaying her hips and raising one arm and then the other.
"Come on, ladies and gentlemen! It's just pain in the ass! How envious I am! Why are they delaying in gathering their breath when in the end it's lost anyway? Attack! Attack! Attack!"
But it doesn't seem like morale is going to improve...
Gwendoline clicks her tongue and fingers. Her reflexes fade like mist, and she, who had been watching everything from five meters above the ground, slowly descends to land between Rosalía and Erick.
"I suppose it would be very irresponsible to keep banging my head against that wall," she comments, her eyes fixed on Shiori, and extends a hand toward Rosalia as if asking for money or something. "Give me all your flatulence, and when I say all, I mean ALL."
It's not flatulence, it's poisonous gas, but what's the difference? When the gas surrounds them, and Erick steps back to avoid being affected, Gwen takes a deep breath and raises her index fingers. The cold wind evoked by the specter stirs, lifting particles of dust, swirling and swirling, transforming the amorphous gas into streaks of increasing intensity that seem capable of cutting...
Gwendoline creates a gaseous tornado that marks the ground, and when Gwen makes the gesture to launch by raising her arms and then extending them forward, it disperses and is fired off in dozens of wind streaks that surround Shiori and form a whirlwind that traps her.
That foul wind doesn't just enter the nose, but violates the nostrils and the gaze as if it were alive.
>>4058 >"Oe... Yukako" >"I won't fail like this again..."
"..." Yukako watches you "I'm the one who failed. That an adult like me, a pro hero, couldn't defend you lot, is a shame that rests solely on me" She lowers her gaze, looking at her hands "Let's do better from now on, the two of us..." She looks at Kin and Karui "All four of us" She smiles "Charge!" down ... >>4055 >Would you let him go if he apologizes later...?
Nadia looks at you, like someone looking at a puppy in the rain "Oh Akira..." She pats your shoulder "Not a chance" kek
... Seeing the situation, you decide to change the script. You were going to do more heavy lifting to give Eri more margin to finish off Yamada, or at least buy more time until your companions got rid of their respective fights.
"Are you sure?" You were sure about it, besides, you had promised it. You were going to push her to keep going. Eri smiles "Then let's do it"
https://youtu.be/LeI5OkEA0-w▶Eri sighs, relaxing her muscles. In one hand, her bandages are tightened with bone protrusions; in the other, loose and ready to be manipulated.
"Ohhh, is this one of those things where you show your hidden power?!" Yamada says
"You could say I'm taking off my gloves..." Eri says "But this was always a team effort"
You increase Yamada's weight more; her bare feet sink into the concrete, but her goofy expression of joy doesn't fade. On the contrary, she smiles even harder.
"Sounds fun" She lowers her stance
The prodigy daughter and the explosive leader, for an instant, stood still looking at each other, until both launched themselves at one another. Eri runs towards her, pushing off faster than normal thanks to her quirk, while the other makes a small explosion in her foot to propel herself even faster.
They collide, and the clamor of the battle intensifies.
...
You had a terrible migraine, and your nose was starting to bleed. The constant effort would take a toll, but it was working. Her unpredictable style, devoid of any technique and dependent on brute force, was becoming inferior against Eri's.
Eri was agile, she was fast, and she knew how to use her quirk at a level of mastery that only someone who would be number one in the future could, and with your help, that difference in strength became even greater.
Yamada's wounds accumulated, and that inferior reference she possessed couldn't keep up, much less when Eri could reset the effect of her quirk to prolong the impediment in her transformation as much as possible.
A step to the right, Eri dodges a too-telegraphed punch that turns into an explosion. Yamada's hand bursts, but you give Eri more margin to dodge by moving her center of gravity. The bandage on her left hand wrapped around Yamada; for a second, you reduce her weight, Eri pulls it, and you increase the weight of the unicorn's fist, resulting in a punch with the force of a train against Yamada's face.
Eri takes the bandage with both hands, twisting and lifting it; at that moment, you increase Yamada's weight again, mixing with Eri's force and slamming her into the ground.
A strong explosion dissipates the dust; Yamada's feet burst to propel her, like a wild dog, aiming to bite her neck. Eri's reaction, combined with your center of gravity adjustment to deflect Yamada, avoids the damage, and Eri only loses a few hairs while dodging.
Yamada spins in the air, detonating parts of her legs again to propel herself, covered in bandages. Eri points her hand at her; the energy is fired, turning into a powerful jet of blood that hits her like a cannonball, destabilizing her.
Eri dodges; the blood returns to its bandage form, but Yamada lands on her hands and propels herself again toward Eri. In mid-air, she had no way to move, but instead of blocking, she tangled Yamada's arms with her bandages.
As Yamada approached, you entered again, changing her trajectory with C.o.G*(Center of Gravity)kek, and her weight was reduced for better handling. Eri manipulated her, spinning her in the air, adding centrifugal force so that when you increased her weight again, it ended in another meteoric impact against the ground.
The ground shook from the force of the impact; this time, Yamada broke through the floor.
Eri fell and didn't waste time, pulling Yamada to bring her down.
(https://youtu.be/Af6XgL9uizs?t=6s)▶Nosebleed increased, your migraine and headache worsened; you spat some blood as your concentration failed, and you ended up bending your knee.
An explosion; Yamada propelled herself toward Eri, emerging from the hole. The member of the Three Greats was already preparing a counterattack, until her eyes opened in surprise—this wasn't Yamada, only her arms.
Another explosion; you raised your blurry gaze, detonating more of her lower body. Yamada propelled herself toward you; it made sense. Even someone who didn't seem as smart as she could deduce would try to take out the support before continuing to fight Eri.
"HAHA, I think I'll go for the neck!"
You wanted to stop her, but your brain had already exerted too much effort; it wouldn't be enough. She opened her mouth, showing teeth that began to gleam with an orange glow. If she didn't rip your neck off, you would explode when she bit you.
Suddenly, without wasting time, the straw hat appeared to defend Akira from the bomb girl, his unbroken arm shining with even more intensity than the rest of his body in his F.C state. Impressed, Yamada has no time to change her trajectory before Lucas's fist collides with her face, the clash between both forces creating a real and opposing effect. A tooth loosens in Yamada's mouth, and Lucas feels his bones trembling...he did it.
His arm glows, followed by the subsequent explosion that creates a strong shockwave.
Yamada's face is as blown apart as Hasai's, and she's sent flying, bouncing off the ground and falling back into the very hole she emerged from.
The recoil hits Lucas again, teeth clenched from the pain; the timing was correct...but it could have been better, like in his first attempts. His muscles scream in pain, his bones feel the pressure on the verge of breaking...but his arm didn't break this time.
In the background, the rest of the reinforcements help the team: Karui is the perfect counter against the mini Nomu and its elastic rubber defense, allowing Simon to crush it after the heat burned through the defense. Yukako and Kin help Black and get him out of trouble against the fast quadruped Nomu. Nadia needed no help; Number 10 had her fight under control.
"Lucas!" Eri shouts, arriving in a leap, covered in golden energy like a F.C. "That was incredible...Ah, Akira!"
Eri kneels beside Akira and uses her quirk to stabilize him and rewind the damage, or at least the worst part, to conserve her energy. A headache is better than a cerebral hemorrhage.
"Your arm... give it to me," Eri says, looking at Lucas. "We don't want Mirumo to get mad at you, hehe."
Eri takes the straw hat's hand and starts healing it. "Hmm... let's say five minutes."
Lucas's injured arm is healed; the wounds reverse and mend, leaving it as good as new, though only the arm—the other one was still bruised. With another touch, she stabilizes the rest of the open wounds and pain, though it couldn't be said he was back at 100%.
"Sorry I couldn't heal you properly; now I have to conserve my energy," says the Number 1 aspirant, wiping sweat from her forehead and looking at her horn, which once again seemed to have slightly reduced in size.
The group gathers around the three of you, everyone except Nadia... (https://youtu.be/RvgPb6H8LFE)▶ She was... well, everywhere, engaged in her own high-speed battle with the ghostly Nomu, her favorite duty. She was the only one with the ability, and therefore the responsibility, to face that beast. Until, with a precise kick, she sends it flying into a steel beam, denting it and leaving it dazed.
Number 10 lands beside everyone, still elegant, brushing off the dust.
"You're here in good time, Portalis."
"Y-yes, it's an honor to work alongside you, Ghost Lady-sama."
Yukako nervously bows to the phantom heroine. Nadia saw Yukako's injured hands, especially how she had stapled herself in the rush.
"Erin, heal her hands," Nadia ordered.
Erin obeyed the order and treated Yukako's wounds, healing the most serious ones, though she was still left with a couple of broken fingers that were bandaged. Kin, for his part, continued to eat rubble to heal himself.
"We've called for reinforcements," Yukako said. "If we work together, then—"
"Go ahead," Nadia said.
"W-What?"
"We don't have all day. We don't know what the leader is doing in his office or if he's even there. You go ahead; we'll catch up once we're done with these pests. We appreciate your help, but there's no time to waste."
From the hole in the floor, Yamada crawled using her chin and some stumps of forearms that were healing. Her face was covered in black fiber sutures, looking pale as if she were anemic. She stretched out a leg that was finishing healing an ankle, did a spin, and returned to the surface.
"Ughhh, it's not fun if I can't heal normally!" She started kicking the ground like a tantrum.
The quadruped Nomu began moving at high speed again, circling them and joining the ghost Nomu.
"I trust you," Nadia said.
"Yes, you can do it!" Erin seconded.
"I guess," Simon shrugged, not wanting to be left out.
"U-Understood, whatever you order, Ghost Lady-sama," Yukako said.
Behind her, Kin spun his arm, ready to keep firing.
"We'll give you an opening. Go to the end of the hallway; that's where the shark boss is."
(https://youtu.be/2jAuSmk-yus)▶ With enormous speed, Nadia intercepted the ghostly Nomu to continue her fight, while Simon and Black charged at the quadruped. Lucas's team had a clear path to continue.
Meanwhile, Eri and Akira still had work to do against Yamada. The bomb girl looked at them angrily, her underwear torn to shreds... and finally falling off, now completely naked.
"It's not fair, it's not fair!" Yamada complained, waving her healing stumps at a rather slow pace.
"You can surrender... you're not in a condition to keep fighting," Eri said.
"Never, ugly narwhal!" Yamada screamed.
Eri sighed and prepared to continue.
Lucas's part continues in the next post <Simon Physique: 1d100+35 = 115 Quirk: 1d100+35 = 126
>>4060 >>4058 Footsteps echo on the metal floor again and again as they cross the long corridor. The sound of the battles fades behind them, replaced by the constant hum of heavy machinery operating somewhere in the factory.
The hallway seemed endless, but finally they reach the end: a massive reinforced steel door blocks the way.
Yukako doesn't slow down when she sees it. "Move aside." She extends a hand.
A portal opens in front of her leg. Her foot vanishes for an instant and reappears several meters ahead, multiplied in size.
The kick hits the door without trouble; its bolts fly out along with the steel sheets, falling meters into the room.
