[1V1 - Lucas Mercer VS Katsuki Bakugo]
Spider/Symbiote-OC | OC-centric | OC has a harem [Nemuri Kayama, Momo Yaoyorozu, Marianne Stacy, Shiroka Tsukigami (Japanese Felicia Hardy), Cindy Moon, Kaina Tsutsumi] | OC is friends with Izuku | OC loves trash-talking | Bakugo gets humiliated | Power Fantasy | Ochako hates Bakugo with a fiery passion | Kirishima is a Bakugo simp | Villain OC shows up at the end | YouTuber cameos (take a wild guess who they are)
An apartment building burned in the night. Firefighters were running back and forth from the building, bringing victims to the EMTs standing by the ambulances and firetrucks. Police lined up behind the EMTs and firefighters, working to keep the bystanders from interfering. Suddenly, two people dressed in spider-themed costumes emerged from the burning doorway.
One of them is a male in a blue costume that had red sleeves, gloves, thigh-high boots, and a giant red spider on his back, and he had a hole through his chest. The other is a female clad in a red costume with a white hooded capelet that had a spiderweb motif, and her costume had many holes that showcased the wounds and bruises she sustained.
A boy with wild brown hair and orange bangs started struggling against an officer's arms. "MAMA!" The boy screamed as he watched his wounded mother carrying his dead father.
"Lucas!? Keep away! It's dangerous!" His mother yelled at the child, who got himself free from the officer and ran towards his parents. She got a few steps away from the building, when suddenly, everyone heard a voice coming from inside the building.
"Mariko-chan."
The spider-themed Heroine stiffened at the voice as she looked behind her. Slimy maroon tentacles emerged from the burning entrance.
"Renji," Mariko said with venomous disgust. From the entrance a dark-haired man emerged with tentacles sprouting from his back, holding a dead schoolboy's severed head. He took a bite out of the head, throwing it away when he turned to address the spider-themed Heroine.
"Come back to me, Mariko-chan," the man said, almost like he was pleading desperately. "I promise I'll change, Honey. Please, just take me back--"
"No," said Mariko defiantly, laying her husband's corpse gently on the ground. "I'm done with you, Renji." At that, Renji stopped his pretense, donning an angry expression.
"Lucas," she called for her son as she took off her mask, who ran to her. Brushing her brown hair to the sides of her face, she had sadness in her eyes as she looked her child in the eyes. "Be good for me and Papa, okay?"
"W-What?"
Despite sensing Renji, Mariko ignored the tentacled villain slowly walking behind her, as she focused only on her son.
"Enjoy your life to the fullest."
"Mama, behind you!" Her son panicked, seeing the villain raise a tentacle.
Her tears fell, smiling even as she said her final words to her son. "... I love you, sweetie."
"MAMA!"
Suddenly Mariko threw her son to the EMTs, jumping over Renji and avoiding his tentacles narrowly. Before the depraved villain could attack again, she cocooned him with her webs and spun him around before throwing him back inside the burning apartment building, bringing their fight inside it.
Renji wiped some blood off his cheek. "You could've been perfect," he spat. "WE could've been perfect. If only you didn't let yourself be swayed by that bastard--"
Mariko scoffed, as she webbed up her shoulder wound. "Really? The cannibal pedo who spends all of his time waiting for kids in an alley, calling my heroic husband a bastard?" She cut him off, angering the villain
"Look around you, Mariko-chan," Renji sneered, gesturing to the flames around them. "With how bad I've hurt you, do you honestly think you can win!?"
Mariko crouched down and raised her arms, assuming the family's signature Spider-stance. "I don't need to win. I just need to make sure you lose."
Renji roared in a rage, with Mariko letting out a furious scream of her own as he and Mariko charged towards each other...
Suddenly, an explosion rocked the building, and it started collapsing, seemingly burying Mariko and Renji beneath the rubble.
"MAMAAA!!!"
Years later...
"NOW THAT THE HALF-HOUR BREAK IS OVER THANKS TO THE DESTRUCTION CAUSED BY MIDORIYA AND TODOROKI IN THE LAST MATCH, ARE YOU ALL READY FOR THE NEXT ONE!?" Present Mic asked the crowd, making them cheer hysterically.
"WILL THE NEXT PAIR OF FIGHTERS PLEASE COME TO THE STADIUM?" A loud voice sounded from the intercom in a waiting room, snapping a boy out of his trip down memory lane. He brought a hand to his face to wipe the tears from his cheeks.
He walked to the door, readying himself for the battle ahead of him. Which, in his symbiote's personal opinion, is very one-sided in his host's favor.
