•Manipulation• [BNHA × Male!OC]

Chapter 151: SMASH OR PASS (World Heroes' Mission AU)

"This is a holy place that will bring about humanity's salvation," Flect Turn declares, after which a whirring noise overtook the room.

'The walls!'

Metal shutters were rising from the floor, sealing off all exits.

"This isn't the salvation of humanity, the Quirk Doomsday Theory hasn't been scientifically verified!" Midoriya yelled at the villain as he descended from the stage.

"It's just a popular belief! How can you accept something so uncertain and do something so terrible?!" as always, Saint Midoriya was looking at this through the lens of a good-hearted person.

I swept my gaze over to the villain steadily approaching us.

This man was no such thing.

"Pure humans are being threatened by the disease of quirks. As time passes, they mix, evolve and go out of control, driving humanity to destruction," he spoke so smoothly, its almost like he fully bought into the lies he was selling.

"Spare me that crap, the only thing pure here is your pure bullshit!" I yell, dropping to the floor.

It sinks under Flect Turn, but he leaps out of the way, firing a laser at me.

I flinch back to avoid the blast.

"That's not true!" Midoriya yells at the villain, "Whether or not someone has a quirk doesn't mean they're sick or anything, we're all alive! We're all human!"

What a shame that some people were too stupid to understand such a simple concept.

"The gravely afflicted are beyond help," Flect Turn mutters and I roll my eyes.

'This is like dealing with a conservative uncle, what a headache...'

I glance around the room to find some way to get past the man, but ever the proactive one, Midoriya runs ahead.

"SMASH!" he yells, kicking the villain in the face.

Or rather he tries to.

'It's not contacting...?!'

Flect Turn's cape flies off him, but his person remains unmoving.

In fact, a vortex of what looked to be spiraling energy built up behind him.

"Shit-! Midoriya!"

I bent down and softened the floor just in time as Deku is sent flying back.

I couldn't do much about the damage he got from the attack itself, but softening the landing allowed Midoriya to get to his feet a lot easier.

"I-It was repelled," he panted out, slowly recovering.

"The shock and force... it felt like a Smash..." he muttered.

"So he reflects force..." I look over to the blue man group stand-in.

"That's right," he stated simply, pieces of his costume popping off around him, "I was born with a disease."

They flew around until they took their places floating around his body.

'Are those... mirrors?'

"A disease that won't go away, that reflects everything."

"His quirk..." Midoriya mumbled, "it's the kind that always activated."

We look at each other as Midoriya gets to his feet and nod.

We take off in opposite directions.

I brush a hand against the wall, sending fragments of the metal shutters at the villain.