They enter the place. (Sound effect)
It was a gigantic circular room, with stairs descending toward a central platform several meters below.
Tubes ran along the walls and ceiling, and there were tables and shelves everywhere filled with all kinds of things.
Computers. Weapons. Ammunition. Medical equipment. Mechanical parts and tanks full of various chemicals.
It was less an office and more a lab mixed with a weapons factory.
They weren't alone either. Dozens of men turn their heads toward you all at once.
Black hair. Gray streaks. The same height, same face, and same expression. Bruce Todd, the shark boss. Dozens of them.
Kin frowns. "What the hell...?" he murmurs.
"His clones," Yukako says.
Then, a pneumatic sound catches their attention: a loud Pshhhhhh.
In the center of the room was a huge glass capsule. The glass inside was fogged, while a thick reddish gas offered no visibility at all.
Some lights flickered around the structure as the hatch began to open, letting the gas escape.
A silhouette emerges from the inside; it didn't look like the photos, nor like the clones in the room. And at least it had the decency to wear pants.
Its skin was a sickly red. Thick black veins and other dark tones ran all over its body, swollen and pulsing every moment.
Its chest rose and fell with slow breaths; its muscles tensed and relaxed at irregular, unnatural rhythms. Its pupils were completely dilated, and its eyes seemed lost.
Yukako frowns, and beside her Kin looked uncomfortable. Karui made a scared grimace.
It seemed everyone was thinking the same thing. This was far more than any drug that could power a normal Quirk. Bruce grabs a nearby jacket and places it down calmly, flexing his hands and watching the veins in his arms swell.
The rest of the clones remain motionless, watching.
The main Bruce finally smiles. A smile far too calm for someone who seemed about to explode from all the filth inside him.
"Vaya..." His voice was hoarse. But surprisingly polite. "I knew eventually someone would get here and I'd have to deal with it myself. I could never trust those idiots from Tenyo." He takes a step forward. "I'd say it's to be expected... but I have no idea who you are. I would have expected a top 10 hero first, not two brats and two nobodies."
He extends both arms. Like a host welcoming guests into his home. Behind him, the capsule continues to expel reddish vapor. "Welcome. Would you like to negotiate?"
"No." Yukako responds instantly.
Bruce blinks. "...What a pity." He sighs. "Because I did want to talk. With my recent drop in assets, I wanted to see if I could get some new subordinates."
"Bad luck, we don't negotiate with criminals," Kin says.
Bruce sighs again, like a tired teacher repeating the same lesson to students who don't want to listen.
Kin sees this and signals you again. You had already learned firsthand the benefits of letting the villain monologue, whether to rest, or in this case, to buy time until reinforcements arrived.
Bruce continues. "And that's the problem..." He runs a hand over his face. "All of you still think in terms of heroes and villains. Cops and criminals. Good and evil, black and white~..." He spreads his hands, gesturing. "But the world has already left that stage behind."
Yukako doesn't seem impressed. "We're not interested in the opinion of a drug trafficker."
"No, of course not." Bruce lets out a dry laugh. "Because you still think this is about justice."
He starts walking slowly across the central platform.
Bruce doesn't seem to expect a response from you either and keeps talking.
"Do you know how many criminal organizations existed two years ago?" He gestures around. "How many groups? Families? Syndicates? Gangs?" No one answers. "Many." His smile disappears. "Now almost none remain." He points to himself. "Only the Sharks. Tenyo." And finally, he shrugs. "And a handful of cowards hiding under the stones."
Silence settles in the room. "Everyone else is dead." He points at you and Karui. "Maybe those brats don't know it. The news will never tell you everything." He makes another gesture toward Yukako and Kin. "Damn it, maybe you don't even know it. But Sugimoto and the Rabbit have been doing this for over a year and a half." He falls silent.
"They killed my people. They killed people from Tenyo."
"They killed anyone who got in their way." The black veins on his neck pulse. "According to my calculations..." He pauses. "...about eleven thousand people."
"...What?" Karui asks.
Bruce looks at him. "Eleven thousand," he repeats. "And less than three percent were heroes or police."
Yukako frowns slightly.
Bruce smiles, seeing that he finally has your attention. "But that's not what matters. Almost one million people die in Japan every year. Eleven thousand? That's nothing. But that doesn't change the fact that the underworld is being wiped out."
"Those two are exterminating them. And when they're done... who do you think will be next?" He smiles more, but it seemed he was deliberately trying to make his smile look unpleasant.
"Because those two aren't building anything, or conquering. They only destroy." He starts walking again. "That's why I needed Necro, the resources, the alliances." He spits out the last word with disgust.
"Because the balance has already collapsed." The green lights illuminate the dark veins running through his body. "And when we disappear... you'll be next. Hehe, not to mention the chaos that will happen from the power vacuum. The cowards hiding in the shadows, the desperate bastards looking for a chance, they'll all throw themselves desperately to become the new bosses, and they'll only cause even more bloodshed in the streets."
His gaze slowly sweeps over the group. Karui, then Kin, then Yukako. Finally, it stops on you.
"Pff." He laughs. "Pretty funny when you think about it... the great Deku." He mocks. "The hero who could save everyone. The symbol of peace and hope who saved the whole world." He lowers his gaze. "I don't see him solving this."
His mockery continues as his tone rises. "I don't see him stopping the Rabbit or Sugimoto! I don't see him saving the eleven thousand people who already died!" His smile fades. "Maybe the years took their toll on him like they did on All Might. Maybe it's more important for him to be fighting some Kaiju in the middle of the ocean than attending to his native country, but the point is... if he can't do anything, what can ordinary heroes like you do?"
"They'll come for you, and for you." He points at Kin and Yukako. "For you." He points at Karui. "And for you." He points at you, waving his hand emphatically. "Especially optimistic kids with starry eyes like yours."
"How convenient that the drug trafficker wants to convince us it's necessary to listen to him." Karui raises his voice; he looked a bit fed up with all this talk.
"Necessary? I wouldn't say that. More like useful, logical," Bruce replies.
Yukako crosses her arms, already fed up with listening. "Are you done?" "No. I had planned to say other things"
"What a pity" The heroine takes a step forward "Because neither I nor anyone here is going to negotiate with you. They are a threat, yes, but we will deal with them"
"After you're behind bars" Kin adds "No matter how complicated it gets, nothing will stop us"
Karui nods.
Bruce watches them one by one, sighs again. "You see..." He brings a hand to his forehead. "...that's why I say you're stupid" The veins in his body seem to swell more "All of you..." He clenches his fist "Live in a fantasy. You always think you have time".
"I tried to be reasonable" Another crack, his shoulder swells "I tried to negotiate to save us from the same circus as always. I tried to explain how this shithole world works"
"Forgive me for doubting the reasoning of a hormone-filled tomato" Yukako says
Bruce's clones vanish in a small flash, disappearing "A real pity" His smile becomes monstrous "Because I really wanted to do business"
The helmet finishes closing with a metallic clank, and the red lights of his visor shine.
"In any case, I guess I'll crush you along with the rest"
The metal floor sinks under his foot; he doesn't advance toward you, he doesn't need to.
Behind him, the air explodes into hundreds of flashes.
An intermittent concert of FLASH.FLASH.FLASH.
One. Ten. Fifty. One hundred.
The clones begin to appear all over the place, all armored, and all armed, pulling out their rifles and pistols alongside the original.
Like a dam breaking and letting the water flow, the clones didn't stop. More and more, the entire room begins to fill with them.
The clones pushed against each other. They climbed over others' shoulders and piled one on top of the other.
Like a whole colony of ants overflowing from their nest.
A living wall of arms and legs rises and advances against you like a wave, a human tide.
Bruce, the real one, remains motionless somewhere within that impossible tide.
His voice resonates from everywhere at once.
"You can't deny that this theatrical stupidity in all of this always annoyed me...but I call this One-Man Army"
The mountain collapses and starts destroying the facility as it moves toward you.
>>4056 https://youtu.be/1igFkjYBrR4▶"Things like a hole in your stomach or being underground stop you from using 100%," Kouta says. One would think he's being sarcastic, but his tone was so dry it could only mean he was 100% serious.
"At this point, I think he's going to take all the credit," Amelia says.
"Don't get discouraged, don't be negative..." Ganosuke says, already closer to fainting. "Not much left..."
Back to being the heavy hitter, Kouta leads the charge, being the main force for attack and distraction. As soon as Mizuki gets up, Kouta flies off again at her, flying everywhere and continuing his pressure shots against her scales.
Amelia sighs, tired. "Come on, we can do this."
Ganosuke nods. The three advance, with Ayumi helping with movement as always.
Poof
They run along Mizuki's back, peeling off her scales as she turns her head toward them. Amelia throws smoke bombs and sticky stuff at her eyes.
Mizuki complains, thanks to that and Kouta cutting her again with his water blades. They jump into the void.
Poof
They start falling, sliding down one of her legs, her peeled scales and exposed skin. It's not optimal, but you don't miss a chance and absorb as much energy as you can before disappearing again.
Poof
This repeats a couple of times. Kouta does the heavy lifting in distraction and attack, while Amelia just keeps reducing her range of motion by suspending debris. You and Ganosuke keep absorbing all the energy you can while he continues peeling her scales.
"Let's go for the eye!" Ganosuke tells you.
What, how? Before you can complain, another annoying Poof drops them into the air in front of Mizuki. You point your finger and discharge all the stored energy. It's not much, but it's enough to damage a vulnerable spot like the eye and make Mizuki writhe in pain.
Not satisfied with that, Ganosuke uses his hook gun to close the distance in mid-air and stab directly into her eye with his knife. Mizuki writhes in pain, but before she can shake him off, Ganosuke uses his quirk on his eye and then.
Poof
The three are teleported back to solid ground.
"I swear, I'm going to faint at this rate..." Amelia says, her legs trembling. "What was that--"
"AAAAHHH! The scream of pain from Mizuki makes the ground shake.
"I closed her eye," Ganosuke says. "It's suspended... that pain must be her nerves tearing apart from the movement now that it's become an immovable object. If she has regeneration, she should be able to withstand it..."
Ganosuke stops, noticing that Amelia is now looking at him strangely and judgmentally. "I'm tired. Give me a break..."
In the background, Kouta keeps fighting ... >>4057 https://youtu.be/PUMkF3_O0pg▶Sora's scream cuts through the battlefield as he falls from the heights.
Ima rushes to act before losing the chance. "NOW, YOU SON OF A BITCH!"
The nanobot cloud shifts beneath his feet, transforming into several mechanical pieces that assemble one atop another until forming a platform complete with a massive turret. (https://youtu.be/qGlubA_9RbY)▶ "AAAAAAAAAAAAH!"
The sky is bathed in a waterfall of bullets as big as his forearm.
Sora takes it all like the damage sponge he was made to be. The bullets explode against his body as he descends, tearing his skin and leaving deep wounds despite his block. Ima starts smiling, seeing her progress, but that armament storm wasn't enough.
Extending his arms, all the bullets are repelled, like opposite sides of a magnet trying to touch. His blank, white eye locks onto Ima, and he propels himself toward her.