'Ma, Pa, I'll make you both proud,' He promised, stepping into the arena...
"ALRIGHT! FOR THE SECOND MATCHUP OF THE SECOND ROUND, A CELEBRITY SINCE HIS MIDDLE SCHOOL DAYS (Press X to doubt) WITH AN EXPLOSIVE PERSONALITY AND A FACE ONLY HIS MOTHER COULD LOVE, A KID WHO LOVES TO TALK TRASH WITH THE POWER TO BACK IT UP, FROM CLASS 1A... GIVE IT UP FOR KATSUKI BAKUGO!" The Voice Hero announced. The crowd cheered while the Perpetually-Angry Blonde stomped up the stairs into his side of the arena with his hands in his pockets.
On the stands, Tsuyu had a finger to her chin as she spoke, "In some ways, I'm worried about this matchup."
"Yeah, I don't think I can watch Baka-go beat someone ruthlessly," Ochako said, twiddling her fingers in worry.
"I'm not talking about Bakugo, Ochako-chan," Tsuyu said, making her usually bubbly friend look at her. "Based on what we've seen, that Gen Ed guy with the Symbiote Quirk is almost as formidable as that Midoriya guy," The frog girl continued.
"Oh." Suddenly Ochako had an uncharacteristically vicious grin on her face. "Then I hope they put Baka-go in his place." Eijirou frowned at that.
Behind her, Minoru paled as he replied, "What do you mean? We're talking about Bakugo, right!? Did you forget how vicious he gets!?" Eijirou nodded vigorously as he chimed in, "Yeah! Bakubro never loses!"
"I don't know," Kyoka joined in as she held her arms, "I wouldn't count his opponent out so easily..."
"VERSUS! THE OTHER UNDERDOG FROM CLASS 1C ALONGSIDE IZUKU MIDORIYA WHO ALSO WITHSTOOD EVERY OPPONENT HE CAME ACROSS, SON OF THE LATE REDBACK AND SEAMSTRESS, THE ONE WHO IS VOTED THE 2ND MOST ATTRACTIVE 1ST-YEAR STUDENT ACCORDING TO Yuuei.SPORTSFESTPOLLS.net (and also my personal pick)... IT'S LUCAS MERCER!" Present Mic announced, before being berated by Eraserhead. "You're supposed to be unbiased, Mic," he says as he sends a not-so-subtle glare at the aforementioned boy.
The crowd cheered harder than they did for Katsuki (Well, the women did, anyway.) as the scarred boy walked into the arena on his side, fixing his brown hair into a ponytail and brushing his orange bangs from his face. Katsuki glared at him from across the arena. When Lucas was done with his hair, he looked up, raising an eyebrow at the female portion of the crowd who kept screaming their marriage proposals at him even after the intro.
"I knew I shouldn't have done the 'Smile and Wave' thing in my first match," Lucas muttered under his breath, not caring about the other women as he looked for a particular girl. When he found her sitting among the students of Class 1A, he gave her a winning smile. The brunette started blushing furiously as she watched him raise his hands, sprouting two bloodlike tendrils and shaping them into a heart.
Unfortunately the female portion of the crowd started acting up, either screaming their lungs out in glee or whining about him professing his love to someone else. Midnight covered her mouth to stifle her laughter, thinking about her sister-wives's reactions.
Meanwhile, the students of Class 1A started talking among themselves again.
"Kyyyaaaaaaahhhh!! So dreamy!" Mina and Toru said as they hugged each other looking at him.
"Holy fuck, he got the Rizz," Kaminari said, standing up as he and Mineta saluted the scarred boy.
"Goddamn. Whoever he directed that silent declaration to is so damn lucky. Right, Yaomomo?" Kyoka said as she nudged her friend playfully, knowing about her obsession with romance stories.
"Yaomomo?" Kyoka asked, as she and the other girls started looking closely at the heiress who was red-faced for some reason. A few seconds go by before it clicked.
'... NO FUCKING WAY!' They thought simultaneously.
"Alright!" Midnight's voice snapped them out of their reverie, as the crowd started going silent. "You boys better remember the rules, okay? Otherwise I'll have to... punish you." She finished seductively as she struck a pose, making all the men in the crowd cheer loudly.
'Really, Darling?' Lucas thought, deadpanning even as he nodded. Katsuki merely grunted in annoyance. Both took their respective stances.
"ALRIGHT! THE COMBATANTS ARE SET! IT'S TIME FOR A DEATH BATTLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLEEEEEE!!!" Present Mic screamed, hyping up the audience as Eraserhead looked at him blandly. "Are you trying to get sued by ScrewAttack and Rooster Teeth?" He asked his co-commentator.
