Chapter 1: A Dark Sorcerer Vampire awakens
Summary:
Izuku was a natural born Vampire, and even it was quirkless, his live will make a sudden turn when awakens his dark magic powers.
The first major Step to be a Pro Hero requires to master his special powers, but the timings are very short.Extra: A little clip from the canon Dark Schneider from Bastard!! casting Venom, and Damned:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkZaDWr9oBoAnd a little AMV featuring more Dark Schneider's spells, that Izuku would cast along the chapters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zj6DvFqWcgc
Notes:
Final Version, using a computer software proof-reader.
(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)
Chapter Text
Prelude...
This is a Society dominated by people with super-powers, also called quirks. Due to the genetic dominance of quirks, it takes less than two centuries to the quirk people dominate the main population, reaching more than 80% of world population. However, anyone without a quirk are relegated to become second-class citizens. In theory, the quirkless people should have the same rights of the quirk users, however the discrimination and gradual ostracism drive them to own downfall.
However the Quirks was not the only source of super-powers, albeit it constitute the majority. On a very small quantity, less than one per million in average, a volatile mixture of vampires, sorcerers and witches still survive, and any of them could easily defeat the great majority of quirk users.
One of the most bizarre combinations was a so-called quirkless child, named Izuku Midoriya, which born as a vampire, and been descendent from an ancient lineage of vampires from his mother Inko, and an exotic combination of wizards, or sorcerers from the deceased father side, or Inko thought, since he was reported missed once he fells ill when Inko was pregnant, and he's missing since then.
Usually vampires don't possess the ability to inheriting a human quirk, although some recent reports shows that already happens on some younger ones, specially if one of his parents was an human one. The same occurs to old mages bloodlines, making a hybrid magic and quirk users, where requires specially lectures during their childhood. Quirk or Quirkless, the majority of vampires powers has mistaken by some form of telekinesis quirk, or an enhanced strength quirk, even both. A reason of this fact was due to vampires had a natural physical force, that was about 20 times greater than the average human, taking down several quirked humans without great problems, unless a human with a powerful strength quirk exists to counter them.
When the authorities notice that some quirkless had non-quirk special powers, they amend the Quirk Registration Law to include additional fields related to abnormal physic features, or even magic abilities, to made a legal equivalence between Magic and Quirks. Those amendments, makes illegal misuse of Magic punishable like the Quirks.
The young Izuku was a young vampire that was strong by own physical power, about three times the average of a four years old child. That biological advantage was shattered, when his childhood human friend named Katsuki Bakugou, that also reaches 4 years old, develops an Explosion Quirk that could overcome him. When Katsuki likes to tease and bully the young vampire, it shouts when Izuku uses their physical strength to dash quickly to his house.
"Stupid Deku!", Katsuki grins when exhibits his tiny flame bursts, "My quirk is so much cooler than your weak one!"
"It is so cruel… Kacchan!", says Izuku a little hurt, while sprints to get home as soon as possible.
A regular health check routine shows that was, by human standards, quirkless and this could make their life during the Elementary School a little harder. Since Izuku was a vampire, his non-quirk powers would overcome and compensate the lack of a human quirk. Izuku's mother teaches some forms of self-defence, later carried by a rare trustful quirkless human Vigilante by the Vampire Community. Knuckleduster was a martial arts expert, and exploits the major flaws on human glorification of quirk users. Many of them forgot to enhance their physical strength, and then Knuckleduster could quickly take down several quirk users by applying an adequate martial art technique.
"Nowadays any young kids barely studies any kind of martial arts!", speaks Knuckleduster, "They prefer to use those weak wizardly so called quirk, but I will teach you how to overcome about this quickly!"
"Please sensei!", Izuku pledges while bows, "Teach me your best practices!", and raises his head, "Even I'm a vampire, I need strength to overcome my bully!"
"Then the Spartan path may open to you!", and his personal trainer yells, beginning a tour on Hell.
With this, Izuku (or Deku from the Katsuki own perspective) could chop their bully with a powerful physical attack. He mastered the Krav Maga and Jujitsu Martial Arts at age 12, enough to Izuku manage to neutralize the Katsuki's lackeys on a slilly fight, and sending all of them to the hospital.
Quirkless or being a Vampire, that issue don't stop Izuku dreaming to be a Hero, searching every source of material about unusual Pro Heroes, specially the ones with super-natural origins. For his own research, he notices that the Government was legislate about the Vampires and other non-human sentient capable to hybridize with humans. The Vampire Citizenship Law gives some basic rights, in exchange to give to them a special disclosure of their public presence and knowledge, in order to protect them from humans.
One of those rules about young vampires, was the mandatory discretion of their nature along human students during the Elementary and High School. It won't prevent them to some college or the teachers to manifest that one of students are a vampire, but such situations can be either comic, or a dangerous peril. Due to such inconvenience, his teachers recommended that Izuku should be more realistic on their very long future, since his vampiric origins has not much compatible with a Pro Hero career.
Izuku's magic powers awakening process takes some time, and starts when he was about 10 years old, when Izuku had some nightmares (and contrary to public belief, it is normal to vampires had nightmares or mental health issues), that evolve to bad omens. His mother explains that a vampire takes about a century to awake all vampiric powers, and it was a little unusual to manifest some weak kind of telekinesis at that age, since Inko gains his powers when she had 60 years old.
Inko later reads from his deceased husband's old books, that was not born originally as a vampire, since it was bitten by some rogue one. Izuku born as a True Vampire, since his father's human genes was already blocked before he's conceived.
However Izuku receive another set of genes from his father, that was disabled once was a normal human. Hisashi Midoriya (Izuku's father) was a lost descendent from a broken old lineage of sorcerers, a kind of mage with natural affinity with certain Advanced Magic. Izuku was inherited the powers from a Medieval Germanic arch-sorcerer that was nicknamed Dark Schneider, to a Polish witcher which name was recorded as Geralt of Rivia or Gwynbleidd (White Wolf).
"Honey...", speaks his mother, while brings a thermo with hot blood to his son drink, "Recently you had several bad nightmares, but did you remember...", and points to her son's drawings, "The faces of your monsters that you cited..."
"Thanks mom", says Izuku, while bites the thermo seal with his fangs and drank, "What's this ?", and points to the ancient book.
"A old book from your father...", just for Izuku drops his face due to his own angst, as it fells some guilty to his father death, due to some unknown toxin poisoning.
His mother almost jumps backwards when Izuku yells once opens the book, "What is this ?!... It can't be possible!...", while notices the book had a very familiar graphical picture of a mage.
Izuku was in real shock when his mother talks about the fact that his father had sorcerers as ancestors, and became awed since the pictured image of Gwynbleidd or Dark Schneider matches the horrific vision from his bad omens. Some time later, Izuku notices that a third man appears on his visions, and that was an heavy armoured men, carrying an huge sword about the size of himself, while slash against humans and demons. Izuku later called this nameless men as a Berserker.
The next stage occurs when reaches 13 years old, when the ancient triumvirate powers shakes Izuku's body during a terrible night. His mother almost fainted when witness the dark aura and gloomy miasma releasing on his son's bedroom, and once she breaks into the room, she panics when notices that his little son manage to cast a Magic Ritual Spell, almost by his own instincts. Once everything settled, Izuku could drink some hot bloody coffee, and make some breathing exercises to calm down, as he notices with great horror that was made a contract with an unknown dimension, becoming the source of their Magic Powers. And he freezes when notices that one of Hisashi's book was actually a Grimoire, or a Magic Book.
Izuku learns from his mother that vampires are capable to do some simple magic spells, derived from his own special skills and powers. However, Inko notices with great horror that Izuku's newborn magic powers are beyond a standard vampire could do.
When Izuku manages to calms down after the awakening, and makes some experiments, his own mother was a little horrified to witness the affinity of his magic powers matches the Dark Schneider and Gwynbleidd ones, along some unknown factors that Izuku should explore.
Several days of trial and error experiments later motivates Izuku to wrote a revised Grimoire from the father's ancient books, along some ancient esoteric books that Inko could arrange, but translating from German and Polish old books was a tough task, even using computers.
Inko also tries to find a suitable vampire with sorcery knowledge, but waste almost five months to find one, and even so, it takes almost a year to Izuku master the fundamentals of magic, and learn some high profile spells. Izuku takes two full months to control the most basic Dark Schneider's signature spells where during the training it almost cost his life due to malign vitality flow, in sheer contrast to a few days required to master the Gwynbleidd's Signs, which are a kind of spells easily mistaken by a Quirk.
Soon, after six months of training, Izuku could learn a pattern that follows thoughtfully, he use the Witcher Signs mainly for everyday stuff, while some dangerous threats are better handled by Dark Schenider's more powerful spells. His sorcerer teacher also give another grimoire to Izuku learn and cast more inoffensive spells to avoid premature health damage, such as the Elemental Arrows, that Izuku finds to be similar from a magician school anime he saw earlier.
"I'm proud of you", says the private vampire mage, "Using all collected data from your self-learnings and natural affinities, along the things you learn with me, I can say that you are a potential sorcerer capable to manipulate the fire, thunder and darkness."
"Thanks… Witch-sensei!", says Izuku, very tired.
"You can also cast ice, sand and wind spells, although with lesser efficiency.", and concludes with another note, "But light spells are too unnatural to you ever cast. At best of best, you can cast a Light Element Arrow, but nothing more with that Element!"
"Since my husband had a fire quirk, when he was human, and I gain some kind of weak telekinesis as a natural vampire, it make a little sense!", Izuku's mother intervenes happily.
At school...
Izuku sighs during the Aptitude Class that occurs at the beginning of the third year of Junior High School, where every teenager at age 14 should choose his future career, giving the first step by choosing the High School they pretends to go to. Izuku's dream to assign for Yuuei was now more plausible, since magic can mistaken as a powerful quirk (or a 10 to 50-fold multi-quirk user), as their sources was totally different. Quirk powers derive from the human strength and stamina, while sorcery derives from the manipulation of nature and spiritual energies, also called od or mana, depending from the scholars opinion. Izuku prefer the term Vitality, since he likes the Geralt's diary nomenclature.
"Today I will delivery the High School Selection Form to everyone", speaks the schoolroom teacher.
"I bet that the majority wants to be a hero!", says one student.
"Specially me!", said the arrogant blond Katsuki, "I will enter on Yuuei, and became the best, first and most rich Hero!"
"And Midoriya also wants to go to Yuuei!", said the teacher.
Everyone on class mutes, and then Katsuki glares furiously, while yells, "How an almost quirkless weakling, since I notice a little capability to move things by your ridiculous will", Katsuki notices that Izuku was an odd person, including the telekinesis powers, and vampiric nature, "Can assign to one of best Hero Academia of Japan ?!"
"Hilarious!", said Izuku, "Why you are so unfriendly, since I don't care your opinion!"
"DEKU!", Katsuki slams his right hand.
"Oh great!", Izuku jumps from his chair, and then grabs Katsuki, and pushes to the ground. Finally a swift arm throw against the Katsuki's neck immobilize him, just in time when the teacher intervene.
"Bakugou! Midoriya! You two, stop it!", the teacher yells, "And go now for the principal office! Now!"
Izuku uses his martial arts to handle his bully, but both receive a full week suspension due to the fight. Izuku knows that it can be a very bad day, specially the hunger for blood increases when it was mentally altered.
And since he is also a powerful sorcerer and vampire, this kind of awkward situations can be a trigger for a disastrous problem.
Once Izuku tries to calm down, he walks nervously to home, but his own prognosis about a bad day could be true.
Villain Slime Disaster...
He was dashing along the street when a green and putrid slime villain and another red acidic and toxic one decides to ambush and attacks him on a coordinated attack. Izuku barely had time to dodge.
About half kilometre away, Katsuki walks along his lackeys, and curses about everything, "Stupid Deku! He's no more than a stupid weakling!".
One of Katsuki's lackeys notices and warns that his favourite green hair person being absorve by two mutant villains, "Damn it... Deku!", without hiding the panic and slight remorse he manifest.
"Damn!", Izuku reacts while it was subduct by the villains, "Physical attacks do not work!"
"Relax… By boy! It will...", says the green slime.
"Takes 45 seconds!", and the red concludes.
"Even many quirk users won't escape by this trap...", Izuku mumbles almost suffocating.
The red slime became panicked when notices the victim was actually a vampire, "What... ?!", when notice the abnormal physiognomy of izuku's body, and reverts partially the slime liquification.
The awkward situation gave an opportunity to Izuku drop his fangs to attack the partial regenerated human arm and drink his blood. The green slime pulls Izuku, giving time for the red one return to the fully slime form.
Izuku casts the Witcher Sign Axii almost in panic, in order to try confusing the slimes, but also switch almost instinctively the pyrokinetic Sign Igni, to burn the smiles weak spots, in order to help him to escape. Each active Sign mark around the target places a small circle with a rune symbol on the middle, where it glows once the spell are cast.
The civilian witness mesmerized and in panic, the unfolding of the unusual abilities of a Junior High School student. Quirks are very common on their ages, and displaying them was a ritual of initialization to achieve their dreams to be heroes. But the strange and unnatural energy flow of Signs, even to the worried Katsuki who runs to reach Izuku, was causing great anxiety.
"A mind-bending magic spell are very useful with such issues...", Izuku sighs while remember a page from his handwritten grimoire from memory.
Since the slimes suffer a slight mental breakdown, it gives the opportunity for Izuku's own aura creates a vacuum, while uses the Witcher Sign Aard, that is a telekinesis magic spell, to separate him from the fused slimes, and eject violently from them.
The Katsuki's lackeys reaches first to the incident scene, without stare in state of shock, "What ?! He manage to blast away ?!"
Izuku was terrible in a very mad mood, even he could escape, the villains could try to recover the victim. Since he was now free, Izuku don't waste the brief window time to recite tenaciously a memorized page of his grimoire, as he closed his hands, interlacing his fingers, close partially his eyes, while meditates to enable him to cast a spell.
"What the hell ?!", says one of the villain slimes.
"How you manage to release free from us ?!", said another.
"Both of you are terrible wrong if you think that I should leave you alive...", Izuku slips from his normal demeanour to a more cruel punisher.
"WTF is happening ?!", said Katsuki when arrive to the crowd, and notice the murderous rage emanating from the young vampire.
"Sasado! Sasado! Schrono! Chronos! Yoku-Sukou!", Izuku meditates while a glowing ball of dark energy forms on front on him, "Burning from the depths of Hell! Unleash the Black Mist of Hellfire! May the Underworld Fire become my sword and punish the Enemy!", then Izuku open his arms and unleash the magic energy to outside from the his right hand, burning the slimes alive, "VENOM!"
A second later, the fused slimes burns and explodes, releasing reddish pitch black flames, hotter than the surface temperatures of the Sun. The vicinity buildings suffer some minor damages, such some broken windows, while some cars stationed on the parking areas along the street blasts due to the massive heat. Some ornamental trees and bushes located around the cars also catches fire. But the major effect of this magic spell was the villains spilled blood burns and their entire bodies melts, and spontaneously combust, just to end reduce to ash and burned grease.
Izuku quickly use his left hand to cast the telekinesis Witcher Sign Aard, to create a blast capable to end the minor fires, without avoiding another damage made by the debris blast. Seconds later, a muscular Hero appears in the middle of chaos and quickly stares Izuku once he killed the villains, while ears the strange enchantment made when he casts the spells. All Might tries to understand about it while murmurs, "Reciting to release his quirk ?!"
A little behind from the back of Izuku, was Katsuki and two lackeys, starring both in shock and panic.
Before Katsuki could speak anything, another villain emerges and roams against the green hair sorcerer. It was already activate his Gigantification and Ember quirks, while becomes a kind of titan monster. "So you have a fire-type Quirk!"
In a blink of an eye, the main villain shout his embers around the young vampire sorcerer.
The flames from his foe are very hot, but Izuku activate the Magic Trap Sign Yrden, and the Magic Shield Quen to isolate himself from the blazing inferno.
"Today it is not my day!", Izuku yells as notices the bad conditions on his peace of mind reduces dangerously the accuracy and precision of Izuku's magic spells, "However you are totally wrong about my real powers..."
"What ?!", the villain makes a confused grin, just to poke fun, and display a poker-face by purpose.
"Even I could use all the Gwynbleidd's Signs for a single event, in some cases, like you, are not enough, but I will show to you what happens when you choose the wrong person to make your villainy!"
"Gw… What ?!", Katsuki snaps while notices the strange rune symbols around Izuku that was shield him against the flames.
"So your Quirk enables to create shield against quirk attacks ?!", the monster villain grins maliciously, and them smashes against the floor, "But you can't escape from my flamethrower attack!"
Izuku blasts away to the air due to recoil, while cross his arms and legs to regain balance, and escape from the flames.
"First of all, I'm not limited to fire techniques...", as Izuku begins to meditate again, once recovers some necessary concentration, "Slayerd! Slayerd! Great Guardian of Black Mist!", while a strange ball of dark energy forms and holds on mid-air, about five meters ahead from Izuku point of view, while his eyes flashes red, and wraps his members, "Dark Thunder of Balmor, I summon you to Honour your Blood Pact!", while the villain, All Might and even Katsuki tries to understand about the strange requirement to spell a kind of mantra, "Come Lightning from the Darkness and Strike!", and Izuku discharges a kind of electric bolt while jumps for better strike accuracy, coated with fire and some kind of dark miasma, along a air pressure wave, "BALVOLT!"
The last Izuku's magic spell cause a great damage to the villain, and screams with pain, "Changing from fire to electricity ?!"
"Are you done ?!", Izuku said with great rage, while his anger explodes, since it was a very bad day, causing an increasing thirsty for blood, forming a disastrous chain of events, that ends to be fuel to a more powerful spell.
"Second thing, I'm a sorcerer! I don't have a Quirk per se, but I can cast spells!... Since I'm a mage!...", Izuku explains while lands on land, after some mid-air back flips, "And also a very angry… vampire!"
"What ?!", both exclaimed, including the villain, All Might and Katsuki.
The villain exclaims about non-sense and throws another flame blast, just to saw the vampire cast another deadly magic spell:
"And finally, the third and last thing, never pull an enraged mage to your playground, since it could be deadly...", and Izuku uses his mad moment to cast a powerful and destructive magic spell, "Brain... Brain… Dead!", Izuku aura explodes, while his green hair expands along the vitality line flows, "Obey your blood oath and come forth from the Land of Abaddon!", and a huge energetic pulse blasts the soil, and begins to fire, "Liberate the Gehenna's Fire that incinerate at all it touches!", and a tsunami of fire falls from a portal open from Hell, "Give the Evil Blaze of Burning to destroy and burn everything at will!", and finally the giant villain ends incinerated alive, "EXODUS!"
The new Izuku's fire spell was terrible hotter, capable to turn stone into lava, and burns even the most fire-resistant monster or quirk until left ashes. The former villain was not exception, it turns into charcoal in less that five seconds, with temperatures reaching above 100.000 Kelvin.
The last civilian witness that still watches the stand off between the former villains runs away in a surge wave of pure panic. Many of them never witness such manifestation of power.
All Might grabs the Izuku's wrist and yells, "Mister! What the HELL you make ?!"
Izuku ends tired for the use of three massive spells, but still had forces to answer, "Dark Schneider Grimoire: Gehenna's Fire, Exodus!"
"What… the… hell… are… you ?!", Katsuki in total denial, shock and fear, "You're not a Hero!", and screams with agony and tears, "You are… a MURDERER!"
"I'm don't want to kill them, but I couldn't avoid to do so!", Izuku glares, "I saw bloodlust on him, then I use my powerful techniques...", and his mood breaks.
"Boy!", All Might holds the grip on his right wrist, "I understand that you claims your acts as justifiable for self-defence! But the case don't require lethal force!"
Izuku then breaks down in tears, since their anger was finally consumed, "I'm so sorry... All Might!"
Other Pro Heroes arrive, and became mesmerized to witness three powerful villains to burn into ashes, and a young boy was the one that destroy them.
Returning at Home...
Once the police finishes to handle the situation, Izuku could return to home, but his mother was terrible upset about the whole situation. The school week suspension was partially manageable, but the three villains brutal execution deserves a serious talk.
"Izuku", says the mother in a serious tone, "Why do you make this horrible thing ?", and mellows a little, "It could be bad villains, but kill them in such brutal way are totally wrong."
"Sorry mom", Izuku now was face sullen, with tears along the eyes, "The first ones tries to kill me, so… I...", and sobs, "I escape using the Witcher Signs..."
"So why ?", his mother asks, "You could simply flee..."
"I saw Kacchan along the witnesses, but my rage takes the lead, and..."
"You use one of your signature magic spells...", his mother concludes the sentence, "Ending with a brutal death by fire."
"I'm so sorry...", Izuku cries, while his fangs drops down.
"The police said that the use of this spells, even for self-defence, was brutally exaggerated, but it appears the villains are just lackeys to an infamous kidnapper, that was the third one, and you don't have further penalty.", Inko sighs, "However, I need to update your Quirk Registry as Magician, at least with the main powers!"
Izuku nods, while his mother give a fresh Thermos with blood mixed with cold tea to calm down the huge anxiety, ending with a bottle of fresh water.
Meanwhile Katsuki was also in pain, since he never expect that Izuku's real powers could be so deadly. He knows, since he knows Inko Midoriya personally, that Izuku was a vampire, and so have some kind of non-quirk special powers. But sorcery was beyond the cogitation, specially when witness two massive fire spells, and an electric one. He knows that even own quirk is Fire Element by some cruel coincidence, but is nowhere capable to burn anything into dust.
Even it calls Izuku a murderer, he know that due from the heat of event, since Izuku also breaks down in pain, as notices that he jump to a borderline unjustifiable act.
With this new powers, Izuku could apply to Yuuei, but the problem is the new sorcerer powers, that in 99% of Hero Missions are not simply applicable, since it could simply destroy the villains, hostages, the site and all the innocences in a single blow.
But it will be the next step to make.
To be Continued...
Notes:
As indicated by the story introduction, Izuku had the same abilities of Dark Schneider and the Geralt.
Like the Witcher's game, Izuku controls seven signs, where their powers will grow along the time he study and fight on Yuuei.
The seven signs, and unique Izuku's characteristics are (1st stage, surprise!):Aard: A telekinetic wave capable to disable some Quirk effects, and blasts some air bursts. In future, Izuku may use to nullify Quirks around a great area, or blast obstacles.
Igni: Create a pyrokinetic wave capable to spread fires. By some cruel coincidence, Katsuki quirk are much similar, but Izuku can cast to long range distances, once he trains better.
Yrden: Makes Izuku capable to reduce physical and magical direct-hit damage.
Quen: Shields against Quirk effects, until a certain range and power.
Axii: Useful to Izuku disrupts the mental state of the enemy.
Heliotrop: An enhanced shield capable to reverse to a destructive pulse bomb.
Somne: An hypnotic wave, but Izuku don't master yet the last Sign.
Chapter 2: The Road to Yuuei Reaches the Final Station
Summary:
The Yuuei Admission Exam arrives, and vampire Izuku fights to give a chance to enter.
The whole exam ends with a total bewilderment about his strange sorcerer powers.But the major shock to Izuku occurs when he discovers that his classroom teacher is also a vampire, and shares the fact to own classmates.
It will the begin of a strange relationship between a Pro Hero vampire and a sorcerer vampire, that even Aizawa dares to register the Izuku's powers as a kind of fake quirk called Vryko-Warlock.
Notes:
Some additional proof-reading using a computer software.
(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)
Chapter Text
Redemption...
Due to the potential commotion due from the slime incident, many details has heavily censured. To ease the case handling, Izuku agrees to register his powers on the Official Quirk Registration, including the Non-Quirk Special Powers attachment. However, the real Izuku's powers documentation was only accessible for selected entities, such as the Yuuei Main Administration Office, lead by the Principal Nedzu.
This secret agreement enables Izuku to assign for an Hero Course, specially the national famous Yuuei High School. While the remaining months for the Yuuei Admission Exam has paced slow, he had to take care about the fragile relationship with Katsuki, where it can begin a day with a great rivalry between two, and ending with a brawl, leaving both injured as a result.
Even with this life issues, Izuku continue his crazy training along the Vigilante Knuckleduster, but the magic powers training was left behind by own self-study. However, he should not forget the mandatory and obligatory weekly presence at the police department, since the First Instance Court of the Orudera Town decide to maintain surveillance on this dangerous powered young vampire. After 9 months as defendant with suspended house arrest, the charges was demised, and Izuku could live freely without great problems.
Fortunately, this penal issue was not derogate the application to the Yuuei Admission Exam.
Yuuei High School: Entrance Exam
Izuku arrive early at the Exam Day, bringing a lunch box, and a thermos of blood, but he would try to avoid gather much attention, specially when fell chest pain and aches due to their wrongdoings.
The Yuuei Admission Exam contains two major modules, a two-hours written test, and a ten-minutes physical exam. The last one was the Yuuei's pride, since it was a change for many children unleash their quirks.
On Yuuei's history, no quirkless children was able to pass the Hero Admission Exam, since the lack of special powers would be certainly fatal during the staged battle with robots. Quirkless with special powers would had a chance, specially a sorcerer like Izuku.
Once the candidates arrives to an huge amphitheatre, without much delay, the written test begins. Even before starts, Izuku knows that it should give at least 80 points of 100 to ever give a change to enter on Hero Department, but the Practical Test will be another fundamental part that he couldn't fail. The test itself contains all questions expected from the Junior High School Curriculum, plus a bit twisted degree of difficulty on some questions. In fact, they really want to drive out the weaklings even before the Practical Test!
Izuku could only really relax when he manage to answer the last question just in time, while ignores some gloomy aura emanated by some candidates surprised by the sheer difficulty.
Both candidates now had a full hour for lunch, and Izuku dashes to one hidden corner just to hide is own peculiar nature, while finds a nice spot to seat and relax. Quickly, he eats his favourite katsudon dish, but when he was ready to open the thermos, he was suddenly sightseen by his own childhood troublemaker Katsuki.
"Damn it!", Izuku jumps as like to counter some awkward situation, "Ah!… It's is just you… Kacchan!"
"Deku ?", Katsuki approaches to him, "Why you hide here ?!"
"Just for safety!", Izuku answers in a slight sullen face.
"Nuts!", Katsuki frowns and grins, "I really didn't understand you, even as a vampire, since you had powerful abilities, but you only want to hide from everyone!", and said with an angry tone, with smoke from his hands.
"We are antisocial by nature!", Izuku open his thermos, and break the seal with his fangs, drinking the warmth stock blood.
"So why you go to school with other humans ?!", Katsuki asks with a sharp voice tone.
"Because I need instruction!", Izuku yells.
"And by the way… Why you have such revengeful acts like the slime incident that you just apply lethal force... An incident that All Might could just simply defeat them, and bring them alive to the justice ?!"
"I don't… know...", Izuku faces down, and his eyes start to brimming, "If... I could..."
"You are unbelievable!", Katsuki sighs with a growing disdain.
Katsuki mellows a little and tries to tap on the curly green hair, since the blond knows that the young vampire still had deep scars on his heart. Izuku understands when his friend helps to bring out his bad moods, even he don't like to socialize with humans. Katsuki returns to the main buildings, while Izuku brings the empty boxes back to his backpack. Both walk directly to the main Yuuei Building, when he and his old friend expects the place when the real Hero Test will begun.
Yuuei's Amphitheatre:
Present Mic yells to the entire amphitheatre, as all candidates reunite to listen the brief presentation about the Yuuei's Practical Exam.
"I know that the Written Exam has long and through, but no potential Hero can be acquainted without check their physical abilities!"
And resumes after a slight pause, "According to your Temporary Candidate Numbers, you will be allocated to one of five Examination Areas, ranging from "A" to "E", as it will be displayed by each computer screen located in front of your line of sight, that is the opposite side of your front college chair".
And concludes, "Each Examination Area contains a fictional city filled with robots. Some building contains mannequins that represent trapped citizens. Your task is to get the maximum villains points by destroying the three types of robots, each one values 1, 2 or 3 points. And to bring the maximum hero points by catching or breaking the markers located on mannequins, where also can value 1, 2 or 3 points.", and warns also, "Remember that you cannot harm other examiners, since it you be severally penalized. However, you can help them if it is really necessary, where also give rescue points... But those points are only given by the selecting team of judges."
One of examiners raise his right hand and asks, "The number of villain robots should be four, as indicated by this print-out!"
"Don't worry, Examiner Number 7111", says Present Mic, "A giant robot with 0 villain and hero points is just a gimmick that you should not try to defeat, since it serves to help drive the candidates without real qualifications to be here!"
"It likes more an academic than a potential hero", Izuku mumbles to himself, denoting the expensive eye-glasses and the great authority aura emanated from that person.
Izuku takes the A field, while Katsuki goes to D field. Once all candidates arrived on the scene, the ten minute rushed Physical Exam begins immediately.
Practise Exam...
"And... Begins!", yells Present Mic using the giant loudspeakers mounted along the city walls, "What are you waiting for ?! There's no countdown on a real battle!", making everyone rush for their lives!
Izuku runs along the streets of the rude cement cityscape, while observe the candidates destroying the robots and blast the mannequin seals to get points, using their quirks. Once the initial chaos settles down, Izuku could destroy a 1-point robot by applying a powerful punch without using any special powers. But it hurt a little.
"This is Sparta!", the young vampire mumbles to himself, when remembers the last training with Knuckleduster.
Izuku decides to test own inhuman physical strength on the first minute, and makes a risk to jump straight to the rooftop of a random building like some old-school hero could do, just to blasts the seal of a 3-point mannequin on top of that.
He saw from the rooftop two 2-point robots and three 3-points robots scattered around his line of sight within a 100 meter radius away, and sprinting directly to each of one to was out of question, since other candidates will arrive much quickly. Such strategy would require to Izuku to jump to the street level first. That's was the standard strategy to a young quirked child, but he's quirkless. Instead, Izuku decides to switch for magic spells against those robots.
"Ego antiquum pactum datë...", Izuku begins the pact with a Nature Spirit by pledge an old pact forged by an ancestor mage, while relax a little and focus, "Gather and Reunite the Spirits of Nature!", while changes from Latin to his native language, and summons Ice Elementals from an hidden portal. When the magic summoning was on is apex, Izuku could create a ball with different colour gradients ranging from green and red that forms about three meters front of him, "Target Lock on Enemy!", while Izuku mentally locks the five targets, "Gather 5 Ice Element Arrows!", and conclude with, "Ice Elemental Magic Kjeldoran Javelineer... Shoot!"
In a tiny fraction of a second, 5 huge ice darts by the size of a human arm, form and fly away. While the magic darts had a great flight control, and homing precision, it just blast all five robots before other candidate could even barely target or touch it. It was the first time that Izuku casts a magic spell, but raises to 14 villain points and 3 hero points, giving a total of 17 points.
Some candidates blinks with some stupefaction, and the same feeling was shared by the Pro Heroes who stand for evaluation, while watches the strange technique performed by Izuku.
A boy with heterochromatic eyes that was about to freeze one of the destroyed 3-point robots by his ice-type quirk, and a bit fire-type too, when witness the strange blue pulse blasting and freezing the target instead, also becomes a little confused. He don't could understand how a young quirk user could throw a ice dart from a long distance, even he couldn't see from when the user shoot.
Since the time was short, Izuku decides to run and jumps along the buildings roofs, like a certain Assassin character he likes to play on his computer at home. The awkward thought make him snap and blushes, "No, Midoriya! This is not Assassin's Creed! I'm here to become an Hero on Yuuei! And… no… I'm not Altair!… Neither Ezio Auditori di Firenze!", while yells those sentences!
In reality, the Assassin's Creed game was not so one of Izuku's favourite games, since it like more games like the Witcher 3, where by cruel coincidence the protagonist was almost equal to one of his experto crede from his father's side sorcerer ancestors from the Medieval Europe.
And since the Assassin makes leaps of faith to do the actual assassinations, just to remember a bad memory from Katsuki inciting to commit suicide since it was quirkless, Izuku jumps from the rooftop, makes a back flip while he tries to activate the Witcher Sign Heliotrope to blast another 1-point robot ramming the building entrance. Since the Heliotrope is more a shield magic spell, that enhances the Quen shielding Sign, Izuku discharges the magic shield to form a wind blast that actually destroys the targeted robot, and he could use the recoil that enables to slow down enough to land on the ground safely.
"Requiescat in pace", says Izuku when blasts the robot in front from a bewildered candidate, where was also the heterochromatic one, "Damn, Assassin's Creed again !", while red blushes by his own yelling!
"WTF ?!", said the boy, when notices the strange and fading Sign rune mark craved when Izuku blast the robot, "What a bizarre telekinesis quirk!", cites to himself, while saw the strange boy running.
The time was running, while Izuku notices that using Elemental Magic and Witcher Magic was not so fast like the candidates with a flashy quirk. It could make more damage, and it was more flexible, but takes more time to activate.
Sometimes, Izuku's instincts warns him to use more powerful magic spells, even he tries to hold down, as many of them could cause unnecessary destruction, or even kill someone. The green haired vampire almost panics when a stealthy 3-points robot jumps from nowhere, leaving only a second to Izuku cast a more destructive magic spell, "Skiss! Skurat! Shumega! Eni-Ono-In!...", while stretch his left arm to conjure a lightning bolt that self-combust in dark flames, "Release the endless fire and brimstone from fiery Hell!", that once thrown away, creates five magic blades made with dark fire and brimstone delivered from a portal opened from Hell, "SODOM!". The menacing 3-points robots ended sliced onto five pieces, before it explodes, and melts due to the extreme heat delivered from the magic blades.
After six minutes, Izuku gathers 31 villain points, and 15 hero points, but he knows that score is not adequate enough to guarantee a successful approval. Izuku notices more robots on sight, but it was scattered in four different directions, and even for a quirk user like Katsuki would be a challenge to destroy all four groups fast enough before other candidate could strike an untouched group at any direction.
The solution was to cast more spells, "Ego antiquum pactum datë...", while decides to limit break his magic abilities by casting four kinds of Elementals at once, "Target the Barrage Strike on the Enemy!", and manages to summon several Elemental Spirits, "Gather… 25 Fire Element Arrows! 18 Thunder Element Arrows! 8 Ice Element Arrows!...", including the ones with lesser affinity, even it had an huge vitality cost, "2 Sand Element Arrows!", but manage to cast his spell for all four cardinal directions, "Multiple Elemental Magic Crossbow Infantry Arrows!… Release!"
Meanwhile, a candidate with some kind of navel laser tries to shoot at one of those group of robots, but the supersonic sand shrapnel blasts the four robots first before he could ever think. The shrapnel impact, and debris explosion also demolishes the building located nearby. The Sand Elemental Arrow are in fact the most costly to summon, but have a terrible destruction power.
The Pro Heroes watching the whole Exam raises his eyebrows before the computer allocate more 26 villains points for Izuku. The strange Izuku's powers makes them feeling that there's something very odd. Normally a quirk is well defined in terms of power and kinds. Now they rushes to read the examiner profile, to find clues about the strange powers. But they froze when read the Midoriya's profile, they notice that he was a vampire, which is rare, and a sorcerer, a thing almost unthinkable!
Once Izuku recovers enough from the last casted spell, he sighs and also blasts another 2-points mannequin marker using the Witcher Sign Igni, giving now 57 villain points and 17 hero points.
"OK! I have a total of 74 points, unless I gain more from the jury!", and turn his head to find something left, as many of robots was already destroyed by the candidates.
When last less than one minute to finish, Izuku foresees the giant 0-point robot, and notices that a girl was trapped around the rubble.
"What the hell...", screams Izuku when notices that the giant robot leg will crush her along the rubble. In a brief moment of panic, Izuku decides to take a risk and use a more powerful magic spell derived from Dark Schneider's powers, but he knew that it should avoid human causalities, or he will lose all points, or worst, to be charged criminally.
Many of the candidates flees from the giant robot, others like the heterochromatic and the glass boys reunite around the site, without feeling some impotence due to the short time to try rescue the entrapped girl, just when they notices the same strange green hair boy standing on the front of the robot, and then makes a strong jump that enables to flight high enough. Even they only witness Izuku only a few minutes ago, they already notice that boy was very strange in terms of powers, but they will witness a thing even more bizarre.
"What a generation of Heroes! They simply run away from major dangers...", scream Izuku while releases his own aura, "And I will honour my will to rescue anyone...", just for a prelude to start his incantation:
"Deep Doomsday!", scream while Izuku wraps his hands and conjure an increasing size white ball of energy, "Spirits from the Air and Earth, I summon you to honour the ancient pact!", just to discharge against the main giant robot body, "May the Earth and Sky explode to fulfil your duty on me!", blasting the robot, that tear-downs and falls, while the blast rams the debris straight away at a greater distance, "MEGADEATH!"
The same four-eyes candidate who intervenes during the Practice Exam becomes astonished with the feat, and with fear, "How many Quirks this monster have ?!"
"WTF ?! Mega… Death ?!", said the ice and fire quirk boy.
Once Izuku casts the signature Dark Schneider's magic spell, he lands safely after using another back flip and a little help from the telekinetic Witcher Aard Sign, and finally grabs and rescue the girl.
It was the moment when they announce that the exam time was over, "Times Up!", screams Present Mic.
"Well… At least I have 74 points...", said Izuku.
"This green-hair boy is a total freak!", some exam candidate murmurs randomly.
Before the medical teams enters and search for injured candidates, Izuku sighs and runs quickly to the outside, in order to avoid more confusion, and some shocking discoveries, since it could be premature to reveal his vampiric origins.
And speaking about vampiric nature, one of the most awkward phase of a vampire growth occurs during the puberty, before reaches the twenties, when they grown to a full adult form, and stays young during several centuries, unlike the regular humans. But during the teenager years, Izuku needs to increases the blood consumption two or three-fold, and since it cast several spells, he needs to drink more blood as soon as possible. On a day like this, he may need to drink up to six litres of blood, instead three on rest days, unlike his mother that only requires about a litre.
"Luckily, for such occasions, my mother puts a second blood thermo...", said the vampire once finds an hidden spot while yawns with their fangs elongated, just for him drink the second meal almost instantaneously.
A week later Izuku receives a letter congratulates the admission on Yuuei, with a total of 134 points, from 57 villain, 17 hero and 60 rescue points. It also gains another 97 points from the written exam part, so it gives the 5th place, about 2 places higher than Katsuki. The first place was apparently given to the Endeavor's son, Todoroki.
"So the heterochromatic eyes boy was actually Todoroki!", Izuku smiles when read the entire classification table.
Yuuei High School's First Day...
Less than three months later, Izuku begins the first year at the new Yuuei High School! It was a terrible, but achievable dream. Since it was assigned to the new 1-A class, Izuku walks to his new classroom, and notices that his old friend Bakugou was there, and recognize Todoroki, and the four-eyes boy which name was Iida.
Both of three boys stared on his new classmate, reading from the top to the bottom to find any signs that explains the complete freakishness that occurs about 3 months ago.
Also Izuku notices the girl that he save from the giant robot, she's name was Uraraka.
Without warning the class teacher, who was sleeping inside a yellow bag, unzips and orderer everyone to go to their seats. The new teacher finally introduces, "Good morning!… I'm your 1-A class teacher, Aizawa."
Aizawa-sensei stares to Izuku, while his eyes flash red, and drops his white fangs, just for Izuku does the same, "Not again!...", as he remembers the first day on the Elementary School, when during the roll call, the younger self almost denounce his vampiric origins. On that situation, the room class teacher was warned forehand about Izuku status, but only takes a few days to his former classmates discover, many in state of shock, the shy and quirkless green haired boy was a vampire.
Even today this odd situation makes a major embarrassment, "Oh?! I'm so lucky!", said Aizawa sarcastically, "I'm the only vampire that has also a Top Hero, but this explains why I'm allocated to this room...", and the entire class almost frozen to death, "Is because the new odd green-hair student is also… a vampire!", making Izuku red blush in shame, while mumbles, "So straight! I never expected a vampire lecture me... Or talk to everyone that I'm a vampire!..."
"WHAT ?!", the entire class stalls in pure shock, and the same occurs to Bakugou who already knows join the fray, but some of mates like Iida and Todoroki, their faces becomes blank as snow.
"Since we both of two are vampires, the Yuuei will provide the blood supply to avoid unnecessary bites...", as Aizawa yawns with all their fangs elongated, "And additional obligatory extra-curricular lectures".
"Well...", Izuku relax a little, since he never expected a vampire teacher, specially a Pro Hero one!
"And also, by the Director Nedzu's own request, you send to me a printed copy of your self-made Grimoire to guide the teacher in charge of the extra-curricular lectures.", and Aizawa puts the printed Izuku's grimoire on his table.
"Grimoire ?!", some of students had became confused, while also frighting.
"So… So… ", Aizawa resumes, "This boy is also a mage, sorcerer or whatever it can be named. Because… It can practice magic!".
"Sorcerer ?!", Todoroki blinks, when remember the bizarre occurrences during the Practical Exam.
"Even it is technically quirkless", which give a strange frightening gaze along his mates around Izuku, "Their powers will be register as a Quirk de jure...", and Aizawa writes the name on a sheet of paper and display them to all class, "Vryko-Warlock...", and grins, "Which means, Demon Sorcerer Vampire!"
Even Katsuki was astonished and horrified by his quirk name, "How can be a Hero with such terrible name?!"
Izuku counteracts annoyed, "A vryko-warlock is a mage class, a potential Hero, not a quirk !", but Aizawa shakes his head while speaks, "I could register your powers as a... Enhanced Alchemical Mana Manipulation... A.K.A... Magic... But the Government itself refused... Even with the Non-Quirk Special Powers additional sheet form...", making Izuku a little dumbfounded.
"I have... a... question...", Iida, while shaking his entire body, dare to ask, "What... is... is... a Grimoire ?"
"A Grimoire is the book that a sorcerer memorize the acts to summon and cast a magic spell", Aizawa explains, "It is like a quirk, but requires more mastery to handle."
"So… all strange stuff was due to magic spells ?!", Iida asks to Izuku.
"Yes. We vampires had some kind of powers similar to telekinesis, but sorcery is a thing very odd..."
"Even to me, as a vampire with a quirk, it is also very, very uncommon. And your case is also, ultimately odd, unless...", Aizawa also has very curious.
"It's because my deceased father had lineages to ancient sorcerers, and this stuff bursts almost two years ago", Izuku said a little painful.
"I make my own research and I notice that you awaken three sorcerers bloodlines, and since you are a vampire by birth it makes the things worse", says Aizawa, "So you inherited the powers of a demon-class sorcerer called Dark Schneider, capable to cast spells strong enough to reduce living beings into ashes...", and Izuku frowns with pain, "a swordsman with magic powers called Geralt of Rivia, ending with an insane mercenary with a deathly spell which name is unknown, but was recorded as the Black Swordsman!", and grins with a malicious face, "Or simply... Berserk!", and Izuku swallowed with some pain.
"What a tragedy!", said one student, and another ones sweat a lot.
"Last year I had a kind of Magic Arts teacher that makes a full analysis on my magic...", Izuku also points to the last page of his grimoire hand-copy.
"OK!", Aizawa also reads the relevant file, "So you had four magic classes...", and read monotonously each one, "Dark Chaos of Destruction Magic, from Dark Schneider..., Rank-A plus", making everyone frozen by own fear, "Witcher Signs Magic, from Geralt of Rivia, Rank-A minus... not bad...", and both classmates maintains silent, "Healer Magic, from your private tutor, Rank-B plus...", and ends, "Elemental Spirits Magic, also learned from the cited tutor, Rank-A minus..."
"I fell a little annoyed...", Izuku blushes, "Specially the Elemental Affinity..."
"Or the Mana Affinity, like I prefer to define it...", Aizawa reads the last file, "You have a Rank-A plus on Dark, Fire, Thunder Magic, which is make sense since you are Dark Chaos Mage, and it is funny that you had a Rank-A minus on Wind Magic, since much of your spells are based on the magic manipulation of air...".
"So far are great to make giant explosions, but I still fail to control more...", said Izuku when remembers the explosion of the giant robot during the Entrance Exam.
"Finally you have an undefined grade between Rank-B or Rank-C either plus or minus, related for Ice Magic, Sand Magic, Earth Magic and so on, ending at the lowest Rank-D for Light Magic since you are, by nature, a darkness creature..."
"This means... ?!", Iida try to process the information, and asks to his teacher.
"Midoriya is essentially a powerful mage...", answers Aizawa, "And basically, for each quirk that you have, including all Yuuei teachers, Izuku will cast a spell that resembles one of each quirk... That's why I fear mages, because from the majority of them, they saw the Heroes, as a Mages of A Single Spell!", making the class thunderstruck, "But luckily, only one in ten million are true mages like Midoriya..."
"This explains that's why I never found a Magic Academy!", Izuku agrees, "Since probably it would takes years to gather a minimum number of students!"
Aizawa nods, and shifts the topic, for everyone relief.
"And speaking about magic versus quirks, as a prime example, I already read the report about this boy when defeats three dangerous villains about a year ago, reducing them into ash in less than five seconds!"
"What ?!", Todoroki, Iida, and even Katsuki raises from his chairs and gasps, just to avoid panic.
"And this is the results...", Aizawa displays from schoolroom screen projector, the images from the infamous slim incident.
Everyone was truly shocked and afraid.
"That's why you are assigned to the special sorcery lessons. Learning such fire spells so young is very dangerous. Specially when it cause the target burn hotter than surface temperature of the Sun.", Aizawa sighs, "Like the spell called Gehenna's Fire, Exodus or the Hellfire Mist, Venom...", and displays a rare picture of the moment of Exodus spell activation.
"Jesus Christ!", Todoroki freeze in total horror on his face.
"But you also cast a series of quick activation spells more akin to a Quirk, that is called Witcher Signs. I prefer you to use mainly those during the Hero Course, and reduce the signature spells only in special cases, since they are too dangerous!"
"I understand...", Izuku bows and sit on his chair.
"Just for reference, how many Signs exists ?", Aizawa asks, just to check the Izuku's Grimoire.
"They are seven at all, and sort in terms of cast difficulty are... Aard, Yrden, Igni, Quen, Axii, Heliotrope, Somne...", and pauses a little, "But the last one I don't control very well."
"This is like you control 7 quirks!", a pink girl called Ashido speaks to gain attention to the green-hair vampire boy, "With some unpalatable names!"
"Well! It means, by a very crude approximation, let's me see", Izuku breathes and says, "Telekinesis, Magic Trap, Pyrokinesis, Magic Shield, Mental Charm, Magic Barrier, Hypnosis", but corrects, "But in reality are also known as Air, Aether, Fire, Earth, Water, Dark and Light Sigils... Never mind..."
"Eek!", Todoroki chills his spine, since he knows that all those 7 Signs are similar to the equivalent of powerful quirks. A boy that controls all of both was beyond the sanity.
Other students rolls their eyes when just ears the unpalatable names.
The atmosphere was gloomy and heavy, and Aizawa tries to break the situation by announcing a little surprise.
"However… This is the Hero Course! I want both of you to change to the Physical Education outfit, because in 10 minutes I will make a full quirk assignment test!"
"Oh great!", Iida thinks, "My life on Yuuei will be so great, staying between a unfriendly normal vampire and a demon witcher vampire.", and screams loudly, "Why I choose this institution ?!"
"Relax!", says Izuku, "I know my condition!", and saw a purple grape head little boy whistle a funeral lullaby, where Izuku remember from the official list that was called Mineta.
Their classmates are a little frightened, and they think they could choose death by bloodsucking or burning like coal on an metallurgical plant, or even both as possible.
Finally, after changing their outfits to the P.E. ones, the 20 students of the new 1-A class gather together to the outside training field.
Quirk (and Magic) Assignment Test
Aizawa begins to explain the main purpose of those tests, "This is a round of 12 physical tests, where I want to test the impact of your inherited powers, so follow me to the site and form the necessary groups when I request..."
"So quirks may be used ?", Sero asks joyful.
"It is wise to do so, and once finishes, the last classification will be expelled!", Aizawa holds, and drops his fangs, "No! I will drink all of his blood! I'm tired of canned blood!"
"Eeek!", all students, except Izuku who sighs, became panicked.
#Test 1: Side-Ways Steps
The first test was a 30-seconds side-ways steps, an exercise that many quirk users would call it frustrating, since many quirk don't work so well.
Even for Izuku who just use his pure physical force to get a nice result, it ends halfway the global classification test. Iida even get a worst score, for is own frustration.
It also the test when Mineta wins this turn, since it drops is purple glue balls, and jumps between the balls on the floor, gaining speed in the process.
#Test 2: 50 Meter Dash
The second test was a 50-meter dash, and the favourite for many quirk students, while this test was made in pairs.
Bakugou uses is Explosion Quirk to propel himself, reaching the target in 3.12 seconds. Izuku, who partners with Katsuki, blasts forward using the Heliotrope and Aard, reaching in just 0.62 seconds.
"Jesus Christ! It was like a Shinkansen!", says Todoroki.
Aizawa also was astonished, "Even using a powerful magic spell... He almost manage to break the Yuuei record for first years!..."
#Test 3: Vertical Jumping
Vertical jumping was the third test, and also more friendly for flashy quirk users. For students like the frog quirk Tsuyu, it excels. For quirk users like Uraraka was not so left behind.
Finally, at Izuku turn, it also blasts another Heliotrope and Aard at a greater magic emission to fly about 250 meters high, almost the triple of Tsuyu!
#Test 4: Standing Horizontal Jumping
As a variation of the third test, the fourth test was a standing horizontal jump, where again Izuku propels to the victory using the Heliotrope with Aard combo.
#Test 5: Softball Throw
The fifth test was the softball throw, where here Bakugou could use his quirk to blast the ball until 700 meters.
"I just use my Explosion to propel for the victory!", said Katsuki in full prideful mood.
During Uraraka turn, she gives an infinity result due to the anti-gravity quirk, making everyone, including Izuku, a little jealous .
Izuku decides to shift the strategy, "Well, since it is a little ball...", just for Aizawa blinks worried.
Then everyone became astonished with all eyes widen when notices the young vampire releasing a black aura, and freezes when he start to spell a strange mantra:
"Ancient Spirits from Air and Thunder, I request to honour your Blood Pact!...", just when Aizawa screams, "Midoriya!... You will use a Dark Schneider's Magic Spell straight away ?!", for every classmates stalls in shock.
"Thunder Cannon Wave Attack...", while Izuku releases the softball, and discharges the dark lightning ball against it, throwing at a supersonic speed, "VENGEANCE!".
"A air with dark lightning magic spell...", said a dumbstruck Aizawa, just to point the device results to everyone, signalling that the reaches an insane distance of 145 kilometres!
"145 Km ?!", even Todoroki and Bakugou drops their jaws down, in a pure bewilderment.
And the most awkward situation from Aizawa perspective, and he don't speak for now to all class, was the fact his Cancellation quirk, which disable other quirks, don't affect Izuku.
#Test 6: Grip Strength Test
The sixth test, which should measure the hand grip of each student was more in domain of natural strength, than some kind of flashy quirk. Some strong quirk users like Todoroki had fairy nice results, reaching 110 kg due to his strong build-up and martial arts knowledge. Other students like a six-arm man called Shoji, gains this test, since it use all arms to increase the applied force, reaching 600 kg. Izuku reaches 385 kg using is own natural strength, but receive some curious remarks:
"I through a vampire have more grip!", says some random student.
"My magic vitality is not infinite!", Izuku yells, and then sighs due to some tiredness.
#Test 7: 2000 Meter Sprint
The seven test, was a 2000-meter sprint with several obstacles. The quirk advantage was very mixed,since some flashy quirk users such as Katsuki could reach great speeds, but the long distance turns into more a bargain.
Iida, who was faced the perfect realm for his Engine Quirk, takes about 2 minutes and 6 seconds to finish the line. Others take several minutes.
Izuku could end this test with only 1 minute and 33 seconds, using his strong physical force, with the little help of some Witcher Signs to boost speed, reaching up to a top speed of 200 km/h. However the real average speed was less than half of that, much due to prevent body overheating.
"Even Naruto would be jealous!", Tsuyu pokes, while remembers her favourite anime character.
#Test 8: Punching Machine
Later the eight test was the punching machine test. It was very straightforward, just punch with all forces. At Izuku's turn, he gives a powerful blow against the machine with 5 tonnes of force, by using is own physical strength. Surprising, Izuku's result was the second one, since for some reason, Shoji was able to give a little better result, by multiply all arms as possible, and punching into a coordinated strike.
#Test 9: Whack-a-Mole Machine
A reinforced whack-a-mole machine was the ninth test, where it require to smash with the supplied hammer the moles. Like the previous one, many quirks don't made an obvious advantage over strength ones. Due to his reason, Katsuki or Todoroki almost destroy the machine, since their quirks was more damaging to aid the task. Even within the strong students, Izuku was placed at the third place.
#Test 10: Weightlifting
The tenth test was weightlifting, and another nice test for the stronger take the lead. When it reaches Izuku's turn, everyone was surprised when he could pull 4 tonnes without great effort, but Aizawa intervenes and said that was the average value to a normal vampire.
"This time you should push more!", as Aizawa places more weights to the bar, "And try again!", once reaches to the 11 tonnes mark, making Izuku suffer from a great muscle strain, even it was able to push over the top.
"Alright...", said Aizawa, "Now... Let's increase to 36 and then 40 tonnes!", making even Katsuki shiver, and other student drops their jaws open in pure bewilderment.
Izuku barely could lift the bar within the 36 tonnes mark, that almost break Izuku, but manage to lift, at a very slow lifting speed, the final 40 tonnes bar. At the end, Izuku drops the bar, and almost collapses to the ground.
No one could even match this record. Shoji even barely pass the one ton mark. Even Todoroki or Bakugou could no hold more than 200 kg.
Aizawa orders Izuku to repeat the punching machine test, once he recovers quickly, using his vampiric regeneration abilities. Even it was not counting for final evaluation, Izuku was able to punch with a 10 tonnes punch force that ends, bending the machine frame.
Some colleges was disgusted due to Aizawa ruthlessness, but he only yells, "This is the Hero Course! Everyone should push the their limits and surpassed them... This test show clearly that Izuku physical strength is about 100 to 200 times greater than a quirkless human, about five times higher than a common vampire...", making the last remark swallow dry some students such as Iida or Yaoyorozu.
#Test 11: Seated Toe Touch
At the end of the road, the eleventh test was the seated toe touch, designed more to test the body flexibility than everything else. Surprising, Izuku gives a reasonable second place result, much due to his exceptional flexibility.
For many students, it was a very painful session of screaming, when they force their joints and tendons.
#Test 12: Brick Wall Breaker
Finally, the last test was to destroy a layered brick wall, filled with reinforced concrete along the gaps.
Aizawa explains, "It's very simple... Use your quirks or something else to blast the wall", making students like Todoroki or Katsuki grin and smile with pure defiance.
As expected, the Todoroki and Katsuki quirks either freeze or collapses, ending with the total destruction of the wall sample. Others barely damage the wall.
When Izuku faces the challenge, he just smiles, while holds their right hand to hold a growing green ball of sparkling energy and chants, "Ego antiquum pactum datë... Target lock on the Enemy...", making everyone curious, "Gather 12 Dark Thunder Arrows, 25 Dark Fire Arrows and 5 Ice Arrows...", while on the left hand, he closes and made another chant, "Skiss... Skurat... Shumega... Eni-Ono-In... Oh! Ancient Filth City that Challenges the Laws of Almighty... Release the fiery fire and brimstone from Hell...", just for all swallow dry again, while Izuku cast first from his right hand, "Multiple Elemental Crossbow Infantry... Release!", and then cast from the left side, by opening the hand, and releasing five energetic pulses that slices every conceivable material, "SODOM!"
The Elemental Arrows with the Dark Schneider's Sodom, either slice the wall, or blasted it without resistance. Todoroki also exclaims, "OMFG... During the Entrance Exam, I notice some flying arrows that blasts the robots... Then, it was this magic that destroy the majority of them ?!", making ever Katsuki surprised and with a shocked face.
Aizawa sighs and mumbles to himself, "If Izuku's magic don't had an huge cool-down time, it would simply got the highest Entrance Exam score of all times..."
Results...
Using pure sheer force, quirks or magic, once the entire sequence of tests ends, without any exception any of the students was extenuated. Even both they already known, they are surprised to saw Izuku also tired, even it was a vampire.
Aizawa plugs the projector device to his smartphone, and creates an holographic screen, "I just got the results! I don't waste time to explain the overall score... Without much surprise, Nosferatu Midoriya just got the first place, even he don't won everything...", says Aizawa while scroll the results, "And the last score was Mineta..."
"Eeek!", Mineta panics when remembers the fact that his teacher is also a vampire.
"Say… cheese!", as Aizawa faces Mineta and drops his fangs, "No, I'm kidding!"
And the entire class fall flat, "That's not funny at all!"
"However, Izuku… Drink one of this canned bottles with blood, since you will get uncontrollably hunger!"
"Thanks, Aizawa-sensei!", Izuku nods in agreement.
"Probably you will need to drink two litres tight now...", Aizawa slips something that never should talk so openly, "Damn it..."
"Two litres...", Katsuki face turns blank, and almost fells dizzy, "Deku... You many blood you need to drink everyday ?!"
"Between three to six litres, specially when I cast spells... But older vampires will only need about one litre..."
Katsuki and everyone still tries to process the information, as they accelerate their step just to run away, while both thought, "It's better to protect my wrist and neck!"
Once Izuku finishes is drinking, he knews that classes are over for now, but starting tomorrow, Izuku would start also his special sorcery classes.
After all, his dreamy life on Yuuei was just begun.
To be Continued...
Notes:
I decide to modify the Quirk Assignment Test, by replacing or adding physical tests inspired from the One Punch Man (and on next episode, a rogue hero from OPM canon will appear too), just to make the Yuuei High School a bit more resemblance to the OPM canon Hero Association.
The Practical Yuuei Exam was also a little tweaked, to add a second type of objects to focus the hero candidates to rescue citizens, and not only blasting villains. Also the rescue points mechanism is now more defined as a mandatory third component to evaluate the candidate, to check the moral standards when a hero should rescue someone, even it was his teammate.
Chapter 3: The Mercenary Havoc
Summary:
The first magic art tutor, Metal Knight, tries to blast Izuku by sending a barrage of artillery and missiles strikes, instead to teach the requested lectures that Yuuei planed to it.
Due to the results, the Izuku's mother convince Yuuei to hire the once magic art private tutor to be the Magic Teacher of Izuku.
On Yuuei himself, the other classes starts to realise that a vampire has admitted, and little by little, the curiosity can bring some warning signs.
Notes:
Making some corrections, but it was little changes, unlike the previous ones.
(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)
Chapter Text
Rogue Teacher...
During dawn, Izuku was training on a Special Yuuei Facility located a few kilometres apart from the main site, under watch by a special team managed my All Might, also the Top Number One Hero, and his teacher Aizawa, the only vampire that was a Top Hero while stare the events unfolding of a young sorcerer vampire that was also a fresh rookie on first year Hero Course.
By a special invitation, a former Black Ops soldier and current magic caster, which codename was Metal Knight, was hired to assure a balanced formation of this green hair vampire.
Since it could only manage to stay only a week, the strange person with some robotic enhanced arms and limbs, once himself could face the newbie, then instead to follow Nedzu's plans, it use own recipe to make a hellish rush training.
Along the first week of Yuuei classes, Metal Knight was supposed to focus on Signs spells, and probably to enhance the Magic Arrows casts, but his bad temperament leaves to push more of the Dark Schneider's grimoire.
"Since I don't have much time to enjoy...", Metal Knight makes a strange glare, while hold his robotic fists, "Why I don't introduce my special Black Death Commando Way of Training ?", he cites the former Black Ops Unit that he once worked.
Izuku don't have even time to react, once receive a direct hit air blast, but have enough time to cast the Quen Sign to reduce the damage, "What… are… you… doing ?! Bastard!", Izuku gritted his teeth, and even bite his lips with their own fangs.
Aizawa reacts with great disappointment, while All Might notices the odd behaviour from the guest marine. "This men is not follow the recommend methods!", yells Aizawa, "Hey! Great Demeanour Bastard! You shouldn't push Midoriya beyond the safety line, just for pleasure our teasing!"
Metal Knight then casts a paralysis field that blocks the two Heroes, "You should hold silent a little time...", and continues, "Let's begin!", and sends a barrage of punches against the green hair vampire.
Izuku face darkens, and focus on this insane teacher, "I won't lose to insane monsters like you!", and blocks the barrage with a uppercut right leg swing.
Soon the fight changes sequentially, from a minute of pure physical fight, leaving great damage on the training site, to another one or two minutes of magic casts. Izuku could even cast the Dark Element Magic Arrows with great destruction, "Barrage Target Lock! Gather… 400 Dark Element Spirits!", and sends directly to Metal Knight, "Magic Crossbow Barrage! Fire!", and the arrow barrage was so powerful that even the retired marine cast another shield, some of the stronger arrows break through the barrier and inflict some physical damage.
Luckily the damage received breaks the enchantment that holds Aizawa and All Might on a corner, and then both of two would try to stop the insane fighting.
Izuku then use the Igni Sign to send a continuous stream of fire, like a flamethrower, which indicates that the vampire was evolved that Sign to the next level. This was a breakthrough after 15 minutes of magic and enduring fight that reaches that point:
" This is nothing! ", says Metal Knight when casts a magic barrier to shield the Igni Sign casting.
" Then I cast this!", says Izuku, when cast a lightning bolt, "Seek! Spirits of Lighting!", and flares coating the electrifying bolt, "Destroy! The Blood Fire of Death!", and sends the bolt like a kind of blast, "VOIVOD!"
The blast had a huge piercing effect, capable even to blast the metal shield of Metal Knight, but luckily it was a relative weak spell that can be tuned to make non-fatal injuries, where Metal Knight himself notices, "I'm thinking that the Voivod are reasonable to use on the next Basic Hero Training class, on the next Monday!"
"A lightning spell cast ?", Aizawa frowns, "At last Kaminari would not be alone!", the 1-A class teacher makes a poke reference about the Electrification Quirk student.
But All Might was very worried of the Midoriya's powers, since it could defeat himself easily, but he knows by some strange rumours of a recent takeover of an infamous villain organization by dark sorcerers, and the potential unthinkable menaces that could follow was the perfect excuse to Metal Knight force the young vampire to unlock all potential, instead to restrain his development on safe techniques.
"And another of this insane stuff!", All Might was surprised when Metal Knight press a button to release an entire army controlled by remote control, including six heavy modified giant robots similar to the zero-point test robot, but with howitzers, ground-to-air and ground-to-ground homing missiles and even a prototype of a 5 megawatt plasma cannon capable to blast middle yield long range missiles.
The insanity was not ending here, since Metal knight manages to repair the decommissioned Second World War German tanks Maus, with 200 mm cannons, and finally two dozens of remote controlled armoured tanks equip with heavy machine guns, 50 mm cannons and batteries of short-range missiles.
The canvas fabric scattered along the battle field along some trash was after a decoy to hide the mechanical army until they receive an order to attack.
"First Strike!", Metal Knight activate all the weapons, sending a full barrage of shells and mortars against the place where Izuku stands.
Izuku blasts to himself intended to fly high, and to divert the shrapnel and blasts using the Geralt's Signs to shield the attacks, but only the Heliotrope could shield partially the weaponry barrage.
"Honestly! It's pure madness!", shouts an angry Aizawa.
Izuku tries to use the Exodus and Venom spells, but the very fast activation speed of the six plasma cannons disrupt the concentration and meditation required to manipulate the vitality flow and summon those signature deadly magic spells.
Even so, Izuku could cast another low-level, according from his own Grimoire classification ranking, spell, but it only blasts the missiles and shrapnel, but not the steamy plasma fired by the prototype weaponry. At least it was worth to try, "Skiss! Skurat! Shumega! Eni-Ono-In! Release the endless fire and brimstone from fiery Hell!", and blast a sequence of energetic pulses which resemble blades, "SODOM!"
"Very well! You can die now!", grins Metal Knight, "Full Attack!", and everything fires to almost randomly directions, beginning from machine gun barrages swing to all directions, and ends with flying missiles that tries to targets Izuku.
The Quirk Assessment Test on their first day was after all by some great use, it was the obstacles course test on steroids, along with live ammunition capable to wipe out a entire small town from the map!
"If the Yuuei motto is Plus Ultra...", grins Izuku, "Then this reception of doomsday is Plus Ultra on Hellfire Steroids!"
Once Izuku speaks that remark by pure defiance, he face a laser guided ground-to-ground GBU-39 guided against him and was too fast to Izuku simply run, forcing to use a Aard Sign blast to destroy the missile.
Then a barrage of MGM-140 ATACMS, plus a sequential firing of BGM-71 TOW from the heavy armoured tanks was automatically launched. The magnitude of this act makes Aizawa and All Might inner thoughts boiling until burst to a murderous demeanour.
Aizawa rage was beyond any conceivable scale, since it lauds as he could curse the Devil himself, "WTF is this little prank, dreadnought hero ?!", and starts to run with a black pitch haze on his right fist against the Metal Knight, "Since when a hero training fight involve anti-tank or piercing weaponry ?!"
"Oh, Oh!", Metal Knights screams, "The Central Command goes berserk!", the computer that controls remotely their toys crashes, and then everything starts to unleash to every conceivable target.
"This was to far along!", screams All Might, "Texas SMASH!", and Metal Knight was hit by a powerful punch.
"Goes Berserk, right !", and Aizawa does a similar punch.
And Metal Knight flies away from the Ground Site, while Aizawa makes an emergency call to the Main Office about the insane situation.
Aizawa's Phone Call:
"Mister Nedzu! Aizawa here!", he explains briefly, "That Metal Knight bastard brings an entire remote controlled infantry army just to test Midoriya's power!", and yells, "I manage to defeat that son of hell, but that crap fails, and menace to destroy not only all Yuuei Campus, but all the neighbourhood town! "
Nedzu yells when answer the call, "You just said that an entire remote controlled infantry division, have a software glitch that takes it off control, and that stuff was secretly assembled by Metal Knight ?!"
"If necessary, make an emergency call to the Japan Self-defence Force! Or the Department of Defence! This stuff in less than one minute will even fire six plasma cannons!"
"First of all, I will fire and put Metal Knight on jail...", and Nedzu pauses a little, "However, I cannot do such request to the military, just because it is not possible to request a missile strike against our school, in less than one minute!"
The Real Final Assessment Test!
Aizawa grins when closes his own smarthphone, and then yells loudly to Izuku, "MIDORIYA! This is the Real Last Assessment Test! Go Beyond and Plus Ultra ad infinitum!", and gasps, "Destroy and Raze that Army to Nothingness!", ending with a comical reference from Hellsing franchise that make Izuku perplexed, "Search and Destroy! Ahem... Raze and Destroy!"
Once Izuku receives the desperate request from the older vampire, his mind flashes about a page of his own grimoire that brings a real motivation to recites a new thing, a Ritual Summoning Cast, to release the powers of Witcher Signs as a foundation to a more powerful magic spell, which is the most powerful that Izuku could ever manage to cast, but could be heavily costly.
However it have a duty to save not only Aizawa, or All Might, but the entire Yuuei and the nearby town citizens from the berserked Metal Knight's army.
The plasma cannons will be fired in less than 50 seconds, and without haste more time, Izuku holds a strong grip on his entire body, and meditates to release his powers, and then chants briefly.
"Magno animo vinculum inter caelum et inferos antiquis... Sit vetus testamentum Tenebrosi Cicero!", where Izuku speaks the Latin name of Dark Schneider to use their ancient link to request their hidden powers, "Magia Erebia liberatio!... ", releasing a giant circle with runes along the boundary, due to Izuku's own native black magic, that him align the centre of the circle around the target, "Qui excieo septem antiqua incantamenta ab Lupus Alba ...", and places all seven Geralt's Signs powers on the ritual circle marks, "Et sanguinis sacramentum signum!", while drains his blood to seal the Ritual Signature. It takes 40 seconds to finish the Ritual Enchantment.
This Ritual Spell enables to Izuku release more from his magic vitality than the normal, thus making a Limit Breaking Spell, in exchange to the greater risk to cause several damage, while enables to cast a dangerous and powerful magic spell:
"Hear me, the dark ones! Hear me, the void!", one he starts the main incantation, the Ritual Circle enlarges to cover the entire battle field, also protect Izuku from the damage, even he was outside the magic circle domain, "OH! The Great Obscure Flames of Chaos! Under your Dark Pantheon, I pledge your Deathly Sacrifice!", meanwhile the ground shakes due to the increasing magic energy release, "Awaken the Great Chaos of Underworld and the Omnipotent Inferno of Darkness!", then lighting, fire, ash and ominous miasma flows to a newly open gate from Hell, from the middle of the magic circle, just to encircle the Metal Knight's army, "From the Hades flames and Sabbath lies… Eternal Idols of Heaven and Hell, Paranoia Dreams that never Die... Guided by Iron Man's cast spell!...", finally Izuku manages to release a dark flare of dark energy, once he drops his casting hand to the ground, that cracks and breaks apart along the darkness miasma, while quickly increasing the temperature, and starts to destroy everything in their path, "Under the Dark Pact of Chaos… Release the Hades flames! Dai Idol! Dai Omni! Gizeh! And brings everything destroyed by the Nuclear Doomsday!...", and quickly the miasma grows hotter and hotter, reaching the temperatures of several million degrees, and soon it begin to reach the critical point necessary to start a nuclear reaction, blasting like a nuclear cauldron, "BLACK SABBATH!"
The last Izuku's magic works due to the magic magnetic field created and guided by the Ritual Circle along the darkness miasma flux. The black magic energy also helps to kick an initial adiabatic heating that reaches an initial temperature of about 10000 Kelvin. Once Izuku spell opens a gate from the Hell, the caster should use this event to compress the dark energy, and with the help of the magic magnetic field described before, it reaches quickly the pressures and temperatures required to do a nuclear ignition, releasing huge quantities of nuclear radiation, thermal heating, convective heat transfer, ending with an huge and catastrophic shock-wave. At apex, the temperatures reaches about 100 millions Kelvin.
For the Aizawa and All Might perspective, they witness first a giant firestorm of black flames, followed by a kind of nuclear blast that was beyond everything the Yuuei witness, followed by a white and blinding light and a thermal wave much similar to a detonation of a nuclear weapon, while the entire Metal Knight's robotic army was simply destroyed in less than one second.
The Ritual Barrier helps to deflect and shield the explosion shock-wave directly to sky, avoiding the nearby city and the Yuuei Campus itself from blasting away, but it couldn't avoid several broken windows, and other minor damages.
Some seconds later, all was once a Special Training Field was now a crater, and an atomic mushroom cloud. By some distance witness, the ultimate Izuku's spell was a magic crafted nuclear bomb !
In fact, even it was late evening, many citizens on the nearest town around the campus would through than an atomic bomb was just detonated on Yuuei High School facilities. Quickly the media storm the site, asking about the nuclear test, before the Japanese Army (SDF - Self-Defense Forces) arrive, and isolate from further civilians and spies, using force, if necessary.
Some surviving sensors record the entire fight and the Black Sabbath spell effects, including the fact the energy was roughly equivalent of a small tactical nuclear weapon, reaching a 10 kiloton yield. Even Izuku's body had an inhuman resilience against several phenomena, the last magic spell causes huge body bruises, and broken bones. Since his teachers was very quickly to react, about a minute later, Izuku was sent with Aizawa help to the Recovery Girl's Infirmary, where take an entire day just to recover.
According by Aizawa or even Nedzu own judgement, the Metal Knight's actions was beyond the ethics, and was straightly fired without second thoughts. After all, the ultimate Izuku's spell that just delivered a catastrophic destruction of Yuuei's propriety , much incited due to invited tutor, reveals the true danger of a powerful sorcerer. The next problem to Nedzu fix, is to convince the personal with metal brasses to not make much fuss on Yuuei own business, even he knew that Izuku would be a terrible asset on military hands.
Next day, the Yuuei decide to hire a new magic tutor, and to avoid more mistakes, they decide to use their resources to convince the same Izuku's private magic teacher when it was younger to apply, and she's accepted without great problems. The choose was also driven by the Izuku's mother own request, which also barely could sleep on that night.
At the beginning of the Next Week...
At the next Monday, the entire 1-A class reunites as usual, but that day was a little special since they know that after the English class, and the lunch break, they have the first Basic Hero Training class. Everyone have high expectations, and once they gather together, some students like Bakugou notices the little daze, and little health frail from Izuku, prompting a question, "What's happened ?!"
"Well!", Izuku sighs, "Recovering from an insane psychopath disguised as teacher!"
"WTF ?!", yells Todoroki, who notices the conversation, "It was from your Special Classes ?!"
"An obscure sorcerer tries to tease me, and after some degree of insanity, this ends like a nuclear war!"
Both classmates turn his heads, and becomes anxious.
"What kind of disaster was that, and how it ends?", asks Iida.
Izuku places his smartphone, and display pictures of the Metal Knight's infantry unit, and the results of his actions, which was a picture of a huge crater and a mushroom cloud.
Everyone was shocked by that result.
" That psychopath, instead to teach me how to control my powers, they want to pull all of it, and then decide to assemble an entire robotic army, using heavy weaponry, including the experimental plasma cannons", causing Todoroki to etch his rose-and-white coloured hair, "And enough ammunition to raze this site and neighbours to the ground."
" This explains why such blast cause a massive panic on this town!", says Yayoizuru.
" All Might and Aizawa takes down that crazy men, and he was fired a couple of minutes later. But the entire robotic army loses control, and I manage to use the most powerful spell that I could summon!", and pauses a little, "And, men! It was too costly!"
Katsuki was a bit worried, "And what kind of spell was that ?"
"Black Sabbath! A magic spell conceived for total destruction of any sorcerer's surroundings...", Izuku said while play with his hand, ignoring his classmates thoughts, "Since it was a Forbidden Rank Spell, I use first a Ritual Spell to unlock seals from the Dark Schneider and Geralt of Rivia bloodlines, which require to use my blood as my signature... And once finished... I could spell that thing !"
Todoroki then asks, "It is another fire spell ?"
"Actually, it was a Dark Magic Spell, but had a fire foundation.", and sighs again, "But in reality it is a kind of Nuke spell", where all classmates became frozen, "And I almost fainted after the spell cast. Aizawa-sensei says that fire was reached several millions of degrees Celsius!", and cites the energy release, "And an energy output equivalent of a small nuclear weapon, that's about 10 kiloton...", and concludes, "But it breaks my own limits, since I spend the entire night on Recovery Girl's infirmary just to heal my own body!", and finally relaxes, "And fortunately all stuff cools down quickly!"
"10 kiloton ?!", Katsuki yells, "That's almost half the energy release by the Hiroshima Nuke!"
"What's a real forbidden spell!", Tsuyu pokes.
"The story is so unrealistic that makes anyone peck, thinking that was some kind of weird dream!", says Yayoizuru.
The classroom atmosphere shifted, once the Electrifying Quirk user intervenes.
"There's something odd, and curious about you...", Kaminari said, "After all, names like Black Sabbath, Megadeath, Sodom, Venom, Exodus... and such makes to think..."
Katsuki also stops to think, while only thought to himself, "In reality, I'm curious about Deku choose such weirdness when use their WTF powers..."
"Why your powerful spells had names derived from Heavy Metal bands ?", asks Kaminari.
His entire class snaps from that trivial knowledge, "Oh! It is true!", while search on this phones.
"It was because my natural-born vampire mother, once they discover that was awaken as a sorcerer, she had the correct and wisdom suggestion to hire a private tutor... And now she was also hired to teach me the extra-curricular Magic Arts classes!", and explains the rest, "During the Junior High School years, she when helps me to translate ancient Germanic books, she had the suggestion to place nicknames based on Death Metal or Heavy Metal bands, since she was a huge fan of Heavy Metal!"
Once Izuku finishes his explanation, Present Mic arrives to start the English Class, and everyone focus switches to his lecture.
The English class was so boring for much of Izuku's mates, but aids to recover some of the animosity when both goes to the main Yuuei's cafeteria, the Lunch Rush.
On cafeteria...
The rumours about a student vampire was reached almost all classes, albeit the mandatory discretion. Soon, some of them could spot the green-hair as the famous vampire, specially the General Education's brainwasher quirk user, Shinsou.
Shinsou was generously surprised about the fact a vampire could eat human food, but if it was bloodied the better it tastes. Izuku also receives stock blood to drink, and since it couldn't drink that stuff unnoticed, soon the regular vision of someone drink blood would cause some nauseas to some of his peers.
"Well! It is strange that a bloodsucker eats normal food!", says Shinsou.
"I'm also unaffected by garlic or other non-sense", Izuku replies, with a sharp voice tone.
"I'm feared because my brainwashing quirk, and you?", Shinsou also tries to pull more info.
"My very frightening quirk", Izuku plays a little, "is called… Vryko-Warlock!", but he know that he also have a kind of brainwashing Sign called Axii, and eventually the Somne.
Shinsou mind snaps, due to the strange name, "Your parents don't had better ideas ?!"
"I like that name", even in reality was indifferent, "Since I could cast several fire techniques!"
"Very odd", Shinso was unconvinced, since he notices that his brainwashing quirk was no effect due to Aard Sign that Izuku discretely casts before starts his meal, "Vampires are really through stuff!"
And then Izuku lefts the table, while Katsuki pokes about the whole situation, "Stupid nerd! Please, do not talk so openly to other classes! They want to know your real powers!"
Izuku answers, "That Shinsou knows more that it speaks, but I discovery that the Aard Sign nullifies his quirk!", and adds, "By the way, the Axii is very equivalent to the Shinsou's quirk!"
Katsuki agrees, but warns Izuku, "Deku! But try to not use unnatural magic, or everyone will be afraid!"
Returning to the classroom...
For many of 1-A class mates, the initial frightening fear was gradually melting, as they notices by the last Saturday incident, that Izuku powers, even beyond some of the best Top Heroes, has not infinite or neither was a God. Izuku speaks that his magical powers may take an entire mouth to recover totally, but even so it may be enough to handle the Hero Training Class.
And then the star of Yuuei, All Might, arrives on the classroom, "I'm arriving here like a normal person!"
Everyone, including Izuku, raise from his chairs and applause.
"Today is your first Hero Training class!", All Might smiles, and displays a vault with 20 boxes, "And all of your Hero Costumes are finally ready to use!"
Everyone join the fray, and goes to the Custom Lockers with their suitcases. Katsuki was already dressed his Hero Costume, where the giant gauntlets resembling grenades was one of the visible and intimidating features. In reality was waiting to saw the Deku's Hero Costume, and once exit, while drink another blood thermos, intended to replace the depleted vitality due to the Black Sabbath's Forbidden Spell. And the vision of the Izuku's costume makes everyone, even Katsuki that was a little mesmerized, and the rest of mates astonished.
Izuku's Hero Costume was more like a medieval armour, almost dark gray coloured, with metal plates reinforcing his torso, legs and arms. His shoulders has heavily reinforced with dragon motif pauldrons. The rerebrace, couter and vambraces was made with a steel alloy, and several alchemical symbols was etched along the cited armour plates, including a etched black dragon running from the shoulder to his hands. This will make his arms act like a magic wand, to enhance and increase the precision of his magic powers. The gauntlets has less armored, to enable Izuku cast his Witcher Signs, or another spell at will.
His legs was also covered by metal plates, where the cuisses, poleyns and greaves was also etched in the similar way as their arms. A steel reinforced booths replaces the sabatons. His main body was also shielded, with a multi-layered breastplate and plackart. But those parts was hidden by belt strips to house throwing knifes along the armoured torso. And finally, on Izuku back, a giant sword that serves as the real magical wand was placed here. The sheer size frightens some boys. Finally a black cape with some enigmatic heraldic seal etched along it, completes the Izuku's Hero costume. The helmet was retractile, and so it maintains open.
But since Izuku's armour are modular, for the time being, it could remove the sword and other weapons, since it will not need to use anything of this. At last, the first real Hero Lecture will begun...
To be Continued...
Notes:
The Black Sabbath was originally on Bastard!! manga, the most powerful spell that Dark Schneider could ever handle.
Izuku's Black Sabbath was also terrible destructive, but was about less of one thousandth of the Dark Schneider's version, and like it was descriptive on the main text, Izuku can only cast a Black Sabbath spell about one time per mount, unless some kind of Ritual to reduce the cool-down and increase the power release.
To complete the Dark Schneider's Grimoire, Izuku still needs to cast Halloween, but when it will make ? (Surprise!)
Chapter 4: The Battle Simulation Test
Summary:
The first Hero lecture was finally arrived! For Izuku, it was the first test to achieve his dreams.
But also, it was the first time that he should use his powers to achieve a result, without harm the others.
The original magic teacher of his own childhood was also hired by Yuuei, hoping they it could help Izuku to avoid the destructive instinct of Dark Schneider's sorcery.
Once the thinks settled, an intruder invades Yuuei, an everyone wants to know how was those stealth ninja.
Notes:
Making a little changes...
The first Izuku's costume was inspired by the Guts' armour from Berserk, mixed with some characteristics derived from Geralt's from Witcher.
(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)
Chapter Text
Today was the first Hero Training lecture, and all 20 students was eager to learn the mechanics of a real Hero fighting. All Might gives to everyone a warm salute to everyone, and makes a lightly remark about the Hero Costumes that all students request to make. However the Izuku's one was less appreciated, and even All Might warns that, "Young vampire boy, we are living on the 21st century Japan, during the Hero Era… Your costume reminds to me more a 11th century dreadnought armour, where the heavy armoured cavalry, and swordsman was the prime heroes of the time..."
"I will appreciate your remarks… All Might!", Izuku nods.
"And this black clothing reminds to me more a villain, than a hero!", Sero pokes some random thought.
"Whatever...", said Izuku while the others goes out and follows All Might.
After some minutes walking, both arrives on Ground Gamma, where a concrete false city, like the ones on the Entrance Exam, was erected here. Izuku notices that Aizawa, Blood King and even the former tutor that once teach magic when he was younger, was also there!
"Hello, cutie!", says the new Izuku's magic arts teacher, "As you can remember me, my name is Sakura Ishinoji!"
"Why you are here, right now ?!", Izuku almost screams, "My lecture with you is just after the Battle Trials!"
"This is because I want to watch your capabilities, before even think where I can start!"
Uraraka and Yaoyorozu grins, specially as they understand that she knows better the Izuku's real powers.
All Might explains the Battle Simulation rules: All class will be splitter by five groups of four students each. Half of them will be the Villain Team, other half, the Hero Team.
"The trial is about a close doors combat, where a group of villains makes hostages on he top floor of this building, while the they also arms traps, small explosives and stray devices, along the other floors.", and continues, "The real threat is the villans want to blast a missile from an unknown location, but they mount the central command room here."
"What are the objectives ?", asks Iida.
"The Villain Team will try to hold the central control room active at least 20 minutes, the time required to launch the missile", and Izuku sighs when remembers the real missile test that needs to handle few days ago, "And the Hero Team have those 20 minutes to search and destroy the central control room."
And the entire class nods positively.
All Might was a little worried with the slight change of the planed lecture, much due to the presence of military grade sentry rifles, and bobby-trap explosives.
Heroes/Villains Teams:
Aizawa selects the following groups accordingly by own strengths and capabilities:
Villains Teams: Katsuki Bakugou / Tenya Iida ; Mashirao Ojiro / Toru Hagakure ; Ejiro Kirishima / Hanta Sero ; Momo Yaoyorozu / Minoru Mineta ; Koji Koda / Rikido Sato.
Hero Teams: Izuku Midoriya / Ochako Uraraka; Shoto Todoriki / Mezo Shoji ; Fumikage Tokoyami / Tsuyu Asui; Kyoka Jiro / Denki Kaminari; Mina Ashido / Yuga Aoyama
"And then...", speaks Aizawa, "In next five minutes begins the first trial on Building #1, with Bakugou and Iida as Villains, versus Midoriya and Uraraka as Heroes!"
Aizawa turns his head to Izuku and warns him, "Be a little restrictive on your powers…"
Trial #1 Start!
Bakugou and Iida runs to the top floor (of five stories high), and press the button of a central control mock-up instrument to signal to the teachers control and monitoring room, that the "missile starting sequence was activated", and a 20 minutes countdown starts automatically.
Once a horn buzzes, Midoriya and Uraraka enters the building, and their mission starts.
Uraraka notices the armoured costume of the curly and fluffy green hair boy, even it was a vampire, she finds a little odd, but also very strange and cute.
"Why you dress this heavy clothing, that hinders your...", Uraraka stops before talks some weird word, "Whatever...", and manages to divert the Izuku's piercing eyes, " By the way... I thought that vampires are night creatures... but you walk and wander around during daylight without great problems..."
"I'm a night creature... Uraraka-san...", replies Izuku, a little annoyed, "And staying on daylight hurts me, but due to the human technology, is now more easy to overcome...".
"And what's so special... ?", just for Izuku cuts her speech, and delivers a straight answer:
"Normally, some special clothing to block damaging UV-light, a good sunscreen lotion, and even a little blood drinking helps to me living during daylight...", while Uraraka, even with those explanation, was not totally convinced.
When Izuku talks to that human girl, he also decides to leave the heavy sword, and the throwing knifes belt, since such things during a Hero Patrol, would restraint any cliché Villain to made his own five minutes of fame, and could ended killed instead. The green haired vampire are not so skilful to made magic enchantments on objects like swords, clothes and knives, but he expected that since he will resume the magic training with the former sorcerer vampire, he could learn such things. Either way, Izuku just drop all unnecessary bandwagon before enter on the building since such mission won't require such stuff.
Izuku signals to his partner to stay at the entrance hall, while himself scans the walls and corridors of the first floor. Then Izuku cast a Yrden Signal to form a kind of magic trap circle around about six meters radius, where Izuku stays approximately on this centre. This reveals a bobby trap beneath the false balcony of the hall, and then Izuku casts a fast Aard Sign to blast and fry the electronic device.
Some of his colleges, specially Todoroki, and some Yuuei teachers that was also watching the battle trial, notices the strange sorcerer powers from Izuku.
Uraraka notices the Izuku had a very rational and analytical mind, while had a natural stealth behaviour, much probably due to his vampire nature.
The girl decides to use her own Anti-Gravity quirk to himself to float, once she get out from the building entrance, and floats along the windows carefully (actually empty holes) to check the enemy presence.
"So you decide to attack from outside... well...", and Izuku decide to recover from the old stuff learnt on memory when he was a little younger with Sakura-sensei, to cast some creation magic that once takes several time to master it, which was the Materialization Magic. Even it was partially forgotten, Izuku had a flash memory when spoke the keywords, "Magia Plasmatio...".
Izuku wasn't a great affinity with such kind of magic, but still was capable to cast one basic materialization magic spell that create a strange heraldic disc above his feet, and once step foot on it, Izuku could float about a quarter of meter from the ground, and slides with this magic enchantment around the corridors:
"Spiritus Scientiae et Artis!... Exceio Magia Plasmatio est!...", and finally he name the magical flying boarding device as, "Magical Overboard! Exsolvo!", and the final loan word to activate the spell.
Izuku takes a brief moment to check one he summons the so-called Magic Overboard, even the name was not so adequate, due to the fact it was a register mark for a small transportation device similar to a skate with an electronic guidance system and centre of gravity control by a gyroscope, similar to the once popular Segway. When Izuku cast the new magic, he notices that the etched dragon along the legs pieces of armour, glows with a faint reddish haze, meaning that was working as expected, and this helps Izuku to increase the precision and control , since at a certain point, his magic needs a magic wand for better management.
Meanwhile at the central control room, All Might eyebrows snaps due to the last Izuku's magic summon, "Damn! A kind of Segway ?!"
"That's my cute boy!", exclaims the Izuku's sorcery tutor, "Now is really using my Grimoire to summon objects by enchantments!"
"What this strange woman are talking about ?!", Blood King asks, while watches the monitor screens.
Tokoyami, the Dark Shadow quirk user, which face resemble a dark crow, also speaks, "This stuff is actually useful to me arrive quickly to school!", and sighs, "I really want that my Dark Shadow could do the same thing!"
"Whatever!", said Dark Shadow itself, barely hiding the little jealousy that feels due to the strange Izuku's magic powers.
Meanwhile, Bakugou go downstairs to check the others floors, while tries to find his Deku.
"Four-Eyes!", says Bakugou, "Stay here, while you try to protect the facility, while I will intercept Deku!", and goes forward.
Once about one minute was just passed, at the third floor, Bakugou found the famous vampire.
"What ?!", says Katsuki, when saw Izuku blasts some traps using the Aard Sign, creates a magic shield using the Sign Quen to deflect physical damage and focus his concentration on the strange magic floating disc that hold the strange vampire, "Can't you just walk, like normal people do ?!"
"If I can summon an object capable to slide above the trapped ground, why I can't use for my benefit?"
"Whatever!", grins Katsuki, "If you remembers our childhood... My quirk is called Explosion... And I create those huge gauntlets by one main reason... Basically, this device will accumulate my nitroglycerin sweat, derived from my quirk, and I can use one of my most destructive quirk techniques!", ending with a staged defiance demeanour.
Even without use explicitly his quirk, Katsuki delivers a strong punch against Izuku face, but the vampire manage to dodge with the help of his Magic Overboard. Once Izuku slides to a corner, he was surprised when Katsuki remove the right hand pin to fire a damaging explosion, while make a powerful uppercut punch within a swing movement. Since Izuku recover his concentration swiftly, he place his right hand to the ground to place a Yrden Sign at an higher level that triggers a magical disruption of the physical and chemical reaction of Katsuki's quirk, even before it could hit Izuku. The vampire then casts the Quen Sign, and uses the Explosion Shield tactic to counter against the attacker, blasting Bakugou away back to the wall that's on front of Izuku's point of view.
"Now it's my turn...", says Izuku, while cast another category of magic spells, "I Pledge and Gather the Ancient Spirits of Nature!", and a growing and increasing fast flow of vitality flow forms a mixed gradient of colours, ranging from blue to red and green, "Gather 15 Ice Spirits, 8 Wind Spirits, 1 Light Spirit, 60 Fire Spirits...", and use his right arm, while the etched dragon on his armour act as a magic wand, enabling to form swirling spirited rings of different colours around that arm, and also to increase the force and precision of the cast, "Magical Spirit Crossbow Infantry Arrows!… Release!"
Once Izuku release his spell, a stream of different arrows flown against Katsuki, giving different damages. The ice shreds froze much of this costume, the fire blasts burns the gauntlets, ending blowing them, while the wind blast cause a push against the next empty room once the wall collapsed, and finally, the highly cost-to-cast light ray stuns Katsuki, leaving unconsciousness.
On the central room, Todoroki was one of the most stunned and perplexed students, "WTF ?! WTF ?! Ice, fire, blast, telekinesis techniques cast by the same person ?!"
"Eek!", says Kaminari, "A kind of machine gun ?!", while tries to avoid be so loud, "This green-hair are a total freak!"
The Blood King was one of teachers that this to be more rational, "Oh my god! It appears much like a young magician like on several RPG that I like to play. I never expect that exists a quirk that makes such things possible!"
"Ooooh", Sakura intervenes, "A light spirit arrow! He manage to summon an enchantment with the lower element compatibility!"
"A vampire isn't expected to cast light stuff, right ?!", says Aizawa.
"But this spell is so lightly, that I even predicted that he could do, but will never be cast or use at full force. By contrast, fire and dark spells are much more effective!", Sakura answers with a more serious voice tone.
"For me, a quirk that erase other quirks it is more than enough to me!", once Aizawa signals to end this conversation, but he was a little cynical, "But I knew some magic spells...", without spoken back to her.
Even after such powerful vampire's magic, Katsuki don't give up, once recover his senses about a minute later. Instead to make a sneak attack, or make a more subtle strategy, Katsuki decides to run at maximum speed, and target Izuku straight forward. Katsuki tries to blast Izuku at a short distance, and almost manage to do, since it could make a little damage to the Izuku's costume fabric, but the vampire cast the Quen Sign quickly enough to reduce the impact force.
Then Katsuki repeats the same strike with a more powerful quirk blast, "Howitzer Punch!", just to hear the Izuku's answer, "Fool!", and grins, while cross the right hand fingers, and casts a more superior spell, "Foolish Warrior! Hear my predicament!", and release a barrage of fire balls, "Release the Fire Balls of Underworld!", and cast against the Katsuki's body, "IMPELLITTERI!"
The Izuku's fire spell blasts the ceiling and sends the stunned Bakugou directly to the forth floor.
Iida hear the powerful blast, and runs to the find Katsuki injured. The blond still stands up, while Iida jumps straight inside the opened hole to reach the same floor where Izuku stays. Once Iida faces Izuku, he tries to use the Reciprocal Burst to delivery a uppercut against Izuku.
Izuku use the Telekinesis Blast of the Aard Sign to try disrupt the Iida quirk, but it was not so adequate. Iida gives a kick against Izuku's face, that even without much damage, could hit the powerful vampire.
"Well!", Izuku recovers quickly, "As a reward...", he use the left hand to cast a finish spell, "Seek! Spirits of Lightning!", and a lightning balls coated by a fire shell forms and increases it's size, "Destroy! The Blood Fire of Death!", and casts against Iida and Katsuki, since they are on line of vision from Izuku's perspective, while they scream a little before the impact, "VOIVOD!"
Aizawa jumps from his chair, almost worried, and a bit angry, "Why Midoriya now casts a Dark Schneider's spell ?!"
"Dark Schneider's spell… ?", Blood King was confused, "What are you talking about ?!"
"Nuts!", says All Might, "It's… a… secret!"
"What ?!", Blood King bewilderment was very embarrassing.
Todoroki stunning was also very strange, "Lightning with fire magic spell ?!", and tries to imagine when they go to the Yuuei Sports Festival, just to plan how to manage counter every spells that Izuku casts by own Half-Hot-Half-Cold quirk, or at last manage the fight last more than one second !
"Mother! I have a rival!", says Kaminari, dumbfound, when witness that the vampire also can cast lightning spells, like his quirk does.
The impact blasts all Katsuki and Iida costumes, and still leaves a little burn marks, but the lightning core of spell knock-out almost instantaneously. Izuku weakens the spell by purpose, since if he casts Voivod at full strenght, Iida and Kat5suki bodies could melt, or their blood boild or even been magically poisoned by the dark lightning fire. Even,so, the recoil from the Voivod spell manage to break another hole, and send the two villains straight to the fifth floor. The two boys fall flat on the floor, while Izuku who jumps to the fifth floor by the new shortcut he manage to create. Meanwhile, during the whole confusion, Uraraka manage to enter from the window, leaving Izuku the task to disable the missile control system.
"Well! A little Igni Sign, using the Pyrokinetic blast, will fix the problem!", destroying the fake remote control using a burst of flames emitted from his right opened hand.
All Might then declare, "Hero Team Wins!", when the clock marks about ten minutes of fighting.
Aizawa make a face palm, when the security cameras displays the injured Iida and Katsuki, murmuring about the Izuku's choices about the spells that are safely to cast, specially when the last one could kill them, if Izuku fails to reduce the magic energy output.
However, once the vampire returns his focus to his colleges, and dispels the magic kind of Segway straight here, Izuku plans to cast an healing spell to the injured classmates. But first, he bites lightly the hands of Katsuki and Iida once he bites to himself, and then mixes the fresh blood along a glowing purple ring that he casts and maintains along his right wrist, while completes the enchantment by spelling, "Magia Salutaris liberatum!", and the wounds and burn marks was encircled by strange magic runes, craved by the magic ring when the Izuku's hands, covered by his blood, touches while declares the technique name, "Healing Blood Circle!", healing the wounds at high speed until it disappears, or almost of it, while the runes evaporates quickly, "Sanitatem Spirituum, Cura Amecis est! Sanatio!"
Once the two rituals are done, the blood and the ring dispels, just to much of the whole classmates own confusion and frighting, "WTF was that ?!", screams Katsuki, without snapping completely.
Izuku nods his head and speaks, "At least, it was one thing I could do, to compensate my own overpowered last spell that could make you several injuries. So, I cast an healing spell. I leave the rest for the Recovery Girl."
"What ?!", Iida was the first to recover his rationality from the shock, "You also have healing capabilities ?!"
Katsuki had an huge headache, once he recovers really but manages to remember the facts, "Damn, Deku!", and yells faintly, "What kind of spell you cast… I fell that I… was burned… and stunned at the same time..."
"Voivod!", says Izuku, "It's a electric ball, covered by fire. Very useful to blast armours and stuns opponents!"
At the control room, Blood King was a little jealous, since this peculiar student can use his blood to heal other people, while also says, "Oh, boy! This Hero Candidate is really more akin to a potential magician, than a classical Hero!"
All Might blushes, while thinks, "This is because Midoriya-kun is really a sorcerer!"
The four students, at own pace exit the building, and walks to the central control building, where the rest of students and the teachers reunites.
All other Test Trials…
The second test trial was more focused by the excel capabilities of Todoroki, who had an ice and flames quirk, although he use more his ice techniques to freeze the walls, and only use his hot side to melt the ice. In the end, the Todoroki was the absolute winner of this fight trial.
The remaining three trials was more equilibrated, without great quirk effects.
Once all stuff finished, all classmates could return to home. However, there's some exceptions, specially Izuku once his renewed Magic Art teacher Sakura gives literally an huge lecture and additional scolding about his choices during the Battle Simulation Trials, while she demands to review on her first lecture the Magical Arrows and other similar stuff. It was a little late, when Izuku could return to home, and almost go straight to bed, almost forgotten to dinner, or drink blood.
On the next day…
The whole class receive a brief announcement about the Battle Trial results that occur on the last day, while Aizawa actually praise the rational and powerful Todoroki's own actions.
"The Half-Hot and Half-Cold quirk was a very neat and powerful quirk...", that makes Todoroki a little proud, "However, I really doubt that could ever stand a chance against Izuku...", and sighs with some disappointment.
"However...", says Todoroki.
"Specially when Izuku can cast fire and ice spells without great problems..."
And the whole class was fitting to Izuku, while try to answer, "I have more affinity to fire than ice."
"I told you to avoid the Dark Schneider's spells during the Battle Trials, but you cast two of them, even it was the weakest, and you weaken by purpose, after all, you blast the Iida and Bakugou own costumes!", and also remarks, "If you continues to use the Witcher Signs, you could just finish the battle without great damages, including the two holes on the building!"
"One of them was the Voivod...", Iida intervenes.
"And the second, I think was the stupid blast called… ", Bakugou forgot names easily, "What ?!"
Izuku sighs and says, "Impellitteri!"
"But as a redemption remark, you cast a healer spell to heal them, where also reveal that you suffer a pang of guilt when you are driven by the heat of battle to infringe the rules.", but also cites to himself, "But at last, this is also a sign of a more control of his own powers."
The entire class chats a little until Aizawa makes the following declaration, "And the next topic is about to choose the class representative.", and demands, "Do you have an adequate name, or a method to choose one ?"
"I think that an election will be the most effective and democratic way!", Iida makes his suggestion.
"OK! Solve this problem as fast you can do!", Aizawa agrees.
Once the votes was cast and counted, they give five votes to Todoroki, four to Yaoyorozu, three to Bakugou, two for Izuku, and Kaminari, Mineta, Sero, Uraraka, Iida receive one vote each, and plus a blank vote. Then Todoroki was nominated as the class representative, and Yaoyorozu was the vice.
The results was not a surprise, since much of the class choose the ones with great quirk power and control, and also with great leadership. Izuku was still a strange freak from his classmates own views, but receiving two votes was a changing sign.
Once the results are settled, the class was demised, and everyone went to Lunch Rush cafeteria. Izuku on the first days was eaten alone, but some of his class colleges persuade him to group together.
"At first sign, you can eat human food!", Todoroki said, "But when you receive this canister filled with blood...", his head wilds a little dizzy.
"I need this to survive...", says Izuku.
Bakugou was also a little chilled when saw Izuku drinking blood, but it was the payback to force a young vampire eat their lunch together with humans.
Once they almost finishes their meals, an alarm rings and a warning message was issued, "Warning! Level 3 Alert!"
"Damn it!", Iida frightens, "What's a Level 3 alert ?!"
All students starts to rush to the exit door, but it was blocked. Someone of them explains, "A level 3 warning means an intrusion! The last it happens was 3 years ago!"
The alarm goes off, and gives another information, "Warning! An unknown person infiltrated the Yuuei installations! From one of the CCTV security cameras that manages to shoot a picture, this is the culprit..."
Then an image of a young adult ninja, dressed black, with some purple strips, a metallic pauldron, and several strips to carry blades and small weapons was displayed, with the sign, "We strongly recommend to stay here! Please wait further instructions"
"Oh my god!", says Bakugou.
"Who was this strange villain?", that was Izuku wants to know.
To be continued...
Notes:
I choose the same canonical groups and names of the Battle Trials, since I think the real deal was to confront Bakugou and Izuku.
However, I change the other setting, that was the mass media invasion was replaced by one of main villains organization minions, a ninja modelled by Sonic from the One Punch Man canon.
Chapter 5: A strike on Yuuei: Sound's Speed Sonic
Summary:
During the lunch break, Izuku faces a sudden invasion from a ninja aimed to kill everything he faces, just to fulfil his childishness avenge to act discretely.
However, as unknown to Izuku and everyone, his real mission was to test the true Izuku's capabilities.
After the incident dust settles, the Special Rescue Training day arrives, but once they arrive on USJ, a mercenary rouge army composed by several Nazi elements, and other unknown ideologies, where some of them with now known faces invades the place, invades the place, and places a trap against the entire 1-A Class.
Chapter Text
The Lunch Rush cafeteria turns on a place where everyone quickly descends to mass panic, no matter the perspective of the still unknown attacker could witness, and the panic was aggravated when some students starts to kick to the others in order to run to the exit door.
Todoroki yells to warn the students to stay calm, "Please!.. Please!… Stay where you are! A strange intruder is roaming along the Yuuei campus outside!"
Iida also display his sense of leadership on sudden issues that involve potential human lives losses, "Don't panic!... Everything is fine!..."
However, many of students still punches and kicks, ending activating all their quirks, and increase the havoc to the injury. Someone needs to intervene swiftly as possible.
Izuku reacts once he clears his mind, and decide to cast, for everyone surprise and himself, the famous Somne Sign, while overcharges the Axii Sign with a combination of the Quen Sign, to increase the effect and range of the Witcher Magic, at the point to induce a lightly hypnotic wave capable to calm down the frenzy students. Izuku could not hold the Somne Sign cast more than 10 seconds with the current knowledge and training, but appears that had some effect, as several hundreds students becomes less anxious, and even some of them falls to sleep.
The younger wizard own magic energy suddenly drops due to the insensate will to manipulate all student's wills, making him moderately nauseous, making a little difficult to fell a slight relief when notice that the whole trick somehow works.
Some of the few less affected students was the brainwasher quirk user Shinsou who notice the Izuku cast of the Witcher Signs, "What ?! How he manage to… I couldn't say brainwash… It's more a mental perturbation…. Yes, how he manage to calm down everyone on this room ?! What insane type of quirk this oddly green hair student have ?!", since Shinsou was though that Izuku should have some kind of fire quirk.
But the Shinzou stupefaction will not endure so long, as suddenly, Izuku ears a hissing sound, while someone shouts, "Satsuriku Ranjin!", which means Explosive Carnage, and suddenly the windows glasses are shattered by a wave of exploding spinning discs. Luckily, Izuku cast the Quen Sign just to deflect the broken glasses by this surprise attack, given time to cast a more powerful barrier spell.
"We are under attack!", Iida yells, almost in panic. While Bakugou, Yaoyorozu and Todoroki reacts and shift his position to defend from the impending attacker.
Izuku decides to take some lessons learned recently from Sakura-sensei and made a pact with Wind or Air spirits Elementals, in order to reduce the casting time, "Spirits from Air and Wind... I'm pledge you to seal my arm as your domain... AETHER DOMINUS!", where swirls of magic wind, with a mild afterglow, swipes along the right Izuku's stretched arm.
Izuku then could cast the pretended barrier, "Aeris senex sapiens, supplex invocat pactum sacris... Terra autem aethereis meus scutum meum et tueri hostibus!...", that enables to create a magic barrier made from wind Elementals that covers the entire former shattered windows of the cafeteria, "Dryad Magic Nature Wind Shield!"
Even during the rush and panic, several students, including the astonished Shinshou, becomes mesmerized with an awry feeling that something was odd, "Now... he manipulate air ?!"
Izuku then jumps from his former position on one of lunching tables, to the entrance hall, while some of his classmates also jumps to there.
Then a fast black shadow flashes almost from nowhere, while tries to blast the magic barrier that Izuku once casts, "Bakuretsu Shuriken!", meaning Explosive Shurikens, while the foe grins maliciously and throws a swarm of shurikens that explodes on middle air, increasing the damages and panic.
Izuku reacts and casts a magic sword, "Bellatores prisca spirituum et Caelo et Terrae... Pactum meum et gladium... Dryad Magic Wind Sword!", using the same Air magic, just to be blocked by a strange young adult dressed like an ancient ninja, using his ninjato blade.
The vision of this purple and black ninja could be comical, if it wasn't the murderous intent, "So… This is the famous sorcerer that the Major told to me", and Izuku eyes widens and becomes confused about the enemy remark.
"What are you ?!", Izuku voice tone turns to be more wrathful, "And why you suddenly attack innocent students ?!"
"Sorry! My name is… Sound's Speed Sonic!", the ninja grins, and his eyes widens, "An dishonoured ninja working to my Major!"
"Sound's Speed Sonic ?!", Katsuki gasps, "WTF is that stupid name ?!"
"A rare villain with weapons!", says Yaoyorozu, while uses his Creation quirk to make a sword, "Someone here with any communication device, should warn the Pro Heroes to come here ?!", and yells to anyone with a cellphone or smarthphone to warn the Yuuei Security System.
Sonic jumps and propels around the ceiling, walls and floor, jumping and bouncing at an increasing pace, making almost impossible to follow the ninja speedy movement.
The energetic and troublemaker blond Katsuki decides to take a strike, jumping using his Explosion quirk, tempting to punch the ninja.
"Nice try...", Sonic makes a childish smile, before throw daggers against a confused Katsuki. He badly had time to regret the bad moment.
Katsuki was been hit by a swarm of kunai daggers, and lose consciousness due to the several wounds, causing alarm and cries along the nearest peers. Izuku, on meantime quickly hold him, remove the daggers, and casts a heal spell, while holds a raged face. Meanwhile Todoroki use his ice quirk to create an ice wall to protect the students.
"Hwahahaha!", shouts the malicious ninja voice, "Can you ever match the my speed ?"
Before everyone could answer, Sonic launch another swarm of Explosive Shurikens, blasting the Todoroki's ice wall, and sending several injured student against the walls, or the entrapped ones.
"What kind of quirk this insane had ?!", Iida tries to recover from the initial attack.
Izuku just finishes to remove the daggers from Katsuki, and casts another healing spell, just to avoid more blood losses.
The ninja stops on the top of Lunch Rush signboard, and laughs, "May a kind of strength power, but I don't ever care about it, since I was training since young on my secret ninja village!"
"An old-school villain...", Izuku sighs, "But how you manage to enter here, bypassing the electronic school gates ?!"
Sonic laughs, and then explains, "I just run at my sound's speed run, and it just fine!"
Izuku eyes widens, and then grits his jaws, "Oh! But it requires an insane speed..."
After all, the Sound's Speed Sonic name already answer that question, "But… A little before, a group of mass-media journalists was grouping on the school entrance..."
Some minutes earlier...
In fact, a few minutes before, a hundred journalists was waiting permission from the Yuuei to enter, since they want make some scoops, ranging from the All Might's new job as a teacher, to the new Yuuei's best promising students.
Unknown to them, a cloaked male figure appears and waits on the top of an electricity wooden pole. He could wait to the gate security guard to open the door, once the permissions are set, but it was the Sound's Speed Sonic, and "waiting" is not a word that deserves to be written on his own dictionary.
Like a mad childishness game, Sonic blasts, and use the maximum reference points, like a pole, a wall, or even a trash bin, to use the reflective momentum impact in order to increase his speed. Them, use the ninjato blade to cut, behead or slash the bodies, while runs around the journalists, who now screams in panic and tries to run, just to be killed a fraction of second latter.