"Uh..." The blonde's smile vanishes.
Sora accelerates even faster in his descent, about to crash into Ima, who was starting to retreat, but a hastily made jetpack wouldn't save her from the meteoric impact Sora could deliver.
Then Game appears—or rather, the concentrated shot of Gamesphere that Alpyr fired at the Oni. It wraps around Sora's arms and legs, changing his trajectory. He crashes into Ima's turret, and the impact sends the blonde flying.
Sora gets up, fuming, but stronger than any hydraulic press, the Failnaught finally forms and clamps down on him, its structures compressing Sora from all directions—something easier given all the accumulated damage he was already taking.
Sora struggles to break free, but from behind comes Veronica, smashing a hammer into his face. He stumbles, and Alex intercepts him with another blow. He keeps struggling, but the two B-Class students—the machine boy and the four-armed girl—exert all their effort to beat him down. Though they were making good progress, each time spilling more blood and even knocking out a tooth, the effort was monumental.
Alex raises his fist, which spins like a drill, and crashes into Sora's face, breaking his remaining horn and lacerating his skin, not without breaking itself in the process.
"Puff puff (((DIE, YOU FUCKER!)))"
Sora responds by screaming again like a madman, the entire mass of Game finally suffering from the constant strain. Sora manages to free his arm and, with one blow, sends Alex to the ground, knocked out. Veronica attacks faster, her knuckles bony striking him four times, until the Oni manages to free his other arm and sends her flying with a damn punch.
The four-armed woman flies off and rolls across the floor, passing right by your side.
"Veronica!" Asuna shouts.
Sora now propels himself toward both of you. Asuna tries to aim at him, but her movements become erratic, jumping from side to side and kicking at the air. Asuna can't keep up with his rhythm, and neither can you. By the time you can get him in your sights, it's already too late.
The impact sounds, nearly knocking you to the ground. Asuna falls to a seated position from the small shockwave; Sora's fist, which was aiming to decapitate you, was stopped.
Sora was still in the air; the previous situation had reversed. His fist was the one trying to force its way and break through the energy spear of the piranha, but Svetlana gives him no margin. She spins with her weapon, knocking Sora aside by striking him with the back of it.
"Let me take care of this," Svet smiles at you.
Sora regains his footing on the ground while Svet walks calmly before him; the outcome of the fight was already decided before another attack could land.
The Oni was strong, more resistant than any, but he had already endured too much torment. Against the now fresh, clear-minded member of the Three Greats, it was a steep climb, and the slope was a full 90 degrees.
A lunge is met with a spear thrust; attempts to attract or repel are halted by spears used as support, along with attacks from blind spots that break his concentration.
One after another, until they bring him to his knees at a safe enough distance to finish him off.
With her hand extended, Svetlana snaps her fingers: domain expansion, and the sky turns blue as Armageddon rains down upon Sora.
...
There was no defense against that, and the attack lasted an uncomfortably long time, making Asuna think the piranha was going overboard.
"Eh, don't you think—"
The attack stops.
"Oh well, I didn't say anything."
Sora was still standing there, completely destroyed, letting out a sigh and spitting smoke before collapsing to the ground, knocked out.
"Huh... Okira doesn't seem like much compared to this guy," Svet mentions.
"Ouch, my head," Veronica says, approaching. A cracked horn falls from her head. "ª" She picks it up from the ground. "Nurse?"
"Not now!" Mao shouts, rushing over to Alex to tend to him.
"Let's go help the others," Svet says. "I'ma!"
"No!" the blonde girl shouts from the floor. "I'm done. Let the Three Greats handle it."
Svetlana rolls her eyes. "Can I count on you girls?" "Totally!" Asuna says.
They're going to help Hanan's team. ... >>4057 >>4056 cinematic Alpyr arrives with Svetlana, Asuna, and Veronica.
"What's the situation?" Svetlana asks.
"Well..." Amelia looks down. Ganosuke had finally collapsed from overexertion and passed out, while Kouta and Ayumi were still fighting Mizuki.
Poof
"Good thing you guys showed up, little fish," Ayumi says. "Hey, let me take him to Mao."
Poof
The redhead leaves with Ganosuke; only Kouta remains. The aquatic one looks at his companion, the piranha. Both of them look at you, the kohais, and then at Mizuki, who was approaching them as the ground trembled with her steps.
"Can you give me a hand?"
"Yeah, it'd be embarrassing if we left all the work to the rookie aspirants."
"Wait, we'll handle this."
https://youtu.be/1raaJ74U3SI▶2000 tons of weight, and a strength unmatched that let her stand atop the strongest paranormal humans... but that strength had waned after so much combat, after facing so many combined forces. Against these two aspirants, the members of the Three Greats, who were standing right behind the future number one, their chances of winning at this moment were null.
The two advanced with great speed, bathing her in constant attacks that gradually drained her strength, culminating in a powerful combined strike.
Kouta fired an enormous amount of water again, a massive Tsunami he manipulated—not like blades or a pressure shot, but in such a way that it became similar to a whirlpool rising hundreds of meters into the air, lifting Mizuki's titanic weight into the sky.
The second part was Svetlana's. With Mizuki having zero possible defense, she was free to attack her from all directions, painting the sky once more in brilliant blue as a rain of spears colored the environment like paint on a fresh canvas.
...
After what felt like an eternity, the rain of attacks ceased. In a crater that looked like it had suffered a bombardment, Mizuki lay there, back in her human form and knocked out.
Kouta wiped the sweat from his forehead, and Svetlana cracked her back.
"Who needs Eri, right? Heh," the piranha jokes, managing something almost impossible and drawing a smile from Kouta.
"What the hell do they feed you at UA?" Amelia asks.
"Aren't we supposed to be the same generation? Why are you guys so strong?" Ayumi asks, trying to hide her jealousy. "I'll take this one; go find the other team."
Poof
Locating Gwen's team turned out to be easier than it seemed. continues in the third post
>>4059 "ORAAAAAA" Your support raises Yukihira's spirit, but doesn't make her stronger nor prevent Shiori from throwing a tooth with a punch
We had to try another angle. And you had the perfect plan once you proposed it to Rosalia.
"¡It's not flatulence!, it's concentrated gas expelled by my pores" Corrects the dragoness
"Erick" Says Erick
"UGHH, Alright..."
https://youtu.be/CzE7qEPWuG4▶In the background, Yukihira continued fighting to keep Shiori still, Erick steps back and Rosalia enters action, she takes a deep breath, clenches her fists, closes her eyes and starts to exert herself.
The gas begins to be expelled from every exposed part of her skin, dense like a fog in the UK, the gas cloud expands at great speed, growing and growing over the remains of the stage until easily being the size of a house, and it was still growing more.
You use your telekinetic abilities, summoning the cold winds that swirl and lift the gas that was being generated by Rosalia, concentrating it even more into its form of a tornado that you throw at the Yakuza leader.
Shiori had no way to defend herself, nothing to hit or block, only the gas and the cold winds that burn her lungs.
She wants to get out of the gas, but Yukihira tackles her again, struggling to keep her still and finally biting her shoulder to hold her more, it didn't matter if the wound reflected on her, her resilience at this point was greater than the Yakuza's.
Shiori still fights, and taking a breath, Erick charges into the tornado to help Yukihira keep Shiori in the tornado.
It continues expanding due to the constant flow of gas that Rosalia was generating, and you concentrate it as best as your abilities allow, until eventually the Dragoness collapses sitting down, she had exhausted her stamina, and the flow of cold air and poisonous gas begins to diminish until there was nothing left.
...
The flow of gas had ended and the tornado dissipates, Erick and Yukihira lie unconscious from the effects of it, Shiori barely stands up and her legs are trembling, until she finally bends her knee and touches the ground.
"M-Mierda...Blergh" She spits something on the ground.
She looks at them, especially at you, with an enormous rage she couldn't contain, it seemed she still had a fight in her...but it wasn't necessary, they already had company. >>4062 >>4057 >>4056 Hanan and Alpyr's teams had an easy way to locate Gwen's team once they could spot the huge purple gas tornado from afar.
Kouta and Svetlana go ahead as a precaution, but their defenses lower when they see Shiori's condition.
"Rosalia-san..." Says Svet
"¡It's about time!" Complains the Dragoness "Is there a contract that says that big shots should always arrive late when the others have already done all the work?" She sounded a bit annoyed
"P-Perrdon..."
Shiori tries to move, but a water shot from Kouta passes by her and stops her. The aquatic hero surrounds her until he is right in front of her.
"You lost" He exclaims, firm "Your strongest allies have already been defeated and taken by the police, all your bases as well, we outnumbered you, and you're already defeated. Instead of prolonging this uselessly, if you really value your allies, appreciate their efforts to defend you, and surrender"
Shiori's fist trembles from rage, not taking her eyes off Gwen, but she couldn't deny the reality at this point. She sighed, and let herself fall sitting down, crossing her legs.
"Alright...you win, kids" She says, and there's defeat and disappointment in her voice "But without us controlling the streets, your work is going to be much more complicated than you'd like...don't say you weren't warned"
I don't know where I said that a love bullet could damage, but if you want to give me that buff that I can choose to damage or enchant, I won't complain. Unless it's an asspull from deux ex machina of "It only works if you're overloaded" >>4062
-Kouta-
"Things like a hole in the stomach or being underground prevent you from using your 100%"
-Hanan-
"Skill Issue"
When they started moving with the teleporters from one side to the other, she kept her breathing to be able to concentrate around her easily and not get lost/dizzy due to all that sudden movement.
She still doesn't understand that feeling that comes to her body when she's transported from one place to another, nor does she know the property of teleportation that she's using.
Shooting every time she could, all the time that she gave her, she could get used to it more and more, maybe she didn't do much, but with every shot she was getting a better idea of how to use this new phase of her power.
-Amelia-
"I swear, I'm going to faint at this pace..."
The succubus takes Amelia's arm to prevent that.
-Hanan-
"Here I am, I won't let you fall"
She said while she watched what Ganosuke had done.
When they reached a stable point, she was more focused on Ganosuke being okay than on what was happening with the others and the villains, as long as they aren't falling bodies, she won't pay much attention to it right now.
-Hanan-
"What was the phrase?...uhh...the global tops came together"
She continued watching as the big kaiju fell with such shame, when that thing surrendered, she looked at Amelia raising both thumbs up.
If she were a normal person, she would be jumping with happiness wanting to hug her friend.
But she wasn't a normal person, she was a succubus.
-Random villain that no one cares about-
"But without us controlling the streets, their job is going to become much more complicated than they'd like...don't say you weren't warned"
-Hanan-
"No one cares, that's why...that's why heroes are there"
She couldn't include herself, she barely did anything and she barely can do anything by herself.
She isn't a hero.
She's a succubus.
"It's like lamenting that the fisherman has to fish, that the miner has to look for gems...it's stupid to want to give yourself flowers"
>>4060 >Lucas Seeing the heroine's hands, mangled to the point of being unrecognizable, hurt him just as much as it hurt her to carry those wounds. The blood dripping from the blonde's fingers was his fault. He was slow. He admitted it, and promised to never be slow again. At least not fail her again for the rest of the day.
