Eat My Dust
34. Eat My Dust
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Takahiro thought he was doing terribly. He hadn’t seen anyone from the other team yet. His fighting style was mostly Mixed Martial Arts combined with heavily armoured gauntlets and boots. He was a close combat style brawler.
A while back he’d found a sturdy pipe and was carrying it with him as he walked down the destroyed city streets.
Wait.
He paused and pretended to look at something while listening carefully.
* Swish Swish…Swish Swish *
Omni-Nom barely manages to suppress his grin.
He knows that sound, it was none other than the long, many pocketed pants of his classmate, Chisaka Lin - ♀ - Β - Hero Name: UnFathom. Quirk - Bottomless - Can fit anything into a mostly enclosed space, like a mug or cup, an empty shoe, or pant pockets, and remove it when needed. Once she puts something in a mostly enclosed space, it is as if the object weighs nothing and takes up no room at all. Yes, just like Mary Poppins’ bag.
The young man knew that Shigaraki’s plan made sense on paper, it was getting it done that Takahiro was having trouble with. It wasn’t instincts but the weight of his own hubris that was causing him issues this time.
What should he do? Listen to their team leader, a ‘former villain'? Go with his pride and fight UnFathom himself?
He's beaten them in training before, but…
…but, this wasn’t about him vs his classmate. The whole point of this was effective teamwork.
Fucking hell.
He was going to listen to Shigaraki.
The swishing sound was steadily getting closer. Just a little more, thinks Takahiro.
Looking down he spots movement in the reflection of some broken glass.
Oh shit.
He ducks and rolls to the side. The electrified grappling spear barely misses Omni-Nom as it grabs the pole next to him harmlessly shocking that insead. God damnit, Lin was fucking crazy!
He scrambles back to his feet and is off like a shot, heading back to their Jail where his Teammates were waiting. Takahiro radios ahead to let them know.
Another spear hits a bulletin board…
* Thwack! - zzZZAAAP *
Just after the Beta slid around the corner.
Lin scowls as she begins chasing after her classmate. Reaching into her pockets she searches for something in particular…
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Back at Team Underdog’s Jail, Akiko and Akira were hiding in the rubble. They were in among the piles of debris across from each other just in front of the Jail. It was the perfect place to be. It was also kinda boring. They’ve been waiting forever already and nothing has even happened yet!
Well, nothing for them to do, over the radio they’ve heard the boys having all the fun.
Suddenly the coms crackle to life and they hear their own hero names called out,
“Brisk, Lag, I’m bringing in UnFathom!“ called Omni-Nom, “Confirm ready?”
“We are ready Omni-Nom!,” said the girls in unison, smiling at each other from their respective locations.
Moments later Takahiro skids around the corner, doing his best to recover he runs pell-mell to their Jail.
That's when he hears, “STOP OR I’LL SHOOT!”
The Beta heroling manages to put on the brakes. Uh oh.
Slowly, oh so very slowly, he turns around to face Lin, now holding a crossbow. It's loaded with a smaller version of the electric spear weapon she favors. Must be the collapsable kind, he thinks, that would easily slide into one of her larger pockets. Damnit.
“Uh, hey Lin. How’s it going?”
Keeping his eyes fixed on her, he takes a step backward, nice and slow. She creeps forward with him, only thinking she need to gain ground on someone trying to retreat.
“Do you give up?” she huffs, still out of breath from chasing him.
Another step back.
He plays dumb, “Give up?”
One more backwards step.
UnFathom takes a step forward, “I’ve got you at a disadvantage.”
“Do you?” he tilts his head in question, letting his gaze roam. Her eyes dart around the area out of paranoia.
He slides another step back.
Returning her focus to him she decides that’s enough and yells again, “Turn around and kneel with your hands behind your back so I can cuff you!”
He steps back again. She steps forward.
“Kneel? Common, I’m being peaceful here.”
One more step…
“Can’t I just turn around?”
Backwards.
“Fine! Turn around!”
One last step back. UnFathrom moves forward again.
Takahiro’s eyes flick to the left and right. He is sure he’s behind the line for the Twins to use their Quirks. UnFathom sees the motion and knows something’s up. Leveling the weapon at him, she fires an arrow.
From her look out Lag uses her quirk to
slow
UnFathom
and
her
arrow.
Damnit, thinks Lin.
Dropping his arms Omni-Nom casually moves around the harmless projectile, now moving through the air as if through wax. He makes sure to reach out and tilt it down so it will safely hit the ground instead.