The former journalists position helps Sonic to murder them in a few seconds, and them jumps and propels against a reinforced concrete wall that was almost of the opposite side of the Yuuei entrance gates, and propels at an insane speed, probably half of the speed of the sound, and pass through the gate, even it could close totally. As a bonus, Sonic, also beheads the two security guards, just before it could react. And then, Sonic could invade Yuuei without waiting.
Sonic Rampage!...
Once Sonic finish his explanation, Izuku mind switches from a bewilderment face, to a bloodthirsty rage, and a wrathful emanating aura, "How you dare to kill innocent people!", and release his fangs, "Even you won't be welcomed by the villains!", since the majority of villains also have their own ethics.
Sonic instead to answer, jumps and delivers a rotative spinning kick, "Fujinkyaku!", which means Wind Blade Kick, that breaks the Quen Sign that Izuku casts a second earlier. Even with the broken magic shield, the vampire manages to reduce the recoil impact against the floor.
The Pro Heroes receive the alarm notification and start to run to the cafeteria, expecting that no one would be killed. The fastest one was the Kamui Woods, who notice first the rogue ninja.
However, Sonic just ignores, and applies one of his finishing moves, "Ninjitsu...", and starts to side steps, until creates several after-images, "Juu Kagesou...", which means Burial of Ten Shadows, "Chisenki!", to increase the damage and makes a scatter slaughter with his ninjato blade against Izuku.
Izuku could barely react before it could receive a serious damage, "Now it's time to play more seriously!...", and then starts to use more powerful magic spells.
"Are you holding too much... Weakling!", Sonic escalates quickly.
Finally the green-haired vampire strikes hard, "Enemy foolishness! Release the Revenge of Underworld!", and cast a firestorm against every conceivable direction, "IMPELLITERI!"
The last spell that Izuku cause an huge destruction of the walls inside the cafeteria, but the quirks of Todoroki, and Momo reduce the debris impact. And also scatters and blasts Sonic against the ceiling, just to receive another Izuku's spell, since it was also wrathful, "Seek! Spirits of Lightning! Destroy! The Blood Fire of Death!...", and when Sonic prepares to escape from the crater blasted on the ceiling, Izuku cast the magic spell against him, "VOIVOD!"
The last spell blasts the armour and clothes of Sonic, where also gives an huge electric and burning shock. The almost naked ninja falls flat to the ground, while holds a belt with some weapons.
"Very well...", Sonic grins again, "And I will give a nice present to you!", as Sonic starts to run at insane speeds, "Full Frontal Attack!".
Izuku slides and delivers an ice magic spell, even it could burn his hands, due to his weakness against extreme cold, "Great Ancient King of Northern Ices, I pledge your forged Pact!", and managed to cast a stream of ice, where resembles a little the Todoroki's ice quirk, "May your enemies be annihilated by the Realm of Ice and Snow!", but Sonic swiftly managed to divert, "Extreme Zero Intense Froze Wave!", before the ice could freeze him, "BISCAYA!"
From all Izuku's classmates, Shouto was one with the most terrified face, when witness the Biscaya spell, "WTF ?! He manage to use ice techniques ?!"
For many students, the result was astonishing. They witness a powerful villain that still manages to fight using his own physical and skill forces, instead to rely on his quirk. But the green-hair student, who almost they know that was also a vampire, also display his real powers during the fight.
"This… this… monster is not normal!", said one student, "How many quirks they control ?!"
"Why he spoke non-senses about death, demons, before use their quirk ?!", other student, which appears to be a bit more rational, notice the strange requirements to Izuku cast his suppose quirk powers.
Once the whole action appears to stall due to the dangerous stand-off, finally the first Pro Hero, Kamui Woods, managed to arrive, and witness with great horror the carnage and destruction delivered by the villain and the green haired student. The utter chaos makes him fear the possible causalities from the whole fighting.
First of all, Kamui Woods tries to calm down the students, while realize that everyone was alive, once makes some questions, and makes a quick scan. Then, he could focus to catch the villain, but Sonic fires to another extreme speed run against him, and slices all wooden arms until it was about to slice the Pro Hero by half. Fortunately, Izuku manage to save him, and blast the crazy ninja to the outside, "I summon the Fiery Power Blast from the Fallen Heroes!", and hails loudly, "DAMNED!"
"How this damned hellish curse survive this ?!", said Izuku while Katsuki and Momo yells to stop, "Izuku! Please... Recover your senses!"
Even so, Sonic repeats the same carnage with The Burial of Ten Shadows, while adds Explosive Shurikens to the recipe. The ruthless of this adversary snaps Izuku, that releases all wrath he possess, while interlace his fingers of his hands, and starts to meditate, while also Katsuki snaps, and yells in pure terror, "DEKU! Do not use this!", making several students frightened to the sudden yell, and the strange pose that the vampire make:
"Oh... My Ancient Demon Servants, Guardians of Burning Marshes!... I honour your blood pact...", while the last Signs and active magic spells that Izuku casts earlier fades, and deflects some of the shrapnel that Sonic sends, "Lend your Powers, and Reduce my Enemy to Nothingness!", finally Izuku cast the dark ball against Sonic, at the precise time when he jumps into the air, and launches another sequence of attacks, "NAPALM DEATH!".
Then a giant firestorm, and poison mist explodes, blasting everything above the Yuuei Campus, like an aerial burst explosion.
"What is going on ?!", many students never witness such variety of quirks techniques been used by the same person.
Apparently, the ninja would be instantaneously killed by such explosion, but he just escaped by his own extreme speed capability, along the fact Izuku had an abnormal low magic energy output, as Izuku still recovers from the Metal Knight incident. Sonic manage to survive, Izuku as himself witness, "Damn! It just escape!", even the speedy ninja retreats with severe burns.
"WTF was that ?!", Todoroki was just witness one the best Izuku magic spells.
By other hand, Shinsou was also in state of shock, "An aerial blast created by him ?!", while imagine, "If he could use it on Sports Festival, he can kill everyone!"
Finally Aizawa arrives to the scene and witness the all confusion, and focus on the enraged and tired Izuku's face, who slams his fist against the floor, blasting an huge chunk of the marble slab.
"What's happened ?!", yells Aizawa, while slaps Izuku, who recovers his usual self, "Why you use the Dark Schneider's Grimoire Techniques inside Yuuei ?!"
Izuku snaps and answers, "Because, it was the most effective method to handle the Sound's Speed Sonic, the murderous ninja villain!", with a voice filled with wrath.
Once his own rage bursts, Izuku's face sullen. But Aizawa understands the situation. It was a tragedy. Even the infamous ninja escapes, and every student was alive, the brutal death of about a hundred journalists was unacceptable.
Shinsou ear the strange name, "WTF is a Dark Schneider's Grimoire ?!", while thinks, "But a Grimoire is something they read on some manga and anime...", and chills, "Don't mean… This green-hair vampire is a magician ?!"
And also remembers the short dialogue with him, "Vryko-Warlock", and them connect the dots, "He's a… Sorcerer!", and almost screams, but manage to avoid, "Why such dangerous thing was ever admitted to Yuuei ?!"
Several minutes later, the cafeteria was evacuated, and some of them receive psychological and medical assistance. Izuku even needs to drink a lot of cold green tea to calm down, as their anxiety was on high levels.
Once Izuku calms down, also by Aizawa own request, starts to heal the wounds and psychological traumas using the healing spells and Witcher Signs most adequate to the effect.
After all, if Izuku don't use his powers at full extent, many students could be killed, and even his colleges was afraid of him, his actions actually saved everyone from a terrible villain.
Aftermath...
The police and the media was on a frenzy about a new and mysterious villain, which don't have many known records, and also his quirk was unknown. The name, Sound's Speed Sonic, could be a comical joke, unless the fact they murder easily several journalists, and could kill scores of Yuuei students, if a monstrous and peculiar student wasn't present at the right time.
At least, the media could display it was a rare vampire student, but hides his name for safety, and many people would think that the fact a vampire along the human students, albeit the negative social discrimination, actually saved almost half of the Yuuei students from a certain death, release shock-waves along the Internet and the Hero Association, the official organism that handles the heroic activity.
Once Izuku return to his home, on the same day of the Sonic attack, her was Infinitively worried, and she couldn't calm down until receive his son safe at home.
"Why such thing happens ?!", his worrisome mother asks.
"Oh my god, mom!", Izuku sighs, "A ninja runs straight on the Yuuei entrance gates, while kills everything on his path, and then attack the cafeteria..."
"But those gates will not closed, if a strange tries to invade ?", Inko questions.
"The main problem is this person runs so fast, that the door don't have enough time to close!"
"A speed quirk ?"
"The ninja folklore portraits those villains as a very speedy stealth warriors, but this sample was insanely fast!"
"And also brings weapons..."
"They use a sword capable to murder and destroy, while also launches scores of explosives, shurinkens, and kunais..."
"That's very odd...", his mother was really shocked, "Normally, quirk users don't use weapons, since it is very redundant."
"However, if it was not my powers, including the Dark Schneider ones, probably many students would be merciless killed...", and Izuku face frowns and almost cries.
"The Yuuei Principal calls some time ago...", says Inko, "To thank you… Since you save so many innocent students..."
"But I couldn't save the journalists queuing on entrance gate..."
"Since you was eating on the cafeteria, which was you was suppose to do...", and his mother bites Izuku's neck, as a kissing compliment, "You simply can't be at two different places, and reacts at the optimal time."
"That's right, mom..."
"Take this fresh blood mixed with ginger and green tea to calm down..."
Izuku noods and drinks, even it was the second time that he had to drink bloody tea.
Two weeks later…
Almost two weeks later, about half of full magic vitality of Izuku was naturally recovered, and also was a special day, as Aizawa announce at whole class that today will go to a special training field.
"Good Morning, everyone!", Aizawa announces, "I want both of you, to go dress with your Hero Costumes, since it about 20 minutes you will be driven to a bus, which destination will be the Special Training Field, USJ!"
"Wow!", many of them exclaimed!
"It is another Hero Training Lecture...", Izuku sighs.
And everyone brings their costumes, and dress them as fast they can. Also, Izuku would bring the giant sword along him, as he, since the ninja strike, thinks that something big could be happen again.
The bus trip would take about half a hour, enough time to everyone begins to chat, and trying to pull off the moods and feelings of everyone.
"Kero...", pokes the frog quirk user Tsuyu, "Midoriya powers are terrible powerful, isn't it ?"
Everyone stare his eyes against Izuku, who stays calm and floating along his thoughts, before even dare to answer, "Beyond any reasonable scale", says Iida.
The ice and cold quirk user Todoroki frown a little before dares to speak, "Specially during the ninja incident, when he cast all fire, lightning, blizzard, wind and blasting spells against a crazy young male..."
"Oh! The Sound's Speed Sonic ninja ?", says Izuku.
"Why he had such stupid name ?!", Katsuki intervenes, with some mad mood.
"At first, all words begins with the letter S, and probably plays a quiz-game with this powers.", says Kirishima.
"But it is a very dangerous and technician skilled assassin, like the ancient ninjas could make it...", Izuku speaks with a more fainted and resentful tone.
"After all, the police couldn't find any useful information about that Sonic and even the usual villains gives a booed rejection!", says Kaminari.
"Probably it was a mercenary or a terrorist under some strong patronage", said Yuga.
Izuku snaps from his apparent frowziness, and recalls, "Mercenary ?!...", and remembers, "As you says that… He said that was working for a Major, where I don't know if it was his boss codename, or the respective military rank..."
"Military ?", Iida intervenes, "Since the quirks overtakes the average humanity, the military structure itself changes, but some countries like the Russia or South Korea, all Heroes are part of their respective army, such as the Black Ops, Special Forces or even the infantry, unlike the civilian use like our country, Japan."
"While on United States, they have civilian and military grade Heroes...", Izuku answers, "And if I born on those countries, I probably would be sent to a military academy, and life forever as soldier, with lethal force, and license to kill."
"Honestly...", Katsuki makes a wise remark, "Military Heroes are an absolute non-sense… And a total betrayal of this own concept.", and points to Izuku, "Specially, when you can live about an entire millennium, unlike the rest of us, who barely can achieve to live an entire century!", and finishes, "And living a thousand years on the battlefield, as a special soldier without get a civilian life, for me, it is outrageous..."
As everyone agrees, the moody atmosphere changes as both notice that the bus arrives on the respective destination. Aizawa also was listening their student's chatting, but he also agrees that was outrageous to force a quirk user to live as a military soldier, when the majority of them had a more law enforcement view of a hero, and acts more like a special police unit, acting under civilian regulations, than a military unit.
This remark snaps Aizawa, since his thoughts also makes sense, while remembers the same strange behavior of the Metal Knight disastrous incident. After all, Metal Knight was a soldier, and the murderous ninja behavior reveals from his demeanor that he had once a military grade training.
The entire 1-A class enter inside the huge dome that was called USJ, but once both enter the installations, the blinded door closes and shuts strangely, the main power source of electricity was cut off, and switched to the secondary systems, while some alarms activated.
Aizawa notices, from one computer screen located at the entrance hall, that an infamous skull and bonus text art appears, giving the warning sign of alarm, "Be alert! The entire USJ Security System was destroyed by a cybernetic and malware attack!"
"WTF ?! WHAT ?!", Todoroki yells astonishing, "An hacking incident, here ?!"
"This may be caused due to the same Major patronage action...", says Izuku.
Some of students rams against the wooden doors that enters the interior dome, and notice that someone already use a kind of warp quirk, and something invades from that portal. Also from outside, four black helicopters appears, in a clear coordinated attack.
Then about a hundred apparent soldiers, carrying heavy machine-guns, others some kind of rocket propelled grenades, and even laser-guide anti-tank missiles. At a first glance, the students notices that all enemies wear a Nazi insignia on their arm braces once exists the portal. Later more enemies follows the path, but appears to be like classic and opportunistic villains, where one of them was covered by hands. At last, the students made an astonished face when a kind of floating chair cast by some magic spell appears. Seated inside, was a big and fat old men, with all Nazi heraldry who just speak, "Guten Morgen! Wir sind die Millennium-Armee, die von mir geführt wird, der Major.", and change the language, "And I present two of my trustful spies..."
And then the armoured Metal Knight and the ninja Sound's Speed Sonic, along the strange faced villain reunites along their chief, "And not forget the third, which is me, the real descendant of Abigail, the Hellish Sorcerer, and the real great enemy of Dark Schneider...", and bows, "My name is Tomura!"
Then, everyone from class 1-A was in total state of shock.
To be Continued ...
Notes:
I make some changes to the story cannon.
The first one was the battle between a darker Sonic from One Punch Man cannon, against the Yuuei students.
The carnage was one of Sonic's mad characteristics, as himself like to murder and produce piles of bodies.And the USJ act villains was replaced by a rogue mercenary army attack, using first a malware attack to take control of the system to trap the 1-A class inside, and then the mercenaries, where the original Villain Alliance and the Hellsing's foes, like the rogue Nazi inspired Millenium Army replace the canon.
Chapter 6: United States of Jeopardy: a bloodbath battle
Summary:
The Millennium Army lead by the mysterious Major launches a rampage attack against the Hero Students.
One of the trustful Major's officials, the Abigail's successor Tomura gives a freak show of mass destruction, just to please the psychopath Major.
Izuku, and by some lesser degree, Aizawa, counter-attack and manage to defeat the rogue terrorist army, while witness a fraction of the warmongering powers from the neo-Nazi terrorist Millennium Army.
Notes:
(See the end of the chapter for notes.)
Chapter Text
On the middle of a Screwed Up Lecture...
The strange trance that holds the entire 1-A class was dispelled once both helicopters starts to launch air-to-ground missiles, blasting the dome celling first, and then start to strike positions held by the horrified hero students. Many of them never expected that a lecture focused on disaster and rescue management, which was the overwhelming majority of Heroics on Japan, ending with a real military warfare.
"Metal Knight!...", Aizawa rages, and tries to activate the erasing quirk to the incoming villains, "Can you explain… this ?!", while points to the Major.
"I'm only a mercenary working for the best bounty!"
"And you call to yourself a Hero ?!", Aizawa bites his fangs, "You are no more than a terrorist!"
"Who cares ?", Metal Knight turn back, and ignores further dialogue.
"Nuts! You only betrays us!", and Aizawa runs against the villains and mercenary soldiers.
"Bodenbohrungen !", shout Tomura when cast a shock-wave spell that blasts the place, and tears up the ground, at the precise point where the entire class holds together. The chaos unfolded was quickly availed by another villain who appears to use a more classical warp quirk, which scatters all students, and thrown against the small pool lake, the landslide zone, and an imitation of a destroyed city by an earthquake.
Izuku cast twenty Magic Overboards to hold the affected students, including himself, to land safely. Even so, all other Magic Overboards, except their one, quickly dispelled after some seconds, but manage to save his entire classmates from several injuries, or even death.
Aizawa, by contrast, manages to escape from the powerful blast, and lands safely at some place.
"Damn! Nazi soldiers on both sides!", exclaims Katsuki, when faces the earthquake zone with five soldiers that starts to fire with their machine guns.
Luckily Tokoyami was nearest, so using his Dark Shadow quirk pushes Bakugou to the ground, avoiding the bullets swarm. One of the rogue soldiers approaches almost instantaneously, and bites the Tokoyami's neck, where yells in pain, and Katsuki, horrified, screams in panic.
A second latter, a lightning bolt and a ice spear flying at high speed hits the Nazi soldier, and also a vampire, causing great pain to him, and force to release Tokoyami. It was one of the Izuku's Magic Elemental Arrows spell casts.
Todoroki, in a pure rage demeanour, creates an ice wall that freezes the infamous soldier, and seconds later, Izuku arrives, using his own Magic Overboard, and casts the Igni Sign at higher grade to incinerate the frozen enemy. It was not so powerful compared to the Venom or Exodus spells, but at last not reduce the targets into ashes.
"This kind of vampire are unnatural, and have a poisonous blood...", Izuku bites Todoroki to remove the poison, and then applies a poison healing spell, "Venenum sanguis sanitatem!", and when the cure was successful, "Percuro!"
Katsuki recovers from the shock, while plays to avoid the frightfulness sentiments that was running inside his body, "We… I need to lead us to regroup!"
"Are you sure ?!", Izuku notices the fear displayed on his eyes, "Well! I'm counting to you!"
Todoroki quickly freeze the remaining, while Izuku propels to another zone, and Katsuki grabs Todoroki to go to another area.
While Izuku flies, using his magic overboard, the infamous Sound's Speed Sonic ninja suddenly attacks Izuku from the mid-air, giving first a spinning body kick, and later a swarm of explosive shurikens. The heavy armour that Izuku vests helps him to absorb the impact from the insane ninja, avoiding the need to cast protective spells just to reduce physical damage too early.
While Izuku uses their Witcher Signs to avoid armour strain, due to the attack barrage of Sonic, as him punches, tackles and smashes at an insane cadence and speed, Izuku also uses a powerful punch aided by Krav Maga martial arts techniques to blast the Sonic body, "I'm not a puny sorcerer, bastard!", and blasts Sonic to the ground with a karate chop.
The Berserker arrives!...
The young vampire lands on landslide area, facing about 30 soldiers loaded with all weaponry possible, projecting fear, and an impeding horrible death. There was also the majority of girls, and some male students, like Eijishima and Kaminari, facing the impeding doom.
The electric quirk of Kaminari helps to deflect the successive waves of villains attacks, while the hardening quirk of Eijishima acts like an armour to makes charged attacks.
Due to relative success of several students, enemy reinforcements from others zones begins to regroup here.
In a matter of a minute time, some additional 40 villains, where appears mainly to some adventurous common villains who likes to join such mission in order to gain bad fame, even risking their lives for a dish of peas, also arrive to block any possible escape route.
"I shouldn't waste much vitality to wipe out small frays!", says Izuku, "Then I will switch my basic strategy!".
Izuku then decide to pick his giant sword, who was resting on the scabbard located on their back, below the cape. The huge sword with one meters long (and placed diagonally on the cited scabbard), 40 centimetre wide, and 10 centimetre thick, was an huge single piece of metal made from an iron, titanium and osmium alloy, weighting about one ton. For Izuku, wavering such piece of metal was just easy, only using brute force.
Even his colleagues known that Izuku can handle heavy objects, they still though that seeing anyone carrying a one ton sword was anything beyond the sanity. Even several enemies expressed a confusing outlook, "What… what's the deal with this guy ?! You he can wave with such a monstrous piece of metal ?!", said a panicked villain.
Izuku surprises everyone when he cast on the sword an additional awaking ritual to Honour his third bloodline ancestor,"Excitare, magno animo meo bellator!", and a dark red aura emanates from the Izuku body, giving both for their classmates and adversaries, a strange deadly feeling, "Forti animo Nigri Acie velim!", and the skills inherited from the long forgotten Black Swordsman was unrevealed, "Libera me Rex Nescimus cur summum potestatis...", and Izuku said his name, "My third great ancestor bloodline… The King of Berserkers… The Great Berserk Black Swordsman, Guts!"
Meanwhile Katsuki and Todoroki runs as fast they can, to arrive on the landslide area, just to witness the huge presence of enemies around some of his colleges and also Izuku, who was now covered by a bloodthirsty dark aura.
"What's happened here ?!", Katsuki asks.
"I don't like this...", Todoriki said with an unpleasant look.
"The Great Berserk, Guts ?!", said one villain, "And so… what ?!", while other said something.
Izuku, instead to answer, runs while holds his sword with his two hands, and with a fast slash, cuts four villains that stays aligned into half, killing them by the worst bloodiest way possible.
The other villains becomes shocked, and falls to an awe state, as Izuku chops more of them, as they are mere vegetables on a table. Some villains tries to use their quirks, but are blocked by the Axii psychic sign, or disabled by the Aard shield blast sign. The main problem is the fact that Izuku should release one of his hand to cast a spell, reducing a little the sword speed and accuracy.
Izuku could even cast the only magic spell ever recorded by Guts, "Malefic Od Swarming Field!", which guide the magic vitality to increase Izuku powers, while augments the slashing speed and force given by the sword. Once the sword was covered by a magic coating, Izuku tested the sword with a villain that was merciless sliced even with this mutation hardening quirk active.
Then, in a matter of seconds, all villains was defeat and all died. Also Izuku once beheads one big villain, he drops his fangs and drinks the maximum possible quantity of blood.
"Deku… ?!", Katsuki was terrible stunned by the horrific vision of dead bodies, cruel deaths, and lots of spilled blood, that his childhood friend deliverers.
A few seconds later, Izuku cast the Impelliteri spell to blast the soldier's weapons, later he simply cuts by half or third parts, or slashes using their giant sword. Since their blood was toxic, Izuku burns the bodies and spilled blood with a Venom cast, to avoid further problems.
His armour, blade and cape was covered by blood, but manages to regains his own self, in a pure act of defiance against Tomura.
But for some colleges, the whole USJ trip was become a freak show of mass murder.
Tomura (Abigail) Counter-Attacks!
Reacting by the swift annihilation of almost their invading force by only two vampires, Tomura orders all soldiers to fire all heavy weaponry against them, while the remaining villains rams against other students.
In reality, by own malefic Tomura perspective, every quirk-based villain, except the warp quirk user Kurogiri, in general wasn't really anything that deserve to care about, once he could say, "They are just cannon fodder!"
For the majority of students, their quirks was enough to inflict several damage. The battle tide swift could give an huge moral boost to win this fight.
The Abigail's descendant Tomura grins, and gives an huge cold laugh, once he casts a disruptive spell, using his right hand and smashes against the ground to create a dim inflating bubble, "Die Persönlichkeit für null und nichtig erklären!", and everyone caught by these bubble, while expands to fit the entire USJ dome, suddenly lose all quirks!
Aizawa just lose his Eraser Quirk, which could be their end, if wasn't a vampire. Eraser Head, don't like to use vampiric magic, or any vampiric powers, unless he faced no alternative. Aizawa now gambles with his strong physical body build, and a weak telekinesis vampire ability that was unaffected by Tomura's spell. Strong quirked students like Todoroki and Katsuki becomes astonished and now underpowered, as they are suddenly exposed to the soldiers dreadful powers.
The weak villains also lose their quirks, provoking panic, and confusion along them. Few of them was swiftly to notice, that they are the prays to the rogue Nazi soldiers. However, Kurogiri's quirk was unaffected, since it was together with Tomura and partly shielded by own presence.
Even with such issues, some of soldiers from Tomura own private army, don't have quirks at all. And once the anti-quirk field was placed, Sonic and Metal Knight advances to another strike.
Sound's Speed Sonic was still recovering from the impact delivered by Izuku and then jumps from the crater, while finally Metal Knight advances to the bewildered students who have their quirks disabled, but not expect that sudden strike by those two.
"Missiles Carnage! Launch!", Metal Knight launches a swarm of short range missiles, against the confused students scattered around the earthquake and landslide zones, but most of them kills the villains, than the students itself.
With a surge duty stroke, and casting some summoning ritual calls, Aizawa runs and uses his telekinesis to deflect the missiles path to avoid a direct hit against his students, "Aizawa-sensei...", says Todoroki, "Had a non-quirk special power ?!"
"It is a quite normal for a vampire… It's my magic powers!", answers Aizawa, "Like Midoriya's ones...", but Todoroki blushes by some enviousness, since Izuku's magic powers are too higher even for a vampire of his age.
Quirk users like Tsuyu or Tokoyami, while not revert to their human forms, due to several irreversible physical mutations, becomes more a lifeless organs, losing his movement capabilities.
Others, like the Mineta who stays on water, or Sero, who use a tape creation quirk, all their mutations loses his powers, and could evolve to necrosis.
Izuku then casts the infamous Exodus spell to reduce several Nazi vampire soldiers and all former quirked villains into burning torches, ending at all at ashes, bones and grease. The gathered blood of some of villains helps a little to recover some magic vitality, but still need to rationalize the use of magic spells.
Without warning due to relentless ninja, Izuku makes a twisted movement to avoid a carnage of bombs, kunais and shurikens flying from nowhere, as notices the Sonic ninja bumps and flies as fast Izuku remembers during the Lunch Rush incident. Izuku was intrigued, "You run as fast as I remember! Even the self-proclaimed Abigail successor nullifies my mates quirks, you appears to be unaffected!"
Sonic grins, and laughs like a mad children, where several 1-A students also recovers his senses to pay attention, "Baka!", and holds his ninjato blade on attack position, "I don't have any stupid quirk!", for much many students shock or disbelief, "My speed was gained only after years of training, and some tricks...", and explains after a brief bad suspense, "Due to a basic enchantment!", and concludes, "However, my ninja skills was only learned from pure training and practice!"
Izuku eyes wide, while remarks, "It makes sense… The best ninjas had some form of magic, and you inherited a speed spell, even it requires a tricky management to activate it!"
"Shall he play ?", says Sonic, while tries to cut Izuku's head, in an almost impossible velocity.
"Very ingenuous...", Izuku blocks and blasts Sonic against the black portal, "DAMNED!"
Metal Knight was perplexed due to the last vampire strike, "And that ninja was delivered to the sender ?!", but also receives another powerful punch from Aizawa himself, "And you will also fly like previously you did!", just to crash beneath the portal.
The Major plays fool...
The entire invasion army was totally defeated, but it was nothing new for the Major, as he proclaims, "Soldaten! Heute verlieren wir die Schlacht, aber der Krieg ist gerade erst begonnen!", and plays a recorded sound from the Second World War German anthem, while speaks, "My Millennium Army! I love war!", and continues, "I love war!… My destiny is to prepare my army to the current war, and the next war, while thinking the following war after that, and every war beyond the previous ones, but...", and grins, "I also thinking about every war in the future, present and the past… For all eternity!"
Tomura also plays a little, "Like my Major says, we like war! My Sensei was also pleased by Major love !".
But the Major speak another provocative announcement, "I like this war, a war without objectives, or any conceivable missions, just to fulfil my love to war!", making everyone from 1-A class sick, and disdained, "I love the bombings, artillery barrages, merciless civilian and military causalities. If I could, no, I can, I shall bomb and destroy both my enemy and my ally! Just to make be pleasure!", and grins while drinks a glass of a Germanic white wine, just to scatters to the ground, yelling, "Prozit!"
Izuku and Aizawa both said the same thing, "This Major is just a big, fat, terrorist!", while both clenched his fists, "Unforgivable!"
Finally the Major request to come back, while also Metal Knight does the same, since it was just waste all ammunition, resting Tomura and Kurogiri just to hold the portal.
"Now, I start the second phase of my game...", and their left hand casts black grounded portals, where a strange substance flows and forms ugliest monsters, "Tödliche Dämonen, die aus menschlichen sünden geboren wurden ...", and forms a taller and strong humanoid creature, "Erhebe dich von deinem Zauberstab!", and both starts to run at high speeds, "Und entfessle deinen Zorn gegen deine Feinde!", and yells, "Große Vergeltungswaffen, Noumus!".
The Noumus starts to punch and break everything on the path, including the remaining Nazi soldiers, who just stay as sacrifice, but inflict great damage to every students. Katsuki was blasted by of punch from one of Noumus, while Izuku could witness, almost bewildered, the force of impact. "Unforgivable!", Izuku wrath and rage starts to release, "They are all temporally quirkless, but you send more powerful enemies ?!", just to receive an empty silence from Tomura.
While Izuku thinks the best counter-attack, he notices that the four helicopters now use the hole for the ceiling dome to enter inside, probably to unleash a last artillery barrage against the 1-A classmates, who now will be merciless killed.
The blood that was drink earlier helps Izuku to boost his vitality enough to cast a more powerful spell, and this wasn't really a choice, since he needs to end quickly this fight, or the fatigue will break him, and everyone could be captured, or killed.
"It will be like hell, but I need to end this quickly!", says Izuku, while raises his sword to the sky, and starts to cast a new destructive spell:
"Gran! Kene! Hill! Halford!", that radiate four cardinal seals, that serve as a medium to seal their targets on air, land, and even under the small water pool, using several bloodied magic circles, created by Izuku's own blood, "I summon my four giant servant demons!", engulfing the targets, that was the four helicopters and some Noumus, inside into a kind a black spheres with some dark glow and lightning at the surface, "Now, cackle and bray your utter agony and hatred!", while the interior of that spheres heats and compress like a collapsing star, "Rise of Mega Atomic Destruction!", and Izuku blasts a dark flare to the collapsing spheres, ending with an explosion, "JUDAS PRIEST!"
This spell obliterates both by extreme heat, reaching several millions degrees, and pressures, reaching a few millions of mega-pascals, which is by a tiny fraction of second, the temperature of a small mass star and pressure that exists on giant Jovian planets.
The final explosion was confined by a force field created during the spell itself, while the energy was about one quarter of the expected, due to the fact Izuku was only recovers half of their magic vitality powers. Even with such restriction, the reduced energy helps to avoid further damage, and redirects the blast to the outside, by the hole on the dome ceiling. Once the magic fades, any content inside the black spheres, was no more than dust.
This kind of spell almost ends the vitality reserves of Izuku, while both his classmates was totally bewildered about the effects of such destructive technique.
"I don't end here...", says Izuku, even his last spell cause several injuries, including bleeding.
"What a powerful implosion spell!", thinks Aizawa, "But it wasn't so powerful like the one he cast during the Metal Knight training week."
Izuku, without regret anything, releases a new Ritual Summon Enchantment, "Vetus regni mediocris tales autem perfusa flexuosis plenam lunam quaeruntur… Arcanis tua et voluntatibus supplantare gressus.", and then their blood flows around the giant sword, "Ordinatores et stratores laguncularum bellatorem, perdidit phantasia in te regna!", and a blue moonlight glows on his sword, "Gloriam tuam non oblitus imperii factis pactionibus!", and signs the Ritual chant with his blood along the blade.
"Another kind of spell…?", Tsuyu was ingenuously curious.
"It's a Ritual Summoning Spell", explains Aizawa, "Some magic requires rituals to gather the required requisites needed to work", and sighs, "If you take some quirks, as examples, some of your main attacks requires special preparation, and the concept of a Ritual will be natural."
"Quirks with Rituals... Right!...", both students exclaimed.
This Ritual enables his giant sword to release the vitality release the the full moon moonlight, which is an absolute requirement for this powerful spell, where Izuku uses both hands to holds the sword like a magic wand, he begins the enchantment:
"Kayzard! Halsard! Kiske! Kay! Hansen! Grosskopf! Sielck!", and a giant bright vortex forms about 5 meters ahead Izuku position, "Cast all wise men of Hades and Gather the Seven Circle's Keys of Hell!", and the vortex glows red, and increases size, "Open the Gates of Tartarus and Unleash total destruction!", and then a giant flare blasts from Izuku, aided by this sword, "HALLOWEEN!"
The Halloween magic spell simply obliterates the remains of the Millennium Army, including the Noumus monsters, while the rescue scenario facilities also burns, explodes or was simply transformed by a hot convective plasma. The spell only last less than three seconds, but the destruction was only comparable, even about one tenth of, the Black Sabbath powerful spell.
Meanwhile, at the moment of the Halloween spell cast, Tomura manage to flee trough the Kurogiri's portal, and close at the exact moment when the 10 mega-electron volt (10 MeV) particle beam (More than 100 thousand million Kelvin! ) slams against the target. The sudden Tomura's escape, along the Major itself, breaks the magic spell that cancels all student's quirks. Even so, Izuku couldn't hide his rage, "A second late, and Tomura would be fried!", mumbles Izuku.
The battle aftermath...
The entire Hero Class 1-A was survived, and their quirks returns, but both had severe burns, bruises and injuries. Even Izuku or Aizawa was not exception.
"I lost about all of my vitality, and now I need more four weeks to recover totally!", says Izuku, who almost faints, but manage to use the sword to hold himself from failing.
"WTF... is that… thing ?!", Todoroki or Bakugou stutters, and also was stunned.
"Halloween ?!", Aizawa, even in state of shock, pokes fun, "I prefer the Halloween party… than this."
Once everyone confirms that nobody could harm them, Izuku holds a grip and bites the Katsuki neck, to drink some blood, "WTF are you doing, Bloodsucker Deku ?!", says Katsuki. He could punch to Izuku face just to force him to unhook their fangs.
"Sorry...", says Izuku, "I'm thirsty..."
The entire class giggles and reliefs a little from his adrenaline and stress, since the battle was over, but the entire USJ installations (where Aizawa explains that's mean, by some old All Might joke, the United States of Jeopardy!) was almost razed to the ground.
Surprising, Izuku could cast another set of Magical Overboards, just to leave the 21 members to outside, but his powers was falling, and don't have much time to hold.
"Everyone was tried to call help from outside ?", Denki asks.
"I sent a text message from my smartphone...", Aizawa answers, "Now we need to wait..."
Izuku last magical vitality reserves begins to fail, especially during the landing on the outside, where the police, the paramedics along firefighters, ambulances and armoured cars joins the site.
Fortunately, Izuku manage to guarantee a safe landing, and the law enforcement officers could begin his work to understand the extraordinary circumstances about a simple Hero Simulation Exercise ending with a real warfare battle.
A mother's son love...
Inko Midoriya rushes to the hospital where his son and Aizawa stays, but she was relief that the main injuries was easily recoverable, "Thanks god! Why my son attracts such horrible fighting ?!"
"Don't worry, mom...", said Izuku, when his mom hugs him, "I'm fine, I just need blood and a couple of days resting on hospital."
"You should be proud to give birth to such extraordinary vampire!", said Aizawa.
"Oh! You are the Pro Hero vampire!", Inko was also surprised.
"And one of the first vampires with a quirk, while I also have a vampire power related to telekinesis..."
"Like me...", answers Inko.
"But honestly… How he can be such a powerful sorcerer ?!", Aizawa express is real feelings and fears about Izuku, "I just saw many quirks, and excellent powerful students, but Izuku had a plethora of insane and destructive spells..."
"It was derived from my husband side, even it was originally a human, but already a rogue transformed vampire by the time we married."
"So… Izuku borne as a genuine pure-blood vampire… But the sorcerer powers was passed from previous father's ancestors, but require a vampire to be the host of such powers... ", but also says, "It matches my own research..."
"Whatever...", Inko nods and exits, "It can be a vampire, a monster, a sorcerer, a hero, or anything he can be named… But, first, it's my son..."
"Thanks, mom...", Izuku smiles, and nods.
A day later, Aizawa and Izuku could return to their homes, and due to the USJ disaster, all classes was suspended by one week, to allow security reinforcements, and gives times to their students recover from the injuries.
To be continued...
Notes:
It takes a little to finish this chapter, but manage to create an alternative version of the USJ arc.
Finally Izuku learns to cast the remaining Dark Schneider's spells, like the Judas Priest and Halloween, capable to destroy creatures like the magic summoned Noumus, or even small armies, while reduced them into less than dust!
The Black Swordsman and King of Berserkers powers was also summoned, giving Izuku a change to destroy large swarm of enemies without waste much magic powers, bust just by slash with their giant sword.
Chapter 7: Interlude: The SDF makes his First Move
Summary:
After the USJ incident, Aizawa and Sakura manage to push Izuku, and his own colleges to their limits. First, to guarantee the leadership of fame, leading the Hero Recruitment and show that the class 1-A is the best Hero Course to give the better results of Yuuei Sports Festival.
Meanwhile, the full Izuku's powers and limitations are finally measured, and a more comprehensive management system can be implemented.While the first event occurs, and Izuku tries to play low profile, his own attitudes reveals some of his true powers to the world, making a little embarrassment to Aizawa himself.
Meanwhile, the Self Defence Forces (SDF), the Japanese National Army, wants Izuku to join their military ranks, and makes their first move: convince Nedzu to assign Izuku on First Hero Internship, on the SDF.
Notes:
(See the end of the chapter for notes.)
Chapter Text
The news spoiled after the USJ incident was a little delicate and embarrassing to the Yuuei's Staff Board, prompting them to stay on low profile in order to avoid sensitive leakage.
Wild rumours about a School Hero Lecture ending with a military invasion by a Nazi rogue army floats the Internet, or a student capable to wipe out scores of villains and even weapons or helicopters, spreads like a wildfire.
The official Yuuei stance was to minimize the information, or control damage, while promotes the next yearly Yuuei Sports Festival to overcome or divert the media frenzy.
Katsuki visit a gamer's vampire house!
After the USJ incident, the classes was suspended for the rest of week, given time to Izuku trains his physical body, and recovers from the huge strain that his body suffered. And since he need to rest at regular times, he shift some of own time schedule to play video-games, before alternating to physical training. Magic training was suspended during that period, for much Inko's relief.
Even recovering and relaxing at home, where his mother goes to shopping, Izuku could hear the door bell ringing, and since it was during the daytime, it becomes a little nervous, since it is rare to someone go to his home, "A neighbour?", while thinks, "Much of them already knows that is a vampire house, so they avoid them at all costs...", but runs to the door, "I'm coming..."
Izuku opens the door, and becomes astonished, "Kacchan ?!", and says, "Why are you here ?!"
"Damn, Deku...", Katsuki snarls, "I'm live just a couple blocks away, and I just wanted to visit you..."
"OK… Go on...", Izuku answers, and grabs Katsuki to the living hall.
Katsuki notices that the house was always with the window blinds closed, or exceptionally open at some house division, as long they don't stay on that division. The living hall had a television with a custom-made Steam Machine plugged in, and some print-outs of games manuals placed on the table furniture, including the games from the Assassin's Creed franchise, or the Witcher series was placed here, along some handwritten notes that Izuku writes.
"Tsck...", murmurs the blond, "I don't want to be cynical, even those games are a little underage to you, but you like playing stealth and assassination games ?!"
"Even on eve of the Yuuei Entrance Exam, I play a lot of Assassin's Creed I, II, III, Odyssey, Unity and other chapters in order to think the best way to destroy the robots...", but Katsuki blushes with some bewilderment, "How ?!...", while Izuku also blushes due to his own embarrassment, and says, "Since it won't worded at all... I ended like the Witcher, instead... I could assassinate the robots by a hidden blade...", and Izuku coughs by surprise, "Excuse me… Destroy a robot using a Witcher Sign… And ends with a requiescat in pace ... Damn it...".
Izuku was a little confused with the thoughts, and sentences, "Never mind... It's embarrassing that wizards are great literates..."
Katsuki could see that his vampire friend was a genuine computer gamer, while feel a little relief to witness a nice living room without bloody painting.
Izuku then go to his room while brings his friend, since Katsuki only visit his room about ten years ago, and could see a more gore furniture, "WTF is this ?!".
Katsuki saw various posters ranging from All Might, to vampires, like the Alucard from Hellsing franchise, to some game posters, where the main theme was demons, sorcerers, warlocks or insane vampires. The main desk was filled with books, sheets of papers, notebooks, and some skulls serving as paperweights.
The blond was about to speak when notices some old leathered books. The most recent but also leathered book that highlights had a nice handwritten title which says, "Midoriya Izuku Grimoire", where the blond reacts, "This is your spell book ?!"
"Oh, you notice it, Kacchan...", says Izuku softy while bites Katsuki neck, "It's my secret..."
Katsuki flinched by the sudden bite, and blood sucking, but manage to react, "Deku… Not again!"
Izuku runs to the bathroom to bring a some gaze and band-aids, while Katsuki notices that Izuku's bed is a normal one, for much relief. However, the genuine curiosity from the human blonde don't avoid for him search along every corner of Izuku's room, just to discovers a coffin placed above the wardrobe…
"Hwaaaaahhhh!", Katsuki screams, "Why you have a coffin ?!"
Izuku place the band-aid on Katsuki's neck before answers, "Oh! It is just for the Halloween pranks with my mom, and some close relatives, both vampires, while I have some human friends..."
"What a bad taste...", Katsuki became a little dizzy when imagine the green-hair vampire raising from the coffin with a maniac cold laugh. It still had several months before Halloween, and a real vampire could reveal an huge problem !
"Another bite, Kacchan ?!", Izuku prepares for another bite, with their fangs all elongated.
"Deku… Of course not!", Katsuki reacts by punching with their explosive quirk activated, while Izuku manage to counter using only his own physical force.
A few minutes later, once the fighting ends, Katsuki returns to the entrance hall while give an educated goodbye to Izuku, before leaving the apartment house.
School returns!
Once the week classes suspension ends, Aizawa makes a waited pronouncement, "On the next month, the Yuuei Sports Festival begins!"
Everyone cheers, "Banzai!", while even Izuku drops his fangs just by is own good mood.
"Now it is time for quirk training!", just for everyone falls flat, "This is the Heroic Department, not the Public Education Department Staff Office!"
Few minutes later, on the Gym Training Field, Aizawa acts like an angry instructor, by treating both his students as some recruits in some military training, "We will begin with an endurance 10 km run, later some cold-down exercises… And the last one, or the left behind… I will drink his blood!", leaving everyone, but Izuku who just fell annoyed, scared.
"I will call the police!", said someone, "Then… I will bite you!", and Aizawa punish Koda, Sato and Mineta by drinking about a cup of blood each one.
"And… Both of you…listen!", and Aizawa enrages, "My 100-years grandmother can finish this race in 30 minutes! I want you to make this by half!"
Everyone blames Aizawa, "Your grandmother is at least human ?! This is world record for a quirkless young adult human!"
"I don't care, so move it, move it, move it!", Aizawa flashes his red eyes to disable their quirks at the first 400 meters lap.
And the 10 km long run begins, where only Todoroki, Izuku, Yayoizoru and Bakugou manage to finish at time, while others has left behind.
Later it was an hellish round of 100 push-ups, 100 sit-ups, 100 squats, just to be a race between Izuku and Todoroki and Bakugou. The others almost fainted, specially the dwarf Mineta, who barely pass the fourth lap.
Mineta tries to recover, once the endurance race ends when the first ones cross the finish line. The grape head boy was too exhausted to continues further exercises, "Aizawa… mercy…"
"Too bad...", Aizawa even bites Mineta and drinks a little blood, "You're out...", just to drink more blood, "Sero, leave Mineta to the Recovery Girl...", while also bites and drinks a lot of Sero blood, "And you are also out..."
Only three manage to survive the exercise, Todoroki, Katsuki and Izuku, and Aizawa continues, "Then… Let's make a 100 km run, where quirks can be used freely, following by 1000 push-ups, 1000 sit-ups and 1000 squats!", and fixes it, "Once the first one finishes, the whole exercise ends... So... Move it!..."
The three boys minds turns blank when ears the next exercise, but managed to start the race. Izuku finishes the race in about 72 minutes, while the other two already fainted at the same time, even much earlier.
The teacher grabs the two boys, and bites them. Once done, and sent behind Izuku, who already drinks some water delivered by Aizawa, without facing enraged against the older vampire.
Aizawa says, "Look at them! So much quirk fancy-talking, and fails miserably by a simple exercise to be achievable by a super-human power!", while bites and drinks a little more of both Todoroki and Katsuki blood, "But Midoriya… Make the other exercises!"
And Izuku takes almost two hours to finishes the exercises, while speak, "Mercy! I'm really thirsty! ".
At such stage, Aizawa breaks a little as notices that cross some moral red lines, and to ease his cruelty, spoke, "Fine… Bite me..."
Without hesitation, Izuku bite and drinks a lot of blood, that makes Aizawa dizzy and pushes Izuku's head to force him to unhook his fangs, "Ehhh! Midoriya-kun! Please… release me!..."
Izuku snaps and release his fangs, just to realize how hungry it was, "Damn it, Aizawa-sensei...", and recovers his breath, "Did you ever think, that you push too much ?!", and almost yells, "They are humans, while I and you are vampires!..."
"I don't care… Midoriya...", and Aizawa yells, "And more 1000 push-ups, just for you!"
Midoriya latest test was make a little faster, due to the recent blood meal, ignoring the other colleges that was astonished and enraged due to the Aizawa ruthlessness, "Aizawa...", said Todoroki once recovered from the Recovery Girl infirmary, "Where's your head when you plan those exercises ?!"
Aizawa didn't answer, just count Midoriya's push-ups, "978… 979… 980..."
"Is Deku a commando soldier, or what ?!", Katsuki notices the strong, but alarming falling stamina from his vampire friend.
And finally the push-ups was over, "1000 push-ups done!", says Midoriya, when faints due to exhaustion.
"Go shower! The class is over!", Aizawa answer and the lack of empathy makes everyone enraged, where even Izuku agrees.
"What's insane...", hidden from a corner, All Might witness the whole brutal training, "If you want to break the entire class just to test Midoriya stamina, all last you had an answer...", while notices some men with military uniform pass some Intel to Aizawa himself, " The SDF was scouting Midoriya ?", All Might refer the Self Defense Forces, the Japanese Military, "It's better not to spy too much..."
Izuku's Magic Training...
During the entire month, Izuku lectures with Sakura-sensei was progressing at own pace.
"And I make this and that suggestions on the spell formula, to complete the flow circle.", says the Magical Arts teacher, "And now using this pile of garbage, practice the new own created spell, derived for the Dark Schneider's powers."
Izuku meditates and casts the chant formula, "Leather! Lou! Ozzy!", and create a darkness energetic ball, coated by a silver colour, "Breaking the Forbidden Seal of Cerberus…", where the ball size grows, while the Izuku's arms opens and tries to align to the ball, "The path for Absolute Punishment are Unleashed!", even it was separated by a safe distance of about 30 meters, "Cast the Burning Hailstorm from the Forbidden Level of Underworld...", and release the ball with a swift movement from the right brace, "Release the Ultimate Plague!…Hellish Metal Hailstorm...", and explodes the garbage by a rain of melted metal, flames and diffuses a toxic and corrosive smog, "METTALICA!"
About 10 tonnes of trash simply melted and reduced to the basic elements, where the heavy metals simply melted and form a glowing pit that slowly cools.
"Now I just bring a tonne of liquid wast sealed by metallic containers, and I want to cast this strange ice spell", request Sakura-sensei.
"An ice spell from Dark Schneider's Grimoire ?!", Izuku dumbfounds, "I mainly cast the ice version of the Magical Arrows so far, that was based on ice element vitality...", since all ice spells on Dark Schneider's Grimpoire are apocryphal.
"I know, like you, that your affinity with ice is weaker that fire, but you should try it!"
Meanwhile, driven by own curiosity, Todoroki and Katsuki arrive on the Special Training Field, where by permission of Aizawa and Sakura, they could assist the Izuku's today training.
"What, an ice spell ?!", Todoroki breaks the silence, "But Izuku's affinity is not very high!"
"Todoroki-kun have a ice type quirk, may be some jealously...", grins Izuku.
"What kind of ice spell will be ?!", asks Katsuki.
Izuku concentrates, and starts to unfold from the space behind him, a strong magnetic field, while chants, "Lors! Healy! Grey! Scole! Billy! May your soul purify me...", and the space contained by the magnetic field start to freeze, "Hell King! In this powerful gathering of sovereign beings, I will bear the destructive ice storms.", then a ice vortex forms inside the magnetic field,"Let a new link unite me to the forces of snow and ice!", ending with the enclosure of the vortex to the target, freezing and blasting almost instantaneously, "Absolute Zero Annihilation!... TESTAMENT!"
The blast also had a strong recoil, provoking severe frostbite and ice burns on Izuku body, "Damn it! The thermal shock was huge, how cold was the ice vortex maintained inside ?"
"One a moment...", Sakura checks own sensors, "Your spell creates a kind of magnetic trap, where it also used to make ultra-cold freezing…", and the computer gives the answer, "Below 0.1 Kelvin! Almost the Absolute Zero!"
"This means...", Todoroki intervenes.
"What's a great success, but...", says Sakura.
Sakura display from the laptop screen, some results generated from the magic spells experiments, and also from Aizawa brutal training, "Finally… I could compute your level of magic domain, how force you can handle, and other things...", and display briefly, "Taking your pure physical strength, you are about 25 times stronger that an average Pro Hero, that's why you could handle the brutal endurance race, but even so, you suffer some muscular strain."
"Nuts!", Katsuki remarks almost giggling, "For me, it's just 10 times or less… Until I reach him!"
"And your magic powers top capacity had energy equivalent to the original Hiroshima Bomb, where it place by the military standards as a Dragon class weapon. However your magic powers have several limits, and I split your techniques by different degrees..."
"Very well, this could make the magic management much more effective", Izuku recalls the problems when use overpowered spells, and the timings could cause an huge problem afterwards.
"First, magic like the Magic Arrows, or the Witcher Signs, are a Class-C spells, where the requirements are low, and can be cast without great problems. Your vitality, or mana, regenerates quickly after a normal daily use..."
"But not all Witcher Signs can be casted so easily..."
"The main exception, is when you cast the enhanced versions of Witcher Signs, and enter on Class-B spells. Some spells derived from Dark Schneider's powers, like the Voivod are also a Class-B spell."
"The Voivod and the Damned are casted almost without great meditation, on chanting...", Katsuki remembers when during the last lunch break, Izuku share his own hand-made Grimoire to read it.
"That's called Class-B spells, and much of them can be cast just by saying the same, once Izuku matures..."
"Why those spells requires this chants."
"It's a trick to the caster meditates and synchronize the vitality flows with his body, and generate the phenomenon called magic...", Sakura gives a brief explanation.
"The majority of spells, like the two you just witness, that require a more delicate preparation, are the Class-A spells. Normally, Izuku can only cast the same Class-A spell a few times per day, or worst their magic energy reserves could only handle about 15 to 25 Class-A spells."
"This means, without vitality...", asks Todoroki.
"No magic...", answers Sakura.
"And finally, some special spells, like the Judas Priest, Black Sabbath or Halloween, are Class-S spells, due to the high requirements, require a Ritual to create a Spell Material, or had cool-downs ranging from one week, to one month. A Ritual can aid to cast two Class-S spells, like you manage to do on USJ incident, but if you not reduce the power, as you do almost instinctively, the cool-down could slip to two or three months. And when a sorcerer are needed to use his best technique, the enemy will not wait 3 months to strike..."
"However, during the recovery of the Black Sabbath cast, I could make magic..."
"And also, not forget that your vitality was below the normal during the cool-down, even as low as 5% of the initial values, as your body prioritizes the full magic regeneration… It may be enough to Class-C or Class-B spells, but about less than 30% of their ideal powers."
"And even there's room for cheating...", Izuku refers to some alchemical potions, and similar stuff.
" It's much better to avoid mismanagement. There's why, after the Sports Festival, it will the next great topic to cover."
And after these great warning, the special lecture finishes, and both boys returns to their homes.
The Yuuei's Sports Festival begins!...
Several days later, the long awaited Yuuei Sports Festival begins, and was the first time on three possible participations, that Izuku could display his powers, while knowing, even recently, that the SDF was tailing him. For Izuku, the perspective to do the First Hero Internship on the Japanese Military was a very real possibility, since they would recruit him to do special missions on special untouchable villains that normal Heroes cannot afford at all.
Once Izuku and the rest of his classmates arrives on the installations, the entire Yuuei Colosseum was filled with thousand of spectators, ranging from Pro Heroes, normal citizens, students from other Hero Academias, and even disguised villains.
The Present Mic makes a welcoming announcement, "Everyone, listen! Today's the First Years Sports Student Competition!", and all Yuuei first-years classes arrive and pose on the field, "Give a welcome applause for the 1-A Hero Course class!", while some of mass media quickly associates them to the USJ incident.
Present Mic resumes, "But not forget the 1-B Hero class!… And also The General Course Classes, Hero Support Classes and Business Classes!"
The infamous Heroine Midnight, due to the provocative clothing, hosts the entire festival management, and also serves the role of the Master of Ceremonies.
Once Todoroki, Katsuki and Izuku gave their speeches, the first game begins, "The Obstacle Course."
The race begins right inside the stadium, and follows by about half kilometer along one access tunnel to outside, along the Yuuei grounds. Izuku runs at small velocity, just not to freighting the students, or given too much attention. After all, Izuku decided to not use signature spells too harshly, or the likes such as Magical Overboard, that could simply step in and slide along the entire course without moving a muscle. Izuku thinks that would be morally unacceptable.
Izuku's chain of troughs was dispelled when Todoroki casts an ice wall, and also freezes the ground, just before the 40 meters high wall. Since Izuku was behind from some colleges from others Courses, the vampire couldn't avoid to freeze his legs. However, a second later, Izuku casts a Igni pyrokinetic Sign to blast the ice, and jumps straight over the top wall with a Heliotrope shield spell blast. Since the entire race was broadcast over the entire Japan, and also displayed on the Coliseum TV screens, many guests faces becomes awed and perplexed by the sudden release of an apparently quirk effect.
Izuku lands safely to the ground, using several tricks, including a quintuple mortal back flip, and an Aard telekinetic blast just to reduce speed. Many of the athletes was aware of the strange Izuku own feats. Many of Izuku's mates, and the rival 1-B class thinks that Izuku was indigenously step behind by purpose, just to not give too much attention. A bit behind him, Shinsou thinks, "This guy could easily blast to the first place, if can do, why it is still hold back ?!"
Then, at the first left corner, a plaza filled with three giant robots, like the 0-point from Entrance Exams, plus a swarm of the same 1-point, 2-point and 3-point robots runs and tries to slam the students. Todoroki and Katsuki already freeze or destroy some of them. Izuku, even at about 100 meters from the front line, decide to attack, "The Great Impaler of Slush Marshes, I summon you to honour your Faithful Pact!", and a swarm of heavy rocky stalactites erupts from the ground, as the magic energy flows from Izuku body to the ground, and impales directly to several robots, "DRASH GUN!", destroying them.
"WTF ?!", Todoroki jumps backwards, "It's Izuku's new spell ?!", and Katsuki grins, "What an idiot! He shouldn't give too much attention!"
Izuku jumps straight to the front, but during the flight, he choose to cast the same spell that's done on Entrance Exam, "Deep Doomsday!... Spirits from the Air and Earth, I summon you to honour the ancient pact!... May the Earth and Sky explode to fulfil your duty on me!" , and blast one 0-point robot into a cloud of scrap metal, "MEGADEATH!"
Present Mic was astonished, like it was during the cited exam, and also the entire audience displays a strange sense of frightening, "What kind of quirk that young green-hair boy have ?!"
Meanwhile, the second big robot was destroyed by Todoroki and Katsuki, and the third one was consumed by another Izuku's spell, "Nailbomb! Calavera! Nuclear Blast!", where Izuku's first opens his braces and legs, and flows his magic directly to the ground, "May the Styx River filled with hatred and revenge, blast the corrupts to Eternal Damnation!", and blasts thousands of death rays capable to melt, burn and destroy the robot, collapsing to the ground, "SEPULTURA!"
Endeavor, who was watching his own son, Todoroki, notices the strange quirk that green-hair boy have, "WTF is going on ?! First he cast a telekinesis quirk, then some air blast, and now fire ?!"
Izuku snaps from his demeanor, and runs at the maximum speed it could handle, and arrives at the Trap Valley, filled with burning pits, some ropes, lightly toxic gases and other unspecified traps.
"Why my inner ego wants to display my Dark Schneider's powers to everyone ?!", and it's a guilty thought that was difficult to handle, "Even I use my own modified spell from Dark Schneider's Grimoire to destroy the last robot..."
Aizawa decides to speak a good excuse, "Well… If you notice well, this young and oddly boy with fluffy green hair...", and changes his voice tone to match an angry father, when their son makes embarrassing mistakes, "Have a peculiar quirk called Vryko-Warlock", and display on screen the quirk name with seven Chinese characters, 恶魔巫师吸血鬼, and the phonetic Japanese katakana transcription, ブライコウォーロック, on top of it.
Present Mic had a bad feeling, "Nice quirk name, but why have the kanjis for demon, sorcerer and vampire ?!"
"Well! Our school accepted him, since it's strong, and are one of them ...", and drops his fangs.
Then every Top Heroes, Endeavor included, understand, it was that same freak on Entrance Exam, "So, it's the famous vampire..."
"And the quirk effects are...", Aizawa grins, since it was no quirk at all, "He can cast demon-level black magic spells!... Hwahahahaha!", but became embarrassed, "Tch… Oops!"
"Basically, you just spill all, without wanting, idiot!", Endeavor grins.
Meanwhile, Todoroki runs along the ropes, to avoid the pits and trenches filled with some weird goo. But at a certain point, the heat and moisture becomes the ropes too sloppy to run above them, so everyone should holds his braces and legs around the rope, and slide around it.
Bakugou passes easily the ropes and that obstacle, using his Explosions to propel itself, while Izuku simply run or jumps the gap easily. During this period, Todoroki lose balance and falls, and then Izuku quickly casts a Magical Overboard to catch Todoroki, and brings to the nearest safe place.
"I don't believe that you make a mistake!", said Izuku to Todoroki, "Thanks!...", while the dual ice and fire quirk boy witness the awareness and subtle shock from all athletes when read the last video-clip of the curse, that was about the Izuku's quirk…
Once the top three boys reaches the last stretch of the race, they faced an entire mine field. Other racers was also just on the corner. Katsuki already races and blasts the mines before take any step.
Izuku then decides to make an huge firestorm, "Ancient Darkness Spirits from Heaven and Earth! I Pledge and Gather you!...", and prepare a hailstorm of Elemental Magic Arrows, "Gather 600 Darkness Elemental Spirits, 300 Fire Elemental Spirits, 100 Lightning Elemental Spirits...", and fires from his left hand, "Magical Spirit Crossbow Infantry Arrows!… Release!"
The storm of arrows blasts the entire mine field and propels Katsuki to mid-air. Todoroki freezes the clean field, and slides to boost speed, but Izuku simply makes a 200 km/h sprint until he reaches the entrance tunnel to the finish line.
Katsuki still recovers from the blast, but manage to get the second place, overlapping Todoroki on the last second. Izuku wons the race, but without a strange million eyes sharp looks.
"The winner is… Izuku Midoriya...", Midnight announces the winner, while thinks, "His quirk is called Vryko-Warlock ?!", and also processes the strange powers, "But why a quirk gives a plethora of techniques, ranging from energy blasts, fire explosions, or even… make a strange disc capable to catch a person and bring to him ?!"
But along the spectators, the SDF scouts already made his decisive move, "So it's him!", and points to his college, "Lieutenant... Call the Yuuei Director Staff… I want this boy to my military unit, during their so-called Heroic Internship!"
"Yes, Sir!", the young military brass salutes and walks away to the requested destination.
To be Continued...
Notes:
After the Sports Festival arc, the story will diverge from the canon, where the 1-A class will prepare, step-by-step, the battle against the Millennium Army.
Chapter 8: Mecha Cavalry Battle: The duet between a Gadget-Maker and a Sorcerer
Summary:
The cavalry battle begins, but when a sorcerer (the vampire Izuku) meets with the genius inventor Hatsume Mei from the Support Course, the things could transform a simple sports game into a mecha frenzy. But, even from Aizawa itself, the Izuku's behaviour has criticized due to their imbalance of techniques and powers.
Also the whole display of a magic driven mecha was not very well appeased by Aizawa, who simply saws a pure Freakishness Show without real purpose, while others make some neutral comments.
The whole situation was aggravated by some recent tests results from the Hero Association that classifies the Heroes and other related things by a scale, and Izuku was given a Demon King grade threat level, causing to him several anxiety, and starts to make unbalanced techniques that harm not only his colleges, but also himself.
Notes:
(See the end of the chapter for notes.)
Chapter Text
Cavalry Battle...
Once the weirdness freak show given by the peculiar green haired Hero Course's student ends with their victory, Midnight proceeds to announce the second stage, where the first 42 athletes who won the first game are assigned to do a team-based sports game. The chosen game was a cavalry battle.
Izuku sighs, and displays some amount of uneasiness, much due to the unwanted public unleash of his vampiric nature, or his on powers, even it was a old dream to give him any chance to participate on the Sports Festival. First, and the most silly one, it was the absurd amount of points given to the victor, 10 million, while the remaining 41 students was given an arithmetic progression of points, beginning at 1000, and reducing each lower ranked student by 25. The last one, had a null classification. And the second oddity, that Izuku never cooperates too well, is the team-based nature of this game. It was expecting that the 42 students would form teams by 3 or 4 athletes. Normally, the average number of teams are around 12, and this year was no exception, as a symmetrical number of six 3-person and six 4-person teams was formed, after a long quarter of hour discussion, and selection.
Due to some excessive training sessions between the vampires Aizawa and Izuku, and some mad mood mixed, both students from 1-A class refuses to pair with Izuku. Playing alone was usually out of question, but luckily, some remaining students from other classes pair with Izuku to form the most oddly team, when all options are out. First, one curious and daredevilry arrogant boy called Neito Monoma, who was one of best students from his 1-B class, and also the most unfriendly, as himself speaks, "My only dream is to surpass every student from 1-A class", while Izuku speaks, "On my long philosophical dissertations, I even think that current age heroes are easily mistaken by some wrestlers who just want their moment of fame...". Neito throat almost coughs he heard the vampire's sentence, "Damn it..."
And the second one who decides to join the group, was a student from 1-H class, the gadget-maker Hatsume Mei, where already gains the reputation of one most bizarre Heroes Support Students on most recent years. After all, Izuku's team is also the Freak Team!
"A young vampire, a quirk hacker and a gadget genius!", said Izuku, who already knows their quirk effects forehand.
"So...", said Mei with some genuine curiosity, "It's you the freaking, cute, mysterious, ...", and she starts to ventilate, and spins while enumerate every possible attributes, "Cinnamon roll hair… vampire!...", and prepare every conceivable instrument from every hardware Mei could ever manage to handle, "But you are nowhere near from my precious children!", as treat their inventions as part of their family.
"God...", Izuku makes a strange face, with some weirdness facial expression, "If you ever manage to be a genuine heroine, it would be like a Gundam mecha!", where with the last sentence gives Mei to just pop off a weird idea, "Oh! Cinnamon roll vampire!...", while the cited person answers, "My name is Izuku Midoriya...", but Hatsume Mei brings all thirteen cases, filled with every imaginable weirdness stuff, and start to mount, in less than two minutes, a kind of giant mecha robot.
At first, it was a mixture of steel pipes, servomotors, and recycled garbage, barely resembling a robot at all. Once connect some wires to an electronic box, where any specifications or indications are only known by the gadget-maker girl. If she really knew about the specifications at all!
"I have a simple question...", Neito dares to ask, "I heard that you don't have a real quirk", as he touch Izuku's body to cast any doubts, "Well... And I could agree, since my Copy quirk don't give me anything!".
Instead to reply, Izuku sighs while hops to the top of the Mei's mecha, without taking too much attention to Mei as she tries to assume the mechanical control of a kind of giant sword, hold by the right hand, or anything resembling an arm at all.
Finally Izuku answers Neito's question, "Well… sorcery is a different kind of special powers, much older than the quirks, but extremely rare...".
Neito becomes a little worried, because magic or sorcery was a terrae incognita to him. Meanwhile, Mei instructed Izuku to handle the controls for the legs, while himself warns, "I never saw a Yuuei student so insane, but I will aid you with my magic", as Izuku remembers a novel, and an anime adaptation of the same canon, that was about mechas on a fantasy medieval setting, operated my sorcerers and alchemy.
"Ingens honesti militis mei ferri...", chants Izuku, while channels his magic vitality along the components of the rude mecha robot, transforming and transmute the pieces into a giant robot, once made from scrap, to something resembling a medieval steampunk robot, covered by magic shields and additional components from the Mei's own inventions.
"Surge ex illo certamine passim...", and finally stands up, "Sinit proelium incipitur!", while the sword made from a metal pole gains an energetic plasma blade, "Midoriya's Team: Magic Mecha Knight… Launch!"
Both Neito and Mei just grins and express a genuine astonishment from their faces, "What's is this ?", but Mei shifts into an amused curiosity, "You are using this magic to enhance my children ?!"
"Let's hope that this Gundam Knight at least works by the next 15 minutes!", said Izuku, as his mind focus shifts to control the strange technological and magical invention, "And also I don't need to bite too soon...", while said that, his fangs drops.
Again, Midnight stared when the contraption mecha robot forms due to Izuku's powers with Mei own aid, before shouts, "Cavalry battle… Start!", while she thinks, "What kind of quirk can transform scrap into robots ?!"
Meanwhile, the Katsuki's Team witness the mecha running around the play-field, as the blond himself drops his jaws, "WTF hell is Deku doing ?!".
Ilda and Kaminari, who just handles Katsuki, tries to approach and blast an electrical wave to the Izuku's mecha. Both Izuku's members are just sited on the top of the machine, and the bandages with the points are equally accessible to be stolen, as the other groups do.
Ilda uses his Engine quirk to propel his leg in a swing movement, in order to break the Mei's mecha right leg. Izuku then casts some manoeuvrability spell to order the right mechanical arm to swipe the sword and blocks the Iida's movement. Almost on the same time, Kaminari tried to blast using his Electrifying quirk to destroy the cables that powers the servomotors. The robot suffer some damage, just to Izuku counters with a cast of the Damned spell to blast Kaminari out of his sigh, just to be rescued by the Tsuyu.
Katsuki also breaks the formation just to propel in mid-air using his Explosion quirk, in order to land inside the Izuku place. The vampire managers to blast a Impellitteri to mid-air, blasting Katsuki to the ground, and tear apart the Katsuki's team formation simultaneously.
"Where is my bandage ?!", Izuku notices that the ten million bandage on his forehead was missing, and when scan the surroundings, he discovers that the Dark Shadow summoned by Tokoyami just stole it.
And the damaged mecha was just tear apart due to the combined damage from the Katsuki Team forehand.
"Mei...", Izuku asks, just to give a hopeful answer from Mei, "Yes sir!...", but fells a little annoyed, before he could manage to repair the broken mecha, "Now, he have only 200 points! And your robot was destroyed… Do you have spare pieces ?!", just to Mei points to an huge pile of scrap laid on the play-field boundaries.
"The problem is to get there without leave the battlefield!", said Neito.
"No problem!", Izuku stretch his right arm, and casts a new magic spell, "In-Chi...Ko… Gara!", and increases the accuracy and range of the vampiric native telekinesis, "Lord of Gravity… Guardian of Nature!...", in order to reach the scrap several meters away, "I pledge your Contract, and Seal my Hand to become your Dominion!", once he activated the spell, "GRAVIS!"
"I will bring this...", and finally Izuku could use his magic enhanced telekinesis to scatter all scrap metal, and bring back to him.
"I think a telekinesis quirk would by more easy to make the same thing !", spoke Mei, before Neito could reply.
Once bring the scrap, izuku cast a new spell, "Lapsae bellator...", and Mei opens the toolbox to connect all cables and pieces, "Redeem ignominia tua et redire in pugnam...", and creates a better mecha model, where Izuku adds a real shield that holds on left arm are now placed, "Midoriya's Team: Magic Mecha Heavy Cavalry Knight… Launch!..."
Once everything assembled, the refurbished mecha slides against the Tokoyami's team, while Izuku decides to increase the defences, by casting a Ritual Magic Cast, "Antiquorum patrum vampyras... ", where Izuku's bites to himself, and drain some blood away. Magically, due to incantation, a flow of blood covers the entire mecha, making a magical shield, "Antiquam virtutem optime ego voco ...", that even helps the mecha to levitate a little, "Ego antiquum sanguinem eiusdem est transmutare...". And finally creates an entangled web of magic bloodied wires, "Ad summum creare defensionem adversus inimicos meos...", while declare, "Midoriya's Team: Knight Blood Shield!"
The last magic spell that Izuku just cast, it increases the magic and physical defence, while also helps to block the furious attacks from the others teams. But it don't avoid the strikes from Todoroki, who paired with Tokoyami, and also from Katsuki, that could freeze or burn much part of the magic shield.
Neito grabs several bandages using his Copy quirk, while hops in and out from the Mei's mecha, while Izuku slams or attacks the other teams. Once the chaos cools a little, Neito dares to ask, "Just for curiosity… What's your more powerful technique ?".
Izuku thinks a little before answers, "I have a magic gravitational collapse, a magic nuclear explosion and a magic plasma cannon spells, where I named by the same order, Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, Halloween...", where Mei and Neito frightens with blank sweeten faces, "What ?!", before Neito dare to ask, "And why you just do not use one for them to finishes this game ?"
Izuku sighs, with some angry tone, and gives to them a deadly glare, "Those spells are very dangerous, it requires a delicate summon and casting, and burns my own blood as a pay off, making only possible to cast a single one of them each month, at best!", making Neito a little bewildered, "Specially the Black Sabbath, that simply will wipe-out the entire Coliseum and kill up to a million people, that was just gathered here!", as the young vampire ends almost yelling.
The whole conversation breaks momentarily the Izuku's concentration enough to a group with a student capable to cast green vines, attack the robot body, and breaks much of the vampire spells.
"Damn it! that's the worst thing I could do !...", Izuku yells in frustration, while notice that the entire game was barely half-way, and the second robot made with Mei's help was about to break apart. Neito helps to counter-attack, while Izuku tries to fix the shield spell. It was partially successful, and brings another bandage, to sum 8750 points. The real problem here is the magic energy form Izuku was failing, due to overuse of Rituals that consume his own blood.
The fight for the ten million point bandage was making the whole game a fight between Todoroki and Katsuki, once they stole from Tokoyami. The Izuku team menages to go to the fifth position, just in the borderline between winning or losing the entire tournament.
The relationship between the magic caster Izuku and the gadget-maker Mei was gaining several fruits, even this scrap mecha was beyond any usefulness standards, the last emergency fixes on the second model makes possible to function when the entire battle already lasts 12 minutes.
Once Izuku could relax a little, just to attack the another team, the Todoroki team decides to freeze the ground, while Katsuki team also strikes against Izuku, causing enough damage to break the mecha apart. For Izuku, it's the second time that his own colleges makes the same attack.
"All right...", Izuku mind decides to force himself to be less generous, and becomes more curbstomped, "I will teach them a real lesson...", with some bloodlust on his eyes and their fangs dropped.
Suddenly the Izuku's hair electrifies, and his dark aura explodes, while take care to use his native telekinesis powers to rebuild the Mei's mecha for a while. Mei also notices the bad mood from his partner, and tries to warn, "Please, don't make something stupid!"
Izuku raises his right arm and casts a simple spell, that could be the mother of all Magic Elemental Arrows, if it was not present on Dark Schneider's Grimoire, "Spirits of Lightning and Darkness!", and Neito panics when saw the giant globe of dark energy forming about a meter ahead the vampire, "Unleash your wrath against the enemies, by a firestorm of lightning!", and a swarm of huge arrows fires against all adversaries, blasting the majority in the process, "IRON LIGHTNING ANTHEM!"
The girl with green vines quirk screams when the Anthem magic dark lightning arrows makes their vines-like hair self-combust and cast fire. Other students don't had much better luck.
Present Mic overreacts the last Izuku's magic spell, "Oh my goodness!", while Aizawa facepalms to himself, "Can you believe this ?", and yells, "The insane green haired student's quirk not only makes lightning strikes capable to blow students with quirks that should be immune, but also creates robots from scrap… with the help from Hatsume Mei ?!"
But some teams reacts after the powerful spell, and since the battle reaches the last minute, the fight against the Freak Team would not end too soon. Meanwhile, Izuku menage to create a third mecha version, but the whole design logic drains to the water, as appears more to a chaotic amount of scrap glued by Izuku's magic. But the relentless attacks from every group continues, and with less than 20 seconds, while Izuku tries to hold his 15000 points, and the fourth place, the third mecha starts to crumble.
As the time was reaching the end, Izuku still manages to cast another spell, while orders Neito to strike Katsuki, who had currently the ten million bandage, "Beware the false prophets of Doomsday!", while a giant vortex forms from Izuku's left hand, "Honor the ancient pact, while ignore the altar of spirit's blood, that shall not falter!", and a powerful lightning storm unleashes, "Lightning, obey my will and strike!", and stuns the most powerful opponents, such the Katsuki one, and Todoroki too, while Neito grabs the bandages, "TESLA!"
And at the last second, the Izuku Team manage to reach the first place, and won the insane and crazy Cavalry Battle of this year.
Midnight waits, and stands with a shocked poker face, against Izuku's team. Quickly, the computer announce the winners, "Team… team Midoriya wins the second stage! All three members was qualified! And the four-member Team Katsuki, Team Todoroki, and Team Shinsou also gives all members qualified!". Finally the computer selects a last member, while taking account their achievements, and selects a 1-A class member, Sero Hanta.
List of the Final Battles!
Once the best 16 students are chosen, the third game begins, which are always a single versus single tournament. At the first round, 8 battles are assigned, where the first one was Izuku against Shinsou. The other ones was, Katsuki against Uraraka, Mei versus Iida, Denki against Fumikage, Eijirou versus Tetsutetsu, Mina against Yuga, Naito versus Momo and Shouto against Hanta.
Aizawa Scolding...
But first, a mandatory two hours full rest follows once Present Mic announce the next match, while also begins the lunch break. For Izuku, it's time for their blood meals, and some potential reprimands from Aizawa-sensei.
"What kind of battle was that ?!", speaks Aizawa, almost enraged, "I notice that the girl from the Support Course was too weird, due to his own inventions, but why you make a freak show, mixing a team battle with some third-rate bad robot combat ?!", and grips the Izuku's collar, "I notice some teenage rebellion on your behavior, but I expecting that your could give a normal display on powers, and instead, you just want to display to the entire world, how powerful you are!"
Izuku clenches his firsts, and grits his teeth, while displays an enraged eye-look, "I won't make such hypocritical statement like, But the Yuuei motto is not Go Beyond, Plus Ultra; instead...", and tries to counter the teacher's grip, "I was just following my own instinct, and take some care to not hurt my mates, or any students!"
"You simply expose yourself, what you really are, and gives an hint that you just want to curbstomp everything on your path!", Aizawa yells, "You are just a brat, who still cannot manage all of your powers in a more discrete way!"
Izuku turns around, and walks away with heavy footing, while drops some tears on his eyes, "You don't know anything…", and slams the door too hardly, that cracks and bends the steel frame, "Stupid Aizawa-sensei...", and ignores the presence of Katsuki, who just walk on the hallways.
Toshinori, the true form of All Might, also notices the whole situation, and walks to catch Izuku, "This Aizawa...", and tries to call the young vampire, "Midoriya-kun...", and transform to the muscular form, just before the green-hair young vampire turn his head, "Can I speak to you for a moment ?!"
Izuku thinks a while before answers, "If you try to criticize too awful, then I will leaving...", and All Might tries to gain his attention, without hurt the vampire feelings, "I want to warn you about some things, even I know that you are a lone vampire without much trust with humans, but please listen my remarks..."
"Tch!", Izuku displays a mad mood face, "Even my teacher is a vampire, has too tough!"
"Young Midoriya… I was totally aware that vampires like you was severally discriminated, and placed on the outskirts of human society, and you have very bad behavior instincts due to your nature…"
" It is just trivial crap ?!", Izuku yells by own frustration, "My magic powers was so frighting, that now need special lectures just to not use it, when my instincts warns that could be fatal ?!"
All Might notices the turmoil that Izuku had, and tries to calm him, "Young Midoriya… The true meaning of an Hero is to give hope, and peace… Instead, you are afraid of everyone, that defaults quickly to overuse your powers, even it was not required at all..."
Izuku snaps, turns around and walks away, while gives some random kicks, "Stupid All Might!..."
Katsuki was just witness the whole scene, while mumbles to himself, "All Might was right… This idiot Deku are misusing his own powers…", but suffers a pang of guilt on his chest, "But how to melt his ice cage that has placed inside ?", and adds, "It was like me, when I was much younger, a lone strong person, even Deku was not human at all, without any friends..."
Katsuki really understands that Izuku needs to make bounds with other classmates, but it won't be a trivial task.
Midoriya versus Shinsou battle!
Once the long two hours break ends, the third game event begins, where the main Duel Arena was placed on the middle of the Coliseum, courtesy of the Pro Hero Cementoss. The first duel are not faded to be the rarest oddly adversaries, but could also the fastest ones on Yuuei records. Even so, Shinsou would try to use his brainwashing quirk to won their duel. Except Izuku, and Shinsou, all classmates from every classes seats on balcony, before they go to the field.
Like every competition, all athletes uses the Physical Education uniforms, and Izuku even agree with such restriction. Using his own armored costume, could give a red flag, and an huge commotion. The whole week before the Sports Festival was much emotionally damaging to Izuku, due to the Aizawa's training routines, and the lower tolerance between Izuku's vampire nature and the human classmates.
Once the famous day arrives, for much 1-A class own feelings, they decided that was too far away, and just could severe the already weak bounds between the vampire Izuku and other classmates.
After all, he could won the two first matches without much brutal powers display, even the second one was more than an improbable connection of two freaks, plus an opportunist!
In secret, they decide that the entire 1-A class should commemorate together, with Izuku, since he should not feel guilty to gain a Level Threat Haoryuu, or Demon King Dragon, as explained by a preparatory lecture before the Festival was given by All Might himself.
On Previous week before Sport's Festival, A Lecture about Threat Levels...
All Might connects his laptop computer, to the classroom projector, and displays a file from a recent villainy and heroic classification, that would be mandatory on the next months.
"The Hero Association has decided to split the Heroes, Villains, Terrorists, and even the Nature himself, to a new Threat Scale..."
"WOW!", much of the 1-A class exclaimed.
"In reality, it is the new Global Aptitude Scale disguised by some villainy score scale..."
" All right, from the bottom to the top, the classes are… Cub, Wolf, Tiger, Demon, Dragon, Demon King Dragon and God!"
"OMG!", Todoroki frowns to the highest threat level.
"Quirkless people are normally Cub Level Threats, as their powers are not greater that this."
"How weak they are...", Katsuki plays a little, even to tease Izuku a little.
" The Wolf Level are usually strong people, or threats that affect a restricted group of peoples. Much lower grade Heroes are placed here, as potential threats!"
"Like us, no ?", Mineta dare to ask.
"No… The majority of many Heroes, including yours on this room, are Tiger grade Heroes or Threats..."
"But not compare the majority to us!", and Katsuki still upholds his sense of superiority complex.
"Some students like Bakugou, Shoto or Momo are Demon Class, making possible to hold a city-level crisis."
"Demon ?!", Todoroki was a little unpleasant.
"For me, All Might, I was placed on the boundary of Demon and Dragon-class Hero..."
As expected for someone that was the Top Number One Hero.
"And finally, the Midoriya threat level, measured after several analysis, was placed on the Demon Dragon King, or Haoryuu Threat Level, with 3% chances to be promoted to the boundary of the God Threat Level ", making Izuku very frighting, "Since it is capable to destroy entire cities, even it had long cool-downs, but it is the expected."
"Haoryuu Threat Level… Right...", Izuku makes a depressed remark.
"The Hero Association thinks that is almost physically impossible someone being a God Threat Level by all levels, as it could simply destroy the entire Mankind by himself."
The class was demised after those announcement, but Izuku walks away quickly to home, as their classification becomes some kind of insult to him.
And the Battle ends as fast it begins...
Returning to the Duel Match, Midnight announce the two challengers, "From the Hero Class 1-A, the second vampire on Yuuei recorded history that manage to access the Heroics Department, Izuku Midoriya!", and a mixed public reaction of fear, surprise and applauses makes Izuku very unpleasant. The computer also display the following information, available only to the two challengers,"Quirk: Vryko-Warlock", and also, "Threat Level: Haoryuu", making Shinsou a little surprised.
And Midnight announce the Izuku's adversarie, "And the last survivor from the General Studies, from class 1-C, Shinsou Hitoshi!", while privatively the computer displays, "Quirk: Brainwashing; Threat Level: Tiger."
And finally, after the two boys face each other, Midnight shouts, "First Duel… Fight!"
Shinsou waits several seconds, while stare the green-haired vampire who simply relaxes, "Well… being a vampire is too much weird, don't you agree?"
Izuku answers, "Right...", but a psychic wave blasts his body, once he displays the Yrden Sign, "Sorry… But my Magic Trap Sign Yrden prevents you to brainwash me...", and grins.
"What ?!", Shinsou frails and panics, while his classmates also stares with some great confusion within their faces.
"I will show to you...", and Izuku grits his teeth's, "A real brainwashing technique… Hypnotic Wave Sign Axii!", that freezes the Shinsou body, while shatters his mind, and becomes vulnerable to the caster commands.
Midnight notices the sudden asphyxiation of Shinsou, "One a minute… Shinsou is not breathing!..."
Finally Izuku decide to end the match, "I summon the Fiery Power Blast of the Fallen Heroes...", and send an energetic blast that propel Shinsou against the concrete wall, "DAMNED!"
Izuku itself don't move a single step from the initial position, and manage to send a boy to the other side, "And… the winner is Midoriya!", said Midnight, very confused to Izuku's techniques.
A little above, on the 1-A balcony, Katsuki and Todoroki shouts, "Damn it… Izuku should have a very bad day… He was a little cruel against that General Education athlete!"
"Honestly...", said Uraraka, "Why Izuku was so eager to finish off so quickly ?!"
From the top, Aizawa and Present Mic decided to not comment further, as the older vampire mumbles, "Izuku could extend the fight, and train his muscular strength, since the adversary is not too strong.", and sighs, "Instead, he just smash quickly...", while tries to hide the fact that also have some remorse, "Probably, I should ask my class to bring Izuku to the reason… He's just hurting everyone and yourself with such bad behavior..."
And since the first match ends in less than 30 seconds, a five minutes pause was giving before resume the Duel Tournament.
To be Continued...
Notes:
In fact when a magic user mixes with a robotic expert, the things could be like the genius young Silhouette Knights pilot and sorcerer Echievalia, from the Knights and Magic novel.
On the Cavalry Battle, the three mechas was more like a piece of scrap barely resemble a robot, but it gives an interesting interaction between Mei and Izuku, as both play a hacker game, where the main objective is to create something broken, but could at last work the necessary time until the game ends.
The Threat Levels was derived from the One Punch Man canon, and replicated on the Top Strongest Wikia, where it will make the official Hero Grade Classification along this story.
Chapter 9: The True Meaning of become the heir of Dark Schneider
Summary:
The Sports Festival follows the expected Duel Tournament, but the brief intermission between the first and second rounds was almost severed when the Major's spies tries to infiltrate the Coliseum.
Izuku, who also been scolded by his teachers and peers, enrages the vision of those villains, and decide to strike.
This time, Izuku decide to use the forbidden spells of the Dark Schneider's grimoire, to curse them, or to summon the guardian dragon, killing them.
The whole situation was quickly seized by the SDF, who wanted Izuku to join the military ranks, versus his teacher Aizawa that wants Izuku to be a civilian hero.
Until the Festival ends, Izuku should continue his match, but he already knows that the military will continue to tail them.
Notes:
Edit the Man'o War attack, and use the infamous Rurouni Kenshin's Shinsengumi motto: Aku Soku Zan.
(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)
Chapter Text
The show must go on!
Once the first match ends, the next Duel was between Ochaco and Katsuki, gathering some attention and favouritism from Present Mic, "And, now… from the Hero Class 1-A, the cute and smart Ochaco… versus the blasting blond… Katsuki..."
Both student begins with the usual face-off, and the famous Katsuki's swearing, "If you want to be alive, just quit now!", while Uraraka thinks, "It would more true, if I went against Izuku...", and reply, "But I never quit!"
The whole match was essentially a duel between the vicious explosions from Katsuki's hands against the anti-gravity girl, and the clever use of the Uraraka's abilities to use the levitation quirk to her favour. Once she thought that levitating pulverized concrete, formed during the blond's blasts and overall fighting, she release her quirk to let it rain, like shrapnel, to the battleground. Uraraka thought that such clever strategy could cause great damage to the unfriendly blond.
In the end, Katuski already notices the trick, "Silly...", then he blast the entire shrapnel cloud. Once the huge explosion settles down, he give to her a powerful punch that send Uraraka against the wall. This matches ends with a victory to Bakugou.
The later matches was more equilibrated, or more comical. The third match ends with an humorous display of several gadgets make by Hatsume Mei herself, just to tease Iida, and make him the perfect guinea-pig for her inventions. In the end, Mei quits the match, ending the ten minutes duel like a third-rate commercial show. But at last, it was very appreciated due to the inventor capabilities to sell and the comical setting, that gives to all audience a good laugh.
Later, the forth match ends with a quick victory for Fumikage, using his Dark Shadow mutation quirk to drive swiftly his adversary. Denki ends dumbfounded.
The fifth duel between two endurance quirk type users, Tetsutetsu and Eijirou ends with a draw, after a long battle. Midnight decide to resolve the match with a wrestle brace later.
Without great surprise, the sixth match ends with a clean victory of Mina against Yuga. The seventh battle was also a quick match, since Momo throws outside the field the copy quirk user Naito with an hammer made from plastic that Momo materialize using her quirk. Finally, Shouto also wins the match in a few seconds, using his ice quirk against Hanta.
The wrestler brace contest gives Tetsutetsu the right to advance to the next stage.
Confusion on the Sports Festival...
During all matches, everyone from 1-A and 1-B classes gradually realizes a little absence. They notice that the vampire Izuku never goes to the students lounge. Even Katsuki tries to not display any uneasiness during all matches. After all, the first match of the second stage, was him against that vampire.
Once Katsuki could snap from his own thoughts, the emergency alarm suddenly activates, giving an intruder alert, "A villain attack right now ?!", some random student yells, and others becomes confused, "With all Pro Heroes guarding the whole perimeter...".
About half a minute earlier, the green-haired vampire was muttering while tries to clear his throat of profane loanwords, since the scolding from Aizawa and All Might was not so easy to repeal off.
While Izuku walks along the corridors, almost lost on his own thinking, he notices the familiar presence of the murderous ninja that once attacks the Yuuei cafeteria, "Sound's Speed Sonic...", wail Izuku when snaps.
Izuku quickly turns his head and releases a dark aura, while the ninja yells, "Damn it! I almost forgot that vampires had better senses!", while the young vampire runs to catch the troublesome enemy.
Instead to catch a brawl with Sonic, Izuku decides to gives a nice present, just in case to avoid further problems, "Before you leave...", before the ninja could create havoc inside, "Damn it!..."
Sonic becomes annoyed when the green haired vampire raises his right index finger, and made a strange invocation mantra that was unknown by Sonic, "Ki… Obos… Plataro...", and the ninja itself becomes worried, when a purple slimes forms on the right index nail of the vampire, "Oh!... I Summon the Ancient Dread King of Night's Pact!", where several wicked skull demons and ghost flies around Izuku, and converge to the purple caster's nail, "Come forth, my Demon King, flying on Bat Wings!". And when Sonic decide to use his insane speed ability to flee, Izuku casts from the cursed nail a strong venomous miasma that infect Sonic, "May your Ancient Will seal this Cursed Pact!...". Before Sonic could ever escape from the trap, the right index nail of Sonic turns blue, and the entire finger and the rest of his body was cursed by some strange faded runes, causing a sudden health shock, "ACCUSED!"
Sonic manage to flee, even partially damaged by the curse, but without dare to question, "Your greatest… bastard!", and yells, "What you have done to me ?!", and breaks into the exit door that connects to the main arena.
Izuku grins and laughs, "I manage to cast a Contract and Cursed Spell on you...", making Sonic shiver, "Unless you manage to dispels it, if you tries to kill someone, this cursed finger will change to purple… red… and blood red...", and makes an insane grin, "And the curse will consume you by flames, demons and other entities of Hell, killing you by the most horrible way..."
Sonic enrages and curses Izuku, "Your heartless monster! You call himself an hero, but you are only a malign mage!", and the cursed nail begin to sparkle and changing colour.
Sonic flee directly to the main arena, activating the intruder alarm. Izuku decides to jump from the same escape route, and cast a flying spell, "Wah-Ko!... I summon the Flight's Mage of the Mountain Wind!...", enables to fly at will, "CELESTIAL FLIGHT RAVEN!"
Once Izuku casts the Raven spell, enable to fly and tail the Sonic who jumps at high speeds, while izuku flies at high speeds. Either way, from that moment, both all spectators, and also from the Yuuei students could saw the new Izuku's freak show of demonic magic.
"I curse you...", screams Sonic, "Your demon!…"
Sonic launches a desperate storm of Exploding Shurikens against all possible targets, even before any Pro Heroes could react to counter it. Sonic hopes that the havoc and destruction caused by his weapons would made to him a nice chance to flee.
A few seconds later, Sonic was astonished when notice that all piercing objects are destroyed on mid-air, no matter the direction, since Izuku managed to cast a strong barrier spell, "Ele-Ele-Melia!... I request the protection of the Divine Spirit to become my Shield!", which creates a giant orb at the size of entire arena, "STRYPER!", and Izuku explains, "Now under my magic sphere of influence, many magic spells and quirks cannot be used !"
Meanwhile, Present Mic, and also Aizawa, gets their jaws down, due to the swift unfolding of events. While the first one stutters and yells, "Oh God! An intrusion, and the freak vampire fights back...", just to snap, "If himself speaks the truth… He managed to nullify all quirks… and magic ?!".
Aizawa, by his turn, screams with some genuine shock, "Since when Midoriya knows Anti-Magic and Anti-Quirks spells ?!", wailing at the same time open the vampire's grimoire copy, and found the infamous references, "I still not managed to cast that anti-magic spell...", as done handwritten by Izuku himself.
The last spell cause an huge breakdown of Sonic speed, making more easy to attack, even he tried to counter by using pure physical punches. At least, also Izuku was fairly strong with pure brawling.
Seconds later, another villain with magic powers appears, just to increase the chaos. It was the Metal Knight, who managed to break the Stryper magic sphere, while tries to attack Izuku and rescue Sonic.
Metal Knight also manages to bring an hostage, a young boy, about seven or eight years old, just to gain a unfair advantage over the powerful vampire.
"How dishonored you become, my ex-teacher!", grins Izuku.
"If I hold this boy, you will never attack me with all your powers, even any power at all...", said Metal Knight, who notice that his special weaponry fails due to the Izuku's magic.
Izuku grins and stretches his right arm, and open the right hand, along some menacing smirk, while cast, for much surprise from his classmates, a telekinesis spell, "In-chi ko gara...", breaking the Metal Knight's limbs and arms, "Lord of Gravity, answer my Request to honor my Pact!", and he could grab the hostage freely, "GRAVIS!", just to some Pro Hero grab him safely.
Even with such disadvantage, Sonic still reacts and tries to give to Izuku a powerful kick, that he managed to do, just receive a fire slamming punch, "Ma sin ren… Forest Spirits of Fire, I request your Ancient Pact!", using the left hand, "IGNA!".
The Dark Schneider's fire punch was similar of the Witcher Sign Igni, and due to the similarities, Izuku prefers the Witcher version due to the fast activation. But it was a single exception, the Igna spell bring more damage to the target than Igni.
Even so, Katsuki blinks with some stupefaction, since that spell was very similar to his explosion quirk, but he knows that it was one of the most weakest magic spell that Izuku can cast.
Metal Knight tries to counter-attack, once the vampire still focus on the swiftly ninja, once he could restart the central control of his missiles. Some of Metal Knight's favourite rockets almost hit Izuku, prompting the enraged vampire decide to fry the dreadnought enemy with a paralysis spell:
"Missiles... Again ?! Like you made on USJ ?!", as Izuku's green eyes was filled with rage and glare, and decide to strike, "So An Doa Stay-ru!… Prince of the Realm of Magic… May Mighty Tanimoore fulfil the pact of the Ancient Ages!...", that damages the Metal Knight coldly, and cause several central nervous system malfunction, "THUNDER RIOT!", while also afects Sonic, who also gets injured by the recoil.
"What are you aiming for ?!", screams Sonic, when he was punched, and blasted by some random missile from Metal Knight. The Riot magic spell was the culprit of the misguiding accuracy of Metal Knight.
"How many Electric techniques this insane vampire manage to use ?!", said Kaminari, while he has a little jealous and dumbfounded.
The whole scene was creating a terrible setting, even from the Hero Courses, who even dare to think about how powerful was that vampire, "Eeek!", exclaims Neito, "When he said that he couldn't play the Festival at full force, probably he could said that could won easily by killing both of us!"
Izuku faces the injuried Metal Knight, while focus his hand, and casts the same cursed spell he once done earlier to the ninja, while Sonic tries to warn him:
"Ki… Obos… Plataro… Oh!... I Summon the Ancient Dread King of Night's Pact!", making everyone from the spectators, to the Pro Heroes who managed to reach the Coliseum, a shiver sense of terror, "Come forth, my Demon King, flying on Bat Wings!". While Sonic tries to alert, "Oh no! The deadly curse! Metal Knight!", just before his body sparkles due to the same cursed spell, "May your Ancient Will seal this Cursed Pact!...", and the entire organic and metallic body of Metal Knight was cursed by a venomous miasma, while the right index nail turns blue, coated by a demonic seal that wraps a cursed runes and magic circles that cover the entire metal Knight's body, breaking him physical and emotionally, "ACCUSED!"
Meanwhile, specially the brainwashing quirk use Shinsou, glares to the last Izuku's spell he just applied, "A cursing spell ?!", just to ventilates due to the shock, "For a freak that dream to be someone to fight the villains, this method are not too extreme, or morally unacceptable ?!"
Izuku turns around and speaks to several Heroes, "I'm done! You can arrest them. My Accused spell will give an horrible death if they dare to disobey, or flee the prison!"
Cementoss gives an annoying glare, "One a minute, young sorcerer… It is too unfair, and villainous to curse someone like that, even they are murderous villains!"
Midnight even dare to ask, "What did you done to those two… Sorcerer ?!"
"When a person is infected by Accused, it seal their natural special techniques, such as quirks or magic, but also gives a curse, that once disobeyed, it will destroy their body, ending with an instant and horrible death...", and bows his head, "The infected nail is both a warning and punishment system, the more reddish it become, more powers are drained, until the whole curse starts to consume the victim...", while glares a darkness face.
Katsuki was one of the most horrified person, when Izuku gives his explanation, "WTF… A curse spell capable to kill when meet some conditions ?! ", and slams his hands, "Deku! Your great idiot, this kind of spell will give you a swift deprecation to a villain!"
Even weakened, Sonic and Metal Knight tries to flee, and attacks the Heroes, making Izuku angry, while notice the strange hand sign from the SDF military men lurking on the arena border.
"Mister Midoriya...", warns the military major, while use his own megaphone to alert everyone, "Don't waste time on unsaved criminals...", while the Pro Heroes becomes astonished, "Kill them!".
Katsuki and Todoroki yells at the sudden sigh, "What… what ?!", but the ice quirk one manage to resume, "Why the military was requesting Midoriya to kill the terrorists ?!"
Aizawa was a little shocked, "Why the SDF appears from nowhere, and makes such irrational request ?!"
Some seconds later, the same military answers, "I need a powerful thing for a special mission… After all, the vampire Midoriya will have their first Hero Internship soon, and for it, why just not honor the Dark Chaos of Destruction Sorcerer memory, as him is the long lost descendant of Dark Schneider ?!", giving a strange glare to Izuku, who he just hold the grip on his hands, "And make their Internship on the SDF ?"
His colleges was the first to react, and also to give a negative overlook, "The worst thing that even Midoriya fears… Is the military tailing him!"
Once the SDF offer was settled, Sonic and Metal Knight decide to attack both Izuku, and other Pro Heroes, instead to surrender, since Sonic said that "Was too dishonoured to surrender".
Izuku grins, and decides to end this settle with a new spell, "Grand force of the Pentacle, darkness and light… The moon is full!", that creates a magic summoning circle layered by a pentagram above the ground, "I'm calling the Ancient Spirit of the Dragon King who died on War!", and opens a gate inside the cited circle, "I'm cast the Great Power of General DeMaio, honouring the Spirits of Sky, Earth and Mankind!", and by everyone shock and terror, a triple headed golden dragon emerges and materializes from the open gate, "Grant to me the Holy Strength of the Sacred Three-Headed Golden Dragon!". When finally the dragon roars, it becomes a temporary servant of Izuku, "MAN-O'WAR!"
Sonic freezes and yells at the new sight, "That's dragon… It can only be summoned by Dark Chaos of Destruction Archmages!", when he also notices it huge horror that the infected nail already turns red, and start to bleeding. The same happens to Metal Knight himself, "Damn it, this monster was after all the true successor of Dark Schneider!"
Katsuki was paralyzed and perplexed with all bizarre unfolding of events, "WTF Deku ?!... Where that ugly dragon comes from ?!". Todoroki also was astonished, "Izuku also summons dragons using magic ?!"
Metal Knight then decide to attack the huge dragon with the missiles, that survive on previous attacks, just to witness that such move was nullified due to the huge dragon size. Such defiance behaviour was for Izuku the final red line to force the two terrorists to surrender, and the punishment will be deadly.
First Izuku stage like a old samurai, just to tease Sonic, and speaks like an old actor from a samurai themed anime from the Bakumatsu Era, "Dishonoured bastards!... Pray under the shining blade of justice!"
Everyone was under a constant fear, much due to the giant menacing dragon lurking around the field. The vampire should swiftly decide an attack, or his magic energy will drain out quickly.
Izuku order heartlessly the dragon to destroy the target, "MAN-O'WAR... I command you to destroy the evil… By Honouring The Three Great Generals of Blazing Extermination!… The Three Great Shinsengumi Captains of Bakumatsu!... Attack!... Tennen Rishin-ryuu!... Aku Soku Zan!", once the vampire name the dragon's main technique, derived from the Shinsengumi martial and sword art, and also inspired by the Rurouni Kenshin's Saito Hajime anime character motto, meaning Slay Swiftly the Evil.
Once Izuku casts the order, the three dragon's heads blasts a swirling cursed fire that burns Sonic and Metal Knight alive, and sliced them like the sword's cut of the three infamous Shinsengumi Captains: Serizawa Kamo, Kondou Isami and Tonouchi Yoshio.
Even the villains was brutally killed, their souls was shattered by a cursed pentagram that forms along each target.
The pentagram portal also acts as a barrier that avoids the dragon's fire to reach the spectators to burn, or the whole Coliseum to collapse.
The huge dragon dissolves after the attack, and the Accused spell ends with the total destruction of the former villains, "Silly villains, I give an opportunity to amend itself...", said Izuku while returns to the ground and dispel any active magic.
Even the destruction was very localized, the entire Coliseum audience fades into a full minute of awed shock and terrific silence.
Once the shock fades, even from several pro Heroes, the reactions was mixed, displaying fear, angry or total rejection, "What kind of MONSTER is that green-haired boy ?!".
Present Mic was trying to recover, but mutters, "When... when... he knows the... Shinsengumi... motto?!", but he was also in a deep state of shock.
And suddenly the Principal Nedzu intervenes, using the on-screen jumbo screens, "Everyone… calms down!", and explains, "The student Midoriya Izuku deadly attack was justified and been authorized by SDF to use lethal force, if necessary, to destroy some dangerous villains, such as Sound's Speed Sonic or even Metal Knight... Those mercenaries was working to an evil terrorist organization inspired by Nazi ideals...".
Once the crows appears to calm don a little, even not convinced buy such explanation, Nedzu resumes, "Those terrorists could kill hundreds right now, if this peculiar vampire don't defeat right down..."
"And it was requested by the SDF himself!", the image was cut, and replaced by a military person, giving the warning.
Aizawa makes a very unpleasant reaction, and gives a disdainful reaction to all situation, even he understands the whole situation, "Damn it!... I knew that this brat was a troublesome rebel, and he knows how to act...", and points, "But I need to have a very serious talk once this festival ends...", without displaying anger due to the fact that was very revolted to the forced military intervention, "Why our military wants to fiddle on heroics ?! We are a civilian organization, not a paramilitary organization!"
Katsuki vs Izuku battle!
Once the Pro Heroes intervenes to clean the Arena, some of spectators still gives an enraged swearing, claming that Izuku was a murderer or a demon, and takes about half a hour to calm down everyone. Only when passes about 40 minutes it was possible to resume the tournament. Once Cementoss finishes to rebuild the Duel Arena, the Duel between Katsuki and Izuku would begin, but for everyone, it was a battle that result was certain.
Katsuki notices his friend's inner turmoil, first due to the terrible villain who works to the strange Millennium Army. Due to the previous raids that delivers great destruction, it makes Izuku to attack with great rage, since the vampire snaps and attacks with such cruelty. The blond couldn't deny that Izuku powers dwarfs every quirks, but he knows that Izuku suffers due to this, and the vampire nature was only squared the discrimination against him. After all, Izuku only wants to be an hero, not a soldier designed to kill and destroy.
Midnight introduce the two challengers, "Let's start the first battle of the second stage...", even she shakes his hand, she remembers the vision of the dragon and their destructive power that still burns on her body, "From the Heroics Department, the Dark Chaos of Destruction Sorcerer, heir of Dark Schneider", spelling the title that she heard from the live proclamation given by the SDF, "Midoriya Izuku!", ending with a full audience within a state of shock and awe, "versus...", and the audience change to a more challenging tone, "The blasting blond, Katsuki Bakugou!"
Izuku bows to the blond while speaks, "Now it's our destined fight, Kacchan...", making Katsuki shiver, "WTF Deku ?", and yells, "You just cause an insane commotion, summon an huge dragon, destroy powerful villains, and speak to me, as you was just some kind of weakling ?", while tries to hold his tears.
"You know that I cannot use my full powers at a friendly match!", just to cut by the raged blond, "This is an important competition, for God's sake!...", and shouts at a more aggressive tone, "I'm very aware about how you are alone, how you live without someone could ever matches your magic powers...", and their hands starts to smoke, "However… If you don't fight seriously, I will not forgive you!"
Izuku nods and prepares to fight, as Midnight gives the signal to start the awaited match.
The green-haired vampire casts the Raven spell, "Wah-Ko!... I summon the Flight's Mage of the Mountain Wind!...", while the blasting blond was stunned, "WTF, Deku ?!", and Izuku could fly high, "CELESTIAL FLIGHT RAVEN!", before the sorcerer change direction, and accelerates against Katsuki, just to deliver a punch against the blond. Even surprised, Katsuki managed to dodge and send a blast to counter the first strike.
Katsuki couldn't deny that he had some fear, and due to his own pride, he don't display it, "Since when he learn that flying spell ?!"
Without waste any additional second, Katsuki delivers the strong Howitzer Blast against the Izuku's body when he's still touches the ground, "But... Loser... Take this! Howitzer Punch!", while the impact was reduced due to the Witcher Sign Aard, combined with the Yrden. Izuku couldn't avoid some of his cloths burns, and manage to control the Raven to slow down the impact recoil from the foe quirk effect.
"The real objective here is not to display a demolishing power, but to send your adversary outside the ring...", said Izuku, "When you fight using this rule on mind, you can have a chance to win...".
Katsuki smiles, and delivers a right hook punch, just to receive a Damned spell from Izuku.
The blond manage to use his quirk to reduce the recoil impact, and avoid the default defeat, resting a few meters to get outside the duel field.
The vampire flies and reaches the confused blond, but he managed to escape to the centre of the ring. Izuku grins, "That's my Kacchan… If I have a so called standard quirk, your quirk techniques could give you a victory, once you manage to find the weak spot...", just to receive other Howitzer Impact on his backwards.
"Ede!... Es!... Skin!...", Izuku meditates again, while retracts the left arm to their backyards, and concentrates a flux of vitality around the tightened fist, "Great Priest of the Undead!... Great to me your wrath, and punch the Enemy!", before send a blasting wave when the cited arm makes a clamping rebound, releasing a destructive wave with great kinetic energy, "SKID ROW!"
Meanwhile, his Magic Arts teacher, Sakura, giggles, "At least, Izuku-kun don't forget to use the Archaic Magic, unlike the ancient Dark Schneider that was disdained much of them...", ignoring the perplexing eyes of dozens of spectators around her.
Katsuki suffered an highly damaging blow on his body, that makes temporarily lose his senses, "Gwah! That strange Deku...", and holds his stunned body from falling flat with his right arm.
Izuku decides to accelerate own rhythm, and blast an Impellitteri spell that burns and damages the explosive blond, "Enemy foolishness! Release the Revenge of Underworld!... IMPELLITTERI!", and strikes with an Iron Lightning Anthem to freeze the movements of Katsuki, "Spirits of Lightning and Darkness!... Unleash your wrath against the enemies, by a firestorm of lightning!... IRON LIGHTNING ANTHEM!", but without making a fatal or a permanent injury, since it would declassify Izuku from the game.
The blond frails, "Damn it… I need to be more fast, or I give time enough to you cast signature magic spells...", and manage to blast a firestorm of explosions, since Izuku was almost on the edge of the ring.
The young mage smiles, and this time decides to use another archaic magic spell, or an apocrypha spell of Dark Schneider's Grimoire, where in reality was made from a contemporary mage at the same time of Dark Schneider, "Kings from Northern Mountains... Mages wandered by Ancient Ices...", while opens his right hand to form a kind of ice barrier, "Unite their wills, and reflect the enemy foolishness!", that blocks and reflects the explosions from Katsuki against him, "DANZIG!", make him fly high.
Todoroki was also mesmerized, "WTF ?! A kind of magic mirror ?!", while Ochako also mumbles, "And Bakugou was blasted away by the recoil of their own quirk!".
Katsuki manage to escape marginally from defeat, as he could land half a meter from the ring limit, without avoiding suffer several burns due to the last impact, as Izuku also hides from the black smoke created from the last explosions and delivers the final strike:
"WTF, DEKU ?!", screams Katsuki, when notice an uncommon incantation delivered by the vampire.
"Spirits of Skies and Heavens!...", while a vortex of lightning forms about five meters ahead from Izuku, "From Dark Heavens, I summon the Spirits of Thunder!", and discharge several bolts against Katsuki and all surroundings, "Thunder Attack of Spirited Destruction!", making another stun shock to Katsuki, while Izuku punches him outside the ring, "GILBERT!"
Sakura-sensei also makes an excitement smile, "Another arcane archaic spell, Izuku-chan ?!", while the spectators makes an annoyed outlook of that woman, "What that strange person are talking about ?!"
Midnight signals the end of match, "Bakugou Katsuki was out of field!", and signals to the medics rushing to grab Katsuki to the Recovery Girl, "The winner is Midoriya Izuku!"
Izuku relaxs and smiles, as himself grabs the defeated blond, but he drops his fangs and bites the Katsuki's neck. This whole scene makes the blond yells, "DEKU! Mind yourself!", and Izuku releases immediately, "Your blood is tasty, Kacchan!", and smiles.
Aizawa facepalms when witness the vampire moments, "Why you do such stupidity, Midoriya ?!", just to be scolded by Present Mic, "And you, don't like to drink human blood ?!", just to receive a menacing aura from the Eraser Head.
After all, the whole scene aids to reduce the audience physiological stress, and recovers the acclamation mood that the Sports Festival should delivers, since the show must go on...
