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Sound of Heroes by BANIX
 Anime » My Hero Academia/僕のヒーローアカデミア Rated: M, English, Hurt/Comfort & Romance, [Yui K., OC], Words: 78k+, Favs: 1k+, Follows: 1k+, Published: Nov 19, 2019 Updated: Jun 9354Chapter 10- USJ
"Your quirk resembles All Might."
I cannot help but try to hide my snigger upon hearing that.
Oh daammmmn son, guess Midoriya's display is not as discreet as he thinks it is. Asui- no, Tsuyu already got his quirk somewhat figured out from the looks of things.
Predictably, Midoriya got all flustered and tried to deny all such accusations until Kirishima came in and saved the day.
"But that sort of simple strength-enhancing quirk is awesome! You can do a lot of cool stuff with it!" Kirishima then proceeded to harden his left arm. "Not like my hardening. I'm good in a fight, but it's real boring."
"Your quirk saved our lives from the zero pointer." I helpfully reminded Kirishima from where Jiro and I are seated somewhere nearer to the back of the bus. Jiro already had one of her earphone jack already plugged into her phone to listen to music. Talk about convenient.
"Yours destroyed the zero pointer." Jiro raised an eyebrow at me for that remark, which I dismissed with an awkward laugh.
"WAIT, WHAT?! Earmuff face did-"
"Moving on." I pushed the conversation forward as I secretly muted Bakugo before he can go on and on about who is better and who will be the No. 1 Hero. I can already see Shinso giving me a secret thumbs up for the silencing, which I secretly returned with an 'ok' sign. It's only the third day of school, but we are already sick of all his yelling.
"A zero pointer…" Uraraka had the look of a goldfish on her face at the statement.
"No way I could have pulled it off if it wasn't for Kirishima and Jiro there helping me." I tried to play it off and direct their attention to somewhere else, but I have a feeling it would be a lost cause by now. The very last thing I need is for someone like Bakugo to declare me as his Eternal Rival. It would be better for my sanity if he writes me off as a non-threat.
"Bakugo's and Todoroki's quirk are strong and cool, and so is Onpa if he really did destroy a zero pointer somehow with sound alone. But Bakugo is so unhinged, he'd never be popular."
Predictably, Explodiboy erupted once more, making threatening gestures and his mouth opening and closing at a rapid speed. However, nobody could hear what he is saying because I muted any sound coming from him.
"Is it just me, or is Bakugo…"
"He's not making a sound." Yaoyorozu stated with certainty before her gaze travelled to me, which I answered with a small casual shrug without giving anything away.
"A silent Bakugo! Our prayers had been answered!" Denki cried out comically, which got everyone laughing at the statement. Sero, who is sitting beside Bakugo, had to physically restrain him when the King of Explosions witnessed that.
"We're here. Look sharp now."
The voice of our homeroom teacher got us snapping back to attention once more. It didn't take us long to exit the bus in an orderly manner and I undo the muting I imposed on Bakugo when I saw that he's no longer trying to scream his lungs out.
"-fucking stupid- wait, I can speak now?" Bakugo had a brief look of confusion on his face before his face turned satanic once more. "ALRIGHT, FESS UP! WHICH IDIOT SILENCED ME, HUH?! I WILL FUCKING KILL-"
"And he got muted again!"
At least half the class cheered when I decided that Bakugo's voice is way too loud to be comfortable for my ears. I can see a few of the smarter ones who had already somewhat figured out who was behind this phenomenon looking in my direction, which I pretended to not notice.
"I knew I like you for a reason." Shinso whispered to me as he gently bumped my shoulder with his. "You should have done this on the first day of school."
Bakugo is no idiot, however, and he is already stomping in my direction after putting two and two together.
"Behave yourselves." I was saved when Aizawa caught a struggling Bakugo in his capture tape as he continued to scream silently while making menacing gestures in my direction. Shinso further antagonised Bakugo by cupping one of his hands over his ear and leaned his body closer towards Bakugo.
"Speak louder, Bomberman, we can't hear you."
"Shinso."
"Sorry, sensei." Shinso replied with a large grin that tells us that he is not the least bit apologetic for it. "Can't help it."
"And Onpa, undo whatever you did on Bakugo. Bakugo, behave yourself or I'll make you."
Reluctantly, I undo the silencing I did on Bakugo.
"Fucking blue hair." Bakugo gritted out the moment his voice could be heard once more. "I'll kill you later."
"Yeah, you can try." I snorted. I don't care if he's the protagonist or not. Right now, Explodiboy here is just a spoiled brat that is striking all the wrong nerves and hitting on all the wrong buttons.
I'm no saint like Midoriya or All Might. Push me too far and I will bite back too.
"Bakugo."
"Tch." Bakugo clicked his tongue and reluctantly stayed his hand upon Aizawa's warning.
Without further fanfare, Aizawa brought us into the USJ. The first thought that came to my mind upon seeing everything there was that I'm impressed.
Flood Zone, Landslide Zone, Conflagration Zone, Mountain Zone, Downpour Zone, Ruins Zone. So many types of disaster scenario with an excruciating amount of details put into it to make it incredibly lifelike, so that U.A.'s heroes-in-training can get the best possible education that they can receive here.
