•Manipulation• [BNHA × Male!OC]

Chapter 149: NO CAPES! (World Heroes' Mission AU)

We'd found our way to a nearby hotel with a printing room.

Plugging in the SD card, a screen full of folders popped up.

"There are so many! Where do we look first?" Midoriya pondered.

"Move!" Katsuki shoved the boy out of the way and I steadied him, grabbing the broccoli by the shoulders.

"What's the latest time stamp?" Katsuki muttered, scrolling through the files.

"This one," he clicked into what appeared to be an audio file.

We huddled around the monitor.

A voice starts to play over the speakers.

"My name is Alan Kay. I'm one of the scientists that Humarise kidnapped."

'Kidnapped?'

"Humarise took the family of many scientists as hostages, and forced them to develop quirk factor triggering bombs." Alan Kay continued. "The first terror attack used the bomb to gather top heroes at places where Humarise branches are located."

I grit my teeth.

'It was all a trap...!'

"Next they are planning to use the quirk factor triggering bombs to eradicate those heroes."

Noises of shock and frustration escape the boys around me.

"After losing its top heroes, society would collapse. Using the chaos surrounding that, they would eradicate all quirk users and turn the world into one with only the quirkless. That is the true goal of Humarise's Flect Turn."

I grimace.

'Eugenics? In this day and age...?'

"I hope that with this message, my voice will reach the heroes. Take this key that my colleage, Eddie Soul, who was also kidnapped, made in exchange for his life to disarm the bombs."

I look down at the purple piece of plastic that now seemed to be so much more.

"Please," Alan begged over the screen, "Save the world."

We were left in a poignant silence for a moment as Midoriya picked up the key.

In fact, Rody looked particularly troubled.

Then a woman screamed.

We jerked around only to be met with a stampede of people running past us.

"I repeat," the news anchor speaks over the TV, "the organization advocating for humanity's salvation, Humarise, has planted bombs in different locations around the world. They have declared that in two hours, one hour and 52 minutes to be exact, the bombs will explode."

'Shit, it's already happening...!'

"In the areas where Humarise had planted the bombs, panic has taken over, and heroes have been working to direct people to safety and remove the bombs."

'Everything is playing out according to their plans...'

"The areas affected by the bombs are as follows..." a world map dotted with red pinpoints flashes on the screen.

"You've got to be kidding me!" Rody runs up to the TV, "my house is in the affected area in Otheon!"

Shoto furrows his brows, turning back to the computer.

"We should send this to HQ and have them order the hero teams to retreat-"

"We can't do that, dumbass!" Katsuki scowls.