Chapter 53: League Special Forces
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- You said Shigaraki...oh shit...' I stopped halfway through my sentence as I remembered the kid standing next to me. - For once, I believed that Yuei had done everything possible to prevent another attack...they lied, without shame or conscience. - I didn't pay attention to the unknown masked fool...I know who he is, I'm eavesdropping on the League, he's one of the people Giran invited...but I don't remember them talking about the upcoming attack, if they realised I was watching them. I discreetly pressed the button on my wristband, commanding the drones to scout the forest for intruders.
- Oh, it's stuffy. I'm not a fan of these masks. - He took off his cloak and, as it turned out, a simple mask I hadn't noticed, revealing an unpleasantly pumped-up blond, with the face of an old criminal, and a scar on the left side of his face, from the forehead to the upper lip. - Hey, kid, that's a cool hat you got there. Swap it with me for this stupid mask? I'm new among them, you see, the normal mask was not delivered, so I go with this rubbish. - He spoke in a disgustingly friendly manner...and at the same time, his right arm was covered with multiple layers of muscles. This bad guy's name is Goto Imasuji, aka the villain A-ranga Muscle. His quirk is metamorphism, honed to build up extra muscle on top of his body, greatly increasing his strength, speed, and durability.
- You're a freak. - I noted my opponent's appearance, specifically the horrible scar under his left eye socket, with a missing eyeball, and if Seko's scar didn't spoil her appearance, it was as if he had skinned the upper right side of his face.
- You...Seahorse, you're the one who killed them...' cried Kota with tears gathering in his eyes. - Mum...Dad... - he uttered, for it was Muscle, in his time, who had killed Kota's parents, and those in turn, deprived him of his left eye.
- What? Are you the son of those heroes? A fateful meeting, no less. Your parents were strong, but not strong enough. They wanted to stop me and I wanted to kill them, and as you can see, I'm alive, which means I was right and Skates was wrong. - He sniggered, talking about killing Kota's parents like something commonplace, and the boy trembled, for he is a child.
- Bloody psychopath. - I blocked the poor kid behind me.
- It's their own fault, they didn't have the strength to realise what they wanted...YOUR LOVING MOM AND PAPER! - Suddenly, he pushed off the ground hard and fast, and ricocheted off the rock, jumped behind me, scaring Kota, but I hit him in the chest with all my might, Muscle flew aside, crashing into the mountain.
- Kota, listen to me. You have to get out of here.
- N-I can't...' the boy replied with his knees trembling, unable to shift.
- Shit...close your eyes and don't be afraid of anything, I'll have to carry you, away from here. - After he closed his eyes, I opened a teleporter under him, to the building where the failed exams are retaken, he'll be safer there than here.
By the way, I glimpsed the forest, half of it was in flames and the other half was filled with some kind of gas, the rest of Shigaraki's associates must have done it.
I had learnt about who would be in the League's special team a long time ago, when Giran had brought them all to Shigaraki...but I didn't know that they were going to attack right now...and how did they even know about this place. They didn't even talk about it, not even once, maybe they realised they were being followed.
And while I was distracted by the thoughts and disasters below, Muscle had already climbed out of the cliff, unharmed as his muscles had absorbed all the damage.
- Yeah, the leader told me you're not to be underestimated. I'm gonna have to give it my best shot. - Muscle stuck his hand into his pocket, from where many artificial eyes fell out, he pulled out a strange red eye with a dark scarlet pupil and inserted it into the empty eye socket. - I'm going to need my serious eye.
I don't know what exactly he did now, maybe the eye prosthesis enhanced him, or maybe it was his ritual, but he grew a colossal amount of muscle in an instant, covering his entire body except for his head, almost equal to me in characteristics, of course without the light amplification.
- I want to see your blood! - He attacked me with a fist punch, which I easily deflected, and his fist hit the surface of the rock, shattering a quarter of the rock into pebbles with a single blow.
