Both the two teenagers gaped in shock an horror at the titanic display of strength.
-Huh. Yeah, that's not good. Not good at all.-
...
Rhino for his part laughed… Only to yelp as the ground collapsed under him, and he fell into whatever was below the streets here.
6 seconds later though, he burst straight up again and landed on the road, covered in dust and dirt, both moist and dry.
"Just like a dugtrio…"
Then he turned to face the two teenagers while wiping away dirt from his face. For about 10 seconds, they just stared at each other, both of the younger heroes tense as steel cables. Then, suddenly and with a speed that did not seem to fit his enormous frame, Rhino gripped a large piece of stone, roughly as large as a car, and hurled it at Izuku.
He jumped in a burst that would have made any jumping spider proud, the rock crashing into the spot where he had just been.
Izuku landed right by where Mina was, but he didn't turn to face her. Instead, two black lines shot up to where the rock was now embedded in the wall and fastened themselves to it.
With a scream, Izuku put all his weight into a massive pull, wrenching the stone out of the wall and towards Rhino, hitting him straight on, and with a mighty sound, it exploded into a cluster of shattered rocks and dust.
Izuku and Mina did not stop and wait until the dust cleared though, instead they began running in the opposite direction away from where Rhino was.
As they ran, Mina began shooting some Grey liquid out of her hands, covering the street behind them as they ran.
"What is that?" Izuku called out.
"Acid!" The pink girl exclaimed.
Another combined quirk? It seemed like Izuku was the only top student in class who wasn't one. Which made sense, combination quirks were generally the most powerful ones on average and-
-The yellow guy broke out of the web by the way. Just thought you'd like to know.-
Great.
"Shocker broke out of the web!" He exclaimed.
Mina swore. Then she swore even harder, as the sound of Pursuit came from behind.
Izuku glanced over his shoulder and only now realized two things.
The first was just how much Acid Mina had produced behind them. Maybe 10-20 cm layer on top of the street floor behind them.
The second was that Rhino was completely unfazed by it, as he ran through the liquid without any care in the world.
Mina immediately stopped producing acid, and instead just turned to run at full speed alongside Izuku.
She was fast, Faster than Izuku. Unfortunately, as Izuku could feel without looking backwards, Rhino was faster than both of them, as he began to pick up speed behind them at a truly astonishing rate.
At least in a straight charge.
As they reached the end of the road, the two of them quickly changed direction right. Rhino instead seemingly couldn't change direction on the fly and just crashed into the building.
Rhino seemingly hit a load-bearing pillar(Or a dozen, because the entire building, as massive as the one Izuku had fought Uraraka in, collapsed in an enormous, cacophony of sound, as the building caved in on itself on top of Rhino.
The whole thing took over 30 seconds or so.
Izuku and Mina, having gone a bit further, before stopping to look, took in the sight of the entire thing caving in on itself.
-Think he's dead?-
"No." Izuku answered.
If Rhino could have been killed by that, he wouldn't have been half as Infamous as he was.
As if in response to that, Rhino burst out of the rubble, seemingly none the worse for wear, other than the copious amounts of dust on him.
At his side, Mina created a ball of sickly green, slimy Acid, but once it was finished she seemingly hesitated in throwing it.
It wasn't before Rhino finally turned, having cleaned his face, that she made the choice to throw the ball.
More specifically, she threw it straight at one of his feet. Engulfing it completely in the green goo…. And Rhino simply stepped out of it none the worse for wear.
The stone beneath disintegrated, in smoke.
"Holy shit…"
"NOTHING goes through my skin Pink girl! Not fire, not acid, nothing. Well, except for electricity anyway. That goes straight through it no problem."
He paused his steps towards them, a horrified expression flashing over his face.
"You two don't have hidden electrical powers, do you? Cause that would be really, really bad. For me of course, not for you."
-Holy shit this guy is stupid.- Venom said inside Izuku's mind. Out loud he said:
"So absolutely nothing goes through that thick, Grey skin of yours? Nothing at all, except electricity?"
"Yeah, that's right! Absolutely nothing at all."
"What about your face then? It's not covered." Mina asked.
"Well duh, how would I be able to breathe if it was?" He said in a tone Like Mina had just asked him something incredibly stupid.
"Mina, can you make the ground slippery? Izuku asked in a tone that hopefully didn't carry far enough that Rhino would hear him."
Mina tensed but gave a quick nod.