To be Continued...
Notes:
It was a difficult chapter to post, as the entire plot now enters into a more delicate phase.
Basically, now Izuku reaches the first stage as a true Warlock, once manages to control the summoning techniques, like the Man-o'war dragon, or the wicked Accused spell, that was tweaked and changed fro the original canon. And after all, the Sonic and Metal Knight may be killed, but with a villain organization where had obscure sorcerers, I give you a cliffhanger of when they can or should revive deceased people, even as a material to wicked spells.
On the next chapters, there's still some action and story to unfold, before the Internship Arc, and I will give some surprises.
Chapter 10: A Strange Victor on Strange Duel
Summary:
The Sports Festival reaches the final matches, and brings to a great victory to Izuku, where the final match between him and Todoroki was highly spotted.
But the overuse of Black Magic during the Festival gives to Izuku a sorrow taste of victory, and it could give some penalties on final evaluation grades.
But the day wasn't ended, and the evening party on shopping mall was changed to the first 1-A class Hero Mission, save a hostage nearby.
Notes:
(See the end of the chapter for notes.)
Chapter Text
The Match Duels resumes, at least...
The Yuuei's Sports Festival of this peculiar year was giving strange developments, both on mass media, or during several hero forums websites. The news about a vampire with powerful skills was hitting the scene worldwide.
The whole fray calms momentarily once the second round of duels resumes, once the fight between Izuku and Katsuki ends with a victory for the young warlock vampire, also knows as vryko-warlock. Still freshly burned on many witness memories, was the scene with the dragon summoning by the vampire was giving to entire audience, or even the entire world, that Midoriya Izuku, if he wants to fight at full power, they shouldn't drop the guard, or they face an absolute power unleash with deadly consequences.
Even so the next matches was also fast paced, like the second round between Iida and Fumikage, that ends with a smashing victory of the Dark Shadow user against the Engine quirk, that simply gets pushed outside the ring.
Next duel was a fight between the acid quirk user Mina and the steel quirk user Tetsutetsu, that gives a more prolonged match. During the long battle, and more classical on a quirked world, both teenagers clash as Mina spills acid against the Tetsutetsu's steel endurance, along a hit-and-run match ends with a trap created by Mina, and a powerful punch from her against a tired Tetsutetsu against a pool of acid goo, ending the duel, after seventeen minutes of fighting.
The last duel of the second round, ends with a blizzard, a wall ice, and a monumental freezing from Todoroki against Momo, ending the match in less than one minute.
Again Izuku wanders along the corridors during the entire classmate's duels, as himself thinks that some villains could lurking on some hidden corner.
Midoriya vs Fumikage battle...
"And now the semi-finals matches are defined...", Midnight announces the results, "The first duel are between Midoriya and Fumikage...", while still dares to poke fun about the result, "What kind of match will be ?", as the entire audience only gambles about how many seconds the crow-face student will survive.
Midnight quickly clear his face and throat from her own embarrassment, before resumes and announces the next duel after the vampire one, "And the second match will be the surprising Mina, and the Endeavor's son, Todoroki!", that gives from Todoroki, a disdainful smirk, and an hate glare against his own father.
Settled the two matches, Izuku stares the worrisome demeanour from his adversary, before notices the sudden strike once Midnight signals the duel's start.
"Damn it… Their Dark Shadow is insanely fast...", Izuku snarls, cursing his own distraction. Fumikage repeats the same attack, but Izuku shields with the Quen Active Shield Sign Spell, that was the second main skill of the Witcher Sign Quen, and also the signature one of such quick magic spell.
The Quen Active Shield spell enables Izuku to create a magic barrier that protects him for several seconds from some quirk, magic and physical attacks, and regenerate some stamina and vitality on the process. The major inconvenience was the time and damage reduction are very variable.
Meanwhile Present Mic notice the Sign activation, and the rune symbols, and asks to the annoyed older vampire Eraserhead, "More magic ?!", ignoring the fact that every Pro Hero, and everything else too, wanted to know the same thing.
It takes some time to Aizawa answers, "Along the Dark Schneider arcane magic powers, the young vampire also learns the Gwynbleidd magic, or Geralt of Rivia Witcher Magic..."
As the unpronounceable name echoes to the audience, or even the Pro Heroes, Aizawa coughs due to the embarrassment, while displays a crude handwritten page to the jumbo screens, and explains:
"This kind of magic was originally a collection of quick-casting spells, that is also called Signs, that some slayers, and swordsman use to defeat their opponents...", and takes some time breath, "And from my opinion, it's more akin to me to use, than the Dark Chaos of Destruction magic, that make my blood boil...", while points his finger to the Quen line, as resumes, "There are five main Signs, and each one had a skill tree, ranging from the base Level 0, to the maximum Level 4, ignoring some alternating evolutions...".
The older vampire pauses, "Either way Midoriya actually sustains the Level 2 for the majority of Signs, and there's a special sixth and seventh sign, where there's no known information about their real powers...", and resumes before loses focus on the battle, "Since all Signs acts like a standard quirk, then Izuku acts like a seven quirk user..."
The whole explanation was interrupted when Fumikage almost burns when a violent wave of flames bursts from the Izuku's body, "I… reached the Level 3 of the Igni Sign, Great Igni Intensity", making Fumikage a little worried, "At least, when I attack you swiftly, I forced you to use magic more speedy to cast... But even weaker that your terrible sorcerer powers, this disadvantage is quickly narrowing."
The chain of thoughts was breached when Izuku casts a Dark Schneider magic spell, "Wah-Ko!... I summon the Flight's Mage of the Mountain Wind!...", giving the ability to fly, "CELESTIAL FLIGHT RAVEN!...", making Fumikage shocked and disgusted by himself, "Gwah! Just a few seconds distraction, and this freak manage to cast that thing!"
Aizawa also makes a displeased outlook, but also annoyed, "And the most bizarre thing is the crow-like quirk student can't fly, while now that sorcerer can fly like a bird!"
Izuku now could dodge and avoid the next wave of attacks from the Dark Shadow lurking on Fumikage, since flying at will gives to ways to delivers magic attacks, "Skiss! Skurat! Shumega! Eni-Ono-In! Release the endless fire and brimstone from fiery Hell!", while the incantation chant itself makes a panic surge on Fumikage, before a swarm of blades made from magic fire energy encircles him, "SODOM!", making the Dark Shadow entrapped.
"Hold down… Midoriya-kun!", said Midnight, "That spell was too dangerous!"
While flying, Izuku stares Fumikage, just in time to the Dark Shadow reapers and makes a straight projection against the vampire. Izuku quickly notices the counter-attack, and decide to make an huge risk. In less than a tenth of second, the left hand of Izuku store and discharge the Witcher Sign Aard at the Level 4, releasing the Aard Telekinetic Shock Wave, blasting the Dark Shadow in pieces, and the the Fumikage itself was pushed against the fracturing cement ring. Aizawa was also stunned, "A Level 4 Witcher Sign already ?!", while scream during the live broadcast.
Izuku quickly flies downwards, as he wants to punch Fumikage from the blasted ground, before he could recover from the shock, or his Dark Shadow could regenerate first. First Izuku strike, "Slayerd! Slayerd!", while Izuku gathers above him an increasing globe of dark energy, coated by lightning, "Dark Thunder of Balmor, I summon you to honour your Blood pact!", and use the right arm to send the magic energy directly to Fumikage, "Come Lightning from the Darkness and Strike!", blasting their adversary far away, "BALVOLT!"
It gives another victory to Izuku, reaching the finals, while from their classmate's stand, their mood was also changing, "Jesus Christ!", exclaim Todoroki, "What terrible overpowered Izuku was during all the Duels!", and resumes once make a swallow dry, "Fighting against him… It his like fighting all Hero Class Students at once… No… It is like a hundred quirk user monster, even it was a terrible underestimation...".
The ice and fire quirk user swirls around his own strategies, and thinks a way to use the limited space of the duel ring to find a way to force Izuku out of the ring, as fast he can, "Or I will be instantaneously defeated...", since even Bakugou once tried and failed.
Once the mess was cleaned, the second duel of the semifinals begins, and Todoroki ice quirk quickly defeat Mina without much effort, leaving the final match between Izuku and Todoroki.
Secrets shared...
Since the final match was delayed about half hour, the two boys walked away to a more private room, much due to Todoroki wants to share some secrets to the vampire.
Izuku was a little nervous, and very oddly annoyed to this sudden invitation, specially they would soon be the ultimate rivals on the final match, "What do you want ?!", said Izuku with all fangs elongated to be visible.
Todoroki sighs, while tries to avoid the experience of being bitten by a thirsty vampire, "It will be… a little odd to congratulate you to reach the finals against me...", and shakes his weakness, "But the main topic is about me and my father Endeavor..."
Izuku nods without making an unpleasant smirk, "The infamous hero, covered by flames, and serious problems with the justice ?!"
Todoroki swallowed sweaty, and shakes his head while scans the vampire gestural mannerisms, to find some impeding bursts, like his friend Katsuki does when it was upset, "Even I don't like too much my own father, due to his own unhealthy ambitions to become the first hero..."
"Megalomania is the most nefarious attitude of every human ruler, no matter the historical era...", said Izuku just to be cut off my Todoroki, "And you vampires are both of you too stubborn and cold hearted, may be due to your absurd lifespan ?!", and makes a pitted remark, "Specially you, as a genuine 15 years old vampire! For me it's the beginning of a great career, but for you it's just an episode!..."
Izuku sighs, "My mother had about 200 to 300 years old, and some of my oldest vampires of my acquittance, some of them almost reaches 1500 years, but they are visible old…", and resumes, "For me, I can live several centuries, may be reaching 2000, 4000 years or more...", and make a straight point remark, "Basically, for your human perspective, we are almost immortals..."
The human boy shakes own running thoughts, and return to the real conversation topic, "By the way… Have you heard about Quirk Marriages ?!", making Izuku a little surprised.
Once the younger vampire waits a little, he answers, "I read some records about the abusive power of your father due to choose and reject several wifes just to raise a powerful quirk on some descendant… What a joke! He never knows about artificial genetic engineering ?!", making Todoroki shocked and with some enraged disgust, "A joke… right...", and slams his hand against the table, "And you, on their place, would make artificial quirks! A thing forbidden by international law!".
Izuku jumps due to yelling, noticing that he scratch a serious wound, "Calm down, Todoroki-kun!", Izuku waves their hands.
Even after such tense mood, Todoroki manage to calms down, without leaving all hidden revolted nature that still bubbles, before sit on the chair and resumes, "My quirk was created by the combination of an ice quirk mother, which due my father abuse, she lose her sanity and now lives on a psychiatric hospital", with a tearful and enraged voice tone, specially when pins the last sentence, "And my monstrous fire quirk father… And since then, I never use my father size completely, just to show on him that I can defeat you", and point shakily to the green-haired vampire, "Only using my mother quirk factor...", making a strange feeling on Izuku, "He's suffering a kind of traumatic stress", said to himself.
Todoroki then stands up and runs straight out off the room, with some tears on his eyes, while Izuku remembers some tips from Knuckleduster, "A fogged mind, darkened my own revenge will only destroy by himself, never let the despair consume you...", and he knows that how Todoroki could easily slide to be a revengeful monster.
Final Duel: Todoroki vs Midoriya !
Several minutes later, the stage are set for the final match between Izuku and Shouto, while both egos projection gives an insane amount of pride and blood-lust, like the ancient gladiators from the Rome Coliseum, where the final act ends with a fight between the best of the best warriors.
Midnight shout, "Fight!", aloud, and both the two boys runs to a mutual physical punch at the first launch. Quickly, Todoroki launches a vicious blizzard to entrap Izuku swiftly, just to seen him escape using the Raven flying spell.
The vampire smiles, "If you think that I'm weak with ice, even I don't have much affinity, you're terrible wrong...", just to witness the dumbfounded shocked face on the ice quirk user:
"King of Ice and Snow, I request your Ancient Pact...", Izuku eyes turns blank, and his hands casts a white ball, surrounded by black clouds, that form above the Coliseum, "May shall laid your Frozen Earth, and your Frozen Glaciers!", where quickly a giant snowstorm begins to form, magically, "King of Ancient White Deathly Destruction, Roll in furious Rage, and Destroy them all!", and the entire duel ring are affected by a giant storm that dwarfs the former Todoroki blizzard, "RIDE THE LIGHTNING SNOWSTORM!", since the Izuku ice magic spell also had a little lightning element support.
Endeavor himself jumps from the Pro Heroes stand in panic, "Unbelievable… This MONSTER also controls ice ?!", while their yelling also makes the other heroes stunned with both situations.
The magic spell impact freeze the entire audience, as Katsuki himself feels some genuine worrisome, and mild panic, "The Half-and-Half bastard...", while tries to rationalize, "Just launch an ice storm, and that Deku counters with a greater version!… This WTF vampire is a truly monster!"
Once the magic snowstorm appears to fade, Todoroki decide to use his ice quirk again, freezing the entire field with an impenetrable wall of sharp ice. The ice shards almost hits the upper Coliseum rings, where several spectators screams and panics with the impending disaster. Even as a child, the son of the second ranked Pro Hero had a bad reputation of their sheer ruthlessness, specially when he could freeze the entire building in order to catch their prays.
"That's one of my ice techniques!", Todoroki delivers proudly to the audience, hoping that could catch the sorcerer before the things go awry, "Ice Veil!".
A few seconds later, the giant ice mountain appears to shake and release an ominous aura while the nearest Pro Heroes, and Todoroki itself, could ear, "Hwahahaha!", Izuku pokes with the situation, since the Witcher Sign Quen could create a simple magic barrier to shield him from the ice, even it was a few centimetres gap, "It's everything you had ?!", spoke Izuku loudly inside the ice.
Before even the classmates from the Hero Courses in particular could reply in shock, the ice mountain began to shake, and resonate, while Izuku screams loudly, "If I wasn't a mage, this freezing tactic could seal me, and you would won this game... However..."
Endeavor taps his fingers while mumble, "Why my son always use this weak side... Fire is much better that ice!"
Todoroki don't react, when witness the ice resonates and break apart, "That's not possible!...".
"Deep Doomsday!...", scream Izuku manically when starts the spell incantation, just at the moment the entire ice breaks apart and explodes from the bottom to the top, at regular steps, like the floors of a building.
"That's magic was!...", Todoroki mind freeze when tries to remember the last time Izuku casts that peculiar Ancient Air Magic explosive spell.
"Spirits from the Air and Earth, I summon you to honour your Ancient Pact!... May the Earth and Sky explode to fulfil your duty on me!...", and the entire ice mountain explodes into shreds, leaving many Pro Heroes into a frenzy to block the ice icicles and shreds to fall against the spectators, or to minimize injuries elsewhere, "MEGADEATH!"
Izuku was now released from the ice, just to witness another ice stream against him, delivered by a bewildered Todoroki. But the young vampire will not fall on another ice trap a second time.
"Deadly abomination from Rotten Hell...", Even surrounded by two giant shreds of ice created instantaneously, Izuku manage to break and shatters the entire pillar of ice in tiny bits by casting a more powerful magic spell, "Fallen deviations of wicked souls...", while ignore the blanked faces of shock of every spectator, "Lord of Deathly Miracles, lean to me your wills, and strike down the enemy!", and the entire ice formed on the field explodes and shatters into a dark mist, crafter by dark magic energy matter, "DARK ANGEL!"
Facing an enraged vampire, Todoroki releases the fire quirk component almost in panic, throwing a pillar of fire straight against the adversary, "Phoenix Burning!", while shouts his somehow improvised pyrokinesis technique.
The vampire dodges the fire attack, and delivers a fire magic spell, as a compliment, "Legions of Ruby Ray...", as Izuku cast a ball of dark reddish fire, "Flesh rotten… Consumed by Death!", that forms an acidic firestorm, "May this deathly Curse burns the Enemy, and return them to Water!", that burns and melts the concrete, converting the entire ring into a blazing Inferno, "ACID DRINKER!"
Endeavor smiles a little when the battle course forces his son to use the fire quirk, but quickly becomes mild panicked when the vampire counters with a fire spell.
"I never thought that I was forced to use my cursed father size!", Todoroki enrages and curses to himself, as he notices that the concrete duel field ring was transformed by a sea of flames.
Meanwhile Cementoss dares to intervene, "Ouch! This match is not turning to be too dangerous lethal ?!", and create a new wall of concrete that slows the acidic fire, but not avoid to melt and turn in to lava. Todoroki jumps quickly along the cooler places of the ring unaffected by the spell, without avoiding some genuine panic, "Midoriya, are you insane ?!", while tries to freeze the ground, hoping that the fire slows down.
Mina was just retuning to his colleges while notices the last Izuku's magic spell, "OMG! WTF! It's like my own quirk, but much, much, more dangerous!", while Tsuyu corrects her, "In reality is like a mixture of Bakugou and Mina quirks, since it is a kind of fire mixed with acid, a would be terrible quirk by himself..."
Aizawa was the one most shocked, "You are going too far...", but hopes that he would slow down.
Once the acidic fire stalls, Todoroki still manages to fire a giant inclined stalagmite of ice, trying to reach Izuku by surprise, just when the flying vampire simply explode them at all, "Oh... My Ancient Demon Servants, Guardians of Burning Marshes!", creating a giant aerial burst explosion, that also making Katsuki dumbfounded, "Lend your Powers, and Reduce my Enemy to Nothingness!", ending with a massive firestorm, and a sequence of random explosions that increases the havoc and destruction, "NAPALM DEATH!", where even the ice shields created with Todoroki's quirk ended destroyed as well.
Present Mic was also hyperventilating, "What… what… what is now ?!", while Aizawa enrages, "Even you control the magic energy of some magic spells, Midoriya, this is not morally acceptable to use lethal techniques!"
Ignoring the increasing yelling of his own teacher, Izuku cast another ice spell, even less dangerous theoretical, "My Great Guardian of Arctic Thunder...", that send a wave of piercing ice icicles against the target, "I demand to the Ice Viper Strike!", that almost immobilizes his adversary, "CELTIC FROST!", while also freezes the ground like the Todoroki's quirk once does the same.
Suddenly, the ice quirk user blasts a flamethrower and an ice blizzard from each size, as he notices that Izuku magic was more weaker, since Todoroki expects that any magic energy supply is not infinite.
Izuku then casts the Level 3 Quen Intensity Sign, to shield and reduce damage from the desperate Todoroki, while also makes a devastating powerful punch against the Izuku's body.
"Take this !", scream Todoroki, almost desperate to throw Izuku away the Ring, that could give to him a tactical victory.
Izuku back flips, and land inside the ring, only less than half a meter off the line. Todoroki then launch another wave of ice shards against the vampire, but Izuku manage to counter with a stream of magic lightning missiles,"Taitoro!... Ancient spirits of Lightning to Thunder!... Blow this enemy away!...", hurting badly Todoroki, "ANSELM!"
Kaminari was doubled dumbfounded again, specially when notices another premiered lightning magic spell, "I think is my lost brother...", just to some college reply, "Midoriya is a vampire, that's not possible!"
The lightning spell gives Izuku a crucial second to him dispel any current magic spells that was draining is own magic energy, in order to stun Todoroki swiftly as possible, "Ji... Ef… Kiss…", as he meditates to increase the magic energy output to a finishing move, "Beware the False Prophets of Doomsday!", forming a lightning vortex, while their size and strength increases, "Upon the Sacred Altar, I pledge to Honor the Ancient Pact!", making Todoroki frightened, but with much greater determination to launch an all-powered assault of ice and fire, "Protect and Curse the Spirit's blood that shall not falter!", while Izuku new spell creates a plasma discharge from the magic lightning, hitting that stuff against Todoroki, reflecting inclusively the ice and fire quirk explosion from him against himself, "I command the Altar's Spirits and call down the Lightning to Obey me and Strike!", ending with a powerful explosion, "TESLA!"
The last Izuku's magic spell projects Todoroki against the Coliseum walls, outside the ring, making a strong impact, much due to the Tesla recoil.
Izuku quickly cast the Gravis spell to hold Todoroki, removing from the wall, and place safely for the medical assistance.
"And the winner is...", and Midnight still rubs her eyes, just to not mistake other students that, each one, had quirks similar for each magic spell that Izuku cast, "Midoriya Izuku!"
Seconds later, Izuku uses is own Healer Magic to treat the wounds of the former adversary, as himself had a grudge, and a guilt rush due to be so cruel during the duel.
And the Winner is (Nosferatu Alucard) Ezio Auditori di Firenze !
Endeavor not only couldn't believe that his son could be defeated so easily, but it gives a discount due to the freak. He also notices that if Izuku fight unrestrained, like the unexpected battle against the two intruders, even Endeavor would be killed almost instantaneously, once that dragon was cast. But also, he was shocked to witness that the vampire had a kind of healing magic abilities!, "Honestly, what kind of quirk similarities his freaking mage cannot replicate ?!"
Fortunately, the Todoroki injuries was light, but the entire 1-A class was somewhat angry, or even worried about the ruthlessness of the vampire, "Aizawa-sensei at the first day on Yuuei said that he dislike mages, and after all, he may be right...", said Tsuyu, "Kero... Midoriya's powers are too diverse to be fitted on the normal hero society...".
The television also interviews the former classmates of the Orudera Junior High School, where the unanimous opinion about Izuku was shock, and awe, since they ever don't know that the green-haired boy was a vampire, or had such destructive powers:
"This is a quirkless magic sorcerer ?! For me, he had at last twenty quirks! That's totally insane!...", said one of them and sighs, but without hide his sense of terror and panic, specially when he review the duels against some normal quirk users, even they are sons of Pro Heroes, they couldn't make a fair match.
" This is a Hero-in-Training ?!... That once shy green hair vampire ?!... During the classes, I thought it had a weak telekinesis quirk, but not that monstrosity !", said another, before hyperventilates, "If he ever manage to be an Hero, it will simply kill all the Villains, or destroy everything on their path!"
The Ending Ceremony was very lightened, and make comical by purpose, as demanded by the Magic Arts teacher Sakura.
Izuku appears on the ceremony dressed as the vampire Alucard, from the Hellsing franchise, "Please relax, and I send you to the Heaven!", as Izuku remembers and mimics with the toy Jackull 13 mm pistol-gun, while sighs, tiredly, and remembers the scene when Alucard destroy scores of vampires using that weapon. Todoroki, who gains the silver coin, was annoyed by such silly cosplay, "We are not on Halloween!".
"Victoria agli Assassini!", said Izuku, more happily, "I hope that the new Assassin's Creed games won't like a bad copy of Witcher 3, or become like Battlefield or Call of Duty in disguise with loot boxes!...".
Everyone was dumbfounded about the out-of-order references, "WTF was that, Nosferatu Midoriya Alucard ?!"
"Why I always remember Ezio Auditori di Firenze, the main character of the Assassin's Creed II, for each happy situation ?!".
Aizawa facepalms very hard, even staying alongside Present Mic, "For the God's Sake, Midoriya... Your idol is a computer game character, an stealth Assassin, not a Pro Hero ?!", while on podium, the staff decide to resume the protocols just to avoid additional embarrassments.
Once the ceremony resumes, some young people also gathers along the podium, just to see the winners, or to catch an autograph.
An apparent young boy, almost the age of a late teen approaches Izuku, asking for an autograph.
"Fine… There is it...", and once signed, Izuku feels the boy's fangs piercing his neck, "A vampire ?!", where also makes a sudden request, "Please, save my sequestered brother!", making everyone taken by surprise.
Izuku winced, since it was their first time, apart when he born, and his mother either drinks his son's blood, or Izuku drinks his mother's blood, what was bitten by a vampire.
"Why you don't call the police ?!", said Izuku, "We are not qualified or mandated to do law enforcement!", unless the Yuuei request him specially.
"Because...", the younger civilian vampire brims his eyes, "When I saw you so strong, and better than those quirk fashioned heroes… I thought… that you could handle this!", making Izuku shiver, "Oh boy… I spot an open wound...", while babbles some random sentence.
Midnight quickly reacts, and bring the civilian to her custody, and other Pro Heroes also start to move, while the Autographs Session could resume, and end as soon as possible.
Then Aizawa and All Might makes a full three-hours scolding, where also his mother, both proud, and both disappointed, joins the discussion.
The overuse of Dark Schneider's Dark Chaos of Destruction Magic during the Sports Festival would give a negative factor during the first semester evaluation, making a grade reduction penalty. However this can be reviewed if Izuku change is attitude, and also warns that Izuku's display of powers could induce a state of fear on the current society.
Once the long talk ends, the entire 1-A class gathers to their classroom, just to end the long day, but also a sudden request, "During the Ending Ceremony, a vampire make a request to save their brother, that was also a vampire, from a band of young delinquents, that was also around the shopping area of this city...".
The strange request makes Kiminari to ask, "My class was planning to bring Izuku together to the same place, just to teach him about socialization...", making Aizawa agree, "The police was already on the move, but it was aware that my class will make the final strike on those bullies!", and makes a challenging smile to the entire class.
With a Plus Ultra motto, the class was dismissed, and everyone takes the train to the destination.
The aftermath of the Sports Festival will be very interesting, since it would be the first heroic mission, after all.
To be Continued...
Notes:
The Izuku's magic spells arsenal was just increased, but he needs to learn that the abusive use of Dark Chaos Magic would not pass without some penalties on their grades.
But the first change of redemption, along his peers, was right on spot. (And is also a filler that was not present on cannon.)
Chapter 11: A deadly Rescue Mission
Summary:
The entire 1-A class, aided by All Might and Aizawa as evaluators, begins the special rescue mission to rescue a younger vampire along other children taking hostage by a band of ruffians. The 1-A class was splitted into four teams, in order to break the site and release the hostages.
However, specially the Izuku team, discover that the real masterminds are two dual quirk and magic users, a Shinto and Shikigami casters, but both corrupted by some unknown reasons.
Once Izuku managed to save everyone from a terrible defeat, and cause an huge strain on his body, several questions arose, but decided to follow along.
Notes:
(See the end of the chapter for notes.)
Chapter Text
A Special Rescue Mission starts...
The day was already ending, and the first artificial lights begins to illuminate the streets of the city.
The entire Japan was still recovering from the shocking news that the first year's victor of that year was a mage, an ancient power being that exists much before the resurgence of the quirks.
For the entire 1-A class, what should be a night of celebration, now turns to be their first heroic mission. For some of them, it was the best of the best present a Hero-in-Training could ever dream for. Their mission is to infiltrate a house of human trafficker, and release the hostages.
The victor, the vampire sorcerer Izuku Midoriya, was specially requested since many so-called Pro Heroes refused the job, and he coldn't believe that one of prime reasons was since the main victim was a vampire like him.
The Eraser Head "Aizawa" was meeting to discuss about the basic strategy with all their classmates, while tries to explain the whole situation, "The criminals was hiding inside this complex composed by this warehouse, and a degraded building adjacent to it...", while tries to warn the young vampire, "Before you think about magic, Midoriya, it's better to warn you that your mission is not to blast the site, or kill everything on the path, this is an Hero Rescue Mission, not Doom...".
The infamous bloody gore game reference makes Izuku frowns about such remake that his teacher cites, "I understand, Eraser Header-taishou...", making the older vampire blush, "Sincerely, Midoriya… Since when I join the military ?!"
"Not again...", Todoroki sighed unpleasant, "It's the SDF crap mixing his brain ?!"
Izuku had on that day a roller-coaster of emotions, some good memories, but with dark thoughts, since he won the First Year Sport Festival with a devastating sheer display of power, that even he couldn't avoid the feelings of freakishness that everyone, include his own classmates, delivers to him.
"Of course I'm aware about my abilities...", and exhale while sighs, "I could cast an Halloween spell, and good-bye warehouse for good...", and makes a frowned boldface, just to replace the main topic, "Instead I request previously to Sakura-sensei to bring my old mage clothes when I trained hard with her...".
Such oddly remark was quickly seized by every human, once each student bring their own Hero Costumes, and notices that Izuku use a second costume that was more cute for some colleges that the heavy dreadnought armour. Such costume was a lighter armour covered by a purple robe, with dark red stripes, where a long line of runes was etched along the strip.
"And there's my old magic wand...", Izuku holds a two meter long finely etched wood wand, where several crystals, runes and rings was placed, ending with a red jewel on the tip, where him holds up.
"That's a nice mage costume...", All Might joins the group, "And I wonder why you not simply upgrade it to our classes, instead that cavalry armour horror", making Izuku fuming with mad look.
Kirishima pat and rub the vampire's green hair, while notices a slight lightning flashing along the magic robe, "Wow… WTF ?!", causing an uproar from Izuku himself, before he relaxes to reciver his senses, "Ouch!… It's my Dispel Bound awakening… damn it!"
"Dispel Bound… ?!", All Might raises his eyebrow, while Izuku sighs, "Apart from Vitality Manipulation, or Mana Manipulation, if you like it, Dispel Bound are intrinsic abilities that make a sorcerer, sorcerer...".
Izuku fells an unpleasant view where everyone stares him with wide eyes, "The first one are the natural ability to convert the vitality from nature to form the phenomenon called magic...", and makes a brief pause to clear his throat.
"So far, everyone witness me make active magic spells, and other stuff... Now, the Dispel Bound, or incorrectly named as Absolute Magic Barrier is a more passive and instinctive magic that the caster creates to protect himself from foreign agents and menaces..."
Once he sighs with everyone staring at him, including All Might, who Izuku had a great respect with the the strongest human Pro Hero, giving a more detailed explanation, "Taking your quirks as example, is in fact a kind of passive magic powers, and it's mainly a genetic effect from a peculiar gene that appears from nowhere almost 200 years ago..."
"Alright...", Kirishima nods, with such example.
" In my case, I had several genetic factors that gives a plethora of powers that serve the same propose. But real mages can manipulate own powers, and foreign powers at will... The real use of the Dispel Bound is to activate, almost by instinct, several layers of magic defence, to reduce the impact of foreign magic, quirk effects, physical damage, diseases... and so one... The range and capabilities differ from mage to mage...", while tries not to display too much information, "However, abusing such passive magic will consume my own vitality to hold the magic layers...".
Kirishima thinks the whole thing funny, "Amazing!… Too bad I don't have magic capabilities!..."
Izuku corrects, "Aizawa-sensei is both a simple mage and quirk user...", but the red haired teen disagree.
Ochako questions swiftly, "Deku-kun, Do you know any human sorcerers around you, Izuku ?!", but Izuku negates, "So far, even Sakura-sensei that hold the Magic Association, said that are less than a hundred members on entire Japan... I don't know any of them...", for much disappointment.
The younger vampire decide to reveal another ability, "And since I awaken the Dispel Bound, I should had the capability to regenerate my internal vitality pool using the surrounding fields, instead resting, that's is called the Vitality Regeneration...".
In reality, Izuku was awaken such ability at the time he assigns to the Yuuei High School, but he don't disclose much such information.
Instead, he decide to use one big application of passive magic, "Meanwhile, are you acquainted about the concept of ki ?"
"Ki ?!", everyone shouts.
"One of many Dispel Bounds layers, is the ability to read the energy flows of living things. Such thing was even tough on Ancient China! With the mastery of ki, I can sense the enemy, or the magic, and quirk energetic flows...", making everyone bewildered.
Sakura himself decide to intrude the conversation, "And finally, you can make real use to the Geralt's Grimoire...", making Izuku red blushes, "Basically, when you mature the use of mana, including making magic, heal yourself and manipulate your surroundings, you are ready to advance to the next stage as a truly mage...", making Izuku dizzy, "Alchemy!"
Everyone from entire team stares hard, "Alchemy ?!", while Katsuki was astonished, and babbles the first thing that snaps on his head, "Are you trying to create the Philosopher's Stone ?!".
Izuku waits almost a minute, very embarrassed, before explains, "Alchemy in magic are essentially the capacity to craft magic objects, or even enchant ordinary objects with magic... Making useful potions that can be used to regenerate vitality and vigour, or craft enhanced potions that increases spells effects, ...", while Izuku rants, just to see all his classmate's eyes wide open, and blank sweating.
Izuku also makes a dangerous remark, "Some rare sorcerers with quirks, could use alchemy and magic to make ritual bounds in order to manipulate the function of their quirk...", making even All Might and Aizawa thinking about how wonderful would be manipulating the function or the structure of a quirk!
The vampire quickly rants to end the dangerous conversation, "And other trivial things on the mage's realm...", where everyone tries to figure out the triviality of alchemy itself. Finally Sakura intervenes and warns, "And the reason of why you don't learn alchemy earlier, it is because the dangerousness of certain chemical reactions, and the toxicity of several potions, while requires a greater natural defences, like your Dispel Bound...", making the green haired vampire a little disdained.
"Before Midoriya learns how to convert everyone into toads, let's begin the rescue operation!", said Aizawa, while hides his own fears from the surroundings, "And by the way, as my request, please everyone warns the frog-girl to abstain to tell jokes...", causing a strange uneasiness on Tsuyu, "Kero..."
Everyone was splitted by four teams with 5 elements each, leaded by Izuku, Katsuki, Todoroki and Iida. The vampire's team quickly bring a long sword, lightly by vampire standards, from the scabbard hidden from the mage cape. Quickly Izuku releases the Dispel Bound, since such occasion was perfect to learn to master the wizardry shield.
Once Izuku fells that everything goes fine, he cast a spell that make burn the sword in flames, "Ray! Raydo!… Flame Reaction!...", igniting the blade by black reddish pitch flames, "Spirits of Victor Soldiers! Gather their Wills!...", making some of his colleges annoyed, "Being the Living Flames to become my Sword!", ending the incantation when a menacing aura eleased from Izuku explodes briefly, "BONFIRE!"
Tsuyu, Uraraka, Denki and Fumikage decide to join Izuku, but without making little chatting between the four, "At least wasn't another electric spell!...", said Kaminari, just to be cut off by Uraraka, "But it had a flying spell, isn't it ?", while makes the crow-faced boy to stare the floor, with some shame, "Please, don't reminder that trivial thing...", as Fumikage could feel some jealousy due to the fact that the Dark Shadow don't enabled him to fly like Izuku.
Izuku's group...
Izuku and his group reaches the spot, where will try to break the steel doors from the warehouse entrance, while the entire boundary perimeter was surrounded by barbed wire, and a locked gate with padlock. Uraraka knows that his Anti-Gravity quirk could nullify the weight of some lighter materials, but remembers that Izuku had a similar magic spell, and also with better accuracy.
A guard, roaming along the perimeter sightsee the group, and Izuku quickly casts the Witcher Sign Axii at the Level 3, Great Axii Intensity, where literally the villain was dominated by a blink of eye, even it was about 50 meters from the caster, "This is will make that Shinsou dumbstruck!...", said Izuku while grins.
Then Izuku blast the padlock with an Archaic Magic Spell, "Spirits of Thieves... Laid by Blond Obsessions… Release my Lock!", without firing any alarm, "MACE!", using his wooden magic wand pointed to the target.
The guard under trance walks randomly, while Izuku asks, "Where are the hostages ?", and the dominated villain simply gives the answer, "Enter… on main warehouse… Find a hidden… stairways… And it was grounded… up… on main house underground… basement!...", just to Izuku punch him against the wall, leaving him unconscious.
Meanwhile, Izuku and everyone sighs when all ear several sound of explosions that roars along the rooftop, along some ice shards flying, "Kero… The Endeavour's son and Blasting Blond was just playing loud...", said Tsuyu…
Izuku mumbles, "Finally I achieve to use the Axii Hex Sign, a Geralt's Spell to force informations from the enemy...", while Kaminari had is eyes lightened by some amusement, "That's so cool!"
"Whatever...", said Izuku, when Fumikage blast the door with the Dark Shadow, "At least, I manage to open the main door without making loud sounds..."
Inside the warehouse, several villains yells and tries to use own special abilities, while Fumikage and Kaminari use their quirks to punch several of them.
But this not mean that Izuku shouldn't enjoy the fray, as one villain roaming directly to the breached door was bitten by the vampire, spilling a lot of blood.
"Vampire!…", a younger minion screams in panic, when witness their mate been torn apart and bitten by the green-haired and purple robe young hero.
"Beware!", scream what could be the leader of the group, "That was the winner of the hellish Yuuei's Sports Festival!…", just to face the vampire, "The infamous dragon summoner freak!"
"It's only just junk!", screams Izuku, "DAMNED!", and blasts the leader and three lackeys against the concrete walls. Both ended unconsciousness.
Izuku notices an huge slab of reinforced concrete, where apparently it was placed inside a kind of cavity, "Interesting...", said Izuku while slurp the blood that was drained from the villain, "In-Chi...Ko… Gara!", the sorcerer begins to release his mercifulness aura, "Lord of Gravity… Guardian of Nature!...", while it charges their wand, "I pledge your Contract, and Seal this wand to become your Dominion!", and regains the power of telekinesis, "GRAVIS!"
With some mental strain, Izuku manage to focus on the slab, located about 20 meters away, and lift entirely, just to notice the way out, "Oh! An hidden stairway ?!", while release some meters to another side.
"Damn it, Izuku!", exclaims Uraraka, "That's like my quirk, and you manage to use without touch it!", as pin points the major flaw of that girl's quirk ability, the target must be touched, otherwise it won't work.
Once the issues on the warehouse are resolved, the Izuku group downstairs, and notice a long moistly tunnel, barely illuminated. An instant later, the first adversary appears without making a warning.
Izuku notices that the apparent villain was hidden by a mask and a cloaked fabric, where the expected hands from the partially shielded foe's arms had some kind of blade mutation. At first, the enemy uses is mutation as a basis to spins in order to align the blades parallel to the ground, like the rotating blades of a food processor.
At least, Izuku could strike using the short sword enhanced by the Bonfire spell, since the vampire's blade leave burn marks when it touches the body, but also the swift swing of the blade at a few meters distance could create a vacuum to project a fire blaze against the target.
However the adversary has quickly to react when notices the vampire true abilities, and begins to dodge the Izuku fire attacks with increasing efficiency.
Meanwhile the Dark Shadow from Fumikage also starts to be useful to help the backyards of the sorcerer.
The swiftly villain has given some hard time, as Izuku speaks to everyone, "Please, go ahead! I will treat this...", while notice the malicious red eyes flashing on the mask holes.
Suddenly, the villain starts to recite a mantra, making Izuku jump backwards, while not give enough time to alert the others, "Oh… Crap… An exorcist!", just to scatter shikigamis along the tunnel. The sudden foe's magic seals the quirks from the Izuku's mates, while the vampire itself couldn't avoid a sudden loss of all active magic, but his insane magic energy and vitality was too great to be nullified to easily.
"Ele… Ele… Melia...", said Izuku, while suffering an huge pain due to the exorcist's magic, "I… I request the Divine Shield… To protect me...", and notices, "Crap!… My magic was partially sealed...", as the strange foe rams against him, "STRYPER!", and manage to cast the anti-magic and anti-quirk shield, "But you are… great...", but still needs to use the sword to block the impeding attack, "As hybrid Mutant-type quirk and shikigami caster!"
Meanwhile, on the rooftop...
When the Izuku had an hard fighting on the subterranean, both the Katsuki and Todoroki group, or in reality the two boys, was fighting along the rooftop. While the explosive blond likes to explode several swarms of little minions, "Damn idiots! DIE!", screams Katsuki while defeats them without effort with his Explosion quirk.
Todoroki, on other side, creates several stalagmites of ice, that freezes the rooftop to slide along, and punches hard to blast the enemies.
"Honestly!", Aizawa sighs, "Those two great entertainers was making an huge fuss!", while All Might agrees, "But, once I notice that Midoriya-kun enters stealthy, I'm expecting a more vivid situation!..."
Once the two Top Heroes finishes chatting, an huge explosion shakes the building foundations, and a kind of white nine-tails fox appears, and holds several Shinto exorcism materials.
"You're asking about the demon hereabouts that roams inside your holy place ?", the human-fox mutant speaks, while cast a swarm of light papers, using his ounusa magic hand.
Aizawa yells, "Oh.. God! A dual quirk and magic person, while is also a rogue Shinto priest!"
Both Heroes, and students swiftly changes his positions to plan an offensive against the new enemy. The strange foe simply relaxes and closes his eyes for a brief moment, and when Todoroki and Katsuki who was already the hot-headed boys, tries to freeze or explode the fox, they receive a sudden light emitted when the rogue priest opens his brightly eyes, and everything appears to stall.
It was when all heroes notices that everyone was magically sealed by his powerful magic, "Aryastangamarga... Noble Eightfold Path to Oblivion!", not given even time to think.
The magic that was cast by the strange enemy forms a kind of lotus flower, where each petal had a Sanskrit character for each ancient Buddhist path. However the petals and characters are tainted black, signs a corrupted ideal. Once the flower opens fully, a magic barrier with 8 small circles, with the same Sanskrit characters, that forms the vertices for an octagon places above the ground and seals a more powerful magic, "Dharmachakra... Purification Ritual Magic Barrier!"
The casting of two powerful magic spells capable to seal quirk and several kinds of magic, it seals and takes out off combat every student and Pro Hero along the building location. As a result, specially the explosive blond, Katsuki suffers a kind of pressure that was making difficult to breath, while dangerously begins to lose conscience.
The affect people was now mere prays under the rogue priest, "Foolish humans, once they got a demonic power from Mara, they tough they are deities by own right!...", as quickly denounces the position of this priest about the quirks in general, as they treat roughly all quirk people as descendants of Satan.
And on underground...
And at the same time, Izuku reacts while tries to find a way to break the shikigami caster, and founds a possible solution on one Archaic Magic, that once read yesterday when search more carefully the old chapter related to anti-magic spells, "I hope this… work!", making the adversary a little confused with the slight demeanour change.
Izuku begins to warps his arms, interlace his fingers, and release a dark aura, coated with dark lightning, while flashes purple his eyes, "Ellen…Colleen… Allen… Savage!... ", making the adversary smirk with disdain, "OH ?! You still have force left to recite a curse, defiant demon ?!".
"I summon and pledge my Heroic Gods of War!", while a black vortex forms between Izuku and the enemy, "Impossible! How you can cast such special magic within my barriers ?!", while the vortex morphs into a kind of black liquid that starts to behaviour like a black hole.
"It's easily mistaken with the Black Hole Quirk that's belongs to the Pro Hero Thirteen!", said Izuku, while resumes the incantation, "I request your mystic symbol's fire and lend me to let Love and Hate collide!", and starts to destroy any active magic, and eventually quirk effects, to the growing black hole.
"What's happening to my powers ?!", scream the shikigami caster when notices the sudden loss of his powers, "Archaic Black Liquid Lightning Sphere… Purify them all!", all ending with a vacuum explosion, "DEF LEPPARD!"
The new counter-magic explode the enemy costume, ripping them apart, while the sealed souls and demons that once managed to seal on the shikigamis quickly loses control, and starts rip apart not only the panicked villain, but also everyone on path.
"Your great bastard!", screams the rogue caster, "You are not the same from the People of Demon Tyrant Mara...", making everyone annoyed about the strange announcement, "As their Demonic Powers that nowadays calls it quirk..."
"Non-sense!", exclaims Izuku before everyone reacts, "You, exorcists, once had a great monopoly over the supernatural, until the quirks emerges, it won't make the right to be called the work of the Devil!", making the four quirk students proud.
Uraraka and Fumikage tries to help Izuku once the nullifying spell quickly fades, once they manage to recover part of their normal powers, "Izuku-kun… Behind you!", warns Uraraka when saw a faint shadow against the vampire, just to be partially blocked by his Dispel Bond, but without avoid some damage.
"A kind of illusion ?!", the young green haired vampire reacts once notice when the enemy touches the ground, "You are too terrible!...", and Izuku slams against the ground to cast another fire spell, while this time is confined by a magic magnetic field, "Earth Bursting Flame Crash...", that explode into a pillar of fire that burn the target, "MAGNET!"
The fire itself burns and damages the foe, but still tries to recover and counter-attack, "If you think… your demon… That you can defeat with your demonic magic…", while the destruction of the cloaked fabric reveals a partially burned flesh that hides an horrible abomination, making everyone shiver, "What kind of monster is it ?!", screams Kaminari.
"Probably you're right...", said Izuku softly, before his voice darkened, and his menacing aura explodes, "So you will die here!...", making his classmates frozen, "Sasado! Sasado! Schronos! Chronos! Yoku-Sukou!", while Kaminari notices a black sphere of lightning aligned with the Izuku's magic wand, "Eeek! Another electric spell ?!", but Fumikage notice the fire increasing intensity…, "Oh God! It's a fire spell!".
While Izuku ignores the yells from their own colleges, he increments the magic energy flux, "Burning from the Deeps of Hell!", while Uraraka shakes his body, "Casting fire form Hell ?!", and Tsuyu helps to join the fray, even trying to not be shaken by fear, "Kero…Midoriya-chan is really an unlucky kind, reaching the point to use the Land of Dead as a fuel to his abilities...".
Just when Izuku starts to increasing the black lightning and fire sphere, then a portal from Hell opens, "Unleash the Black Mist of Hellfire!… My the Underworld Fire become my Sword and punishes the Enemy!", making the foe surprised, "How you… ?!", as remembers that something terrible will happening soon, "VENOM!", and then Izuku swing the wand to unleash the magic, ending with a total incineration of the target, that could scream for one second, before burns and reduces into ashes.
A explosion followed by a powerful shock-wave shakes the tunnel, menacing to collapse, while Izuku recovers his senses, "Finally!… A twenty thousand degrees heat explosion kill that monstrosity!", making Kanimari shiver while tries to not panic, "20000 degrees Celsius ?! That's insane! Not even Endeavour could cast such powerful fire!".
Izuku relaxes before signal everyone to run before the tunnel begins to collapse, "Well! During the first class ever with Aizawa-sensei, just before the quirk apprehension test, our teacher report that I manage to kill the two villain slimes with my magic...", and everyone remembers with eyes widen, "Well… This spell that I just cast right now was the same that kills that slimes…", and both classmates swallows hard.
"I cried when I use for the first time such deadly spell, even I could cast even hotter ones, reaching the 100 millions degrees or even more with the Black Sabbath, or even freezing to Absolute Zero with Testament,...", while Izuku holds his closed fists, and boils his mind in rage, "I could ever think if I ever use my powers to my benefit, or just to terrorize the citizens..."
Fumikage reacts, "Hold down, Midoriya… No one is judging you about the fact that you kill someone with your powers, after all, everyone is truly afraid of your magic, and the Sports Festival was the prime example..."
Izuku fell a great pain relief, just in time to reach a blinded door at the end of the murky tunnel.
Izuku raises wind magic hand and quickly destroys the closed door, "Spirits of Lighting and Air!", creating a ball of lightning and a powerful vacuum, "I honor my Ancient Pact...", just to blast an high speed lightning bolt, "Thunder Cannon Wave Attack...", that blast the door with an insane speed, "VENGEANCE!", but without giving an wooed face shock from their mates.
Once the five heroes reaches the basement, they notice a group of six children, all of them tighten with ropes to metal frames attached to the walls. One of them was a vampire, making Izuku shakes his teeth's with rage, "How they dare...", while Uraraka signals, "It's him! Let's free the children!"
All four human heroes quickly release the hostages, while Izuku was instructed by Uraraka to take care of the vampire. After all the plan was made right, since the little vampire, badly injured, quickly bites the Izuku's neck and starts to drink his blood, "Not again!...", just to be funnily scolded by Tsuyu, "And when you bite Bakugou-kun, Midoriya-chan ?!", making Izuku red blush.
Fumikage said, "It's better to give a vampire to handle another vampire, specially when they need fresh blood."
Final battle with the enemy...
And the relief was suddenly interrupted by the powerful barrier from the enemy at the rooftop, that quickly seal the other Heroes and Students powers, and starts to affect the other stories located above the rooftop. Izuku tries to take the staircase upwards, but they all collapsed, and the structure was dangerously shaking and cracking.
Uraraka quickly tries to use his Anti-Gravity quirk to hold the debris falling, but the cracks enables to peck the outside situation, "My God! Everyone was paralysed by some quirk effect!", screams Kaminari.
"Wrong!", said Izuku, "It's another magic user… And a more dangerous one!", making their group perplexed.
Izuku begins to yell in order to gain attention to outside, "So… Another magic user… Like the another one I just kill to free the hostages", and a strange vibration was overwhelming the shaking from the rogue Shinto priest, "What ?!", and the asphyxiated colleges notices the Izuku's vibrations:
"Deep Doomsday!...", while the building starts to shakes, and explodes first along the window frames, "Holy Spirits from the Air and Earth, I summon you to Honour your Ancient Pact!", making the enemy anxious, "May the Earth and Sky explode to fulfil your duty on me!", that ends with a powerful explosion that opens from the basement to the rooftop, "MEGADEATH!"
The explosion impact makes the enemy falls directly from the rooftop to the ground floor, along several chunks of armoured concrete, while breaking part of the barrier casted by the priest. The sudden barrier collapse quickly recover their quirks, which was to the Heroes a moment of great relief, "Thanks Goodness!…"
Izuku faces the strange mutant quirk fox user, while it was also the caster of a powerful magic, "Another exorcist ?!", just to the foe try to cast the same spell that almost kill the students.
When the enemy notice that the effects was partially blocked by the Izuku's Dispel Bound, he reacts, "Very well... Unlike the Sons of Mara, King of Demons... You are truly a respectful adversary... To be killed!", making Izuku shocked and enraged.
Once the rogue priest recovers the magic barriers at full force, Izuku still manages to casts another spell, but his magic vitality was dangerously falling due to overuse of Dispel Bound, much just to counteract the foe's barrier effects:
"Mystical God from Ancient Parthenon… I pledge the Pact from Blackmore!", making the enemy bewildered, "What you manage to make… ?!", just to saw a kind of magic arrow, much more powerful that any Element Arrows that his Magic Arts Teacher Sakura could lecture him, "From the Silver Mountains to the Gates of Babylon… Fell the Rainbow Mystical Arrow!", and a supersonic arrow of dark energy was blasted directly to the rogue priest, "RAINBOW!", piercing the magic barrier and inflict huge damage to the villain body.
However it only manages to break the barrier intensity for just eight seconds, since the inner fight of Izuku against the powerful enemy barrier was dangerously weaken the accuracy and efficiency of the Rainbow spell, where in normal conditions would stun the enemy without much effort.
And a ten seconds lapse manage only to enable Tsuyu and Uraraka drive out the hostages outside the building, and open the way to Aizawa and All Might bring their students to join the basement floor, just in time to the enemy quickly regain their full powers, and almost blocks all students and Pro Heroes quirks again.
When the villain was about to the recover the rogue Shinto magic barrier, the Explosive, Fire and Electrify quirk users smash against the priest with all their full powers, just before the magic barrier slows them down.
The vampire manage to create a wall of fire at the same time, by casting the following spell, while makes Todoroki and Katsuki embarrassed:
"Tia... Tio... Rain... Hellish Rainfall of Fire!... GUNS'N-ROSES!", creating a ring of fire capable to limit the domain of the Aryastangamarga and Dharmachakra magic fields a little more time.
The fox-quirk villain grins in pure insolence, "Too bad you choose Trash Bands to name your magic powers…", and points to Todoroki, Katsuki and Kaminari, when they just blast all best quirk techniques, all ending to be absorbed by the enemy.
"While the Sons of Mara just their demonic powers, or quirks as they called, was totally useless against me...", and the cited best students stalls briefly with shock and awe on their faces, while Katsuki grits his teeths and holds is closed fists, as notices his own impotence. The adversary resumes, "And since I control all Basic Nature Elements... Any technique, magic or quirk based on them, will be nullified..."
Izuku nods, when notice that the Rainbow, a kind of kinetic magic, works against the mutant fox, since it makes some damage.
However the magic barrier weakens dangerously the damage output, and since the enemy reveal the extreme immunity to several kinds of techniques, means since even for Izuku that many of his most powerful magic, mainly fire based, has mostly useless, and aggravated by the fact due to the overuse of magic along this single day, would require about a hour to cool down enough to try cast more of them.
The dire situation snaps Izuku again, when he remembers a terrible chapter from the Dark Schneider's Grimoire he read some days ago, during the training for the Sports Festival, warning about that exists a last resource Dark Magic spell, so terrible, that should be avoided at all costs, not only due in terms of morality, but also for his dangerousness:
"But when all techniques are invalid, this is the only option left..."
Without wasting time, Izuku aura explodes, and releases a malign vitality flow, making both the classmates shiver, and the enemy curious:
"Ego… Ego… Zara… Gorai!…", making the fox perplexed, "What the hell ?!".
"Ego… Ego… Zame... Ragon...", while the villain priest exclaims, "That spell… It can't be possible!...", making Aizawa eyes widen, and notices a sudden ground shaking followed by a spatial domain sparkling around the enemy, "What the hell is this ?!".
"Prince of Darkness and Elder of Evil!… I making the Coronation of the Future Demon King!", while Katsuki was also sense a feeling of frightening, "May the Germs of Evil be sated by his offering!".
And once the black sphere forms, a swarm of gates opens, releasing an horde of starving demons, "Devour the Enemy with Flesh and Bones!", against a screaming villain, "It's not possible!… To lose to that demon ?!... Argh!".
And the infamous villain was devoured by the demons summoned from Hell, "LED ZEPPELIN!"
The horrific vision of a villain being cannibalized by creatures from Hell makes the most students puke, while the strongest becomes mesmerized with the brutal execution. Once demons devours the terrible villain, both of them collapses and the black sphere that contains the demons contracts swiftly, ending all with a explosion that manage to nullify all current magic active in the meanwhile, leaving nothing left from the victim.
Izuku himself faints and collapses to the ground, due to the exhaustion of magic energy, and the blood losses mainly caused by the drinking from the little rescued vampire. Seconds later, he even manage to stand up a little, but it needs to take a rest immediately.
"Izuku-kun!", says Kaminari panicked, once he just finishes to flush out the vomit. When the Electrify quirk user reaches the wounded vampire, Izuku bites Kaminari and drinks a large quantity of blood, prompting a swift reaction from Aizawa to reach them, as he also helps Kaminari to force Izuku unhook the fangs, before drank too much blood from an human.
Aizawa orders once everything settles, "Take Midoriya to the shopping mall!", making everyone confused about the location, "I already order an emergency blood meal for hungry vampires!", while also don't forget, "Mission accomplished! I also request the help from Recovery Girl to go there… Rest of class… Follow me!".
Once all appears to end, finally all the 1-A class could exit the damaged site, before pass the control of situation to the police.
The first mission ends with a successful status, where in reality was just a seconds from a total disaster that could end with several injured or dead students. The unexpected nature of two dual quirk/magic villains, that was only really handled by a vampire who was also a sorcerer, saves them from doom. Otherwise the 1-A class would simply fail, an such result could answer the fact about why no normal Pro Hero ever dare to take action, or no one dares to help the hostages. Specially for Aizawa and All Might, the aftermath of this bizarre case, that could end in total disaster, means that something terrible is lurking on the shadows, but for now they should gave trust for the police making their investigation work to find the truth about this terrible discovery.
To be Continued...
Notes:
And in the end the terrible Led Zeppeling spell makes premiere on this story, ending the Great Four Dark Magic Spells (the others are Venom, Halloween and Sodom).
With this the Sports Festival Arc ends, and I will give some suspense about the Internship.
Chapter 12: And the Izuku's Hero Name is: Dark Schneider
Summary:
The aftermath of an almost disastrous First Mission Class was a little trough for Izuku himself.
The media was also other reason for Izuku distress, while making sure that no problem will occur.
However, problems arrive, for some unknown reason, the Endeavour madness brings Izuku to an asinine fight, ending the Pro Hero, which reputation was clouded by scandals, knock-off by the vampire.
The whole problem opens wounds on Todoroki heart, making the Aizawa and Midnight lecture about Hero Names a little harder.
Finally Izuku decides to honour the legacy of their mage ancestor, and carrying the title of Dark Schneider as a hero.
However, Izuku will made the Hero Internship on SDF, and All Might will watching the whole process.
Notes:
(See the end of the chapter for notes.)
Chapter Text
Thirsty...
Izuku, once recovers totally from his total exhaustion, the first thing he could really remember is when he instinctively drops his fangs against a canister of stock blood, and drink so fast that the container collapses.
Aizawa already knows this peculiar shop opened at late hours on this small shopping mall, as a kind of first-aid supplies for vampires, specially when the vampire is a stealthy Pro Hero.
The shop's owner overlook his frightened eyes, as he quickly recognize the face of the young green-hair vampire, "Jesus… The vryko-warlock is here… fainted ?!", when babbles about the sheer display on destructive power earlier on that day.
Aizawa, as he knows how to keep the owner's mouth shut up, just to avoid procrastination, "Listen… Bring another… Or better, two canisters of blood, a bottle of fresh green tea, and some human food...", just also to the young human employee becomes frighting and blank sweating, before he could be able to bring the requested items, "Or my student will treat you as a food ration!"
The employee also dares to ask, "There… there… is it… it...", making even Izuku visibly annoyed, "You… you… are also a mage,… right ?!", just to Izuku holds the blood canisters and drink them all, while opens the ham with lettuce sandwich package, while stares the poor frightened employed that swallows hard, "Yes… I just exterminate two terrible villains..."
For the owner and their employee, while remembers the Yuuei's Sports Festival, Black Magic Doomsday Edition, as they points to the news website headline title that was opened by the cashier computer screen, just to turns the owners even more trembling, "And… By the way… How they defeat them ?!".
Izuku pauses a second just to eat the sandwich and drink the bottle of green-tea, and then answers, "First one… By incineration… While the last one was eaten alive by starving demons from Hell...", making the poor owner and employee frozen to death by their own fear.
The only rescued child that was a vampire was taken together with Aizawa, just to take care a little before the police arrive. Unfortunately, for the shop's owners, the vision of a younger children than the green haired one drinking blood was not improving the situation, even knowing they the child should put in custody to the police as soon as possible.
It was almost ten o'clock of evening, when Izuku recovers fairly, and the few remaining operating shops was already closing, given few time to the 1-A class chatter together, as also notices the little gaze from Izuku.
"Game cards ?", Denki notices the invoices printed on cardboard cards, once Izuku leaves from a computer gaming shop, "I just buy a Steam Card to buy the Dark Souls collection...", as Katsuki yells, "More games to your freaking Steam Machine, Deku ?!", just to Izuku nods and ignores further answers.
After all, it was becoming too late, and quickly all classmates go to home, and for Izuku and Katsuki it was a long hour train trip to go back home. During the whole silent train, Katsuki could relaxes and dives on their own thoughts, even he knows that he really wanted was to talk with the vampire, and the blonde was frustrated since Izuku was too unfriendly ever to talk more than three words.
Izuku's mother only reliefs when welcomes his son once arrives home at midnight, just to take a shower and going to bed. At least, all Yuuei students had a few free days to rest, and Izuku would need all of them for own good.
The vampire on headlights!...
Inko Midoriya just sighed at the next morning when all the news channels was only talking about Izuku, treating them as mercenary demon, or a mass murderer by some tabloids, or even trying to give any possible scientific explanation to make magic ever possible. Such media stories was making some strange awes replied by on-line comments on those sites on a world of super-powered quirks, that even don't had a viable rational explanation at all.
"And on last night the police concludes a case when several children was kidnapped by some human traffickers, where two villain with mutant-type quirks, and apparently with some mysterious non-quirk powers, maybe magic, was the real ringleaders...".
The news anchor also talks about the last night events, "The Pro Heroes delegated to the rescue operation, while are also the teachers of the famous Yuuei Academy, also brings the 1-A class just in case to deliver to them a lecture about a first real-world experience on counter-villainy law enforcement...", making Inko worried.
But the anchor sighed, "The operation almost ended in a disaster, due to the anti-quirk magic techniques from the ringleaders, who was also direct descendants of Shinto and Shikigami Magic Arts practitioners...", just to casting some annoyed looks of the guests seated along the main anchor desk.
"Until the vryko-warlock Midoriya Izuku saves the day… literally...", and display some photos of the police investigation, and a brief video stream in real-time to detective Naomasa, that was also the main leader of the investigation team:
"The main villains was simply… brutally killed…", while makes an annoyed face, "Even they menace to kill All Might, the young vampire actions are a little dubious, at least concern...", while sighs and resumes, "The first villain are the Shikigami caster, where was burned by a fire magic spell, ending as a pile of ashes, which the temperature of fire reaches almost thirty thousand degrees Celsius...", making everyone on the studio frightened.
"The vampire call this fire technique, Venom, in honour of a British Heavy Metal band with the same name, where the album Welcome to Hell is a good mnemonic to cast the spell driven by fires from the Underworld...", making the anchor still shocked, "What the hell is that boy ?!"
"But the worst was the Shinto one, that almost won the match since any of Pro Heroes and their Students quirks was totally useless...", making a little freaking suspense from the detective, "But only manage to disable partially the powers of the young Midoriya, who suffers a little breakdown... Even so, he manages to kill him by casting starving demons from Hell...", making everyone on the anchor, guests and technical staff frozen in pure shock, "And the spell is called… Led Zeppelin… from the British Classic Heavy Metal band with the same name… And I believe the main inspiration come from the song Stairway to Heaven, Highway to Hell...", just to receive a prone correction from a guest, "Wrong… The title is just Stairway to Heaven, the Highway to Hell is from AC/DC...", making the detective blushes from his error, "Whatever… This boy don't had better names to this special attacks ?!"
Another guest also cites another line on the official police report, "And also the Endeavour's son said that this vampire cast a ring of fire just before to kill the villain...", and Naomasa just said, "And just call it… Guns 'n Roses!… Whatever...", and sighs just to signal to finish the interview.
A few seconds latter, the anchor passes to another headlight news, for much Inko relief, "My son should had learned almost 100 different magic spells...", before lost on her trains of thoughts.
At the same moment, on Endeavor's Hero Agency...
Meanwhile, Endeavour also was listen the same news channel, and also becomes frightened by the revelation, "What?! 30000ºC ?! He also mimicries my Hell Flames quirk ?! And can also cast demons from Hell ?!", just to scream, "The Yuuei already knows that was just brought the Son of Satan to a Hero School ?!", making every Hero from his agency dumbfounded!
Since Endeavour was assigned to make a promotion trip along the outskirts of Tokyo, he decide to take a trip along Orudera Town, just in case of trying to find that freak.
Brawling with Endeavor...
Izuku only decides to go out home after lunch, and also after a full hour of meditation, while reading the new Sakura's book, Fundamentals of Alchemy for Magic Casters, at a first sight.
Izuku could now activate the Dispel Bound more instinctively, and also could confirm that he can now absorb the nature spirits vitality using his intrinsic magic powers, enabling him to reduce the cool-down time for several magic spells, enabling him to learn vitality gathering spells during endurance battles.
Another gift bring by his magic teacher was a new magic wand, made with a metal alloy, along several crystals intended for helping the incantations, and also to aid the alchemy stuff.
When he walk around the streets, he couldn't ignore the frightened eyes of many citizens, and the fact that use his purple mage robe along the casual clothes also quickly denounce him.
Finally the young vampire found a wooden bench at a small park, and seat them, while opens the Alchemy book to read more thoughtfully. At least, he could relax some moments at a public space, until a muscular person with flames emanating from his suit decides to make a fray against him.
Endeavour itself couldn't believe it, since it quickly found the green-hair vampire just at a public park, like it was a normal citizen!
For some odd reason, something from Endeavour's mind snaps, and launches a vicious flamethrower attack against the vampire. Izuku reacts and casts the Witcher Sign Quen at Level 4, Quen Shield Discharge, that aids to fill the gaps that the more generic magic barrier spell Display Bound could not absorb at full efficiency. The Geralt's magic also reflect partially the fire created by the pyrokinetic quirk user against Endeavour himself.
Just ten seconds of fighting between the Pro Hero and the young mage was needed to every citizen, including some old Junior High School classmate of the same Izuku's class, screaming, "What's Endeavour doing ?!", while a distress signal was sent to the police and eventually the nearest Hero Agency.
"I'm will become the Number One Hero!", said the lost-minded Pro Hero, just to witness the mage flying, "Wah-ko!… I'm summoning the Flight's Mage from the Mountain Wind!… CELESTIAL FLIGHT RAVEN!", to escape from the flames that ignited around the park.
A group of young Heroes arrive just to witness the worst case scenario possible, one of the most strongest Pro Heroes acting like a mad man, against a young boy that flies, "What the hell is happening ?!", while the frightened citizens explains, "It's Endeavor who suddenly attacks that freak that was also the winner of the Yuuei's Sports Festival, the so called sorcerer!", making the Pro Heroes eyes widen, and their capabilities to react frozen.
"Your Satanic scum! Your mass murderer!", screams Endeavour, "My son don't deserves to be humiliated like this! It should be the absolute winner! It should surpass All Might!", making Izuku annoyed and perplexed, "What the hell… ?!"
Izuku quickly try to make a viable plan to force Endeavour recover his rationality, or knock him out, since killing him would be terrible wrong to do such a thing.
The enraged Pro Hero launch a wave of fire bolts against Izuku, and this signals him to counteract quickly, "Tia... Tio... Rain... Hellish Rainfall of Fire!... GUNS'N-ROSES!", creating a ring of fire that almost entrap the crazy man.
The fire spell was just casted by Izuku was a decoy to use the Level 4 Witcher Sign Magic Trap Yrden, also known as Supercharged Glyphs, enabling him to increase the powers of all Witcher Signs that Izuku controls. This also reduces the powers emanated by the Endeavour's quirk.
Endeavour fells a sudden fear that shivers his spine once notice the sudden loss of the flames destructive power, and stalls enough seconds to Izuku cast another more powerful fire magic spell, "Nay… Ba… Mo… Aza… ", while Izuku forms a magic red ball that self-ignites, "Let's the Evil One excite his Heart of Flame!", and sent against the middle of the ring of fire, but not directly against Endeavor, since it would kill him, "HELLION!"
The heat release by Hellion manage to overcome the natural fire resistance of Endeavour itself, and this fact could means that Endeavour, a person with a strong fire-type quirk would be killed, ironically, by a fire magic spell. With such dangerous situation, Izuku should now act quickly to avoid such disaster.
The sudden panic from Endeavour, screaming for being burned by a heat capable to melt even the strongest material into lava, enables to Izuku cast the Skill Level Tree 4 of Witcher Sign Axii, called Domination, reducing the insane Endeavour as a mere puppet, even for about a minute.
"Finally, let's punch him against the nearest wall...", as Izuku dives against the adversary, "Ede!… Es!… Skin!… Great Priest of the Undead!...", and this spell enables to punch hard that Endeavour himself flies high, "Great to me your wrath, and punch the Enemy!...", at high speed against a concrete wall, outside the fire disaster, "SKID ROW!".
"Endeavour was defeated, and unconsciousness!", scream a citizen, or even a stunned young Hero that couldn't make anything at all, except to aid the paramedics bring the wounded Hero to the ambulance.
But the fire was reaching dangerously inflammable material located on a row of trash bins, at the entrance of the small park reduced by a sea of flames, and a potential disaster.
Now the problem was the fire, and Izuku quickly yells to take action, "You can stay calm, since I will cast an ice magic spell, and it will be extremely strong… Please, do not try to approach the burning park!...", as some people around remembers that from the Sports Festival, he also controls ice.
Izuku begins to meditate, and then a magic formed magnetic field was created, "Lors!… Healy!… Grey!... Scole!... Billy!… May your Soul purify me!...", while many of current witness tries to remember when he spoke a similar incantation, "Hell King! In this powerful gathering of sovereign beings, I will bear the destructive ice storms!", while the temperature inside the magnetic trap falls at an alarming speed, "Let a new link unite me to the forces of snow and ice!", and a cryogenic vortex falls to the middle of the burning park, creating a freezing explosion at an atomic level destruction, reaching almost Absolute Zero, "Absolute Zero Annihilation!... TESTAMENT!", reducing everything to something like a diamond dust.
But casting strong ice spells was still too much costly in terms of vitality, and suffer cold burns from the cast ice magic spell. Also Izuku once dispel every active magic, he suddenly feels exhausted, much due to huge tool delivered for a full day of magic cast on the Yuuei's Sports Festival and beyond. Once Izuku appears to pretend that was fine, he makes a request, "Anyone can suggest a cafeteria nearby ?", just for every witness fells a strange relief, daring to ask where a vampire could find fresh stock blood to drink.
Unjustified acts...
Later on the same day, the media was frenzy about the strange and unjustified attack against a Yuuei Student, that also makes critical mass to the media dig inside the Todoroki family.
Even for the Principal Nedzu and All Might, they couldn't believe such story, "Why my rival would make such stupidity ?! It was so childish to compare ranks as the ones who was the most physical strong...", while Nedzu nods in agreement while sips his favorite tea, "And the worst at all, he simply attacks Midoriya without justification, just to be defeated..."
Nedzu thinks a little, "This is clearly a sign of mental illness, and this should be investigated quickly… Endeavour position and integrity will be shattered if we not react quickly."
"And Midoriya-shounen's hatred against humans will also recoil back, if we, as Heroes, don't help him to heal their psychological wounds.", All Might adds their own opinion.
Heroes Names...
Once the school restarts and everyone goes to their classrooms, the entire 1-A class drag their eyes on Izuku Midoriya, while Shouto Todoroki and Bakugou Katsuki was mildly stared from different reasons. Shouto was devastated, even he tries to hide his real emotions, and was almost a trembling corpse since he receive a phone call from the police about his father asinine actions.
Katsuki knew the whole situation, either by on-line media or by their old friends, but Izuku notices the shock on this face, albeit a little hidden relief that no one was killed.
Aizawa arrives quickly to the classroom, along Midnight, just to make an announcement:
"Good Morning… Everyone...", and makes a sad face, "As you ever known, Midoriya manage to make an insane feat… He puts Endeavour K.O. in less than 30 seconds...", just to Izuku receive a full class with wide eyes, "But the real problem is the terrible discovery that he suffer a mental illness, that drive him to make an inexcusable action...", while Aizawa fails to hide some sorrow, "That was to ATTACK without any given REASON, a fellow citizen, even a student from our High School, just for FOOLISH ideals of being the NUMBER ONE!", and Aizawa slams the table, and wails for each main word.
Many students was astonished, "Geezz! I'm never expecting that Aizawa-sensei could be so angry! The Endeavor's scandal will make an huge fuss over the Todoroki family dignity."
The entire class maintains an almost sepulchral silence, where the silence was only barely challenged by the painful cries from Todoroki. The whole situation was becoming dire, since it was expected to be the class that should prepare everyone for the Hero Internship, not a psychiatric session.
"What an huge scandal we meet...", said Midnight while strike his whip, "However… We should focus on the main topic!...", while Todoroki makes a resentful outlook, that was frightening almost his mates.
Aizawa recovers him normal self, even it was a little frail, "One of most important things that an Hero should do, while make his duty, is to hide their true identity...", and passes the announcement to the Midnight, "The rules are simple… Simple write down a viable nickname… However, it shouldn't infringe some moral rules, or even copyright claims… I was one of the best qualified person to choose alias… You have ten minutes to think… Begin!...", while strike her wimp.
For most classmates it was one of the most awkward moments of their lives, since they knew that a bad nickname cloud give a disastrous reputation, no matter their real feats.
Once the times up, the written cards was reviewed by Midnight, and even some of them was accepted, like the Uravity for Uraraka, "Well, it is the portmanteau of my quirk name and my own name...", with a smiling agreement from Midnight. Other was Eijiro, who propose the nickname Red Riot and was quickly accepted.
But another's requires a little work, like the Beautiful Blonde, for Aoyama, that was refused to be too childish or provocative.
Bakugou tries the explosive name of King of Exploding Kills, but it was rejected due to the inadequate name. Aizawa also dares, "It wasn't Midoriya's real name when casts several magic bomb spells that should deserve that nickname ?!", just to tease the vampire, "If you want a Black Sabbath right now, you are lucky...", making Aizawa shiver, where Midnight notice the strange frightened faces of all classmates when stare at the vampire.
Midnight blinks, "How destructive is the Black Sabbath, Midoriya-kun ?!", while asks innocently.
Izuku exhales and sighs, to give some suspense, "It like an atomic bomb, Midnight… Basically, it destroys a little town from the map, and produces a nuclear fission plasma, since the temperatures reaches over 100 to 1000 millions degrees, depending from my ability as caster...", making Midnight shocked, and drops their wimp, "And it is currently the most powerful magic spell I can use, and also the one that requires the most time to make a full cool-down… It take one month to recover all my magic vitality for a small one with a 10 kiloton yield, or a three months for a 30 to 40 kiloton yield, but I never push too the edge of limits...".
When the older vampire notices that Izuku was talking nineteen to the dozen, he intervenes, "Please Midoriya, you just cast one at the beginning of this semester, much due the heat of the chaos to destroy a villain plot that could destroy parts of this town, and you simply erase an entire training field of the map...", as Aizawa still shakes in terror when imagine the vision of a vampire that could made atomic bombs from magic.
Izuku sighs and said, "This means, if you compare to a classic Japanese Role Playing Game, that my MP, or Magic Points, are about 40 million...", receiving a full nodding of comprehension, "But in real life I cannot burn such high Magic in a single shot… That why I need to use a Ritual to enable such Limit Breaking Magic Spell...", just to receive scolding from Aizawa, "And a full day recover on Recovery Girl, not to mention the temporary loss of precision during several days, until your body and mind heals."
"Please... Can you keep shut, and shall resume the class man topic ?", orders Midnight,
The nicknames session resumes without much interruptions, until reaching the Izuku position, where simply displays, "And my Hero Name will be, without any debut… Dark Schneider!", making everyone surprised.
"Why the name of one of your ancestors, Izuku ?!", Aizawa intervenes, "You also could use the name White Wolf Witcher… Or Gwynbleidd", just to be cut by Izuku, "This name will be too strange, and also, from my four Grimoires I made contract, the most strongest in terms of powers and techniques, was the Dark Chaos of Destruction Mage, Dark Schneider!", and punch his fists against the thorax, "And I assume their legacy, whenever it could be used for good or bad reasons..."
Midnight couldn't argue about the choice, "It's an English and a German name mixed, but… I accept that..."
Once the session ends, leaving the Katsuki and Todoroki to choose their Hero Names later, since the first one still makes unreasonable names, and Todoroki was too uninspired to choose a name.
Aizawa also displays the number of Hero Agencies requests for each student, and also the most adequate proposals for each ones too.
Izuku makes a unpleasing mad look when appears that the SDF somehow make an agreement with Principal Nedzu to the vampire make the Hero Internship on the Military Heroic Department, "After all, I will going to make the Hero Internship Week on the SDF...", and it was only accepted in exchange to Yuuei send All Might as an interim tutor to watch the Army real motives.
Once everything settled, Aizawa dismisses the class, and everyone goes to apply the bureaucratic paperwork to do the Internship.
To be Continued...
Notes:
Basically it is a transition chapter to the first real canon divergence, the Hero Internship of Izuku will be on the Japanese Army.
Chapter 13: Welcome to the Wolf's Lair, Dark Schneider
Summary:
Izuku begins his First Hero Internship from Yuuei at the Japanese Ground Self Defence Forces (JGSDF), more precisely, the Special Forces Unit that is equivalent of the US Delta Force, where it will receive an intensive military training for a top-secret mission with the JGSDF, which details are unknown for him.
All Might was requested by the Yuuei to go together with Izuku, but once on the SDF, he was obligated to stay firm on the military barracks, with an entire platoon around him!
Notes:
(See the end of the chapter for notes.)
Chapter Text
Vampire Hunting Life...
On the eve of the Hero Internship for all Yuuei Students, specially the Dark Sorcerer Vampire Overlord, Dark Schneider, now the official Hero Title of Midoriya Izuku. For now, it was a time to make the homework before going to the school on the next morning, just before to be temporarily under the wing of All Might, while the vampire goes to the military.
A letter received earlier that day from Yuuei, reveal that Izuku will be scouted to the Special Forces Group of the Self Defence Forces at their Headquarters at Funabashi, prefecture of Chiba, not so far away from the Yuuei or the Orudera Town itself. It will be the five most longest days of his life, even he expecting to live several centuries, specially when he was driven to make a brief trip to the Japanese Army.
Izuku decides to take a night walking, since the whole excitation, and mood swing was driven him to take a night escapade. Since he was kind, and polite, he warns the mother previously about his intentions.
Inko was a little worried, since she knew the times when a vampire goes over the swinging mood, and the cure was not so nice, "It's better to came along with you...", making Izuku a little annoyed, but he accepted, "It's fine, after all, it is like those days of training...". He was referring when he was a little younger, was training his vampire tactics, along his mother. The main focus is how to catch a pray without making much fuss.
Even this vampire family had accessible stock blood, the urge to hunt humans was still not erased. Due to legal complications, all vampires should at least not drink too much blood, or would be hunted by the police or Pro Heroes as criminals.
Many vampires like to drink fresh human blood from the spot, like his ancestors make the same. More recently, some of them use as a disguise to take a role as Vigilantes, and attacks villainous prays, just to gain some approval of their goodwills by the overhaul majority of human population.
In fact it not takes so long to occur a minor issue on the local community, as both green haired vampires under the disguise of night, notice by the commotion of several citizens that a burglar was just stole a convenience store using his own quirk, while his partner hides at short distance just to get cover.
The Midoriyas quickly run at the alleys to intercept the two thieves, once they got the necessary information. It was just a low-graded villain, but at the darkness of night, it could be an excellent meal. And since Izuku and Inko had an excellent night vision, due to thier vampiric nature, it would be fairly easy to catch them on a blind spot.
The slowest burglar was quickly captured by Inko, who giver to her a swearword expression, "WTF are you, little ...", just before to Inko's fangs piercing the burglar's neck. It was quite a while when Inko don't catch a pray, but she always take attention to don't make a lethal wound, or bleeding the burglar to death.
Izuku uses a subtle seduction trap against the main thief, since he like to lure potential preys using his cuteness, "Nice night, isn't it ?!", just for the burglar becomes annoyed, "Just get your ass off my way, damn it!".
But the younger vampire slides and jumps at higher speeds, making impossible to the pray notice the sudden movement. When Izuku lands just behind the burglar's back, while use some of his Witcher Signs to aid the lure, the young adult thief barely could ever scream.
Quickly, the pray only fells the Izuku's fangs piercing on the neck of the thief, and couldn't scream or fight back, sense Izuku blocks him with their strong arms, giving to him little time to escape at all. From Izuku's perspective, it's now time to drink lots of blood.
While drinks, Izuku remembers the blood tastes of some of his Yuuei colleges, not only his childhood friend Katsuki, but also some new ones, like Kaminari. Either way, the current sample was not so good, but after all, blood is too precious to waste. Once he finishes drinking, just applies a string blow on the nape of the neck, leaving the poor burglar unconscious, and alive.
"And I recover the stolen goods to the righteous owner...", said Izuku, while runs randomly to the alleys.
Inko also finishes his meal, while likes to lick their lips, unlike his son that don't care too much to maintain a clean mouth and chin, unless he had too much traces of blood.
Once she tries to find her son, she almost screams when a young teenager with some kind of wings, and scales on his faces tries to punch, just in time for Inko falls to the ground, slide and deflect from the punch made by the ruffian.
Izuku notices quickly the trouble, at the same time when delivers the bag with the retrieved goods to a bewildered owner, and notice that his mother was in trouble. To get there fast, he decide to cast the Raven magic spell to fly, "Wah-ko… I pledge the Sacred Mountain's Wind Spirit to became my Flight's Mage!… CELESTIAL FLIGHT RAVEN!"
The police was almost arriving to the shop scene, as it tried to ask, "What's happened here ?!", while the owners was a little confused, "This young boy bring to me some goods that was stolen by some thieves...", and points to him, as simply flies to the darkness, "While uses his quirk to fly...".
The police officer blink with some stupefaction, "He can fly without wings ?!", while the shop employee also intervenes, "He said some weird stuff, while I notice a kind of air burst, and then… He takes off, once said… Reagen, Raven,… Whatever!..."
When the younger vampire notices his mother in trouble with another potential dangerous threat, Izuku snaps, and flows his magic powers to his right hand, while a mist of ember and ash forms about two meters ahead the strengthen right arm, "Cyco, Cyco, know your worth!", and the phantom sword begins to grow, and change shape to forms a black sphere with red globes swirling inside the sphere, "I granted your wills into a Ember flash of Ash and Wound!", and Izuku disperse the sphere directly to the enemy, specially the metal rods that he possess, "SUICIDAL TENDENCIES!"
The ruffian suffers an excruciating pain when the black miasma falls directly to him, rooting his skin, burning his clothes, or rust the metal pieces or rods, "WTF is that… Argh!… My eyes...".
Inko also screams due to the black mist poisonous effect on the struggling ruffian, before Izuku catches her and flies with her, "You can fly ?!".
Izuku waits a little to fly away, while nods and escapes, before answers, "Some days ago, once I got better affinity with Wind Magic Elementals, I could learn the Raven flying spell...", but his mother asks, "What kind of poison mist you casts against him, Izuku ?!", just to receive a sighed answer, once they land safely on a covert alley, "Suicidal Tendencies… It's a simple spell that cause havoc, rotting and disease for each victim...", just to receive a worried nod, "Honestly… Izuku..."
Also Izuku remembers, "However I use the Raven for the first time during the last phase of the Yuuei Sports Festival, or my mom miss it !?", just to feel ashamed as his mother turns her face, like she was forgot something, "I saw your duels tenaciously, but while I clean my tears, I could miss much details...", just for Izuku sighs, "Honestly..."
And the whole situation heats up a little more, once they snaps to scan the surroundings of the new spot, just for the Midoriyas sightseen more three ruffians. At a first sight, they are apparently more weaken than the last one that force Izuku cast magic, "How are those three, smiling at us ?!".
Without warning, the heavier of three delivers a strong punch against Izuku's abdomen, since due to the surprise, Izuku forgot to use the adequate Witcher Signs to reduce physical damage. In order to counter the prejudice, the young green-haired vampire jumps against the bigger one, slamming the body to the brink wall. Before the ruffian could ever react, the young vampire sucks his blood once Izuku's fangs pierces the neck's flesh.
Inko also jumps to catch and bites the second one, while the third simply screams, and becomes paralyzed by own fear, "Mercy!… I don't want to die!"
Izuku and Inko, once they quickly release the two former prays unconsciousness, simply they bite at the opposite sites of the third ruffian's neck, and drank much blood as safely possible. The last poor criminal simple fades out by the shock and panic, "Nice blood...", said Izuku with all bloodied fangs maximally elongated.
"Izuku...", said his mother, when notices screaming and lust for destruction from someone that was cause a great havoc. All doubts would gone, once in less than ten seconds, the damaged villain that appears to be familiar appears. The frenzy young man was bleeding from several sites, had his leather clothes partially burned, and suffer from hallucinations.
Those strongest villain, and also the same damaged by the Suicidal Tendencies magic spell, appears suddenly and runs against Midoriya and Inko, in a pure rage, "Who you dare...".
The Izuku's magic was causing poisoning and several hallucinations, causing him to punch and kick against the walls and trash dumpsters that the two real targets. Once he appears to had several opens, the two vampires swiftly advances and bites the neck, while Izuku casts the Witcher Sign Axii to control the enraged pray.
Izuku exhales once drank about a litre of blood, and holds a strong grip that holds the crazy villain locked on the dirty alley. Once Izuku stops drinking, he feels his head too heavy, a sign that drank an huge quantity on a short period of time. His mother was not so hungry at all, but she notices that his son may had drunk more than three litres from the four prays, about the average dairy consumption of a teenager vampire, albeit she share two of them. Drinking too much blood on a short period of time could cause health problems, so she bites her son's neck to retrieve some blood in order to recover the health balance.
"I think it's better to go home, tomorrow you will start the Hero Internship...", said the mother.
"Alright!", Izuku recovers his normal self, "Let's go...", and they walk away at a normal pace.
The police and some Vigilantes quickly notice the abnormal number of unconscious ruffians, where the main feature was the bite marks, a signal that some vampire was lurking around.
"Oh… Boy!...", said one trustful Vigilante by the police's eyes, who was working as a private security guard, "A bunch of criminals had a bad moment with a vampire!", just to watch the police officer freeze with blank sweat, "Vampire… Like the new abnormal Hero Student that won the Sports Festival ?!", just to give a mad eyes from the muscular Vigilante, "Probably a Vigilante like us, but using own privileges to satisfy their bloodthirsty is not morally correct… After all, they can buy stock blood safely… Just why they hunt down normal people ?!"
The officer just signal to end the dizzy conversation, as they notice two person that appears to be a mother and a teenager son walking to the main street. The only oddly thing was the constant brushing with a napkin along their months and chins, but that don't have any food packages along him to justify the act. Since the police just talk about vampires, he couldn't think that the two green-haired people was the vampires that was just attack six low-profile criminals, and drank a lots of blood, but without killing them.
Next day, at Yuuei…
Aizawa stare at all 20 students, before gives an announcement, "Today, and along five days, it begins the First Hero Internship, a time to give a first-order real word experience at Heroics...", while points to Izuku, "And hopefully, without villains burned, cities razed to the ground, or the citizens bitten to suck the blood...", making Izuku annoyed,while some of his colleges frightened, "Specially, when I read from today's news, that the police found some criminals with vampire bite marks… At a shorter distance around your house… Midoriya...", just to Izuku feels blushed, while he whistle to divert, "And… so… ?!".
Aizawa slams the Izuku's desk, "Your mother don't know that is not very morally acceptable for a vampire hunting humans, even they are the scum of society, just to fulfill their hunger ?!", Izuku drops his fangs, while corrects, "She may known, but she also participate on yesterday's hunting...", just to fell a chilling frightening…
"Ha, ha, ha!...", Katsuki laughs, "Deku was hunting villains ?!", while tries to poke fun, "What's next ?!", just to tease the younger vampire.
"May be… It was a desire to drink human blood ?!...", Uraraka tries to justify the act.
"Honestly!", Aizawa sighs, "It's irresponsible acts like that, we always pay by targeting us as the prime reason for all maleficences of human society!", as the classroom teacher sometimes had to take the role of Izuku's father vampire, as he grown without one.
Once all classmates becomes calm again, Aizawa could resume the brief lecture, enumerating all chosen places for each student for their internship. Some of them are obvious, like the Todoroki option to go to their father's agency, even Endeavour was suspended due to their acts. Katsuki happens to go to the Best Jeanist Hero Agency, while Tsuyu ends on a special police unit, dedicated for the maritime defence, since it had some Pro Hero Units.
And the list goes down until reaches Izuku, while Aizawa makes a deaf tone announcement, "And Midoriya Izuku, under the patronage of All Might, goes to Special Forces Group Headquarters of the Self Defence Forces, located on Funabashi...", without making a worried face, "Basically it will go the Japanese equivalent of the United States Delta Force...".
At the precise moment of the Izuku's announcement, the classroom was almost stormed once a group of military soldiers loaded with heavy machine-guns and launch-grenades appears inside the 1-A classroom door.
Everyone on the fated classroom swallow hard and dry, and even All Might was no exception.
The military with highest rank, a lieutenant-colonel, intervenes, "Good morning, honorable 1-A class of the Yuuei High School...", and makes a military salute, "I'm the lieutenant-colonel Hashido Ren...", making everyone frightened due to his strong pose, "I'm here to bring the so-called mage Midoriya Izuku to our Headquarters, where it will make their Heroic Internship, or whatever called it today, as a guest of my Special Forces Unit, the Cerberus Strike Force!".
The cold and sepulchral silence was only broken when the military officer points to All Might, and almost fail to avoid spit to him, due to some grudge against him, "While this puny Americanized Hero, will also together with us...", making All Might a little angry, since he never liked the arrogant attitude of the SDF, when the Heroes menace to break the monopoly of the SDF over the sovereignty or law enforcement.
Izuku brings his heavy luggage, including his two Hero Costumes together once the SDF staff orders to do so, "Quickly, Midoriya… On the next five days, you will treat me, or any military staff ranks, as Yes, Sir...", and makes a dark grin, "Understand ?!", just for Izuku mimics the military salute, and said, "Yes, Sir! Rookie Guest Midoriya Izuku at your service! Sir!".
The reflexive mannerism gives both to the military man a disdainful smile, "Excellent! You had the natural behavior to be a military man!", while makes a sarcastic remark, "After all, if you was really truly wise, you would made an application to the National Military Academy, not a weak playground called Yuuei Hero School… What a joke!".
Aizawa, All Might and everyone from the 1-A classroom fell so infuriated to the last remark, that tried to made an uproar against such arrogant person, while Katsuki frowns, "For God sake… Why Deku was ended on the military ?!"
"Military brass are so damn arrogant!", Kirishima makes a muted yell, "I hope Midoriya will teach them a lesson!", once all military staff goes off the classroom.
Izuku quickly follow the military platoon until he and All Might was forced, under military terms, to enter an heavy blinded bus, where also two armored vehicles and five military jeeps would tail the military convoy.
Once Izuku seat on that bus, where the interior was almost empty to form a kind of mobile auditorium, the lieutenant-colonel Ren could makes a brief welcome speech, but some advisors was requested to make a formal speech:
"Good Morning, members and guests of the Special Forces branch of JGSDF, we welcome the Special Guest vryko-warlock Midoriya Izuku to make their Hero Internship on our HQ...", while makes a bow to their superior, "As requested by our protocols, only our honorable Hashido-nisa-dono will make a welcome formal speech...".
The top military man was full of himself, and only makes a very short speech, "Very well, if you enlisted at beginning on military, you would be a Sergent very fast, but since isn't the case, I will treat you as a Cadet...", while changes is opinion, "No… I will treat you as a worm, a pity worm...", just to receive a enraged face from Izuku.
"Once we arrive at our installations, I will bring you at our classified Cerberus Unit, where you will receive a full three days of Hell training, to learn about how real men deserve, and can only be really called Heroes...", while Hashido-dono quickly fixate his demon looked face against Izuku's eyes, "And the last two days, you can be specially requested to do a classified mission against real villains, if you manage to get the minimum classification...", and just speak directly to the right ear, "Otherwise, you will take two days of laundry, or similar stuff...", just for Izuku answers, "Sir, Yes Sir!...", but he notice the teeth grit and mad aura from All Might.
Finally, the rest of a long hour trip goes smoothly without speak another word.
Funabashi JGSDF HQ – Cerberus Strike Force Unit
The military road train arrives quickly to the entrance gates of the Japan Ground Self Defense Force Headquarters (JGSDF HQ), located at short distance from Funabashi. The bus had to pass two check-points, where each step was menacing to view, due to the constant helicopter flying, and the war-grade weaponry that intimidates even the most strongest willed person.
Finally, the bus goes more two full kilometers forward, this time at a slow speed and tailed by two heavy tanks, until reaches a third check-point, where that's was located the barracks of the Cerberus Strike Force, actually the 3rd Special Forces Squadron Unit name.
At least the bus finally stops to give Izuku and All Might the authorization to leave the vehicle, and march at the designated guest room.
All Might sighs, when saw the vision of several military men, where some displays quirks, others not, carrying weapons and make a strange disdain to All Might and Izuku.
It was almost an hostile environment for a civilian Hero, since much of them never had a positive acceptance of the whole Heroic Industry, specially at the law enforcement.
Once Izuku could reach the room, and starts to unpack their things, a soldier replies a order from the superiors, "Midoriya-kun… Prepare your military uniform, and your main weapons, for an initial test!", making Izuku and All Might worried, "You have ten minutes!", and exit the room, while close and lock the door, that was guarded by two elite soldiers loaded with machine-guns.
Izuku dress the military uniform that he found on the top of his spartan bed, while dress his own light version of his costume's armor, and place the throwing knives belt along the torso, to give a more bad boy vision, while saw on the mirror the final result, "Izuku Midoriya, a vampire on the SDF!...", and sighs just to his own comment.
All Might know that this Internship was well played by the national army, and against his real will, since Izuku really wants to go to a normal Hero Agency, to learn how the Pro Heroes helps to maintain the law and order. Instead, he never deserved to be thrown inside this bad place, filled with toxic ideals, that was some Army Units, living if Japan would go tomorrow to a war. Due to strong patronage, the Army still refuses to accept a more dynamic role on the actual quirk society.
The same soldier comes a few minutes later, and orders, "You will together with me, while the infamous All Might will stay here, locked on the room!", just to receive a stunning answer, "Why ?! I was mandated by Yuuei to take care of Midoriya!", just to receive a denied answer, "On my castle… My rules!", making All Might angry, and waits the bare minimum to release his frustration and anger by kicking the metallic wardrobe with rage.
Izuku was bring to a huge training field, filled with barbed wire, mines, automatic sentry guns, and other deadly stuff. A military men, probably an instructor, intervenes and speaks the rules of this test.
"Very well, very well, Midoriya-kun...", the instructor speaks, "Using your special techniques, as long they don't case too much destruction, follow the path as instructed by this sheet...", as Izuku notices the number of obstacles and check-points, "And you shall finish this… In less than six minutes!...", making Izuku a little bewildered, "Finishing this 20-stage course in less than 6 minutes are insane!", but receive a menacing aura, "This is not a pesky Heroic Course, this is the top-elite soldier course… If you fail this test, then you fail the entire Internship!"
Izuku was truly stunned due to extreme arrogance and bloodlust drawn by his instructor, or any soldier. After all it was the top elite of any modern Army, and the Special Forces was probably the most extreme in terms of physical requirements, and even with the emergence of quirks, it wasn't given additional relief on the hardness of the Military Course.
The instructor also warns, "So you are a powerful mage, but quirkless… However, you cannot use any magic spell, except the ones that was really necessary to follow the path, or disable the obstacles… This means, only very short magic spell effects are allowed, otherwise the entire test are considered null and void, and you simply are mandated to go to the kitchen peeling potatoes and baking rice for the rest of week!", and makes a frightening look, "It's clear ?!", just to ear the expected answer, "Yes Sir, Sir!", said Izuku, while makes a formal military salute.
"Excellent!", grins the mad instructor, while guide Izuku to the starting line.
Izuku exhales and waits for the initial signal, when starts to run at a full sprint speed, as it almost reaches the 300 km/h sprint run using his own muscular force, until reaches the mine representing the 1st checkpoint mark, just to explode previously with a signature magic spell, "DAMNED!", while blocks the blast with the Witcher Sign Quen, and jumps several meters forward.
The next five checkpoints was gradually hellish, due to the traps, pits, and electrifying barbed wires, leaving Izuku no option, but use his Signature Spells from Dark Schneider ones, as long had very short range, to destroy the traps and go forward.
The first ten check-points was done in about three minutes and half, leaving still an hard course to go. Now Izuku was forced to use the Elemental Magic Arrows to blast part of the traps, "Vocat spiritum sanctum natura… I gather 20 Ice Elemental Arrows… 25 Electric Elemental Arrows… Great Elemental Magic Crossbow!… Mitterent ad scopum!", and a swarm of supersonic blobs flies and destroy swarms of targets, forming an ice flower or a burning bolt, according of their original element, and Izuku could run at almost full speed without much problems.
The next targets also requires a combination of several magic techniques, and also helps him to recover the wasted time. Even with the more mastery of his magic powers, Izuku only manages to passes the 19th checkpoint when he had less than ten seconds to times up.
"And it is a full 600 meters run along a mine field...", just to launch another wave of Elemental Magic Arrows to the air, enabling him to propel himself, using the Witcher Sign Aard at Level 4, the Aard Shock Wave, with the Witch Sign Heliotrope, at backwards, "Just to mimic the way that Kacchan uses this explosions to go forward...", while the magic arrows blasts the minefield and adds additional propulsion force. The combined force gives an insane slingshot at over 400 km/h, just to pass the last checkpoint at the last second.
Izuku was forced to use the Aard again to force a full stop, before lands on the finish line, where the instructor give a strange smirk, "Congratulations! You manage to complete the test at the requested time!", and before Izuku could answer, "Now! Let's starts the real training!...", while Izuku simple answers, "Yes Sir, Sir!..."
After some seconds walking, the instructor warns, "But first… We all going to the mess… Since you pass the test, you are authorized to got acquittance of your temporary colleges… The members of the Cerberus Strike Force Unit!", while gives a heinous smile to Izuku.
Izuku sighs and thinks how dangerous will be their internship, specially at a special military unit that several of their actions are strictly classified!
To be Continued...
Notes:
Finally Izuku goes to SDF! And also he could goes hunting villains on the eve, just to fulfil his vampire desires to drink human blood from preys, a demeanour also shared by his own mother, just to receive a scolding from Aizawa.
The entire 1-A class was absolutely upset and angry since the Yuuei's Principal was unable to resist the assault from the Japanese Army to force one civilian student to make an internship on a military institution.
Chapter 14: An Unwilling Visit from Hell
Summary:
On this chapter are revealed the true enemy, The God of Destruction Anthrax, which replaces the canonical All for One by an beyond overpowered version, when he is also a vampire, an alchemist, a powerful mage, and a quirk user to a point that can transmute quirks or create artificial ones.
Anthrax is the leader of the Twelve Wise Men of Europa, and the Supreme-Commander of the Millennium Army.
Finally, Izuku are presented by a group of vampires, with characters from Hellsing (Pip Bernadotte), One Punch Man (Silver Fang), Berserk (Serpico), Witcher (Regis), Bastard (Gara), asking to join the group Wild Geese, even it takes 100 years, a brief spark on a long life of a vampire.
Chapter Text
Wild Geese...
Once Izuku's instructor and himself arrives on the mess, he barely could imagine the kind of reception, or the lack off, that he could face. And since everyone was so cold, and arrogant, he expected more of the same thing.
Izuku, when tries to step into the reception hall, faces a suddenly movement freezing, "WTF?!", while tries to turn his head to understand the cause.
The floor around Izuku was evolved by a magic seal, about three meters in diameter, mirrored on the ceiling. Then a middle-aged men with a grayish-brown jacket, same colored pattern trousers, black military boots, holds a Colt revolver on his stretched right arm and points to Izuku's head, while smokes with an assassin cold eyes:
"So you're the young supernatural mage that makes an huge commotion on the town circus ?!", just to Izuku demands answers, "Bastard! Can you explain...", just to be thrown by a swift thrown to the ground, "You may have huge magic powers, but if you do not pay attention on your surroundings, it won't make a real difference at all...", while the sealing magic was dispelled.
"Before you make silly questions… I'm an old mercenary, before join the SDF… The old leader of the Wild Geese… Pip Bernadotte...", just to give a smirk, "Like you… I'm also a vampire, a kind of mage, and also a quirk user…".
Such last remark makes Izuku's eyes widen, "Like my Yuuei's teacher...", just to receive a string blow from Pip, that smash Izuku against the cracking floor tiles:
"I notice that you are capable to create several kinds of magic barriers, that could block my own physical strength… However… You are not invulnerable to anything..."
"Damn it!", it was more skillful than Aizawa, specially the capability to exploit flaws at a lightning speed.
"And you shouldn't think that you won the Millennium Army just due to the fact you applied some high yield magic spells… That's just a phony decoy...", making Izuku remember the infamous USJ incident.
" Why you said that… Even I think that was something suspicious..."
" Technically, I can't said too early…", Pip turns his head to foresee any nearby menacing curious person, "In reality, the Nazi army, the villains and other stuff, was just cannon fodder for the Millennium Army check if the new Dark Schneider successor was really arrived… A test, as you can said!"
"So far, that's nothing new..."
"For our Intel HQ, we discovery that the real ringleader of that stuff is an insane abomination..."
" A vampire like me ?!", just to sigh hard, "It appears that vampires was always the main target to be the scapegoat of all Humanity crisis and problems...", just to remember the last Aizawa's scolding.
"This men is only known by some sources by Anthrax, or by is own self-made royal-like title One Demon God for All Destruction, Anthrax, the Great", making Izuku annoyed, "Often shorten to One Power for All Greatness, while maintains some ambiguities..."
"So why he's so dangerous ?!"
"This monster had several quirks, which is genetic inherited superpowers that current humans have... And some recent vampires alike, such me...", while Pip pauses to light one more cigarette, "And it's very probable that such monster was crafted by genetic engineering the most, if not all, the quirks he control", while Izuku remembers the painful dialog with Todoroki about his quirk, "While also had a high proficiency with alchemy and magic, leading to rumors that even he is capable to make magic enhancement quirks, or fuse quirks with magic on-fly...", making even Izuku in shock.
"If true, Anthrax would be ever more powerful than me!"
"And also some high technology in the middle… Making him the most terrible threat of all Mankind...", the older former mercenary pauses his speech while notices loud leather steps coming to them, "Later I talk more… However, him are also the the main leader of the Twelve Wise Men of Europa...", ending with a muted whistle to force Izuku to not open his mouth.
Pip Bernadotte quickly make the military salute when faced the commander of the garrison, along his own mates. Izuku fells an intense and crushing pressure aura emanating from all four strong soldiers, each one with their faces covered by a kind of camouflage mask, where their intimidating presence may means that each one had capabilities comparable to Izuku himself.
The commander gives a strong glare against Izuku, who simply declares, "You are the one who blows the Circus ?", as Izuku remembers the derogatory term that Pip said about the Sports Festival, "Yes Sir... yes!", Izuku makes the military salute, just to avoid more teasing.
"As you notice… I'm the commander of this garrison… Commander Hideki Tojo… And I will give you a mission… You will train with the Wild Geese to be ready to a test in the next 48 hours...", making Izuku swallow hard, "After all, of all Cerberus Special Units, I think that those one would be the best option..."
"And before you think again...", Tojo turns his head to Pip, "It's better to not disclose much information about Anthrax, unless it will serve as a true motivation to Midoriya achieve their Internship..."
The older smoking vampire gives an annoyed glare, before point to his loyal mates, "And they are...", said Pip before he's been interrupted by one of this soldiers, dropping the mask.
Then Izuku could witness the first Pip's comrade, a strong and blond men that introduces by own initiative, "I'm the right hook of my captain… Serpico.", just to receive a eye's glare from Pip, "Not try to interrupt me!"
"By the way...", said another member, when an alarm fires up, "WTF is that ?!", making Hideki perplexed when said that.
Both humans and non-humans stare due to this strange situation, as Izuku pokes, "When start my classes on Yuuei High School, I was presented by an invasion by an assassin ninja… during the lunch break!", just to get all of them get acknowledge of the strange deja-vu feeling.
Unfortunately for Izuku, his almost-clairvoyance instincts always make right to happen, since it notice a sudden shake from the guest house that he and All Might stays during the Internship.
"It appears that your instincts never fail on crucial times like this… right ?!", Pip fixes his piercing eyes against Izuku.
And the last doubt ceases to exists when a security officer, actually a regular soldier on the duty, appears and delivers the bad news, "Emergency! Intruders on Bloc A!"
The alarm and further announcement makes Pip, Hideki and further ones to shiver and becomes panicked, "An intrusion right now ?!", while Hideki orders, "We can make the introductions later… Both of you… Follow me!", and both replied, "Our orders are acknowledged, Sir!"
Skull Knight...
Izuku notices the absurd speed that Pip's mates runs to reach the affected building, leaving behind the human commander. Only himself knew that he can run as faster of Pip, leaving to him wonder if both are like him, since except the small blond men, others still hold his cloaks to hide their faces.
It was about an entire kilometer from the mess to his lodging barracks, and when Izuku clear half of the remaining distance, notice that two of the clocked soldiers are leaving behind. "Don't mean that really are...", said silently.
After two minutes of dashing, half of the Wild Geese group and Izuku arrived to the affected area, just to witness the disaster. The security and medical teams was caring the evacuation of the site.
"What the hell is going on here ?!", ask Pip to a confused looking low-ranked soldier.
"I don't know much details… Sir… But appears that All Might was trapped inside!", just to be pushed, while orders his loyal team to storm the entrance doors.
Izuku turn back and notices that Hideki was barely dash halfway to the target site, even he recognize that had a very good physical shape, "After all it's the Army!", even quirkly or quirkless!
Once Izuku and the others reaches that should be his restroom, it was a battlefield, with all furniture torn apart. At the precise moment, the most shocking discovery was that All Might body was frozen with the vision of an heavy knight, where the interior appear to be only dark energy, and a blazing skeleton, since they saw a demonic looking skull with white flashing globes on the place of eyes.
"Very interesting… The most so-called powerful civilian Pro Hero of Japan...", said the walking dead menacing demon, "The owner of One Punch Man quirk, right ?!"
"Who are you ?!", All Might dare to ask, once recover part of his rationality.
"Oh… Sorry!", and notice the arrival of more people, once they open the room's door, "And also you… my enemy guest… My name's Skull Knight… The third-in-position of the Twelve Wise Men of Europa !"
All Might eyes widen, "Twelve Wise Men of Europa ?!"
Skull Knight makes a menacing cold look, "I was ordered by Sensei Anthrax to spy All Might and the new Dark Schneider mage..."
The words spoken by this undead menacing creature makes everyone frozen by fear, "This means that Anthrax-sensei, or whatever are called, already knows our next moves!", Pip mumbles to himself, while Hideki also listen the main keywords since he arrived on that moment, "First of all, how you manage to get here ?!", and Hideki yells to Skull Knight.
"My own supernatural powers can easily create links around different realms and realities!", spoke Skull Knight, "Like a truly alchemist and mage can make it happen!...", said while raise his demon sword, with a curve shaped and dented blade, filled with open widen dozen of dread eyes.
"Teleportation magic ?! Or a warp-type quirk like the one I saw on the USJ incident ?!", Izuku screams in pure amusement, just to be scolded by Pip.
"You should not yell at any circumstances! Many enemies like to follow screaming rats to apply countermeasures!"
"Hunpf!", Skull Knight resumes his offensive position, "Even you are a truly ancient mage successor, without the modern quirks, you cannot admire the enemy without planning the battle!"
Izuku quickly activates the Witcher Sign Yrden while enhances his Dispel Bound, as Skull Knight delivers a diagonal shape blade uppercut against the green haired vampired.
"Argh!", scream Izuku when his body and bones shakes violently due to the enemy's sword impact against the magic barriers.
"That's all ?!", Skull Knight grins with an unemotional voice tone, "You're too naive to think that magic barriers are absolute defences!", and makes a sudden stroke with the blade, blasting Izuku against the wardrobe, breaking in large chunks of wood and metal.
"Izuku-shounen!", screams All Might in total shock, "What a terrible power!", just for the empowering quirk Hero charges is own muscles and tries to deliver a punch, "Delaware SMASH!...", just to be blocked by a layer of three magic barriers cast by the unarmed arm of Skull Knight, "Impossible!"
Skull Knight then delivers a punch that send All Might straight out the room by the opened door, just to fall against Pip, who also helps to reduce the impact, "Are you alright ?!"
"What a shame...", All Might curses to himself, "I'm the Top Pro Hero against human villains, but useless against supernatural ones! Damn it!"
Pip gives a dry and cold glare, "That's why I requested to my superior to you never play any fuss on my castle!"
All Might couldn't argue against him, "So he's one of leaders of this Wasp's Nest ?!", while thought strictly to himself.
Quickly the blond soldier who already give his name to Izuku, Serpico, and a more muscular soldier who grabs a samurai sword from his scabbard jumps straight to face the demon, and helps Izuku to get out away.
"Gara", said Serpico to guide his partner, "I will help the young vampire…"
The strong men with a samurai sword, Gara, smiles and strike against Skull Knight, who also blocks the attack by his own magic powers.
"More strongmen, huh ?!", Skull Knight moves to face Gara, "I have business with the immortal boy...", while raise the sword, "Get out!", yells Gara.
"But your sword are quite unusual...", Skull Knight remarks when hold and blocks mutually the swords.
"It's my Demon Sword Murasame!", grins Gara, "And my faithful partner, even after the Death!"
"What's an insane cult!", the demon try to lecture the ninja master, "That's I never understand the humans, or even the undeads… like you!", prompting Gara to step back, and strike again.
"MAJIN-KEN!", Gara slashes his sword Murasame against the enemy's skull, releasing a powerful blasting wave.
Skull Knight suffered minor damages due to the alchemical attack delivered by Gara's sword Murasame, given him a prompted response, "Bastard! You may have some basic knowledge of alchemy, but it's the best you can make!", before Skull Knight launches several icicles against Gara.
"Challenge accepted!", as Gara swiftly move his sword to deflect all the spears at inhuman speeds.
"It appear that I need to made more serious about!", the demon increases his powers output.
Meanwhile, Serpico helps Izuku to stand up and flee, however Izuku want to help everyone first, "You two are great… But leave it for me...".
Skull Knight turns his head to face the challenging vampire, is true adversary, "Attack me with all you had!"