"It sucks that I don't get to fight Deku," Bakugo said, giving Lucas the middle finger. The scarred boy just smirked.
"Too bad, you're gonna have to put up with me," Lucas retorted.
"Oh, that's alright," Katsuki grinned maliciously as he continued, "At least give me a challenge, will ya, Fuckface!?"
Lucas snorted as he thought, 'Just had to jinx yourself, huh?'
"Begin!!!" Midnight declared.
"DIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEE!!!" Katsuki wasted no time, blasting himself forward to Lucas who only stood in his spot. He cocked his right arm back in a feint, planning to kick him with his left leg. Then his eyes widened when Lucas started to move.
'What the--' The scarred boy twisted around as he brought his body down, kicking Bakugo away.
'Fucking hell!' The bombastic blonde screamed internally as he quickly righted himself in midair and exploded himself forward to keep himself in the arena. He landed on the concrete with a thud, quickly looking up to see Lucas above him with a Symbiote-covered right fist cocked back and a manic smile in his face.
"SHIT!" Katsuki screamed as he blasted himself to the side, barely avoiding the punch that made a small spider-web of cracks on his previous spot.
"INCREDIBLE START FROM MERCER!" Present Mic commented, rousing the crowd's excitement. "Bakugo tried to perform a feint attack, but Mercer anticipated it and reacted accordingly," Eraserhead commentated, with a somewhat impressed tone.
Growling, Bakugo blasted himself towards Lucas again. "The stronger the Quirk, the more imprecise the attack is!" He yelled, letting out an explosion to propel himself to Lucas' left. Seeing this, Lucas turned around swiftly to punch the blonde, but Katsuki propelled himself above to avoid the attack. Too bad though; Katsuki failed to see that it was actually a feint.
"Get him, Lucas!" Momo yelled as she stood from her chair, shocking her friends. As she sat back down, Kyoka nudged her playfully. "First name basis, Yaomomo? Is there something you're not telling us?" She teased a now-blushing Momo.
Standing on one leg Lucas jumped, raising the other to kick the blonde bomber again. Unfortunately, Katsuki caught the leg with his right hand and spun around using explosions from his left to try and throw his opponent out of the ring.
"WHOA! UNLIKE PREVIOUS MATCHUPS, THIS MATCHUP APPEARS TO BE ONE WHERE BOTH FIGHTERS PLAY A GAME OF KEEP-AWAY!" The Voice Hero announced. The crowd gasped, watching Lucas as he flew through the air almost reaching the boundary, only for the crowd to cheer as the scarred boy shot a moderately thick tendril towards Katsuki.
Lucas shot towards Katsuki, as the Hero prospect raised his arms to block the attack. To Bakugo's utter surprise, though, Lucas didn't attack, In fact, the scarred boy slid between his legs and jumped high. Katsuki panicked as he twisted around to attack the Gen Ed student only to get yanked to his enemy with a tendril and be met with a Symbiote-covered fist.
"WAPOW!" Lucas yelled as his fist connected with Katsuki's face, launching him away. Once again, the Hero prospect almost went out of bounds before he righted himself and let out explosions behind him to keep himself in the arena, making the crowd erupt in cheers once more. Somewhere amidst the crowd's cheers, a diverse crew of Western Pro Heroes were hollering and laughing at the word Lucas yelled out when he punched Katsuki away, with the owl-headed leader reminiscing about someone they played with in GTA V back when they were still full-time NewTubers.
"UNBELIEVABLE! BAKUGO WAS ALMOST LAUNCHED OUT OF THE ARENA AGAIN! IS THERE MORE TO MERCER'S POWER THAN MEETS THE EYE!?" Present Mic commentated, as the crowd cheered and roared in excitement of the matchup's development.
"Aw, what's the matter, Bitchugo? Are you tired?" With a smile still on his face, Lucas walked slowly towards Katsuki, taunting the Hero prospect as he covered his other hand with his Symbiote Quirk, "I thought you said you're the best; that you're gonna win. I thought we were only 'stepping stones' to your undeserved glory. Or was all that just talk from a kid biting off more than he can chew?"
Katsuki saw red. "RRRRAAAAAAARRRGGHH!!!" Katsuki roared, taking to the air letting out explosions in a circular motion like a tornado of smoke and fire. "HOWITZER... IMPAAAAAAAACT!!!" Katsuki bellowed, propelling himself forward like a missile, letting out an explosion much bigger than before. Lucas just stood there with a smug grin, facing the attack head-on, as he shielded himself with his quirk.