<I'm the one who fails, kid.
"Huh?"
He didn't expect that.
<That an adult like me, a pro hero, couldn't protect you guys, is a shame that rests solely on me.
The girl couldn't lift her gaze from the floor, but she couldn't escape the student's stare either. He leaned his upper body forward just enough to position himself between the ground and her, looking up with a smile.
"You saved me."
And he smiled, despite having a tooth painted red. Reminding her of such a simple thing had to be the best antidote for that sad look. After that, he straightened up.
<Let's try to do better from now on, both of us... All four of us.
The aspirant didn't hesitate, nodded his head, and shouted a "Roger!" with his usual enthusiasm. Everyone looked toward the destination, and with the order from the little leader:
<Charge!
"LET'S GO!"
They ran to help. Like heroes.
...
The tension rose. He saw in the distance nothing but his friend becoming the target of some very weird chick, and he didn't hesitate. Despite the staggering, he stepped harder. The pain from the first stomp climbed from the soles of his feet up to his calves. A pain similar to stepping on a sharp stake and having it pierce you instantly. That sensation made him grit his teeth and clench his hands to force himself to endure the dozens of identical steps he needed to close the distance.
But it was worth it. The path of torment led him to join his friend's path, where he became the red traffic light that would stop Escobar's car bomb.
The teeth, bright as a lighter, faced off against the shine of those cannons—biceps—that the aspirant didn't hesitate to fire. His hand slammed into the girl's face, delivering a deceleration whip like a car crashing into a wall before granting her a sample of the energy imbued in his arm.
The aspirant kept up his entrance scream despite the martyrdom, and to the crack of the initial collision was added a violent explosion... that hit the girl right in the face.
She's fast and brutal. A ground impact so hard she bounced off like a ricochet bullet before disappearing into a hole.
"Ahh... I made it in time..."
He grabbed his arm with a groan, or rather, placed the heel of his other hand on it, since his fingers were useless now. It hurt a lot, everything hurt. But he hurried to check on Akira.
"?"
But he couldn't even mutter a word before the other girl stepped in, catching his gaze.
<Lucas!
"Huh, you-!" -he looked at her closely- "Awesome!" -he couldn't help but admit that the gold surrounding her looked extremely cool-
<That was incredible...
Lucas looked ecstatic, his only useful hand turned into a fist of excitement against his chest, his back slightly hunched like when he was waiting to see his Christmas present.
"Huh? You really think so?" -he asked, doing a few little hops that soon caught up to him, making him wince in pain- "Ouch..."
<Ah, Akira!
"Oh-!" -he spun around quickly toward his partner- "Hey! Are you okay?!" -he asked, peeking out from behind Eri-
The horned girl didn't hesitate. It was like the touch of a magic wand, but with a hand; just by brushing against her partner, she returned his senses.
"Ohh, are you okay?" -she wanted to confirm anyway- "...you look the same." <Your arm... give it here
"Uh? No!" -she pulled her arm away, frowning. She knew well from Mirumo and her own experiences that using your energy for anything was exhausting. She didn't need it!-
<We don't want Mirumo to get mad at you, hehe
"Oh..." -she lowered her guard, like a feral cat being offered a little hamburger- "..." -she offered her arm again- "you're right... but... I didn't want that to happen..." -referring to getting hurt- "I tried to make sure it wouldn't happen again..."
<Hmm... let's say 5 minutes
"Huh? Can't it be faster?" -they were in a bit of a rush-
And it was! The aspirant watched and felt, with astonishment plastered on his wide-open eyes and mouth, as his wounds healed. Not just his arm; the relief, though slight, spread through his entire body.
"Oohh!"
He looked at himself in surprise. It still hurt, but at least the simple fact of existing didn't feel like total hell anymore.
"Ahh, great!" -he exclaimed, shifting his gaze between his two hands-
<Sorry I couldn't heal you properly, I need to conserve my energy now
The aspirant jumped in place with excitement. Retracting his feet as much as he could with each jump to demonstrate his well-being.
"Ahh, thank you, thank you!"
He didn't want to minimize her help. He ignored her apology and doubled his thanks before finishing his jumps with a double stomp and a determined look in the direction of the enemy.
"Now for real!" -the teams are gathering- "Let's go help!"
<You're here at a good time, Portalis
"Hm?" -Lucas looks at that woman- "Eh? Who are you?"
<Y-Yes, it's an honor to work alongside you, Ghost Lady-sama
"Eh? Hey, why are you bowing? Is she your boss?"
<Eri, heal her hand
"Ah, yes! Please. Help her, help her!" -he exclaimed with an air of contained excitement that was his equivalent to a plea-
They healed her little hand almost completely. Lucas looked at the state she was in now, which, like his own, wasn't so deplorable anymore, but also wasn't something you'd call wonderful.
"Are you okay?"
<We've called for reinforcements
She nodded firmly, confirming the information with seriousness.
<If we work together then--
<Go ahead
"What?! But-" -he looked at Eri before returning his gaze to that new girl, sharing Yukako's shock. She was supposed to come help the albino like she said!-
<We don't have all day. We don't know what the leader is doing in his office or if he's even there anymore. You go ahead.
"Ahh..." -in the background, the villainess was returning with chin-bashes, but Lucas didn't notice until he started whimpering, making him turn around- "ii...!" -he was startled by her deplorable state- "A killer potato!" -the cafeteria rumors were true!-
<I trust you <Yes, you can do it! <Y-Understood, whatever you order, Ghost Lady-sama
The aspirant sighed, both in complaint and resignation. He didn't want to leave them behind, but besides Yukako giving orders, everyone had chosen to trust the team.
"Alright, I'm going too! I'm going to beat them up..."
<We're giving you an opening. Go to the end of the hallway; that's where the shark boss is.
The aspirant nodded and soon looked at his classmate. Without losing seriousness, he extended his fist.
"You can do it, friend!" -he had to emphasize that he was his friend-
The team jumped into action to buy enough time for the escape. Lucas waited a moment longer for the bro-fist, then ran to join his team, waving goodbye to Akira while looking back and shaking his hand with a smile.
>>4061 >Lucas They ran down the hallway. The metal clanged under their boots with the constant clatter of a squad during a raid. The long run didn't slow them down; they knew they had to reach the end. The goal was a door, but one so dense it looked like just another wall. Yukako took care of it; a single word and a movement were enough for everyone to scatter without complaint, bringing it down.
Lucas jumped the moment he saw the opening, a dynamic entry announced with a shout.
"We're HERE!"
Sound effect
The aspirant hit the ground, frowning as he looked around. Many shiny things he didn't understand surrounded him, while dark and evil things like real weapons littered the place like barrels in a wine cellar.
His shout and the dynamic entry hadn't gone unnoticed either. The place was packed with people. It seemed this zone was very popular among the group of... the same type.
<His clones
"Huh? Boobs?" -he heard poorly-
A sound put everyone on alert. A capsule at the back was losing air, releasing reddish smoke. The aspirant reinforced his stance, slightly spreading his feet to plant himself better, ready for anything.
Out came a strange red man. Like an Indian Bane, with veins about to burst from a strange liquid. He didn't look like himself, I mean, like his clones; he looked like something more: a villain. A total villain, lost in the substance that guided him to that fragile peak he now rules.
"What's with that ugly guy?!" -he gave him the creeps-
<I knew eventually someone would get here and I'd have to handle it myself; I could never trust those idiots from Tenyo
"Shut up, idiot!"
He knew nothing about it. He didn't know the Tenyo, couldn't distinguish them from their group, and the only notorious enemy that crossed his path caused the aspirant immense aversion. But someone who despises his friends, those who fought for him and alongside him... made him particularly despicable in the simple mind of the boy.
<I'd say it's to be expected... but I have no idea who you are; I'd have expected a top 10 hero first, not two brats and two nobodies
"We're heroes!" -he defended the team with the same simplicity- "And I'm going to be number one."
<Welcome. Would you like to negotiate?
"Huh? Are you a salesman?" -adding his own confusion to Yukako's rejection-
<I wanted to see if I could get some new subordinates
"For what?!" -anyway, they'd go to prison-
Kin stopped him. The aspirant looked at the genius with some surprise, and understood the next instant. He nodded, just a slight tilt of the head to confirm before the silence.
And the villain continued. The aspirant had to pull his lips back to silence himself and not respond with a roar to every provocative word the subject spat out.
Once they pointed him out, the aspirant almost jumped in surprise. But he kept silent even in the face of the most horrific revelation of the deaths, which left him wide-eyed. <11 thousand dead
Literally Hitler
<Pretty funny if you think about it...
Bruce's eyes, landing on Lucas, found him as red as he was. His cheeks were puffed out, holding an immense amount of words still inside.
<The great Deku, the hero who could save everyone. The symbol of peace and hope who saved the whole world. I don't see him resolving this,
The aspirant inhaled, inflating his cheeks even more.
<I don't see him stopping the Rabbit or Sugimoto. What can ordinary heroes like you even do? <Especially optimistic brats with starry eyes like yours
<Because neither I nor anyone here is going to negotiate with you. <You live in a fantasy. You always believe you have time"
"SHUT UUUUUUP!"
He released all the words he had been holding back in a thunderous shout that silenced the subject completely, who soon found himself at the end of his pointing finger kek
"WHAT DO YOU KNOW?!, YOU KNOW NOTHING!, YOU DON'T KNOW ALL THE EFFORT THE NUMBER ONE MAKES!" -clenched a fist- "All those people he couldn't save...! They hurt us the most." -glanced at Yukako for a second, remembering the moment he arrived too late to prevent her hand from being mutilated, then looked back at him- "BUT HE WILL DO THE BEST HE CAN!, HE WILL STOP YOU!"
He lowered his arm, returning to the normal stance with arms at his sides.
"And if he can't... we will help him."
He returns to his combat position.
"I'm going to teach you... I won't let you underestimate Portalis, Genius Shot, or Karui!" -Karui suffered the revelation of her name having no hero name the aspirant could remember- "We are heroes. And we are going to stop you... because you are a villain." -returned things to the black and white the enemy complained about, in the end, it all boiled down to that-
<Well, I guess I'll crush you along with the rest
"YOU WON'T LET ME!"
They had to prove it. No matter what, they had to show him the error of underestimating them. The aspirant, unlike the enemy, trusted his team.
Maybe because the enemy never needed a team. He began to multiply, flooding the huge room with himself. He transformed into a titanic mountain of clones -which the aspirant could admit looked cool even if it made him nervous- and that mountain soon became an avalanche.
<GET READY!
"HERE I GOOOO!"
The aspirant jumped. The confrontation was extremely unfavorable, but even so, he decided to charge head-on lacking any other ability. The human avalanche filled the place, and the aspirant had to find a way to clear the snow.
He had it. He used the moment in the air to turn the vulnerability of not being able to move into another movement. Spinning in all directions, Lucas threw simple punches and kicks in every direction. Diagonals, straight, descending, ascending. His hands and feet covered every available direction up to the point of dizziness at maximum speed.
