Heroes of Today

Part 7~Just No

“Hands up. And no Quirks allowed. Try anything and I’ll kill him.” Spinning on the spot, our heroes came face to face with a villain who held a very dumb Kaminari.

“Kaminari!” Yaoyorouz jumped up, sounding worried.

“As an electrical type myself, I don’t want to kill him, but I will if I have to.” The villain let out some sparks to show that he was serious.

“He was waiting to ambush us when we thought they were all down,” Uzu muttered while retracting his wings. “You have to admire his strategy.”

“Get over there and don’t move a muscle!” The villain pointed at the heroes while Uzu raised his eyebrow.

“Which one is it?”

“Don’t talk!”

“Alright, just saying.”

“You know Uzu, I always thought this about Kaminari,” Jiro announced, causing both Uzu and Yaoyorozu to look at her. “But these electric types are all natural-born whiners. Never mind being a hero, there are so many different jobs you could do. This might sound naive but why become a villain? I just gotta wonder…”

“Thought I wouldn’t notice what you’re up to?” Jiro stopped, regret clear on her face as her Earphone Jack hovered only a little away from her boot. “It’d take a real idiot to fall for a kid’s stupid trick. Heroes-in-training should take hostage situations more seriously. If you three come quietly, I’ll let this block-head go, okay?”

“Wait a second. Why are we afraid of this guy? If he was serious about hurting any of us he would have done it already. That’s why he was hiding, he is useless.” Uzu smirked as his tail swayed behind him.

“I said shut up!”

“No, you actually said don’t talk,” Uzu corrected.

The villains growled as he stamped towards Uzu, he was going to say something but it quickly became a scream as Uzu used his tail- that had been stirring up the ground- to throw dirt and rocks into the villain’s eyes.

Uzu took his chance to throw Kaminari away from the villain and tackle him. “Cover now!”

Yaoyorozu covered the villain as Uzu sat on top of him.

“That was close… Don’t tell Akiko about this, she’ll kill me for being reckless.”

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“Get the hell outta here!” Bakugo jumped out of nowhere, tackling Kurugiri to the ground.

Ice covered the ground, freezing half of Nomu's body. “So I heard you people are here to kill All Might.”

“Crap! Almost had ‘em!” Tomoura dodged to the side as Kirishima jumped him.

“Not so fast! Let me just throw myself into the equation!” Tomoura let out a scream as a clone hit his back and blew up. Naka swiftly came out to pin him down.

“You’re not all that, you misty mook!” Bakugo looked insane as little sparks came off his palms.

“Scum like you could never kill the symbol of peace,” Todoroki stated in a disgusted way.

“Naka! What are you doing?!” Akiko appeared out of her hiding spot, Midoriya standing behind her.

“Get off me,” Tomoura ordered, wiggling and writhing under Naka. He did everything he could to get free but Naka stopped him.

“You slipped up, you bastard,” Bakugo claimed. “And it’s just like I thought! The parts you can turn into this foggy wrap gate are unlimited! And you’re using that misty crap to hide your real body, yeah?! Don’t move! If I decide you’re doing anything fishy, I’ll blow you straight to kingdom come!”

“That’s not very hero-like, dude,” Kirishima pointed out awkwardly.

Naka let out a scream as he jumped away, holding his now bleeding ankle. “What the- arg!”

Tomoura stood back up, brushing off the dirt that clung to him. “Not only have you beaten our level but most of you are at full health, today's kids really are something. Our league of villains should be ashamed! Nomu, take out the explosive brat, we need our escape route back.”

Nomu broke through the ice, destroying his arm and legs.

“Get back everyone!” All Might held his arm out to stop anyone else running forward.

“What the? I thought his Quirk was shock absorption!” Kirishima ran over to Naka, slinging Naka’s arm over his shoulder.

Akiko finished up wrapping Naka’s wounds in her vines, the blood being absorbed by the plants causing them to swell and cut off the flow even more.

“I don’t remember saying that’s all he can do. This is hyper regeneration. Nomu is a super-powered living sandbag, designed to withstand everything you’ve got,” Tomoura explained smugly.

Nomu launched forward at Bakugo but he was gone, instead, he hovered over Nomu's head.

Akiko let out a shuddery breath as she put him down a little away from the fight.

Tomoura was not happy. “Who are you?!”

“No one… at all.” Akiko awkwardly backed up to remove herself from the damage.

“You know All Might is violence in the name of saving others admirably? It is, isn't it, All Might? That pisses me off! Heroes and villains both thrive on violence but we’re still categorised. ‘You’re good.’ ‘you’re evil.’ That’s how it is! Symbol of peace? Hah! In the end, you’re just a tool for violence made to keep us down! And violence only breeds more violence. I’ll show the world by killing you!”

“Wow, he likes talking,” Akiko muttered.

“We have to help,” Midoriya stated hopefully.

“No, that’s reckless, leave it up to the heroes.”

“But we can’t just sit by and do nothing.”

“Midoriya is right, we should help,” Todoroki joined in.

“Yeah!” Kirishima pumped one of his hands up, the other still holding Naka in place.

“No! Get out of here,” All Might ordered, making the young heroes complain.

“He is right, Naka is still bleeding and we should help Tsu with Aizawa. Come on,” Akiko threw Naka’s other arm around her shoulder as she started to drag him- and consequently Kirishima- away.

Of course, not everyone listened as Midoriya charged back. But before anyone could follow the green-haired idiot, Akiko grabbed them with her vines.

A crash through the ceiling and a spectacular appearance from the heroes and the villains were running away.

“See, told you we didn’t have to go after them.”