Chapter 18 - 9.1

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Considering that half the firefighter brigade in the town was gone, and the other half was overworked, trying to find the auxiliary valves to cut the supply of gas and kill the main fire, massive inferno currently going off and that had blown a massive hole in the ground, it was understandable as of why they had to take these drastic measures.

So drastic that they needed civilians to pinch in, civilians that were either sleeping, resting or on the streets, mingling with their friends when the explosion occurred.

Civilians that, once the disaster is contained, most likely would go into shock, once they have nothing to distract them from the fact that their town got blown up.

All of this to get to a family, a family that could easily decapitate every major gang in the country and link each and every single one of them with a known terrorist organization and cripple them even more.

"No wonder they want them dead and would go to great lengths to do so" Orca thought with a grimace, "It just makes this mess even worse" he thought, no hero was stranger to collateral damage, but there is collateral damage and then there is wanton destruction.

This qualified as the second.

Orca saw on the edge of his vision at one of the brigadiers, running at top speed at him.

"Orca-san!" the brigadier said, panting for breath, then taking one deep gulp of air, "We got problems!"

BOOM!!

An explosion occurred, several pieces of furniture flying away as a ball of fire rose into the smog covered air.

"I can see that" Gang Orca deadpanned.

But the brigadier shook his head, "Not that! The firefighter team had to return! They lost two guys to what they say is a villain with extensible teeth and looking like a gimp!" the brigadier stated, making Orca blink.

"Looking like a what?"

"Like a gimp! A leather bound gimp, with hooks holding his lips apart! And he can't see shit!"

Gang Orca actually blinked once, then he actually blanched, "Oh, shit" he cursed, "Pixie-Bob!"

"What!? Can't you see I'm busy?" Pixie snapped, holding her hands on the ground and actually forcing the ground to envelop several stray fires, drowning them before they could get worse.

"We got a situation, Moonfish's on the area!"

"Moonfish is here? What the fuck?" she asked in sheer shock, "What the hell that cannibal motherfucker doing here? He was on jail last I heard!"

"You were in protection detail, you never heard this, he and Muscular got captured, and then they got liberated by someone!" Orca snapped, taking a small gulp of water and began stomping another stray fire, hard.

"Muscular what?"

BAMMM!

Both heroes actually looked up, seeing a car fly at their direction, Pixie-Bob simply made the dirt around her become several pillars, basically blocking the car mid-air and crashing in front of her harshly.

"Well, you got nice reflexes lady" Pixie actually felt ice flow through her veins.

Looking up at the direction the car flew by, she, Orca and the brigadier saw the form of a buff man walking by, a smirk plastered on his face, a scar on his left eye, and an artificial eye placed on his eye socket.

"You" Pixie-Bob hissed, instantly forming several beasts to her side, all ready to attack at her command.

"Yes, me, but I don't know you" the man known as Muscular, an A ranked villain stated with a smirk, "But him" he said, pointing at Gang Orca, "Oh I know him, been waiting to fight you and see if all the hype about Orcas being apex is true" he said as small tendrils of muscle formed around his hand.

"You don't get to do anything!" Pixie snapped, commanding her beasts to attack immediately, "Kid! Go and warm the rest, Muscular and Moonfish are on the area! Treat with extreme caution!" she said, not taking her eyes of the grappling man, actually grappling one of her beasts, obscene muscles growing out of his skin and reinforcing his strength and grip, not that it would help him much, he might have enhanced strength, but she hasn't stayed idle, she had trained and learned.

If she could take on a kid that basically told her that the weaknesses of this animal were his face and dick and should aim to break, and also crush his calves, all while warning her of her own, then she would be fine, Gang Orca was here as well.

As Muscular wrestled one of her beasts away, she and Orca struck.

This time Muscular would not kill anyone else, he will be stopped, no more.

Never again!

Inko kept a brisk pace, she had set pretty much the pace of their escape, so far the only thing they had heard had been explosions and the sound of her son's shouts, they hadn't been intercepted by a villain or Troupe doll, and it had been a sheer miracle.

She expected that something to go wro-

"Oh my god!" Kota screamed, looking behind her, she actually blinked when she saw someone crawl towards them-

And she saw that the back had the imprint of a foot, she could see bones, metallic bones jutting out of the impact zone, and white blood was coming out of the wound.

"Ah dammit" Inko swore.

"Come here you dickheads! I'm gonna wrangle your necks!" the doll screamed as it crawled to them at great speed.

Inko rose her gun at the same time Aizawa prepared his capture gear, all was for naught as Izuku actually rounded the corner where the doll had emerged, Dragon aspect giving his bunny form a rather intimidating look.

Her son seemed to not like the fact the doll was alive, and actually made a dash at it, each step making huge 'thump' sounds that attracted the attention of the doll a little too late, as Izuku reached it and reared his leg back.

BAMM!!

And then kicked the head of the doll off, the skin of the neck gave more resistance than the bones, but when his kicks were enough to actually flip a car, the neck of the weakened doll literally stood no chance of holding the head in place.

Aizawa actually made a face as the head rolled in, leaking white blood and sparks, actual sparks, at least it wasn't twitching and making incoherent sounds.

"That…was unnecessary" Kota muttered, seeing Izuku amble up and power down into his human form, Dragon Aspect still active.

"Yeah" Izuku sighed, "But with T-Dolls you can't go half-measure, sorry" Izuku apologized, "Also we have a problem, the Troupe has a Nemesis"

"Please tell me it doesn't have a rocket launcher" Aizawa wondered, he had seen once Izuku speed run the very old version of Resident Evil 3, and while he wouldn't admit it, a relentless death machine build specifically to kill you and that uses a rocket launcher as intended and sometimes as a club, made him…iffy.

"Worse, somehow they added Quirks to it" Izuku stated, "Also it's bigger"

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"I beg your pardon what?" Aizawa actually wondered.

"Yeah, it had some sort of external muscle alteration, it could create external muscles to reinforce its own mass, breathe fire and grow blades out of its body, I ended up using Inferno to put it down and it had a very violent reaction when I sued Apobiosis on it" Izuku confessed.

Aizawa simply sighed, then shook his head, "No matter, must be down now, you set off a fission point blank, I can actually say not many things can survive that" he said as he motioned the group to head to the hot springs.

"Yeah, but I'm not letting my guard down, also stumbled to that guy, Overhaul" Eri made a panic noise, "I broke his face with the Siege maul and then set him on fire" Eri let out a…sound, it was more of a confused sound, as if not believing that someone had beaten Overhaul.

"Doubt that will stop him" Aizawa stated, kicking the hot spring doors open, "He has a Quirk he can use on himself, depends more on how much damage you inflicted prior, and if he's still conscious after such punishment"

"Well if he's still wanting for a fight, I can always feed him a Nova Bomb, let's see if he can reassemble himself out of molecular annihilation" Izuku darkly murmured as he patted Eri's head, "He's not hurting Eri ever again" he said, glancing at the hot springs, "Nice place"

"Yeah" Kota muttered, pointing at a rock on the other end of the hot springs, "There, we just remove the fake rock and we are set to-"

CRASH!!

A guttural roar made the group actually pause as they heard something actually crash into the compound, crashes that where getting louder and more numerous.

Then one of the walls on the second floor broke apart, and a black blur landed in front of them.

"DE-KU!!!" the malformed form of the Nemesis-α roared, rearing its arms back and roaring to the sky, the burned flesh basically tearing itself apart after such stretch, blood pouring out as the massive BOW settled and glared with milky white eyes at the group.

Aizawa didn't even hesitated when he launched a kick at the Nemesis head, actually nailing it and making it look the other way, but the Nemesis simply recovered and actually went to nearly land a haymaker at Aizawa, who actually rolled out of the way, but felt the strength behind the blow by the sheer air pressure that passed him.

Then he smell ozone, and the roar of pain of the Nemesis, looking back he saw Izuku actually slipped into the Stormtrance, "Guess fission didn't cut it, how about ten straight seconds of FUCK YOU!" and with that he let out the Arc energy out.

Aizawa by instinct dove out of the way and saw how the Nemesis began to flail at the Arc current hit it, Izuku had been right, it seemed electrical currents had very adverse effects-

And now the thing was growing muscles out of the skin, and was breathing fire, and was growing blades out of its palms-

And it was moving, the outside muscles were actually tanking the Arc current, they were burning, filling the air with the smell of burnt meat, but it was moving.

Something Izuku noticed, "Fine" his Siren Arms appeared, all green and starting to spin behind him, "You asked for it" and all six acid coated arms were fired, each had its hands not bawled into fists, but extended, like knifes.

The Nemesis recoiled in pain as the first arm actually over penetrated its forearm, leaving a gaping hole behind, the second easily lodged itself on the right knee, acid starring to burn the flesh, third and four met the shoulder, over penetrating and leaving two massive holes that caused the Nemesis to lower its arms, then came five and six.

Both arms lodged where the lungs and heart would be in a human being, easily burning their way of the muscle like shield in the chest, and going through into the chest, instantly the acid began to burn, the Nemesis began to gasp in pain, trying to force it's arms to pry the acid coated ones, without success, then it buckled as the right leg was unable to sustain its weight thanks to the damaged knee and the acid that ate all the tissue with ease.