Takahiro walks right up to his classmate, she's barely moving but he can see her eyes, struggling to follow him as he passes by. Omni-Nom takes and uses his classmates' own cuffs to restrain her.
He makes sure to step out of the way, and opens the jail.
“Ok Brisk, do your thing,” he says into the coms.
Popping up Akira speeds up time. Very quickly Lin trips over her own feet and goes tumbling into the Jail, Omni-Nom slams the door shut behind her and...
* Thunk *
The projectile buries itself harmlessly into the ground behind him.
One down, five to go.
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“StuckToo and InterruptUs on their way to our jail,” came the voice of Inei over the coms.
Eyeing the arrow, Omni-Nom yanks it out of the ground and quickly snaps it in half.
Since he was already there, the heroling figured he may as well stay since over the coms Leeds said he was bringing two opponents in at once. He hides and the twins retook their positions, all of them now more confident in the plan.
“Omni-Nom, I’m here with the Twins. Will assist,” he said over the radio.
“Sounds good, let’s take them down.”
Leeds galloped into the clearing where their jail was located. He saw it was already holding a prisoner and grinned as he jogged right through the twins zone of attack.
Akiko acted fast, but the boys were faster and she only managed to slow down one of them.
Seeing this, Akira sped the other up so he painfully smacked face first into a brick wall. Lin, watching from the Cell, flinches.
Pulling back from the wall, nose gushing red, InterruptUs spits blood onto the ground with a gurgled rumble. That fucking hurt.
While he recovered, Omni-Nom had already begun cuffing StuckToo.
Shit!
InterruptUs dashed forward, struck Omni-Nom away and pulled his team member out of the Twins range, deactivating her quirk.
The two students took on fighting stances, ready to square off against Leeds and Omni-Nom.
Except they only saw Takahiro in front of them wielding a hefty looking piece of pipe like a louisville slugger.
Where was Leeds?
The heroling had lept and took to the air while InterruptUs had stolen their prisoner back, and landed behind them. Inei already had his legs in motion, leaning back on his tail like a kangaroo, kicking them so they were shoved into the Twins range. Both of them, this time. The look of surprise was still on their faces as they were cuffed and tossed into the Jail.
Three down, three to go.
The twins updated Shigaraki.
Omni-Nom and Leeds shared a fist bump, and headed back into the broken city.
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Tomura watched as Antisavision walked right down the center of the street, all confidence and bravado. He was following the student. A few times when Kojiro had gotten too close, Tomura had tossed a rock across the street. Beginner level diversion.
The kid fell for it every time too.
Eraser was going to rip the heroling a new one in review.
Tomura knew through the radio that Leeds was on his way back, he only had to keep an eye on the other man for a little bit longer.
Latest update said they were halfway there.
“This is Leeds. I’m perched on some rubble up ahead, Antisavision is approaching me now.”
“Leeds, make some noise, get him to follow you away from our jail,” Tomura’s voice was distinct enough none of them would mistake it for any other.
Away? Thinks Inei. Why? He'd have to ask Shigaraki later.
“I can push some rocks down, that should work right?”
Tomura almost laughs, but schools his reaction in time, uttering a simple, “That’s perfect.”
Next thing he knows the former villain hears falling rubble, a series of loud bleats and a cry of attack, followed by quickly fading wing flaps and more yelling fading away into the distance.
Peeking around the corner of his hiding place, the reformee watches the challenging student chase after the devil.
He looked left and right, not sure where to head next, when a teammate called across the coms.
“Omni-Nom here, need help! I’m by the broken fountain on the corner of ______________ and ___ __________.”
Tomura had no clue where that was, he needed an indication of which direction to go! A sign, if you will.
“Can you give me a signal?” asked Tomura over their radio.
He got no reply.
Shit.
Common kid!
—
A signal? Thinks Takahiro, as he just manages to dodge another attack from Grammage.
Next thing Omni-Nom knows, GeoTrecker slams into him.
A store’s window breaks their fall, as Takahiro kicks his classmate in the chest and rolls away, jumping back out the window they’d just fallen through.
How in the hell was he supposed to do that?
Wait!
Grammage makes those bombs, he’d used one earlier against Leeds! They were always flashy colorful powder filled things.
If he could just get his opponent to make another one, he could use that to signal Shigaraki! How though? The reformee’s words come back to him...
“Manipulate your opponents to your advantage.”