Izuku decide to cast a powerful fire magic spell to try settle his apparent superiority, "Brain… Brain… Dead!...", while a powerful aura irrupts and opens a portal from Hell, releasing hotter flames, "Obey your blood oath and come forth from the Land of Abaddon!", while the flames quickly covers Izuku, except on the nearest magic shield domain, "Liberates the Gehenna's Fire that incinerate at all it touches!", releasing a inferno of heat and flames reaching over hundred thousand degrees Kelvin, "Give the Evil Blaze of Burning to destroy and burn everything at will!", while Izuku jumps and punches with all magic energy against Skull Knight, "EXODUS!"
It was followed by an insane explosion that almost blasts the entire room, opening a hole on the ceiling, and melts the remains of the furniture into lava and ashes. It appears that Izuku delivers huge damage, but for some odd reason once the dust settles, Skull Knight gives a muted laugh, since it suffered minor scratches, "Not bad… Not bad… This spell ends many mortals swiftly… But you are facing a terrible demon, and such magic spell are clearly insufficient to lacerate, and beyond to ever defeat me...", making Izuku dumbstruck.
Before Izuku could ever think, more two soldiers appears, while one appears to be a old men, just for Izuku spills, "Why such elder is here ?!", and another was another even older, and almost bald, but also a rude menacing soldier.
"Why I always not been invited to the party ?!", said the older martial arts expert.
"Be quiet… Silver Fang… Your bad humor is always a bad taste...", spoke the older bald while notices the room almost reduced to a black charcoal, "There's been a barbecue here ?!"
"And your bad humor is also very annoying… Regis Terzieff-Godefroy!", the older replies.
"More freaks to the main recipe...", Skull Knight was annoyed.
Izuku decide to blast the path to help him and Serpico escape, "DAMNED!", just to be targeted by Silver Fang remark, "Oh! A mage on the party!", while both the Wild Geese members shows their sharp fangs, making Izuku astonished.
"That's right!", said Pip, "The Wild Geese Special Unit are composed by strong vampires!"
Izuku couldn't making other reaction, but red blushing his freckled cheeks, "That's the real reason that the SDF wants me ?! To join a freaking All-Vampire Death Squadron ?!"
"I'm the real culprit!", Pip pokes fun, "But I can request my team to protect you on the Yuuei!"
Izuku glares furiously, "I never wanted such insane request!", just to be scolded back, "Don't worry about… You can take 100 or 200 years before joins us...", said Pip, "I'm waiting until there!"
"Your great lifespan could make such trickery...", Izuku could ever curse the destiny of he being a vampire.
The whole meaningless conversation aids all together to flee the destroyed site, where even Skull Knight dares to strike again, "You are to provocative and human-friendly for a bunch of retarded vampires!", and strikes with his sword to launch another strike of pressure waves with great destructive powers, "And you thought that you can escape me ?!"
From everyone, Silver Fang surprise even Izuku with their powers, "Ryuusui Gansai-ken!", while the elder use his swift movements with his hands to counter the destructive power of Skull Knight's sword, after all the Silver Fangs technique, Water Steam Rock Smashing Fist even matches the All Might in terms of physical power.
Finally Regis steps in to deliver one of his Black Magic spells, "Beginne ... Die korrumpierten Seelen aus dem Heiligen Land ... Widerruft sie von Ewigkeit her! ...Dämonentor!", that creates a teleportation portal that sucks Skull Knight and sends to a random place on the other side of the Earth. Skull Knight still had the forces to speak, "I'm leaving for now… But I warning you...", for a dumbfounded group.
"It was too easy...", said Regis, "He had more than two seconds to plan an counter-attack, and it works more due for the suddenness, than a really plan..."
"This was more than enough proof that the Twelve Wise Men of Europa and their leader Anthrax are waiting… to strike...", Hideki makes a final remark.
"I think that there's no more need to hide the real mission for Izuku...", Pip intervenes.
"And you want to me join your group in all-assault against the Anthrax base, or something..."
"Of course not!… That's a job for an entire army to make an invasion like the Normandy on World War II!", making Izuku eyes widen.
"Why you are dragging Midoriya for such a cruel suicide mission ?!", All Might enrages, "He don't had any military training!"
"Your mission is to assault a small base that belong to the Millennium Army… located on a still-classified location… Where the my Wild Geese will team with you… And destroy the entire rogue base, and recover the maximum information possible… Specially the links between Anthrax and the Millennium Army..."
"That's still totally unreasonable!", Izuku yells.
"And before we begin our mission that should start in less than 60 hours… You will train with Silver Fang and Gara on the next 48 hours… Just in time to make a final test to check if you are strong enough to handle our five-minutes mission!...", Pip concludes, when torn his hat and walks away.
"You will be transferred to the Building B, due to the mess...", Hideki sighed, "I hope the local budget will pay the repairs..."
All Might never fell so underpowered on his entire life. His life begins when he could his simple strength quirk that enable to defeat many common villains with a single punch, hence the quirk's name, One Punch Man, but was too useless when his room was strike by a black miasma from nowhere, before a demon skeleton appears and menaces to kill him, just for decoy.
Endeavor was kidnapped ?!
Meanwhile, still unknown to All Might or even Izuku, due to the tight censorship on the Funabashi Basement, the entire Japan awakes on shock on the next day, that Endeavor, under house arrest, was kidnapped by the Millennium Army.
Pip Bernadotte couldn't make anything but make a glare smile, "That horde of Mongol bastards… They place an hostage straight on the same basement that I plan make a strike!"
But the censorship was only temporary, and will could give an extra motivation for Izuku join the mission, or place a Damocles Sword straight on their head.
To be Continued...
Chapter 15: The Eve of a Giant Storm
Summary:
The real plan was finally revealed.
The SDF only wanted Izuku to use his powerful magic to blow a military base held by the Millennium Army, currently on North Korean territory, who himself grab the power on that rogue nation. The Endeavor rescue is just an addition on a mission that Izuku fears that was destined to derail quickly, as the Anthrax proxies already warned the Millennium Army allies about the mission.
Izuku strategist skills, and his magic abilities could be needed to find an way out once the storm hits, and needs to plan an escape route, since there's no guaranty that the Pip Bernadotte plan will work as devised.
Chapter Text
Izuku's Guest Room on Funabashi HQ
It was the second day of Izuku's Internship on the Funabashi's Special Forces Headquarters. It was only seven of morning when an officer delivers an enigmatic newsletter:
"Mister Dark Schneider ?", he announces while makes a military salute.
"It's my Hero Name, or whatever...", said Izuku, a little annoyed, once it was just wake up a little time ago, "What's the news..."
"Your Captain", referring to Pip Bernadotte, "Was delivered some bad, very bad, and worst than bad news..."
Izuku was a little dumbstruck when ears the words, while thinks about what the hell was talking about, "Sorry ?!"
"I will straight to the point: First of all the good news… Your training with Gara and Bang will start as soon as possible, once..."
"Please… cut the crap out!", Izuku yells, and hisses, dropping the fangs.
"Understood… The bad news is… The famous Endeavor was kidnapped by the enemy!"
Izuku eyes wides open while thought about the fight with him some days ago, "WHAT ?!".
The entire room freezes, before Izuku delivers a mad voice while remembers the fact that his son was on the same class, "Their son was warned about this issue ?!"
"So far… Just watch the media, that already known much faster than I expected..."
All Might, who was sleeping on the same bunk bed, although Izuku sleeps a level higher, awakens when ears the bad news, "Endeavor was kidnapped ?!", wondering about what kind of villain could manage to make such a feat, unless they are a supernatural one.
"That's impossible !", All Might stands up, avoiding by little an injury when dodge the iron bar that holds the frame structure of the bunk bed, "How such strong men could ever been taken by a villain ?!"
The officer tries to calm down, "It was kidnapped by the enemy, probably the same as we expected... The main problem is our Intel judge that Endeavor will serve as an human shield on the same enemy base when the Wild Geese wants to strike!"
Izuku quickly understands, "Oh… Great! The Millennium Army, or Anthrax, or whatever Hitler's metathesis lurking around already knows our plans !", as he slams against the davenport, "And now my hellish internship will be a one-way trip straight to the Hell, just to kill everything, except the enemy itself!"
Before the frightened office could ever reply, Pip arrive personally, just to avoid an impeding trouble:
"I never wanted to disclose so early, but...", as he fells a strong grip against his neck, delivered by Izuku's right arm.
"What kind of wonderful planing you was just tried to apply, such kind of...", Izuku tries to strangulate the older vampire, just for Pip pick up his weapon and point straight against Izuku's face.
"Please… Don't ever try menace me !", said with reddish eyes.
"I know that today I expected to begin an intensive training… However… What's your real plan ?"
"Stubborn rookie", Pip mood changes drastically, when he slaps hard against Izuku's freakle cheeks, "You should never forget that I control, manage, and lead my unit, and you are just a newbie several ranks beyond me !"
The Pro Hero tries to intervene, since he isn't like the dangerous unfolding of a student rage against an idiotic plan that could endangered his life, even he's almost a immortal, just to please a bunch of brass clothing tugs.
"You... your... coward!", All Might notices the bloodlust delivers by several armed soldiers with military-grade pistols, and sub-machine guns.
And the older vampire signals his subordinates to target lock their weapons against All Might, before resume his speech, "Alright! The things couldn't go worst… In the next 30 hours… You… Midoriya… will be sent along a Black Ops team lead by my Wild Gesse mercenaries to launch a surgical strike against...", as he brings an old printed map with several ancient scribed notes, and thumbtacks and points to a very unpleasant place, "Here..."
Both All Might and Izuku's eyes widens, when read the map legend, and associate the place. It was enough to unleash the repressed anger to an enraged voice, where the younger vampires yells aloud first, "Then… What kind of silliness are you bring to me, on… NORTH KOREA ?!"
"Mister Pip...", All Might demeanor was dangerously shifting to a murderous one, "What kind of diplomatic incident you are trying to bring against a rouge nation with an… ATOMIC ARSENAL ?!", where swiftly remembers the militaristic use of quirks on that nation, "Just to enlighten you that they have a quirk powered ARMY straight pointed against your Nation ?!"
Pip Bernadotte makes a stage smile, before answers with several wailing bursts, "This mission… is TOP SECRET! You band of bastard morons!", before pause two seconds to drink a shoot of whiskey, "If you ever read the newspapers, Internet, homing pigeon posts, smoke signals, ...", as he enumerate all possible items while counting the fingers with sharp claws, like Izuku's ones, "Once the Millennium Army proxies stage a coup-d'etat about six years ago on North Korea, this rogue Nazi army, along some Anthrax proxies... They take direct control of the major North Korea's military infrastructures, and create several private military bases, while upgrade the North Korea ones..."
Izuku raise his left arm, just to demand answers, "Very nice crappy introduction, Major Pip-sensei...", as he cracks his articulations, before thinking to deliver a punch off-guard.
"And one of the Millennium military installations are located deep inside the Ryanggang District, on several bunkers around the mountains that circles the tributaries of Lake Phungso", and Pip nails it, "Where our Intel was confirmed that an human Pro Hero called Endevor, or Todoroki Enji was kidnapped, and placed here..."
"Then… It's just to invade North Korea, strike against a military base, filled with quirk powered soldiers, and rescue an Hero!", Izuku said with a staged smirking, when in reality wanted to use his magic to smash Pip against the nearest mountain.
"Wrong!", Bernadotte nods, while train his hands just in case to counter any magic or physical stroke, "The Endevor's rescue is a last-minute addition, but the real mission is to destroy the military infrastructure that the Millennium Army or Anthrax requires to make some kind of exotic weaponry… Easy as he gets..."
All Might almost wanted to deliver one of his favorite punches, and he barely avoid to make one. Toshinori instead make a strongly provocative remark, "Mister Would-Be-Famous-Or-Not… Do you ever consider the dangers of a failure… specially when the supernatural creatures of that terrorist organizations, which already know your plans… when could use your suicidal mission, as an excuse to make a Nuclear Strike ?!".
"You are too childish… All Might...", Pip unleashes their signature paralysis magic, aided by his native quirk-like telekinesis, "It's unlikely that the rogue North Korea Government would ever launch some nuclear missiles, because they knew that the United States, or even the Russia Federation or China will unleash their nuclear arsenals, and no quirk-enabled Heroes could ever manage such a disaster..." and points to Izuku, "And you, as a natural skilled tactician, already knew how deterrent is the possession of a large nuclear arsenal..."
Pip Bernadotte even could give such stupid remark, "After all, a Nuclear War would be the ultimate Hero Rescue Mission, or whatever crap you teach with your clowns!"
Izuku could reply badly, even he agrees on Pip's remark, but instead, "During the Elementary School, I like to take notes on several civilian Pro Heroes Quirks, then I learn how to do a proper planning… However...", and he demands a straight answer, "What's my role on your mission ?!"
"Simple...", said Pip, even Izuku's not convinced, "You had some powerful magic spells with great destructive power, perfect to delivery the final blow… But… I think you should learn some new skills that could be useful on short-term, even you don't agree..."
"Insane… Totally insane and irresponsible!", All Might yells, "Just because Midoriya are a very skilled quirkless sorcerer, is the prime reason to drop him, even along some freaks, on an enemy territory, specially when Midoriya don't have any military training ?!"
"Enough!", said Pip, "The briefing are demised… Midoriya, take the changing room, on the third port past count on the second turn right side, and go to the Silver Fang's dojo… Immediately!..."
"Yes… Sir… yes… band of scumbags!", said Izuku, infuriated.
"Probably, I need to teach you better...", answers Pip.
Meanwhile, All Might was placed under arrest on the same dorms that he and Izuku sleeps.
Two hours later, All Might would use a VPN tunnel software on his hidden smartphone, even knowing the risks, to leak some information straight to the Director Nedzu's Main Office, where replies to Aizawa and some trustful allies.
At the Endeavor Hero Agency
At the same time, some of Aizawa's students runs straight to Hosu City, just to witness the frenzy and panic surge when Shouto Todoroki discovers that his hateful father was kidnapped.
It was on a private meeting room of the infamous Pro Hero Endeavor's Hero Agency that Katsuki found a depressed rival, who still don't believe that his strong father was kidnapped.
"Half-Hot-and-Cold bastard… What's happened here ?!", said Katsuki, using his bad swearing.
"Katsuki…", Todoriki reacts badly when hears the pseudonym, "My father was kidnapped, and you just can't treat me more formally… kind of ..."
"Enough!", Aizawa pops from nowhere, and slams their heads against each other, "Regarding about you father… All Might disclose some strictly confidential information..."
Katsuki and Shouto heads turns around and faces a very oddly worried Aizawa face, "What's about it ?!"
"Midoriya was been trailed by a vampire military group of mercenaries called Wild Geese, where now working for the SDF! Midoriya's magic powers are apparently perfectly fitted for him, and even he refuse for now, on the next centuries, he could assign to them...", as Aizawa also warns about the very large vampire life-span.
"What… WTF ?! Why Deku, for all Pro Heroes Agencies, for God's sake, was specially requested by mercenaries… There's no WTF sense any more!", Katsuki was also oddly in state of shock.
"And before resume, hold your breath...", Aizawa inner thoughts was also enraged due to his total impotence on the current Midoriya's situation, "Midoriya, and that kind of hellish mercenaries will try to rescue Endeavor on North Korea!"
When the two strongest boys wear the keywords, Aizawa notice the awe and shock, before they react, yelling aloud, "NORTH KOREA ?!"
"In fact, the Millennium Army, who make a military strike during the USJ special class, was after all aided by a unit from Special Forces of the North Korean Army (NKA) that delivers undercover soldiers disguised as villains, along some pathetic ones... And if it's not just bad news, they had the entire North Korean Army at their disposal, since they are the true leaders of that rogue nation!"
"The SDF was totally insane!", Todoroki replies before Katsuki, "Sending a civilian hero student on the middle of a battle against the most militarized nation, without any preparation..."
"And another shocking discovery…", Aizawa interrupts, "The true leadership of Millennium Army, The Twelve Wise Men of Europa, and an enigmatic leader called Anthrax, which are portrayed as powerful alchemist, sorcerer and quirk user altogether…"
Once Aizawa finishes the sentence, Katsuki grabs Aizawa collar, demanding answers, "WTF ?! Why my friend was dragged by this ?!", as the older vampire use his Cancellation Quirk to avoid Katsuki's quirk activation, "If he dies, how his mother will react ?!"
"All Might only said that mission was long planned ago, and requires a powerful sorcerer to destroy a military site, but somehow the enemy already know forehand and kidnaps Endeavor, just for a mere provocation...", where he was totally worried, "And the most disgusting thing, is that group of mercenaries was totally blinded about the possibility of a trap mounted forehand! Probably they was just waiting for an excuse for an hostility escalation..."
Provocation Escalation...
Some minor Hero knocks the door, and delivers worried some even more bad news, "Mister Aizawa, a live announcement from the public North Korea Television...", and turn on the TV screen, and link the live stream.
The news anchor holds a sheet of papers, while an hell military music on the background plays, and displays a menacing title, "The subversive rats plan was discovered! Great conspiracy against our Supreme Leader was Revealed!".
When both stare the television, they couldn't spoke any word, specially when the music fades, and the anchor reads the announcement:
"Our Great Korea Nation, aided by the Millennium Army was prevented another plot against us!", where the anchor makes a short silence break, before resumes, "The subversive imperialist Japan was taking advantage on quirks to create a plot aiming to overthrow the Beloved Leader, but our best agents neutralize the ringleader on foreign soil!", just to portrays the image of Endeavor on the screen.
Aizawa was dumbfounded, "Endeavor could be a troublemaker, but a ringleader of a plot against North Korea ?! For the God's sake...".
"Please… it's a daydream… right ?!", Todoroki tries to pinch repetitively, hoping that the situation was a very dark nightmare.
"No… It's real...", said Katsuki.
"Once the Hero Internship ends, I need to deliver a punch, or request to Midoriya's use a Black Sabbath straight on the Ministry of Defence!", said Aizawa, kicking a dust bin at high speeds, while delivers a strong punch against a wooden framed table that breaks in two.
"I was too ingenuous to follow the recommendations from Mister Nedzu about the SDF teasing about one of my students… This is beyond the marks. I couldn't allow a fellow student to be drag on a dangerous diplomatic and military incident that could bring the Third World War!"
On Wild Geese's private training field, preparing to battle...
Meanwhile, the training with Silver Fang was more friendly, in sheer contrast with the ruthlessness of Pip Bernadotte. Izuku even waste several hours, during the breaks specially, to learn the Silver Fang's signature moves. Izuku notice that was a kind of water elemental magic, mixed with martial arts.
"Ryuusui Gansei-ken!", yells Izuku, while use his native telekinesis to guide the water flow, cheating a little the original Silver Fang's technique.
"Please! Don't take vryko-quirks as shortcuts!", warns the elder vampire.
"What ?! Vryko-Quirks ?!"
"It's my suggestion to name the vampiric abilities like your telekinesis, that had some genetic origin, in a similar fashion of the human-based quirks that follow the same logic..."
"Alright...", Izuku sighed, not very convinced.
On some vampire communities, they propose the native supernatural features of some vampires to be named as vryko-quirks, since they are similar to the human quirks. The Japanese Government so far only takes note, but not take the proposal to the Diet to be voted or debated.
The ninja Gara was more muted, but helps to design a strong military costume for Izuku, where also trains Izuku with his best swordsmanship abilities. In the end, Izuku fuse the wizard and dreadnought former costumes into a single menacing one.
The sword was trimmed to fit Izuku's total hight , but their weight increases to about 2500 kg, due to a more strong and heavy metal alloy, along some special magic stones that gives a fair share amount of total sword weight. The mage fabric was become the foundation of the armored plates, that act as an active shield and a magic foundation. Even the armor design was less heavy than the original, still weights over four tonnes. In the end, the new Izuku's costume was a mammoth seven ton beast of metal and ceramic.
Izuku only could sigh when face on the mirror, the new dreadnought costume, and remembers a silly episode of their innocent childhood, when at the first year of Elementary School, almost his colleges run away when discovered that the green-haired shy boy was a vampire.
But his first true wizard staff gives another memory for a more recent past, when starts the training with Sakura-sensei, who teach him her magic, while controls better the Dark Schneider's magic he could learn by himself.
Private talk...
Finally the younger vampire decide to return to the shared bunk bed with All Might with the new militaristic costume, making All Might shivered and worried:
"Mister Midoriya, another walking tank ?!", just to choose another derogate word.
"What a thought day", Izuku sighs when tries to undress the complicated costume, taking care to not unload seven tonnes of metal over a human.
"It's very dangerous to speak about, but...", All Might picks, carefully, a smartphone, and points the information he wanted to share.
"Do you know that you can be charged with espionage, what's an huge risk!", Izuku was surprised when notice that the Yuuei's 1-A class already knows the true motivations of SDF, or the fact the entire Japan knowing that one of best Pro Heroes was been taken hostage on North Korea.
"The situation was so terrible, that everyone from your classmates, or even other classes, almost cannot concentrate or enjoy their internships!"
"I bet that Todoroki was almost screaming with it's own impotence...", said Izuku softly.
"Tomorrow it's your day… but promise to me, that you will focus to rescue my derailed rival, and convince that band of buffoon bastards to fly away as soon as possible..."
"I will honor that promise", Izuku bows with formal respect, "But I can't think more that it's to odd for the Millennium Army don't evacuate the site, or execute Endeavor in public, as they expected to me to arrive there…"
"That's why I fear a military escalation, straight to nuclear strike..."
"I don't think they use nuclear weapons on the first day. It would be too stupid... Probably or Anthrax or the Millennium Army will use their supernatural military to make an incursion of Japan at a short to middle term, and only need an excuse to shift the preparations priority to make a thing."
"When I speak about a nuclear strike, probably they could use a single one, more focused to make a local damage..."
"Or just to blow away on higher atmosphere, in order to make an Electromagnetic Pulse capable to fry our sensitive electric and electronic infrastructure. Even here, I only bet only during the supernatural army invasion..."
All Might sighs when remembers the Pip's words about Izuku's strategist skills, revealing the coherent and well planning scenario, without thinking that Japan was in the brink of a terrible disaster scenario.
The mission begins...
On the eve of the third day internship, Izuku joins the other vampires that forms the mercenary group Wild Geese, along several human soldiers from a Black Ops unit. The highest rank personnel salutes all the soldiers, and makes an elusive speech:
"Today it's the day that I will deliver a serious blow on the terrorist group called Millennium Army! The Operation Emma-oh, in honor of the deity of death and revenge, are officially commissioned."
Very few dare to take attention on the rest of the announcement, specially the vampires group, who already takes the seats on a stealth-technological helicopter with enough autonomy range.
"However, due to security reasons, we will fly first to Tsushima Island", said Pip Bernadotte, "Then, at the evening, with some concordance with the South Korean National Army, we will contour the east coast of that nation, using the Korean island of Ulleung, and the coastal city of Donghae as a reference point...", and point to the entrance point, "Finally… using a bisection of an imaginary crossed line between the North Korean coastal cities of Sinchang and Riwon, that was a very mountainous terrain, we will infiltrate the enemy territory..."
"That's a very long journey...", Izuku notice the natural barrier provided by the Sea of Japan, and their tactical allies that prevent a more easy invasion, "And what's this oddly place ?"
"It's a small village called Pungseoeub, where probably it is one of the escape routes of the Millennium Army hideouts..."
"May I add a little remark ?", Izuku notices the unfriendly mood reply of his superior.
"Be fast...", said Pip.
"For my own knowledge, the invasion point is also the same places when the majority of missiles sites, and launch pads are located. It's expected to be an huge concentration of radars, and high alert mobile infantry units..."
"That's why I requested stealth helicopters, to avoid such scenario..."
Izuku was not truly convinced, as he remembers from the All Might espionage session, that North Korea, with the funds of the Millennium Army was enable to modernize the North Korean Navy, without care about the international sanctions. A possible way to North Korea create a tactical advantage, with the huge area covered by the Sea of Japan was the navy program that should takes more priority on the submarines, and probably one of them was capable to carry nuclear missiles.
After all, when Izuku watches World War Two documentaries, he snaps when the Nazi Germany, the ancient state that the Millennium Army worships, once takes control of the Atlantic French Coast, they build underground submarine bases located on several coastal cities. And an underground submarine base could be an excellent shipyard to build at least a submarine capable to launch a nuclear strike against Japan, without been noticed first, even during the construction site.
Once he finishes his thoughts the helicopters was just take off, and flies to the first stage of a day long trip to North Korea. Izuku was less optimistic, since he fells that even he could rescue Endeavor, the whole mission will end in a total disaster. And it will be nearly impossible to run about 500 km of hostile environment to reach the Armistice Line on the Parallel 38, the strong military frontier between the two Korea's.
To be Continued...
Chapter 16: I'm The Incarnation of Death!
Summary:
As Izuku expected, the Millennium Army would cut quickly the escape route, once they lure the invading team, and easy the invasion, they swiftly react and destroy the backups teams and the main transportation vessel.
Also, in pure retaliation, the North Korean Navy decide to sink some Japanese ships, ending involving some of class 1-A classmates, but without causalities.
Notes:
(See the end of the chapter for notes.)
Chapter Text
The Mission Begins...
Somewhere on North Korea, while the evening quickly fade to the night, the stealth helicopters managed to land on a cleared plain, free from major obstacles, even the landing site was a few kilometres from the main target breaching point.
For Izuku and his unfriendly team, it was the final chapter of a day-long trip across the boundaries of the Sea of Japan. As Pip Bernadotte expected, even Izuku thoughts that was something odd, they could infiltrate the enemy territory without major problems.
It was about seven minutes to start the main operation, according to the plan devised by Pip Bernadotte. Once he though that everyone was ready, he decided to remember the major steps on an improvised briefing site, "Everyone, be acquainted! Even he arrive a little late, we still have a few minutes before the projected time for the mission start..."
"It was due to the bad weather, and the long detour…", Izuku mumbles to himself, before takes mental notes about the real mission here.
"From some reports, Anthrax and his proxies are trying to build an exotic weapon, and this installations contains a key ingredient to build such device."
"There's no further information about the type and kind of weapon here ?", Terzieff-Godefroy raise his hand, and ask to his captain.
"Probably an enhancement equipment to increase their own magic, alchemical or quirk powers. Such one-a-kind devices that was custom-made, it requires an huge manpower, and resources to build one."
"Then… If we manage to destroy the facilities, it would delay or sever the Anthax own powers...", Serpico also intervenes, even it was a little ingenuous.
"And your mission is to deliver at least one or two of your most damaging spells", Pip points to Izuku, "Save your Vitality, Vigor, Mana, MP, HP, or whatever you name it, to use against the main target, located deeply on the mountain..."
"So, it's an Halloween or Black Sabbath straight on…", Izuku reacts a little badly, "A target without any escape route… Very pleasant planning… Sir..."
"Hold your filthy tongue...", Pip enrages so easily when his authority are menaced.
"Whatever...", Gara sighs, "It's almost time to start your operation!"
A few seconds later, the Wild Geese team with Izuku, along some Black Ops soldiers starts the invasion of the Millennium Army military base deeply on North Korea.
It takes half a hour to reach one of the heavily guarded gates pointed on the map, but there's fewer armed soldiers than expected. Everyone from the team, unless Izuku, never questioned such apparent flaw.
As instructed by Pip, the older vampire orders Izuku to stun or kill swiftly the three guards, and he makes the deal, "Very well...", Izuku stretches his right arm and use a simple magic spell, "I summon the Fiery Power Blast from the Fallen Heroes...", and before the soldiers could ever react due the sudden chant, "DAMNED!", they was instantaneously defeated.
"It was too easy...", Gara mumbles straight to Izuku's right ear.
"I'm thinking also like that, too...", replies Izuku.
The group runs quickly to the giant blinded doors that blocks further progress. Izuku before everyone else decide to try unlock the obstacle using magic, "One a moment...", while pushes his right arm, and stretches the hand flat, and hold it about a meter from the cold metal door's locks, "Ancient Spirits of Thieves… Laid by Blonde Obsessions… Release my Lock!...", and the door opens without great problems, "MACE!"
"That's funny how a magic spell designed to unseal magic locks could work on normal ones!", Serpico makes an annoyed remark.
"Either way… let's get inside!", Pip orders everyone to move forward.
The Black Ops team also enters on the same gate, but takes another route in order to check the information leaked by the spies, or other kind of mole lurking inside the mysterious installations.
At the Central Command Control Room
Meanwhile, on the main Security Centre Room, one Nazi soldier from the infamous Millennium Army reacts, "Sir! There's a security breach on Southern Gate 1 !"
One of the major officers in change on that day, was the lieutenant Zorin Blitz, who was been in change of the security due to a special request from the high-ranks, as she was pleased to the action unfolding, "No problem! It's the special guests including the Dark Demon, no…, the Dark Sorcerer Vampire, a.k.a., Vryko-Warlock Dark Schneider!"
"They are too stupid or what ?!", asks the same soldier, "I heard that Skull Knight takes a visit on the enemy headquarters, and find their plans!"
"No worry! Let's give him something to enjoy", as the demonic vampire unleashes his scythe, and delivers orders for the military staff:
"Waffenführer Klaus! Bestelle den Sicherheitszweig, um die feindlichen Helikopter zu zerstören!", and turns her face to an officer in changer of military communications, "Wenn jemand für die Kommunikation der Nordkoreanischen Marine zuständig ist… Alle derzeitigen U-Boote können torpedos gegen nichtmilitärische japanische schiffe frei feuern!", but also she warns, "Diese Reihenfolge soll schnell angewendet werden, aber jedes U-Boot kann nur ein einzelnes Ziel wählen."
The native North Korean soldiers sighs a little, due to the overuse of German language on official orders, but they understand the next moves. Since the Japan decides to strike, all submarines from North Korean Navy are freely to target a single Japanese vessel, that can be any commercial ship, or a Navy Police vessel, but not a SDF ship… for now.
However, the first act was delivered to the Security Personal that's under direct control of Millennium Army, not the North Korean Army. They just fire a swarm of missiles against the helicopters that once bring Izuku and his team, cutting the main rescue and escape route.
Meantime on Japan's West coast of Honshu...
About ten minutes later, somewhere at the west coast of Honshu, the Heroine-in-training Tsuyu was sailing along a Japanese Navy Police vessel, along the Pro Hero Selkie, who was a seal-type mutation quirk human, and he's also the captain of it's own Oki Mariner ship, who works within the National Navy Police to patrol the coast. Selkie's Unit specializes to curb illegal immigration and smuggling.
"It's becoming dark…", said Selkie to a worried Tsuyu who simply replies, "Kero...".
One sailor interrupts, "But don't worry about… We are about one full hour away to dock on the nearest port."
Meanwhile, the same waters was under patrol of a North Korean Navy submarine, who receive new orders from the mainland. The captain Ch'ae Yong-Chol, along his officer in change of communications Kok Yeong-Ho, stares with the last orders from Pyongyang, that such content had a signature sign that such order was requested by other source. Either way, the North Korea had an huge debt with the Millennium Army, and decide to follow the order either way.
"Our Great Supreme Leader orders to sink one imperialist vessel, preferentially the first one that our unit can spot!", the officer decodes the ciphered instruction, and delivers to his captain.
"North American, Japanese, Traitor ones?", the younger replies.
"For now, only a Japanese vessel..."
One young soldier with a kind of enhanced electromagnetic sensory quirk spotted a target, the same Tsuyu's vessel!
"This quirks are useful in combination of standard military technology...", said the officer, while orders the periscope operator to confirm the target, "And a police vessel are a perfect target..."
The entire submarine goes to red alert, while the captain orders, "Target that rat's puny ship… Torpedo's operator… Prepare Torpedo Number 3!"
Another sailor in-change delivers the distance, "Enemy Target at 8300 meters..."
Finally the captain delivers the final order, "Fire Torpedo Number 3!", and it happens a few seconds later.
At the same time, Selkie was wandering around the deck, just because his sensory quirk was randomly activated, warning him about a sudden danger, "That's funny… Why suddenly I'm too worried, and frightening for no plausible reason ?!"
The Millennium Army's made torpedoes contains some kid of stealth technology, but the on-board sonar and radar equipment of Selkie's ship detects the danger about 1000 meters away, resting about 15 seconds to act, specially when the office screams:
"Captain Selkie! A torpedo are aiming against us!"
"WHAT ?!", this time, Selkie was astonished, "From what… ?!", while his lose momentarily his cognitive capabilities, much due to fact he never face a real torpedo attack.
"Captain… ?", and the officers tries to bring their captain to the reason.
"Turn to starboard!", Selkie gives a panicked order, hoping to divert from the menace.
However, this torpedo model can change the course, once the on-board computer locks the target. Just a few seconds later, it blasts the hull, and the main engines catches fire.
The impact itself don't cause direct causalities, instead it opens several holes along the hull, and quickly the ship began to flood. Selkie was no more time than to order a rushed evacuation, and an emergency radio call. It takes several minutes for a Navy Helicopter to answer the call, prepare and take off, but managed to rescue the former crew of Selkie's sink ship.
"Thanks...", said Selkie, exhausted, "From the hellish crazy villainy, from where, and who, manage to target us and fire a torpedo ?"
"It was not confirmed, but some civilian and police vessels was been hit almost at the same time!", answer a worried soldier.
Further dialogue ended with a sway of insults, and swearing, while Tsuyu could only relief when she could land safely.
Under the relative safeness, the North Korean submarine confirms the target hit, and decide to ignore further development of the actions, as this captain finally orders to divert for international waters.
Returning to the impending disaster...
The Selkie's vessel attack was not the only one, but the most provocative one was the vicious attack on a large cruiser ship, who kills some passengers, and unleash a public uproar against the nameless enemies. With all help delivered by the United States Navy to Japan, it takes several hours to discover the involvement of North Korea on that escalation of hostilities. The case swiftly bring the Great Five to an emergency meeting on the United Nation's Security Council, ending as several times, on a total deadlock between the Beijing-Moscow axis, and the Washington-London-Paris ones, and several provocations between the two Korean States.
When the Selkie's ship was spoted by the enemy submarine, the things along the Wild Geese team, if deserve to be called as such, wasn't going as expected.
Even they managed to pass the blinded gate, with some magic help from Izuku, they don't found major obstacles during the first five minutes, until, a hidden blinded door closes suddenly, trapping them inside. And also, the two human Black Ops Units, once they confirmed the invasion, and their backup suddenly stop to broadcast to them.
"That's strange...", Silver Fang was annoyed, "The backup was not answer any questions..."
Gara ears some faint screaming, but decide to stop and orders everyone to stall quiet, "Silence!".
About half a minute passes, and no further sound was ever captured, but another radio channel gives an alarming sound, "Sir!… Explosions everywhere...", from the grounded team on the surface.
Pip Bernadotte still ears the missiles impact on landing site, when another field communications officer warns to the radio, "Warning! Missile Strike!… Argh!", and the communication channel was cut due the explosion that kills all members, while also destroys the radios and the helicopters.
Izuku, who was not much forward, notices the sudden Pip's change in demeanor, as himself expects that turn of events, "I warned you… Bastard!", as the green-haired vampire turns around and wails at full breath the last sentence.
"Scheisse...", it was the only word Pip Berdanotte could ever answer, before Izuku slams him against the wall with an uppercut punch.
Several vampires decide to hold Izuku, who was out of his mind, "Izuku! Hold a breath!".
Gara had to block a strong punch delivered from the younger vampire, "Be rational, and stay calm!"
Izuku appear to stop, but yells at full force, a short time later, "CALM ?! STAY CALM ?! Had you just notice, that we just lost all support and backup, on the middle of an enemy territory ?!", and points to the wounded Pip, as Izuku grabs and almost strangulate him, "Specially you… You simply fall straight to the enemy's trap! As a military strategist you are beyond a drunken sailor!..."
"You have guts… But you are too naive!", Pip recovers and delivers a straight punch against Izuku's face.
"And you are just worst than several Heroes buffoons!", Izuku resume the fist fighting, while starts to use the Witcher Sign Yrden and Quen to reduce the physical damage, and interfere with Pip's magic abilities.
However, Silver Fang, annoyed with the brawl, hold the two offenders, and smash hard against each other, ending with a wailed declaration, "BASTARDS!", but coughs before resumes, "There's no time to fight each other… About Pip's responsibilities on this disaster, there's no time to talk about… Our first priority is to damage the site, and then… Run away from North Korea with all you could get!"
Finally, the strong leadership of the elder vampire end the brawl, but the tension was too high to Izuku could ever pardon the bad planning of Pip, much due to his own arrogance.
Zorin's trophy...
Several walls and tunnels away, Zorin laughs when receive the news about the sinking of two police vessels, and a badly damaged cruiser ship, without forgetting the destruction of the helicopters that delivers the invasion team.
It was a strong, but controlled, provocation in order to cause an escalation of hostilities, but she knew that at this moment, they shouldn't pursue further in order to cause a war.
"The US Army will quickly raise the DEFCON to level 3… after this wonderful incident...", Zorin laughs, as she walks to his own private detention prison.
A few moments ago, she ends their evening exercise, by slicing the entire Black Ops teams that invade the military bunker from another route. From her, they was too weak to be a challenge, since she kills everyone in less than ten seconds, using the scythe, and a cursing magic spell.
Once Zorin returns to her dungeons, she stare his new prey, the Pro Hero Endeavor, and the remains of a villain called Stain, who ended sliced like sashimi. Without any moral standard, Zorin place the villain's corpse reamains on the same prison of Endeavor, to serve doubly as a psychological weapon, and a gruesome fray, just to break the mental resistance of her own prisoners.
Endeavor was strongly tied, and covered by some kind of magic runes that not only seals their quirk, but also drains his vital energy, in order to avoid the temptation to escape.
"Everything comfortable… Herr Endeavor ?!", just for Endeavor spits against her.
"Der schmutzige schweinehund!", screams Zorin when she delivers a lock kick against Endeavor belly, followed by a strike with the backbones of their scythe, intended to deliver a serious, but not fatal, wound.
"Your… monster...", screams Endeavor in agony.
"I spare your life, in contrast of that idiot who love to make some fun, but was unable to stand more than three seconds...", pointing to the sliced Stain corpse.
"It was a villain who kills several Heroes on the last months...", Endeavor speaks, while endure the pain, "And when I circle him, you just appeared..."
"I never witness such a piece of scheisse about your Heroic activity, specially when those so-called Superhelden are no more than a bunch of Possenreisser or Kasperle !"
"Stop mixing German loanwords on Japanese!", Endeavor provoke the demon vampire.
"Ich verstehe dich nicht!", replies Zorin, while delivers a kick against Endeavor's belly.
The kidnapping of Endeavor, and brutal killing of Stain.
Zorin still stares the corpse of Stain, while remembers the main events of their mission on Hosu City. Using the Teleport Quirk of Kurogiri, who was under the wing of Tomura, the successor of Abigail, and the last member of the Twelve Wise Men of Europa, Zorin could jump quickly to the main target.
At that day, Endeavor suspension of duties, was somehow relaxed when the infamous Hero Killer Stain decide to attack several Pro Heroes, who judged immoral and corrupt, under the excuse of "fake heroes hunting crusade".
Using that logic, the police need a strong quirk Pro Hero to defeat Stain, even it was under criminal charges, making Stain more motivated to kill Endeavor, as a final proof of the decadence of the current society.
Endeavor was making huge damage of public propriety, like he likes to make during his duty, and been praised by this demeanor, just to encircle Stain to a blind alley, covered by flames.
Zorin, who have been under-covered, passes to action, and sway her scythe to kill all minor Heroes and police officers holding the police barrier, at an alarming speed.
"WTF was that ?!", screams Endeavor when notices a menacing aura arriving swiftly, and the sudden silence of the police officers.
"Who are you ?!", Stain also reacts, and holds it's attack position, with all knifes pointed to Endeavor.
" Ich habe Geschäfte mit ihm ...", said Zorin with the scythe blade encircled around Endeavor's head.
"A foreigner… ?!", Stain was amused with the strange mixing of a esoteric and militaristic costume.
It was a mistake from Stain, who decide to use the blood-type quirk against Zorin that cause their death, "Very interesting...", said him when try to stab Zorin, ignoring about who she really was.
"Tölpelhaftschwein!", said Zorin, that even stabbed, reacts and sway their scythe, and managed to slice Stain into several pieces, spilling his blood, while Zorin open her month and drink a lot of it.
Endeavor fells an abnormal panic surge, when witness a former formidable villain been merciless killed, without any real fighting.
"Schwarze Dämonen von freundlichen Albträumen!", Zorin quickly use his magic, first chanting to create a kind of heraldic disc, with intricate rune borders, "Ich befehle den Tod, mein Schwert zu werden und den Feind zu verfluchen!", releasing dark chains filled with miasma that lashes Endeavor flesh, and places cursing runes along the body, starting from the bloody wounds, and release along the body, "Ich ehre den Siegelvertrag und besiege meinen feindlichen Willen und seine Kräfte!", where basically seals Endeavor quirk, vitality and much more on the point to weak at full extent, "EINHERJER!".
"Bastard!", scream Endeavor in agony, losing his conscious a second later.
"Very well… You are too lucky to be sealed with my Einherjer... The wicked spell that curse the fools who dare defy the Gods!", while also picks the sliced body of Stain, "And I take your toy as my own trophy!"
Few seconds later, Zorin takes the sealed Endeavor and Stain corpse, and uses the Kurogiri's portal to escape from Japan without further problems.
Then it was when Zorin attention return to reality, and decide to make another step forward, "Dark Schneider… Wie viel Spaß kannst du machen?"
Wolfenstein...
Meanwhile, the invasion group was mesmerized with the vision of the backup team, or the remains of them, "From which bastard on Earth, they managed to kill everyone from the top elite of Japanese Army ?!", Pip was bewilderment.
"The enemy, when plays seriously, just means I'm the Incarnation of Death !", pokes Gara.
"Please! I still not finish to play Wolfenstein II, and don't like to play around their famous catchphrase!", Izuku reply, very annoyed, without felling an huge grudge about the massive causalities that Pip's plan was delivering.
Suddenly a cold wind sways along the bodies, when the loudspeakers turns on, and delivers a menacing message, "For all silly rats lurking on your realm!", it was Zorin's voice, "I'm one of the majors of the Letzte Bataillon, Zorin Blitz...", and delivers the warrant order, "For all personnel, chase and kill that bastards! Like one of you said well… I'm the Incarnation of Death… Ich bin die Inkarnation des Todes!"
"This means that the real mission… was just… begun!", said Silver Fang with all proudest manners.
To Be Continued...
Notes:
After some research, I decide to rename the Zorin's cursing spell name as Einherjer, since this Viking Heavy metal band is better fitted to the incantation formula, that refer to demons and fallen heroes on Valhalla.
Chapter 17: The Lucifer Secret
Summary:
Trapped under a siege of a full squadron of Nazi vampires, Izuku and the Wild Geese manage to escape, just to find Endeavor wounded, and Zorin Blitz on thie path.
Meanwhile, the last scientists working on Anthrax weaponry, concludes the final prototype of a magic enhancing armour called the Dragon Knight Lucifer Armour DKL-01.
Notes:
(See the end of the chapter for notes.)
Chapter Text
On an trapped corridor...
Izuku's aura was boiling inside, making his rage barely unnoticed by his so-called teammates that they also known the dire and catastrophic situation they faced. Trapped under dark tunnels of some underground base on North Korea, and lost all surprise factor due to the swift response from the enemy military, it is a matter of time to be hunted down.
All human backup soldiers was defeated and brutally killed in a matter of seconds, leaving the vampires to be the ultimate warriors, and their supernatural powers could be a real advantage, if the enemy itself was not composed exclusively by vampires.
It takes only a few seconds after the warning announcement made by Zorin in order to chase Izuku and Pip's party to face the assault rampage made some Nazi solders, probably from the infamous Letzte Bataillon refereed by the still unknown vampire leader, who throw tear gas cannisters, before fire with their heavy machine guns.
Luckily, Izuku manage to cast some magic barriers to deflect the bullets, "I hate when it happens!...", as tries to hold the barrier, "Using the Witcher Sign Quen won't be useful if...".
"Don't waste too much magic!", said Serpico in order to calm down the teen vampire, who notice is bad aggressiveness against the enemy, before takes the lead and runs at an insane speed against two fast soldiers, ending beheaded once Serpico raise his short sword and cut them.
Silver Fang also tried to hold Izuku, "Remember the key role of a wizard on a party...", making Izuku surprised and annoyed, since he didn't like the classic role of a mage, who need to stay on the centre, and layered by a circle of warriors,. Izuku recognize that Serpico and Gara had great swordsmanship, who deals to make damage against the enemy, and understands why the mages should focus on heal the warriors.
"I'm more an arcane fighter...", said Izuku, "Even I have strong magic spells..."
"Don't waste your breath on useless babbling...", Gara stares Izuku, while turn his head, "You lack endurance fighting capabilities… And during the circus shows that you barely counter the attacks at all… ", referring to the Yuuei's Sport Festival, "And your abusive display of magic are more characteristic of a standard mage, than a warrior."
"We need to find quickly a way out...", said Pip, while scan any possible exit.
Pip still mad to this bad situation, and don't make any move to help his own companions. For now, he just follow a path open when Izuku use several Damned spells to blast the doors, and take down some soldiers by surprise.
On a disclosed Laboratory...
Meanwhile, on some still unknown underground bunker block, a team of insane scientists was working on several weapons, while a group of alchemists and magicians also helps them their research. About two hours earlier of the disastrous beginning of Wild Geese operation, some trucks loaded with secretive equipment was already left the underground base, and follow to a secret location, which place are believed, by the top researchers, that was the real Lord Anthrax Headquarters.
Even still, the construction of a techno-magic weapon was time and resources consuming, leaving several spare parts, and rejected components during the long and costly development. All research was oriented by a leader scientist called, Herr Doktor, or Lord Doctor, one of The Twelve Wise Men of Europa, where still makes experiments with partial or unfinished prototypes.
"If I could create a prestigious price for the most dumbest military operation ever, the Faule Japanische Armee, would won easilly!"
"And now if they manage to explode this site, why you are playing with those forbidden material ?!", said a clocked alchemist.
The Doctor makes a strange smirk, while adjust his three-lens glasses, before explains, almost as he speaks to an imaginary audience, "If I could start, that's essentially one of my own rules: never give everything to a single patron...", and he uncovers a strange device, once removed the protective fabric, resembling an exoskeleton and a cannon, at first stance, "In reality it was one of my prototypes of an alchemical enhancing magic weaponry class devices...", and gives a better overlooking of this weapon, more than to the same imaginary audience, than the actual alchemist who's stare on the right side.
"And this is the work of a full century of research!", but the Doctor fix the last sentence, "Nein… In reality, the construction of magic weapons can be traced from the beginning of Second World War, in reality even before the First World War, when take consideration the contribution of the Thule-Gesellschaft to that field... As I knew, under direct executive order of Mein Führer Adolph Hitler, it founds and puts under direct control on charge to the ultra-secret Magische Ureinwohnerwaffe Forschungszentrum and directed by the former directors of Thule-Gesellchaft and the Ahnenerbe itself..."
"The rumors of a Magic Weapon Research Center was true after all...", the annoyed alchemist sighs, just to not listen a long monologue from his college, "And, for me, is still suspicious the resurgence of those quirks along today's human population..."
"I couldn't deny that I even take several researches about the genetics of quirks, but I never exclude that could be the by-product of some researches made by my Nation during the war..."
"The official records shows that the first quirks appears on rural China during the second half of 20th century, and just not so far from a secret Nazi laboratory mounted on the boundaries of former Tibet...", while was not so accurate, because that laboratory only functioned at the same time of the Second World War time-frame. Also, the alchemist believe the real research begins as early to the boundaries of the 19th and 20th century, by the German alchemists of the cited secret societies, and the quirks was a rejected genetic mutation weapon created by the Thule-Gesellchaft and thrown away as a plage biological weapon. Instead to destroy the Untermensch, it delivers some kind of super-natural powers to the majority of mankind on less than two centuries.
The Doctor turns a little mad, even he really don't had any idea about the quirk origins. His work on artificial vampires and magic was endured, even after the Nazi Germany defeat, since the underground Millennium Army takes the legacy.
Instead he orders to shut up, "Probably the quirks was the result of an accidental experiment made from some genuine Nazi scientists, but since I don't had any record, please don't interrupt me again… Ever!...", wailing on the last word.
The alchemist could reply hardly, but opted to stay silent, and thought to himself, "Even the quirks abilities enhanced the weaker humans, are still too weak to be ever a threat to real sorcerers, magicians and skilled alchemists…"
"And this prototype was essentially the 666th version, while some parts was derived from the 616th version, and some minor ones that I don't remember for now..."
"What's a coincidence!", the alchemist makes a smirked boldface when hears the numbers, and the fact that the final version uses spare parts of the Number of the Beast by the Catholic and Orthodox perspective, who now takes more attention to the partial functional prototype on their hands.
The strange weapon revels to be a mixture of a medieval armor, layered by dragon heads, and some futuristic characteristics, resembling some techno-punk artifacts. Some electronic devices was placed along the armor, where is functionality was still a mystery.
"You are playing a dangerous trump, essentially if the enemy laid their hands on it...", spoke the antagonizing alchemist.
"Don't worry, since I place several counter-measurements to avoid to be stolen...", the rogue scientist smiles, hiding his annoyance, "After all, this is the Dragon Knight Lucifer Armor DKL-01", and pause some seconds before resumes, "And Antrax-dono just receive the most powerful version of this weapon...", and adds, "Even the raw power delivered by the Dragon Knight Lucifer Armor DKL-01 was less than tenth of final version, already delivered to Antrax-dono... After such consideration, this prototype lacks the Sword of Hell, which we don't have none, since it needed to be created according to an alchemical and dark magic ritual... Instead the Rings of Satan was already crafted, and enchanted yesterday.", but almost forgot a third item, "And speaking about unfinished items, but almost crafted, was this huge shield, placed on the other side of this facilities, the Judas Pain Shield..."
The alchemist tried to reply, but decide to not spoke, "If the enemy had really a sorcerer, it won't take more than few minutes to fill the remaining items, and activate this dangerous armor."
Instead spokes a fake excited remark, "Fortunately, you never forget anything behind...", and the real though, "What a joke..."
"Well, if those unwanted visitors don't strike today, I could ended this prototype at the next week!..."
The alchemist barely had time to think, in order to reply the conversation, since the evacuation alarm was triggered in order to the staff return to the more safest bunkers.
"For all priorities, why I need to evacuate ?!"
"The emergency may be serious...", as the alchemist was already suspected that the real enemy won't be trivial to defeat.
Meanwhile at Wild Geese place of action...
About several tunnels away, the fight between the vampires against the rogue Nazi soldiers continues deadly, leaving them dangerously wounded. Even a vampire could endure wounds that could be lethal to humans, with a quirk or not, the major problem was to run away from the enemy base, when all tunnel exits are filled with enemies, and apparently with an infinite supply of reinforcements on demand.
Izuku, who was escaped with minor injuries due to the shielding tactic, decide to apply more summoning magic in order to increase the firepower of his so-called team party.
"Sanctus aqua spiritibus, fons vitae et de septem custos maria meum et vocavi te antiquis foedus meum et illius annulo signatæ potestatem divinam.", while Izuku makes a pact to Water Spirits, in order to increase his affinity with Water Elementals.
"Why you are wasting your powers to a Elemental Magic that you don't had real affinity ?!", Pip Bernadotte was annoyed.
"Holy Saint Water, grant to me your powers! ACQUA AGER!", making Izuku surrounded by a water mist.
"Why you don't make a pact with Fire or Dark Magic ?!", Silver Fang was also a little surprised.
"Shut up!", said Izuku, "This is a Ritual to summon this thing...", as Izuku begins to imitate the movement of an unnamed kung-fu martial arts, "Bernando... Waluta… Werna… Richardo... Old Water Domain… Fill my soul!", just in time to punch his water covered fist against the floor, opening a portal, "My enemy is your enemy! May the strings of Spirits, and the damnation of Lies been my staff, and bring the Water dragon from the Underground!", summoning a water dragon, which resembles the ancient Chinese ones, "Water Emperor's Dragon Cascade! AXIS!"
"What's pure stupidity!", Pip grits his sharp teeth, "Summoning dragons just to destroy smaller targets will deplete your magic energy...", and choke before concludes, "It will drain out our magic too quickly, leaving no more energy to handle a real threat !"
"I don't care...", Izuku makes a cold stare, and hisses.
But other vampires scolds the younger one, "Don't be childish just to appraise to yourself.", specially the Silver Fang, "If you have more magic affinity to fire than water, just use fire spells… Otherwise you are wasting two, five or even twenty times more magic without real benefit… After all, your magic teacher never warn you about this ?!"
"Please, never bring Sakura-sensei when is not needed!", Izuku answer boldly.
All vampires don't answer to reply, since understand who was that person, "Whatever..."
And just when Izuku tries to end the scolding, Pip witness the next wave of soldiers running against them in order to trap. However, much of the new soldiers, when witness the new abnormality, stall several seconds to face the strange new dragon. The stand off takes several seconds, that for someone could judge that takes several minutes, until one of the soldiers decides to fire, just for Izuku command the dragon to counter-attack, "AXIS! Under my Domain I command you to Strike!", just for the dragon blast several high pressurized water streams, "Ryuukou Suiryuu!", as Izuku reads the Kanji ideograms 龍皇水流, meaning Dragon Emperor Water Stream!
It was the strong water pressure released magically by the dragon that either cuts the vampire soldiers by half, or opens holes on their torsos, before being dismembered, and throw into pieces against another like projectiles.
However, the real Izuku's objective was to use the water stream to evaluate if the floors or the ground was actually solid, and the carnage of destruction leave some unexpected sag on the floor covered by destroyed soldiers, "My bet was right...", said Izuku while the dragon dissolves, since summoned dragons rarely stay more than 40 seconds, "There's a fault under this room..."
"You mean… A secret passage ?", Silver Fang dare to ask.
" Probably… Just wait...", as Izuku now cast another magic spell, "Legions of Ruby Ray… Flesh rotten, consumed by Death!...", as Izuku casted magic forms a giant blob of fire, while releases an acidic haze, that make everything on contact to be spontaneously combusted and melts due to the extreme acidity, "May this deathly Curse burns the Enemy, and return to Water!", and when the magic spell was fully released, the ground melts and burns at higher temperatures, "ACID DRINKER!"
The affected ground almost was reduced to hot magma, but collapses before the acidic smog and heat melts and kills everyone on the room, opening a vertical pit instead that appears to connect to something else.
The last vampire of the group, and less talking of them, Regis Terzieff-Godefroy decide to intervene, "Young Vampire! Hold a minute… I will cool down the opening...", making Izuku a little surprised.
"I will appreciate it...", said Izuku, still curious.
"Alte treue Geister der Winterwälder, ich erbitte deinen Willen und deine Künste.", the vampire Terzieff-Godefroy always made is own incantations on German, making Izuku very perplexed. The incantation formula was based on the ancient ice Elementals living of old German forests during the cold winters, and use this powers to freeze the opened tunnel, "Bitte hilf mir, meinen Weg zu öffnen.", and was succeeded to do so, "Friere diesen Albtraumpfad ein und öffne meinen Weg!", and name his magic spell, "Phantom Eisschwert!"
Regis magic spell is called Phantom Ice Swords, since it manipulates spirits of deceased Teutonic heroic warriors that once lives and battles on long winters.
"Before thanks him...", Serpico intervenes, "He was the person responsible to support our group during own missions, due to his magic abilities..."
"At least, we can now escape from this trap!", at the end, Pip Bernadotte was just appreciate and use the other's works.
As everyone jumps and slides along the freezing steep slopes, Izuku stays around the opened hole, just to stay alert, as another wave of soldiers could rampage before himself could escape.
"Be fast!", said Izuku, who ear several footsteps, and rattling approaching at higher speeds, since the vampires can run as fast like sports cars, as Izuku already made the same, "We have more company..."
The elder vampires was the last ones to escape, except Izuku himself, who notice the swift reaction of the enemy, who don't waste time to raise all machine guns against him. One of the soldiers, who appears to be an higher ranking officer, had just ordered, "Töte diesen Bastard!"
Since some soldiers even bring and arm rocket propelled grenades that appears to be the same models of the Germany used at the Second World War, "Why they still use Panzerfaust ?!", they follow the officer order to fire several grenades, sending all of them like an artillery barrage.
Izuku barely had time to dodge, and casts a Witcher Sign to avoid a direct hit, as the Aard almost failed to destroy or deflect the projectiles.
Finally the green haired vampire jumps to the opened hole, once the first barrage ends, and casts another magic spell, "Oh... My Ancient Demon Servants, Guardians of Burning Marshes!", as this spell opens several portals from Hell, in order to leak the destructive firestorms from the Underworld, "Lend your Powers, and Reduce my Enemy to Nothingness!", and the thermal shock cause several explosions that kills everything on their path, specially on a closed room, "NAPALM DEATH!"
The huge explosion cause a dangerous landslide of fragments of ice, created by Terzieff-Godefroy magic spell, and chunks of store, concrete and melted iron, against Izuku who lose his foot and slides into a dark hole, slamming his body against an hardened concrete bottom of a kind of cave, just before the explosions reaches the interior of the opened pit. It appears that Izuku manage to open a vertical shaft, even unstable, to a deeper bunker than the previous one.
Hit the Jackpot...
However, the uncontrolled impact against floor, make a contusion on Izuku's head, and lose partially own senses.
Some minutes later, all Wild Geese members manage to awake Izuku:
"Are you alright ?!", said Pip, "You almost lost your consciousness...".
"Where we are ?!", Izuku was still a little headache.
"It's the entrance of some prison...", said Serpico.
A few seconds later Silver Fang yells, "It appears that Izuku gains the jackpot..."
"Why would said that ?!", Izuku was confused, "Ouch… My head..."
"I just blast with my punch, the bars of this peculiar cell...", as the older vampire grabs a barely conscious men, "The infamous Pro Hero Endeavor was been maintained captive here..."
The discovery was astonishing, since by a string of luck, they manage to accomplish a secondary mission, that was to find Endeavor, and rescue him.
"Unfortunately, all medical backup was lost...", Pip snaps that unfriendly remark, "And what bastard could leave such so-called Strongest Hero wannabe into this terrible state… After all, it's just a buffoon that thought that could fight against a real though guy", and ever he couldn't avoid such remark, "Even Sylvester Stallone or Arnold Schwarzenegger was much better than this clown!"
"One a minute!", Gara intervene, "When I read Midoriya's profile during the flight, I notice that he learn some healing magic, like Terzieff-Godefroy that had some magical medicine knowledge."
"It's right, but...", again Pip counteracts with their arguments, "We, vampires, cannot be skillful on Healing Magic, since all healing mages require to master White Magic in order to work correctly, and Midoriya, like the rest of us, are by nature, Black Magic sorcerers!"
Izuku frowns with this cruel remark, that even agrees, but the reality is not a bipolar black and white:
"Even so… We have two companions with an weak capability to make some White Magic, in order to make some very basic healing magic spells.", said Gara again.
"It's better for them to treat Endeavor, even it has just a first-aid...", Silver Fang agrees.
Izuku was disgusted to the severity of wounds and the dry blood that coats the remaining of their shattered costume. The green haired vampire also noticed a strange magic flow along Endeavor's body, just in time that Terzieff-Godofroy notices the same:
"This men had their so-called quirk sealed by a Black Magic spell, Dark Schneider..."
"That's right…", and he was frightened by the faded runes, "But… OMFG! Look at those cursed runes!… The person who defeated Endeavor and applied such magic spell should at least a rank comparable to me… It's almost the Accused magic spell that cast against the invaders on the Yuuei's Sports Festival...", and almost choke with pain, "Even I was terrible mad to everyone on such day, I just kill them by using such forbidden spell...", just he was deeply worried to such wrongdoings.
"My healing abilities are beyond to reverse such terrible thing… But you know any kind of anti-magic or reverse-magic spell ?"
"Even the Accused spell require some strong counter-magic to be dispelled… However...", as Izuku grabs his smartphone, and opens a digital scan of his own Grimoires.
It takes several seconds, exceeding more than one minute, but Izuku managed to find a solution, "It requires to use two spells simultaneously, but you should stay alert to finishes the healing..."
"Fine!", the elder vampire holds the unconsciousness Endeavor in order to avoid problems.
"Mediocris naturae spirituum... Ingens scientia antiquorum sapientum... Peto auxilium tuum...", as Izuku itself shines, and forms a magic circle that encircles him, Terzieff-Godefroy and Endeavor inside, "Magia antiquis Elymas magus omnium artium, hoc oro ad victimam, et curabo eum omnis maleficence!"
Suddenly, a strong explosion from Endeavor own body propels the mages duo away, while a glooming aura was released, that also contributes to blast Izuku and the older vampire away a few meters, "Damn it!"
"We fail ?", and the elder was worried.
"It appear that this cursing spell share the same common characteristics of my Dark Chaos of Destruction Magic, even it was slightly different...", and notice that the cursed aura was diminishing.
Pip sighed, "It appears that you need to wait until a real skillful medical sorcerer could handle this case..."
Izuku smiles, "Now!… Terzieff-Godefroy!… When I cast the following spell, use your basic healing magic you can use!..."
Pip was shocked, specially when the older vampire nods, "I'm ready..."
"Ellen… Collen… Allen… Savage… I summon and pledge my Heroic Heroes of War!...", and Izuku holds about a meter from him, and above Endeavor, a black lightning ball of energy, quickly collapsing like a black hole, "I request your mystic symbol's fire and lend me to let Love and Hate collide!", making the cursing spell energy to be sucked by this strange black hole, "Archaic Black Liquid Lightning Sphere, purify them all!", and once Izuku finishes the incantation formula, Endeavor awakes with great pain, releasing blood, while the runes breaks, and the dark curse flows to the black hole, "DEF LEPPARD!"
"MIDORIYA! That's totally stupid!", Pip panics when saw an injured human choke blood, and releasing the curse seal with almost no real control, "You could kill him!"
"It's now your… turn!...", said Izuku, while fighting to hold himself the confrontation of his magic with the foreign vitality flow curse, as the black bolt explodes, and releases a devastating explosion that cause the fall of debris along the improvised prison.
"Alte Heilgeister aus fernen vergessenen Königreichen …", quickly the older vampire puts his right hand over the shaking Endeavor's body, and this starts to glow, "Ich bitte um deine Weisheit und deinen Willen ...", and starts to heal partially the wounds, while drain the remaining of all dark miasma leftovers, "Bitte hilf mir, diese Männer zu heilen und ihn von allen schlechten Omen zu befreien ...", making the minimum necessary to calm him down, "Phantomheiler!"
Endeavor loses his consciousness again, but Regis managed to break the cursing spell somehow, before Pip yells when notice that Izuku and Terzieff-Godefrey collapses due to exhaustion.
"Why you are so stupid ?!", Pip Bernadotte was frustrated, "I told earlier that using magic outside Black Magic domain was too costly, and using forced Healing Magic, a diametrical opposite of it, would be pure stupidity!… And now are too fainted to resume the main mission!"
A few seconds later, Izuku delivers a strong punch against Pip, "Shut up!", and yells, "I will be fine in a matter of minutes… Just a little rest I need before continues… Endeavor is now fine, since I just applied the first-aid… Now let's find the so-called secret weapon..."
Suddenly, Gara warns everyone, "This dark aura… Be careful!… Someone is arriving!..."
In a matter of two seconds, if really takes too long, every vampire grabs Endeavor and flee to random positions, just in time to avoid the swing of a scythe delivered by a demon vampire, where my everyone surprise was a woman vampire with a mad look, and a menacing aura.
"Seit wann hast du die Erlaubnis, meine Sachen wegzunehmen?", as she's annoyed to the Endeavor rescue act.
At the same time, Endeavor manage to spoke a faint remark, "That… monster… was the one… who kidnap me… Zorin Blitz!", before lose his consciousness again.
"What?! She's Zorin Blitz ?! A top commander of the enemy army ?!"
And the enemy commander just said a derogatory remark, "Wenn es nicht der berühmte Dark Schneider ist ... Ich hätte nie erwartet, ein Dieb zu sein ...", and she raise her scythe again.
"It appears that she's the first real adversary he must face...", Izuku quickly concludes his own analysis of this dangerous situation.
After all, Izuku's own intuition, and quickly nodded by everyone, was right, since Zorin swiftly makes her first strike, just to Gara block the scythe movement with his Murasame sword.
This act marks the beginning of a dangerous duel of Izuku and the Wild Gesse, against a dangerous single vampire, who already know that she had powerful magic powers.
To be Continued...
Notes:
Trivia:
The story title, if no one catches, is an indirect reference of Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei main protagonist, Shiba Tatsuya.
Essentially Izuku is the formal equivalent of a tactical mage, and Shiba Tatsuya himself, and when will grab (spoiler alert!) the DKL-01 his full powers will be awaken, with a mixture of Bastard/Hellsing/Mahouka styles.
Chapter 18: The Final Treasure was Found
Summary:
Izuku and all Wild Geese members fight against Zorin, and discovery that a fight could endure several time, and once they trick her, they flee to find the place where the DKL-01 magic weapon was stored.
Once they reach their destination, both Doktor and Zorin appears, and it marks the final act of a disastrous missions.
Chapter Text
At the Underground Zorin's Prison:
All members of Wild Geese raise their fists, or their weapons, in order to prepare any strike from the enraged demon vampire, who still swear in order to break their defiance:
"Hmpf!… I never expected to be received by a band of Tölpelhaftschweins or any Hanswurstraübers that stole my legitimate trophy!", as Zorin defies and holds their scythe against the Gara's Musarame sword.
"After all you spoke plain Japanese, Das kriminell...", Gara plays fool, while provoke her mixing some German loanwords on their speech.
Silver Fang also notice the remains of a corpse, where their yell was perfectly audible by Izuku, "I found some remains, in very bad shape, of another human..."
"There's some signature clothes, or artifacts ?", Izuku plays a little, in order to clear his mind, and prepare for the battle, since Gara will not hold more time the sword blockade.
"From the clothes remains,...", Silver Fang remembers some information from the media, "It appears to be from a wanted human villain, and he dies quickly once faces Zorin Blitz..."
Zorin Blitz reacts, "Wage es nicht zu gehen weg von mir, Dark Schneider !", and her demonic eyes pierces Izuku ones, "Warum kümmerst du dich überhaupt um das Schicksal von Stain?", as she ever care about their victims.
"Stain ?!", Izuku knowledge of German was poor, even he knew a little due to hard work taken to decipher his father's Grimoires, the younger vampire recognize this name, since the whole media was frenzy about him, "An old Vigilante that starts killing Pro Heroes, and suddenly begone ?"
"Ja!", while Zorin delivers a strong uppercut kick against Gara's genitalia followed by a strong punch against his stomach that pushed against the nearest walls.
"Son of...", spoke Pip when witness the Zorin strike against Gara, "Great bitch!...", and decide to fire his gun against Zorin.
Surprising, even Pip's revolver used a full clip of silver bullets, the enemy vampire don't suffer any sign of silver poisoning, or even dare to dodge. After all, Zorin decide to stay still and receive all shots, where she pretend to be fine, she just giggles.
"Es ist alles fertig, Schweineschwein?", but simply don't affect to much, "It's too bad… Silver bullets are not so effective as you thought…"
"Unbelievable!", Silver Fang and Serpico was also shocked.
And a fraction of second later, Zorin Blitz step further, and swing her scythe, while his speedy step was ever faster than the former Sound's Speed Sonic villain. It was that moment when Izuku grab his heavy sword and block Zorin's lethal move.
"Schließlich ist ein anständiger Feind!", scream Zorin with a demonic laugh of evil enjoyment.
"Argh!", Izuku screams, when Zorin reverse their scythe movement and stroke directly to the torso.
"MIDORIYA!", Pip screams, while Terzieff-Godefroy launches against Zorin, and tries to help the younger vampire.
Luckily, vampires endure wounds that could be fatal on humans, but Izuku was on severe difficulties to cast healing spells, "Damn it! My vitality pool was too low to use Healing Magic!"
"I will help you!", said the older healer vampire, "Phantomheilung!", who was about to be sliced if Gara don't recover and strike back.
"SHIN MAJIN-KEN!", shout Gara when tried to deliver a dark energy flare from his Murasame sword against Zorin.
"End of playground!...", Zorin eyes flashes red, as she raises her left hand, and conjure a terrible magic spell, "Schwarze Dämonen von freundlichen Albträumen!… Ich befehle den Tod, mein Schwert zu werden und den Feind zu verfluchen!", making everyone, including Izuku, astonished, "Don't mean...", as she releases several cursed magic chains, followed by a stream of magic cursed runes, "Ich ehre den Siegelvertrag und besiege meinen feindlichen Willen und seine Kräfte!", that could defeat all vampires at once, "EINHERJER!"
The green-haired vampire almost panics, but managed to react and cast a counter-magic spell, "Zam-zin… Zar-oni… Eni meto!…", that creates a reflecting magic barrier, "Old Goddess of Fortunate Warriors!… Lean your powers and protect me from the foes!...", but Izuku also activates the Witcher Sign Quen at Level 4, Quen Discharge, in order increase the barrier force, "Holy Explosion!...", that manage, by little, to deflect the cursing Zorin's magic spell, "CHROME ROSE!"
The sudden clash with both mages, cause an explosion that send Izuku and Zorin at opposite directions, clashing against the nearest solid thing. Izuku slams against a wooden crate, while Zorin slams against a cold and wet concrete slab.
"It appears that our enemy and Izuku are both vryko-warlocks !", Pip makes a random trivial remark, for much displeasure from his own colleges, since they thought in silence, "Don't make trivial crap just to skip your disastrous leadership responsibility on this mission!"
"I bet that both of them was barely display their powers at fullest!", Gara also recovers quickly from the explosion.
Izuku bites himself, and decide to cast a new spell against Zorin, in order to create enough confusion to flee with everyone. The green-haired vampire releases a enraged aura, while his green hair curls along the magic vitality lines, and starts his incantation:
"Go… Sai… Cross!...", and when stretches his right arm, and opens the hand, it releases several flares, like missiles, against Zorin, "Ancient God of Explosive Destruction!… Release my Wrath, and become the carrier of Doomsday Tempests!", that she managed to dodge partially, "VAN WAR!"
However, Zorin casts also a magic barrier that either deflects or explodes the flares before touch her at all. "Verfluchte Seelen aus alten Zeiten, beschütze mich vor der feindlichen Idiokratie!", and also reflects the magic energy back to the original caster, mixed with Zorin's own magic, "DIE APOKALYPTISCHEN REITER !"
Pip Bernadotte blinks as he use his general knowledge to mumble, "Another Heavy Metal Band Christianized as a Black Magic Spell ?!", and since he notice the confusion created by the last spell was enduring several seconds, he signals, "Quick! It's your chance to run!".
The explosion cause several debris fall, and releases huge quantities of ash, thus making a perfect opportunity for the Wild Geese team, while Terzieff-Godefroy picks Endeavor, run and escape to the original tunnel access.
Using the brief chaos as cover, Izuku cast another magic spell in order to confuse Zorin:
"Cyco, Cyco, know your worth!", where this spell creates a cloud of burning ashes that pierce Zorin's skin like a hot rod, "I granted your wills into a Ember flash of Ash and Wound!", causing several burns and an excruciating pain, making almost lose her consciousness, "SUICIDAL TENDENCIES!"
"Scheisse!", screams Zorin in agony, barely able to open their eyes.
"If she wasn't our enemy, it could be a fine rival!", thought Izuku in silence, while use the debilitating effects of Suicidal Tendencies spell to run away from Zorin, joining the others.
Izuku really don't like to escape at a middle of a battle, but he should prioritize to find a way out from the enemy basement, since he or his companions don't have any resources or reliable backups to face a prolonged battle.
"Wo gehst du hin ?!", Zorin quickly realizes that their adversaries escape from the confusion. Once she waited enough time for the dust settle down, pick some necessary equipment from his lockers, located inside the prison chamber, and dashes in order to catch their enemies.
"If you think that you will escape...", as she grits her teeth.
Moments later...
Once Pip and everyone reaches a tunnel bifurcation to three different routes, both filled with soldiers from the North Korean Army, not the vampire ones at first sigh, until some of them arrive to give backup, they realize the abnormal heavy presence of enemies could mean one thing:
"More enemies everywhere!", Gara said while raises his Murasame sword, "I never witness a bunker with such numerous garrison !"
"Hold your breath...", Pip intervenes, while trying, almost unconsciously, to amend the disastrous planning that face, "If there's such weaponry resistance, that means the main target are on our nearest corner!"
Both members of Wild Geese thoughts are cut, when the three North Korean soldiers groups fires with their Kalashnikov AK-74 sub-machine guns, while one or two of them also fires mortar grenades.
Since the bifurcation when the three tunnels converge to one, where Pip's mercenary group are placed, forming an acute angle of 45 degrees each, the artillery barrage converges to a single spot, without hit any of three vanguard groups by accident.
Both vampires have no choice but to step back, and use a shelter located on a ledge, in order to avoid to be on direct line of fire. "The real problem is that Zorin, since she can reach us at any moment!..."
However, some North Korean Army soldiers have useful quirks, specially an unidentified one that use some kind of pyrokinesis to propel a grenade like a guided missile against one hideout. Serpico and Silver Fang managed to deflect the grenade before it explodes, but don't avoid a disastrous explosion that force everyone to flee without been exposed again on the enemy's line of fire.
"One thing that I even could agree on North Korean policies, is when the majority of their own citizens had quirks, it's better to adapt the military, instead to create a freak circus show just to be a bunch of retarded celebrities!", said Pip.
"Mister Craptalk-taishou !", Silver Fang tease Pip, specially when the elder vampire was fuming when he had endured enough babble talking, "If you haven't noticed… No, of course you already knew… We are facing an enemy siege, and the first thing you come to mind is to appreciate the fact that our enemy adapt the quirks as a military weapon ?!"
"It's like that mission, about 100 years ago, when the quirks are not so dominant as today, on the slums of Rio de Janeiro. On that era, when we team up with the local Brazilian Military Police, where some units had persons with quirks, our superiors decide to assemble a death squadron to kill several bandits with quirks!", Serpico snaps an old memory, when the Wild Geese has one of the remaining mercenaries working at a time when the first Pro Heroes appear on some countries, first at the United States and his historical allies, then on Japan half a century later.
Izuku's eyes widen, while stare momently in shock, and barely question, "What you made… ?!"
"Oh, Izuku! It's like that ancient times, when this nice leader drags all of us, and the entire human backup in a middle of fighting. Due to his wonderful strategy, almost all human military policemen was killed, we suffer either quirk or heavy military-grade ammunition, but somehow managed to accomplish the mission… And been expelled from Brazil and elsewhere as persona non grata !"
"Hmpf!", Pip delivers a defiance hate glare.
Izuku quickly understands why Pip's most difficult mission ends almost to disasters, and also his vision of what a quirk society should to be, while notices that Pip's reasoning was very flawed.
On countries like Japan, who never had real major threats, and was a stable country, there's no room for mercenaries, or armed gangs. Before the resurgence of quirks there's no such thing, and later the formation of Pro Heroes was very inspired by the North American Comics super-heroes which fits nicely. Here, the Pro Heroes are more a kind of Police Special Unit to handle criminals. In practise, due to competition and patronage, the majority of Pro heroes are just buffoons who just want fame like the idols, but at least, it helps to maintain the peace and public order.
And also, rarely there's any killing on action, in sheer contrast of Pip's scenario where every public threat ends with a bloody massacre, and a fearful repression more characteristic of unstable countries ravaged by civil wars. Or on countries where dictatorships use military units to fire against any target, specially their own citizens, frequently with a disproportionate display of sheer force. On such countries the civilians with quirks are just a good excuse to the security and paramilitary use heavy weaponry mixed with quirks against them, in order to destroy and challenge against the tyrants.
But all Izuku's reasoning will be interrupted when another attack made by some quirks powers delivered by other soldiers, like an electric discharge and a flamethrower impact against the Wild Geese team. Such offensive will make Izuku cast the Witcher Sign Quen along the magic spell Danzig to block the impact, just when decides to strike back:
"Kings from Northern Mountains... Mages wandered by Ancient Ices… Unite their wills, and reflect the enemy foolishness!", and both spells managed to block the explosions, "DANZIG!"
"If you wanted to play not so fair and square, then...", Izuku snaps and overacts, like as it happens on Yuuei's Sports Festival, "I will display some real techniques..."
"Oh… Oh!… Izuku's goes mad!", Pip tried to calm down Izuku, as he abandons the relative safe shelter, and decide to strike back hard.
Izuku casts a new magic spell, while punches hard on the cracked floor, "The Great Impaler of Slush Marshes, I summon you to honor your Faithful Pact!", releasing several stalagmites from the ground that pierces and impales every enemy soldier on their path, killing scores of soldiers on both three tunnels, "DRASH GUN!"
"Great Lord!", Pip was astonished more due to the suddenly attack, "Since when Izuku could use Earth Elemental Magic ?!"
"Either way… It just annihilate almost all pests!", Gara sense a little relief.
The sudden magic strike that destroy almost the enemy, breaks the moral of the survivors, mainly the vampires under direct command of Zorin Blitz. Izuku uses the sudden fear breakdown from enemy to dash straight to several victims, just to bite their necks, and drinks his blood.
"Ops!", Silver Fang blinks due to the sudden Izuku's move, "We almost forgot that Izuku is a teenager… He need to drink a lot of blood..."
"Whatever!...", Pip sighed, while trying to figure out when he was a teenager vampire, some centuries ago.
Some instants later, Silver Fang and Gara destroy the remaining soldiers using their usual techniques, while Izuku recovers from his exhaustion once he drinks about five liters of blood, by biting several corpses or licking the spilled blood from the stalagmites created by Izuku's Drash Gun spell.
Either way, the famous three tunnel branches connects to series of several tunnels, forming a network graph of passages along the complex. It contains the dormitories of the garrison, and technicians, a mess with kitchen, and reinforced shelters, blocked by heavy blinded doors, intended to provide additional protection against direct nuclear strike, or a supernatural disaster comparable of.
No matter the initial tunnel, all members reach a suspicious amphitheater, filled with heavy machinery, most of them rust, along with rusted water pipes whose functionality was not obvious at that point. The only clue was an heavy blinded door with a warning sign written in Korean, and an additional graffiti written in German.
The secret weapon...
"WTF is this ?!", Izuku was annoyed when barely read, "Die Neue Magische Ureinwohnerwaffe Forschungszentrum..."
"It's curious...", spoke Terzieff-Godefroy, who had better German language understanding, "The New Research Centre of Magic Weapons…"
Like everything, Pip decides to take a led on main discoveries, "Very suspicious ..."
"Tsk! It's more a pure luck that we managed to find the real site...", Gara corrects is own superior.
"It's very strange that there's no remains of a North Korean Army division, or even two of them here… Since if it is the real place where the secret weapon are crafted here!...", Serpico adds to the fact-check.
Izuku not miss the chance to intervene, "If I recapitulate all the disaster called First Hero Internship Week on SDF… First, even on Japan, the enemy sends a single but powerful enemy to confront us...", and many of vampires nods positively, "And already knew our plan…", making Pip fuming, "And basically, except the fight with Zorin, we only fight against pawns, just to waste time..."
"And why they destroy our entire backup team, as escape routes… Mister Strategist ?!", Pip delivers a cold glare.
"Because it was plain far-fetched, just in case to cut-off our escape route", and this was when Izuku delivers his true feelings, "And all evidences points that this facilities was not been used to create the new Anthrax weapon! Or better, they already move the complete weapon design to another unknown site, where the security are highly tightned", and here Izuku's eyes was reddish, and his face enraged, before resumes, "And we just invade a phony site, wasting innocent soldiers on a terrible and WTF bad plan, that even one drunken sapper from the Battle of Flanders on First World War could made a better one!"
When Izuku finishes his hatred speech, Pip punches hard against the young vampire face, prompting Gara and Serpico to hold the two vampires cursing each other, "Below a sapper ?!… You have rotten guts to insult a men who faces death at every corner, window, and tea cattle…."
"And the human soldier families… How they react when notice they died almost in vain..."
"Humans ?! The ones who treat us below their own shoe soles ?!"
"You… you… Even I don't trust much them… There's no motive to mistreat them… The Army, the police or even the Heroes had the main objective to serve and protect… After all, why you had almost no medals during your work ?!"
"You are making… me… furious...", just when Silver Fang delivers a strong slap against Pip, ending the swearing.
"Sorry for this...", before scream at Izuku and Pip, "And when you will… GROW… and assume your RESPONSIBILITIES ?!", making Pip drop their head, and stay silent, "That's your FAULT the paramount DISASTER this mission unfolds… An entire Black Ops unit lost, and no real blow on enemy capacity to strike against Japan!"
"Your cheater...", Pip overacts badly, even he was badly controllable.
"ENOUGH with this!", Gara yells, "Midoriya… Let's open this door, and check inside… I think you should prepare your most destructive magic spells to wipe this site, either ways..."
"Fine...", Izuku nods, but without delivering a mad face against Pip.
Izuku orders to everyone stay way from the blinded door path, as he interlace their fingers, and starts the spell incantation:
"Great Ancient King of Northern Ices, I pledge your forged Pact!", making a swirl of magic ice around his hands, "May your enemies be annihilated by the Realm of Ice and Snow!", before shoot an ice stream against the door, "Extreme Zero Intense Froze Wave!", that breaks partially the door, "BISCAYA!"
Meanwhile, Endeavor who was slowly recovering, and listens the intense fray between Izuku and Pip, but still not knowing about what's really happening, awakes when Izuku casts the last ice spell:
"Until when you will imitate my son's quirk ?!"
"Good morning, Endeavor...", Izuku sighed, "It's just one Archaic Ice Elemental Magic I use..."
"Whatever..."
However, Izuku decides to try another magic spell, "The Biscaya spell don't make all the way… Then I will try to use this...", as Izuku cups their hands, and releases his magic energy, somehow partially recovered due to the improvised blood meal, "Wandered Demons of Forbidden Lands, I honor your blood pact!", releasing an heat ball of dark lightning energy, "May your Fire become my Spear, and destroy your enemies!", that transform to a beam of plasma discharge, "Destructive Scorching Heat Wave!", that melts and blasts the door, at least, "DIO!"
"And please, don't imitate my quirk too", Endeavor sighs.
Once the heat calms down, Izuku, Endeavor who still need the help of Silver Fang and Terzieff-Godefroy to walk, and the rest of Wild Geese enters to a bigger underground workshop.
"A giant dragon-motif armor ?!", Izuku exclaims.
"It appears that your enemy found us...", said Gara, when Zorin Blitz managed to find the group again.
"Wie traust du dich zu fliehen!...", spoke Zorin, with a dreadful malign aura.
"And another one...", Silver Fangs notices a worried scientist running to this strange device.
A few seconds later, a kind of mad scientist appears, much due to the sudden door explosion, "Was ist mit der Sicherheit passiert?… Warum haben es diese Vampire geschafft, hierher zu gelangen?!"
"Well… well… We hit the jackpot...", Gara pokes fun.
"Even Antrax-dono was got their final weapon, I will never permit to steal my final prototype..."
"After all, the weapon was here...", Pip makes an annoyed remark, as he tries to counteract the verbal fighting earlier.
"It makes sense...", Izuku smiles, "In reality, it's a scale down working prototype that can be discarded..."
"Don't pokes fun with my creation… The Dragon Knight Lucifer Armor DKL-01 is my legitimate creation, and will never falls on your filthy hands… Dark Schneider!"
"Interesting...", it was all Izuku could answer.
Finally, they reach the final stage of their mission.
To be Continued...
Chapter 19: An Insane Necromancer
Summary:
Finally the full battle between Zorin and Izuku continues, while the DKL-01 are activated for the first time.
Once Izuku could won this terrible battle, the final act of this suicidal mission unfolds: how Izuku will escape from North Korea ?
Chapter Text
Zorin vs Izuku...
Finally, the priced weapon was under their reach, and by Izuku, Endeavor and all Wild Geese members perspective, they shall first face the demon vampire Zorin Blitz, and the crazy scientist who crafted the Dragon Knight Lucifer Armor DKL-01.
"Very well… Dark Schneider!...", Zorin swears with great rage, "Ich werde meine wahren Kräfte zeigen!", as she begins to release an intense black aura that start to sparkle and ignites fires along some flammable trash scattered inside the former workshop.
"It's not good!...", said Gara while hold his sword in order to prepare any enemy strike.
"Uraltes Schwert aus vergessenen Legenden… Brechen meine Trauer Siegel lauern auf meine Seele!", screams Zorin while channel her magic energy release to her own scythes, making them grow and become more sharper and poisonous, "Ich schwöre meine Ehre auf mein Schwert und zerschmettere den Feind!", which in turn, it world their attacks more dangerously lethal, "THYRFING!"
Once Zorin cast her new Thyrfing magic spell, she simply managed to break a cast Izuku's Witcher Sign Quen at Level 4 (Quen Discharge), and cause an huge wound on Izuku's body.
It could be terrible dangerous if Izuku don't dress that heavy blinded magic armor, since no standard costume won't protected him from major damage delivered by a magic enhanced scythe.
"IZUKU!", screams Pip, while Terzieff-Godefroy runs at full speed to grab the shocked Izuku. The older healer vampire manage to reach the younger one, but receive the strong lightning gust from Zorin's scythe, blasting both vampires back against the nearest wall.
"Shun Mi-Kou!", meaning Instant Effect, scream Silver Fang while makes a dodged step against Zorin, and uses that decoy to make a swift feint dealing piercing damage on Zorin's body.
"SHIN MAJIN-KEN!", shout Gara when delivers his sword against the cursed enchanted scythe, as he preventing Zorin to cut the Silver Fang or Terzieff-Godefroy in two.
The double surprise attack enables Izuku to recover, "Th… thanks!"
Zorin makes a malicious grin, before release more dark magic energy, and makes another cast, "Buße, tödliche Verlierer! ...", while cross her arms, and elongate her scythes in a form position that resemble the Devil on some throne, "SATANIC SLAUGHTER!", before that wicked spell release several phantom black scythes on a chaotic motion, along the real scythe itself, and both capable to cut everything of their path.
"Pathetic!", screams Endeavor, "I will never forgive you!", while tries to activate his Hell Flames quirk, and runs like a madman against a clueless Zorin, "That's the pay off!...".
Pip Bernadotte assemble Izuku and Terzieff-Godefroy to try heal Izuku first, but quickly notice the Endeavor rampage, "OK!… Heal quickly as fast as possible… But… Why Endeavor are trying to do ?!...", just to scream, "Idiot! You don't have any chance against a mage like Zorin! Your so-called Hellish quirk are no match against her!"
Zorin ever relaxes a little and wait a second for Endeavor tries to give against her a punch coated with fire. Endeavor grins once manage to deliver another stream of flames against the vampire, in order to burn her, "Who's the real strongest here ?!".
The whole spectacle endures about three seconds, just before Zorin blasts all flames with her own aura, and delivers a mad wicked smile, " Tölpelhaftschweine werden immer Tölpelhaftschweine sein!"
"Impossible!", Endeavor was stunned, and don't respond to the background screams from Pip and Izuku, "Your great… STUPID IDIOT!"
"I will show you the real flames from Hell!...", before Zorin raises her scythe and conjure a Dark Magic with Fire Magic spell, "Da Sie einen Possenreißer, die denkt, dass der König der Flammen sind, werde ich die echten Flammen aus der Hölle zeigen, drittklassigen gefälschten Zauberer!".
Endeavor barely had time to recover from shock, one Zorin starts her spell incantation, "Altes magisches Schwert von Odin geschmiedet werden! Herr des Gottes und der menschlichen Welten, die Ehrgeiz und Korruption zusammenstoßen!", making the scythe covered by black flames, "Lass deine zornigen Flammen los und vernichte meinen Erzfeind!", and delivers almost a fatal blow on Endeavor, "FALKENBACH!"
The combined Falkenbach and Thyrfing magic spells makes the maneuverability and lethality virtually impossible for an human to handle, quirkless or not. Endeavor would been killed if Izuku not shoot quickly an Elemental Arrows, more precisely, an heavy magic javelin:
"Ego antiquum pactum datë…", where managed to send a magic ice javelin capable to block the insane scythe gale and movement against Endeavor, "Gather and Reunite the Spirits of Nature!… Target Lock on Enemy!… Gather 1 Ice Element Arrow!", and the sudden movement block of Zorin's scythe gives an opportunity to Gara could grab the Pro Hero and return to the barricades, "Elemental Magic Javelin... Shoot!"
"That's close!", mumbles Gara, when managed to make such feat.
Zorin laughs, "You are no more than a bunch of pathetic losers!", and decides to use another kind of magic, for much Izuku dismay.
Demon Necromancy, or the revival of Sonic and Metal Knight!
"Rachsüchtige gefallene Seelen… Erwache von der ewigen Verdammnis und kämpfe unter der Flagge des Wahnsinns!", the new Zorin's spell opens several portals from the ground, releasing black liquid and cursed demons, "Absteigen hier und beten unter dem Herrn des Todes!", forming several demons that resemble cursed skulls, but mainly under control of two dark abominations that snaps Izuku's memories, "NECROMANCE!"
"What ?!", Izuku screams, "Metal Knight and Sound's Speed Sonic ?!"
"Schade, Dark Schneider! Ich benutze einfach alchemistische Magie, um ihre Seelen aus der Hölle zurückzubringen und auf meine Dämonen zu legen!", and Zorin laughs hard, like a demonic clown.
"Unbelievable!", even Terzieff-Godefroy was shocked, "You are also a necromancer ?!"
The resurrected Metal Knight and Sonic appears to be more like demons with bright red eyes, and sharp teeth, fuming malign miasma, and covered by an oppressive and revengeful aura.
"Revenge… REVENGE!", screams Metal Knight with their mind twisted by Zorin's magic after effects.
Sound's Speed Sonic was not better, and appears to be more wicked before he was defeated by Izuku during the Yuuei's Sport Festival. "Die… DIE!… Everyone will be died...".
Izuku himself was disgusted, "You… you are beyond terrible, Zorin!..."
"Don't be so hypocritical!", said Zorin, grinning, "You also can summon demons using your magic… And use it to inflict excruciating pain... My necromancy are a sign that I mastered the Dark Arts beyond your own little pride… Dark Schneider!"
Izuku don't reply, and just increase all magic barriers in order to survive the next wave attack.
The former villains physical capabilities was enhanced by a factor of hundreds, while their original magic powers was replaced by some spells delivered by Zorin himself.
"And before resume our fight...", Zorin mind enters into a meditation state, releasing a dark purplish alchemist circle, where an hexagram was placed inside, and Zorin itself was placed on the middle of the internal hexagon that separate the middle hexagram and exterior circle.
"A Magic Demonic Hexagram!", screams Izuku, remember the few classes with Sakura-sensei within the Yuuei, when she begin to lecture alchemical magic.
"Meine törichten Diener unter meiner Herrschaft!.. Ich verfluche dein Blut, Fleisch, Knochen und Eisen!… Sei ewig erfreut und verfluche meinen Feind!", as Zorin use her new hexagram to transfer his malign vitality flow to her demons, specially the Metal Knight and Sound's Speed Sonic ones, "DOOMSWORD!"
Suddenly the demonic morphed Sonic screams, and bursts into dark flames, where their former ninja weapons begins to morph into an horrible bloody shape and form, while the alchemical ritual place cursing runes, that bleed and glow with a purple and reddish haze.
Metal Knight also suffer the same fate, but his former missiles portable launchpad becomes a chaotic array of dark blades and spikes, like an horrific mixture of a satanic hedgehog with a dark soldier that resemble some dark fantasy medieval game character.
The two spearheads demons swiftly deliver a devastating blow against the vampires and Endeavor who still hold guarded by an improvised barrier made with crates and metal empty containers, and reinforced by five cast magic barriers by Izuku and Pip Bernadotte, who finally decide to use his magic powers on that dire situation.
The first physical strike shakes violently the barriers, making the entrapped soldiers shaking due to impact. But the aftermath won't be calm, since Sonic decide to use his ninja techniques, like the ones who use against during his raid on Yuuei. And the main difference, is that his original weapons has replaced by dark energy morphs, where poisonous alchemical made weapons are crafter using the Dark Magic delivered by Zorin.
"Fukushuu Satsuriku ran-jin!", yells Sonic while name his twisted ninja technique, here now means Revengeful Hail of Carnage, delivers supersonic shurikens capable to kill instantaneously.
The first wave literally blow away the barrier and breaks all magic barriers, resting the duck movement to avoid several damage.
Immediately, Metal Knight blasts the former improvised shelter, or what left of it, with a swarm of dark bolts that replace the original missiles, "Dark Terror Missile Annihilation Swarm!… Launch!..."
Once the magic crafted missiles hit randomly their targets, it almost wipe out any possible positions to the wandering Wild Geese group could create a temporary shelter, since their military strategies use the same logic or a guerrilla warfare mixed with trenches.
"Hwawawahahahaha!", Zorin laughs demoniacally, "It's the best you can satisfy me ?! Dark Schneider ?!"
The debris and smoke delivers a temporary shield against their enemies, but it's only a temporary relief, since there's no more viable shelter on aftermath.
This terrible situation makes Izuku snaps dangerously, "If you want to be...", where remembers the carnage delivered on USJ when releases his huge sword, and once made a terrible carnage. When Izuku remove the same sword that was a homage to his third ancient ancestor, Izuku becomes a little curious and astonished where it start to resonate with the DKL-01 armor some meters above, even it was guarded by several demon minions.
Izuku mind snaps, and resonantes with his berserker ancestor soul, The Black Knight Guts, and uses is brief moment to prepare an alchemical ritual for first time on battle, since it won't had much alternatives.
Izuku enters into a state of deep meditation, while hope that his colleges could defence or handle the situation for several seconds, in order to Izuku releases several vitalities flows related to several Elementals. In a matter of seconds, a magic circle forms, and another ones too, making an intricate sequence of concentric circles, and magic runes along the gaps.
"Arcanum antiquis magicae circulus, ex paterna tabellarius elementa, custos rei secundae incommensurabilis occulta ..." , and then Izuku raise straight his sword, and coat it with their blood, that managed to magically flow from his recent wound, "Domini de elementis!", linking the transmutation medium, which is the sword, with the magic circle ritual, "Nigrum antiquis gladium Rex Nescimus!... Mittent sanguis anima mea signa pactum!", forming a transmutation bound between the old Guts spirit and his sword replica, "Et super gloriam tuam voluntatem atque delerent omnes dæmoniorum!"
Once Izuku finishes his alchemical magic ritual, he makes a sudden strike forward and slash several minor demons without much resistance, while himself yells, "Ancient Vampire Ancestor, I pledge the ancient pact forged by own bloodline!... Behold the true Sword of Hell, carrying the Berserker wills!... Display their unlimited wrath under your enemies, under my Ancient War Cry from Gods, that Show no Mercy!... KAMPFAR!"
"A magic enchantment on a sword!", Pip displays some random bewilderment, since it occurs always at crucial moments, "Probably, Izuku can now handle the cursed scythe from the enemy!"
Alchemical rituals crafter by magicians are normally the same procedure used to create enchantments on objects, in order to give him or unlock obscure magic powers. In reality are the natural evolution of basic enchantment, and make a natural evolution from this art to another, but Izuku will never progress his alchemy knowledge to match advanced alchemy made by an real and skillful alchemist.
The related alchemical magic spell, Kampfar, also derived from a Viking Heavy Metal band, had some inspiration on Tolkien books, the same occurs with the band itself.
Also, like on the original vampire character from Tolkien works, Thuringwethil, the spell use the native vampiric nature of Izuku in order to channel his own vitally lines on the enchanted sword and synchronize with their ancestor soul.
Zorin appears to not taken by surprise, since she expected such kind of magic, as herself also display some knowledge. But the real astonished person was the infamous Doktor who screams when notices the strong bond forming with the DKL-01 armor prototype and alchemical enhanced sword.
The Armour awakens !...
"Bas… Bastard!", the mad scientist reacts boldly, "How… you manage to craft a Sword of Hell almost without references ?!"
All vampires sighed, while Silver Fang mumbles, "It appears that all esoteric stuff that Izuku's magic teacher grant to him had some use!"
Izuku quickly deliver a strong slash against the chains that hold the DKL-01 armor on the pedestal, while cut six minor demons in half, spilling dark blood that spontaneously combust, with a little help of Witcher Sign Igni that Izuku casts almost instinctively.
Zorin makes a staged grin, while delivers a murderous face against the scientist, "Zumindest habe ich einen wahren Feind … Wie auch immer, Doktor ... Wenn Dark Schneider sein Schwert benutzt, um die magische Rüstung zu aktivieren ...", and shouts her menacing ultimatum, "Ich werde dich töten und dein Schweineschwein-Lächeln direkt auf die tiefste Grube der Hölle ziehen!"
"Ja, mein Gebieter!", spoke the scientist without concessions.
However Zorin already knew that the prototype will be grabbed by his arch-rival.
When Izuku thought that the magical weapon could be stolen from the site, Sound's Speed Sonic delivers a uppercut kick enhanced with magic miasma, "Yami no Fujinkyaku", or Wind Blade Kick of Darkness, that managed to throw Izuku away several meters.
Endeavor couldn't make any real movement, except mesmerizing the beyond-sanity display of supernatural powers. Meanwhile, all vampire from Wild Geese barely managed to divert the second wave of missiles impact delivered by the demoniacally resurrected Metal Knight.
Suddenly, Zorin casts more minion demons and order them to charge against the vampires, as she makes an insane laugh, "Meine treuen Diener!… Töten alle Narren, und verschütten ihr entehrt Blut!..."
Izuku notices the sudden attack, and without real options, decide to cast a standard Dark Schneider's magic spell, "Inhabitants from snowy and icy forests! I request your forgotten pact!", that cast several ferocious ice wolves that immediately attack the Zorin's demons, like a coordinate pack of wolves, "Fearful Beasts from Frozen Realms!… Face my Enemy, and bring them down, that shall show no mercy!", before all Wild Geese members could be dangerously wounded, or even killed, "WAY-ANH!"
"Since when Izuku is a Summoner ?!", Pip scream with their annoying remarks, but Silver Fang use his elbows against him to pay attention, "It's mainly a decoy… Look!"
But Izuku could use that fatal second distraction from the enemy, to fit the enchanted sword straight on the magic armor, breaking the magic seal.
"Interesting...", spoke Izuku when reads the vampiric runes, "This is also an object crafted with alchemy..."
The scientist and Zorin drop their jaws down, but the demon vampire quickly becomes beyond furious, "Tölpelhaftschweine wird immer… Ein absoluter Verräter!", and she simply cut the scientist with several pieces, in less time than a blink of eye.
"Unbelievable!", some vampire spoke when the eccentric scientist was mercifulness killed.
A fraction of second later, Zorin, Sonic and Metal Knight run straight against Izuku, who still trying to read the spell written on the runes.
"Legions of Ruby Ray… Flesh rotten, consumed by Death!...", Izuku decide cast this magic spell quickly as possible, aided by his alchemical sword that forms the magic domains more quickly than the normal, "May this deathly Curse burns the Enemy, and return to Water!", and then Izuku cast the deadly acidic miasma delivered from Hell, "ACID DRINKER!"
Zorin somehow managed to survive a direct hit of the acidic spell that self-combusts once been hit, more due to her active magic barriers. Sonic and Metal Knight suffer several damage, but with such damage they managed to divert to opposite directions.
Pip Bernadotte decide to advance from the fifth improvised shelter, as like the other ones already destroyed, both ended quickly when the demons or Zorin herself decide to deliver a direct hit.
With this insane hit-and-run sequence, both vampires magic and stamina are dangerously low, due to the sheer offensive from a single sorcerer.
Finally Izuku could deliverer a defiance smile, as he proclaimed, "I just decipher this thing…"
Zorin state of mind dwindles when hear the enemy proclamation, "Was? Wie hast du es geschafft, das magische Schloss zu entschlüsseln?"
A fraction of a second later, the Dragon Knight Lucifer Armor DKL-01 activates, releasing all locks that was intended to avoid to be used by foreign sorcerers. Finally, all armor pieces are split apart, but each piece still maintains connected by some strange magic field.
The next sequence resembles some old mecha anime, when each part combine to form the main weapon, and on this peculiar case, all pieces join in order to adapt Izuku's body.
Once assembled, the entire armor glows, and Izuku sudden feels that his magic powers are increasing at a fast rate.
Titanic Showdown
Pip Bernadotte also makes some silly remark, like the other ones, "The last thing I ever expected to happen, is to Izuku becomes like Saint Seiya !", when remembers that anime series he watched on television when he once lived on Brazil.
"If you think that you are powerful enough...", Zorin order to all remaining demons to regroup and synchronize, before delivers a menacing threat, "I never expected to end like this… Ich werde das wahre Gesicht der absoluten Verzweiflung zeigen!", when her own aura explodes and almost self combust under this extreme conditions. It only takes some seconds to the room temperature reaches thousand degrees. Luckily, Terzieff-Godefroy managed to cast a protection barrier to avoid been roasted alive, "However, I can only endure 20 to 30 seconds at maximum!"
Izuku almost panics, since he don't knew if that weapon will work at all, "It's now or death! Even Pip is a pure idiotic bastard, I will never forgive to myself if ends dead… Either way, the only option is to use this Lucifer Armor, and hope that can match this insane release of magic energy from Zorin… Since, I fear that the last Zorin's magic will be comparable or even dwarfs several of my own destructive magic spells!...", as remembers the firestorms delivered by his own Exodus spell.
"Forsberg!… Quorthon!… Hammerheart!...", screams Zorin when levitates to the top ceiling of this underground workshop quickly reducing into a sea of flames, "Aus den tiefsten Ebenen der Verzweiflung, Trauer und Reue!", where Sonic and Metal Knight align with Zorin and coordinate their magic powers, "Unanfechtbaren Richter des Todes und der Trauer!", forming a crescent blob of dark energy that also self-combusts with an insane temperature that rose above one million Kelvin, "Unter deinem Opferaltar fordere ich, meine Feinde zu töten!", and fired without more delays, "BATHORY!"
"What an insane power!", Silver Fang eyes widen with the energetic release, that also shakes the entire ground."
Endeavor was speechless, hopping that such freak show was no more than a nightmare, and such magic powers don't ever exist at all. The Pro Hero just tried over and over again to pinch to himself, but without avail.
Izuku reacts and decide to strike, "Ancient Parthenon of Wrathful Gods! I pledge my forgotten pact from ancient ages...", while Izuku fells the spirits of the original Dark Schneider, Guts and Geralt joining and helping Izuku to cast the counter-spell, "With my allies, and my wisdom!… I release the Wrath of God!...", activating the main weapon of DKL-01, the Satan's Ring, "May all aberrations be banned, and sent to Oblivion!" , activating a powerful magic spell, "GIRAN IRA!"
Once Bathory and Giran Ira spells release collide, the energetic pulse vaporize all demons, including the cursed Metal Knight and Sonic into oblivion. Izuku's spell quickly forms a kind of black hole that absorbs the enemy energetic magic spell. A second later, the intense magic begins to tear apart the abomination that Zorin becomes with their own transmutation magic, that convert her scythes into demonic alchemical weapons.
At the moment of the impact, she only screams in agony, while rips apart, and collides with the magical black hole. Nothing left remains to her, since it was pure destruction only below the atomic level, revealing how dangerous and terrible was the Giran Ira magic spell.
Fortunately, the prototype was not powerful enough to maintain the dangerous magic black hole opened more than five seconds, and suddenly collapses, releasing the destructive energy straight over the ceiling, blasting all the rocks on their path, until opens a hole straight to outside.
Without much control of the terrible DKL-01 magic weapon, Izuku finally could kill the insane Zorin Blitz, and as a bonus, it opened an escape route to outside.
The only survivors, apart Izuku, was the entire Wild Geese team and Endeavor, who was rescued by the old Magic Overboard kind of heraldic floating discs, the same magic cast by Izuku during the first days on Yuuei Hero Course. Meanwhile, Izuku casts the Raven spell in order to fly alone, while tried to guide the magic transportation device in order to get all the team out of hostile site.
"Mission accomplished!", spoke Gara, "Now… Let's got out of there!"
In reality, the last step was to destroy the site, but they need to escape from the opened hole first, and then escape from North Korea swiftly as fast possible.
To be Continued...
Chapter 20: The Expendables
Summary:
Defeated the real guardian of the phony enemy base, while one of the Twelve Anthrax's strongman has also eliminated, Izuku obliterated the remains of the base.
Pip Bernadotte manage to contact from some underground mercenaries and smugglers groups around the world, and bring a way to escape from North Korea.
Notes:
(See the end of the chapter for notes.)
Chapter Text
The chaotic battle aftermath...
Izuku could fell a terrible, but not excruciating, pain, once the adrenaline drops and could notice the wounds and bruises on his skin that was not covered by the original base marmour, or the new DKL-01 prototype that appears to start to break apart, once the magic release of the insane Giran Ira spell quickly decays.
However the magic heralding discs, that Izuku once called them Magical Overboard starts to fade away, and Izuku decide to land on the outside, before this spell breaks, and everyone would fall straight to their death.
Fortunately, Izuku managed to fly straight along the opened hole that resulted from the insane fight with Zorin Blitz, and bring everyone safe to the outside.
The violent impact of Giran Ira may have damaged the foundations of the outside building, or even bringing the entire bunkers infrastructure into the brink of collapse.
Even with those catastrophic aftermath, Pip Bernadotte knew that the enemy still had the capability to send a distress call to the nearest military units to the affected site. The prideful North Korean Army may had lost one important research centre, but until their enemy still lurks inside their territory, all Wild Geese members will be easy targets.
"Midoriya...", Pip Berdanotte still dare to ask, "You had some magic energy left to make the last step ?"
Izuku was exhausted from the fight with Zorin Blitz, and probably the most challenging foe that Izuku ever face on his entire life. Even on Yuuei, his colleges barely could fight against him more than some seconds, before Izuku takes down with powerful spells. After all, the fight with Zorin was hellish, and only won due to a barely controllable magic weapon prototype.
"This magic weapon can help to this…", but he is not convinced, when notices the cracks along the armor structure, "However… In my honest opinion... Our real problem is to cross almost 300 km of hostile terrain...", and Izuku sighs when remember all the options to a viable escape route, where none of all are truly safe, "And by the way… I think my magic vitality, in order to restore my natural elemental pool, it will reset fast by casting my final technique..."
Pip Bernadotte nods, more when Izuku was worried about the escape route. So far, Pip was trying to ensemble his military satellite radio communication device, actually a kind of laptop with a strong military-grade hardware encryption module with a satellite antenna, in order to communicate to his trustful allies around the globe.
Gara intervenes fast, in order to Izuku not wanders along the assigned mission, "You mean… That you can use the remaining magic energy left to finishes at all..."
Terzieff-Godefroy was a little worried, "Why to burst the remaining magic energy on such spells, and save on other things instead ?", but not a single one answers.
Endeavor swallow dry, just to mumble, "What… What kind of final technique this WTF monster still have ?!"
Serpico and Silver Fang, who wanders around during the briefing, returns with an alarmed face, "It appears that we have company!"
Pip Bernadotte quickly turns his face, and detects under the dark night, the strong lights delivered by a swarm of military helicopters that was quickly arriving on the damaged military base.
The captain vampire swiftly makes orders, "Gara, Serpico, Silver Fang… Both you… Scatter around, and try to find any warehouse that contains at least weapons and ammunitions… And it will be nice, if those bastards rent a car!"
The three vampires nods and reply, "Yes… Sir!", before the three vampires dashing quickly at random destinations.
"And by the way… Rohellec… And you, clown below Schwarzenegger...", making Endeavor annoyed, "Stay behind from Midoriya...", before asks directly to Izuku, "What final techniques you can cast at this moment ?!"
"If I taking care the helicopters first, since they attack from a single vector, I can drain my magic energy pool with a ritual, and then cast an Halloween spell against them...", while makes a slight pause to breath, "However, I think that I can use this device called DKL-01, or whatever they called it, to destroy the whole site, using my most powerful magic spell, Black Sabbath… For the second time on my life!"