Still the Nemesis tried to fight.

"DE-KU" the Nemesis growled, trying to force itself upwards and attack, Izuku, who was already in a bad mood thanks to what the Troupe had done, was now in a far worse mood.

"You want Deku?" Izuku asked, extending his right hand and instantly casting a Union Glyph in it, he was right now pretty much done with the Nemesis, and with the Troupe and in general with the idiots at their heads, so he hoped they were looking.

Because right now he was so done he wanted them to see what would happen from this point onwards.

With that in mind he swung upwards a blood red scythe that had black edges, and seemed to be eating the light around it, "Okay, I'll give you Deku"

And then he swung it down.

There was a splash on the water, and a heavy thump on the ground.

"…Pixie's not going to be happy about the mess" Kota muttered.

Durara actually looked at his side, the brisk pace he had set alongside Beta to reach the cars of the Yakuza, disable them and ensure no one can escape, no one but them.

"Sir, I have lost telemetry with Nemesis-α" Beta replied form his side with a monotone tone, not unusual considering it was a Beta-Doll, no emotions or personality, a true doll in all the sense of the word.

"…What?" yet their lack of personality meant they were blunt in everything, let it be fights or informing of things.

"I have also lost telemetry with I44, I45 and I46, several of the GOLEM units are being terminated as we speak, at the rate they are being terminated, I estimate a total loss of GOLEM assets in three minutes" Beta added, making Durara actually growl I annoyance.

This whole operation had gone pear-shaped the moment they stepped foot into the area, and even before, when the distraction turned into a bloodbath.

The heroes were going to hunt them with more zeal than before.

He simply shook his head, still the operation could be salvaged if they carried the killings of the Midoriyas, they could not let them testify, it would not give the heroes and the Government of Japan ammunition against them.

It would arm them with tactical nukes they would use with impunity against them, and in turn it would arm them world against them.

They had been sloppy, allowing their operations and contacts to be spread so much for so long, the Leaders had been displeased about it, so much that they had been planning to actually kill every single child caught in the Coliseum Raid, only to realize that they could not, they were too protected as well, there had been escape attempts, but when is the military actually doing the guarding, and they do not give a fuck about a lot of things, well, shots have been made.

The information the kids had would jeopardize everything they had worked for, linking them to so much and basically destroying any attempts at the takeover, it would destroy everything not only in Japan, but the world as a whole.

So he made a decision.

"Beta, take the Lickers, head to the cars, destroy them, then find the Midoriyas, kill them, spare no resource for this task" he commanded as he reached for his pocket and pulled a vial out.

"It is untested sir" Beta reminded, looking at the vial and shot that contained a black substance that seemed to glow with a reddish glow.

"Again, inconsequential, now go and do as told" he commanded again, Beta simply nodded, dashing away of him alongside the enhanced Lickers that worked as a guard to him.

Once they were away, he focused on the vial, Beta was right, this thing wasn't tested, it could do as it was intended, or it would melt him into a puddle, while he was alive, anything could happen.

But desperate times, desperate measures.

So desperate he was for results he never noticed Shigaraki behind him, or the black portal at his feet.

SHINK!!

Only he did when the portal guillotined his legs up to his knees and Shigaraki covered his mouth with his hand, keeping his pinky finger stretched out, only then Durara noticed, and in his panic and pain he tossed the shot away, "Now that was unexpected" Shigaraki began, seeing the blood pool into the ground, "Don't you know game tropes my friend, when a named character stays behind to do something stupid, they usually die"

Durara was about to scream despite the hand covering his mouth, "Oh don't even think about screaming, you don't know about my Quirk right? Okay let me monologue here for the lols" Shigaraki stated, seeing Kurogiri form a portal on the vial and taking it away, leaving behind the severed legs of Durara as replacements.

"You see, my Quirk's called Decay, whenever I touch something with my five fingers, that something gets decayed to the point of non-existence, metal? Becomes rust and then rust dust within seconds, humans? Well they do become dust if I feel…well" Shigaraki stated, "But I can accelerate the process if I feel like it, now imagine, I decay you dammed face off because you are a dumb pushover bitch" Shigaraki spat.

"Did you really think your little threat that day would go unanswered?" Shigaraki snapped, "Really? You have a satellite with a nuke in it and you didn't use it here, it would have saved a lot of problems, but the fact you guys decided to go for this route tells me that you have shit to show, you only have satellites, which I hope are honed here so they see you as you are now, my bitch" Shigaraki stated, "Also you should be thankful it's me who's gonna kill you, Sensei's been nursing quite a grudge on your people for some time, telling me some interesting tales, on how you screwed several of his fights and plans, I tell you, his threat of making you scream was not just of your little flexing that day, he hasn't got his hands on any of you assholes yet, so be thankful" Shigaraki said, bringing his other hand to the neck of Durara.

"Now you might be thinking, what does he gains from all this, after all those kids could serve him as villains and low–level mooks, well" Shigaraki there licked his lips in anticipation, "I will tell you, it's not like you're going to tell anyone" he cackled, and Durara sweated profusely.

"I am aiming higher, honestly seeing all those brats being shipped to whatever jail they have prepped to them doesn't bother me in the least, they fucked up, in fact this help us, it culls the weak mobs from the elite, and I need elite for what I want" Shigaraki explained, "What it is you ask? Simple" Shigaraki then closed his hand completely on Durara's neck.

Durara had just seconds to make peace with everything he had done before Shigaraki's Decay played havoc with his neck, crumpling it into dust, with a heft, Shigaraki held the head of Durara Honda at eye level as the body crumbled into the ground, twitching alongside.

"I am to kill society, destroy its pillars, and remake it, unlike you, I will succeed" Shigaraki promised as he grabbed the head by the hair, "Kurogiri, open a portal, I think it's time for us to push the good doctor abilities with this one, and see what is hiding"

"As you wish young master" a black portal opened before Shigaraki, "And pardon, but what about the Nomus we send to where the Yakuza parked their cars?"

"They have their orders, but Sensei was clear that they cannot be lost, so let them play a little, then recall them, at this point only the Yakuza leader and that doll remain" Shigaraki stated.

"Indeed, but I thought you wanted to see what the target of the Troupe could do?" Kurogiri reminded.

"And I will, remember that the doctor actually modified those Nomus with specifications from sensei to record the fight, all this they had seen and will relay to us, just let them fight and pull them away if things go too rough" Shigaraki said as he stepped into the portal, "Pity we couldn't get that Nemesis…how they fuck they made one in the first place?"

"You're the gaming nerd, you should know" Kurogiri pointed out as politely as he could.

"That's the thing, that thing was made by a virus that can make zombies" Shigaraki just sighed, "No matter, Durara here" he hefted the head up, "Will spill all its little secrets to us" he cackled, "Besides, in the end, we are the ones coming on top of all this, we got new subjects, new Quirks, and that vial thing, Durara seemed determined to use it"

"Yes, despite on how that particular shot is administer" Kurogiri pointed out, catching the attention of his charge, he continued, "The shot is administered directly to the heart, you pretty much stab yourself and pump it directly to it"

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"…What the fuck?" despite everything Shigaraki has done in life, he still couldn't wrap up to the idea of someone willingly able to inject himself, and do so by stabbing a big ass needle to the heart, it just escaped him.

"And people say I'm crazy"

Inko for cone was the last one on the group, keeping a watch on anything that might try to blindside them, but considering that, according to her son, the huge mob that had tried to attack them was pretty much two groups fighting each other to get to them first, The Troupe and the Yakuza, and they had pretty much tore each other apart, there was a relative low risk of anything to attack them.

And considering her son destroyed three dolls, hammered that asshole of Overhaul so hard and set him on fire and killed that Nemesis, it was safe to say that the heavy hitters were dealt with, but better safe than sorry, considering that they never expected the Troupe to actually set a town on fire just to distract the heroes just to get to them.

"How far Kota-kun" Izuku called from the front, keeping a vigilant look ahead, Inko could see her son was barely holding on patience, as the small flames licking his hands and spilling out of it was a testament on hos tense he was, he was just a small sound from attacking anything in front of him.

"Not far" Kota replied, grasping at the polished and well maintained walls of the emergency tunnel.

It had been originally made by Pixie in a whim to test how much control she had on her Quirk and if she could create structures, solid structures, the theory was that if she could make a tunnel, then she could do the same, but in disaster zones, where someone might be buried.

The idea took a small dark turn when Pixie realized that it wasn't possible, as she had to push the dirt first, and make foundations so the tunnel doesn't collapse, as her first attempt ended up nearly killing her, it was sheer luck that Tiger had been around, or the Pussycats would be short one team.

As a result Pixie began to took classes in construction of all things, so she would not make the same mistake, while the classes worked and allowed her to make a fully functional and actually safe tunnel, the downside was that her vision of basically digging tunnels straight into trapped individuals was shut down as well, at the very least it allowed her to place more fundamentals on the use of her Quirk during rescue missions, as it allowed her to recognize a building and what kind of structural damage might had suffered.

As the years went by, she added more things into the emergency tunnel, like lightbulbs and actually added concrete walls to it, smoothed it so well that it looked like a professional made bunker tunnel rather than a tunnel made by a single person.