Yui would be jumping for joy when she finally had her first lesson here, no doubt about it.
Furthermore, one of her idols, Thirteen, is personally conducting today's lesson. Scratch that, Yui wouldn't just be jumping for joy, she would be falling in love with every lesson conducted in the USJ.
As expected of a Pro Hero, Thirteen gave a very good speech on how quirks, no matter how destructive or villainous they may seem, are not powers meant to inflict harm, but rather born for the sake of helping people. To be able to uplift the mood of people with the power of words, that is also an aspect that a hero must have. Thirteen definitely did a splendid execution of that.
I wonder if I would ever get to that point someday?
"For some reason, Thirteen's words just get you all fired up, eh?" Shinso said as he clapped his hands alongside the rest of the class when Thirteen ended her speech.
"Unlike you."
"Like you can do any better."
"Want to bet?"
"On what?"
I never completed my sentence for at that moment, a big black hole materialised out of nowhere and from it emerged a guy with hands stuck to almost every part of his body. A part of me whispered to me that those are real hands, a part of me argued that those hands must be fakes.
There is also another part of me that just screams at me to quickly go into fight-or-flight mode. Unlike the more naive ones in my class, Shinso and I aren't slow on the uptake.
"Shinso."
"I know." Was the reply I heard together with the clicking sound of him putting his Artificial Vocal Cords properly in place over the lower half of his face. His electric bracelets are already turned on and sparking with electricity while I can audibly hear my heartbeat getting increasingly faster.
So it really wasn't the press who infiltrated the school earlier.
Our worst fears were confirmed when we heard what our homeroom teacher had to say.
"HUDDLE UP AND DON'T MOVE! THIRTEEN, PROTECT THE STUDENTS!"
This is not a simulation. This is not practice. This is reality. These people are-
"Sensei! Are those battle robots like those from the-"
"DON'T MOVE! THOSE ARE VILLAINS!"
What arrived is the evil of the world that we are expected to fight against after our three years of education here. They are here, right in U.A.
They are Villains.
Y'know, when he first woke up in the morning, all he expected was to enjoy just another school day. Like, he knows that he is a hero-in-training and that he would be involved in some combat scenarios regularly. But come on! It's only just the third day of school!
NO ONE SAID THAT THEY WOULD BE FACING REAL VILLAINS ON THE THIRD DAY OF SCHOOL!
Even then, he miraculously managed to compose himself. He is Sero Hanta, a future hero. He can at least do this much, yeah?
Aizawa-sensei is down at the plaza facing the entire group of villains by himself while Thirteen was ushering for them to get out of USJ. The villains had somehow brought down all forms of communication with the outside world and even their resident electric quirk user had no way of bringing it back up. The only reasonable option left is to run and get backup from someone in the main school building.
Well, that was the plan until some weird black fog guy managed to separate all of them by teleporting the entire class into different locations in the USJ. The change of events was so fast that nobody had any time to react. Before he knew it, he is now free falling in the air at some unknown place.
Great, just his luck.
Using the quick reflexes that he is so proud of, Sero managed to catch the two other people that had fallen with him here the moment he spotted them.
"Thanks!"
"Sero, right?"
"That's right!" Sero replied as he quickly swung them down to safety. They are undoubtedly in the Downpour Zone. Visibility is poor, heavy rain is falling everywhere and the winds are so strong that they have to constantly raise the volume of their voices to even hear each other. The water might hinder the stickiness of his tapes, but he wouldn't worry too much about it. He may not be the brightest, but he has confidence in his abilities.
The only good thing is that there are a lot of buildings for him to swing around here. He can make do with this. At least he isn't at the Conflagration Zone or the Flood Zone. His quirk wouldn't be as useful there.
"So, only the three of us?" Shinso asked as he, Onpa, and himself pressed their backs against each other in a defensive formation. Already, a sizable group of villains is surrounding them, waiting for the right opportunity to do them in.
Damn, they are really not holding anything back even if it's against supposed kids. These are real villains, the real deal.
"Sero." Onpa's voice could be heard from his right as Sero's elbows are already pointing outwards, eyes scanning for the best possible places to stick his tapes to. "Just to be sure, your quirk is…?"
"Tape." Sero quickly replied. There's no time to go for an in-depth explanation, so that will have to do.
"Good. Among the three of us here, I have the most firepower. Mind rounding them up for me so that I can finish them all in one shot?"
"My quirk is not as useful in such a scenario, but I can probably do something useful." Shinso chipped in. "Oi, loverboy, we go for Opening No. 3?"
"Do it."
Opening No. 3?
"Hey asshole!" Sero watched on in curiosity as Shinso openly taunted the biggest, meanest, scariest looking villain with a body covered entirely in some sort of hard substance. Probably some sort of rock. The purple-haired classmate of his slowly and dramatically raised his middle finger at the villain.
Wow, considering their plight, that definitely takes some serious balls to pull off.
"Let me guess, you became a villain because even your momma couldn't stand your ugly looking mug? Or your girl left you because the only part of you that can turn hard is that ugly looking skin of yours?"
