[86: Eye In The Sky]
"You've gotta be kidding me." If it wasn't for Twice's mask, a nasty expression would've been seen on his face.
Twice expected something similar when he looked at Toga, but instead, it was different.
Toga had a focused expression as she looked at Kurogiri and the small army of villains. She was holding the laser marker and pointing it at Kurogiri and the villains.
Toga didn't fully understand it, but she was frantically clicking the button while swaying the laser all over the general area where Kurogiri was. Multiple locations were being marked for an airstrike.
Eleanor was counting her blessings for having the computers necessary to make the calculations quickly.
Using the darkness for cover, Twice made clones, having them run off behind him.
Toga continued to press any button on the laser marker.
Twice suddenly grabbed Toga's arm and started running in the opposite direction.
"We can't have that now." Kurogiri pointed in their direction. All the villains followed.
However, just as they did.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Massive fireballs and explosions struck the area. One explosion after another rocked the area. The villains were completely caught off guard. Some were blown into pieces, killed instantly. The shockwaves killed more, hurling bodies violently and fatally into the ground or trees.
From the base, Eleanor saw it all happen. She was smiling. "What a target-rich environment. And they're all grouped nicely? What a dream," She muttered to herself.
In the woods, it was chaos for the villains. Dirt, trees, and other debris covered the area. A large, but quickly disappearing cloud of dirt provided the perfect screen for Toga and Twice.
The villains who were lucky to survive were disoriented. Their bodies hurt. They couldn't see or hear well. Some had shrapnel embedded deeply in their bodies. Some sustained traumatic brain injuries from the shockwaves of all the missiles. Some died from the environment, impaled on trees by the extreme force of the missile.
"So much for too much attention, I guess," Eleanor muttered while watching everything from her base.
Back on the ground, Kurogiri was safe. Relative to the others, at least. The neck brace suffered damage. Vicious cracks ran up and down it.
Kurogiri was hunched over on the ground, barely conscious.
In the sky, the drone responsible for the airstrike continued flying. A special weapon was being charged up. Electricity ran through metal rails; plasma arcs coursed; Lorentz forces were preparing a tungsten slug to fire.
The drone's autonomous system did all the calculations. It was aiming at a small target. Kurogiri's metal neck brace.
Back on the ground, Kurogiri stood up with great difficulty, stumbling and unbalanced. The portal he used to bring in the large number of villains had shrunk.
"We need more. They can't escape," Kurogiri muttered to himself.
Soon, more villains came out. They all started running where Twice and Toga had run off.
Kurogiri was running on fumes.
And it would be the last fumes he would run on.
He never saw it, heard it, or even registered anything before his entire world went dark.
The drone finished charging the railgun. And it fired. A tungsten slug fired at Mach 7 instantly reached Kurigiri, aimed at the metallic neck brace. It completely disintegrated the neck brace, reaching the core of where his real body was.
Kurogiri died instantly.
The portal he maintained closed instantly. Villains who were still crossing the portal were sliced in half, also killed.
What was supposed to be a surprise ambush had ended in a complete slaughter and massacre; they walked into a death trap.
The start of the League of Villains' plan to stop Twice and Toga was already a complete disaster. But the villains that were still alive kept chasing Twice and Toga. They were going to die anyway. At least they could go out with a fight. Even if some died chasing a clone of Twice instead of the real one.
But even chasing would be a nightmare.
Brrrrrrt! Brrrrrt! Brrrrrt!
Automatic machine gun fire filled the forest. The drones were finally starting their own hunt, gunning down the villains that went into the woods.
Twice and Toga ignored it all. They kept running, listening to Eleanor's instructions about where the extraction point was.
But they weren't completely out of it.
As they were running, they suddenly felt heat on their bodies. They felt an intense burning sensation on their skin. They slowed down, and their vision blurred.
"What…is….this?" Twice said in a strained voice. It was hard to move; his body felt heavy and hard, and it was hard to see.
"This…isn't fun." Toga was struggling equally.
Behind them, they could hear heavy breaths.
Toga and Twice turned slowly. They saw a young man breathing hard, blood falling from his head. "Finally." He held his hands up at them. His hands were red and actively being cooked. "Those drones almost got me. I guess microwaves work against them."
"Microwaves?" Twice was confused before it pieced it together. His hands, the burning and cooking, and what they were feeling. "You're emitting microwaves at us! From your hands!"
"Yes, I am! The only thing that holds it back is that my hands get burned and cooked when I use my quirk. And when I need to target someone far away, I need to use more power, but I was able to catch up just enough to affect you two." A smile was on his face.
"Monologue much?" Toga said. She was desperately trying to raise the laser marker at him.
"A monologue? I'm just explaining my powers."
"Same thing." Toga was able to successfully confirm the laser marker.
The drone locked on to the area. Instead of a missile, the drone used the 30mm chain gun.
BRRRRT!
The area was plastered with autocannon fire. The villain was instantly killed, blown into a faint pink mist.
Twice and Toga instantly felt the relief. They breathed in deeply and exhaled, steadying themselves.
"We have to keep going, Twice!" Toga quickly helped Twice move, helping him move until he could move on his own.
They continued going through the forest, ignoring the faint machine gun fire from the drones in the distance. It had gotten noticeably quieter.
In the distance, they saw it. A clearing that was the extraction point.
"Twice, we're almost there!" Toga sped up, the sight of salvation driving her forward.
"Come on." Twice started to move on his own, letting himself go from Toga.
"Hey, over here!" They heard the shout of a villain.
"Oh, come on! Just how many of them are there!" Toga complained as she ran faster, Twice following her.
The villains started chasing. They used their quirks. Some threw projectiles. Knives, rocks, tree branches, and more. Others used their quirks to catch up in speed. Others had quirks that beefed up their toughness.
"Twice…it's not looking too good, is it? We probably don't have enough ammo for all of them." Toga stopped running and turned around.
"I'll even the numbers." Just as Twice was about to use his quirk.
BOOM! BOOM! BRRRRRRT! BRRRRRT!
Explosions and autocannon fire blanketed the area in front of Twice and Toga, creating a wall of lead and fire. Villains were blown apart and turned into pink mist.
Twice and Toga looked behind them.
Drone helicopters fired autocannons, the shells landing on the ground. Automatic grenade launchers launched explosives. Missile pods launched; accuracy was not a priority because of how many villains there were.
Trees splintered and were destroyed; large holes filled the ground; dirt flew everywhere.
The onslaught of lead continued only for a few more seconds, but it felt like minutes, before it finally stopped.
When everything finally cleared and calmed down, they could finally rest. Twice and Toga just now noticed that the sun was starting to rise. Even with the clouds above looking like it might rain at any minute, the sunrise gave off a magnificent purple hue and color in the sky.
Immense relief filled Twice and Toga.
Eleanor was here.