"Once we are outside we have to run a straight line, then we turn right near a boulder, they must have gotten in trough the main road and left their cars there" Kota stated.

"He's right, that's the only direct entrance to the compound, we find a car, hotwire it and we make our way to Raxus" the erasure hero didn't like the plan, but it was the only thing they had now they could use, it was either this or risk staying, and considering the fact the Troupe had send three dolls to deal with Izuku and a Nemesis enhanced with Quirks, who knew what else they might have send, and then there was the Yakuza themselves.

"Not far" Kota brought Aizawa out of his musings, seeing a small set of stairs and what seemed to be a cover, they were there.

With a small huff, Aizawa moved the fake cover, it was cleverly placed in such a way that it resembled a rock covered by foliage, like the rest of the rocks around it, no one would notice it unless specifically looking for it.

Poking his head, Aizawa assessed the area, it was all clear, with a nod he signaled the others to follow him, the sound of fighting was still present, Izuku had told them that his Ice Breath had left several of them wounded and paralyzed, it seemed the paralysis was over and now they resumed their fight with one another.

Mandalay was not going to be happy with the state of the compound, Aizawa was sure of it.

"Problem child"

"I wish you would stop that"

"Aura Whisper, full power, now"

Ignoring the fatc his mother might want to clap Eraserhead's head for his words now, Izuku did as told, "LAAS YAH NIR" he uttered, instantly detecting several aura signatures, then he began to rotate around slowly, getting a 360 degree look of the area and who might want to get a jump at them.

He frowned all the way.

"There are signatures up ahead, three, they are hitting something as they are moving, a lot, there are two way far from us, barely saw them, like waiting for something, but more likely part of the mob and had decided to run away, the mob is still fighting one another, and we have four signatures behind us, one small, way too close, actually following us from the tunnel, another far, in the compound, and other two close where the first three are" Izuku spoke, "I think they are waiting for us" Izuku said, looking to his mom, with a nod she went to the side of theexit, and waited.

Aizawa and Izuku simply moved a little, Eri remained with Kota, knowing full well who this 'small signature' might be.

Then he appeared, and Eri actually let out an expression rare in her face.

Anger.

She actually hated Mimic, she feared him too, but she also hated him, she could never look at dolls the same way without thinking about Mimic.

"Well" the doll that Mimic was possessing, a black thing with a face like a beak and mask at the same time spoke, walking, or actually sauntering to Eri, "Finally found ya, you cost us a lot of cash you little wh-" he didn't get that far before he was hit by a jet of water in the face.

Kota knew exactly what the words the doll/man was going to use, so, in a moment of strange anger, he used his Quirk, the very thing he hated for what it represented, for a girl he had become friends with and had slowly gave him something he needed.

A friend, and yes he is not afraid to admit it, his friend is a little girl with a laser cannon mounted on her forehead.

The doll/man, not prepared for the jet of water hitting him off, was never prepared when Inko decided to make herself know, extending her hand, she activated her roided up Quirk, instantly Mimic was lifted into Inko's waiting hand.

BAMM!!!

Only to be repeatedly beaten into a rock with such brutality that the stuffing was starring to come out, after a while Inko tossed the doll to the ground and rose her gun at him, then she pulled the trigger.

Set at auto, a small squeeze of the trigger just let out five rounds, but each round was enough to punch holes into the fabric, and to cause something else.

No one actually knew this, only Mimic, but one particular weakness of his Quirk was that the objects he possessed could be used after damage, but his control over it would start to wane as the damage increased, eventually he would be forced to abandon the object if the damage was too much.

Which he had to do.

A muscular man, with light spiky hair and an expression of anger replaced the form of the damaged doll, it was all the time Eraserhead needed, with a single flick of his wrists and years of experience, his capture cloth was already flying and wrapping around the Yakuza, Quirk activated by instinct, he negated every chance he had to fight back, wrapped around the cloth, Mimic had just a second to realize he had bitten more he could chew before he got yanked with surprising force onwards the underground hero-

And the glowing wererabbit-

"Wait what?" those were his last thoughts before Izuku introduced his feet to his face, knocking him immediately, and nearly embedding his head to the ground, and burning his face, somewhat.

Mimic probably was in a coma, and lost every single teeth.

"Problem child" Aizawa began.

"Yes, sensei?" Izuku wondered.

"Your kicks in that form are the equivalent of a Shrimp Mantis strike, meaning they not only carry enough kinetic force to rip someone's limb, but they are also overheated, you just burned his face with a kick" Eraserhead replied, seeing Inko glance at the fallen Yakuza with a sneer that wasn't too common on her usually gentle features.

"He helped torture Eri, he's lucky he got the foot and not the Fist of Havoc"

The erasure hero simply sighed, to be honest he was right, the Yakuza was in fact lucky, he just got hit by the kick of a human rabbit, that kick alone could easily one-shot anything as big as a horse, and severely wound anything as big as an elephant, not counting the Light as well, but the Fists of Havoc, they were not friendly when set to 'vaporize' not friendly at all, even when toned down they were like being hit by three Tasers, at the same time, without stopping.

With another flick of his wrist, he unwrapped the comatose villain, and began to set his goggles on his face, he had the feeling he would need them.

"Well, our escape routes are cut from what I can see, which is annoying saying the least" Aizawa stated.

Izuku actually nodded in his rabbit form, there had to be another-

Then it hit him.

"The bus!" Izuku called, making the area shake by his voice, he looked rather ashamed by this, if his hunching after realizing of his mistake was of any indication, "The bus, the one you drove us in, where is it?" Aizawa actually blinked in surprise, he had totally forgotten about ol'reliable.

"Parked in a hidden garage, to the left where we are supposed to go" he stated with a grin, "Nice thinking, but it will make us a target" Aizawa muttered.

"We'll cross that bridge when we get there" Inko stated, "Right now we can't be picky, where to now?" Inko wondered.

"From here?" Kota muttered, "We take that road" he pointed to a set of trees that made out a road, "It totally avoid where Izuku was pointing at first, the bus is parked there, but there is a problem, the bus will have to drive through that area in order to reach the road" he added.

Izuku pondered this for a second, then made a choice, one that Aizawa was predicting already, "Problem child, no"

"Problem child, yes" Izuku said, "You know I'm about the only person that can survive a direct encounter with a T-Doll and a BOW, those things must we waiting there, not on the bus, you guys go to the bus, I'll head to where the cars are parked, deal with whatever is there and wait you there" Izuku stated, Inko looked conflicted, ready to snap at her son, but relented after a while with a big sigh.

Tactically speaking, this was a sound plan, no one but Kota knew where the bus was parked, their only route of escape was guarded, so if someone capable dealt with the obstacles it would allow them an easy escape.

It was all in the realm of 'what-ifs' and honestly, Inko didn't like the idea at all, the military woman in her told her to go with it, it was an acceptable risk, and the rewards outweighed the risks, also her son was better equipped to deal against T-Dolls and BOW's, Aizawa would be slaughtered, his Quirk was basically crafted to stop Quirk users, BOW's are built to be biological murder weapons, not an inch of a Quirk in them (ignoring the Nemesis her son beheaded).

Yet the mother aspect of her was telling her 'no' her son had been involved far too much into things he should not had a hand in, fighting against a terrorist organization that had a hard-on on him, he was just fourteen, his main concern should be the next day's homework and if he has clean socks to put on, not if he is strong enough to fight a T-Doll and rip it apart with his bare hands.

"Promise me" Inko called, making her way to her son, "Promise me you'll make it back, you go all out on those things, I want to see my son fine and pick him up, okay? I won't let you go unless you make that promise, no compromises on the battlefield" Inko stated seriously, Izuku blinked, blinked and blinked.

He went with a hug, a very tight one, "I will, no compromises, go all out" he spoke as he lifted his mother with the hug, "I will be fine, I am not going to break this promise, besides" he said, looking at Eri and Kota, "I'm not going to make them cry" he added, breaking the hug and taking some steps back, then looked at Aizawa, "Make sure they are fine, I'll make my part, you do yours" Izuku stated.

For a moment Aizawa wants to argue, he's a fucking adult and he's about to let a kid go and fight things adults should be fighting, he is the trained one in this situation, he should be the one doing this.

And yet…

"Listen to me problem child" Aizawa began, "You better be there when I pass by, or I swear to God I'm gonna resurrect you just to kill you again" he stated, "I'm not good at consoling people, so you better keep that promise" he added as he motioned the group to go, all while Izuku nodded, turning around, seeing Kota and Eri not so willing to go.

He gave them a smile and a thumbs up, "I'll be back" he said as he rushed away.

Aizawa had to actually bite a curse back, the problem child had to go and mimic All-Might, smile and all, well, it did the job, the kids were somewhat pacified and not about to cry, so he'll take this as a win.

"Come on" he motioned to the group, with a silent nod, the mother and the two kids followed behind the erasure hero.

Izuku by his part ran, ran like never before, his rabbit legs were powerful enough to propel him to speeds most humans could never do without external propulsion.

"LAAS YAH NIR" he hissed, instantly zero'ing in the auras of the three figures hitting at something, growling he let out Arc energy surround him, his Siren Arms crackling with the same energy, all the while he prepared Saturnus on his free hands, just in case.