Takahiro smiles. He knows exactly what he's gonna do…
“Common Hayate, at least make this entertaining. I bet all our other classmates are having a blast !”
“What?” huffed the Beta from behind him.
Takahiro avoids his next attack, he keeps moving saying, “I hate to say it, but you really are kind of a dud !”
The glutton heroling swipes at his opponent with the pipe, making him falter.
“Think I’m a dud, huh?” Hayate snarks back, pulling out a new piece of paper.
“You’re as bland as the tired old paper you fold! Not a single pop of color” he joked, nearly getting hit by GeoTrecker lunging out of a store he knows damn well he wasn’t inside of a moment ago.
“Am I now?” Grammage is already folding a shape a little larger than his fist, with a familiar looking fuze on top. As soon as the last crease is made in the paper, the bomb ignites, “How’s this for a pop of color then, right Geo?”
The other heroling halts his next attack, sensing he was interrupting something personal.
Omni-Nom turns, pipe swung over his shoulder at the ready, the origami explosive already leaving the tips of Hayate’s fingers as he throws it at his opponent.
A loud crack resonates around them as Takahiro swings and connects with the bomb, popping it up in the air, a perfect fly ball.
At its peak moments later, the explosive goes off above them in a fantastic burst of color, clouds of neon pink dust in the air.
There’s your signal, thinks Takahiro.
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The voice of the iron gut heroling came over the radio, “Look up!”
Tomura turned his head and scanned where the rubble met the sky.
There was a blast of neon a couple blocks over.
Tomura grinned.
Nice one, kid.
The reformee heads towards the bright pink cloud and his teammate, confirming over the radio, “On the way.”
Just as Tomura skids around a corner he sees Omni-Nom getting pinned by GeoTrecker, Grammage already approaching with yellow cuffs in hand.
Oh hell no.
The Alpha’s leg muscles burn as he puts all the power he's got into making it there in time.
Hayate nearly gets taken down by Shigaraki, saved only by GeoTrecker looking up in time and yelling at him to dodge!
Due to experience, Tomura redirects his momentum using it to ram into Ryo and Omni-Nom instead, the former panic-activating his quirk.
GeoTrecker and Shigaraki vanish through a rift, that left Omni-Nom with Grammage. The iron gut quirk user stood and prepared to fight.
Grammage narrowed his eyes at him and let out a growl.
As they fought Hayate somehow gained the high ground. He was already holding an origami shield and was trying to fold something else but Takahiro was quickly climbing up the mountain of debris to reach his opponent.
Grammage would pause and begin throwing rocks and other objects at Omni-Nom, the problem was whenever anything got close to his face, his classmate would just eat it. He was only slowing down the enemy, but Hayate only needed to delay long enough for him to finish folding…
—
Tomura felt as if his body had been sucked through a boba straw. What a weird sensation. He much preferred Kurogiri’s warp gates to this.
Popping out the other side of the bright white rift, Tomura quickly got up and took in his surroundings. That is, as soon as the world stopped tilting funny.
Iwamoto Ryo stood up and immediately saw which person he had taken with him when he geo-jumped. A few yards in front of Shigaraki he raised his shaking hands, “Uh... I give up?”
“Do you really?” asked Tomura, casually dusting off his pants, “Not going to battle me valiantly to the very end?”
“W-why would I do that? You’ll win. You’re way better than I am. Yuta was right, this isn’t fair,” the student almost whined. GeoTrecker was tired, hurting, and really just wanted to see the nurse and head to bed to recuperate.
Tomura rolled his head on his neck and got into a combat stance, “Maybe, you’ll never know if you don’t try. What if giving up meant you died and doomed your teammates? Would you try then? Or would you just lay down and let the enemy kill you?”
“What are you doing?” asked a baffled Ryo.
“We are going to fight,” said the former villain, “I don’t accept your surrender.”
The geo-teleporter’s eyes nearly bugged out of his head, “What‽ Why not?”
Crimson eyes met the student’s, “In a real fight, I wouldn’t have to.”
Ryo attempts to swallow but his mouth is dry.
Well shit.
The reformee was right.
In a real fight, you can’t just quit. In a real battle heroes sometimes had to keep going until the bitter end. They all knew this when they signed up, it just wasn't talked about much. Villains, he realized, fought heroes all the time knowing it was the same for them as well.
Blood drained from Ryo's face as he watched Shigaraki Tomura raise his arm out in front of him, palm facing upward, beckoning with his fingers.
Fine then.