"Yeah... and you saved me" Yukako smiles "Let's keep watching each other's backs"
...
You manage to save Akira from a bad situation, and are partially healed by Eri.
>"Ahh thanks, thanks!"
"It's nothing, I said I'd watch your back, didn't I? Haha"
Yukako is also healed and instead of forming teams, they separate again, they had to catch the leader before it was too late.
They head towards the hallway, to face the boss, you notice that Yukako is blushing.
"Yukako is a big fan of Ghost-Lady" Says Kin
"Kin!" The heroine shouts at him, looking back
"I copy her whole style, that's how much"
"Shut up!" The heroine shouts again, embarrassed
A few small laughs, before the next fight, Karui lets out a small chuckle before being struck down by the gaze of the dwarf heroine. ... >>6501 "Clones" Yukako corrects "Did you forget the presentation we saw?" That presentation where they told you all the enemy data? Maybe
But the clones were the least of their worries, the ringleader of this whole operation was who they should focus on, who comes out with as much doping as a whole squad of Olympic athletes.
His attempts at negotiation are quickly rejected and they let him monologue to buy time for the others.
Although... containing your urge to yell at him was difficult, until you can't anymore.
>"SHUT UUUUP!"
Your scream startles Karui, who was next to you.
>"BUT HE'LL DO THE BEST HE CAN! HE'LL STOP THEM!" >"And if he can't... we'll help him"
Those inspiring words, your companions look at you with a smile, their spirits rising again, while the Yakuza rolls his eyes, tired, fed up, exasperated, like someone who has heard those words so many times that it's become boring to hear something like that.
In the end, it seemed like everything was back to being black and white, heroes vs. villains. ... https://youtu.be/OOuZivchEs4▶You flexed your legs, ready to jump, but Kin grabbed your arm and pulled you back to the ground to prevent you from throwing yourself into the wolf's jaws, it was barely a matter of milliseconds, but the next instant you noticed how each of the clones were aiming their weapons at you, jumping would have only made you a bigger target. As soon as you and Yukako had finished screaming, the clones fired. "And since all those Lacedaemonians and Thespians behaved like heroes, it is said that the bravest of all was the Spartan Dienekes, of whom they tell that when he heard one of the Trachinians say, before coming to blows with the Medes, that when the barbarians shot theirbows they would cover the sun with a thick cloud of arrows»
It could be said that the sun would be covered, but even without the sun, it was hard not to imagine that scenario.
A literal rain of bullets was fired upon you, the simultaneous burst of each of those forms breaking the air with such force that it generated a strong tinnitus, bullets as large as your arm, and larger than anything Glimmer had tested you with in your training.
There was barely any space between them, it was a literal impenetrable barrier of projectiles, only defense remained.
Yukako sweats, clenching her teeth so hard it looks like they'll break, bringing her arms together in an X shape and then extending them out, the largest portal you had ever seen formed in front of you.
The bullets passed through the portal, leaving you unharmed, although those that whistled past you left a trail of fire by igniting the air from friction.
The clones wanted to approach, but with vision and reflexes as sharp as yours, you could see it, the disturbance in the ceiling, as if in slow motion, first some cracks, which grew exponentially until the entire structure gave way, and now the rain of bullets was returning.
Only this time, each bullet was the size of a motorcycle, crushing the wave of clones, because Mass x Acceleration equals Force. If the previous fights weren't enough to experience firsthand what it was like to be in a war, this was, the constant buzzing didn't let you hear your companions or your own thoughts. The rain of gigantic bullets shattered the ranks of clones, which vanished in dull, opaque flashes (along with several of the already fired bullets that fell to the ground). Those who didn't serve as human shields quickly took cover using what you could understand as a small force field. It must have been some gadget that came with their suit. However, this only mitigated the losses in their ranks. To replenish, he was forced to stop the barrage.
A chance, the large portal vanished, replaced instead by multiple portals around all of you like a dome, which spun with force, creating a suction effect that was pulling in dust.
Kin needed no indication (partly because it wouldn't be surprising if all four of you were already deaf from so much gunfire), but he nodded at you, as if saying "Now then," and let go of your arm.
The shooter was already charging his attack, and with it, the tip of his cannon pierced the portal, and from the other side, a huge luminous bullet shot out, hitting directly into the crowd, breaking their ranks and sending several flying into the air.
Karui charged her flames, Kin moved to another portal, seeing your intention to jump, Yukako expanded the area covered by the portals to give you more space.
"I can't believe I've become mere support..." she said, somewhat frustrated, but the flames of determination did not fade from her eyes. "Advance!"
You leaped into the air, within this enormous defensive dome. Every direction not occupied by your companions was an avenue to connect your attacks.
You jumped a couple of meters into the air, the objective not being distance, but having enough margin for tactics. Twisting as if you were tucking your body to roll, you rotated in the air, not like a spinning top or a coin, but in all directions that the 3-D aspect allowed. You had become a blur to untrained eyes, all while striking the air.
A strike at the air in essence, like a clap, is hitting so hard that one violently compresses and moves the air molecules around, which generate those strong currents. Your blows were so powerful that their mere sound already made the ground tremble. One can only imagine the destruction that these kinds of attacks would cause when exponentially increased in size by passing through a portal like Yukako's... But it wasn't necessary to imagine.
The ground went from trembling to suffering real earthquakes that shook the factory and began to crack the walls, the compressed air blows having just enough force to tip the scales in your favor, if the clones didn't fly away from Kin's shots or succumb to the enormous flames Karui fired, your attacks would seal the deal.
They kept increasing like pests, but it was useless if they were attacked from all directions, attacking the portals wasn't an option when those bullets would become exponentially smaller and lose all their force. Incredibly, you had the advantage.
With every meter you advanced, it was another moment you gained until reinforcements arrived, and it was another second the avalanche of clones was kept under control and far from allowing Bruce to escape.
"That's the way, keep going!" Yukako shouts
But despite the reverse barrage, the clones weren't going to give up so easily, because if they had one advantage, it was that with enough quantity anything was possible.
Instead of advancing, they retreated, heading towards the opposite wall while their shots continued, piling on top of each other desperately, they were climbing, taking advantage of the hole that had formed in the ceiling to escape and go outside.
"He's trying to escape through the ceiling!" Kin shouts
"Shit!" Yukako curses
"Yukako-San, I have an idea!" Karui exclaims "But I need Lucas, and for him to make me a portal afterward"
Yukako looks at him, hesitating for a second, but nods "Count on me"
Karui turns to look at you "I need you to throw me upwards, as hard and as high as you can. If I pass the clouds, I can absorb sunlight and overload myself, and I'll get stronger!" It sounded like a plan
"That might work, but what do we do in the meantime?"
Kin asks, while shifting to focus on greater quantity of shots rather than power to try and delay the mountain of clones forming as much as possible.
>Suddenly, out of nowhere, the room began to fill with a nauseating odor, more like the smell of rotten eggs than anything else, no, it was the smell of sulfur, followed by a heat that began to rise in the room.
>The sound of something melting is heard quickly, and a crimson glow fills the room from below, some cut lines emerge and cause part of the floor to collapse, and immediately, a figure appears from underneath.
“YOU CANNOT FLEE, BECAUSE I AM HERE”
>Nazuna with a huge smile and some scratches from fighting villains rises from the rubble, she raises her arms and then lowers them very quickly, causing lava to start falling from the ceiling to prevent the villain from escaping.
“Where do you think you’re going? You are the main prey, aren’t you?”
>She licks her lips, more out of her mind from the battle than anything else.
>How much text did the alternative narrator put in? >A lot with too much, but that doesn't mean this narrator can't handle all of it. >... >.. >. >.. >... >He's not going to. >I mean, it doesn't add much, since what was important wasn't really the process but the end. >Since they had won. >Some more than others, for example Alpyr feels a better relationship with Game, which makes her feel quite good about herself. >She gives Svet a gentle pat on the back to get her attention and show her smiling face.
-"yayyy!"
>She said proudly as she rested her head on Svet's shoulder, crossing her arms looking like a serious chick, you know.
>>6631hmmm, 88 in quirk works, but those physical lows don't look good, kek >>3957 you can answer this if you want when I send the other part, kek, I'll answer the other thing along with Lucas when he sends his response ... https://youtu.be/k7kWiFWglMM▶The ice closes around you, not even the heat generated by your quirk and suit able to counter it, the ice presses on you, wanting to crush you. The fire continued to spread in the background... but it wasn't enough, Aurelio and Chihiro were still suffering from the Nomu's spores, and Ukyo and Bullseye could barely keep up with Kirila.
You were weak, and this junkie who could barely not drown in his own black bile, guided his ice creations with his trembling hands like the most erratic orchestra conductor possible, there were no signs of reinforcements coming, they were in a very bad position.
This was so frustrating, so much rage that the steam expelled by your suit increased in power along with the smell of sulfur.
Damn it! If only... if only you were stronger, you could have all the intentions, but if you didn't have the power, you couldn't do anything in this situation.
Just by lifting an arm, if you could, you would extend it towards the ice subject and melt it with all your strength, if only...
No matter how much magma you shot in this situation, its power wasn't enough, it was quickly extinguished by the abysmal amount of ice, which only generated even more rage.
A burning rage that made you boil inside, an emotion so intense and explosive that it starts to overload your suit, the steam it expelled to regulate your temperature starting to cover you like a cloak.
So much rage and heat, you felt it in every inch of your body, burning, burning with enormous intensity, the ice got closer, climbing up your arm and covering your hand that kept shooting magma in vain.
More strength, you needed more strength.
https://youtu.be/RdGMYBNqZtY▶It burned, it burned like being in the sun for hours, it burned like being bathed in boiling oil, the heat grew so much that it was unbearable.
The heat ran through every inch of your body as the ice continued to close around you.
The steam began to come out with such pressure that it began to form a whistle worthy of a train as the cooling system was being overloaded.
It wasn't enough. The ice finally eclipsed your efforts, consuming your hand and the magma in a hard layer of ice, its advance being imminent as it climbed your body to cover your face.
More, you needed more. More pressure. More heat. More strength.
More.
More...
Even if your body seemed not to want to react, your mind, and your quirk, still did. Your needs were clear, adrenaline and rage burning like fuel that kept increasing the temperature like shoveled coal.
It was a strange feeling. Like something was stuck in the drain and you couldn't get it out, like wanting to hammer a nail with a feather.
The ice kept closing in on you, but something was changing, your focus, you lacked strength, but why?...
Why?
Why were you holding back? I got carried away here, change it to your liking and no problem
It was a stupid question. Your quirk had always been like this. It had improved with time and training, your control, precision, how fast or strong you could fire it, but it was always just the right amount as far as you remember.
Why? Why were these doubts coming to you as the ice continued to advance down your throat towards your face?
The cold mixed with the heat of your body as the magma died down in the face of the cold that covered it like.
You needed more. But your body wouldn't respond, it was like there was a wall, you could almost visualize it, or you were starting to hallucinate.
There was an invisible barrier, but it seemed like it had always been there, even if you hadn't noticed it before, you had never questioned it.