Then he reached the Auras, and his eyes narrowed, there were cars, all black, sedans, all wrecked and tore apart, the engines leaking oil and looking like someone had grabbed the biggest icepick known to man and used it to poke holes at them.

Then he spotted the responsible.

Two Lickers, and much to his annoyance, it seemed that they both had Quirks, if the Licker he was seeing now, with the extended teeth and tearing at one of the cars was of any indication.

The other figure he found odd, it was a T-Doll, no doubt about it, the way it was dressed was a quick giveaway, but kinda simplistic, clad in what seemed a black jumpsuit that made it to the knees and the elbows, a blank face and with a generic black hair that was tied to a bun, this T-Doll was the most unremarkable thing Izuku had seen.

So he focused on the Lickers first.

With a flex of leg muscles, he jumped onward, the crackle of Arc energy building up on six fists was the only telltale of something being wrong for the Lickers and Beta before Izuku crashed onto the ground near the first Licker, the one with the extendable teeth.

BOOM!!!

The skinned BOW stood no chance against the discharge, being vaporized on impact, its form lighting up before dissipating in the air, the second Licker let out a shriek at the sound of destruction and immediately rushed at the source, all while the Beta ambled and assessed the situation.

The Licker, upon reaching Izuku, leaped, claws onwards and teeth growing in size and shooting onward like extendable daggers, Izuku let out a frown as he ducked easily of the double telegraphed attack, letting the Licker pass by, turning around he jumped again as the Licker landed and turned around.

SPLAT!!!

Only to vomit an obscene amount of blood from its mouth as Izuku slammed Saturnus, a gigantic mallet made out of rocks into its torso, caving every single organ there and severing the spine with anything attached to it, bones were cracked and jutted out of the point of impact.

Izuku simply rose Saturnus off the creature, this one trashing as it best it could without any way to survive and fight back, tongue trashing around, trying to catch its attacker.

Izuku ended that easily with a stomp to the neck that decapitated the enhanced Licker's struggle.

The T-Doll only stared, cocking its head to its side, "Storing combat data of enhanced Lickers, combat capabilities limited by limited survivalist against superior foes" Izuku scowled, he didn't like the monotone tone of voice the Doll was speaking, unlike the other dolls who had some emotion, this one seemed to lack it.

On the other side of the country, Omega narrowed his eyes, several technicians and scientists doing the same, "Attention everyone, Beta has encountered Leviathan, start capturing data from this point onward" Omega commanded, looking at a technician at his right side.

"Uncap Beta's combat capabilities" he ordered, with a single keystroke, Beta tensed up and assumed a fighting stance.

A very familiar stance for Izuku.

Izuku began to lean in more, by instinct and by mental training alone, he recognized the combat stance easily.

He then noticed the exhaust like protrusions jutting out of its calves, slowly letting out fire and…explosions.

In that moment Izuku didn't see a T-Doll.

No, he saw Bakugou, his image superseded over the form of the T-Doll.

Once its hands began to pop with familiar explosions, Izuku felt a chill run on his spine.

They had not only made a BOW with Quirks, which made sense, in some way, it was still organic, somehow a Quirk could be introduced, how he didn't know, but it was possible, but on a doll? A cyborg, or more precisely a machine wearing organic material on selected parts? The very idea of doing that was…impossible.

Yet the small pops of explosions on its hands was the telltale that this doll had a Quirk.

Which meant that he had to go beyond the usual norm, a Quirk into the equation, made a Terminator Doll a more dangerous adversary.

Then the T-Doll exploded into action, literally, the exhaust ports blew up fire that propelled the T-Doll at speeds no other T-Doll has ever been propelled.

But Izuku was ready, his legs tensed up before shooting onward, Arc light flooding the muscles and shooting him at great speed, at the same time he let out the shout that would give him greater speed.

"WULD NAH KEST!" he blurred in that instant, covering the distance the doll covered, and going at a speed superior to the doll.

With a yell that shook the forest, Izuku and Beta clashed.

BOOOM!!!

Inko looked at the horizon, worry etched on her features, but she schooled herself, she had to remain strong, for the kids, and have faith that her son would be there when they pass for him.

"We are close" Kota muttered, looking up-front, but one could see how worried he was, a huge improvement considering that a month ago he wanted to deck Izuku in the dick.

It didn't take long for the group to reach what seemed a small garage, a garage for a single bus, covered in foliage that is, again if you didn't knew where it was, you would be surprised to find it at all.

Hidden in plain sight was the better adjective for this, obviously looking it from the air you would not find it, the foliage would make it look like a treetop.

From the ground however it was different, unless you know where you are looking for, you would never be able to find it.

Reaching it, Aizawa looked for the entrance, smiling he simply took the handles and began to push away, revealing the bus there, fully tanked for a trip.

BOOM!!!

Another explosion, this one with the telltales of Void Light being discharged was the telltale that her son was not pulling any punches, Aizawa's smile turned into a frown once he was reminded that he had left problem child behind to deal with the possible BOW's at the very entrance of the forest and the road connecting to the town of Raxus.

Then a rumble-

Aizawa had to jump away as several spikes emerged where he was, instantly blocking his way through.

Eri recognized them, and actually took a deep breath, ready to run away-

"You as much you cursed child I will screw everyone in this field then you, over and over until you learn your dammed lesson!" her legs seized up, no, he could not be here at all, Izuku said he had dealt with him, he had gotten the big hammer, the flaming one.

Then she saw him, and the group saw him, and they had to blink at the appearance of Overhaul.

For once the jacket was gone, exposing the black shirt under it, his gloves were gone as well, and the pants looked all muddy, full of dirt, then there was his face, she could see is face, and the deranged look he had on, right eye twitching and a nasty smirk on his lips.

Then she noted the rest of him, and actually blinked, his right arm was smoking, like if it was on fire, or had been on fire, a huge red patch of what she assumed were muscles covered most of it, with only the hand looking normal looking, part of his neck looked reddened, like if exposed to the sun, the pants were torn form the knees, bleeding and stuff, he was limping.

But the most important thing was his face, half his face was gone, his left side, or at least where the left eye and cheek were gone, skin was simply charred and muscle was burned, the fibers forming it was falling apart, like cut strings, and she could swear she could see the teeth from a hole in the muscles.

Overall he looked like a mess, a mess that had tried to repair itself, and seemed to fail.

His Quirk failed him, it somehow it failed him.

That was the reason why Eri's horn began to glow, maybe it was the influence of the people she had been around, maybe it was Kota's influence, maybe it was Izuku's influence, but in that moment, Eri wasn't afraid anymore.

And it showed, and it angered Overhaul, "You dare!" he snarled, taking a step onward, "I am going to peel the skin out of you!"

BANG!!

Then he was screaming, in pain, falling to the ground on one knee while the other bled out, still he didn't even took his eyes up-front, only shifted his attention from Eri, to Inko, the source of his new pain, "I'm gonna kill you all!!" he snapped as he slammed his hands to the ground.

Only for nothing to happen, that surprised him, and surprised Eri, it wasn't until a set of bandages wrapped themselves on his hands, and bound them together, Eri realized what had happened.

Eraserhead was now ready to capitalize on Overhaul's mistake and overdependence on his Quirk.

With a quick yank the erasure hero forced Overhaul to his feet, making the villain scream as he had to support his weight on his damaged knee, at the same time Aizawa ran at the struggling villain.

BAMM!!

And introduced his elbow to his nose, Overhaul stumbled and howled in pain, only to gag as Eraserhead punched him in the throat, making him gasp.

On the offensive the erasure hero let out a vicious knee to the right side of Overhaul, making him gasp and spit some vile.

Grabbing one of the arms, Eraserhead then rammed his foot to the back of the injured knee of Overhaul, making him cry in pain and kneel, there Eraserhead rose the leg again, this time aimed to the arm.

CRUNCH!!

The forearm of Overhaul bended in an unnatural angle, as a bone jutted out of the broken skin, his scream was now more panicked, especially when Eraserhead noticed that Overhaul was trying to activate his Quirk to fix the damage on himself.

Grabbing his extended capture gear, Eraserhead then, with the flick of a wrist, bound Overhaul completely, arms bounded to his torso and making the broken limb hurt even more.

But the erasure hero was far from done, he had one last move before his eyes began to sting, but oh, this, this was worth it.

Yanking with all he had, Eraserhead actually lifted Overhaul from his feet, and like the most deranged spinning top ever, Overhaul was spun, the capture gear unwrapping around him with ease.

Then Eraserhead rose his feet, and brought it down.

BAMM!!

Eri actually winced, she heard the crack of bones, or was it the sound of the ground cracking under Overhaul's skull she didn't know, only that Overhaul's legs twitched in the air before going limp, then the rest of the body.

Aizawa then removed his foot from Overhaul's face, and this will be a memory she will cherish, because she would look it as the beginning of her life as a free person.

And because when he lifted his foot, pieces of what she assumed were teeth got stuck into it that Aizawa had to manually remove them.

The erasure hero for his part looked at the wrecked body of Overhaul, he could clearly see where problem child's handiwork was, meaning that solar damage was on a scale that caused damage beyond the capability of healing of most healers, or so he assumes, Overhaul must have overhauled himself back into health, but seemed that parts of him simply refused to be healed.