A brief moment of silence ensued.
Sero knows he's far from the brightest, but it didn't take a genius to be able to tell that the villain is now absolutely pissed.
"You fucking brat! I'll-"
"Punch all the other villains around you!"
And to Sero's and the rest of the villains' visible surprise, that tough looking villain did just what Shinso said.
"Sero! No time to be daydreaming!"
Onpa's words quickly snapped him out of his thoughts as he immediately launched his tapes at the nearest group of villains he could see. The adhesive properties and toughness of his tapes quickly snared most of them near his corner. He can see Onpa rapidly blasting away at another group of villains with some sort of invisible projectiles he fired from his open palms, creating quite a din in the process. Shinso got rid of any villains they missed out or got too close to them with the electric bracelets he wore around his wrists.
Onpa had said that his quirk manipulate sound. Sero has no idea how that gives Onpa the ability to blast everything around him away like what Bakugo's explosions can do, but now is not the time to play detective.
"Onpa!"
Sero swung the group of villains he captured in Onpa's direction, who responded by aiming a palm right at the bundle before somehow blowing them away with so much force that it made them crash through several concrete walls.
"For villains, you guys are just some miserable weak nameless grunts, aren't you?!"
"Watch your-"
"Punch the guy on your left!"
Right, brainwashing. Should have remembered Shinso's unique quirk from the Battle Trial yesterday. Shinso had not been idle either while he and Onpa were busy clearing house.
Remembering that Shinso's quirk offers no combat abilities. Sero quickly helped him out by restraining any villains that might pose an immediate threat to the three of them. Onpa is like their walking artillery, calmly firing away pulses of… something that forced the villains to keep a healthy distance away from them. It's like he can fire off mini invisible air bullets, just a lot smaller in scale than what Midoriya can do with his crazy punches.
Somehow, Onpa's way of fighting reminds him a lot of how Bakugo uses his quirk too.
"Sero, duck!"
Sero did not question nor did he hesitate upon hearing Onpa's warning. He immediately dropped himself to the floor just as Onpa suddenly fired an attack where his head was supposed to be a moment ago. There was a loud crash and an unconscious figure slowly materialised from atop the resulting debris.
Someone actually managed to turn invisible and somehow sneaked up to him undetected? Even in all the rain where it could possibly make his invisibility useless? He really needs to be more alert to his surroundings.
Shinso dodged another punch from a villain that managed to close the distance with some sort of speed quirk. The purple-haired classmate of his aimed a punch straight for the villain's neck, managing to get a good shock in using the equipment he wore to increase his combat abilities.
"I'm starting to love these babies."
There was another loud boom, and where another group of villains once stood was now an empty crater.
"We're done here. I don't hear anyone else other than the three of us."
"That's surprisingly fast and easy." Sero found himself stating his thoughts out loud as he looked around. How long did it even take? Three minutes?
"We got lucky. The villains obviously don't know what quirks we have. They wouldn't have responded to Shinso's taunts otherwise." Onpa replied. "This could have gone very wrong if they knew our quirks right from the very start."
"We need to quickly go check on our classmates." Shinso immediately said. "The black fog guy must have dropped us into different parts of the USJ, and Aizawa-sensei is still holding off the entire group of villains all by himself. He needs some backup."
"We all need backup." Onpa corrected as he dusted his hands, or his gauntlets in this case. "We also need to move quickly. I can fly on my own. Sero, can you carry Shinso with you?"
"Sure thing!" Sero replied with a thumbs up. He has no idea what is going on right now, but Onpa seems like the type to be able to keep a clear head no matter the situation and he looks like he knows what he is doing, so he is more than happy to let Onpa do the decision making.
Without further ado, they made their way out of the Downpour Zone. Sero rapidly swung himself from building to building using his tapes with Shinso securely strapped to his back with some excess tape. Somehow, Onpa managed to do incredible leaps that covered great distances and even managed to achieve propelled flight using the speakers on the bottom of his boots and from the center of his palms.
"How can manipulating sound gives you the ability to fly?" Sero cannot help but blurt out his question upon seeing what Onpa can do. It's just… unfathomable.
"A dash of inspiration, a lot of imagination, extensive research on the laws of physics, and countless practices together with a whole lot of help from my family." Onpa answered after some thought. "It took me years to get to this point, although the ease of what I'm doing now is also largely attributable to the costume design. The special boots helped a whole lot."
"Loverboy is a little on the crazy side when it comes to experimenting with his quirk. Also a little bit of a physics and music nut. He is what people call a crazy genius or a brilliant madman." Shinso commented.
"Loverboy?"
"Oh, you don't know?" Sero can literally hear the excitement in Shinso's voice. "There's this girl from-"
"Oi, you do know that if you want to hit on Hoshi, the last thing you should do is to offend me, right?"
"I told you I'm not hitting on your sister!"
"Yeah, right. I'd be a fool to believe that." Onpa snorted. "You have the hots for Hoshi and Hoshi totally has a thing for you. Although I'm warning you, if you want to be my brother-in-law you are definitely in for a bout with me and nii-chan. We are overprotective of her like that."