Pip Bernadotte, who already had some knowledge forehand, makes a smirked face, "Excellent… I always wanted to see cast that magic spell that resemble a detonation of an atomic bomb!", making specially Endeavor under awe and shock, "If you managed to maximize your magic on that Black Sabbath, even cities like Tokyo or Shanghai, or Pyongyang, since we are on North Korea, would be simply obliterated, killing millions on a blink of an eye…"
Izuku makes a sad smile, followed by an angry face, "Unbelievable… I'm not the heir of Dark Schneider's wills to become a doomsday pawn!", baring his fangs and hissing furiously, "Since even I have to kill, is to protect everyone..."
Silver Fang nods positively, and warns, "Don't take some rant too much seriously from Pip, since he knew that the limits of insanity better than everyone", without an annoying remark from the putative vampire.
The younger vampire, either way, drops his giant sword, who has been used to cast the ritualistic spell that craft the Sword of Hell, straight deeply on the cracked and dusty ground, and use his extreme concentration to meditation, in order to prepare to use with another ritual.
Before everyone dare to ask, Pip Bernadotte smiles when ears a noisy engine from an mixture of armored personal carrier and a lighter tank, and quickly recognize that was a modified Chinese made APC-2045 model that resemble the US Army tank M1A3 family models produced on 2020's years:
"Even this stuff had almost half a century, at least should roll at the utmost..."
Less a minute later the remaining vampires bring some crates of rocket propelled grenades, ammo clips, and anti-tank bombs, placing swiftly inside the vehicle.
"For now, I will stay here, and then fly using my Raven spell...", spoke Izuku while tries to gather magic energy, "Due to the infamous Black Sabbath, you should run away… otherwise the black flames will destroy everything..."
"OK...", said Pip, while delivers a portable radio device, "But use this radio in order to communicate, and find you...", before delivers, "Good luck, and kill those bastards!..."
Gara also requests, "Before you cast the second spell, wait until ten minutes in order to gain some distance", but notice from a map, "Or better… This road follows the mountain range, and within this time range, some mountains will shield for sure, the blast impact...", where remembers some crash-course of nuclear warfare, and the best strategies to use a shelter in order to survive.
The captured vehicle runs fast from the enemy base, fortunately with the enemy guard still confused with the havoc, and more focused to recover from the blast caused by Giran Ira, than stop the enemies fleeing. The few menaces was easily overcame when Gara and Serpico use the stolen weapons to shoot every soldier that appears on from of them.
With this factors, the Wild Geese escape without much resistance, if it exists at all.
Nuclear Doomsday...
Meanwhile, Izuku raises his sword against the group of helicopters, that appears to start to divert or scatter from Izuku's point of view, prompting him to seal a ritualistic spell, "Vetus regni mediocris tales autem perfusa flexuosis plenam lunam quaeruntur … Arcanis tua et voluntatibus supplantare gressus.", releasing a magic circle around the vampire sorcerer, "Ordinatores et stratores laguncularum bellatorem, perdidit phantasia in te regna", that energize the raised sword, "Gloriam tuam non oblitus imperii factis pactionibus!"
Less than a second later, a pillar of dim greyish light, with blue tones was released from the magic circle straight to the sky, linking the mage with the moonlight.
Endeavor and some other vampires, listens the radio, and watches from the back window when possible, the magic ritual been unfolding. The whole scene couldn't avoid by itself some strange feelings of admiration and fear, when Izuku uses his special abilities.
The brief spectral light release makes the increasing gathered enemy soldiers, who was reequipping and regrouping, annoyed and mesmerized with the strange phenomena.
For Izuku, it's the adequate time to finishes this at all, and strike hard.
"Kayzard! Halsard! Kiske! Kay! Hansen! Grosskopf! Sielck!", Izuku releases his aura along the raised sword, creating a kind of lightning plasma and follow the upward pillar of light straight to sky, once the incantation prelude was cast.
Seconds later, a magic thunderstorm forms on the middle. "Cast all wise men of Hades and Gather the Seven Circle's Keys of Hell!", where the magic magic thunderstorm swirls and brights red, accumulating magic energy like a vortex.
Pip Bernadotte, who even spoke the incantation by reflex, was interrupted by Gara, "Mister… If you spoke incantations randomly, you may be cursed!", just to Endeavor snaps, "WTF is the Seven Circle's Keys of Hell ?!".
The Izuku releases the magic thunderstorm energy straight to the helicopters swarm, "Open the Gates of Tartarus and Unleash total destruction!", where Izuku also directs the sword like a compass, targeting the enemy at maximum precision possible, "HALLOWEEN!"
Pip Bernadotte spoke the rest of incantation, without great problems, since he never learn the actual spell, but the effects of that kind of magic plasma flare was terrible destructible.
The release takes about two seconds, an improvement from the USJ incident. Either way, the destruction was immense, since the giant dark energy plasma once unleashed, destroys the helicopters like them made by soapy foam, and been instantaneously ionized at the point to form a nuclear plasma.
Then the barely confined plasma explodes, creating a cascade event that brings down the remaining helicopters, and burns everyone on the ground when the heat wave released by the plasma or the secondary explosion hits the ground.
Izuku swiftly casts a flying magic spell, in order to escape from the unleashed chaos, "Wah-ko… I pledge the Sacred Mountain's Wind Spirit to became my Flight's Mage!… CELESTIAL FLIGHT RAVEN!"
"So that's the famous Halloween ?!", Silver Fang delivers an bewildered remark, before everyone snaps off the shock, "Unbelievable!"
"How… many people would be killed... if he casts that WTF thing during the Festival ?!", Endeavor was frightened.
Even Izuku hovers several meters above the ground, while notice the random panic and fury of the surviving military units, and the easiness that Pip escape from the disarrayed enemy base, makes him confident to unleash the most powerful magic spell he could cast.
The chaos endure several seconds, accumulating some minutes of havoc, giving enough time to the escape vehicle hide from Izuku's point-of-view, when the road passes beyond a mountain.
First, Izuku synchronizes his ancestors spirits along the Demon Knight Lucifer DKL-01 magic armor, casting an alchemical ritual, "Tribus maioribus heroico!… Spondeo in sanguine tuus!...", crafting the once cast magic circle that link the Geralt's seven Signs with Dark Schneider's Black Chaos Magic, "Magno animo vinculum inter caelum et inferos antiquis... Sit vetus testamentum Tenebrosi Cicero!… Magia Erebia liberatio!...", while needs to use his own blood to flow magically to each sign, and seal the enchantment, "Qui excieo septem antiqua incantamenta ab Lupus Alba … Et sanguinis sacramentum signum!..."
Finally, Izuku raise his right arm straight to the sky, before rotates his torso, and his head, and swings the right arm directly to the opened hole on the ground, linking the magic circle and the earth. Meanwhile, some soldiers tried to fire their machine-guns, or even use their quirks against Izuku, but without avail, much due to the magic barrier that forms during the formation of the current magic ritual circle.
At this stage, Izuku's eyes flashed red, and his dark aura unfolds, beginning the enchantment, "Hear me, the dark ones! Hear me, the void!", while the dark aura release collide against the the bottom of the hole, shaking the entire ground, "OH! The Great Obscure Flames of Chaos! Under your Dark Pantheon, I pledge you Death Sacrifice!", while the DKL-01 somehow increases the magic energy output, compared to the first time Izuku could cast such thing.
Either way, a portal from Hell was opened, forming a magic domain between the ground, and above it, due to the giant hole, and the magic circle itself, releasing magic fires that makes everything, no matter the actual composition, catches fires, and spontaneously combust.
"Awaken the Great Chaos of Underworld and the Omnipotent Inferno of Darkness!", making the point where the DKL-01 starts to crack, and the confined magic magnetic field begins to wobble dangerously, spilling death and destruction, while the temperature rise, "From the Hades flames and Sabbath lies… Eternal Idols of Heaven and Hell, Paranoia Dreams that never Die... Guided by Iron Man's cast spell!..."
Pip Bernadotte already drive some kilometres away, but they barely could listening the new incantation, and some ever could see the effects at such distance. Even Endeavor not spoke until now, "I knew that this monster are the Devil!...", just to be been slapped by Silver Fang, "Be respectful! And rational!..."
It was the point when the black miasma self-ignites, and raises the temperature above several millions of degrees, while the magic domain begins to compress, "Under the Dark Pact of Chaos… Release the Hades flames! Dai Idol! Dai Omni! Gizeh! And brings everything destroyed by the Nuclear Doomsday!...".
And Izuku delivers a sudden arm stroke against the ground, or more realistically the aura projection of an actual limb instead the real one. This projection technique, similar to the ancient ki techniques made from warriors that once lived on Ancient China, was one of the power enhancements made possible more easily with the DKL-01. With this trick, Izuku could maintains hovering on mid-air, and avoiding a real direct contact of the ground.
Finally, Izuku yells, "BLACK SABBATH!", making the magic domain explodes, and also everything underground and above ground, releasing a flashing dark and then white flare, where temperatures goes beyond ten thousand million Kelvin (10^10 Kelvin!) for an instant, before cools down and the convective and thermal plasma release expands and cools.
During one second, even the lighter atoms fuse together, releasing deadly nuclear radiation in form of gamma rays, thermal neutrons, or high energetic electrons. Izuku manage to craft a mixed fusion/fission bomb using magic, with a little help of the DKL-01, and detonate successfully.
Izuku himself was propelled upwards, while notices that the armor breaks and cracks in several parts, while suffer a sudden magic loss, since it was put too much pressure on his body.
On a radius of two kilometers, everything on the ground was killed and destroyed. Essentially, everyone who on the path of the nuclear detonation was simply volatilized. The entire bunker system collapses, killing everybody, either by the nuclear radiation, the debris failing or the explosion itself.
Between two and five kilometers from the explosion, any survivor receive a lethal radioactive dose, or the burns caused by the thermal wave, dying quickly afterwards.
Izuku itself was shielded by is own magic barrier, but suffer some radiation damage, healed by his inhuman vampiric regeneration powers. The giant recoil delivered by the magic barrier collapse, propels Izuku like a rocket, in the way that experimental nuclear thermal rockets should work, using small nuclear bombs to propel the rocket forward. The thermonuclear explosion itself enables Izuku to fly at higher altitudes, before starts to fall at higher speed. Izuku notices that his magic powers was fading away, that a terrible consequence of a magic spell that had a full month recovering time.
The shockwave of the explosion still make several damages at distances up to 30 kilometers, but the mountainous terrain will cut the real range by a smaller value. Izuku, during the propelled flight, could notices from the vision of the atomic mushroom that left from their own magic spell. Izuku estimates that will land somewhere about 20 kilometers away the explosion, and only could maintain the same vector route of the Pip.
Pip Bernadotte sighs when notice that was about 10 to 15 kilometers away when the Black Sabbath spell cools down. Apparently, the radio survive the explosion, more because Izuku was sent to another place, than the magic explosion itself. And the mountainous terrain helps Pip to survive the explosion impact, since he stops once he passed beneath a mountain that shield them from the explosion and radiation.
"Jesus Christ!", Serpico who tried to understand the aftermath, "WTF, honestly, was that ?!".
"A tactical thermonuclear weapon...", answers Pip, "Of about up to two megaton yield."
Gara makes a mad whistle, "Enough to wipe out Central Tokyo..."
"This boy deserves a Military Medal of Honour!", as Pip refers to Second World War Japanese medal Jugun Kisho, "About twenty thousand enemy soldiers was killed, and an enemy base was razed to the ground!"
Endeavor overacts with pain, "Your monster… Band of murderous monsters!", and scream with agony, "That's your fault that uses a young citizen, who only wants to be an Hero, acts like a mass murderer machine...", just to receive a stroke on the back, leaving unconsciousness.
"It will sleep a while...", said Pip, annoyed, "We soldiers, never go back when we need to kill, in order to save another's..."
Izuku then try to use several magic spells when falls straight against that appears to be a peasants village, layered by rice fields, from the upward point of view. Izuku, like other vampires, had an excellent night vision that supplant the humans, but the real problem was to avoid his death at impact. At this stage all Dark Schneider's magic spells won't activate too soon, and the last resource was the Witcher Signs:
"Please… May this spell works!… Witcher Sign Heliotrope !...", blasting a magic shield against the floor in the same way that help to slow down before impact during the Yuuei's Entrance Exam.
Fortunately, the Heliotrope work somehow, and the dangerous free fall speed was reduced to a safe value, enable to embrace for an impact straight on a muddy rice paddle, without suffering serious injuries. And the rolling around the mud also help him to reduce the impact, until he finally stops. The younger vampire was filled with mud and herbs, but was alive after all.
Rescue...
Meanwhile, Pip Bernadotte notice that the radio breaks down, but manage to use his portable computer embedded on a military communication device to find the last position, "It appears that Midoriya falls about seven kilometers away!".
Gara also requests, "It's possible to request a rescue mission ?"
Pip Bernadotte thinks while drives along the desert road, even it had four lanes, and without any transit sign or road marks!
"I will text first to our HQ, and wait further instructions!...", where in reality, he also made contact to some irregular militias that was longtime allies.
Meanwhile Izuku managed to walk around the darkness of night, and find the nearest road, while tried without avail to contact the rest of the team.
"Just great! The radio is broken down, and I left alone on the middle of nowhere!", yelling at every possible angle.
But the first person was sighted wasn't Pip, but a North Korean Army military soldier running against him, ordering him to surrender or face death.
Since the Witcher Signs still works, Izuku casts the Axii in order to confuse him, or trying to switch sides, but the magic left was not strong enough to cast an advanced spell.
It left a single option out, Izuku runs straight against him, and bite their neck to drink blood, while wrestles the bewildered soldier to take him out.
Once neutralized the first threat, Izuku notices the lights of a vehicle about 500 or more meters away, just to notice that was from Pip Bernadotte. At least, Izuku could heave a sigh of relief.
Once Izuku was rescued, and bring along the vehicle, Pip delivers the following order:
"Due to high state of alert caused by some North Korean Navy submarines that cause a little havoc on Sea of Japan, the best they could delivered to us is to catch a military flight from an US military base located on South Korea..."
"WHAT ?!", Izuku screams, "After all, what's the havoc ?!"
"It appears that even one of your classmates suffer a direct strike on a submarine torpedo, but without causalities...", said Gara when read the attachments, delivered by a satellite link.
Izuku's aura was murderous, "Very nice… news… My nation suffer an attack… much due to your incompetence..."
Pip Bernadotte tried to overcome this issue, and counters, "However, driving all along North Korea, when the army will certainly chase us, until the frontier of South Korea are out of question… It's about 500 km!", and receive a message that change his mood, "But I contact a group of smugglers that operate along the Chinese border that delivers a nice option..."
"And what option ?!", everyone asks.
"If I continue to drive to north, there's an old propelled plane that those smugglers wants to dispose!...", while the driver makes an insane smirk.
Gara understands and sighs, "Remember the movies called The Expendables, or Tropa de Elite, also called Elite Squad ?!"
Izuku don't remember such movies, until Pip Bernadotte speaks, "I suggest you, Izuku, to watch all those movies on your weekend, once you return safe to home…"
"And why you suggest such old stuff ?!"
"It's because our real saviors are like the Mr. Church own private band of bastards...", and everyone, except Izuku of course, and the unconscious Endeavor, babbles, "We are the Wild Geese, the worst mercenaries of the damn rotting world!", and laughs after that.
Probably Izuku will never understand such brotherhood shared by this crazy band of mercenaries vampires!
To be Continued...
Notes:
This marks the real final chapter on this crazy story arc. On next chapters, Izuku lfe on Yuuei will return (almost) to normal.
Chapter 21: First Mission Acomplished
Summary:
A relative shorter chapter that marks the Black Ops arc, and the returning to the High School Student life.
Izuku returns home safe and sound, but without remorse.Edit: Make some correction on previous chapters, and correct this last one.
Chapter Text
At Inko's house…
Midoriya Inko couldn't believe the regretful eyes from the vampire Pro Hero, and also her son's teacher, Eraser Head. And also she didn't expect that Katsuki was here along their family, and some son's colleges, just for them appears straight on the apartment's door, and on earlier morning.
"What's happened ?!", said Inko, when also displays the last e-mail sent from her son to their smartphone, and she holds it to everyone see, "Mission accomplished!... Endeavor rescued!… Some medals award...".
"Well...", either Aizawa or Katsuki tried to speak, but fade quickly.
"He's… safe ?!", Inko was also a little freighted and then perplexed to saw Katsuki, who was normally a very menacing person, look so vulnerable.
"Well… If you watched the news… about Endeavor been kidnapped to North Korea...", Eraser Head was not on his best days.
Inko face all the Heroes and students pretending to be someday, before delivers a mad face, and hisses, revealing her sharp fangs.
She even bite and cut Eraser Head's neck skin, a sign of punishment between vampires. The Pro Hero vampire was not on their usual mood, and couldn't one more than ear the green haired woman vampire spoke, "Not mean… That my son was sent to North Korea ?!", and yells, "What kind of Hero School accept such crap mission from mercenaries, pretending to be Heroes ?!"
Eraser Head bows to Inko, "I'm terrible sorry… Our son's displays of magic powers was quickly seized by the military to be scouted by the SDF, with some genuine interest, but I never expected they use him to such mission!..."
"The last thing I expected a civilian vampire Pro Hero, in training, is to take role of a Black Ops soldier!", said with a greeted face, "Your school should be ashamed by such idiocy...", and delivers a strong slap against Aizawa, who flinches. Once the mad moment ends, she sighs and opens the door, "Either way, my son should arrive at the end of day, once the military brings him to home..."
"That's fine!...", said Aizawa, "Many of my students had a last day to make their rounds, but everyone here will return afternoon..."
However, every student of Aizawa's class had already lost the concentration to focus on their internship.
A few hours earlier…
Pip Bernadotte quickly confirm that an old propelled plane lands, somehow, on a disclosure valley several kilometres from the Chinese border, and the smugglers returns to China using a small helicopter, leaving the plane without guards.
During the darkness of night, the mercenaries drive along the wide and empty North Korean highways almost without real threats, until he turn left to a secondary road with barriers and soldiers planted on front of him.
"Clean that bastards!", Pip orders to everyone with grenades and machine-guns to kill every soldier standing up.
"I expected a more organized chase, or a better mobilization of their Army... After all, or we deliver a strong blow that panics him several time, or simply they ordered to hold down, if we flee quickly...", said Serpico.
"Keep moving!", it was the straightforward sentence of Pip.
Once cleaned, Pip speeds up to continue. Then Gara checks the coordinates and use the on-board computer tools to estimate the distance, "It last more 10 km… On this goat tracks!"
Meanwhile Izuku removes either the DKL-01 armor and the inner suit that protects him from the chaotic rampage on the former enemy military base.
The constant chokes and bumps prompted Izuku to ask, "Why you are driving along such terrible road ?!", and almost hits the head against the ceiling, when the vehicle bumps over a hole on the unpaved road.
Silver Fang answers when adjust their safety belt, "It's because our benefactors laid their plane somewhere on this valley...", where Izuku couldn't reply more than sigh in pure disbelief.
The entire travel along the North Korean roads was lasting less than an hour, but managed to arrive quickly as fast to a move reliable transport, since Pip Bernadotte knew that the enemy will gather the major possible number of divisions in order to encircle them.
"Luckily… The decoy works...", Pip also counts with the smugglers traps to divert the enemy some additional time in order to fool them about the real escape route. And also the fuel quantity on deposit of this armored carrier was quickly failing to nothing.
"North Korean vehicles are no more than junk on the wheels!...", just to Pip don't lose the imaginary mark of crap talking.
Several minutes later, the old airplane was in their sight. Endeavor recover the senses in meantime, just to awake in wide eyes, when notices Izuku with a plain military clothes, without any kind of armor.
Pip Berdanotte's Airlines: Take an Hellish Flight!
"Passengers to the transfer to Welcome to Hell Airlines, please take the gates 666...", Pip Bernadotte pokes a bad joke, when finally stops the vehicle, and orders everyone to abandon it, "Move it… Move it… Move it!… This is not the Police Academy!", referring to a famous 20th century film series comedy, since he pokes the infamous Captain Harris catchphrase.
Silver Fang delivers a mad glare against Pip, "After those years, why you still deliver some stupid childish catchphrases ?!"
Pip Bernadotte reacts badly, "Honestly…", and almost punches Silver Fang, "Don't think that you are the superior here..."
Gara holds the enraged vampire, "Captain… This is not the place to brawl!"
Izuku was annoyed with the demeanour bursts that always occur when his authority are challenged, but he hopes that this flying piece of junk don't ends at the middle of sea, as notice the several metallic plates along the fuselage, and the corrosion won't be fatal during flight.
In less three minutes, Pip managed to turn on the rotors and and divert the plane to an abandoned paddle that appears to be nice fitted as an improvised airfield. Propelled planes don't fly to high, and only require a couple of meters to run and take off.
The plane was surprising manageable and capable to make sharp turns and dives, to compensate the reduced top speed. Using the geography to divert from threats, they managed to fly away the continental land of North Korea, by taking the confused terrain at Pip's favor. In fact, he managed to fly to Sonbong and before make a straight incursion on the Russia sovereign territory, he takes turn sharp right to the ocean before pass the swampy territory shared by China, Russia and North Korea itself.
"One of this barely working gadgets is this interference generator that give us fundamental minutes of cloaking...", explains Pip Bernadotte, "Giving time to the artillerist Silver Fang and bomber engineer Rohellec to test the main weapons without facing the actual enemy!"
Gara sighed when estimate the flight time, "This relic of ancient ages will take ten damn hours until reach the Funabashi HQ Airstrip!"
"If this thing won't fail and land straight on the ocean..."
Endeavor who still delivers a disgusting face on Izuku, dares to ask, "And why we simply don't land on the nearest airport on Japan mainland ?!"
"General from Command & Conquer junkyard crap...", answer Pip while maintains the route, ignoring the reaction of Endeavor, "Can you say, at least, my official Pro Hero Name, genocide buffoon ?!"
Izuku don't intervene, since he knew that the route Pip takes was really the fastest and straightest possible to route to Funabashi, along the Sea of Japan.
But Pip Bernadotte snaps violently, as he locks first the automatic pilot (which is a very basic and outdated one, that simply use a gyroscope to maintain a constant magnetic course), and points a loaded pistol straightly pointed to Endeavor's head:
"Persons who think that are better than real Heroes, keep their mouth shout or will riddled with bullets!"
Izuku then dare to ask, "Mister Pip… Why you are so distraught and hateful against Pro Heroes ?!", just to face the gun that now points to Izuku.
Serpico was the first to answer, "It's a long story… That begins when Pip Bernadotte was younger… At the 19th century, where he was born..."
"Shut up...", order Pip Bernadotte.
"His first hundred years life as a natural born vampire was a constant fight to survival...", Silver Fang intervenes, "And he hates the entire mankind as a source of all evils..."
"It's the final straw! SHUT UP!", Pip glares with reddish eyes.
Izuku life as a young vampire was fairly reasonable, since he could had a proper education on a public school along other humans, even with quirks. Since Japan had an historical relationship with the supernatural, the integration with vampires has fairy adequate.
But for foreigners like Pip Bernadotte, he probably had a miserable life, fleeing from the authorities, or been hunted like a beast.
Even Izuku's life on Elementary School wasn't all pleasant, since once his colleges discovered that was a vampire, much of them becomes frightened, and start to isolate from him. Katsuki, who already like to display her quirk, also becomes annoyed and tried to discover the weakness of his vampire friend. But his teacher helps the class to rebuild the bonds.
"Vampires don't have quirks...", it was an awkward answer when one random college asks if vampires had quirks like humans, "I may have a kind of special power that resemble telekinesis… Like my vampire mother... But it takes several… years...".
Izuku remembers the shenanigans of being a vampire, and the few times when his mother's relatives visits on apartment. Izuku was amused when a relative pokes his mother age, that was 300 years old, but young in vampiric terms. And remembers the tales that his mother spokes in order to calm the eagerness of the child vampire to gain special powers, since his own mother explains that Izuku may take up to 100 years. When Izuku explains all vampiric stuff, many of their classmates displays bewildered faces.
"However my doctor said that I had a strong bond to learn black magic, like my grand-father vampire from the mother side...", when Izuku once goes to the only medical center of Japan, on Sapporo, that diagnosis correctly the special abilities of vampires. But the meaning of black magic from many children was not so pleasant to hear.
And soon, even quirkless, Izuku on the next childhood years gains some regenerative effects that resembles some kind of human quirk. The physical strength also reaches a top during the Junior High years.
The Quirk Apprehension Test that Izuku made on first day on Yuuei resembles the same thing of the third year of Junior High, but without all quirks.
The instructor charged to the examination don't read forehand the warnings relative to vampire students, and becomes very awkward, even when Katsuki watches the whole scene, to explain the sheer differences on physical strength between a vampire and an human.
"What ?! 858 meters ?!", the examiner yells to Izuku, when he throw the ball on the test pretending to measure the horizontal pitch distance of the ball, using only the physical strength, "Are you cheating ?!"
"That's only my pure force!", Izuku answers a little embarrassed, waving the hands.
"For real ?! Even the students with powerful quirks never achieved 100 meters alone, like Katsuki who got 73… Three digits would require a quirk… And without a quirk, you said that you can throw ten times further ?!"
A teacher intervenes, "Mister… He's a vampire...", and before could explains better, the examiner overacts.
"WHAT ?! VAMPIRE ?!", making Izuku drop his sharp fangs, but without leaving a reddish blushing face, like a tomato.
We've got Hostiles!
Silver Fang sudden yelling snaps everyone inside the cabin to reality, "Sir… We've got hostiles!"
Quickly everyone runs to their positions, while Gara asks, "What company ?"
"Two North Korean jets are approaching quickly… Distance… 5 nautical miles", that's about 8 kilometers.
"Midoriya!...", Pip asks, "Unless your magic are really down… You can cast spells capable to bring down a military aircraft ?!"
Izuku thought a little, before answers, "I have some residual magic left… It will take several days until my vitality pool rejuvenate... Witcher Sighs are a big no, due to their short range… But the Magical Arrows can work...", as Izuku remembers that on Sports Festival, he was capable to shoot a swarm of magic bolts several meters away, reaching more than one kilometer…
Endeavor remember the scene, when Izuku casts several magic projectiles against the mines.
"And an additional thing...", Izuku also remembers, "This magic, once I learned from my magic teacher, are one of few spells that had an huge homing precision, and can be guided against a movable target!..."
"Alright!", orders Izuku, "Serpico! Prepare an harness to Izuku, while positions and locks him in the middle of the drop cabin, unless he want to fly, once the gate are opened!"
Silver Fang warns, "One of jets fire a missile!", just to Pip make a sharp dive descent that manage to dodge the missile.
But the vampires knew the luck won't last forever, as he pledge to hurry up, and prepare Izuku to the improvised battle position. Less than a minute later, Pip could open the drop door, just for Izuku face the sudden moist and cold air flowing at his face.
"Oh boy… I never use my magic to target at such greater distance...", pokes Izuku while tries to concentrate and cast a spell.
Some seconds that appears minutes later, Izuku manage to cast a glowing ball with color gradients ranging from red to blue, while meditates, "Ego antiquum pactum datë...", and yells, "Gather and Reunite the Spirits of Nature!", before notice that the two jets launches several missiles against him, making him a little frightened, "Damn it, I face the terrible Zorin Blitz, why...", as the missiles roars at supersonic speeds.
Izuku knew that Pip will try to divert the plane at any fraction of second, and then the green haired vampire casts the spell, "Target Lock on Enemy!", and delivers several dark icicles against the missiles, "Gather 7 Dark Ice Element Arrows!", making a loud explosion, "Elemental Magic Kjeldoran Javelineer... Shoot!"
The plane suffers the explosion impact, shaking violently, where almost Izuku lose their stand with terrible consequences. Pip Bernadotte still yells, "Are you fine ?! Are you ready for a second round ?!"
"Prepare for the second round!", Izuku reply, imitating the catchphrase.
Izuku exhales and prepares a new magic spell cast, "Ancient Darkness Spirits from Heaven and Earth! I Pledge and Gather you!...", creating a magic run disc with roughly the size of the drop cabin, "Gather 20 Darkness Elemental Spirits, 15 Fire Elemental Spirits, 10 Lightning Elemental Spirits...", before release the spell from his right stretched arm and hand, straight to the enemy jets, at a distance of about five kilometers away, "Magical Spirit Crossbow Arrows!… Release!"
The magic elemental arrows delivers several damage on the jets, either by blasting the engines or breaks the fuselage, ending with a fatal malfunction that brings the jets to a fatal and uncontrollable dive against the ocean.
"Hostages eliminated!...", Silver Fang confirms the shoot of all enemy jets.
Once this incident was settled, the airplane follows under the morning sun on the middle of Sea of Japan.
Funabashi HQ, some hour later…
Several hours later, the plane wreck managed to land on Funabashi, with partial brakes failure, fuel tank almost empty, and a terrible landing that almost tears up the airplane itself. The military staff sighed with such spectacle, since the Wild Geese achievements on destroyed military equipment was pristine, along the losses of backup personnel, making such end expected, like business as usual.
Even with such emotive return to home, specially Izuku, it takes almost three hours just to make check-ups and agreements to sign declarations of confidentially of several aspects of this mission.
All Might sighed with huge relief when witness both Izuku and Endeavor safe, even the Pro Hero needs to transfer to an hospital.
"Young Midoriya...", All Might whispers, "Who was your terrible mission ?", while adds the following remark, "Aizawa and your friends are in a total emotive disarray..."
"Terrible!", said Izuku, once scans the surroundings, before take All Might to a disclosure place, "The enemy was just plant an phony base, and even it was some remains of their previous researches... The real thing was everyone else..."
"Who they can be so stupid ?!", All Might was enraged with such misconduct.
"Only Endeavor, me and entire Wild Geese's vampires survived... Otherwise, they all dead... "
"Unforgivable!", said All Might with all eyes widen open, when calculate the number of casualties...
"Even so, I have the right to take to Yuuei a broken prototype of a magic weapon...", since neither the Wild Geese, or the SDF wanted such thing, since they knew the National Magic Association entangles on Yuuei itself.
All Might blinks in total stupefaction, "A Magic… Weapon ?!"
"Essentially the technological evolution of the wands and sticks crafted from bushes… Dragon Knight Lucifer Armor DKL-01, and the Satan's Ring..."
All Might could laugh if the situation isn't serious, "Satan's Ring… The fool who create this should be pathetic...", but asks, "What's this… non-so-good DKL-01 can do ?!"
"Essentially makes the cast of destructive spell like Black Sabbath more powerful...", making All Might eyes widen.
"Those spell was capable to destroy an entire training field, and the enemy created a device to increase the destruction powers of such magic ?!"
Izuku sighs before show to it his notebook with drawings, "But I had a terrible fight with a vampire that was also a sorcerer… One of the commanders of Letzte Bataillon… Zorin Blitz...", just to reveal the scars of the battle.
All Might was terrible serious, since he understands that Izuku found his first real tough adversary, "And he was strong ?"
"Well… She was...", making All Might surprised to his adversary been a woman vampire, "Very strong… Zorin Blitz was also the responsible of the capture of Endeavor and killing of Stain..."
"Stain is dead ?!", All Might was shocked.
Izuku dare to ask, "While I read some Hero Journal articles, I remember about some infamous villains, but why Stain was so special about ?"
All Might coughs, "In terms of quirks, he wasn't special. But his martial arts skills make them too damn strong to handle...", spoofing the quirk superiority myth that make a great hero or a mad villain, "The real problem was the fact that he kill several heroes, making him the holder of Hero Killer..."
Before quirks been prevalent, serial-killers already exists, but Izuku still don't get about why Stain was so special, "Murderers, genociders, assassins... Whatever... Those stuff even exists before quirks..."
"Well... Stain target mainly Pro Heroes who had bad behaviours, or been corrupt on some citizen eyes... Making Stain...", conclude All Might, "A some kind of Hero on some people, since he expose several flaws of our Heroic Society... And the quirk truism that can make several quirkless which could be Heroic relegated to the bottom pit, while the ruffians can be celebrities if their display their quirks as Pro Heroes!..."
"'iitq damu albari' - la shay' mutlaq bal alkulu mmkn - 'iikhtabi wasat alzuham - 'iikhtabi wasat alzaham - nahn min aytamank - wala takhn min aytamanik.", Izuku remember the words from the Assassin's Creed franchise, specially the original text written by Altair.
"WTF ?!", All Might eyes widen when Izuku spoke Arabic.
"Revere the blood of innocent, nothing is an absolute truth, everything is possible... Hid in the midst of the crowds... Hid in the midst of the hustle!... We are from your trust - and do not betray your trust.", Izuku translates.
All Might blink his eyes, "Nothing is true ?!... What ?!..."
"Sorry! It was the Assassin's Creed motto, that plain fits on Stain... It was like an Assassin, in order to kill the corrupts... But since is unlikely that all Pro Heroes are Templars...", Izuku shakes is head, "Sorry of my insanity... But I understand the Stain modus operandi ... As a kind of rebel who wanted to fix the society, even with wrong ways..."
"Leaving such franchise alone... Midoriya, do you have some information about the Endeavor kidnapping ?"
"During the kidnapping, Stain was fighting against Endeavor… then Zorin seals Endeavor's quirk with black magic, which spell is called Einherjer, where later I managed to understand the incantation formula… And break the curse...", making All Might perplexed.
"And Stain… well… It was mercifulness sliced with a scythe..."
"An ironic death by someone who was an expect of blades and knives fighting!"
"However, Zorin knew several cursing magic spells that can be applied on their scythes in order to be terrible lethal."
"What's the most terrible villainy behaviour that I ever face...", and All Might explains, "Later on your classes, I will detail the procedures to handle cruel villains, who only want to make the other suffer... Or even terrorists... While rebellious or grey villains needs other methods to handle..."
Iuzku agrees with the All Might thoughts, "Specially the villains that don't have real evil wills, where instead they are also victims..."
"Correct!", but points to Endeavor, "And speaking of Endeavor..."
"Endeavor itself don't have any chance against her...", making All Might frighten, as he remembers that Izuku itself defeats him easily.
"And how… you manage to defeat this monster ?!"
"It was a terrible fight that occurs along several bunkers on a hit-and-run battle, where the North Korea Army joins the fray, and his vampire subordinates to the battle. It all ended with a stupid... bloodbath...", Izuku exhales before resumes, "The whole battle ends when I pick the magic weapon… where I managed to cast an unknown magic spell for me, where the incantation was engraved on it… Giran Ira… Or was pure beginner luck ?!", and sighs tiredly.
"And your time ?"
"All human backup ends killed after five minutes of battle...", making All Might terrible upset, "leaving all Wild Geese members…"
"And are nice to you ?!"
"Pip Bernadotte are a total arrogant, but had a terrible grudge and hatred against humans… The swordsman Gara was a little nice to me, like the older Silver Fang. The last two waste their time to calm the rage burst of Pip when yells and bring down who dare to question their authority..."
All Might could barely imagine the brotherhood along mercenaries, even their captain was a putative autocrat.
At last Izuku could said, "Serpico was a little inexperienced, but the real surprise was the kindness of Rohellec, who wad good knowledge of Magic Medicine..."
The Pro Hero overacts, "What ?!"
"Well… He was the only one that helps me to apply the first aid against Zorin curse on Endeavor..."
"Whatever...", said All Might, signalling to end the conversation, since the military was making rounds.
A officer delivers to Izuku three medals of honour, plus a certificate of honour and sacrifice to their own accomplishment.
A hour later, All Might and Izuku was sent back to Yuuei with a disclosed buses, leaving him to return to home by own means.
Welcome back…
In reality, when All Might and Izuku could finally exit from the bus, the entire Yuuei staff, and several students was in place to receive the oddly vampire.
"Why everyone was here ?!", Izuku was a little surprised, even knowing the huge anxiety of all classmates forehand. The surprise increases when notices that even his own mother was there!
"Izuku...", Katsuki was along Inko and his mother, "Welcome back...".
Izuku couldn't do more than hug his human friend, "Yeah… I'm fine...", and this time Katsuki don't react back when Izuku bites and drinks Katsuki's blood.
Aizawa barely open his mouth to alert the situation, but Izuku's mother blocks the vampire, as she's signalled, "Don't worry... My son knew about how much blood can be safely drink without harm him."
"And please...", Katsuki finally kick to Izuku release his fangs, "Don't drink to much...", making Izuku freckled cheeks blush.
"Sorry... I need to drink more blood once I return home...".
While the whole commotion unfolds, the Izuku's magic teacher Sakura Ichijouji along the gadget-freak student Hatsume Mei brings the boxes with the DKL-01 remains, in order to study the artefact, as part of the mission spoils.
Aizawa orders to the entire class to enter on the 1-A classroom in order to Izuku spoke the details of such dangerous mission.
Izuku don't discloses some sensitive information, but describe fairly well the spells and techniques of Zorin Blitz, in order to his magic teacher analyse the rituals and incantations to Izuku's own benefit. Even with such remarks, the battle with Zorin Blitz was one of the most emotive speech that Izuku delivers to everyone, since it was the first time when two sorcerers fight seriously.
Even to Todoroki who couldn't do more than bow and appraise Izuku to save his own father from death, don't hide the sheer impotence of a Pro Hero with quirks against a supernatural mage.
Of course everyone was in state of shock, not only about the catastrophic death tool, "Been acknowledge to be the cause of thirty thousand deaths in action is not a medal award I ever expected to be recognized…. Whatever...", but the borderline meaningless mission.
Several of best soldiers from Japan was killed on a mission that on normal conditions ended with a tragedy. Many of Pro Heroes, and students display their rage and shame of such vain sacrifice due to several planning errors
Later Izuku and Aizawa leaks some investigation reports about the Millennium Army, or the leader Anthrax who was a total mystery.
Finally, Aizawa orders everyone to return home, and prepare to the final semester exams, while pats Izuku's green hair hoping that he will forgive him to be so naive and been manipulated by the big brass men. Eraser Head will take sure that in the future Izuku will never be sent to such terrible disaster zone.
To be Continued...
Chapter 22: Bad Summer Time
Summary:
Izuku slowly returns to the normal student life, but without hiccups.
As a vampire, he hates the summer weather, making his magic more prone to reinforce black magic, but manage to learn to use less lethal magic spells.
When the first semesters ends, Aizawa decide to evaluate the 1-A classmates with a Battle Royal inspired by the Player Unknowns Battlegrounds or their clones, since Aizawa and Izuku was the only ones of Yuuei who love to play such kind of games!
Chapter Text
Several weeks after the First Hero Internship, all Yuuei students quickly return to normal lives.
Izuku was one of the few who took more time to relax and recover the usual self, where it's means when the young vampire don't make sudden attacks, or pretend to do, against other students.
Izuku's mother was also a little worried, not because when her son watches on late evening at home movies, both suggested by the former internship tutor, which was the infamous Pip Bernadotte, but also the bad mood and bad behaviors. Much of Izuku's yelling or menacing poses was one of the reflexes that the vampire learn when faced the Millennium Army or the North Korean Army. And the return to the relative peaceful Japan, apart the villain tropes, was taking several time.
Home classroom disarray
Aizawa was very worried with the psychological impact delivered to Midoriya during the Internship made on SDF.
Even all human students internships occur without serious incidents, except during the Tsuyu's mission when her ship was hit by an enemy torpedo, Izuku was very annoyed since he became the centre of all attentions.
"Can you… leave me alone ?!", Izuku spoke with a menacing aura and sparkling vitality release.
Kaminari and Mineta barely could move or even swallow when Izuku hisses or drops his sharp fangs.
"It's… better that Midoriya-kun was already drinking blood today...", Mineta mumbles almost in panic, when remember the times when his own teacher punish him by biting him.
Izuku ears perfectly the frightened remark from the grape haired boy, and remembers the awful morning that started when he wakes up a little late, and barely eats a decent breakfast.
By a vampire standard, any decent meal means drinking blood, since any human food is only an additive to their diet. Since the younger green haired vampire barely eat at all, he was more aggressive than usual, and staying around several humans and been hungry was too tempting to not bite someone.
But the older vampire couldn't reprehend too sharply, since he shouldn't deny the regret of leaving one of his own students to a military adventure that almost ended with a mundane disaster.
"Young Midoriya… Don't menace your colleges...", Aizawa warns, making Izuku upset.
"Don't menace… Hwahaha...", Izuku makes an ironic laugh, before snaps to a more defiance stance.
When the younger vampire hisses and displays his fangs again, Aizawa counters with a more stronger one, "Hissing… Honestly! You are a thousand years too young to even defy me!"
Yaoyorozu was one of students who felt agonized with such silly stand off, much due to the fact that vampires drinks human blood. Specially when she tried to talk back to Midoriya, and the green haired vampire bit her, instead to reply.
Izuku snaps when notice that he make something not much acceptable, and tried to apologize, "Eeeh?! I'm...", but receive a slap back.
Aizawa could fell a slight relief of the stand off, and due to the Izuku's unwanted biting, the teacher becomes worried about the younger vampire's health.
Bakugou was also annoyed, but feels sadness and impotence, as one of close acquaintances barely could return home alive. In fact, just at the next week-end after Izuku's safely return to home, the blonde decide to visit his friend at home.
Midoriya's flat, on previous day...
Katsuki was a little bewildered when ears some weird foreign language streaming along the stereo columns connected to the television, while Izuku was watching some movie, as he drinks fresh blood from a canister.
"Deku...", the blonde turn his head to the TV screen, and notice the action between a military police swearing against a drug dealer, and reads the Japanese subtitles below, "WTF is this ?!"
"An almost century-old Brazilian movie called Tropa de Elite, or Elite Squad...", Izuku answers a little annoyed, "Where tells the story of a special operative from Brazil called Nascimento, who was a military officer from the Brazilian BOPE agency, playing hero when to faces drug dealers and corrupt policeman during the late 20th and begin of 21st century Rio de Janeiro..."
Izuku's mother, who already take her own blood meal earlier explains without spoiling, "Recommendations from the former internship instructor that almost... kill my son...", Inko made a frightening hissing, "Since that Pip Bernadotte, a bastard, was a former BOPE official on Brazil..."
And the younger vampire concludes, "Essentially, the definition of a real hero, according to him, is simple as that…", he waits a seconds before resumes, "Don't trust anyone, shoot the bastards, murder the corrupts, just kill them all… A dead villain is one bastard less… Amen!..."
Katsuki was annoyed, and before he could reply, his mother spokes, "To the foolish and the naive, we will grant eternal suffering!… Amen..."
"WTF… are you evenly thinking ?!", Katsuki overacts, and almost explodes with their explosive quirk, but the Axii Witcher Sign cast almost instinctively by Izuku disable the action forehand.
And also almost forgot the awkward remembrance that occurs once the entire 1-A class reunite together after their Internships, that was also bitten by his Deku, returning to the present time.
Back to Classroom...
Iida stands up from the table and intervenes, "Sorry for the bad behavior...", and bows to apologize, "Midoriya!… This is not a place to exchange menaces and defiance!"
"Have you drink blood today ?", Aizawa decide to intervene, since he could understand the origin of Midoriya's bad behavior, apart of the stress derived from the warfare experience, "You are still recovering from that mission, but skipping blood meals is not a good idea!"
Izuku blushes ashamed, and didn't reply, prompting his teacher to order, "Honestly! Sit down, and once this class are over, go to the Recovery Girl office to drink and heal...".
Later on that day, it begins another Practical Hero Lecture, where Izuku premiers another version of their Hero Costume, much lighter and apart of the pauldrons, it was made with a purple outfit made with a pants and a shirt.
All Might was a little relieved to Izuku made a much modern outfit, and more adequate to his future heroic career.
"Since I'm officially a mage", as their Magic Arts Teacher Sakura-sensei delivered to Izuku a letter a day before, that was officially registered as a Rank-A Apprentice Sorcerer on the International Association of Wizardry, "I take my wisdom to craft another outfit...", reviling the source, "From Diablo III, Ultimate Evil Edition..."
The last sentence was interrupted by some random laugh, or annoyance, specially from Aizawa itself, "Alright… Midoriya… Once you start an Hero Mission, don't forget to summon the demoniac hordes from Hell!..."
All 1-A classmates made a broken smirking smile, and an huge dry swallow, since they knew that such thing was a piece of cake for the young green haired vampire to make that happen.
The explosive blonde gave an agonized face, and a broken smile, since he never understand how a creature living on darkness like he breathe air, could ever though to help the humans.
But for great relief of Aizawa, much of Izuku's magic display on that lecture was mainly focused on the more inoffensive and tricky Witcher Signs, and some magic barriers crafted with own Izuku's blood. This was a recommendation from Sakura-sensei, and taking adamantly by the young vampire, as he already knew that during hot weather, Izuku's capabilities to cast magic are affected, and it would too tempting to increase the magic energy output of black magic.
Confusion on the Shopping Mall
About a mouth past the Internship, Izuku returns to the usual self, but still overacting to the surroundings, making annoying behaviors on public. In order to help his son, Inko decided to invite his son to relax, and refocus, since staying too much time locked on the house, except the mandatory school activities, would not be good for his health.
The Hosu Shopping Mall was the target of a mother and son vampire's trip, where the younger one could spot the former and current school colleges making fun while go to the stores, or goes straight to the arcades.
Inko tried to pinch the freckled cheeks once her son yawns or displays his fangs in public, as Izuku was bored and complains the hot weather. As a vampire, it requires to use plain cloth, since the strong sun could made sunburns easily, and prompting some additional blood lust beyond the acceptable.
Some witness quickly notice that those two green haired persons are vampires, and tried to understand about the presence of them during daylight.
However, Izuku ignore them, as he pulls off the blue cardigan, and a white hat, once he and his mother enters on the mall's hall.
The summer was the most detestable season by the point of view of Izuku. He sweat a lot, and gets upset too quickly, since vampires don't like heat. Even's Izuku is mainly a Fire Elemental Sorcerer, that not a real problem, as their magic barriers spells tends to shield him against the heat generated by the different vitality releases.
It was also the time when a vampire don't ingest anything but blood, human blood preferentially, and some water or tea, as the capacity to digest regular food is too low during summer.
In fact, Izuku was very upset due to the heat on the previous day, when Mineta teases him, ending with a nice bite.
"The blood taste of an human pervert is so awkward… Is like the durians, but reversed, where it had an horrible taste, and a deceiving visual fragrance!", Izuku thoughts to himself, just before Iida storm against Izuku, before delivers a strong slap.
"Midoriya!… Since when your fellow classroom college is a food ration ?!"
"I'm so sorry… Iida-kun...", Izuku reply and bows politely, before the things returns to normal.
Izuku's thoughts was suddenly interrupted when all security alarms fires up, followed by an alert from the loudspeakers:
"This is an Emergency! A dangerous Villain with threat level Rogue Demon, who was fleeing from the police and Pro Heroes, storm this mall!… For all personal and visitors, evacuate immediately or take shelter as soon as possible… I will repeat...", just to the loudspeakers been hit with a explosion from nowhere.
It takes a few seconds to the mall exists been flooded by successive waves of panicked citizens.
Inko freezes when notices that his son already decide to face the danger, as he cast the Raven magic spell to fly, and bypass the jammed corridors, and shops that was on a total disarray.
Meanwhile a group of High School students was entrapped between a madman who was capable to reinforce his build body with additional layers of muscular fibers, and a small child with horns and a hat, that was crying when face the menace.
One of the old students, a girl with some wind manipulation quirk tried to confront the villain:
"No more steps… forward...", as she tried to use her quirk to counter any pending menaces.
"What's do you thinking… silly hero fangirl…", as the stronger madman delivers a strong punch that cracks the floor, send the pretending heroine away within the gust.
"Kota!", screams a younger adult woman, who appears to be a relative of the younger boy, while send text messages to her own Hero Agency.
"Mandalay!", shout a Pro Hero with a kind of clownish costume, that resemble more a cat than a tiger, just to forgot than he spill the Hero Name of his comrade when she was dressed as a civilian.
The main villain, which was known on underground by Muscular, smiles derogatory, "Well, well… When I expected a real fake hero, it appears a bunch of clowns!", before spit against the dressed one, "The Wild, Wild Pussycats…!"
The Pro Heroes barely had time to plan, since Muscular reinforce their muscles coat before punch against Tiger, who tried to cross her arms in order to reduce damage.
And to increase the havoc, the villain deliver a strong gust against the student group straight at the nearest wall, or shop, breaking the windows, or been thrown against the furniture.
Under-covered, Izuku casts several lightning magic arrows, "Ancient Spirits of Thunderclouds, I pledge your ancient wisdom… Gather 30 Lightning Arrows… Magic Elemental Thunderbolts… Release!...".
Just before the main threat could laugh, he barely dodge the swarm of lightning bolts that appears from nowhere.
It was when the young boy with green hair, with a menacing aura release, that shout against the villain, "Oh!… You derogate a nice Pro Hero team, treating them like clowns, ignoring that you are the worst of them...", before switch to a more lighter Dark Schneider's magic, "Taitoro!... Ancient spirits of Lightning to Thunder!... Blow this enemy away!...", sending a wave of lightning missiles, that manage to cause an huge pain on Muscular, "ANSELM!"
"WTF is that damn clown Taser ?!", Muscular reacts with great rage, since his quirk once fully activated with all muscles assembled, help to reduce the impact of lightning strikes.
Some of students, who was from the Orudera Junior High School quickly recognize the former graduate student, "Mi...Midoriya-kun ?!"
"Also known as Dark Schneider, the Dark Sorcerer of Destruction Magic...", as he introduce himself, "It was supposed to be a nice mall shopping day, until you decide to cause destruction!"
"Dark Schneider ?", Muscular eyes widens open when recognize the insane Yuuei Student you won the current year First Year Yuuei's Sports Festival, "The one who… had magic ?!"
"I'm only a student from Yuuei, and also a apprentice wizard on was recently recognized...", Izuku spoke coldly, while raise his right arm.
Muscular reinforce the muscular fiber into extreme, before jump a deliver a strong punch, taking barely one second to make it.
"Witcher Sign Yrden Technique on Alternate Mode: Magic Trap", the green vampire cast the Sign with his fingers, and use his ki release projection to seal a ten meters radius magic trap domain, slowing Muscular a tenth of his original speed.
The main villain barely had time to react, when Izuku cast another kind of magic spell, "Ede!… Es!… Skin!… Great Priest of the Undead!… Great to me your wrath, and punch the Enemy!...", that manage to propel him against the ceiling, once release the magic kinetic energy in a form of a magic reinforced punch, "SKID ROW!"
"Unbelievable!...", it was Mandalay or Kota starring with the powerful vampire.
"Why he don't speak to us that was so overpowered ?!", some random former Izuku's college mumble silently.
However, Muscular releases a cursing rage, and releases from the ceiling hole, just to try to hit against Izuku or any Wild Pussycat's Pro Heroes.
Even Izuku suffer some physical injuries when he was been hit by a rampage swarm of punches from Muscular, prompting him to cast a cursing spell, "Cyco, Cyco, know your worth!", forming a phantom sword of ash and dark energy, "I granted your wills into a Ember flash of Ash and Wound!", that disintegrates, and inflict an huge pain on Muscular, along excruciating skin and muscle burns, "SUICIDAL TENDENCIES!"
"A magic spell capable to disintegrate flesh and fabric ?!", another student reacts, "How many skills this monster could handle ?!", and some of his friends quickly use their smartphones to browse about every Izuku's magic cast, and compare with similar quirks.
The Pro Heroes was a little mesmerized with Izuku's powers when himself face a real threat, but recover and quickly request the police to arrest the villain who suffer with the dread consequences of Suicidal Tendencies magic spell.
Instead, he tried to punch and kick against the law enforcement officers, yelling and swearing against everything on this path, "Band of idiots… You thought that I was too weak ?!".
Ignoring the pain, Muscular delivers uppercuts and punches against several police officers, while some arriving Pro Heroes reinforcements starts to encircle the villain, and aiding the evacuation of the threatened citizens.
The young child Kota discharges a stream of water, almost without wanted to do, as he was trying to distract the powerful villain, while tries to recover some senses lost due to the burns delivered by the dark magic miasma cast by Izuku.
"A water quirk ?!...", Izuku sighs when notices how this kind of water condensation technique works, by reading the vitality flow emanated by the small child, "Not mean..."
"So you are the son of the Water Horse duo ?!", Muscular makes a revengeful smirk, and a more defiance voice tone, "They you shall die here!"
"Water magic is not my real domain, but it can help to subdue him...", as Izuku roams along the magic knowledge to assemble the foundations of a finishing spell, that shouldn't kill him, as an absolute requisite.
However Kota turns his frightened and tearful eyes from the savage madman, and faces with fearful eyes the strange green haired boy who appears to defy every quirk phenomena law, as he begin to make a strange pose, and spoke some weirdness, "Sanctus aqua spiritibus, fons vitae et de septem custos maria meum et vocavi te antiquis foedus meum et illius annulo signatæ potestatem divinam."
Even for Mandalay or Tiger perspective, the comprehension of the magic ritual will became impossible to rationalize, specially when notice several layered circles encircling the strange green haired boy.
"Holy Saint Water, grant to me your powers! ACQUA AGER!", making Izuku temporarily a Water Mage, by requesting the power of Nature, specially the water based spiritual vitality.
"WTF are you doing ?! Such kind of aberration of nature ?!", Muscular enrages, and decides to deliver a strong kick or punch against the boy who dare to fight against him.
"Just to remember my Hero Internship...", as Izuku punch his water vapour coated fist against the middle of the magic circle on the floor, and starts the summoning spell, "Bernando... Waluta… Werna… Richardo... Old Water Domain… Fill my soul!", opening a magic portal, "My enemy is your enemy! May the strings of Spirits, and the damnation of Lies been my staff, and bring the Water dragon from the Underground!", just to summon the same water dragon that cause havoc on a secret North Korean military base, "Water Emperor's Dragon Cascade! AXIS!"
"Another dragon ?!", said another former Izuku's college when remembers when he watched mesmerized when the young vampire summons the more powerful Man-o'war dragon.
The summoned water dragon blocks the Muscular path, "Damn it! Freaking...", while Izuku decide to order an attack, before the Water Ritual Spell fades away, that would been a waste of precious magic energy.
"Ancient wisdom dragon! AXIS! I release you seal, and order to attack the enemy!", making the dragon bows to Izuku, treating him as the genuine sovereign, before attack Muscular, "Mizuryuu Koutei Fundo!, which means Water Emperor's Dragon Fury, by the direct reading of the ideograms, 水龍皇帝憤怒.
The enemy barely managed to react, since he was swallowed by the torrent of water released by the dragon, and hurled against the ceiling, once the dragon slams against it, while the impact rips the additional muscular fibers created by the villain's quirk.
"What kind of quirk is this ?!", Kota barely spoke, just to be cut off by the younger vampire.
"This is not a quirk, in human terms!", Izuku answers swiftly, "Is a supernatural ability called magic, that unlike the genetic inheritance of quirks, it can also be tailored or learned from scratch… If you have the adequate willpower to make such a thing".
After waiting a little time, Izuku face the astonished Kota's face, "In short terms… I'm a mage, a Magic user… And since I'm also a vampire, and my magic affinity are more akin to the darkness… I'm a Vryko-Warlock…", and plays a little to push small debris with his quirk-like vampire telekinesis, "If I only use my quirk-like vampiric powers, then I could only push small objects… Using magic, I surpassed such silly limitations!...", said Izuku with a smirking smile.
On meantime, Muscular manage to recover, even brutally wounded, and stands up once falls from the ceiling crater.
"Enough bullshit!", Muscular swears, and tries to recover his badly damaged muscles, using his quirk, "Prepare to die!..."
"Fool!", Izuku relaxes a little, and decide to try a new Dark Chaos Magic spell crafted from his knowledge from Dark Schneider's Grimoire, "Then I shall curse and seal your quirk!"
Muscular overracts and tried to punch against Izuku, only to ear the enchantment that begins when Izuku raise his left hand against the ceiling, "My Trustful Demon Servants under my Rule, I release your duties under your Cursed Ancient Pact!", where use some magic arts derived from the former combat against Zorin, "Release my grief that lurk on my Soul!", and the spell requires to Izuku to make a wound on the caster arm, in order to flow the blood to the magic circle realm, "Sages of the Number of the Beast, be Eternally Pleased under my Forbidden Contract, and Curse my enemy's Blood, Flesh, Bones, Skills and Iron!", before deliver a swarm of several sharp dark reddish spears that once hit against Muscular, forms several seals written on vampiric runes, "I swear my Honor, and lend your Will to punish the Enemy!", that reverse the villain to the normal form, while agonizes in pain, "IRON MAIDEN!"
The magic spell once fully unleashed, creates a magic domain that reverses the quirk crafted Muscular form, while the villain suffers an unimaginable pain, and a total loss of stamina and raw power, losing his own consciousness in less than three seconds. Even with such anti-quirk and cursing magic spell, Izuku don't kill them.
"Young… boy!", Mandalay quickly recover Kota, and dare to ask their savior, "Young boy… Who are you ?!"
"I'm Midoriya Izuku, a vampire from the Yuuei's Hero Course...", make her, and his colleges dumbfounded.
"A vampire ?!", but she recovers once she associate the student's name with the Yuuei's sports Festival victor, "Oh my God! If you had such powerful magic, why you don't used earlier ?!"
Izuku sighed, "Because such sealing and cursing spells requires a little preparation to be cast, and also the recovering time of my magic energy are another factor that I should not made mistakes...", and he starts to made his appointment to the police, "And my the way… This young child had abilities to learn magic… If he is interested… I suggest to call this number to made an exam to check that...", before Izuku leave a perplexed Kota.
But Mandalay, who was a close relative of that boy, was much more perplexed, specially when read the contact card of the National Magic Association.
On next day, Aizawa, All Might and Nedzu both exhale and relief, as Izuku could catch a villain alive, and increasing the Yuuei's reputation to catch dangerous villains.
The Final Exams begins...
Finally at the end of semester, the Final Exams begins and Aizawa explains to everyone the details:
"This week marks the final step of the first of six semesters required to everyone present to be the next Pro Heroes...", as every classmate agrees, "Apart of the obligatory written exams of several subjects that occurs at the next three days, from Tuesday to Thursday...", where many of students mood drops down due to the English or Mathematics bad grades, "And finally, on next Friday, it will be a Final Practice Exam!"
The magic words of a practice exams gives an happy uproar, hopping that will give good grades.
When Friday finally arrive, both 20 students of 1-A classes arrives a the Ground Camp Zeta, modeled from a countryside place, made with sparse cottages, windmills, and two major little towns.
Bakugou was one of few students who made an angry remark, "WTF the Yuuei was trying to test us ?!", while swears, "And since Japan had such WTF rural place ?!..."
"Stop swearing!", Aizawa delivers a slap to the trouble maker student.
Izuku mades a very annoying sigh, "Aizawa-sensei ?!...", where the teacher decide to ignore the younger vampire student, without hiding some embarrassment.
However, it only take a few seconds to Izuku intervenes, and hit the bullseye, "Why this camp resemble a map from Player Unknowns Battlegrounds ?! Or even Frotnite ?!", making Aizawa freeze with shame, before everyone could dare to question.
"So sharp...", Aizawa blank face was also odd, by the eyes of All Might, who was clueless about those games.
"When I play such oddity, along all modern clones of PUBG, I notice a player that resembles the oddities of Pro Hero Eraser Head..."
"WHAT ?!", Aizawa remembers that he also plays all clones of PUBG when he was bored, "And you are the damned sniper that kill me almost from nowhere…", and snaps the player's name, "You are the infamous Todesengel ?!"
"Yes… I am...", Izuku answers without deliver any special emotion, unless the twenty pairs of sharp eyes against those two oddly vampires.
Kaminari also becomes awed, "More western gamers freaks!", before made a short circuit against himself with an accidental quirk release.
Aizawa quickly recovers from the awkward situation, "As Midoriya quickly notice… The Practice Exam will be a Battle Royal against everyone of 1-A classes!"
It takes about a minute of awkward silence, before Todoroki reacts, "Aizawa-sensei… WTF the final exam is a Battle Royal ?!", giving an enraged glare.
The teacher reacts, by disable all student's quirks, even knowing that wouldn't affect Izuku's magic powers, but give an order, "All right! Your final exam will be a Battle Royal of all 20 students… Be ready to ear all instructions, as I only spoke such stuff once… Understand ?!"
Izuku sighs, "Finally, he overcome the guilt of the disastrous military internship...", with a smile.
To Be Continued...
Chapter 23: The Battle Royal Exam begins...
Summary:
The Battle Royal Exam finally begins, and quickly the strongest quirked students takes the lead.
On this Exam, Izuku was strictly requested to use the Witcher Signs, and avoid as possible the Dark Schneider's magic, or he could lose points.
At least, Izuku now resemble more akin to the Geralt's character of Witcher's games, since he begin to use real Geralt's spells, like the Aard Sweep, Quen Exploding Shiled, or Igni Pyromaniac to fight against the foes. But still, he likes to use Dark Schneider's magic, as he feels more comfortable.
Fighting over two different magic styles will be a tough test to Izuku handle, while the story will slowy deriving to the real battle against Anthrax minions, that would occur once the current arc ends, which will be a slightly modified Semester Exam, Summer Training and Provisional License arc blended together. (Hoping that would not be so extense, since the real fight was not begin yet!)
Chapter Text
Game Rules...
Aizawa, once recovered from the embarrassment delivered by the younger vampire, swiftly use his phony mad ego to impose against their own troublemaker students.
"I don't actually care if Midoriya-kun was right about this exam resembles the PUBG game, or everything else...", as the older vampire pretends that don't wanted to give credit to the younger one, "Since this is not a game at all, let's explain the rules..."
For many Aizawa's students, it was another moment to sigh, just before their teacher recover the usual cruel self. It only takes less than ten seconds, but Aizawa explains briefly:
"The exam settings are plain simple: Both of my twenty students will be sent randomly scattered the battle field, and the prime objective are simple… Defeat all students to win...", and makes a slight pause to fix the sentence, "However, it won't be plainly fair… Then some obstacles are placed, and a minimum cap to pass..."
Some students quickly complains about the battle royal style, like the tape quirked user, "Excuse me, Sensei… This is not a fair kind of exam… basically, we are fighting against other, just to give a broken winner..."
Unsurprising, Aizawa use the cancellation quirk to disable the student's ones, before gave to them a disdainful answer, "If you wait before make stupid questions...", and use their vampiric telekinesis to freeze the annoying student, and bite him to drain a little blood, as punishment, "Instead a pure driven Battle-Royal game, the whole field had sentry weapons and bobby traps, which their destruction or deactivation will give some kind of points, additional to the number of points given when a student are knock off the field… Also some Pro Heroes will join the whole exam to help or fight against the students at will…"
"That's insane!", mumble some random student, just to the reddish Aizawa's eyes pierce the culprit.
"In order to defeat a student, it's will be just of the Sports Festival, or the Hero Battle Simulations… You need to catch, and immobilize him… Injury him, or cause several damage are forbidden, and the violators will be declassified without complains!", and finally explain how the classifications are made, "Basically… The score are the sum of the following parts… For each defeated students, in average are worth 100 points… All robotic sentinels will give you between 10 to 50 points… And fight against a Pro Hero disguised as Villain can give you 0… or 1000 points…", just to turn upside down, "However, forget all the numbers… The real score are variable, taking account several factors… The only certain is the fact that the winner will be the one who will defeat the highest number of foes!... And being the last one alive on the field..."
"Since when a final semester exam is like Samurai Warriors ?!", giggles Uraraka, who appears to be silent until now, and makes fun with her favorite game.
Aizawa signals to proceed the exam itself, avoiding to answer any further annoying question, while each student are placed inside a black van that drives around the field, in order to scatter them around the battlefield.
# Final Semester Exam: A kind of Samurai Warriors, Frotnite and PUBG blended battle royal…
START!
When the signal buzzes, every student, Midoriya was no exception, jump straight out the vans, and begins quickly to make the initial work. When a player starts a battle royal on the middle of a battlefield, the first minute should be dedicated to scan the nearest environment to find tools, enemies or everything useful.
Unlike the old first person shooters, where the the first one who get the majority of weapons and ammo, and plays the leadership, will won, instead in a world riddle with quirks, the ones who plays nicely with their superpowers would gain the advantage.
Midoriya, as a vampire and mage, knew that his magic powers are the main strategy and assets on this game.
Izuku remembers that on previously day, Aizawa and Sakura-sensei warns him to avoid the Dark Schneider's magic, and pursue the Sakura's ones or the Witcher magic. The real idea was pursue the the green-haired vampire to cast more inoffensive magic spells in order to be more discrete, and ensure that any counter-villainy law enforcement would end with the villain been arrested alive, and not cursed by demons from Hell, or vaporized at an atomic scale.
"This not means that you cannot use Dark Schneider's signature magic, however during your career as a Pro Hero, you should at best restrict such destructive magic to handle supernatural threats...", as Izuku sighs when his magic teacher on Yuuei classroom scolds him with a menacing aura, while pinches his right freckled check.
"Eeeeeh... ?!", Izuku tries to complain.
"Apart of some exceptions, fighting against quirked humans don't need to use spells capable to burn or explode them alive...", and Izuku could sigh if his teacher don't bite him.
"What a vampire should endure when all teachers are also vampires… Honestly!… Ouch!...", Izuku flinches when his own teacher's fangs pierces on own neck.
Cheaters are not allowed.
Izuku snaps to reality when he focus on the initial spot, a slightly damaged log cabin on the top of an hill, and a small stream flowing downside. The green vampire delivered a kick against the wooden door, that cracks and tears apart, much due to the extreme muscular strength.
Apart of some knick-knackery scattered on the floor, the small teenager sighs when picks a metal rod and line fishing, along some scrap tools. Survival games was not the Izuku's favorite, and he knew that any scrap found barely had any real propose during the exam.
A few moments later, Izuku reads some messages delivered by a special purpose smartphone application (using some old devices with custom security firmware) that at least two students was out, making Izuku sighs.
"Probably it's Bakugou… ahem, Kacchan… or Todoroki playing hard...", while displays a mad face due to the silliness of such exam model.
Izuku suddenly feels that his boots was sticker with some gluing substance, when he scream annoyed, "Damn it! That's purple balls… Don't mean that Mineta was nearby ?!"
He barely had time to react, when the infamous pervert thrown several gluing balls from several points, while notice that the his target was jumping almost randomly, and taking care to not been seen from Izuku's point of view, which was shielded by smalls trees and bushes from the forest patch. After all, he's repeating the same pattern on the Quirk Assessment test.
The green haired vampire once more focused to detect the actual position of their foe, ear a slight movement of the bushes at an certain point, while notices the little grape headed boy freeze when notice that his trap catch someone that never wanted, "Mi… Midoriya ?!"
"Even my teachers don't wanted to use it...", Izuku use his left hand to cast a magic spell derived from Dark Schneider's powers, and use a low profile one to avoid trouble, "Cyco, Cyco, know your worth!", that forms a sword of magic ash that tears downs to form a decaying miasma, "I granted your wills into a Ember flash of Ash and Wound!", that splits into a smaller one to destroy the annoying sticker ball that entraps him, and a bigger one to destroy the barrage of new sticker balls, "SUICIDAL TENDENCIES!"
Mineta could only avoid to scream, once he put both hands on his mouth, "That's not possible!"
Izuku squirms to the left, while raise halfly his right hand, and casts the Aard Witcher Sign at Alternate Mode, which requires to drain his own vitality and overcharges the elemental magic energy, and then the young vampire delivers a strong telekinesis blast that tears everything on their path, by a full angle of 360 degrees. The Aard Sweep hits badly Mineta and throws several meters away, along the debris from bushes and branches.
Mineta barely had time to recover his senses, since Izuku place the capture stripe, and kicks the grape boy out of competition. And the young vampire don't ever had time to think, since a disguised Pro Hero appear almost from nowhere, not only to catch Mineta and other captured students out of site, but also to confront Izuku.
"From all of those...", Izuku backflips, "It's the Pro Hero Ectoplasm!", as the their adversary changes is posture to battle.
"So your name is Midoriya Izuku, right ?", the Pro Hero bows to deliver some respect, while use his quirk to create several replicas of himself, "And by the way… take this", and calls one of his sidekicks to remove the captured Mineta out of the Exam site.
"Midoriya… I remember that you shouldn't use Dark Schneider's Magic unless you run out of options...", Izuku reads a written message from the smartphone delivered earlier, written by Eraserhead himself.
Even with such warnings, Izuku quickly cast another Witcher Sign, forming the Quen Shield, which was the Quen Sign on Alternate Mode. Ectoplasm was a little surprise to witness the slight tainted green and golden sphere that was protecting the younger vampire and mage, from the attacks of the quirked clones crafted from the ectoplasm substance that once was released from the main body.
Izuku mind was on full concentration mood, and notice that part of the damage delivered by each Ectoplasm's clones regenerates a little vitality and stamina. If the rampage continues, the magic shield quickly begins to crack. When it happens, the shockwave released by the Quen implosion could knock-out Izuku against the ground, or any tree around the site.
"And the worst part is I need about a minute to recover my vitality magic until I can cast another spell!"
Since Izuku was confronting Ectoplasm on a forest area, he decided to run along the bushes and trees to deceive his adversary, until he was capable to counter-attack. The vampire don't like such dumb strategy, as he notice that punching against the ectoplasmatic clones will tear down, but appears to generate a few seconds later.
"That's not so easy...", Ectoplasm menages to spoke some menacing words at a fairy long distance.
"A cheap imitation of real undead creatures and ghosts!", Izuku tries to use his own alchemical knowledge to understand the real composition of the Ectoplasm's clones, "I'm very bad on real alchemy, or to deduce the elemental domains of my foes..."
Izuku knew that a full domain on alchemy was beyond of any reasonable scope, and ever a slight alchemical capabilities will require several decades, or centuries, to master.
But reading skills, and analytical capabilities was developing at high pace, and serve perfectly to the current challenge.
Once Izuku feels that he could cast more magic spells, he decide to take a risk, and apply the Aard Sweep once more, in order to destroy about a dozen of Ectoplasm's clones at a single sweeping blow, "Using clones to increase the offensive force is a neat idea..."
The Ectoplasm itself was a little surprise with the sheer physical force, and the mysterious magic emanated by the vampire. And then Izuku, cast the Axii Sign on an Alternate Mode, the Puppet Axii Sign. Straight against a sight more resistant clone. The kind of mind control or illusion magic appear to affect an ectoplasmatic clone, in a way that resemble a little the Shinsou's quirk, as Izuku remembers quickly.
Capturing an enemy and use them to fight against another appears to had a very limited usefulness, since the real Ectoplasm would destroy the rogue clones before losing ground.
Luckily, by Izuku perspective, it was a test and decoy to cast the Yrden Advanced Trap, and Quen Advanced Exploding Shield, ir order to shield himself from the ebarrier explosion against Ectoplasm.
It was the culmination of some months of training, in order to the green-haired vampire learn to use both hand to cast two different kinds of Witcher Signs. If him could master such techniques half a year earlier, Izuku could clean scores of villain robots during the Entrance Exam, using solely the Witcher Signs.
"And one of my big embarrassment!", Izuku almost lost is concentration, a hard requirement to a magic user, when wanders around his thoughts on something else, "Since when I shouldn't use more powerful magic for such assessment event, I mistake the Quen Signs with the Aard Signs!...", where he even imagine the face palms, and the angry eyes from his own magic teacher shouting:
"Izuku-kun… When you was younger, you don't ever dare to make such childish mistakes!..."
Using the Yrden Sign, some Ectoplasm's clones slow down their agility, and abilities. One of them tear apart, as this magic had anti-quirk effects by is own.
By other hand, holding and exploding the magic shield Quen could destroy some annoying clones, while the energy released by such explosion could be partially recycled as a stamina and vitality recharging.
Ectoplasm react the partially destruction of his clones by Izuku's magic with a humming tone, while tries to not disclose some fear and respect of such strange student. It is very unusual a single person capable to use supernatural powers which was either offensive, defensive and supportive.
"And there's you are, the real one!", shout Izuku before cast the Igni Sign at an Alternate Mode, releasing a continuous stream of fire from the stretched right hand and arm, which is called Igni Firestream.
The Pro Hero barely dodge from the fire, while tried to reply, "Who you menage to find the real me ?!"
Izuku avoid to reply at the same instant, just before to force the Igni Sign to a Level 4 tier spell, and cast a more powerful elemental fire spell. With such predicament, Izuku just cast the Igni Pyromaniac that makes the forest around him, at about a ten meter radius, catch fire.
"If you read the ki flow emanated by a living thing, it's easy...", Izuku finally answers, while the fire quickly escalated to burn both the bushes and trees, and also to burn the Ectoplasm's clones.
"I never thought that I would need to use my secret move...", think Ectoplasm, while he open his mouth to activate the quirk, and expel more ectoplasmatic quirk in order to increase is own size. Then Izuku faces a giant version of the Pro Hero, who tried to bite him or enclose him on his trap, "Forced Internment Giant Bites !"
When Izuku faces the sudden move by Ectoplasm, even knowing that was a last resource move by human quirked persons, his mind snaps when remembers the fierce battle against Zorin Blitz, or the clash against Skull Knight. It was the combat instincts of a real vampire sorcerer, that warns him to fight unrestrained when the events goes terrible dire. The Witcher Magic still had the reputation of a weaken magic, by Izuku's standards, and even with the training, it still more a support to more powerful magic spells, than a real asset.
"Times to use a more powerful magic...", Izuku reacts before the giant mouth encircle him, "Zam-zin… Zar-oni… Eni meto!…", where the vampire cast a magic bubble barrier around him, and expands against Ectoplasm, "Old Goddess of Fortunate Warriors!… Lean your powers and protect me from the foes!...", shielding against the gluing ectoplasm, "Holy Explosion!… CHROME ROSE!"
The actual Chrome Rose spell is also a barrier mirror, where the foe's quirk or magic are shielded and reflected against the enemy. On present case, the magic mirror reflect the ectoplasm and fake flesh with a consistence of a contact glue against Ectoplasm. In some cases, Izuku can increase the magic energetic output by a greater amount than the original quirk or magic released by the foe's technique. The shock wave delivered by the reflecting spell also explodes the prosthetic lambs and arms, making Ectoplasm out-of-combat.
Izuku snaps, without feeling a bit worried and regretful to abuse the Dark Chaos magic, instead the more inoffensive Witcher Magic. "Damn it! When I fight against Zorin Blitz, this spell was a last resource move to avoid to me been destroyed by her own magic… I thought that Ectoplasm would handle it!...", while haves their hands to the support team who arrives some seconds later and tries to rescue the wounded Hero.
Meanwhile, a screeching voice, who appears to be from Aizawa, speaks aloud from the giving smartphone, "Midoriya!… I told you to not use Dark Schneider's Magic, unless at certain circumstances, that you know… You still abuse a little!… With this infringement, I will penalize 1000 points to your score!..."
"What's a great result !", Izuku sighs before jump to another area, as he only defeat a single student, and already makes an huge fuss on a Pro Hero who was hired to make the student's exam a little harder.
Izuku was worried with such scold, and the prejudice on the final grades. When request the actual exam status, he notice that 5 students was already out of the game, both of them with weakest status. And since the southern village was already on their line-of-sight, Izuku quickly runs at that place, using only his vampirical physical strength.
Meanwhile on the Northern Village
Some of the strongest quirked students, Bakugou Katsuki, Todoroki Shouto and Yaoyorozu Momo decided to cooperate at the beginning, since both of them converge at a small town that resemble the rural United States towns of the Midwest.
But the real motive to the three cooperate was more to clean the robots and electronic traps around the town, gathering the maximum number of points before thinking the next step.
"46 mad robots destroyed!… Pulverized!… Blasted!...", scream Bakugou like a madman.
"51… If you dare...", Todoroki replies.
"WTF ?! You thought that you are better than me ?!"
Yaoyorozu sighs madly, while tried to not lead her rage against such childish foolishness, "Honestly! Both of yours are real heroes, or a band of crooks who fights for the most ridiculous things ?!"
Both boys react badly, pretending to deliver fear against her, by menacing hurt her with their quirks.
"WTF are you thinking you are…", argue Katsuki, with his hand blasting explosions, and releasing black and naughty smoke.
"Since when I'm a stupid child ?!", Shouto snaps badly.
Fortunately, Momo don't flinch, and use her own Creation quirk to craft an hammer covered with rubber, when her arms was wrapped on their back. Using a swift movement, Momo swings the hammer against Katsuki and Shouto, knocking-out easily.
Momo didn't expect to defeat two of the strongest boys so easy, and quickly reacts when Katsuki delivers against her an huge explosion.
Todoroki releases several flames and ice shreds, making the entire situation a whole mess.
"I never though that you are a coward to back-stab me...", Katsuki groans.
And before everyone could reply, Todoroki punches Yaoyorozu face, while Katsuki delivers a leg swing against her. She fights back, and delivers a strong blow against the two boys.
It only takes some seconds to the whole situation ending with a full free-styling wrestling match, mixed with a cheap western movie, where the quirks replaces the guns.
When Momo slides into the saloon, the other thugs storm the place, and begins to tear apart everything, pushing and throwing heavy tables, and destroy the liquors balcony.
Soon it was clear that those three students are fighting over their own inflated egos, and forgetting their real roles. All Might takes position and jumps around the whole battlefield to reach the northern village, hopping that is presence along the fighting students will bring back their senses back.
"No more worries! I'm finally here!", All Might appears straight on the entrance of the wrecked saloon, while displays his comical pose.
"All Might!", shout the troublesome students, before both jump straight against him, "DIE!"
Quickly Toshinori, who was the real All Might's name, fights back, and obliterate the entire saloon with his signature Smash punch, throwing the crazier students back.
"I hope that they recover their senses, now..."
However, All Might's hopes would be drain out, as the three injured students, still able to release from the rubble, and fight back.
"My father is crazy… I'm crazy… I'm just want to prove that I'm the best student, and future candidate to the Number One Pro Hero of Japan… Or even the entire world!", shouts Todoroki, angrily with the average grades on general lectures, specially history or mathematics, along the depression that was hitting him due to his father's wrongdoings.
"Don't be fooled by those idiot!...", shouts Katsuki, releasing explosions everywhere.
"What's I need to stop those clowns...", Momo was also enraged.
All Might sighs, and requests backups, while thoughts, "Honestly! This kind of exam was a joke, and those good students are in panic, living a bad day… What's on Eraser Head's mind when suggest such joking idiocy ?!"
At that moment, only 10 students are fighting, and quickly reducing to the strongest ones. Meanwhile Eraser Head delivers a false impression that any nuisances aren't worth of his attention.
"I need to teach those silly brats, a terrible lesson..."
To be Continued...
Chapter 24: The Spirit of Geralt of Rivia awakens...
Summary:
The middle chapter of the Semester Exam, and another calm episode before unleash the fight between Anthrax and Dark Schneider (I think, that will be around chapter 30).
Here Izuku continue to persue the Geralt's Magic, and using a ritual spell more akin to Dark Schneider, he unlock the first Mutant Sign: Aard Piercing Cold.
Also learn another skill from Geral of Rivia, where on this story are considered part of Dispel Bond skill tree: The ability to scan objects and foes within a kind of precognition: The Witcher Senses. (And also similar to the Assassin's Creed Eagle Senses, but not so sophisticated).
Once he clears the path, it ends with a final battle between All Might and Izuku.
Notes:
(See the end of the chapter for notes.)
Chapter Text
Chaos on Southern Town...
When the green haired vampire reached the vicinity of the southern city, he notice that the city itself was almost untouched, without signs of violence. Even the roaming robots, and traps are fairly intact, and quickly deduce that no student was arrived previously. The only certain that Izuku had, it was one of the remaining nine students on this Battle Royal Exam.
At first sight, the robots are the same ones used on the Entrance Exam and the Sports Festival, and this close opportunity gives to Izuku test if the Witcher's Signs are fairly adequate to clean the robots.
Without thinking twice, Izuku cast the Aard Sweep when he previously jump and land in the middle of a group of several robots (about ten, where one of them was a former 3-point, and a lots of 1-point and 2-points), and it was enough to been shattered and blast the remaining scrap several meters away.
"Excellent choice...Midoriya-chan!", Izuku sighed when notice that Sakura-sensei, his former private magic tutor, and current hired Magic Teacher on Yuuei, sent an electronic message to the smartphone.
"Honestly… Sakura-sensei...", the younger vampire sighs, "I understand your obsession on Witcher Magic on this exam, but I think it is too restrictive..."
"Midoriya… You need to enhance your skills on benign magic, such as the Witcher Magic, since you can handle this exam fairly well with such restriction, and learn that your future job is to catch villains alive… ", Aizawa reply angrily, "And bring them to justice, not to brutally murder them… "
However, it won't take more than five seconds to Izuku notice after some careful seeing that exists some changes on the robots assembly. It had some armor reinforcements at some weak spots, but still not strong enough to resist strong flashy quirks or magic attacks.
Once Izuku tried to cool down after this adrenaline rush, he was unaware that some 4-point robots appears stealthy from the remnants of the fictitious town.
Unlike the other robots, the 4-points robots don't follow a standard making. One of them resembles an walking version of a tecno-punk version of the ancient Roman Ballista that throw flaming arrows, or some kind of plasma bolts. Another robot was a flying drone with a five meter wing span, that resemble a futuristic descendant of the US Army Predator. The 4-pointer flying drone had a slight resemblance of the old Korean Hwacha multiple arrow launcher, capable to fire hundreds of flaming arrows, like a multiple rocket launcher would do. Izuku quickly associate the Hwacha and the fact that resemble the famous Second World War Katyusha rocket launcher in terms of funcionality, also known as The Stalin's Pipes, used by the Soviet Red Army.
"Unmanned flying drones ?!", Izuku greets his teethes, "If they have 4-point robots, why the Yuuei Direction Board don't use them at the Entrance Exam at all ?!", he yells even knowing that would be overkill to use robots that was out of range of several quirked candidates.
Neither Aizawa or Sakura replied to the annoyed and enraged face student, or when decide to conjure some advanced Witcher Signs.
"First of all...", said Izuku, before use his right arm to cast the Witcher Sign Yrden Sustained Glyphs at full release, in order to overcharges the next magic spells been cast, and it could regenerate his stamina and vitality at meantime.
"And then… DIE!", Izuku mimics his old childhood friend demeanor, when casts with the left hand the Aard Sign Shockwave at maximum level, due to the previous Witcher's Magic in use. All kinds of projectiles, missiles or some kind of technological wizardry was blocked once the Shockwave collide against it, ending like a thunderstorm-like explosion.
"Damn it… The drones was unaffected, since they flight above the ground, about twenty meters high...", mumbles Izuku, before notices a flashing red person approaching fast against him, "Another freaking ninja ?!".
It wasn't the former Sound's Speed Sonic ninja, but the Pro Hero Edgeshot, who was also dressed like a blend of a clown and a ninja, by the Izuku's point of view.
The swiftly foe almost panics when Izuku casts the Witcher Sign Igni Melt Armor straight against him, inflicting piercing damage on the ninja's delicate suit.
A fraction of second later the green haired vampire feel that was been impaled when Edgeshot's quirk activates and pierces strings of fabric against Izuku's body.
"Argh!", Izuku suffers an excruciating pain, and screaming high with all fangs dropped, and spilling blood, "Very well, Edgeshot!...", and one second later he overcharges the Quen Sign, "It's my Turn!… Counter-Trap Magic!…", and releasing an overcharged magic barrier, since he still holds the Yrden Sustained Glyphs at the moment of activation of the Quen Sign on Alternate Mode, Active Shield.
"Ouch! This boy...", Edgeshot step backwards when all morphed spears scatters due to the magic combo of a magic barrier and is own range increase.
"Let's end this bad joke!", Izuku screams when his bad behavior acts like a fuel to cast dangerous spells that otherwise it would fail at first try, "First I release a ritual alchemy seal of my blood !", when he carve along his right arm a sequence of magic circles and runes:
"Ancient souls lying on my bloodlines! I request your Ritual Pact!… Enlightenment Executors of Tyrants!... Lean my Ancient Seal to Summon your cursed Oracle!... Vetiti Autem Sanguis Sigillum!... Excieo!...", and summon it, "FLESHGOD APOCALYPSE!".
"Why he always name their techniques, or magic, with names related to apocalypse, death, demons and other horrific stuff ?!", Edgeshot's face turns into a stupid one, when ears the new Izuku's ritual spell name, and mumbles to himself.
It was the first time ever, apart of some private training, that Izuku manage to tribute an active Witcher Sign, which was Yrden, and is blood to make alchemy. Using alchemy, he could craft a magic potion made with droplets of blood coated by magic, that once absorbed by Izuku again, increase the Yrden and other Signs beyond the standard qualities. The major drawback was a slight poisoning, that can cause hallucinations or abnormal reaction times.
"Young Midoriya! You shouldn't go to far!", Edgeshot panics when Izuku's body which is very white pale become slightly purple.
"And secondly, with my blood alchemy I dispel the Yrden Sustained Glyphs to summon the enhanced Yrden Supercharged Glyphs with my blood magic!", creating a powerful magic domain that was draining own Edgeshot's quirk stamina and own vitality at an alarming speed.
Meanwhile the 4-pointer drones resume their own offensive, where the Ballista approaches no less than 40 meters and launches another artillery barrage against Izuku, and the Hwacha target locks and tires a rain of flaming explosive arrows, while maintain a clearance of 30 meters high.
"Alright, then!...", Izuku decide to release the Quen magic barriers by an explosive blast, casting the Quen Explosive Shield and since it was overcharged by the Fleshgod Apocalypse's alchemy potion, it was capable to damage and destroy the annoying 4-pointer drones.
When Edgeshot tried to reset his quirk, on the meantime, he mumbles, "What a terrible monster, such vampire! Even he claim that some magic are like quirks, much of them don't enable to create such bizarre stuff!… Including the fact that he overpass Eraser Head's quirk to disable quirks!", and became annoyed and slightly frightened that is quirk was malfunctioning and suffer some nausea, along some sudden frail, "Damn it! My quirk was been jammed by his unpronounceable magic!", due to last Izuku's combo.
After all Izuku was confirmed that the Witcher Sign Yrden Supercharge Glyphs, had the capabilities to disable or even nullify temporarily several quirks, and even drain the stamina of their foes. Adding an alchemical potion to the cast Sign will increase the range and damage delivered.
And since Izuku releases a Sign, he could switch to another one within the free left hand, while maintains the right one turned to the ground to hold the Yrden.
Finally, he shouts, "In the end, I release my alchemical potion to cast the Igni Sign Pyromaniac !", where due to the last Yrden Sign, not only Izuku's cast firestorm magic had is damage increased twenty times above the average value of a Igni spell, but also nullifies Edgeshot's quirk and decreases his reaction times to a hundredth fraction.
With the sudden magic barrier release, the impact was enough to knock-out Edgeshot for good, and throwing against a nearby house.
"Congratulations, Midoriya! 2000 points!", said Aizawa by an electronic message, with some extras attached to the message, making Izuku very annoyed within such content, where even fail to avoid an annoying glare.
"Why during such important assessment, you gives to me such information ?!", Izuku glares against the older vampire, "If you really wanted to teach me that the Seven Signs, at least the Alternate Signs, are related to Elemental Magic, you should teach me such thing during the theoretical classes, not on a middle on an exam… No, during an joking PUBG clone!"
"Midoriya… It was a mistake of mine...", making Izuku annoyed, and close the intercom application for good.
Izuku still give a quick outlook of the attachments, and he quickly remembers some events that occurs about two years earlier, when he awaken his magic powers, and begins to master with the help of his magic teacher.
The Table of Witcher Signs
The younger vampire remembers vividly when during the Junior High School, he was under the private tutoring of Sakura. He learn that the Witcher Signs related to Geralt of Rivia, one of his major ancestors, are no different than Sakura's Elemental Magic, and such knowledge was given by the first months of training.
With such foundation, Izuku could learn more Elemental Magic, or the magic related to the ancient alchemy elements. The Elemental Arrows was a nice example of such kind.
"If you correctly acquainted, Midoriya-chan… The first five Signs, or Sigils, are related to the Five Natural Elements...", where Izuku brings his beloved pen, and take notes.
"Aard is the Sigil of Force, and under Domain of Air: Even such magic are more resembling to psychokinesis, or telekinesis, some Ancient Mages classified as a kind of air magic. The Geralt's Magic Academy that was cited on your Grimoire said that such sigil was related to a magic projection of force, and barely related to the wind at all..."
"Interesting...", mumble Izuku, "My mom had a kind of vampire magic related to such telekinesis, but she never use beyond to attract small objects."
"Axii is the Sigil of Persuasion, and under Domain of Water: This kind of magic are more related to manipulate the foe's minds, that water itself. Such conviction was related to the ancient alchemy knowledge, where was believed that the human body are affected by the manipulation of own water, either by demons, spirits, or even the effect of the Moon tides."
"That's very weird...", sighs Izuku.
"Igni is the Sigil of Combustion, and under Domain of Fire: Unlike the other sigils, this kind of alchemy resembles the actual fire. Is mainly an offensive sigil, where the caster releases flames from his hands, or other parts of his body, in order to attack the foes."
"My father had a human fire breathing quirk, and my Kacchan releases flames from his hands… Well, is more a nitroglycerin explosion… but he will be jealous when he notice that I can make better explosions...", Izuku smiles, and scrub his freckled cheeks during his thought.
"Quen is the Sigil of Protection, and under Domain of Earth: Like the other sigils, on ancient times, the Earth Alchemy was related to the crafting of magic barriers. Since your defenses are building from the raw materials from the ground, the earth domain, such linkage with magic defenses and Earth Alchemy are more evident."
" Even today, with all quirks, there's a strong bias against Pro Heroes with shielding quirks. As you will notice, that's an huge mistake… The capability to a mage to cast magic barriers and magic traps are once upon a time, an high requirement, since pure offensive magic are a short ticket to die miserably..."
"In reality, when many quirked Pro Heroes once realize that their superpowers don't make the job, they rely on pure raw physical build to defend. Heroes with quirks capable to craft shields are not so frequent...", when remembers the Pro Hero Crimson Riot, who had the demoting remark that was more akin to be a support hero, due to the hardening-type quirk.
"Yrden is the Sigil of Containment, and under Domain of Aether: And it is harder to explain the concept of aether, than explain how this Sign works... It creates magic traps capable to lock, or slow down enemies. It could ever disable, or preventing to use their quirks... The aether are related to an obsolete concept of eternity and perfection. In reality, it would be funny if you could ever cast such Sign, let alone real Aether Magic at all."
"Geez…", the younger 13-years old Izuku sighs with his eyes wide open, "Many of my quirked colleges are eager to use the quirks, specially as they dreaming to be Pro Heroes. I notice that each of their quirks resemble a single Sign! If I learn five elements, it would be overkill!"
"Remember that Signs are not Quirks! And exist even two more Signs...", Sakura replies.
"Another two, along that five ?!"
"Heliotrope is the Sigil of Perfection, and under Domain of Dark: Such sign require to master all five Signs to ever cast such magic. It creates a superior shield and a superior sword, in magic sense, of course, capable to defeat troublesome enemies..."
"Somne is the Sigil of Cure, and under Domain of Light: Probably the hardest to dominate, since this Sign are under the domain of Light Magic, associated with cure, healing, along the actual knock out enemies to sleep."
"That's a lot to learn...", Izuku sighs, and falls against the books, including the Sakura's grimoires.
Izuku snaps to reality once he dispels any active magic, just to wander the rescue teams bring the defeated students, as he notice that two hidden students was also knock out when the defeated Edgeshot slams against the building.
"Currently, only last 5 students on field… Big fight between All Might and Todoroki, Bakugou and Yaoyozorou...", the vampire raises an eyebrow when read the notification.
Izuku quickly takes a breath and runs at full speed, in order to reach the northern town, when apparently the remaining strongest students was gathering there.
"Using alchemy gives to me a strong drawback...", but he need to stop and drink some antidotes in order to remove the poison on his body created by the alchemical potions, "It will take several hours to the damn poison fade away, but I don't had such time..."
Meanwhile on Northern Town…
"You need to think harder, if you want to defeat me!", All Might raises and stands up with in signature smile, "It's the tenth time that both of you tried to knock out… You can't see what's wrong on your strategy ?"
Katsuki and Todorki pants hard, with their hair soaked with own blood, and several bruises, but without blink their fixated eyes against a formidable opponent.
"Bastard!...", Katsuki grits his teeth, while checks if own quirk still works, "You may be my greatest idol, but I sworn to myself that I will defeat and turn the Number One Hero..."
Yaozoru, who was more rational and take her time to scan the foes for any vulnerabilities, and use her quirk to create traps, sighs, "If you not take the broccoli vampire on that list, you may stupidity right… However, if Midoriya fight at full sign, not even All Might will survive the first strike once he cast his supernatural magic..." , and she swallow hard when remembers such triviality.
Both students don't wait to make another futile attack, where repeat the same pattern over and over again. Bakugou always love to create big explosions, not only to propel forward, but also to stun opponents. It would work fairy well against the average criminals, but against a very stronger foe, such as All Might, it won't work very.
"Can you please be a little more intelligent ?!", All Might delivers a strong gust against Katsuki's explosions, ending himself being pushed away against the nearest building still stranded, "Detroit Smash!"
When Todoroki witness his terrible rival been thrown away another time, he decide to launches waves after waves of flames in order to confuse All Might, before release shreds of ice.
"I'm disappointed… Son of Endeavor...", as the muscled Pro Hero storms straight against a dumbfounded Todoroki, and delivers a strong punch against him, "New Hampshire Smash!"
In the meantime, Yaoyozoru was planning the best action to make, and apparently the almost-childish fight between All Might and two strong boys would ended into a Pyrrhic draw, where Katsuki and Todoroki will ended too exhausted to fight against her.
"The whole exam was reached the final act...", Aizawa sent a new electronic message to all students, "Midoriya will arrive soon to join the party...".
"WTF ?!", Katsuki or Todoroki swears.
"Kaminari Denki was been defeated… by Geralt of Rivia… Honestly!", it was Sakura-sensei who takes priority on queue to sent another message.
A few instants earlier, on a middle of an old forest…
Izuku was still hurt by the poison delivered by the after-effects of Fleshgod Apocalypse magic potion. The purple color on his skin was fading away, but still suffer malaise, and strange hallucinations. Once Izuku stops a little to understand the pattern, he notice that apparently the hallucinations was almost by accident a trigger to enhance the Dispel Bound passive magic. During several months, Izuku learn to use better the ki flow of living things to find out where the foes hide. During the whole semester on Yuuei he could learn that he can enhance such abilities.
It was a strange poison after-effects, but Izuku's was previously read on recent books that wasn't uncommon to young mage awakens more skills by some accidents. After all, the combinations of Witcher Signs and alchemy was giving to him another powerful addition to the Dispel Bound skill tree to Izuku, which was the still unknown Witcher Senses.
"Damn kind of alchemy… Not only I fell some weird mutations, but apparently I now can see strange bright marks...", Izuku watches carefully the reddish and greenish marks along the trail, until notice a moving target along the clear paths between the trees.
Izuku types on the smartphone to ask his magic teacher about the strange side-effects, but he knew that before Sakura-sensei could reply, he would face another challenge.
In fact, the action would unfold in a matter of few seconds. The mysterious thing was Kaminari hiding behind the bushes and grasses, who acts careless before think, "Indiscriminate Discharge...", and unleashes his electrifying quirk, "1.300.000 Volts!..."
Izuku notice that Kaminari when activates their quirk, his body gains a red aureole, and it matches the ki flow. And Izuku watches such strange effects while the Kaminari's lightning quirk release hits the vampire body.
"It's too late to cast magic barriers!...", Izuku mind panics when suffer the electric shock, and decide to use the fastest way to counter.
Suddenly, when Izuku reacts to cast the Witcher Aard Sign, and due to the effect of the Fleshgod Apocalypse potion, it releases a Mutant Sign. Like expected from the Aard Sign, Izuku releases a strong telekinesis gust, but Kaminari was instantly frozen (his body was covered by frost, and falls against the ground), and knocked-out.
"Denki!...", Izuku snaps when notice that the electrifying quirk user barely reacts or breathes, and suffers a severe paralysis.
On the other line, Sakura Ichijoshi, who was normally calm, overacts in panic when notices the abnormal magic been cast against the human student:
"Midoriya-chan ?! It's you first time you cast the Aard Piercing Cold mutant spell ?! ", his teacher yells when discovers that Izuku was capable to use Mutant Signs, "And you just awake your Witcher Senses ?!", and calls a distress call, "Bring Kaminari to the infirmary, quickly! "
Izuku still panics when he observe more carefully the wounded friend, and notice that his college suffer a severe frostbite, and quickly cast his healing magic spells to ease a little, before the medic staff rescue Kaminari and remove from the exam field.
Mutant Signs...
Aizawa reacts when notices the slight panic of Sakura, when they work together on central control room, and asks, "What's going on ?! What the hell is a Mutant Sign forehand ?!", yelling to demand answers.
"I never expected to reach that stuff too early, but...", the tutor mage vampire was also a little frightened, "The Witcher Sign Magic are based on alchemy of Elements of Nature, as you ever read earlier this morning, and share accidentally with Midoriya..."
"This trivial crap are already acknowledged!", Aizawa hisses, "I request to explain why is a WTF Mutant Sign !..."
"When Midoriya begin to master alchemy, using his blood as a medium, he recreate some ancient potion recipes, that the old sorcerers once used everyday..."
"Either way, why you are teaching my student such WTF dangerous stuff that barely had real usefulness on a Pro Hero duty ?!", Eraser Head appears to calm a little, but without retracting his fangs, "Not even All Might need to use alchemy to defeat the most terrible villains!"
Sakura never answer straightforward, "Remember that Midoriya's internship will be representative on his future career...", and finally answers the first question, "And when your student handle enough alchemy to craft a potion, he can unlock the mutated versions of Signs. Using the ancient alchemy knowledge, since the ice was linked to air, and thus are associated with the Aard Sign… He cast ice using telekinesis..."
"Extreme cooling caused by an explosive air expansion is expected from the basic thermodynamics... But I never witness a telekinesis quirk capable to produce frost... Even it was not a quirk at all... "
After that, Aizawa never push the conversation forward, and both switch their attention to the final confrontation with the last 4 students on the game.
Fated Reunion…
Some minutes later Izuku reaches the chaotic remains of the fictitious northern town. Now it is a derelict caused by fights between Pro Heroes and students. The real fighting was on place that should be the town center, and now a ground zero of chaos.
The broccoli vampire stands quietly when using his newborn Witcher Senses notices a sudden strike of several 2-points robots that notice and target locks him. Half second later, both freezes and collapses, due to the Aard Piercing Cold while Izuku barely move an inch.
A second later, the remaining of all robots are thrown away by the Witcher Sign Aard Sweep.
The whole scene was witnessed by all remaining student, All Might specially.
"Midoriya-shounen...", thinks All Might, "You appear to be a little stronger..."
Izuku nods, "I barely master my new acquainted Witcher Magic spells: Aard Sweep and Aard Piercing Cold, where the last one was enhanced by an alchemy crafted potion: Fleshgod Apocalypse !"
All Might tried to not display any weakness, while ignore the bewildered eyes of their colleges, but both thought the same, "Why he don't name better his own techniques ?!"
"I never thought that had too soon a real opportunity to fight against one of most strongest humans...", Izuku resumes his dialogue, while displays his respect, "Even it was a joking exam..."
"Honestly, I agree, Midoriya-shounen!", All Might brings his signature smile, and raise his right thumbs up, "That's the worst idea that Eraser Head could ever manage to create!"
Izuku pacepalms, even he agrees, "The worst part on this game, is when I use Dark Schneider's magic I was penalized due the dangerouness... ", and sighs, "Or better, when I defeat Ectoplasm or Edgeshot at ease...".
"But the so-called Witcher Signs are really inoffensive ?!"
"Using alchemy, such Signs are more powerful and lethal...", and at that moment notice that the students suddenly gone.
Todoroki and Katsuki decide, on a rare moment of cooperation, to divert from the scene and ambush the vampire off-guard. Yaoyorozu also decide to hide from Izuku's point of view, using the building derelicts as temporary shelters and traps.
Izuku expects that Todoroki or Katsuki will try to avenge their defeats on the Yuuei Sports Festival, and also that they would think carefully before plan an attack.
Instead Izuku notice that Katsuki jump using his quirk to propel against the vampire, while feels that Todoroki was nearby, waiting the best chance to attack.
"Fools!...", Izuku grins, and casts the Witcher Sign Yrden Supercharged Glyphs against Katsuki, disable their quirk and drain partially his stamina. Then deliver a uppercut punch that thrown away some meters.
Todoroki then release streams of ice, just to be deflect away by the Witcher Sign Quen Exploding Shield.
"Honestly! Are you planning to defeat me, or to get hurt by the cross-fire ?!", Izuku glares, "After all, knowing All Might, they thought that sheer raw force will defeat a stronger man...", and warns, "If you want to defeat, did you learn your past mistakes ?!"
Todoroki and Katsuki gives a grin smile, and a defiance pose, "Don't act to be superior, Deku! I'm just warming up!"
"Whatever!", Izuku sighs and prepares to the real battle.
All Might stare and watches, knowing that the winner of this group of four will want to fight against him, "Aizawa… Is that your really wanted to test ? The strongest vampire, against the strongest human ?"
Within the formed stand-off, the final act finally begins.
To be Continued...
Notes:
On this chapter are revealed the true nature of Geralt's Witcher Signs: Are related to Elemental Alchemy.
The Igni, Quen, Aard, Axii and Yrden are the Magic derived from Fire, Earth, Air, Water and Aether Alchemy.On Witcher 3 game, the Aard Piercing Cold are only activated when Geralt uses mutagens, and it is one of most destructive magic spells, capable to freeze several enemies, or even kind instantaneously about a quarter of times. Kaminari had luck, since Izuku only barely awaken such magic skill.
On this story, the Mutant Sign are crafter using blood alchemy with Dark Schneider's Black Magic.
The Fleshgod Apocalypse is an Italian Death Metal band, and the ritual spell are inspired by the album Oracle.
Chapter 25: The Raging King of Death
Summary:
The final chapter of the Battle Royal Exam, and the start of a new story arc.
The Summer Camp will have a different setting, where is not only a training field, but also a controlled environment to learn the skills to fight the villainy.
I think that on Chapter 30 will start the real story arc when the Anthrax, the Millennium Army and the Twelve Wise Men of Europa will join to fight against Dark Schneider.
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The Exam's Final Fighting...
Aizawa could only stare and smirk when witness his troublesome vampire student standing against one of most powerful human Pro Hero, All Might, along the current first years strongest human students, Todoroki and Katsuki, where he was also the teacher that lectures them.
Aizawa Shouta, also known as, Eraser Head was worried with the accidental discovery of the Mutant Witcher Signs that enhance the damage of a relatively benign magic spell, turning them potentialy lethal. Even with this danger, Aizawa hopes that Midoriya would try to finish the whole fight without abuse the dangerous Dark Schneider's Chaos Magic.
Midoriya at the meantime, while still trying to hide the excitation and stamina rush when he discovered the Witcher Mutant Signs almost by accident, he remembers from the last fights during the whole semester the chain linkage between the Yrden Sign and the quirk blockage effects.
"During all semester, even during the disasterous mission on North Korea, I notice that when I cast the Yrden Supercharged Glyphs magic skill, it always disables or causes malfunction on several several quirks. I think that probably should exist room to improve such Sign to use against quirks more efficiency...", Izuku mumbles while scans the environment in order to counter any attack from his colleges, or All Might itself.
Izuku notices a red hue glowing from his peripheral vision, prompting to dodge a sudden explosion that leaves a debris cloud that appears to be aligned on the previous afterglow.
"Very interesting, the Witcher Senses…", the vampire's own instincts proved be right, "However, this don't mean that...", since the debris cloud around the ruins is the perfect setting for a particular human friend counter-attack mercilessy.
"What's your next damn trick, Deku ?!", suddenly the quirk explosive boy appears, and almost takes down the green haired vampire by surprise.
Izuku reacts and casts the Yrden Magic Trap in order to slow down the explosive quirk user's activation. To prevent unexpected surprises, the vampire delivers a strong punch against the explosive boy, to take down of action, while he swears curses about the instability of the Witcher Senses activation when needed.
"As expected from Kacchan…",Izuku grins when grabs his childhood friend, and takes down against the ground.
Suddenly, the young vampire flinches when fells an instant freezing, followed by an heavy fall of shreds of ice, "Damn it!", partially blocked by a well known magic barrier.
Todoroki smirks with some disappointed, once notice the slight golden glowing barrier and encircles the green-haired vampire.
The vampire quickly notice that the alchemical potion enhanced by the Fleshgod Apocalypse ritualistic spell was not onlyincreasing the Witcher Signs damage, but also the critical hits rate. The major limitation was the increasing instability, that makes worse when activate two different kinds of Witcher Signs. Fortunately, when Todoroki launch several ice shreds against him, Izuku just needed to combine the Quen Intensity with the Quen Discharge to stop the first quirk attack, and shield against physical damage, before the Quen Sign fades away.
The real limitation is the time that the Quen sign holds without fading, rarely lasting more than 15 seconds. It was enough to prevent surprise attacks, but is too little to confront strong quirk users, specially with long range attacks, or had more endurance, like Todoroki.
However Izuku couldn't avoid the next foe's move that starts with an unexpected yell, "New Hampshire Smash!", making no time to the the vampire react, even he couldn't blink his eyes, neither had time to react agaisnt a strong punch and related gust that shatters the ground in pieces of shrapnel, and thrown him away by the oposite direction of the initial punch.
"What's you pretending for ?", spoke Izuku before notice the person who attack unexpectily, which was All Might. The famous Number One Pro Hero was attacking him from his back.
The vampire decides to take measures in order to not be catch off guard again, and decides to take a risc and increases the Yrden Sign Intensity at absurd levels, while burn the remains of the magic energy from the alchemical potion at fullest. The young vampire pretends to use the Yrden Supercharged Glyphs combo with the Yrden Magic Trap spell.
However, Izuku notice that the Yrden sign energy release at this moment was strange in terms of structure, hinting that unlocks a second mutant sign, since some core features was changing from the expected ones.
The new mutant magic barrier was about the triple radius of the standard Yrden Magic Trap, while inside the magic field changes from the expected fainted golden domain, to a more reddish hue. Izuku decides to increase the barrier, before All Might hit him again.
Once All Might penetrate the Yrden domain, his body glows purple, and releases a dark miasma that evades from him, that appears to slow them, while the miasma are quickly absorbed by the magic barrier structure.
In about a third part of a second, All Might physical strength, and his quirk suffers a brutal collapse, slow him down enough to Izuku slides and evades without great rush.
"Yrden Extreme Cursing Field!", Izuku christianizes the new Witcher Sign skill, as he thought that was unlock some secret skill that was forgone from the Ancient Magic Grimoires.
All Might, much due to his superior muscular constitution, don't evade or flee away from such forbidable adversary, and he could deliver a strong punch against Izuku. Even when the vampire cast the Aard Piercing Cold to counter the physical attack, he was thrown away several meters from the punch impact, and the magic barrier collapses swiftly. The Number One Pro Hero still suffers damage from the frostbite, but he was able to stage a smile when faced a strong magic sorcerer:
"Young Midoriya, as I expected, you have raw potential, but this don't means that you should overpower everything!"
"Very few humans deserve to face the real strenght from a vampire!", Izuku retribues their respect.
At the same time, Izuku's Magic Arts teacher also known as Sakura, takes note on the new Mutant Witcher Sign effects.
"That's cute and funny this strange Yrden derived magic spell... Neither Midoriya's Grimoire or my own research notes had any Mutant Signs derived from Aether Magic..."
Aizawa ears the Sakura's mumble, while pretends to not take attention, "I need to update the Midoriya's profile file before the beginning of the second semester..."
Blowing everything on the Last Step...
Once the stand off between All Might and Izuku ends with a tactical draw, the strongest boys decide to attack the vampire off-guard again with their quirks. When they attack him, Izuku just deflects all attacks back using the Yrden Extreme Cursing Field that weakens the quirks forehand.
"Tsch!", Katsuki recovers from the first strike, but with a mad face, "Damn it! Deku had too much defenses… I need to trick him, to blow him!", and orders to one of his rivals, "Half-and-Half! Did you had a damning suck plan a way to blast the weakling vampire ?!"