Something to-

BANG!!

BANG!!

BANG!!!

He jumped, actually jumped away when Inko kneecapped Overhaul's unconscious form and decided to turn his hands into Swiss cheese, or more like hamburger meat, as that was they looked like after she emptied the magazine into them.

She just robocoped him, in both hands, made him a cripple.

"Midoriya-san, what the hell?" he asked, Inko simply reloaded the MP5 and smirked at him.

"Oh I'm sorry was I suppose not to do that? Mighty sorry of my side, but on my defense, the trigger is quite sensible" she fake apologized, she actually had the gall to fake apologize to him, after she reduced a known villain into a cripple, with a smile all while at it.

"Ugh" he simply said, making his way into the blocked bus, Overhaul had blocked the door, but not completely, so it was a matter of pushing it completely.

As for the kids, or better said Kota…

"Holy shit your mother is hardcore" Kota muttered to Eri, who actually blinked, looked at Inko, then smiled, a small, oh so small smile that for Kota seemed to be a sun in on itself.

"Yes, mom is awesome"

Now Kota had something else to look forward, an Eri smile.

Beta dug its feet to the ground, rambolts sprouted from its soles, digging in and anchoring its form, with a jerk Beta finally stopped, taking a moment the doll looked up-

CRACK!!!

The rambolts weren't enough to stop the Arc infused uppercut that lifted Beta from the floor and into a car, and through it.

Beta dug its hands into the ground to regain balance, only to jump away as Izuku slammed his Arc infused hands into the ground, charring the ground with the electric current, while in the air, Beta had to use a nitrous explosions to escape as one of the glowing arms began to cackle with electricity and unleashed a beam of pure energy, directed at it, the beam kept chasing it, with a frown Beta aimed itself to one of the trees and ducked.

Beta's forearm began to glow, immediately it reached for the glow, and pulled out a shotgun out of it, fully loaded, with a small snarl Beta turned and fired the shotgun, this particular model, an AA-12, full auto and began firing.

Izuku simply extended his arms, a dome of pure Void light emerging and blocking each hit with ease.

Emptying the clip, Beta again tried with heavier ordinance, this time pulling a Grenade Launcher, loaded with Thermite, and let it rip.

Each grenade exploded and coated the dome, but showed no effect whatsoever on it, not even the Thermite seemed to be causing damage.

"Dammit, Beta engage in melee, that barrier cannot be penetrated with small ordinance!"

Beta tossed the Grenade Launcher away, and with a burst of nitrous oxide, it sped up at the dome, skin hardening.

Izuku met the charge out of the dome, wielding Saturnus and breaking it on Beta's face, sending the doll tumbling by the impact, with several small explosions coming out of the arms and legs, the tumbling doll reigned itself and then shot again at Izuku.

"FUS RO DAH!" only to be basically chokeslammed by pure kinetic force and pushed back, landing on its feet, Beta had just seconds before Izuku was in front-

There was the sound of a detonation and then Beta was rolling to the ground, cosmetic damage to the clothes and not so cosmetic damage to the muscles and bones.

"Did he just detonated the air in front of him?" Beta didn't care at all about that, only the mission.

"SU GRAH DUN!" that small reprieve was all the time Izuku needed to buff himself, with a small grin he shot his arm onward, then yanked onward.

Beta had a second to raise its arms before Izuku was in its guard and a furry first met the guard, then two more bypassed, activating Hardening and Steel, Beta's whole body took a rocky and silvery shade.

THUNG!!

THUNG!!

Each hit was now lessened in power, but they still had enough force to-

Beta's body was lifted from the ground, internals showed severe damage in the thoracic cavity, looking down beta saw a furry feet encased in red before the skin that encased its endoskeleton and muscles ignited and turned into nothing by the force of the impact and launched backwards.

On a spin, it began to backflip to try and put distance, then stopped as it assessed its target once more, and the damage done so far.

With a quick scan, Beta found that the skin of the torso was completely gone, exposing muscle and white blood, there was several hairline fractures on every part of its endoskeleton, the left femur had at least three hairline fractures, the skin overall was damaged, but Hardening and Steel and ensured it didn't suffered too much for Creation to be used effectively, alongside Explosion, Acid and Muscle Augmentation, Beta would have to cut on Engine for a while and use the nitrous explosions to its arms to propel itself and stop stressing the damaged bones.

Looking at the human/bunny hybrid that was glowing with that strange armor, Beta's sensors detected over twenty new exotic signatures aside the original signatures of his fight against M98.

The worse of it all, aside the fact the combat data from M98 was useless, was that from a small cut on the shirt and some acid burns on the shorts, he was overall fine, he didn't even show signs of exhaustion, not even the fur looked damaged.

Beta could hear the panic from the other line, they were panicking because Beta could not, because even after all their preparation they were caught unaware to the sudden boost of strength of Leviathan, and how the plan had fell so fast in so little time.

As for Izuku, he simply glanced at the doll, the damage he had dealt visible, it was obvious that this doll was also superior to the other ones, capable of fighting him and using Quirks of all things, he could identify Bakugou's Quirk, and that raised so many horrible questions as how they got it in the first place and even the most horrible questions as of how they were able to add a Quirk on a T-Doll.

He didn't even wanna know how they got more Quirks, he might not like the answer at all.

With a huff Izuku began to stalk onward, more than ready to finish this with a Nova Bomb, he was more than done with the Troupe, see if they want to keep on fighting him when he atomizes their pet project-

A mechanical sound was the only warning Izuku got before he activated Blade Mode and was able to react fast enough to move away of his attacker.

Shock would be the only emotion Izuku would feel at the moment when he befell his attacker, and most because he was unable to recognize it at all.

To begin it was lean, as Aizawa, with muscles that seemed to stretch the taut, green skin, some awful black pants, what shocked Izuku the most was the arms, the forearms and hands were in fact a pair of chainsaws, each teeth oozing some sort of black liquid, then there was the face and the head.

The head was nothing short of the lower jaw attached to the skull, and exposed brain from which two Fly like eyes jutted out, and a mouth that was bland, and the only way to see if it had any show of emotions.

This…thing, looked like nothing he had seen ever, it was like someone had smashed things to see if it could work, Lickers looked more humane compared to…whatever this thing was.

It didn't looked Troupe, there was a certain…something regarding the Troupe's BOW and dolls, uniformity, they fit there for a reason, this thing didn't seem to fit at all in whatever the Troupe used.

Those chainsaws seemed to be familiar somehow…

His thoughts were thrown away when the chainsaw monster charged at him, the rev of the chainsaws arms making Izuku take a decision.

The creature sweep at Izuku, one of its chainsaw arms aimed at the transformed human, only to have it deflected as it met a pure energy sword, forming out of Izuku's right hand, the grinding of metal teeth making the doll to actually shut down its hearing receptors, that's why it never heard the second Nomu as it rushed at Izuku, and even tossed it aside on its way.

Izuku only had time to summon the Sentinel Shield on his left hand so he could compliment Uranus as a second creature appeared, and this one simply unsettled him.

Thin as a stick, again with the green skin that seemed to be stretched all over its body, the arms were longer than usual, with what seemed to be two protrusions coming out of the palms of its bony hands, the head, again was the more unsettling thing.

Again with the exposed brain cavity, not overgrown like a Licker brain, as if someone took the skull there and simply cut the bone to expose the brain, the eyeballs were normal, or as normal as without eyelids, the mouth was the horrible thing, it seemed to be like a proboscis, one that had sharp needle like teeth at the end, that moved like small gears within.

Izuku immediately rose the Sentinel Shield when the second creature began to actually spit needle like teeth at him, each teeth met the shield and broke into shards upon impact, but Izuku noted how hard those things were being fired.

A direct impact would go through a person, easily.

With a growl Izuku rushed at the shooting creature, the creature rising its hand to meet Uranus, the blade instantly met what seemed to be bone coming out of the palm of the hand at great speed, and to Izuku's shock it had a surprising strength behind it.

Narrowing his eyes, Izuku did a small parry, moving the arm away and slamming the Sentinel Shield to the neck of the creature, then focused on the chainsaw creature, rushing at him, Izuku thrust Uranus, the white energy blade was then blocked by the creature's chainsaw right arm, the sound of grinding metal and burning echoing on the forest.

Izuku turned his head around, seeing the Doll rushing at him, with a growl he activated his Siren Arms, each arm glowing an eerie green and instantly shot at the rushing Doll, Beta actually stopped and jumped away as each arm began to pass by-

"Ooooffff" only to actually groan as one arm impacted the gut of Beta and be pushed away, all the while the skin and muscle began to melt the hardened skin and clothes, making Beta groan in what seemed to be pain as it damaged everything in the area.

With that taking out for the moment, Izuku focused on the creatures, still on lockdown with the chainsaw creature, Izuku reared his head and channeled The Void, then headbutted the brain of the creature.

The creature actually seized up in pain as the enhanced blow, then let out a screech off pain as Izuku slashed Uranus on one of the arms, cutting the bicep deep and exposing bone and marrow, with a snarl Izuku then kicked with all he had at the stomach of the creature.