"Wait, what?" Sero asked, genuinely confused. Just what is going on?!
The three of them finally exited the Downpour Zone. Onpa wasted no time in flying up to get a good view, although making sure that he is hiding behind a tall structure so that he stays out of sight of the other villains scattered around the USJ. Even when hovering high up in the air, Sero can somehow hear Onpa's voice loud and clear on the ground.
"Todoroki definitely has things covered at the Landslide Zone. I can't see what's going on in the Conflagration Zone. Bakugo is definitely in the Ruins Zone from the amount of explosions I can hear and he is a good battler, so things are definitely okay there. Mountain Zone is too far for us to effectively reach in time."
"That leaves the Flood Zone, right?"
"I cannot spot anyone there. The ship's already split into two- oh, I see them. Tsuyu, Midoriya, and Mineta made it out relatively unscathed and is watching- oh shit."
By this point, Sero had managed to find a tall spot for him to climb up and see what the hell is going on in the entire USJ. That includes seeing what Onpa had seen.
Right at the plaza near them, their homeroom teacher is being pinned down by a monstrous being with an exposed brain, arms snapped like a twig and bleeding a huge puddle of blood on the ground, obviously unable to move.
"AIZAWA-"
"Shh!" Onpa quickly silenced them and dragged them down to hide themselves from view. "Giving away our positions won't do anyone any good! That thing obviously took down Aizawa-sensei, a Pro Hero, with ease since there is not a scratch on him… or it. Whatever that thing is. There's no chance of us defeating it. If we want to help Aizawa-sensei, we need to have the element of surprise!"
"Sero, how strong are your tapes?" Shinso asked.
"Against something like that?" Sero pointed at the monster that they are slowly sneaking up on that has their teacher in a deathgrip. There's no doubt in their minds that they have to do something to rescue their teacher. "I honestly won't bet on my tapes holding it down for long, but I can make up for it in quantity and hope it buys us enough time."
"That thing doesn't even look human." Shinso commented.
"I haven't heard it speak, not even once." Onpa added. "If that's the case, your quirk may not be able to work here. I can induce a form of motion sickness that might temporarily weaken the handyman and the buff birdbrain, but other than that there's nothing much I can do with Aizawa-sensei in their hands."
"Let's just pray that Asui, Mineta, and Midoriya can react fast enough to help us."
"Or…" Onpa used a finger to point to the blade strapped across his back and made a slicing motion. "I can… you know… chop chop chop."
"Seriously?!"
"There's no time to debate about this. Aizawa-sensei might really die at this rate." Shinso reminded them as they finally managed to sneak up close enough to the unknown villain with many hands covering his body and the monster with an exposed brain. They are hidden close enough behind a large bush and had not got themselves noticed so far.
"Handyman seems to like to talk an awful lot. If handyman reacts, I will deal with him." Shinso stated. "You two focus on saving Aizawa-sensei from birdbrain."
"Right." Sero nodded. "If they can bring down Aizawa-sensei without so much as a scratch, we probably don't have much of a chance. I'll just grab sensei with my tape the first chance I see."
"And then we bail out of here." Shinso completed.
"Handyman spotted Midoriya and gang." Sero can hear Onpa gritting his teeth as he said this. "There's no time to discuss any further. I'll provide the opening."
Before any of them can stop him, Onpa is already running towards the villains.
Crap crap crap crapcrapcrapcrapcrapcrapcrapcrapcrapcrapcrapcrap-
Midoriya can feel his eyes widening and his heartrate shooting through the roof the moment the villain that calls himself Shigaraki spotted them and is slowly making his way over here. His mind went into overdrive as he tried to recall whatever little facts he had learnt about the two villains in front of him and how this information can be useful in getting them and their teacher out of their current plight.
Shigaraki's quirk allows him to disintegrate anything he touches Shigaraki treats everything like a video game, view All Might as the final boss They are here to kill All Might. Shigaraki claimed that the creature known as Nomu is their secret weapon, which means its capabilities is at least equal to, or even greater than All Might's For Aizawa-sensei to lose so easily to it, it means his quirk didn't work on Nomu, so Nomu must have a Mutant type quirk
He can feel a certain dwarf hugging his leg while yelling his fear out for everyone to hear.
"MIDORIYAAAA! SAVE ME!"
Midoriya clenched his teeth and mentally prepared himself to sacrifice another finger, or all ten of his fingers if need be. While Onpa had very kindly shared with him a way to possibly control this all-powerful quirk, Midoriya had no chance of practicing the advice he gave just yet. For now, there's no other way out of this but to sacrifice his limbs. Mineta's and Tsuyu's quirks don't have what they need to get them out of this, so the strength provided by One for All is the only option left.
Locking his ring finger underneath his thumb, Midoriya prepared to fire off another attack like what he did in the Flood Zone. If lady luck is smiling down on him, it might catch the villain unprepared and buy them enough time to escape, and hopefully save Aizawa-sensei as well.