Todoroki was stunned with the Yrden Extreme Cursing Field effects that not only disable all quirks around Midoriya in a similar way that his class teacher and Pro Hero Eraser Head, but also weaken his stamina proportionally when he tries to use the blocked quirk.
"Katsuki is trying to break Midoriya's magic barriers, however I can...", spoke Yaoyozoru, who was the last girl in action trying to approach the vampire during the whole confusion.
Yaoyozoru was first trying to find the best way to use her Creation quirk to craft a tool to help the boys fight against the vampire. Instead she almost wails when Katsuki blast her away, just because the explosive blond thoughts that she was blocking their path.
To made the things worst, the dual quirked boy decide to grab her, while she was stunned due to Katsuki explosion, and use as a shield against Izuku, while he use the ice quirk to throw ice shreds.
Izuku, who was still recovering from the All Might's punch, decide to counter the vicious Todoroki quirk attacks with a moderate ice magic spell, "Soaring Dragon from Northern Realms!…", but he couldn't notice at that moment that Yaoyozoru was in front of Todoroki, "Under your Ancestor's Bloodlines Pact… Release your Wrath!...", and she receives the damage instead, "Raging Ice Bullets!… TANKARD!"
The young girl suffers frosting pain, and collapses due to the icicles impact, losing the consciousness. Todoroki, much due to his mistake, simple leave her on the site and decide to launch a full fire and ice attack against Izuku, and Katsuki simply follow him by the opposite side.
Izuku was in shock when notices that Yaoyozoru was hurt by his own mistake, but also notices that Todoroki and Katsuki not only leave her in the middle of fighting, but also use her as a shield, and don't help her when she's wurt..
The medical teams also retracts to rescue the girl, much due to the damage and rubble from the false buildings collapse during the fighting, increased with the damage delivered by fire and ice quirks.
"Young Shouto… How you dare to abuse your classmate like that ?!", All Might recovers his attention to surroundings at this moment, but was shocked with the bad behavior of some boys, specially Todoroki and Katsuki.
"Why Midoriya switch to another kind of magic ?!", Aizawa blinks his eyes when the lasting girl was defeated by the Tankard spell, which was an Ancient Magic Spell recorded by the Dark Schneider's Grimoire.
The green haired vampire mood was swinging dangerously due to the fight against All Might, and the terrible duo composed by the ice-and-fire quirk user, along the infamous explosive blond boy. Izuku was a little disgusted due to the way that Yaoyozoru was defeated by the two males, hinting that she was been antagonized by them.
"Humans… Always fighting for their own pleasures…", Izuku snaps with all events unfolding, "If you think that you can betray the trust and teamwork like that…"
The two boys yells with great defiance, before unleashing all his quirks powers with their best techniques against the vampire:
"Stun Grenade!", Katsuki flares a blinding explosion, while Todoroki releases a ring of fire and a wall of ice against Izuku, "Cocytus Collapse!"
"I'm done with this joke!", Izuku quickly discharge all active Witcher Signs, and stare against his foes, ignoring that All Might was trying to stop both of them, "Lassen Sie uns dieses Stück Scheiße beenden!".
Aizawa blinks when his unfriendly student swears straight in German, but quickly notices that the things will not end nicely, "Midoriya!… Please, don't..."
Izuku raise his stretched right arm, and start to conjure a magic spell akin to the Dark Schneider's ones, "Gabriel… Hummer… Michael… Mensch… Luzifer… Kinderzimmer… Heimkehr… Ancient Sages of Lucifer, Capital Lords of Deathly Curses!...", crafting a dark miasma cloud that forms an ominous vortex floating about four meters above Izuku, and starts collapsing due to their own strong black magic energy.
During the collapse, the exterior parts crafts a wicked web of dark lightning with red and purple hue that once materialized, it pierce around the ground like a swarm of arrows.
"Ancient Kings from the Sacred Underworld, Preying within their Infinite Wisdom, I will Became the Offering Supreme Sacrifice to Link the Kingdom of Heavens to the Empire of Hell!...", while at this incantation stage, the central vortex collapse swiftly to a dark star, "Under your Pact of Evil Ills, I Summon the Shadowy Star of Death!..."
Before the three targets could ever think to counter such terrible magic spell, the entire cursing web shatters when the dark star collapses with a powerful explosion that obliterates everything at full circle, catching them totally off-guard., while Izuku yells madly, "BETHLEHEM!"
When the three adversaries face this dark sphere star , they barely had time to dodge, and ended engulfed by the terrible black magic spell. With the explosive barrier impact, they suffer an excruciating pain, and quickly knocks out all of them, as like their souls been ripped apart or been draining away.
The Bethlehem black magic spell not only nullify all quirks, but also reduce all stamina to zero instantaneously. Also the previous quirks attacks was shattered apart or deflected back when the black sphere composed by dark energy pass trough it.
Quickly Izuku casts the Witcher Sign Somne in order to slow down the Bethlehem spell, and stop the potential lethal effects on the poor humans.
Once everything settles down, and Izuku releases all magic energy, he notices that All Might, Todoroki and Katsuki ended fainted and unconscious, but alive.
"MIDORIYA!...", Izuku flinches when Aizawa yells on the smartphone, "That's one serious offense! Casting a dangerous magic spell against students will delivery to you a severe penalty… Not only losing 5000 points for each stunned student, but also the first rank position… Honestly ?! Why you blow away at the last minute ?!"
"I'm sorry…I'm sorry...", Izuku flinches again, and bows 100 times, until resumes, "I fell to enraged when the stupid Todoroki use Yaoyozoru as a cowardly shield, stunned by Katsuki, and ..."
"Enough! Apologies will be delivered later… For now… the exam will end without a winner!… Both of you still need to learn ..."
Sakura sighed when everything ends so nicely, specially when the rescue teams sends the wounded Pro Heroes and students to the infirmary, and the immediate conclusion of this silliest exam on Yuuei history is that ended with a general disqualification.
Aftermath...
Once the dust settles down, Midoriya immediate penalty to his overpowering abuse was more vampire-like that everything expected, since Aizawa, his mother and Sakura bite him and drink more than half of his blood. To make the things a little harder, he couldn't drink any blood for the rest of the day.
Inko Midoriya couldn't do much more for now, but she was disappointed with the ruthlessness of his son when waste a fair good classification, that could ease his redemption from last year's mistakes.
The forced blood deprivation reveals to be a little dangerous, since at the next morning, Izuku was too thirsty, and bites his own mother when she tries to wake up.
Luckily, such reaction was expected by Inko, has she prepared forehand a reinforced blood canister mixed with some sweets and fresh sushi from a supermarket to coat it with lots of fresh blood, hoping that would help Izuku to recover his usual sweet self.
On next and also the final semester week before summer vacations, Aizawa gather all 20 students to the 1-A classroom and made some declarations:
"As you already know. The Battle Royal Exam ends without an official winner, since Midoriya casts a forbidden black magic spell that knocks out the competition..."
Midoriya was now the target of nineteen pairs of eyes, and some of them start to rationalize about the kind of magic used.
"I was a rage burst due to some colleges, in the middle of active Mutant Witcher Signs..."
"Please, don't try to justify such irresponsible act!", Aizawa bears his fangs, "As I could read, the Bethlehem spell, if used correctly at full stoke, would kill your mates!", yelling at the work kill.
"Sorry...", Izuku flinches when Aizawa was mad.
"I think that Endeavor's son deserves this!", Yaoyozoru intervenes with a defiant tone, "Or the stupid blond that always like to make trouble!..."
"Oh ?!", Katsuki reacts madly, "You had balls to defy me!..."
Todoroki itself barely reacts, since he fell the guilt at his dry throat.
Aizawa signals to Izuku join for a little punish, even he was the main issue, before the hot heads creates more trouble. The older vampire swiftly grabs Katsuki and throw against his deck. Before the blond could ever react, Aizawa bites Katsuki's neck when facing upwards, craving the fangs at the fullest.
Todoroki don't react when Izuku's fangs bites him, and compared with his teacher's brutal way to punish his students, it was more contained.
Katsuki fells ill due to the blood drained, and needs to go to the Recovery Girl infirmary afterwards.
The day was not going good, specially when Iida witness two vampires bitting troublesome students, but he was also disappointed with the Izuku's frequent snapping bursts that ends with troubles like this.
Aizawa quickly returns to the main topic, "Apart of this little punishment, let's talk about the summer break..."
Some boys like Kaminari and Mineta start to dwindle in their dirty fantasies when notice the magic keywords. Others maintain the focus to pay attention.
"The Yuuei Board accept a mine suggestion to bring the first years Hero Course to a Summer Camp in order to better train your quirks, and your skills, specially when the law enforcement officers request the help of Pro Heroes to handle villainy acts, terrorism, arson, kidnapping, etc, etc...", and breaks his voice with the Cancellation quirk activated, "All of those things, except supernatural threats, of course… Sorry Midoriya! You should be the Geralt z Rivii, not Dark Schneider!"
"Oh great!", Izuku sighs when read the notice written on an official signed paper, that only confirms the tip spoken by his teacher, "Now I have a second secret identity… The Bloodhound Witcher, the sucessor of Geralt ?!"
The green-haired vampire fells a strange blow in a psychological sense, since he always review the Witcher Magic as a support, not the real way of things.
Once all things settle down, Aizawa informs to Izuku that retain 4000 points on the exam, making halfway on the final classification table. After all, Izuku lost more than 50000 points just to their own mistakes and overpowering his own magic when don't needed.
Both 1-A class students passes the first semester exams, and Izuku lose 3 values from 20 maximum on both disciplines grades as a reminder to not be silly. Either way, he had an average of 14 on their grades, when it could have 17.
And before he could start the next semester, he need to pass the Summer Camp test, that he knew that will be the first time when he could be requested on a civilian duty, and start to carry the name of Geralt as the new Pro Hero to restore the law and order.
To be Continued...
Chapter 26: Izuku's birthday
Summary:
Before the Summer Camp events begins (which will be a totally different setting) on a middle rural town on the mountains of Gunma Prefecture, Izuku had the first birthday once enrols the Yuuei's Hero Course.
Unexpectedly, one of younger Izuku's relatives was a fierce duellist of Cardfight Vanguard and Yu-Gi-Oh, games that also Izuku played when he was a little younger.
Even both of vampires was their duel skills a little rusted, they manager to play a dozen of duels, and share the same number of victories to each one.
Also Aizawa remembers that Izuku once gains a fairy good position on card trading games tournaments during the Elemental School, but the quirk filled society don't give a serious spotlight, and the number of duellists was scarce.
Either way, Aizawa prefers Magic the Gathering, but Izuku don't know the rules.
Meanwhile, the Hellsing's Valentine Brothers, and Berserk's Skull Knight starts the final adjustments to trap the Yuuei's students on a nefarious scheme.
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During the summer vacations all Hero Course students was obligatory invited to a full week crash course to learn how to better optimize their quirks on their Heroic duties. It was intended to Aizawa's students prepare to the first of three tries to gain a provisional license.
Izuku's Birthday
During the summer, Izuku reaches his sixteenth anniversary, without any real changes compared with the previous ones. The young vampire didn't really care that his human friends never could visit him at home, specially on this anniversary.
Such way of reasoning was more to protect the Yuuei's colleges from the shenanigans of a vampiric family, specially when his relatives join the party.
Even the Midoriyas adopt some human standards on Izuku's birthday party, the real ordeal of a vampire party was always blood. And the younger green haired vampire already knew that, due to some ancient fetishism, the guests will try to bite him and drink his blood.
One of most troublesome vampires was one peculiar cousin, Shingo Tatsumi, that always pretend to care him, before exploits a way to deceive and bite him.
"This old fox again...", Izuku sighs when Shingo smiles and waves his hands, barely hiding his real thoughts, "And I never seen this younger boy...", which appears to be more curious and inoffensive.
But a ten years old vampire, that apparently was too cute and soft, could be a worst enemy than the older ones.
Izuku snaps from his distraction when the young boy with brown hair bites his left wrist and start to drink like he spot the last Coke on desert!
And before Izuku could ask politely to stop, the troublesome cousin takes his guard-down and crave his sharp fangs right below the chin, since his neck was exposed.
The green haired vampire swiftly grabs the offender, holding tightly Shingo's neck, while pretends to throw against the floor.
The little vampire who still drinks Izuku's blood quickly notice that the teenager vampire was mad:
"Please… be nice!", the child makes a dumb and apologetic face, before Izuku could cast some magic spell.
Shingo was slammed against the nearest sofa, once Izuku locks his arm, and throw him.
In clear contrast to the violent arm thrown, the green vampire sighs and asks politely to the little vampire boy, "Your parents don't teach you to not bite strangers without permission.. I think that the old manners was draining out the water...", and makes a depressed look.
"I'm sorry, Midoriya-maou!", he treats Izuku as a Demon King straight as an honorific, making him brushed and annoyed, "My name is Iori Itsuka."
"Please, don't treat to me as an Lord Demon, or even Overlord...", and Izuku fell ashamed, while hides his red face with his hand.
"That's funny for a vampire that want to be treated as Dark Schneider, the Vryko-Warlock of Chaos Destruction Overlord!", Shingo makes a goofy remark, as he remembers the official Izuku's Pro Hero title, once recovers and stand up from the sofa.
"Actually is also Geralt z Rivii, the Elemental Witcher of Doomsday", Inko intervenes, without making a worried face, once she reads the latest school bulletin.
Before Izuku could reply, Iori displays a Cardfight Vanguard deck of cards, making the older vampire dumbfound, and astonished…
"Vanguard ?!", Izuku sighs when remembers that once played the same game, with some colleges on Elementary School.
"Let's Duel ?!", Iori picks another deck from their pockets, that times was a Yu-Gi-Oh deck.
"I once played both games when I was more younger, at your current age, more precisely…", but for now Izuku agrees to play with Iori, hoping that the guests don't try to bite him again.
Swiftly, in less than two minutes, Iori assembles the Vanguard Playmate, while Izuku goes to his room, and bring back his own deck, that was closed on a dusty box, below his bed.
Without more formalities, Izuku and Iori plays ten Vanguard duels in a row!
Inko was also a little surprised, since it was one of rare times that gather relationships with other young humans, participating even to school championships of card games. And now, after some years of retirements, he plays again.
"Stand Up!… Vanguard!", both boys shouted together, flipping the Grade 0 monster on Vanguard Circle.
"Sprout Deletor, Luchi!", Izuku reveals his initial unit.
"Fullbau!", and Iori mades the same.
At the first turn, both players deduced their favorite clans/archetypes, where Izuku plays the Deletors deck from Link Joker clan of Star Gate nation, while Iori uses the Shadow Paladins clan from United Sanctuary.
Both players had villainous decks, since such clans was used by the main antagonists of the Vanguard franchise. In reality, much of youngsters dueling skills was not so good, due to the lack of experience, and the reduced number of duelists on their neighborhoods.
After ten duels, both duelists had the same number of victories, even much of them reveal the lack of experience of their strategies.
"I wonder if you or me had a quirk capable to force a Vanguard Fight between us as Pro Heroes, and the villains...", spoke Iori, "Capable even to summon your Units, making Rides,...", he quickly ventilates in pure ecstasy, "Making our Vanguard a real thing, and fight the evil!..."
"That would be a scheisse damned quirk...", Izuku swears boldly.
"I suggest to duel again… And the winner shall bite the loser!", Iori smile with his fangs open and shinning.
"Very tricky one ...", Izuku agrees.
Meanwhile the Bakugou family arrives on Izuku's apartment, as they was the only human family that was invited to Izuku's birthdays. Both they knew that the odds to one of them ended the visit with at least one bite was significant, the quirked family hope that the party goes without incidents.
"Welcome.. Mitsuki… Masaru… Bakugou...", and points to her son, "And my Izuku was playing Cardfight Vanguard with one of my close relatives… My baby once played this with some duelists a few years ago..."
However the blonde family, specially Katsuki, pretends to not understand about it, and follows straight to the living room, where all action unfolds.
When the eleventh duel reaches the apex, Izuku and Iori was so focused on it, as they ignore the bewildered faces of the Bakugou's. They hoped they the vampires won't bite them, but witnessing Izuku playing a card game was totally unexpected.
"Very interesting formation...", Iori enumerates the summoned monsters, "Ferment Deletor, Gaen… Bloating Deletor, Gio… Swift Deletor, Geali… And your Vanguard is Hailing Deletor, Elro ! Let's hope that my foe don't make that combo again!"
"Ride!... Docking Deletor, Greion!", Izuku screams, while mimicry the mannerisms of a peculiar character on Vanguard anime (Ibuki Kouji), "I activate the Ride Skill, Counter Blast!..."
"Damn it! Greion will seal my main monster!", Iori grits is teeth and fangs.
"Your Vanguard are Deleted, losing all attack and effects!", but picks an additional card, "Imaginary Gift: Force!… My Vanguard offensive power will increase 10000!".
Iori almost panics when Izuku reinforce the rear guards, and declares a frontal attack against this Vanguard The Dark Dictator. He tries to block, but Izuku use the Twin Drive effect that draws two Critical Triggers, that combined with the sealed Vanguard, it was too much damage.
Iori was defeated badly, just to Izuku bites him as a punishment, "Delete End!"
"WTF was that ?!", Katsuki was a little shocked with their eyes wide opened.
"11 duels of Vanguard is not for everyone… It's better to..."
"Now it time to Yu-Gi-Oh !", the little vampire boy decide to fight back, and changes the whole game and playmate.
"As expected… I already bring by beloved Deck...", while quickly puts the cards on place.
Iori smiles when Izuku accepts to the younger starts first, but he reveals to be skillful on archetypes tailored to summon several monsters in a row.
Like on Vanguard counterpart, Iori assembles his Deck based on a villain character, this time a top fictitious hacker called Revolver, and play hard straight on first turn:
"I set my Field Magic Card, Revolboot Sector!", that enable to special summon two Varret monsters from his hand, while summons a third.
Iori also imitates the mannerisms of several Yu-Gi-Oh characters franchise:
"Arrowhead confirmed!… The summoning conditions are at least two effect monsters… Link Summon!...", placing a strong monster on the Extra Monster Zone, "Link 3… Topological Trisbaena!"
Later, Iori set a reversed card, and ends is turn, but Izuku had more dueling skills to this game, while mumbles, "Setting a trap… To naive..."
"It's my turn… Draw!...", and once Izuku saw the card, he mumble, "Excellent! I can start at my fullest force!".
"I don't like it...", Iori snaps coldly.
"Then I start quickly!...", Izuku quickly discard two cards from his hand, "I tribute some cards to Special Summon Black Magic Hierophant Priest !"
"A 3200 points of attack monster in a single move ?!"
"Since I send Azure Dragon Summoner, I had another Spell-caster Normal Monster from my Deck to my hand..."
"Then I summon Chariot the Magic Swordsman, which enable to return Alchemist of Black Magic from the dead to my hand… Once I discard Spellbook of Alma", and activate another magic card, "Finally, I use the Ritual Magic Card, Black Magic Ritual of Chaos, which will tribute Chariot the Magic Swordsman and Alchemist of Black Magic…Ritual Summon!… Appear my great master of black magic!… Magician of Black Chaos...", both placed on opposite ends of Main Monster Zones.
Quickly Izuku orders Magician of Black Chaos to attack Topological Trisbaena, but Iori reacts:
"I will react… Reversed Trap Card open!… Remote Reborn!", making Izuku stunned with great stupefaction, "I will Special Summon your Azure Dragon Summoner pointed to my Topological Trisbaena'sLink Marker!", and with this move, Iori could destroy all Izuku's monsters!
"So naive!", Izuku quickly reacts, "I use Black Magic Hierophant Priest monster effect! A trap card activation are negated and destroyed!"
In the end Iori lose the monster, but not got enough damage to be defeated easily.
When Iori draws his card, he smiles before resumes, "Since I don't have monsters on field, I use the second effect of Revolboot Sectorto Special Summon the two Vullet monsters from my Graveyard! Appear… Magnavullet Dragon, Autovullet Dragon...", and summons the monster from his hand, "And I summon Vullet Synchron..."
"A tuner monster ?!", Izuku almost screams, ignoring the bewildered Katsuki's face.
"Correct! I tribute both three monsters to… Synchro Summon! Borreload Savage Dragon!", and due to his effect it equips Topological Trisbaena that not increases the attack, but also disables for three times (due to have 3 Link Markers) Izuku's monster effects. With this, the Black Magic Hierophant Priestwas destroyed.
The duel follow four more turns, until at ninth turn, Iori starts with only 100 life points, against Izuku that had 3500. Izuku had summoned a Link Monster earlier, "Magical Original Text, Crowley", and had summoned "Black Magician" and "Kaikuu, the Spirit Eradicator"
"Alright… I release my Imperial Order of the Royal Palace, since I cannot pay more life… Using my Field Magic Card Revolboot Sector I summon Anesvullet Dragon and Shellvullet Dragon from my hand!", and continues to summon more monsters, "Since you control a Link Monster, I Special Summon Gateway Dragon, that enables to special summon Hibernation Dragon !…", and due to chain of summons, it also grabs a monster from his graveyard to his hand, which was Magnavullet Dragon.
"Four monsters in a row… Don't mean, he...", Izuku snatches.
"Appear my revengeful circuit!… I tribute both four effects monsters to… Link Summon!… Link 4... Topological Bomber Dragon!"
"A Link 4 monster ?! If it was like the another one, it need to link to my monsters in order to activate their effects!"
"To end this, I Normal Summon Magnavullet Dragon ...", and use the last card on hand, "And I use the quick-play card… Quick Revolve… To Special Summon from my Deck Metalvullet Dragon, with all effects sealed, but cannot attack, and will be destroyed once my turn ends..."
Katsuki makes an annoying statement, "What's the damn point to use such thing, as he cannot use at all ?!"
"One a minute… Both two non-Link monsters are Level 4… Don't mean!..."
Iori makes a bold smile, "That's right… I overlay Magnavullet Dragon, Metalvullet Dragon… Xyz Summon!", and places the new Xyz Monster on the bottom Link Marker of Topological Bomber Dragon, "Appear! Rank 4!… Borreload Excharge Dragon !"
"Oh great! Such terrible monster...", Izuku never expected such surprise from the canonical Revolver's deck, according to the franchise.
"I detach all Overlay Units to use Borreload Excharge Dragon main effect!... I don't only Special Summon Borelload Savage Dragon below another Topological Bomber Dragon link...", Iori points to Izuku's Main Monster Zone, "But also will affect your monsters linked to Magical Original Text, Crowley losing 600 points of attack and defence...", and makes a swift pause because use another effect, "Finally!... When a monster is Special Summoned below Topological Bomber Dragon link, it will destroy all of your monsters on your Main Monster Zone, since it was co-linked...", and finally, give the final order, "Topological Bomber Dragon attack Magical Original Text, Crowley !", and gives the original Izuku's monster attack to the damage calculation, ending with 500 life points.
"Damn it!", Izuku felled badly humiliated, in a duel sense, to not prevent such turn of events.
"And since Topological Bomber Dragon attacks your main monster, an additional 1000 damage points are also inflicted!", defeating Izuku swiftly.
"Deku… What's the hell was those games ?!", while Katsuki pretends to not care, "I never expected you playing such unknown stuff..."
"I lost… I made too much mistakes due to my lack of expertise… Iori may be right… Kacchan, if some Pro Hero had a quirk capable to summon Yu-Gi-Oh monsters like those both played, it could be viable ?"
Katsuki turn his head, and don't answer. Probably it could be most overpowered quirk ever, or a complete disaster.
Inko decided to intervene once they play two hours straight on several duels and shift the party focus to chant Happy Birthday. At least, Izuku don't care to much when Iori turn on Izuku's Steam Machine and plays an handful number of games.
The Bakugou's couldn't escape the ritual bite by all vampires, but never expected izuku's birthday cake was coated with honey and fresh blood, and the beverages was coffee and tea mixed with blood.
The best thing that Mitsuki Bakugou could ever do after the party was inviting the Midoriya's to dinner at next Sunday.
Dining on Bakugou's house
Midoriya vampire family accepted the invitation to dining at that that at Bakugou's house, since Mitsuki decide to invite the odd vampire family. Katsuki was trying not to pretending to be nauseous when Izuku fills a bowl of rice with blood.
"It tastes better if I put some fresh blood on it ...", the younger vampire spokes as answers some non-existent question.
"It is really necessary ?!", Katsuki's mother asks to Inko or Izuku who simply nods.
"Unfortunately, yes", Inko also sips a little blood, "Or both of us could launch a bloody spree..."
"Not to mention that our classroom teacher is also a vampire...", Izuku said while rolling their eyes.
Katsuki's father sighs, "Specially when bites their own students...", just to everyone resume eating.
Izuku was a little jealous that Katsuki had both parents alive, and somehow blames his father to either dies or flee, leaving his mother alone.
"Still recovering from my birthday duels… That little vampire, must be an huge fan of Kougami Ryoken...", Izuku mumbles openly, "That fictitious character and his army of dragons..."
"Nowadays are rare some child, let alone a vampire, so focused on card games when the majority only pretends to be Pro Heroes...", his mother spokes.
"Either way, that brat's dueling skills are driven to the correct direction… He correctly build their deck to disable the adversary strategies...", Izuku sighs with all fangs dropped.
No one dare to ask more questions until the end of visit.
The Summer Training Field
At the ends of July, the Yuuei's Hero Courses classes was summoned to participate to The Summer Training Field, where during a full week, they go to a rural area to better training his skills, quirks or even magic, if applicable. Making patrols with other Pro Heroes are also the main spot of this event.
Like other major lectures, the first time for the Training Field, which appears to locate on the middle of Gunma Prefecture, starts with an early morning meeting at the Yuuei High School grounds. Aizawa yawns tiredly while tries to not display any weakness to all students.
"Licking your fangs as always, Aizawa", the home classroom teacher of 1-B, Blood King, plays with the older vampire.
"Don't talk to me… I'm tired!", as Aizawa disdains such compliments.
The younger green haired vampire arrive at the same time of the pointless conversation between the two main teachers of the current first year Hero Courses.
Izuku, like many of his colleges, was dressed their costumes. The standard mage costume that resembles the witcher from his Geralt ancestor, mixed with the sorcerers from the Diablo franchise, still makes some bewildered views.
"Specially when the School Board decide my provisional nickname: Geralt z Rivii, the Elemental Witcher of Doomsday...", before rectifies, "And hide my real title: Dark Schneider, the Vryko-Warlock of Chaos Destruction Overlord... Honestly...", he sighed, even knowing that was their own choice at all.
"You appear more mature that on beginning...", Vlad King recognize the odd vampire on the Battle Simulation class, "Even you resemble a little more the Demon Lords on their own castle on several RPG games, when faced the heroes that sought to defeat him..."
"Please… On my last birthday, I have another young vampire calling me a Demon King..."
Aizawa blinks his eyes, "Midoriya… You had your birthday recently ?", making a fuss along the students.
"Why didn't you invited us ?", Kaminari makes a slight disappointed face, "We are friends, or..."
Katsuki intervenes with a loud explosion, "Please… Never appear on a WTF vampire party..."
"Of course, the biting and blood that all vampire love...", Uraraka was ashamed when remembers the vampire shenanigans, specially during a birthday party filled with vampires.
Izuku spill the beans that don't pretend to say, "And the best thing was playing with a younger vampire, that was a relative that I saw for the first time...", and didn't hide the blushed freckled face once notice the mistake, "Ending playing a total of 12 duels of card trading games… I never witness such powerful duelist when my army of sorcerers lose at the last turn!".
Katsuki's memories snaps at the precise time, "Oh! That WTF cards..."
"Since when a young boy grabs the entire Ryoken Kagami deck of Dark Dragons so easily ?! I was to optimistic playing Yu-Gi-Oh and Cardfight Vanguard against him..."
Aizawa eyes wide open, before dare to ask, "What ?! Cardfight Vanguard ?! Yu-Gi-Oh ?!", making Izuku with the same perplexed face when notice his teacher had similar hobbies.
"I use the Link Joker clan on the first game, and a custom deck of sorcerers on the later one...", the green haired vampire explains his preferences.
"Now I remember! Five years ago you got the third place on a Vanguard event on Orudera Town! I almost forget that you was a duelist on such games!… Like me..."
Many of their own colleges was much more astonished, barely understand about that niche game.
"Unbelievable!", Izuku head drops dead, with all fangs and claws opened.
"After that, you play Magic the Gathering ?", Aizawa asks, since it was the favourite card trading game at all.
"Nope… I don't know the rules… It appears to be much older, and more complex to play..."
"Now I understand your psychic during all battles until now… You use the mechanisms of magic, trap and monster cards of such games to plan your strategy using your magic. Later, you evolve to a more physical combat model..."
Izuku knew that remark was a little flawed, since the actual magic training was not made with trading card games, but with meditation, mental training, energy flow control and playing with more realistic simulation models. The video-games such the Witcher provided a more realistic playground model to learn and control their magic.
Once all conversation ends, the two classes take the buses and takes the road until the destination.
Little of them knew that their movements was been monitored by the Millennium Army.
At the outskirts of the little town, still dawn, a group of vampires and demons gather together:
"Tsch!", spokes a blond haired vampire with rounded glasses, "My Major couldn't find a more wonderful place to make our hive ?", said with a silly face.
"And the worst part is the flaming skeleton...", said the brother vampire with dark hair, "And their minions..."
"Don't make any foolish movement!", spoke the strongest undead, The Skull Knight, "I never understand who both of you, Jan and Luke Valentine, could end with me at the same Twelve Wise Men of Europa group!"
"Do you want a fight, such piece of spassmacherschwein scheisse ?!"
Jun Valentine suddenly feel totally constricted by the dark magic emanated by The Skull Knight, who was furious for such lack of respect, "Learn your real position here… If I could, you will die more fast that blink your filthy eye!"
"Yes… Sir...", both afraid brothers answer without itch.
"Good! That band of brats will arrive at noon… We need a full day and night to assemble all pieces of your mission… We will attack tomorrow night!", and gives a hummed laugh from his jaws, "I'm respectfully waiting for you… Dark Schneider! "
To Be Continued...
Chapter 27: Hellhound Decoy
Summary:
The Summer Camp begins with the canon game to roam around the forest and find the lodge. However Izuku quickly find two class 1-B students that deviate a little their course, just to find a giant three-headed Hellhound, which share the gigantism of Cerberus, the brutal force and magic powers from Berserk, and the capability to summon smaller but fast Hellhounds capable to curse humans similar to the Witcher 3 Hellhounds.
The whole thing was a decoy, until Valentine Brothers and Skull Knight sieges the entire area, including a small nearby town, before launching a full assault.
Chapter Text
Hanamigahara Forest Park, Gunma
The early morning bus ride on Gunma prefecture's countryside was going without great issues apart of the typical traffic jams around Great Tokyo main roads. Quickly the highways and pollution gives away to the mountainous roads, dense forests and small villages.
During the whole trip, about half of students of Hero Course was either sleeping or chatting to the opposite seat mate. The famous vampire was dreaming, since he barely sleep at all, and was a little malaise. At right side of him, it was the vines quirk user Ibara Shiozaki, who was constantly target the menacing vampire with her left eye, partially opened.
For most classmates from 1-A and 1-B, it was a very deceiving couple at first sight. Both had greenish hair, but one was a terrible monster and the other was a frightened human.
Finally at noon, somewhere on the outskirts of Numata, on Gunma Prefecture, all half-sleepy students on the bus was awaken suddenly when Aizawa yells:
"Everyone listen to me!", while tries to not yawn too, "We almost arrive to destination", while points to the peaks of two mountains, Akagi and Sukai, "And to make the things really harder ...", and slaps against the bus door, "Both of you should find the correct path to the lodge house, otherwise you don't have lunch!..."
Izuku yawns comically with his fangs fully extended, while barely open his reddish eyes, instead the normal green ones when he was relaxed. Midoriya was a little confused with the sudden flow of visual information, seeing the ki flow and auras emanated by humans.
"Midoriya...", Aizawa was annoyed, "Wake up !…", making an unpleasant hissing make the young vampire to jump from the seat violently, and latch with their claws on windows handles, made by rubber.
"What ?!...", Izuku finally recovers his humanized form once fully recovers his senses, "Aizawa-sensei! Please don't make such fuss!"
"I expected you to awake more smoothly… And please don't use the Witcher Senses so lightly...", making everyone thinking about such peculiar thing.
To avoid more distracting plethoras, the teaches orders to all students to swiftly go out of the bus. On exited to the parking area, some of students stretches out outside, specially the infamous vampire.
Others quickly complains the huge forest landscape, and the nearly absence of villages.
"Very well...", Blood King intervenes, "Welcome to Hanamigahara Forest Park!... More precisely, the vicinity of this great place...", making some of them sighing or complain ever more, "Your mission is to find the correct path along the forest, and discovery our secret basement!", prompting the teachers to resume in order to avoid more problems or excuses, "And since this is an official training field, I and Erase Head will give authorization to use our quirks, as long don't damage the forest...", which makes sense as everyone brings their costumes.
Aizawa intervenes, "And to made an additional remark", as displays a mad face with his fangs dropped while talks like an unmotivated salaried men, "I recommend to Geralt z Rivii, the Elemental Witcher of Doomsday, also know by the alternative alias by Dark Schneider, the Vryko-Warlock of Chaos Destruction Overlord to restrain his supernatural powers use and do not use black magic spells at normal circumstances… Thank you...", and ends with a wide opened yawn before snaps as he couldn't find their favorite yellow bag, since he never bring with him at first.
"This is a real Hero Name ?!", someone from 1-B class was bewildered.
"What kind of horrible costume was that ?", said another one from the same class, "It resembles a video-game character from some weird fantasy game...", as he complains about Izuku's dressed costume that was a tweaked version of Geralt's character one.
Izuku just sigh dead-panned when ear all conversations, "It's so bad that I can't cast hexes ..."
Aizawa replies a little angry, "Midoriya… Don't play with witchcraft!..", and the green haired vampire shut up for good.
"Let's go!", Blood King orders to begin the field exercise, before the students divert to other things, "Stand on line about a meter off the bus facing the fence and then wait to my signal!...".
Blood King counts up three, and swings his left arm to signal the beginning of the race, and then all 40 students runs over the parking zone and dwells around the trees, it won't make than a minute to the teachers lost direct sigh of them. The compact vegetation, and the tricky environment was perfect to hide.
The Hellhound
In reality the forest boundary was covered by a system of security cameras, and electronic traps, intended to alert the presence of outside intruders. Some security cameras are also inside the zone, since it was useful to verify if a quirked student don't fool the rules.
Ignoring for a while all mundane problems, Izuku runs at full speed (meaning over 100 km/h) around the forest about two minutes, like some ninja character running and jumping across breaches, before the strain causes him to slow down. When he finishes to jump around the forest patches, it automatically use the Witcher Senses, while charges the Yrden and Aard signs to prevent badly surprises from some troublemakers that could appear from nowhere.
"The very first step is to find my position...", mumbles Izuku when climb fast a large pine tree, and scans over the cleared view, the potential site of the targeted lodge.
After some seconds, Izuku quickly learns that he was a little far from the route, but notices some unnatural movement at the boundaries of the forest park, much due to the aura signature that vampires senses at certain circumstances. And vampires with magic knowledge mad a much higher sensibility to such things.
The greenette vampire quickly jumps to the ground, and goes forward around the forest again. And about twenty minutes of a good pacing, Izuku smells blood from a certain spot.
"Someone's hurt...", said izuku, while trying to not drive his hunting instincts, specially when he remembers the first time he bite a human.
"Awkward times...", he rubs his freckled cheeks and eyes, trying to not bite the presumably wounded student, "I should have five or six when such thing happen..."
Due to Izuku been a vampire, his mother was very protective to his son, and she don't wanted to wander outside until an certain age. And since all humans should go to school before six years old, Inko knew that his son should learn to socialize with humans, at least a minimal level.
When Izuku was on eve to go to elementary school, he was with her mother shopping at late evening, in order to ensure that the sun won't burn the skin, since vampires has low tolerance on sun, and take some time to adapt.
The problem happens when some quirked ruffian decide to attack Inko, and due to panic and havoc, the little Izuku scream, and bite the aggressor almost in panic, spilling blood all over the place.
About a minute later, the police arrive to handle the case, and was the beginning of another problem, that was attack of a vampire against a human. Fortunately, all legal problems settle quickly.
Once Izuku though that reaches the potential site, he barely hold from screaming aloud when witness a strange three-headed beast, that resemble an oversize wolf, as height as an African elephant. Even his body had a greyish fur, it had an huge spiky patch along the back.
Their legs ends with massive claws retracting from their paws. To make the things worse, the creature had a heavy mace on tail, and strange lightning shaped eyes and menacing fangs for each head. The sudden appearance of such monstrosity causes Izuku back flips once jump from a tree, and slides to the middle of a trench.
When the strange creature notices the presence of the vampire, both heads growls and split corrosive saliva that burns the ground, hot enough to catch fire.
"What the hell is this thing ?!", Izuku quickly notice from his magic abilities that such living creature shouldn't exist naturally.
Izuku quickly notices that the blood smell trail don't fit to the monster location, instead it come from two boys, probably from 1-B class, that appears to be severally wounded from the creature.
One of them appear to use his air based quirk to make a fragile shield that was quickly break apart by the massive tail swing, or when the creature gives a brave kick in such a way that the quirked barrier is broken apart and rips the boys' flesh in the same act.
The another boy appears to be capable to spin at higher speeds, but was useless when the creature strikes down with other powerful chop kick.
"It could kill them! ...", mumbles Izuku before he slides back when face the massive black aura emanating from the beast, "Damn it… That strange wolf-like aberration had magic emission, this is not a thing that normal or quirked humans should face at all!"
The green haired vampire never experience such magic vitality clash, except the wonderful mission on North Korea base, but unlike a vampire, this magic creature is not sentient, and such scenario means big troubles.
Instead to face off the creature, Izuku slides to catch the boys, asking, "I'm Izuku Midoriya, you are alright ?"
"Please!… Don't kill us!", the air-based quirk user, called Kosei Tsuburaba, was also too freighted to the close presence of the vampire.
"Honestly...", the vampire glares, "I expect a more defiant person, especially when both of you wanted to take the bull by the horns, and not complaining… "
"Leave me… We are plenty fine... I don't want...", and other boy, Sen Kaibara, neither wanted to be rescued by a vampire.
The vampire ignore the pleas, and he just grab them, one of each tightly close arm, before trying to jump from the danger before the unnatural creature strike back again.
"Refusing help are out of question!", said the vampire apologetic, while quickly scan the blood drip and wounds from the students, "Both of you, since you face that creature ?".
None of students dare to reply back, making Izuku a little angry seeing such childish prideful behaviour.
The vampire knew that his top priority is to flee the zone, and avoid to confront the creature, but when he tries to run away and find a more safe place, the monster swiftly react, and split a venomous mucus that burn and catch fire, followed by a sudden leg stroke with their huge claws opened. The combined swing effect tears apart several trees, and spread the venomous mucus at greater angular range.
The huge wind gust was also enough to Izuku lose balance and falls down, dropping the boys to the ground. He was caught off-guard and ends wounded too, and his body serves as an unintentional shield to avoid more damage to the boys.
"It appears that the beast will hold some instants...", Izuku remarks, slightly burned from the acidic saliva, "And both of you, what's happened to face that..."
Sen Kaibara interrupts, without hiding a sense of shame and defeat, "Me and my friend was running around to find a clearance, that… could serve to orientate and find the… lodge...", and after a pause said, "Until we find that aberration that defeat us in a blink of an eye..."
"Later...", Kosei Tsuburaba intervenes, "I use my quirk to defend, but it was totally useless… A single leg stroke almost rips us apart!..."
Suddenly the creature strike again at greater force than before, leaving Izuku to cast the Quen Active Shield to protect not only the wounded behind him, and itself.
The barrier don't hold totally, and the three boys flown apart against the nearest tree that was destroyed by the same creature's attack.
Aizawa, this is an emergency!
"Very well!… I don't think that Yuuei would release such creature on wild!...", said defiant with the absurd situation and dial to Aizawa using his smartphone, "Aizawa-sensei, Midoriya calling… This is an emergency!..."
The older vampire was genuinely curious when the infamous student dial to him, "Aizawa here… Midoriya, what's the problem ?", when he also hear a sudden slash from the smartphone.
"If you ear correctly, currently I had two injured 1-B class students, and a creature that resemble a demonic wolf!… Capable to tear apart trees and rocks too...".
"WTF ?! Can you detail carefully ?!", Aizawa expects that some of guests Pro Heroes would make some pranks, like the Pixie-Bob ability to manipulate dirt and molding large but inoffensive golems, "They are not made from stone or dirt ?"
Izuku waits a little before resumes, since he notice that his teacher was not taking seriously, "Never mind… We faced a thing that resembles a living creature, and I notice and confirmed that normal quirks don't work against it... To makes the things worse, both of three heads split saliva capable to catch fire, and releases an ominous black aura emanation… It appears that...", Izuku was caught off-guard again at the same instant when the creature breath black-reddish flames against him and other students, incinerating the whole site. The vampire still manages to cast magic barriers at time, but his not fully concentrated and the fire heat would burn them easily.
Izuku holds silent several seconds while tries to avoid been burned alive, until notices that the ring of fire also act as a medium to summon more magic creatures, albeit with smaller size.
Aizawa almost panics when wear panic and silence, "This is not good, why… Midoriya!..."
Then Izuku talks back while tries to cast again the Quen Shield again to hold the flames, "Forget it… He magically summon more creatures!… Unlike the dinosaur-sized three headed monster, now both of us faced a pack of wolf-sized pitch-black burning wolves!… Don't mean that creature was recorded from Sakura-sensei books!"
"Burning Wolves ?!… Summon Magic ?!...", Aizawa freezes with horror even it was a supernatural vampire but he never expect such scenario...
" The whole thing… That monster is an Hellhound!", the vampire remembers with a sudden flashback when once read some old book, "And it's an abnormal type with three heads… When I read a book about western folklore, from it said and carefully analyse such beast, it actually resembles the Cerberus, the guardian of the Gates of Hell itself."
"An hellhound ?!", Aizawa screams, "How it's possible to a mythological creature from Hell appear here ?!"
Izuku quickly notice that the smaller hound monsters was also dangerous. They not only form a considerable pack size, but many of them are very fast, and dodge quickly.
The boys also used their quirks to fight against the demon wolves, and their usefulness are very dim, since the boy with a solid air barrier quirk fails to catch a single foe, and the driller quirked boy wasn't effective either, as the demon just plays and dodge safely any close ranged attack.
One of those smaller hellhounds, and also the swiftly one breaks the weakened vampire's magic barrier, jumps over Izuku and bite the right Kosei's arm, screaming in pain.
"Nuts!… That bastard… It inflict a hex!…", said Izuku.
"A what… ?", said Sen, "Kosei, what's happened ?!"
Kosei screams with pain, quickly evolving to strong convulsions and white eyes.
"Quirked villains is one thing… but a whole swarm of supernatural and magic blessed creatures are too much for a human to handle… Damn it!", Izuku grits his teethes, felling some impotence.
Quickly Izuku pick up their smartphone, and pledge to Aizawa, "One student was bitten and cursed! If I don't use all magic powers, both will die!… With such emergency, I request permission to use Dark Schneider's magic..."
"Wait!… Please use the Geralt's magic first… And try to not use higher spells unless the things goes awry!"
"If you want to do so… Then I will use ritual seals to enhance the Witcher Signs ...", but he knew that without magic swords their usefulness are very limited, and should be a little creative.
"I really sorry for those two watching this… But I need to overcharge my Signs...", spoke Izuku when prepare his mind and body to make a blood ritual spell, "Ancient souls lying on my bloodlines! I request your Ritual Pact!… Enlightenment Executors of Tyrants!... Lean my Ancient Seal to Summon your cursed Oracle!... Vetiti Autem Sanguis Sigillum!... Excieo!...", that makes his blood as potion, "FLESHGOD APOCALYPSE!"
Quickly Izuku casts the Somne Sign to slow the cursing hex that was killing the 1-B class student.
"What kind of hocus-pocus was that ?!", asks Sen, visibly horrified.
"Don't distract me… I apply a Witch Sign Spell to gain time, before the magic poison kill your friend!...".
Izuku knew that fighting Hellhounds with some Signs, specially the Axii, would be useless. This means that cast hexes against the demons would be waste of time, and he need to try the mutant sign that cause an uproar on Final Semester Exam.
Without waste more precious seconds, in such dire situation, Izuku cast the mutant Aard Piercing Cold spell against three hellhounds that was attacking the group, they froze quickly, giving a rush motivation to attack another ones.
The sudden turn of events was quickly acknowledge by the main Hellbound, that releases more dark magic energy to the remaining monsters. Izuku defiant face turns into a shocked one, when notices that the next waves of demonic wolves survive the telekinetic freezing spell, while some of them was capable strike back madly. The main one passes untouched, since he deflect all quirk and such magic attack with a barrier from the beginning.
And after five or six waves, some smaller hellhound manage to break the vampire magic defence, and rips the flesh.
"Damn it!… It hurts!", screams Izuku in agony, exacerbated by the drawbacks of their own potion poisoning, "That bastards!..."
Once he thought that the pain fades enough, then the vampire turn his head to check if the two are relatively safe, but he notice that three or four hellhounds attack both of them, and couldn't do more unless scream.
"That demons!… Since this aren't enough, let's try this", and this time he uses a ritual alchemical spell that enhances the stamina and vitality regeneration, that also serve as mutagens to the Witcher Signs, "Old fairy tales of swiftly creatures of night!… Under your Bronze Sanctuary to honor fallen Heroes of War… I never sleep until your Pact of Swords aren't Aced… May your Will of Iron been my Valentine's Massacre, and Overkill my Enemies!", when Izuku finishes the main incantation stage, with raised arms, cross his arms like he was slashing his own flesh, "Daemonibus inita dimittere maledictus a defuncti!… Excieo!...", and finally crafts a wicked regenerative potion, once absorbed on his body, enhances the hit rate and kill spree, without forgetting to yell the spells name, "MOTORHEAD!"
The Motorhead ritual spell acts like a magical methamphetamine, making the caster body reacting like he had an overdose of drugs, which is in reality a poisoning side-effect. That dangerous alchemical potion accelerate the physical reaction and deathly precision hit more than ten-fold.
However such spell are not useful without an adequate mage costume, or magic crafted swords that could seal the contracts with the magic poisoned blood. Motorhead acts as the foundation of the Adrenaline Rush skill, and combined with the Fleshgod Apocalypse with also unlocks the Bloodbath skill. Such magic and tactic skills enables to increase the Signs hit rates at expense of his natural defences. If Izuku are physically hurt by enemy with those skills activated, their recoil and damage are much greater than normal. Acquainting with those drawbacks, the green haired vampire jump straight against the giant Hellhound, without forgetting the minions along the path.
Along their youth lives, neither Kosei Tsuburaba or Sen Kaibara expected to witness the beyond-the-rational phenomena that was a vampire with a glowing red haze, and a inconsiderable bloodthirsty. In a blink of eye, Izuku disappears from sigh, and three minor demons was slashed with bare hands, when casts the Aard Sweep, while his body regenerates quickly.
Finally the giant beast unleash their real magic powers, releasing a pillar of fire that almost hit the quirked boys, and Izuku was unable to make any damage against the main monster. To make the things even worse, the minor demon wolves appears to encircle the vampire and the humans, like as been commanded by the major one.
"What… a… monster!...", said the drilling quirk user, before faint as the curse was dominating their body at alarming speed.
"Sen… Kosei!… There's no hope unless I use Dark Schneider's magic!… But I need first to...".
Activating the ritual spells was largely unsuccessful against the Hellhound, still it could be useful to Izuku cast quickly that secret healing spell that his Magic Teacher teach him before the hexes kill the students. She once said that such healing spell was recovered and adapted from an ancient palimpsest, and could be cast if Izuku combine correctly the Signs and Ritual Mutagens, turning them as the necessary ingredients to cast advanced White Magic. For a vampire, the main problem is the enormous vitality cost and crafting time to a Black Magic Mage cast a polar opposite spell, "Even it could make unusable to cast more magic until next day, that's a question of life or death!..."
To fix the timing problem Izuku quickly engenders a way to deceive the Hellhound, "To gain the necessary time, I need some kind of spell to decoy the beast!...", said the vampire when remembers and quickly casts the decay gas spell that may don't cause much damage to the smaller creatures, and probably it was ineffective to the main one, but still it causes the necessary havoc, "Cyco, Cyco, know your worth!… I granted your wills into a Ember flash of Ash and Wound!", and finally the vampire releases the spell, "SUICIDAL TENDENCIES!"
The vampire holds firm, and opens their arms for some long seconds, releasing a chaotic black cloud that rots and burns everything with black flames. The minor Hellhounds growls with agony, making a wrecking havoc that breaks the enemy siege against the wounded students, giving the precious time needed.
It was highly risking to a Black Mage cast Advanced Healing Magic, but Izuku need to make such sacrifice to heal the boys, before the poisonous hexes kills them, "My Merciful Healing God, I pledge your Wisdom and display the Holy Path...", the vampire fells agonized when pushes White Vitality during the incantation prelude, and Izuku manages to craft from point of view, a giant magic hand that encircles the target, layered by a stack of magic circles, "May your Healing Hand Mercifully Cure the Human Wound: Blood to Blood, Flesh to Flesh, Bone to Bone!", and once activated it squeezes the boys, but heals and breaks the hexes instead, "SILVER MOUNTAIN!"
The healing spell works, but discharges all active Witcher Signs making vulnerable for a while. He lost all alchemical ritual potions proprieties to pay the magic cast, however without erasing the poisonous side-effects that can take some hours to fade. Izuku still had some remaining magic energy of the kinds not used earlier to cast other kind of magic, but the main problem was the instability, and the alternatives aren't good either.
"Now I only have energy enough for two or three magic spells… I hope this works!"
The main Hellhound was furious with such tricks delivered by the green haired vampire, and decide to focus against him. The monster take a long breath, and releases a blazing inferno that almost caught Izuku and other students. The partially exposed tree roots gives entrance to a fragile shelter, but the trees was obliterated in a blink of an eye. When Izuku faces another ring of fire unleashes by the enemy, he delivers a smirk, since he could make the same…
"If you want to siege against me, I will redistribute back your favour...", and makes a greater wall of fire that counter-blocks and encircles all foes, "Tia... Tio... Rain... Hellish Rainfall of Fire!... GUNS'N-ROSES!"
"Why each so-called magic spell has named from Death Metal bands ?!", the boy with air-shield quirk connect the dots, and makes such awkward sentence, but nothing unexpected by Izuku's view.
Ignored the astonished faces from rescued boys, Izuku step forward and delivers another fire spell that hopes that would destroy the aberrations for good.
"Brain... Brain… Dead!...", Izuku's eyes flashes red and conjure an increasing size and speedy twist of fire, "Obey your blood oath and come forth from the Land of Abaddon!…", forming a blazing inferno, shielded by circle of hellish fire, delivered straight from Hell, "Liberate the Gehenna's Fire that incinerate at all it touches!", while increasing the temperature to several thousand degrees, "Give the Evil Blaze of Burning to destroy and burn everything at will!", and finally compresses the hellish fire against the target, "EXODUS!"
The massive unnatural heat cause an havoc due to the explosion, burning every Hellhounds until left nothing, but the real target appears to resist for a while.
Izuku holds the magic spell several seconds, until notice that the fur and spikes of the monstrous beast starts to crack and burn, while notice that some invisible magic shield cracks and explodes in sequence.
Surprisingly, the main Hellhound manage to survive the 100 thousand Kelvin fire, enough to break down their bizarre magic barrier , and suffer some physical damage.
"That absolute aberration!… He had magic barriers!… I doubt that a real Hellhound could made enchantment on their own body, to increase their defence!..."
"That's insane! Even Endeavour couldn't make such thing!", Sen spokes astonished with the massive fire.
"Unbelievable!... The demon wolf… survived!...", Kosei shakes their left hand.
Izuku's remaining vitality was lost, or he thought, "This beast will recover quickly… And I need to focus...", and meditates to find some capable kind of magic to be cast.
The boys notices a sudden freezing aura around the vampire, that was noticed by him.
"If fire don't work… Let's freeze instead… Using the most powerful one, with the courtesy of Dark Schneider!…", as he laughs defiantly and displays the same wicked aura of the cited ancestor.
"This vampire… is not normal!...", some boy makes the same remark when witness their magic powers on the Yuuei Sports Festival.
"Lors!… Healy!… Grey!... Scole!... Billy!… May your Soul purify me!...", Izuku create a magic magnetic field that traps the burned Hellhound itself, "Hell King! In this powerful gathering of sovereign beings, I will bear the destructive ice storms!", and finally Izuku releases the ice magic energy against the trapped target, "Let a new link unite me to the forces of snow and ice!", that freezes at atomic level, "Absolute Zero Annihilation!... TESTAMENT!"
Once the supreme ice spell hits the abnormal Hellhound, it freezes instantly to Absolute Zero Kelvin, and due to the massive thermal gradient and explosive magnetic compression the Hellhound explodes, releasing a catastrophic blast that wipe out everything around 100 meters.
An entire patch of forest was burned and frozen at the same time, but the supernatural enemy was finally defeated.
Izuku almost faints due to exhaustion, but he had luck, as the two boys decides to grab him side-by-side and walk trough the lodge, that was about three kilometres away.
Other groups already arrived, taking in average four hours to find the place, but Izuku's group needs seven long hours, due to the insane fighting against the Hellhound, and the slow pace due to their wounds.
Aizawa was terrible upset the whole incident and trying to convince, by their own security protocols, that the whole summer camp was compromised, just to receive a terrible bad news from Blood King:
"Unfortunately, is not possible to cancel everything and going back. The entire surrounding area suffer a black-out, and we are the only ones to stay on standby... Instead, they need to rest... And train harder to defend itselfes! "
"What on Earth ?!", Erased Head was astonished.
This is clearly a very cleared scheme beyond any quirked villainy, and who could scheme such thing was only positioning their pawns at the eve of the real attack.
To Be Continued...
Chapter 28: Valentines Gambit
Summary:
The revenge attack from Anthrax against Dark Schneider from the North korean phony military base begins when the Valentine Brothers with the help of an elite Millennium Army Unit begins an air and ground assault to the Yuuei's Summer Ground Camp, including a small village nearest of this site. The camp hiddens an underground decommissioned military base (resembling a lite version of Black Mesa), that turns to the only safe house capable to the students and teachers hide from the military rampage.
However the enemy was expected those outcome, and will use the underground abandoned facilities as the real battleground.
How will Izuku and his friends escape from the double trap set by the enemy ?
Chapter Text
At the same time when Izuku fought against the Hellhound threat, and their colleges bring to the guest house for treatment. Aizawa was in shock about the whole situation.
"It's better to explain more detailed, Blood King...", as he talks to the class 1-B home-class teacher, "Why we can't simply cancel all appointments and return to Yuuei Grounds ?!"
"It was a radio emergency report about a rouge military troupe that invade the nearest town, and cut all rail and road access to outside..."
"What ?!", Aizawa was dumbfound, without avoiding an intimidating hiss with sharp fangs, "Are you really sure that is a terrorist threat, not some villainy show off ?!"
Before the two teachers could thought to reply, the entire site suffer a massive shake due to some heavy bombing. It was the signal that a group of civilian Heroes in Training ended in a middle of a wreckage military game, that begins earlier when the peaceful Numata town was under siege of an unknown military power.
Numata, Gunma, Late Afternoon
For every year of this life, a middle aged groceries shop owner that makes businesses at the same yard of the Junior High School of Numata, never thought that a peaceful late afternoon ended quickly to a warfare situation. It all begins when some jets (that we couldn't notice that use stealth technology) roams at very low altitude.
About ten minutes later, the same jets return to Numata, and fire some air-to-ground missiles against some civilian targets. One of the targets was the main service transformer that gives power supply to the village, causing a power outage in the process. Other missiles blows the main narrow gauge railway in several sites, including the main railway station building, causing havoc, innocent causalities and a swift descent to hell.
The cited owner quickly closed their own shop and dash quickly to a small basement. Using the home's furniture, he created a barrier to shield the basement door, and hide before the second round of aerial bombing begins.
Before the military jets returns to Numata once made the initial strike, they launch cluster bombs or inertial laser guided heavy bombs to blow all roads that link Numata and the national park located some kilometers east (where the Yuuei's Student Group stays), cutting effectively an entire area of Japan from outside. With the initial bombing, the enemy manage to cut any fast method to the Yuuei's Heroic Classes evacuate from the danger. The last guided missiles also managed to blow all stations used to Internet and television broadcast, including cellular base stations.
With such surgical aerial bombing, the enemy managed to knock out an entire modern little town, leaving only the short-wave military radio as one of few options to send a disaster signal.
Just in a matter of minutes, the only police station, and also a Pro Hero Agency living at the same building of Numata, which is normal for rural places, but not for large cities, was in a total state of awe and chaos. The sudden loss of electricity, wireless Internet and mobile coverage causes confusion, that only increases the increasing list of problems.
The emergency generators quickly turns on the minimal infrastructure, enabling to use the emergency radio and use some computers.
"We have a severe loss of communications...", the senior office quickly assemble and run some software on their laptop to diagnose the sudden blackout, "And electricity…"
"Any new information from our patrols ?", ask another one.
"According to one report delivered by radio… There's a total chaos caused by explosions… Some said that the central railway station was bombed by a missile...", a third office answers.
"What ?!", the first office was bewildered, "Some quirked villains may cause some wreckage… But missiles is too..."
"And the same witness also sightseeing planes flying at great speed..."
The dialog ended brutally when another missiles hits the police office building, which happens when the enemy starts a second air raid that happens less than three minutes after the initial attack.
Normally on many rural places, crime and villainy incidents are rare, and much of Pro Hero groundwork was more to help with their quirk powers the task of police and other agencies to common threats, like flash flooding, wildfires and earthquakes. Real Pro Hero groundwork only happens when some thief stoles something, or a very rare villain decides to make show-off.
Facing a military invasion was clearly out of range and capabilities, and when a supernatural threat joins such horde was beyond any rational plan of defense.
"WTF is happening ?!", some seconds before the impact, at the Pro Hero Agency located at the same police building, the captain officer shouts when dashes upstairs to the main balcony, when notice a sequence of explosions that shatters Numata, "Argh!… I was making my routine patrol when suddenly this town..."
"We are out of power...", a rookie officer intervenes when tries to follow the emergencies procedures, "And also the mobile cellular network goes offline!..."
"What kind of freaking villain is...", a spiky rocky quirked Pro Hero was no less astonished than others.
"We are still trying to contact all police, firefighters, emergency, even witness...", when the emergency backup finally kicks in, the police starts their work.
However the superpowered hero notice the sibling hissing of a drop bomb when hear falling against the building, prompting to create a rock dome that partially shielded the blast that tears apart the building facade. Several causalities was the inevitable outcome of the impact.
The hounded Pro Hero fades due to injuries, just to be killed a minute later when a cluster bomb hit the damaged building, along many survivors.
At a global scope, it only takes a matter of minutes to many freighted citizens start to panic when witness with horror, all the rampage that disrupt all normal life. With a total power and security disruption, many of them started to flee from the smoke from the debris, and also the burning gas from broken pipes. And the most panicking moment happens when witness a massive invasion of three paratroopers units (one of each cargo plane that also drops heavy armored vehicles and tanks using attached parachutes) roaming at the urban core. Once they land, at the same time the evening sun fades, the paratroopers bring their heavy machine guns and start to fire randomly against everyone at sight.
Meanwhile a team made with a Pro Hero and two policeman decide to approach the disaster zone, ignoring that his own office was obliterated at the same time, only to witness a horde of vampire soldiers wearing military outfits with Nazi symbol badges (including the Schutzstaffel (SS) units), and shielded by their cannon fodder, which was a special army of North Korean zombies, made from former political prisoners, or even dishonored common criminals.
Three humans facing some non-human dozens was even too much for many super-humans to handle, but ignoring the horrible fate, the quirked hero advances and faces the threat.
"What kind of bad joke is this ?!", the Pro Hero shouts when witness the unthinkable setup of supernatural beings.
"It will be stupid to arrest on spot...", said the younger police officer points the 9mm handgun against the horde of zombies, while the vampire simply ignore the authorities.
The most well armed vampire, who appears to be the captain of the military unit, ignores the paltry stand off until the prosaic Hero uses their water based jet stream quirk against him.
"Stream Chase!", the hero, like many others, like to name their special quirk techniques, just to the subtle angry vampire reacts.
"Dumme leute sollten den mund halten!", shout the vampire while fires with a magic enhanced bullet from a magnum pistol against the forehead, killing the hero instantaneously.
"Damn it!… Jet Fury is down!", the second police office screams seeing his ally been killed so easily.
Half a second later the two police offices was bitten then ripped apart by two vampires, who was subordinates from the captain, killing them.
Using dark vampire magic, the Nazi vampire uses the chaos to cast some spells to the zombie servants rams against the human targets, including the decease ones, and bite them to turn into mindless zombies. The former Hero was no exception. The net result was a cheapness way to increase the invading army.
With all authorities neutralized in few minutes, the civilians face the horrors of a military rampage mixed with a supernatural deadly threat.
Less than a hour after this event, more than 60% of original Numata population was killed or converted into mindless zombies, while the former crippled city was converted into a military playground, when the invading army engineers greatly enhanced the make shift fortress by placing bobby traps, land mines and deadly barbed wire, all of them blessed with vampiric black magic.
The only survivors flees to outskirts with great risk, or hide on perilous basements or improvised shelters.
"Das sekundäre Ziel liegt unter unserer Kontrolle… Die Übernatürliche Spezialeinheit, Grailknights, rückt zum Hauptziel vor.", said the invader captain over a military radio.
The Invasion of Yuuei's Summer Camp
The rouge Nazi army wasn't the only invader, since under the disguise of night, the ancient dark knight known as Skull Knight followed by some strange creatures that was demons summoned by their mysterious black demon magic.
In fact, Skull Knight was already working before the actual invasion, and was the primary responsible to the abnormal Hellhound that was to difficult, even for Izuku, to handle and defeat with great magic energy expanse. Aizawa's little policy mistake to Izuku's not force Dark Schneider's magic at fullest will reveal at full swing on this terrible event.
About two hours since the beginning of the Millennium Army invasion operation, six fighter jets with enhanced stealth magic converge to the park lodge and drops at 20 seconds intervals several bombs. A little behind, a final group with two cargo planes filled with paratroopers and heavy weaponry was under the way, lasting few minutes before the actual drop.
To made the things worst, the two Valentine Brothers, who was stayed hidden two days earlier joins the invaders, by launching a ground assault.
They also bring four loaded buses of elite zombies, made from North Korean prisoners and "traitors", along a few ethnically Japanese people in the mix. Both of them carry heavy shields with a parody of the Horus's Eye and the Millennium Army logo on top, along the Valentines uninspired motto, "Boo Doo… People… Murder... People..." on the middle. The shield was also a crest on bottom, that resemble an old Japanese yakuza symbol, but defaced with a Nazi Swastika overwritten on top of it.
If the Yuuei's students group invade earlier the Hanamigahara Park by the backyards to reach the campus site, the Valentine Brothers decided to invade the campus by the main entrance door located at the east side of the cited park. Since this place was also bombed earlier, the zombie army started to warm up their mission by killing any survivors on spot.
One of leading commanders was the vampire Jan Valentine who was covered by piercings, wears a anti-bullet vest, and likes to swing two monstrous prototypical weapons, development by the Millennium Army, a super heavy direct energy weapon Übergewehr II capable to fire high energy plasma streams at left side, and the Kugelgewehr II heavy barrel loader shotgun on the right side.
Those monstrous weapons was derived from secret weapons development by the Millennium Army at the beginning of 21st century. Some enhancements includes black magic crafted ammo, and a ten-fold destruction from the first generation of such weapons. In theory, even quirked Pro Heroes could be killed by those weapons at one or two single shots.
"Oh! That's great for this revenge mission!", said the younger Valentine brother, with his lips full of piercings, displaying a menacing pose with the cited weapons, pointing to some random civilian car trapped on crater created by earlier bombings, on a secondary road that links the Hanamigahara park to Numata village, "Who want's to play a game with me ?!"
Before the poor family could even reply, Jan Valentine beheads them with bare hands.
The zombie army use more common machines guns, due to their cheapness, but was terrible effective to kill scores of fleeing civilians. Quickly they reach the first real obstacle of their mission.
"Stop it… Filthy Villain...", for some reason the check-point's heavy barrier door survived all aerial bombings, and some rookie Pro Heroes was standing to guard the entrance, "This zone are restricted..."
"Oh!… A filthy bitch that wants to play!...", while signals to the front row of assault team to raise their weapons and place the heavy shields in position.
However the piercing faced vampire notice that a second Pro Hero appears from behind, and tries to attack him off guard, "A stabbing back attack, oh ?!", but the vampire fire their right machine gun, killing the poor hero, "Too naive..."
Some zombies starts to feed the former hero corpse, turning also it to a zombie, while the first hero who stand on front ended riddled by bullets fired by the zombies.
"Prepare the Howitzer for fire!", Jan order the backward zombie unit that carry a mortar cannon for the case of needing.
The vampire makes an annoyed face when a third courageous Hero jumps from the barrier, and tried to kick Jan's face, before their body been blown apart by a single shoot of the plasma gun.
Seconds later, the first mortar fire blasts the blinded security door, enabling to the zombie army to storm the place.
Meanwhile Eraser Head and Blood King joins All Might at the same time when the same initial mortar blast on security gate causes a strong impact that almost tears down the lodge.
"My Lord!", Blood King was apoplectic, "From where, and when this strange explosion came from ?!"
"This is not a normal villain attack could make! The explosion and means are too militaristic to my...", All Might snaps and cold sweats with such implication.
"All Might ?!", Aizawa froze with such magic word, hoping that is was a fluke mistake.
"Duck under the table!", Blood King shouts and points to an heavy wooden table, when ear a hissing sound, unknowing him that was a mortar shell.
When the three Pro Heroes slides under the improvised shelter, a third of the lodge shatters and collapses due to the explosion. The students also begins to panic when the blast shatters the windows and cracks the ceiling.
The students starts to panic, and some of strongest ones prepare for combat almost instinctively, just after the destructive impact.
The green haired vampire who was resting after their mandatory blood meal, wakes up with all chaos, "What?!… Since when our Summer Camp includes artillery barrages ?!"
Todoroki, who was in defense stance, "An huge explosion occurs at the entrance hall, destroying it… Our teachers was chatting earlier about something terrible..."
Meanwhile on the remains of entrance hall, now a open small crater, and bend wood frames scattered everywhere, All Might recovers his senses about 30 seconds after the impact, but freezes when notices not only the destruction on the site thatwas entrance hall, but also the terrible vision of several paratroops on sky, "Damn it!"
At the same direction of sightseeing, the teachers mood changed from shock to uncontrollable anger when notice that some monitors and rookie Heroes been shoot or rip apart by living ammunition. A young freak with weapons, ignoring that was the Jan Valentine himself, leading an entire army with more weapons and shields was quickly spotted.
Eraser Head was the first to notice the zombie army right on this eyes, "Why a foreign army would violate our sovereignty so scandalously?!", making him mumbling so badly, "And WHERE IS our SDF doing, by PERMITTING to bomb and sent a ground invading force in the middle of Japan ?!", and grabs All Might so violently, "Don't mean that is the Nazi Vampire Army and their North Korean Army puppets!", that almost strangulates the poor human superhero due to Aizawa's rage outburst.
All Might swiftly associates the wonderful Midoriya's assignment on foreign soil under the First Heroic Internships disguise, making probably the entire invasion operation was their payback.
Blood King tried to handle the confrontation between the two colleges, but the sheer muscular force of Aizawa, due to be a vampire, was too dangerous to handle.
One rookie join the teachers group just in time to avoid more confrontation, "What a chaos! No cellphone network, no electricity, no… NOTHING!", and stop few second to take breath, "All rookies guarding the gates was overwhelmed destroyed by those grunts!"
"Oh my God!", All Might sweats badly, "This is really a professional army invading Japan!"
"Why you act as the Mister Obvious clown at such situation ?!", Eraserhead facepalms hidden while mumbles to himself.
"And waiting for rescue means… instant death!", reply Blood King to the rookie.
"There's a little hope...", the young rookie Pro Hero calms enough to speak, "This area was once a testing military camp with an underground network to tunnels that links to the nearby village of Numata!"
"You mean that training field closed 50 years ago ?!", Erased Head asks.
The last question was left unanswered, since the enemy restart to fire, prompting All Might to dash and punch against the zombie horde with some success.
Aizawa grabs the rookie and Blood King and runs until kicks and breaks the wooden divisions of the residential area. All students was dumbfound when those three appears in such way.
"WTF was that ?!", Bakugou dares to ask…
"All Students!", since Eraserhead and Blood King the teachers of 1-A and 1-B classes respectively, orders, "Prepare our quirks for defensive battle!".
"An invading army with paratroopers, infantry ground assault troops, carry heavy weaponry, joined by military aircraft was invaded our secret Summer Camp!...", the rookie explain nicely the situation was he heard from the emergency radio broadcast.
The two classes open their eyes very widely, just to focus the green haired vampire who was changing the cute freckled face to a madman face, "Sorry to interrupt you… But any of this unit had Nazi Swastikas insignia or Hangul words placed on their uniforms ?!"
"I saw a unit with heavy shields with some strange symbols, but I think that a saw an inclined swastika printed on that..."
"So… We are facing a surprise attack from the Anthrax and Millennium Army which currently control North Korea!...", Izuku red glowing eyes was making everyone frightened, "So where is Pip Bernardotte and their mercenary gears from Wild Geese doing, except to dining with forks and knives ?!", and slams against the cracked floor, "Their military base on Funabashi is just a short trip by plane, and where they are ?!"
"What this freak are talking about", said one class 1-B student.
"Izuku's First Internship was on the military on Funabashi, and Pip Bernardotte was the motherfucker who grabs my student to North Korea to blow an enemy base… And now they retaliate back… Simple as we gets...", Aizawa explains to the group.
And before the state of shock hinders further reaction, the residential area was now tear appart by the vanguard zombie unit, prompting some strongest students like Bakugou and Todoroki to fight back and blast, burn and freeze apart.
"Finally some real freaks to kill!", Bakugou's usually evil demeanor was recovered when destroys scores of zombies.
"Don't forget to gradually retreat!", Todoroki freezes the entire ground to immobilize the zombies making the leading vampires to overact badly.
Meanwhile the teachers lead their students to flee to a bad shaped barracks, while the rookie warns:
"Quickly! Everyone!… There's a small shed about 50 meters away, that covers a blinded entrance to an underground bunker!"
"To all students, retreat to the shed! It is a safe house!", said Aizawa.
The green haired vampire decide to fight back, and since his magic was much depleted, he simply tears apart the zombie until faces another vampire who appears to be the ringleader.
"Finally! Dark Schneider!", said Jan Valentine.
"Welcome to our reception party!", said a older vampire, called Luke Valentine, "For all units! Focus your firepower against this vampire menace!"
Then the vampire face a direct attack of live ammunition and mortal shells, that was deflect by a magic shield, which was the Witcher's Quen Shield, and hold enough to not be fatally wounded by the shrapnel.
Izuku's could activate faintly the Witcher Signs, that means that his magic was gradually recovering, but still not enough to be used on combat.
"Deku!", Bakugou was a little surprised or worried when his childhood friend barely survived the enemy attack.
"Hahahaha!", grind Luke Valentine, "It appears that Skull Knight's little gift torn out your mana! That's wonderful! A wizard without magic a battleship without ammo!"
"That bastard! That Hellhound was their craftsmanship!"
"I bet that you cannot cast anything at such dire situation, Dark Schneider ?!"
Izuku's mind was in state of total madness and rage, displaying no mercy to the horde of zombies that menace not only him, but their human colleges and teachers, which one is also a vampire.
"I already drink some human blood, if you dare to ask..."
"Finally you got senses to act like your kind should act...", Luke Valentine disdains.
"And enough to try a single shot… be prepared!", making Luke a little curious.
The vampire quickly raises his left hand and start to conjure a new terrible Dark Schneider's Black Magic spell, "Ancient God of War, leading the Hellish Doomsday Fire, under the Hammer of Hearts and Thunder!… I Release your Old Aged Pact!...", that begins when some small fireballs forms from the sky, and falls at higher speed, converging to the target, "May this Sacred Firestorm shall laid your Graveyard, and purge your Deeds to Eternity!", that combine into a massive ball of fire that impacts and burns everything on path, "MARSHALL LAW!"
"Another Heavy Metal magic spell...", some college made such trivial remark, useful to snap everyone their senses, and runs quickly to the bunker.
"That's cheating!", Luke was dumbfound with the chaos created by the fire magic explosions, making enough confusion to everyone flee to the shed, open the heavy door lock, and climb down to the underground bunker, located several meters of profundity.
Jan smiles, "Don't worry… Big brother… They just escape to an old and decommissioned military complex located underground… That's why I order to raze Numata, since the other entrance was located on that village..."
"Excellent!", Luke smiles, "They are trapped like mice on the cage!..."
The Entrance of Secret Underground Bunker, Midnight
The unstable and fortunatelynew Izuku's magic spell Marshall Law causes the bare minimum impact to all 40 students, a remaining monitor and three teachers to flee from the chaos, and enter to a reinforced steel-concrete underground bunker. After climbing down a vertical ladder in very bad shape, the group face a twisted blinded door, and a claustrophobic damaged entrance room.
When Izuku notice a rust blinded door with explosive locks partly hidden by old crates, garbage and nasty oil leaks, he smiles when notice a good shaped crowbar.
"For all Iori favorite games.", and pick the crowbar, "Why this place gives to be the vibes of Black Mesa ?"
"Welcome to Black Mesa Transit System...", Aizawa makes a dumbfound remark.
"After all you played one my cousin first person shooters ?", Izuku smiles, "The enemy thinks like Wolfenstein, but I will show to him the quirks of Black Mesa..."
The two vampires would laugh in such silliness, but they knew that a terrible survival game was just begun, and they need to bring everyone safely to home.
To be Continued ...
Chapter 29: Hellish Surface Tension
Summary:
To avenge the destruction of a phony military base, the Millennium Army and Anthrax decides cause the maximum destruction possible while negate their presence there. Chisaki Kai appears here, not as a yakuza, but a former terrorist who was fan of the dystopic society present on the fictitious City 17 on Half-Life 2 franchise, and once joined Anthrax, he could build a personal military army similar to the Combine Overwatch. Their quirk are similar to the canon, but named Combine Universal Union, and enhanced with nanotechnology, alchemy and black magic, resembling the Deus Ex or Cyberpunk 2077 transhuman cyborgs. To make the things worst, also cybernetic organism equipped with plasma rifles in a fashion similar to the Combine's Synth makes the first army on story that use direct energy weaponry, making even many Pro Hero quirks almost useless against that threat.
Izuku asks why the SDF or the Wild Geese appear to the rescue on previous chapter, and the answer was simple, the Chisaki Combine also launch a surprise attack against the Funabashi Military Base, and also invade the Yuuei Hero School, with a clear intention to cause not only a moral blow, but also to destroy the DKL-01 magic armour.
Chapter Text
At the same time when Izuku and his human friends manage to escape to an underground bunker, they strange the lack of reaction of the military forces. The reason was still unknowing by them, since the Funabashi Base was under attack of a third enemy force at the same time.
SDF Funabashi Military Base, Narashino
It takes no more than an hour to an important Japanese military base to be reduced to havoc and chaos. Before the events, it was a normal working day when suddenly several portals opens from mid-air triggering alarms. Even with the fast reaction of the military staff they was caught in surprise, when they faced an unbelievable invasion of armored fiend soldiers storming the complex.
At a first glance the invaders appears to be a kind of black ops units, and since they quickly reveal to had superpowers like the human quirks or bizarre magic. Once all soldiers manage to organize and execute the emergency plan about a sudden invasion, the garrison commanders order a full mobilization of all military personal inside the complex and send an emergency request to the nearest bases to mobilize their reserves.
After few minutes of combat, the situation escalates chaotically when witness some bizarre flying aberrations that resemble a mixture of a robot and a living creature (which was called a Synth Drone) appears from new portals. Once the stupefaction ends, the cybernetic drones starts to attack, firing from their Electromagnetic Gauss plasma guns attached to their bodies.
Quickly the ground assault was reinforced by other kinds of cybernetic organisms, like an mammoth sized crab with plasma rifles and flamethrowers firing at a constant rate, causing more damage and chaos.
Inside the Cerberus garrison, home of the vampire leading special ops Wild Geese which was an infamous acquaintance by Izuku, was stormed by a swarm of black dressed soldiers with overpowered strength, tearing apart the mess furniture and roaming against the corridors.
All fiends ears an oversize metallic gas mask, covering a quarter of the entire helmet surface area.
When the Wild Geese members and their support intercept the invaders, they notice a strange but recognizable arm badge by the top vampires, which was Pip and Gara.
Due to Pip Bernadotte's years of expertise he deduce that the leaders of each enemy squadron could be vampires due to their behavior. However he was astonished when notice they many fiends carry energy based weapons, like a plasma rifle or a Gauss cannon, but apparently the majority uses more conventional weaponry, like heavy machine guns and turrets.
Other factor that supports Pip's vampire deduction was the fact the enemy squadron carry heavy artillery weapons that normal quirkless humans would need a team to transport, and assembler. If they are quirked humans, it was an abnormal number of soldiers with strength based quirks, but it was unlikely to endure carrying weapons weighting a ton, the like normal person would carry a pistol or a sub-machine gun!
"WTF is that tailored bastards ?!", shout Gara when barely slash their Murasame sword against the fiends.
"Just when I receive a message that also a rural town are under attack, now happens this!", Pip Bernadotte reply angrily, hopping to create make-shift barricades with the wreckage before the enemy reorganize and resume the assault.
Pip Bernadotte was also astonished when notice that wasn't the Millennium Army leading the attack against the SDF Headquarters, as he quickly readied from the bandages, it was an elite force directly related to the Anthrax that maintained distance from the Major Montana Max paramilitary forces.
He may also bewildered about the horrendous carnage occurring on a little mountainous town of nearby Gunma Prefecture, and still thinks about the true motive to the enemy forces sends different teams to each Japan's prefecture.
"And this all happens when the Anthrax minions finally take full control of North Korea!", as he madly bites the cigarette, "It's better to not think about the enemy strategies, but instead it's necessary to handle the motherfuckers!".
"And what's your plan ?", Gara asks before prepare to the enemy storming wave.
Pip Berdanotte orders, "For anyone capable to contract the HQ or any external bases to request reinforcements, make such thing… NOW!"
"Since you notice, that insignia don't belong to a certain terrorist ?"
"Very well observed..."
The mumbling smoking vampire quickly notice the strange similitude of the enemy, including some badges and the terrorist and mercenary group leaded by Chisaki Kai in terms of uniforms and organization that once cause mayhem on Kyushu, five years ago.
Once he suddenly disappear from the authorizes eye-watch, it was not seen active until appears at a local North Korean newspaper about a new paramilitary force aiding the local North Korean law enforcement.
The most disturbing feature, like the previous Chisaki's past self, he model their rogue militia from the Combine Overwatch from the Half-Life 2 franchise. And to add more more similitude, recently on Pyongyang, as he remembered from the previous day news, a new military and political police was formed to protect the Anthrax and Millennium Army interests there just before replace the crippling human Juche dictatorship by their own, which was called Universal Union Patriotic Protection, that was almost a copy of the City 17's Civilian Protection Metropolice from Half-Life!
"And the military group of this terrorist Combine Overwatch , are called the Universal Union's Disinfection Unit, what a bad taste..."
The next minutes was an hellish firestorm of bullets from heavy machine guns, lots of dead bodies, and some occasional magic spell or quirk technique to counter the invasion.
Unfortunately the brutal sheer force of the monstrous Synths overrun the defenses in half hour, and about a hour the Numata base on surface was reduced to rubble, and only the subterranean installations resists the second wave of invaders.
"What's the situation ?", Pip asks to all personnel, once barricade inside an reinforced room.
An older vampire called Bomb, who was the brother of Bang, answers polity, "It takes about half a hour, but I manage to send emergency requests to the Ministry of Defense...", and breather a little while makes a strong stance of warning, "Who reply me that will broadcast emergency bulletins to television and radio, since the National Security Council deliberate to put the affected areas under martial law. And also the United States Army will join any military operation to destroy the invaders."
"Martial law… Many Pro Heroes who tough that punch one clown would save the day, they will be devastated when face a carnage made with blood and steel", Pip Bernadotte makes an unwiggled smile.
"What's your plan of action ?", other capable vampire mage, called Rohellec, asks.
"According to all intel, it is possible that the true motive to all invasion are to make revenge on Dark Schneider, by killing the major possible number of civilians, and put our allies under stress...", the captain vampire opens a sheet with a printer map, and circles the forest around Numata, and the Yuuei school, "I discovered that our younger future partner was along their dressed clowns at a summer camp east of Numata, and not only the Millennium Army almost razed the village to the ground, but also strike precisely the summer camp", and puts other sheet with an underground railway and bunkers, "And the most funny thing are this huge abandoned military complex made by an underground military bunker with a long railway tunnel which connects the Numata railway station with an emergency escape that corresponds to the actual summer camp… And to add one joke, it resembles the Black Mesa of Half-Life..."
"It is certain that those Heroes students take refuge on this abandoned shelter...", said Gara.
"That's why I will make a team make with me, Gara and Rohellec to assist and rescue Dark Schneider and this thugs, since the city will be an hellish trap… Since their school will be a target due to the armor relic, Bang, Bomb and the others due to their stealthiness will retrieve the magic armor and fight the Combine bastards... If anyone manage to retrieve the item, one of them shall bring to Numata… That vryko-warlock will need such thing to fight back."
"Roger!", every member agree and salute.
Gara sighed since the very first problem to solve was to take not only but two planes or helicopters to the plane could ever work, and he doubts that due to intense fire and shelling any utilizable plane are ever present on surface.
The Pip's intuition was proven correct, since few minutes earlier, one part of the Chisaki Kai's Combine force that begins of initial assault uses the chaos to divert and reach the Yuuei facilities using a Synth Drone as carrier. Once reached stealthy on destination, they receive more reinforcements that was sent directly by a portal above that school.
North Korea Coup staged by Anthrax, a day earlier than the Numata Invasion
Two weeks ago the last human dictator of North Korea, who was complacent with Anthrax and the Millennium Army to establish there, died by some mysterious circumstances.
Their death was made hidden several days, making the local Politburo worried and demands explanations or the presence of the former leader, unknowing that was deceased, since they could name a new successor.
During this deliberate blackout period, the local elite was increasing making worried about this potential power vacuum, and the rumors was enticing first the opportunists, later the impoverish population to demand explanations. Some small rebellions broke on some rural villages, all of them brutally quelled not by the human based North Korea Army, but the Anthrax or Millennium Army.
Quickly the Combine and the vampire leaded army also overrun the NKA, killing the retractable commanders and sizing their assets.
Even with those surgical strikes, the truth was hidden long enough to the Anthrax's Praetorian Guard leaded by the infamous Japanese-born terrorist called Chisaki Kai, who name Universal Union Patriotic Protection by itself, finally stage a coup on previous night of Numata events to overthrown the dilapidated Juche regime, while due to previous agreement the coup was seized quickly by the Millennium Army take control of the entire country.
The Millennium Army was already in control of the North Korea Army several years earlier, despite the China worries about their allegiance with a rogue Nazi organization.
To ensure a quick blow and takeover, several days before the coup the elucidated Chisaki Kai's Combinetakes control of all Pyongyang Police infrastructure, claiming that was a request by the deceased dictator. Very few, if any, resist and the new police force will make an unprecedented repression like the the first days of Kim Il Sung government.
Finally at the coup day, they only need to request help of all Millennium Army units to take control of all administrative building and overthrown the puppet human government, taking no more than a hour of chaotic resistance of the Politburo to achieve the objectives.
Everyone who once belong to the Politburo, including their relatives, was summarily executed, and converted into zombies using black magic, and sent to the planed invasion on Japan that would occur on next day.
Once seized control, the local television broadcast that the Millennium Army take control of North Korea, and Major Montana Max was invited to became the Reichskommissar of the new Reichskommissariat Weltreich Korea. The new regime would maintain all friendship treaties with China and Russia, while maintain the rhetoric against South Korea, just to appease the local intelligentsia. When the Major finishes his short speech, the military operations on Japan started in less than three hours.
The official announcement of the new North Korea government was caught China and their allies by surprise, and before trying to call their diplomats about the situation, the Japan was under attack, spiraling to the worst crisis in a century on Far East.
Major Montana Max denies any involvement on Japan, claiming that could be rogue units or terrorist disguised by North Korean soldiers, and such balant lie will serve nicely to stall any emergency United Nations Security Council reunion to regard the status quo between the China and United States groups.
The disaster headed to national and international media!
Meanwhile on Greater Tokyo region, specially around the affected areas, all unfolding of events was making an uproar, including some small scale villainy incidents made by opportunists. The first signal of alarm was the sudden disruption of transport on northern yards of Gunma Prefecture, making many relatives and close friends to ask the authorities for help.
The lack of news was making many citizens impatient, and the sudden road blockage and transport blackout causes some moments of tension. Many police agents and Pro Heroes was trying desperately to contact Numata authorities or to face a sudden spike of vandalism, theft and small quirked based villainy incidents.
And the rumors about explosions on a nearby military base was causing even more confusion to an economical and political hub, while the lack of information only fuels the spread of any dubious information.
The situation would spiral out of control when at the evening, the citizens ears all sirens roar on public streets and the loudspeakers reply an emergency bulletin given on television:
EMERGENCY ALERT BROADCAST – This is not a test!
The Government of Japan issued a National Alert!
At 18 hours, local time, an undisclosed military and terrorist group attack the Numata village, Gunma, and their surroundings. All local Pro Hero and Police forces was brutally killed and no match against the enemy military army, which also started a killing spree against the citizens.
Therefore the Prefecture of Gunma are under Martial Law, I repeat, all Prefecture of Gunma are under Martial Law….
EMERGENCY ALERT BROADCAST UPDATE – This is not a test!
An mandatory civilian evacuation are issued on entire Gunma Prefecture, I repeat, an mandatory civilian evacuation are issued on entire Gunma Prefecture!
For all citizens around Numata, please take shelter immediately or swiftly pack emergency provisions before leave your home. In case of trouble or any impeding issues, please request further evacuation instructions at the nearest Pro Hero Agency or Police Station.
All Pro Heroes of Gunma are now under Military Control, and should follow their instructions.
Any ill behaved or villainous actions against the military will be treated severally, and can be treated as a genuine military target. This is not a test, I repeat, this is not a test.
BIOHAZARD BLACK LEVEL ALERT! FOREIGN MILITARY INVASION ALERT!
According to the last report, special forces from the North Korean Army, including supernatural begins allies of NKA, s tarted a military invasion of our sovereign territory, beginning at the mountainous village of Numata, killing innocent lives, and convert them to supernatural deadly weapons.
The US Army located on Okinawa will join the SDF military assault against the terrorist army on Numata, including air strikes and heavy bombing beginning no more late than the 21 hours. It is strongly recommended to all citizens on Gunma to take shelter or evacuate immediately!
When the bad days made official the main reactions was shock, awe and fear. Quickly many associate the village with a popular training camp for many Heroic Schools, and the media tries to break the censorship to disclose if a school was rented the place.
But the headlines will change quickly, since around the Chiba, not only a military base was under attack, but also a school was under fire. Few minutes later, another emergency broadcast will make more panic and chaos:
EMERGENCY UPDATE! SDF HQ ON NARASHINO UNDER FOREIGN MILITARY ATTACK! MARTIAL LAW NOW IMPOSED ON CHIBA PREFECTURE!
At 19 hours, local time, the military installations of Narashino, Chiba was under attack of the same terrorist and foreign army…
Further updates about this horrific event will be disclosed as soon as possible...
CURFEW IMPOSED ON GREAT TOKYO!
Due to the tragic and horrendous events, Chiba and Gunma prefectures are now under Martial Law. The remaining yards and Prefectures around Tokyo Metropolitan Area are under mandatory curfew. All Pro Heroes around Greater Tokyo are under Military Control and requested to every emergency mandated. Any disobedience will be harshly punished, including use of deadly force. The same apply to villainous acts. In case of escalation, Martial Law can be imposed as well.
The transport network was quickly severing their service or closed as the emergency broadens. The authorities knew that the bridges over Tokyo Bay, and highways will not handle quickly an emergency evacuation. Realistically it is impossible to evacuate a 30 million city swiftly, therefore a curfew was more realistic. Any evacuation needed to be by steps, and may take days.
Then huge explosions heard from many Tokyo yards quickly spiraled the awed citizens into panic and chaos. Once the news stated that the Yuuei ground was under military fire, they knew that the nightmare was spinning out of control.
Meanwhile Inko Midoriya, and all mothers of all Yuuei students was stared at the escalating bad news emitting from the television. Her son was on a summer trip on the epicenter of doom!
"Breaking News!", the television resume the normal broadcasting, and the news anchor tried to not panic, "Numata are under siege of a terrorist military group…", while other headlines on bottom screen includes, "Mysterious Nazi group overthrown the Communist Government of North Korea."
Inko tried to call to his soon, but without avail, and before she enter in panic mode, she hear a multiple hammering on his apartment door.
"Let's hope my baby are fine… But who was rigging and punching the door ?!"
"Inko… Inko!", and she realizes that was Mitsuki.
"Where is Katsuki ?!", it was their neighbor human friend, and also the childhood friend's mother, who was totally in shock and panic, "They are around Numata, but no phones works, and the school lines are also down!"
"That's also I want to know", Inko also cries, and swirls in panic, since don't know more than her.
"Oh my God!", Katsuki's father stares with the new emergency bulletin:
EMERGENCY ALERT BROADCAST – This is not a test!
TERRORIST ATTACK ON YUUEI HIGH SCHOOL – BLACK LEVEL ALERT!
At 20 hours, local time, the yards of Kimitsu, Kisarazu, Sodegaura and Oredura are under obligatory curfew and under Military Law, due to the vicinity of the famous Heroics Academia called Yuuei High School of Heroics. Unfortunately the terror military group that invade Narashino, Chiba, and Numata, Gunma, also start shelling and take a ground military assault of the cited academic facilities….
This is not a test! I repeat, this is not a test! Yuuei High School are under enemy military shelling and siege…
For all residents until 15 km radius of Yuuei, including Kimitsu, Kisarazu, Sodegaura and Oredura towns, and potentially the borders of Tokyo Bay shall take shelter immediately, or prepare emergency kits or leave by own means before the situation deteriorate.
Please ask the military, police and Pro Hero authorities for further instructions, and plan to evacuate as soon as possible.
There is an highly possibilities to announce a mandatory evacuation of the cited region. Please stay alert f or further updates.
EMERGENCY ALERT BROADCAST – This is not a test!
NATIONAL ALERT – NO-FLY ZONE ESTABLISHED
Due to the escalation of hostilities, a No-Fly Zone was established at 20:15 for the entire Japan. A total flying ban as established from the entire Honshu, and only emergency flights to Hokkaido or Kyushu require special permission of the authorities.
All Train, Bus and Ferry services on entire Japan was canceled and shall wait for further updates to any special requested transportation, taking high priority for evacuation of the affected areas.
EMERGENCY ALERT BROADCAST UPDATE– This is not a test!
NATIONAL ALERT – G REAT TOKYO METROPOLITAN MILITARY WARNING
It was confirmed that the United States Seventh Fleet will join the counter-attack operation lead by our SDF, and no more late than 21 hours, airstrikes and cruiser missiles will start against Tokyo targets that was overrun by the enemy forces. Further waves will also target Numata vicinity.
For all residents within a 15 km radius of Narashino, Chiba and Yuuei, Chiba shall immediately evacuate or take shelter due to impeding airstrikes and bombing leaded by SDF and US Army. Do not attempt to reach the target area, and please request further informations to your nearest Police Department or Pro Hero Agency.
The Bakugou's family could only pray that everyone would escape from such danger.
Yuuei's Main Building Entrance, Early Night
One of most iconic views, which was the top secure electronic doors of the Yuuei's Entrance Building was tear part by a ten second continuous steam of a plasma based pulse weapon emitted by one of three Synth Drones, an more weighty Synth Air Carrier and an Synth Crab Beast while an entire group of Combine Soldiers, ignoring their official naming for now, that had only plasma rifles blasts twenty police patrol cars and six Pro Heroes who they was desperate to to block the school entrance, like they was made by wet paper.
"Attention to all Disinfection Units...", one cybernetic trans-human male speaks over a synthesizer voice speaker attached to their mouth, "Anti-citizen conspiracy, and quirk malaise detected! Main Orders: Lock, Cauterize, Stabilize!", it was Chisaki Kai, a man with a quirk called Combine Universal Union, capable to recombine and destroy almost everything on touch, later enhanced using alchemy and technological based black magic.
"Roger… Copy that...", all subordinates who was all cybernetic trans-human soldiers replied and start to storm the Yuuei, joining other group who attack from the backyards.
With this settled, it begins a race to bring back the Dragon Knight Lucifer DKL-01, or been permanently destroyed.
Meanwhile inside the underground Bunker
The entire chaos happens while the brave Heroes in Training still fighting inside the wet and dark corridors and rusted blinded doors that links the emergency escape shaft, that was used by the students to escape from the zombies attack, to the underground railway station.
Izuku picks a crowbar and uses to break old crates to find anything relayed to torch lights or ammunition, while some students quirks helps to light up torches made from rotten wood and leaked grease. Kaminari makes some experiments with their electrification quirk and manage to power momentary some lights, before they short-circuited.
Still the majority prefer to stay alert against the enemies.
"Attention! One freak with an heavy shield found us!", said one student from 1-B class, who was like a mouth mantis shaped, called Kamakari Togaru, notice that one of Valentine's zombies spots them, and start to fire using their sub-machine gun. Luckily the student jumps and slides fast enough to avoid been targeted.
But this short achievement ends when a gas canister was thrown, and several zombies storm the blinder division which many students takes shelter, prompting the Pro Heroes teachers to fight back.
With a trapped group of students, a military blocked by enemy fire, and a powerful magic weapon on the path of enemy, and a national alert that announce martial law, what kind of summer vacation Midoriya Izuku ever deserves...
To be Continued...
Chapter 30: Hurt Me Plenty!
Summary:
The SDF counter-attack against the Millennium Army invaders begins in different stages. The mercenary leaded vampire group Wild Geese also participates on this dangerous mission, intended to rescue the Yuuei Hero Classes from Numata. The first stage was to retrieve the DKL-01 armour located on Yuuei, that was also under enemy fire.
It also makes the first testing ground to the new techno-magic weaponry that manage to defeat minimally the enemy, and will be necessary to Izuku fight against Chisaki Kai that are more like a Doom final boss like Cyberdemon, Marauder or Spider Mastermind of Hell, coupled with some Half-Life's Nihilanth powerness.
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Funabashi SDF Bunkers, Early Night
Pip Bernadotte wasn't so excited and blood-thirsted in a single stance by a long time, making even the older vampire brothers skilled on Martial Arts a little worried. They are ordered to storm the Yuuei grounds that was under military siege and ground assault, but the very first step according to their captain signals them to follow him. Part of their mission was to retrieve the DKL-01 magic armor, and Pip Bernadotte was implemented some weird plans.
The three vampire stare each other when their captain brings a strange key to open an armored door that protects a steel reinforced concrete division. Once the doors opens, the dusty room inside it was empty, except an heavy metal alloy vault that requires to use ten different keys to unlock it!
"During the last weeks I take the liberty to examine the details of the techno-magical armor called DKL-01, and once I played Doom and Doom Eternal it gives to me some inspiration to mod that thing…", the captain said while opens all crazy custom keylocks.
Silverfang blinks when notice a two meters wide weapon that resemble one of the mysterious plasma weapons used by the enemy, daring to question, "Don't means that you bring that prototype!"
Pip Bernadotte makes a strange smirk, "My finest broken weapon, the SDF-666, also know as, Skull Demon Fiend 666, which is a Gauss canon with plasma pulse rifle interchangeable heavy weapon that with additional changes can convert to a Gatling-like pulse machine gun…"
"Typical…", Silverfang facepalms and nods their head.
"To make all wizardry complete it requires to equip that computer module and all sensors subsystems which will monitor all Dark Schneider's vitals and widgets, including magic and weaponry…", just to make a childish pose, "And then our future partner will turn to be the Ultimate Doom Slayer !"
"If the DKL-01 don't had already two magic dragon cannons, and you have the brilliant idea to add a third one!", Bomb intervenes visibly concerned.
"And how a teenager vampire will mount such abomination on their armor, and fire ?!", Silverfang asks.
"The SDF-666 had a magic item capable to convert magic energy into ammo…", while Pip makes a bad face, "And never try to call my creation an abomination, since this weapon and auxiliary modules will upgrade the magic armor, making more precise to eradicate all those bastards in a single swing!"
The two vampire brothers sighs before packs the new equipment, and flees quickly to reach the entrance of an hidden escape tunnel. The first group which includes Pip uses another escape tunnel.
Once they reach the outside, the older vampires almost catch off-guard when a Synth Drone that resemble a combination of a locust with an assault helicopter notices them and starts to fire plasma shoots.
Swiftly Bomb, who was a formidable martial arts fighter, delivers a fatal blow against the flying robot, "Senpuu Tetsuzan-ken!", when uses their signature technique, unleashing a chaotic whirlwind capable to break the metal and organic parts of their enemy.
Afterward theWhirlwind Iron Cutting Fist martial art was just destroyed the annoying drone, prompting to Bang and Bomb, along Rohellec fleeing and jumping like a madman ninja between the chaos unleashed when the drone's broken pieces fall into the damaged ground, and ignites more explosions. Much of this havoc happens when Rohellec uses their magic to explode all fuel tanks and explosive containers along the wreckage.
"Finally and fortunately the Kandingir Sanctum don't suffer any visible damage", Rohellec fells some relief once they reach a secret spot which was an hidden bomb proof vault located outside the main base, where the mage vampire stores a customized armored vehicle with a Gauss gun and two turret machine guns on top. A kind of magic staff with some weird magic crystals was also part of the main weapon, placed between the two turret machine guns, and interchanges with the cannon. Inside the marvelous weapon was a magic device composed by vampiric magic runes, and several enchantment crystals, that convert the magic energy from the caster to plasma energy, enabling to fire the cannon.
"Why this crazy vehicle are now named by a Doom chapter ?!", asks Silverfang.
"I was the true developer of the SDF-666, then it makes sense…", Rohellec replies once turn the engine on, and activates a protective magic shield to avoid a premature ending of their wonder, "I will drive, and both of two seat on rear seats…"
"I don't like this…", the older vampires lost in thoughts, remembering the hot-headed driver that was Rohellec.
Without warning, the older vampires almost lost balance from their seats, since the Kandingir Sanctum vehicle leaves the bunker before they could fasten their seat-belts.
Bomb was visible annoyed, once he fasten the seat-belt at third try once Rohellec drives like a madman, don't because of their poor taste on the interior, but their dangerous driving skills.
Rohellec shift up the gearbox using their handle composed by a silver skull with red flashing eyes that makes the top of gearbox handler, and drives with a steering wheel that was no more than a black skull with horns that are actually used as handles!
All pedals are bone shaped metal bars, the seats are actually coffin shape, or the driver seat that resemble a demon and with an entire skeleton fouled inside the metal frame of the seat!
Apart of a computer with military grade hardware, it actually features some multimedia playing, such as the Heavy Metal playlists that was Rohellec's favorites.
It was about 70 kilometers to drive between the Funabashi Base which was almost razed to ground, and the Yuuei High School. On normal situations it takes a hour to reach, but the Greater Tokyo Area was under a military raid. In fact one Tomahawk missile fired from the US Navy hits the SDF HQ at the same time when the bewildered soldiers on main gates gives permission to the Wild Geese new havoc uses the civilian roads to reach their destination.
Few minutes later they reach the proper Funabashi yard, when Rohellec notices some pretty villains to take advantage of the chaos to make their debut, and ignore the martial law in effect.
When some five meters tall kind of octopus tries to stomp the strange vehicle, Rohellec adverts, "Attention! This is the Self-Defense Forces of Japanese Army! This city are under military control, and any belligerent act against us are legitimate to use deadly force!"
"What the hell is that cumbersome piece of scrap ?!", said the dumbfound villain.
"It's your rest in piece, just relax and will send to Hell!"
Since the octopus villain don't dare to listen, the vehicle fire their turrets are maximum speed, followed by a pulse of ice magic energy from the wand cannon, obliterating the villain head in the process, "Petty idiots!… One more Glory Kill!"
Silverfang notices the freezing right hand holding a magic device that connects to outside, "Joking aside, I bet that such techno-magic apparatus are helping to cooling the turrets…"
"A pleasant use of magic to create devices beyond the normal science could ever dreaming…"
Once they notice a more safer detour route using the onboard computer, the insane vehicle reaches in about an hour to the vicinity of Yuuei grounds, that was only a few kilometers of Odurera. The SDF was fast enough to mount a barricade to all road accesses, and also to make an impatient Rohellec to wait five minutes to check all authorizations and credentials.
"We are in a state of war, and the first thing are to check permits!"
"Not that vampire death squadron again…", a young official sighs when confirms all identities, "You have all credentials to use lethal force inside the Yuuei Complex, however…"
"We have an important mission to carry…", as Rohellec was putting the foot on the gas impatiently.
"For God's Sake… To not override the laws like our Captain!", Bang pinches the right Rohellec's elbow.
"Permission Cleared!… However, do not commit any unlawful acts punishable by martial court!", the top official salutes and opens the barricade to permit the heavy vehicle invade the war zone.
Once the two annoyed officials seeing the strange vehicle roaming like a madman, the older one remarks, "Are all vampires a kind of punks, or something ?!"
"Are you thinking about their behavior, or that vehicle rip-off from Carmageddon ?!"
"I don't even know surely why..."
Yuuei H i gh School Main Building, Early Night
The US Navy begins the retaliatory campaign, firing from the vessels located on international waters several cruise missiles against three targets, with the coordination of SDF.
The first wave of missiles was designed to hit the enemy that was overrun a civilian hero school, a military base and a rural village.
A few generals of high commands knew that a punishing strike against military targets on North Korea was preferable, but the diplomacy quirks obligate to dismiss such operation, and focusing on tight the grip on the Demilitarized Zone border that divide the two Koreas, and persuade them to avoid any retaliatory attack.
Meanwhile the Yuuei High School Complex, specially the famous Main Building was overrun by two dozens of cyborg soldiers from the Combine leaded by Chizaki Kai. The few Pro Heroes that guard the school on night was easily defeated, or retreat to hidden spots.
Once the first assault fades, and the Combine regroup in order to prepare the next stage, Chisaki Kai's cybernetic sensors detects an high speed object or even some more reaching to him.
Their cybernetic soldiers swiftly take cover only by receiving the electronic distress signal, just in time before the entire complex shakes due to violent explosion.
"To all units… Code 243, Enemy presence detected… Stand-by...", said their captain after anyone does automatically.
He was annoyed when some missiles explode midair or hit the ground, betting to him that the SDF or any ally was treating his menace as a genuine military threat.
"Agent 241 to Leader. Sentry defense online…", Kai hears from the implemented radio-transponder inside his exoskeleton body an audio and text message from one of their soldiers.
When a mortar shell explodes and cause mayhem, the powerful cyborg order to attack,
"To all units… Code 243, Enemy presence detected… Main Orders: Stand, Isolate, Cauterize!…"
Few seconds earlier before the mortar shelling, the damaged Yuuei Main Entrance was overrun by a small group of heavy tanks, where the majority of them was the Mitsubishi Type 150 model, followed by a column of M370 Multiple Launch Rocket Systems.
Once they make a warning barrage against the buildings and the giant Synths, all cited artillery units start to shell against designated targets, instead the random initial one.
The attack was also coordinated by heavy assault helicopters which also begins to fire missiles against the cybernetic Synths hoping to damage or destroy them.
Due to previous reports the military team designed to assault Yuuei knew about the unbelievable technological achievement of the enemy, which was to create a viable plasma rifle, making this crisis as the very first battle on Mankind's History when direct energy weaponry premiers.
Hoping that the enemies advanced weapons was still on development stage, they devised to use the conventional military artillery in order to exploit their weakness. Even they knew that a single shot of a plasma weapon would bring down an helicopter or few of them fry and destroy a tank, the most effective counter maneuver was the helicopters to make fast movements or use electronic decoys to slow down the enemies automatic firing locks.
"Attention to all units!", once Chisaki Kai decodes the military presence he swiftly ordered, "Code 148, Action Order: Malignant inoculation!", which orders their cybernetic soldiers to take offensive position.
"Roger… Exposing Target, Code 148, Duty-Sword-Operate…", all cybernetic soldiers uses their sophisticated military hardware to find and lock all tank positions. Using a broken window from an internal wrecked division, it takes less than a second to both soldiers fire a dozen of plasma rifles with an inhumanely accurate precision, destroying a third of artillery pieces in few seconds, causing great explosions and havoc.
Then Chisaki Kai transforms to a mechanical chimeric creature, using a gifting combination of their Combine Universal Union quirk and technological crafted alchemy.
The former human sized body was shielded by a oblate spheroid shielded by magic runes, inside a mammoth-sized chimeric spider with a crab. Twelve heavy legs with plasma rifles on each articulation (it had three of each leg) forms a terrible first line of defense. Four huge arms with spikes and venom holds a giant shield composed by a silver skull and sword which was the Combine insignia, and also a kind of cannon that magnifies the destructive power of plasma weaponry. The two parts are actually connected to the arms, making a formidable second line of defense. Even an insane creature could break apart the absurd exoskeleton, the Chisaki's quirk and mastered alchemy was the third and last line of defense.
One of potential uses of Chisaki's quirk was to form a kind of telepathic wave capable make heavy things float or rip apart. It also chatters the ground, creating spikes or other types of ground deformation. Once all techniques was combined, the havoc and chaos was general, with an entire military division ripped apart. Even he managed to pick a fried tank destroyed before by their own soldiers, and ram at high speeds against two aligned helicopters, destroying them.
The last remnants was wiped out using all plasma rifles attached on their legs.
However Chisaki Kai was preparing another bold move in order to deliver to the remaining half of original military column a final strike and this time it involves black magic, requiring to sync their biologic material and cybernetic one to a rune artifact hidden by their platted metal chest:
"Master of Ancient Fiends, that shall domain for all eternity!", then Chisaki Kai unleash a black flare from their body, reaching the sky about fifty meters above the mesmerized soldier faces, "Accept my dishonor to sate your malevolence, and Incites the Apostles from Hell to Us!", and once the caster screams, it creates a rain of sharp red pieces of demonic matter, piercing and shattering all soldiers and weapons, "May the Evil Triumphs Again!... BONEHUNTER!"
The sudden and unexpected magic spell casting was a devastating blow to all military who was in dissaray, and losing more than half of manpower and almost all heavy weaponry in a couple of seconds was to much to handle. The chain of command breaks apart, and the unfortunate last remaining terrorized soldiers start to flee to panicking shooting at everything on sight.
The Combine request to their leader to finish them, and he accepted since it need to undo the transformation back to humanoid form, to recover their energy.
The major problem was the uselessness to use weak quirks of lighter weapons to kill an full armored cyborg. Five full loads of cartridges barely damage a single enemy. And then a single cyborg unleash a crushing counter-attack defeat, ending frequently in a gore manner, either by twisting and ripping their limbs, or break their necks.
Some hundred meters being the carnage, a lone surviving heavy tank still tries to fight back only to face the impeding doom when a mammoth sized cybernetic crab, which was the Crab Beast Synth, delivers a powerful plasma shoot and fries the menace without difficulties.
In a nutshell the first military wave made by SDF against Yuuei ended with total failure, with no survivors to witness, except some panicked citizen who was watching the carnage at a safe distance, before leave by car as part of the evacuation efforts.
N ow it's Time to Rip and Tear
When the victor Synth Crab Beast prepare to resume their patrolling it suffers a strong blow that resembles a strange whirlwind, "Senpuu Tetsuzan-ken!", that tears and breaks apart instead.
Then a couple of elder vampires who leaves a strange vehicle earlier starts to run and jump like some ninjas to invade Yuuei.