The sound of a crack was heard on the area as the feet met stomach and pretty much burned the stomach on impact and sending the creature to a nearby car.

Then he focused on the one with the proboscis, the creature began to fire at Izuku, who simply rose his Sentinel Shield, each impact making a sound as the needles broke and disintegrated on impact, Izuku simply began his advance at a brisk pace, seeing his approach, the creature seized its attack, and rushed at Izuku with its hand extended onwards.

THUNK!!!

Izuku actually blinked when he heard the sound of the bone spikes meeting the shield, and the surprising strength behind them, like those things could easily punch holes on solid rock, yet this didn't stack against solidified Void Light, keeping his guard up, Izuku began to count the tempo of the attacks, and once he saw a pattern, began to bide his time.

Then when he saw the pattern break, he struck.

With a small glow, Izuku detonated Plasma point-blank at the creature, this one actually taking several steps back after such general impact at everything, then roared in pain when Izuku slashed its chest, leaving a gaping gash on the chest, then he slammed the shield to the 'jaw' of the creature, the crack of bone echoed all over the area, alongside the roar of pain of the creature, one Izuku silenced when he rose Uranus and slammed it like a bat on the face of the creature, burning the proboscis and part of the face, also affecting the brain.

The creature stumbled in pain, Izuku there rushed at the creature, diminishing his weapons and gathering Arc Light on his legs, then jumped, aiming both legs at the damaged chest of the creature, and let loose.

BOOM!!!

Pure Arc Light exploded upon impact, sending the creature flying and with a horrible wound on the chest, bone visible as muscle and skin was vaporized on impact, Izuku frowned at the wound, the creature had to be more dense than he imagined considering its skinny size, yet it was send flying, meeting three trees and breaking them each until a fourth one stopped its momentum, yet it met it face first, blood pouring out and leaving a bloody imprint upon impact as it slid down.

Landing on his feet, Izuku then focused on the second creature, slowly rising up, with a small snarl, Izuku willed Arc Light on his right hand, summoning his Arc Staff, and rushing at the creature.

The creature lashed at Izuku with its left arm, chainsaw teeth leaving a dark trail of liquid behind, only for Izuku to activate Blade Mode and use the Arc Staff to slam the chainsaw by the joint, then moved away.

To any spectator, blink and you would see the creature now had a broken left elbow, smoking, while before it was fine and functional.

Izuku, now on the offensive, trwilled on his heel, then slammed the Arc Staff on the base of the back of the creature, the sound of bone breaking was music to his ears as he crippled the creature, yet the creature refused to go down easily, it still could move its arms, and began to flail them like mad, the chainsaws still working, making Izuku keep a distance.

Narrowing his eyes, Izuku took a deep breath.

"FUSH RO DAH!" the concussive force lifted the creature from its feet, while it flew away, Izuku began to rush at it, Arc Staff disappearing, but not the current of energy, with a yell he jumped as the creature stopped its tumble-

BOOM!!!

The creature let out a roar of pain as its skin light on fire and a crater formed in its wake, bone broke and blood vaporized on exit.

The creature twitched, Arc energy travelling around its body, causing more damage, before stilling, probably dead, yet Izuku actually narrowed his rabbit eyes, this creatures were so dense than not even a Fist of Havoc at impact didn't disintegrate them.

Either this ones were better made, or something was amiss.

Izuku had little time to ponder this as something formed behind the fallen creature, Izuku jumped away as what seemed inky darkness began to swallow the creature, looking at the other creature, the same was happening to the other, swallowed and being taken away.

"…Dammed traitors" Izuku heard the Beta utter in what seemed to be anger, "Make no mistake Izuku Midoriya" Beta stated, "Your fate will be a kindness compared to theirs" Beta snapped as its legs light up in fire and shot onward to Izuku.

Blade mode instantly activated, Izuku's left hand latched on the neck of the doll, two of his Siren arms instantly struck the face of the doll, while the third latched on the arm, his right arm latched on the punching arm of the doll, while the rest of his Siren arms went to the torso.

BAMM!!!

Time resumed and the doll yanked by the sudden force addition, then while having it in a chokehold, Izuku made it go closer to him, and reared his head in, then took a deep breath.

"IIZ SLEN NUUUSSSSS!" And began to sustain the Ice Form shout, the doll tried to actually fight back with explosions, but those died as soon as it tried to use them.

Beta's systems began to actually lag, one of the very few weaknesses dolls shared universally was the cold, their energy source constantly outputted heat, as a result they required to vent excess heat, obviously cold worked for them, but a sudden drop of temperature was really bad for them, as their energy source could not compensate for the sudden drop of temperature, and not even being 'overheated' could help them as their skin was also incredibly sensible to sudden drops of temperature, their optical sensors would fail them as well and their CPU's would actually freeze every single program going at the moment.

That was happening right now as the doll was encased in ice and everything failed.

Once the doll was encased on ice, Izuku simply tossed it aside, the ice would hold, for some time, but it would hold, just enough for him to start preparing his next attack.

He crossed both his arms together in an 'X' manner, bracers clinking together, and uttered one word.

"Universitas"

The area turned black, before it light up like a thousand suns.

Pixie jumped away as a fleshy arm passed by her, trying to punch her and cave her chest.

Behind the owner of such limb, Gang Orca let out a powerful sonic like attack, making Muscular to actually girth his teeth in anger and pain.

"I'm gonna cave that skull open you fucker!" Muscular declared, slamming both his hands to the ground, uprooting a concrete slab and tossing it at Gang Orca.

The humanoid orca simply weaved pass the piece of masonry and went into the offensive.

Pixie, seeing an opening, slammed her hands to the ground, instantly spikes came out of the ground, aimed at Muscular's already roided up and muscle covered legs.

Each spike meets its mark and sink deep, but she knows it's not enough, there is at least three layers of muscle covering the leg, explains why he's also so strong and how he was able to kill a rescue oriented hero team that normally tangles with things far worse than a guy with an attitude.

Still he noted the wounds and turned to her, anger etched on his face, only to recoil as several bricks met his arms and torso at terminal velocity and a tire suddenly flew to him, the gum basically turning into glue upon impact and binding his left arm to his chest, the muscles trying, in vain to pry the glue like substance from him.

Pixie looked to the two offenders, somewhat glad one of them was a cop and the other was an actual priest, both where covered in sooth and grime, and both were pissed.

The cop snarled as he took another brick and tossed it at Muscular, this time aimed at the back of the knee, that made Muscular bend the knee, the priest simply took another spare tire, grabbing it with both hands he began to spin then tossed it, the material turning into goo and enveloping Muscular's back and constraining his movement even more as the substance now was binding him to the ground.

With a smirk, Pixie created a pair of dirt like knuckledusters for herself, more reminiscent like gloves than anything else, but like Izuku said, her body would not handle full on gauntlets, better compromise by make a pair of gloves with pointy ends at the knuckles.

With a snarl she jumped at Muscular, and cracked his right cheek, right at the bone, with a rock encased fist.

CRACK!!!

The sound of pain of Muscular was music to her ears, especially if it was coupled with the sound of broken bone, yet she wasn't satisfied, so she clocked him in the jaw with the other fist, making his head jerk upwards, only for Gang Orca to slap his head, by the ears, making him disoriented, then knee him on the back of the head, there Pixie's fist was waiting for his nose.

CRACK!!

It broke against her fist, making him cry in pain and try to pump his Quirk into overload to try to escape.

Pixie jumped away, seeing the muscles bulge obscenely, this Izuku had warned the Pussycats about.

There was no telltale of when Muscular would reach 'critical mass' a point in which he would bulge with so much muscle to attack or defend himself, but there was a catch, those muscle depended on how well his body could handle the extra weight, he could reinforce his leg muscles to weather the weight, but one thing was his muscles, what about the bones?

Izuku pretty much told them that if that ever happens, it's all about making Muscular take a sharp turn, anything to put stress onto his already stressed bones, that was why he was so big to begin with, so when he tried something like that his body could, in theory take it.

But there was also the back draws no one mentioned, incredible strength but at the cost of mobility, there was no question he could greatly accelerate his attacks, but he could move as fast as he wanted? Was his reaction time that fast? Was his body able to handle such violent reaction? What was his fuel for such augmentation of his own muscles?

Those questions had been the basis for a strategy that he had made for them in the off case the monster called Muscular ever attacked or they were to actually hunt him down if given the option.

The beauty of this, any member of the team could apply this as long they had the means to, Mandalay could, so could Tiger and Ragdoll, but herself was the most adequate for the task, her ultra-offensive Quirk would permit her to attack Muscular and pretty much 'bleed him' slowly, his muscles had a limit, with her Quirk she did not.

Then there was the obvious weaknesses he pointed out, he could not reinforce his face with muscles, that was an obvious weak spot, he was susceptible to sonic based attacks and heat and cold based attacks, burn the muscles or freeze them, force him to keep making muscles and make him desperate.

Which he was now, trying to force his muscles to tear the goo apart.

Muscular by his part screamed, screamed in anger as he tried to force the goo from his body, forcing his body upwards he screamed and trashed in anger, every time his trashing got more violent, and his screaming more psychotic.

Then he reached for one of his muscles, and yanked.