The plan he had crafted in his head for that short one second was thrown out of the window when Onpa made his sudden appearance by dashing out from behind a set of thick bushes, the katana on his back already drawn and a furious look on his face. Surprisingly, he closed the distance with a burst of speed similar to how Iida's Engine quirk does.
There's hope! They have help!
"Watch out!" Midoriya quickly warned Onpa as he shouted in his direction. "Don't let the villain with many hands touch you! And the villain holding sensei down is probably as strong as All Might!"
"Another one? Nevermind that, I'll just let you decay by my hands-"
"Fear not! For I am here!"
"All Might?!" The handyman was visibly surprised at the sudden voice of the No. 1 Hero sounding out from somewhere. Even Midoriya himself was taken aback. "Where-"
"Stay your ground and don't move!"
Midoriya's heart soared the moment Shigaraki suddenly remained immobile. Beside him, Mineta is crying tears of joy and even Tsuyu is having a big smile on her face.
Shinso! That has to be Shinso!
With Shinso effectively immobilising the creepy handyman with his quirk, Sero also appeared from where Onpa had emerged earlier. Surprisingly, the monster with the exposed brain did not react at all while the entire debacle was going on.
With a few swift swings of the blade, Onpa managed to cut off the monster's hands by its wrist, effectively freeing their teacher. Sero took this opportunity to quickly grab their homeroom teacher with his tapes and made a run for it. Even at the danger of the situation, Midoriya cannot help but be amazed at how insanely skilled Onpa is at using his quirk. Wasn't the only ability Onpa's quirk gave him is the ability to manipulate sound? How did Onpa use it to give him that burst of unnatural speed? How is his blade so unnaturally sharp?
Unfortunately, this isn't the time to be analysing quirks. Trying his best to clamp down on the queasy feeling at the sight of the pool of blood, Midoriya quickly turned to the shortest member of the class.
"Mineta!"
"I'm on it! Take this! Yaaaaaaaaahhhh!"
Mineta wasted no time in throwing his ball-like stuff at the Nomu, effectively sticking it into the ground and restricting its movements.
"Its hands!"
Asui's words got their attention as to their collective disbelief, the monster regenerated its hands right in front of their very eyes.
"What the-"
"SHIGARAKI! Snap out of it!"
The sudden reappearance of the villain with the warping quirk, also known as Kurogiri, spelled disaster for them when he slapped Shigaraki out of the brainwash Shinso had over him.
"You…" There was a brief pause of noise and action that got their skin crawling, the only sound that filled the air around them was the heavy breathing of a pissed off villain and the obsessed scratching of his neck. "DAMN BRATS! Nomu, GET THEM!"
"Run! My quirk is not holding him back anymore!"
"Get out of here! The base strength of the Nomu is easily on par with All Might!" Their teacher, who somehow managed to stay conscious despite the physical torture inflicted on him, quickly relayed to them the information they need. Nothing in life has prepared Midoriya for the sight of a monster with the strength on par with All Might marching up to them. No matter what he did, there's no stopping the sense of fear pooling at the bottom of his gut.
Oh shit, what do they do what do they do whatdotheydowhatdotheydowhatdotheydowhatdotheydowhatdotheydowhatdotheydowhatdotheydowhatdotheydowhatdotheydowhatdotheydowhatdotheydowhatdotheydo-
"Tsuyu! Shinso! Your quirks won't be as useful here! Get sensei out of here! Sero, Mineta, immobilise handyman! Midoriya! We need your super strength! Handyman's obviously the leader, so just end him in one punch!"
"I know!"
There wasn't time to think. He's sure his body is shaking in fear at the thought of facing a villain that even their teacher said is as strong as All Might, but Midoriya still found himself listening to whatever Onpa had told him to do. Sero had shot the largest barrage of tapes Midoriya had ever seen him produced in such a short time as Mineta threw his own sticky balls, immobilising Shigaraki with a large pile of white and purple.
Without a second thought, Midoriya ran up towards Shigaraki. In other circumstances, he might want to try and limit his power to only use only what is strictly required, but there's no time to hesitate now. His friends are counting on him and if the sacrifice of one limb is able to save all their lives, then he will gladly give his arm away.
"SmmMMMMMASSSSSSHHH!"
He cannot help but let out a grin when his punch connected without any of his bones breaking. Sure, his entire body rattled a little and it kicked up a large cloud of dust and smoke, but his bones didn't break.
He can still keep going!
"Midoriya! RUN!"
A roll of white tape suddenly wrapped itself around his waist and the next thing Midoriya knew, Sero had violently pulled him out of there. It was then Midoriya realised that what he punched wasn't Shigaraki, but Nomu.
The horrifying realisation sank in when he saw that the Nomu looked as fine as when it first appeared. It took on the full 100% without any damage?! That's not possible!
Midoriya was thankful that Sero pulled him out just in time, because a deafening smash resounded across the entire plaza and shook the entire ground with it the moment Sero got him out of there. The creature called Nomu had retaliated.
"H-How?! I was sure my smash connected!" Midoriya stuttered as for once, his intelligent brain could not find any immediate answers as to how Nomu survived his 100%. "I hit it! I'm sure of it!"
"But Onpa's blade cut its hands right off!" Sero reminded them as the four of them quickly got back into the game.