Since the strange vehicle was the Kandingir Sanctum, Rohellec now driving alone, step the gas at full force and activate the magic apparatus. Using the sudden attack as diversion, Rohellec start to firing magic coated bullets from the top installed turrets against two Combine soldiers, tearing and ripping apart like made by wet cardboard.
Once Rohellec drives thru the damaged walls and doors from Yuuei Main Building, he parks inside the entrance hall and leaves the vehicle detaching the mobile turret with magic staff. Such bizarre weapon could change their format to turn a mobile heavy turret, while the magic wand now can be used as a magic powered plasma-like cannon. Normal humans couldn't pick a ton monstrous weapon and bring alone, and even strength quirks based humans fail to operate, due to the lack of another quirk that convert magic into energy.
Due to some previous experience, Rohellec used the recoil of the magic enhanced plasma shoots to fly once made hit any solid spot, and gains gradually momentum to catch their preys by surprise.
It was also common to kill the Combine soldiers brutally, specially when Rohellec fires the gun to explode the robotic head, and with a swift arm stroke tear apart the remaining body.
With a quick torso swing, fire the turret to riddle a second enemy with bullets, and finally he grans the head and jaw and twist apart, and fire the plasma-like rifle aimed to the forced mouth, down to the ground, blasting and ripping the entire body into a cloud of lubricant, blood and sweeping broken body parts.
Even with a powerful magic weapon coupled with a conventional one, Rohellec don't forget to cast magic spells in an old fashioned way, unleashing three ice spears against a trio of enemies who was trying to aim their plasma rifles at the end of corridor.
Bang and Bomb also fight almost evenly against three cyborgs using their strength, extreme agility and martial arts knowledge. Once they reach the climax, the two brothers unleash their signature martial arts and defeat their enemies.
"More three down…", Bomb was more focused to their real mission, "Where is this school stored the DKL-01 ?", asks Silvergang.
"There's a safe storage room at the Hero Course Building, just beneath the Support Department Studio, which is a few steps away…", for a vampire perspective.
"Bringing all extra components alone are still too rough", Silverfang pokes their brother, while scans the corridors littered with dust and debris from the recent military shelling to avoid been attacked by surprise.
Then Bomb receive an electronic message from Pip Bernadotte, warning them that the new special assault helicopter Argent N'Dursurvived the onslaught on Funabashi and manage to flee from the secret storage area. Since the direct path to Numata was blocked due to intense fighting and missiles attacks, requiring to take a detour, the initial plane was changed, and they will pick them all on Yuuei.
For Rohelec perspective it was the best option, since it would be impossible to reach Numata in time without air support, giving to him additional motivation to finish their mission.
Killing all Combine soldiers was more or less easy to achieve, since they are no match for the crazy turret with magic plasma-like rifle, but the real problem would be the final enemy.
Once he spot the older vampires he notice that the Support Studio was wrecked and burned, meaning that the enemy was trying to find the magic armor, and destroy anything unrelated.
Suddenly the three vampires skid outside the damaged room, when the floor breaks due to some kind of energetic blast. Once the debris falls, they notice that was Chisaki Kai bringing the huge vault that was the DKL-01 inside.
"Attention! Code 404… Main Orders: Lock… Zero… Sterilize!"
"Oh great!…", Rohellec was the first to react and cast a magic spell, "Eisiger Nebel!…", and use the sudden chaos caused by the freezing mist to grab the vault.
However Chisaki delivers a strong punch that thrown against the ceiling, making the two brother step back.
Rohellec also uses the recoil effect of their wonder weapon to skid to outside, using a broken window, quickly followed by Bang and Bomb.
Once all vampires gong outside, they notice the surviving flying Synths start to hunt them down, while Chisaki Kai also hops off the damaged building and tries to catch on of cybernetic Synth to flee, when a demonic-looking four-blade helicopter with two dragon magic cannon on their edges appears seconds later.
"It's the Argent D'Nur, our very last acquisition to Wild Geese arsenal."
The remaining cyborg tries to destroy the strange helicopter either by order the surviving Synths or himself, but the Argent D'Nur shields with a dark red blood colored spherical magic barrier.
The helicopter unleashes hundreds of red bolts from the dragon-styled magic cannons against the cybernetic beasts, damaged severally including the already severed building once hosts the Heroic Development Studio. That school building are now a burned derelict.
The problem was Chisaki Kai was able to reshape to the chimeric monstrous form while holds the precious vault.
"I don't know if such Frankenstein helicopter can handle this demonic arachnid offspring, since it wipe out an entire battalion without problems…", Bang signals to his brother.
"That damned Rohellec are now bringing their beloved car, instead to fight that titanic aberration… Then like the old days..."
The two martial experts stand size by size, and rotated their arms until twisting the bow shocks that resembles their major signature moves, unleashing a pressure wave capable to destroy everything at this path, "Senpuu Ryuusui Gouki Kuuretsu-ken!", like an ancient dragon roar that fall from sky and impact the earth, in accordance to their name, Whirlwind Water Stream Roaring Aura Sky Ripping Fist.
Normally even a powerful quirked villain would be shattered in pieces or reduced to dust, but the aberration was shielded by a magic field generated from their implanted runes.
The only achievement done was the vault that was projected upward at high altitude, only to been catched midair by Gara with a chain and pulled back to the helicopter hangar.
"That insane bastard was only stunned with a martial art capable to reduce anything to dust, that freak will be a Dragon-Type Hazard if he don't handle this…", Pip Berdanotte mumbles.
"Our strict orders are to bring our team and that freaking car, and fly directly to Numata", Serpico intervenes since it was piloting the helicopter.
"No problem… That creature will reach us on Numata, no matter the chooses we made…", Gara concludes with a wicked smile.
Chisaki Kai was terrible damaged, but still totally reparable using their alchemy aided by cybernetic technology fueled by own quirk. Since he notice that their foes are flying to Numata, he decide to focus on repair and then move to pursuit them.
Underground Railway Tunnel
Meanwhile the sudden war wreckage was passing unnoticed by the Yuuei Students trapped inside a decommissioned military bunker that was nicely accessible from a Hero Summer School Training Camp overrun by a zombie army leaded by vampires!
The strongest Izuku's class like Todoroki and Bakugou was swift to kill the major score possible of zombies, using their superpowers. Their shields don't provide much problem against their quirks, and the narrow corridors and stairways was slowing the enemy invasion.
Other students like Yayoi makes some lanterns, using their Creation quirk, to light the dark corridors, since the electricity on that place was lost a long time ago.
A perfect situation to everyone flee the bunker, while All Might also delivers some punches against some zombies. When Aizawa and Blood King discovered the correct path to reach an escape route, while reading a faded plaque on a dusty wall, they ordered to all of their own students to retreat from the fighting positions and follow them to an hidden hatch.
The heavy hatch lid was rusty, and the gears are partially loosen, but a 1-B class student was capable to use their quirk to open, which follows another rusty staircase to a small room, which reaches their main goal.
In less than three minutes everyone reaches a wide open subterranean concourse that appears to be a make-shift railway station.
"Are everyone here ?!", Aizawa was mentally counting the number of students, "I bet that the enemy commanders will reach soon this place…"
"Bring them all, that I will show them…", Katsuki was on of the few that still wanted to punch them at all, even over-numbered.
"Why Kaminari don't use their electrification quirk to power that electric train ?", Izuku points to an electric locomotive coupled with an additional wagon capable to carry all 44 people with minimal overloading.
In fact a quart of hour earlier, Kaminari was playing with the remaining electrical devices left behind, a powering a third rail railway appears to be feasible.
"Aaaaaaarghhhh!", shoot Kaminari when unleash their electrifying superpowers, giving enough power to the train moving around at a fantastic top speed of 25 kilometers per hour, and since from an ancient source, the tunnel had 15 kilometers, it would take more than half hour to reach the termini. In practice, Kaminari couldn't hold more than one minute, and to avoid injuries they decided to Kaminari only use their quirk when the trains lose their momentum.
"Fortunately the tunnel declination are negative in respect to our direction, making more time to Kaminari to rest, and we are gaining speed exclusively by the gravitation", Aizawa comments, hoping that he could escape or would be rescued once reached Numata.
The real problem was the real danger that was ignoring due to the lack of information.
To be Continued...
Chapter 31: Evilish Raid On a Rail
Summary:
The fierce battle inside the tunnels that was a tribute to the chapter On a Rail of Black Mesa, while the Valentines are betrayed and converted by a monster more akin to Diablo III by the courtesy of Skull Knight that makes a flash presence that adds more questions and answers.
Finally, the Wild Geese and students reaches Numata, before the last remnant of Combine, Chisaki Kai, reaches the same spot.
Chapter Text
Bloodshed on a Rail (Yuuei Students Group)
The electric train powered by a third-rail which in reality was due to Kaminari's quirk was following downwards inside the dark and wet railway tunnel that supposedly connect an abandoned military bunker to an emergency depot located on a nearby town.
Due to the Kaminari's electrifying quirk and the descend tunnel slope, the train composed by small sized-car locomotive and a coupled open carriage was advancing at a slow but steady pace.
One of many issues was the absolute lack of illumination, partially solved by sharing some students smartphones that lighting their screens or by turning on some weak lights scattered on the locomotive's console. The two vampires of the group could see in the dark, due to the thermal night vision. Still the major problem was the enemy that probably won't leave them so quickly. Such long deep tunnel would have at least one or two vertical shafts for maintenance, and knowing the capabilities of the enemy it makes another way to encircle them.
However, once the train reaches the fourth kilometer mark, Izuku needs to pull the emergency lever once he notice a barricade made by crates and sand sacks blocking their path. It also take no more than a few seconds to notice a machine gun nest guarded by soldiers, and the same kind of zombies carrying heavy shields on stand position as long don't block the artillery operator.
"Damn it!", Aizawa screams almost in panic, "Everyone! Brace and duck down!… The enemy are on our foresight!"
Swiftly the enemy started to fire resiliently, putting the legendary vampiric regeneration on stake, once Aizawa or Izuku couldn't avoid been hit by some lost bullet.
Ignoring the pain, Izuku could cast the Quen and Yrden Signs, since he started to recover part of their magic powers. Izuku's costume also had some magic items, normally bracelets with alchemical seals, that increases the magic defenses but still couldn't block all incoming projectiles.
The fire barrage halts a little just for some menacing vampire sneaky appears from the hidden ladder shaft from Izuku's point of view, and speaks:
"Like a mouse on the trap!", said a blonde younger vampire, "You may escape barely from my brother Jan trap, but you wouldn't be so lucky with me, Luke Valentine!", as he menaces everyone with a Schockhammer X modded shotgun on their left hand, and a Kugelgewher Y barrel shotgun on their right side.
The blonde vampire body swiftly flashes red, before vanishes from everyone point of sight, just to appear off-guard and line of fire by those two weapons. Kirishima and Tetsutetsu quickly uses their hardening quirks to protect their colleges, just in time when the enemy unleashes several gun shots.
The two hardening boys quirks manage to resist two or three shoots, even those weapons could fire four cartridges of each shot. Kirishima was the first to fall down, when Luke delivers an uppercut arm stroke straight on wound that he barely manages to not break the spine apart before loses consciousness.
During the chaotic strike, other 1-B student who appears to have a slight shapeshifting quirk, called Hiryu Rin, unleashes a stream of scales or spikes from a specially made gauntlet against Luke, just to be pull down by other terrified student before he could be head shot at short distance.
Quickly the students with more offensive grade quirks, such as the Katsuki, Sen or Todoroki ones, start to fight against the blonde vampire. Enclosing the enemy with ice appear to be more effective, while also Shouto create another ice barrage on front and backward of the train to shield all students and teachers from the onslaught that the machines guns could cause.
Quickly the top four or five Hero students shift to offensive mode to blast, burn, pierce or freeze all zombies, and tear apart the machine gun nest. Izuku was still on hold to meditate, as he couldn't fully recover all magic energy lost a few hours ago against the Hellhound.
"Everyone, pay attention!… I notice a murderous aura emanating from our backside…", said Izuku almost in panic when notice the anomalous ki flow from the direction of the underground base station. Few seconds later, a plasma bolt traveling at high speedshatters the ice placed by Todoroki that otherwise could destroy all students including the train.
"Damn it!", Izuku remembers the previous almost forgotten experience on SDF, when Pip Bernadotte share some insights on future warfare technologies, "I never expected that our enemy could ever create a portable high energy weapon, a plasma rifle!"
"Since when a viable plasma rifle exists ?!", it was All Might or Aizawa who notice the fasting approach younger Jan Valentine vampire which makes an annoying face expression.
Jan appears to carrying the Übergewehr II plasma rifle, while holds the Kugelgewehr II affixed on backside. Since he knew that the plasma rifle would need up to one minute to recharge since it uses a flat discharge, instead to make a turret of smaller bolts, he switch to the more conventional rotating shotgun.
The younger brother vampire appears to be more athletic, as he bounce at higher speeds to the ceiling and walls of the tunnel to gain momentum and divert anyone who try to target him.
For Izuku ratiocinating it means that he need to use their magic, even only partially regenerated, to fight back. His colleges was quickly to use their quirks against zombies, but he knew that those two vampire will be the major dangerous ones.
"Old fairy tales of swiftly creatures of night!… Under your Bronze Sanctuary to honor fallen Heroes of War… I never sleep until your Pact granted by the will of the Ace of Swords left unresolved… May your Will of Iron been my Valentine's Massacre, and Overkill my Enemies!", Izuku finally meditates and makes a ritual enhancement to stop the Valentines, "Daemonibus inita dimittere maledictus a defuncti!… Excieo!…", that requires to make cuts and bruises and spill the blood to specific parts of their arms, forming a kind of alchemist circle that crafts and absorbs a potion capable to increase the damage in expense of high poisoning and regenerative capabilities, "MOTORHEAD!"
With this ritualistic alchemical crafted potion, still highly dangerous due to their toxicity, unleashes a menacing fueled aura emanated by the green haired vampire, just in time to headbutt Luke Valentine before he could fire, and punch them against the ceiling.
Unsurprising the wounded Valentine starts to shapeshift their form, and counters with a strong punch against Izuku, making him fly and bounce with the train and crash against the machine gun nest.
Unlike the humans, quirked or not, the vampire had an excellent night vision due to their sensibility to the infrared light, making even to the most of Pro Heroes a quite difficulty to fight against a vampire. Still the railway path was now left unblocked, and the zombie army was shattered in pieces. The Valentine brothers was still the last and the major menace.
"Damn it!", Jan uproars, "I never expected that Dark Schneider could lay a finger against me, or even a strong punch against my guts!… Prepare to die!", as he prepare to unleash a major plasma discharge against Izuku.
"I have a nice idea…", the green haired vampire position in front of Jan fore range, making their students and teaches awry.
"What are you thinking, Midoriya ?!", Aizawa yells when notice their own student roaming straight to the younger vampire, while the blonde one was smiling.
Izuku premiers a new spell, but taking care to the incantation formula to be barely audible, "Blessing Troupe of Lavish Clowns…", Izuku stops behind Jun Valentine, while join their hands over their face, specially when positioned their index fingers over their nose on a triangular shape, "That shall deceive any Enemy Traps…", making himself glow with a fade blue hue, "Accept my offer, and release all maleficence…", and returns strangely to normal state on the same spot, since the actual magic spell activation was barely audible, "MALICE MIZER!"
Jun Valentine then simply fires the plasma rifle against Izuku, causing him to disintegrate almost instantaneously.
"I don't knew what are you plotting, but you are never a match against my Übergewehr II plasma rifle!… Hahahaha!..."
Before the students could ever react to the disastrous apparent killing, where was the Midoriya's corpse reducing to minced meat, it fades and the entire tunnel was echoed by a strange wicked laughing.
"Hahaha!…", it was the real Izuku that uses an illusion magic spell, called Malice Mizer, to fool Jan Valentine, "I never expected that a vampire would be so easy to deceive."
"An illusion ?!", Jan Valentine almost panicked.
Aizawa own feelings was in a total disarray as he real thought that witness the brutal killing of one of this own students, "What an illusionist…"
"WHERE THEY ARE?!", Jan then start to fire at random places with the shotgun, and then notices an high speed greener object approaching them.
"Ede!… Es!… Skin!… Great Priest of the Undead!…", and the real Midoriya appears with the charging right closed hand charged with black magic, "Grant to me your wrath, and punch the enemy!…", that punches and breaks the arms and legs of the younger vampire, "SKID ROW!"
Finally Izuku also cast some Witcher Signs to exploit other abnormal weaknesses that those vampires exhibit. At first sight, he don't expect that an earlier adult vampire to not regenerate lesser wounds, and the absence of some supernatural powers was also itching their mind.
Izuku was surprised that the Axii Sign was affecting those two vampires, specially Luke Valentine, and then he use the confusion to stole the Schockhammer X and Kugelgewher Y, including all ammunition from Luke's pockets, and jump back to the students group.
"Even I will curse them, my Hero Internship includes a swift course with military grade weapons, and this kind of Gatling gun will had a pleasant use…", said Izuku when releases the security locks of the two weapons and starts to fire against the zombie horde, and fires the shotgun against the panicked Luke Valentine vampire.
Other students also unleashes their own quirk techniques, but it only destroyed the remaining zombies, and the vampire duo only dodged at ease. A long minute of relentless fighting later, the Valentines appears to stop, but quickly started to punch to themselves.
"You greatest idiot…", Jun punches against Luke, "The enemy now stole two top-secret weapons given by our benefactors…"
"And since you fail to notice that Dark Schneider only cast an illusion to fool you ?!", Luke punches back.
Few seconds later, the Valentines are stabbed by a cursed sword, inflicting an excruciating pain on their bodies to the point of Jan fells paralyzed and drops their own weapons.
The Valentines tried and barely divert to avoid been slayed when a low pressure wave almost could eviscerate them. Both defeated vampires raise their eyes before he suffer another unexpected strike from an ominous knight riding a skeleton horse partially covered by an armor, "After all, I always expected to both of you are no more than tangible dirt… Big words and plans, but no real accomplishment…", said the dreadful Skull Knight, "By other hand… I still specially honor you, Dark Schneider, I really hoped to see you again!", and he notice the greenette vampire a little far away.
"Skull Knight… One of strongest Anthrax subordinates, a probably the strongest one of the Twelve Wise Men of Europa …", Izuku grabs the Übergewehr II and the Kugelgewehr II before the demonic foe could attack them.
Some students was astonished by the witness of a skull riding a dead horse, and some of them said, "What kind of quirk this aberration have ?!"
"From all possible creatures, why this Incarnation of Death just had to appear on from of us ?!", All Might remembers the same apparition on the SDF headquarters.
Katsuki dare to ask, "Deku ? Do you really know who was this damn rusted skeleton…"
All Might yells, "Young Bakugou!… This monster are in par of Midoriya-shounen! He are probably on of the strongest enemies…"
Skull Knight don't even answered, and turn their attention to the screaming Valentines vampires.
The powerful dread wizard twist both Valentines heads, and eviscerates with the Beherit Sword straight across the two skulls, while makes a dark ritual magic that infuses a black miasma that convert in seconds to giant shaped monsters, with scales, rotten bat wings, and poisonous claws and fangs. Finally their body absorb the remains of the defeated zombies to a new ritual summoning circle. Few seconds later, a new monsters emerges, and quickly reveals to be an absolute horror.
"Feel honored to face my ancestral Subjugate Severag, since you could defeat my Hell Guardian that I sent to you as a gift, Dark Schneider…"
The monster seized the morphed Valentines vampires into submission, and partially absorbed to the main exoskeleton body, transforming in things that Skull Knight explains, "And those idiots are now my Aspects of Pain and one of the best Armaddons of my beloved Severag…", which simply converted to two shells capable to deflect or nullify many magic, quirk and weaponry attacks.
"Another aberration from Hell ?!", Izuku was madly, but also frightened with the presence of such monster and the abomination on their side.
"However I don't play with easy winnable wars, unless you proof your worthiness…", said Skull Night before vanishes by a portal opened by the Beherit sword.
"Wait… you goddammit!…", said Izuku before notice Katsuki propelling itself against the fading portal or the new monster.
Katsuki's quirk delivers a nice explosion that cause debris falling, and a blind flash. But the creature stroke their tail against the explosive quirk blonde, and pushes against the crackling floor.
"Bakugou!", Shoto yells before unleashes a strong fire stream against the creature, and then blasts ice bolts to produces a smog.
Aizawa was fast enough to rescue the wounded Bakugou back to the train, and quickly notices that the confused creature was unblocked the railway, "Midoriya… and Kaminari!", and orders, "This horrendous monster was confused by the relentless Todoroki's ice and fire quirk attack… The railway are now unimpeded!…"
"Quickly! We have few seconds to back to roll!", Izuku said and Denki swiftly power-up the train with their quirk and start to run again.
The creature also recover from the chaotic smog that was fading at an alarming speed, and when notices the passing train in just a few meters away, he roars and starts to chase them.
Izuku also knew that his magic powers requires a little time to rest, and once said sorry before bite some random healthy colleges, he place all four weapons that belongs to the former Valentine vampire brothers, that was now fused with an abomination monster.
"I'm done… Yeah!…", Kaminari quirk was exhausted another time, and now suffers the clownish face aftereffect. The train loses their electric traction again, leaving the momentum drifted by the tunnel descending slope to avoid stalling the movement.
Meanwhile Izuku was cracking their reasoning about the weapons. All sticking information was only on German, giving a unpleasant deja-vu when face the same thing on the North Korean underground base.
The rifles probably would fail to make a slight scratch on a dangerous roaming creature that was gaining momentum.
The plasma cannon probably was the best option, and was the weapon chosen by Izuku who mount on read wagon, and verify carefully all possible clues to operate them.
When the green vampire notice a warning seal and read it loud, "Achtung! Ziehen Sie den Ladezustand, um eine Plasmaaufnahme mit voller Entladung zu ermöglichen...Warten Sie zwischen 60 und 90 Sekunden, um sich abzukühlen, bevor Sie erneut schießen, da sonst die Waffe versagt oder explodiert! "
Everyone raised their eyebrows when someone spoke such foreign language, but Aizawa answers, "Attention! Pull the charging level to enable a full discharge plasma shot. Wait between 60 to 90 seconds to cool down, before shot again, or the weapon will malfunction or explode!".
"Thank you! Pull the Ladezustand level to Ganz, and I can fire one shot per minute!…", Izuku understand more German than earlier this year.
"When I was on college and chose German as a second foreign language… Sigh!", Aizawa just deliver a bad moment for joking.
"Vergessen Sie nicht, Ihre Macken mit Bedacht einzusetzen. Danke…", said Izuku, remembering the whole work gained to read all ancient grimoires, spellbooks and other magic stuff written in German, since it was the lingua franca for many vampires.
Izuku fire a full plasma discharge against the enraging monster that was about 100 meters away, delivering a strong bow shock, but was almost deflected or absorbed by some strong magic barrier, and the monster unleashes a purple bolt that discharges straight purple rays against the train. Fortunately, Todoroki unleashes an ice barrier before the impact, to prevent been hit.
"Another military barrier on other side!", Kaminari that was partly recovered, wails when reaches the tenth kilometer mark, and another emergency shaft filled with zombie soldiers and traps.
"I will treat those pests!", Izuku picks the plasma cannon that was barely cooled enough and unleashes a full discharge, killing and blasting the barrier trap within a single shot.
The train passes the open cavern that connect to the emergency shaft, but the monster volleys with the widen space, and punches the edges to make the debris from the cracking ceiling fall.
Many quirked students, let alone the teachers also tried to fight back the dangerous creature, but with very limited or no success, since magic barriers shields many quirk based attacks.
The green haired sorcerer vampire, who was processing the last emergency blood meal, since he bites some random healthy colleges to drink, then decides to cast another spell, hoping that it will break the absurd level magic defenses.
"Ellen…Colleen… Allen… Savage!… I summon and pledge my Heroic Gods of War!…", Izuku swift start the incantation prelude, and holds a black vortex straight on line of the ever reaching monster, "I request your mystic symbol's fire and lend me to let Love and Hate collide!…", that collapse to a kind of black hole and start to crack the absurd amount of magic barriers placed by Skull Knight, "Archaic Black Liquid Lightning Sphere… Purify them all!…", and finally he activate the anti-magic and anti-quirk spell, "DEF LEPPARD!"
"What a wonderful magic spell, for God's sake!", Blood King exclaims feeling his quirk been rip apart, "Why he don't choose other one that don't affect us either ?!"
"Wasn't Def Leppard a British band…", the only surving local Pro Hero makes an unpleasant remark.
"What you ever make something so special to complain about ?!", Aizawa replies just in case to Blood King, when Midoriya pushes the brake lever.
Finally, after a full hour of horror, the train finishes the 15 km underground ride and reaches to an underground depot, filled with dirt, rusty trains and an derelict building that appears to connect to the exit tunnel. Some fires helps to lit the dark place, but causes to natural anxiety to possible bobby traps. Before they would react, the creature reaches the same depot few seconds later, visibly enraged.
Since the Def Leppard spell was still in effect, albeit in sharp decline, some student's quirks recovers and swiftly resume the resentfulness attack against the creature. With the magic barriers partially drained by Izuku's spell, now Todoroki and Katsuki quirks finally cause severe damage.
Unfortunately, the place was also under control of elite Nazi vampire soldiers, since they roam from the derelict building and start to attack everyone on spot, opening a second front when the monster itself was too dangerous to handle.
"And now the Millennium Army ?!", All Might recognizes the new foes, and starts to punch them.
Those vampires was abnormally fast to dodge, and was common to swap places on opposites sides in a blink of an eye.
Izuku first try to shoot the Nazis with the rifles against the violent menace, by he notice that dodge to fast to be hit, and the ammo run out quickly. The plasma rifle also fails, since the plasma charges ended with malfunction once shot the last time.
He don't wanted to risk cast more spells that would drain their Vitality, already weaker, but he don't had more plausible alternatives.
"Go… Sai… Cross!… Ancient God of Explosive Destruction!… Release my Wrath, and become the Carrier of Doomsday Tempests!…", that unleashes a turret of magic fire missiles that stuns or burns them, "VAN WAR!"
Meanwhile the wounded creature suddenly flashes and unleashes a storm of magic energy that blind and defeat all quirked students in a blink of an eye. Fortunately the Dep Leppard only fades after the surprise attack, and much of them ended defeated, but not killed.
"You said that you don't like Midoriya-shounen use black magic at full swing, but this disaster proves that he really needed to master it…", All Might sighs when notice that Aizawa was breaking their psyche. It was almost a miracle that a vryko-warlock could avoid any causalities when faces several monsters and a supernatural army.
The onslaught enrages Izuku like the first days on Yuuei, making him cast the same annihilation spell that cause a localized but total destruction on USJ.
The sudden blood flow around the sorcerer that forms a giant floating circle on front of him, while the remaining blood are spilled around the cracking floor around the target makes Aizawa sense panic, "Midoriya, please don't use high level Dark Schneider's spells just for rage!"
"Gran!… Kene!… Hill!.. Halford!… I summon my four giant servant demons!…", and the creature was surrounded by four magic circles perpendicular to him, opening four ghostly creatures which crafts a stack of blood red magic circles that encircles the main target, "Now, cackle and bray your utter agony and hatred!…", that form a spherical magic domain that begins to compress and heats the creature, "Rise of Mega Atomic Destruction!…", that collapses at the same times when Izuku also releases a strong energetic beam against the target, crafted by the initial magic circle, "JUDAS PRIEST!"
The strong magic cast causes Midoriya to been hit by the recoil, while the magic sphere domain collapses and disintegrates the monster. The aftershock of the Judas Priest demolishes and tear apart that was too rust to handle the explosion that was partially shielded by the magic domain.
Aizawa quickly rescue the fainted Midoriya, and uses the vampiric telekinesis magic, that rarely uses due to his human anti-quirk given by inter-species breeding, to make float almost half of students and bring them to the exit tunnel.
Numata under Military Attack (Midnight)
The US Military was finished the third round of Tomahawk cruiser missiles against Numata and Yuuei High School. The later one was finally liberated from the Chisaki's Combine by the US Marines with the SDF.
The Funabashi HQ was under heavy bombing when US Air Force decide to use the F-35 and F-70 fighters and B-21 bombers, unleashing cluster and anti-bunker bombs to destroy the invaders.
Meanwhile the Wild Geese's Argent D'Nur assault helicopter witness the inclement bombing of Numata by the new B-21 USAF strategic bomber, trying to destroy the invaders strongholds by unleashing cluster bombs and laser guided penetration bombs.
In meantime, some of remaining potential villainous safe house was also been bombed, or shot by either a sniper of an infantry soldier, much due to the irresponsible desire of villains that decide to break the martial curfew, that ended to be lock as a military threat and killed right on spot.
Still the enemy was entrenched on Numata, and the presence of artillery that counter-attacks makes the landing very dangerous. Pip Bernadotte starts to scan the area from the bombed and razed summer camp facilities until Numata, and detects an horrible carnage with dozens of burned civilian cars and trucks, a local railway blasted on several sections and lots of Nazis roaming around the partially destroyed urban core of the town.
"Finally… The exit!", Aizawa ended exhausted when opens the shelter doors that connects the intermediate bunker to the surface, "Luckily it was fairy simple to access the shelter from the railway depot…", and faints, along 44 persons with major and minor injuries, and under the line of fire of the enemy.
When a enemy tank menace to fire, since a patrol detects a strange movement on the area, the tank was destroyed by a air-to-ground missile fired by the Argent D'Nur that also approaches them.
"Attention! This is the Wild Geese from SDF! Numata are under military control of the enemy!", Pip Bernadotte warn with a loudspeaker, "Replying all National Security Council warning bulletin, Beginning at 20 hours of yesterday, the Honshu island are under military curfew due to a foreign military invasion on Numata, SDF HQ and Yuuei High School. All Pro Heroes Agencies of Great Tokyo Area are under military control to avoid conflict of SDF and US Navy allies on on-going military operations!"
Aizawa and everyone opens their eyes, "WTF! Heroes under military control ?!"
"For the survivors of Yuuei High School, please stay calm, and follow our instructions…"
And before someone could reply the monstrous cybernetic spider or flying chimeric dragon that the leader of Combine was also arrived to Numata.
"Specially you… Chisaki Kai, Leader of the Combine …", said Pip Bernadotte, when the helicopter finally landed on the ground.
To be Continued...
Chapter 32: Achieve with CryEngine
Summary:
The Wild Geese finally reached the battling students, only to find in the middle of a chaotic war, testing the capabilities of everyone to handle the situation.
Finally Izuku could activate the modded DKL-01 armour that with some special technological wizardry, it become more akin to the Crysis Nanosuit than a mage costume or similar. This enables to use some technological advance military weapons and tactics without draining Izuku's natural magic energy, even the suit could use it to empowered the suit.
With this, Izuku now should face the out-of-control Chisaki Kai Combine force that was only the last survivor and a pure pawn on Anthrax insane strategy.
The next chapter will be the battle against Chisaki, and the relative return to normality before the real battle against Anthrax starts.
Chapter Text
Aizawa blinks when notice the leading unfriendly vampire roaming outside the strange combat helicopter, dressing a suit that barely resemble a military costume, but more a crossover of a cowboy and a mad cop with all revolvers loaded with ammo and ready to shoot. Their own astonishment only grows when more vampires, ranging from different ages and postures, unloaded from the helicopter while lock their military grade weapons against him or the students.
When Aizawa glares when the toughest one had a jacket with the Wild Geese emblem, he almost pass unnoticed the raging aura of a particular green haired student.
Izuku's mood swiftly changes from astonishment to total anger, exposing the sharp claws popping from their hands, while knacks their knuckles. When the angry younger vampire hisses with their fangs exposed, and marches in direction to a pony faced Pip Bernadotte, as he also plays dumbfound, "I never expected to my Internship Tutor to arrive here with all your buddies…", before he tries to punch him, "Once I barely survived the North Korea's heroic adventure!"
The older vampire swiftly draws a upward pentagram on mid-air using the right index finger, casting a paralysis spell to stop Midoriya, just in time to Pip grabs him and thrown against the floor, while menace to break the joints of their arms.
"Trying to punch our captain ?", Gara menaces to hold the Murasame sword against Izuku, "Even you fight briefly with us, not mean you should disrespect us..."
"Mutiny cannot be tolerated… Even invited to a special black ops mission, you don't forget that you have a military patent, if you don't mind…", said Pip.
"Since Midoriya-shounen had a military rank ?!", All Might shouts angry, as he tries to reach the first line filled with the teachers, that was confronting the mercenaries.
"Once summoned by the Army, on the Army he belongs, as long he don't commit treason…", Pip fire their Magnum 45 into the air, "Specially when those North Korean bastards decided to lay their grave here…"
So far Izuku even ignores the stupefaction outlooks from their own classmates, when faced the mercenary vampires live from the first time, while even Katsuki or Todoroki also tries to hold their rage and frustration, since they tough that the Army shouldn't bring a civilian Pro Hero in training to a military game at first place.
Maximum Armor
Pip Bernadotte, once certified that their authority will not be menaced, he signal to Serpico to bring several boxes and a laptop. During the flight from Yuuei to Numata, he managed to reassemble the DKL-01 armor, and plug the add-ons that the SDF Research Team was developed.
"During the tactical withdraw from your clown's school I assemble this mighty upgrades on the original DKL-01…"
"WTF you said about ?!", Bakugou intervened explosively.
"Teach him a lesson…", Pip order to Gara which cast some martial arts that immobilize the explosive blonde, and ended with the Murasame blade ready to slit Katsuki.
"Apart of Yuuei been bombed by either the North Korean Combine Special Forces, or the US Navy or even us to dislodge the real villains, this rearranged armor now have classified military technology that will make perfect to any future missions where our future partner Midoriya shall join us when requested…"
Pip pauses their monologue when many noticed the increasing bombing and shrapnel by several parties. Until that moment, the fighting was still at a meager safe distance, however they don't had much time.
"Three US Navy helicopters are under way and accepted to rescue the students…", Silver Fang intervenes once receives the information, "Since this zone was somehow safer to land, they will land two Marines units…"
"This zone will become a battlefield…", Pip nods to Silver Fang, "Everyone, except Midoriya who will come to me, shall maintain around us until the military rescue arrive…"
After some rant and annoyance, Serpico manage to open all packages, and ask to Midoriya wear the complex armor that was resonating with their magic. By other hand, Gara was positioning around the potential troublemakers, like Monoma, Shoto or Bakugou, while the elder vampire Bomb was scanning the surroundings for potential unwanted surprises.
Midoriya had a hard time to assemble the armor and the additional techno-magical upgrades that made him a kind of sci-fi space marine. The base magic metallic armor can only be assemble using a ritual blood pact that luckily work without problems. Further components increased the depth and complexity of DKL-01, by adding filaments made by carbon nanotubes that dynamicaly stretch and fill the gaps and joints of the original armor.
Other feature was a new helmet and an interface to a backpack covered by metallic plates which laid the foundations to an embedding computer. Such improvement enables to retract the two magic cannons to their back when not needed.
Finally Serpico plugs the final pieces to power-up the a sophisticated embedded computer hardware, that was slightly adopted by Serpico, once he fiddle the complex electronics and software with guidance by a German military company, Crynet Militärforschung GmbH, which was the original manufacturer of all those components.
"I must had a natural wisdom when FPS games plots turns out to happen on reality, like Doom or Wolfenstein, or better that series of games played by that younger… I think it was called Crysis…", Izuku mumbles when remember all the absurdities of the last half a year, "Like the original North Koreans on Crysis, the same happens now..."
The major feature of the helmet visor was the HUD functionality that serves as an interface to the several microprocessors that scans the soldier vitals and powers all military sensors, ranging from the magic emanation to the GPS and military radio.
"It will takes up to 90 seconds to all systems goes online. Please do not use any magic or any movements to avoid failures or erroneous calibrations…", said Serpico while Izuku taps the hidden switch that turn all crank wizardry online.
Crytek Systems – Firmware Version 5.12.6
TPM bootloader… Kernel Hash Signing… OK…
Crytek OS, based on Linux Kernel 9.22.3, booting….
Crynet Military Hardware Development, a subsidiary of Crytek HQ, presents the Techno-Mage Military Suit. (Model details confidential)
Mounting root file-system at /dev/nvme0n1/
Hardware checking…. Starting Enumerating Devices
Scanning devices… /dev/s1p0m3n1/…. OK
Scanning devices… /dev/t2z9j9s7/…. OK
…..
Izuku quickly notice from the new computer interface are using some specific fork of the Linux operating system, but the uncommon lines for several devices quickly made him notice that was a very heavy custom modifiable and probably hardened compared to their own computers that runs Linux, specially the Steam Machine that uses to play games. Once the initial lines was displayed giving barely time to him read, since several hundreds of lines scrolls speedily to the vampire could even read, but he thinks that was the initialization of several software components.
The booting stage don't take more a few seconds, as the text interface as seen by the Izuku's visor switches to a raster graphic mode, warning the user that their vitals are been scanned and calibrated.
Crynet Techno-Mage Suit Prototype DKL-01
User ID: Izuku Midoriya (Authenticated)
Species: Vampire Check
Medical Monitoring Subsystem Activated
Auxiliary Armor Enhancement for DKL-01 Activated
Radioactivity, Chemical, Biological Hazard Monitoring Activated
User Magic Monitoring Activated (High Ranked Mage)
User Quirk Monitoring Activated (No quirk detected)
Loading Digital User Grimoire Activated
Weaponry Database On-Line Activated
M unitions and Weapons Management Protocols Activated
G PS and AEGIS subsystems Activated (Starting scanning, detecting satellites…)
Hacking Toolbox Activated
…...
All those lines was under the banner "Please wait while DKL-01 Suit self-calibrates" message.
The booting and initialization was taking up to five minutes, making him worried when the enemy could pursue once again, when the worries slightly fade when the screen finally switches to an workable mode.
The HUD displays the active Witchers Sign and their five main vitality charges bar on the top left screen portion. Once the GPS signal finally calibrates, the top screen displays the compass and current coordinates. A mini-map, that could be enlarged using mind gestures, also pops on the bottom left part of the screen, with a threat scanning gauge on the boarder.
The lowest part was filled with the health, magic, armor status bar. The weaponry monitoring subsystem also places on the lowest right part of the screen the active weapon and their status, such as the ammo or the magic energy available.
Izuku, once he could stand up and walk with the supernatural combined with exotic military technology costume, scans the environment, specially the ruined and bombed town.
In a matter of seconds, he notice that their colleges or important sights was also marked by the onboard armor computer, placing tags and status information.
Maximum Power
"Tactical Options Available", the onboard computer suit warns Izuku with a robotic voice.
"WTF ?!", the green haired vampire who was still trying to move with such heavy armored suit swears, "Which kind of options such bizarre computer are trying to do ?!"
"Midoriya-kun, relax and think that you are tapping a button to open items or options…", Serpico explains, trying to not be rude as Pip Berdanotte.
"Warning: Extreme Magic Energy Depletion Detected!", making Izuku sighs as he don't knew already, as casting Dark Schneider's spells would make more vulnerable.
"Crystal Magic Energy Regeneration Engaged…", said the computer again.
Serpico sighs while unpacks the last item to help Izuku fighting the enemy horde before the rescue could arrive.
In fact Serpico don't blink when the elder vampire brothers unload the armored vehicle with heavy military grade weapons attached on top turn their engine on.
Pip Benadotte orders to everyone, "Our first strategy is to hold on positions forming a defense ring around Argent D'Nur", as he points to the helicopter, "while Kadingir Sanctum", the Armored vehicle, "will drive to the road intersection to the railway station… If our enemy leads a ground assault, he may need to flee around Numata to reach the secondary extraction point…"
"Since when the Yuuei shall obey orders from a maniac ?!", All Might thought fuming their thoughts.
Serpico finally assembles the bizarre electromagnetic plasma coilgun rifle with rotatory railgun features that was the SDF-666 and delivers to Izuku, making himself annoyed with the monstrous size and weight, "Such thing are twice my size, and probably weight one ton or more!… A vampire can handle this, but…".
In fact the weapon as so massive that Izuku needs to hold the two handles, but the most bizarre thing happens then slightly shape-shifts as connects to the armor by the magic enhanced fibers.
Once connected the onboard computer christianise the weapon as Turmplasmagewehr SDF-666 while places the ammo type and the number of shots on lowest part of HUD screen.
"Mission Briefing Updated… Status: Combat Mode", the onboard computer of DKL-01 switches Izuku position to full combat mode.
"And just in case, some shells and a two barrel old-fashioned shotgun that I found earlier inside the tunnel…", said Izuku before put on suit's slots located on back.
And just before anyone could comment the menacing young vampire now loaded with big guns, the North Korean Army thugs and the Millennium Army vampires decided to launch another ground assault against the group.
Without any warning the railway ward, which everyone was positioned, was under a mortal shelling barrage, causing instant chaos and destruction. Many Yuuei students react quickly, but many of them was sitting ducks since they are exposed.
Except some natural troublemakers that wanted to use their quirks to drag the enemy to a chaotic fight, the majority of students swift to a more defensive position, and some of them simply scream in panic or make panic moves, such as the underrated boy with purple balls quirk called Mineta.
All Might and Blood King decided to take advantage on initial attack, to use their quirks against the weaker enemies. Blood King creates a sword made from their blood, and use it to slash the zombies on a surprise frontal attack. All Might stretches their powerful arms, and start top punch the zombies, where manage to throw three of them against an annoyed vampire.
Since this attack revela to be apparently successful, it prompts the powerful quirked students to lead another wave of attacks.
Some Wild Geese mercenaries such asSerpico unleash their giant chaingun to kill several minor zombie soldiers, while Bang and Bomb obliterate several enemies using their signature martial arts.
However, the rejoice don't last enough time, since the yard ended overrun by a larger wave of zombies, armored cars and menacing vampires.
"If you have any magic left to cast something powerful… do it now!", Pip Bernadotte talks directly to Izuku, using the military radio which opens a small audio window of the top left corner on the suit's HUD.
Izuku knew without casting a devastating magic spell, the chances of occurring several causalities are grimmer. He hope that the suit will bring the necessary energy to cast.
"It's too risky to use again that Bethlehem spell, since I'm now too weak to cast, I should use this…", the vampire opens the digital Grimoire to search for alternatives, "This appear to be fine…"
Without waste precious seconds, Izuku aligns their legs, putting the left on front size, aligned to the north, while the right leg was placed back to the south. Finally, the left arm was partially bender, still tilted halfway to the ground, while points the index finger to the west, and the right arm was also tilted, but raised with the index finger to the east. The head was tilted to make it perpendicular to the arms. With this preparatory position done, Izuku starts the incantation formula:
"My four ancient guardians that protect the forgotten vices realm, where the vicious shall burning under the stake of brimstone and salt that makes the Hell Spawn!", Izuku casts and holds a crimson circle of fire that encircles the entire yard, before releasing a storm of deathly corrosive brimstone that catches fire, "Then all my enemies shall perish by releasing your mercilessness strike!", when many enemies was briefly coated by the magic crafted substance before they catches fire and explode, "GOMORRAH!"
Like the Biblical destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, the vampires and zombies was overwhelmed by the heat and self-combustion delivered by the falling burning salt. All weapons also melts and catches fires, or transmutes by the effects of alchemy to a piste of deadly toxic salt, exploding in a matter of seconds.
"Excellent, Midoriya!", Pip Bernadotte spoke over the military radio, "Take out of this yard, to railway station plaza, and search for possible alternative safer landing sites..."
As ordered by Pip Bernadotte, Izuku leaves the railway ward and with the proper cautions, scans for possible threats lurking above the rubble, and the damaged buildings around the streets that connect to the railway station, now obliterated by the earlier bombings.
Suddenly Izuku's annoying suit emits an alarm to him, prompting to turn their head to an obstructed road, and what he saw was not good sign.
"Threat Level: High", Izuku was sightly annoyed with the constant warnings pop-ups or audio script alerts appearing on the helmet visor. He don't need a futuristic cybernetic hardware to knew how was the enemy or to act, "I was expecting to train to be an Hero, not to play Call of Duty !"
The threat was tank positioned around a destroyed small plaza, and their main turret cannon positionate against Izuku. With this sequence of events, the DKL-01 makes a red alert warning, with all background of the HUD flashing red, and point to a maker the tank with some information delivered by the AEGIS. "Warning: Threat Lock. Distance: 140 m."
Izuku mind freezes when faced the rapid fire rate of the tank cannon, and the error message delivered by the on-bard computer suit of warning the he had too low magic energy to cast barriers was not good news.
Still the DKL-01 activates a last resource option, that was to shape-shift the carbon nanofibers of the suit to increase the armor defenses in expense to drain the batteries inside the armor that was charged by Izuku's magic or other power sources, "Maximum Armor Engaged... 99%"
With an armadillo-like suit form, Izuku's suit was able to deflect a direct impact of the projectile, but also not capable to avoid to fall due to the momentum impact.
The suit disengage the extreme armor mode before the energy drops to zero.
Maximum Cloaking
When Izuku slides around the rubble and tries to hide inside a ransacked house, and partially obliterated by shelling, he faces an horde of zombies leaded by a minor vampire, prompting him to pick from back and fire the SDF-666 releasing a stream of twelve simultaneously plasma pulse, making several zombies and vampire either or both burn, rip and tear.
Izuku sweats a lot when the SDF-666 cools down, reacting to the insane firepower that such weapon obliterates on their path. The house wreckage becomes ever bigger to the point to an imminent structural collapse.
When the vampire leave the zone, and follow along a secondary street on the business area, which was now a complete war zone with several severed bodies, and roaming civilian zombies, Izuku's suit alert again, and prompts to try the optical camouflage mode.
Izuku activates without query, meaning that the DKL-01 on-board computer had last resource options to certain options. He only notice the "Cloak Engage… Power Level: 56%" warning.
The vampire could cast cloak spells if their magic energy was not so depleted, instead to rely on a pure technological solution, still impressive.
"More suit freaks like me ?!", Izuku shouts when notice a tall man with a suit that resemble the human musculature, with some metallic parts, while holds an heavy sub-machine gun.
"A mice somewhere ?", said one of the mysterious armored suit men, "Gold Lion on duty…"
"To all KPA soldiers under King Tiger command, hold your positions on defense stance. Prepare to evacuate no more later than 03:00."
Izuku simply hide inside a ransacked ramen restaurant, hoping that would pass unnoticed.
General Ri Chang Kyong, also known as King Tiger, a powerful military empowerment, even that born quirkless, but with the Millennium Army funds he made capable to advance the conception and crafting of a suit powered by special metallic and ceramic alloys, and expanded with the new carbon nanotubes. When he was granted as the first of the Twelve Wise Men of Europa due to the strict leadership capabilities to lead what he wants to do.
One of really trusted allies, the Colonel Lee Kim Sum, or Gold Lion, was also on Numata to test the capabilities of the new military suits. In terms of ranking inside the Anthrax organization it was a companion of the first ranking member.
By other hand the Abigail's reincarnation Shigaraki was lurking around the rooftops of the destroyed Numata, along their ally Kurogiri, working under direct orders of Anthrax, making them the second in-tie position of the Twelve Wise Men of Europa ranks.
"If wasn't a strict order to bring back those North Koreans, I could spent my time to play around, maybe finding Dark Schneider…", said Shigaraki.
"You only need to a wait a little longer, once Antrax-dono main base would be completed…", Kurogiri hums.
"Fine with that… I can play another time, specially when Chisaki Kai turn to be a nice sacrifice to Dark Schneider reaches higher expectations…"
"Still we need to wait about half an hour to evacuate the Tiger and Lion away…"
Both two don't comment when notice when suddenly around them some missiles hits against several targets, creating more explosions and wreckage.
Maximum Strength
Izuku was resting a little while notice stiff cries from some place on the ramen restaurant, that like many small towns, many local commerce shops are held by familiar businesses, and was not uncommon to the residence and shops shares the same house.
"Probably, many survivors barricade inside their own homes…", Izuku thought inside.
Suddenly, Izuku heard gunshots, falling furniture, and persons crying. This prompt to run and break trough the makeshift barricade made from heavy tables, wooden doors, stacked together with some glue to hold together. The home was without light, then Izuku uses the vampiric night-vision that the DKL-01 even helps to add more useless information on top.
"Night-Vision Analysis Engaged…", said the DKL-01 on-board computer, for Izuku dismay.
"Please, spare my children!", a middle aged women, and mother of two childrens screams in horror when she was under the line of fire of a Nazi vampire.
"You don't make me mad…", Izuku intervenes with their right arm stretched to cast the Axii Sign against the vampire which was punched hard, "Maximum Strength Engaged!… Power Level: 11%".
The DKL-01 suit also uses the carbon nanofibers to increase the users strength, even a vampire was super-powered enough. Still Izuku managed to stun the enemy enough, before bring the shotgun and fire two shots simultaneously directly on the head, "The bastard are dead..."
"Who are you ?!", the father finally appears on the scene, once he tried to find a katana, but shakes uncontrollably.
"Don't move… I'm Dark Schneider working on Yuuei and the SDF!", said Izuku with the empty shotgun, and a couple of shells ready to fill.
"What ?! You are a Pro Hero ?! The one who won the Yuuei Sports Festival ?!", one children remembers who was from the television.
Izuku nods, and alert Pip Bernadotte, "Izuku calling… I found four survivors nearing the alternative evacuation point…"
Pip Berdanotte waits several seconds before answer, "The railway yard are lost, since the US Navy throw five Tomahawk missiles straight against anything around the site… Luckily, Argent D'Nur and Kadingir Sanctum are fine and reaching the evacuation zone… Then bring them to join us…"
"The Americans are literally bombing everything, damn it…", Izuku then orders, "Bring the basic of the basic stuff that both of you can handle, and follow me!… The army will either assault or raze to the ground as soon they can!…"
In fact the four member family don't had time to bring even a candle, since the house with a ramen restaurant was thorn apart by a sonic boom with an explosive burning detonation.
In fact the entire street with shops and long aged houses was obliterated by a blink of an eye, and the culprit was the infamous Combine trans-human monster Chisaki Kai which finally reaches Numata and start to cause havoc.
"Maximum Armor Enabled… Power Level: 3%… Critical Low Energy…. Automatic Disengage.", the DKL-01 activates the emergency shield function, and protects the family that was covered by Izuku.
"Now, WTF is that monstrosity ?!", said Izuku when faced the chimeric monster that will be quickly the final boss to be defeated before Numata could be liberated.
To be Continued...
Chapter 33: The Eternal Traitor
Summary:
Another chapter filled with a war raging on Numata that don't stop the escalation surge. Wild Geese are desperately trying to protect the Yuuei students until the USAF reaches the place and proceed to the evacuation. The Millennium Army and the NKA also started to evacuate, since it made the worst surprise attack on Japan of their History. By other hand, due to the fighting with the remaining cannon fodder enemy units and Wild Geese, Izuku was left alone to face Chisaki Kai converted to Doom Eternal's Icon of Sin mixing with Half-Life's Nihilanth redux.
Shigaraki shows their true magic skills, it was more comparable to the Doom Eternal's Archvile demon, and also it was the same of his major spell (which are also an heavy metal band name). It first possess the cybernetic chimeric monstrosity that was Chisaki Kai (here are leader of Combine, an elite NKA army unit that specialize with cyborgs, later mixing with the Millennium Army magic technology.), making them use to summon a lot of demons.
If the Noumus are a basic kind of golems (from USJ incident), a full bestiary includes demons with mixed Doom and Diablo lore.
The worst part was the Marauders, much similar to Doom Eternal ones.
Chapter Text
Sky above Numata
Under the disguise of a dark night, a swarm of USAF prime MV-24 airplanes, that was knows as VTOL, swiftly reaches the havoc battlefield that a rural village on the middle of Japan ended with a fierce fight between two vampire paramilitary groups where one was leading a group of Pro Heroes in training versus an elite group that was helping or dominating the North Korean Army.
By Pip Berdanotte perspective of things, the cavalry finally arrive when they notice that their ammo was running low, and the quirked students was frailing due the repeating wave pattern attacks from the enemy. The second one that included three tanks, seven Howitzers and a full horde of zombified former villagers that could killed half of the students if Serpico don't intervene in time.
"What the… ?!", Serpico barely spoke when suffer a concussion from nowhere, and faints against the rubbled asphalt.
Pip Bernadotte reacts and breaks a grenade casts with a potion around himself to make possible cast a magic spell that slows their time perspective, just to clash their own shotgun with the sword's enemy, which was a vampire with an unusual extreme dashing ability that also wears the Millennium Army outfit.
"Everyone, don't interfere with this fight, both of you won't beat him…", Pip Bernadotte yells to his allies to demote any quirked student or Pro Hero to the quagmire, "This bastard are my prey…"
"Rücksichtslos und egoistisch wie immer, Pip Bernadotte.", said the enemy.
"Woher kennst du meinen Namen ?!", the mercenary vampire answers to him in plain German.
Again the vampire clash from backyard, delivering a painful stroke that stuns Pip Bernadotte, "Sei kein schmutziger Heuchler … ", just in time to Serpico uses the empty chaingun as a shield to protect their captain, "Erinnern sie sich nicht an Ihre erste Begegnung auf Norwegen, als sie die Großen Deutschen bemühungen um den bau der Atombombe sabotierten? "
"For all past vampires I ever knew…", Pip Berdanotte mumbles softly, before grits with rage, "I never expect that the top security guard on Vemork still follow the twisted Nazi fantasies… ", and shots to the vampire, "Dein Vampir-Zirkel soll sich schämen!"
Pip Bernadotte was surprised that one of the surviving guards of the former Vemork Hydro-Electric plant, that produced heavy water as by-product, and a key ingredient to the failed Nazi Germany Atomic Bomb program, was still alive as a vampire. The Second World War happens when Pip Bernadotte was a younger vampire, and was the first real conflict that once participated.
Unfolded surprise
The green haired vampire recovers from the suit low energy status, and releases the saved frighted family under their arms. Then releases his faint magic energy to help power-up the suit just when ear some strange airplanes approaching the town and unleashing fire against the entrenched enemy.
"The US army here, what a nice day!…", Izuku blinks when notice the USAF logo painted at the airplanes (the VTOL which Izuku was not acquitted).
"Attention! Rogue Technomage suit user spotted in situ, please identify yourself!"
"Just great!…", Izuku notice a small window with data that was the built-in military radio thar connects to the VTOL mainframe, "I'm Midoriya Izuku, a member of the Wild Geese and student of the Yuuei High School of Heroics…", as he spokes over the encrypted military radio telephony.
The US Marines swiftly approach the vampire while their leader signals to not harm while tries to contact everyone inside the chaos.
"I never expect that Pip Bernadotte would gift a classified weapon on a child, even a vampire!", said the commander Dominic Lockhart, which was inside the landed VTOL in the middle of wreckage, with a sigh tone voice, "For now, I will take custody of this family… My mission is to evacuate all your friends…", and mumble to himself, "The DKL-01 suit problem will be treated later, if ever…"
"You may leave and face the enemy…", all Marines signal to Izuku, and let them leave.
"Raptor Team, assemble immediately and rescue the Yuuei students and teachers, including the Wild Geese groups to evacuate the place.", Lockhart orders to the Marines to their main mission.
Meanwhile, Shigaraki notice the arrival of the USAF just when was planing to leave from Kurogiri's warp portal.
"Damn it… Chigaraki Kai will not survive a full assault of the US mighty muscle, let alone Dark Schneider one…", he mumbles before warns Kurogiri, "Wait, I need to use that thing on that punk!…"
"Roger…", said Kurogiri while notice Dark Schneider dashing to the chimeric monster that Chisaki Kai becomes which landed on the west side of Numata.
At the same time Izuku blinks inside the DKL-01 suit when he witness a familiar face that was fleeing from the main target that quickly made him remember the onslaught on USJ, "That absolute disgrace that makes a conflagration on USJ, where later I discovered that was a convert operation by the North Korea to provoke me…", including their name, "The infamous summoner sorcerer class, descendant of Dark Schneider's arch-enemy once known as Abigail, now named Shigaraki..."
Chisaki Kai was fused their cybernetic hardware with energy based weapons, and some Synths that enabled him either to fly, or to fixate to the ground, using all robotic legs like harpoons.
This giant robotic form makes a extraordinary form of defense against long-range projectiles while makes the ground up to offensives. The swift shift of their abilities was the key ingredient to gain any battle against their enemies. However, for some kind of enemies it could be not enough.
"Attention! Rogue ally approaching… Warning: Enabling Autonomous Judgment against Maligner Infections… Code: Pressure, Sword, Sterilize.", said the lifeless cyborg.
"Not so fast, inhuman cyberpunk aberration!", Shigaraki summons a demonic spike and conjure an ominous spell, "Der alte Dämon König, der in den dunklen Bereichen der Hölle lebt, ich biete dem Totem des Schicksals mein Blut an und besiegele diesen Vertrag, um die ewige Zerstörung zu ernten! DOOMTHRONE!"
Shigaraki throws the enchanted spike against Chisaki Kai robotic body which quickly make a conflagration of red hue energy dispersion, and black lightning that could kill an human in seconds. Instead this makes the cyborg more magically powerful and buffs all their defenses and shields. This also created a domain magic field filled with dark energy.
After several seconds of instability, the chimeric cyborg was layered by a dozen of magic fields, including the ones that could buffs demons around a radius of half a kilometer, although the effectiveness decreases by an inverse square law.
"I never respected the cyberpunk mishandled terrorist…", said Shigaraki with an venomous voice, "However I was requested by our Father to help him against Dark Schneider…"
During the USJ incident Shigaraki summoned several golems that he Christianize as Noumus, but to sabotage the Izuku's mission to fight and kill Chisaki Kai, the summoner opt to help the NKA plan to raze Numata to the ground before leaving.
"Gegrüßet seist du das große Böse, Herr des Terrors und Meister der dunklen Länder des Todes! Ich ehre alle Übeltäter der Menschheit, den Verbotenen Siegelpakt zu brechen!", Shigaraki points to the enchanted spike impaled on Chisaki Kai and then resumes the dark incantation, "Ich lasse das Opfer frei, um dir, dem Dunklen Lord des Terrors, die Schwelle des Schmerzes zu bringen und deinen bösen Pakt zu ehren!", which transform physically the cyborg to a demonic creature surpassing the technology in terms of powers and magic, "Mein großer König der ewigen Zerstörung und des Todes!… Ich bitte um meinen Tribut und befehle ihm, alles für deine Schergen in das Land der verzweifelten Sterblichen zu rufen! ARCHVILE!"
With such deadly magic spell, Shigaraki makes Chisaki Kai to summon a swarm of barbaric demons from Hell, where the majority are only a mindless raged horde of golems, orcs, gargoyles, mancubus, imps, demonic wolves and other horrific abominations.
The summoning mechanism are grotesque since the possessed Chisaki Kai's body releases red flares to the ground, opening portals that connects to the Hell realm, and all demons, if the summoning energy are fulfilled, are passes to the portal ready to cause havoc on earthling ground.
With help of the buffed and possessed Chisaki Kai, all those monsters gains a red glow and becomes more agile and deadly.
Several seconds later a second wave of portals opens, which appear to be concentric to one main portal, releasing a single species of demons, that appears to be a warrior cast and quickly dominates the mindless demons from the first wave of summoning.
The entire horde appears to be commanded by those group of warriors, that appears to had human-like intellect and speech. Both are pale with four giant red horns, and wore an heavy coated mail and armor. One of them ,quickly followed by the other ones, recognized Izuku's aura and spoke with a sinister tone, "Oh!… He's here… The false prophet of Doom that misleads the Eternal Evil… Dark Schneider!".
Izuku quickly counts 15 similar demons, carrying an heavy axe that convert to a kind of a plasma rifle and a four-barrel shotgun. Another one that appears to be their captain carry a bizarre kind of ballista and was taller that Izuku don't want to speculate their internal mechanisms.
"I hope that you will enjoy those Marauders, Dark Schneider…", said Shigaraki while finally exists the scene using Kurogiri's portal.
Against all the Evil the Hell can Conjure, all the Wickedness the Mankind can Produce, we send to them only you! Rip and Tear, Until it is Done!
Izuku had a nice flashback with one game that played with other vampires during the last birthday party, and remembers the sinister quote from Doom Eternal with the current situation.
He barely had time to contemplate, since five Marauders swing their axes releasing each one a red pulse of plasma against him, obliterating three residential houses to pieces even they was severally damaged.
The vampire was quickly overwhelmed by successive waves of spitting acid gargoyles, packs of Hellhounds that try to bite or snap Izuku's body, imps that slash their claws or mancubus releasing acidic smog or flames. The Marauders also are capable to summon flaming carcasses of houses or wolves that cast blue flames or black spears at high speeds.
Izuku never fell such fear with such merciless barrage of enemies, while are fighting to low magic energy that needed to cast powerful spells in order to destroy the majority of creatures. He also notice that the USAF or their colleges was split about a kilometer apart.
It was a considerable distance to flee to reach help, and the worst part was the radio interference caused by the magic barrier.
When Izuku snaps from their thoughts and face three imps trying to impale him, he instinctively reacts and fire the Turmplasmagewehr SDF-666 on Gauss Canon mode against them, blasting them apart. Still it was a more a panic move, warned by the low remaining ammo that slowly regenerates by Izuku's magic energy.
"Tactical Options Available: Pending Analysis…", the sophisticated AI inside the DKL-01 makes their annoying intervention.
"Dark… Schneider ?!…", and the military radio also pop-up another window notification inside the HUD.
"Pip Bernadotte… After the US Marines…", Izuku sighed.
"We are facing a single annoying vampire while the Americans are trying to pass the rubble and prepare…", noisy static, "… our evacuation!…"
"Glad to ear…", the green haired vampire makes a sarcastic smile.
"First of all, what the hell happened to Chisaki Kai ?!"
"It appears that one of Twelve Wise Men of Europa , much probably the same sorcerer that makes a wonderful appearance during the nice and pleasant USJ fireworks intervenes and makes the robotic crankiest terrorist turn into a berserk chimeric aberration!"
"Don't mean that was Shigaraki and Kurogiri duet!"
"So you knew them… Oh!", Izuku continues to make sarcasm.
"Actually, I don't knew much about them since their position and relative importance are so little detailed on every intelligence report I had in my personal possession."
"Once that Shigaraki makes their scene he flee, once possess him, making them summon a wonderful welcome party of… Demons!", and ends with a gaming themed remark, "And now I will be the New Doom Slayer, ready to Rip and Tear, Until it is Done!"
"WTF ?!", Pip Berdanotte lost the encrypted radio connection at this stage, when the possessed Chisaki Kai releases another wave of dark energy.
The impact of the dark wave shatters the derelict house that Izuku use as shelter. Luckily the suit reduce the damage from the failing debris and the collapsing ceiling. However, the relative silent that last several seconds won't last long, when fells a sudden punching impact against him, partially hidden by the rubble.
Izuku had to dodge from another attack of imps and gargoyles, just when load the dual-barrel shotgun and fire against the leading gargoyle, blasting their skull in pieces. Then the vampire punch hard against the imp head and snaps their neck, just to hold and smash against the wreckage.
In a matter of a minute, Izuku's predatory instincts, much for the vampiric nature, kick in and quickly their mindset changes to prioritize the fast movement including dashing, jumping and dodging. He quickly learn, that on the similar video game, if they stand still or try to maintain a stealthy behaviors was a swift way to be dead, even vampire are too thought to be killed.
"He's not one of trustful… he never was…", Izuku fells a spectral voice emanating from everywhere, "The traitor of Dark Lands, he really was…", until he notice the malign ki flow pointing to the captain Marauder.
"Damn it!", Izuku barely had time to focus him, since he manage by a split second to dodge a plasma bolt fired by enemy captain's ballista bow.
The vampire swirl to find another shelter, when he bumps against a barrier that was cast by a Marauder, just to be wound by a quad-barrel shotgun fired by another Marauder.
Izuku change their suit mode to Maximum Armor just in time to face seven new Marauders swing their axes and hit severely with their plasma pulses.
When the Marauders dash back, making Izuku a little annoyed, he had to dash quickly when the combat area that was a second ago was been hit by a dark ball of black magic emanated and shouted by no more that Chisaki Kai, "Seriously ?! WTF ?!"
The giant explosion blasts Izuku making him flying apart about 100 meters, just to land near a derilict NKA jeep filled with some ammunition and a giant chaingun, convertible to a quad-barrel turret gatling gun. The vampire just had to punch the rusty attachment to load the weapon and start firing.
With such a powerful weapon, the turret quickly dissolves many cannon fodder demons into mince meat, while it overheats too fast to be a viable weapon. And the worst it could happen was a mancubus slain from nowhere, luckily Izuku had enough Vitality to cast a magic spell to way out the chaotic mess, "Skiss! Skurat! Shumega! Eni-Ono-In!…", and releases against the mancubus and the gargoyles flying around, "Release the endless fire and brimstone from fiery Hell!", killing them, "SODOM!"
The five brimstone blades make with Hell's magic energy had a devastating impact, but still had less than a third of the ideal energy emission. Also it appear to take down a Marauder in position off-guard, but the debris and dust occult the moment of impact.
However it takes two seconds to Izuku notice that the Sodom magic spell fail to tear any Marauder, as they activated a energy shield that nullified the attack. Then he tried to fire the turret against three other Marauders just to the bullets make ricochet when they activate their shields.
Izuku had to dash backwards when another dark ball of magic energy hits against him, and dodge it at the last second, fired by the source of all problems, the buffed Chisaki Kai.
Tactical Options Available: Enemy Analysis Radar… enabled…
Start analysis… It may take several seconds…
"Now what ?!", Izuku was annoyed and shocked with the unbelievable resistance of the Marauders, "What kind of stupid software since it don't give any useful tips or requests…"
In fact the on-board DKL-01 computer was analyzing the formidable Chisaki Kai's cybernetic armor and enhancements, including the magic sealed within, and gives the following unsurprising conclusion:
Main Enemy: Chisaki Kai, Terrorist Leader of Combine.
Abnormal Magic Buff detected: several magic shields activated.
Plasma weaponry detected: found some electromagnetic with magic intermixing active shields.
Weak Spots analysis finished: Use of DKL-01 dual magic cannon with full charge using your current skills, 125% overcharging recommended (actual charge is 7%). Use your magic regeneration to charge about 1% per 13 seconds. Realistic time to fire: 15 minutes.
Notice: Use of the Turmplasmagewehr SDF-666 with Annihilation Cannon Mode are recommended to damage partially the enemy. A single shot will delay the full charge of DKL-01 by 3 minutes.
Overall Tip: Just shoot him until he dies…
"Are you serious ?!", Izuku was fuming with the last suggestion, "This monster are the grand-parent of Cyberdemon or what ?!"
Enemy Profile: Marauders
Info : They are sentient demons with a great resistance to magic, quirks and weapons.
However, use a stun spell or weapon, and then fire at mid-range with an heavy shotgun or the Turmplasmagewehr SDF-666 using the Gauss Cannon Mode within a fast cadence until he falters.
Useful Tip: Be quick to shoot him until he dies…
Izuku made a mental swipe on the HUD to close the annoying windows that pop-up the analysis made by the AI software. He was so irritated, that changes the SDF-666 weapon to the full power, and experiment to fire against the annoying giant cyborg. The huge flare emission and recoil due to the momentum, makes Izuku flying backyards. All monsters on vicinity simply disintegrated, including some Marauders that was facing Izuku on their path, while Chisaki Kai was barely stunned with the gigantic energy impact.
"Holy molly…", Izuku tries to not falter in the middle of this insane battle, "Using full brute force actually kill this pests called Marauders, but the real issue is the use of this weapon will delay the charging of DKL-01 and making the fight with Chisaki Kai dangerously too long."
Still the remaining Marauders and other monsters retaliate relentlessly while the main enemy was briefly stunned, the buff effect fades making more easy to Izuku finishes the fodder demons with less ammo.
After a full minute of intense fighting that includes a few Witcher Signs, like the Aard to stun the Marauder at not-so-nearest range, Izuku spots the better timing to fire the shotgun against the stunned Marauder which happens when finishes to swing their axes, but before had time to activate their shield. Izuku also learn that dash around a Marauder while shot or fire the SDF-666 at lower energy was more effective to damage the pesky demon.
At least, at the 20th round of firing, Izuku cast an Igni sign to burn alive the Marauder, killing them.
Meanwhile, Chisaki Kai recovers fully from the damage and reactivates the buff magic, making again much harder to kill the demons. Izuku ended killing more two Marauders, where the last one become much harder to stun or kill it and now rest their captain and more 8.
"Anti-Citizen One detected. Top Priority Order: Exterminate Malignant Heretic. Order Codes: Lockdown, Inoculation, Termination.", for the first time since Shigaraki intervention, Chisaki Kai was able to talk, albeit with the usual robotic tone, and then morph the weapons attached from the Synths and combine to a kind of cannon fueled by all techno-magic-organic reactors of the cited Synths, including himself.
It was not the first time that Chisaki Kai uses their cannon, since every time time Izuku had to dodge from the dark magic bombs, it was the inner mechanisms.
This time the Combine leader triples the power output, and overloads the plasma capacitors to increase the damage.
When Izuku, who was trying to fight two mancubus on opposite sides, while encircled by imps and gargoyles, with dashing Marauders that bombard Izuku with plasma bolts, carcass spirits that explode or even barriers that slow him down, he only notice the impending doom almost too late.
In fact, instead to the enemy fire a ball of concentrated dark energy, this time all energy was released into a continuous beam that last half a second.
This time Izuku had to thanks Sakura's perseverance to master the Witcher Signs, since he cast the Aard against the ground to propel to midair, just to avoid been destroyed by the beam.
Unfortunately all demons dodged prior to the impact, but several building was destroyed with the impact that almost reach the railway yard. In fact, Chisaki Kai almost killed all Pro Heroes and their students instead Izuku.
This dangerous situation was making running out of options. Although he knew that would be marginally possible to the US decide to launch a nuclear attack against Numata to defeat the retracting enemy remnants, any sane commander-in-chief knew that the enemy had combat capabilities that was make him undefeated by conventional weaponry.
"It will delay a little, but I don't have real alternatives!", Izuku fires again the SDF-666 at full power to make more damage, overloading part of the cybernetic hardware of the main enemy.
"DKL-01 Dual Magic Cannon Charging at… 22%", informs the AI of Izuku's suit, which also alarms him. The bloodthirsty and failing stamina was a real threat that can make him lose focus and ended defeated.
"You will never been part of us…", Izuku don't had a second to spare or test, since another Marauder casts more spirits and more attacks derived from the swinging axes, "Eternal Treason means Death…".
"Where's the Wild Geese when I need them ?!", the vampire starts to question the absence of real support when he was fighting alone dozens of enemies at once!
Meanwhile on Railway Yard.
During the insane fight with Izuku and the horde of Hell, a single vampire was taking out the patience and energy of the Wild Geese.
Few students like Bakugou or Todoroki tried to help them, but the vampire dodges them and decreases the combat effectiveness.
Finally Gara request to their captain to intervene since it was the least damaged on previous combats and decide to make a combat of attrition in order to spot weakness.
Except some burning bins, the whole combat happens with the darkness of night. Both vampires had excellent night-vision, and this also explains why the quirked humans had several difficulties to sustain a fight, or to dodge them. When the enemy vampire makes enough attacks, Gara detected their fighting still, and start to use their sword to counter or block, until he could make a decisive blow.
Gara finally hit with their Murasame sword the swiftly vampire that was dilating the fight more than 20 minutes. Silver Fang and Bomb, which both was severally exhausted combine their remaining powers and crush them, "Senpū Ryūsui: Kōga Ryūsatsu-ken !".
"Finally we manage to repeat that final technique: Whirlwind Water Stream, Cross Fang Dragon Slayer Fist"
"However the toll was immense…", Pip Bernadotte sighed with the dire exhaustion.
"At least the cavalry finally arrive", Serpico mimics their captain.
"Dark Schneider needs backup quickly…", Pip Berdanotte recognize that Izuku was not a Doom Slayer fighting alone an army from Hell.
The USAF Marines reached the chaotic former battleground, while one of them signals by radio, a request to one VTOL directly land on the middle of wreckage, since it was safe to land and evacuate. Still the Wild Geese combat helicopter will also help the process.
When one VTOL was aligning to land, six covert NKA equipped with optical camouflage techno-mage suits suddenly cast spells and cause more panic and chaos.
"Raptor Team to HQ! The North Koreans are attacking us on evacuation site!", one Marine broadcast the alert.
"I never expected that the NKA had an elite group of techno-mage suits!", other Marine complete the warning message.
"Let's fight this bastards!", and both of Marines activates their techno-mage suits.
The battle of Numata was still ongoing, while Izuku had to fight alone since their allies are crammed to a trap made by successive enemy waves.
To be Continued...
Chapter 34: Go Beyond, Plus Ultra Nightmare.
Summary:
Izuku resumes their fight against Chisaki Kai, who was covered by an army of demons with characteristics that blends the Diablo III and Doom Eternal.
The Marauders ranges three ranks, where the Soldiers and Captains are similar to the canon Doom Eternal, and the General Marauder are essentially the Dark Lord.
The Arachnotorns blends the Spidermaster of Hell with the Broodmother, making a giant monster, instead the cannon one.
Finally the Cyberdemon are more similar to the Siegebreaker from Diablo III.
When Izuku finally manage to fire their super-weapon against the Chisaki Kai, that was more similar to the Icon of Sin, he suffer great damage but the Marauders possess him, and turn in to a fast and mobile monster, similar to the Doom Hunter when damaged.
Fortunately, the reinforcements and the evacuation are under way, making the last boss stage more manageable.
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Tactical Options Available…
"Again, this useless notification…", the green haired vampire grits the teeth while facing the demonic horde that breaks from the ceiling, floor and wreckage spatted along the damaged building that Izuku tries to take shelter, "If those damned Marauders don't had such rush…", he spoke as fired short plasma pulses from the SDF-666 weapon against the horde.
The SDF-666 super-weapon also dealt some damage to the main enemy, enabling him to use the dazing side effect to the vampire flee from an open space that could be nearly impossible to dodge a ferocious counterattack, to a nearby building that he thought to be relatively safe. However it wasn't that safe due to the demons and possessed corpses that was once the local villagers attack him a short time later.
Since the zombies are relatively weak once cleared the few problematic golems and imps with the plasma weapon, Izuku could punch the weaker zombies or grab from their torso or leg and break them apart, a task easily done due to the natural vampire super-strength, as he rip and tear several zombies like the infamous Doom Slayer the proper recognize earlier.
Honestly, Izuku never expected to join a Hero Course to ending murder brutally former humans converted to undead due to the enemy magic.
When he pass-through the zombie horde by ripping while cast some fire spells (mainly the Geralt's Igni one that was suffice for now), he jumps overthe windowless frame to the ground, that was three stories high, just in time to catch more demons to fight below on the road level.
"WTF… Another damned Marauder!…", Izuku said annoyed before impale the demon's head with a iron rod from a broken scaffold that holds a building facade under repairs.
Instinctively he shoot from their shotgun and cast some fire spells to burn the corpse, just in case.
Izuku don't have any second to rest, as he was punched by a demon wolf, and almost beheaded by an axe from a kind of flurry biceps bull dressed with a rusty red armor and helmet, mostly due to insane amount of armor protection and magic barriers cast on DKL-01.
Still the remaining Marauders was pursuing him, while the remaining demon fodder encircles and melees the vampire, made a succession of volley into the air and throwing the vampire to the cracking ground, not forgetting that the heavy creatures stomp him.
Meanwhile Chisaki Kai notices from the commotion that Izuku was there, separated by 400 meters, and decides to strike as he notice that he can use the wreckage in own favor. The young vampire almost freezes when feels an unnatural aura pressure from nowhere to seen.
Izuku headbutts an annoying Marauder just to be punched hard from every conceivable way, ranging from swiftly spears that partially manage to break the formidable DKL-01 armor or corrosive spit that catches fires. Still the hounded vampire freezes when notices the chimeric tower made from the former Synths and Chisaki Kai all growing blue, like a giant wisp during a dark night. The monstrosity activated their insane telekinesis to levitate a random NKA military vehicle and throws almost surgically against Izuku, don't caring about the demons around him, they are just cannon fodder after all.
"I hope… this… works!…", the vampire suffers from agony when cast the Aard Sign at higher intensitythat could either killed or badly injured, not counting the possible explosion if Izuku don't cast such alchemical magic spell to slow the military van enough.
Apart of the twisty overturn, the vehicle survived the impact, and any potential hazardous material don't self-ignite.
"I hope that broken vehicle had some useful items...", Izuku notices that the remaining Marauders, now overpowered by Kai's malefic aura, was reaching him, just when notices a giant weapon that occupies almost two thirds of the inside, "I need some caution when I spot some dangerous weapons!".
Weapon Analysis… Complete!
NKA model clone of GShG-7.62 Minigun with Incendiary Napalm Launcher Grenades.
- An octuple barrel rotary machine gun designed to use lead or incendiary phosphorous shells, although banned by International Laws that no one cares, as main weapon.
This model contains a n add-on to fire incendiary rocket grenades made from napalm, phosphorous and other highly inflammable substances.
"Why I need enemies, when I had a weapon maniac AI ?!", the green haired vampire could sigh within a brief moment, while scans the weapons with curiosity independently the on-board computer reasoning,"Luckily the shells are loaded by magazines, and the crate have three spares, while the rocket grenades are only seven and requires to manually loaded and locked.", he said before he senses a Marauder slashing the vehicle derelict, "Damn it!…"
Izuku fires a grenade against the Marauder that was caught off-guard in the middle of the confusion, which was the slight time frame when he was vulnerable, catching an atrocious burning and fire that spread to the nearest minor demons, making them burn or explode successionally.
Once Izuku recovers from the slight daze, starts to fire the main weapon to kills and burns the remaining demons on their path, while yells like an enraged madman.
Suddenly, the vampire was almost caught off-guard when barely dodge to be bitten and twisted by a giant possessed demonic wolf with three heads that was similar to the Cerberus that fought earlier morning, and then notices with gruesome horror that faces six of then, and overpowered.
"Come on, filthy dogs!…", Izuku enrages ad starts either to cast any Geralt's Signs or fire the minigun, alternating with the double-barrel shotgun. However it not take more than ten seconds, to Izuku been thrown away by a leg stoke (as the wolves had the size of an elephant, but fast as hyenas) against the nearest solid obstacle, making Izuku fells hazed and spills blood from their mouth. The dazed state lasted some seconds, and has barely enough to stand up and dodge from the energy pulses emanated by four swing axes from the Marauders that could made a direct hit.
The vampire tried to launch one grenade against one Marauder, until a zombie intercepts them, and another one shoot their quad-barrel shotgun against Izuku, suffering damage as the DKL-01 starts to break down. Suddenly, the vampire starts to hallucinate due to the injuries, and the results will be extraordinary.
Sightseeing the havoc and inferno makes Izuku snaps badly with a sudden magic energy surge that was also converting and unleashing all repressed rage deepen into the lost soul of Berserker Guts.
Izuku mind are now constantly bombarded by ancient memories of a strong man with a sword, who Izuku already knew who was, slashing horde after horde of demons and enemies.
When the minigun run out of ammo, Izuku was already covered by a malicious aura that unravels a chant in loop, but with the words overleaped twice. The vampire notice that was a incantation for a magic spell, and immediately when replace the magazine and lock another set of incendiary grenades, he try the spell simultaneously.
"Treblinka… Samedii… Kaziklu-Bey… Magnificat… Ancient warlords and Worshipers of the Berserker that slay the Eternal Evil…", making Izuku eyes flashes black and changes their body to a black hue, while sprouts two giant black wings with five meters span, "I break the unspoken seal from Cimmerian lands, that locks the Proud Warrior worth of a Million Wehrmachts…", while also morphs the DKL-01 armor, growing spikes and black magic fields that increases their defenses, "Descend from the Hell and Heaven and Conquer the Mortal Realm!", and also any weapon in possession, "XENOMORPH!"
That all Rage... Brutal... Without mercy… But you will be worse… Rip and Tear, Until it is Done…
Swiftly the vampire fires against the remaining demons, including the surviving Marauders, noticing that the new spell increases his stamina, and the damage carried by melee attacks or even weaponry ten times with little damage or side effects to him at first, ignoring the fact that the real hazard occurs if Izuku maintains the berserk state too much time.
Izuku uses the new buffed state to punch, slash, rip and tear limbs and heads form everything that crosses their path, eliminating at least the annoying Marauders that was impeding to recharge the SDF-666 super-weapon enough to fire against the chimeric monster that stands above him.
Izuku reaches a full buffed berserker state about a minute after the cast, using the forbidden Xenomorph magic spell unlocked from Guts genetic memories, increasing the gore destruction of any zombie or monster that crosses their path to reach Chisaki Kai.
"Anticitizen One reached Security Domain Wall…", the cyborg derelict inside the chimeric monster tower reacts with greater dark magic emission, "Authorization Code: Rip and Tear…", and faces the new challenge by summoning a new swarm of demons, including 30 Marauders, 5 Captain Marauders which carry heavy weapons and finally two of the heavy armored General Marauders, with all ten more times the absurd amount of mindless demons that the vampire fought so hard to destroy previously.
"Who are you to defy the sacred tradition ?", one of the General Marauder raises their dual wield swords made from red plasma, "The Eternal Apostate Traitor shall burn to die!", while the second one made the same, just in time to spoke sepulchrally at unison, "Arise!… The Guardian Mastermind of Hell!… Lead our Unholy Legion and Punish the Eternal Apostate, Dark Schneider!"
Within this time lapse, the two major demonic leaders swing their blades from the heaven to the ground, while maintain a certain distance between them, creating an red flashing burning arc that begins clockwise for each Marauder until both complete the circle, making the inner area shambles and glow red, and create an inverted pentagram which was swiftly flooded with demonic blood.
All vertex triangles of the main pentagram shines and projects a pillar of dark light straight to the sky, and seconds later a monsters raises from the deeps of Hell, as the entire setup acts as a summoning portal.
Even within a berserker state Izuku freezes when spotted five giant versions of the Noumu Golem raising from the demonic portals, wider like the span of a small airplane jet. With honest terror feeling, Izuku notice than the new monsters had covered their face with a metal shield and dark magic amulets. The monsters are sustaining their massive height with robust robotic legs, and also they had a giant exposed brain that spawns the entire body size, even it had a retractable shield with poisonous strings that covers if necessary. The cybernetic enhancements includes three plasma rifles attached to each body side along the abdominal line, capable to make precise locking to a target. An array of missiles launchers was attached to close dead zones unreachable by the main weapons or abdominal rifles. Finally the main weapon was a giant plasma cannon that was mounted like a tail, intended to take the most massive destruction possible.
Izuku was mind rampaging badly, since if a single of this cybernetic arachnid, before even been buffed by Chisaki's Kai black magic, are a terrible situation, let's alone five of them intended to kill.
The DKL-01 on-board computer named them Chomu Broodmother Arachnotrons, by playing the kanji meanings between the brainless golems and the new aberration with a full brain exposed.
"Useless computer!", Izuku shout badly, "I don't mind WTF such thing are an Arachnotron or whatever! I need reinforcements, or I need to evacuate!", and he was shut up when fell a giant earthquake that brings another swarm of demons.
"Reinforcements are not currently possible!", said the DKL-01 on-board computer.
Around the group of Chomus, that was quickly filled the empty space between them with different demons that was immediately buffed or possessed by evil spirits guided by the Marauders, this horrific scene not excuse every minor monsters to chokes and bows when ten giant demons taller than five stories high covered by siege weapons raises from the central pentagon inside the pentagram portal and unleashes an unearthly uproar.
With four arms covered by armor and flames where their left hands was replaced by robotic cannons, a torso covered with metal and rotten bloody flesh, and two mastodon legs that glows like a smith, while the face was covered by glowing red smiting metal, the monster unleashes a powerful telekinesis explosion followed by falling lava molten projectiles. Such aberration was called the Siegebreaker Assault Cyberdemon Beast Engine of Hell, which can be shortened to Cyberdemon.
When the second wave of monsters was finally full summoned, the tower shaped Chisaki Kai morphed with the giant Synths changes again to recharges and locks to battle all heavy plasma cannons and a magic field that overpowers all the major demons which in turn buffs the minor ones.
"WTF ?!…", Izuku notices that he was levitating without using any spell of their knowledge, "What the hell…", he faces wave after wave of bulk object throwing straight against him, and barely managed to dodge using either the Aard against a nearby ground of wall of some random construction, or at least resource he jumps and dashes in midair. The new grown bat wings was more useful to glide than to fly, or it was simply the lack of expertise for now.
"If I could slow enough…", the vampire points to a bent tank that was missed him by 5 meters.
To make the things worst, Izuku had to dodge from a relentless falling fire from sky (that bright enough as a clear day, even during the middle of a dark night), followed by a sudden energy pulse that could shatter in pieces if the DKL-01 magic fields don't protect him.
Izuku makes an annoying face when he concludes correctly, as the AI inside the armor does the same, that the main enemy shift their strategy. The chimeric cybernetic tower controlled by the remaining organic parts that once belonged to Chisaki Kai starts the wave attack pattern using a massive telekinesis attack that grabs everything detachable (including heavy objects, like tanks, truck trailers or even pieces of damaged buildings) and then throws at high speeds against a target, that was Izuku.
Once completed the telekinesis attack, Chisaki Kai's cannons would fire plasma bolts to the sky, before failing partially randomly to the ground, causing explosions or fires depending of the type of material under impact.
If the main target was not hit or destroyed, and slightly before a new telekinesis attack, an array of supplemental cannons (from the cybernetic Crab Synth that lays of the bottom) can unleashes a ground bombardment or simply discharges a magic shield to destroy everything at full circle. The deactivated magic shield are then recovered and then the attack cycle pattern repeats.
Izuku quickly notice, even he dislikes too much the on-board AI that powers their suit armor, that the real drawback of the Xenomorph spell was if he lost his mental focus a slight second, he could lose their consciousness and becomes a mindless Berserk monster, until run out of mana or stamina with lethal consequences.
The vampire wanted to unleash the real attack against the real enemy, not playing and wasting time and magic energy against spawned demons, but the on-board DKL-01 computer warns that he still needs more 10 minutes to fire the SDF-666 super-weapon until them.
So you walk eternally through the shadow realms, standing against evil where the others falter. May your thirst for retribution never quench, may the blood on your sword never dry, and may you never need you again.
Tactical Options Available: Rip and Tear, Until it is Done.
Hint: cast the Aard Piercing Cold, that are always activated during your berserker state, to clean the minor annoyances, and then attack the swiftly Marauders using the same technique.
Not forget the Golden Rule: Kill them all, by shooting them until they die.
Izuku "discovers" if they mumble some heavy metal songs into their hell, he can counteract the dangerous effects of the Xenomorph, while also serves adequately to tear apart every minor annoyances (zombies and weaker demons) with bare hands, or fire either with the SDF-666 using a weaker plasma shot or the minigun with incendiary shells that burns them alive.
Once the vampire was done killing everything on their path, he has encircled by six buffed Marauders, that Izuku quickly cast the Aard sign at full power that makes them freeze, due to the Aard Piercing Cold Mutant Sign that was active in this berserk state, and due to the recent experience, Izuku swap from the shotgun to cast Aard Piercing Cold back and forth quickly fast until all six Marauders becomes dazed enough to break them with the SDF-666 super-weapon, blasting their head and ripping their body apart.
Izuku was finally spotted the major weakness of this extraordinary defensive demon, if he freeze fast enough when he was to prepare to attack either by the axe or their shotgun, and then fire straight to him, the Marauders becomes dazed and vulnerable to more powerful weapons or spells that requires up to two seconds to lock and fire.
However Izuku who manages to buff himself, he suffer an off-guard blow when some Cyberdemons, Marauders and Arachnotrons makes a coordinated attack, by firing against Izuku, making the vampire fly due to the explosion and smashes against a nearby building. The shockwave of the impact tears the concrete and iron apart, collapsing afterwards. If Izuku don't had the DKL-01 armor dressed, he could have several injuries. The sudden impact against the wall had the unwanted side-effect to disable the Xenomorph spell, as Izuku regains some active consciousness and notices that the newborn wings dried and crackles, reverting to the normal state.
"Damn it!… The berserker state was needed to defeat such aberrations,…", Izuku mumbles with pain and a slight daze, "And now any conditions to recast again are slim to none..."
Izuku spots a tank that was fairly intact, some meters away from him, but the injuries makes him feeling an agonizing pain (the vampirism regeneration was not working as expected due to the spells he had equipped or cast previously), slowing them enough time for the main enemy spot them again.
"Any human made weapon are useless against any of this major monsters, but it should at least make a shelter long enough to request help.", the vampire notice that the tank, which was from the North Korean Army, once he managed to open the lid lock and enter inside, he tried to power up the vehicle but the on-board computer denies. The messages are displayed with plain Korean, but the red background color means that he couldn't use.
Still the on-board computer intervenes with a pop-up message, "Enable Hacking Module ?", making Izuku surprised, but it not impend him to try, even he was very skeptic.
The hacking procedure sends several exploit codes via radio-frequency digital communication between the suit antenna module to the receiver (similar to the civilian Wi-Fi, but with military frequencies), in order to trigger certain software exploits that some foreign military weapons had.
Fortunately the procedure was successful, since it uses an ancient software version of the military hardware that has exploitable, unlocking the tank in less than ten seconds.
"Hacking Completed!", and Izuku could turn on the engine and drive, if he could.
Tactical Options Available: This NKA T-150 Tank, modified with some custom Chinese parts, had a 88 mm medium range cannon, and four high-energy plasma cannons that are probably a modification created and installed by the Millennium Army.
Conventional shelling using the standard cannon is not effective against any enemy .
The plasma cannons can cause some damage, but expect to be overwhelmed quickly.
"I bet that this vehicle will not endure more than a single minute!", said Izuku while try to drive, "The best solution I tough is to drive quickly to the railway yard…"
If the young vampire had some kind of premonition ability, it could be right, since once Izuku try to drive avoiding the debris and burning spots, the Cyberdemons quickly block their path and start firing, prompting him to fire either the main cannon that had only one shell loaded or fire the plasma rifles with moderate damage.
"Fight!… Dark Schneider… Fight, and let your determination clash mine convictions...", from the opposite site a Captain Marauder and one General raise their bows and swords and attacks the tank from behind using their red pulse demon energy emission, causing malfunction on impact.
Izuku was mad, and remembers the terrible way his teacher wanted him to learn the Silver Mountain healing spell, which Izuku don't had natural affinity, and cause a downturn of vitality when he really needed at this critical moment
"Since you had a deplorable demeanor on the Battle Royal Exams, I will teach punishable a high ranked healing spell…", said Sakura-sensei with her fangs fully deployed and red eyes emanating a natural paralysis technique due to her vampiric nature.
"A… Healing spell… Why I need to use White Magic, when both of us are natural Black Magic beings ?!"
She never answered back until a certain album recorded on 1985 during a live-show in Japan called Hibiya that makes Izuku perplexed, starts playing.
"I will play all Silver Mountain discography, until you synchronize their magic flow and learn the secret spell!"
"Another metal band… Aargh!", not forgetting the usual biting punishment that Sakura or Aizawa mades when Izuku falls from the tracks.
In fact, many of magic spells that Izuu learn along the years, specially the later one on Yuuei, was placed on older vinyl records, and Izuku should sync their mind when listen or use blood rituals to unlock them.
He needed two full weeks to decode, learn and cast the Silver Mountain for the first time, which was the longest time he spent to learn a single spell, which was still reduced due to his previous expertise and now he cursed for the side effect that impede him to cast two or three powerful Dark Schneider's magic spells at the right moment.
"Great! The real monster was starting to levitate… including this damn tank!", Izuku don't hide their slight panic, trying to arm the explosives scattered inside the vehicle, and trying to bring a laser-guided rocket propelled launcher (RPG) that had some (about a dozen of rockets) ammo.
When Izuku fells the sudden acceleration that pushes against the closed hatch, he starts to use the Aard sign with and without ice freezing, until a single strong punch blow apart, and jumps a second before a direct impact against a solid concrete water deposit, but managed to divert the tank to collide against a Arachnotron in position. The armed explosives detonated on impact, and the tank filled with active ammo exploded, causing the demon's own explosives to blow, destroying the creature apart.
I thing Izuku had certain, he need to use everything at their disposable to win this insane fight before it is too late.
For he walk among us, and he will smith the evil from this earth. For he who comes in our time of need is not of mortal breed, he is the Destroyer, the right hand of our Creator and the one who brings fear where there is no hope.
Some seconds before the tank impact against the Arachnotron, Izuku jump straight from the tank's hatch to midair, hoping that some advanced Dark Schneider's spells could be cast, in order to gain strategic advantage and not simply slowing down to the nearest point that could be an easy target. Luckily a familiar flying spell could be used, as Izuku makes their incantation,"Wah-ko… I pledge the Sacred Mountain's Wind Spirit to became my Flight's Mage!… CELESTIAL FLIGHT RAVEN!"
Normally the spell would last few minutes, making possible to fly the distance between the chaotic war zone, and the relative calm railway yard with their classmates and the US Army. Due to obvious reasons, the spell breaks swiftly and Izuku had to abort the flight just 30 seconds after the spell casting. He was under the direct range of Chisaki Kai weaponery, and due to the increment fighting and heavy bombing, all major building of the Numata are razed to the ground, the chimeric cybernetic adversary will spot Izuku in a matter of seconds.
Warning: Turmplasmagewehr SDF-666 reaching dangerous overcharging… Least less than one minute, at current charging time, to be ready to fire…
Hit: Activate the two rear magic cannon that DKL-01 had previously, and fire in sync to maximize the damage…
Izuku nods when read the text about the original DKL-01 that require a spell to unlock, and requires a full week of rest to regenerate their magic energy.
"Damn it! Those monsters and their insane master are preparing to fire again!", and the vampire notice that all weapons still needed more 20 seconds to fire.
Without warning, Chisaki Kai overcharges himself and their demons, who starts to fire and burn everything at full circle. The telekinesis force and effect in this turn was more than double of the previous one, making Izuku levitate and accelerate straight to the sky, about 100 meters from the ground.
Izuku notices that the railway yard, now at their sightseeing, the Yuuei students, the mercenaries and the US Army was still fighting, but nowhere the sale of Izuku was fighting alone.
The military radio onboard was also trying to connect to the Pip Berdanotte's radio, but was no more stable to sent short character based memos into an encrypted channel frequency.
When Izuku notices that was falling down at greater speed, that means the enemy was pulling straight to the ground, he makes an terrorized face when several Marauders and Cyberdemons point their weapons and fires straight to him, and aligned to the Chisaki Kai's cannon, makes Izuku activate the DKL-01 cannons to counter-attack.
"Legendary Gunner living on Noland Plains, with a Godly Precision that makes the Hell fears in despair!", this makes the magic cannons unfold and coupling to the SDF-666, "I summon your ancient doomed soul to honor the Demolitioner Gun that shall Eradicate Everything in our Path!", where at this stage the SDF-666 warns that was finally ready to fire at the Annihilation Mode, "Accept the Wisdom of the Gospel of Annihilation and Purge my Enemy to Oblivion!", and Izuku fires the cannons and the SDF-666 in total synchronization, "DEMOLITION!"
The casting spell creates a giant circle, roughly ten meters of diameter, that was perpendicular and centered to Izuku's weapons when upstanding. From the main circle, several parallel smaller circles detached and follows the immense magic blasting energy path.
Compared to the Halloween spell that Izuku managed to cast alone, this was too much powerful to compare. The energy emission and impact was clearly much greater.
Chisaki Kai was brutally hit by the immense energy and pressure that break all magic barriers, and armor in pieces, and starts to melt and self-combust. This immense spell fueled by the DKL-01 breaks the insane buff effect that was overcharging all demons. Many of them exploded with the sudden disappearance of the overcharging field, but for the Marauders and other big monsters, they survived, but staggered.
Without wasting time, Izuku shift to the unbeloved shotgun are start shooting at the staggered demons, while use some basic Aard signs as they lost the frosting ability due to the side effects of the SDF-666 cannon blastuntil they falter and killed.
The damaged Chisaki Kai tries to recover from the massive blow, but it entered into a catastrophic berserker state that begins to punch and rampage randomly. This chaos and disarray would be the best situation for Izuku to request help or continue the fighting.
"Izuku… ?!", suddenly Pip Bernadotte open a radio channel to the vampire, "WTF was that monster, and that insane powerful blast ?!"
The vampire wait several seconds, to everyone on the other side fell the emanating rage, before replay back, "Thanks for your help, Wild Geese, if I never notice the weak points of the Marauders, Arachnotorns and Cyberdemons, you could be invited to my funeral!"
Pip Berdanotte ignores the provocation, and instead orders, "Your clowns are safe, since the last big blast stuns the remaining enemy… In a few minutes, everyone will take off and evacuate…", while him makes a direct order to him, "Stay where you are since Rohelec are driving the Kadingir Sanctum to reach you, and I will fly with Argent D'Nur to reach both…"
"That bastard!…", Izuku said, before notices that the General Marauders was not so friendly.
The major Marauders, joined by their lower ranked survivors, joined their powers, first to cast some demonic spell to the enraged Chisaki Kai, making them even more possessed, while the remaining demons change their alliance from the former cybernetic terrorist to the Marauders themselves. Finally the General Marauders raise their sword to renew their defiance against Izuku, "I must thank you to release your compatriots from the false idols, but you cannot shall leave you alive… So, for the last time, Dark Schneider, the Eternal Traitor of Hell, fight to prove our righteousness… "
With greater horror, Izuku notices that the remains of Chisaki Kai starts to levitate, probably due to their natural telekinesis, once discarded the damaged and destroyed cannons, and starts to convert to a flying target. The remaining magic energy that was equipped by Shigaraki was mutating to form a new kind of magic barrier that was not so powerful as before. The problem was the fact that he need a full week to recharge both the SDF-666 super-weapon and the DKL-01 magic cannons, and the enemy will not let they wait a minute, let alone a day or a week.
Suddenly, Izuku had an idea, if the super-helicopter Argent D'Nur was under they way, then he could use their weaponry to destroy the cybernetic menace from the air, "Sorry… But I need a VIP ticket to evacuate…", just when resume their fight against the General Marauders.
Until the Wild Geese reaches, Izuku will need to continue their fight.
To Be Continued...
Chapter 35: Fall of Davoth
Summary:
This chapter had some terrible revelations. The Shigaraki's doctor are the same of Dr. Deathshead from Wolfenstein, while Eri are an younger women are resemble Irene Engel. Every of those villains on canon story are actually members of the Millennium Army SS.
It also almost confirms that the quirks are the result of a kind of Black Liquid similar to the Alien franchise, which according to the Bastard!! lore the xenomorph inspired the Anthrax final boss creature.
Still it is expected that Izuku will have a few normal chapters of school activity before the final arc against Anthrax begins.
Chapter Text
Izuku quickly notice that the radio communications went down for another time, in the precise moment when the chimera gigantic monster that was the cybernetic monstrosity called Chisaki Kai starts to recover from the Demolition spell and restarts to emit the demonic aura that are also capable to jam the radio communications, which was worsened by the mandatory heavy encryption required for military equipments. The main monster was also starting to recover from the inhuman impact delivered by the full discharge of SDF-666 super-weapon. This weapon that could rival the Unmakyr and the BFG-9000 in terms of raw power, now was overheated, and unlike the Doom Eternal magical technology that managed to return to work by refilling the ammo, the SDF-666 weapon requires some days to cool off and recharge properly.
"Die!… Dark Schneider!…", without taking a single split second to break, the General Marauders resumes their relentlessly attack against the exhausted young vampire. Izuku barely dodge or avoid direct damage of the red plasma swords swinged against him. The problem as not only the number of swords the enemy could handle (it could use one or two, and even change in a tiny fraction of second to a gigantic shield slightly bigger than the General Marauder itself). The remaining lower grade Marauders also swing their plasma based axes or fire their shotguns according to their usual strategies (firearms for short range, or energy weapons at larger range.)
Izuku start to thinking that he don't have major manpower to continue the fight until the promised reinforcements from Wild Geese arrived. He thought that the main foe still needs several minutes to recover, but he underestimated badly. In meantime by retreating and going back again to fight means that he loses an excellent situation that could blow the enemy apart. Since all magic and other supernatural powers are not viable until he rests properly, the only possible option to continue to fight, or at least an retreating fight, until help arrive are to catch more powerful weapons scattered around the whole chaos. The vampiric telekinesis power still manages to make it work, and uses to attract the ammunition scattered that was needed to fill the GshG-7.62 heavy machine gun.
"If Iori witness this once I manage to survive, I will play Brutal Doom will all mods an hundred times!", the greener vampire first irked when make such statement, later sighed with such stupidity. Meanwhile along this strategic retreat he tear down an entrance door to a convenient shop, only to find some zombies that Izuku grab their neck and twist off, killing it. Other two has ripped apart without much trouble.
The final zombie was killed by stabbing the overheated shotgun barrels, while cast the Aard sign to burn the rotten corpse.
Quickly he notice that was could be once the balcony and the cash dispensers that was torn apart or damaged, was replaced by some sand bags and an heavy machine gun abandoned ammo and a bizarre weapon at first sight. Once grabbed from the rubble, he notice that was a six rotary barrel combat shotgun with a passive cooling pipes, and a single trigger. The weapon had an automatic rail feeder that fills the six chambers, making the absurd shotgun to fire consecutively, instead to the old pump-action model Izuku had in possession. Izuku also pick the required ammo, and the heavy machine gun along the bullet belts. Once he tough that was safe, a rampaging Marauder storm the shop derelict with the axe plasma blast swinging. The violent impact breaks a stand that had another similar combat shotgun placed on the top, and falls almost straight to Izuku.
Weapon Analysis from Database completed!
Höllenhammer Z – A six rotary barrel combat shotgun designed by the Millennium Army, designed to operate on automatic fire, and cause great destruction, much due to the over-sized shell ammo.
Schlittenspeer-Maschinengewehr MG150 – An heavy machine gun developmented by the Millennium Army combining features of WW2 German machine guns, and the modern US heavy machine guns. This weapon nicknamed „Sledge Spear Machine Gun" had twelve rotary barrels, and a retractible blade similar to bayonets, which can be swapped to place a mortar grenade launcher. The retractible blade could be useful to stab unwanted enemies, as long you manage to carry on the one tonne weapon.
"That you for your wisdom…", Izuku annoys while dual wield the shotguns, and attaches the shotgun with a stripe along the armor belt.
Without thinking or wasting more seconds, Izuku hold the shotguns with one of each hand and start firing against the annoying Marauder. Three fast full rounds of shoots breaks the flesh and armor in pieces, making the enemy agonized and dazed, and then the vampire cast the Axii sign to break the will of fight, just in time to bulldozer him with the machine gun that manage to hot-swap and finishes him with a direct stab to their skull with a retractible bayonet that was attached to the machine gun.
"Just burn in hell…", and Izuku finishes with an Igni sign to burn the corpse.
Without surprise the on-board computer inside the DKL-01 armor decides to intervene, ignoring Izuku's wish to rip and tear that annoying feature:
Tactical Skill Acquainted: Quick Swap, also know as, Fast Switching.
As any Wild Geese mercenary needs to acknowledge, to enable fast switching requires to specialize one hand to make a thing, and another to prepare the ne x t move. For example, cast any spell with your left hand while sideload a charged weapon with your right hand , then switch quickly to fire a weapon. This are a necessary trait to subdue quirked humans or supernatural beings. Mastering Quick Swapping needs to exchange in tandem two weapons, or a spell and weapon quickly, to fire or cast several times in a matter of few seconds. This will break your enemy defenses , making more prone to be subjugated or killed with a finishing move, or a third kind of weaponry.
"Either way, it is insane that I need a cunning superlative shotgun to kill a single Marauder bastard!…", Izuku was suddenly grab by a beast with thick arms which twist and thrown violently to ransacked locker room.
The vampire had a bad time to gain a migraine, specially when he faces a kind of cybernetic monster with 3 meters tall, holding a superheavy machine gun like Izuku just grab earlier.
The enemies armor appears at first sight, by Izuku's point of view, to be composed at least with three layers of metal alloy. The chest part was dominated by a styled black Hakenkreuz overlapped with a white shaped rhombus shield of arms which combines with a styled black eagle.
"Scheiss!", Izuku strafe quickly and panicked before the enemy start shooting at will.
The enemy's insane machine gun reduced all metallic lockers to a random amount of scrap metal in a couple of seconds. The vampire also snaps from their bewilderment when he was pushed against the ceilling, and then to the scrapped metal by a kind of telekinetic force, "He had a quirk too…"
Without much amusement the DKL-01 confirmed the identity of the enemy.
Enemy Analysis from Database completed!
Supersoldaten: A breed of genetic engineering superhumans, planed as backup to place genetic modified quirks on normal humans. It was a parallel project of lower priority that also conduct horrific human experimentation that created several strains of stormtroopers soldiers in order to alleviate the scarce Nazi vampire units.
Due to the lack of information or required higher ranked confidential information, it was believed without proof that experiments on cybernetics replaced the original quirked soldiers into a hybrid of organic and mechanical parts. Such advance was only possible due to the involvement from the cybernetic unit of Millennium Army lead by Chisaki Kai, that quickly overtakes the original research unit lead by a mystical magic practitioner only known by the nickname of Shigaraki, and their comrade of arms called Kurogiri.
Note: The Supersoldatens was also the foundations of the Combine special military units, where the cybernification of the original humans was greater.
"WTF?! Where you got such brilliant information ?!", Izuku was a little shocked with the computer database had some information about the damned two!
"Stoppen Sie genau hier, Sie barbarischer Vernichter!", a voice echoed when the part of the ceiling and wall behind the lockers was torn apart by a giant robot, but piloted by an elder (which appears to have some cybernetic implants) dressed like a Nazi official.
"Ich muss einen besonderen Magneten haben, der nur Nazibanditen anzieht!", Izuku just reply back in plain German.
"Für eine unwürdige Kreatur, eine Agentin des Todes und der Zerstörung, braucht es viel Mut, uns zu diffamieren!", then after a slight pause, "Wenn er nicht so gefährlich wäre, wäre er vielleicht wie die Überlebenden dieser Stadt, die ein ausgezeichnetes Versuchskaninchen abgeben würden.", and finally the elder pilot orders the giant Supersoldaten to attack Izuku, "Zerstöre dieses Hindernis!"
The heavy super machine gun from the Supersoldaten quickly unleashes a barrage of bullets, that was barely deflected by the Quen sign combined with the DKL-01 modded suit that activates the Maximum Armor. Izuku suffers severe damage, still manages to divert when try to straff, until the piloted robot's turret tears down the remains of the locker room, which makes the upper stages collapses over the panicked vampire.
However Izuku suffer an electrical discharge from nowhere (it was because the elder piloting robot had an electrical coil based weapon, that discharges against a near target), causing the DKL-01 suit to malfunction, are reboot at the worst time possible.
Izuku awakes briefly and notices that the building was collapsed, and once turn slowly their head he faces the Cyberdemons and Arachnotrons group that was approaching quickly. The building was torn apart due to heavy weaponry, reducing a viable shelter to a derelict.
"Those demons may had the sheer advantage in terms of absolute numbers…", Izuku mumbles, "However a single intelligent monster are too worst to overcome…", and the worst was the thirst for blood that was snapped out after this long and ongoing fight.
The vampire was still trying to recover from the shock when he was pulled off the rubble and punched against the torso (the armor reduced the impact).
"WTF are you ?!", Izuku faces a younger female, dressed with the Schutzstaffel-Obersturmbannführer uniform and insignia.
"This is the infamous untermensch Dark Schneider ?!", as she appears to active a kind of quirk that cancels or jams supernatural powers, as Izuku notice that the simplest magic spells are barred to activate, "Do you think that you are a kind of Hero ?!"
"I never expected to fight against Nazis during a Hero Summer Camp!"
"Neither I expected my former failed foster father…", as she points to the horrible machination that Chisaki Kai turn out, "To end like an experiment of Zauber Shigaraki… Damn those Ahnenerbe cult of freaks…"
"The Millennium Army loves rivalry infighting…", Izuku thoughts before asks, "Frauline... Damn it..."
