Ten walked with the others. "So let's get this straight. We have to deal with overpowered assholes while our boss, our main unit, is dying of something worse than leukemia?" He asked the group. "With one member down cause Mummy lost like a bitch?"
"Well maybe we wouldn't have to if you hadn't let them get away." Slice bitched at him.
"A, I can't use electromagnetism post lightning bolt. And B, do you know what all this fighting, lightning bolts, and so many exploses does to a guy with super senses? Be lucky I can sense anything, especially with the awful stench in the air." Ten could barely breathe without coughing. Demon senses were a bitch.
"It's just something you'll get used to after five years or so." Chimera huffed. "The biggest pain for me has always been the ears, too much input going off all at once. The kids I fought couldn't lay a scratch on me, so we'll be going in as they lick their wounds."
"Then there's that kid…the one with multiple quirks." Nine spoke out lowly. "There's something so complex going on in that body that I could barely tell what kind of power he had. Like a rainbow fire constantly going off every movement. There's no telling what that brat is capable of."
"Really? I kind of found the explosion bastard more annoying." Ten groaned. "Tenacity and anger problems make one talented asshole, the worst kind that exist." He began scratching himself, a habit he picked up after the surgery. "I want to make him suffer and drown in agony."
"You're letting your emotions get the best of you." Slice said, frowning. "They're not so bad. They're psychopathic kids but most of them mean well." They all looked at her. She shrugged. "We had a nice chat."
"Chatting up with the enemy, that's new." Ten muttered. "So what is the plan?"
"No running … I don't have much time." Nine spoke, taking a deep breath. "No retreat and no backing down. I either get the quirk or die trying."
"So we shred everything in our path until we find that kid? Good." Chimera cracked his neck. "The brats were more annoying than dangerous, so I have no problem taking them out."
"Says the guy with a quirk that makes my punches look like a walk in the park." Ten muttered. "How the hell did you even end up with the entire animal kingdom inside of your body, what parental quirks lead to that?"
"I barely understand how it works. I can breathe fucking fire for some reason like a dragon, all my insides are so messed up beyond recognition by this point." Ten didn't know if Quirks or Magic were more bullshit.
Nine stopped walking. "A lot of bodies on top of that cliff." He informed, looking up. Ten sniffed the air, trying to see what he could pick up …
"Why does it smell like that explosive asshole everywhere?" It smelled like sweat, but also had an unusually sweet stench to it as well.
"Really? I was smelling nitroglycerin-" Chimera cut himself off. "Fuck kids-" The man spoke as multiple people sized grenades came at them.
Ten tried to manipulate them, however nothing happened. "They're not made of metal, scatter!" Looks like the kids learned from their last bout.
Chimera was sent flying off somewhere while Slice fell into the ground. Only he managed to avoid it completely by flying up in the air. "Surprise asshole!" He was caught off guard by another explosion, hitting the ground with a thud. "This time we're gonna rip those horns right from your sorry head!"
"You couldn't do anything last time." Nine used his barriers to shove away any rubble in his path. "What makes you think this time will be any better?"
"Because we have everyone together!" The horrid smelling blue brat shouted out, kicking Nine's shield before hitting it multiple times. From the unguarded side, tape hit Nine, dragging him in another direction. They were being split up.
"And we know exactly what we need to do to win!" Boulders entered his vision as a girl in an astronaut suit slammed rock after rock after him. "So in the words of the most talented asshole I know, Plus Ultra Die!" This was gonna be annoying.
==
Chimera groaned, getting his bearings together. Fucking explosions, always left a ringing in his ears. Looking around, he saw he was inside of a wide clearing. "Smart, let me guess!" He shouted out to no one, but assumed SOMEONE was listening in. "You're going to barrage me with weak ass quirks long range and hope you all make me nap?"
"Close, if you change that last part to permanent dirt nap." The voice of the two toned bastard called out. "Last time we were trying to restrain you, now we know we have to stop you, no matter what."
Chimera blinked, before letting out a snicker. Then it was a full blown laugh. "Wow, I'm fucking impressed, you grew some balls kid! Who was the asshole that got that mindset into your head?"
"A metal upgrade of a classmate hit me in the face." He almost wished he had the context to that sentence. "So none of us are going to let up."
