One gunman had trained his weapon at Mina and the guy she was tangling with, but he hesitated at the prospect of shooting and possibly hitting his buddy.
The other two were attempting to reload, having used both their clips trying to kill him.
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Izuku didn't need to consider who to attack first. A black webline slammed into the gun of the hesitating gunman, and with enormous strength, it was wrenched out of his hands and went sky-high. The man screamed in pain, probably having broken his index finger.
Izuku ignored it, and instead, two new black lines slammed into the ground where the two men who were reloading were standing.
Izuku hit the ground right in front of them, and his hands shot up and closed around the guns, and with two " crunch " he broke both of them in his grips.
Izuku had made one mistake, however. He assumed the guy he had just disarmed was without a method of attack.
A giant fist of water slammed into Izuku from the side, sending him flying through the air and over the edge of the building.
His hand wrenched up, and a line attached itself to the side of the building, and instead of just falling, he slammed into the side of the structure.
He did not stop to catch his breath though, instead, he forced himself to climb back up, ignoring any pain of just having been hit by the water.
He vaulted over the edge.
What greeted him was the sight of the water fist guy lying on the ground and clutching his side, where Mina had just punched him, having already dealt with the guy she had been tangling with. The two other villains were running to help him, but stopped and turned towards him, as he came up over the side.
For a moment, it was a moment of calm as they just stood there staring at each other.
Then, with a glance at the other, both nodded, and they split up, one went towards Izuku, while the other went towards Mina.
The man who went towards Izuku changed, his suit, which Izuku only now realized was an army uniform with bulletproof armor, was shredded as he transformed, becoming larger and bigger, his muscles bulging, becoming a mountain of a man.
With a roar, he jumped forward, and lifting his hands over his head, he slammed them down on Izuku, who, panicked, brought his arms up to block.
The force… wasn't all that impressive actually. Izuku blinked, as the man recoiled, seemingly in pain, then after planting his feet brought his hand forward in a massive punch.
Izuku stopped it dead in it's tracks with an open palm, simply catching it midair
He then grabbed the arm, and threw him over his shoulder straight down into the rooftop, cracking the stone. The large man grunted in pain but was quickly silenced, as Izuku brought his hand down and punched him in the face, the man going out with a single blow.
For a few seconds, he just stared at the guy who went down so easily.
Then, the sound of battle shook him back to reality, and he snapped around towards Mina… Who also was finishing up her fight, the other guy lying on the ground having taken a power blow to the head.
"You okay Midori?" She asked in a worried tone as she jogged up to him.
Midori?
"Yea-yeah I'm fine… You?"
She grinned. "No injuries here. I was worried about you though when you flew over the edge."
She smiled at him. "You know to handle yourself in a fight, you been in many?"
"Not… Really?"
"Huh. Well, you did great anyway."
Apparently catching something on the ground, she bent down and picked something up. One of the Villains guns.
"Uzi's." She exclaimed. "That's… Not really a good sign."
He would take her word for it. He didn't really know gun types enough to call it something other than a machine gun.
"So… What do we do now? We can't just leave these guys loose, then move on."
Izuku blinked. Then he realized that he wasn't done here, and hastily begun to go and web up every single one of the Villains.
As he walked from Villain to Villain, Mina kept talking.
"Who are these guys anyway? They can't seriously think they could beat All Might could they?"
Izuku went cold. Time limit. All Might had a time limit.
"You… You remember that commotion with the news reporters yesterday?"
"Yeah? Oh right, you said something about that earlier."
"Yeah… Those guys used that commotion as a distraction to break into Yuei… Probably to look at the schedules. They knew All Might would be here."
They knew about his time limit and planned to attack him while he was vulnerable.
"I… I don't know about the hands guy… But… The teleporting guy, of black mists? He didn't strike me as the kind of guy who would have gone through with this plan if he didn't think it could succeed. These guys probably think they could theoretically kill All Might."
"But… He isn't even here."
"Yeah…" He went even colder. "But killing All Might isn't all they're after here. They… They separated us. They had this whole thing planned out, and divided us up so we would be easier to deal with."
"They want to kill us. That's the second part of the plan." As she talked, Mina had lost all her cheerfulness, the normally preppy girl suddenly having turned really melancholic.
She wasn't wrong though.
"Yes."
A silence followed as Izuku finished up webbing the gunmen. He bent down over the final Villain, the water fist guy, and with a shock, and a wave of disgust at himself, he realized he hadn't just broken his index finger, he had ripped it clean off when he yanked the gun out of his hand.
He had broken the leg of the guy he had landed on, but somehow seeing the blood flowing from where the finger had been, made it really sink in for Izuku.
These guys wanted to kill them. This was a life and death battle.
And all their classmates were in similar bouts.
"We have to go save our classmates. All of them are in similar boats to us."
A horrible thought went through his mind, and his hand went down and grasped the water guy by the bulletproof jacket. His webbing formed a seal around his hands as well and closed up the wound.