"Don't make a fuss against the Schutzstaffel, specially me, Irene Engel Chisaki, also know as Eri!", as she still tries to grab Izuku from the neck, but the heavy armor avoids that, thought the vampire notice the activation of a kind of muscle strength activation to her. At first sight, Izuku thought that could be a quirk activation, a second one, but the green glow on muscle fibers and the appearance of metallic patches along the unexposed clothing gives that the super-strength of Eri are due to a kind of cybernetic implant.
"What an wonderful caustic name!", Izuku releases his right arms and tries to punch Eri, without great success.
"For our information, my quirk only cause malfunctions to another ones.", explain Eri, psychotically to the entrapped vampire, "Mein Doktor at first uses ancient Arian Magic Rituals to control my damned quirk. However, only when he implemented a quantum computer inside my brain that control a powerful artificial intelligence system, my quirk are now more manageable. Still later cybernetic implants to power up my body was necessary to achieve my superiority!"
"How advanced technologically are those Nazi freaks ?!", Izuku thoughts to himself.
"Mein Frauline Eri!", the older doctor inside the robot approaches her, "If you arrest this abomination, it can be possible to save your foster from..."
"Don't be so silly, Herr Doktor Totenkopf!", she throws away Izuku, "Chisaki Kai was too idiot to recognize that was a ploy made by those two Zaubers that managed to join the Schutzstaffel-Ahnenerbe, although arresting this vampire are fundamental to the Millennium Army thrive!"
Izuku would cold sweat due to the danger of been tortured or executed, ignoring that the computer inside DKL-01 suit are just rebooted and reset all the internal components to restore the combat status mode. Immediately the suit switch to Maximum Strength to overcome the Eri grip.
Meanwhile the DKL-01 computer decided to reveal some strictly confidential information due to some unknown directives been achieved.
Warning! Due to the unexpected contact with key enemies, some i nformation about them that are strictly confidential, can be disclosed. The brief resume are the best available for now.
Kurogiri: An old nickname derived from their warp quirk, probably when he was an undercover criminal. (That nowadays they label them as villains) At an unknown time, he join later the Millennium Army at the same time of Shigaraki. When he was plenty integrated on the current organization, he quickly climb up the Nazi Ranks, and join the Ahnenerbe branch of the Schutzstaffel.
Shigaraki: An old friend of Kurogiri with an obscure past, which now are a pathological true Nazi believer, that also managed to join the Ahnenerbe branch of Schutzstaffel with Kurogiri and create a circle of close comrades that was the Twelve Wise Men of Europa.
He was also a monstrous malignant sorcerer, which managed to create an army of demons, later modified by black magic and cybernetic technology. His successes help him to secure their position as a powerful spearhead to many Millennium Army machinations.
Dr. Deathshead (Totenkopf): A top Nazi researcher that once hired Kurogiri and Shigaraki from their former criminal group to the Millennium Army. He lead several secret Nazi projects from weaponry to genetic engineering, including the research of quirks that he believes that was once an ancient Nazi weapon or wonder from early 20th century (before Hitler rise to power). Many of actual super-weapons that you witness today had a direct link with him. The duet asseverate Totenkopf as their Master or Doctor. He is also one of the major Montana Max closest friends, but do not become part of Shigaraki's Twelve Wise Men of Europa.
Irene Engen Chisaki (Eri): A younger girl that are a distant relative of Irene Engen, that once lived during the peak of Hitler's regime. She is a regular commander of the Schutzstaffel and it is believed that helped Totenkopf research using a proxy enterprise that plays the onimous Weyland-Yutani corporation from Alien franchise, in terms of human experiments and absolute disregard to anything that she thinks are dispensable. (The actual real name of that company was unknown or secret, although it was recently operating on Pyongyang.)
Note: The quirk origin from a mutagenic weapon lacks some evidence, but the Anthrax origin are one of the potential clue to solve this mystery. Still it is a little unbelievable that a kind of chemical similar to Agent A0-3959X.91-15 could create the quirks and spread as fast that was recorded.
This hypothesis would more assertive if Anthrax resembles the biomechanical features of the infamous XX121 Xenomorph creature from the Alien franchise.
"It's too much coincidence the suspicious link between the quirks, the Nazis, and probably the unknown creature called Anthrax…", as izuku tried to grin, "At least no quirked human died by a chestburster…", before he faces the Eri trying to hold him before the Millennium Army could evacuate them, and drag him as prisoner of war.
"Why you are obsessed with Anthrax, untermensch Dark Schneider ?!", Eri spokes with a psychotic laugh, while her face skin tears to reveal golden printed circuits, which confirms that she had more cybernetic enhancements implants that not match or enhanced her cancellation type quirk.
"I would make the same question… It is a kind of divinity that you freaks worship ?!"
"Mind your filth tongue, untermensch..."
When Izuku fells that he had accumulate dark magic energy to cast Demon Magic from Dark Schneider's Spells, he makes a smile before cast with the corresponding ritual contract chant, "Cyco, Cyco, known your worth!", which appears to overcome the anti-quirk and anti-magic field emanated by Eri own quirk, "I granted your wills into a Ember flash of Ash and Wound!", and then a mist of dark with red flashing releases from the Izuku casting domain, hitting Eri causing their flesh to burn, rot and disintegrate, "SUICIDAL TENDENCIES!"
"Verdammter Zauberer!", Eri agonize and leashes against Izuku, that manages to break free.
"Attention Dark Schneider! Take cover now!…", without warning the encrypted military communication system inside DKL-01 opens an audio channel and it was the gunman Silver Fang that gives the alert.
A second later, several magic bolts fall and exploded around the enemy group, followed my standard guided missiles. The impact of the explosions and the sudden chaos makes a good cover to Izuku flee, just for the Eri group been overwhelmed by the ammo firing. The cause of this sudden attack was the appearance of the Wild Geese massive combat helicopter called Argent D'Nurfilled with conventional and magic weaponry. The collapse of Chisaki Kai massive force filed dome permits to the Argent D'Nur makes a desperate sortie and start bombing the demons and bigger ones that Izuku was trying to fight alone. Meanwhile the Marauders, Cyberdemons and Arachnotrons arrived at the perimeter and start firing against all the targets.
"Beware the monstrosity!", Izuku alerts Silver Fang via the intercom, "It a matter of several seconds it could regenerate the bare minimum to bombard everything!"
"I will help you to prevent that!", the gunner fires 40 heavy yield missiles, and ten full charged elemental magical cannons against the remains of Chisaki Kai. The magical beams takes less than a second to hit the target, that scattered along the entire body. Five to ten seconds later, the missiles warheads penetrate the armor and rotten flesh of the chimeric monster, causing a chain reaction of devastating proportions.
When any common sense being thought that Chsisaki Kai was finally destroyed by good, the core that creates the malignant magic and force raises from the metal scrap debris, and creates another magic force field that menace again Izuku and their allies.
The core was again covered by flesh, metal and the remains of the Chisaki Kai body. Compared to the original chimeric monster, it was about a tenth of the original size, returning a normal human sized being.
Izuku turns his head to the site when was briefly captured by Eri and their entourage. The three Nazi beasts are now fighting against the Marauders and Cyberdemons.
"Shall we return to our fighting ?!", the two top General Marauders cut the mesmerizing sightseeing with their plasma swords.
Izuku answered by firing the Höllenhammer Z automatic shotguns within a quick cadence, one for each General Marauder. Both enemies reacted by pushing their plasma blades (which size varies by a factor of five) to slash Izuku.
He notice that one of them makes damage, it glows red and uses this aura sudden spike to spawn minor demons to aid them.
Izuku also notice that the two General Marauders created a magical barrier with a small radium (less than 50 meters) for which many regular demons or normal beings cannot penetrate. It was confined inside a domain trap, and he had very few ammo for all weapons.
The vampire had little vitality to cast magic spells, and he wanted to save the regeneration devices from the DKL-01 to save energy. With this choice, Izuku wait a little to one of the annoying specter summoned by the Marauder to attack him, and fire the shotgun.
Then Izuku notice that the General Marauders stand still up to half a second to refill the red aura, which use to make an explosive expansion capable to cause physical damage or to summon more specters and minor demons.
"Eat that!", Izuku catch the precise moment when the rightmost General Marauder try to recharge, and fire a barrage of shotgun shells. The enemy become dazed with the impact, and the vampire quick swapped to the MG-150 machine gun and unleash a torrent of bullets that take six seconds to finish the belt, just in time to the enemy recover and trying to counter-attack with this expandable sword.
Quickly Izuku exchange the belt and the cartridge slot for the machine gun and the shotgun, and this time he could make more damage to the other enemy as he was caught off-guard.
The combat spawns along 20 minutes or more, as Izuku realizes that if he been hit by the sword the General Marauder regenerates a little. Still deal about ten rounds of shelling when the vampire catches the correct timing to attack.
At the same time, Silver Fang was trying the divert the massive combat helicopter from the vicious attacks from every conceivable enemy on ground. He still was genuinely horrified when he drops cluster bombs against an horde of Marauders, their shields block every explosion, and simply step up to dodge the explosions. Also the gunner witness from the view-of-field cameras from the cockpit that the trio of Nazis fighting them was partly damaged with the successive waves of relentless attacks.
When that appears that Chisaki Kai was agonizing with a former shell of itself, a giant magic field explode straight to the sky like a pillar of red hue light. A second later, a chain of dozens of concentric circles forms made from black reddish mist, until a rain of fire and smoke falls from that magical domain. Flares similar to the worst solar protuberances and corona mass ejections also erupt from the ground from a certain distance measured of the chimeric cyborg.
The flare breaks the magic dome shield made by the General Marauders, although their body shield protect them from the worst damage. The DKL-01 suit armor suffers malfunction and real damage for this time. Izuku knew that the minor ranked Marauders and the surviving Cyberdemons and Arachnotorns (half of them was destroyed) can now attack him, and he was now terribly outgunned.
"WTF! Those Nazis was a rescuing drone ?!", for some oddly reason, Izuku reacts badly when he notice that the SS official, the giant mutant soldier and the piloting combat robot by a crazy scientist was pulled by a Millennium Army Combine Synth drone model, and flee from the chaos that they cause at first place!
This subtle rage outburst help him to grab a damaged Marauder, and throwing him against the nearest Cyberdemon that cause their particle cannon to outburst and explode. Then Izuku wasted the last ammo supplies from the shotgun and machine gun in possession to severely damage on of General Marauders and punch the damaged armor, causing a chain explosion that due to sheer luck ended to kill the second General Marauder that was only five meters apart.
Izuku managed to strafe and back-flip to escape from the explosion. However when the dust settles, the two swords held by the formidable foes was still shining with their plasma blades. The DKL-01 computer still managed to reboot and make a quick analysis of this findings:
Weapon Analysis Completed!
Hell Sword: This magic sword forged by the supernatural realm of Hell, had a reserve of demon lost souls that charge a plasma like blade capable to change according to the user wills.
Izuku throw away the damaged weapons (except the SDF-666) and pick both swords to test them. With a genuine surprise, a single slaying movement cut a Marauder or any annoying demon with a single movement! However, Izuku notice that each time the sword powers are used, their bright that was related to the energy stored inside the handle, reduced each time it kill an enemy.
"With another words, those swords are useful to destroy the main core of the horrible Chisaki Kai chimeric monster!", and Izuku alerts to Silver Fang, "Silver Fang! I grab those wonderful swords that are capable to defeat demons with a single swoop. However I fear that once the magic energy are depleted, those things will go burst… I need your firepower to clean the damned hostiles!"
"Roger! Be careful with this move… I was ordered to retrieve you and leave this inferno together, other members of Wild Geese join the US Raptor Team which are now evacuate your classmates to their VTOLS to an anchored Aircraft carrier…", Silver Fang said with a worried voice tone.
"This means all Pro-Heroes and all human Heroes in Training leaves this hell successfully…", said Izuku, as he runs and slashes another Marauder.
Izuku still had to run more 200 meters in straight line around the debris, and the annoying two remaining Cyberdemons and a damaged Arachnotron that was shielding the main target. Luckily for Izuku the left rocket launcher was still intact at the roof of a partially damaged house which had a dental clinic on floor and an habitation flat above. The vampire jump quickly to the top, and check that the rocket launcher still works after three hours of hellish fighting.
With a fast sequence of rocket launching, all 26 rockets dealt the annoyances, although he had the rely to the demonic magic swords to kill the Cyberdemons for good.
Finally, Izuku jump from a three stories high building and lock the swords in position. The vampire also tries to cast a good Dark Schneider's ancient spell to end this horror, "Ki!… Oboros!… Plataros!… Oh!… I summon the Ancient Dread King of Night's Pact!", which starts by casting from the right index nail a purple slime substance, "Come forth, My Demon King, flying on Bat Wings!", that resonance their vampire nature, including a spectral form of giant bat swings spawning his body, helping him to fly to the target, "May your Ancient Will seal this Cursed Pact!", and Izuku thrown the swords against the main core, just a second before he nail the infected nail against the organic parts of Chisaki Kai's body, "ACCUSED!"
The swords blades cut the remains of the chimeric monster like an cross shaped pattern, but the Accused spell activates causing an instant necrosis of the rotten flesh that Chisaki Kai had during the cyborgification process. All electronic and crystal matter also decays and shatters, leaving the damaged core to collapse at an alarming rate.
"Wah-ko!… I pledge the Sacred Mountain's Wind Spirit to become by Flight's Mage!…", Izuku casts the same earlier spell to fly away the danger, "CELESTIAL FLIGHT RAVEN!"
When Izuku waste the remaining little vitally to fly at high speeds, the collapsing core explodes, wiping everything around a radius of one to two kilometers. Silver Fang could not done more than scream when faces an extraordinary explosion, and questioning if Izuku Midoriya manages to escape from the massive explosion.
To be Continued...
Chapter 36: Ascension and Reckoning
Summary:
The Battle of Numata reaches the chaotic end with great sorrow due to civilian causalities and the loss of trust for Pro Heroes handle military invasions.
Izuku will have some needed school activities more akin to a civilian Pro Hero in training, but he ignores that the mission to invade the Anthrax basement will require an interplanetary mission to Venus if they couldn't find a proper portal quirk user or a device capable to the teleportation.
Chapter Text
Battle of the Railyard comes to an End
When Izuku fought against all the devilish monsters that the rotten Chisaki Kai had summoned due to a spell effect delivered by the betrayal of the Shigaraki, the remaining students who had fighting the zombie and vampire horde of the Millennium Army had their own moments of battle cry.
When Dark Schneider was fighting the chimeric monster that Chisaki Kai had become, thirty minutes earlier than the monster defeat, the US Army Raptor Team was fighting along the Hero Students against the zombies commanded by a group of elite vampires.
The students with stronger quirks had caused many damage against the foe, but the exhaustion and the unwillingness to follow orders from military officers who had better rational strategies, was causing to the derailed students a dangerous breakdown.
At this stage about a third of the students had lost their offensive will, and started to comply the military orders to retreat for a more fortified make shifted position since either the Raptor Team or the Wild Geese had placed barriers and weapons caches to defend from the enemies raids. They hope that once the enemy had been damaged enough, they could retreat to the VTOL and fly away from this hell as quickly as possible.
The most prestigious students had the opposite stance, such as Shoto Todoroki wastes their stamina to create barriers of ice using their quirk, or the troublemaker Bakugou Katsuki which due to one of this explosions breaks the defense traps, leads a officer to intervene.
"For the thousandth time, you may have the capability to delivers explosions, but your natural stamina and material are getting too low too fast, if you don't wasted without thinking…", the US Special Force Marine grabs the enraged Katsuki out of living fire.
"Shut up, your mongrel! You think that I'm… weak ?!", the explosive blond was knock out by a strong thud delivered by Pip Berdanotte, which was nearby.
The explosive blond recovers from the stun, only to be tackled with their head facing down to the ground by a swift hand grab by the mercenary vampire, "I don't think that you weak… You are a rebellious thug that are lucky enough to not be sent to the firing squad!"
"Sir…", the US Marine make a formal remark, "It is not a little extreme to apply a death sentence, when you don't have the authority of a martial judge ?!"
"The last thing I want to face are mutinous soldiers!", said Pip Berdanotte, when he faces the unfriendly vampire Aizawa.
"What are you to treat my students as your soldiers?! You are only a bloodthirsty tyrant!", as Aizawa pretends to hiss to show their authority, as he was in change to check and balance their students.
"Since I'm the highest commander present in a war zone, I have the right and duty to put any subordinate on right line!", and point the Magnum 44 loaded with magic enhanced bullets agaisnt Aizawa forehead, "And remember that until the martial law are in effect, every Clownish Heroes shall obey the instructions given by the military leaders of each site!"
Once the brief standoff between Pip and Aizawa cools down, Izuku was at the same time ready to fire the Demolition spell which breaks more than half the combat powerfulness of the giant cybernetic monster that become Chisaki Kai.
Many of teachers and students protest the decision of the senior vampires to sent the combat helicopter to help Izuku deliver the final blow, but the US Raptor Team intervene to order them to retreat and embark the VTOL before the combined task force of the SDF and US Army resume the final wave of bombings.
"Attention! To optimize space, only 14 Pro Heroes or Hero Students can embark at one VTOL each, which are enough to evacuate all of them. The Argent N'Dur will carry the Dark Schneider…", said an US Navy official.
All Might was very unwilling and upset due to the strange retreat of the vampire sorcerers that cause havoc a quarter of hour, but soon he notice a strange mechanical beast that make a stealth approach and almost snapped the neck, if he couldn't dodge.
The quirked humans had barely resisted the zombie assault, and witness that once the vampires dressed with an exotic suit similar to Izuku's DKL-01 retreated, another kind of enemy arrived.
Unlike the supernatural beings that all teachers and students was fought relentlessly during hours, the final army was composed by machines. Around the horde was a human approaching, and the worst was the Nazi insignia placed over the uniforms.
Like the SS official Eri who dares to make appear against Izuku, that was happening approximately at the same time, a new cybernetic human Nazi officer arrived at the wreckage scene. Two of brand new Übersoldaten, from the rarest Führungsschicht Ritterzerstörer class which was another creation from the Human Branch of Millennium Army, are now accompanied with the superior.
"Gute Nacht...", the top cyborg speaks to the scandalized humans, "I could congratulate you to fought against my fellow vampires creations, but as a Übermensch, I decide to join along Frauline Eri Engel and Doktor Totenkoff to make an inspection…"
"Why you call yourself an human, when you are like an horrendous machine ?!", some teacher dare to reply back.
"Mein großer Herr, soll ich die Ketzer zum Schweigen bringen? ", the right Übersoldaten by the Nazi officer perspective asks to intervene, as the cyborg mechanical hand reshapes to a sword handle, and fires a red bulk plasma that once confined, it resembles a one meter wide blade.
"Halte dein Schwert vorerst in einer Kampfhaltung.", the officer wanted to their subordinates do hold, "Diese Idioten, die von Maras Fluch abstammen, werden ihr Recht bekommen. Wenn sie überraschend angreifen, können Sie einen Gegenangriff starten.", and he gives the conditional order by electronic messaging using their implanted auxiliary computers. The officer treat all quirked humans as demons from the mythological Mara.
While the higher ranked Nazi officer had clearly a male human with some cybernetic enhancements which like Eri are a kind of cyborg which enhances the original organic body, the Übersoldatens are fully robotic cyborgs. Due to the SS knighthood bias, the cyborgs armored body had colorful coated plates along the main body, legs and arms. Also the armored body are covered by some strips of metallic clothing, including a red and blue cape for each side, that was more to appease for the aesthetics than any real purpose, as the body unremovable armor provides the necessary protection against the environment by itself.
At first glance the cyborg resemble a fantasy kind of knights with a energy based sword's blade. The armor also contains some etched black and gold Wolfsangel and Hakenkreuz symbols. Additional weapons had placed over the mechanical equivalent of the hips which had magnetic strips to place them.
The only thing more human-like was the head. The head have artificial golden hair and blue eyes, where it is another Arian bias placed on the robotic head irrespectively the original face features from the original human body. The face skin was no more than an artificial build of synthetic fabric that serve more mainly to protect the cybernetic brain composed by a quantum computer (Eri had a prototype on their organic brain) which their contents was once transferred from the original human brain. This also gives to the cyborg am artificial resemblance to link to the partially forged human past to the new robotic body. The places where should be the ears and the troat was covered by permanent fixed electronic gadgets. Such wonderful marvel of engineering also requires several auxiliary computers (more like low powered system-on-chip micro-controllers) to bootstrap, monitor and control several functions.
Inside the robotic replacement of the torso, apart of the shielding and ballistic protection, it hosts an array of micro-controllers and batteries that make the robotic parts working. Exotic crafted crystals to channel magic energy was also placed inside the robotic body. Except some safety safeguards, all robotic parts should be commanded by the quantum core computer. In a nutshell it was a robot with an human soul from a dying body that was converted to a quantum computer code, which replicates the inner working of neurons.
"Without debut…", said the Nazi leader official, "These class of fully robotic soldiers that had a pure Aryan soul attached to them are my fine patronage!"
However for many Pro Heroes, Mercenaries and alike this extreme kind of cyborg was gone too far to be considered human. Pip Bernadotte who likes to cause nuisance both on enemy and allies also remarks, "Basically you are like the OCP scrooge who created the Robocop, although you even eliminate the human brain from the equation!", and make a weird smile, "Although I would never denied any reason to hire a cyborg to my team if I had the opportunity to do so..."
Aizawa was honestly angry with the Pip Bernadotte stance on cyborgs built to breakaway from the human factor and serve only to create unethical killing machines.
The teachers and mercenaries almost forgot to handle the hot-headed students like Kirishima, Kaminari, Bakugou or Todoroki that couldn't be worse!
"Those guys are basically robots with some weirdness!", said Kaminari before uses and abused their electrification quirk, "Unlimited Discharge!"
"They can't speak Japanese and treat us like imbeciles ?! Enough bullshit!", Katsuki unleashes a full assault self-propelled by explosions, "Howitzer Impact!"
"Robots are very vulnerable to shock and higher variation of temperature!", Todoroki applies their signature fire and ice quirk attack, "Freezeheating Wave!"
"And I end this quickly with a slam!", said Kirishima while endures and slams with their body against the cyborgs.
The knight cyborgs immediately switch to the combat mode, processing their threat at least ten to twenty thousand times quicker than an human, although still need a tenth of second to their robotic body react to the threat. The auxiliary computers activates to unlock the extra processing power of the main quantum computer that emulates the human brain, which was built using parts of the original human brain as a template, to coordinate the counter-attack.
Using quantum entanglement wireless broadcast, the cyborgs could relay part of their conscience and data commands to other robots operated by a normal AI, like the robotic armored Panzerhund that resembles more a tiger than a dog in size, or the sedan car sized mech Wachroboter carrying dual laser and plasma rifles. The use of such exotic transmission mode was due to the extreme difficulty to hack quantum encryption, which can also carry extreme quantities of information.
The auxiliary robots deflect part of the first wave attack of the quirked students, while the main cyborg deploys their secondary weapon, which creates a giant oval shaped plasma shield a littler wider than the body itself. Like the plasma blade sword are activated by morphing the robotic hand from a mechanical analogy of the human hand, the left hand transform to a short hammer that powers the shield. Also both right hands can couple to a pair of Überlasergewehr (heavy plasma rifles) that are placed sideways from the cyborg main torso, and retrieved as will. The shield deflects either the Shoto cryokinetic attack or the explosive Katsuki self-made mortar. Both boys was then smashed to the ground as the cyborgs rams with the shield while travels to highers speeds by applying magnetic repulsion from their mechanical feet using at first magnets and then some weird rune magic which permits to slide and glide the body a few millimeters from the ground.
The sacrificial mechs and dummy robots also gives precious seconds to the Übersoldatens activate their magic from gems with runic powers that was embedded inside the robotic armor composed by a mithril alloy, "Uralte Täuschungen ketzerischer Seelen liegen über verräterischen Dämonen. Ich werde meinem Herrn nachjagen, um meine Feinde zu bestrafen! Gewähre mir das Reinigungsritual, um die Besessenen zu töten und das Heilige Land zu reinigen!", which creates a magic field that expand explosively up to 50 meters or more, "SINBREED!"
Once cast the runic powered magic, it disable all quirks effects and activations, render all quirk users virtually quirkless. This was another version of anti-quirk magic that hits a genetic flaw of all quirk factors that makes such spell very effective. From the hot-headed attack to the quirk nullification, the quantum powered cyborgs only needed 1.5 seconds to activate their plasma swords and shields, and more 11 seconds to cast the Sinbreed magic spell.
Before the bewildered humans could ever acknowledge that their powers was screwed up, both cyborgs switch their sword and shield to mount the dual wield laser rifles, and start firing at will.
In a couple of seconds half of US Marines was killed with an inhuman precision. Since they was blocking the quirked students and teachers, they could duck when the line collapsed. It was the precise moment when about more than a full kilometer away Izuku was detonated the chimeric monster that Chisaki Kai was turned into. The explosion that followed breaks the doomed battle, as the shockwave and debris breaks the combat readiness of the cyborgs. Some damaged buildings and metallic truss falls miraculously to cut the line of sight from the enemy. Also some random explosions caused by the detonation pf ammunition crates scattered around the chaos help to everyone retreat to the three VTOLS in less than forty seconds, and take off a minute later.
"Everyone! Embark immediately!", in the end the teachers, who was replying the military orders, ended defeated and frustrated, "Retreat!..."
"What kind of miracle was that ?!", Aizawa was the few that break the state of apoplexy shock.
"The giant monster that Chisaki Kai had transformed, had exploded… Dark Schneider finally defeat them…", said Pip Bernadotte.
The enemy cyborgs quickly evacuate the site once the chaos settled, knowing that the whole presence was more a terrifying warning that anyone who dare to fight them would be eliminated swiftly.
It would take several hours to wear off the effects of Sibreed, including the use of advanced healing magic to break the supernatural curse.
The Final Boss
When the possessed cybernetic body of Chisaki Kai exploded due to a catastrophic chain reaction delivered by the activation of the Accused powerful curse, the shockwave was powerful enough to demolish derelicts and blasts glass and pipes up to three kilometers from the center of detonation.
Izuku managed to cast with the fainted magic vitality the Raven to fly away, and to be more easily propelled away from the blast. The assault helicopter Argent N'Dur managed to survive the impact by a clever use of the magic reactor weaponry to make a swift shield that absorb enough impact to avoid to lose control and crashing down.
The explosion caused enough havoc to the surviving Raptor Team members that was not slaughtered by the formidable Übersoldaten carrying the students and teachers and fly away from the danger. In reality, it was a consent given tactical retreat to intimidate further attacks against the Millennium Army. They spare the humans at the moment before they change minds.
The elder vampire Silver Fang set the helicopter at auto-pilot and then use one of their signature martial arts to propel straight to catch Izuku at mid-air, and then reverse the course by jumping from anything that resemble a flat floor to return back the helicopter. Later the elder vampire would promise to be more severe against youngsters that love stunts without thinking the risks.
"For God's sake, Dark Schneider!", Silver Fang gives a severe reprimand, "Why you choose to cast a very short range magic spell, ignoring the fact that you couldn't had time to flee?"
"Damn it!…", Izuku have a sudden frail, due to the stamina burn , blood hunger and severe headache.
"Either way, drink this!", at least the older vampire deliver a fresh supply of blood to Izuku, which instinctively bite the bag with their fangs and drained as fast he could blink.
"Everyone managed to escape ?"
"Fortunately, yes!", as the older vampire display a rare image of the new Führungsschicht Ritterzerstörer Übersoldaten, "But due to this cyborgs, the Americans suffer some causalities…"
"What a nice day! I started the day with Witcher, then a little Black Mesa at evening, and to avoid bias a sneak peak of Diablo, just to end with Doom and Wolfenstein…", the green haired vampire who was trying to disassemble from the damaged DKL-01, was sighed with frustration.
"Don't overdue with idiotic comparatives!", ending talking for now.
Silver Fang was a little annoyed by the teenager vampire to compare the whole crisis with their favorite video-games, but he notice that a partial mechanized cyborg was also taken by the digital photograph, and the onboard computer software find a match on the database.
"This person… Oberstgruppenführer LotharBrandt was missing several years only to find that was turned into a cyborg…", the older vampire mumbles while search any data related to him, "And he had the help of some vampire officials from the Millennium Army to build together the full mechanical cyborgs…", and also notice a side note, "That person are also implied with the incident of kidnapped young vampires at the past evening of the Yuuei Sports Festival, since the deceased ringleaders and that bastard both talk about the Curse of Demon Mara as the cause of quirks… Basically the whole incident was made by malicious proposes only to drag Dark Schneider to the fray..."
The four air vessels (the VTOL and the combat helicopter) swiftly reached higher altitude to escape from the razed Numata, a couple of minutes before the SDF and US Navy joint army delivers more missile and artillery strikes. The ground forces only enter the city at early morning just to discover a re-enactment of a bloody war that resemble the worst urban battles during WW2 or more modern eras. Nevertheless the raid causes a national crisis that wrecks the super-powered society. Many citizens start to questioning about the failure of super-powered Heroes to avoid a modern war of extermination that caused about 20 thousand deaths and the equal amount of wounded.
The martial law was only lifted three days later, once the minimum work of cleaning hostile remains was done, and the country restart their economic activity. Still the SDF was either ruthless or more softly to repress villainy that was causing havoc around some major urban towns, ending some of them liquidated during live firing, or the majority that was mass arrested.
Some weeks after the crisis, Pip Berdanotte would protest about the soft approach by Pro Heroes and Police Force against the riots caused by villains and alike, since no military dispatched to quell the rebels or aid the police was ever considered to apply capital penalty by firing squad. Such suggestion was rejected ab initio due to the risks to the politicians and criminal protegees rebel against the government.
However the Yuuei High School, the Fudanbashi Military Headquarters and the Numata would be placed under military control about a full month to make the investigations.
Few hours earlier than the morning of reckoning, Izuku was fasting the blood meal while everyone was flying in route to the US Navy carrier moored some nautical miles from the Japanese coast, as demanded by the military before they could discharge them.
However, once they had 20 minutes past flight from the horrors of Numata, a giant flying specter that resemble a gigantic (about 30 meters high) Shinigami with a scythe and a dark blue tunic that covers unlimited darkness appears straight against the vessels.
"WTF is that thing ?!", someone swears at the common intercom shared between four vessels.
"Dark Schneider…", Silver Fang order him, "Reassemble the DKL-01 and prepare for battle!"
"Great! We are all going again!", said an annoyed Izuku.
The Shinigami strike first the three US Navy VTOL, which their body contracts a little to summon more than ten meters in front of him a swarm of blue spheres of spectral energy, that are thrown against the targets. Quickly the Argent D'Nur fire the magic cannons to destroy the majority of blue spheres, although one or two hit one VTOL causing some damage on the hull.
The untouched VTOL fire their missiles which don't affect the specter, as any physical object simply permeates the Shinigami without affecting it.
The specter changed their strategy was it swings their scythe to deliver a white heavy bolt of condensed spectral energy at higher speeds. Luckily the VTOL managed to dodge with an dangerous dive that managed to recover several seconds later.
Once Izuku secures with the harnesses to the helicopter cargo area, Silver Fang opens the rear lock door, and set Izuku to face the enemy, "Specters and ghosts are the worst kind of things to fight..."
Izuku quickly notice that the Shinigami body had a distasteful skull inside the body that was barely covered by the tunic resemble the former Chisaki Kai face. The powerful Archville spell from Abigail had a last resource curse.
Once the Shinigami sense Izuku, the skull wails with reverberated sound waves capable to destroy metal structures, a dangerous threat that the Argent D'Nur had magical and alchemical protections against it as long the battle don't prolong too much, or the accumulated strain will cause a catastrophic rupture.
Suddenly the wail was reverberated to extreme levels, releasing a focused pressure wave filled with spectral energy that was fired against Izuku's view line. The elder vampire divert violently to the right side, avoiding little the direct impact of this kind of acoustic laser which hit some random hill that explode in pieces.
Although Izuku don't like the sophisticated onboard computer that powers the DKL-01, he recovered a digital fac-simile of their own Grimoire and their shared notes with Sakura-sensei about specters. It said that specters are immune to many magical and physical attacks, let alone quirks.
Few dark magic spells are effective, but he will need the magical empowerment of the DKL-01 to use them, "That's funny that I already use one of those forbidden spells, but I never take seriously that some spells had alternative incantations formulas to empower the darkness catalyst."
"If you had some spells at your arsenal, use them!", Silver Fang was listening Izuku mumbling, "Argent N'Dur may be tough, but it had a short limit against the worst supernatural begins."
The Shinigami repeat the spheres and the scythe attack, where a single one makes a direct hit against the rotors, although the runic magical barrier deflect the major part of energy, "Dark Schneider, the runic barrier that protects the main propulsion engine was destroyed!… A second hit are the end of the flight!"
"Damn it…", Izuku grits his fangs and he notice that Yuuei first days, he was trying to create a new spell, but the incantation formula was not good to sync with the ancient demon soul catalyst.
Then Izuku had a rare moment of epiphany when he sense the faint specter lines that resemble the ki and that forgotten and unfinished spell could cause damage to the Shinigami, "Leather! Lou! Ozzy!… The three ancient apostles that laid the forbidden seals of the Three Heads of Cerberus!… I release yourself free from eternal suffering decried bythis cursed forgotten pact!", which a silver coating ball of dark energy was crafted at front of the caster, "Oh!… Ancient Demon that laid the Eternal Judgment of Hell, carrier of the Unleashed Absolute Punishment!", then the magic ball are thrown straight against the central skull, morphing to a storm of metal, "That shall Cast the Burning Metal Hellstorm from the Forbidden Level of Underground, where the Great Carrier of the Ultimate Plague reborn!…", which once Izuku yell the last incantation phrase of spell the dark magic metallic storm shatters the Shinigami's body, "All mine enemies shall repent that nobody will save them!", while Izuku wails, "METALLICA!"
The specter scream with agony, releasing a swarm of ghostly lost souls, and a increasing weaker acoustic wave attack. When the VTOLS fires again with their missiles, at least few of them could explode and cause damage, a sign that Metallica breaks the specter invulnerability.
Silver Fang also decides to fire the magical cannons, hoping that could cause more damage. And since the specter still flying at high speeds, any escape movement to leave it alone was not possible.
The cape still provide an absurd level de protection, since it absorbs all elemental magic delivered by the Argent D'Nur.
After two hellish minutes of helicopter gunship battle, the specter swing their scythe again with greater force that make slight damage of the VTOL frames even if dodged at the right moment.
"It appears that Mettalica spell acted to break the source of dark energy that empowers their invulnerability… If this happened, then I will curse the specter by tweaking that spell…"
"If you know how to weaken that abomination… You need to act now!"
Izuku casts the second forgotten ancient spell against the spectral body partially covered by a untouchable cape, "My Trustful Demon Servants under my Rule, I release your duties under your Cursed Ancient Pact!… Release my grief that lurk on my Soul!", which Izuku creates a magical domain capable to weaken many quirks and supernatural beyond the rational beings, "Sages of the Number of the Beast, be Eternally Pleased under my Forbidden Contract, and Curse my enemy's Blood, Flesh, Bones, Skills and Iron!", then a giant swarm of reddish needles of made from the vampire's cursed blood unleashes against the spectral body, "Under Your Guidance, I swear my Honor and lend your Will to punish the Enemy!", that causes a catastrophic collapse of their form, "IRON MAIDEN!"
Once the Shinigami was hit by Iron Maiden the entire specter reverberate chaotically, throwing all spectral energy spheres at random places, which means that was lost their capability to lock precise targets, but it was more dangerous due to the sudden storm of blue spheres that made a festival of explosions and destruction.
Izuku had to switch to another spell that should destroy the aberration for good, since the first two destroy their unnatural defenses.
"Dark Schneider!… Beware the sonic cannon!", Silver Fang was alarmed when an unstable version of the acoustic wave attack was suddenly fired by an agonized cracked flying skull made a direct hit against the Argent D'Nur , which even with some magic barriers, caused severe damage and partial electronic failures on the avionics. If the specter was not weakened with powerful spells, the impact still couldn't explode the helicopter, but certainly it would crash on the ground after been hit.
Once recovered from the sudden attack, courtesy of the DKL-01 armor, Izuku could cast another forbidden spell that was even used earlier today under the railway yard bunker, "Gran!… Kene!… Hill!.. Halford!… I summon my four giant servant demons!…", which the collapsing Shinigami are confined by a magic field created by four perpendicular magic circles which start to compress the target, "Now, cackle and bray your utter agony and hatred!…", and start to heating and compress until reaches temperatures of several millions degrees and pressures over thousands of gigapascals, "Rise of Mega Atomic Destruction!…", which should destroy the Shinigami at the atomic level, "JUDAS PRIEST!"
Once the Judas Priest make the Shinigami collapse and explode with a violent detonation comparable to a nuclear bomb, the vessels barely could stand the shockwave, but everything who was outside on the ground around the explosion was been killed at that moment.
"It was killed for good ?", Silver Fang asks, before he notices that wasn't, "WTF! How such thing survived such explosion ?!"
"It was damaged, but not vaporized !", Izuku was also astonished and worried, "This means that specters are not made by atoms ?!", since even it the help of DKL-01 and the last blood meal, he barely had magic vitality to cast another powerful spell, "Now I need to find a last try or else…"
This time the Shinigami contracts to summon a giant and unstable swarms of blue spheres, just in time before sway their scythe several times to thrown white bolts along the spheres. It was too numerous to be dodged safely, since much of magic barriers was damaged.
Izuku decide to cast the most unknown spell buried by several pieces of palimpsest that made their Grimoire, and since it was also digitalized it helps to remember, "Ancient Saint of Eternal Sin, the Great Priest Coverdale!", which start the incantation by extend their arms with their hands curved, then Izuku twist the arms with the hands following this movement, like two snakes trying to bite their partner tail, "With Unforgivable Sins and Reckoning Hatred, I make a requiemof my buried Pact!", which create the magic projection of two bitting snakes that flown from the caster to the Shinigami's skull, creating a powerful Ouroboros seal, "Upon my pledge of damnation, I command the Carrier of Vice to strike my enemy!", and once activated will drain the grief that fuels the Shinimagi, "WHITESNAKE!"
Finally after four forbidden spells in a row the Shinigami explodes and was defeated for good, unleashing an absurd pillar or white light straight to the sky and shaking the earth that last almost a minute. For Izuku and everyone it was a moment of relief, and he fells a sudden malaise due to the extreme magic energy depletion. Still was needed more 30 minutes of nervous flight to all damaged vessels land on the USS Enterprise.
This act marks the moment when the dangerous rescue of an entire Pro Hero in training Classes was completed, but they won't return to land until three days later once the nationwide martial law was lifted. Also the first treatment was done inside the carrier medical installations.
Somewhere on Millennium Army Oberkommando (Venus)
When the spectral soul of Chisaki Kai was finally destroyed by the sequence of four forbidden spells, Metallica, Iron Maiden, Judas Prist, Whitesnakethe last grasp of the doomed soul resonates inside the hidden sanctuary where Anthrax rests, which was located under the Millennium Army Oberkommando. That place was the most restrictive basement of the Millennium Army, located on Lada Terra, one of three continents of planet Venus, although it was a hot planet with almost 500ºC and a crushing atmosphere with 9 megapascals. Using the Kurogiri quirk as a private transportation plot device (until a more technological one are more affordable), Shigaraki can travel to Venus and back to North Korea on Earth (or any place that Kurogiri pinpoint the places).
"That cyberpunk was finally defeated…", said Shigaraki inside their private cabin filled with several Nazi Swastika Flags, "But at least I known how to full awake the Anthrax once I could decode the four Ancient Magic Seals that was protected by Four Forbidden Spells…", then he sip some brandy before partly lost on their plans, "To complete the Anthrax deployment, I still need the Sonnengewehr and the Ausmerzer to made my real plan of attack work… Dark Schneider!…", as he smiles like a madman.
The final battle countdown are settled to detonate soon.
To be Continued...
Chapter 37: A Hi-Fi Fire Rush from the Outsider
Summary:
Once the Millennium Army raid ends with a sorrowful ending due to the civilian causalities, Izuku was now trapped within the military was he can now be conscripted for missions required by the Wild Geese , however he needed like others to to pass the Junior Heroic License Exam to perform civilian Pro Hero work. However the final mission will have the support from the Vandelay Technologies (the same corporation from Hi-fi Rush), that had the necessary technologies to perform an interplanetary spaceship, while he had a top position with robotics and cyborgs. Touya Todoroki was rescued from Vandelay and was used to create a custom cyborg called DAA-B1 Dabi which will have defective robotic musical powers blended with the original quirk.
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The Numata Aftermath
About a week after the lifting of the martial law, the National Security Agency that managed the Numata Crisis (as they called it) gives authorization to lift the censorship for the Yuuei School Board to broadcast to the Nation a public apology. The SDF and their allied military Wild Geese and other mercenary groups (which also form a military Hero Agency Group by the National Security Agency own criteria) maintained all buildings from Yuuei Hero School campus under military occupation.
Aizawa and Nezu was present for the public conference, but the older vampire quickly raise their eyebrows, and delivers an eye dart to their formal arch-nemesis, the infamous Pip Bernadotte that was also the former mentor of their problematic vampire student Izuku Midoriya.
Like many formal attires delivered by top brass, Pip Bernadotte was under protection of Bang and Gara, and ten military man with war yield machine guns. The duo was placed just a bit off the Pip Bernadotte seat, but the press was quickly overwhelmed with the circling presence of few dozen of soldiers carrying weapons.
"Why they promote a war criminal to the High Command ?!", Aizawa was gritting their elongated fangs, while All Might was sweating hoping that Aizawa's next outburst don't strangulate due to the fuming rage.
"Do you want tea ?", Nedzu politely asks while sips the third tea cup. The Yuuei Director was also making some tea more suitable to vampires with unacceptable blood lust.
"If I could smash a cup of tea straight on that bastard face..."
"It was one week ago that our Nation awaken in shock when a rogue army of unbelievable Nazis invaded and erase a peaceful rural town…", in the middle of the of the second row of seats, more reserved for the press sidekicks starts the television broadcast with an introductory note.
About a minute later, the interviewer shift their focus to Pip Bernadotte itself, which himself signals to the security apparatus to make the curious in check.
"Mister Vampire Pip Bernadotte, as a member of the National Security Agency, why this operation was so deadly…"
"Oh!", Pip Bernadotte slams hard with their hand to the table, "Starting with a nonsensical question!"
"Or better…", the interviewer quickly notice the blood lust and power grab emanated by the authoritarian vampire, "Why this operation ended with so much causalities, and an abnormal militaristic takeover of the Police and Pro Heroes ?"
"Oh!", Pip Bernadotte answers with an high pitched tone, "Do you think that a putative military operation from the enemy should be handled by The Circus Clowns ?"
"Since… when… I managed a circus ?", Aizawa lose their temper.
"Please, don't fall to this provocateur !", All Might pinches Aizawa hardly enough to avoid infighting.
"Nice try…", Pip Bernadotte sighs without remorse, "According to the National Security Agency that spearheads all Law Enforcement agencies, including civilian police and Heroes, when a great emergency hit out sovereign territory, additional protocols are activated, including the declaration of Martial Law and forced conscription to tackle the threat."
"Martial Law that curbstromp many civilians rights, and unnecessary causalities to civilians, and even Pro Heroes and Villains…", the interviewer was hoping to lead their position.
"Don't be so cocky!…", the older vampire was releasing a menacing aura, "When you face an enemy that only wants to murder and destroy en mass like an invasion of pirates, the military or at least my unit don't hesitate to massacre them until nothing left!"
"Pure mercenary greed!", someone at the rearrest rows, usually filled with guests, shouts angrily.
After a long minute of silence, an attorney read a full page of a note published by the civilian based Hero Security Association that managed all legal credentials of all Pro Hero Agencies on Japan, which was the transcription of a formal open letter to the media to protest the brutal quelling of common villainy by acts of summary execution, including the abuse of heavy military weaponry against quirked villains and criminals, by the SDF and many mercenaries.
"One of my complains was the absence of a mandate to all mercenaries and regular military to carry out military arrests and lawful executions by firing squad! Some of them carry that practice by misinterpretation of the Higher Command… It was necessary to punish those unruly rebels!"
"Specially when you menace to kill one of my students!", Aizawa raise from the chair, and wails.
"My orders was given by Higher Command to quell and use all military powerfulness to destroy the invaders. It also override the Pro Heroes authority to handle the surge of criminal opportunistic activity. Many was arrested, many was killed, and honestly it was clearly needed. More than 30 thousand died during the Nazi based Millennium Army invasion, and you waste my reasoning about some cocky criminals ?!"
The audience ended with a chaotic exchange of insults and menaces, until the military men orders the press to cool down, under threat of expulsion.
"According to some rare survivors, much of destruction was made by horrible machinations and a younger vampire dressed with an absurd military gear…", other interviewer asks once they notice that many of them skip the questions.
"Such information are highly classified material. No questions!"
"Sorry but some newspapers has published a photo of this incident!"
With a snap of fingers, the giant monitor flashes and shows the young vampire with the fully equipped DKL-01 and the SDF-666 super-weapon, hidden Izuku's identity. All details that are confidential are obviously non labeled. Just to put distress or joking the audience, Pip Berdanotte uses the Doom Eternal soundtrack.
This idiotic show happens with the green haired vampire seat down just at the left side of Aizawa, "God! It's Doom Eternal all over again!"
Pip Bernadotte which already signed Izuku Midoriya as a plain member of the Wild Geese where also received the military rank of Sergeant and Specialist for the Military Mage 1st Unit. A common requisite for external hiring. Pip Bernadotte was now promoted to Brigadier General while much of close trusted vampires was Lieutenant or Captain.
Basically Izuku was now a mercenary with a formal obligation to fight along the SDF military forces when requested by military (in practice by Pip Bernadotte or the NSA). Until he reaches the vampire maturity (18 years), he have legal limitations that reduce the obligatory of mobilization during crisis. The green haired vampire now had the formal privilege to carry military weaponry and request all Japanese Military Branches to carry their mission, as long their superiors approve.
Izuku will learn that military heroics are too blended to the military regulations and hierarchy, and also only under crisis of great severity he was authorized to use their military privileges.
"At least they are sane…", Izuku sighed to an worried Aizawa, "If a vulgar burglar villain assault a supermarket, I wouldn't request the SDF to carpet bomb the supermarket and their surroundings…"
"Do not make any remarks!", Aizawa mumbles to Izuku.
However Izuku needed a civilian credential to perform Pro Hero regular stuff on civilian patrols. Their colleges like him will soon participate the Junior Heroic Credential Exam which enables them to perform legally Law Enforcement as Pro Heroes. The license for Junior Heroes normally expires after 12 to 18 months, and normally was open for students of second or third years of any Pro Hero High Schools. First Years students was discouraged, but it was an honor for Yuuei to regularly invite first years students to assign the Exam. Izuku and their colleges was no exception.
A week ago, on the USS Enterprise
The chaotic battle ended only when the VTOLS and the Argent D'Nur landed with great distress the main runway of the USS Enterprise an old US Navy super-carrier that was built in late 21st century, and now serving the chaotic quirked world of 22nd century.
Many of students from Yuuei was in state of shock and relief that could be rescued alive from the terrible hell that occur hours earlier. And most shocking was the whole military apparatus that roam swiftly to handle the crisis.
"Finally… I could remove that damned thing!…", Izuku was angry when he could disassemble the modded DKL-01, which it will be taken away to the SDF for security guaranties.
"Mister Midoriya ?", an official of the SDF enter the private room, and make a formal salute that Izuku replied as intended, "Congratulations! Your deeds to fatherland was blessed by the National Security Agency!"
"Great!", Izuku opens the sealed letter and notice the military badges and insignia, "I just gained a formal military rank of Sergeant and also I now part of the Military Mages 1st Unit ?!"
"A guest officer promoted to Sergeant!", the officer explains, "Some legal limitations are explained on the letter, but are useless if the Millennium Army decide to strike again. You are now a legal military kind of Pro Hero, but you need to finish your regular studies to carry normal Pro Heroic activity..."
The younger vampire also notice that when he perform civilian Heroic activities, even the basic costume that represent the Yuuei are mandated to place the Military Group insignia (the Wild Geese and the Military Mages) on the shoulder and just bellow it the military rank strip.
In practice it will take some years before joining the Wild Geese at regular basis, but if he promoted to Captain, he can create a new vampire military heroic unit, "Which I hope to be better morally!"
A few minutes later he dresses the Geralt based costume, but now with the new insignia, just to be called by another officer with an higher patent that him, "Sergeant Midoriya ?"
"Sir… I prefer the Geralt nickname, but that's okay!"
"You are now a member of our military, don't waste your pride…"
"Anyway… What's the problem ?"
"The Medical Team has requested to heal your teammates from an anti-quirk spell, you can help us ?"
"I'm just tried to recover from a powerful healing spell that cause be break down my magical powerfulness, but I will need about a day to prepare correctly!"
"No real problem! You will stay along your colleges up to three days, and luckily the Martial Law will be lifted…"
Izuku had to overcharged the Witcher Signs with the Motorhead and Fleshgod Apocalypse before he could cast the wonderful and painful Silver Mountain spell for 44 humans (vampire Aizawa was not needed at all), including some survivors of the Hero Training Camp.
A day later of infirmary was enough for the students to recover, but either Bakugou or Todoroki was mesmerized with the new patches attached to Midoriya's costume.
"Midoriya ?!", said Shouta, "Deku! WTF is this thing ?!", Katsuki swears.
"I gain a mandatory military rank on my official costume!", Izuku deadpans with the fangs dropped, "Now I should be treated as Sergeant! A technician sergeant of the Military Mage 1st Unit battalion which are now the legal name of the sidekicks that yields the Wild Geese !"
"Sergeant Midoriya ?!", All Might was partially hidden but overshoot loudly with the conversation, "You never had a chance to gain an Heroic Rank, but now you have a Military Rank ?"
"What's the legal problem ?", some student asks.
"Legally Pro Heroes that work within the military are ineligible to hold popular ranks, as their work are protected by the military law, and classified.", Aizawa explains with a grudging voice tone, "Still the vampires are barred to hold popular ranks, but it is too brutal to deny Midoriya a normal Pro Hero work, as he are under the clause to be conscripted for dangerous missions when requested!"
"God…", Izuku sighed.
"However Pip Bernadotte are the worst scum on Earth!", Aizawa outbursts, "He orders you to fight an insane army of creatures and monsters, and while you have some special weapons, I notice from the report that you had to scaravage any munitions and armament to fight against them all alone!"
"Except some help of some direct members of the Wild Geese, it was like playing the full modded game of Doom Eternal like it was the ancient Doom Plutonia… It was to kill fast or die faster!"
"Please! It is criminal to be subject of a daydream of Wolfenstein and Quake fanatics! Our mission is not to fight against military enemies, or forcing the Pro Heroes to be conscripted to fight them!"
"And now with this promotion!"
"Yuuei cannot forbid you to join special military operations… which enrages me!"
"And I bet that a third are made under our noses, since they want to destroy the Anthrax for good."
Few seconds later a new random officer enters the infirmary and delivered a letter to Izuku, which he opens and reads the contents once the office leaves, "Speaking the devil, that's a direct order from the National Security Agency to Sergeant Izuku, which now treat me formally, to be ready to fight for a new mission that should be carried within a couple of months!… At least until four months!"
"Just unbelievable!", someone shouts.
"The contents are confidential, and everyone here should not comment outside…", and Izuku was perplexed, "It says that the next Junior Heroic Credential Exams for civilians Pro Heroes, which I wanted and everyone also, will be managed by the Vandelay Technologies…"
"Vandelay ?!", Aizawa overacts, "Why a bizarre company that makes robots, and more recently involved with cybernetics like the Nazis enemies we faced, wants to do with Heroics Licensing ?!"
"The public manifesto is they created a Pro Hero School for cyborgs!", Izuku darts an eyebrow, "I read yesterday that Vandelay managed to relax some laws on cybernetic implants that could open the doors for the quirkless be modded to use robotic parts!", then he notices something weird, "And one of their top scientists managed to replicate an ancient defective musical powered robotic parts to create different kind of cyborgs with such propriety, which was now officially called cyber-quirks!"
"This craziness are driving our Heroic world to a cyberpunk one! It only last the all powerful Mega-Corporations to do the Evil and Legit Things !"
"The real motive are the Vandelay been excel on aerospace industry… And also found the real location of Anthrax and the Millennium Army Oberkommando."
"Why they love to use Germanic words for those villains ?!"
"An array of radars and telescopes was pin pointed the presence of a massive military base on… Planet Venus!…"
"WWWHHHAAAAATTTTTTT ?!", everyone was shocked, "HOW managed to make an interplanetary move of heavy equipment to an hostile planet ?!"
"Quirks, cybernetics and aeronautics together, perhaps ?"
"Now I really WORRIED!… That insanely bastard want YOU to travel to Venus, with the help of some secret Vandelay technology, and storm a Nazi military base… without the involvement of all armies from the world!"
"It also says that the Exams will be held on Shikoku where the Japanese Campus of Vandelay are located…"
Izuku then tear apart the letter as mandated by the rules, hoping that this order are not a suicide mission like the last one he had to face.
Vandelay Technologies, Japanese Campus
Due to the damage done on Numata and Yuuei, a giant corporation requested and won the public concession for the Junior Heroic Credential Exam that was done earlier years by companies that make gadgets for Pro Heroes, or when the Hero Security Association directly handled it. The Vandeley Technologies was a multinational which their economical and social practices resemble the cliched cyberpunk themed mega-corporation.
The company funded by Roxanne Vandeley about a century ago on United Kingdom have actually their main installations on a small island in the middle of Pacific, but their fiscal headquarters was on Singapore. About five years ago, they installed a smaller scale of the Pacific Campus on the Japanese island of Shikoku. With a local permanent place, they are eligible to take the public concession to manage the Pro Hero Exams.
Vandelay major expertise was robotics, and more recently with a second generation Armstrong Project (about half a century from the first incarnation) they mastered the cybernetic implants to humans, including cyborgs. This company also managed to reverse engineering some of the Millennium Army cybernetic technology, which given to him a much wider presence on Japanese politics. The recent crisis also help them to lift much of legal constrains to the cyborg making become more widespread, but still with mandated restrictions.
Other of their expertise was the aeronautics, including rockets and spaceships, why managed to restart an neglected industry that was underfunded even before the resurgence of quirks, and seized an almost monopoly, only breached by the United States NASA and European ESA.
The cyborgs making unit (located inside the R&D building) by Vandelay was managed by the son of a former guitarist nicknamed Chai which was also one of volunteers of the first generation Armstrong Project. When Chai the Newborn (also known as Chai II) menage to replicate the accident that gives to the original Chai defective musical robotic powers, he created the cyber-quirks. While the organic genetic based quirks becomes widespread during a full century, the Chai II used orphans and some volunters from Japan and nearest places that was quirkless or with weaker common quirks as experimental subjects.
This borderline illegal research was done on the Pacific Campus, and it takes only a breakthrough ten years before the Numata Crisis. Meanwhile, about four years ago, a Pro Hero High School for the Vandelay made cyborgs from orphans and volunteers of the second generation Project Armstrong was created. Finally after four of those long years, the first batch of cyborgs was ready to take the Junior Hero Exam.
"It appears that DAA-B1, nicknamed Dabi, are stable enough to participate the final cyber-checks to be assignable for the Licensing Exam!", a being half robot, half human walks to the medical yard, "This poor burned former teenager endure the most extreme robotic implants."
"Their level of cyberfication are around 95%, with artificial organs and a synthetic cyber-brain.", a taller white robot called CMNM-6 answers to Chai II, "Compared to the older CEO Kale, which still have much of their organs, this kind of cyborg are too novel."
"I hope he can fell the beat, the quintessential foundation of the cyber-quirks..."
"Still why you don't inserted the Armstrong Chips to program their techniques ?"
"Don't be awkward, CNMN-6… Dabi should consciously choose how to equip… Don't forget that he must listen to the beat…"
"He was so damaged, that was only be able participate the theoretical classes inside the Vandelay AR System…", CNMN-6 had a slight break, "Which was made by Zanzo many years ago…"
"Apart of some calibration process, he was never fused their consciousness to the robotic body until now…"
"However I will put some standard Armstrong Chips to help him synchronize their cybernetic mind to their own robotic body."
"Either way, he appears that the organic quirk was based on pyrokinesis… And the persevered tissue on the phenol container mixed with the our hard to manufacture Vandelay chips managed to reactivate the original pyrokinesis quirk…"
"When one of our survey drones found him about ten years ago critically burned, it was a miracle that he managed to rescue still alive…"
"That's why you personally choose as one of 25 enhanced cyborgs that take part of your Pro Hero School ?"
"More recently I discover that the rare organic remaining cells had their DNA signature match the Todoroki family, much probably a lost son of the infamous Endeavour…"
When Dabi was released from the cyber-surgery chamber the whole environment start to reverberate to the strongest beat that Chai II witness.
Except the face made with synthetic white hair, eyes, nose, mouth and skin, except some metallic attachments that make some kind of cyberpunk fashion, the Dabi body was covered by a strong metallic armor with a beautiful light red color with some blue lines. The armor could open along the torso to expose the internal mechanisms. A circle feature within the chest was a kind of music player (to replicate the original Chai's design) was connected to audio cables, making the source of the defective musical robotic powers that makes the cyber-quirk work, as Chai names that.
A complex matrix of phenol persevered spine and brain cells with cybernetic quantum circuits made an artificial brain and spine, called the cyber-brain, which was also extended by conventional processors and memory that fills more than half of the mechanical torso volume, shielded by at least four layers of protection. A bio-fuel compost and batteries powers the robotic parts and the cyber-brain needed to synchronize with the former human memories.
The arms and legs are simply robotic parts which also store a junk guitar that should synchronize with the musical powers, and luckily with the organic quirk that Dabi had.
"Not again…", Dabi talks a little dazed, and speaks using an internal microphone since the original vocal chords don't exist anymore, "One a minute… Why I now awake… ?"
"Welcome to Vandelay… DAA-B1!… Also known as Dabi, or Touya Todoroki ?", answers Chai II.
"What! Who's Todoroki ?!", he was mesmerized with the pop-up HUD that mashes with the external vision, "I remember that I use my quirk and burn… Then I was learning something weird inside a mishmash non-nonsensical classroom…", then when he notice that was a full armored robot, "Why I have robotic arms, and legs, and why is my body like that ?!"
"I expecting some kind of cyber-psychosis, not this panic attack!", said CNMN-6.
"One a minute! Why this building are made for lunatics! Spare parts scattered everywhere, robots of nonsensical shape roaming around, and everyone had robotic parts ?!"
"I'm CNMM-6, an abbreviate of Consciousness Review Allocation Personnel, model 6, a fully operated robot with a program for psycology assistance…"
Dabi was dumbfound, "It is not CRAP ?!"
"You boy, you hit the spot, unlike the original Chai, which around me are their son!"
"But the most important thing…", he was in state of shock due to their insane level of mechanization, "What's done to me, and where's the Heroes, and more important… Where I am ?!"
"We are on the Shikoku island of Japan, a satellite site of Vandelay Technologies that operate on a small Pacific island… We rescue you badly burned, and before you organically die, he manage to make a cybernetician process to recover your brain and place automatically to a cyborg project that are handled by the New Armstrong Project !", when Chai II ends their explanation, all robots bursts to launch fireworks and other unfolds planks with the Project Armstrong figurines etched on it.
A security robot called SBR-001 intervenes, "The most ambitious cyborg ever made by Vandeley finally awakes, but I expected more excitement!", as he unfolds the sword and releases a strong strike against the middle of torso armor, reverberate the musical core.
Dabi lose their equilibrium and feels that everything around him was pulsating. When he falls, but uses their robotic legs and arms to reduce the impact, he accidentally touches a black robotic cat that was humming the Nine Inch Nails discography while roaming around.
The sudden contact with a musical rhythm played by the robotic cat, while shape-shifts to a sphere, synchronizes with the musical core from the cyborg Dabi. Ten seconds later, after a psychotic leverage of encircling colored patters, they achieve a full synchronization status, gaining a robotic partner that was mandated by some weird law of Vandelay, and later accepted by Japanese Government to the cyborgs carrying a robotic pet for some hidden nonsensical security requirements. And just to add more comical embarrassment, two artificial cat ears pops from the artificial hair, and an hidden fluffy artificial white cat tail about a meter size sprouts. The tail hidden the fact that are made with a strong material that can be used like a whip.
The tail can be retracted and placed under the body armor plates.
Both robots just meowed with a hard rock accent, "Nyah!"
Chai II was never so happy and jealous with this defective incident, "CNMN-6, call the Security!"
"Oh my! A great cyber-quirk was made successfully!", the white robot quickly requested Security robots to make a test.
During the long minute that about 100 robots of lower yield roamed around Dabi, he was also deployed two catching stick for each robotic arm which magnetically catch fill spare gears and junk to form a dual yield guitars that was reverberating and synchronize with the spherical robotic cat red pulse that was fluctuating around Dabi's head.
"What kind of test ?!", and then he try to blush, made possible with the cybernetic wonders of artificial skin, when saw to some grass fragment scattered around the floor, "And why I had cat ears ?!"
"Get him!", a SBR-001 model robot orders their mates to fight against Dabi.
"Fight!", Chai II shouts while their cyborg form exchanges to a kind of silly spectator.
Dabi quickly learn how to sync with the beat, while use one or both guitar to slay a robot. Then a hint was broadcast directly to their cyber-brain and visualized by the HUD, to count regularly to four and more, and to strike heavy at sixth beat in order to deliver a more damaging strike, which was a Beat Hit. Those basic technics was stored on special hardened circuits that can only be accessed by the cyborg quantum circuitry, which are the Armstrong Chips.
It takes about five minutes to waste the robots, but Vandelay can manufacture more to replace and clone the Artificial Intelligence firmware to the new ones.
Chai II was a little disappointing, "Dabi! It was barely a Rank-B classification! You need to feel the beat around you and use the 919 Cat to help you to find the best beat!"
"919 from Nine Inch Nails ?!", Dabi asks since any music he was gaining traction was musical sketches from that band.
"Close your eyes and try to focus at one chorus of The Perfect Drug, and then release your energy!", CNMN-6 suggest to him.
"The guitars are catching fire! Their organic quirk based on pyrokinesis are reverberating with the beat.", Chai II was more excited, "Fight!"
This time some heavy robots joining the mock battle, requiring more strikes to damage them and tear them down. Dabi takes some time to master the fire emanated by the artificial device that enables him to use the original quirk when he was a teenager human, about ten years ago.
Chai II orders to repeat the same kind of test five times without much rest, until Dabi was capable to use a rhythmic chord to power up the fires that was whirring around the spinning guitars, and then unleash a tornado of fire followed by a swift guitars slash, where each phase was enhanced by a mandatory Beat Hit.
"Fire Tornado Chorus!", like the older persona, Dabi name his first but too complex Special Technic. The last spare Armstrong Chip recorded the custom code needed to help Dabi make the new technique more automatic.
"It was almost like Korsica!", Dabi II remembers the older Chief of Security that had their time during the first Project Armstrong era.
"It appears that he almost ready to train with their colleges", said CNMN-6, "however let's add one last test!"
"Still a Rank-B evaluation. He need to study and training!"
With a swiftly move, the ninja robot WA-ES-2 appears with four fast rattling swords due to some custom modification. This time Chai gives a verbal hint before starting the battle.
"This robot require you to parry with your guitar, otherwise you with suffer unnecessary damage!"
"What ?!", Dabi questions just in time to the samurai robot trying to slash with all swords.
After some damage taken, Dabi learn how to use the kind of precognition ability given by the cybernetic circuitry, a sparkling are displayed on the HUD from the enemy a fraction of second before a damaging attack are performed. Also attacking within the rhythm reduces Dabi's damage, and cause strain and confusion on the attacker.
After 10 minutes of trial and error, Dabi are capable to parry about a third of WA-ES-2 attacks.
Suddenly the samurai robot screeches, and make a comical pose that was a deceiving preparation for a strong chain of attacks. The HUD also alerts Dabi to be focused to a short parrying attack, while the musical powered cyber-quirk estimates the number of attacks.
Dabi only had up to three seconds to stare this event, as the samurai furiously strike hard against the damaged cyborg. Then a new hint pops up with two pairs of circles that was about to overlap in less than a second, while Dabi notice that the samurai had a temporary malfunction due to the parrying. When he activate the automatic attack from the Beat Hit code, he runs faster and deliver two successive and fully synchronized Beat Hits, as the second one displays only a fraction of second.
The WA-ES-2 suffers a stalling malfunction and almost explode with the rhythmic slash, but the test had finally over.
"Very nice!", Chai II gives to him a hug, "Almost a Rank-A result! But for now… The cafeteria!"
"Cafeteria ?", Dabi asks dumbfounded.
"You have a kind of compost device that transform old food to bio-fuel in order to recharge your electronic circuits!"
"Which is one of signature Vandelay powerfulness!", CNMN-6 answers with a marker made troll face.
With this short sequence of testing, the cyborg Dabi gain some techniques but still needed about six weeks of severe training to be able to join the Exam that happened at that day. It also learn how to use wisely the Armstrong Chips to manage the Special Techniques needed to work in combat.
"However I'm truly curious about the vampire nicknamed Dark Schneider and their Heavy Metal Named Spells, compared with our musical powered robots, which Dabi are akin with Hard Rock."
To be Continued...
Chapter 38: Welcome to the Vandelay Campus
Summary:
This interlude chapter makes the short version of the Provisional Hero License where in this alternative world are remade as Junior Pro Hero License with some changes, as they are intended to the students make some work on law enforcement as long a teacher or a tutor are present for legal reasons. This set of few chapters are intended to be a filler before the third and final arc begins at least.
Also the Yuuei wonders why need need a 8 hour travel by train to reach the Vandelay Campus to make an exam, just to learn that should be placed overnight before the exam begins, meaning that they was placed under military lockdown until 24 hours, barely in time to take the last train to Tokyo.
As a bonus, I made a even more extreme version of the maths mismanagements of Ectoplasm, leading Izuku no choice but to use Complex Analysis to solve the integrals.
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Time past since the unbelievable Millennium Army raid on mainland Japan and Izuku was barely friendly enough to return to the normal school activities. After all, he was scouted by the SDF to join a military based pro-hero company once the green haired vampire finishes their studies on Yuuei. However they need to graduate on Yuuei to perform regular Pro Hero duties, unless orders from the SDF wanted to conscript him to gear up for military grade missions.
In practice, Izuku would join the Wild Geese, or a subsidiary created just to avoid two major vampires share the same roof, to sign a contract for a Private Military Company disguised as Pro Hero Agency but with big guns.
Once the military occupation of Yuuei finally ended, school activities could resume at last. Time lapse helps healing the scars, but the younger vampire had acquainted blood lust and a menacing predatory aura that was too early for a young vampire.
The homeroom teacher decided to take more time to watch his potential troublemaker, but time was arrived for the next big step, since Aizawa announce early morning that next day, their own class and Vlad King ones will going to the Vandelay Campus during the entire weekend, to make the Junior Pro-Hero Assessment Test.
Deku joins Cauchy on Complex Plane
Once the older vampire professor finishes their duty, it was time for the maths class given by Ectoplasm, who has famous for their out-of-place difficult problems, but that day he screwed up very badly, "It may a little troublesome, but I think that this problems are fine to give fun or grief…"
"As usually…", someone sighed loudly, but Ectoplasm resumes the description of the five problems that should be the main focus of this full morning class.
All 20 pair of eyes started to bewildering since the first four integrals are improper ones, with their domain set to all positive values of the independent variable "x", which is a little tough for an high school student, but the integrals was all death traps.
"Ectoplasm is not well minded today, if ever was, this problem are not solvable by normal students, let alone the elite or third year students from Yuuei!", said Momo while slightly stand up from her chair, who was seen one of the best students on maths subjects.
"Why it is so difficult to solve… ?", the teacher gave a little annoying stance to the classroom, "Remember that I want my students to think outside the box, and this school need to excel…".
"Sorry, but…", she sighed as notices the leftmost integrals was defined as the ratio between hyperbolic functions. The issue that Momo was not very found to tackle the problem due to the fact that such first two integrals required to evaluate sinh(ax)/sinh(bx) and cosh(ax)/cosh(bx) for x higher than 0 and with real parameters "a" and "b".
"Hyperbolic my ass…", Bakugou grudges and grits heavily, "Since when two damn functions appears as divisors ?!", and refrain to speak loudly the last thought.
The green haired vampire, for which was slowly recover their more friendly aura, was first annoyed with the problems, but when stare a long minute over the next two integrals he got a moment of epiphany. Izuku was prone to write long notes using school campus notebooks, before he write the final versions to a computer. More recently he even uses LaTeX for many essays that had several mathematical formulas. At this particular setting he retrieve from his backpack the answer to all misery, "Just great! At least watching last month a bunch of old Youtube videos on Archive was not a waste after all…", a fresh thick notebook called My Notes on Youtube Mathematical Channels: Complex Analysis .
This bold move was done when notices that integral over the real positive axis with log(x) squared over a polynomial, more precisely log^2(x)/(x^4-1), should be done using the tools that Izuku takes notes, and the same with the integral of cos(x)sin(x)/cosh(x)sinh(x) within the same domain, along the previous ones.
"I don't even understand that horrible abomination!", Kaminari simply short-circuits using their quirk when faced the foe called integral of square root of 1-x^2 all divided by 1+x^2, but the integral was just between -1 to 1 with sqrt(1-x^2)/(1+x^2).
Momo decided to tackle that integral as she could try to use a trigonometric substitution, but Ectoplasm warns that, "Be careful that the final result is not zero!", making Momo wondering why.
Ectoplasm ended by adding an infinite sum of (-1)^n/(n^2+1) starting with n=0 and follow the terms until infinity, when all students begs for tips.
"Why he likes to make such bad prank ?!", Shoto was also annoyed with the absurdity of some questions. Even if postpones as later homework, he believes that all hyperbolic integrals was unsolvable, let alone with weird tricks that Ectoplasm was trying to force their students to figure out. Since this late additions was only premeditated, the teacher also added the integral of (sin(3x)+cos(2x))/(x^2+2x+3) for all real axis just to cause panic.
"Very well!", Ectoplasm defies all best students to answer, "I will give an hour to solve all seven problems! However I expect that halfway time at least one of you should answer at least some of them! You should learn from the tough students!"
At first glance Shoto and Momo tried to crack some integrals, but quickly fall into dead ends. Like Momo predicted she needed some clever tricks and substitutions that almost solve the logarithmic one. Later she tried to tackle the integral with a square root, but also the first try gives to her the answer been always zero, until she realizes that their first trigonometric substitution was not correct, and remade the problem.
But for many curious boys and girls the major bewilderment was the strange mood that Izuku gives when started to doodle, making circles and lines, while picks some notes from the thick notebook that he picks earlier from the backpack with an horrible handwritten title.
"Since when the high school curriculum added the Cauchy's Residue Theorem ?", Izuku sighed with heavy annoyance after almost an hour before he grins maliciously to Ectoplasm, "I needed complex contours to solve all problems!"
"What ?!", the teaches overreacts, "If you said so, then show your solution on chalkboard !"
"Complex Contours ?! Residue Theorem ?!", it was Momo the most perplexed student, while the rest was speechless.
Within seconds the general mood of all students was beyond bewilderment, and becomes more blank sweat when the vampire started to resume their methods to reach the solutions.
"I need to finish some details, and I will group the problems as the following…", as Izuku wrote the Residue Theorem formula at the upper rightmost position of the chalkboard, and copy the three hyperbolic integrals as a group, since they was solvable using a rectangular contour with the first edge spans over the entire real axis, and a parallel one over it with a constant imaginary value.
"The first thing to notice is that the hyperbolic sine and cosine is periodic with 2πi period, but with different values...", and he quickly make a side note about the poles of hyperbolic sine since they cross the horizontal lines, "And it need a small δ contour over a simple pole, that means the Laurent series had only a leading negative index term, and it is just half the residue as evaluated normally."
Then Izuku had to evaluate the residues of the poles that was just a simple limit given by lim (z-z0)f(z), but the slight mistake was to place the upper horizontal line 2πi instead πi since he do not notice that sinh(zπi) = -sinh(z) and cosh(zπi) = -cosh(z), leaving him to evaluate the double of poles that really needed, "One a minute… I only need to place the line at half the period", but after some calculations he notices the propriety and fix that.
For the integral with circular and hyperbolic functions, he applied the trigonometric identity to simplify to sin(2x)/sinh(2x), and then he applied correctly the propriety of Euler exponential to evaluate exp(2ix)/sinh(2x) instead and take the imaginary part, otherwise the original function was not bounded at infinity due to the essential singularity of sine as Izuku explained barely.
"Now to tackle the vertical lines at infinity I will use the estimation ML lemma, for which any complex contour are bonded, in absolute sense, by the maximum of the module of the complex function M and the length of contour L", and wrote the formula below the Residue Theorem one.
"All vertical lines was bounded to 1/sinh(R) and 1/cosh(R) when R goes to infinity, meaning that all stuff goes to zero!", and Izuku pause briefly just to notice their shocked classmates faces before resumes, "And the top horizontal line can be written in terms of the bottom one that goes to the target integral".
Finally the vampire combine all parts, and also isolate the bonus integrals that equals zero before deriving the final result. The original method spans over the real axis, but since the real integral over positive real axis was an even function, the final result was just half the result obtained by the Residue Theorem.
"Just apply some trigonometric simplification and using the Euler Exponential Formula, we got…", and Izuku wrote sinh(ax)/sinh(bx) = π/(2b) tan(πa/2b) , cosh(ax)/cosh(bx) = π/(2b) sec(πa/2b), while the last one was sin(2x)/sinh(2x) = π/4 tanh(π/2).
"That's correct, Midoriya!…", Ectoplasm was stunned and not fairly relieved dues to his own mistakes, "However I leave for homework for everyone find another methods!"
"Can I solve the remaining ones using my solutions ?"
"If you want to…"
Izuku decided to tackle the last integral, since it was fairy standard complex analysis problem. The integral of (sin(3x)+cos(2x))/(x^2+2x+3) for all real axis could by evaluated by taking the complex function exp(iaz)/(z^2+2z+3), and uses the standard semicircle contour that Izuku said, "It should be a nice single problem for our class".
It had a single pole inside the contour, and the arc was bonded due to Jordan Lemma, "That said that the module of the Euler Exponential around an arc contour with constant R is bounded by exp(-R), and everything goes to zero using the ML lemma…"
The final result was done using the real or imaginary parts of the complex integral with the adequate values for "a" to obtain the final result, exp(-2*sqrt(2)) π cos(2) / 2 - exp(-3*sqrt(3)) π sin(3) / 2.
"When you said that this contour was standard…", Momo makes a sincere question to Izuku.
"That because many entry level integration problems using Complex Analysis uses this contour path, and almost all common problems are solvable by this particular one…."
"Now this infinite sum can be tackled by the Residue Theorem by inverting the problem…", then the vampire rewrote the problem as a infinite sum from minus infinity to plus infinity within a limit, "And since the functions π csc(π z) and π cot(π z) have simple poles for all integers, where the first one are alternate to 1 or -1 and the second is always 1.", and he set the function, "Then the function π csc(π z) / (z^2+1) will have trivial poles for all integers that collapses to our sum, plus two additional poles to i and -i", and set the Residue Theorem as, "And equals to the contour integral of a big circle or infinite radius R of π csc(π z) / (z^2+1)."
Also Izuku explains, "The double infinite sum could be redone as a double of the target sum that starts from n=0 and goes to infinity, taking care additional terms at n=0 to properly done…", and also evaluate the residues that was not a real issue.
The big circle contour bounding was made with the estimation lemma and the Jordan Lemma with the Euler Exponential definition of sine, and after some inequalities Izuku demonstrate that everything was bound to 1/R, meaning that the contour goes to zero as expected. The sum result was π csch(π)/2 + 1/2.
"And now the real terror begins", Izuku sighed with (log(x))^2/(x^4-1) over the real positive axis, "Complex logarithms are multivalued functions, meaning that have branches that need to be selected", while Izuku wrotes the definition of logarithm as log(z) = log abs(z) + i arg(z) + 2πik, with integer k for the branch, "Then if arg(z) = [0,2π[ then the branch cut will start from z=0 when log(0) is undefined and follows the real positive axis, arg(z) = 0, and creates a discontinuity to the line with arg(z) = 2π"
"Even real logarithms short-circuity me…", Kaminari goes nuts.
"Now I use the keyhole contour, multiply the function by log(z), and set the complex function f(z) = (log(z))^3/(z^4-1)", but he made an annoying remark, "Keyholes integrals is the second most common ones, but it is not normal to have a pole inside the branch cut! Damn it!", making everyone curse the teacher, "So I made two semi-circles where the top one had arg(z)=0 and bottom one had arg(z) = 2π, and fortunately are simple poles. The remaining poles are evaluated normally.", and then subtract the function f(z) over the branch cut, that is (log(z) + 2πi)^3 – (log(z))^3, recovering the target integral, "However the imaginary part are composed by another term that require to define the complex function g(z) = log(z)/(z^4-1) with the same conditions for the poles! More four damn poles equals to eight poles!"
The keyhole contour was made with two full circle arcs where the minor one goes to zero and the bigger goes to infinity, "And the estimation lemma saves the day since f(z) and g(z) are bounded by 2πR (log(R) + C) / (R^4+1) and 2πR (log(R) + C) / (R^2 + 1) with C between 0 and 4π, and when R takes zero or infinity everything goes down to zero!"
While the horizontal lines squeezes the branch cut and equals to the target integral or are proportional to them.
Once Izuku managed to join all pieces he was able to solve the whole mess and obtains a very simple result, the complicated integral values -π^3/16.
"Such all horrible work to obtain a footnote answer ?!", some random student decried.
"And the last, this horrible thing…", as Izuku stares the integral sqrt(1-x^2)/(1+x^2) when x goes between -1 and 1, "Since the square root is also a multivalued function but with a limited number of branches, then I should factor out the contents on the square root to obtain sqrt(abs(1-z)) sqrt(abs(1+z)) exp(i/2*(arg(1-z)arg(1+z))), while every 4π radians around the complex plane it returns to the starting point…, due to the fact the square root had two branches!"
"I set the branches of the square root in order to the branch cut are limited for the line segment on real axis between -1 and 1 in order to ensure that outside that the function is continuous…", making everyone sweating heavily, "With this setting I define the dog-bone contour around the branch cut, plus two nice beautiful poles outside the branch out as demanded, and I can make four symmetrical lines that their contribution is zero by definition, and only serve to link them to the larger contour of infinite radius R."
Izuku then sketches a small table to check the domains on branch cut boundaries, "It is customary to set arg(1-z) = [0, 2π[ and arg(1+z) = [-π, π[, making the line with Re(z) less than -1 with Im(z) = 0 to be continuous with arg(z) = -π/2 , while the line Re(z) higher than 1 with Im(z) = 0 are continuous with arg(z) = π/2. The branch cut had arg(z) = π from top and arg(z) = 0 from bottom."
"This is completely insane, when I barely understand complex numbers, let alone complex functions!", another student mumbles loudly.
"Now the fun stuff begins…", Izuku grins maliciously with bright redden eyes, "The two line segments around the branch cut are both equal to the target integral, while the two small circles around the branch points are bounded by 2πR (1-R^2)/(1+R^2) that goes to zero for R=-1 and R=1", and without pausing he evaluate the two poles at z=i and z=-i, leaving only, "Now this large full circle can be evaluated by the Cauchy's Residue Theorem at infinity!"
"Residue at infinity ?! Midoriya, this is too far difficult to use on this level…", Ectoplasm tried to interfere, but…
"Sorry, but once you authorize to go to the end…", Izuku sighed and explains, "The residue at infinity was always zero on previous problems, but in this case due to the branches, by applying w=1/z and dw = -1/z^2 dz substitution, the Cauchy Integral Formula is rewritten as Res(f(z),z=infinity) = Res( -1/z^2 f(1/z) , z=0), and then just evaluate the limit as usual…", and Izuku wrote the result, "Res(f(z),z=infinity) = i", while the other poles had Res(f(z),z=i) = Res(f(z),z=-i) = -i / sqrt(2).
"And combining the all stuff...", the integral was equal to π(sqrt(2)-1).
"This was the result that I managed to obtain by the third trigonometric substitution I made, the other ones always gave to me zero….", Momo intervene at the end, relieved that at least one problem makes sense.
Ectoplasm also sighed with all university level problem solving, "Well! All problems do not require exotic methods based on complex stuff, I recommend to explore other methods as homework, once you pass the weekend license exams…"
At this time the classroom bell chimes to warn that this lecture was finally over, where Izuku gains too much bewildered eyes around him.
"Also next week will be the School Festival and Prospective Day, it will to be damn fun…", said the green haired vampire like he pretending that he's not given a lecture on complex analysis to everyone!
The whole incident quickly reaches the ears of Aizawa and All Might that also was bewildered that Midoriya ended to use University level knowledge to solve integrals using Complex Analysis. Aizawa ended to explain that was the faster abstract reasoning been evident on vampires than humans. But also he know that normal humans could also learn the same topic without issues.
The Junior Pro-Hero License Exam Day
Saturday mourning at Yuuei Entrance Gates was the pin-point for all Heroic Courses students to gather the train that was intended to travel for Vandelay Campus, located on Shikoku island. At first they need to use the Tokyo railway network of commuter trains that uses the Cape gauge until reaches the interchange with the Shinkansen that otherwise would be a very long trip.
The train in question was one of three daily trains that uses the new Shinkoku Shinkansen line, only inaugurated some years earlier after decades of delays and some undisclosed founding that many suspect that was Vandaley itself. The line itself spurs from Osaka, passes the Naruto Strait to Tokushima, then follows the northern side of Shinkoku until Matsuyama and crosses the Seto Island Sea by a tunnel until reaches Oita on Kyushu island. Then the train follows the existing lines to Kagoshima. Once on Matsuyama, they will interchange to another Cape gauge local train to the Vandelay Campus. Basically, it was a five long hours trip.
"Those commuter trains from Orudera to Tokyo is awkward!", Aizawa curses the delays and overcrowding, "And the trains to Shikoku had bad timetables…", since the train with all students only arrived at the famous central station about six minutes before the Shinkansen departure, when we predicted at least twenty minutes.
"Younger boys can easily exchange between trains…", Blood King delivers the usual funny teasing joke.
"If they place the Vandelay Campus at the eastern side of Shikoku, it could be more easy since they had more shorter but more frequent services...", Aizawa sighed when he was in a hurry, "Instead we need to use the morning train just to arrive almost at evening!"
At least with all modern electronic ticketing, they only need to pass the QR code from their smartphones to reach the boarding tracks, and enter the train at least two minutes before departure.
"Relieve at least!", Mina sighed while talking to other girls, "We barely arrived on time, due to the train…"
"Now he have time to review the homework until reaches Matsuyama…", Asui gives a perk, "Kero."
"Why everyone is more focused on the beautiful and cryptic problems given by Ectoplasm ?", the earplug girl Kyoka Jiro was a little surprised after that lecture given by the vampire, "Our main task is to become Junior Pro Heroes !", and glares, "Not some weirdos from the Mathematics Department of the University of Tokyo!"
The Shinkoku Shinkansen makes the same stops of the short and more frequent Tokaido Shinkansen, where after the stop on Osaka after two and half hours of travel, the trains makes a special seven minutes stop before resumes the scheduled trip. The high speed line that leads to Shikoku island was made shortly after the Shin-Kobe station located some kilometres after Osaka and sharing the Sanyo Shinkansen line. Then the train crosses the Akashi Strait using a bridge parallel to the older road-only Akashi Bridge, and the line crosses along the sparsely inhabited island of Awaji, but enough to the train makes three stops over the major settlements, Awaji, Sumoto, Minamiawaji.
Then the train crosses the Naruto straits with a beautiful bridge not far away of the older highway bridge, until it stops at Naruto city. After that crossing, the train makes several stops along the major towns along the coast until they stop at Matsuyama after a total of five long hours of voyage. The train will make some stops until Yawatahama, before crosses a long isthmus until at the end of that it reaches the entrance of the 50 km railway tunnel that links to Kyushu and the train makes a stop at Oita, before turns to south and stops at Kagoshima, ending a eight hour trip that rarely the passengers makes entirely.
"For now all classes must follow their teachers and Pro Heroes, since the train to Vandelay Campus requires previous controls …", intended to prevent the students to wander around the railway station and the interchange to local trains. Also many students from other places of Japan was gathering around at the station tracks.
In fact the train was slow once the railway line leaves from Matsuyama, and reaches the terrible mountains and sharp curves at many sections, until reaches a small town on Ochiko before interchange with other train since they had used regular train services.
Finally they board to another train that serve a newly built spur line connecting the Vandelay Campus after half an hour of slow travel. For the Yuuei students it was a pure headache after eight long hours of a long tour that requires interchange with several trains.
Once they leave the terminal station filled with eight island tracks they are greeted with holographic projections and welcome signs. The site was partially in the middle of a forest that gives to the students bad omens, while the roads that linked to the outside was simple lane national roads. The great city of Matsuyama was about a full hour driving by car.
But when they crosses the security filled with armed guards and robots they notice that a military private company was built a base there to provide security to all campus. Also the buildings and the vents clearly show that the complex had underground bunkers that also sparks very bad memories.
"Welcome to Japan Vandelay Campus!", an holographic screen with the cyborg Chai II appears in the plaza located after the security check-point located on the train station, "Students of many regions of Japan that wanted to perform the Junior Pro Hero License Exam!…", that started to play some background rhythmic music on the background, "Listen to the rhythm of heroic powerfulness!"
The holographic projection changes the camera point of view from Chai to the almost fully robotic cyborg DAA-B1, "The top student on Vandelay Cyborg Hero School Campus, codename DAA-B1, salutes you!"
"WTF ?!", Todoroki Shoto and Bakugou Katsuki swears, "Since when a person could be so modified to be a machine ?!"
"Like the ones made by the Millennium Army ?", Izuku Midoriya also was stunned.
However Todoroki had a sudden memory lapse when the face of the cyborg that had human features triggers repressed nightmares, "One a minute! This boy, let alone if a robot had genera, is… That's not possible that resembles by deceased older brother, Touya."
"Todoriki, you are very pale…", the vampire presence makes the dual colored haired boy snaps and frights in panic.
"I'm fine…", Shoto quickly evades from the vampire to join other boys.
The cyborg DAA-B1 after this slight pause also announce, "For all students arriving there, you should take the Exam ID card delivered by the Security team. The letter will assign to the respective lodging intended to rest since you will stay there overnight until the exam that will start tomorrow morning at 9:00. You are banned to leave this place until 16:00 tomorrow, that's means that during 24 hours will be placed here. Please follow the Security instructions for the general plan."
"That's means that he will arrive on Tokyo almost at midnight!", many random students quickly decried.
For Izuku own point of view, that was awkward but the whole militaristic styled security makes him think that was sent to a military militia even more powerful than the SDF.
To be Continued...
Chapter 39: The Cyborgs Lair
Summary:
The first episode of the Junior Pro Hero Exam made and managed by the Vandelay Corporation, when the students had single or small groups fighting on a staged arena. Also the students are split into three main groups: Combat, Rescue and Guardian types. Izuku or Katsuki was placed under individual combat zones, beginning with high graded students that was also cyborgs. Izuku gain a quad barrel shotgun for the rest of the exam, and Katsuki won a katana with a blade capable to withstand the explosive sweat to pierce formidable foes.
With this prize Katsuki Hero Name turns to be C4 Vitzargo, from the infamous game Daikatana, where also gain a similar blade.
And Izuku finally created a good strong and with little incantation to be cast, which was no more than the Quad Damage with similar effects from Quake and Doom 2016.
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Once all Yuuei students gets reunited to the central plaza, Aizawa and Vlad King, using the electronic tablets delivered by the Vandaley, quickly order to everyone travel swiftly to the B-Block as indicated.
Other school's students also quickly pass over the heavy guarded doors, just to notice that was no more than a make-shift barracks filled with columns and rows of bunks and metallic fences covered by the greenish military camouflage fabric. Over the fence that split the bunks into divisions, two inclined sets of barber wire follows the entire scene.
The sanitary and showers, separated to boys and girls was located on opposite sides of the giant rectangular shaped indoors building.
"For a single night use, this is justifiable, but…", some random student spoke.
"Our location appear to be the third row and second column for the boys that is around the middle of this maze and the fifth row and fourth column for the girls, which is placed on the rightmost corner…", Aizawa read the needed information before resumes, "I just read about our locations around this twenty cell extravaganza…", without failing to sigh loudly, "Each sector had an exclusive corridor from the boundaries of this barbed walled bunk site, and ours is around the top third right side as viewed from the top. I need to use the table to unlock the magnetic locked door…"
"And how we had access to the toilets and such located outside this prison ?!", Mineta was prone to questions, specially when he wanted to take outside for inappropriate actions.
"Inside the designated zones, each student had a small electronic key to unlock the division door, locate inside a pot on the table, and then the student can go to the toilets and showers if needed. Notice that once returned, the student should put the device back to the pot…"
"The lights inside the building will go off at nine o'clock afternoon (21:00), and go on at seven tomorrow morning (07:00). All students will be placed on this strict lockdown during this period, with limited access to the toilets."
"Basically they wanted all students to be wall gardened tonight…", Momo was not very pleased, "With those intriguing robots roaming outside the wall…"
"This said that once everyone placed the necessary personal belongings along the bunks and locks, they should following with their teachers to roaming around as long do not cross forbidden areas, taking account that everyone should gather to the main hall building for an advertising palestra, following by a mess. This should starting at seven o'clock (19:00), ending with a dinner and return to the bunked area.", Aizawa read the rest of instructions.
Aizawa or Vlad King decided to stay inside their students and going outside after 18:30 once they ending their plannings and make some progress on weekends homework. This choice was followed my the majority of classes, since outside almost all buildings was closed to any kind of visitors, and the robotic guards always forbidden any request to access.
The Vandaley promotional stunt was strange and barely understandably to normal humans, specially when they wanted to sell the idea to the quirkless or with barely functional quirks to replace body parts to robotic implants. The crazy idea of the Armstrong Project was too bizarre to anyone gives a try. And the dinner itself was too light and low-cost designed. It was literally the bare minimal possible. The only obligatory request was to return before 08:00 to serve the breakfast, and then the mandatory exam that was the real deal.
The Exam Introduction
Everyone from the Yuuei school was barely slept due to the spartan bunks or the soviet styled breakfast served at early morning. In fact, the place at night was more akin to poor barracks where the military conscripts from a militaristic nation that barely provide shelter or food to the low ranged officials, with the devilish intention to provide grind meat on meaningless wars.
By other way, the conditions in terms of heating was perfectly fine, and the safety was very high, meaning that the security was a top priority to the guests.
"Either way, they should spent a little more on food catering!", Todoroki was too upset to enjoy the light breakfast that was too old-fashioned for him, "Also why they put so much effort on kimchi with a weird soviet style ?"
Izuku then started to play the Soviet Anthem to answer Todoroki's awful reaction, while also had a weird flashback during he plays since his birthday once happens to be the same of the foundation day of the Japanese Communist Party, prompting everyone to ask the bizarre situation, "We notice the frail breakfast that resembles the soviet style and you become communist or what ?"
"I had once a bizarre dream that if I was human, then I had the Communism Quirk that turn everything communist or something… A silly and cringe dream actually…"
In reality, Izuku notices that such company barely had any real notion to properly serve human guests, due to the abnormal number of robotic beings. Also unlike the previous day, all candidates should dress their costumes. Izuku ended to dress an armored version like the first version, but with the fantasy features blended with modern ones, that was inspired by the game Doom The Dark Ages.
Once all students either finished or was ordered to leave the mess, the guards conduct the candidates to a large tunnel inside the building that leads to a set of six heavy cargo lifts capable to carry all the students within a single swoop to an underground complex that was the real exam place.
When the lift doors opened, the main entrance was dominated by an entourage of high executives where Chai was their leader, "Welcome to Junior Pro Hero Assignment Exam, for the next generation of Pro Heroes!…", that was quickly applauded by robots, and another set of robots playing trumpet.
"This is totally awkward!", a random student shout out loudly.
"If this human had some sense, it could be a nice salesman", another student replied.
"Very well! In sheer contrast of previous proficiency exams that cast silly moral abhorrence… ", Chai shift their voice tone, and with a snap of their robotic fingers, a robot assemble a presentation board with some junk gears for pure aesthetics, while the white boards was filled with figures that was complemented by a laser device capable to render holograms on the white board with further information.
"The students from your school profile are assigned to different areas dedicated to a specialization test, where the main themes are…", more figurines and holograms was placed, "Combat, Rescue, Leadership, and this is just to name a few!…"
"Heroic specialization right now at the beginning ?", Izuku mumbles, "This is very suspicious…"
But the announcement of an exam tailored to students that pursue pure combat was too enticing to not make an happy uproar, that was quietly turned down.
"Your teacher's tablets should receive the most adequate profile for the examination that should begin within a couple of minutes!", Chai's assistants intervene calmly.
"Well Midoriya…", Aizawa sighed when display the recommended profile, "Your exam will be focused on Combat with the suggesting specialization to be a civilian Pro Hero focused on shock trooper mode on engaging combat. Like the original Prussian infantry Strosstruppen units."
"And like Deku, I was also placed on Combat style! Which is plenty awesome! And proves that a Pro Hero should clean the site of bad guys first!...", Katsuki smiles with a bombastic staged rampage, ignoring that Shoto Todoroki was also placed on the same kind of examination.
About half of the 1-A Yuuei class was placed on the Rescue focused exam, and only a few Yuuei students like Momo was recommended to follow the Leadership or Guard mode, that was intended to potential Pro Heroes focused to manage an event and guide sidekicks to do the tasks.
Izuku received from the tablet a mission briefing draft about the core objectives, for which a top Vandaley cyborg student will be staging an enemy. Once this stage was cleared, he will join the a global event that should be granted to all students that pass earlier.
"Now all Combat students will be placed to their individual arenas. Extraordinary beings will have their own private arena, while normal ones are placed to shared arenas with a variable number between two to six.", Chai ordered to the students run to the doors enclosing an arena, "Rescue students are placed in groups around four in average, while Guard examination will be done individually since they are rare, and our students from our Vandelay will be their assistants... "
"For everyone assigned, please run to our designated area. The exams will be start within five minutes!", this was spoken by the speaker of the Examination Board, composed by members chosen by the National Security Council, that was the nemesis of Aizawa and Izuku.
"Again that bunch of fascists!", Aizawa grits their fangs when notice that Pip Berdanotte was one of Exam Referees!
Izuku quickly reaches an heavy door guarded by one serial model robot called the SBR-001 that only asks, "You are Izuku Midoriya, the vryko-warlock mage ?"
"Yes…", Izuku sighs with such cringe formality.
"Please spoke your alias to unlock the door, while I will give some hits…"
"Dark Schneider!"
"Correct!", the SBR-001 open the door, "During this arena, you will face our greatest jewel of Vandelay, the miraculous cyborg DAA-B1, that will stage a combat scene…"
"Why I feel some weirdness ?!", Izuku mumbles, "If I had chosen John Romero as Pro Hero Name , then I could had a normal student life ?", just to be unfazed, "Probably not…"
"And please read the electronic panel with the main objectives, plus the secondary ones, for each block..."
Quake Rampage
Once Izuku enters the first room testing area, as instructed by the electronic screens on main lobby area, the automatic doors closes as ordered by the security robot outside.
"Forget the John Romero or even John Carmack ….", Izuku sighed with the objectives, "This is a survival game where I had to wreak havoc…", and a very short countdown.
Few seconds later, a staged lightning breakdown following by a fake electrical blackout (like the dark rooms of Doom and later Quake games) will make to the designed foe that appear several seconds later to add more difficulty to test the vampire brutal force.
"It appears that my enemy had fallen on my trap…", the DAA-B1 cyborg introduces like a bad make villain.
"Just cut the old fashioned tropes…", Izuku switches to concentrate to the impending battle, while picks and loads the shells for the quad barrel pump loader shotgun that was placed conveniently on top of a sci-fi styled table, including an assortment of ammunition.
"The exam was just started…", a spherical companion floating robot also activates around the main cyborg, just to cause a comical breakdown.
In fact the vampire failed to avoid burst laughing when the spherical robotic 919 Cat triggers the slight shape-shift of the main cyborg, that was the fluffy cat tail and ears, that hides a metallic strip.
"Either way…. Nyah!", the cyborg synchronizes with the robotic cat, and the junk guitar, now enhanced with Heavy Metal powerfulness, switches to full combat gear, "Fight!"
Izuku notice the sudden rebarbative sound that suddenly shakes the room, and almost catches offguard when the cyborg delivers a strike with the junk guitar.
Within a single second, Izuku had to use the Witcher sign Quen to shield from major damage, but when he try to counter-attack the DAA-B1 block their move, and deliver a strong uppercut punch against the vampire, causing pain.
Izuku was not planning, and was clearly advised against, to use strong magical spells, but when he could cast the Witcher Sign Igni to deploy fire bolts, the cyborg quickly make perfect counter parrying with their guitar made with junk parts hold together by a mysterious field.
The vampire quickly notice that the parry movements was in sync with some weird rhythmic tune.
"It this your force, or you are holding back ?", DAA-B1 questions seriously, "You have more nine minutes and fifth seconds to break against me, before you can advance to another room, unless you want to fail the examination!..."
Izuku knew that a robot had inherent vulnerabilities against fire and electric spells, unless they was made to withstand elemental attacks. The green haired vampire quickly run around in circles, and start to fire the shotgun as a distraction to gain some time to properly cast a older spell that was used on earlier year, "Seek and Destroy!… Spirits of Lightning, Honor the Void of the Blood Fire of Death!", which now makes the incantation correctly, "VOIVOD!"
Izuku's palm discharges a powerful kilowatt range micro-wave radiation burst that hit the cyborg, causing the little organic material to overheat, preventing to use the organic fire type quirk he had once he was human. The robotic cat slam against their buddy to remove him from the path of radiation, before the electronics and their cybernetic brain begin to frail.
"Just too close!", the 919 Cat got scolded by DAA-B1, "What you did thinking ?!"
"The vampire just answered your question, as you was just been hit by a 10 kW micro-wave beam, delivered by this strange magic spell."
Izuku quickly switched to another spell, as he knew that shouldn't abuse black magic at will, but he need to make a slight risk, "Ancient God of War, leading the Hellish Doomsday Fire, under the Hammer of Hearts and Thunder!… I shall Vow to honor my Ancient Pact!…", even it needed to cast a swarm of fireballs against the cyborg, "May this Sacred Firestorm shall laid your Graveyard, and purge your Deeds to Eternity!", hoping to overwhelm quickly, "MARSHALL LAW!"
The cyborg uses their cyber-psychic powers to overcharges the junk guitar and with a swirling movement disperse much part of the fireballs. It reduces the impact, but still suffers some external damage, like slight bent metal armor plates.
"Enhanced Sigil!", DAA-B1 switch to the high combat mode, activating the rune powered enhanced chips, that increase ten times the speed and powerfulness of the melee attacks.
Izuku switch back to use Witcher Signs to defend, albeit with bruises and cut that heal partially due to the vampiric nature, against the cyborg rampage.
"Zam-zin… Zar-oni… Eni meto!…", but the vampire had enough experience to cast a more powerful magical shield, as the quick version was shattered within seconds, "Old Goddess of Fortunate Warriors!… Lean your powers and protect me from the foes!…", and after suffer some pain, Izuku managed to cast it, "Holy Explosion!… CHROME ROSE!"
The magical barrier reflects the cyborg own melee strikes, leaving no choice but to parry their own attack.
"That's much better, but still you have four minutes and forty seconds left!", DAA-B1 was much pleased with the battle, but he don't delivered the minimum damage required to pass the stage.
"This musical shaped attacks are like the Metal Hellsinger", prompt Izuku after a rampage of parry blocking movements to cast a new magic spell.
"It is one of the signature Heavy Metal magic ?", the cyborg was expecting that move.
"Aether!… Vortex!… Shub-Niggurath!... Lonely Ranger wandering on the Filthy Lair!", Izuku stretches his fingers while the arms and hands are also stretched with the intention to point against the cyborg within the vampire line of vision, "Arise from the pits of tortured souls, and lean your grief to pierce my foes!", from that position Izuku could funnel dark magic using his fingers as a mold to cast sharp and amazing fast dark energy bolts that shapes like needles once released, "NINE INCH NAILS!"
"It was a Quake reference ?", 919 Cat nods with bewilderment when notice the huge damage made with the fast shooting.
The huge storm of about a thousand of needles pierced without any mercy the cyborg armor and the cover fabric that had no meaning to use except to use as an informal damage check.
The Nine Inch Nails spell had only last three or four seconds, but it was barely impossible to parry a single magic nail, as the cyborg suffered some serious physical damage, although the inner armor inside the exterior plates avoided a potential life treating damage. Both the 919 Cat and DAA-B1 itself quietly run a diagnostic scan that taken only a few seconds to detect damage, and then he make a full check-up to test if he can uses the dark metal musical powers to increases the energized shields and strike again.
"Damn it! A nailgun crafted with pure black magic!… You are a big fan of Doom or Quake ?"
"Very nice games that I played on my Steam Machine and recently with my Steam Deck!", Izuku answered politely.
And without warning, the cyborg decided to use their original fire based quirk when he was once human, but mixed with the cybernetic enhancements he had, "Cremation Bloodwalker!"
This technique had runic support, and makes the entire robotic body to be covered by a firestorm, and the guitar is quickly filled with a scorching fire, capable to burn the surroundings.
Izuku quickly return to the defense, and tried to cast again the Witcher Signs, specially the Igni, but this qeak fire magic barely affect the pyro kind of cyborg.
"I probably need some spiritual fire protection…", as Izuku quickly casts, "Blaze out the Sun!", summoning a set of fire demons with sting attacks, "Fire Spirits with Eternal Flames!… Heed my cry and burn at will!", that serve at least a denier barrier, "TAFOLLA!"
The fire based spirits quickly becomes salamanders with their own sentience, but if the vampire don't lose focus, they will pierce with flaming tridents and spears the cyborg relentlessness.
"If you think that your familiars will block me to attack, then think again!", as DAA-B1 also could shoot small fireballs that manage to burn Izuku. The vampire counters with the Tafolla spell, using the salamanders with their weapons to parry the junk guitar attacks from the cyborg.
After two long minutes of insane fighting the wounded vampire, that ended with the spirits burst away, he decide to cast a boost spell that takes a lot of weeks to decipher.
"Eternal Void of Chaos!… Unholy Deity of Ul-Thranx!… Assemble the Heroic Demon Altar!...", this spell makes Izuku glows with a purple hue with a sinister roaring sound, "Bring to me your maleficent deadly curse to purge my hordes of enemies!", that also affect the shotgun, "QUAD DAMAGE!"
"What ?!", the cyborg notice again the Quake reference, "The shotgun is now enhanced ?!"
Izuku never really wanted to test this bizarre black demon magic spell against a real adversary, since like the original Quake or Doom reboot, the caster gain a bizarre pulsing purple hue, and gains a powerful boost in terms of attack and defense, around four times the original stats. In particular the damage done by melee or projectiles like weapons, increases four times or even more. However in sharp contrast to Quake, the spell effects are extended for each physical blow, and within a sequence of targets, the enhancing pulse maintains along several seconds, reaching some minutes.
When the rampage eases, the pulses fades and the spell dissolves away.
Izuku fire ten full rounds of the shotgun, before delivering a uppercut punch within the effects of Quad Damage, making enough damage (but not internally) to DAA-B1 surrender with less than fifth seconds to time up.
"Enough! You won…", DAA-B1 suffered some mechanical damage and using the 919 Cat as a relay device, the automatic door at the opposite site from the initial one was unlocked.
The vampire crosses the opened door to a set of corridors and traps filled with robots that to destroy, and with a time limit to cross all the giant maze.
The blonde cursing
Ten minutes earlier the explosive blonde just entered their own arena, after arguing about the lack of a proper alias, but it was settled before the SBR-001 guard been blasted away.
"Although it is WTF nice to had a pure combat exam, my inner senses are warning that could be a trap to law our guard down…", Katsuki was very acquainted with the cruel reality of the exam, after the slight childish reaction he had earlier.
"One of greatest potential future civilian Pro Hero candidate…", the Katsuki's foe enter the combat arena, made with random dirt and pebble piles.
Katsuki quickly made a bad argument when notice the kind of adversary it was, "Why I have a girl as an initial adversary ?!", Katsuki fumes with the apparently weak body that was just an intelligent decoy to fool adversaries. After all, she was also a cyborg with around half of their body volume replaced by robotic and cybernetic parts.
Bakugou further snaps when the cybernetic adversary pokes fun with him, "So you can't even decide your Pro Hero alias ?"
"WTF you said, old hag ?", that happens since at first glance Katsuki projected his own mother to her.
"Then face the wrath of my Daikatana", as she holds a long sword that is a nodachi, but plays the name with a similar video-game name, "As I will name you as…", she waits five seconds before resumes, "C4 Vitzatergo !"
Bakugou mind shatters with such bizarre name, since he failed to associate with the fictional weapon from the Daikatana franchise, that was grenade launcher that delivers sticky bombs that explode on nearby contact, which is an artistic way to describe Katsuki's modus operandi with their explosive quirk.
The sword was crafted by propose to have a flat blade, otherwise the real Daikatana could gib easily. However the safe exam version can recharge their own electrical field delivered by the original organic quirk, enhanced by psychic wave type cyber quirk, when she was remade as a cyborg.
Katsuki quickly decide to focus and attack the cyborg with a strong punch while the quirk aids him to gain momentum in-flight, just to be block by the sword and a volley kick charged with electric charge, followed by a uppercut punch against the blonde chin.
"I expected to be more rational, C4 Vitzatergo !", she disdain adversaries who decide to make straight attacks when she had a set of techniques to counter.
Bakugou was annoyed but defiant, "It's better to not become pity with me, or else…", as the blonde decide to jump to the ceiling before propel against the cyborg, "Howitzer Impact !"
The cyborg had a onboard computer linked to their brain that makes all decisions within a tenth of a second, and twice this time period later the cybernetic enhancements to the legs and arms that was robotic in nature switched to full powerfulness.
With this fast switching to full combat mode, enabled her to fast swirl and deliver a strong blade parry against the explosive blonde, who quickly was gutted and punched against the opposite wall with the wind created by the sword stroke, but the cybernetic psychic pulse add additional repulsion force.
With this clash, the explosive blonde quickly learns that the Vandelay students was not meant to be fool play.
Katsuki notice a katana encrusted on a dirt spike that was reinforced with cement that was easily removed with a small explosion, "Let me see, if you wanted to be WTF smashed!"
The cyborg liked and knew that was one evaluation topic of the first room stage, that was the adversary pick the sword and clash against the Daikatana.
Katsuki was very proficient with many skills like cooking, playing music, brawl or hiking, but sword fighting was too green to make a difference.
"I never like melee attacks, but one a minute…", Katsuki quickly notice that the blade's sulci could hold the explosive sweat.
"What he is planning ?", the cyborg placed in position when notice that their adversary was roaming to hide from her vision using the makeshift spikes.
"Have you heard about explosive blades ?!", Katsuki uses his quirk to propel against her, but ignite the sweat on his own blade before slash, causing a secondary explosion straight on her face.
The cyborg smile, although she was slightly damaged with the blade clash and further explosion, "Finally!… A real improvement!… You need to stroke more four times in less than three minutes!"
From this rightful improvement, Katsuki barely managed to handle the task, since he also suffer bruises with the inclement sword clashing. But at least, he also grant the right to enter the maze area that would be more a playground to him.
At the meantime, Izuku like the others that managed to pass the first room stage, was a like confused with the notification, "Who was C4 Vitzatergo ?!", Izuku quickly remembers the game he had played two years ago, "This was the name of the one weapon of a very old game that I needed to use a 3dfx Voodoo wrapper over miniGL to play… properly!", Izuku quickly make a right association, "And that was used by the game's protagonist of Daikatana which is a kind of grenade launcher…", just to end annoyed with a ticking tapping like the infamous loading screen of such old game, "Resembling my own friend Katsuki, also known as Kacchan … Damn it! I really doubt that could name like that by himself!…", as the vampire sighed heavily.
To be Continued...
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