The young Omega nods and takes a stance. Ryo is sure he was about to get his ass handed to him, but hey, at least he'd go down fighting.
—
Omni-Nom was nearly out of time.
Grammage looked to be almost finished with what he was folding.
Hayate was putting the final touches on his Cannon just as Omni-Nom reached the top of the pile of debris he was on.
“Bet you can’t eat this, you human garbage disposal!” yells Grammage as he finishes and the fuse begins to spark.
Well shit.
He could try to eat the cannonball, but, honestly, Takahiro thought that would probably kill him. And he didn’t really want to die. Looking left and right, he spotted a few hunks of concrete. Grabbing those, he jammed them into the open end of the cannon.
There, Takahiro thought to himself proudly, hands on his hips. Now it should just explode.
“Get down you idiot!” yelled Hayate, grabbing the other heroling around the waist, they tumbled down the hill, gathering cuts and bruises the whole way.
“Oof!” says Grammage as they land at the bottom, Omni-Nom on top of him.
At the precipice of the pile of concrete and other rubble, the cannon explodes in a blast of shrapnel and colorful powders. The top of the mountain of debris, where they had both been standing moments ago, was completely blown away.
Both young men look up at the sudden destruction, speechless for the moment.
Grammage snaps out of it first
He turns to Omni-Nom, grabs the collar of his suit with both hands. Flipping them over he starts shaking Takahiro like a ragdoll yelling, “What were you thinking? You do something like that and just stand there with that smug smile on your stupid face? You would have been blasted to smithereens, you dumbass!”
“You didn’t have to save me! We’re on opposite teams!” Takahiro hollers back, grabbing the other boy’s wrists to try to yank them away.
Tackling the gluttonous Beta to the ground Hayate slams into him screeching, “I’m going to be a hero!”
“What does that have to do with saving me?” challenges Omni-Nom, bucking and rolling them over. He's got the cuffs ready, he just needs one chance…
“Heroes save everyone!” argues the paper folder, “It doesn’t matter if we are on opposite sides, if I’m saving a hero or a Villain!”
Too distracted with his heroic rant Hayate barely registers when he's been cuffed.
God damnit this idiot, he thinks.
The origami quirk user can feel his face turning bright red as he’s pulled up on his feet by the other student.
“My hero,” teases Takahiro.
“Shut up.”
Omni-Nom starts marching his captive to jail, chattering the whole way, “Hey, how do you think they even grade an activity like this anyway?”
Grammage doesn't answer, hoping the student will take a hint.
“You think it's like, a combination of how many fights you win and if you catch someone or get caught?”
No such luck.
“How many cameras do you think are in here? I bet over thirty! What do they do with all the recordings?
“Oh my Goood,” Hayate groans, “Would you please just shut up!”
There's a blessed moment of silence.
Then…
“So, how’d you do on the last English assignment?”
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Ryo and Shigaraki keep their distance as they slowly circle one another.
The Heroling is trying to figure out his first move while Tomura is watching for any hesitation.
Eventually Ryo’s nerves get to him and he lunges at the older man. Tomura dodges, and trips GeoTrecker to the floor.
The student tumbles ass over heels across the dusty roof, “Ahh! Eek!...Oof!”
“Get up,” says Shigaraki, his voice steady.
“Ugg, but…”
The former villain interrupts, his tone is stern and betrays no emotion, “Get. Up.”
This doesn't feel like just a training exercise anymore. So GeoTrecker gets up, and they go again.
And again, and again.
The heroling is able to land a couple hits, but nothing to cause enough damage to shake Tomura off his game. He’s far too high a level for that. Still, he admires the kid’s moxy.
Again and again and again.
Ryo is sweating and panting. He’s covered in roof dust, the fine grey powder all over him, making him look like a character out of an old black and white film. They hadn’t even been fighting for very long.
“Get up.”
Huffing and puffing Ryo lies where he landed. He closes his eyes. Fuck everything hurts. He hasn’t got much more in him. He has to do something different… something the other isn’t expecting…
Ryo doesn’t move. For once, he doesn’t get up. He doesn’t respond to Shigaraki at all no matter how many times the other calls to him.
The heroling hears an annoyed sound and the crunch of footsteps across the rooftop as Shigaraki walks over to where the student lays. Peeking through his eyelashes, Ryo sees a pair of feet standing by his head.
And he moves.
GeoTrecker reaches out, grabs the reformee by the ankle and yanks hard as he gets onto his hands and knees. The Alpha gives out a yell of surprise and goes down with a heavy thud. That had to sting, thinks Ryo smugly.