'Lucas!' thought Midnight and Momo in slight worry, while they and the crowd covered their eyes as the explosion generated too much smoke.
"Nggh! It's too strong! What the heck!?" Mina cried as she and her classmates shielded themselves from the hot air. It was so strong that Eijirou had hold onto Minoru's leg to keep the diminutive pervert from being blown away.
Eventually the light died. Everyone slowly looked back down onto the field, the arena nothing but rubble at that point, with Katsuki at the center of it all.
'Damn it!' Katsuki stood up, holding his arm in pain. 'Went overboard. Bah! Whatever. No use moping about Quirk Overuse when I already beat the loser.' He grinned.
Meanwhile among the General Education students, Izuku only watched with a smirk as he sat with his wives and daughter. He snorted, catching the attention of his classmates. Noticing the looks he's receiving, he told them, "Lets' just say it takes more than a bunch of fireworks to beat him."
"Hey! Midnight!" Katsuki yelled, catching Midnight's attention. "Loser's out of bounds by now! Call the match!" He declared. Midnight hesitantly complied.
But as Midnight was about to declare Katsuki the winner...
"Did you really think this shit would be a walk in the park?" A voice called out.
Moments later, the smoke cleared. Katsuki gaped in shock at Lucas, who only stood there with a blank expression as he deactivated his Symbiotic armor, his singed PE jacket falling off his body completely. The crowd gasped and murmured as they looked at the myriad of minor bruises across his torso, and the large blue/red spider tattoos connected from his front to his back through their front legs.
"HOLY WHOA! EVEN AFTER WHAT COULD POSSIBLY BE BAKUGO'S STRONGEST ATTACK, MERCER IS STILL STANDING! HE AND MIDORIYA REALLY ARE DIAMONDS IN THE ROUGH!" Present Mic announced. At that, the crowd slowly started cheering hysterically.
Lucas brought his middle finger to his cheek, wiping off a smidge of blood and giving Katsuki the middle finger simultaneously. "All that power for one drop of blood? You really are pathetic," The tattooed boy taunted the bombastic Hero Course student, who slowly got angry. Suddenly, Lucas whipped Katsuki's palms, making them bleed.
The crowd gasped in shock as Katsuki screamed in pain, looking at his bleeding palms then at his enemy, who blankly stared back as he willed his quirk back to himself.
"... DIIIIIIEEEEEEE!!!" Katsuki roared as he shot himself forward, pain be damned. He's winning this fucking fight. He's gonna put this arrogant little shit in his place. He's gonna--
As he got closer, ready to blow away his opponent to kingdom come, Lucas ran forward.
Then he jumped, moved his body face down and punched Katsuki to the ground, knocking him put cold instantly. The crowd winced as Katsuki's head created a nearly unnoticeable crater on the concrete.
As Lucas landed he did a backward roll and pushed himself off the ground, doing a backflip before striking the Spider-Clan's signature stance, eliciting some cheers from the Spider-Man fans in the crowd.
Midnight fought hard to stifle her laughs while she ran over to check on Katsuki, who was currently lying on the floor ass up and face down. As Lucas stood up, the crowd erupted in cheers once again as she made her verdict, "Katsuki Bakugo is unconscious! Lucas Mercer wins!"
"YEEEAAAHHH! AFTER A LONG BACK-AND-FORTH, LUCAS MERCER CAME OUT ON TOP! ANOTHER WIN FOR THE GENERAL EDUCATION COURSE!" Present Mic declared, hyping up the crowd more. Lucas looked around and smiled at the sight of Izuku and his wives and daughter, as they along with his classmates joined the crowd in the standing ovation. Then he looked at the Pros, and his eyes widened at a whole row of Pros that stood out, as he was saluted by the owl-headed leader. Lucas did the same, grinning as he did.
On the stands, the students of Class 1A had mixed reactions.
"That was unmanly..." Eijirou said as he frowned, while Minoru trembled behind him. "Well, the rules didn't say you're not allowed to knock someone out," Tsuyu said as she tapped her chin. "Although considering how hard the punch was, I can understand how you feel about this."
"Tch." Ochako scoffed at that, making her friends look at her. "What? The Bombastic Bastard destroyed whatever I had with Izu- Midoriya. If anything, he got off lightly," Ochako said scornfully, making the class sputter before laughing.
"You really hate Bakugo, don't you?" Mina asked her with a strained smile. Ochako replied, "With every fiber of my fucking being." Her friends laughed again. Meanwhile, the Yaoyorozu heiress put her hand on her chest as she longingly stared at Lucas, who was conversing with Nemuri, one of her sister-wives.
