Mystery from Another World--MHA

Part 124: The Axe Falls

The day following the twins' disappearance, the UA students were working with Pro heroes to continue their internships.

Shine and Wally hung with Dabi when they were not with Eri and were keeping somewhat of a prayerful watch on their part, waiting for the axe to fall.

But when it did fall, it was not what they thought was going to happen at all.

Aizawa texted Shine at about 10 am to check the news. His tone was not good and the text ended with, "Your friends seem to have grown tired of playing nice."

Shine got a dreadful feeling in the pit of her stomach.

She turned on the TV in the living area (she was at the housing with Dabi at the time).

Dabi was just getting some late breakfast and came in just in time to drop it on the floor.

The news channels were all covering the same thing.

In one of the cities not too far from the school, but nearer to the coast, at least 6 Nomu had appeared out of nowhere, as always, and were tearing up everything in sight.

"How many...? You had 6?" Shine was aghast.

"I don't know how many we had." Dabi was staring. "Or how strong they were. I thought we didn't have that many left that were any good. It was hard to get chumps to... You know, because Kurogiri was gone... Shine, mark my words, that's not something Shigaraki would do right now. He can't risk that kind of exposure."

"Then they just got out? Don't they only follow a human command?" Shine asked, already filling her backpack.

"As far as I know-- but maybe not?!" Dabi was mad. "I swear, it's not Shigaraki."

"I believe you, Dabi. I'm not stupid. This can only be connected to yesterday, but do you want to find out what someone else will do with those things? I have to go see if I can stop them!"

"Are you crazy? If you can't do it they'll tear you into pieces!" Dabi grabbed her arm. "Even if you could do one, could you do 6?"

"I don't know... Wally will need to help."

"Even with his help, the most he could handle is two of those things, if they're as resilient as the rest," Dabi insisted, "You have to wear them down..."

Shine bit her lip. "What else can we do? No one else has a prayer of stopping them as quickly as us...and look, that's a heavily populated area, Dabi, so people have probably already died..."

"Well...at least let me come with you, then," Dabi sighed, "I could handle one, probably..."

Shine hesitated. "You're willing to risk it?"

"And my alternative is staying here waiting for...?"

"All right. All right...but we have to be careful. If you hurt yourself, it'll be useless to me, and I don't want to have to carry you around."

"Got it... Where's West?"

"I'll call him. He's probably already on his way." Shine whipped out her phone.

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"Boss, there's something I think you need to see!" Spinner yelled in a ghostly voice.

Shigaraki came out of the back room to find all the LOV gathered around some stolen TV.

They watched the news coverage.

"Uh...that's about...4 kilometers from where we are," Compress said suddenly, staring at the screen.

At that moment they all heard a very loud crash that matched something one of the monsters threw on screen.