He sniffed the air. "And … by us you mean the two of you?" He laughed. "You want to get lethal but you brought less people? What kind of fucked up logic are you running on?"
"The kind where he's the only one I trust to hit you hard and get out of the way at the same time." Chimera could barely process that as he was hit hard in the back of the skull.
"What the….?" The man barely registered a white blur passing by him before it disappeared and struck him again. "How the hell-" He saw a foot right in his face, but couldn't do anything as it struck him again. "Who the hell are-" Another blow was made before the ground was turned to ice, freezing him in place.
He had to take a guard before another kick hit him in his exposed stomach. "I am Tenya Ida, the one who will one day be worthy of the name Ingenium!" He shouted, before hitting his back. "Prepare for the assault of a hero!"
"... Nice." He muttered. "Really nice." He could feel his body grow, clothes ripping as wings and small bony spikes came out. "I guess I'll have to get serious now!" He shot out a blast of fire at them. "Try to keep up!"
"Another fire user? As if I needed another reason to take you down." The two toned bastard held out his hand, likely building up power, before sending a wave of fire that connected with his own. "Prominence Burn!"
==
Slice let out a whine. "Of course I'd get sent flying away. They sent out fucking explosions to start off." A bit overkill in all honesty. "These are children. Aren't children supposed to be innocent and kind?"
"Oh trust me, pretty much everyone in this class lost that in the first week of school, when a raging manchild tried to kill all of us with an army of thugs and a nomu." A girl with pink skin flipped right in front of her. "We knew if we underestimate our enemies even for a second, we could die."
"We've fallen into the abyss, and fought through hell and back to climb back out." A bird headed boy appeared from the shadows.
"We'll never stop though!" A shirtless redhead shouted. "We'll fight with every fiber of our beings, being the manliest we can be, never giving up!"
"... So I'm just gonna go." She muttered, beginning to walk away. Her job wasn't a distraction this time, there was literally no point in sticking around, although the pink girl got right in front of her. She frowned. "I have more important things to do than fight children. Killing you would be pointless."
"Ochaco was right, she was the reasonable one." The pink one muttered. "But we're not letting you go, acid blast!" The girl shot acid globs, which were intercepted by a long string of hair halting its momentum, Slice's movements unimpeded.
"Cutting off my ammo by melting it away, smart." Slice watched as about half her hair fell off. "But I've been taking care of my hair for all my life, I know how to adapt it to different styles." She sent out spikes towards the girl.
"We know, which is why we made sure to cover every base we have!" The red head charged in front of her, his skin getting more blocky as he slammed a fist into her gut, skiting her across the room.
Slice glared. "... Fuck that." She formed her hair into three separate forms based on combining and manipulating strands. The first was a spike launcher, the second was a massive blade with power, and the third was a shield ready to intercept whatever bird kid had going on. "I was gonna go easy and leave ya be, you know. But it looks like that's not an option."
"As we expected." The bird kid let some sort of shadow wrapped around his body, arming himself with what looked like sais in his hands. "Black Abyss!" He launched himself forward and began clashing his weapon with her hair. So this was gonna be her day, lovely.
==
The moment right now? A serious moment, one of Ryukyu's greatest guesses that would determine the future. "Do you have any threes?"
"Go fish." Son of a bitch.
Ryuko groaned. "Damn it, who the hell shuffled these cards? You suck." She took her another from the deck as everyone else laughed at her expense.
"I do not suck." Rumi laughed. "I simply shuffle without looking."
"Well that would explain the hands we're given." Shinya muttered. "How the hell did I get so many thirteens? That alone is an omen."
"Better than the time I got all the sixes." Wash muttered. The little guy hadn't been doing well since all that dirty laundry got exposed. He probably wouldn't be joining them for these top ten games nights after the next ranking.
"Or what happened to Best Jeanist." They all sat in silence for a moment.
"He's not dead." Endeavor muttered. "You know this, I know this, but somehow here we are fake grieving while playing cards. I still don't comprehend how you got me to play."
"You wanted to beat All Might's winning streak." Ryukyu snorted. "It's the closest thing you had to being number one until it happened for real."
"Yeah, that's the reason why we don't play poker here anymore. So many holes in the wall." Hawks snorted.
"The bastard was counting his cards, I swear." The new number one grumbled. "Things have been too quiet for my liking. The League has been inactive for weeks. I don't trust it."