Now they are both on the ground, wrestling for dominance. Ryo already knows he won’t win, but now he refuses to go down easy. His jaws snap, narrowly missing sinking into the arm of Shigaraki’s shiny suit.
The Alpha has the advantage though. He’s wizely conserved his energy, has more experience in fighting dirty, and is taller, giving him further reach. It isn’t long before Tomura has the heroling pinned, cold hand wrapped around the back of his neck, face shoved into the powder covered rooftop.
“Shigaraki! I have Grammage. I’m heading back to our Jail,” comes the voice of Omni-Nom over the radio in Tomura’s ear.
Ryo doesn’t say a word as he’s cuffed, when the older man tilts his head the student figures someone is speaking to him through his earpiece. Sure enough the pale Alpha replies, “Good. I’ve apprehended GeoTrecker, we’ll be there shortly.”
Shigaraki pulles the heroling up by his neck, he leans over so Ryo can hear him clearly,
“That was clever,” whispers Tomura, his four-fingered grip on the boy’s neck tightening just a smidge, “Now, since I’ve won…”
—
Omni-Nom and Leeds startle when Shigaraki appears out of the shiny glinting warp tear with GeoTrecker in custody.
He was quickly added to the prison.
Only one left.
“What about Antisavision?” asked Leeds and the rest of his team walk over.
Tomura takes the group away from the eyes and ears of their prisoners, “He’s got a lot of pride, that one.”
“Gushiken is a pompous pain in our ass,” griped Takahiro, the girls giggling in agreement.
Akira says, “He’s no fun to team up with!
“He always makes you feel like you’ll never be good enough!” adds Akiko.
Inei shook his head, “What makes it worse is he's already top of the class at everything!”
Tomura was reminded of a very explosive someone.
“No one person is good at everything. And since conditions are always changing, there’s always room for improvement,” the League leader says with a shrug.
Takahiro sits on a broken chunk of concrete, “Well I know his attitude could sure use some improvement.”
Tomura considered their options.
Sure he could take down Antisavision alone, but that wouldn’t teach the student’s anything new. He had an opportunity here to raise his own team's morale, and knock a brat down a peg. It’d be good for him to face a reality check.
Getting up, the older Alpha crossed his arm, aware all eyes were on him, “Wanna teach your classmate a lesson?”
The hero students nod eagerly.
Tomura lets himself grin wickedly, “Ok, here’s what we’re going to do….”
—
Kojiro was tired, sweaty and gross. He wanted a shower and a nice soak in an Onsen. Where the fuck had that flying bat gone? Or Omni-Nom? Or anyone really. He seriously regretted losing his coms in his altercation with Shigaraki.
The heroling hasn’t seen or heard anything in what felt like ages!
Turning around a corner he spies one of the twins. She’s slowly limping away, using the wall next to her to hold herself up. Must have been injured in a fight and somehow managed to get away.
Hah, capturing her will be easy!
Dashing forward nearly silent he doesn’t draw his swords, this wasn’t an exercise in lethality. Instead he opts to disable her with physical blows, one to the back of the head, the other to the backs of her knees. That will cause disorientation and drop his opponent to the ground. Then all he needs to do is pin and cuff her.
As he gets close however, a dark shadow streaks over him from above. Looking up he watches as Leeds swoops down to pick up the twin.
“Arggg! Get back here!” the Alpha yells from the ground, now chasing after them both.
As he blindly follows them around corners, Kojiro knows he’s being reckless.
A small voice in the back of his head says he should slow down and get his bearings, but he also knows if he loses these two he'll be back to square one. Wandering around the desolate streets without any direction.
Up ahead Leeds has dropped the twin, huh. That’s weird.
This time Antisavision approaches warily.
“Common, surely you can take down little ol’ me right?” the girl teases. She dances back and forth and does a pirouette, her previous limp now absent.
Enough playing around. Antisavision draws his swords and attacks.
The twin avoids him, cartwheeling into a backflip, moving out of his way. Fuck it. He spies the other twin up ahead and goes for her instead. He ends up leaping over her as she does a split, again dodging his attack.
—
God damnit! cursed Antisavision under his breath, slamming his hand against the wall he ran against. They were just messing with him now!
He hears yelling.
Looking up Kojiro turns his head to see that the jail is full of his team! All of them were captured‽ How in the hell had that happened?
