《The Underworlds Hero》True Plans
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After being separated, I found myself with Bakugou and Toga in a dark room dimly lit. "JUST WHAT THE FUCK DID THEY DO!?"
"This must've been their plan. They separated us so it would be easier for us to be taken down."
"Very accurate." We glanced over to see a man with a face and body of an animal.
"Chojuro Kon. More commonly known as Chimera." The man clapped at Bakugou's answer.
"Very persceptive. I should congratulate you all on being strong enough to take on several of our allies with what you've done. However." His body began to alter and morph for his body to become something entirely different. "THAT WON'T SAVE YOU TODAY!" His body grew several different animal parts on his body to resemble something almost similar to a chimera in legends.
"So what. All you just did was become a bigger fucking target." Bakugou charged at the villain with a right hook pointed at his head. "DIIIEEEE!!!"
"Hello!?" Ochako found herself deep in a tunnel unable to find anything to tell where she was. "Is anyone here!?" She continued walking with no proof as to where she was. "Izuku!? Toga!? Bakugou!? Momo!? Kyoka!? Where are you all!?" She continued to walk before hearing what sounded like footsteps from the front of her.
"They send me a fucking kid that has no business on the battlefield to fight me? How pathetic." Remembering the voice of the villain, Ochako jumped back ready for a fight.
"Kendo Rappa."
"That's right. Guess you know me kid." His shoulders began to move around as if he was preparing for a fight.
"You're part of Overhaul's group. Don't think I take you all lightly for what you did to Eri."
"I like your fiery spirit kid. LET'S SEE WHATCHA GOT!" Rappa came at Ochako at insane speeds before Fatgum came in front of her to take the hit. "OUTTA THE WAY, FATTY!"
"You alright Uraraka?"
"Yeah." Ochako went charging at Rappa for him to dodge and give a small punch to her stomach. It sent her flying in the opposite direction and into a wall, making a large thud.
"URARAKA!"
"DON'T THINK I FORGOT ABOUT YOU, FATSO!" Rappa releases several punches at the pro for his body to absorb most of it.
'Dammit. We don't have time for this! If Uraraka didn't try to take on this guy herself, maybe we'd be able to have someone else advance.' Fatgum was sent back a distance with Rappa swinging his arms more.
"You're getting me all fired up fatso! LET'S KEEP THIS GOING!" As they fought, Ochako felt one of her ribs were without a doubt broken as well as blood coming out her mouth from the one attack.
'This guy. He's too much for me.' Struggling to stand up, the image of what another punch would do forced her to panic as from what she's seen, it was undoubtedly weaker than the ones Fatgum was taking. The mental image of a fist at full strength going through her chest made the brunette shake in fear. 'I'm...not strong enough to fight him.'
'Dammit.' Momo held her arm with what looked like a tranquilizer dart in it.
"Now that one of the more dangerous of the two of you is down, I shouldn't have much of a problem killing you both." A man with an overcoat on and a plague mask covering his entire face to symbolize the classic plague doctor. This man is more commonly known as Shin Nemoto. "Thanks to the information we have gained from that child's quirk, the drug that temporarily stops a quirk will no longer be needed. However, it will serve a final purpose in defeating you all."
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Jirou placed her jacks in her ankle stereos to give a soundwave attack to the villain. "YOU SON OF A BITCH! YOU MADE ERI INTO A LIVING TOOL FOR A WEAPON! MADE HER THINK SHE WAS A MONSTER! AND YOU CAN'T EVEN CALL HER BY HER OWN NAME!?" She sent another blast with Nemoto dodging it and entering the shadows of the dark hallway.
"You truly think you'll win. Sad." He aimed a gun at Momo with her trying to find some form of defense around her. "I think you should see what you're truly facing." He fired one round for it to hit Momo in her left shoulder.
"AAAHHHH!"
"MOMO!" Jirou immediately shot a sound base attack at the area the bullet fire came from for another to come at Momo's right thigh.
"AAAAHHHAAAA!"
"DAMMIT! SHOW YOURSELF AND STOP HIDING IN THE DARKNESS LIKE A SPINELESS COWARD!"
"I have no need to do such a thing. I'm able to take you both out if I truly wanted to. Now, where shall I aim next? The other leg, the arm, somewhere on the center mass." His gun was pulled up again for him to smirk. "Or should I put her out of her misery with this next bullet. The choices are endless."