Alright, showtime.
Far away, Izuku could feel Shocker reaching the exit of the building they had started this fight on, but he would have to run down an entire street to catch up to them. If he was well fit, that would take him maybe 6 minutes. They had to finish this BEFORE he got here.
Izuku sprang towards Rhino.
The Grey titan, proving himself way faster(If about as agile) as his appearance would suggest meet him with a blindingly fast punch.
It would have sent him flying into the next zone over if it had hit, but Izuku ducked under it, and with some footwork, he darted to the side and behind him, and with a jump, he got maybe 10 meters or away from Rhino.
As he had hoped, Rhino snapped around to meet him.
It was at that point, that Mina unleashed a whole bunch of Acid all around Rhino's feet, this one a much lighter shade of Grey than any Acid she had used so far today.
As Izuku had requested, this acid was apparently very, very slippery, judging by the way Rhino stumbled as he tried to continue pursuing Izuku.
That was what Izuku had been counting on.
One webline slammed into Rhino, and with enormous force, he was pulled off his feet and into the air, straight towards Izuku.
Apparently being taken completely by surprise, he didn't manage to make a countermove as he sailed into the air, straight into Izuku hook.
It was thrown with the hand who had been hurt so badly earlier, but feeling and strength had returned well enough, other than an underlying, constant pain.
The punch went straight into Rhino's face and Izuku put EVERYTHING into that punch. The full might of someone who could have lifted a locomotive over his head.
The blow created a Shockwave that broke the windows of the lowest floor on the nearby building and cracked the ones on the second floor.
It sent Rhino crashing sideways into a nearby building, and smashing through at least 2 different sets of walls.
And finally, it broke the first digit on all of Izuku's fingers on his right hand, along with the corresponding knucklebones, except for his thumb.
"GAAAAARRRGGHH!!!" Izuku screamed in pain, as he cradled his now broken and useless hand.
As he fell to his knees in shock and pain, Mina worriedly ran up to him and knelt down.
"You okay Midori?" Izuku groaned in pain. "Yeah… pretty stupid question."
She put her arm around him and helped him back to his feet.
"We still need to deal with Shocker though, before we can-"
"Man, that fucking hurt." A loud voice said in a cheerful tone.
Izuku and Mina both froze, and almost in unison, they turned their heads, to where Rhino was walking out of the hole he had made in the wall. Other than a very prominent black eye, he didn't seem to be any worse for wear.
"Not bad kid, not bad at all. It's months since someone actually managed to wound me. Congrats." He grinned.
-Huh. Well, fuck.-
...
Shocker was panting as he reached the end of the road. God damn Tel for not sticking around and helping them. This would have been so much easier if they could have just teleporter during battle, but no, that would have been against policy.
Damn the league and their stupid rules. They had the largest collection of teleporters in the world, and yet they still were treated like fine Chinese porcelain.
Keep them out of battle if at all possible.
So, he had been forced to run down an entire building worth of stairs, then an entire street worth of road. He was totally winded as he reached the end of the road.
And… He almost smacked into the Rhino as he rounded the corner.
"Shocker!" The Rhino proclaimed, as a large, gray hand shot out and prevented him from falling.
"We got problems, buddy! They got away!"
"What do ya mean they got away? How the hell did ya lose em?
"Well, the black kid shot his goo into my eyes, and blinded me for a second before i-"
"Nevermind, ah don't wanna know."
He stepped out into the street and sighed.
As he began to modify his gauntlets for the task, he glanced over at The Rhino, and noticed his black eye.
"Fucking hell, they were strong enough ta do that to you?"
"Yeah, that black marvel of Muscle really Pounded me through that wall."
"...Yeah. I'm sure he did. Anyhow…"
He finished his modification, and the left gauntlet suddenly began to hum with a sound like periodic mechanical whistling.
After a second, sounds all around were picked up. The sound of steam beneath, spiders and insects buzzing about in the buildings, and far more faintly and far away the sound of battle. In particularly a loud crash as two doors flew off their handle by the entrance.
Thousands of sounds, small and large, far, far too many for any human mind to be able to pick up and sort through them.
Luckily for Shocker, they didn't live during the turn of the Millenia, and a small app he had installed in these gauntlets did what his mind and senses could not.
The sound of two people breathing was picked up, and over his visor, directions showed up, pinpointing them around 264 meters away.
"Let's finish this trip and go home to sweet Haiti."
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