- Not bad, you're a freak, but strong...I think I can spend a few minutes on you, and then I'll go catch your accomplices.
After a short fight, I realised that Goto is not a good fighter, apparently he always relies on his quirk to give him a boost in strength, so he has no problem winning, but today he had a bad opponent.
- You arsehole, let me kill you! - shouted angrily Goto, who always wanted only one thing. Kill.
- Time's up. You madman, look up. - I pointed my finger at the sky.
- Ha, you think I'm stupid. - He threw himself at me again...and from the sky a pseudo-blade crashed into his muscles, cutting them, and then another and another, but the dumb Muscle managed to cover his head with his hands, but it didn't help much, his muscles were still cut.
- Surprise, arsehole. - Just before the new batch of blades hit him, I opened a portal in front of them, and a second one opened behind Muscle, causing them to slam into his back, knocking the huge muscle carcass to the ground. - Let's see how your muscles hold up to my blade. - In my hand, a loaded Infiniti emerged, which I used to slice through the muscle tendons.
- Damn it... - Grunting, Muscle rose slowly and with difficulty, slowly building up new layers of muscle, but I gave up on him, stepping on the top of his head with my light-charged foot, pressing his face into the rock.
- Tell me what the League is doing here. Last time, the Almighty was needed, but he's not even here.
- They need you...and a girl named B-Bakugou. - he replied, barely moving his lips because of his broken jaw and bleeding nose.
- Something doesn't add up, what the fuck did Katsuki and I give up to Shigaraki? - I clarified, pressing down harder on his head.
- Kha!...n-I don't know...' he vomited at least half a litre of blood as I broke his ribs...and a couple more times.
- Oh, man, you got your blood all over me. - I shook it off, only to smear the blood even more, and for good measure, I kicked Muscle in the broken ribs, knocking him out for good.
When I realised that he couldn't say more, I got into his head, but there was no useful information in Muscle's head. Neither he nor anyone else from the special unit knows why Shigaraki surrendered to us. What All for One needs us for, I have a hunch. Maybe he's interested in my and Katsuki's quirks, and he likes to steal other people's quirks. I was about to heal Muscle so he wouldn't die before his time and then tie him up, but as soon as I touched him...Goto suddenly disappeared.
Come in, come in, your personal schizo is on the line.
- You've been gone for 16 years and I thought you'd disappeared.
I wasn't, I was busy running the system and fixing all the messes you made with your genetic code. If it wasn't for me, you'd be a giant mutant with a lot of genetic deformities by now.
- Um, well, thank you? - I hesitantly thanked him.
You're welcome, and don't worry about Muscle, I moved him into the domain.
- Let me ask you a logical question. Why?
I have an idea and I need this subject, or rather his Quirk, to execute it.
- What do you need him for, you're not gonna tell me?
Nah, don't worry about it, mate. If I wanted to get rid of you, I would have tried it a long time ago. We need the muscle to increase our power. Do you understand?
- Okay...if there's anyone you can trust, it's yourself...and the schizo in your head. - I sighed.
Exactly.
Just then, the drones spotted the supervillains.First of all, I teleported into the forest, behind the back of the villain, whose quirk emits a sleeping gas, similar to Midnight's quirk. On the surface, it's some kid from high school, wearing a school uniform, gloves and a gas mask helmet, his villainous nickname is Mustard. Since the A and B class kids were playing this stupid bravery test, most were in the forest, good thing Momo was there too, and got the idea to create gas masks, so most of the students stayed awake.
- Shigaraki's business is so bad that he's taking on a team of youngsters. - I hummed behind Mustard's back, but naturally he turned around and saw me standing calmly on the ground, despite the fact that there was a lot of soporific gas around.
- Fucking heroes...you think if you have a cool quirk and go to Yuei, the whole world should lick your arse?! - He pulled out a revolver from behind his back and fired several shots at me. The bullets barely touched my skin, crumpling without even scratching me.
- I don't want to hear that from a schoolboy who gassed himself in the woods. - I hit him right in the face, shattering his gas mask.