The ice kept rising, covering your face as the deafening hisses of steam began to be extinguished once the ice finished covering your face.
Old memories, some clearer, others more diffuse, you seemed to see everything through a fogged-up glass.
An old mattress and a small room, snow outside the window and a small fire you always used to light.
All the children having fun around it, you were there too.
And then... there was only darkness, and confinement in that same room, that children's joy turned to disgust.
An argument whose origin you don't remember, looks and words you didn't want to give or say, hands reaching out to you and touching you...
And then only heat. Lots and lots of heat.
And screams, screams of pain that accompanied the smell of burnt flesh as a girl fell to the ground.
Magma poured from your hands, too much magma.
The memory hits you like a brick, as the image of fire spreading through the old orphanage seemed to want to consume you as you ran.
You no longer saw it from afar, you were there, adverse to the weather, the snow melting under your feet and the trees burning in your vicinity, as you saw everything repeating in a loop, each time with more clarity, details you had forgotten and had been locked away in your memory surfaced.
You never wanted to hurt anyone.
But as the ice kept crushing you.
You can understand it, how that constant need for strength seemed futile. It had never been a matter of strength per se, it was fear. The fear born from that experience, from having hurt someone by losing control.
You yourself had been limiting your quirk and your potential for so long. Consciously or unconsciously, never wanting to go through something like that again.
But as the ice tomb continued to grow around you, you saw the blurry figures of your companions still fighting.
You were no longer in that old orphanage, you were in company, fighting for others, for something bigger.
Ukyo and Bullseye were giving their all and they trusted you. Your parents trusted you.
You no longer needed these chains, you had grown, in power and character, and you needed to reclaim your strength to use it as it deserved.
... (https://youtu.be/aZV4e-h9C-0)▶The heat increased even more, and the ice that covered you began to crack rapidly until it exploded.
Thousands of ice fragments shot out in all directions as a huge amount of magma emerged with you, enveloping your body and falling to the ground like an incandescent waterfall, the microscopic ice fragments reflecting the light in a dazzling spectacle.
Steam expanded with unparalleled force with another deafening hiss, the smell of sulfur increasing and becoming unbearable.
Your suit practically spewed out entire clouds to try to regulate the temperature, and yet you still felt the effects of the overheating.
The ice began to melt before it could touch you, the cold being nothing more than a distant memory, you could feel it, something had changed, there was no longer any wall preventing your progress.
The ice type spat out some black bile that solidified before touching the ground and fired the huge ice dragon at you again.
https://youtu.be/qBsH-zv9_6U?t=1m41s▶This train-sized monster was going to crush you, but there was no longer any fear, extending your arms, you unleashed your power. A huge amount of magma shot forward, sweeping away the ice in front of it and colliding with the frozen dragon.
The ground beneath your feet began to blacken as the concrete melted from the heat and the falling magma.
The magma coming out of your arms was getting bigger and bigger. It felt natural, more comfortable, it was like breathing, only more fluid. As if your quirk had been waiting all this time for you to stop being afraid of it so that it could become one with you again, mind, body, and soul in sync as it should be.
It wasn't a new technique or a special move. The simplicity of simply having a greater power output was incredibly effective. The heatwave pierces the icy attack as the creature's head begins to melt, the ice subject doubles over in pain, its limbs trembling and bending at strange angles as it tries to apply even more force, but you could do the same, and without such exaggerated effort in your body.
Your strength continued to increase, matching the ice one for a few seconds, and then starting to surpass it, not only due to the elemental advantage, but because you could see the drug's high wearing off and its power diminishing.
The dragon began to melt and fall apart, until finally being consumed by the cascade of molten rock that finished burying it.
"ROAHHH!"
Aurelio and Chihiro seize the moment and between the two of them, with their last reserves of strength, they throw the Nomu against your magma torrent, falling into the crossfire, the modified human is consumed and incinerated without any problem, the magma torrent continues, burning more, melting all traces of ice, while the drugged subject wanted to escape, but its falling power and your heat were not a good combination for it.
It stumbles back, trying to form more ice, but its fingers barely responded and black bile continued to escape from its mouth as the heat melted its last creations before they could even take shape. The fire had completely changed the battlefield, the ground was covered in molten rock and its stability was being called into question as the fire spread and affected the rest of the structure.
You could end this, you could finish him.
With just a little more extension of your arms, increasing the magma flow and letting the current reach him, you would finish him, it would be very simple.
But the memory of the orphanage remained fresh in your head, and it made you tremble even though you were no longer cold.
You were no longer that terrified person who had lost control. And you were neither becoming nor wanting to become someone who solved everything by reducing it to ashes.
Now you were in control.
The magma torrent slowly stops until it extinguishes, in its place the molten rock spins on itself, compressing until it forms a dense sphere, something you were more accustomed to.
The ice subject barely reacts when the sphere hits its chest dead center. Several ribs crack at the same time and the blow lifts it off the ground before it crashes against a wall.
Its arms tremble, and its legs stop responding until it collapses, unconscious.
The heat was still unbearable as steam continued to escape from your suit in huge billows.
Above all, you were in control. You were now a hero, and that difference mattered, because while you still had all this adrenaline, it was better to shift your focus towards a certain paper woman.
"WHY THE FUCK DIDN'T YOU DO THAT EARLIER?!" Aurelio complains.
>>6629 >Lucas <It's nothing, I said I'd watch your back, right? Haha
"Wha?!" –Lucas lost his cheer and replaced it with shock, then jumped again, but now in protest– "HEY, NO! THAT DOESN'T COUNT, I WAS SUPPOSED TO SAVE YOU, REVERSE YOUR REVERSAL!" –It was a trick! That's what he thought. Now he demanded she return to her previous state, since this wasn't supposed to happen–
After that, they ran down the corridor. Along the way, a previous doubt from the applicant was answered.
<Yukako is a huge fan of Ghost-Lady
"Ohh!" –he opened his mouth in realization, now everything made sense–
<I copy her entire style, she's that awesome
"Oh, really?" –he asked with a big smile–
<Shut up!
Lucas looked confused by the hostility. Karui laughed, oddly earning a frown from the boy, who mistook simple amusement for mockery. Then he turned back to the heroine.
"Hey, don't be embarrassed, Yukako!" –he placed his hand beside his mouth and leaned his head slightly toward her– "I copied Deku too, 'cause I'm his fan!" –despite pretending to whisper a secret, he said it just as loudly as he'd speak to anyone, then closed his eyes– "shishishi. I think it's great."
Maybe there was bias coming from him, but he didn't understand why someone would feel shame over what they're passionate about. One might say his ignorance is happiness, but that wasn't the whole truth. His past had tested him, and he'd always remained true to himself despite mockery, and perhaps sometimes deserved mockery.
Maybe his ignorance was part of his happiness, but for every thing he ignored, he knew other things he kept choosing.
...
Butts!
<Clones
"Clones?"
<Did you forget the presentation we saw?
Lucas looked away, sweated, held his hand in front of himself denying it with a sideways wave, and tried to whistle unsuccessfully—all at once—before saying:
"Huh? No, no. I don't know what you're talking about... I didn't forget..." –he trembled nervously without dropping the other gestures–
He was really good at lying.
The one not fooling anyone was the villain. The team turned a deaf ear. Heroes were needed, and no matter if they were 'brats' or 'nobodies', they'd take up the mantle right then.
The applicant prepared to jump. Kin called for a halt. Lucas turned around just as confused as when you forget why you came somewhere. He didn't mind it being him, and Kin knew things kek BUT WHAT. The answer came right after. Lead stole oxygen's place and, due to its weight, was propelled by gunpowder. The orchestra of flaming cannons and bullets breaking the sound barrier was deafening. The metallic reverberation melted together into one long shrill tone. There wasn't much more on the auditory side. At least not at that moment, not counting the aftereffects that the coming years will bring. The visual, on the other hand, was terrifying. When you look at a spotlight with enough attention and see only dark lines separating each small luminous point, that's what the descent of those flaming bullets looked like.
The heroes found themselves cornered in an instant, in a "risk it or die" situation. Lucas's hand, which Kin wasn't holding, clenched, ready to respond with his 100% to clear the wall of death, but the pro came to the rescue with a move that pushed her to the limit.
A gigantic portal was the net that saved them. A 'cool' was lost in the air, even to the aspirant himself, due to the noise of the bombardment that doubled from the sky, decimating everything.
It was an overload; the aspirant was looking at the whole thing with awe, because in every corner there was something worthy of wonder.
However, such constant spectacle made the brief moment of semi-calm noticeable to everyone. His arm was freed, the aspirant nodded, and his feet carried him at full speed to finish what they started.
He ran, he jumped. And doing what he does best: he punched.
The aspirant aimed at everything. Every ounce of air around him, he tasted one of his blows before it was displaced and gave way to another. His feet and hands were the offensive line that the perfect attack was missing. The quartet's combined movements worker controlled the population better than Korea. The leader felt proud... When the plan changed!
The clones chose to flee. Lucas came down in time due to dizziness and the drag of gravity, but he was staggering-
"AhHhHh..." -the world was spinning-
>131686 And then, someone arrived I think, I don't know if OP is going to canonize this but I'm answering just in case kek
"Huh?"
The aspirant turned his head, it was... He had no idea as far as I remember the boy looked confused, then surprised. Prey? It didn't sound too heroic, but it was true that they seemed to be on the same side. And that was enough, for now.
"HEY, CRAZY!, YOUR ENTRANCE WAS AWESOME!" -heroic appearances must be acknowledged- "THAT'S THE VILLAIN, NOT PREY!"
He explained. And he decided not to stand idly by much longer. Falling, he aimed at the mountain just like his new companion.
"PORTALIS!"
They already understood each other. A portal should appear before him, and the aspirant, who had already brought his arms back, began to punch the air in front of him at maximum speed without crossing the portal. The idea was to destabilize those guys; if they couldn't climb, they couldn't escape.
"SMAAAASH GATLIIIING!"
Just because I don't know if the previous ones count, idk, I'll roll, you reject if you don't like it. You can even ignore this action if you want and just take the part about him throwing Karui.
>>6633 https://youtu.be/h_WFkBXquiQ▶Kirila remained elevated in the air thanks to her wings, while the outside world was separated by a dense barrier of paper spinning at enormous speeds, hard as steel and sharp as blades, forming a perfect cage.
Thousands of sheets flew through the air in impossible patterns. It wasn't ordinary paper; her advanced quirk mastery allowed her to rearrange its fibers and compact them into a structure similar to nanocellulose, multiplying its resistance to far exceed that of steel. The result was terrifying: light, sharp, and resistant sheets, a perfect means of attack and defense.
The entire area had become a shredder. Ukyo could barely destroy the blades that approached him, while Ganosuke tried to break through the Yakuza's defense without much success.
Kirila remained suspended above them, observing from above as small drops of that black bile escaped her mouth, without it seeming to affect her power.
"Kirila!" Bullseye shouts as he dodges another rain of blades. "This makes no sense! Are you really going to waste your life for something like this?"
Kirila gave no answer to the mention of her name, nor to the question. Ukyo seized the moment to join in.