Pixie actually looked in horror as Muscular tore his own muscles apart, the external muscles being attached to the skin got tore apart as well, and he twisted even more-

CRACK!!!

Pixie tensed, so did Gang Orca, Muscular let out a yell of pain as he collapsed on his knees, pieces of his augmented muscles on his hands, skin hung on the strands, then he rose his head and screamed in pain.

There, Pixie struck, she slammed her hands to the ground, and forced all the dirt around Muscular to shoot at him.

The first pillar broke his jaw.

The second flattened his nose cleanly.

The third broke the orbital and cheek bone on his left side, where he had his prosthetic eye.

The fourth struck him in the back of his head.

Each pillar drew blood.

Then Gang Orca struck, with a small yell he approached Muscular, a risk considering the reputation of the man, then grabbed him by the head, and unleashed a very powerful sonic wave point blank, those ruptured Muscular eardrums and knocked him at long last.

Pixie panted, seeing the man down, the muscles falling out of his skin as he was unable to keep his Quirk functioning.

With a glance she motioned the priest to bind Muscular with his Quirk, the man was of course kinda shocked by what had happened, but still did it, expanding the goo that formed a tire and binding the man.

"Okay (sigh) now we go for Moonfish" Pixie stated, looking at Gang Orca.

"By this point the others must know about him, but we still should be careful" he stated, Pixie nodded, seeing how some fires began so subside thanks to the efforts of everyone, there was also the fact some pipelines, source of fuel for this fire seemed to be finally closed, at the very least, the situation had passed from critical to manageable.

That, alongside the capture of this animal, was enough for her.

At long last, the Water Hose, and many of his victims could rest well, he was taken care off.

Aizawa drove the bus with the skill no man with the lack of sleep he has should be able to, especially with the lack of proper illumination, the high possibility of villain attack and the civilians on the back of the bus, also targets because why the fuck not.

Also was the fact just about several minutes ago the forest lit up like someone had dropped the fucking sun and fed it all the nuclear waste in the world, then died of so said nuclear waste.

Yeah he was kinda cranky, mostly because he had to use his capture gear to tie Overhaul, who was constantly being rocked on the floor and hitting the chairs legs, probably aggravating his wounds further, honestly he could care less about the bastard right now, he had apparently killed Eri so many times for his sick twisted goals that her scars on her arms and legs were the only evidence that she had crossed to the other side too many times for any normal human being, before or after Quirks, to be comfortable with, or sane.

The fact Eri had summarily stepped on Overhaul's face and broken his nose, all while smirking like a cat might be a clue of her mental state, at least against Overhaul and the Yakuza in general, or anyone that might hurt her new family.

Shaking his head he turned the steering wheel to the left, cutting a tree away, and there it was, home stretch, several black sedans parked, and looked like they had been exposed to…he dare say the wrath of the universe itself as the state they were, melted and fused to the very ground, the ground itself looked barren of life, just white and black, and in the middle was Izuku, in his rabbit form and in Dragon Aspect mode.

Aizawa immediately opened the doors of the bus while in motion, Izuku lost no time and actually entered the bus, while in motion, Aizawa closed the doors after that and then sped up.

Izuku immediately turned human, and looked at Aizawa, "The Troupe had a doll that could use Quirks" Izuku mentioned, Aizawa nearly lost control of the steering wheel, but kept himself composed as much as he could.

"They what?" it was Inko who would ask that.

"Yeah, a doll with Quirks, multiple, I recognized Bakugou's own, but it seemed enhanced to some extent, I also glimpsed two armor based Quirks and a creation like Quirk, that's four Quirks in a single android, something that's not alive" Izuku stated.

"T-Dolls are more like cyborgs, from I gathered they do have some organic parts into them, their skin for example" Aizawa stated as he finally reached the road and began the fifteen minute trip to Raxus.

"No skin would be able to withstand a direct hit of a Hammer of Sol, or be bullet proof to such a degree" Izuku rationalized, "How they did it is my concern" he stated.

"Be as it ma-"

BAMM!!

The bus slightly moved, but windows from the left side of it broke and the metal bended, the kids cried in shock and Inko had to hold herself with both hands from a chair to not fall, dropping her gun in the process, Izuku actually cursed, when he looked there, and shook his head.

"I can't believe it, I nuked that doll!" Izuku cursed, Aizawa risked a look, and his eyes widened like the ones of an owl.

Flying, actually flying on the side of the bus was a girl, a girl with bony arms and whose legs were letting a steady but huge stream of blue-ish flames coming from its feet and what seemed to be exhaust pipes jutting out of its calves.

Then he saw the face, and he actually turned back to the road, the dammed thing had no face, it was just a skull and some patches of skin attached to it and obviously melted.

"Problem child deal with that!" Aizawa commanded.

"I don't know what else to do, I hit it with Universitas at point-blank" Izuku actually was panicking, honestly Aizawa could not blame him, he had seen what Universitas could do, or at the very least the aftermath, twice, once on training, the other tonight, it was the kind of technique you used when you wanted something deader than dead.

"Kid" Aizawa began, "When a hero sees an obstacle, they don't despair, they don't circle the obstacle, they beat the obstacle down" Aizawa reprimanded, "It's already on its last legs, so go there, fight it, beat it, and show the Troupe why it was a bad idea to pick a fight with you!" he commanded.

Izuku simply looked at the man, and slowly smiled, "…Thanks, Aizawa-sensei" Izuku uttered softly, before he turned and actually rushed to the doors.

Then he was enveloped in flames, and shoulder charged the door out, jumping out of the bus, wings of fire emerging from his back and transparent looking wings emerging from his lower back, and then he shot at the flying doll, a Hammer of Sol in hands.

Beta by its part turned to the new (old) threat and tried to fight-

BAMM!!!

Only to have its skull nearly caved in by the Hammer of Sol, the impact forced Beta to skid into the ground, sparks flying as metal met concrete, with a mechanical snarl the doll forced itself upwards, the legs keeping the stream of explosions to propel itself upwards.

Izuku simply followed, the doll, in its damaged state, shredded the clothes it had left, exposing its back, immediately a glow began to emerge from it shoulder blades, from there two cannons emerged, each with its own munitions belt, and turned to face him, cannons now aimed to him.

Izuku tossed the hammer to the doll, all while the doll fired the first shot.

BOOM!!!

Fire rained as the doll began to fire, Izuku began to weave left and right, dodging every shot, each attack was telegraphed, the cannons fired slowly and you could tell when they would fire, so a quick application of Blade Mode kept him ahead of the attacks.

Still he knew he could not keep on dodging, with a snarl he summoned a Dawnblade on one hand and the Siege Maul on the other, then flew onward.

The doll shot, Izuku Icarus dashed to the left.

The doll fired again, Izuku Icarus dashed to the right, and now he was in range.

He swung the Siege maul first, the doll rose its damaged arm to block the impact.

The arm was cleanly broken, exposing the bone and white blood, with the damage dealt, Izuku Icarus dashed one more time, this time onward, Danwblade aimed to stab.

The doll seized as the searing hot blade met the gut and cut the spine, the legs began to fail and the explosions died out as the legs went limp.

Izuku didn't give it a second thought, his Siren Arms appeared, and seized the doll by the shoulders, then they began to punch with increased brutality, all while Izuku guided the doll to the ground.

Beta by this point was trying to fight back in any way it could, only for its struggles to be rewarded by meeting the ground and being grinded into it brutally, the cannons on its back being destroyed by the impact.

Sparks flew as skin was basically grinded and Izuku continued his assault on the doll, but he knew he had to end this fight now, this thing could not continue following them, he could not risk his mother and Eri's safety, the town safety.

The town that got destroyed be the Troupe just to get to him.

Angrily Izuku motioned one of his Siren arms to reach for the free one of the doll, and with a snarl, Izuku yanked.

The arm gave away easily, the skin gave no resistance after Universitas, but Izuku wasn't done, tossing the arm away he began to lift up, then once he was sufficiently airborne, began to heat up, his body igniting and causing the doll to begin trashing against him.

This was only a theory that Mandalay had brought up, it should be possible for him to mimic other supers with the other elements, Nova Bomb, but with Solar attributes, Golden Gun but with Void attributes, the limit was of course if he could actually do it.

Well, he was about to perform the first Solar Warp.

With a growl Izuku ignited, remembering the feeling after using Inferno, he let out a discharge of Solar energy all over himself, the blast enveloped the doll that continued trashing around as the fire blast enveloped it, then stopped trashing as the bones simply charred under the intense but short blast of Solar Light.

Once it was over Izuku surveyed the doll, it was nothing more now than a blackened skeleton with somewhat chromed ends, it was still moving.

Izuku let out a second Solar Warp.

The doll stopped moving altogether, now completely blackened.

With a huff Izuku tossed the doll to one of the rockwalls and got embedded into it, not moving at all.

Snarling Izuku then flew back to the bus, job done.

Three minutes later the doll began to glow, then was enveloped in a dome of pure lighting, then vanished, taking a chunk of the rock with it.

Its mission a complete failure.

Moonfish hated to do this kind of things, destruction when there was so much meat around.

So much distraction, the fire didn't bothered him, he had learned so long ago to zone out that kind of distractions, the weather? An inconvenience to him.