A blast of sound nearly hit's the villain with Jirou glaring at his direction. "You think I'm going to sit idly by and let you harm someone I love? I'M GOING TO KICK YOUR ASS AND THEN FORCE FEED IT TO YOU!"
'Such nuisances. I'll enjoy ending them.'
"How are you holding up Mr. Compress?" Aizawa asked to see the overcoat masked vigilante running behind him.
"Quite alright. I am used to running from miscreants, so this is nothing." Before he could reply, Aizawa looked and noticed an arrow coming at them.
"GET BACK!" He used his binding cloth to pull Compress out of the way to have the arrow scrape his arm. 'Dammit!'
"Eraser-"
"Stay back!" Another arrow came at Compress for him to dodge this one. "This is that Chrono person Midoriya found in his father's files. Question is, where is he?'
In the raptors above the two, Chrono sat in wait with his hair moving around. 'Thanks to the quirk enhancement drug, my arrows are now increased from two to twelve. I can now attack from every angle from where I'm perched. Prepare to fall.'
Another arrow came at Compress for him to evade again. 'Even if I wasn't slowed down, I can't do much considering I can't see Chrono.' Aizawa glanced around to try and find a way to tell where the villain is.
'He has to be hidden somewhere I cannot see, but he can, but where. C'mon Atsuhiro. Think.' Compress looked around before noticing the ventilation system. 'Of course!' "My apologies for the harsh acts my friend." Compress pulled four marbles out of his overcoat and threw them in the shafts of the raptors before snapping his fingers. "But we need to find a way to stop this quickly." The marbles turned to large pieces of unused furniture to destroy the vents and send a large piece of it crashing near Aizawa.
"ARE YOU TRYING TO KILL ME!?" The pro shouted in anger as he was nearly crushed from the large piece of metal
"That wasn't the plan. My sincerest apologies Eraser. Now, come out and face us instead of hiding in the shadows. The curtain is pulled up, now show yourself to the crowd."
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Chrono was enraged inside the fallen raptor to the point he shot every arrow he had out at Compress in order to slow him down. "You filthy mongrel. I'll show you exactly who you are messing with."
Izuku started running in the deepest depths of darkness trying to find an exit. 'C'mon. C'mon. C'mon! There has to be an exit somewhere around here!' He stopped abruptly when a laser nearly took his head off to duck. Stopping immediately, he looked and noticed Nine walking towards him. "So this is what you were going to do in this fight? Smart."
The villain ignored Izuku and prepared for another attack. "I hope you're ready to die Izuku Midoriya. Today is going to be the day you will fall by my hand." A dragon came from the villains back came at Izuku for him to use a similar mutation altering quirk on him to evenly match the other.
"I'm not the same kid you faced before. I was naive when we last fought. So get ready to lose this time." Using a terrakinesis quirk, Izuku started moving the earth around him to slam directly into Nine as well as encase him in more stone before having Izuku compress it into a ball. "Now, Muscle Augmentation, Rivets, Bonelike Spears, Strength Enhancer X3, Air Compression!" His hand altered to become a completely different form before striking the stone object with all his might. "TAKE THIS!" The punch went directly through the stone and shattered it into nothing. Not expecting this to be enough, the AFO user waited for his opponent to make his return. As he expected, the villain walked out of the dust cloud formed unharmed brushing rubble off him.
"That wasn't bad. I actually feared you might've hurt me there." Izuku came directly at Nine with break neck speeds to punch him in the face. This forced the villain to slide back before recovering to see Izuku underneath him ready to kick out his legs. This ended horribly as Nine produced a barrier between them and pointed a finger at Izuku before nearly blasting a limb off. He jumped away before it could land to glare at Nine.
"So what did you do differently? You don't seem to be hurting as much as before when we last fought."
"Perceptive. Something did change. Thanks to the information we have with your blood as well as the late All For One's, we have been able to successfully alter a body within a few weeks during the experimental stages. As you already know, the body of a normal human cannot control so many quirks. However, you and your father are a different story. Your bodies altered to allow this. Which meant the genetic code to help cure the backlash I had as well as any All Might will have is mended. Of course, this was before having both your most recent blood sample with the genetic code needed being found. Meinai and Kotonaru truly did a great job achieving this. But now that we have your blood and have come to the point of nearing our final steps in what we want."
"And what might that be?" Nine smirked under his mask.