Antisavision doesn’t have time to figure that out now, Omni-Nom has stepped in front of him wielding a metal pipe. As he swings both blades, his opponent drops the pipe and starts… breakdancing?
He nearly trips over the other heroling’s legs as he goes into a spin down sweep which his quirk does not recognize as an attack. Fuck! By some miracle Kojiro manages to recover in time.
Next thing he knows Leeds is towering over him.
“Hello Devil,” he says boldly. Regathering himself, Kojiro takes a stance.
The student’s arms are crossed and he looks serious, which is normal for the demonic figure, “You should concede.”
“Like hell!” Kojiro says, tightening the grip on his swords, “Where is Shigaraki?”
Inei drops his arms and shrugs.
With a roar Antisavision comes at him, metal glinting. He’s going too fast and completely misses seeing the blur of black and white coming at him from the right. Antisavision is struck hard in the shoulder and sent flying to the side by Shigaraki. The heroling lands with a thud, making his teammates wince.
The felon had used Leed’s as a distraction, thought the younger Alpha. Damnit!
“Are you going to get up or cower in fear?” the villain’s voice mocks.
“I’m not scared of you!” Kojiro bellows, pulling himself up onto his hands and knees. He was covered in dirt and dust and one of his swords had clattered to the ground out of reach.
Tomura strode over and picked up the weapon, taking a moment to examine it. The sword was well made. No doubt a custom build for the specs of the swordsman who wielded it. Tomura had been trained in a wide variety of weapons. Including knives, guns, and swords.
He could also tell he was far out matched, which meant he'd need to resort to using another tactic to take down this heroling,
The students weren’t going to like this next part.
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Decay was a pretty simple quirk from an over top view of things. Five points of contact on a solid object, (or by will alone when he was emotional enough, shhh) and *poof*. Object is now a pile of dust. Very little mystery to it, the results consistent and expected, every single time.
The Alpha tilts his head from side to side, stretching out the muscles. He considers where to start. There was a good reason he was called the Symbol of Fear and it wasn’t just about his quirk.
As a child Tomura had always been diligent about details to an obsessive degree. As a Villain he kept comprehensive files about all of the people who worked for him, anyone he did business with, and anyone who dared get on his personal shit list.
He didn’t just know their quirks, he also knew their personal likes, dislikes, political tendencies, allergies, favorite foods and more. He's been told it's a type of photographic memory. His former Sensei had helped him improve this skill and apply it, to use it to get into other people’s minds.
Tomura had done a study of this class of course, so their history was all still very fresh in his mind.
These kids should learn sooner rather than later what it was like for an experienced villain to get into their head.
He was going to have to break this student, just a little. He’d try not to make too large a crack, but Tomura knows he won’t have full control of the conversation once it begins. Antisavision will respond, and that will affect how Tomura retaliates.
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“You think you can just pretend to behave and everyone’s just going to forgive and forget the horrifying things you’ve done?” spat out the heroling, “You're a monster!”
The older Alpha frowns, “Is that all you think I am?”
Swallowing the heroling nods. While the villain seems distracted by this, Kojiro lunges at him again.
The pale Alpha avoids the incoming blow. Tomura is impressed. The kid is testing the waters, being cautious this time.
“Why don’t you say what you really think of me, hmm?”
The heroling uses his speed to run up the wall behind the older Alpha, leaping off it at the peak so he’s coming down at Tomura from above with the sword. It could be a killing strike, if the older man wasn’t fast enough.
The former villain raises his weapon over his shoulder to block the attack but holds his stance. Kojiro’s chin rams hard into the Alpha’s shoulder armor. This forces his chest to come down hard on Shigaraki’s elbow.
Antisavision falls behind the villain, rolling twice after he hits the ground hard.
Tomura walks over casually, no need to be in a rush now. Crimson eyes watch as the boy struggles. He’s gasping for breath while at the same time trying to stop the spasms that wrack his chest.
“Oooh shit,” whispers GeoTrecker, face pressed to the bars as he watches the fight.
Lin managest to get up from where she’d been mulling over all her mistakes in her head, and rushes over, “What, what happened?”
“Kojiro got the air knocked out of ‘em!” says InterruptUs. The other two pulled faces. Ouch, that sucks.
Fuuuck that hurt! Thinks the student as he finally manages a few short breaths in a row, his lungs slowly relaxing. He gets to his hands and knees, then stands with his sword and turns to face the villain. He’s well aware the other could have attacked him while he was down. He didn’t, and Antisavision couldn’t fathom why.