Heroes? More meat.

Civilians? More meat.

But when there is a mission? Those are distractions.

More so now that the mission had gone to hell and back.

Yet he had a mission, kill, simple as tha-

Moonfish let out a grunt of pain, one of his teeth shooting to his back and trying to hit whatever had hit hi-

This time his jaw felt the impact, this time more teeth extended and searched for the target of his new obsession.

Tiger for his part kept using his Quirk, moving at impossible angles and dodging death blows that no other hero would be able to dodge, but him, this was a perfect way to test his training.

With a subtle move of his hand, two cops took knees, aimed their guns at Moonfish, all while the villain continued his attempts to hit the fast moving Tiger, with another move of his hand, the trap was sprung.

A civilian (he hated using one) lifted his right hand, fire around him slowly gathering to his hand, once he had enough, he clenched it, then with a huff he tossed it, now a marble, at Moonfish exposed back.

Moonfish never felt the marble, but he did felt the fire once the extra fragile marble broke on his back, enveloping him on fire and making him scream in pain, with his arms bind the way they were, he had no way to actually put himself out, and panic had set in.

With a nod, both cops then took aim, and fired, each shot meeting their mark, Moonfish legs.

The villain/cannibal fell to the ground, while on fire, there he began rolling in both pain and anger, once he saw the fire was going out, Tiger jumped into action, before Moonfish could react, and on his chest, Tiger's fist met the back of his cranium, his entire front now being subjected to the unforgiving ground.

With a crack, Moonfish fell, defeated and burned.

Sighing, Tiger motioned both cops to reach the villain, suppressor handcuffs already ready to bind the criminal and suppress his Quirk.

Looking around Tiger actually rose an eyebrow, the area where they found Moonfish was far from where he was first seen, it seemed he had been looking for civilians to kill, so he rationalized that maybe they were in the entrance of the town.

Which might explain right now why he was seeing the bus Aizawa drove a month ago heading their way.

The bus in question stopped once it reached him, and Tiger could see a massive imprint of something on the left side of it, something had crashed into it.

Then Aizawa disbanded the bus, followed no far by Izuku, Inko, Eri and…the fuck's Kota doing here?

"We got attacked" Aizawa supplied, seeing the cops handle…

"Is that Moonfish?" Aizawa wondered, looking at the infamous death row cannibal.

"Yeah, got news that Muscular was around as well, but go handled by Gang Orca and Pixie" Tiger stated, seeing how Izuku scowled at the destruction he was seeing, the fires, he could see Arc streams forming on his hands by sheer frustration.

It didn't take a genius to put two plus two in this situation.

This all had been a distraction, one that failed, considering that they were here, and his attackers were not.

"No matter" Aizawa dismissed the news of Muscular being handled by Pixie and Gang Orca and focused on Izuku, "Problem child, Ice Form on those fires, drown them!"

Izuku simply nodded as he approached the fires and began to use Ice Form shout on them, the fires instantly being encased in ice.

Tiger noted how much power he put behind those shouts, he was venting on the disaster, basically, the only thing that could take his power and not complain one bit about it.

"Fuck" Tiger cursed, focusing on Aizawa and Inko, "Take the bus to the street, back to that road, there is a relief center, Mandalay is there alongside Ragdoll directing the rescue efforts, go there and see if you can lend some help" Aizawa nodded, so did Inko, yet he noted how her gaze focused on her son and his continued assault against the fire.

Sighing she mounted the bus, and moved, all while her son continued helping.

She noted that he was crying all the way until he was out of her sight.

Two days later…

"Someone want to explain to me how this happened?" Ryukyu wondered, the dragon themed heroine was in one word, frustrated, and it wasn't for no good reason.

Two days ago Raxus town had basically been a target of a terrorist attack by the Troupe, in what many assumed to be a retaliation for the loss of so many bases and outposts in Japan in the past month.

When the heroes went there and Ruykyu had went to the Pussycats compound nearby, the reality had been revealed to them.

It had not been a retaliation, it had been a distraction, one that failed, if you wanted to be pragmatic about it.

The town was a disaster, no doubt about it, there was a hole where the fire department and the gas company that managed the natural gas of the town used to be, the loss of life was…absurd to say the least.

Many companies had already solidarized in the effort to rebuild the town, philanthropists and the likes, nothing could erase the fact the town had been a collateral, an acceptable target in order to get to their real target.

"We didn't expect this to occur" Thirteen stated, being a rescue hero, Thirteen was expected to be on Raxus, not here, on a conference, but honestly, by the time heroes had arrived, half the town fires were now the prettiest and creepiest ice sculptures known to man.

Ryukyu was no stranger to ice users using their ice to fight the fires, never before she had seen ice sculptures made out of fires.

"Well it happened, now someone explain why the fuck two motherfucking villains were doing at that time there?" Mirko snapped, pacing around the room like a caged animal, villains she could beat without a second thought, disasters of this magnitude? Those were on a different scale, those she could not kick to near death.

"Well, it seems the Troupe extended their operations in order to get to their targets" the head of the HPSC stated over video conference, looking rather tired by the look of things, "No one did to be honest, especially with what we found on the compound of the Pussycats"

"Yeah" Mirko muttered, rather perturbed, "Yakuza and the Troupe actually going to war for a singular price, or prices, yet we found very few Yakuza compared to the number of BOW's found dead, and what the kid said" Mirko stated, "BOW with Quirks, T-Dolls with Quirks, fucking kid started an arms race without even knowing it" she added with a snarl.

Ryukyu and Thirteen remained silent, but the words or Mirko rang true, before the Troupe was content with using BOW's without special abilities aside the ones they had, no Quirks, same with T-Dolls, those things were robots, cyborgs, nothing special about them aside the fact they were the closest thing the world would get to actual Terminators, thick Austrian accent aside.

But now? The autopsy of the Nemesis found on the hot springs proved that the Troupe had jammed Quirks into that things, and DNA samples and profiling showed to whose those Quirks belonged to.

One to a wanted criminal that was probably going to get the death penalty for aiding a known terrorist organization, and murdering several Pro Heroes before his initial capture.

The second belonged to a teen that was too serious for his own good, and took classes in Kendo to practice safety for his Quirk.

The third belonged to the father of the target.

All three were confirmed to be alive, the third one not so much if the wife finds about what he has done after some investigation.

Then there was the doll, little of it could be recovered, compared to the other three dolls, devastated and destroyed by Midoriya, unable to be retrieved, their remains were already sealed and in route to I-Island, the first full dolls to be send to the island, well mostly, Midoriya had not pulled punches against them, they looked like if a Bear on steroids had mauled them.

The last doll, they could only find two arms, one charred beyond anything to be used, the other looked mummified and melted, still they were send to I-Island, they had the facilities to deal with this, at the same time sending them copies of the data caught in their bases.

They had found where Midoriya had stamped it, there was a circular hole where it should had been, meaning this one survived Midoriya, an achievement considering the devastation seen in the compound.

A silence set on the conference, one that was broken by Sir Nighteye, the last member of the conference.

"Regardless of the actions of the Troupe, this show something they had not ever shown before" Nighteye stated.

"Yeah, like?" Mirko wondered.

"Fear" was his simple reply, "They know that if the Midoriyas confess during the trials, it will mean the end of their operations here, not only that, we have found that they have ties with villain organizations all over Asia thanks to the files we have gathered, the Midoriyas will deliver the first stroke, it will be up to us to deliver the killing blow" he added, "And they know it, this is desperation, a pity that all this progress is aimed for destruction rather than creation, but once we have them dismantled, we can use their knowledge for good, real good" he added, "But for now we have to focus on attacking" he snapped.

"They will try to use this as a way to regain momentum, we must deny them that, we must double our attacks against them, were they on their knees before? They will be bleeding and on their faces by the time we are done with them, we must press onward, no mercy given, just like they have denied their victims that" Nighteye stated.

It was a sentiment everyone shared.

"Nighteye" Ryukyu began, "What about the kid? How's…he taking this? The destruction of a town because they wanted to get to them"

Nighteye remained quiet for five seconds, then looked at the dragoon heroine in the eyes.

"Bad"

Izuku cried, cried hard, before he had been angry, oh so angry that his Shouts simply reacted to his anger, to his indignation.

Yet he felt powerless, despite all he did that night, he felt powerless, he felt like if he had done nothing right that night, just messing every time.

He didn't noted when his mother entered the room it had been assigned to him, a small police hideout while they prepare to leave Japan for the next month.

He didn't noticed when she sat at his side.

He noticed she was in the room when she hugged him, and let him cry on her shoulder.

Izuku clung on her form, desperately.

He knew he had done all he could, he had been the reason half of the fires in the town had been put out and routed to the point the rescue crews that arrived could handled the rest without issue.

He knew he had been the reason his family was alive, and not in the morgue, he knew he had done all he could that night, that he had fought with everything he had and had send a message to everyone that dared attack his family again.

This would not stand.

Yet…

He felt so weak at the moment, despite all the power he had now, all he had, he felt so weak.

Did All-Might ever felt like this? Did any hero felt like this before?

He just cried, cried angrily, he felt so hopeless.

He wished…

He wished…

He wished…

He wished he never got his Quirk at all.