"They're grouping is my best guess." Hawks spoke. "Gathering resources and trying to gather the might they had before they strong arm UA."
"And they don't suspect you?" Crust asked.
"They did, murdering Best Jeanist bought me some time." She didn't like how calmly he was able to say that. "A toast to the fallen fashion crime."
"You're one disturbed little birdie, you know that, right?" Rumi rolled her eyes. "Those internships can't come fast enough. Me and my Kit just need one day together before all shit hits the fan." Yeah, he was likely attracting danger right now.
"He can't be as bad as all the rumors say." Yoroi tried to reassure.
The bird's phone made an orchestral sounding music, as every hero there looked at him with raised eyebrows. "Hang on, that's the League. Everyone, silence, please. Silence in the room." Ryukyu could feel Endeavor roll his eyes at the man's idiocy. "Hello." Hawks asked into the phone. "Yes. I see. That makes sense. Right. Oh no. Yeah. That would be a problem."
She gave him a curious look. "That is bad. Right he would do that. Where did you say that was? Bad timing. Yeah Tomura wouldn't like that would he. Hey, I can call him that." Of course that would be the one thing he'd argue. "Don't worry, I'll take care of this no problem. It's big enough I can call in some other guys right? Thank you very much."
Hawks canceled the call, taking a deep breath like he was holding in a headache. "Well?" Ryukyu asked.
"Okay, so, All For One cloned his quirk and gave it to a guy, who teamed up with a guy that has ten quirks, and they and a small group of high powered quirk users are invading the isolated island our children slash work study kids are currently located with no way for communication or fast travel." He explained as if it was nothing.
"....So if we put Rumi's kid in the middle of the city, would every villain in Japan come knocking on his door?" Wash asked probably the most important question that could've been made at the moment.
"I'm coming, Kit!" The woman shouted, running out. Endeavor was quick to follow, only to be stopped by Hawks.
"Just wait a bit, she needs to remember she can't swim that far." Like she said before. Rumi was a total Mom. "So are we taking a jet and crashing it into the villains or are we taking the Ryukyu express?" And Hawks would forever be an asshole.
"Even with our fastest transportation, it'll take at least an hour for one of us to reach Nabu Island from here." Endeavor for once wasn't an angry raging asshole. The man frowned. "Let us hope the children can delay the assault until we can get there."
==
Mosquitos, that was a good noun for these annoying children. Really hard to swat but barely putting a dent in him. Not that he had a moral high ground of not hitting children to begin with, but these guys would have broken it if he had.
Then again, these children didn't have any qualms about not holding back either. The astronaut girl, who had some sort of gravity quirk, tag teamed with the tape user slinging boulders at him and Ten from the air. And if his attempt at a return air strike was correct, or Ten's screaming, there were a total of thirteen students switching back and forth between them, keeping them apart.
Lasers and cannonballs were shot off randomly, occasionally some sort of sticky orbs would force him in one place for a brief second, before he melted them into liquid. A couple of minor sound blasts went at him whenever he attempted to put up a barrier, along with a kid who treated sugar packets like steroids throwing even MORE boulders at him that he had to deflect with hydra.
Of course, that didn't compare to the ranging explosion of power that was in the wolf kid, who was completely relentless in his assaults. His scanner showed that his power seemed to grow exponentially every few seconds, mainly whenever he stopped to rotate his arms, filling his body with even MORE ridiculous amounts of power.
Any time he countered, the brat moved out of the way and used it to counter with compressed air. If he didn't take that Super Toughening quirk in case of emergencies, he might have been in trouble. As it was there was very little he could do. Luckily, there was the good old trump card he's been working on since yesterday. "You know you can't win right?" He asked, letting the thunder rumble as he enjoyed the involuntary flinch of the wolf brat. "Your strength is pathetic compared to nature itself."
"I've been fighting nature for almost all my life! Wolves, wildfires, man eating plants, I've lived through it all!" The brat yelled, dodging the lasers effortlessly. "There's nothing I can't survive !"
"Even an entire barrage of lightning strikes?" Nine said rhetorically, already readying his aim.
"You hit me with one and I'm still here!"
"I did, didn't I …" He clenched his hand. "Let's see if you can play with death twice."