"You can still surrender! If we don't defeat you, someone else will. There's no point in wasting your energy and your life by taking that crap."
For a moment, it seemed the Yakuza was going to respond, and she did with a laugh that sounded more like a growl.
"Gahr... Surrender...? How easily the heroes speak."
Bullseye tried again. "You don't have to go through with this. We have your information; you were a good student as a teenager. Why are you doing this?"
Their voices came through muffled by the paper storm, but they could be understood.
"...My information?" Kirila's voice drops an octave. "Is that all?" Another drop of that black bile falls from her mouth. "A stupid file? How convenient..."
Ukyo continued, "We're not trying to judge you! It's not too late to do the right thing and surrender."
"Surrender...? How easily the heroes speak."
Bullseye interjected, "We're not here to judge you."
"Lies!" The whirlwind exploded in intensity due to the woman's strong emotions. "Heroes always judge, it's the only thing they do!"
"Heroes always have an empty answer and stupid speeches!" The speed and ferocity of the whirlwind increased along with the blades.
"We're trying to help people!" Ukyo shouts. "You can do the same if you leave this behind."
"Help?" Kirila's eye began to twitch nervously. "They always arrive after everything has already happened. If that's their idea of helping, I'll pass."
More sheets joined the gale. "They always think they can understand people by looking at four papers and a file, by glancing at a group of people and speaking like bearers of truth"
The blades coordinate and begin to be fired from all directions as a single block of blades.
"Good student? Is that all you can say about me? You know nothing!" Her voice rose with her rage, as if breaking "Heroes know nothing of pain. They never show up when someone truly needs them. They only arrive when everything is already over"
With little time to react, Bullseye pushes Ukyo out of the way, becoming the victim of the blades himself.
"And then they talk!" Kirila continues as the storm becomes fiercer. "They talk and talk!"
"Bullseye!"
Ukyo screams as the professional hero disappears under the white tide.
The sound is horrible. The hardened leaves pierce suit and flesh from all angles, opening new cuts every second as blood splashes the ground.
In a hurry, Ukyo gathers all the arrows he can and makes them explode, dispersing part of the storm with the impact.
The blades scatter and Bullseye falls to his knees. There was not a single part of his body that was not bleeding.
Kirila watches him from above "...Pathetic" She clenches her fist "They always do the same thing. Do you think by playing the martyr I'll come to my senses? Am I supposed to be moved?"
Bullseye manages to stand up. "Well... maybe I didn't choose the best topic of conversation..." He stumbles again, leaning on his hands to avoid falling face-first to the ground "But I'm serious. We just want to help... and I'm very sorry if you went through hardship, but this won't solve anything"
Kirila lowers her gaze. For a moment, her eyes show something other than rage. Just for a moment.
"Trash" The paper barrier closes again as hundreds of hardened blades point towards both heroes "You know nothing of pain. You never show up when someone truly needs you, so stop acting like you can save someone with your empty speeches"
much text (https://youtu.be/cTblZiVd9Q8)▶As the sound grew louder, the indistinguishable smell of burning, and the potent sulfur became clearer than crystal.
https://youtu.be/UuTq-Aynwnw?t=20s▶The torrent of industrial volumes of magma hit against the paper whirlwind like a car-sized meteor, piercing through it as it turned the leaves to ash. Ukyo rushes and pulls Bullseye out of the way.
You come face to face with the lilac-haired woman, her palpable rage as she observes you.
"You..." Her words were filled with poison "Can't you stop bothering me, you damn brat" With a gesture, more paper swirled and a huge block of blades shot towards you, but like against ice, it was only a matter of extending your arms.
The heat increased, steam escaping under pressure from your suit as the torrent of magma was fired with such force that it almost pushed you back. It first matched Kirila's attack and in a few seconds surpassed it, consuming the paper in flames and forcing her to move away.
The Yakuza clicked her tongue, Bullseye incapacitated, Ukyo could do little now and Aurelio and Chihiro were still recovering from the spores... now it was one on one.
Kirila lunged fiercely, but with the new level you were operating at, all the adrenaline and euphoria charged, it made the difference evident. You could barely keep up with her, but it wasn't necessary. Your quirk had become widely superior. If you had an advantage against hers before, it was now crushing.
The Yakuza had lost the only superiority she had over you in their previous fight, the quantity, you had matched it. In that way, the scales had tipped very unfairly in your favor.
No matter how large and violent her attacks were, they were consumed by the enormous amount of magma you responded with.
"YOU DAMN BRAT!" She screamed "Stop interfering! What do you know?!"
You knew nothing, nothing about her and she knew nothing about you, and yet, that was not an impediment for you to act.
Kirila kept retreating as large amounts of paper accumulated around her. The blades compacted layer upon layer as the heat consumed them and black veins began to show on her body.
"WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT THE OTHERS?!" Her voice came out broken, filled with rage "WHAT THE HELL DO HEROES KNOW ABOUT PAIN?!" More paper joined the gale as her ravings driven by anger began to follow "DO YOU KNOW WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE WORTHLESS TO NO ONE? DO YOU KNOW WHAT IT'S LIKE TO LIVE LOCKED UP, AND NO ONE CARES IF YOU LIVE OR DIE?!"
"DO YOU KNOW WHAT IT'S LIKE TO ASK FOR HELP AND NO ONE SHOWS UP, TO DISAPPEAR AND NO ONE LOOKS FOR YOU?!"
The paper began to compress on itself, hardening further as it gained shape.
"NO! HEROES ALWAYS ARRIVE WHEN IT'S ALREADY TOO LATE, THEY KNOW NOTHING!" Her hands trembled as she commanded her attack "AND THEN THEY TALK! THEY ALWAYS TALK ABOUT HOPE, ABOUT JUSTICE AND SAVING PEOPLE!"
"THAT HOPE TRASH NEVER DID ANYTHING FOR ME" The enormous mass of paper began to take shape behind her, a gigantic mass of hardened sheets and compacted blades, the force of which was breaking the walls and ceiling of this floor. "Trusting heroes only brought me pain... but there was someone" Her voice low "The boss reached out to me when no one else would. Bruce gave me a place, he gave me a chance to be worth something... So I don't care what you guys say!"
The attack culminates, a huge cone-shaped paper mass as large as a small building, pointing directly at you
"I won't abandon him!"
https://youtu.be/M7Gu9FeUM6M▶> Nazuna has more plus ultra moments than the otherskek With a violent arm movement, that entire mountain of hardened paper shoots out like an avalanche.
You plant your feet, the ground begins to melt again as your suit's cooling system finally gives way and breaks along with parts of your suit that begin to incinerate from the intense heat.
The very oxygen seems to be consumed, as if you were acting as a thermobaric weapon representative as you repeat the tactic: extend your arms and fire with all your might.
The magma comes out as a single uniform stream, almost a flash of light, colliding with the enormous paper cone.
You feel your arms are going to melt. The shot has so much force that you start to skid backward, until something rests on your back and stops you.
"Just finish it, damn it!"
Using his quirk, Aurelio holds your back with a large aura hand, aided by an air current from Chihiro.
"Let's go Nazuna!" Ukyo shouts
The paper advanced, recovering and turning to make its way through the molten rock even if it burned, Kirila was putting in all her effort, but so were you.
Even more so when literally and metaphorically, you had people behind you supporting you. Using your last reserves of energy, you step on the gas, the magma torrent increasing in strength, pushing back Kirila's attack, until finally burning everything.
...
The entire opposite wall, along with the ceiling of this floor and the one above, are reduced to rubble and molten rock, not to mention the magma itself which would cool down, after you finished your full-power attack.
You lower your arms, cramped, mind clouded, vision blurry, there was no trace of the Yakuza, did she...?
"Damn it, she escaped!" Ukyo says, and goes to activate his communicator "I need doctors urgently, Bullseye is in critical condition!"
Oh... it was okay, you hadn't killed anyone. Aurelio releases you, but your legs tremble.
"Nazuna? Nazuna!"
You hear Ukyo's voice shouting your name, but the heatstroke is already too strong for you to remain conscious, you fall unconscious. How does Nazuna go from unconscious to taking over from Lucas? It will be seen in the corresponding turn when the timeline needs to be ordered! kek
>>4063 >Gwendoline The ghost extends her arms to the sides, at the same time the gaseous tornado opens and disperses, shaking the stage with trails of wind. Shiori ends up on her knees against the ground. Defeated, finally.
"And with this... the curtain closes"
Almost at the same time Hanan's and Alpyr's teams arrive. Gwen could complain about the delay, but Rosalía is already doing it. For the specter, there is another small concern.
"So we give up on Hinata already? At least we should check the state of her body... Not because I want to keep it or anything, but because as the hero I am, it's normal for me to worry about my teammates"
"You're wasting your time, dear. Only nonsense and lies come out of that woman's mouth. Doris (Dorian) can tell you, he witnessed her vile performance firsthand."
When you manage to get your bearings, you realize something... you were in a refrigerator.
With your arms and legs hanging out, you were inside a refrigerator full of melted ice bags and other fresh items. You had cans of deku-cola, grape-rush beer, frozen meals, and a medium-rare steak on your abdomen, all with the effort of cooling you down after you lost consciousness. Your suit was pretty ruined, but at least you weren't half-naked.
The refrigerator was being held up by Aurelio's aura, who, noticing you wake up, lets go and drops you. This startles you, but you manage to get out and shake yourself off to remove the moisture.
"About time," says the Italian.
"Are you alright?" asks Ukyo.
Chihiro places another ice bag on your head, which begins to melt. Although at a slower rate, you still felt a high temperature, but it was more manageable.
"You got knocked out from using your quirk too much, the paper woman escaped and we had to leave Bullseye to the medics and we brought you because plot"
"We went down to the first floor to help the others--" >>4060 There you saw him in the distance, Akira and Eri's team fighting a woman without arms and some Nomus.
They hurry to follow, but can't say a word until Ghost Lady raises her voice and yells at them to go down the adjacent hallway to help Lucas's group.
As they move, they pass by Eri, who with a shock of 5 to each of them, slightly restores their energy.
You weren't at 100%, and with your suit, your heat regulation wasn't optimal, but with renewed stamina and desire, you push ahead.
"Hey, wait!" yells Ukyo. continued below ... >>6634 >"RETURN YOUR RETURN!"
"Nuh uh," says Eri, shaking her head. "Consider yourself saved, no returns." Damn it!
Yukako was a big fan of Ghost Lady, just like you were of Deku.
>"Hey, don't be embarrassed, Yukako!" >"I copied Deku too because I'm a fan!"
Yukako looks at you, her expression becoming kinder despite her earlier embarrassment and shame. "Really? You must like him a lot, hehe" She laughs "You're a good boy Lucas. You'll go far"
...
The fear of the bullet rain makes your alarms go off, but Kin stops you before you sacrifice your arm in vain, with Yukako countering the powerful attack, now it was their turn and they advance devastatingly breaking the enemy ranks.
But he decides to flee once more, things seem to be going against him, so they change their strategy, especially with Karui's idea.
"Think of a strategy!"
"Uhhh..."