"Being able to handle All For One. You already know that a normal person cannot hold nearly as many quirks as you. Even holding a second quirk deteriorates the body naturally over time faster than it would. Statistically, the average quirk nowadays in strength would kill a normal person in roughly 40 years if the person would have already obtained a quirk with both now existing in the body. A third would go down to 30 and so on."
"So the human body cannot handle more than one quirk. I already knew that."
"Perhaps. But let me ask you this. Why is it that unlike all these other people that have another quirk implanted in can you and your father hold more than one?"
"Easy. Our quirks are what make us able to."
"I'd laugh if I didn't expect you to actually believe that. Do you know why I couldn't hold more quirks in my body without extreme life threats?" Izuku stopped for a second to think the most logical outcome.
"Cause you weren't compatible with AFO."
"That's actually incorrect. My comparability rate is about 95% and if I wasn't, I would've died when I obtained the quirk in my body. The real reason why is because your bodies produce a natural enzyme that allows you to avoid the natural deterioration that would be present if you were a normal human being. Making this artificially is next to impossible as you've probably guessed with the Nomu. As such, we have had to find ways to obtain natural enzymes inside your bodies. We obtained several samples from your father, but we could not determine the natural enzyme at work. After the fight with the Wild Villains however, we determined that the secret has to be inside your blood."
"My blood?"
"Yes. Since your quirk is far more powerful than AFO's ever was, that means the natural enzymes that would have to be present would be far more dominant than inside your father's. This meant that if we were going to achieve what we desire, we'd needed your blood as fresh as possible. With it, we were able to replicate the natural enzymes in your body to make them synthesize in the body of another naturally. As such, I was able to achieve that which I sought after for years. The ability to hold All For One in my body with no repercussions. And soon, so shall All Might."
"Fun story, but that doesn't make a difference. All For One is still a single quirk. Having that in the body doesn't change anything. He'd still be spending the rest of his life trying to at least steal half as many quirks as my father had obtained when he was alive and still fail. That is even if he succeeds in getting the quirk."
"Perhaps, but have you ever wondered why Garaki is with our faction?" Izuku gritted his teeth realizing what he meant. "Thanks to his information gained from years of working under AFO, he's discovered a way to synthesize quirks and make them usable. In short, we'll have All Might hold several thousands of quirks when he's complete." Now worried about the final outcome, Izuku rushed out of the room before nearly getting hit by lightning made by Nine. "Where do you think you're going? Until you beat me, you won't be getting anywhere near Overhaul, let alone All Might."
Pressing the com link on his ear, Izuku tried to contact the members of the Jaku raid. "Endeavor. Miruko. Shigaraki. Dabi. Someone answer!"
"You're wasting your time. This underground facility was made so outside signals would not get through. Now, it's time to finish what we started." Two dragon heads came out of Nine to attack Izuku for him to forcibly dodge and step away from the path he was going. Not much was known of what was going on, but Izuku knew he had to stop Nine before he could even go any farther.
The two began walking out towards a large room that led to the secret exit to the facility towards the surface with the sound of destruction happening behind them. Before they could get any farther, three sets of footsteps came behind them to turn and see the Big 3 of UA somewhat dirtied and catching their breaths.
"Overhaul. This ends here."
"Give back Eri and turn yourself in before this becomes a problem." Overhaul glared at the three in annoyance.
"If I remember correctly, Mimic threw you three in with Hojo, Tabe and Mummy."
"Those three we were able to take down ourselves in no time." Hado pointed her hands towards Overhaul with spirals coming out of them. "Power output 40%. NEJIRE WAVE!" She shot a beam at Overhaul with his legs being trapped by octopus tentacles ensnaring him.
'You three are fools. All I have to do is use Eri as a shield and you're going to back off.' He grabbed for Eri with Togata coming through quickly to take her in his arms.
"I DON'T THINK SO!" The blond hero in training pulled her away just as Overhaul was hit by the spiraling beam to send him into a wall. "Don't take the Big 3 lightly! We might not be on Midoriya's level, but we're still strong enough to stand as heroes!"
Overhaul came out of the wall clearly enraged with his gloves being broken apart. "You brats....YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND WHO YOU'RE MESSING WITH!"
As the raid progressed, Garaki had begun working to protect All Might with sending several high end Nomu out to counter the pros. As he did, a timer on a monitor showed a counter going down past seven minutes with All Might's body regaining some of it's vitality from before facing AFO several years back.
And that finishes this chapter. See what happens next time as the pros and the League fight to stop the villains and hopefully defeat All Might before it's too late. Hope you all enjoyed and thanks for reading.
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