"He can't!" Spoke some yellow haired rando, rushing in with a giant spear. "But I can!" The boy shouted as he raised it up. He planned on dying for his friend and conducting all that energy. Cute, one more corpse for the road. "By the power of greyskull!" The child shouted a meme during his last moments, as lightning hit him head on … appropriate. And his body would be burned to a crisp right about … now?
"You think we would've let you pull the same trick twice without a work around?!" The explosive one yelled, sending Ten back. "That electric idiot Kaminari is our lightning rod for a reason!"
"You said his name!" An earphone jack girl called out. "Holy shit, progress!"
"Weeeyyyy." The boy that treated his greatest attack like nothing and simply gave a dumb thumbs up before hitting the ground.
"We're giving everything we got! Every single one of us!" The astronaut girl shouted, picking up the blue brat and sending him towards Nine. "Cosmic Wolf Cannon!"
He placed up a barrier, straining it greatly as he panting greatly, wincing in agony. "You bastards …" There goes his trump, he's going to need something else.
"I'm sick of it …" Ten spoke up as he began to stand up. "I'm sick of it …"
"Stop whining and fucking give up you asshole!" The explosive one shouted, as the group began surrounding them. "There is no scenario where you come out of this on top!"
"I'm sick of it …" Ten muttered once more, looking dazed. "I'm sick of it …"
"Yeah, now you know how the rest of us feel about you." The tailed kid muttered.
"I'm sick of it …" Ten began scratching himself, his sanity clearly gone. "I'm sick of it …" Nine clearly had to deal with this alone. "I'm sick of it …" Maybe he should eliminate the long rangers before focusing on the problem children. "I'm sick of it …"
"This can all end if you just give up now." The wolf kid went on. "We'll keep doing this forever if we have to, and that's time you don't have."
"I'M SICK OF IT!" Ten screamed in blind rage, digging his nails-more like claws, straight into his flesh. "I'm sick of it! I'm sick of it!" The loony was now tearing at his skin and bones. "I'm sick of it! It was supposed to end. I was supposed to not be hit anymore. I was supposed to fight the strong. I was supposed to do what I wanted." Blood and flesh began pooling at his feet, as Nine actually took a step back from the mental break. "I was supposed to finally have a say. They were supposed to stop ganging up. I was supposed to stand tall and have a life! I'm sick of it!"
"Oh yeah, you're so strong, getting your ass kicked by a bunch of first years." The explosion kid rolled his eyes.
"Is no one else worried about the clear loss of sanity?" The bulky kid asked cautiously, eying his partner, disturbed. "He's ripping his own flesh off."
"We are fighting them, now's not the time to focus on their health." The laser kid spoke, keeping a fearful eye on them both.
"It's this island's fault." Something was happening. The demon's veins were becoming black as he scratched. "It's the heroes' fault. I need to fix it, ya know. I just need to get rid of it." Those veins began sparking, but it wasn't electricity. He knew what electricity felt like. This was purer, yet somehow more malicious. "I just need to get rid of the sickness. Rid the infection." The ground around Ten seemed to disintegrate from the sheer build up of energy. The body of the man turned monster restored itself on energy alone. "I need to rid it, I need to rid it, I need to rid it."
"Everyone get away!" The wolf kid shouted, eyes wide. "He's going to fire something big….!"
"GET RID OF IT!" Ten exploded … literally. A tornado shot from his body, filled to the brim with clouds, blood, lightning, and screams of the dead. "GET RID OF IT ALL!" It hit the weather in the sky. Nine could feel it amplified beyond belief. He didn't even have to try, it was already turning more violent than a category five. Lightning struck all over the island, tornadoes struck the village, metal was sent into the winds, and screams that made ears bleed rang out. "GET RID OF IT! GET RID OF YOU BASTARD CHILDREN!"
After a minute of not being able to see or hear anything, the storm finally died down, even if he could feel he had a lightning bolt or two still in the sky. The entire field was clear, except for three distinct figures. The bomber, the wolf kid, and the astronaut girl. They stared in horror and exhaustion, their comrades either launched far away or heavily injured. "... I'm going to be honest." Nine spoke calmly. "I had no idea my partner had it in him." He would have at least used it as a threat if he had known.
"….I know this sounds weird coming from me, but quirks are bullshit." The blue kid groaned. "So it's Beyond Plus Ultra time?"
"Way, way beyond time, Dodger."