The Emperor's Dragon II

Marshalling the Troops

Yakuni was exhausted. But it was a good exhaustion. After a short break to watch the top ten of the Hero Billboard last night, he'd resumed work, waking up, and preparing all the Nomu. If Dragon was going to assault Tartarus, then there was no such thing as too much force.

And if Dragon was going to level Tartarus, then it was going to be levelled down to the sea bed. Besides, Yakuni knew how much getting his father back meant to Dragon. He knew how much it meant to him.

While his first loyalty was to Dragon, Yakuni was very much aware how much he owed Dragon's father. And he was aware of how much experience the man had. People might see it as a weakness for Dragon to be freeing his father. They'd see it as him not being independent. People were not looking at the whole picture. With Dragon's father contributing to a plan...

The heroes, and the oppression they represented would be destroyed much faster.

So that's why he'd spent the night waking up the Nomu. And he'd gotten some of Twice's clones, copied especially from Kurogiri to help him gather the Nomu into a couple of holding warehouses. The more powerful Nomu were with him now.

The Doctor had - well, there was no delicate way of putting this - screwed up with the hospital but at least he had recognised that having Tomura, the All For One holder and the High Ends he had been working on there was too much of a risk and had moved the High Ends to another facility. Pity he hadn't kept All For One's holder where it should have been, with Gigantomachia.

But that had been put right, and now, the High Ends were here. They were eager to meet their master and eager to please. With them, and the Near High Ends... Breaking into Tartarus should be simple. Breaking out, even simpler.

The distraction would probably be the most dangerous job today, but Yakuni had an idea to help with that. Dabi had not agreed to extra quirks and while Yakuni didn't doubt his ability, he knew Izuku would be devastated if something happened to him.

Even if Dabi caused issues.

So... he had an idea to potentially ensure Dabi came back.

And if afterwards, Dabi didn't like it, then a first pass of Nomufication would ensure that the villain didn't bother to mention it to Dragon.

Besides, there was always a chance, a pretty good one actually, given the way he'd customised the Nomu to face off against Endeavor, that his idea would not be necessary.

It had actually been interesting watching the High Ends. The ones the Doctor had made knew each other. They'd been developed together. They were a bit surprised to see another one. The Doctor had transferred the High Ends to his facility, but Yakuni had kept Rappa and the other Shie Hassaikai separate.

Rappa had stared at Hood, and for a moment Yakuni had thought the two of them would go for each other. He'd managed to avoid that disaster by telling them that they'd both have targets to fight tomorrow.

Yakuni suspected he was aided by the fact the Nomu knew they shouldn't fight each other. The problem was the High Ends wanted to fight. And they wanted to find out which of them was the strongest.

It didn't matter. They were waiting now and Yakuni had broken off the Shie Hassaikai Nomu into a group slightly separate from the others. There was another, small Nomu with the Shie Hassaikai Nomu. If everything went well, then it would do nothing.

He yawned hugely just as Izuku came in, trailed by Gigantomachia who was carrying the quirk holder.

Yakuni blinked and corrected his thought. Given the way Izuku was dressed, it was Dragon who had come in. He was wearing form fitting black leathers with electric green highlights. Actually, it wasn't leather. It looked like leather, but it wasn't. With the way Izuku could destroy a costume, there was no point in wasting money on leather. The suit included gloves, and Yakuni wondered if the fabric had been tailored but realised, it probably hadn't been. It had a high neck and while the highlights were laid out in lines, when you looked closely, you could see that they also resembled scales.