An Unlikely Partnership~Tododeku

4~ Action!

The path to the left seemed darker and much more worn down.

We're here to find the next clue to this power before they do. We need to search the entire place, not matter how creepy it is. Midoriya reminded himself and stepped to the left.

Todoroki had frozen in horror.

"What is it Shouto..."

"Deku... Look ahead..."

He turned his head slowly and gasped in horror.

Standing in front of them were thirteen angry mercenaries. and they looked mad. They weren't going to get past without a fight.

The heroes raised their fists as the opposition grabbed their guns and actviated their quirks.

He exhaled. "Fight." 

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The pair took up defensive stances.

One For All... Twenty percent! 

Midoriya powered up and crackling green energy surrounded his body once more. He couldn't use one hundred percent. That would most likely bring the building down, defeating the mercenaries but that had a high chance of crushing their friends under the rubble. 

The mercenaries charged, quirks at the ready. Some had guns and others didn't. Todoroki figured that the ones who had guns were either had quirks that weren't good for combat, or they were quirkless. 

"Deku. We need to get the fight out of this building or somewhere that won't bring the building down." 

Midoriya nodded. He knew that too. It was very important that they were the only ones involved in the fight. The other were probably looking through the other corridors. 

I hope Kacchan and Kirishima-Kun are having better luck... I hope they haven't run into these people either.

The front mercenary stopped and held his hand up, signalling the others to stop their charge.

Todoroki and Midoriya froze too. 

"You want to take the fight away from here? We'll solve that." The leader signalled to the people in black behind him. "Do it."

"What-?" The hero duo simultaneously yelped in surprise as the sturdy ground below them gave way the a hole opened up in the floor, seemingly out of nowhere.

When the dust cleared, Midoriya and Todoroki slowly sat up and glanced around their surroundings. 

"Do you like it? We were watching you earlier from here. It's very sturdy even if you blast the walls with that explosive power of your other friends.. Dynamight was it?" The figure snickered, the dust swirling around him making him seem like he was standing in an invisible fire. "Let's fight!"

The heroes didn't have time to stand up before the mercenaries holding the guns opened fire on them. Todoroki, being the guy with the quick reflexes, created a wall of ice that froze the incoming bullets right in their place.

The defense melted and in that brief window of time they had, the superhero duo stood up.

Suddenly, a purple gas filled the room. Midoriya held his breath and Todoroki followed suit, both holding their breath while running and dodging the bullets. 

Then Midoriya had an idea. "Shouto-Kun!" He yelled into the comms over the gunfire. "I need you to-!"

The gunfire increased and Midoriya had to scream out the last part of his sentence.

Then the gunfire ceased. "Let's see how much you can stand shall we? Spore, gas!"

Spore's quirk was a little like Midnight's. Except it was poisonous.

A burst of air filled the room. A mini whirlpool of air collected the gas and a blast of fire dissipated it. When the gas and smoke cleared, the gas had dissipated and the heroes were unharmed.

Ten minutes later, both sides were exhausted. The villain side has fired out several quirks out at them.

Some of them consisted of wood splinter shooting, oxygen manipulation (they had almost suffocated) and something along the lines of blinking spells. 

Todoroki froze the room in a finalt blast of ice and the villains were frozen in the ice.

The aftermath of the battle wasn't too bad. Nothing had collapsed and the hero groups re-grouped to help them arrest the villains. When they had counted the number of villains they had captured though, they noticed that five were missing. 

The leader and the four with quirks had seemingly fled somehow.

While the eight criminals were being pulled away, Bakugou turned to Midoriya and Todoroki. "You guys did well. We still not out of the woods yet. These people were from the Black and White organisation according to the records we have with me. And we also need to investigate that building."

"Get the other group to keep watch outside while we're in there. Let's go investigate what's inside that building." Todoroki spoke with such authority, that everyone turned their heads and even Bakugou seemed a little taken aback.

"Well? Let's get started?!"

The team nodded. The hunt had only just begun, but they had a lead now. Only thing was, they didn't know what to do if there wasn't anything here.