"You fools." Their attention was brought back to Shigaraki as he decayed Sero's tapes and Mineta's balls to dust, finally regaining his mobility. "Did you seriously think that we would come here to kill All Might without the proper buffs and equipment?"
"Shut up."
In a way that reminded Midoriya of his bad-tempered childhood friend, Onpa directed a powerful and loud blast at handyman from his palm, only for the Nomu to move at a speed faster than what their eyes can comprehend and bodily block it for the handyman without so much as suffering a single scratch once again.
"Watch out for the fog guy!"
Sero's shout got them to quickly scatter as Kurogiri attempted to separate them again.
"It doesn't make any sense! Midoriya's punch did nothing to the brain thing yet Onpa managed to cut it?!"
"I-I'm guessing this Nomu monster must have a shock absorption quirk!" Midoriya gave his speculation as they try to not get smashed to paste. "That may be why blunt force probably didn't work, but a precise cutting force did! All Might is known for his punches, which falls under the category of blunt force, and Shigaraki said that Nomu is the ultimate weapon designed to specifically kill him! The logic fits!"
"Cover your ears!" Onpa shouted out as the Nomu made a lunge for them while he extended his palms out in the same direction. "I'll deal with this Nomu, just run!"
Midoriya was awed by Onpa's power once again when he created the largest and loudest explosion of noise and wind as everything in front of them was blown away, gouging out a huge cone-shape crater right in front of their eyes.
"H-Holy shit."
"If I cannot deal direct damage onto the Nomu, then I'll just blow him away with everything else." Onpa muttered, although there's no hiding how much more heavy his breathing had just gotten. That last attack had definitely taken a toll on him. "Where did handyman and fogman go?"
"I-I saw them flying away together with the Nomu." Mineta stuttered. "Let's just get out of here while we still can!"
"Agreed." Onpa said as they quickly made a dash for the USJ exit where they can see some of their classmates are at. "Hopefully, somebody had managed to get an SOS signal out- ARGH!"
With a desperate shove, Onpa suddenly blasted the lot of them away from him while using the backblast to escape from a sneak attack appearing right above them. The Nomu, Shigaraki, and Kurogiri made their reappearance with another portal.
"ONPA!"
"JUST GO! GET HELP FROM SOMEWHERE ELSE!"
"Resistance is futile."
"Oh no you don't!"
Obviously enraged, Sero quickly wrapped his tape around Kurogiri's metal collar to prevent him from conducting anymore sneak attacks. Mineta is desperately throwing his purple balls at Shigaraki and while it is doing a fine job in slowing him down, the villain would just decay them eventually if Mineta did not keep up the pressure.
There was another boom as Onpa jumped into the air to avoid a downward smash of the Nomu's massive arms. With a perfectly timed blast of sound from the speakers on his boots and palms that provided a burst of repulsive force, he avoided another series of punches the Nomu launched at him while he is still in midair. Another swing of the blade later, Onpa managed to cut off the entire right arm of the Nomu while managing to somehow get behind its back with a burst of speed.
So… skilled! How much control did Onpa have over his quirk to be able to do this?! Wasn't the only ability of his quirk the manipulation of sound? Was that a real sonic bullet?! Like the one he used on Shinso yesterday? He had only thought Onpa named it as such for the sake of being cool! Not like he's not cool, but it's a real sonic bullet! It has to be!
"Fuck! It can regenerate even in this state?!"
True to Onpa's words, that's exactly what the Nomu is doing.
"Give up! It's game over for you wannabe heroes! All Might is not here to save you!"
Onpa's only response was to let loose a deafening roar from his mouth that produced a shockwave so strong that it sent the handyman flying towards the Flood Zone.
Divide and conquer, that's it!
"SHIGARAKI!" Kurogiri shouted out in obvious worry, but unable to do anything as Sero and him got Kurogiri pinned down.
"Just stay there until we get rid of the Nomu problem, Shiga… what's handyman's name again?" Onpa questioned out loud to no one in particular.
"BEHIND YOU!" Mineta yelled out.
Even without looking, Onpa managed to dodge another punch of the Nomu creature as he continues to grab its attention and slowly lure it away from them by constantly skirting out of its reach, but not far enough for the Nomu to lose interest in him.
"Onpa!" Midoriya found himself yelling in worry.
"I'm fine! Just finish the other two while I take care of birdbrain over here!"
At the exact same moment, Kurogiri started to release more of the black fog from his body.
"I won't let you!"
With a yell filled with determination, Sero started to swing Kurogiri around in the air the moment he spotted him trying to warp away once more. His impromptu idea seemed to manage to stop the fogman from warping somehow, so Midoriya joined him in swinging him around despite how tiring it is for them to do so.
The least they can do to help Onpa, who is facing the Nomu creature all alone, the creature said to be created to kill All Might, is to at least make sure that this Kurogiri cannot join the battle.