He then hoisted the webbed up man up, holding him upwards.
"Do all of y ou have guns?" he said in a dark tone, Venom's darker version of his own voice bleeding into it.
The man looked down on him, anger, and hatred in his eyes. Izuku grit his teeth in a snarl.
Fear went into the man's eyes. "I don't understand you!" He said in English.
What? Oh, right. His gaze turned to the group. Now that he got a look at them, none of them seemed to be Japanese. Probably American, or European.
"Do all of you have guns?" he asked again, this time in English.
The man hesitated for a moment, then, looking into Izuku's white eyes, he answered.
"Our entire group does. The japs don't."
"The Japs?" Mina said in a very angry tone like he had just horribly insulted her personally.
The guy, seemingly thinking she was asking for clarification answered.
"We were hired to do this job. All for One gave the Big Man, 30 million if we helped him out with this project. Our group is here, while the rest of the people here are Japs from his own group."
Izuku and Mina just stared at him.
"All for One? Seriously? THAT All for One?"
"Yeah, that guy."
All for One. All for One himself. The most notorious Japanese Villain in history was the brain behind this operation.
That seemed…. Well, It made things far more complicated.
"... If All for One was behind this, WHY isn't he here?"
"How should I know? I'm not a fucking officer. I just do as I'm told."
Izuku was about to continue when Venom suddenly shot a warning through his head.
-BEHIND YOU!-
Izuku, still holding the water guy snapped around, as out of the air, on the opposite edge of the roof, a new figure materialized out of thin air in a flash of purple light.
A very familiar figure.
The newcomer was a woman in dressed in the same military uniform as the rest, bulletproof west as well, the only difference being it was a navy blue color instead of bry and green. In her hand, she held a regular gun, though it wasn't pointed upwards at any of them.
She had long black hair, and though she had natural light skin, she obviously had a tan that had darkened.
Izuku recognized her immediately. The teleporting lady from the forest.
For a second, they just stared at each other. Then she groaned in an exasperated manner.
"Seriously, Morris? You guys couldn't handle a couple of kids literarily just out of middle school?"
Water guy, now identified as Morris, stiffened, then replied. "Sorry Tel."
"Fucking Yankees…"
She shook her head. Then she turned her face to Mina.
"Ah… Black Cat's brat eh? That explains a lot."
Then her eyes went to Izuku.
"And you are…?"
He stared at her, dumbfounded for a moment.
"Why… Why, would I tell you that?"
"Well, it's called proper manners kid. Or maybe your mom never taught it to you. Anyway, i-"
She stopped dead in her tracks.
"That liquid…"
Oh shit.
Her face went from annoyed, to pissed in a second.
"It's you ! You're that asshole who broke both my finger and my jaw!!!"
"He did?" Mina asked incredulously. "Why? Who are you anyway?"
"I'll explain later," Izuku said quickly. Now was NOT the time to go into what had happened in the forest.
Now they had to deal with this lady.
He dropped Morris to the ground and assumed a combat stance. To his left Mina did the same.
"Tel" Did not move to attack them. Not that she needed to, being a teleporter and all. Doubtlessly, she would be relying on that for this fight.
Then, she disappeared into a flash of purple light.
Izuku tensed, assuming she would reappear somewhere nearby and attack, but she didn't.
-She left- Venom confirmed. - She's not around here anymore.-
"Did… Did she run away?" Mina asked in a baffled tone.
The answer, appeared in front of them, roughly 20 seconds after she left, as she reappeared once more.
But not alone.
Along with her, she had brought two guys.
One of them was dressed in a ridiculous yellow outfit, with a cross pattern over it. There was some red parts, as well as some steel sections on his outfit. Two gauntlets around his hands, in particular, standing out. Over his eyes, he had a large green visor.
All in all, he looked like a giant, yellow quilt.
Izuku had no idea who he was.
The other guy though.
"Oh shit…" Mina swore.
"Izuku, that's…" "I know, he replied in a tone far more squeaky than he'd have liked.
The man was Enormous. Grey, thick hide like plates covered him from head to toe in place of skin. On his head, two horns, one in front of the other, with the front one being much, much larger.
The only piece of cloth or equipment he wore, was a ripped and tatted set of baggy jeans around his groin and upper legs.
He could have looked comical… To anyone who didn't know who he was anyway.
"Thanks for helping me out here Rhino. You're really doing me a solid, here." Tel said in a cheerful tone while shooting daggers at Izuku.
"No problem Tel, I'm ALWAYS happy to help out my fellow Liberators." The monster replied cheerfully.
The man was Alexander O'Hirn. Better known as the Rhino. An American, man with a death count in the tens of thousands. He was one of the most notorious criminals alive. A monster who had crushed countless heroes into the ground over the course of a criminal career spanning only a single year.
Tel grinned. "Have fun you two." She gave a wave to Izuku and Mina before she teleported out.
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