- Hmph...' said the white-haired kid behind the mask before he passed out.
- Two down, eight to go. - I moved to the next target, the edge of the forest, near the bus stop.
The next target was Nomu the chainsaw, and I called him that because he has six limbs in addition to his two arms, and almost all chainsaws.
The reasons why I chose the low-grade Nomu are as follows, he was chasing after a bruised Yosetsu Awase, a black-haired kid with a bandage on his forehead, from B-class, and an injured Momo, who was being dragged by Yosetsu. And also, Nomo the chainsaw-wounded Ragdoll, she's lying ten metres away from them, unconscious, with a bleeding head wound.
- K-I-I-I-SA-A-A-A-' Nomu suddenly spoke, chasing after her, and he was talking about Ragdoll.
While Nomu was distracted by Yosetsu and Momo, I jumped on his back, and grabbing Nomu's protruding brains with both hands, blasted the monster's head with a powerful burst of photons.
- Akira... - Momo said with a weak smile, barely standing on her feet.
- You're just in time, sports festival champion. - Remembered me Awase from the festival...but I somehow didn't remember him. - Are you hurt? It's just that you're covered in blood.
- She's not mine, don't worry...Momo...' I saw Yaoyoroza with abrasions on her arms and face, and out of anger that someone dared to touch my girlfriend, I furrowed my eyebrows in the manner of my grandfather.
I put my open palm to her, and quickly healed Momo and Avase, then opened a portal to the retake building. There's some villain in there right now, but Aizawa quickly neutralised it, so it's safe.
- Climb through the portal, you'll be transported to safety.
- Alright...and good luck. - Avase wished me luck as he and Momo went through the portal. And I took symbolic revenge by burning what was left of Nomo for hurting someone dear to me.
Then I found the unconscious Ragdoll, healed her, and teleported her back to the others.
I then teleported to the deepest part of the forest, where Seko and Katsuki were being chased by a freak in a straitjacket or S&M suit that covered everything but his mouth. This freak's name is Moonfish, he's a cannibal, and his quirk is appropriate. His quirk of metamorphism, allows him to enlarge and lengthen his teeth, making them into powerful blade blades. The duo of girls had a hard time fighting him, due to the fact that he continuously attacked them, preventing them from counterattacking in any way.
- Flesh! - yelled the insane man, attacking Katsuki and Seko with his elongated teeth, but Todoroki closed in time with a wall due to the ice.
- What's the saying? It's not what you look like that counts, but what you are like on the inside? In your case, I think you're equally shitty inside and out. - I've been drawing attention to myself.
- Meat, my meat! - Munfish switched to me, pointing his tooth blades at me. - Show me flesh!
- Show me the knocked out teeth. Create construct: Giant Palm. - I created a giant hand out of pseudo-matter, grabbing the toothy carcass and slamming it into the ground and trees several times before throwing the mangled Opah into the dirt, with its mouth open, devoid of teeth.
- Akira! - shouted the two ladies when they saw me and jumped on me.
- My love, you're covered in blood, how are you feeling? - Seko got upset and hugged my arm.
- Don't you dare die here, you bastard. - Katsuki expressed her worry in her own way, hugging my other arm.
- It's okay, it's not my blood. - I reassured them, kissing them both in turn. - The camp was attacked by villains, I was able to disarm some of them, the rest should be dealt with by the Cat team and teachers now. I interrogated one of the villains, he told me that a special unit came for me...and for you Katsuki.
- Me? What the hell do they want with me? - she wondered.
- How would I know why they were after us? - I didn't know the exact answer. - It's not safe to stay here, so I'll take you to Aizawa, and I'll go to help the others.
- I'm not leaving, I'm not leaving you. - Seko refused, hugging my arm tighter.
- Fuck you, I'm not going anywhere. - Katsuki pulled away, crossing her arms defiantly.