"Quirks are simply physical abilities, there should be a limit to how much the Nomu can regenerate! Just keep forcing him to regenerate and it should hit its limit!" Midoriya yelled out whatever information that might be remotely useful to Onpa, his usual stuttering gone as he helped Sero in swinging Kurogiri around. Mineta had gone to watch the Flood Zone and threw in some of his balls whenever he saw handyman trying to swim his way back, keeping him as far away as possible for as long as he can.
The Nomu suddenly wobbled and dropped to a single knee, probably due to Onpa inducing a temporary artificial state of motion sickness in it like what Uraraka said he did in the Battle Trial yesterday. Onpa wasted no time in slicing all four of its limbs off this time. The speed of it convinced Midoriya that Onpa must be really experienced in using a katana because there's no other way to explain how he did it.
"Try to regenerate from that, you- oh for the love of- of course you can."
Onpa made his escape from the newly regenerated Nomu by leaping high up into the air before firing several sonic blasts down at the Nomu to get its attention back on him. However, it is also getting more and more obvious that such high-speed combat is wearing Onpa out faster than the Nomu. It doesn't matter if Onpa somehow has the speed and skill to fight against the Nomu right now. At this rate, exhaustion will do him in. Onpa can slice at the Nomu all he wants but just one punch from the Nomu will cripple him.
Midoriya cannot help but pray in his heart
Everyone, please be alright! Someone, anyone, please come soon!
This day had really gone to shit.
"Thirteen-sensei is down too, ribbit!"
"I know!" Hiding themselves and leaving Asui to protect their homeroom teacher who finally succumbed to his injuries and passed out, Shinso gritted his teeth as he quickly visually scanned which villains would be the best to use his quirk on.
He found three.
Changing his voice into the fogman using the Artificial Vocal Cords, he got into action while ensuring that he hides himself from view.
"We are leaving in three minutes! Hurry up!"
There was a chorus of replies and Shinso felt the mental tug that signifies the successful use of his quirk.
Bingo
"Protect the students and the teachers! Take out everyone else!"
A villain with a tiger mutant quirk, another that can shoot freaking bullets out of his fingers, and one with the size of an overgrown gorilla quickly got to work as Shinso and Asui got out from their hiding place. Using the electric shocker he wore on his wrists, he quickly put down a few that he caught by surprise as Asui got to the rest of the class who were trapped near the entrance in a single leap while bringing Aizawa-sensei with her.
"Shinso! Asui! You guys are alright!"
"I'm not sure how long I can hold the three villains with my quirk! Make quick work of the rest of them, hurry! We also need to assist Hibiki and the rest at the plaza!"
With Asui's help, Uraraka got a few villains to float in the air before she sent them crashing back down. Tokoyami and Shoji forcefully subdued a few for Shinso to shock into unconsciousness. The distraction he and Asui gave seems to buy Yaoyorozu enough time to create a literal bazooka as she starts to blast groups upon groups of villains away from them.
"All down!" Ashido called out with a happy tone in her voice when she took down the last one with her acid. Finally, at least now there is one place they know for certain that is secured.
"The villains brought in a monster said to be able to kill All Might, ribbit! Onpa, Midoriya, Sero, and Mineta are trying to buy us time but I don't think they can hold out for long. We need to hurry and help them!"
"I'll go." Tokoyami volunteered immediately. "Dark Shadow is useful in combat and he can take hits that might otherwise be fatal."
"I shall, too." Shoji answered immediately.
"We cannot send everyone out! Someone has to at least make sure this place remains secure so that we have a place to defend the injured!" Yaoyorozu quickly stated. "My quirk is useful in such a situation. I can stay behind while creating firearms to provide support! Iida had already escaped to inform the school about the situation here, so all we need to do is to hang in there long enough for reinforcements to arrive!"
"Just Shoji and Tokoyami should be enough." Shinso decided. "Physically, that Nomu monster is too strong for anyone else to handle. Anyone whose quirk requires you to be up close should stay behind and just defend this area and wait for the teachers to come. The rest of us should go now."
"I-I can go too!" Ashido raised her arm into the air. "My acid may be of use!"
"Fine. Let's just go."
Without further ado, the four of them ran back to the plaza. From where they are, they can easily see Hibiki single handedly holding back the grotesque monster by himself while Sero and Midoriya are keeping the fogman busy. The perverted Mineta is still throwing his sticky balls into the waters at the nearby Flood Zone to prevent the handyman from swimming back.
Good.
There was a sound of a cannon firing from somewhere and it hit the Nomu squarely in its face. Must be Yaoyorozu.
"I got help!" Shinso yelled out as Ashido, Tokoyami, and Shoji arrived onto the scene with him.
"Finally!" Sero cannot help but let out a smile on his face even if it cannot be seen thanks to his helmet.
"Hibiki, what do you need us to do?!" Shinso yells out, not knowing if there's any new development that they need to be aware of.
"Get handyman to continue swimming in the Flood Zone! Make sure fogman cannot warp! Distract this Nomu enough for me to get a breather! I'm going to slip up at this rate! It's too fast and I am starting to be unable to keep up!"
"Got it!"