The younger man whips his blade around so quickly the white haired Alpha leans away and takes several steps back.
“Why don’t you get it all off your chest at once?” Shigaraki taunts further, brandishing the blade horizontally at Kojiro. His hand cast in such a lazy fourth position the student’s quirk doesn’t even pick the action up as a threat.
Damnit again.
—
Antisavision lets out a low growl coming in with a below the belt attack.
Tomura slides to the side, using the blade in his hand to parry. This won’t last long, he thinks, the poor kid’s fuse was running short and his HP was nearly depleted.
The former villain dodges again, this time letting the weapon in his hands slip, just enough to throw the other off balance. Kojiro falls again.
“And down he goes,” whispers Ito.
Ryo shakes his head, “This is painful to watch man.”
The other students nod in agreement.
“Shut up! Shut up!” yelled the heroling, “My family has been fighting villains like you for over six generations! You are all the same!”
“How’s that?” asked Tomura as he continued to block attacks.
“You come into our quite productive cities and neighborhoods, cause chaos for your sick enjoyment! Heroes need to fight you to keep the peace!” Kojiro takes several ragged breaths, then says, “Worst of all, you don’t care about the harm you do to others!”
An angry look flashes across the former villain’s face, “Oh really? You think we all become villains because we want to hurt people?”
The swords meet with a sharp sound as Tomura continues, taking steps back with each slash of the blade from Antisavision,
“Has it never occurred to you that the people you are fighting could be desperate?”
* Scrape! *
“That they’ve exhausted so many other options they felt this was all they had left?”
* Swoosh! *
“Maybe they are mentally ill?”
* Woosh *
“Tired of being treated like they are less than a person?”
* Swish *
“Maybe they lost everyone they loved, or were just fed up with the abuse?”
Tomura felt like he could almost see as his words rattled around the student’s brain and finally, stuck to something in there. Their swords connected again.
* Clang! *
“Sh-shut up!” yelled Kojiro as he leapt back. Shigaraki was just trying to confuse him. That’s all this was. Those things he was saying… trying to make them sound like victims… it wasn’t… it couldn’t…
Taking advantage of the boy’s inner turmoil, Tomura slipped behind the student. Grabbing Antisavision’s arm, he knocked the solid metal pommel of the sword against the boy’s elbow hard. This effectively stunned the ulnar nerve. The heroling’s hand opened in shock, causing Kojiro to drop his sword. Tomura then shoved the boy forward, making him lose his balance.
His sword slid out of reach. Looking up Antisavision saw he was surrounded by the other team. His shoulders fell, it was like watching a balloon deflate. He couldn’t use his quirk on all of them and he was woefully outnumbered.
Well.
That was it then.
With little fanfare the heroling was cuffed and tossed into the cell with the rest of his team.
Once the door was shut the horn sounded, ending the exercise.
Tomura drops the sword and looks over his shoulder before walking away, “The people you really need to be worried about, hero or villain or just some NPC, are the ones with nothing left to lose.”
Kojiro and the others watch silently as the reformee walks away.
Tomura heads up to the observation deck as the rest of his team helps release their restrained classmates. He was entirely unsurprised by the outcome.
They were only first years after all.
If asked, the reformee would argue Izuku and his friends would have done far better. Then again, his Mate was in a class unlike any other. (Tomura might be just a little bias)
On his way to the stairs the reformed Alpha waved up to Izuku, who was still watching from the observation deck, dutifully taking notes like always.
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Back to StuckToo and InterruptUs chasing Leeds to Jail
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Dabi's Team:
1. Sakamoto Ryota - ♂ - α - Hero Name: Elastareach
Quirk - Elasticity - can stretch like stretch arm strong, arms, legs, neck, fingers, etc. to incredible lengths. (Sigh…yes, that part too.)
2. Koizumi Tsuyoshi - ♂ - Ω - Hero Name: Zipplopod
Quirk - Shrink - Can become very, very very small. Inanimate objects he’s holding
shrink with him and re-enlarge with him. He can’t do this with living material (yet), so no people. The young man has no hair and his skin is nearly translucent.
3. Hoshino Saburo - ♂ - Β - Hero Name: Reflecturn
Quirk - Mirror - Can travel in, out and through any reflective surfaces like his own
personal superhighway. He can’t take more than one person with him at a time though. He hopes to change that as he works to improve his quirk control.