- Girls, now is not the time to show girlish heroism, so...march into the portal! - I forced the girls into the teleporter.
- Bastard!' Katsuki shouted before she went into the teleporter. I turned to look at Moonfish, but that freak had disappeared too.
Don't panic, I've scammed him too. Remember everything for the sake of our might, and a toothy cannibal will help with that.
- Yes, yes, but stop talking in my head, you'd better keep quiet like you did all sixteen years before.
Whatever you say, I'll keep my mouth shut like a fish.
I ran further into the forest, but suddenly Shoji ran towards me, and as soon as he saw me, he shouted with his mouth, which appeared on one of his outgrowths:
- Mizuiro, please create a light source!
As soon as he said that, Tokoyami appeared behind him, only his Dark Shadow was much larger and extremely intimidating looking, as if it was controlling Tokoyami instead of him.
- Stop Dark Shadow! - Tokoyami tried to stop it. - Don't... don't... don't come near me!
- Flash. - With my right palm, I released a solar flare, instantly weakening Tokoyami's shadow, returning it to its normal state.
- Hah-' Fumikage knelt down on his knees, exhaling. - I'm sorry...you saved me. Shoji, the moment the villain chopped off your offshoot, I succumbed to the shadow...I'm sorry. - Tokoyami said as he looked at the stump of Shoji's limb.
- You have a very strong quirk Tokoyami, but controlling dark matter has its disadvantages, it's very hard to control. - I grinned, and looked at Shoji's stump, then channelled life energy into the stump, quickly restoring it. - Did you get hurt by the villain extending his teeth? - I asked and got nods from the guys. - It's okay then, I've already put him down. That's it. - I finished treating Shoji.
- Good as new. - I wiggled Meso's new branch to try it out. - Thank you Mizuiro, but it wasn't necessary, I can copy my replicants, and that villain cut off just a copy, I can restore my replicants myself.
- Yes, yes, good for you...now get to safety. - I pushed them both forward, into the opened portals, and went on my way.
The next stop wasn't far away, so I quickly showed up to help the next group, of Asui and Ochako, who had been attacked by Toga Himiko, that schoolgirl, one of the first to be dragged into the League, by Giran.
- Toga Himiko, accused of several murders, over a dozen assaults, and active assistance to a criminal organisation. With a record like that, you're looking at a long prison sentence, if not life. - I stepped between the girls and the criminals and gave Toga a cold stare with glowing eyes.
- I knew you'd come. - Uraraka was relieved.
- Kwa, me too. - Asui added, a trickle of blood dripping from the corner of her mouth.
- Gosh, he's so handsome. - The pink-cheeked Himiko said, and on her back were special campuses with a tube connected to a syringe-like device she held in her hand.
- Don't move Toga Himiko, I don't want to hurt you...but I can break your legs if I have to. - I threatened, shrouding my body in light to make it more threatening. Naturally, I was bluffing, she may be the enemy, but I don't maim girls.
- You're such a sweetheart, your name is Akira right? - She smiled a maniacal smile, showing her fangs like a vampire. - The leader said to catch you, but I can hardly beat you, especially with the three of you and me alone, so bye-bye. - She threw a handful of earth in my face to supposedly blind me, and quickly retreated into the bushes.
- She's getting away! - Uraraka ran after her, but I stopped her.
- Leave her alone, I already know where she's going. I can intercept her, along with her accomplices.
- Aizawa-sensei didn't give permission to fight villains, the most we can do now is defence kwa. - Asui exclaimed.
- In an emergency, I can safely break any rules for the sake of survival. Ochako, group up. - I opened a portal under Uraraki's feet.
- What? - the screaming girl fell into the portal.
- Now my sweet frog...'' I hugged Tsuya, and to her surprise, kissed her, while healing the wound on her tongue left by Toga. And playing with her long and wet tongue, a very pleasant experience. - You're welcome. - I pushed her through the gate, behind her back. - Geez, how many have I evacuated already? Five? Six? - I exhaled and moved on.