A Frog's Tale [Tsu x Male Hero]

Chapter 76: Aizawa

Considering the swaps between Team Endeavour and Team Hawks, it seemed that the only plan that could go off without a hitch was ours. With Mister Aizawa, Deku, Bakugou, Monoma, Ryukyu, Mineta, Jirou, Miruko, Shinsou, Misaki, and I, we were certainly going to put up a tough fight against the Bone Collector. Regardless of her immense power and ammunition, we had a team of extremely strong enhancers who could save the planet from meteor showers with ease.

Arriving at her palace, Miruko announced she was go inside to check if there was anything amiss. Her keen sense of hearing meant she was the best suited among us to check the place out. Taking a few steps inside, we saw her pinching her nose and flinching in disgust, before she disappeared out of sight as she continued moving in. After a few moments, she came back out, giving us a grim warning.

"I would look at the walls of the main corridor if I were you, kids. Even the grizzled adults are gonna have a tough time holding it in with what I just saw." Miruko was a bit on the gruff side, but was goodhearted in nature, much like Bakugou, just a lot easier to talk to. I'd already had my share fair of disgusting gore as a direct result of being in contact with Kaiyo, so I didn't think it would affect me.

I was so wrong.

Once inside, the majority of us saw the grotesque festering remains of the two men who had previously infiltrated The Underdogs lay pinned to the wall, birds and rodents scattering as we approached. "Yeah she wasn't wrong when she said it was bad, I'd look away... Just look at the floor..." I said, hoping the others my age didn't have to see. I certainly felt nauseous from the scene, moreso than when I was just nervous for the upcoming battle.

One of the officers with us commented on it as well, saying about how awful it was and how vile Kaiyo must really be to have gone to such lengths to make an example out of them. "She could've just killed em, but no, this was personal... Even his fingers are all messed up, like she methodically worked her way through him to make him suffer as much as possible. Can we get an ID on these two?"

"Can we stop talking about it? This isn't the part of superhero stuff I wanted to get into when I signed up..." Mineta said, to which Mister Aizawa agreed. "There's no reason to do this in front of the kids. They have enough on their minds, we'll deal with the two John Does after." Funnily enough though, if any of us were going to throw up, it was actually Bakugou, who heaved twice before punching his chest to keep it down as we all passed it.

As we walked down the plain white corridor, we approached a set of double doors, with Miruko at the front giving us a signal to remain quiet. That could only mean one thing... Ribbon Dancer and Kaiyo were on the other side of these doors. With a powerful kick, the rabbit hero blasted the doors off their hinges and we all rushed inside. The room was huge, definitely way more than twenty meters, meaning Mister Aizawa and the other backline supports would be safe. It also meant Ribbon Dancer would have some serious ground to cover if he wanted to reach any of us.

"Alright villain scum, surrender and we won't break every bone in your body!" Miruko shouted out, with Bakugou glancing her up and down with a strange sense of déjà vu as that's more or less exactly what he would have said in her position. It was as if their similarities were so blatantly obvious that even he was beginning to see them. You know, I'm really glad those two weren't similar ages, what a scary duo they'd have made...

Speaking of crazy couples, Kaiyo seemed prepared to meet us, as she was on a throne of her own making until we all filed into the room. This place was easily the size of a shopping centre, just without multiple stories. Kaiyo seemed to levitate off of her throne, her ribs all connected via tube-like structures protruding from her body to the building itself. It wasn't very clear, but the texture of the bones she was controlling was different from the dormant stuff.