A mass of limbs sprouted out from Shoji's arms as he tried to hold the Nomu back. It did for one short second before the Nomu broke free once more. Ashido sprayed a large volume of acid at the monster but it did nothing but to serve as a minor hindrance. Tokoyami's Black Shadow joined in the fray to take some of the heat off Onpa while Yaoyorozu's cannon shot a wide net at the Flood Zone, snaring Shigaraki in it.
"I… won't be stopped!"
As if somehow finding a new reservoir of power, the fogman somehow managed to find a way to warp away a part of the tape binding him in order to break free.
"Shit! Look out! Fogman got free!"
"Onpa! Tokoyami!"
Within a split second, the dripping wet handyman was brought back by the fogman with the Nomu still on a rampage trying to get a good hit onto Onpa. It would have hit him a few times if it wasn't for Tokoyami's Black Shadow tanking some of those hits for him and Shoji's extended limbs pulling him out. The Nomu is just that fast.
Numerous black portals appeared around them, which got them to immediately scatter upon recognizing the threat. One appeared in front of handyman, who stuck a hand through it.
Shinso's eyes frantically darted around. Which one?! Which portal would the handyman's hand come out from?!
Which one?!
There was a familiar blast of sound and Shinso turned his head, just in time to see his best friend propelling himself like a rocket before bodily knocking Midoriya away from an outstretched hand that appeared from a portal behind the mini All Might.
Shit!
"Hibiki!"
"ONPA!"
"Let him go!"
"Stop!"
"I wanted to just toy around with the All Might fanboy, but you would make a good substitute as well." Handyman went on his rant as he got Hibiki by his neck with a strong grip. "Given how you knocked me into the pond and gave me such a hard time, are you a hidden boss? Maybe killing you would give me some nice EXP?"
Shinso saw Hibiki slowly moving his fingers and he caught the cue. He must have something up his sleeves. In that case, then he will distract the handyman.
To Shinso's despair, handyman's grip on Hibiki's neck visibly tightened before either of them could do anything, forcing Hibiki to abort whatever he was trying to do.
"Try anything funny and it's Game Over for you." Handyman said in a low tone. "I don't know what your quirk does exactly, but it has to be something related to sound. An upgrade of Present Mic's quirk, perhaps?"
"LET HIM GO!" Shinso roared out, ready to use his quirk at a moment's notice. He can tell that it is the same for his classmates as well.
The handyman waved a finger at them in warning.
"Some of you already know what my quirk does, right?" Handyman continues his monologue, which doesn't allow Shinso to use his quirk since that doesn't count as a reply. The handyman picked up a nearby rubble the size of a tennis ball with his other hand before swiftly turning it into dust.
"Annoy me one more time, and the same thing will happen to your friend here."
"You-!" Shinso wanted to just go and beat the crap out of this piece of trash with his fists alone, only for Shoji to hold him back.
"Keep calm, Shinso!" Shoji urged. "Don't endanger Onpa any further!"
The handyman turned back to look at Hibiki, who he is still holding with a hand around his neck through the portal. Hibiki simply settled for glaring at the handyman, obviously wary of what he would do if he made the wrong move.
"This game's NPCs are at a way higher level than usual." Handyman commented, but it is more like him rambling at this point. "Such promising talent, and for what? To die even before you can be a hero?"
"You are not half bad yourself." As if he doesn't fear for his life, Hibiki actually spoke back. "Such promising talent, and for what? Become a villain that picks on school kids?"
"You-!"
"Shigaraki." The fogman interrupted. "I've been trying to tell you this, but one of the students had escaped. Reinforcements from U.A. will be arriving soon."
"Argh, damn it Kurogiri! We won't stand a chance against a dozen of pros! It's Game Over, man. Game Over." Like a petulant child, the handyman started to whine and make a fuss with his deadly and pale hand still gripping onto Hibiki's throat, but obviously applying even more pressure from how Hibiki is now desperately trying to breathe in more air. "For now."
There was a brief period of tense silence with all of them facing the handyman.
Shinso is ready to use his quirk whenever possible. He can see Sero watching handyman's every movement, ready to grab Onpa out of there at a moment's notice. The same goes for Shoji. Every single one of them is about to make a move to save Hibiki at the slightest hint of danger.
His friend's life is at stake, and there's no damn way he is going to not do anything damn it!
The handyman gave them one last sweeping look before his gaze turned back to Hibiki.
"Well, goodbye."
"HIBIKI!"
"ONPA!"
"SHIT! GET HIM AWAY FROM THE VILLAIN!"
BOOM!
There was a booming crash, this time from the front doors of the USJ. It made everyone take a pause because the sheer force of the wind that was kicked up from the impact had swept them off their feet even when they were so far away.
Shinso quickly picked himself up and tried to track his friend's whereabouts, only to find that the handyman had been knocked onto the floor as well and is clutching at his broken arm which was holding onto Hibiki while hissing in pain. Shinso can feel himself panicking as he frantically tried to see where his best friend is.
Hibiki! What happened to him?!
"EVERYTHING'S FINE!"
Shinso felt himself sagging in relief when he saw that Hibiki had been safely rescued and placed out of harm's way.
Thank goodness. This is nothing short of a miracle.
"Fear not. I…"
All Might. All Might had arrived.
"AM HERE!"
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