4. Kitagawa Kaze - ♀ - Ω - Hero Name: Emotrik
Quirk - Gaze - With her single large bright pink eye she can project feelings onto people in her line of sight. At this time her range is limited to about ten yards, and she can only influence about a dozen people at once. If a person is strong-willed enough or she tires, they can break free of her influence.
Dabi's Opponents:
5. Akiyama Yuta - ♂ - α - Hero Name: SpinBuckler
Quirk - Disc - Able to form sturdy disks of various size, can use them as shields and make them with bladed edges to throw. Particularly fond of making chakrams.
6. Nakamura Aoki - ♂ - Β - Hero Name: X-Change
Quirk - Swap - Can swap body parts with others, even their heads. The parts retain the others quirk ability. Can even swap parts he doesn’t have, like horns, wings, tails. Time limit at this point is about ten minutes, then the parts automatically safely swap back.
7. Nagasawa Yushiro- ♀ - Β - Hero Name: FoliFlex
Quirk - Wire Hair - Can be super fine like human hair or weaponize it like razor wire. Uses it like whips, rope, and grappling hooks to swing from place to place.
8. Moriyama Kaito - ♂ - Β - Hero Name: Chitter
Quirk - Swarm - Can command insects, like, a lot of them. Has antennae, eyes and mandibles like a Praying Mantis.
9. Yonamine Takao - ♂ - Β - Hero Name: IseeU
Quirk - X-Ray - Can see through most material, except magnetic metals, even slightly magnetic, like nickel, steel, cobalt, silver, aluminum, etc.
10. Takeuchi Mitsuya - ♂ - Β - Hero Name: Gleam
Quirk - Luminary - Can capture and manipulate light sources
Tomura's Team:
11. Yoshioka Inei - ♂ - α - Hero Name: Leeds
Quirk - Jersey Devil - Wings, goat hooves, fur, tail with clove shaped end and antlers, hands have black claw like nails. Strong and able to emit an ear splitting sonic scream. Has been ostracized by many as having an evil/demonic quirk.
12. Yoshida Akira - ♀ - α - Hero Name: Brisk - Also Akiko’s twin sister
Quirk - Fast Forward - Speeds up moving objects, only if they are in her line of sight. Stepping or moving the object out of her line of sight ends the effect of her quirk on the object.
13. Yoshida Akiko - ♀ - Ω - Hero Name: Lag- Also Akira’s twin sister
Quirk - Slow Down - Slows down moving objects, only if they are in her line of sight. Stepping or moving the object out of her line of sight ends the effect of her quirk on the object.
14. Kusomoto Takahiro - ♂ - Β - Hero Name: Omni-Nom
Quirk - Iron Gut - The boy could eat anything. And he meant anything. Knives, broken glass, nails. Also poisons, acids, other corrosive materials and even explosives. He was working on being able to eat projectiles, that was tricky though. He’d been practicing with rubber pellets but hasn’t mastered it yet.
Tomura's Opponents:
15. Chisaka Lin - ♀ - Β - Hero Name: UnFathom
Quirk - Bottomless - Can fit anything into a mostly enclosed space, like a mug or cup, an empty shoe, or pant pockets, and remove it when needed. Once she puts something in a mostly enclosed space, it is as if the object weighs nothing and takes up no room at all.
16. Kitagawa Hayate - ♂ - Β - Hero Name: Grammage
Quirk - Origami - ability to fold paper and it becomes the object, like a shield, sword, or even a bomb! Bombs made with fuzes that have ripped paper on the ends automatically light when he throws them. When he uses them in training he only makes them strong enough to knock a person down, and are full of super fine brightly colored powder.
17. Iwamoto Ryo - ♂ - Ω - Hero Name: GeoTrecker
Quirk - Short Cut - ability to create a small wormhole like rift in space to move from point A to point B in a moment. The rift appears as a super bright white slice. He uses a gps as a support item to allow him to move further. Can take one person with him at a time, for now.
18. Moto Fumihiro - ♂ - Β - Hero Name: InterruptUs
Quirk - Babbel - Ability to scramble how people talk or write so they can’t understand each other, can only do so within a certain radius. The larger the radius and the more people he uses it on, the more effort it takes.
19. Hinata Ito - ♂ - Β - Hero Name: StuckToo
Quirk - Velcro - Can stick to anything, and stick anything (or anyone) to himself. Able to turn it on and off at will.
20. Gushiken Kojiro - ♂ - α - Hero Name: Antisavision
Quirk - Two Steps - When you engage in a fight with him, he’ll always be two steps ahead of you. That is, only if you are in a fight.