Suddenly, Lucas felt someone staring at him. 'Huh... Well, well,' he thought as he looked around, slowly grinning when he focused on Momo.
The Yaoyorozu heiress stumbled backward a bit when Lucas ran off the arena and jumped to where she was. "Hey, Babe!" He greeted her, resulting in her classmates getting a double-take.
Unfortunately, a hidden mic caught what Lucas called her.
"BABE!?" The women in the crowd reacted, jealousy evident in their voices.
"'Babe'?" Mina and Toru had a glint in their eyes like predators surrounding their shared prey. Momo glared at them, turning back to Lucas after making them back down.
"Lucas! What are you-- Mmm!?" She didn't get to finish.
Momo's classmates and the crowd went hysterical when he brought her close to him and kissed her. They all had mixed reactions as they witnessed him professing his love for her: One half of the crowd congratulated the boy, and the other half (mostly women) started acting out and demanded he kiss them too. Midnight pouted before grinning, already thinking of ways to "reward" Momo and their shared husband with her sister-wives.
"OOOOOH!" Present Mic joined the crowd, while Eraserhead slammed his head on the table as he muttered, "Damn PDA..." Present Mic saw the opportunity to tease his co-commentator, "You're just jealous you don't get to play tonsil hockey with Emi that much, huh?"
Somewhere in the crowd, a Heroine with a gas mask guffawed as the crowd heard Eraserhead slapping Present Mic upside the head despite the casts on his arms.
Momo's eyes fluttered a bit before they closed, moaning as she reciprocated her husband's kiss and wrapped her arms around him. Lucas unlatched from Momo's lips with a pop. Smiling, he asked, "See you at home?"
"Y-Yes, Darling," Momo replied, even as her eyes fluttered. "S-See you at h-home." She stuttered out. Lucas smiled wide. "You're so cute when you're shy," he said before jumping away, laughing as he left for his classmates right before Class 1A started interrogating his wife.
Well, one of his wives. But they don't need to know that little tidbit about his life.
Meanwhile, in a traditional Japanese house surrounded by the Musutafu woods, four women watched the TV, as their husband started getting bold with his alpha wife. "Go get her, Tiger!" Exclaimed a girl with red-accented blonde hair named Marianne Stacy-Mercer; daughter of the late political legend Gwyn Stacy and the recently-retired Mary Jane Stacy, who went by the name "Jackpot" during her time as a Pro Heroine.
"Easy there, Spider; you might make her faint," said Felicia Hardy-Mercer, a platinum-haired athlete/vigilante, as she pet her black-&-white cat. Cindy Moon-Mercer stifled her giggles beside the girl as she looked at all the posts regarding their shared husband.
"Hmph. He better kiss me silly too when he gets home," muttered a woman with pink-accented violet hair as she crossed her arms in jealousy. At that, the other woman laughed at her, before Kaina Tsutsumi-Mercer joined in the laughter herself.
At the same time, in the Yaoyorozu Estate, the Yaoyorozu patriarch's glasses cracked as he ripped his newspapers in half at the sight of his daughter and her husband showing their love on Live TV, while his wife jumped in glee along with seven of the maids screaming about 'grandbabies'.
In an underground bunker hidden away from the rest of society, a large TV screen showed the current match. A middle-aged man stood in front of it as he did some curls with his arms and the eight tentacles sprouting from his back. He held a scowl when the TV showed the winner's face. "So, the brat's still alive," the man spoke as he brushed his graying hair to the left side of his face. "I thought I took care of the problem when I dropped a building on him two years ago," he continued as he stopped exercising and threw his dumbbells to the side.
"Oh, well. Just another Spider-Bastard to add to my collection." He sneered as he walked along a row of stuffed heads mounted on a wall. Almost all the heads wore masks with similar web patterns and teardrop-shaped lenses that indicate where the eyes would be, with some of the masks having holes, cuts and stains. Other heads had masks that covered only the hair and the top half of the heads like a doo-rag. Very few that had no masks were literal spider heads with eight ruby-red eyes and either sharp mandibles or split jaws.
He stopped in front of a particular pair of heads that belonged to a man and woman named Noel Mercer and Mariko Eguchi-Mercer, the web-slinging Pro Heroes known as Redback and Seamstress.
He scowled at Noel's head, remembering how he "stole his wife and turned her against him". Suddenly, he grinned maliciously at Mariko's masked head as he crooned to it, "Ready to see your worthless spawn again, Mariko-chan?"
The die is cast. And Renji Hatsumoto will ensure the death of the Spider-Clan's last son.