Mystery from Another World

Part 110: Rescues (IC)

Silk didn't have to wait long for nomu to come her way...there seemed to be an awful lot of them in her area, actually.

The smaller ones...but when she saw one rip a lamp post off its stand and start swinging it, she knew it was bad.

The group of high school kids who she was trying to get through a badly destroyed part of the intersection were panicking.

"I just want my mom..." one kid was wailing.

"Where's my sister!" another was screaming.

Silk used her binding clothes to trip up a few monsters as they were coming their way, but they tore through them with ease. She and the kids just kept running---

One of the monsters took a tow truck and flung it in front of them, nearly knocked over two of the kids at the front.

The truck hit the street, blocking half of it, then exploded, the kids fell back.

Silk felt heat sear her skin, but it wasn't enough to burn her.

The kids were all screaming in terror now as the monsters were closing in on them.

This is how I chose to die... Silk thought, her mind both clear and paralyzed at the same time, Saving a bunch of random kids because of a crazy wish not to be a hypocrite...and this is where it gets you...I suppose it's better than dying for nothing...

She spun a sort of net, but knew it wasn't going to do anything, they would only tear through it even if she made an illusion.

"Don't any of you have a combat type quirk!" she yelled at the kids.

"We're not heroes!" was their annoying response.

"Who cares? Nincompoops!" she shouted.

At least one or two of them got the point, some threw something at the nomu that looked like little tacks or nails, not much of a quirk, but maybe useful.

But the monster didn't slow down-- they didn't seem to pierce its skin.

The distance was less than 40 meters now...

The other kids shot some kind of goo at the ground that the monster did run through...it slowed down just barely, but it wasn't strong enough to stop it either, it just yanked its foot out of it.

And more were coming now.

"Valiant effort." Silk could think of nothing else to say. "At least we did not go down without trying..."

They kept screaming.

But then a huge piece of grating fell in between them and the monster.

Silk looked up. "Compress?!"

Compress it was.

He landed near the monster and reached out as it was tearing into the grate, he turned it into a marble.

"That was the scariest thing I've ever done," he shuddered.

Silk gaped.

"Isn't that Compress?" One of the high school kids was stunned. "From the LOV?"

"Did we just get saved by a villain?"

"Dude, that's so cool."

"Stupid kids. Why aren't you running?" Compress yelled at them.

They jumped, then ran for it.

The other nomu didn't go after them, surprisingly. Instead they ran right for Silk and Compress.

Silk tossed a screen in front of them with little copies of them on it.

The monster tore into it like it was a deer they were hunting.