"We continue with what we do until we reduce him, with whatever he has injected himself with, his body shouldn't last long, either from stamina or vitality, until reinforcements arrive" Yukako exclaims, bringing order "Don't let him escape!"
"Okay, enton--THENNN" You grab Karui suddenly
Having more space, Yukako allows herself to increase the area covered by the portals to give you more of a race track, with enough distance you propel yourself upwards with all the strength your legs give you, Yukako and Kin making their efforts to counter every shot from an opportunistic clone against the two of you.
"WOAHHHH!" Karui shouts
In less than half a second you go up and up to the sky, the factory below looked small as you must have climbed around 500 meters. Still in the air, and before a second passed where you lost your momentum and gravity affected you, you grab Karui firmly by the arms and start to spin.
You spin like a drill or a helicopter blade, you spin at over 1000 revolutions per second until you release your companion, letting your own strength plus the accumulated centrifugal energy carry him to his destination.
Karui flies out with an explosion, a human, rising higher than you, crossing the clouds and disappearing from your sight.
You started to fall again and being able to kick the air, you manage your direction to return to Yukako and prevent any of the hundreds of clones from sniping you. ... I made a tremendous contradiction, Lucas was on the 3rd floor, he should have fallen to the 2nd with Nazuna while fighting Hasai, kek, let's just say both floors broke on the fall and that took him to the 1st floor with Akira/Amane, kek As Lucas landed, Yukako and Kin were losing their advantage as now part of the clones kept up the offense while the rest climbed out.
But a sudden wave of heat hit them in the back, followed by screams—and of course, the smell of sulfur. Nazuna was joining the fight.
Having burst up from the ground despite only needing to reach the end of the hallway, the heroes had to look cool after all when making their entrances.
In her berserker frenzy state, Nazuna fired upward, unleashing once more a massive torrent of magma, along with the one she'd been carrying underground. It rose skyward as a uniform column several meters wide, now raining down upon the clones, who activated their shields.
Lucas caught the heroine's attention again—once more, the plan remained the same.
"Magma girl, try this!"
The dwarf heroine gave two unique portals to the two applicants. The first one nearly seemed to cut off Nazuna's attack flow, but instead, now from the sky, the magma rain felt more like a biblical cataclysm, exponentially increasing in volume and destructive power. The rest of the building began being consumed by the downpour.
On the other side, Lucas's air attacks surged dramatically once again, now combined with Kin's gunfire. The barrage began halting the clone squad's escape attempt as they started collapsing onto each other. The force of the air also hardened the magma in several spots, creating annoying dead weights of solid rock atop multiple clones.
"RAHHH!" A chunk of debris flew from behind.
A powerful blast of air followed it through portals, adding its own contribution to disrupting the clones.
Also arriving with their fair share of exhaustion, Aurelio and Chihiro joined the group—Chihiro as quiet and expressionless as ever, and Aurelio annoyed, as always.
"...Is that what we're supposed to beat?" said the blond, somewhat perplexed. "Looks like a bunch of insects."
"Wait... guys!" Ukyo arrived last, panting.
(https://youtu.be/Mz62-rnxAz0)▶A strong wind bursts in, making their hair fly in the opposite direction as a whirlwind of white paper descends from the sky through the hole in the ceiling, and amidst it all is a certain woman with lilac hair, her eyes filled with great fury—reinforcements have arrived for the villain, and Kirila joins the chaotic battle.
"About damn time!" the clones shout, with multiple voices of different tones and volumes, "Give me a hand getting out of here!"
The yakuza woman turns around, observing the mob of clones, and gives a slight nod before speaking.
"Yes, boss..."
https://youtu.be/O0qhWAB6YVE?t=1m10s▶A sudden orange glow illuminates the sky, a massive streak of the same color falling like a meteor with a long fiery tail trailing behind.
That light growing larger and larger in size with every meter it descends. It's Karui, his strength restored to 110%—if not more—engulfed in flames and charging a powerful attack.
"Sun of Apollo: Smash!"
The fire attack grows until it's several magnitudes larger than before, and he hurls it toward the mass of clones. Kirila attempts to respond, but the attack is swallowed by a portal, only to reappear right in front of the clones, finishing the job of scattering them like bowling pins knocking down pins.
The Shiketsu student lands again beside the group, cracking the ground with his superhero-style landing, radiating flames and heat just as intensely—if not more so—than Nazuna. He's stronger now, even slightly taller than when Lucas saw him this morning, now surpassing 2 meters.
"Are we waiting for something? There are villains to beat."
That was enough to ignite their spirits.
The clones resume their assault, splitting into offense and escape, with Kirila providing support.
"A suggestion, but I think the heat-type quirks should focus on the paper woman," Ukyo says—it sounds like a plan.
>>4064now I'm confused, it's a ray of vital energy, I thought it always caused damage apart from the romance, kek>but if you want to give me that buff where I can choose whether to damage or romance, I won't complainthat works too >>6632 >>6636 I don't know if I should mention it, but you can all talk to each other without any problem now, kek >"Skill Issue"
Something very strange happens, and Hanan's comment makes Kouta let out a small, short laugh.
... >"And with this... The curtain closes"
With those words from Gwen, the rest of the heroes arrive. And Shiori finally gives up.
>"Nobody cares, that's what we have he-...that's what heroes are for" >"(...)it's stupid that you want to pat yourself on the back"
"Anyway... warned they were and warned they are" Shiori says to Hanan
>"And now what?" >"Yaay"
"What the ghost said, it's all over" Amelia says "I want ice cream..."
Gwen had doubts about Hinata, Svetlana intervenes, trying to stay serious despite having Alpyr resting on her "Did you guys also have a member disappear because of that black thing?"
Gwen doesn't know what they're referring to, she wasn't in the earthly world to see it.
"Was that what happened?" Rosalia asks "It happened so fast we didn't have time to react..."
"It should have been transported along with the others, as well as all the police that had set up that perimeter from what I see..."
"I'll check" Kouta says, and presses the communicator "Water Hose to central... Shiori Kumi and her leaders have been defeated, we require medical support and transport" He pauses, listening to what the other side had to say "Did you find those who were teleported out of this area?"
"..." Silence
"Aja... seems they transported them to Mount Fuji, they had their own fights there, but they were able to neutralize the Yakuza of that area, and there's also a Hinata harassing people with questions about quirks" It sounded like Hinata "And Red String is helping her" It also sounded like Jacky
"Are you going to leave me here or what?" Shiori asks
"Yes" Kouta responds dryly "Wait your turn"
...
A while passed, a boring while, they stood still watching Shiori while the authorities came, during that time Mao also took care of stabilizing and healing a bit those who were still unconscious like Ganosuke or the rest of Gwen's team.
"Is it true that in Ketsubutsu they are secret agents?" Asuna asks "What? No," Amelia responds. "They just give us a lot of training to work as a team and stuff; we also have a pretty large support course compared to other schools."
Patrols and trucks transporting the enemies arrived; authorities were taking them one by one, pulling them from the rubble and imprisoning them in the most powerful Iron-Maidens available, administering the strongest sedatives and quirk-inhibiting technology.
Shiori offered no resistance; it wasn't like she could. And as news of her defeat spread, the heroes' morale would rise while the Yakuza's would fall.
"And what do we do now?" Yuki asks, chewing on a piece of rubble to fill her stomach after waking up.
"Our job here is done," Kouta says. "Those of us who can still fight should move to the nearest location to help anyone in need. Svetlana?"
The one addressed doesn't respond. During the break, she had finally let her guard down and collapsed against Alpyr's advances while they sat on a stone.
"...Svetlana?"
The Russian remained distracted, with Alpyr leaning against her as she listed places they could visit afterward.
"...we could go to that café that opened near the agency. We could also go to the aquarium; I've never been to a Japanese one..." She falls silent, thinking.
"Svetlana."
"Huh?...Ah, yes, sure. We could also go to—" The piranha freezes mid-sentence and slowly turns her head toward Kouta. "...yes?" she says, trying to hold back her embarrassment.
"Behave in a manner expected of someone in our position."
"Yes... I'm sorry."
"You and I are fully recovered, and there are still many zones fighting; we must go help and capture as many Yakuza as possible, leaving the aspirants to rest."
"Yes, you're right..." Svetlana stands up and separates from Alpyr. "We can talk later; let them tend to you and rest."
Ambulances were taking the injured away; Mao had already exhausted most of her energy, and there was a vehicle to take you and your teams back to UA.
"I don't know whether to sleep or go eat something," Amelia says.
"Oh, let's go eat! I'm starving," Veronica says, rubbing her belly. "All that fighting made me hungry."
"I don't think you fought as much as we did to say that..." Amelia replies. "I'll take a ride with you if you don't mind."
>>6708 >Gwendoline Hinata is alive, and in Mount Fuji. Gwen sighs, it's unclear whether it's from longing or disappointment. Almost immediately she starts drifting spectrally around the area. The trucks appear, and the villains parade inside of them, but the ghost doesn't even notice them. Her gaze seems incapable of staying still, until it lands on Alpyr and the fish woman.
"Ugh!" She complains audibly at the same time as she pinches her nose. "What is that smell...? It's like a port! Wait, I think I know where it's coming from... Let me get to the wind side."
It's obvious to anyone that she's being intentionally and sneakily rude. To make it even clearer that she's paying the price for Svetlana, she crosses her arms and puffs out her cheeks, and looks at her group as if they owed her money. Soon Gwen explodes.
"And that's it? Is that all? After everything I suffered for you, do you have no praises for me?!" She turns her face and clenches her teeth. "Not even a question...? Like, 'How are you?' or 'How did you manage to handle that powerful villain on your own'?" "Because of attitudes like that, I feel like telling everyone that they should die!"
>He said giving a thumbs up, before Svet separated them, she obviously took the chance to give him a kiss on the cheek before leaving.
-"Good luckkkkk"
>Moving his arm to say goodbye before going with the other group, she's not that stupid to not understand the situation and the duty that the great ones have to follow.
>They'll have better time to spend time together.
-"By the way, what class are you in?" no idea if it's already been said that the future super pervert is already in class A kek >She got into the car near Vero and Asuna
She obviously refused any doctor's touch, as by that point she was just tired
Walking to be with Amelia, since the others she vaguely knew were busy with their own things and she couldn't be bothered.
-Amelia-
"I don't know if I should sleep or go eat something"
-Hanan-
"I could eat something, but I also feel like if I touch a bed I'll fall asleep until next week"
She followed Amelia to the car, quickly sitting in the corner and letting Amelia sit next to her to avoid any contact with the others who were there too.
"Uhhh... I think I was going to be... I think they were going to put me in one of the main classes... uhhh... but I don't know if it was A or B..."
The tiredness wasn't letting the information get to her head, obviously they would have told her at some point which class she was going to go to when the internships ended since she had to end up somewhere.
But after thinking for a while she looked at Amelia, taking out her phone and seeing that it was a bit wet.
"Shit"
She shook it a bit and turned it on, luckily it didn't look damaged, she finally got Amelia's attention and asked
"Should we take a picture so the others know we're alive?"
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